GOD'S MERCIES ENDURETH FOREVER

-THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD-
“For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins; but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries.

He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses; how much surer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified, and unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

For we know Him that hath said, vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again the Lord shall judge His people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God:…HEBREWS 10:26-31.


-WHAT I RECEIVED OF THE HOLY GHOST CONCERNING THIS MATTER-
When our Lord Jesus Christ willfully submitted Himself to humiliation, shame and death – even death on the Cross, a death that is reserved for those that are cursed: He did it for sinners – for those who did not know Him and who were given to their own ways and means – for those who were given to all manners of lifestyle.

Our Lord Jesus Christ did it for those who were not even qualified for any form of sacrifice: material or human - not to talk of the sacrifice of the person of the only begotten Son of God. He did it for me, and for you – and for as many as would accept that sacrifice. And that eternal sacrifice is what is called grace – the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That was the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. (I deliberately use the name of our Lord in full, because satan also hides under the title of “lord” in his disguise as an angel of light. But he cannot stand that name “Jesus”). Brethren, Jesus Christ died for those who were not by any means qualified for such – it was by all means an unmerited favor. And that is the true grace of our Lord that bringeth salvation, which teaches us to deny all manners of ungodliness and worldly lusts – to live soberly even in this present sinful, perverse and adulterous world.

Brethren, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died, to take away sin – to make it possible for those who would accept His passion to come to God without any imputation of sin. Therefore, when we wholeheartedly accept what He did on Calvary all the sins we committed until that moment – including our adamic nature, are wiped away by the precious Blood of the Lamb.

Christ not only took away our past sins, He also willfully took on Himself our shame, our curses, our pains, our grieves, our sorrows, even our sicknesses – for by His stripes, we were healed.  Though He owns all things, yet He walked the earth even a poor man: that we through His poverty, may be made rich. He opened the doors of heaven to as many as would continue in Him till the end.

Brethren, these and much more, are all the ingredients of His grace- the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. And this unmatchable favor came about from the love of the Father for His creation. He had noticed how generations before His Christ had struggled to walk in His holiness and in His righteousness. He desired a closer and purer relationship with man because His eyes cannot behold sin. And He wrought several things in the past to achieve that purpose but to no avail. Man is naturally full of wicked devices.

 It was very difficult indeed for man to relate with God before the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. This difficulty was not because the laws of God were very hard for folks to abide in. It was rather because satan, the accuser of the brethren, always stood to accuse man before God, even as he did in the case of Job. He argued that God would be demonstrating partiality to accept sinners unto Himself. It was the argument of satan that since he himself was cast down for sin, that God should not accept any with sin in his or her life. And this argument, which satan continues to make till this very hour, stood between God and His perfect will - that all should be saved and come to His knowledge.

Satan knew quite well that he himself fell as a result of sin, and also that God cannot stand sin. Therefore satan would constantly remind God of the sins of others. That is the primary duty of satan. And because our God is not a respecter of men He could not justify many to make heaven in the Old Testament. The few He saved He did so through His mercy and by election – devoid of much merit.

 But satan is not satisfied. He continues to argue that God must do to others as He did to him. He even summoned the hardihood to argue for the soul of Moses on the grounds that Moses also disobeyed God. But by the same mercy, God intervened and His angels delivered Moses safely into heaven.

In the world before Christ, God, seeing the inability of man to live righteously on his own, saved some through His mercy. By mercy He saved Noah and His household – the household that would become the secondary origin of mankind after the destruction of the first world. In His mercy our heavenly Daddy picked Abraham from amongst sinners, and made a nation out of him. In the same mercy, God separated the nation of Israel and blessed it. And by this mercy many of the Old Testament are today in heaven enjoying with the angels of God. The mercy of God prevails over satanic argument against us – the mercy of our God prevails over of His judgment.

But the number of those who were saved in the Old Testament were very very insignificant compared to the perfect will of God that all should be saved and come to His knowledge. Therefore something must to be done to achieve that purpose – and that thing was God sacrificing His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, in order to try to save all, if possible, or to save as many as possible.

