WHY DO YOU BELIEVE AS A CHRISTIAN THE FIRST QUESTION IS WHO IS A CHRISTIAN ? A CHRISTIAN IS A REDEEM ONE FROM HIS/HER PAST SINS THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, AND SUCH PERSON IS LIVING AN HOLINESS LIFE WITH GOD AND HE OR SHE IS TAKING AFTER JESUS CHRIST. NOW WITH THE ABOVE DEFINITION, HAVE YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN ? IF YES WHY DO YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN ? SOME PEOPLE BECAME CHRISTIAN PURPOSELY BECAUSE OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS: (i) BECAUSE THEY ARE IN NEED OF MONEY (ii) BECAUSE THEY WANT OF CHILD (iii) BECAUSE THEY ARE IN NEED OF GOOD JOB (iv) BECAUSE THEY ARE IN NEED OF GOOD THING IN LIFE (v) BECAUSE THEY WANT SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEM (vi) BECAUSE THEY NEED A DIVINE HEALING TO THEIR ILLNESS (vii) BECAUSE OF WORLDLY THINGS (viii) BECAUSE OF THE CURSE THAT IS AFFECTING THEM IN THEIR FAMILY (ix) BECAUSE THEY WANT TO GET MARRY ETC. AS YOU ARE READING THIS MESSAGE PLEASE CAN YOU REMEMBER HOW YOU MEET CHRIST AT THE FIRST INSTANCE, HOW DO YOU BECOME A CHURCH MEMBER. SOME PEOPLE EVEN CLAIM CHRISTIANITY BY BIRTH, I WILL NOT DECEIVE YOU IF THE ABOVE REASONS ARE PART OF HOW YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN, YOU ARE YET TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. THERE ARE NUMEROUS CHURCH MEMBERS TODAY IN THE CHURCH THAT ARE YET TO EXPERIENCE SALVATION AT ALL AND THEY ARE FUNCTIONING AS A WORKER IN THE CHURCH BECAUSE OF THE ZEAL THEY ARE HAVING IN THE CHURCH AND THE ZEAL THEY ARE HAVING IS VERY HIGH BECAUSE OF THEIR PROBLEM AND BY THIS, MINISTERS OF GOD WILL ALLOW THEM TO BE FUNCTIONING IN THE CHURCH IN FACT IN SOME CHURCHES THEY ARE THE ASSISTANCE PASTORS, THEY EVEN BECOME PASTOR WITHOUT SALVATION EXPERIENCE. YOU CAN ONLY BECOME A CHRISTIAN WHEN YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOUR (NOT WITH ORDINARY MOUTH CONFESSION BUT WITH A GENUINE REPENTANCE FROM SINFUL LIFE AFTER YOU HAVE CRY FOR YOUR SIN). CAN I HEAR YOUR SPIRIT SAYING I HAVE CONFESS THAT, WHEN YOU CONFESS IT DID IT MEET FAITH IN YOU ? DO YOU CONFESS IT BECAUSE YOU WANT TO REIGN WITH HIM OR BECAUSE OF YOUR PROBLEM ? (YOU HAVE TO NOTE THIS: WHEN SOMEONE IS FACING THE PROBLEM OF LIFE AND HIS CONDITION IS GETTING TO APEX YOU WILL DISCOVER THAT EVERY OPTION GIVEN TO HIM/HER WILL BE ACCEPTABLE IMMEDIATELY). LETS CHECK WHAT THE BIBLE IS SAYING ABOUT THIS IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 10:8 – 11 “ BUT WHAT SAITH IT? THE WORD IS NIGH THEE, EVEN IN THY MOUTH, AND IN THY HEART: THAT IS, THE WORD OF FAITH, WHICH WE PREACH; THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS WITH THY MOUTH THE LORD JESUS, AND SHALT BELIEVE IN THINE HEART THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, THOU SHALT BE SAVED. FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION.” NOW EVERY BONAFIDE CHRISTIAN MUST KNOW THAT HE/SHE BELIEVE IN CHRIST JESUS PURPOSELY BECAUSE OF THE RESURRECTION (NOT BECAUSE OF THIS EARTH OR WORLDLY THINGS). IF YOUR FAITH IS NOT BASE ON RESURRECTION YOUR BELIEF IS NOTHING, LISTEN TO WHAT 1ST CORINTHIAN 15:12-19 “NOW IF CHRIST BE PREACHED THAT HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HOW SAY SOME AMONG YOU THAT THERE IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD? BUT IF THERE BE NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, THEN IS CHRIST NOT RISEN: AND IF CHRIST BE NOT RISEN, THEN IS OUR PREACHING VAIN, AND YOUR FAITH IS ALSO VAIN. YEA, AND WE ARE FOUND FALSE WITNESSES OF GOD; BECAUSE WE HAVE TESTIFIED OF GOD THAT HE RAISED UP CHRIST: WHOM HE RAISED NOT UP, IF SO BE THAT THE DEAD RISE NOT. FOR IF THE DEAD RISE NOT, THEN IS NOT CHRIST RAISED: AND IF CHRIST BE NOT RAISED, YOUR