WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?
Be true worshipers: Those who do the will of the Father who is in heaven. Every true believer who worship God in truth and Spirit. Not every worshiper is a true Christian [Child of God].
God is Spirit; and they that worship him must worship
him in Spirit and truth [John 4:24].
Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven [Matthew 7:21].
What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it;
thou shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
[Deuteronomy 12: 32].
–As many as have received and welcome Him, He gave the authority [power, privilege and right] to become the children of God; those who believe in His name.
But as many as received him to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name [John 1:12].
–Those living by the word: They are friends of God and citizen of heaven who waits the coming of the Lord.
And Jesus answered him saying, it is written, that
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
of God [Luke 4: 4; Deuteronomy 8:3].
-Be my disciples: Those who have forsaken worldliness; are dead to flesh and life to the Spirit. Those who are saved and love His disciples[Luke 14:26-27, 33; Romans 6:6]. They are citizens of God’s kingdom; are God’s ambassadors, God’s stewards and world deliverers [Philippians 3:20; Romans 8:19].
If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother,
and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his
own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever
does not bear his cross and come after me, cannot be
my disciple. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsake
not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple. [Luke 14:26, 27, 33].
The following day Jesus would go forth into Galilee and finds
Philip and said unto him, follow me. [John 1:43].
Baptism: He who believes and is baptized shall be saved [Mark 16:16]. Peter advised the men of Israel to repent and be baptized every one of them in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost [Acts 2:38]. Baptism is not using water to put away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ [1 Peter 3:20-21; 1 Corinthians 10:2].