“BEING A CHRISTIAN”
The title of my message is “BEING A CHRISTIAN”
Let me ask you a question? What does it mean to be a Christian? Let’s open our Bible to Corinthians Chapter 3 verse 5. { We know we are not able in ourselves to do any work. God makes us able to do anything} You see, the most important question any individual could ever ask, especially concerning spiritual matters is “WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY”. There are thousands of reasons people think are “OKAY WITH GOD, BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE THAT COUNTS, AND IT COMES FROM GOD HIMSELF”. He provides everything we need to know in this book. We call it Bible, a book some of us don’t bother to read. Now everything necessary for being and behaving as a Christian has become a privilege and accepting the One with whom we have spiritually identified and united, Jesus Christ. The Christian life is not an imitation of Jesus, but the action of his life and Character in our behavior. Being and behaving as a Christian authorize and empowered by the grace of God in the Dynamic of the life Jesus Christ. God’s grace is given according to the working of his power, providing all sufficiency in everything. John chapter 10 verses 10 said, “CHRIST IS LIFE”. If Christ is life then we must control our behavior and act like Jesus is in us. We have to display the fruit of the spirit which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Being a Christian is the ability to represent God and the ability to stand and tell the world what the Lord has done for us. Some of us denied the fact that we are Christian but why some of us ashamed of Jesus? What if God denied you today and say you are not one of his. Jesus is not ashamed of you so why we ashamed to say YES when being ask if we’re Christians. Jesus loves us after all the horrible things we do. He forgives us when he should condemn us. We Christians have been tempted by the devil in all kind of ways: we take stuff that doesn’t belong to us, we lie about simple stuff, and we don’t keep the Sabbath Holy. We curse in the Sabbath; we do all kind of profane things that our parents don’t know anything about. Some of us love money, girls, and boys more than we love our heavenly Father. I understand that we not PERFECT, that we are humans and we made mistakes but the question is that ARE WE EVEN TRYING TO PREVENT THEM? See, some of us sin but it’s not our desire to do some type of stuff. Some kids got influence by their friends because they want to be cool just like their friends. We do all the stupidest stuff, stuff that is against the law and then we think we cool. Some of our parents put us on lockdown, giving us lectures every day. They doing it for our own good but we don’t listen anyways. Then when we realize that what we’ve done was wrong, we feel sorry and ashamed but hours later we went back and do the same thing over and over again. Making it to Heaven should be every Single Christians Goal. See, some of us think coming to church every Saturday is what makes you a Christian. We took the word Christian and put it in all kind of stuff. Being a Christian is a privilege for us but we proudly take advantage of it, there are some people out there in the world that’s thirsty for the word of God or didn’t get the Chance to learn about God. Instead, of taking the opportunity to teach someone about what we have learned about God, we just sit around and do nothing. Don’t be selfish, share the word. God wake you up every day to live another day that we don’t deserve; we should appreciate that and tell the word about God so he can provide more days on Earth. Being a Christian means we should live or try to live like Christ. Being a Christian means Christ live in us but Christ can’t live in some of us because of the type of stuff we do. Throughout the past years I have learned that the Holy Spirit won’t be in a place where is not Holy or appropriate in the eyes of the Lord. Being a Christian is not just managing your temptations. It’s not just managing your sin. That’s not what it means to be a Christian. Y’all don’t listen to your parents because you think you’re grown, but what happen to Exodus Chapter 20 verse 12. Being a Christian is not that we can do whatever we want. Being A Christian is not that we can you can try harder and we can do better and we can hang on longer. THAT’S NOT BEING A CHRISTIAN. We need to stop and lay down all of our efforts and all of our trying and all of our strength and say I TRUST IN JESUS, I TRUST IN HIS PERFECTION, I TRUST IN HIS RESURRECTION because he’s the only one that can get me through this and he’s the only one that can set me free. If you have Christ, you have all that you need. Everything you need is bound up in the resurrected Savior. We need to try to avoid temptations; we need to try to prevent temptations. Put your trust in the lord and many great things will happens. We have amazing talents that we don’t know about; we have to find our talents. There are many things out there that God created for proper use but we misuse them and take advantage of them. If God said don’t this or that is because he knows you’re ready for it, he said don’t do it because he want you to be pure. God created such a wonderful gift for marriage but why we kids take advantage of it. Some of us said it not our fault we only humans. No it’s not because we only humans, it’s something we all should fight while Satan persists to tempt us with our own wicked minds. See, God created things to glorify him but we took them to glorify us. We’ve taken advantage of everything that God created and put it in the place of God, in the Sabbath and in the Church. The worst thing is that we worship all those inappropriate stuff and they all come in all kind of profane ways. Comon Y’all, you have to got faith in Jesus because The blood of Christ is too great to be defeated by our sins. Jesus paid a great price on the cross; he shed his blood and gave his life for us. And we have been bought with a great price. We are not alone; God will forever be with us. All we need to know is that we must confess our sins to God and repent of it. Our spirits is willing but our flesh is weak. Our God can provide us the needs to make our flesh stronger. God is greater than all these pleasures; we just want to see God as our treasure, we all want that but we got to start trying now. The Lord said in John Chapter 15 verse 5, { I am the Vine and you are the branches. Get your life from Me. Then I will live in you and you will give much fruit. You can do nothing without Me} God we want to be free from it all. But in order for God to free us, we have to help ourselves; we can avoid temptations but we just not trying. Put all your strength and faith in the Lord and continue to pray until God has delivered you. THAT’S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN. If you want to be a true follower of Christ, you have to surrender your life and your rights to him, putting God in control. You can do this right by just talking to him right now- that’s the simplicity of prayer. Tell Him you are a sinner. Ask him to forgive you and thank Him for offering the gift forgiveness and life through Jesus Christ. If you do make this decision, then you made the most important decision in your life and when you receive Jesus Christ, WALK IN HIM PROUDLY. GOD BLESS YOU! **HAPPY MOMENTS-PRAISE GOD. **DIFFICULT MOMENTS- SEEK GOD. **PAINFUL MOMENTS-TRUST GOD. **EVERY MOMENT- THANK GOD. |
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