‘To all who received Him, to all that believe in His name, He gave the right to become children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision nor a husband’s will, but born of God by His will.’ (John 1: 13)

The biblical pattern that began to bring true believers to the Lord, was the preaching of the Gospel and teachings which Jesus-Christ began to spread, followed by His appointed apostles! Sadly, since those days, Satan has found a carnal ground into which he has sown formalism, so that today, Protestants and Catholics seek hard to live together as if nothing happened, and the truth, once more is left to a faithful remnant, mainly Evangelicals. So, that the carnal church, calls true believers by all sorts of names, fanatics, bibles punchers, illiterate; science has opened the door to godlessness, and godlessness had always bread unbelief, sectarianism, and hatred. But as it is said, there is nothing new under the sun, for the Jewish clergy did and said exactly the same thing about Jesus and His followers. 

After killing the Lord Jesus Christ, they persecuted his disciples everywhere they went, proving that they really were sons of the devil, and to this day such men are really doing his works faithfully. The enemies of Jesus Christ and the early church are no more, they all died, but He is alive for evermore, risen from the dead by the power of God His Father; under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, His Church is still growing all over the world! 

 More could be said about the protestant backsliding, because, in general, what is left of it, is a very confused, purely human entity, whose membership, having lost its way, keeps the flag flying with a very weak enthusiasm. So, each has his label without conviction, nor understanding as to why they still call themselves Christians? But that is how unbelievers view Christianity, so, to know what a Christian truly is one needs to search the Bible to find what God says he is. The true reason why there still are Christians in the world at all, is because God wills it, and since a true Christian is a new creation, so ‘God alone knows what and who is a real Christians for He birthed them into being and calls them: His sons! 

The statement that I have made previously: ‘God alone knows what and who are real Christians for He birthed them into being,’ is a tremendous spiritual statement, for it leads us to a big question, just as big as it was in Jesus’s day, for the verse quoted above reveals the main reason why Christ came into the world! He came into it to call the men God gave Him before the creation of the world, as we know it, so, those He calls, He builds them into a new people ‘His Church’, citizens of a new race destined for their place in heaven! To this end Jesus said: ‘I will build my Church and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.’ (Matthew 16:18) To this very day Jesus is still busy building ‘HIS CHURCH’ and He will do it until it's completion. Those that think that the Church is dead better wake up, because when it is finished the power of Christ will deeply affect every person in the world!  Whilst men plan and cogitate their schemes and dreams, God is at work, and when He acts men realise that He is there and does what He wants when He wants! In the Gospels Jesus only mentions the Church twice! So, I am going to ask another question:

What does God say as to what, and who is a Christian?’! Where can we start? To begin to answer it, I want to say that neither God the Father nor Jesus Christ, His Son, ever mentioned the word: ‘Christian,’ nor did the Apostles of the Lord. Jesus names his followers: ‘disciples,’ God the Father names them: ‘Children, or Sons,’ as for the Disciples of Christ they are called: ‘Saints’! In the Bible a saint is a person called of God and set aside by Him from the rest of humanity, separate, holy! Paul writing to the Christians in Rome says ‘To all who are loved of God and called to be saints in Rome,’ (Romains 1:7) To those in Ephesus, he writes: ‘Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus!’ (Ephesians 1: 1) We shall come back to this subject later on in our study! 

Almost twenty centuries have passed since the ascension of Christ into glory, so, today, what can we say of the Church or Christianity in general? In the world, one can be called a ‘Christian,’ without being a disciple of Christ, or a Son of God through anew birth, but never is he called a: ‘Saint ’Because it is in the mind of people that to be a saint one must have done something outstanding. The Pope beatifies certain of His flocks, often years after their death, and they come out from purgatory and are fit to be called a saint? But no man can make a saint, only God does it from the moment they surrender their life to Christ! So, if you are a TRUE Christian, born of the Holy Spirit, and love the Lord Jesus Christ, would you call yourself a saint? You should, because God has set apart you from the world and given you to Jesus Christ! Well, we shall see, and you will not know the answer unless you continue to read these: ‘LINKS,’ which I also call: ‘From me to you.’ The answers to all these stupendous questions will truly be astonishing!