Is it sufficient to call ourselves „Christians“? Maybe you asked yourself if your really are the believer the Bible talks about. God has a vision about us. The biblical definition of believer is: to be „in Christ“ (Ephesians 1:3,11); we are alive with Christ, we sit with Him in heavenly places Ephesians 2:5-6); we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession (1. Peter 2:9); we are the dwelling place of God in Spirit (Ephesians 2:22). The personal experience seems that our actions are more inspired by our earthly nature than the heavenly one. To know that we are „in Christ“ is not enough to influence the activities, attitudes and desires of the believer. When God is looking at the believers He sees them as they really are. He sees them as „holy“, „sons“, „priests“, He sees their natural character, but He sees also their old and sinful human nature that causes the continuous fight. Imperfect, corrupted, but „saints“! What is important for Gor? God gives absolute importance to work of Christ, His virtue, His perfection, His submission. Jesus is the reason of our salvation, our submission to God is an effect. When God call us „saints“ He sees the final result – perfect and assured. He sees the end already at the beginning. God considers us „saints“ or „perfect“ because He has a global vision of us, from the beginning till the end (Colossians 1:15-27) Believers can be considered righteous and saved only because the Christ did really died for them. Satan uses the accusations, determents, deceptions, but it doesn´t change that we are redeemed. The sin can´t dominate a believer any longer because Christ defeated the sin (Romans 3:23, Acts 1:3, 1. Corinthians 15:3-8, Romans 5:18-19). The sinful works have to be interrupted and also substitute by good works. His power in us can change the bad in good (Ephesians 4:25,29, 1. Peter 3:9, Galatians 5:16-26, 3. John 11, 1 John 3:1-3, 3:9-10).
Is it sufficient to call ourselves „Christians“? Maybe you asked yourself if your really are the believer the Bible talks about. God has a vision about us. The biblical definition of believer is: to be „in Christ“ (Ephesians 1:3,11); we are alive with Christ, we sit with Him in heavenly places Ephesians 2:5-6); we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession (1. Peter 2:9); we are the dwelling place of God in Spirit (Ephesians 2:22). The personal experience seems that our actions are more inspired by our earthly nature than the heavenly one. To know that we are „in Christ“ is not enough to influence the activities, attitudes and desires of the believer. When God is looking at the believers He sees them as they really are. He sees them as „holy“, „sons“, „priests“, He sees their natural character, but He sees also their old and sinful human nature that causes the continuous fight. Imperfect, corrupted, but „saints“! What is important for Gor? God gives absolute importance to work of Christ, His virtue, His perfection, His submission. Jesus is the reason of our salvation, our submission to God is an effect. When God call us „saints“ He sees the final result – perfect and assured. He sees the end already at the beginning. God considers us „saints“ or „perfect“ because He has a global vision of us, from the beginning till the end (Colossians 1:15-27) Believers can be considered righteous and saved only because the Christ did really died for them. Satan uses the accusations, determents, deceptions, but it doesn´t change that we are redeemed. The sin can´t dominate a believer any longer because Christ defeated the sin (Romans 3:23, Acts 1:3, 1. Corinthians 15:3-8, Romans 5:18-19). The sinful works have to be interrupted and also substitute by good works. His power in us can change the bad in good (Ephesians 4:25,29, 1. Peter 3:9, Galatians 5:16-26, 3. John 11, 1 John 3:1-3, 3:9-10).
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