FAITH IS VAIN; YE ARE YET IN YOUR SINS. THEN THEY ALSO WHICH ARE FALLEN ASLEEP IN CHRIST ARE PERISHED, IF IN THIS LIFE ONLY WE HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST, WE ARE OF ALL MEN MOST MISERABLE. IF YOU BELIEVE BECAUSE OF THE RESURRECTION YOU WILL THINK LESS ABOUT THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND YOU WILL FOCUS MAINLY ON THINGS IN HEAVEN, COLLOSIANS 3: 1FF COLOSSIANS 3:1 IF YE THEN BE RISEN WITH CHRIST, SEEK THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ABOVE, WHERE CHRIST SITTETH ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. COLOSSIANS 3:2 SET YOUR AFFECTION ON THINGS ABOVE, NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH. COLOSSIANS 3:3 FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD. COLOSSIANS 3:4 WHEN CHRIST, WHO IS OUR LIFE, SHALL APPEAR, THEN SHALL YE ALSO APPEAR WITH HIM IN GLORY. COLOSSIANS 3:5 MORTIFY THEREFORE YOUR MEMBERS WHICH ARE UPON THE EARTH; FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, INORDINATE AFFECTION, EVIL CONCUPISCENCE, AND COVETOUSNESS, WHICH IS IDOLATRY: COLOSSIANS 3:6 FOR WHICH THINGS SAKE THE WRATH OF GOD COMETH ON THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE: COLOSSIANS 3:7 IN THE WHICH YE ALSO WALKED SOME TIME, WHEN YE LIVED IN THEM. COLOSSIANS 3:8 BUT NOW YE ALSO PUT OFF ALL THESE; ANGER, WRATH, MALICE, BLASPHEMY, FILTHY COMMUNICATION OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. COLOSSIANS 3:9 LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, SEEING THAT YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS; COLOSSIANS 3:10 AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM: COLOSSIANS 3:11 WHERE THERE IS NEITHER GREEK NOR JEW, CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION, BARBARIAN, SCYTHIAN, BOND NOR FREE: BUT CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL. COLOSSIANS 3:12 PUT ON THEREFORE, AS THE ELECT OF GOD, HOLY AND BELOVED, BOWELS OF MERCIES, KINDNESS, HUMBLENESS OF MIND, MEEKNESS, LONGSUFFERING; COLOSSIANS 3:13 FORBEARING ONE ANOTHER, AND FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, IF ANY MAN HAVE A QUARREL AGAINST ANY: EVEN AS CHRIST FORGAVE YOU, SO ALSO DO YE. COLOSSIANS 3:14 AND ABOVE ALL THESE THINGS PUT ON CHARITY, WHICH IS THE BOND OF PERFECTNESS. COLOSSIANS 3:15 AND LET THE PEACE OF GOD RULE IN YOUR HEARTS, TO THE WHICH ALSO YE ARE CALLED IN ONE BODY; AND BE YE THANKFUL. COLOSSIANS 3:16 LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY IN ALL WISDOM; TEACHING AND ADMONISHING ONE ANOTHER IN PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, SINGING WITH GRACE IN YOUR HEARTS TO THE LORD. COLOSSIANS 3:17 AND WHATSOEVER YE DO IN WORD OR DEED, DO ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM. PART OF WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO FACE WHEN YOU CONVERT ARE: SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE NAME OF CHRIST (PHILLIPIAN 1:29, ACT 5:41), HATRED FROM PEOPLE (II TIM. 3:12, JAMES 4:4) JESUS SAID : “BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD …. MATTHEW 6:33” PLEASE YOUR FAITH IS NOT ON WORLDLY THINGS BUT ON THE KINGDOM OF GOD PLEASE REDUCE YOUR TENSION AND STRESS ON WORLDLY THINGS BUT LET IT BE ON THE THINGS OF GOD BUT DON’T MISINTERPRETE ME I DIDN’T SAY YOU SHOULD NOT WORK BUT KEEP THIRSTY OF THINGS OF GOD SO THAT YOU WILL REDUCE YOUR COMMITMENT TO SIN AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE. GOD BLESS YOU. PLEASE FILL FREE TO SHARE THIS MESSAGE NOT ONLY ONLINE BUT YOU CAN EVEN PRINT IT AND GIVE TO SPEOPLE GOD BLESS US. AMEN. FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAITH, WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:57:24 +0000
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