Therefore the only way Daddy could destroy satan’s argument once and for all was through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ. And that He did on the Cross of Calvary through His Eternal Spirit. And when a man accepts Christ as Lord and Savior, he or she is no longer carries the tag of the original sin. It has been wiped away by Christ through His Blood on Calvary. And satan was therein rendered helpless.

But from what is happening in and around us today, that helplessness was for just for a season though. For satan has been a resident of heaven before his fall. He knew man and his many frailties. So when Christ made that bold sacrifice to rescue man from daily satanic accusations, satan just sat by the corner waiting patiently – knowing what is in man – that man would always fall short of God’s expectations.

And what has satan found out? You that are reading this message know the answer to that question. That answer stirs each and every one of us in the face. Satan has again proved to our God that His creation will always go contrary to His will even when they are saved by the Blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Many that are saved by the Blood of the Lamb have turned around to into the same sins and wickedness from which our Lord saved them. They have quickly forgotten all that Christ wrought on Calvary. They have rather chosen to believe a lie told by satan – that they can continue in sin for the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ to abide.

Through the falsification of what the grace of our God is all about, satan has been able to destroy many souls even in the very body of Christ. Using some whom the Lord sent to preach the truth about Him and about His grace, satan has been able to twist and adulterate the true meaning of our Lord’s grace. He has put in the heart of many a lie that the grace of our Lord shields believers from the consequences of sins they commit after salvation. He has told us a lie that sin or no sin, once we are saved, we remained saved. He has lied to us that sin in the flesh has nothing to do with our spirit man. And many in the past bought into this lie: and many are still doing so even as I am writing this message.

Satan has also lied that the love of God protects believing folks who continue in sin. When compromising believers sow material blessings and reap material blessings, satan tells them that that is enough evidence that God is with them. He tells them that the abundance of the things of this life in the life of a believer is conclusive evidence that God is with that believer.

Satan is desperate indeed, and his desperation is yielding strange results. And heaven is worried – and this message and others to follow are the very answers of heaven to the rampaging advents of satan and his agents. And whosoever would reject these messages will do so at his or her own peril - in both spiritual and practical terms.

Brethren, Christ will never come down and go to the Cross again. So, if we continue in the same sin He saved from us through His Blood, what becomes our faith? If we continue in impunity and wickedness even after salvation, who will yet deliver us? If we trample upon what Jesus Christ did on Calvary what shall we expect from our Daddy in heaven, Who took all the pains to put up His only begotten Son to die for us?

Who indeed will judge between us and our Creator when He declares us guilty as argued by satan? Is it the same Christ we abuse everyday by our continuing wickedness, or the Holy Ghost Who is a consuming Fire? Who is it that will intercede for us? We all must find urgent answers to these and similar questions arising from the decaying state of the present Church.

But brethren, let us all rejoice – because there is yet a way out. That mercy of God that availed folks in the past is still very much available to deliver as many as would accept their hopeless states and return to our Lord again. That mercy is still available to as many as will cast away their false interpretations of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and return to our Lord Jesus Christ.

 As you read this message, search yourselves. Whatever you have done or you are doing against the commandments of our God, repent and ask for His mercy. My assurance to whosoever is that Daddy will yet show mercy. No matter what you may be into– stealing, prostituting, lying, cheating, giving and taking bribe, flattering folks - no matter what, God’s mercy is still available.

 Have you taken another’s property, position, or even wife? Have you divorced your spouse and married another even when your first spouse is still alive, have you cheated to place yourself where you are today? Are you a murderer, even of unborn babies – are you a lesbian or gay?  Whatever you have done or you are doing against the perfect will of God, repent today and ask for His mercy. And mercy shall truly be shown to you.

Finally, I charge all that have received this message and have repented thereof, to go and sin no more. Till I come your way again, always bear it in your heart, that our Lord Jesus Christ will soon be on His way. Maranathar.

TOPIC: A GENERATION HAS ARISEN THAT DOES NOT KNOW GOD (PART FOUR AND FINAL PART)

-THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD -
“And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded. And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him: hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; the Lord is with you while ye be with Him: and if ye seek Him He will be found of you; but if ye forsake Him, He will forsake you.

