Beloved family meaning as many
as have chosen to make the Lord Jesus Christ Our redeemer who died on Calvary’s
Cross about two thousand years ago Saviour and Lord over their lives, I welcome
you to this great month which the Lord has decided to name after himself – The
El Shaddai. You will find our text in Gen.17:1. When God was about to fulfill a
longstanding promise to Abraham, He gave him this word and entered a covenant
of Circumcision with him. Abraham obeyed him and their covenant was cut which
resulted in the Lord Jesus Christ the seed of promise. Since He came, the world
has never been the same. All who receive him and choose to worship the Lord in
spirit and in truth are blessed along with faithful Abraham. Gal.3:16 & 4:29.
I observe also from this discourse
of Abraham and God that there was no third party involvement; meaning it was
for Abraham to whom the Lord made the promise twenty four years earlier that
the promise was to be fulfilled. Even the mistake of Abraham in incorporating
Hagar into the family was not able to annul God’s plan.
Today as I write, I can very much
identify with Abraham in my experience. I have also come to terms with the
truth that God is no respecter of persons. This entire experience led me into
studying the book of the beginnings very well and God clarified many things to
me that would have left me confused had I not discovered them. God is indeed no
respecter of persons. If he places you where you should deal fairly with people
irrespective of their status, it behooves you to deal righteously. From my
findings, I saw that the people to whom the oracles of God are committed are to
stand for the truth no matter how the accuser may try to rubbish them. I made
up my mind to do that irrespective of the slander and sorcery of the wicked.
In the course of this journey, God
opened me up to a truth He had been communicating to me for years which I found
difficult to absorb because of the traditions I met growing up [Mt.15:3, 6;
Mk.7:9 & 13].
I believe this time around, God is
opening Himself up to the entire world for whosoever will fall in line with him
to embrace based on what the Lord Jesus Christ already accomplished for us on
Calvary’s Cross.
Please understand that God’s
commandments never changed; they are still the Ten Commandments written by His
hand to Moses. What changed are the means of the actualization of these
commandments before people can enjoy the benefits. At first, there was the
building of the first Tabernacle in the wilderness which of course did not set
aside the promise to Abraham made four hundred and thirty years prior. The
failure of this method brings us to the conclusion that the doing of God’s word
took more than the observance of carnal practices.
God sent prophets to warn the
people over and over again, but they failed because of the lack of power to
deliver. So God promised in Ezekiel 36:24-27 to write the commandments in our
hearts through sending the Holy Spirit into our hearts. He fulfilled this in
Christ Jesus about 2,000 years ago. [Acts 2:1-4 & Rm.6:4-14] Over the
years, man has been able to walk in the newness of life who truly walks in the
reality that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a
curse for us on the Tree. See Gal.3:13-14 and Rm.8:13 and thus brought us under
the blessing of Abraham as we received the promise of the Holy Spirit.
In spite of all of the activities
of Apostle Paul and the other founding fathers of the faith, there still
remains a rest for the people of God that would take us who have believed to
enter into. This rest is found in the dependence on the Holy Spirit and the
word of God to obey God’s word. See Heb.4:6-13 – this text teaches that we must
enter that rest as God did when He finished His work of creation. See
Gen.2:1-3, Exod.20:8-11; Ezek.20:10-20. This is very specifically referring to
the covenant of the creator with His creation. The weekly day of the Sabbath
never changed from the seventh to the first; it is still the Sabbath observed
by the Lord Jesus Christ and all the apostles and early Church fathers before
the government of Rome changed it in 320AD to Sunday in honor of the worship of
the Roman Sun god. See Matt.28:1 – The resurrection day was the first day of
the week and it does not in any way change God’s commandment to rest on the
seventh.
Since God made the law, only He
has the power to change it. Man cannot. For a clearer understanding of this
truth, I want to recommend to you; a book titled: National Sunday Law by A. Jan
Marcussen.
His word is still the Ten
Commandments uncorrupted. This is what the Lord preached; he simply clarified
to us that motives rank higher in divine assessments of our claims of
obedience. See Mt.5:17-18.
As we approach the end of time, we
should revisit the commandments and we would observe that the Lord came to show
us how to fulfill it by example and tidied it up at the Cross so that as many
as would look to the Cross in their hearts through His word; can be saved just
like the children of Israel had to do in the wilderness when Moses lifted up
the Serpent for them to look at and be freed from the Serpent’s venom. Since
Calvary, all who look to the Lord Jesus Christ are thus saved from the venom
that causes us to sin. See Jn.1:16-18 – This is the reason why I believe that
baptism which is the means of identifying with the Lord Jesus Christ in His
death, burial and resurrection is not optional if you want to walk in
righteousness and true holiness. It has the power to remove the weight of the
flesh and enable you to rise above the tide of this world to live the life God
wants you to live as you depend on His ability.
Please understand that this Cross
is not physical; so carrying idols around in the name of the cross does not
really help you; no matter the lying sign you may get. Please do not confuse
any fake miracles for Divine authentication. Thankfully, the truth is open to
all and we all have access to the Holy Spirit by faith in Christ Jesus. See
Rm.7 and 8. Man is carnal by nature sold under sin and therefore always would
fall at any commandment. What God did in Christ was to show us the way of
dependence on God for living right rather than trying to do it ourselves. This
can only be by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. See Ephe.1:17-21 and 2:1-10
– Salvation raises our status to sit together in Christ far above
principalities and powers and every name that is named in this world and that
which is to come. However, obedience can make one look weak sometimes and is
usually unattractive most of the time but it always pays in the long haul when
it is done from the heart and with the right motive.
