What is a Christian?
What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the best answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God for his Father.
But cannot this be said of every man, Christian or not? Emphatically no! The idea that all men are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere. The Old Testament shows God as the Father, not of all men, but His own people, the seed of Abraham. [Israel is my son, even my firstborn; and I say unto thee, Let my son go...Exodus 4:22]. The New Testament has a world vision, but it to shows God as the Father, not of all men, but of those who, knowing themselves to be sinners, put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as their divine sin-bearer and master, and so become Abraham's spiritual seed. [Ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus... ye all are one man in Christ Jesus. And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed... Galatians 3:26]. Sonship to God is not, therefore, a universal status upon which everyone enters by natural birth, but a supernatural gift which one receives through receiving Jesus. [No man cometh unto the Father- In other words, is acknowledged by God as a son-- but by me... John 14:6]. The gift of sonship to God becomes ours, not through being born, but through being born again. [As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name; which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God... John 1:12].
My question to you dear friend, have you been born again? Have you been washed in the blood? Are you a son or daughter of the living God? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then my friend you are facing a devil's hell, separated from God for all eternity. The Bible says "today is the day of salvation," also " there is no other name...(Jesus) under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Will you not receive Christ today, as Lord and Savior? And settle the issue once for all. Your very life depends on what you do with the Son of God; Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will never die." He died for my sins, as well as your sins friend. You think about that.
But cannot this be said of every man, Christian or not? Emphatically no! The idea that all men are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere. The Old Testament shows God as the Father, not of all men, but His own people, the seed of Abraham. [Israel is my son, even my firstborn; and I say unto thee, Let my son go...Exodus 4:22]. The New Testament has a world vision, but it to shows God as the Father, not of all men, but of those who, knowing themselves to be sinners, put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as their divine sin-bearer and master, and so become Abraham's spiritual seed. [Ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus... ye all are one man in Christ Jesus. And if ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed... Galatians 3:26]. Sonship to God is not, therefore, a universal status upon which everyone enters by natural birth, but a supernatural gift which one receives through receiving Jesus. [No man cometh unto the Father- In other words, is acknowledged by God as a son-- but by me... John 14:6]. The gift of sonship to God becomes ours, not through being born, but through being born again. [As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name; which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God... John 1:12].
My question to you dear friend, have you been born again? Have you been washed in the blood? Are you a son or daughter of the living God? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then my friend you are facing a devil's hell, separated from God for all eternity. The Bible says "today is the day of salvation," also " there is no other name...(Jesus) under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Will you not receive Christ today, as Lord and Savior? And settle the issue once for all. Your very life depends on what you do with the Son of God; Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will never die." He died for my sins, as well as your sins friend. You think about that.
posted by Mel | 1:10 PM
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