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Roofdad
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« on: September 05, 2009, 07:46:26 PM » |
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So, you are following Christ........ that is good, BUT....... which Christ are you following? Do you know? Or are you saying, "What do you mean, WHICH Christ am I following?" Did you know that there are two Christs? And that each has a distinct ministry? It's true! So..... which one are YOU following? Let's take a look...... The Lord Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, as the Lord and Savior. The Messiah to the Jews of Israel ONLY! The Lord Jesus says so himself. Just look at Matthew 15:24, and see that He even tells his disciples this! He would not even speak to the Gentile woman at first! You, as a member of the Body of Christ, can NOT follow this Christ! His ministry was to the Jews ONLY. His instructions were to the Jews ONLY. His teachings were to the Jews ONLY.
Now that you know, take a look at this:
Once He was crucified, resurrected, and ascended into heaven, He became a different Christ! He became the RISEN Lord Jesus Christ, and as the risen Lord Jesus Christ, He gave Israel one more chance to repent, by giving Stephen, who was filled with the Holy Ghost, the words to say to the Jewish religious leaders (Acts 7). Instead of repenting, they killed Stephen, and rejected the risen Christ!
In the very next chapter of Acts, the risen Lord Jesus afflicts Saul of Tarsus, on his way to hunt down followers of Christ's earthly ministry, to bring them to the Jewish religious leaders, and blinds him; asking why Saul is persecuting him. He saves and converts Saul, and raises him up to be THE apostle to the Gentiles, and gives him a new gospel for both Jew and Gentile. Saul changes his name to Paul, and begins writing down what the risen Christ reveals to him, which had never been known to men before (Eph. 3:1-11). This is the gospel of your salvation, and the gospel of the risen Christ, and it is found only in the epistles of the apostle Paul.
SO....... which Christ ARE you following?
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