Studying under the True light!

There are different kinds of lights and under each of these lights, things are seen in a certain kind of way. That's why you might go to a boutique that has blue lighting and purchase what seemed to be a white shirt but,  when you step out into the sun, you realized it was a cream or sky blue shirt. In studying scriptures, it's the same thing. Often times, we study according to the 'lights' of our favorite preachers, the 'lights' of our denominations. But, brothers and sisters, there is a 'True' light! His name is Jesus! He is what to see and how to see in scriptures! Often, we look into the Word to substantiate our beliefs, instead of allowing God's Word create them. Many see different things in the Word, but, God calls us to see one person; Jesus! John 5:13, 'Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.' The Scriptures reveal Christ. The Spirit of God helps us to see Christ in the Word- John 15:26. Oh, how important this is! And when we see Jesus in the Word, all factions will cease! Oh, how I long for the unity of the Faith! Furthermore, we mustn't jettison the ministry of the Spirit in guiding us  into all truth. Truth isn't a 'theological' concept, it's an experience. He brings us into fellowship with God; a literal rendezvous! When you look to Jesus through the Spirit, walking in love, you couldn't go wrong. Trust the Spirit, he is God's appointed custodian of truth -1 John 2:27. God bless you! #Pleroma

Why and how people believe.

Nobody is going to believe simply because God 'chose' them to salvation. Then, why and how do people believe? Romans 10:13-15, 'For every one whoever should call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call upon whom they believed not? and how shall they believe whom they heard not? and how shall they hear without him proclaiming?And how shall they proclaim, except they be sent? as has been written, How beautiful the feet of them announcing good news, peace, of them announcing good things!' (SLT). Anybody who would call upon the name of the Lord would be saved. But, they won't call until they believe and nobody will believe until they hear the message. Nobody will tell them until a preacher is sent. Jesus said to pray the Lord of the Harvest to send labourers into the field (Matthew 9:23). We have got to preach the Gospel! The Gospel is the annunciation of the magnanimity of God; his love, his kindness, his saving power, his healing power, his prospering power. This is the good news; that man, vile and wicked, can now, by Christ, become God's very righteousness! Let's tell the world! #TheVision #Pleroma

The Best of us!

The great man of God, John Wesley said , 'The best of us is God with us'. How inspiring! That's true, but there is a Greater truth which includes this. The Greater truth is, 'The best of us is God IN US!' Jesus came to us as, 'Emmanuel' - God with us! He healed, delivered and changed the stories of men! But, God had a bigger dream, so big it took Emmanuel to the Cross! What's this dream? That dream is, 'En-Theos'! En-Theos is a Greek phrase meaning, 'God within'! God's mystery hid before the foundation of the world is, 'Christ IN you!' His presence IN you facilitated by the Holy Spirit! In John 14:10-14, Jesus attributes his miraculous lifestyle to the Holy Ghost. Then, he says the believer would be empowered to do same because he would be going to his Father. The question is, what's the implication of his going to the Father? John 16:7 tells it all! The indwelling presence of the Comforter, perpetuating the active presence of the Father and son in us, that's Christianity! The best of us is God IN us, and if he is IN us, he is WITH  us! Just to think that the blessed 'Paraclete'; the Helper and succourer given to go alongside is IN me! I have all that I need and want! I am competent! I function at God's maximum best for me! The Spirit in me, is a well of water springing up into eternal life -John 4:14. Now, the presence of God is in me in very real way and I am his transportation in this world! Glory! The best of me is God IN me! #TheVision #Pleroma

Jesus; the manifested Zoe!

1 John 1:2, ' (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it,and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)'. John here is referring to Jesus as the Life revealed! He was the revelation of the Life which was hitherto exclusive to the Father! This is remarkable! In other words, his sojourn on earth was a revelation of the potentialities of Zoe, when tabernacled in a human body! Zoe multiplied bread, cast out devils, raised the dead etc! It's the life that characterizes the Father as supernatural! Jesus came to reveal what Zoe could do and the Apostles gave testimony to it. That's inspiring! But, utterly mind blowing is to read that we have ZOE ourselves! - 1 John 5:13. Little wonder Jesus said in John 14:12, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.' Why? The believer has eternal life! -John 3:16. That's the life of the miraculous! Christ in you, indeed, is the hope of glory! #Pleroma

The Divine Oneness.

Christianity is a celebration of the Divine Oneness! What is the Divine Oneness? The Divine Oneness is the result of the Divine Union! The Divine Union is described in Romans 7:4, where we read we have been MADE the Lord. We have been  brought into such a beautiful union with him that we bear his image. This has resulted in the divine union. 1 Corinthians 6:17, 'But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.' This is how God thinks of the Lord Jesus and us! One Spirit! Not two Spirits in agreement; One Spirit! The Word, 'One' is from the Greek, 'Eis'. It denotes a singular unit of something. So, we are One homogeneous, indistinguishable, indivisible entity with the Lord! The Flesh of His Flesh and the bones of his bones- Ephesians 5:30; this is who we are with the Lord of the Universe! His life flows through us and his nature is ours! Resultantly, his will is now our will, his dream is now ours and his ability and authority, ours! We function as one unit in making God's dream come true around the world. This is the reason we don't sin; we are one with the Lord! -1 Corinthians 6:15. Celebrate this divine oneness and see God's Glory revealed in your life like never before! #TheVision #Pleroma

Life in the Light of Grace!

