Posted 5 years ago by Anonymous
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Summary
- “Faithful brothers in Christ” - believer who shows his/herself faithful, worthy of trust, trusts in God’s promises, believes & follows Christ.
If you are a brother/sister in Christ, would you be called faithful?
We should treat each other as brothers and sisters (in a good way).
Who God is - “our Father” - Paul’s, Timothy’s, Colossian believers’, every believer’s - brought into personal, intimate relationship through faith in Christ
“To be God’s children, you’ve got to be born again.” John 1:12
- “Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” - Jesus is the divine Son of God That means Jesus is our spiritual brother!
Who Jesus is - “Christ” - the Messiah sent from God, appointed as judge and redeemer. Acts 10:42-43
- “Lord” - “kyrios” - “He to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord; possessor and disposer of a thing; owner, who has control of the person; the sovereign, prince, chief” (Strong’s)
Lord means Owner! As believers, we belong to our Lord. He owns us and we must live for Him. We must give ourselves away to Him everyday.
The benefits are great (relationship with God, forgiveness, new life, eternal life, purpose, security, God with and within us, etc), but the Christian life is not necessarily easy (most likely hard!).
“It’s not an easy road we are traveling to glory,” but it is the best way and only way to true life.
Who are you? Are you in Christ? A child of God through faith in Christ? Forgiven? Part of God’s forever family?
If not, why not today? If so, live like it!
Until Jesus comes, we should learn who’s who from God’s perspective and be who He has made and called us to be.
