What is Christianity?
| Christianity is about God reaching out his hand in friendship to mankind. Christians believe that the whole world and everything in it was created by God. God is a personal being, a living God who is three, yet one: Father, Son and Spirit, just as we human beings have body, mind and soul! (see the Trinity).
The Bible says God created people in his image, to love him. Yet every person has rebelled against God and sinned. Yet instead of turning his back on us, God became a man, Jesus, who most scholars believe was born about the year 4 BC and lived among us. He taught a message of love throughout Palestine but public opinion turned against him and he was executed as a young man.
He died because of us - the death that we should have died. He was crucified on a cross, but he rose from the dead, and now calls us to trust him, to love him and to repent of our rebellion. If we do this, then we our relationship with God becomes restored and we will live forever with God.
Many non-Christians may think that being a Christian is about belonging to a particular church or following a certain set of rule. Most Christians however would agree that at its root, being a Christian means to be in a living relationship with Jesus.
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January, 21 - Daily Devotions
January Scripture Portion: Genesis 1 - Leviticus 3 including the book of Exodus.
God's patience had run out, and His final judgment--death to the firstborn--was about to fall. Note that death was to come to all, unless they were protected by the blood of the lamb. From a human point of view, there was no difference between the firstborn of Egypt and the firstborn of Israel; the difference was in the application of the blood. All men are sinners; but those who have trusted Christ are "under the blood" and saved. This is the most important difference in the world.
The Passover is instituted in chapter 12. The birth of the nation of Israel, its deliverance from bondage, and a change in the calendar is announced.
The Jews have two calendars--a religious and a civil--and the Passover marks the beginning of their religious year. The Passover illustrates the Christian's salvation through the blood of the Lamb. Just as the Israelites were shielded from the death angel, so the believer today is shielded from the wrath of God through faith in the Lamb of God (1 Corinthians 5:7). The unleavened bread showed the clean-cut separation of the Israelites from Egypt.
The lamb had died for the firstborn; now the firstborn belonged to God. The Jews were a "purchased people," just as born-again believers are purchased people (1 Corinthians 6:18-20). The nation would forever honor the Lamb by giving their firstborn--their best--to the Lord.
God led His people, not necessarily the nearest way, but the way that was best for them, just as He does today. He always makes His will clear to those who are willing to follow. He saves us, feeds us, guides us, and protects us.
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