And for a long season Israel hath been without the true God and without a teaching priest, and without law. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found of them.

And those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity. Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

And when Asa heard these words, and prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the alter of the Lord, that was before the porch of the Lord of the Lord…..

And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their hearts, and with all their soul.....And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire: and He was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about:...2ND CHRONICLES 15:1-8, 12, 14-15.


-WHAT I RECEIVED OF THE HOLY GHOST CONCERNING THIS MATTER-
Men and brethren, our God is continuing to send His Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, that are loyal to Him and to His perfect will, with the true gospel – warning His people daily to repent from their evil ways, and to seek Him with all their heart. For many are indeed seeking the Lord but not with all their heart.

Many today are seeking God for many reasons other than for the salvation of their souls. Unlike King Asa in the scripture of the day, many are finding excuses why they must not live according to the perfect will of God. And one such infamous excuse is that “they are living under the grace of our Lord”. They claim that grace of our Lord Jesus Christ offers liberty unto impunity and lawlessness. They use the grace of our Lord as a cloak for sin.

My sisters and brothers in the Lord, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ has been redefined by this Church. The present Church has committed itself to destroying the true essence of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. It has deliberately watered down the demands of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The same grace, which empowered the early Church unto all holiness and unto all righteousness that are in Christ Jesus, has now become an instrument of indulgence and compromise unto the Church of today. The same grace which caused believing folks of the past to live practically as gods amongst men, has today been reduced to an instrument to covetousness and lasciviousness – and shame.

Let me remind us of these infallible truths. By the grace of our Lord, made manifest through faith, many believers of the past manifested Christ to the world around them. Wherever they appeared, they spread the fragrance of Christ – the fragrance of righteousness and holiness – clothed with garments not spotted with sin or worldliness. Under the influence of grace they were able to overcome the motions of sin in their flesh and lived unto God in sanctification and pure baptism of the Holy Ghost. By the same grace, they turned the world upside down, dictated the pace of the nature and the scope and pace of events world-wide – even through ceaseless and prevailing prayer. That was Christianity according to the true grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Today, brethren of the Lord, that same grace that in the past produced Christ-like folks all over the world, is today producing thieves, harlots, gays and lesbians, murderers, abusers of children, covetous men and women and the likes – enemies of righteousness. The same grace which empowered believers of past generations to turn their world upside down for Christ is now turning believers upside down for the world and for satan. The same grace that sanctified and baptized believers with the Holy Ghost is today producing believers who make some strange noise all in the name of speaking in the tongues of the Spirit. Yes, they speak, but not of the Holy Ghost – and in so doing, they mock and blaspheme the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

That same grace, which hitherto enabled believers to wrestle and overcome evil and murderous nations and kingdoms, is today producing folks who are eager and anxious to condescend to worldly standards in order to be accepted by the world. The same grace which in the past empowered believing folks to preach the undiluted word of God is today helping aiding us to preach all manners of subjects as the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. The same grace which perfected the believer of old is today corrupting the believer. That must be another type of grace indeed.

That same grace that Jesus shed, to bring and maintain salvation, is today breeding compromise, corruption, lies, nakedness, divorce, and hatred, all manners of sexual immorality, cheating and drunkenness. The same grace which produced men and women of God is today producing those who call themselves into the work and for their bellies. The grace of our Lord has become a fashion parade on decaying and smelling pulpits all over the world.  That same grace that produced Prophets of old is today producing lying men and women, even boys and girls, who say “thus says the Lord” when they neither know the Lord nor heard from Him.

Brethren the truth is this: that many even the Church of Jesus Christ, have told an enduring lie about Christ and about His glorification. Through their inability to stand the demands of life in Christ, they have created unto themselves another grace, but not of the Lord. Some folks in the Church have manufactured a type of grace that is unto ungodliness and unrighteousness – the grace that allows Christians to continue in the very sins for which Christ came and died – and in their sins still hopelessly hoping to manifest in heaven one day. They tell themselves comforting lies about Christ and about His salvation – and in so doing they make themselves enemies of our God.

