Random Thoughts on Christianity

• There was a time when the Church rejected the world's ways. Now she not only uses them; she abuses them. Of course we must use the world, because we need it; but let us not want it, let us not desire it.
• People wear suits to weddings or funerals yet dress casually in the Lord’s presence. I wonder why?
• Jesus did not say that we would know them by their great profession of faith, but that we would know them by their “FRUIT”.
• Faith takes your eyes off of yourself and everything this world has to offer and plants them firmly on Jesus Christ.
• If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would there be any evidence to condemn you?
• History is His – story!
• Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are you?  They had the name of Christ on their lips but they did not have the power of Christ in their hearts.
• If your life doesn’t line up to the gospel you are deceiving yourself
• True faith is more than what is in your mouth.  It is what is in your heart and what comes out of your mouth, proves what is in your heart.
• Jesus wasn’t politically correct and he hurt the feelings of many people.  But He told the TRUTH.
• John the Baptist spoke the truth till they cut his head off.  Are you willing to follow his example? 
• Political correctness is about not offending others.  Are you more concerned about pleasing others or about pleasing God?
• Christianity should always be a source or irritation to the world, then, equally the world should be a source of constant grief to the Church.
• In the past the Christians suffered open persecution for their faith but today Satan’s tactics are more subtle.  He tempts the believer with the things of the world and makes them sound reasonable and acceptable, especially to those who do not know the word of God like he does.  Oh yes, Satan knows the word of God better than most Christians do.
• Satan conceived and now controls the world order, and is prepared to use demonic power through the things of the world to lure us into it.
• Would God urge us to watch and pray if there weren’t spiritual forces to guard against?
• Christians should be perfectly willing to part with anything or anyone at any moment. It matters not whether I leave two thousand dollars or merely two. What matters is whether I can leave what ever I have without a twinge of regret.
• A hypocrite is someone who wears a mask, an actor, someone who is pretending to be someone when they are not really that person.  The best actors really know how to play their part. A really skilled hypocrite would be impossible to recognise.
• Christian hypocrisy is so ugly and embarrassing because while claiming to love and obey Jesus, they act as if He didn’t exist.
• Almost all of the parables of Jesus had to do with true and false profession;  the two builders, the sower and the soils, wheat and the tares, sheep and the goats, almost all.
• Jesus was the most genuine, real, non-fake person ever – someone who talked the talk and walked the walk. 
• If we measure ourselves by the world’s standards, or the standards of other people, most of us will end up thinking we are OK.  If we measure ourselves by God’s standards, it is a totally different story.
• Are we seeking the knowledge of God or are we seeking the knowledge of the world?  God’s desire is that we grow in the knowledge of Him. 
• We should be constantly growing.  Not growing stagnant.
• You are either a servant of God or a servant of the devil.  It is black or white.  There is no middle ground. 
• Are people who claim to be ambassadors for Christ, and then live like the world, really using God’s name in vain?
• True Christianity is a matter of the heart, it is more than words. 
• True biblical faith affects the whole life of a person.  It involves the emotions, the affections, the actions and the will.
• True conversion is two fold.  We flee from sin and rush to him.
• You are not your own.  You are bought with a price.  Therefore quit flirting with the world and playing the harlot. 
• If you are in love with someone, you want to be with them, spend time with them, get to know everything there is to know about them. How much do you love Jesus?
• In the world we are taught how to improve our self esteem whereas the whole aim of the Bible is to bring us to our knees in repentance knowing that we are nothing without Christ. 
• Most people know the names of top sports personalities or TV personalities but do we know the names of Jesus’ brothers?
• We seem to find time for TV, Movies, The Internet and especially friends but we just can’t seem to find any time for God.  Hummm… 
• Are you teaching your children to put God first or are they more interested in watching TV, Playing games, being on the internet or in their newest toy, etc.?
• He is ‘A God of Grace’ but He is also a ‘God of Wrath’.  A half gospel is a lie taught by the devil himself. 
• There are people sitting in temples of God every week but do they have the God of the temples in their hearts? 

Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.