Alvin Daily: Questions Christians should Answer

My friends, are you Christian? Do you really love Jesus? Have you been born again? Are you sure that Holy Spirit dwell within you? Are you sure that you already have eternal life?

My friends, do you really loves Jesus? Do you read the Bible regularly? Do you love reading Bible? I wonder to see many Christians say that they love Jesus, but never read Bible, the Word of God. Do you know that Jesus is the Word of God who became flesh? Logically, if you said that you love Jesus, you should also love the Word of God, which means that you should love the Bible. So, if you say that you love Jesus but never read the Bible regularly, you are a great liar, you never love Jesus. “Well did Isaiah prophecy about you, saying: These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines, the commandments of men (Matthew 15:8-9).” So, my friends, if you don’t want Isaiah’s prophecy fall on you… don’t say that you love Jesus, unless you love also the Word of God. We live in the last days where there are lots of false teachers, false prophets, and false apostles. If we never read Bible how can we differentiate them and the most important thing is how can we understand God? We need to read God’s Word and obey it.

My friends, do you really a born again Christian? If you are really a born again Christian, you should have experienced your life changes drastically and there will be regeneration in your life, not through making many commitments (our effort), but supernaturally (God’s grace). It is not because of your works, for by grace we have been saved through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). God will give you a new heartand put a new spirit within you; He will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. He will put His Spirit within you and cause us to walk in His statutes, and we will keep His judgment and do them (Ezekiel 36:26-27). You will no longer struggle to read the Bible, you will find that your prayers will no longer stuck on the roof, you will long to have fellowship with other believers, you will find that worshipping God and doing Christian life are sweet. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). Just as a baby born in this world, having a birthday, you will know by yourself, when your spirit being quickened by God, when all things have become new, when His Spirit enter your heart and your old-self has passes away. So, my friends have you been born again or you just a good person who know Jesus Christ but never allow Him to live His live in you? Jesus is knocking at the door of your heart.

Are you sure that Holy Spirit dwells within your heart? Do you know what the meaning of HOLY? If Christians say that they have Holy Spirit within them but still living in sins, continue falling into the same sins, having the sinful nature, they must be liars. They should question the spirit within them, “Is it Holy Spirit or unclean spirits? Why if it is Holy Spirit I still living in sins?” The only answer is: it is a deceptive spirit with the heaven that never exist. For if we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth (1 John 1:6). “He who says “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him (1 John 2:4)” “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God (1 John 3:9).” My friends, if you continue living in sins and still claim that you have Holy Spirit within you, repent and ask God’s forgiveness, submit yourself to God and believe that Jesus has died for you not only to be your Savior but also to be your King, your Lord.

You are His servants, no more of yourselves, surrender all unto Him: your life, your future, your everything. Believing that your old-self has been crucified with Christ, that you have died to sin and to the world, that you were buried with Him through the baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. So, my friends, are you sure that Holy Spirit is within you or your heart has deceived you all this time? Bible said, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it (Jeremiah 17:9)?” Do you already have this newness of life?

My friends, why you do good Christian life? Because you should do it? Because you think that it is necessary to be saved? Because you want to enter heaven? Because you are grateful that you are saved? Or because it is Christ who dwells in you who does that? The problem most Christians have is: they have begun in the Spirit, but now they are being made perfect by the flesh. They have been born again, they have obtained salvation. I believe that they have genuine experience. But then, they try to please God with their own flesh, they start doing good based on commitments, promises to please God and they struggle with it. They can’t keep up with God’s standard. They try to be holy, to be full of love, to be humble, to be patience, etc. These are where they start doing wrong, they start trying to please God with their flesh after they have begun in the Spirit. God main objective is: to make us know that nothing good can come out from us, but human thought is: we should try our best to please God; with our commitments, with our promises, with our flesh to become holier, more righteous, more loving, etc. My friends, God wants us to know that we can’t please God. We are unholy, impatient, and selfish, cannot love others, cannot forgive others, and cannot do anything good from ourselves. God wants us to allow His begotten Son, Jesus Christ, lives in us, to have His Holiness, His Love, His Forgiveness, His Humility, His Righteousness, His Strength, His Power, and His Life in us. He must increase, but I must decrease (John 3:30). It is Christ who forgives, who loves, who is pure, who is holy, who is righteous, who is humble, and who is patience, not us. It is Jesus Christ in us that please God’s standard, God’s righteous demand. It is God’s grace. So once again, doing Christian live is sweet, we are not trying to please God with our effort, our own flesh, but Christ does it in our lives. Praise God. So, my friends, are you still trying to please God with your own flesh? Why don’t you stop trying and start asking Jesus to have His way in your life, to bring His life into your life? And this is eternal life, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You sent (John 17:3).