There is a new idea of Christianity today called the Cultural Christian. What is a Cultural Christian, you may ask? Well, I will tell you. Cultural Christians are people who like the beliefs of Christianity but do not believe in Christ Jesus. A Cultural Christian likes the kindness of Christians, such as forgiving others when they wrong you, doing unto others as you will have them do unto you, helping your neighbors, in general being kind to everyone. The Cultural Christian are calling themselves that because they know that Christianity is The Peaceful and loving way of life. The Cultural Christian can see the good works of true Christians when we help others who are in distress. Christians are the first to give food, water, clothing, in times of need. Cultural Christian like the works, but do not know The Christ in Christian. A Christian is only a Christian because of Christ Jesus And His Good Work that made us new people. The person before Christ Jesus is naturally selfish. The people after Salvation are being led by The Holy Spirit to be like Christ Jesus, WHO IS GIVING, LOVING, AND KIND. The people after Salvation are led by The Holy Spirit to read The Bible, which is The Holy Word Of God. The Holy Bible tells us how we are to grow in The Knowledge Of Christ Jesus and how we are being Conformed To His Image. Without Christ Jesus and The Holy Spirit, we are still doing the work of ourselves and not of God.
Acts 4:12
Neither Is There Salvation In Any Other: For There Is None Other Name Under Heaven Given Among Men, Whereby We Must Be Saved.
Romans 8:28-29
And We Know That All Things Work Together For Good To Them That Love God, To Them Who Are The Called According To His Purpose. For Whom He Did Foreknow, He Also Did Predestinate To Be Conformed To The Image Of His Son, That He Might Be The Firstborn Among Many Brethren.
Titus 3:1-6
Put Them In Mind To Be Subject To Principalities And Powers, To Obey Magistrates, To Be Ready To Every Good Work, To Speak Evil Of No Man, To Be No Brawlers, But Gentle, Shewing All Meekness Unto All Men. For We Ourselves Also Were Sometimes Foolish, Disobedient, Deceived, Serving Divers Lusts And Pleasures, Living In Malice And Envy, Hateful, And Hating One Another. But After That The Kindness And Love Of God Our Saviour Toward Man Appeared, Not By Works Of Righteousness Which We Have Done, But According To His Mercy He Saved Us, By The Washing Of Regeneration, And Renewing Of The Holy Ghost; Which He Shed On Us Abundantly Through Jesus Christ Our Saviour;
Ephesians 4:19-32
Who Being Past Feeling Have Given Themselves Over Unto Lasciviousness, To Work All Uncleanness With Greediness. But Ye Have Not So Learned Christ; If So Be That Ye Have Heard Him, And Have Been Taught By Him, As The Truth Is In Jesus: That Ye Put Off Concerning The Former Conversation The Old Man, Which Is Corrupt According To The Deceitful Lusts; And Be Renewed In The Spirit Of Your Mind; And That Ye Put On The New Man, Which After God Is Created In Righteousness And True Holiness. Wherefore Putting Away Lying, Speak Every Man Truth With His Neighbour: For We Are Members One Of Another. Be Ye Angry, And Sin Not: Let Not The Sun Go Down Upon Your Wrath: Neither Give Place To The Devil. Let Him That Stole Steal No More: But Rather Let Him Labour, Working With His Hands The Thing Which Is Good, That He May Have To Give To Him That Needeth. Let No Corrupt Communication Proceed Out Of Your Mouth, But That Which Is Good To The Use Of Edifying, That It May Minister Grace Unto The Hearers. And Grieve Not The Holy Spirit Of God, Whereby Ye Are Sealed Unto The Day Of Redemption. Let All Bitterness, And Wrath, And Anger, And Clamour, And Evil Speaking, Be Put Away From You, With All Malice: And Be Ye Kind One To Another, Tenderhearted, Forgiving One Another, Even As God For Christ's Sake Hath Forgiven You.
