{"id":2009,"date":"2014-12-20T04:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2014-12-20T04:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T10:01:58","slug":"what-christians-ought-to-be-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"What Christians Ought to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter 2 3:11, Corinthians 1 13:1-13 <\/strong>(<strong>The Laws of His Life<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Almost everyone can tell you what a Christian ought to be. Men that refuse God can still give quite a lecture on how a Christian ought to live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: A Separated People:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. A radical change has taken place.<br \/>\n2. Christ has placed a gulf between the saved and lost.<br \/>\n3. Old things have passed away. Paul said like filthy rags.<br \/>\n4. There is not a difference in words, but actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Praying People:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. George Adam Claek, while climbing a storm-swept mountain: &#8220;On your knees, the only safe way is on your knees.&#8221;<br \/>\n2. A habitual study of the word brings convictions that change our lives.<br \/>\n3. No one becomes a mature Christian without strong convictions.<br \/>\n4. We must believe sin kills and the cross saves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Ought to have Conviction:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Opinions we change, convictions change us.<br \/>\n2. A habitual study of the word brings convictions that change our lives.<br \/>\n3. No one becomes a mature Christian without strong convictions.<br \/>\n4. We must believe sin kills and the cross saves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Ought to be Soul Winners:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. As my Father has sent me, even so I send you.<br \/>\n2. The first desire that comes to a new Christian is to tell others.<br \/>\n3. He is never free of the command to &#8220;g make disciples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: Christians Ought to be Happy People.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Outlive and out die the world!<br \/>\n2. To give is a joy &#8212; God loves a cheerful giver.<br \/>\n3. He ma be down, but never out.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;The best argument for Christianity is a Christian.&#8221; (<strong>Buck Jones<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter 2 3:11, Corinthians 1 13:1-13 (The Laws of His Life) Almost everyone can tell you what a Christian ought to be. Men that refuse God can still give quite a lecture on how a Christian ought to live. I: A Separated People: 1. A radical change has taken place. 2. Christ has placed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}