Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (two)

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2)            2Thessalonians 2:8 “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:” where the word ‘Wicked’, representative of an individual being, is the Greek anomos (an’-om-os): ‘destitute of (the Mosaic) law; a violator of the law, lawless, without law, that is, (negatively) not subject to (the Jewish) law; (by implication a Gentile), or (positively) wicked’. The only way one can oppose God is simply sit in opposition to His Word. The Antichrist stands, an egregious recusant against the word of the goodness of the LORD God. Opposition to God carries one sentence: annihilation. He had always hidden himself, not wanting to be labeled ‘evil’ but he will not be able to remain in the masquerade of secret societies and the deceptive, philanthropic heroism. The word ‘revealed’ is apokaluptō (ap-ok-al-oop’-to) meaning: ‘to take off the cover, that is, disclose.’ The author of Satanism cannot hide his identity, not from the Lord of creation.

                Revelation 20:4-6 4) “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” Who are the “they” that “sat upon them” – thrones? They are the ones to whom soteriological design of eternal consequence was made. The saints of Jesus constitute the mystical body of Christ – the Christians. How do I know that the revelatory vaticination concerning those on majestic seats in heaven are the Christians?

                Over five centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ on terra firma, Prophet Daniel wrote, “But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever” (Daniel 7:18). From eternal past God had decided to save those who would walk with Him. Matthew 19:28 “And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Two exegetical facts are drawn from this verse.

                Judgment of Israel must be exclusively intended for the disbelieving religious bigotry displayed by the Jews. Those who gave Jesus – who committed no sin – up for crucifixion and who failed to ask God for forgiveness in the name of Jesus will face judgment. The second scriptural approach points to Christians as seated in the heavenly assizes to judge Adamic sinfulness. 1Corinthians 6:2, “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?” This Pauline admonition is intended to inculcate in Christians, the nobility of their adjudicatory role, ergo, it is expected of Christianity to be seen leading by good examples.

This is Israel after the flesh

                Spiritual Israel is quite different from Israel after the order of carnality. I have two scriptures to buttress this fact. 1Corinthians 10:18 “Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?” If the Word of God does see some as Israel of carnality, definitely, there must be spiritual Israel. There was a divine need to enter Adamic depravity into a new testamentary order. Does it not asseverate, “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (Hebrews 8:7). Soteriology is the perfection of true salvation. The first testament took away sin temporarily; the second testament is the soteriology – eternal design of the Divinity; meant only for as many as are led by the Spirit to become Christians who walk with God. Galatians 6:16 reads, “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.” Israel of God is the true Israel, the called, ready to forsake all, washed in the blood of Jesus clean; and be called the children of the Most High. Romans 9:6 “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:” because in the new dispensation of Adamic elevation, you must be born again. Israel in the flesh is the present day geographical State of backslidden Jews. Many of them do not still believe in the Golgotha atonement.

             God must always have His own people so it became necessary to birth the spiritual Israel, each individual of this mystical body having the eternal seed of fruitful Godliness in his soul. Without this species of people, God will destroy the earth. To keep the earth from destruction, His special people must have their dwelling on earth. How unsearchable is God’s wisdom, and His ways past finding out. Hallelujah!

                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!” 

(…to be continued…)

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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (one)

1)            Specific Terms and Conditions (T&C) are the applications of theological realities accounting for the rehabilitation of the fallen Adamic personality. The council of the Godhead, before the creation of any intelligent being, decided that this particular entity of creationism, Adam, no matter how grievous his sinfulness, should be saved. When He hollered, “Adam, where art thou” was it intended for the male Adamic person only? The answer is both yes and no. Yes in the sense that the male Adam was the head of humanity, trusted with its lordship. It is safe to be a ‘no’ as well. No, it was directed at the pristine couple. How I know this is a protocolary couch found in Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Adam, from this scriptural understanding, is a generic word for a human being. What differentiates one of the pristine couple from the other is simply of their gender – Adam the male, the husband and the head of humanity, and Adam the female, the help mate created for the man in his missionary work. Jehovah did not ask to know where Adam was out of ignorance, it was a Fatherly, “Oh, you shouldn’t have ventured into this misrepresentation of your heavenly Father!”

