What Christians Have The World Does Not

There are only two classes of people in the world: Christians and non-Christians, the saved and the lost (Matthew 7:13-14). There are no other possibilities! One day, all the dead will be raised either to eternal life or eternal damnation (John 5:28-29; Matthew 25:46). So, what does the Christian have the non-Christian does not? Everything that counts!

Christians have God as their Father (John 20:17). God is called our heavenly Father in Matthew 6:26; Matthew 6:32. Christians are “the called of Jesus Christ...beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father” (Romans 1:6-7). “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19).

Those in the world have Satan as their father. “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He...abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him...he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44).

Christians have Christ as their savior (2 Peter 1:1). “Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). “Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body” (Ephesians 5:23). He died so that all might be saved (Hebrews 2:9).

Those in the world have Satan as their adversary. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

Christians have a sure foundation. “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his” (2 Tim. 2:19).

Those in the world have a foundation of sand. “And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it” (Matthew 7:26-27).

Christians have peace with God. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). Christ is our peace (Ephesians 2:14-16).

Those in the world are enemies of God.“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God” (James 4:4).

Christians have access to God. Through Christ “we have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:18-19; Ephesians 3:12). Through Christ we can “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19-22).

Those in the world are aliens to God. They “walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ” (Ephesians 4:17-20).

Christians have hope. There is one hope (Ephesians 4:4). We are saved by hope (Romans 8:24).“Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast” (Hebrews 6:17-19).

Those in the world have no hope. Before one becomes a Christian, he is “...without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12).

Christians have eternal life. “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Titus 1:2). God, “according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you...ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:3-5). Eternal life is in Christ (1 John 5:11-13).

Those in the world have eternal damnation to look forward to. “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9). They will be in a lake which burns with fire and brimstone.

Become a Christian today. Don’t delay. Study and learn what you must do to be saved. Hear and listen to the Gospel (Romans 10:17; John 6:44-45), Believe the Gospel and in Jesus the Son of God (John 8:24; Hebrews 11:6), Repent of your sins (Acts 2:38; Acts 17:30), Confess faith in Jesus as the Savior and Son of God (Acts 8:37; Romans 10:9-10), be Baptized in water for the forgiveness of your sins (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16), live faithful the rest of your life (Matthew 10:22; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Reveltion 2:10).

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