 Some folks in the body of Christ, have, through the sustained use of resources they unconsciously received from satan and satanic sources, devalued Christianity – and turned the glory of our God into the glory of lecherous men and women on suit  - enemies of all that is godly. And our God is angry, and our Lord Jesus Christ is worried. And our Lord Jesus Christ through His Spirit has sent me to warn us – to warn as many as are willing to hear and make amends. This is a generation of Eli and his children – sons and daughters of hell.

Men and brethren, this generation of Christians is exactly the generation of believers described by Apostle Paul in his letter to Titus, particularly at Chapter One verse 16. According to him,  “They profess that they know God: but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate”. This is a generation that has a form of godliness, but out rightly denies the power thereof. This is a generation that worships the creature in place of the Creator. And our God is indeed very angry with the present Church. And He is about to do something that any ear that hears it will tingle.

But there is a way out, brethren. Yes, there is a way out – for as many as are willing to make amends. The mercy of our God is very much available to help in these times of great need – for His mercies endureth forever. We must emulate what transpired in today’s scripture. We must rise up even as the folks in Judah and Jerusalem did in the days of prophet Zachariah, the son of Oded. For our God again sent a Prophet unto His people. He or she, who has ears to hear, let him or her hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the Church of Jesus Christ.

We all must of necessity rise to the challenges posed by satan to the body of Christ. Satan has been able to penetrate very very deep into the body of Christ. Many within the rank and file of the leadership of today’s Church are under direct and indirect control of satan and of his forces. Satan under utmost disguise as an angel of light is today manipulating many in the body of Christ. Worldly pursuits and achievements have gradually become the standards of measuring the height of Christianity. The present Church is under increasing danger of disappearing into the world. But, as I wrote earlier, there is a way out. Our God will always make a way even where there seems to be none.

 In our today’s scripture, the folks in Judah and Benjamin gathered and took an oath to return to the Lord. They made up their hearts to seek the Lord with all their heart, and the mercy of God availed them. Therefore, nothing should stop any of us from doing so today. Whatever you need to do, do it and save your life from destruction. If you must resign from a polluted working environment, please do. If you must leave that sin partner you call your wife or husband, please do.  If you are divorced, for any reason whatsoever, you will either remain single until your spouse is no more; or, after hearing this message, hurriedly return to your first husbands, even to your first wives. Forgive all that you may be forgiven. And if you must give away all that you stole from people and start all over again, please do – even the largess you obtained through false pretenses.

Brethren, restoration is the perfect will of God wherever it is applicable. You must restore what you have stolen as long as you can still reach your victims. If you die doing the perfect will of God, good enough – you will make heaven. But if you refuse to do His perfect will you will end up in eternal torment. Where there is need for confession, it must be made – no the cost. Do not say in your heart that your husband or your wife will do this or that if you confess your infidelity. You must say it all – including that child that does not belong to your husband. There is no hiding place for sinners. And there is no cost comparable to everlasting life in hell fire.

Never for once consider the cost of obeying the Lord, never. Your future is at stake – all your future. You have a choice to determine where you will spend your life after here – either in the never quenching sulfuric inferno forever and forever or, in the company of our Lord and of His angels in heavenly bliss forever. You have a choice to make, and fast. Tomorrow may be too late. Your next step may be the last – you are not the owner of your life. Don’t mind that preacher who tells you that God understands. Hear it now, very loud and very clear – that our God does not understand. You must be holy even as He is holy. The only prayer that God listens to from a sinner and a compromising believer is the prayer for mercy – for His mercy rejoices over judgment – and it endures forever.

Do not say that I did not warn you. Do not listen to the man or woman who tells you that if you sow seed that the Lord will show you mercy. It is not true – you are on the path of destruction with your eyes wide open. Run for your dare lives. Let me remind us that it is better for one to die young and make heaven than to live a hundred and seventy years, enjoy all the pleasures of this life, and end up in hell fire. Death is not an issue in this matter – what matters is what next. Yes, we can live long in righteousness – Abraham did. But nothing whatever must stop us from making heaven at last – including life itself. For in all such things we are more than conquerors.