His goings forth: from of old, from everlasting (Micah 5:2).

                The eternal Father could not have been taken by surprise. He had known this before they were created. Blessedly, God had taken precautions; was ready for this eventuality; definitely, knew He was not going to lose either of these two Adamic prototypes. The first term of conditionality intrinsically designed for his – Adam’s – survival was admittance of guilt. If Adam would not flaunt his shortcoming on earth, like Lucifer did in heaven, then the propitiatory lambs were of readiness for their restoration based purely on a T&C of fugacity. Agreeing to the perpetration of ungodly, sinful act is tantamount to asking for divine help. Arrogance will always stand in opposition to seeking divine offer of mercy.

                Right there in the Garden of Eden, the eternal designs began to take shapes. This revelation I am sharing here makes me appreciate Pastor Chris Okotie’s didactic insistence that Israel has a subtle mention in the Eden fall.

                Did God not know that Adam would fall into sin? When He walked into Eden, the first thing God did was to call out, “Adam, where art thou?” not to the destruction of the Adamic elevation, but He was on a mission of restoration of Adamic elevation, according to His eternal design – you may want to read my post titled “ADAMIC ELEVATION [1]” https://hoojewale.com/2022/08/12/adamic-elevation-1/ you will enjoy the exhaustive nine parts. Adam was not spared though, he received his due punishment. His punishment did not stop him from receiving the grace of a beneficent second chance. The second chance was the sacrificial animals of atonement which focused grandly on the cross of Calvary. Adam ran to hide himself behind the fig tree, a pointer to where the true salvation must be sourced: for Jesus Christ hanged on the tree as the Lamb of God, and as an Israelite in the consummation of soteriological actuality.

Adamic fall did not destroy man totally.

                It was important that God should be the first to evangelize the gospel of Genesis 3:15 “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Divinely allowed are the two forces of good and evil. Why evil must be given an existence is simply a matter of legality. God implanted free moral agency in every intelligent being. The exploitation of freewill becomes a legality which falls under the act of divine scrutiny; and to be penalized whenever it runs contrary to God’s will. The decision of angelic beings to believe and follow the machinations of Lucifer gave Satanism its right of existence in the sight of the Majestic Judge of the celestial assizes. If Adam, when he had the dominion of the world in Eden, had completely shunned Satanism, the dream of Lucifer would have faced immediate destruction. Adam unfortunately did not realize that, if he should wield his free moral agency in disobedience to the Word of God, he definitely will be queueing himself behind evil as its supporting puppet. Evil, having been officially established on terra firma, could exist side by side with eternally established good. The evangelism of Genesis 3:15 vaticinates the eventual emergence of the Antichrist, the evil son of the Devil, who will rule the earth. The rule of this evil son, whose activities had caused the death of Jesus Christ, will not last; Jesus Christ must come a second time to utterly destroy satanic rule over the world. Daniel 2:44 “In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” This is a divine decision from the eternal past.

                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!” 

(…to be continued…)

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Why Was Adam Created Naked? (two)

“Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten…thou shouldest not eat” (Gen 3:11?)

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2)            The paramount reason for the inceptional nakedness of the pristine couple was purely on probationary intent. In the first Adam there was a failure, leading unrighteousness and eventually to death. God had not, in any way given up on the importance of Adam. That called for the emergence of the second Man or the last Adam for the actuality of the supreme grounds, kept in the mind of God, for creating man. John 14:3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Compare John 12:26; John 14:28 and John 17:24. Have you asked yourself where Jesus, who reveals this promise, sits in heaven?

                Jesus told the unbelieving religious gatherings of Israel in Luke 22:69, “Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.” This is where the Lord Jesus sits in the empyrean Majesty. The reading of Hebrews 1:3 says, “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;”

                The ultimate elevation of the naked Adam is the entrance into celestial glory. Why would God change the name of Jacob to Israel, which means ‘he will rule by the side of God’? Is it not written of the Adamic creature, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him” (Psalm 8:4)? A grander couch from the psalmist is sung in Psalm 139:14 “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” The first of the two words of Adamic grandeur in this verse is ‘fearfully’ that is Yârê’ (yaw-ray’) which in Hebraic definition is: ‘to cause astonishment and awe; to inspire reverence or godly fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten.’ The second being ‘wonderfully’ is Pâlâh (paw-law’) means: “to be distinct, marked out, be separated, be distinguished.’