1 Corinthians 15:10, 'But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace...' This is wonderful! This is an inspiring scripture that helps us discover our identity in the light of Grace. The Apostle tells us, 'I am what I am by Grace'! The question to us today is; what are we by Grace? The Christian life is a Grace rendezvous navigated through by faith-Romans 4:16. Grace is a light. In other words, Grace defines; for light is that which describes. So, what are we in the light of Grace? Ephesians 2:4-5, 'But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins,hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)'. God's love expressed by Grace has quickened us, made us alive in Christ! Romans 3:24, 'Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:'. We have been made righteous by Grace! By Grace, we have been made joint heirs with Christ -Romans 8:17. His unreasonable love has made us bonafide sons of God- 1 John 3:1. We received of Christ's fullness (Grace)-John 1:16 to become his fullness- Ephesians 1:23. Now, the First begotten son has become the very mirror of our Spirits-2 Corinthians 3:18! Grace has brought us into the divine union  and oneness- 1 Corinthians 6:17. See yourself in the light of Grace; Holy, Unblameable and unreproachable- Colossians 1:22. #TheVision #Pleroma

God's Dream!

Does God have a dream? Sure, he does! What is it? 2 Corinthians 5:19, 'To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.' This is his dream, his purposes in Christ! This reconciliation has afforded us the opportunity to be partakers of his divinity! Plus this, we are members of Christ, his body which is his completeness-Ephesians 1:23! God calls us Christ- 2 Corinthians 6:15-16. We are the  complete expression of Christ today! He has a bigger dream, that we come into the fullness of Christ and grow up into him in all things-Ephesians 4:13-15. That's what we set out to do with the Word and the influence of the Spirit at God's DreamWorld! #DreamWorldDay #TheVision  #Pleroma

What God needs us to repent from.

The number one thing God needs us to repent from is self effort. Self effort are the dead works that we should repent from -Hebrews 6:1, 9:14, 10:1-4. They frustrate the grace of God at best. The blood of Jesus came to cleanse our consciences from the need of dead works, that by the work of Christ, through the blood of Christ, we might serve the living God!- Hebrews 9:14. We must understand the modus operandi of the Christian life to live it effectively. Galatians 2:20, ' I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.' The Christian life is Christ, living, loving and operating in a man and through that man. What energizes this is our faith, our utter dependence on him. We must be  confident that Christ alone  is able to save us to the uttermost- Hebrews 7:25. He doesn't start the process for us to complete it by our goodness. It must be him and him alone! He is author and finisher of our faith- Hebrews 12:2. When we understand this, we come into a place of effectual rest in him! He lives out his holiness through us, we don't try of ourselves to be! He is holy and therefore we are. As we meditate on this, it becomes real to our senses and we will walk consistently with this truth and find the ease and rest the master promised! #TheVision #Pleroma

What is repentance?

You know, as we preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, proclaiming the grace of God independent of man's goodness, many questions are asked. Two major questions  are, 'Shall we sin that Grace may abound?' and 'What about repentance?' To the first, the answer is clear: No. Why? The one under grace is dead to sin. The second is what I am giving full attention to in this post. I believe that the subject of repentance has been grossly misunderstood today. I'll start by saying that repentance is not a change of act but a change of heart. Jesus thought so too in Matthew 23:26, ' Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.' The word, 'repentance', comes from a Greek word, 'metanoia'. It means, 'a change of mind'. For many, it's to stop doing the wrong thing. Well, not necessarily. If our stopping of bad deeds was the repentance God was looking for, then the work of Jesus was unnecessary. - Galatians 2:21. Repentance is a change of heart towards God. Scripturally, Faith is repentance. Because Faith is believing on God, while not trusting self. That believing is what makes you a slave of righteousness who is the only man who can only live right -Romans 6:17-18. John the Baptist's ministry was to call people to repentance. Let's look at the prophecy given concerning him in Luke 1:17, '.... to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people..' Notice that he said, 'to turn...the disobedient to the wisdom of the just'. The word, 'disobedient' in the Greek is 'apiethes' which means, 'unpersuadable, unconvincable, unbelieving'. The wisdom of the just is Faith. Therefore, John was to  turn unbelieving folks to Faith. Romans 4:5 tells us that the one that has faith independent of works is justified before God. Therefore, repentance can not mean to stop doing wrong. That a man stops doing wrong doesn't make him right. Jesus told his disciples in John 15:3, 'Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.' How did he know? What act did they do to prove they were clean? He knew the efficacy of his Word. Only a man who has repented can do right, not the other way round. 'Christianity, from start to finish, must be lived in utter dependence on Christ'- Watchman Nee. Repentance is necessary, as we must continually look away from ourselves unto Christ's efficacious work. As the Israelites looked away from trying to help themselves from the venomous serpent bites unto that which God provided, the brazen serpent, so also must the believers look away from self effort, unto who God lovingly provided, Jesus; only then will the power of sin be literally broken and we can function as what we really are, God's righteousness! #TheVision #Pleroma

The Sin that doth easily beset us-Hebrews 12:1

Studying the context of sin in Hebrews, the sin that doth easily beset us is doubt and unbelief. The answer to that sin is looking unto Jesus (Faith)-Hebrews 12:2. If we don't look, that sin, which is the weariness of the mind, bogs us down - Hebrews 12:4. The answer is to look, if you don't look, you will doubt. #TheVision #Pleroma