There should be no such
thing as born again Christian, this is tautological, and it is a repetition of
similar terms, so it is technically wrong.
The root word for Christian is Christ, but
Christian itself means like Christ, Acts. A certain set of people had observed
the disciples for a while and they couldn’t describe them with a better word
than Christian, meaning Christ-like, their outlook, characters, mannerisms and
every other aspect of their lives only reminded them about Christ, hence the
name., but what have we today?
A Christian is a person
that is like Christ ‘…and
the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch Acts 11:26c, please note that the scriptures actually said that the
disciples, not just anybody, the disciples refer to the converted, the
saved, and the redeemed ‘And
this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in
His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does
not have life, 1 Jn
5:12.
A Christian has the life of Christ in him
because He is born again, I am
the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much
fruit for without Me you can do nothing Jn 15: 5, that man is not
just imitating some way of living but has an inner leading and directing by the
Holy Spirit ‘as many
as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the children of God’ Rom 8:14, that man does not base his faith on church membership,
church attendance, or copying the methods of religion.
Being born again is the
process that leads one to be a Christian, they are not two separate things but
complementary. Being born again is what happens at conversion, being a
Christian is the consistent Christ patterned life and living that follows.
You are a Christian because
you became born again
This is the undiluted truth. God bless you sir
ReplyDeleteThis is real and undiluted truth. I wish all can recognise that bearing Christians name, going to church, be workers in the church, even be pastors does not make you a Christian. They should know that the only thing that make them Christian is by imitating Christ, live a lifestyle of Jesus Christ both in zeals, in words, in actions, attitude' in love, etc. If we want to be a geniue Christian, we need to follow the footsteps of our Lord Jesus Christ regimentaly. We can deceived others by telling them that we are Christian but we cannot deceived God because He knew us in and out. He know those are his. God bless you sir for the sermon. This will make everyone of us to examine ourselves whether we are in christ or not. Hallelujah
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