                In his nakedness, Adam gave names to other creative works of God. Did God ever repudiate any of the sobriquets? He did not, to prove that the naked Adam was the responsible head of the world. The Scriptures point to the fact that “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3) Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life” (1Corinthians 6:2-3)? There is, in the creation of Adam, something that is awe inspiring that truly distinguished the Adamic reality from other beings of intelligence.

                Lucifer sinned and that was the end of his righteous stand before God. The angels that followed Lucifer tried to populate the earth with their ungodly progenies of half-angels-half-men; and what happened? They have been serving their gaol sentences in Tartarus ever since. There were beings on earth when Lucifer and his fallen angels were cast to it. They were subtly deceived into following the Devil; that, getting them estranged from the holy God, they became demonic entities of disembodied evil spirits. The fall of Adam begat God’s anger; but this fall did not cause the annihilation of his entire progenies. The naked days of his righteous Eden abode engendered the spirit of meekness. From his heart, God saw true repentance.

                A meek person is a teachable creation of God. Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” The word ‘meek’ is Praus (prah-ooce’): ‘Mildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit; mild, that is, (by implication) humble.’ The nakedness having helped in the endowment of divine gentleness, Adam, the lord of Eden, sinned; was washed in the blood of Jesus for his forgiveness; every one of his progenies who heed the call of salvation receives spiritual cleansing, becomes born again; he will be transported to heaven in divine rapture if he or she lives to the time of the revelation of the Antichrist. In heaven, the gentleness of his spiritual disposition places him beside Jesus Christ at the right hand of the celestial Majesty; after that Adam comes back to the earth to inherit it forever, in the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

                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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Why Was Adam Created Naked? (one)

“And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (Genesis 2:25).

1)            The very second of his creation, Adam, our pristine father, was already an adult. The LORD God had deposited not only sagacious erudition of a professor in him, from the time of Adamic creation, Adam had what it took to live sinlessly forever. Why would a respectable adult not mind walking through his place of abode in stark nakedness? Nakedness, spiritually, is not unconnected to deficiency. But the truth is that Adam, even in the starkness of his nakedness, was absolutely not in deficiency, be it spiritual, moral and intellectualism. He was made in wholly perfection. The only difference seen in this intelligent free moral agent was his nudity. So, why would God make him remain in his birthday suit even though he was the ruler of the earth?

                Adam happens to be God’s cynosure of the creationism. He was created to become the paramount personality among all intelligent beings of creation. Adam would rule as God’s viceroy. For every living entity must experience biological growth, Adam must be made to journey through natural course of the life of intelligence. God’s omniscience does not require probationary discipline of an individual to determine the subject’s eligibility. But the gospel truth is simply that, for the sake of Adamic future suitability, he must be made to face probation. He must experience humility; though he was not a baby, he needed to go through the natural days of humbling infancy. To come forth as gold goes a trial ere it.

                Adam’s nakedness was not the negativity of undignified person. How is this fact true? The Bible states categorically, “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed” (Genesis 2:25). ‘Naked’ is the Hebrew ‛ârôm (aw-rome’): ‘nude (total, in this context).’ And the Hebraic bûsh (boosh) is ‘ashamed’ which means: ‘To put to shame, be ashamed, be disconcerted, be disappointed (by reason of).’ When it says, “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: (Genesis 3:8) it points out the fact that the LORD God walked through Eden every evening, when consideration is given to the Hebrew word for ‘walking’, hâlak (haw-lak’) meaning: ‘to go, come, depart, proceed, move, go away, to die, live, manner of life (figuratively).’ Manner of life is lifestyle.

