Do You Have To Marry To Prove A Point? (6)

“Put away the strange gods that are among you” (Genesis 35:2).

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6)            In the marriage the man holds an office; it is called “The Head of the Woman” (1Corinthians 11:3) and it has deep spiritual essentiality. The man holds, to the marriage extent, that office for Christ, the head of the Church – every Adamic reality who stands in full recognition of the Divinity must be a Christian, whose original sin has received absolute and eternal purge. In concatenation to his office is his priestly role as is attested to in Job 1:5 “And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.” The priest never stops presenting people under his spiritual care, before God.

                Jacob’s headship of his family proved his priesthood in Genesis 35:1-3 1) “And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. 2) Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: 3) And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.”

“…and girt about the paps with a golden girdle;” Jesus is our High Priest of Revelation 1:13.

                The priesthood office takes its mandate from the Godhead. God the Father sits on high in Majesty to receive the rites of the priest. Jesus Christ, as the Head of Christianity, holds that office: “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus” (Hebrews 3:1). The ninth chapter of Hebrews puts the Holy Spirit in charge of the Temple worship from the time of Moses. “The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing” (Hebrews 9:8). The word ‘signifying,’ dēloō (day-lo’-o), means: ‘to make plain (by words).’ The signifying Spirit, the third Member of the Godhead, is the LORD God in Whose presence the high priest will come, not without blood in his hands. Christ was not physically present on earth, the Father has always been on the throne; on the Holy Spirit the Temple matters fall, showing that the Trinity is directly in connection with the priesthood.

You cannot be a good husband if you fail as priest. The priest is the official channel through whom God deals with the family and this is the reason why he must of necessity, be born again and with an evidence of speaking in tongues.

The Wife: the prayer warrior

                In like manner the wife’s ‘help meet’ stance is an official role. She holds the office of the other personality of the head of the family. This other person thinks, knows, wills like the husband and supports to actuation all his positive desires towards the service to God, as a family man. She becomes the other head that gives credence to proverbial two heads are better than one. The woman positions herself as the prayer warrior of the home. Her loyalty to her unflinching support to the husband’s aspirations provokes divine accelerated answers to the family’s prayer requests. The true position of the husband and the wife, albeit not three in number, is akin to the close operational quiddity of the Trinity. They must get it right, or else they are mere worthless actors. The wife, ergo, is under Divine spirit of mitzvah to stand as the greatest supporter of the husband’s priestly office. What does the efforts of her official role result to? The husband finds it much less arduous going through the rigours of family business. He is truly blessed, having found the good thing. A whole lot is at stake if couples fail to get it right. Selah!

                A headless body is a cadaver. Without the contribution of a husband the marriage suffers moribundity. Conversely, bodiless heads are freakish; without the wives’ help meet submissions, what are brought before the Author of marriage are episodic proofs of parodic attempts.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Do You Have To Marry To Prove A Point? (5)

Adam was created to head the family institution as Jesus heads the Church.

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5)            There are too many demonic enemies of marriage, whose ophidian meandering of Satanism shuts us out from divine benefits. Read also the twenty-sixth chapter of Leviticus. I have here some of the verses: 3-9 “If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4) Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5) And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6) And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7) And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8) And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9) For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.”

Strict adherence to God’s instructions gives the enablement to one who chases off one thousand evil intents, but is it not clear what the lethargic stance of the other one of the two will give to an unresolved, excruciating pains of satanic unleashing? Cardinal one, of numeration, agrees with the unity of the Godhead and the beneficence therefrom, taking care of myriad of problems. Two is the number of testimony and of witness which is not just a second person, it is an evidence of spiritual team work agreeing to the fact that God can do all things; the additional effort, humanly speaking, should take care of two thousand. But the thing is this: either the love of the husband or the submissive virtue of the wife’s display touched the I AM THAT I AM, who knows all, sees all and does all. What does the good Lord do? He takes care of the innumerable unseen malicious intrusion of Satanism, a vicious craving for marriage annihilation. It must be God’s intervention that destroys the unaccounted nine thousand evil entities. Mathematics has failed over and over to explain this equation – one chases 1,000 and two puts to flight a whole 10,000. It is simply the Lord’s doing.

