We are Christians

We are Christians. We're Christians.

We believe, and as such, we are totally contrary to our culture. We're on a different universe than our culture. In the old days we may not have been, we had a lot of things in common, but on the ultimate issues you and I have nothing in common with our culture. We have been delivered from this domain of darkness; this perverse generation we have been saved from.

In our culture there is no such thing as absolute final Truth. Because, there is no ultimate source in God, that makes Himself to be known, whereby Truth can be made known. Our culture has no Truth. They have personal beliefs.

We are not Christians because

We are not Christians because of a personal belief. We are Christians because of a compliance with the divine record, that by the grace of God we have been brought by the Truth to recognize it, and have complied with the Truth and with God. So, we don't have "personal beliefs," we have a "confession." We believe God has spoken, and in His Word the chief idea is His Son Jesus Christ, and we believe that God is Holy, we believe that we are sinful,  that we are weak, that we are ignorant.  Amen! 

And in ourselves we don't have righteousness, we don't have strength. We believe that finite man can't, in and of himself, figure out exactly who God is. Man can know that there is a g-o-d up there, and that he is guilty, but who that God is, he must have the fine tuning of the Word of God. Reason will not fine tune who God is. 

And so, as Christians, we have submitted ourselves to a, what Paul calls, a "common confession." And that is; that God has been made manifest in the flesh, died for our sins, risen from the dead, and we by faith alone are declared Righteous, Forgiven, Regenerated.  That's our belief.  

   
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29:2