                It was the manner of God to commune with the sinless couple every evening. What I am trying to explain here is that, they saw the LORD God everyday. Did God ever walk into Eden Garden naked? He would never have done that. Could that not have ignited a feeling of disappointment, seeing their Creator well garbed in magnificence, in comparison to their stark nakedness? Some are likely to argue that, “Well, they were few days old so, like infants, nakedness couldn’t touch off disconcertment in them.” That cannot be true, scripturally. The Bible makes it, “and were not ashamed,” perspicuous enough. They were living a most distingué life in Eden even though in their apparent stark nakedness. Let us allow a logical perception concerning this Eden nakedness. In those early Adamic days, the man and the woman of Eden were the only ones engaged in coupledom in the entire world. The Eden home can be likened to an enclosed room. Who sees you in your enclosed bedroom?

Sinless first couple: Adam and his wife

                Their nakedness is somewhat a blessing in disguise. If nakedness is tantamount to innocence, then it was expedient to allow forgiveness for the missing of the spiritual mark. After all, they were still in their days of Adamic innocence! God, our LORD, is so good!

                God factored forgiveness into their creation, quite unbeknown to Lucifer. I believe that after the decided period of probation, if Adam had successfully maintained his sinless life, the LORD God would have come as He was wont to. In His hands of Divinity would have been clothes, clothes much better than that of angels, and presented to Adam and his wife to be worn from that day, after the probation, onwards.

                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!” 

(…to be concluded…)

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No Condemnation (3)

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3)            Every word of John 5:24 points to the Christian’s possession of everlasting life. It begins with “verily, verily” of Hebrew origin; it is amen (a-meen’): ‘1. (properly) firm. 2. (figuratively) trustworthy. 3. (adverbially) surely. 4. (often as interjection) so be it.’ The Bible makes it clear to us that Jesus Himself is the Amen. Twice couch of ‘verily’ is an attestation of its veridicality. ‘Word’ is logos (lo’-ğos): ‘1. a word, something said (including the thought). 2. (specially, with the article in John) the Word of God (capitalized), the Divine Expression, the Creator, the Word of Yahweh.’ Logos is the totality of God’s mind. The personalization of Logos makes Jesus truly divine and he must be very God of very God. Only God can promise everlasting life, therefore, its promise is divine. It exempts from ‘condemnation’ and passes the redeemed into zōē – God’s kind of life.

                It is the right of the redeemed. God’s purpose and oath guarantees it. The grace of God sustains this zōē. Faith and hope in the gospel give him the right of claim; most certainly the grace of God engenders the principle of eternality in the believing soul. The fullest of its satiation is the earnest of Holy Spirit. The condemnation of Jesus Christ on the cross brings Adamic elevation under the aegis of the Divinity. By the righteousness of Christ, though the redeemed comes before the judgment assizes of the Creator, his acquitment stands as sure as the existence of the LORD God, the ultimate Judge Himself. Whoever believes in Him, Jesus, shall not be condemned but saved, absolutely.

                Though the original sin, a perpetration of the Adamic pristine parents, which should utterly destroy: for it says, “the soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4), the New Testamentary initiation of the gratuitous zōē demands a ‘not guilty’ acquittal. The blood that speaketh better things than that of Abel has cleansed the soul erstwhile heading straight to hell, and by the indwelling intervention of the Holy Spirit, a volte-face to eternal bliss is the tenor of the act of grace, made a possibility by the declaration of justification passed on the redeemed of the Lord; secured from the irredeemable journey of the second death. All it takes for divine operation of the soteriology is “obey the didacticism of divine utterance” and the resultant effect is “passing from the Adamic dead situation to eternal life.”  Hallelujah!

                This is the difference between the redeemed and the unregenerate, captured in the words of the Eternal Word of God, found in John 3:18 “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” The curse that came upon sin has continued to plague mankind. The unregenerate is, thereby, condemned already, indeed. The wise who opened his ears, believed the evangelism of the gospel and decided to receive Jesus, the Author of zōē as Lord and Saivour, to him is the applicability of the Scriptural grace of Romans 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

                Why is there no condemnation to the believing Christians of God’s redemption? It says, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28) And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” (John 10:27-28). This is the bottom line: “…and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” This is what it says in Romans 8:2 “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” As a true born again Christian, one has passed from death to life. Amen.

