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!” 

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (four)

Only Jesus, the Divine, can give rest.

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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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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (three)

Three crosses against dramatic red sky

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3)            Salvation is multifaceted. There is the ordinary day-to-day life’s salvaging instances: from debt; impecuniosity; childlessness; hunger; educational pursuit; embarrassment; marriage instability etcetera. To be saved from debt and impecuniosity earthly money is the solution. Pregnancy saves the one from barrenness. Food will definitely save the hungry souls; and get admitted into a very good school and your academic problems receive solution. Medical, financial and human connectivity can easily solve human embarrassments. It may be very difficult, but marital wahala (Yoruba for problem) may be solved with money. These are earthborn questions that cause hardships to carnal existential mindset; they do not extend beyond terrene reality.  

                Salvation of the soul is the true salvation, found only in the Christian Bible. Salvation is exclusively a theological question. Only the Creator, who goes by the Genesis 1:1 generic sobriquet of ‘ĕlôhı̂ym which means ‘deities, magistrates and mighty ones’, has all it takes for the abrogation of the mortal sentence of Ezekiel 18:4 passed on human sinfulness, which vaticinates, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” The sanguineous crucifixion of the Golgotha atonement changed everything, affording the second chance culminating in the volte-face turn from hellish approach back to life, brokered by the Author of creationism. Of the redeemed souls of Christianity Peterine couch reveals, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1Peter 2:9-10).

                I believe, and sincerely too, that the Christ has an ungodly representation in every religion, simply to strike an acceptance balance. Islam calls Him an etymologically unacceptable Isa according to Arabic language. Why do you think Krishna holds an exalted position in Hinduism? It is all about the Christ. The millennial government of Jesus is expected to have Christians as governors. And in the heavenly assizes, Christians are the judges of mundane deeds. 1Corinthians 6:2-3 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? 3) Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?”

                The truth is that not only prophets yearn for the soteriology; even holy angels of God go to Church to learn of the Christian Bible. 1Peter 1:10-12 10) “Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.” The ‘look’ of verse 12 is parakuptō (par-ak-oop’-to), a Greek word worthy of note, meaning: ‘To stoop to a thing in order to look at it; to look at with head bowed forward; to look into with the body bent.’ Does angelic stoop towards the Christian Bible not make Christianity the only way of salvation? The soteriology is nothing short of a conundrum. Faith: that is all it takes to unravel the enigmatic stance of it; complete faith in the Word of God.

                What applies to Christianity is not the Old Testamentary Exodus 15:26 “And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.” This verse is meant for Israel in the flesh. This is the protocol of Scripture that suits the New Testamentary Christianity which has its couch in 1Peter 2:9-10 9) “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” What difference do you see presented in this Peterine General Epistle? There is not a single string of human attachment, intended to aid the actualization of God’s promise. The true believer is substantially immune to apostasy. He has obtained mercy, better explained as ‘unmerited favour’. He is too divinely favoured to be derailed. He has been designed never to experience Adamic fall again. 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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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (two)

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2)            What does it say in John 3:3? “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” What is this doubly uttered ‘verily’? It is amēn (am-ane’) in the Greek, meaning: ‘(properly) firm, that is, (figuratively) trustworthy; adverbially surely (often as interjection so be it)’. Know of certainty that ‘born again’ come from the Greek gennaō (ghen-nah’-o) anōthen (an’-o-then). Gennaō is procreation – spiritually. And what is anōthen? It is ‘from above; by analogy from the first; by implication anew.’ The adverbial ‘Verily’ means ‘truly’. Who is the Truth? Jesus. Who is the Amen? Is it not the same Jesus of today, yesterday and forever? The veridicality of John 3:3 begins with the double Amen! If it is firmly established that the death, resurrection, ascension and His session of Jesus Christ is for the rebirth of the lost souls who assemble in Church to worship God the true Saviour, then it suffices to agree that Christianity is the only way to eternal salvation.

                Why ‘born again’? “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). The Adamic original sin did engender the facticity of Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” The natural birth of humanity is fraught with wickedness. The day I came to the understanding of Psalm 51:5, with shock I realized that without making the sound of a syllable, I already have my dwelling in sinfulness, even from my innocent period of foetal existence! Nicodemus, to whom Jesus made this salvific verse known, was a religious leader of the Pharisee sect of Judaism. The way to salvation of the soul cannot be traced to any religious affiliation.

Jesus hosts Nicodemus in John chapter 3

                Being a born again Christian is the path that heads straight to the new and the living way established by Jesus Christ when He said, “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). Nicodemus went to meet with the very Foundation and the Head of the Church, the pillar and the ground of truth, where Christianity is practised. The new birth is actually midwifed by the Holy Spirit, God from above. ‘Except’ and ‘cannot’ are two strong negating terms showing the impossibility of salvation without going through Christianity founded by Jesus.

