Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
With a new look
Christian
The word Christian actually means one who is likened unto the Christ (Christ-like, Christ one, one who emulates the Christ), most people think of the word to mean Christ follower; a Christ follower does what the Christ did.
“When he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of people. (It was at Antioch that the believers were first called Christians.),” (Acts 11:26 New Living Translation).
This is the way it could have been (nothing says otherwise): The Christ was crucified but Antioch didn’t know that. The leader in Antioch wanted to see this Christ and see Him do something. So, his aide looked out from the balcony down to the streets and he saw Christ laying hands on a cripple, then he looked in a different direction and saw Christ helping a poor man. It seemed that everywhere he looked he saw Christ doing something different. He said to his boss, “Sir, I see Christ everywhere, here, there, everywhere”
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The leader asked, “What do you means, everywhere? I thought there was only one Christ.”
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“I thought so too, sir, but see for yourself. Their everywhere,” said the aide.
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The leader decided, “These people are Christians because there are many.”
“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds,” (John 12:24 New International Version) Jesus The Christ said that.
Now, many people have confessed Jesus as Lord and some even received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, they do what The Christ did. But that was years ago, before they found that it wasn’t popular with the religious church and the world. So, they stopped doing what Jesus did; they thought that since they are Holy Spirit baptized they are alright and heaven bound.
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(Believe me, this is a life changing message even for me.) John 14:12 doesn’t say, “Anyone who believes in me will do what I’ve been doing, or at least he do these things once…” not at all. What did Jesus The Christ say?
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father,” (John 14:12 New Living Translation). The greater works aren’t greater than the works if you don’t do the works. THINK ABOUT IT.
If the leader of Antioch from Acts 11:26 was here today, would he call you a Christian? Even if he would have when you started out would he call you a Christian now? Ya see, and this is news to me, Christian is not a label that cannot be removed (it’s not glued on with permanent glue and not shellacked on). You are a child of God because you have made Jesus your Lord, and that is forever; but being a Christian (a disciple of Jesus who is The Christ) is not a once forever deal.
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Those whom the people of Antioch would call Christians are the true representatives of Jesus The Christ, and they are the ones whom Jesus is coming back for in the rapture. The rest will have a short time to get it right.