Brethren, the power of God to counter this decay in the body of Christ is very much available. It is available to as many as are willing to step out in boldness, in righteousness and in practical holiness. It is available to as many as are willing to speak the truth of this Gospel in love. It is available to as many as are willing to poke their fingers into the very eyes of satan, even at will. It is available to as many as are willing and desirous to suffer all manners of persecution for the sake of this Gospel. Satan is a very big coward for those who know better.

Brethren of the Lord, it is the perfect will of God that all that must live righteously must suffer persecution. If therefore you are averse to persecution, please do not border to answer this call. It is the perfect will of God that whosoever must make heaven at last must do so through much trembling. If therefore your Christianity is that of pursuit endless pleasure, you have no part in this matter.

Brethren, it is the perfect will of God that we should propagate His truth with courage and boldness – without looking at faces -  and damming all satanic consequences. If therefore your type of Christianity is that you do not want to hurt anybody, please stay where you are. This battle is only for the bold and courageous – bold and courageous to preach and to live out the perfect will of God. This matter is only for true sons and daughters of God. If you are one of them, then step out today, come to the aid of our Lord against the mighty - and the Lord will empower you beyond your wildest imagination.

Brethren, the time has come to call a spade a spade. It is time we started doing things as the Apostles of old did things. It is high time we started doing things even as the prophets of old did things. It is high time we started doing things even as Christ did things in the days of His flesh – and even as He is doing things today. We must keep in focus that the true Church of Jesus Christ must be built on the prophets and on the Apostles – Jesus Christ standing as the Chief-Cornerstone.

 Man and brethren, it is high time we started preaching what we are called to preach and not what folks desire to hear. The power of God to make all things beautiful in His time is still available. But the present Church must wake up from its present slumber to access the true God and His true power. Until this is done, satan and the world will continue to trample upon the Church and upon godliness. God forbid!




THE GIFT:

 HERE IS THE GIFT I MENTIONED IN PART THREE OF THIS MESSAGE. BUT YOU MUST HAVE FULLY READ THIS MESSAGE BEFORE THIS GIFT WILL AVAIL YOU.

The Holy Ghost has a confirmatory gift for whosoever is willing to enter into this truth with all his or her heart. And this is the gift: If you accept this message willingly and desire to make amends where necessary, the Holy Ghost has promised to touch you in any area of your life that needs a touch from the Lord. All you need to do is this: simply lay your hands on this message, through any device available to you. Promise the Holy Ghost that you will make amends wherever applicable. Then ask Him to confirm that He is the Author of this message by doing something specific for you or even for another. It may be the healing of any manners of disease whatsoever or, whatever you desire God to do for you – so long as that particular thing is His perfect will of God for you for now. Whatever is that issue – just ask Him to visit it as a confirmation that this message and this mandate have His full backing and sanction. You may even ask for the raising of the dead whose death is not according to the will of God. It shall be done. The assurance I have from the Holy Ghost is that some will receive instant miracles, while some will receive many infallible signs of approval from Him. *******But there is a caveat: When He visits you, and I know He certainly will: then you must submit perfectly and unconditionally to His word as expressed in these messages. Be warned that it is a very dangerous thing to play games with the Holy Ghost as some of you are used to. Share your testimonies with your leaders in fellowship. It is a new beginning.*

Till I come your way again through the Holy Ghost, keep believing, and keep trusting in the Lord as the day of our Lord draws nearer and nearer. To him or her that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him or her it is counted as sin.

TOPIC: A GENERATION HAS ARISEN THAT DOES NOT KNOW GOD (PART THREE)

-THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD-

“This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy – without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good

Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God: having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of such are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts: ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth; men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was”…..2^ND TIMOTHY 3:1-9.

-WHAT I RECEIVED OF THE HOLY GHOST CONCERNING THIS MATTER-

People of God, the present generation of believers is the worst generation of believers ever since the glorification of Christ - and this is world-wide. What we have today is a generation of pretenders, hypocrites, liars, backsliders, bribe givers and takers, flatterers, seducers of men and of women, mockers of righteousness and holiness, etc – multitudes who claim to worship God but in truth do not know Him. They worship Whom they do not know. We belong to a Church which defines our God, the holy One of Israel, based on some worldly and decaying sentiments. It is a generation that is determined to suppress the truth about Christ, and also to undermine those who dared to preach that truth. A flirtatious generation – who prefer to worship the creature rather than their Creator.