                Encapsulating the entire Bible is John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Salvation to all mankind through Jesus, whose atoning blood erases the sin that herds unbelievers into hell, is what John 3 verse 16 makes known to all. Where is this taught? The Christian Church. The eighteenth verse reads, “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.” You either come to Jesus and be saved, or go elsewhere which seems right in the sin contaminated perception of humanity and perish forever. Christianity awaits all and sundry; “Come unto me all that labour and are heavy laden,” Jesus calls out, and concludes with the most reassuring, “and I will give you rest.”

                How does one get born again, you may ask? Romans 10:8-10 is the text for the salvific prayer formula: 8) “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Who carry out the evangelism of the soteriology? Christians. The word ‘confess’ of the ninth verse is homologeō (hom-ol-og-eh’-o): ‘to say the same thing as another, i.e. to agree with, assent.’ What are you expected to confess? The Lordship of Jesus Christ over your life; that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; believing that Jesus died for your sin; believing that Jesus rose from the dead; and from your heart, believe these things as you say them. Say the prayer truthfully and the Holy Spirit enters your heart to vacate it no more. You have become God’s child and that is forever. 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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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (one)

1)            The first time one sees the word ‘salvation’ in the Bible is found in Genesis 49:18 “I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” Patriarch Jacob uttered this verse when blessing his twelve sons before he slept as God’s saint. The expression ‘waited for’ is the Hebrew qâvâh (kaw-vaw’): ‘to bind together (perhaps by twisting), that is, collect; (figuratively) to expect’. The next word is ‘salvation’ which is yeshû‛âh (yesh-oo’-aw): ‘something saved, that is, (abstractly) deliverance; hence aid, victory, prosperity’. The last word, ‘LORD’ is Yehôvâh (yeh-ho-vaw’): ‘the proper name of the one true God; unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of ădônây; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.’ The last time of its biblical couch is found in Revelation 19:1-2 “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:” 2) For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

 “I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” (Genesis 49:18)

                Jacob had to bind himself to the true God of Israel in his expectation of His salvation. Your expectations of God’s beneficence are the result of the collections of the word of Scriptures upon which faith is based. The Hebraic yeshû‛âh has a very close affinity to Yehôshûa‛, the Hebrew name for Joshua, the leader of Israel after Moses, to the promised-land; the same name was adopted by Jesus in the Incarnation. Yehôshûa‛ means ‘Jehovah saved’. Note that Jacob did not say, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Elohiym.” There is truly nothing, absolutely wrong with Elohyim (plural of Eloahh): for the Christ is involved in the Persons of the Elohyim concerning the Trinity.

                Divine salvation calls for the shedding of the life serving crimson fluid. Ineluctable is the attraction of the covenant that appropriately goes hand in hand with salvific responsibility of the Divinity. The first allusion to the phenomenality of the Church is when Divine utterance proclaimed, “I will make him an help meet for him” and in the creation of the Woman, it says, “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Genesis 2:22). Bânâh (baw-naw’) is Hebrew word for ‘made’ which means: ‘To build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.’ The Woman, female Adam, is a building – the Church.

“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman”

                What did God do in His resolve of building the woman? God pulled out a rib: definitely a blood spluttering business. Adam, in that material time, was absolutely sinless! The purity of that blood became the covenant, paving way for the forgiveness of the original sin. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33)! This is the first known salvific encounter between the Creator and mankind. Jehovah is the covenant name of the Creator as the SAVIOUR.

                Note also that Jacob uttered the Genesis 49:18 verse between two names: Dan and Gad; the meaning of Dan is ‘judge’ and Gad is ‘a troop’. The saved person must have been judged to be in sin. The prayer of salvation troops the Trinity into the heart of the believing soul and the Holy Spirit takes over completely so that the Christian can successfully invade the covens of evil occupation to destroy the unholy work of Satanism. It also means that God is both the Judge and the Saviour and, from eternity past, had decided to build the Church, making use of redeemed souls as the visible material blocks of the otherwise spiritual Church. Sōtēria (so-tay-ree’-ah) is the Greek for ‘salvation’ in Revelation 19:1 which means: ‘Rescue; deliverance, preservation, safety; a safe return; security, guarantee for safety; ways of preserving it’. Scripturally, whoredom is idolatrous practice. Any one or assemblage that worships not the true God is engaged in spiritual prostitution. There is one God. Serving another spiritually is to have forsaken the true God. The first marriage in the Garden of Eden was not only between God’s children, the LORD God is the Father-in-law of the pristine couple.