Colossians 3:1-17
If Ye Then Be Risen With Christ, Seek Those Things Which Are Above, Where Christ Sitteth On The Right Hand Of God. Set Your Affection On Things Above, Not On Things On The Earth. For Ye Are Dead, And Your Life Is Hid With Christ In God. When Christ, Who Is Our Life, Shall Appear, Then Shall Ye Also Appear With Him In Glory. Mortify Therefore Your Members Which Are Upon The Earth; Fornication, Uncleanness, Inordinate Affection, Evil Concupiscence, And Covetousness, Which Is Idolatry: For Which Things' Sake The Wrath Of God Cometh On The Children Of Disobedience: In The Which Ye Also Walked Some Time, When Ye Lived In Them. But Now Ye Also Put Off All These; Anger, Wrath, Malice, Blasphemy, Filthy Communication Out Of Your Mouth. Lie Not One To Another, Seeing That Ye Have Put Off The Old Man With His Deeds; And Have Put On The New Man, Which Is Renewed In Knowledge After The Image Of Him That Created Him: Where There Is Neither Greek Nor Jew, Circumcision Nor Uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, Bond Nor Free: But Christ Is All, And In All. Put On Therefore, As The Elect Of God, Holy And Beloved, Bowels Of Mercies, Kindness, Humbleness Of Mind, Meekness, Longsuffering; Forbearing One Another, And Forgiving One Another, If Any Man Have A Quarrel Against Any: Even As Christ Forgave You, So Also Do Ye. And Above All These Things Put On Charity, Which Is The Bond Of Perfectness. And Let The Peace Of God Rule In Your Hearts, To The Which Also Ye Are Called In One Body; And Be Ye Thankful. Let The Word Of Christ Dwell In You Richly In All Wisdom; Teaching And Admonishing One Another In Psalms And Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Singing With Grace In Your Hearts To The Lord. And Whatsoever Ye Do In Word Or Deed, Do All In The Name Of The Lord Jesus, Giving Thanks To God And The Father By Him.
Matthew 7:7-23
Ask, And It Shall Be Given You; Seek, And Ye Shall Find; Knock, And It Shall Be Opened Unto You: For Every One That Asketh Receiveth; And He That Seeketh Findeth; And To Him That Knocketh It Shall Be Opened. Or What Man Is There Of You, Whom If His Son Ask Bread, Will He Give Him A Stone? Or If He Ask A Fish, Will He Give Him A Serpent? If Ye Then, Being Evil, Know How To Give Good Gifts Unto Your Children, How Much More Shall Your Father Which Is In Heaven Give Good Things To Them That Ask Him? Therefore All Things Whatsoever Ye Would That Men Should Do To You, Do Ye Even So To Them: For This Is The Law And The Prophets. Enter Ye In At The Strait Gate: For Wide Is The Gate, And Broad Is The Way, That Leadeth To Destruction, And Many There Be Which Go In Thereat: Because Strait Is The Gate, And Narrow Is The Way, Which Leadeth Unto Life, And Few There Be That Find It. Beware Of False Prophets, Which Come To You In Sheep's Clothing, But Inwardly They Are Ravening Wolves. Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits. Do Men Gather Grapes Of Thorns, Or Figs Of Thistles? Even So Every Good Tree Bringeth Forth Good Fruit; But A Corrupt Tree Bringeth Forth Evil Fruit. A Good Tree Cannot Bring Forth Evil Fruit, Neither Can A Corrupt Tree Bring Forth Good Fruit. Every Tree That Bringeth Not Forth Good Fruit Is Hewn Down, And Cast Into The Fire. Wherefore By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them. Not Every One That Saith Unto Me, Lord, Lord, Shall Enter Into The Kingdom Of Heaven; But He That Doeth The Will Of My Father Which Is In Heaven. Many Will Say To Me In That Day, Lord, Lord, Have We Not Prophesied In Thy Name? And In Thy Name Have Cast Out Devils? And In Thy Name Done Many Wonderful Works? And Then Will I Profess Unto Them, I Never Knew You: Depart From Me, Ye That Work Iniquity.
