Just how many people in America say that they are Christian? 85% say that they are Christian. I googled this to find out and I am amazed. There are many who claim to be a Christian who do not accept the deity of Jesus Christ. They want to say that they are a Christian for the sake of being Christian, but they don't believe the Bible nor do they want to obey God.
In the USA there are 224,457,000 people who claim to be Christian. I am not going to question their salvation, that is for God. I find it very hard to believe that all who claim to be Christian are in fact born again Christians.
Googled Survey!
[Christianity, as defined for the purpose of census and surveys, includes all those who claim to be Christian. This includes varying degrees of religious activity, from essentially non-participating but still-nominal Christians to active full-communicants and life-long clergy. These numbers also include adherents of different divisions within Christianity, including Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, African Indigenous Churches and others.]
We are told that we will know them by their fruit. God tells us that in the last days many will fall away from the truth and be deceived by false teachers. I have talked with some of the people who belong to these groups, and they do not worship the Jesus of the Bible. We are told that if you have the Son of God you have life, so how can you deny the Son of God and have eternal life? You need to confess Jesus, God the Son, as Lord of your life to have eternal life in you.
Matthew;10:32-33
("Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My father who is in heaven.)
You might say to yourself that you haven't denied Jesus. Do you acknowledge Him as God the Son? If you don't acknowledge Him as God, then you are denying who He is, and in essence, you are denying Jesus. We are warned in Scripture that some will think they are saved and will not be allowed into heaven because they don't have Jesus as their Savior.
Matthew;6:21-23
(Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!')
[The True Way Into The Kingdom]
Matthew;7;13-14
(Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.)
Christ continually emphasized the difficulty of following Him.
Matthew;10;38
(And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.)
Matthew;16:24-25
(Then Jesus said to His disciples. "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.)
John;15:18
(If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.)
John;16:1-3
(These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.)
Acts;14:22
(strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, "We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.")
It will not be an easy road when we are following Jesus. Satan will do all he can to make you stumble and lose sight of Jesus. We are told to keep our eyes focused on things above, not on the earthly things.
We have to believe that God is who He says He is, and put our faith in Him. We are not to believe what man says about Jesus, because the testimony of God is true and God does not lie.
1John;5:7
(For there are three that bear witness in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.)
Reference the trinity of God. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!
1John;5:11-13
(And this is the testimony; that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.)
Make sure that if you say you are a Born Again Christian, that you faith is in Jesus of the Bible, God the Son. Don't be deceived by false teachers, read the Bible for yourself, so you can know the truth of God's Word. He will reveal the truth to you if you ask Him.
God Bless You!
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