                In the eternal mind of God, He must marry the Church to redeem her. For this theological reason, it is a divine taboo to worship another god. Many so-called churches are institutions of Satanism. Religions that do not worship God in truth and in Spirit – Jesus being the truth, and the Holy Spirit being the Spirit of Truth – do so in fruitless vain. Jesus died, like Adam (before the emergence of the Eden woman), for the Church, established for the preservation of saved souls. The Holy Spirit, after the death, resurrection, ascension and His session on the right hand of the celestial Majesty, continues to nurture the Church: providing the Church with pastors, evangelists, prophets and the enabling power to go marching on, till the day of the rapture.

                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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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (four)

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4)            Luke 13:6-9 6 “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. 7)Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? 8) And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: 9) And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.” God would not give the emblematic four of creationism to man or Israel. The LORD is the Author of creation, therefore, the Dresser of Israel must step into the divine responsibility of four to engender fruitfulness. Man cannot save himself. Only God wields the miraculous power of soteriology.

                In Peter, we see wobbly Israel as he fell in the denial of his Master and was restored with the charge of, “Feed My sheep.” Peter, being one of the stones that builds the Church, making him a type of a Christian, and for the indubitable reason that Shem must preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, this puts Israel inevitably in God’s calendar. In Paul, Israel in the gentile, diasporic Europe must enlarge the spread of the gospel; and by an uncanny subtlety of divine fashioning, Ham must be brought to calculated relevance. All these have been planned from the beginning.

                John 10:16 “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” Obviously the Jewish apostles of the Lord Jesus were unaware of the eternality of the counsel of the Godhead. The Church of the Living God is the ground and pillar of salvation. First to the Jew, then the Gentile, and when they come together in one faith, one baptism and one Spirit, it is the Divine dream coming to eternal fruition. Amen.

                Colossians 1:24-26 24) “Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church: 25) Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 26) Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:” and the saints are none other than the redeemed, according to the eternal design. The Church has always been God’s trump card to judge the malicious stance of Satanism.

                Ephesians 3:8-11 8) “Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; 9) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: 10) To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, 11) According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:” by whose nature of Divinity we can boldly walk to the empyrean assizes of the Majesty. The Spirit of the Saviour dwells richly in us, which accounts for our unwavering confidence.

                Soteriology is not an afterthought, on the part of the Godhead; the established conclusion of it had been an eternality of His design. If after the creation of intelligent beings, God decided, to save or destroy souls in hell, as Calvinistic lapsarianism erroneously see it – in its ludicrous egregiousness –, does it not portray Jehovah’s established omniscient faculty fact as a mere ruse, an absolute mirage! Before the creation of time, no doubt, the Members of the Godhead had decided what to do, having by foreknowledge faculty of their omniscience, seen what would unfold, had made up their minds on what should be obtained. The Godhead had fixed the T&C pertaining to salvation. They were not toying with the intended free will of the creationism proposed intelligent beings. It will definitely be quiet sadistic on the part of the eternally sinless Godhead to fashion, intentionally, intelligent beings out of the creationism just for hellish cast. If God should commit one smidgeon of sin, He becomes eternally a disciple of Satanism. The goodness of the Fashioner of creationism will not afford it. Even if He decided to sin, He could easily purge Himself, but the eternality of truthfulness maintains that the LORD GOD will not let it happen for goodness’ sake! 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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Soteriology: Eternal Design Of Divinity (three)

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3)            God decided that man should save mankind. Adamic flesh could not do it alone, therefore, the Incarnation: that was a divine masterstroke. Tying Himself to the destiny of Adam, reality brought Divinity to the full picture of taking the leading role in the salvation, why not? Is it not the soteriology? Who is the Author of soteriology? He is the Word of God, who from the eternity past has been in the bosom of the Eternal Father. Together with the Holy Spirit the Trinity had decided that the True Light that lights the life of every entity of Adamic procreation, and without Him was not anything made that is found in creationism must die to bring everlasting life to mankind to enable a second chance.

                When God limited the direct progenies of Noah to three sons, it was Israel, in Shem; Europe, residing in Japheth; and in an end time publication of the gospel of the evangelism of salvation finding its conclusion in Africa (specifically of Nigeria, I believe) of Ham. Three is the Divine number of perfect manifestation: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one” (1John 5:7). God’s counsel must prevail; hence, three must branch out of Noah – God’s rest. He would not allow a fourth child, and because four stands for creation, man must not be given the right to create from the depth of sinfulness, being accorded the legality to create. Man’s fallen nature will never lack the manipulations of Satanism.