                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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No Condemnation (2)

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2)            Another law of promulgation: ‘Spirit of life in Christ Jesus’, of total emancipation, has through divine operation, set the Christian ‘free from the law of sin and death.’ You want to know the magnificent icing on this deal? God chose to dwell on the inside of the recipient of His redemptive plan. How safe is a family that gets a visitation from the United States’ President? How safe is a land surrounded by all the military forces of Israel, China and America? If it says, “For God so loved that He gave, that one should not perish” and a custodial stance of theological insurance finds facticity in the Divine arrangement that offers the Third Membership of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, as the earnest (2Corinthians 1:22) of God’s absolute ownership of the redeemed, what human act of violation is evil enough to thwart the security of the omnipotent Divinity: it clearly says, “that whosoever believeth should not perish”?

                Now if ‘earnest’ in this verse is arrhabōn (ar-hrab-ohn’), ‘a pledge, that is, part of the purchase-money or property given in advance as security for the rest; a caution-money, deposited by the purchaser and forfeited if the purchase is not completed.’ The earnest is the Holy Spirit; how soteriologically secured are born again children of God, knowing fully well that in financial terms, the Holy Spirit is more than eternal times and over wealthier than any amount of any mind blowing thoughts. God Himself is the downpayment for our purchase. Why would God make Himself the earnest our purchase? Is it not because the divine purchase will never run into a loss? It takes eternality to purchase an item of eternal incorruptibility. No condemnation.

                1Peter 1:22-23 22) “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: 23) Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” That which makes the cleansed soul purified is never the excellency of moral efforts of carnality; it, certainly, is the obedience to the word of God that suffers righteousness. None can ever initiate, by his own power, the reality of soteriology. It is strictly of Divine métier; and to eternalize the security of the Christian salvific state, God cultivated the new birth with an incorruptible seed – never to be adversely affected by the corruption of Satanism. No condemnation.

                The Pharisees, demanding to know of the Kingdom of God with their focus based on chronological phenomenality, Jesus subtly revealed Himself in Luke 17:21, “Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” The word ‘within’ is entos (en-tos’): ‘Within, inside; within you, i.e. in the midst of you; within you, i.e. your soul.’ When John the Baptist went about with his heralding evangelism of, “The Kingdom of God is at hand,” was the Baptizer not introducing the divine presence of the Immanuel? Had he not played hide and seek with Yeshua, his cousin, the supposedly ‘son’ of Joseph’s fatherhood when they were young lads? How come when the same Yeshua turned up for baptism – decades later – , Who needed not to be baptized, having committed not the least of sin, John trying to forbid Him and with a confused mind said, “I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me” (Matthew 3:14)? The Emmanuel of divine vaticination had eventually proved the word of Jehovah to be true!

                Luke 17:21 proves that the Kingdom of Jehovah is indeed a Personage – the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Christian spiritual rejuvenation brings the divine presence of Jesus into our lives, making us carriers of the Divinity. The Divinity is eternal; therefore, His spiritual presence is equally of eternality. Dwelling inside humanity definitely changes the corruptible sinfulness of the born again and eternally places him in Christ, the Kingdom of God. Can anyone condemn God’s chosen place of His dwelling: for that is what the Christian becomes? No condemnation to the chosen generation. A certain judgment is awaiting intelligent creatures for falling into sin, but those who heeded and obeyed the teaching of the Logos have been moved from the course of the eternal torments of Gehenna.

                They are eternally saved. Providential gift of Jesus was to pave an availability of life-giving operation to the heart of willingness. The birth of Jesus was to set operation-grace in motion. It pleases the Father to give eternal salvation to as many as will come to Jesus and be healed. Immediately on man’s acceptance of Jesus as Lord and Savour, a total package of salvation is the result. Jesus told the accused on His right, when He was saddled with the sins of thousands of years, “Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). 

