What makes somebody a Christian?
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Go to church when I can.
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Don’t cuss?
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Don’t drink?
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Good person?
I KNOW most “Christians” today aren’t Christian at all.
How do I know this?
“Not everyone who say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven…” – Matthew 7:21
If you knew me in high school you can remember that I professed to be a Christian. I was not a Christian in high school – I was a false convert.
I never lived like a Christian but claimed it because that’s what religion my parents told me I was. This was my life and what I believed: I did not read the Bible more than once a month (and that was on a good month), I prayed only when I needed something, I believed that I was going to Heaven because I confessed to be a believer and was a “good person”, I didn’t give a second thought to the Trinity, to the holiness of God, the sacrifice of Christ, to regeneration (I’ll talk more about this later); I couldn’t have even stood up for my faith if I ever had to.
Sin didn’t mean anything to me for the most part; I didn’t understand that to hate somebody was to commit murder against them in my heart – why didn’t I know this? I followed the heresy of the “Christian” church that America has swallowed hook, line and sinker; which preaches a cotton candy, feel good, gospel that strays away from the TRUTH about sin, hell, repentance, regeneration, and the wrath of the Almighty God.
Now, what do I mean by heresy of the “Christian” church? I am talking about the view that if we are good enough we will get to Heaven; that if we pray a certain little prayer and “accept Jesus into our hearts” that we will be saved.
” I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you would present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service…” - Romans 12:1
He wants more than our hearts, folks, we can’t just pray a little prayer and continue living as if nothing happened, you know, except that now we go to church and pray sometimes. When we are truly saved we are a different being, the worldly things we once enjoyed become disgusting to us and we are ashamed of them; we STRIVE for purity and holiness.
This is all I have time to blog today – look for more on Salvation in my next blog.
Grace and Peace to you,
Amanda