Marry according to God’s word

                It takes two to tango. If the husband does the dutiful loving but the wife remains contumacious, that act will constitute the pestiferous albatross to the marital woe. Should the wife do her duteous role to the glory of the marriage and the man proves unloving, it must end in catastrophic frustration. On the positive note, if the duo provide the necessary love and submission, they have enkindled the Scriptural advantageousness of two putting ten thousand to flight. What happens is that God steps into the affairs of the couple whose desire is to do God’s will. His Almighty power He brings to bear on the lives of those who are faithful to His instructions. God takes divine care of things when we do His will. We hardly remember that two things bring soteriological reality into actuation: the agapē of Jehovah and the heart of submission on the part of the believing born again Christian. Let the husband and the wife ponder seriously on this facticity. Amen.

                If you have to marry to prove a point, then you must be ready to enter into this institution as God’s child. As the man and the head of the house you must be ready to dress and to keep the house. Dress means to be a worker in the home; keep means to protect the word of God in the home. If you are the woman your entrance into the man’s house puts the onus of submission on your marital life. Submission tends to be an encumbrance owing to the fact that the Woman first tasted of sin, and occasioning the momentary rebranding, she was trapped in intellectualism of Satanism, believing that she should be the leader of the home. 

The original ‘help meet’ for Adam.

By definition, the Hebraic ‘ishshâh, that is, “Woman” of Genesis 2:23 does ‘surround’ her around her own husband – when consideration is given to ‘help meet’, ‛êzer (ay’-zer) in Hebrew, meaning ‘one who helps;’ and especially its primitive root, ‛âzar (aw-zar’): ‘to surround, that is, protect or aid.’ God’s intended wife is like what the bark does for the tree; and also like health personnel who remain visible at the beck and call in the surgery room, ready to place every tool needed into the professionally able hand of the surgeon. Every help given by the nurses must meet the call from the doctor. As nurses do not determine what tools are needed so must the wife submit to the husband’s will to run a successful marriage. Her submission is a powerful force, spiritually. The wife, knowing fully well of her husband’s unflinching commitment of love to her, her mind is put at full rest; she is able to inject her best into the marriage fabric. It takes two, really, to tango!

Receive Jesus as your LORD and Saviour

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Do You Have To Marry To Prove A Point? (4)

Jesus is Rock behind every successful marriage

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4)            Ahab, king of the Northern kingdom of Israel, had a covenant with Jehovah. By marrying a princess of heathenism, he desecrated his house, God’s home, by the reason of the covenant Israel has with the LORD, their God. You cannot marry to prove a mundane point, no matter how important the issue. Did the wisest Solomon not marry foreign princesses for the promotion of interstate relationship and trade? With all the phenomenality of his sagacity, Solomon could not manage the ungodly conjugality. Marriage is strictly God’s business; it is run according to His precepts. Do not go into marriage to please: the lady, the man, your friends, your parents or your spiritual leader.

Let me shed the light of marital truthfulness. If you cannot find the woman to handle your spiritual requirements, or, as pertaining to the woman, if you have not found the man whose requirements fit your capability, forget about marriage until further notice. With fervency of prayers, the solution to your marital problem comes to put “Hallelujah!” in your mouth. In the Book of Genesis chapter 24, verse 15 it reads: “And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.” The LORD God of Abraham heard the prayer of Abraham’s servant, probably Eliezer, who sought for a good companion for Isaac. Let us look at another concept.

