To My Fellow Christian

In regards to my last post entitled, "Do You Call Yourself a Christian?" AND in regards to what is happening in America today,  I feel the need to leave you with a passage from Romans. 

But first,
If you call yourself a Christian, then you are claiming you believe and obey what is written in the Bible, NOT the ways of the world. Yes we are to LOVE others, but if "loving" turns into direct disobedience to His Word then it becomes a sin. We need to love others GOD'S way, not the world's way, even if we get persecuted for it. Jesus got persecuted too, in fact He hung on a cross for being Himself. He came to SAVE the world, because He knew that sin leads to DEATH, and He didn't want us to die. 

He loves us too much. 

Fellow Christian, I love YOU too much to watch you walk so blindly any longer. For the unsaved I pray, "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do." But for the Christian I say, "God help them see the truth in Your Word and be brave enough to stand for it, even though it is not popular and is viewed as hateful by the world. God help us to be bold for you!"

Romans 1:16-32:

16 For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.[g] 17 This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”[h]

God’s Anger at Sin

18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.[i] 19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.

21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. 26 That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. 27 And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.

28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. 29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. 30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. 32 They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too. (NLT, bold emphasis by me)

And don't forget, to know God is to love God, and to love God is to obey God.

1 John 2:3-6 says,

And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. 4 If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. 5 But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. 6 Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. (NLT)