What A Christian Needs To Be Concerned With
Mark 12:30-31
I just got done perusing my facebook and new feeds, and I am always amazed and dismayed by what the American perception of being a Christian involves.
Being a Christian means first and foremost YOU have a relationship with GOD through CHRIST.
Being a Christian means you live your life through faith in God's promises.
Being a Christian means you live your life in accordance to God's Word.
Being a Christian means you love; love God, love your spouse, love your family, love your neighbors, love your community, love strangers, love your enemies.
Being a Christian means you know you are accountable to God for your words and actions, and living accordingly.
Being a Christian means you forgive; forgive those who hurt you and forgive yourself.
Being a Christian means you may discern what activities are in accordance to God's Word for YOU YOURSELF to partake in or not, but that you do NOT judge others- you don't have the right to.
Being a Christian is to know that hating someone is the same as murdering someone in God's eyes.
Being a Christian is to know that while you are saved by faith alone, if you have true faith your deeds will reflect your faith. If you have no deeds springing out of your faith, your faith is dead.
Being a Christian means you care about the poor- passionately. You feed the poor, give them clothing, help all you can because Christ, in whom you are saved, commanded you to love and be concerned with the poor.
Being a Christian means you are against gossip and backbiting. God hates that activity, and so should you.
Being a Christian means you love, honor and respect your parents and cherish your family.
Being a Christian means that if you are married the husband should cherish his wife even before himself and the wife honor and respect her husband.
Being a Christian means you love God's ancient chosen people the Jewish nation. God is clear how He feels about them.
Being a Christian means that you are haunted by the knowledge that because there is a God and a heaven, there is a hell as well for those that live in opposition to God. You want to share God's Word and love with as many people as you can in the hope and prayer they will come to know God and be saved.
Being a Christian does not mean: That is is alright to hate someone based on their faith, their sexuality, their nationality or their political party. God commands us to love and forbids us to judge.
Being a Christian does not mean that you have the right to tell others how to live their lives. Live your own life as best you can in accordance to God's Will. When you have perfected your life (which will not happen in this lifetime) then you can worry about others.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Ephesians 2:4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Matthew 5:43-45
"You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.
Mark 11:25
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.
James 2:14-17
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
1 John 3:15
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
Romans 14:10-13
Why do you judge your brother? And why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat. It is written, "As surely as I live," says the Lord, "every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God." So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another.
Exodus Ch.23:1
Do not pass along untrue reports. Do not cooperate with an evil man by affirming on the witness stand something you know is false.
Ephesians 5:25-
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church--for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother"--which is the first commandment with a promise-- "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you (Israel), and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Matthew 25:31-46
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
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