Unnecessary attachment ends in divorce

                There is this Levite concept concerning marriage, as explained by the scriptural erudition of Reverend Chris Okotie. The Levite is a priest, the origin of his sobriquet comes from Genesis 29:34 “And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.” The Hebraic Lêvı̂y (lay-vee’) means: ‘joined to’; it comes from its root lâvâh (law-vaw’): ‘attached’. Some hunters of marital settlements will look for those they can get themselves attached to. For the fact that spiritual incompatibility destroys marriages on account of the fact that the Devil will do everything to ensure noncompliance of God’s instructions, the attachment becomes what happens to artificial hair attachment; it begins to cause a most repugnant itch.

                Not being able to stand it, the attachment has to be detached from the natural hair for peace actuation. This is why divorce is on the increase. Terms and conditions of marital bliss stand on two poles of: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church;” and the correlative, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.” You do not need a Levite (a spurious attachment) of a spouse. “The Levite, if you remember,” Pastor Okotie taught, “did nothing to help the injured victim of the parable on the Good Samaritan. He passed by.” He will only love the collection of money and goodies of marriage. At the sight of trouble, the Levite of a spouse detaches from the business. Only the couple who shares genuine interests from the hearts of Christianity must venture into marriage to the satisfaction of the Most High.

Marriages must be plugged into God’s Word.

                You, as the husband, are the high priest; you are involved in God’s matters as far as the marriage is concerned. The high priest needs a true aid for the actualization of the spiritual role of involvement. The wife’s submission goes a long way to establish the marriage on the Rock of Ages. It is the additional praying tongue that translates to what mathematics cannot explain all because it is the LORD’s doing, culminating in marvelous spectacle. What am I saying? When the man of the house says a thing, that is the voice of one praying; when the woman of the man of the house says, “Yes,” to the man’s instruction, she becomes the second person of spiritual contribution that yields more than the expected times two, found in Deuteronomy 32:30 “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?” Israel had gone the disappointing route of apostasy and the oracular afflatus wondered how one uncircumcised Roman soldier would chase a thousand army of Israel whose Rock is the true God.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Do You Have To Marry To Prove A Point? (3)

The role of the husband is exactly like the high priest – represents the family before God.

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3)            Number one criterion for marriage is making sure you are God’s adopted son, a born again Christian. Your intended choice of spouse must be born again. Both of you must have the evidence of speaking in tongues. You must make sure your intended spouse is not faking to be what he or she is not – very important. Number two, of equal necessity, is that the lady of your matrimonial choice must be ready to accept her responsibility to you, the head of the family about to be formed. You, as the wife to be, must be ready to support his family responsibly, spiritually and morally. If you do not agree with his goal as the head of the family, quietly withdraw yourself from his ambition.

                Every name voiced by Adam to the animals of his environment met with divine acceptance. Adam the male is the oracle of the Creator. In his mouth dwells the mind of God. Remember that the Woman was brought to him, not the other way round; so, when it came to praise and worship of God in Eden, Adam the husband is the priest of the home. If, indeed, two heads are better than one then, there is not a doubt that the wife should have a say in the family administration, but the fact still remains that it should be according to the stand of the head of the family. The man, as the head of the family, rules the home. “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (1Corinthians 11:3). This verse does not give arbitrary public headship to the male gender.

Jesus is the head of the Church

                This verse is exclusively of the family. The word ‘head’ is kephalē (kef-al-ay’): ‘the head, both of men and often of animals. Metaphorically anything supreme, chief, prominent. By extension the point of origin or source.’ Does it not say, “For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man” (1Corinthians 11:8)? The Scriptural concordance of this verse finds its connectivity in, “she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” Genesis 2:23. Now the definition of ‘Man’ is ‘ı̂ysh (eesh): ‘man, male (in contrast to woman, female); husband; champion.’ This is the very first time ‘ı̂ysh is used in the Bible.

Adam was created to head the family institution as Jesus heads the Church.

                As the champion of the family, every member follows his direction and steps. The wife is the first follower of the man. As the primary source of the Woman she must follow his instructions, or else, the word of God will not say, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord” (Colossians 3:18). Hupotassō (hoop-ot-as’-so) is the Greek for ‘submit yourselves’ and it means: ‘to arrange under, to subordinate; to subject, put in subjection.’ What is the Bible saying? The wife should package herself and place it under her husband. This is why I am always advising ladies never to marry someone to whom they cannot submit their intellectualism and persons. Do not, for this simple reason, marry a fool; he will rule you in stupidity throughout your marital life.

