Shaky Shallow Christianity

Most professing Christians are extremely shallow and undevoted to Jesus Christ, because they do not know Jesus. Their faith is not based on a meeting with Jesus, a revelation, it is based on hearsay. Many of them were born into Christianity. Others were proselyted and they believe based on what other people told them, based on Bible verses, but they have never come to know Jesus Christ for real.

Those who know Jesus have a firm foundation. They do not believe based on the Bible only, or on the testimony of other people. Their faith is based on the reality of Jesus Christ in their lives. Such a man was the Apostle Paul. We read in Acts 9 that Paul was on his way to persecute the followers of Jesus Christ and then he met with Jesus on the Damascus Road. He had a supernatural experience which changed his life. He had a revelation of Jesus Christ which changed him forever. Paul did not base his faith on the Scriptures or on Bible verses, he based his faith on his relationship with Jesus as he also wrote in Galatians 1:16 "For I would have you know brethren that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the Church of God beyond measure, and tried to destroy it, and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. But when God who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me, so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and returned once more to Damascus. Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas and stay with him 15 days, but I did not see any of the other apostles, except James, the Lord's brother. Now in what I am writing you, I assure you before God that I'm not lying. Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. I was still unknown by sight to the churches in Judea which were in Christ, but only they I kept hearing, he who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy, and they were glorifying God because of me.

Many modern Christians are the audacity to attack Paul. They do not understand his teachings because they have never met Jesus Christ. They distort his teachings but Paul met with Christ. His faith was based on a revelation from Jesus Christ. He knew Jesus for real. He did not base it on theory. He based it on what he heard from Jesus Himself. If we do not know Jesus for real, if we have not had a revelation of Jesus Christ, then we have no firm foundation for our faith. That is why so many Christian believers fall away from the faith. Some take on other religions. It is because they never knew Jesus, they were never real to followers of Jesus Christ and were not born again, they just believed based on hearsay, based on some theory. If we do not know Jesus Christ for real then our faith cannot be real. We need to know Jesus by revelation.

If we truly believe in Jesus Christ and we obey the gospel, repent and are baptized in water, then Jesus will reveal Himself to us. We have to seek Him with all our heart, and He will give His Holy Spirit in us so that we will become spiritual people. Jesus said that time has come, and now is, that the true worshipers will worship Him in spirit and in truth. Modern worshipers, worship on the surface. They operate on the level of the sensory, what they can see and hear and feel and think with their carnal minds, but they are not spiritual people. They do not receive revelation from Jesus Christ because they are not capable of doing it. They are spiritually dead. You only become spiritually alive when you truly meet with Jesus Christ as Paul did, as the others did that received the Holy Spirit after they obeyed the gospel of Jesus Christ, repented from the heart, stopped sinning and were baptized in water. We need that real revelation of Jesus Christ, which we only get, if we seek Him with all our heart, and if we show by our obedience to Him that we are serious about knowing Him, about eternal life. We need to obey the gospel of Jesus Christ, repent and be baptized, seek Him with all our heart, turn away from all sin, turn to Jesus, turn away from the worldly things and seek Him from the heart, and He will reveal Himself to us. He will make us new inside, we will see and understand the kingdom of God and we will live on revelation, rather than on speculation and on hearsay, we will know Him by the Holy Spirit which He makes to dwell in us, if we truly seek Him.

Have you truly met Jesus Christ and do you know Him? Do you receive a revelation from Him? Is your faith based on your revelation from Jesus Christ? Is your relationship with Jesus Christ real? If we do not know Jesus Christ for real and He does not know us, we will stand before Him in judgment and He will say to us:"Go away, I never knew you." Do we know Jesus for real and are we led by His Spirit? Is our relationship with Jesus Christ for real?

May Jesus bless you

Sinners Prayer Shallow Insincere Commitment

Many people believe that they are Christians, they believe that they are saved after reciting a "sinners prayer" after somebody and making a shallow, insincere commitment to follow Jesus Christ.

There are many versions of the "sinners prayer." One of the famous ones is the Billy Graham sinners prayer. It goes like this:

"Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. I turn from my sins and invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust and follow You as my Lord and Savior. In Your Name.

Amen."

Another version is this one:

"Lord Jesus, I need You. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be"

After repeating these lines, after somebody else people are told that they are saved and now they are going to heaven, they have security of salvation. They walk away and they believe they are saved as long as they attend church and they believe, they think that they will have eternal life but they forget that in reading these lines they made promises to God which they never keep. They go on living like the rest of the world, they do not REPENT, they do not turn away from sin. They do not obey Jesus Christ, be baptized in water, they do not serve Him as Lord and Master. They just believe that they are saved because they repeated these lines after somebody. They never meant it in their hearts and they never kept their side of the bargain, of that which they promised God to do. Can that save us? Certainly not. It is just a meaningless repetition of words. We will not have salvation if we do not obey Jesus Christ and if we have made promises to God we have to keep them because God does not tolerate fools! It is foolish to make promises to God and not keep them. He will hold it against you because you have LIED IN ADVANCE and you have added to your sin. Only those who REPENT, turn away from their previous lifestyle of sin and of serving themselves, who GO AFTER Jesus Christ and obey Him, be baptized in water, OBEY His words, live in holiness and righteousness, it is only they that will have salvation.

It is only those who get into a real relationship with Jesus Christ, who SEEK the baptism in the Holy Spirit and are filled with the Holy Spirit and follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who TRULY get to KNOW Jesus Christ, only they will be saved.

There is no quick easy contractual formula that you can apply to have salvation. You have to KNOW, FOLLOW and OBEY Jesus Christ until the very end or else you will perish.

Keep your promises to Jesus Christ, place Him on the throne of your life. Serve and obey Him as LORD until the end or else you will not be part of His kingdom and you will perish.

May Jesus bless you.

Cheap and shallow WORTHLESS Christianity

The vast majority of professing Christians subscribe to a cheap, shallow gospel. They are happy-go-lucky and they are conformed to the world. They have no likeness to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was despised by men, He was a man of sorrow. If we follow Jesus Christ we will be TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS through SUFFERING AND PERSECUTION.

The only way that you become like Jesus is IF you follow Him. Jesus will take you take you along a road of rejection, suffering and persecution, and you will be CHANGED through that WHICH YOU SUFFER. If you do not go through the mill, through difficulty, you cannot be transformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, you cannot become a CHILD OF GOD.

IF you look like the world, if you are happy-go-lucky, if you are having a good time then you are not of Christ, YOU ARE OF THIS WORLD! If you truly follow Jesus Christ you will be like Him in all respects.

Are you like Jesus Christ? Are you being transformed through suffering? If you are not suffering then you are NOT on the straight and narrow road, you are not following Jesus Christ and you do not have any hope of salvation. If you want eternal life then you have to deny yourself, pick up your cross every day and follow Jesus Christ and you will become LIKE HIM.

May Jesus bless you.