THE GOSPEL BITE

Isn’t it Amazing? Light can behave as a wave or as a particle.

For sometime now this dual nature of Light has baffled Scientists. They see light as a wave ripples on the surface of water that move in all directions. Sometimes they see light as a stream of particles like bullets that just move in all directions. It is impossible to really to understand how the same light can behave in such contradictory ways but it does.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is our Spiritual light. (John 4:12) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

He behaved both as a man and God whiles here on earth. Seemingly impossible and confusing? Combination of Man and God at the same time.

• He walked on the sea.

(Mathew 14:25-28) And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, it is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid

(Job 9:8) Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

• God moves through thin air. (2 Samuel 22:11) And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind

The Lord Jesus moved towards heaven through thin air on the day of ascension and was seen by his disciples

(Luke 24:51) And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.

• Jesus fed the multitude with 5 Loaves of bread and 2 fishes.

(Mathew 14:19-22) And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. Impossible for human to do.

• He raised Lazarus from the tomb.

(John 11: 44) And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, loose him, and let him go.

Our Lord Jesus Christ as light of the world is a mysterious merging of both Man and God.

SHALOM!

In (2 kings 4:38 – 41) we read,

And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

So, they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

But he said, then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

The clueless Jews found a wild vine that represents a doctrine that grows wild outside the Bible. Anything outside the Bible brings death.

Today gentiles in Christendom have Endless traditions that are not in the Bible. And this is destroying them. “Senior Pastor”, “Trinity”, “Easter eggs”, “Easter rabbits”, “Archbishop”, “Cardinal”, “Pope”, “Lent”, “Ash Wednesday”, “Rosary”, “Sign of the cross” “Christmas”

The list of unscriptural human ideas grows and mutates like viruses. These ideas are “wild” as they are unscriptural

Alarmingly End time message believers have also joined the bandwagon: “Are you in the message?” The thunders are revealed” “The cloud of 1963 is the mighty Angel of Revelation 10”. Etc. Beware these are wild vine which is unscriptural!

Christ is the Bread of life. Bread is made from meal. So, putting meal into the pot means that he brings them to Christ, and throws Christ into all their interpretations of Scripture. He will show them how the Scriptures were fulfilled in Christ.

SHALOM!

This word Power has Greek origin,” dunamis.” However we need to have a context to understand it correctly. This word is not used in the New Testament as the meaning of human strength. It is most frequently used only for the description of miracles and signs, healing supernatural power and love of God.

Power in the Bible has deeper meaning than we can imagine. It means that this person or God has some inner strength that does not depend on outward things.

 When it comes to Bible, “dunamis” distinctly describes the Power of God.

 For example, Christ said in (Matthew 22:29) “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the Power of God.” Then in another place in (Mathew 24:30) “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the people of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with Power and great glory”. To be more precise, God has inborn and essential Power. We can claim that, dunamis is an important part of the Lord. As such, Christians also have dunamis in their re-born souls. However, it’s not their personal merit. God gave them this Power to live devotional, pure and holy lives. In other words, when people give the Lord their lives, He changes their hearts, minds, goals and dreams. According to the Bible people can’t do something good on their own (Romans 3:12). But any Christian feel dunamis of God for good deeds. Due to Christ’s Power we become strong overcomers. In another scripture it says. “The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the Power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. “(Luke 1:35). The word of God says that a human can get the Power from Heaven.“His divine Power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” (2 Peter 1:3).

However,throughout history, too many leaders have used their Power to subvert justice, engage in corrupt activities and oppress other people.

In terms of Authority, when a man can present himself as a god, or at least as divinity’s chosen servant, and his supporters promote his fantasy, he can wield Authority like no other. A typical example is Emperor Constantine of the fourth century.

The fusion of pagan and Christian elements continued to be a mark of the emperor’s approach.  He took over the leadership of the church and empire because he wanted to unite both Christians and Pagans, he encouraged the Christianization of Pagan festivals. Church and state were united in one man. Religion and politics united to give human leaders tremendous Authority over the people’s religion. A disaster that plunged Christianity into tradition of men.

The Holy Bible, inspired Sacred Scriptures is God’s Only Absolute Authority of Divine Truth to mankind. All teachings of man must rest on the Sole Authority of The Word of God. The Revelation of the Holy writ is of no private interpretation.

Shalom!

In the third month after leaving Egypt, the children of Israel arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai. God had told Moses that after delivering the Israelite’s, He would bring him back to the place of his first encounter with Him at the burning bush, and that he would serve Him on Mount Sinai.

It is seen here that the arrival of the children of Israel to mount Sinai inaugurated the last stage of the process of forging a national identity and spiritual destiny.

For as much as God was forging a national identity of The descendants of Abraham, haven’t promised He would make him a great nation, God had also turned to the gentiles to take a Bride for his name as the spiritual seed of Abraham they rejected him when he became manifested in flesh.

