BASIC RELIGION
The Spirit of God has led me to give
a test this morning .. a test to see if you are living up to “Basic Religion”. Write 1 – 12 on your notes and write your
answers next to each number.
1.
Have you made Jesus LORD of your life??
Rom 10:9-10 (NKJ)
9
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe
in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10
For with the heart one believes
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
2.
Are you sinning??
The very GRAVE part about the news
we are hearing about priests and other ministers sinning, is that we expect them to have
high standards.
Rom 6:12-13 (NIV)
12
Therefore do not
let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
13
Do not offer the parts of your
body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those
who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as
instruments of righteousness.
Ps 119:11(KJV)
11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart,
that I might not sin against thee.
If anyone here thinks this is
directed towards you, please know that I am
sharing these test points as I heard them .. any conviction must mean God desires changes
in your life so that life can improve !!
James 1:26 (KJV)
26
If any man among you seem to be
religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion
is vain.
James 1:26 (NIV)
26
If anyone considers himself
religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his
religion is worthless.
1 Tim 5:13 (NIV)
13
Besides, they
get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they
become idlers, but also gossips and busybodies,
saying things they ought not to.
Heb 10:25 (KJV)
25
Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the
more, as ye see the day approaching.
Regular Sunday attendance is GOOD for
you .. attending Wednesday and special services is even better !!!
2 Tim 2:15 (KJV)
15
Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
1Thes 5:17 (KJV)
17
Pray without ceasing.
Be in contact with God .. be
conscious of God .. be aware of His presence CONSTANTLY !!
Matt 22:36-38 (NIV)
36
"Teacher,
which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
37
Jesus replied: "'Love the
Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38
This is the first and greatest
commandment.
Matt 22:38-40 (NIV)
38
This is the first and greatest
commandment.
39
And the second is like it: 'Love
your neighbor as yourself.'
40
All the Law and the Prophets hang
on these two commandments."
Sara .. No Abortion .. Abortion
James 1:27 (NIV)
27
Religion that God our Father
accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans . .
James 1:27
27
Religion that God our Father
accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress
..
James 1:27 (NIV)
27
Religion that God our Father
accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Have you sold out to Jesus?
Mark 10:17-31 (NIV)
17
As Jesus started on his way, a man
ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked,
"what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
18
"Why do you call me
good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good-- except God alone.
19
You know the commandments: 'Do not
murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud,
honor your father and mother.'"
20
"Teacher,"
he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
21
Jesus looked at him and loved him.
"One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to
the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
22
At this the man's face fell. He
went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23
Jesus looked around and said to
his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"
24
The disciples were amazed at his
words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
25
It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
26
The disciples were even more
amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?"
27
Jesus looked at them and said,
"With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with
God."
28
Peter said to him, "We have
left everything to follow you!"
29
"I tell you the truth,"
Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father
or children or fields for me and the gospel
30
will fail to receive a hundred
times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and
fields-- and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.
31
But many who are first will be
last, and the last first."
Some people that I know (including
Pat Robertson and myself) literally felt the LORD telling them to sell all and did so. Others of you will feel compelled right now not
necessarily to literally “sell all” and follow Him, but to “sell out”
and follow Him. Have you “sold out”
to Him?? Are you under His command?? (1 Tim
6:18-19)
1. Yes, 2. No, 3. No, 4. Yes, 5. Yes, 6. Yes, 7. Yes, 8. Yes, 9. (Xtra) Yes, 10. (Xtra) Yes, 11. Yes, 12. (Xtra Xtra) Yes.