Who Is A Christian?

‘He who has the Son has Life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have Life’ (1 John 5:12).

The world’s perspective of Christian is different from God’s perspective.  World calls Christianity as a religion.  But from God’s point of view it is a ‘relationship with God’.  We may go to church every Sunday, participate in every activity, give offerings and give tithes regularly; we may even read the Bible daily and pray! They are part of our relationship with God. It is merely a religion if you have no relationship but only these outward activities. That is not Christianity.

These outward religious activities are approved by men. But the requirement of God to be a Christian is to believe in His Son Jesus Christ, who died for the whole world to save them. Jesus came to this world to meet the requirements of God to save the mankind and die on their behalf so that you and I can enjoy this Great Salvation of God and have relationship with Him.

The Bible is very clear about it, Romans 8:9, ‘..now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.’  John 3: 36, ‘he who believes in the Son has Everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see Life, but the wrath of God abides on him.’  Jesus paid the price for our sins once for all! Hebrews 10:12 says, ‘but Jesus, after He had offered ONE sacrifice for sins FOREVER, sat down at the right hand of God.’

He is the eternal sacrifice Lamb of God for the whole world.  1 John 2: 2, ‘ and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and NOT FOR OURS ONLY BUT FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.’   All you have to do is to believe what He did on your behalf and receive Him in your life as your Lord and Savior.

God is not mad at you because Jesus took our place to carry our sins, sickness, infirmities, and sorrows on His Body.  He was condemned, judged and crucified on our behalf.  The Bible says, in 1 Thessalonians 5: 9-10, ‘For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, we should live together with Him.’

Today is the day of salvation!  This is an invitation coming to you from God:  if you have no assurance of the experience of salvation, please join with me and pray the prayer below:

PRAYER OF SALVATION

‘O Lord God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ.  Your Word says, ‘whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Acts 2:21).   I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord of my life.  I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10:9, that If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in  your heart that God has raised Him the from the dead, you shall be saved.’  I declare that I am saved; I am born-again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)! I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus.  Hallelujah!”

Congratulations! You are now a child of God.  To receive more information on how you can grow as a Christian, please mail me on apostolic.gloryministries@gmail.com