05/26/2024
Reading the Bible this morning made me think.
Are you REALLY a Christian? Are you really saved?
69% of Americans claim to be Christians. Only 13% of those that claim to be Christian actually believe what the Bible says. You cannot say I am a Christian, I am a follower of Christ and disagree with His Word. You have to know if the Bible says something is sin, it is sin, regardless of if you like it or disagree with it.
If you are truly a believer, saved, a Christian, your life will have changed. You WILL struggle with sin but you will not constantly live in sin. And if you are a Christian and have sin in your life there will be consequences from God for those sins just like a father gives consequences to his child(Proverbs 3:11).
So I ask you this question, do you have certain sins in you life with no consequences? Do you sin and don’t care? Than you are not a Christian according to the Bible. I say this in love because I see it more and more and it breaks my heart to see people claim Jesus as their savior but know, according to their lifestyle they will spend eternity in hell. We as Christians should be broken hearted about this. We should spend more time in prayer, we should have conviction for the lost and myself, probably like so many of you are to distracted by the things of this world to be convicted about it. God help me to care, to love, to pray for the lost, especially the ones who claim to be saved but deny Him in their own lifestyle.
1 John 1:6&7
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.