                Colossians 3:18 says, “…as it is fit in the Lord,” meaning: your husband cannot tell you, the wife, not to pray, praise or worship God. But he is scripturally, as the head of the family, authorized to tell you to stop your career! That family home is God’s house, the Creator dwells with you, therefore, any disobedience as far as the LORD is concerned, is an affront to the Author of the marriage institution. When the wife decides to have control of the family, she is wickedly changing the divine order of the institution; she is not different from Jezebel. Jezebel was both a princess and a priestess of Baal worship. Her father was Ethbaal, or Ithobal, king of Sidon and priest of Astarte. Ethbaal had murdered Phelles his predecessor. You cannot marry outside your Christian faith.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Do You Have To Marry To Prove A Point? (2)

“…and the head of the woman is the man…” (1Corinthians 11:3)

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2)            Free moral agency activation can ruin the marriage on the part of the spouse. That she needs someone beside her at this critical time of her life cannot give you an excuse for marriage. “Maybe,” you believe, “when we marry, it will make her happy, and consequently save her from this critical situation.” You do not have to marry him or her to prove a caring point. Once you enter into this thing called marriage, it demands total commitment. In another scenario: he has lost his wife. You pity his present predicament and you believe that marrying him will solve his loneliness; but it can prove to be a disastrous venture. After a couple of months, the reason for your pity is taken care of, but the true personality of your conjugal business begins to manifest. Your spouse has been hiding behind the protruding theatrics of moral rectitude. Then you begin to hear things like, “Well, this is the real me. Please, learn to deal with it.”

                We have the same philosophy of life does not mean that you have conjugal compatibility. It is not about sharing the same views on life, intellectualism, religion or aesthetic tastes. It is strictly of Jesus Christ, ergo, has nothing to do with mundane delicacies. How did the first pristine couple meet? It is in this manner: God created Adam the male; God, looking at the Adamic sinless perfection, saw that he must not be different from the One he prefigured – Christ must have a wife. He put Adam to sleep and took his rib, with which He created the Woman.

Adam was created with all he needed to succeed as the lord of the earth

                Before the creation of Adam the female, God had instructed him on how to be in charge of the world; had given him full authority and endowed him with the intellectualism needed to be the lord of the terra firma. As Adam slept, God went away from him to build him a help meet for Adam, the lord of the earth. Would God have brought the Woman, like the bride’s Father would, and not brief His daughter, who was about to be wedded to the good man and the lord of the earth, on how to be the good Woman of Adam? God, the Father of Adam, by creation, is also his Father-in-law. They had been briefed to make the union work, prosper and last. Your marriage to anyone must come from the direction of the same God who instituted marriage. How can God instruct your choice of wife? Study the Bible, where He still talks to mankind.

                It is egregious stupidity to marry strictly for money. Marriage is never for sale. It will be an act of Satanism to sell your marital commitment for money. True love is not for sale. You cannot surrender your obedience to the husband in exchange for dollars – it smells of spiritual disgust. It is nothing short of an insult to God’s institution. You believe the politician needs a woman like you to help him to win the election, so, marriage to him is the best option. You are wrong. As long as marriage contact does not preach and lift up the name of Jesus, it is an exercise in futility. Marriage is strictly God’s business; its orientation finds its roots in the Word of God.

Disobedience: root of Adam’s fall.

                “We are business partners; marriage has, for centuries, kept global businesses between great families.” Forced conjugations tend to receive unconducive strictness of coercion to prolong its unpalatable life of extension. How do they cope with life? Illicit relationships of sex and use of drugs become the order of prevalence. Abnormality reshapes their normalcy; look at each one of them: just hanging there so pitifully. They are rich, unbelievably rich, but not happy in marriage.