This is a generation of Christians whose Christian foundation is founded on the precepts and philosophies of men and of women rather than on the undiluted word of our living God. It is a generation that, in both in form and in manifestation, is ashamed of Christ and of His Gospel. We are in a Church of Jesus Christ that is without the Christ. We have sold ourselves out to vanity and covetousness. We are neither cold nor hot, and God is ready to vomit us out.

Men and brethren, what we are witnessing today is a generation of Church-goers, majority of whom are not even saved in the first place. When they talk about salvation they are actually referring to some emotional displays and tears that have nothing whatsoever to do with our Lord and the terrible ordeals He suffered at the hands of sinners. It is a Church which makes a lot of noise about faith – yet what we see is mental faith – faith that is devoid of the spiritual. What we have today is a generation of Christians whose Christianity is much more in name than in practical reality. And this is the purpose for this message. And whosoever reads this message and tramples upon it is daring the Spirit of the living God.

May it be established in the hearts of whosoever is interested in this matter: that this generation of Christians, does not, in any way or manner, resemble the nature of folks Jesus hoped to produce when He laid down His life on Calvary? On His way to the Cross, our Lord Jesus, under unbearable pain and agony, declared that He was going to do a new thing. And He did. He died, resurrected the third day, and went up to glory. But He also returned through the Eternal Spirit, expecting to possess the entire being of those who would accept His atonement. And He did, even with the people of old, and with successive generations. But the reality on ground today, especially with the present generation of Christians world-wide, is far below even the least expectations of heaven concerning this matter. What we have is a generation of Christians that celebrate Christmas without even realizing that our Lord was never born on the 25 day of any December whenever!

Men and brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ died to reproduce Himself in men and in women - to produce the Christ-man and the Christ-woman in whosoever would receive Him as Lord and as Savior. He died to reproduce Himself even in as many as would believe in Him. That was why He died. And to as many as would thus believe Him He would also give power to become sons and daughters of God. To as many as would accept Him and His finished works on Calvary, He would give power to become like Him, even as He is. To as many as would believe Him He would give power to live unto all righteousness, even unto all holiness. This is the summary of why Jesus came and died – a summary of what His Church is all about.

Brethren, I am not discussing ideas – what you are reading is the truth about redemption and about the Redeemer Himself. I am revealing the practical manifestations of the power and glory of God in salvation. What Jesus accomplished on Calvary was practical and tangible – something to be handled, to be tasted – the Word of life. For in Him was and still is life, and that life was and is still the light of men and of women. I am revealing the truth about Salvation – the Salvation purchased with the precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am revealing the Salvation that is a heavenly as well an an earthly reality – founded firmly on grace –the grace which is by faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Brethren, this message is about the grace of God that brought His Salvation.  I am writing about the grace that was given that human persons may become as Christ in form and in manifestation. That grace was manifested that men and women may become the households of the living God – the new temples of our holy God - not fashioned with human hands. I am referring to the grace that was manifested that men and women may live as Christ even in this filthy and fading world. And that grace did reproduce Christ in His first disciples, and also empowered succeeding generations of believers to manifest Christ to the world around them. That grace is still available today, to do the same work even as of old. Yes, that grace is of faith, but of kind of faith that works with love – even the love of God.

And of this love, many have been misled. For the love of God truly defined, means a daily fulfillment of the laws and commandments of our God. When we speak of love of God in Christ we must be referring to a believer living unto all righteousness. Walking in love as God ordained it means to live even as Christ lives. And happily enough, the word love has become the most popular word in the dictionary of most believers world-wide. Today almost everybody in Church is talking about love.

Sadly though, today, what most of us refer to as love, even in the very Church of Jesus Christ, is a certain product of lustful and vain imaginations and pursuits of men and of women – who have deliberately turned the love of our God into some emotional and fleeting manifestations. The love of God has suddenly become valentines love even to the body of Christ! The path of true love has become infiltrated by mockers and enemies of all that is godly. To them who follow these perverse thoughts, speaking the truth in Christ is a sign of absence of their kind of love. To them, love means being careful not to hurt the emotions and pleasures of sinners and compromising believers. To them love is to pet and pamper, to appease - even in the face of lurking death and destruction. In their exercise of that love they flatter folks, and then turn to cajole and mock those who speak the truth even in love.

