WHO IS UNBELIEVER?
Many Christ followers have erroneously thought unbelievers are the ones who don’t go to church every service day, don’t wear long skirts, or don’t go around the neighborhood with big hats. Some may even say that if someone is not a good tither or not giving first fruit when due, then they are not a believer. Some even believe you’re not a believer if you’re not attending monthly or yearly Holy Ghost prayers or conferences. Nay!
The following scripture says, “Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:7-10. In a more straightforward form, anyone who enters through Jesus Christ is a believer, while an unbeliever is the opposite.
HOW CAN A BELIEVER LOCATE THAT GATE?
The scripture says, “This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Hebrews 8:10.
How does the issue of Israel concern me? It is called ratification and concerns you due to joint heir with Jesus. Have you ever heard of ratification? That was why Jesus said He must go, and then He will send the comforter. Don’t you think someone who asked followers of Christ not to come into her father’s house because she’s menstruating is a thief? Did you know that any men of god, general overseers, or bishops who are collecting seeds of faith from a sick person for him or her to be healed of cancer is a thief and unbeliever? Yet, the general overseer has multiple doctors abroad.
The word unbeliever was understood to represent everything opposed to Christian faith and godliness.
1. A believer in Christ is supposed to be someone who used to steal but decided to stop stealing.
2. A believer in Christ can be someone who has lied before and has decided to stop lying.
3. A believer in Christ refuses to connive with thieves to live large at the expense of his or her neighbor or nation.
4. A believer must be someone who has decided to always yield to the Holy Spirit leading regardless of the consequences ahead of him or her.
5. A believer must decide not to take advantage of anyone to favor himself or herself.
6. Genuine believers must be someone who will constantly preach the truth of the kingdom of God.
7. A believer in Christ must be someone who will not tell you to do what he or she cannot do.
8. A believer in Christ must be ready to lose all he or she has in order to gain all that God has in store for him or her.
How can you call someone an unbeliever, yet you and your entire family are living on his or her welfare package, and you’re not concerned about the person’s soul? Many people want to play it safe by not blocking the avenue of their freebies from unbelievers to feed their entire family and even pay tithes to their gods. At the same time, they suddenly shun their eyes on their evil doings. The irony of it is that the so-called believers can’t even help their church members except if one daddy g.o or bishops say so, not to talk of unbelievers that we counted not from the household of faith. How many people have the privilege to see these, your gods that you’re calling bishops and g.o.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I’ll tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know I am morally responsible for everything I do. – Professor Bernardo
TO BECOME A TRUE BELIEVER, YOU MUST BREAK MANY RULES
Even the Apostle Peter looked down on what he considered as not clean (unbelievers) before God instructed him to break away from the status quo, and he reluctantly obeyed.
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A CONSEQUENCE FOR YOUR ACTIONS ARE YOU READY?
“The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him 3 and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” 4 Starting from the beginning, Peter told them the whole story: 5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was. 6 I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles and birds.7 Then I heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’ 8 “I replied, ‘surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth 9 “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ 10 This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again… 11 “Right then three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea stopped at the house where I was staying. 12 The Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going with them. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. 14 He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’ 15 “As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered what the Lord had said: ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 So if God gave them the same gift he gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could stand in God’s way?” 18 When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life.” Acts 11
Believers in Christ must proceed on their mission to unbelievers gently, armed with the truth of Christ and instructions for direction from God. But they should not use staying within their means as an opportunity to share their loot and largesse.
ASK GOD FOR DIVINE DIRECTION TO KNOW WHEN TO GO OR NOT
