WHO I AM AND WHAT I AM

Pastor Art Watkins of Coden Bible Church (Coden, Alabama)

January 1, 2019

I am not a Calvinist but I believe in Election.

I am not an Arminiam but I believe lost men have the ability to choose or reject Christ.

I am not a charismatic but I believe every believer should strive to be filled with the Spirit.

I am not a Baptist but I believe all of the apostles baptized all of their converts.

I am not a Holiness but I believe every believer should and can live godly and holy lives for sin no longer has dominion over us.

I am not a dispensationalist but I believe there are many differences between law and grace.

I am not a preterist but I believe some of the prophecies of Matthew 24 and Luke 21 have been fulfilled.

I am not an antinomian but I believe we are saved and kept saved by grace through faith without works.

I am not a pessimist but my hope is not in better government or politicians but in the second coming of Christ.

I am not a legalist but I believe God will chastise his people for their sins and if you are without chastisement you are NOT a child of God.

I am not a democrat or republican but I do pray for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

I am not a segregationist but I believe God put up many boundaries between believers and unbelievers and nations.

I am not a prophet but I know the future according to the Bible.

I am not a supremest but I believe God has highly exalted his Son above every name and being in heaven and earth.

I am not a doomsayer but I believe God will burn this heaven and earth up with fire and replace it with new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness.

I am not a scaremonger but I believe God will cast into the lake of fire all those whose names are not in the book of life.

I am not a warmonger but it will be a pleasure to be on the winning side in the final battle of Armageddon.

I am not a dictator but I believe every true born again believer ought to be a member of and support a Bible believing church and be there when it meets.

I am not a perfectionist but I believe every believer ought to stay out of gambling joints (Casinos), bar rooms, night clubs and any place where God is not welcome and where his name is blasphemed.

I am not a hatemonger but I believe what God says about sodomites; that they are an abomination to God and reprobates.

I am not a killjoy but I believe Christians should abstain from alcohol or any drug that wrecks the home, marriage and health.

I am not a judge but I believe Christian couples who live together without being married are fornicators and stand a good chance of losing their lives.

I am not the gatekeeper of heaven but I believe that anyone who believes they can gain salvation or keep salvation by their works will never see heaven but will end up in hell with the atheists who have no faith at all.

I am not a scorekeeper but I believe that Christians who think that rewards and crowns are free like salvation will end up with a pile of ashes at the judgment seat of Christ.

I am not Moses but I believe that if every Christian loved God with all their heart and soul and loved their neighbor as themselves will have no problem obeying the rest of the moral commandments of the law of God.

I am not Paul but I believe every Christian should wake up every morning with the same desire Paul had: That God will have all men to be saved today (evangelism) and that God will have all saved men to come into the knowledge of the truth today (edification). 1 Timothy 2:4

Who am I and what am I?

Simply put: I am a born again Bible believing (King James Bible) Christian and preacher period.