“…and they sewed fig leaves together…” (Genesis 3:7).

Fig tree emblem

                Jeremiah 24:1-7 1) “The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2) One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3) Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 4) Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5) Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. 6) For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up. 7) And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.”

                The heart of the believer is where the journey to salvation begins. Why would God tell Abraham to sacrifice his Isaac to Him? It is just because the Divine Ones had purposed, in the eternity past, that the Christ will give Himself a ransom for as many as would come to Him for salvation. Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” These are the words of Jesus. 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.” Israel, according to this verse, will be called God’s ‘people’, the Hebrew interpretation of which is: am (am): ‘nation; members of one’s people, compatriots, country-men and specifically, ‘tribe’. Of the redeemed is the Peterine Holy Spirit’s inspired, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1Peter 2:9-10).

                The recipient of God’s salvation is an eternally established soul, fix firmly in God’s love. This is the reason why He made the promise, “I will plant them, and not pluck them up”. The Word of God, Jesus made the asseveration, 28) “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand” (John 10:28-29).

                Hosea 9:10 “I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.” Israel, indeed, is the scriptural ‘fig tree’.

                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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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!” 

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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!” 

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Will You Lose The Genuineness Of Your Salvation? (8)

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8)            In conclusion I must remind you of theological truths.

                In the new creation of the Church engenderment, the earnest of the Holy Spirit proves that God puts all He has in the soteriological culmination. Ephesians 1:19-23 19) “And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21) Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 22) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23) Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”

God used His Almighty power to deal with sin

                God used all His resources, so to speak, to actuate the regeneration of Adam. The LORD God used money, exchange for business transactions; He also used His ‘entire’ power for the procurement of man’s salvation. The Greek for ‘exceeding’ is huperballō (hoop-er-bal’-lo): ‘To surpass in throwing, to throw over or beyond any thing; To transcend, exceed.’ The next word ‘greatness,‘ megethos (meg’-eth-os), is: ‘magnitude.’ Put huperballō megethos together and what it says is: “target any distance in your wildest imagination and huperballō megethos surpasses it, far, by the farthest distance beyond all imaginations. Think of the most annihilating intercontinental ballistic missiles, it cannot match the power of huperballō megethos – the Almighty power. Four translations of power describes the displayed power that saved us from the hell, meant for Lucifer, his counterpart fallen angels and demons.

                The first couched ‘power’ from verse 19 is dunamis (doo’-nam-is): ‘Strength; inherent ability; force (literally or figuratively), latent power; specifically miraculous power (usually by implication a miracle itself).’ The word ‘working’ is energeia (en-erg’-i-ah): ‘efficiency of energy.’ ‘Mighty’ is ischus (is-khoos’): ‘Ability, forcefulness, strength, might – it comes to visibility when act of throwing, lifting, pushing or crushing is needed.’ The second ‘power’, kratos (krat’-os), is ‘vigor’ – easily manifested on men of immense strength. Why would God bother Himself to exercise these shows of incalculable power if the recipient of the grace of salvation stands to lose it?

                Do verses 22 and 23 say categorically that Jesus is the Head of the Church and does it reveal that the Church is His mystical body? Did I not explain clearly that the saved soul is the full responsibility of the Godhead? If the Church is His mystical body, does it not behove God to do the Jude verse one needful?  “…to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:” (Jude 1:1). The Father “purifies” for salvation. Jesus Christ is the divine refrigerator that continues in “preserving the regenerate Christian from injury, rottenness and loss,” because that is what the Greek word for ‘preserved’, tēreō (tay-reh’-o) means.

                Through the inspired energy of the Holy Spirit, the gospel becomes meaningful; the “call” is made and what does the Father-sanctified and Christ-preserved do? Led by the Holy Spirit the utterance of the prayer of salvation is made from the heart, you get born again and the Trinity takes over the purchased life, and your new life becomes the full responsibility of God; how can it be lost? Has God ever lost anything He truly wants for Himself? Selah!

                That which receives the salvation is the spirit of the recipient. As human beings, we must take care of this earthly body by washing it daily. The spiritual aspect of individual’s human tripartite nature does not enter any bathroom for cleansing preservation. God, the Owner of the redeemed, continually does the preservation. Clearly, from the Scriptures above, the Christian is part of the body of Christ. The body of Christ is divinely owned; who looks after it? The Owner, God Almighty, continues to employ His insuperable dunamis, energeia, ischus and kratos to preserve the peculiarity of the Christian’s life – His own body. The Christian is truly blessed to be saved by the grace actuated design of the Author of soteriology. Amen.

                You can be part of the winning Christianity of Jesus Christ. Get born again by saying this sinners’ 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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