Birthmarks of a Christian

1 John 5:1-5

Love
God Loves You.
You choose to love God.
God loves His people.
So, you must love His people.
You are not allowed to hate.
Or, separate from:
- His people
- His Church
- The Jews

But this does not make us lovable.

Nor will the world embrace us, for it hates God and His people!
Want to know where someone is with God?
Find out where they stand on the Middle East issue ...

No not to condemn them, but to all us to participate in the restoration of fellowship with God ...

Obedience
Creation praises the Creator.
We must choose to.
Nature obeys the Lord.
We must choose to.

And yielding our will to anyone is not a part of this culture!
As the song says, "Trust and obey, for there is no other way ..."

Victory
Living your faith.
No longer hearing the siren cry of the world!
No longer yielding to Satan's influences.
Or memories of the past ....

A great many Christians get hung up here.
Our pasts do not yield to being forgotten by us.
Or others.
And Satan attempts to tailor our future to be just like our pasts!
Then we fail ... repeatedly.

But, our past was forgiven.
And buried.
We just have to stop repeatedly digging it up.