                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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No Condemnation (1)

1)            “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). What exactly is Jesus saying in this verse? Echō (ekh’-o) is the Greek for ‘hath’, which means ‘to have, i.e. to hold; possess.’ Before one is endowed with the ‘possession’ of this asseveratory ‘everlasting life’, it is compulsory that the individual should pay attention to the Giver of the word. The word ‘heareth,’ akouō (ak-oo’-o) means: ‘to give ear – to teaching or a teacher.’ In this context, ‘heareth’ is tantamount to ‘obey’. Proper obedience to the word of God leads to being born again. The adverbial ‘not’ is ou (oo): ‘the absolute negative – no, not.’ When you study the phrase ‘shall not come’ it is interestingly an emphatic erchomai ou erchomai pointing out that ‘shall’ and ‘come’ are the same word erchomai (er’-khom-ahee): ‘to come or go.’

                ‘Condemnation’ is krisis (kree’-sis): separation; judgment; damnation; punishment; accusation; by extension a tribunal; by implication justice (specifically divine law).’ The verbal ‘passed’ is metabainō (met-ab-ah’-ee-no). It comes from meta (met-ah’): ‘with, after, behind: properly denoting accompaniment’ and basis (bas’-ece) origin: βαίνω bainō (to walk); a pace (“base”), that is, (by implication) the foot’. Metabainō, from the definitions of its origin, simply means: ‘to change place’. The ominous ‘death’ is thanatos (than’-at-os): ‘the death of the body; that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended; with the implied idea of future misery in hell.’ It is crystal clear that he that ‘heareth’ is not the One whose decision it is to do the metabainō. Jesus, whose word receives obedience, is the Lord who ‘changes the place’ of the redeemed. There is nothing required of the redeemed, according to this verse, to be kept intact in the place of Pauline ‘no condemnation’; there are no scriptural strings attached to security of the believer. Jesus takes infrangible care of the redeemed ‘change of place.

                Of scriptural veridicality it is, as Pauline couch clarifies in Romans 3:23, that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” an unpaid for justification that comes by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, Whose Calvary sinless propitiatory blood has transformed the born again Christian and declaring our righteousness before God, having removed all our past sins, ergo, no condemnation fits the Christian, having been led by the Holy Spirit and firmly planted his feet in the righteousness of Christ eternally, here on earth and when he eventually comes before the throne of celestial Majesty, this is absolutely the work of the Trinity, lest any should burst out an air of boastfulness. Amen.

                This salvific pursuit is strictly the responsibility of the Godhead. The word of God, preaching the substitutionary death of Jesus, one is left with whether to obey the Holy Spirit’s divine testification or not. Those who believe immediately become – by an abstruse wrought of the Holy Spirit – the children of God and the Holy Spirit enters their spirits, permanently, for spiritual rejuvenation; they open their mouths and out of them pour the filial “Abba, Father,” to God the Father. If Jehovah is the Eternal God, then the spiritual procreation is eternally a security. The Father gave His only begotten Son. The Son perfected the soteriological facticity. The Energizer, the Holy Spirit, ceaselessly energizes the willing hearts into the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit makes the cleansed spirit an eternal place of abode, making the hearts of recipients the holy progeny God’s Church forever. No condemnation comes to the redeemed. Amen.

                Our sacrosanctity is borne out of our elevation to the dignified preferment of first fruits. “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body” (Romans 8:23). ‘Firstfruit’ of this verse is aparchē (ap-ar-khay’): ‘a beginning of sacrifice, that is, the (Jewish) first fruit (figuratively).’ Biblical ‘first fruits’ speaks of superiority of excellence of human bestowal. No application of condemnation is suffered to point a finger of judgment on Christians. This, no doubt, makes Christianity too important to God and, therefore, indestructible by any act of Satanism. People do not make any effort to understand that the Godhead indwelling the born again is the celestial insurance that must keep protecting the Christian. He is no longer his old sinful self! The eternal life of Christ is what the spiritually justified, Adamic rejuvenation is now living. It is logically unbelievable but scripturally true.

                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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BLOOD THAT SPEAKETH BETTER THINGS (7)

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7)            Let us look at the veil. The first time of its mention is in Exodus 26:31 “And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:” and verse 33 reads: “And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.” Now the Hebrew word for ‘vail’ is pôreketh (po-reh’-keth): ‘curtain, veil; a separatrix, that is, (the sacred) screen.’ Grammatically, the pôreketh is a noun feminine active participle of perek (peh’-rek): ‘break apart i.e. fracture; cruelty’. The sinfulness of the Adamic creation is a horrid putrefaction separating God from man.

