Questions -
1. Have you met religion, but
never met Jesus?
2. Do you believe in Jesus,
but never have dedicated your life to Him?
3. What do you go to church
to receive?
4. Do you recite the Apostles
Creed, without having it in your heart?
5. Do you consider yourself a
Christian, without ever having a Born Again experience?
6. Do you believe you are a
sinner, and if not why not?
Answers -
1. There are many who think
they are Christians because they were born into a 'Christian family'. Jesus, on
the other hand, told us that without a Born Again experience, we cannot enter
into the kingdom
of Heaven
"Men who profess Christ
are not meeting God's own conditions for true conversion. 'Christian' is almost
a meaningless word to the masses today, because so many believe they are
Christians, when in fact, they are not. And sadly, there are very few voices
today strong enough to change that and stir the church and shake the world."[1]
2. Satan and his demons
believe in Jesus, but they don't accept Him as Lord. Demons often shouted out
that Jesus was God's Son, The Christ and other terms of signifying their recognition
of Him, when He was casting them out. 1 John 2:22 tells us: "Who is a liar
but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the
Father and the Son". 1 John 2:4 tell us: "He that says, I know him,
and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him".
Romans 10:9-11 tells us: "That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shall be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For
the scripture says, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed".
3. Do you go to church to
hear about the love of God, and avoid any conversation about sin, the end
times, God's judgment and the necessity of salvation? Many churches today are
preaching a "feel good" gospel, where there is no consequence for
sin. Many pastors are not warning their congregations about the end time
persecutions that are coming. The Bible tells us that:
A. Matthew 10:21: "And
the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child:
and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put
to death".
B. Luke 12:53: "The
father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the
mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in
law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law".
C. Matthew 10:34-36: "Think
not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a
sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household".
4. In Matthew 15:7-8, Jesus
said "Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people
draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their
heart is far from me." In Matthew 10:33Jesus says: "But whosoever
shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in
heaven".
The Apostles Creed's 12 confessions -
1. I believe in God the
Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:
2. And in Jesus Christ, his
only begotten Son, our Lord:
3. Who was conceived by the
Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary:
4. Suffered under Pontius
Pilate; was crucified, dead and buried: He descended into hell:
5. The third day he rose
again from the dead:
6. He ascended into heaven,
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty:
7. From thence he shall come
to judge the quick and the dead:
8. I believe in the Holy
Ghost:
9. I believe in the holy
catholic church: the communion of saints:
10. The forgiveness of sins:
1l. The resurrection of the
body:
12. And the life everlasting.
Amen.
5. Jesus said: "You Must
Be Born Again" See - John 3:3, John
3:7, 1 Peter 1:22-24. The Orthodox Jewish Bible puts it this way - "In
reply, he said to him, Omein, omein, I say to you, unless someone is born anew
[born again, Yn(John) 1:13; Dt 10:16; 30:6; Jer 4:4; Isa 52:1; Ezek 44:7,9], he
is not able to see the Malchut Hashem (Shekhinah Glory of God) ." In John14:6, Jesus said “I am the way, and
the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me".
6. Romans 3:23
tells us: "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
Because we all have sinned, we all need Salvation. Is it time to tell the
neighbors? 1 John 1:10 tells us: "If we say that we have not sinned,
we make Him (God) a liar, and His word is not in us."
"If you are walking in
willful disobedience to God's Word, if the consistent pattern of your life is
the practice of sin and the deeds of the sinful nature that Paul describes in 1
Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:19-21 and Ephesians 5:3-7, then you must
question your salvation.
Any teaching that opens the
door to false assurance and loose living is not from God.
A wave of watered-down and
milquetoast 'Churchianity' has flooded the church world. A nonconfrontational
gospel has failed miserably to deal with sin and repentance. We have forgotten
that the central message of the gospel is that Jesus came to save us from
our sins (Matt. 1:21), not in our sins. He didn't just come to forgive us of
our sins, but to free us from our sins. This is one of the most
tragic fundamental errors we have made in our contemporary gospel, and it
largely explains the degradation in our society today. A weak church has opened
the way for the devil's onslaught."[2]
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