Thus all the revelation we have
been receiving especially in discipleship is how to have victory over the flesh
so that we can become more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ as shown us in
John 15. The more like Him we become, the more victorious we are in this wicked
world. Let us labour to find out more about Him so that we can live the life He
has ordained for us and fulfill our destinies in him.
So far as believers in this part
of the world where so much effort has entered into the spread of the gospel, we
would think that we have it all made especially as we consider the level of
influence we have attained to and the wealth we command. However, when we juxtapose
our lives with the word of God, we would find many areas we would need to judge
ourselves in.
In the course of looking at the
book of Revelation for understanding what God’s program is for now considering
we are in the last days, I saw written in Rev.12:17 that the Dragon was angry
with the woman. I believe that woman stands for the Church born out of the
nation of Israel through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross of
Calvary about 2,000 years ago.
After His ascension to heaven, the
Church has been fought by the dragon until this day. Now as the end draws
nearer, the dragon is even angrier because he knows he has a short time and
that the same way the Lord ascended to heaven, he would be returning for his
bride and all eyes shall see him when he comes. By the way Rev.12:9 discloses
that the dragon is the Devil also known as that ancient serpent.
In anger, the devil has spewed his
flood of religion especially eastern religion to corrupt the Church through
doctrinal errors so people would not be able to tell apart the holy from the
profane. So far, the Church has defeated him on all grounds except for one and
that is the fourth commandment.
Please observe that the remnant of
the seed of the woman are those who keep God’s commandment and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ. Meaning the Israelites who are now recognized by the
Church body as the Messianic Jews and the Gentile Believers in Christ. Thus as
a non-Jew, you must have subscribed to the testimony of Jesus Christ first through discipleship and then you can
enter into the rest as commanded by God and not man. Man says we can do as we
please but God lets us know that there is a way which seems right unto men but the end thereof are the ways of
death. See Prov.14:12; Gal.5:16-17 and Romans 8:5-8.
Thus as the beast makes plans to
reawaken his rebellion against the true God, let us prepare our hearts to know
that any carnal ordinance that comes to oppose the word of God should be
resisted by our obedience to God. This will cost us our reputation. For
instance, “as foolish yet making many wise” [2Cor.6:10]. The time has come for
us to not love the world and the things that are in the world so as to prove
our love for the father. See 1Jn.2:15-17 and 1Tim.6:6-12.
The days upon us are becoming more
and more like the days of Noah than ever before but sadly many are still
oblivious of the events that are playing out in the spirit realm and how more
and more the politics of the world is fulfilling scriptures to the letter. Let
us not forget the sons and daughters of who we are and fall in with the world
because the coming of the Lord is nearer now than when we first began. What I
mean here is that we are sons and daughters of the Most High God through faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ and His sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary about 2,000
years ago. God only recognizes His only begotten Son who He also refers to as His
first begotten from the dead in spiritual parenting [Rev.1:5 and Heb.1:1-14].
Please note here that the Lord’s love for righteousness and hatred for iniquity
is emphasized by the father here. The only recognition He gives to His earthly
servant is the extent to which they follow in His steps [1Pet.2:20-25;
1Cor.11:1 & Eph.5:1-11].
I am sorry if this offends any of
His servants; but please, there is still room for repentance now instead of
waiting for it to be too late. This is just intended to make the contribution
that God has sent me to make to His body rather than strive with any. I pray
this is received in the love of God just like I am sharing it in His love. I
have been reluctant to share this until this morning knowing that prolonging
this will do more harm than good to His Church. Please see it as it is; the word
of God undiluted.
What He wants for us now is to
enter into His rest properly and show it by honoring the day he blessed and
sanctified for it which is the seventh day that many of us now know as Saturday. Everyone who truly has the testimony of
Jesus Christ would come to the realization that as simple as this commandment
is, it is God’s mark of authority over His own. In the days to come, it would
take one truly walking in the Spirit to be able to obey this commandment which;
like the Holy Spirit, will seal your redemption. See Eph.1:13; 4:30 and Rev 14:9-13. Thus
this month, we shall be looking at
teachings on spiritual growth by God’s grace. As we learn to grow in grace
and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are preserved from the filth of
the world and would not fall from our own steadfastness. 2Pet.3:18.
Please excuse my volume because
this is one message that has generated so much controversy because the enemy of
our souls wants us to be kept in the dark about this so that we can fall prey
to his deception. Please take the time and look at the book: The National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen
I earlier suggested you get and read.
For Church leaders; this may be
quite tough especially if you have been leading Churches with large numbers and
spread far and wide. But please understand that you owe your members the
obligation to tell them the truth so that you can also escape the wrath of God.
Please see Rev.6 – those events are already occurring and the time has come for
us to wash our garments with the blood of the lamb and the word of our
testimony. Please prepare; if you get used to living as a disciple of the Lord
Jesus Christ, then you will be able to stand in the days to come. Please read
the word daily and do it. See Rm.12:1-2 & Jas.1:22. Please beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. Don’t feed on the leaven of Herod
also, they tend to destruction in these end times. More would be published on
this in my next message on my blog. If you are yet to have the
testimony of Jesus Christ, all your purported obedience would be a nullity without first committing to the Lord Jesus Christ through the new birth
experience. You can start right away by saying the following prayer out loud in
faith and you will be born again then get baptized immediately and seek the
infilling of the Holy Spirit and receive Him. Then commence to be trained as a
disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you
raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus
Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of
Satan plus his unfruitful works of darkness and embrace Jesus Christ as my
Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you
grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org
and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com
and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter.
Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily
email: jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.