                In order not to bring the judgment of destruction upon the creation of His hand, the good LORD designed a protective barrier that actively ward off His anger, which we deserve, from Adam. What a God of mercy He is! He did the same for the wandering Israel in the wilderness when He instructed Moses: “And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:” (Exodus 19:12).

“…and thou shalt see my back parts…” (Exodus 33:23).  

            A more classically dramatic show of God’s stance of the compassionate bulwark came alive when He said to Moses’ request of beholding the full glory of Jehovah. Exodus 33:20-23 “And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21) And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: 22) And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23) And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.” God said, “…and will cover thee with my hand…” and ‘cover’ is śâkak (saw-kak’): ‘to block, overshadow, screen, stop the approach, shut off, cover;’ serving the same purpose of the temple curtain.

                Why did God not tell Moses to use his own hand to cover his eyes, and to ensure its tight closeness? God Himself provided the holy palm of His eternal hand for the protection of Moses. What a caring God our Jehovah is! In the face of man’s continual perpetration of ostracizing sinfulness, the paternal benevolence of the Creator shielded the worshipers of God from the destructive desideration of Satanism. He knew that He was going to put the spiritual mechanism of eternal salvation in motion, but in the interim, we needed to be safe. The veil was so immense that the artistry wrought of its cubical design covered the entrance of the holy of holies. It was quite different from the vengeful design of Abel’s anger.

                Abel’s would not cover his brother’s sin going by God’s condemnable remark of Genesis 4:10 “And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” The viciousness that spilled the blood of Abel was such a grief that it failed to enable an affordability of a kind forgiveness. The evil deed of Cain, as far as Abel’s blood was concerned, must not be unpunished. It is in every conceivable way different from salvific flow of Jesus.

                At the substitutionary death of Jesus the mighty veil had accomplished its existence. His death sprinkled the propitiatory blood of eternal salvation, giving us an unbelievable access to the most holy presence of God, hitherto, inaccessible. Every born again Christian, by the virtue of the shed blood, has been officially ordained a priest and more than the high priest, has access to the presence of God as several times as we decide to come before Him, which is, and which was, and which is to come. Amen. The blood of Jesus Christ speaks better things.

His blood speaketh better things

                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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BLOOD THAT SPEAKETH BETTER THINGS (6)

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6)            Hebrews 7:22 “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.” What makes this new order of divine protocol much better is the fact that, all through the Mosaic years of Judaistic priesthood none had Jehovah’s direct interposition; the Mosaic legality put Adamic priesthood in office. On an inaugural moment of celestial assemblage before the Majesty, God the Father swore by an oath, which none other ever received, which the Holy Spirit enabled Divine eavesdrop to David in Psalm 110:4 “The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.” This is the proof of the superiority and the ineluctability of the Priesthood of our Great Shepherd. Coming from the lips of the Most High God engenders the immutability of this Priesthood, who has come to give us life and life more abundantly.

                Hebrews 8:6-7 6) “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7) For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.” For our sake, most definitely, should a second be sought for; and why? The bulls, goats, rams and lambs, after engendering our pardon, died. Another animal of immolation was required to enable a guiltless stand before the thrice holy God after another wrong doing! Every minute of Judaism an element of immolation falls, the victim in substitution for the life the sacrificant. Such horrendous sanguinity those days of animal atonement were. Nowadays of the unveiling of the grace of God to all mankind 1John1:9 settles the sinning issues for the born again Christian! Praise the Lord!

