Subpar Christians
\nIn listening to a message I heard a preacher say there are a lot of \u201csubpar Christians.\u201d I do not believe that for a moment.<\/p>\n
Gods holy word says, \u201cwe are complete in Him\u201d (Col. 2:9-10). They also say, \u201che hath perfected forever them that are sanctified\u201d (Heb 10:14). Christ is \u201cmade unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption\u201d.<\/p>\n
Where is anything subpar about that? All Gods people are ONE IN CHRIST, whether Jew, Gentile bond or free. Christ is all in all!<\/p>\n
I know there are \u201cbabes, young men, and fathers,\u201d but the babe in Christ is as complete in Christ as the father in the faith. There are no degrees in any believers standing before God; all are \u201cmade the righteousness of God in Christ;\u201d all are \u201cmade new creatures in Christ\u201d.<\/p>\n
Men make statements and try to present degrees or different levels of Christians, and of course they are themselves at the highest level. This is blasphemous. It dishonors Christ and his work of redemption, and makes men look to doing something to attain a higher level of Christianity, and they do that because neither they nor the preacher know Christ or the gospel. There is no higher ground, no higher level or anything else than Christ.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubpar Christian\u201d is the creation of a wicked and depraved mind. \u201cToday thou shall be with ME in paradise\u201d is what our Lord said to the thief beside him. This man had just became a believer, had just seen Christ for who he was. He didn\u2019t have time to \u201clive right,\u201d \u201cto do a good work for Jesus.\u201d But he went into glory with Christ his savior, why because Christ made him complete, clothed him with his righteousness.
\nDon Bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Subpar Christians In listening to a message I heard a preacher say there are a lot of \u201csubpar Christians.\u201d I do not believe that for a moment. Gods holy word says, \u201cwe are complete in Him\u201d (Col. 2:9-10). They also say, \u201che hath perfected forever them that are sanctified\u201d (Heb 10:14). Christ is \u201cmade unto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,129,47,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-bell","category-complete-in-christ","category-rewards","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}