( Exodus 12:3) And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

In (Exodus 19:5-6) God said to Moses, if the people would agree to the terms, they would become a special treasure to God above all people. Apostle Peter reiterated in (1 Peter 2:9) 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 marvelous light. Again The ten commandments literally, The ten rules in Hebrews; were meant to be the basis of their life under God going forward

(Exodus 20: 2-17) God gave the 10 commandments to Moses. This is the Law in a codified form.

Honor your father and mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you

You shall not murder

You shall not commit adultery

You shall not steal

You shall not bear false witness against their neighbor

You shall not covet your neighbor house; you shall not covet your neighbor wife nor his male servant, nor his female servant nor his ox nor his donkey nor anything that is your neighbors.

These were all pre- figurative of the Lord Jesus Christ who was to be the last Adam to deal with the sin nature.

In (Romans 5:12-17) Apostle Paul indicated; Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

Apostle John also mentioned sin is the transgression of the Law. (1 John 3:4) Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

In effect Adam and Eve broke most of the Ten commandments in the first sin against God’s command not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil

God bless you for reading!

ECCLESIASTES 12:1-7

• Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
• While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
• In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
• And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
• Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
• Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

AMEN.

(II Corinthians 3:17): “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Let us consider the nature of our fall in Adam.
Our first parents did enjoy the presence of the Holy Spirit; for they were created in the image and likeness of God, which was no other than his Spirit. By that he communicates himself to his creatures, and by that alone they can bear any likeness to him. It is, indeed, his life in them; and so properly divine, that, angels and regenerate men are called his children.
But when man would not be guided by the Holy Spirit, by choosing the tree of knowledge of good and evil, it left him Then he found himself forsaken of God, and left to the poverty, weakness, and misery of his own proper nature
Adam now find himself naked; nothing less than God was departed from him. Till then he had experienced nothing but the goodness and sweetness of God; a heavenly life spread itself through his whole frame, as if he were not made of dust; his mind was filled with angelic wisdom; a direction from above took him by the hand; he walked and thought uprightly, and seemed not to be a child or novice in divine things. But now he had other things to experience; something in his soul that he did not find, nor need to fear, while he was carried on straight forward by divine grace; something in his body that he could not see nor complain of; while that body was covered with glory. He feels there is a self-displeasure, turbulence, and confusion; such as is common to other spirits who have lost God: He sees here causes of present shame and a future dissolution; and a strong engagement to that crawling life which is common to animals that never enjoyed the divine nature.
The general character of man’s present state is death…. a death from God., whereby we no longer enjoy any intercourse with him, or happiness in him; we no longer shine with his glory, or act with his powers. It is true, while we have a being,(Acts 17:28) “in him we must live, and move, and have our being;” but this we do now, not in a filial way, but only in a servile one, It is one thing to receive from God an ability to walk and speak, eat and digest,…. to be supported by his hand as a part of this earthly creation, and upon the same terms with it, for farther trial or vengeance; and another, to receive from him a life which is his own likeness,….. to have within us something which is not of this creation, and which is nourished by his own immediate word and power.
Man has fallen under the tutorage of the evil one. The state he was at first placed in, was a state of the most simple subjection to God, and this entitled him to drink of his Spirit; but when he, not content to be actually in Paradise, under as full a light of God’s countenance as he was capable of; must know good and evil, and be satisfied upon rational grounds whether it was best for him to be as he was, or not; when directed as a child, he must weigh every thing himself; and seek better evidence than the voice of his Maker and the seal of the Spirit in his heart; then he not only obeyed, but became like to, that eldest son of pride, and was unhappily entitled to frequent visits, or rather a continued influence, from him. As life was keeping his command, and, accordingly, that Spirit, which alone could form it unto true life, dwelt in his body; so, being sentenced to death for his transgression, he was now delivered unto “him who has the power of death, that, is, the devil,” whose hostile and unkindly impressions promote death and sin at once. This being the state of man, if God should send him a Redeemer, what must that Redeemer do for him?
Our Redeemer must be one that “baptized with the Holy Ghost,”…. the Fountain and Restorer of that to mankind, whereby they are restored to their first estate, and the enjoyment of God?
Indeed “the Lord is that Spirit.”
Shalom!

 

 

 

 