                Hebrews 13:20-21 “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21) Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” By dying blood must flow. The blood engenders the everlasting covenant. And this is one of the reasons why from His mouth come better things than that of Abel; it is found in 1Timothy 2:5-6 5) “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6) Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”

                In the 16^th chapter of Prophet Ezekiel’s Book also has, “Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.” Is there any smidgeon of doubt concerning the good reason why He will remember His covenant with Israel, and why it must be an everlasting testament? The blood had, from eternity past, spoken better things into the yet to be created best of creationism specimen of beings, the Adamic reality of elevation. Israel had a mentioning from Genesis chapter three (fig tree). It says somewhere, “First to the Jews, then to the Gentiles.” These days of grace the true Israel is the born again Christian, upon whom is the divine lavishness of the Golgotha salvific blood. For the sake of the blood, of eternality is the remembrance of the covenant. We do not live by the letter of the law again, as recipients of divine grace; the law requires another killing of a sacrificial lamb. The death, resurrection, ascension and the culmination of the session of Jesus continues to propitiate by the reason of Him being our perpetual High Priest. 2Corinthians 3:6 “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

                1John 5:6, “This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” By ‘this is he’ is meant Jesus, the Son of God of verse five. Water is emblematic of the Holy Spirit. The Jordan baptism, where the Holy Spirit descended on Him, was the beginning of His ministry. He, therefore, came with water to commence His Messianic office. The Eternal Father spoke audibly to avouch the Incarnation of the Second Member of the Godhead. The gory, Golgotha atonement is the culmination of His Messianic consummation.

                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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BLOOD THAT SPEAKETH BETTER THINGS (5)

“…the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground” (Gen 4:10).

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5)            In His eternal blood, we should not expect anything short of better things. This proof of Him, the Christ, being the True Initiator of the Old Testamentary order is here receiving an indubitable accentuation at the Last Supper, as captured by direct revelation from the Lord Jesus Himself, in this Pauline couch of 1Corinthians 11:23-27. It reads, “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:24) And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25) After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26) For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. 27) Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.” It was not a mere ‘take’ of Pauline couch in verse 24 as instructed by the Lord, the taking from His hand has a far-reaching eternal consequence.

                It took Israel way back to the paschal their forefathers ate before the LORD God in Egypt. There the element of divine protection was the flesh of lamb; here at the Last Supper, His very blood was the reenactment of the testament or ‘covenant’. He stretched His eternal hand to them; the true believing disciples who accepted His gift of covenantal salvation and consequently received eternal protection from His hand of eternality just as the antediluvian Adam, Enoch, Methuselah, Abel and Noah did. Judas Iscariot, whose faith was a deviation from the Truth received from the Hand that would accuse and send him to hell. Of truth is the Scriptural “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (Romans 8:14).

                Jesus did not only instruct the taking of the communion, He commanded Its taking in remembrance of Him. What, I need to ask, is the difference between “taking in remembrance of me” and the spiritual legality of “thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, thought, mind and strength”? Does it not say, “That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him” (John 5:23). It is also an asseveratory understanding in John 14:1 “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” God the Father and His Christ are one and the same Jehovah. Remember He stated unequivocally, “I and my Father are one” where ‘one’, heis (hice) is a neuter not Persons: ‘essence’

                The Son and the Father are not two different natured individual Persons, in this context. They have the same essence! Amen. He that established the first covenant did reestablished it, that in all things Jesus must take preeminence (Colossians 1:18).

                Jesus, whose blood speaketh better things, is the new theory, path and lingo. I have continually taught mathematics as a primary school teacher and I understand experientially that without any knowledge of the theorem, which must have logical step by step solvent calculation, it, conclusively, is impossible to solve a scientific problem. Without Jesus, the new and the living way, there is, absolutely, no way by which any created being can deal with the sin question, which ultimately herds Christians to the eternal bliss of heaven. Hebrews 10:20 “By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;” and this takes us to the Jerusalem which has two curtains, katapetasma (kat-ap-et’-as-mah), one is placed at the entrance to the second compartment, where the priests carry out their official duties – separating it from the outer court i.e. the first compartment – and a second one is at the entrance of the Holy of Holies – the third compartment.

                Jesus, the Bible says, veils the Holy of Holies, which is entranced only once a year and by none other than the High Priest, who must go through Christ if the entire land of Israel must be forgiven their sins for that year. The high priest must have blood in his hand before he could access the Holy of Holies, where the Holy Spirit is seated between the two cherubs, or else he would die instantly: for His blood – the secret code of admittance – speaketh better things than that of Abel. Christ Jesus, whose Person is the entrance to the presence of God, is the Initiator and the Living Way.

                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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