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What is a
REAL
CHRISTIAN?
lt's shocking, but it's true! Most professing "Chris–
tians" today are not REALLY Christians! Read this
frank, vital article proving it
-
and ftnd out what
YOU need to be doing about it!
W
HAT
!S A
REAL Christian?
Perhaps you'vc hcard
many differenc. conlliccing
definirions.
I
bave. Bur have you cvcr
heard che real BrBLE detinicion?
Ir is rime you underscood che very
basic, down-co-earrh,
fimdamenlctiJ
of
Chriscian iry - rhe very heart, che
root and core of che teachings of
Chrisr.
So listen!
1
want you
ro
rcalize,
once and for all . thac mosc profcssing
Chrisrians coday believe che exacc
opposirc from rhe very simplcst, che
clcaresc tcachings of Chrisc!
And so, lec's go
ro
che very basis of
real Chriscianicy - whac is commonly
callcd che "Sermon on the Mounc."
T he
"Sermon" on
che Mount
Actually, che scripcures found in
Macchew's 5th. 6th and 7th chapccrs
are nor a ·'sermon," though chcy ha
ve
been labeled as such by men who did
nor undersrand che Bible.
This is one of rhe very firsc
opposiles
28
by
Garner Ted Armstrong
you will see in comparing chese plain.
clcar statemencs of Christ wich rhe
commonly accepced bclicfs and prac–
cices of a modern "Chriscianicy."
'·And seeing the mulcicudes. he
wenc up into a mountain: and when
he was ser, his disciples came
unto
him ..." (Matt.
5:1).
Ycs, Christ
wanred ro escape che big crowds.
Nocice ir.
But haven't you always heard dif–
ferently? Haven'c you always caken
for granted thac Chrisr spoke in para–
bies, símiles, or analogies so che
people could understand more easily'
Bur that's not what Chrisc Himself
said!
''And che disciples carne, and said
unto him, Why spcakcsr chou unto
them in
par;~blcs?
He answered and
said unto chem, Because ir is
given
unto you
(His disciples] co know che
mysceries of che kingdom of heaven.
but to them it is no/ git'en.
...
For chis
people's hearc is waxed gross, and
rheir ears are dull of hcaring. and
rhcir eyes rhey have closed; LEST at
anr time they should see ... and
should
be
convcrred, and I should
heal rhcm" (Marr.
13:10-15).
Chrisr said, in guocing Isaiah. rhac
rhe pcople could nor understand -
thar He deliberacely
clouded
His
meaning,
les/
chey should be con–
verted!
How urcerly differenc from whac
you'vc always assumed.
You see, Jesus did noc come ro
converr che world
lhen.
He carne ro
esrablish His Church,
ro
die for the
sins of all mankind, ro commission
His disciples who were
ro
carry His
message
ro
all narions. Christ camc
for many rcasons - none of them
ro
save che cnrire world
at that
time.
He was a Divine Messenger, senc
from His Farher in heaven. ro teach
and rrai n His disciples. "Disciple"
mere!
y
mcans "srudenr" or "lcarner."
oticc then, Jesus ..opened his
mourh and
/aughl 1hem
[His disciples,
or His scudcnrs] saying...."
PLAIN TRUTH November 1972