13th May, 2019
ON A CROSS
David Abankwah
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
-Galatians 2:20 | KJV
There is a word people are abusing today in this generation. The word called ‘Christian’. When you meet someone in the church and ask him, who are you, the response you normally get is that, ‘I am a Christian’ but you will not meet anywhere in the Bible that the Apostles openly declared that, they were Christians. When you get into the lives of these people who normally declare they are so, their lives are not even near the Apostles, neither can they be compared to Christ Jesus. We have about five clear distinctions of people in churches today.
They are church goers, lukewarm people, hypocrites, unbelievers, believers and disciples. It is for those who are disciples that people can confidently say that, indeed these people are Christians. The life you live like Christ is what people outside will openly testify that, you are a Christian or not. So if you want to know who someone really is, get to ask of them from their tenants, workers or neighbours. There is no Christian in the church. The fact that you go to church everyday doesn’t make you a Christian.
The fact that you can quote one or two Scriptures doesn’t mean you are a Christian. The fact that, you can do the work of God doesn’t mean you are a Christian. A Christian is someone who is at par to the standard or yardstick of Jesus Christ. It is like when we put Jesus Christ on the right, you are exactly the same as Him on the left. The righteousness, holiness and sanctification of Him are the same as yours. This can be so when you are crucified with Christ. It can be so when you are on the cross with Jesus Christ. When you are on a cross, you can’t get down to fornicate with someone.
When you are on a cross, you can’t get down to commit idolatry. When you are on a cross, you can’t get down to lie. When you are on a cross, you can’t get down to sin, commit iniquity or do the works of transgression. But today, a believer gets his nails been removed by Satan, gets down, sin and then climb the cross to be crucified again. We deliberately sin and ask for forgiveness knowing very well that, For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, -Hebrews 10:26 | KJV
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David Abankwah 