John 15:1-27
I Am The True Vine, And My Father Is The Husbandman. Every Branch In Me That Beareth Not Fruit He Taketh Away: And Every Branch That Beareth Fruit, He Purgeth It, That It May Bring Forth More Fruit. Now Ye Are Clean Through The Word Which I Have Spoken Unto You. Abide In Me, And I In You. As The Branch Cannot Bear Fruit Of Itself, Except It Abide In The Vine; No More Can Ye, Except Ye Abide In Me. I Am The Vine, Ye Are The Branches: He That Abideth In Me, And I In Him, The Same Bringeth Forth Much Fruit: For Without Me Ye Can Do Nothing. If A Man Abide Not In Me, He Is Cast Forth As A Branch, And Is Withered; And Men Gather Them, And Cast Them Into The Fire, And They Are Burned. If Ye Abide In Me, And My Words Abide In You, Ye Shall Ask What Ye Will, And It Shall Be Done Unto You. Herein Is My Father Glorified, That Ye Bear Much Fruit; So Shall Ye Be My Disciples. As The Father Hath Loved Me, So Have I Loved You: Continue Ye In My Love. If Ye Keep My Commandments, Ye Shall Abide In My Love; Even As I Have Kept My Father's Commandments, And Abide In His Love. These Things Have I Spoken Unto You, That My Joy Might Remain In You, And That Your Joy Might Be Full. This Is My Commandment, That Ye Love One Another, As I Have Loved You. Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That A Man Lay Down His Life For His Friends. Ye Are My Friends, If Ye Do Whatsoever I Command You. Henceforth I Call You Not Servants; For The Servant Knoweth Not What His Lord Doeth: But I Have Called You Friends; For All Things That I Have Heard Of My Father I Have Made Known Unto You. Ye Have Not Chosen Me, But I Have Chosen You, And Ordained You, That Ye Should Go And Bring Forth Fruit, And That Your Fruit Should Remain: That Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask Of The Father In My Name, He May Give It You. These Things I Command You, That Ye Love One Another. If The World Hate You, Ye Know That It Hated Me Before It Hated You. If Ye Were Of The World, The World Would Love His Own: But Because Ye Are Not Of The World, But I Have Chosen You Out Of The World, Therefore The World Hateth You. Remember The Word That I Said Unto You, The Servant Is Not Greater Than His Lord. If They Have Persecuted Me, They Will Also Persecute You; If They Have Kept My Saying, They Will Keep Yours Also. But All These Things Will They Do Unto You For My Name's Sake, Because They Know Not Him That Sent Me. If I Had Not Come And Spoken Unto Them, They Had Not Had Sin: But Now They Have No Cloke For Their Sin. He That Hateth Me Hateth My Father Also. If I Had Not Done Among Them The Works Which None Other Man Did, They Had Not Had Sin: But Now Have They Both Seen And Hated Both Me And My Father. But This Cometh To Pass, That The Word Might Be Fulfilled That Is Written In Their Law, They Hated Me Without A Cause. But When The Comforter Is Come, Whom I Will Send Unto You From The Father, Even The Spirit Of Truth, Which Proceedeth From The Father, He Shall Testify Of Me: And Ye Also Shall Bear Witness, Because Ye Have Been With Me From The Beginning.
2 Timothy 1:7-9
For God Hath Not Given Us The Spirit Of Fear; But Of Power, And Of Love, And Of A Sound Mind. Be Not Thou Therefore Ashamed Of The Testimony Of Our Lord, Nor Of Me His Prisoner: But Be Thou Partaker Of The Afflictions Of The Gospel According To The Power Of God; Who Hath Saved Us, And Called Us With An Holy Calling, Not According To Our Works, But According To His Own Purpose And Grace, Which Was Given Us In Christ Jesus Before The World Began,
Donna K Purifoy
7/29/2024
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