Five CHARACTERISTICS of a Christian

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Five CHARACTERISTICS of a Christian

• Do you FIT THE MOLD?

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Morphology
Nerve Cell
Hydrogen Bond
DNA
The Study of Forms
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Five Names for Christian
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Name 1

• 1. A Christian can be a Child of God
• 1Jn310 In this the children of God are
  manifest, and the children of the devil
  whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God,
  neither he that loveth not his brother.
• 1Jn52 By this we know that we love the
  children of God, when we love God, and keep his
  commandments.

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Name 2

• 2. A Christian can be a believer
• Acts 514 And believers were the more added
  to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

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Name 3

• 3. A Christian can be a son or daughter of
  God
• 2Cor618 And will be a Father unto you, and
  ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
  Almighty.

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Name 4

• 4. A Christian can be a servant of God
• Rom 622 But now being made free from sin,
  and become servants to God, ye have your fruit
  unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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Name 5

• 5. A Christian can be a saint
• Acts 913 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I
  have heard by many of this man, how much evil he
  hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem

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Five Characteristics
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First Characteristic

• I. Called Mt 421
• A. Calling defined The act by which God
  invites all of humanity to partake of saving
  Grace.

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Three types of callings general, special,
effectual

• 1. General The testimony of general revelation
  in the handiwork of nature Ps 191-4
• 2. Special The working of the Holy Spirit in
  the heart through the preaching of the gospel.
  Acts 18, 48, 31
• 3. Effectual The Holy Spirits application of
  Grace Titus 39

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Second Characteristic

• II. Converted Mt 183
• A. The incredible shrinking saints Jn 331
• 1. Narrow way Matthew 713-14
• 2. Sheep among wolves Matthew 1016
• 3. Nothing 2cor 1211, Gal 63

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Third Characteristic

• III. Corrected Hebrews 129
• A. Why Does God Correct us
• 1. For our perfection Col 128, Heb 1210
• B. How Does God Correct us
• 1. Only with affection Heb 127
• C. When Does God Correct us
• 1. At his own discretion Heb 125

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Fourth Characteristic

• IV. Cleansed Ez 36 25, 29, 33
• Clean from Idolatry 25
• Saved from all uncleanness 29
• Clean from iniquity 33

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Fifth Characteristic

• V. Completed Col 210, 412
• A. The preposition of our completeness Col
  210
• B. The prayer for our completeness 412