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*What is a Christian 1?*
*Utawala** Baptist Church*
*13-05-2007*
*Acts 11:25-26*
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*Scripture Reading Acts 11:25-26*
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*In verse 26 we read “the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.”*
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*The time was about 43AD approximately 10 years after the crucifixion of Jesus.*
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* **The word Christian is misunderstood and misused today.*
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* Few people really know what a Christian is.*
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* People think they can call themselves Christians if!*
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* They belong to a church.*
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* They go to church on Christmas and Easter.*
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* They know a little about Jesus and do believe in Him.*
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* But be careful!*
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* James 2:19-20*
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*YOU CAN NOT PLAY CHRISTIAN BY CLAIMING A BELIEF IN CHRISTIANITY!*
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* Christians come under attack!*
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* Sometimes we don’t fit the molds that people try and put us in!*
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* More often than not people think Christians should be perfect!*
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* Of course based on their definition of perfect*
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* Not the Biblical example of perfection!*
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* When a Christian fails and falls!*
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* The world often says that person was a Christian!*
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* They should have been perfect!*
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*REMEMBER JESUS WAS THE ONLY PERFECT MAN TO EVER STEP ON EARTH!!*
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*Today I want to look at the word Christian and see what it really means!*
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*By definition a Christian is a follower or a disciple of Christ.*
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* No one wants to follow someone they do not believe in so a Christi9an is a believer, a follower, and a disciple!*
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*We will look at three qualities of being a Christian today!*
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*1. **A Christian is a believer!*
*2. **A Christian is not only a believer but also a follower!*
*3. **A Christian is not only a believer and a follower but also a disciple!
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*1.
A Christian is a believer!*
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* A Christian believes in God and His word!*
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* Hebrews 11:6*
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* **For a Christian there is no debate as to if there is a God!*
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* The Bible nowhere argues for the existence of God*
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* Genesis 1:1*
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* There is simply too much evidence that God is real and exists!*
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* Romans 1:20*
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* **We see that people have no excuse for not knowing God!*
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* We believe God created man to be like Him. *
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* Genesis 1:26-27*
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* But man turned his back on God!*
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* Genesis 3:6-8*
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* **Our sins needed justice for them to be forgiven.*
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* That justice had to be a perfect sacrifice!*
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* JESUS WAS THAT PERFECT SACRIFICE!*
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* HE, JESUS died on the cross to pay for our sins!*
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* So we could come to God again and live! *
* WHAT WE BELIEVE!*
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*Whoever believes in what Jesus has done and accepts HIM as Lord and Savior will be saved.*
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*SAVED FROM WHAT?*
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* From the wrath and eternal separation from God!*
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* John 3:16*
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*These are the things a Christian believes!*
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*We believe it because we know in our hearts it is true!*
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*God has caused us to know it by the conviction we feel in our hearts!*
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* This conviction is caused by the Holy Spirit!*
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*THIS BELIEF IS WHAT CAUSES US TO TURN TO JESUS AND MAKE HIM THE LORD OF OUR LIVES!*
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A Christian is not only a believer but also a follower!*
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*A Christian follows Jesus as instructed in Mark 8:34-35 where we are given *
*our “marching orders”!*
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* Mark 8:34-35*
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*We are to lay our lives down*
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* To follow Jesus is to have a personal relationship with HIM!*
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* NOT JUST A SUNDAY THING!*
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* Everywhere we go Jesus is there!*
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* Wherever we go Jesus is there already!*
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* But we must take HIM in our hearts!*
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* Going to church on Sunday because Jesus is there IS NOT following Jesus!*
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* We need to have Jesus in our homes!*
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* At our place of work*
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*At school *
*We need Jesus everywhere we are!*
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*But most of all we need HIM in our hearts!*
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* We need to spend time with HIM and be discipled by HIM!*
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* TRUE CHRISTIANS FOLLOW JESUS!*
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*4. **A Christian is not only a believer and a follower but also a disciple!
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*This is most likely the most misunderstood and under used of the three points we are looking at!*
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*The word disciple means one who is disciplined.*
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* Hebrews 12:11*
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*As we grow in our Christian life we don’t stop learning more about Jesus!*
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*We learn to be more like HIM!*
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*A Christian should strive to do what Christ wants.*
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*As Christians we are not only to learn from God’s word how we should*
*Act, but we need to attempt to BE IT!*
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*We need to act upon God’s Word, apply it to our lives!*
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*This does not mean that a real Christian is perfect.*
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* The Bible certainly tells us we are not!*
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* A Christian will fall time and again!*
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* But we are to pick ourselves up with God’s help.*
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* And try to do better!*
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*PEOPLE WATCH EVERY MOVE WE MAKE AS CHRISTIANS*
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* They want to see if we measure up to their idea of a Christian.*
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* They judge our life based on our words and actions.*
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*If we act like the world around us soon it becomes OK in our minds to do those worldly things.*
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*This happens because we are not perfect.*
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* Being perfect is not what discipline means.*
*IT ONLY MEANS WE TRY TO BE BETTER TODAY THEN WE WERE YESTERDAY!*
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*WE TRY TO BE AS GOD WANTS US TO BE!*
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