LonearAq writes:
Additionally, not all Christians help out. The vast majority don't do anything beyond dropping coin in the collection plate.
Christians - Wikipedia
Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament[2] and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Now if this is the definition of Christian you are using I will agree with you. But this definition has nothing to do with anything other than religion.
That is why I do not claim to be a Christian.
I do claim to be a born again child of the King. King Jesus.
Let me put a couple of things straight here.
When I was 9 years and 11 months old I asked Jesus to take my spirit and take care of it. At that moment I was born again and He sent the Holy Spirit to lead me and guide me for my journey here on earth. The Holy Spirit sealed my soul until the day of redemption.
Ephe 4:30 (KJV) And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
I shall never perish.
John 10:28 (KJV) And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
So Jesus saved me. The Holy Spirit sealed me. Jesus gave me eternal life and I shall never perish. Nobody, or power can get me out of the hand of Jesus.
That means I don't have to do anything to go to heaven but die physically.
So if I can't lose it how can you say what I do, (I will not speak for other people) I do expecting a reward. I help because I want other's to share what I have been blessed with. I do understand your viewpoint as you do not know my friend, my Jesus.
There are billions of professors but only a few posessors.
If a person is doing something to receive a reward from God they have already received their reward. A child of God does not have to do anything to get the reward that you put forth he will receive.
Matthew chapter 25 has nothing to do with a born again child of God as they will have had their judgment at least 3 1/2 years prior to the judgment of the nations.
Since you are such a great theologian would you please point out the scripture that tells me that I have to do anything besides make disciples, baptize them and teach them the all things that Christ commanded. Matt. 28:19, 20. This was the orders given to the New Testament Church.
And the two commandments Jesus gave me.
Matt 22:37 (KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Now he gave a lot of rules through Paul on how I am supposed to conduct myself within the local Church. Church member to church member.
Paul said concerning feeding the poor. BTW he is the only one who mentioned it.
1Cor 13:3 (KJV) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Paul said he could give everything he had to feed the poor and it would profit him nothing. Withouty Charity (Charity here means Love)
So if he did it for reward he gets nothing.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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