Are Christians infallible? No! In fact, Christians are daily targeted by Satan, who offers his lies and temptations to commit sin; but because Christians have given their lives to Christ as Lord and Savior, they reject the enslavement of sin. Born-again Christians are filled with the Holy Spirit, and are able to overcome temptation through prayer. Also, they confess their sins to God through Jesus Christ, and they are forgiven and renewed in faith.
Christianity is a way of life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, meaning as one who has been baptized by fire and the Holy Spirit, you shun sin and strive to keep in the narrow path of righteousness.
LUKE: 3: 16
16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: (Holy Bible, King James version)
As a Christian, you cannot deliberately live in sin, condone sin, or look favorably towards sin. To do this is to fall back into the darkness of Satan, and to bring judgment of death upon yourself. REVELATION 20: 12, 15 says this clearly:
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Living in Christ calls for renunciation of unrighteousness, because our bodies were made in the image of God, and are temples of the Lord. The fate of those who refuse to heed God’s warning, the people that Christ calls an "adulterous" generation, will reap God’s wrath, as the “great whore” that was shown to John in REVELATION 17: 1-5
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH
The warning is given in REVELATION, through this scenario. Those who follow the abominations forbidden by God will go into perdition.
REVELATION 17: 8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
The price of being a Christian in a world that worships the beast, materialism, indulgence in sin, and other pervasions forbidden by God, is not cheap. When you witness the Gospel unto the non-believers, they will revile you, mock you, and shun you, having labeled you a “fanatic”. But do no lose hope, for Christ is on your side when you spread the Gospel. He has already laid a curse on those who shut others out of the Kingdom of God, with their lies and man-made religions: MATTHEW 23: 13, 33 shows Jesus confronting the Pharisees about their religions that were keeping people out of salvation:
13 But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Holy Bible King James Version)
God's Reward for Christians
Now you know. Testifying to the adherents of world religions using the Bible (the same
one they say they believe but do not), will not earn you respect in their eyes, but your
reward in heaven will be plentiful.
In MATTHEW 24- 5, the Bible explains that many will deceive, using Jesus’ name, so take heed.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
The non-believers will not listen to your Gospel testimony, because in your ordinariness, they will consider you incompetent to interpret the Word of God. This is because the religions of the world have reduced the Word of God to Theological debate, man’s paradigms (like iconology , Mariology, and other doctrinal principles), in order to shut you out of the Kingdom of God. They do not consider that God forbids anyone from adding or subtracting from the Bible, for any reason. The evidence is in REVELATION 22: 18-19, warning that nobody should add or subtract from the Bible.
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Holy Bible, King James version)
What Jesus Told His Disciples after His Resurrection
AT GALILEE, before his ascent into heaven, Jesus Commissions his disciples to preach the Gospel to the whole world. There is no grandiose ordination ceremony, no Theology PhD conferment, and no blessing of third party intercessors to pray to God on our behalf. Jesus does not tell people to build devotional altars for worship of graven images; He does not give out prayer objects like beads, rings, or strings to the Apostles; He does not empower his mother, Mary, to be the queen of heaven or deity. Jesus gives the power to ordinary men and women, to spread his Gospel throughout the world, without fear. MATTHEW 28: 19-21
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Holy Bible, King James version)
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