                You can be childhood friends; does that translate into successful marriage? Not necessarily so, I believe. If Jesus, the Author of marriage is not the focal point of attraction, phew, you can only live through the marriage swimming in the odious pool of pretence. We hardly remember that two things bring soteriological reality into actuation: the agapē of Jehovah and the heart of submission, on the part of the believing born again Christian. Let the husband and the wife ponder seriously on this facticity. Marriage must be running on a Jesus-inside application. Do not tell me, “Well, at age thirty, I’m old enough to give marriage a shot.” You cannot marry to prove any mundane point.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Do You Have To Marry To Prove A Point? (1)

1)            The creation of the Woman of Eden, Adam the female, could never have been an afterthought. I can really hear inquisitiveness of soliloquies asking, so, why would the Creator make the divine disquisition of Genesis 2:18? This is the reading of the verse: “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” Was Adam the male found experiencing loneliness as the word ‘alone’ tends to portray? I have heard many preachers teaching, and Bible Commentaries pointing out that Adam was beginning to feel lonely. That, definitely, could not be the case for Adam in this verse. Adam, if you care to understand, had not spent a whole day of twenty-four hours, of his first earthly days!

                Were there not thousands and millions of surrounding fascinating objects to keep his newly created jaws agape for ten years? Truly, he did not go through loneliness because the word ‘alone’ is the Hebraic bad (bad): ‘properly, by itself, besides, a part, separation;’ it comes from its root: ‘bâdad (baw-dad’) which means: ‘be separate, be isolated.’ I do agree with the explanation of Rev. Chris Okotie which says that the best definition of the versicular ‘alone’, the Hebraic bad, is ‘different’.  According to the definition of bad God simply said, “not good that Adam should be different;” when ‘separation’ as its proper definition is taken into scriptural consideration. One aberrancy of biblical exegesis is its treatment à la human gregarianism instead of its theological facticity. How can you fail to understand that before God introduces an institution, He would have made a conclusion of it in heaven? If marriage prefigures the union between saved souls and the Lamb, did the Christ ever experience loneliness to need uxorial companionship – in theology? Like the One he adumbrates, Adam must need to take a wife – theologically speaking.

God’s choice of a ‘help meet’ for Adam was a submissive support.

                God chose for Adam, a ‘help meet’ which is ‛êzer (ay’-zer): ‘help, succour; one who helps.’ ‘Êzer comes from a primitive root: ‛âzar (aw-zar’): ‘to surround, that is, protect or aid.’ And this is the reason why Eve would not fall into the discipleship of the spirit behind the serpentine evil of Eden incursion, unlike her first born, Cain. She remained an unwavering support to the cause of the marriage institution. God’s choice of a ‘help meet’ for Adam, no doubt, was a submissive support. Amen.

                Is marriage just about enjoyment of coition; or about child bearing? It is certainly not about the gregarianism of abundance of wining and dining (jocularly christened “item number seven” in Nigeria). Marriage is an existential phenomenon of momentous amplitude. The extent of this gravity we always fail to apprehend. We see two people coming together to start a family, but the nuptial tie limns the ultimate connubiality between the eternal Christ and the Church. Now I believe it is clear why it is apropos that the Church is called the body of Christ; and remember when God brought the Woman to Adam, he could not help tapping his foot and snapping his fingers to the rhythmic rap of the joyous lines of Genesis 2:23, “This now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman.”

                He had just found, among all that he had called by their names that very day, the good thing. The marriage establishment is the most serious and there is not more difficult institution like it. God made sure, therefore, that the first ever couple would never gain entrance into ungodly divorce, because in the beginning of the mooting the idea of nuptiality, no divorce room was made available in its legal clause of establishment. In impeccancy of perfection they were – God’s children –, when the first marriage took place in Eden. Marriage is only for born again Christians. Marriage is, therefore, not an act for just any couple.

