Christian faith and caste based benefits.

To be a Born Again Christian Believer, or a saved person, is to have repented from sins and accepted the Lord Jesus as your personal savior, to have surrendered your life to Him and accepted Him as the Lord and Master of your life, to become committed and obedient to Him (Luke 6:46). On being saved some things and some responsibilities naturally come into the life of the saved person. The saved person becomes part of God's family (John 1:12-13; Ephesians 2:19), a totally new creation where old things are past and over (2 Corinthians 5:17), becomes a person who is not to live according to the world but according to the will of God (Romans 12:1-2). The saved person should have a heavenly outlook (Colossians 3:1-2), and should not get caught up or entangled in the things of this world (1 John 2:15-17; 1 Peter 2:11-12). Having learnt and known about the true and living God, it is best to keep an attitude like Joshua for serving God (Joshua 24:14-15).

The saved person now belongs to the Lord Jesus and his life's aim should be to live for his Savior Lord and glorify Him in and through all things (1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:15). Now, having been saved, because he is part of God's family, the saved person also is Father God's responsibility; and God has promised to provide for this person's needs always (Matthew 6:24-34; Philippians 4:19), to never leave or forsake him (Hebrews 13:5-6), and to keep him safe in all temptations (1 Corinthians 10:13). Therefore, for any needs, for any worldly gains and benefits, this person’s looking towards and relying upon anyone other than the Father God is tantamount to discounting His promises and His faithfulness towards His children, belittling Him, having an improper faith in Him and His promises, and providing Satan and the world an opportunity to mock God and His people, and their faith in Him, and to denigrate them.

In Christianity, there is no caste system and no place for any differentiation on grounds of a person’s caste. All Christians are of same status before God (Colossians 3:11), no one is higher or lower than another, therefore to consider one to be of a particular caste, and therefore to consider or make yourself to be lower or higher than another (by comparing yourself with an unsaved person of the world, and that too for mere perishable worldly things, obtained through a direct or an indirect acknowledgement and/or veneration of some other deity than the Lord God Almighty), is to go against the teachings of God's infallible, incontrovertible, eternal Word and to humiliate God. God is not mocked; such denigrating and reprehensible actions against God, that tantamount to denying God invite very serious consequences (Galatians 6:7-8; Joshua 23:16).

Therefore instead of the hypocrisy of hiding the Christian Faith, it is best to disclose it, no matter what the consequences may be (Matthew 10:16-18, 22; 24:9; Mark 13:9). Those who after having come into the Christian Faith, still want to indulge in worldly gains by any means, are afraid that by disclosing their Christian Faith they will no longer be able to have the benefits of being of a “lower caste or group” and therefore they do not disclose their Christian Faith. But by doing so, they are in serious jeopardy, from both the worldly as well as the spiritual point of view. The little that they stand to lose by declaring and adhering to their Christian faith, can be, and will be compensated many times over by the Lord (Matthew 19:29; Mark 10:30; 1 Corinthians 2:9). But the magnitude of the physical and spiritual loss that they and their family stand to suffer by so denying the Lord and becoming a cause for Him and His people being mocked and denigrated, is incalculable, unimaginable, and will go down to their 3rd to 4th generation (Exodus 20:5-7).

The only way to enjoy God's care and benefits is to have full faith in Him and to completely rely on Him (Hebrews 11:6; Isaiah 40:31), be obedient to Him and honor Him through our lives and deeds, and separate ourselves from the world (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).