Consistent Christian Living

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*CONSISTENT CHRISTIAN LIVING* 


“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).


TEXT: Genesis 5:22-24; 17:1

One of the negative end-time prophecies of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is that the love of many Christians shall wax cold. 


Its fulfillment, as Christendom is presently witnessing, spells grave consequences. It is obvious now that many who were once zealous and committed to the Lord are losing their first love and enthusiasm with which they served God. 


This is because the god of this world has enticed them with materialism into spiritual sleep and inertia, and sowed tares of discord, misfortune, and sickness into their lives.


Manipulated by the enemy, these Christians lose their conviction as their fellowship with God and His people become irregular. They have consequently become unstable and unpredictable in character, and unfaithful to God and His church.


Outright backsliding has become rampant. With this development, Christ, who always knows what to do, charges fervent believers and the church to wake up to their responsibility of reviving despondent, weak, lukewarm, and inconsistent believers. “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent…” (Revelation 3:2,3).


Saved from sin or restored from backsliding, the believer needs to maintain a consistent righteous life to qualify to enter heaven.

 *THE CHARACTER  OF HEAVENLY PILGRIMS* :

(Genesis 5:22-24;   17:1;   Hebrews 11:5,6,13-16; Philippians 3:20).

Enoch, son of Jared and father of Methuselah, is mentioned in our text as one who maintained a consistent, God-pleasing lifestyle throughout his lifetime. According to Scripture account, he knew God at the age of 65 and walked with Him for 300 years. That he lived in the Old Testament period before the cross, strips inconsistent believers of excuses they give for rising and falling in the Christian faith. Enoch lived in this same wicked world infested with demons as we do today. Moreover, with the death and resurrection of Christ, every earnest seeker can live a consistent Christian life. If it is not possible to live a righteous life, God would not have called Abraham to it (Genesis 17:1).


Question 1: State the indispensable step to a consistent Christian living.

However, the call to salvation precedes the call to consistent Christian living and perfection. Abraham had first responded to the call to come out of sin unto salvation and separation before this time. None is on pilgrimage to heaven until they are genuinely saved from sin.


Pilgrimages to holy lands and engagement in religious rites/duties do not set the religionist free from sin. Every sinner and backslider need to repent of their sins and receive Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior to be free from sin.


Set free from sin that binds and inhibits spiritual progress, the believer begins to live a life of victory over sin, the flesh, self, the world, and the devil. He is careful to “walk with God” and “walk before God” in righteousness. These phrases suggest that the believer consciously walks side by side with, lives and does everything under the watchful, never-blinking eyes of God (Psalm 139:1-12). 


As sane human beings do not want    to expose their nakedness before the camera, so also the believer would not want to do evil while the omniscient and omnipresent God watches. These attributes of God, together with the fact that He is the final Judge who knows the minutest detail of our lives, should instill holy fear in the believer and enable him to live a consistent Christian life.


Besides, maintaining a consistent Christian life requires courage and faith. The heroes of faith grouped with Enoch and Abraham in Hebrews chapter 11 also regarded as “strangers and pilgrims on earth” all had their problems, difficulties, temptations, trials, and challenges. Rather than give in, they exercised faith in God and were victorious. The challenges we face as believers will not last; we will continue to overcome if we lean on the Lord.


So wake up from your slumber and carry your cross daily, stand on Jesus commandments ‼️


Carry your Bible and read it day and night so that you will not fall into devil temptation ‼️

Jesus Christ is coming soon ‼️

Run away from enternal Destruction and run to Jesus Christ to received enternal life ‼️


Repent before it's too late ‼️

Rapture is real ‼️

Heaven is real ‼️

Hell is real ‼️


If Jesus Christ have touched u through this massage say this prayer, believe it and always read your Bible day/night.


Dear lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner, and I ask for your forgiveness.  I believe you die for my sins and rose from the dead.  I turn from my sin and invite you to come into my heart and life now. And filled me with your holy spirit 

I want to trust and follow you as my Lord and personal savior, so help me lord. Amen

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