Unnecessary attachment ends in divorce

                “I love her,” is not enough to enter into conjugality. You cannot marry an unbeliever. It will be a freakish attempt. You will wish, all the days of your marriage life, that you never married this person. An ungodly marriage will seek an unfortunate divorce to end it. 1Corinthians 6:15, 16 & 19 “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16) What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 19) What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” 1Corinthians 12:27 “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” Ephesians 5:29-30 “For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30) For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (five)

All bow in worship, in heaven, to the Lamb, JESUS CHRIST of Christianity.

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5)            I hear some people make asseveration that Christianity is not necessarily linked to every earthly problem. Quite untrue, I must make unteachable, the didacticism of wrong mindset of human calculation. Christians are followers of Christ; they follow Him because they are well aware of the One they have decided to follow. Does it occur to human reasoning that the first human couple was a practitioner of Christianity? They were God’s children. Jesus said to His disciples, “When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name;” and this verse definitely laid the foundation of divine brotherhood, in Luke 11:2. If the first of human creations were made in the likeness and also the image of the LORD God who entranced Eden every cool of the evening, is there any cause not to believe that they bowed in the latria before their Creator, who happened to be the pre-Incarnation of Jesus Christ? If the prototypes worshipped and followed the Christ, Christianity is irrefragably the established way of life in the agreed counsel of Godhead, even as it obtains in heaven.

The first earthly Eden Church

                We understand that Christ is the Word of God. The mystical body of Christ is the Church. The Church had its Adamic foundation in the Eden Garden. Every instruction pertaining to human business and activity must speak the Christian language powered by the Word of God. The first instruction given to mankind was, “to dress it and to keep it” found in Genesis 2:15. What is ‘dress’ in Hebrew? It is ‛âbad (aw-bad’): ‘to work; serve; labour.’ Without the mind of Christ you will not succeed as a worker, servant or labourer in civil or ecclesiastical functionality. This is the truth. The word ‘keep’ is shâmar (shaw-mar’): ‘properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to.’ The job of Adam, the head of humanity, is to protect the Eden garden, both spiritually and politically. His failure arose from not following Christ as strictly instructed. Take away the mind of Christ from any decision, and you have just bungled it before any action is taken. Before God, we will always be children. The wise Jehovah knew this so to Adam and his wife He gave instructions. Instructions are steps to be taken to ensure success.

                Why did God give Jacob the name Israel – which means ‘he will rule,’ or ‘a prince by the side of God’? It is because from Israel will come the rejuvenation of Christianity which Adam polluted with the original sin. In the wilderness, the LORD God gave them many laws to enhance fruitful coexistence between God and His created man. Most popular are the Ten Commandments; and most of which run through the statutory laws of global adjudication.

The Incarnation of Christ.

                Even if it is not in truth and in Spirit, most countries of the world observe the Sabbath. “In God we trust,” declares the ‘almighty’, American dollar. Murder is a very serious offence, where does it come from? God’s code of human conduct establishes this law, even with a capital punishment. Lying against one another is globally frowned upon; it carries legal punishments of different magnitudes. Affiliated to lying is the serious sentence on perjury. The ninth Mosaic Law published it in Exodus 20:16, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Adultery, prostitution, illegal acquisition of another person’s spouse, they have their emanation from the Christian Bible.

                Does the whole wide world not stand in celebrative still on Christmas, Easter and New Year’s days? Christianity. What was the reason for the Incarnation of the holy One of Israel? Christianity. Why did Jesus die? Christianity. The Antichrist, when he is revealed before the rapture, would he dare close down the Churches of God? The prayers of the saints of Jesus Christ will put him in deep trouble! He is a false Christ; he must therefore act an imitative “Prince of peace” of Christ’s millennial rule; he must bring peace to the world. Three and a half years after the rapture, when the true body of Christ had been removed, the power of Christ would contend with him, hell would be let loose! The removal of Christians from the earth will result in chaotic cataclysm: no saint to confront evil with, “Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name!”  Selah!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

(Concluded)

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (four)

Only Jesus, the Divine, can give rest.

