Are They All Spiritualy Healthy?

Are you concerned about the Spiritual health of your brothers and sisters?

Do you think because someone is a member of your assembly that they have a good grasp of their salvation in Christ?

Or because someone comes on Sunday, or to any studies, or Bible activities in your church building that they are safely living their new life of Christ in the world?

God shows us that just by asking a few simple questions, we can find out the spiritual health of a fellow believer. To know this, read the gospels and the book of Acts to see how the many gifts of God are used to bring people to know Jesus and His death on the cross. It was for their Spiritual needs; the immanent necessity of knowledge to obtain the righteousness given by Jesus' death on the cross.

God has more concern for the spiritual health of His people than their physical needs.

"Therefore, do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you" Matthew 6:31-33

• We trivialize the cross of Jesus Christ by making it pretty.
• We make the cross of Jesus Christ frivolous by making it a symbol.
• We accessorize the cross of Jesus Christ as what God did from love.

The cross of Jesus Christ is the wrath of God.

"The only ground on which God can forgive us is the tremendous tragedy of the cross of Christ; to put forgiveness on any other ground is in unconscious blasphemy."

Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge" Proverbs 1:7

"Bear one another's burdens , and so fulfil the law of Christ" Galatians 6:2.

(Jesus said), "This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you" John 15:12

Ask a few questions to see how your brothers and sisters in Christ are doing in their Christian walk and help them where they need strengthening.

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Is Your Faith Identifiable?

The girl at the gate said to Peter, "Aren't you one of the disciples of that man?" (John 18:17)

so others said to him, "Aren't you one of the disciples of that man?" (John 18:25)

he asked, (Peter), "Didn't I see you with him in the garden?" (John 18:26)

Webster's II Dictionary defines Christian as --noun. 1. A believer in Christianity. --adjective 1. of, pertaining to, or professing belief in Christianity. 2. Relating to or derived from Jesus or His teachings. 3. Relating to Christianity or in adherent.

Are people able to look at you and ask "Aren't you a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth?"

Is there evidence of you having been with Jesus?

Does your speech, like Peter's, give you away as someone being with Jesus and not of the world? (Colossians 3)

Would anyone at your workplace ask about your relationship with Jesus?

Would anyone at your school ask about your relationship with Jesus? 

What about where you shop, or bank, or get a hairstyle/cut, or where get your car repaired?

What about in your own neighborhood? Your home? Among your people?

When you're out and about in your part of the world does anyone apart from other Christians know you're a Christian?

Can other Christians brag about your witness? (1 Thessalonians 1:7)

What about the other side of the question? Are you ready to deny your relationship with Jesus when the opposition asks you?

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Guest Post: Walk In Holiness

Guest Joel Littlefield - Author of Grace In Crossville

This essay was first posted on the Calvary Chapel Crossville website. Please visit the site for more of Pastor Joel Littlefield's teaching.

"To walk in this thing we call holiness, 

every eye must remain on the prize.

 That prize is Jesus."

                                                            J. Littlefield

Pastor Joel has written a fine essay on the awesome attribute of God---His Holiness. 

Walk In Holiness

No one is innately holy except God. No man is innately holy except Jesus Christ, the God-man. What then do we do with the command "Be holy, as I am holy"? How can we possibly follow this one? We must see that it is not an optional command. We cannot just back out of this as if anything less than holy were acceptable to God. Holiness is who God is, and what we must seek if we are truly His. To better understand this, let's consider this phrase we often hear, "walk in holiness", and break it into three parts.

First - To walk in holiness is just that, a walk. It's a life with holy movement. It's a life of faithful step-taking. Not sluggish or lazy. Some steps are big and some are small, but the Christian is to be constantly on the move in the strength of the Spirit. This is not like the "busybody". The scriptures condemn that behavior. The busybody is so active, and so loose with his or her decisions, so sloppily involved in everyone's affairs, that they are not acting as the Lord in His holiness. God is purposeful, and deliberate in every action, so that every word, and every move is for the goal of glorifying Himself for the good of others. Let us do the same. Walk in holiness. Walk with purpose and with one goal, the glory of God and the benefit of others. 

Second - Holiness is something that envelopes the true child of God. It is not a secondary nature, but part of a new, God given, primary nature that identifies with Christ. "Therefore if you have been raised with Christ, walk in newness of life."  The action of walking and doing as a Christian is really an outflow of something deep inside you. Yes, something fully worked by God, but something we MUST take hold of. This is justification, that which Christ bought with His own blood.  It is only in Christ that we are made holy.  In Jesus we are acquitted of all unrighteousness and counted worthy - blameless before God - forgiven.  It is a matter of position because of absolute payment on our behalf. The walking becomes easier when we realize what we are walking in. There's more purpose when we begin to understand the grace we have received. To walk in this is to acknowledge the miraculous work of God that placed you here, and glory in Him because of it. 

Thirdly - Holiness is a personal God. Without God, holiness is non existent. Not only should we walk, and walk in, but even more than these we must  worship the one who was, and is, and always will be holy. Try to define God with human words. It's impossible right? At some point we must revert to this one truth, "God is...Holy". It is a term that fits Him and Him alone, and every human knows this. It is a term that speaks of infinite worth and splendor, endless love and purpose, perfect promises and just judgments To walk in this thing we call holiness, every eye must remain on the prize. That prize is Jesus. Jesus came to make the unholy, positionally holy through faith in Him. He is the God who always was, the Great I AM, the holy one of Israel. The train of His Kingly robe fills temples, and His voice shakes mountains.

Walk in holiness today, for holiness is yours through the grace of Christ. Step out in faith with deeds of love and holiness, acting and living in the name of Jesus, spreading His Word to the ends of the earth. Reverence Him for He alone is worthy. He alone is Holy.

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Pastor Joel Littlefield
I am 30 years old, the father to 3 wonderful children, and blessed to be 11 years married to my beautiful wife, Callie. I'm currently serving as the worship leader and assistant pastor at Calvary Chapel in Crossville, TN.  My passion is to preach and teach Christ to the Church, and show that His glory, His joy, and His will are our primary mission in life as Christians. Since writing is a form of teaching, and can be used to equip the body of Christ unto love and good works, this too has become a passion in my daily walk and growth with God.

Be sure to read the 30 Day Devotion by Joel Littlefield Grace In Crossville available at Amazon