A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall heed my ordinances and do them.(Ezekiel 36: 26-27)
For we have all become like one who is unclean and all our righteousness is like filthy rags or a polluted garment; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away [far from God’s favor, hurrying us toward destruction]. Our own righteousness is like a filthy rag.(Isaiah 64:6)
There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death.( Proverb 14:12)
When we accept the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, repent and surrender our lives unto God, we need to totally surrender our biggest obstacle SELF unto God. In so doing we reflect God’s own righteousness.
But is it always the case? A lot tend to hold on to their dead works
Dead works are works of self-righteousness and they are appropriately called “dead” works because they lead to death.
Apostle Paul refers to “dead works”. In Hebrews 6:1 he writes about “repentance from dead works”, while in Hebrews 9:14 he declares that the blood of Christ avails to “purge the conscience from dead works to serve the living God”.
Dead works is not the same as wicked works but to dead works. These “dead works” are the so-called “good works” (whether moral or ceremonial) which men do to make themselves acceptable to God. They are “dead” because they are not the product of regeneration or spiritual life, but the mere attempt on the part of unregenerate sinners to justify themselves before God. In other words, following the traditions of men.
Apostle Paul himself, once zealously religious, but wholly unsaved, had to repudiate his “dead works” and count them “loss” to find salvation in Christ, through whom alone he could produce good works which God could accept. (Philippians 3:4-9).
This is why he later declared by divine inspiration: “For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast, for we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…” (Eph.2:8-10).
“Dead works” are not only unacceptable to God, but an evil substitute for the faith He desires, “for without faith it is impossible to please God” (Heb.11:6). But “he that believeth on the Son of God hath life” and this life is bound to bear fruit— the good works with which God is truly pleased.
The difference between the “good works” of the unregenerate man and the “good works” of a true believer, then, is that the former are “dead works” while the latter are the precious fruit of life possessed. Amen!
No man can please God while he denies the truth of His Word or rejects His Son, so graciously given to die on the cross as our Savior. To try to win His favor by “good works” while rejecting Christ is like sending a gift to a man whose beloved son you spurn and despise.
“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hands. 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” (John 3:35- 36).
God bless you for reading.

(2 CORINTHIANS 3:17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Jesus never changed.
(HEBREWS 13:8) Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever
Thus, He always had the fulness of the Holy Spirit in Him.
(JOHN 3:34) For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
(COLOSSIANS 2:9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
(COLOSSIANS 1:19) For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
(JOHN 3:35) The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
The Father is the supernatural Spirit of God, because God is a Spirit (John 4 :24)
In order to be seen in heaven, God had to create a Spirit-body for Himself. God also has human attributes, because man was made in the image of God.
So, the supernatural God wanted to live in a human Body as man was his highest form of creation. But the only human being that God could live in and express himself through, was the humanity of the Man Jesus.
(I PETER 1:10) Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
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.
Each prophet had a portion of God’s Spirit which enabled him to express some aspect of Christ’s ministry. Moses, David, and Joseph had lives which pre-viewed Jesus’ birth, his anointing as King and His death, etc.
So, in the Old Testament, God could live out part of his Life through each of the prophets.
Ezekiel saw a vision of God Who had created a Spirit Body for Himself so that He could be seen by the angels in Heaven. This body looked just like a man.
(EZEKIEL 1:26) And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
The Invisible Spirit of God the Father was trying to express his humanity by dwelling in this human-like Spirit Body called a Theophany (which we describe as the Son of God), that was visible to spiritual beings like angels in heaven.
The Son is the body that the invisible supernatural Father dwells in.
In the Old Testament God was mostly an Invisible Spirit called Jehovah. But hidden away in that Spirit were our human characteristics, especially the humanity of Jesus.
Then in the New Testament, the invisible God was veiled in the Man Jesus. God veiled inside a Man.
Now God allocates a certain measure of his Spirit to each born again Christian. That way God is building up a spiritual church over 2000 years of history whereby he dwells in everyone to make him or her a lively stone in is church. That way God has lived in Christians and displayed his power to overcome all the different problems and situations that the Devil has thrown against the Christians over the seven church ages.
This is God living out His characteristics in the lives of his people.

God bless!

Saint Peter in (Acts 2:38) indicated “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
We see here that St Peter was advocating that every believer to receive the Holy Spirit for salvation and personal sanctification.
However, the main reason the Holy Spirit is given; is to pass from death unto life. For as the bible says, “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (1 Corinthians 15:22)
The operation of the Holy Spirit is also to keep our bodies pure and undefiled. “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:19). In so doing we reap the health benefits which flows from patience and the serene joy of devotion.
The Holy Spirit has enabled men to speak in tongues and to prophesy. But it is necessary as we walk in the light to be able to discern the fallacies of flesh and blood. It also enables us to reject unreligious beliefs of the world and to practice trust in God and above all to love all men every where.
The object which this light brings us most is immediately to know our selves and by the virtue of this as one born of God and has a lively hope and see far into the ways of spiritual care and farther yet the holy scriptures for the scriptures excepting some accidental and less necessary parts are only history of the new man which he himself is and a spiritual care is only a wise disposal of the events for the awakening of particular persons and ripening the world in general for the coming of Christ
( John 16:13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”
True notion of the Spirit is that; it is some portion of as well as preparation for a life in God which we are to enjoy hereafter. The gift of the Holy Spirit looks for the resurrection for a life of God completed in us.
Everything in Christianity is anticipation of something that is to be at the end of the world.
If the Apostles were to preach by their Master’s command, “that the kingdom of God is at hand” the meaning was that from henceforth all men should fix their eyes on that happy time, foretold by the Prophets, when the Messiah should come and that by renouncing their worldly conversation, and submitting to the gospel they should fit themselves for, and hasten, that blessing.
“Now are we the sons of God,” as St. John tells us; “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” ( 1John 3:2) and yet what he imparts to us at present will hardly justify that title, without taking in that fulness of his image which shall then be displayed in us, when we shall be “the children of God, by being the children of the resurrection.”
Shalom and God bless