(…continues from part 3…)

4)            You must be very careful when pacifiable words of religious affinity are released into your system with an intention to solve a spiritual problem. Religious didacticism is designed to get you enlisted into its membership. Woe, I promise you, betides whoever goes on the transportational train of any other religious worship that has not the Christ as the Alpha and the Omega. You cannot find, through any spiritual search, the Author of the creationism anywhere else outside Christianity. Religious philosophies have a way of taking you off guard, designed to keep you away from the ultimate Way, Truth and Life – Jesus Christ. Will God allow more than one entrance into His rest? To do that will definitely breed spiritual turbulence. Any attempt to manage the coexistence of Christianity with man’s religion will end up a capricious treatment of God’s protocolary.

                To the question in every mind asked by Thomas, it says in John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Now, it is evidently clear that most people read the Bible like they read the thrilling novels of James Hardly Chase. They read it like they go through Wole Soyinka or Chinua Achebe just to pass Literature examination or Bible Knowledge course. For this reason, let me explain the above Scripture. “I am” in the Greek is egō eime and it is the same as Jehovah – I AM THAT I AM – which means ‘self-existing One’. The noun ‘way’ is hodos (hod-os’) ‘a road; by implication a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively a mode or means; destiny.’ Jesus, the great I Am, is the true course of divine life. Grammatically, definite article ‘the’, preceding ‘way’, ‘truth’ and ‘life’ admits none other person, save Jesus Christ.

                Without Him, the Saving Compass, none can experience eternal life; does it not say, somewhere, “without Him was not anything made that was made” and again of Whom it says, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:9). From this same John 14:6 He is the ‘truth’ which is alētheia (al-ay’-thi-a): ‘fact, reality, certainty.’ Through Christianity one comes in contact with Jesus, the Eternal Foundation, even the truth that sets one free. The reality of salvation is activated by the protocol of the Christian Bible. Jesus is ‘life’, zōē (dzo-ay’) in Greek: ‘life – unending life of the Divinity.’

                The Author of Christianity says in John 10:8 “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.” Every salvific utterance that fails to acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus is a manipulation of Satanism; the reason being that He is ‘the Door leading to redemption of souls. “All other ground is sinking sand”, as the old hymn truly sings it. Matthew 11:27 “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” The word ‘knoweth’ is epiginōskō (ep-ig-in-oce’-ko): ‘to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know accurately.’ Without Christianity, which is the pillar and ground of the truth through the Church, there is no accessibility to the eternal Father.

                And Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, taught the elders of the Temple of Jerusalem what religion had failed to reveal concerning Jesus, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12 ). Mark 16:15-16, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Those who refuse to trace their steps back to Jesus, their first love, will be lost forever, for turning their backs on Christianity. Corroborating this verse is John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”

                1Corinthians 3:11 “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” Christianity is the way of life. It is the only redemptive agency. Jesus Christ, the true Saviour, is its foundation. No other religious leader before the Incarnation – Baal, Buddha, Krishna, Tao etc. – or those who showed up after His resurrection and ascension – Zoroaster, Muhammad etc. – knows  the way. These religious leaders must be followers of Jesus or have hell very wide opened welcoming them as each of them died. 1Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” the Author of Christianity, who continues to reach out, saying, “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest!”

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…” (Revelation 1:8)

                Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” Alpha and Omega are words that meet with divine protocolary. Being the first and the last of Greek alphabetical characters of word productions, what it prognosticates is that every other letter in between those letters are definitely of Him. Is Jesus the Word of God? Then the conceptual intent of Alpha and Omega points to the fact that every word from or of the Divinity is definitely Jesus Christ. The Personage of Revelation 1:8 is the beginning and the ending, meaning that He has no beginning and no ending. He is the “which is” the Owner of the present time of creation. He is the “which was”, Whose existence goes beyond the eternality of the past. He is the “which is to come” the Master and the Lord of eternity to come. This Person of Revelation 1:8 is the Almighty, the Author of Christianity. Selah!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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