WILL THE REAL CHRISTIAN STEP FORWARD – Part Two
Thursday, February 13, 2014
· Going to church does not make you a
Christian; nor does saying a prayer, going down an aisle, passing a catechism,
telling yourself that you are, or trying to be a decent person. You can only be
a Christian if Christ is in you, which can be tested and proven according
to the scriptures.
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Gospel Belief and Confession of Faith
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1Cor
15:1-4 (Jer) Brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you,
the gospel that you have received and in which you are firmly established;
because the gospel will save you only if you keep believing exactly what I
preached to you--believing anything else will not lead to anything. I taught
you... that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures,
that he was buried; and that he was raised to life on the third
day, in accordance with the scriptures.
Rom
10:8-13 (NIV) ..."The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your
heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess
with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with
your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that
you confess and are saved... for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved."
· We must believe the right Gospel about the
right One. Christian life starts with an embracing of the Gospel, but what we
believe in is also an ongoing test as well. We are warned in scripture
not to drift away from the faith as we go through life, which is a real
danger. Do we believe in, and are we following, the simple and
scripture-defined Gospel of Jesus Christ?
1John 2:24 (NIV) See that what you have heard from the beginning
remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the
Father.
2Cor
11:3-4 (Jer) But the serpent, with his cunning, seduced Eve, and I am afraid
that in the same way your ideas may get corrupted and turned away from simple
devotion to Christ. Because any newcomer has only to proclaim a new Jesus,
different from the one that we preached, or you have only to receive a new
spirit, different from the one you have already received, or a new gospel,
different from the one you have already accepted--and you welcome it with open
arms!
Gal
1:9 (Phi) I am amazed that you have so quickly transferred your allegiance from
him who called you by the grace of Christ to another "gospel"! Not
that there is another gospel, but there are men who are upsetting your faith
with a travesty of the gospel of Christ. Yet I say that if I, or an angel from
heaven, were to preach to you any other gospel than the one you have received,
may he be dammed!
Rev
3:3a [Jesus:] "Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey
it, and repent."
Heb
2:1 (NIV) We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard,
so that we do not drift away.
Heb
10:23 (NKJ) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering...
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