Not a Christian Nationalist, Not a Christian Zionist, Not a Catholic...But a Christian...Period

Why am I called a Christian?

Because I am a member of Christ by faith

• and thus share in His anointing,

1 Corinthians 12:12-13

• For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ,
• For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body; whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

Joel 2:28  And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. (cf. Acts 2:17 where it is quoted in reference to Christ)

1 John 2:27. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

So that I may

• as prophet confess His name,
• as priest present myself a living sacrifice of thankfulness to Him,

Matthew 10:32  Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

Romans 10:9-10 

• ...that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
• For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Hebrews 13:15  Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

1 Peter 2:5  ...you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:9. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light...

And as king fight with a free and good conscience

• against sin and the devil in this life, 
• and hereafter reign with Him eternally
• over all creatures.

Galatians 5:16-17

• I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

Ephesians 6:11.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

1 Timothy 1:18-19

• This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,
• having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck...

Matthew 25:34. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world..."

2 Timothy 2:12  If we endure, we shall also reign with Him.  If we deny Him, He will also deny us.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 12