While it is a commandment of our God that we should apply His love to deliver many, even from the fire that lies ahead; but to these sentimental folks in Church, to apply love is to find suiting words to placate believing folks who continue in error and in impunity – to watch in ungodly silence as believing folks daily fall into the traps and snares of the enemy – to cheer compromising believers who flourish in wealth while at the same time treading the path of hell. These bread and butter Christians will do everything but to say any word that sound like condemnation to others. To them, every word from the Lord must pass the wicked test of complying with the standards of acceptability set by wayward and lascivious believers. That is the love of today’s Church – a Church which tags the preaching of the truth as condemnation. And in so doing we all have attracted the anger of our God – and the consequences will surely follow.

THE FINAL PART OF THIS MESSAGE COMES WITH A VERY UNIQUE AND SPECIAL GIFT FROM THE HOLY GHOST. IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, AT LEAST TO MY KNOWLEDGE. BE CAREFUL THEREFORE TO TRACK THAT VERY PART – AND YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID EVEN FOR THE REMAINING DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.

Till then, keep running and keep trusting – for it is not just enough just to run, but we must also of necessity run as to obtain a price, a price that never perisheth. Remain blessed.

TOPIC: A GENERATION HAS ARISEN THAT DOES NOT KNOW GOD (PART TWO)

-THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD-
“Then began Jesus to upbraid cities wherein most of His mighty works were done, because they repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the Day of Judgment than for you.

And thou, Capernaum; which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works which have been done in thee, had been done in Sidon, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment than for thee”…..MATTHEW 11:21-24.


-WHAT I RECEIVED OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST-
Men and brethren, our generation, is by all implications and resemblances the same, and even worse than that generation of Israelis that did not know God. We are far worse than that generation of God’s people that did not care at all for all that He did for their fathers. Everything about this evil, perverse and adulterous generation is a pointer to the truth that another generation has arisen on earth, a generation that does not know God, and does not care to know Him. It is a generation that is totally indifferent to what our God did for mankind through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

Men and brethren, ours is a generation of godless people – a people without God, a people that care less about God and what He represents. Our generation is a generation that worships men, money and material things even as its god. This is a generation that celebrates satan and satanic values. This is a generation that has redefined the meaning of shame – people are now ashamed to live a descent and dignified life. This is a generation that mocks the good and celebrates the ugly, the evil, and the damnable. This is a generation that is opposed to whatever is godly, whatever is holy, and whatever is sacrosanct. Ours is a generation that devours itself.

Men and brethren, our generation is a generation that celebrates shame, nakedness and lust. Compared with biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, this generation ranks higher – higher in everything that is sinful and abominable. This generation surpasses all known and even unknown precedents in iniquity and perversion. Indeed, there are not enough vile and contemptible words in the dictionary of men to describe this generation.

Ours is a generation of truce breakers – a generation that does not honor covenants between men and between nations – a generation that has sold itself unto impunity and plunder. Ours is a generation of seekers of pleasure – a generation of opportunists and gamblers. This is a generation full of greed and covetousness - that worships wealth and all that money can buy. Ours is a generation of pretenders and hypocrites – enemies of all that is of God and of His righteousness. This is a generation that is poking hands into the very eyes of our Creator. This is a generation that has provoked God to anger more than any other generation since creation.

Brethren, ours is a generation which celebrates sodomy – men marrying men and women marrying women. Folks, who should ordinarily cover their faces in shame in public by reason of their illicit lifestyles, are today celebrated as heroes and heroines. Ours is a generation that murders its unborn babies, yet “legally”. This is a generation that kills and beheads and burns, all in the name of God, Whom they do not know; neither has He sent them. This is a generation under the strict grip of satan and his forces. Satan is having a field day in this generation. He is not just stealing, killing and destroying humanity – he is also masquerading as “Jesus” all over town, and has through that disguise enslaved and is still enslaving many, even in the very body of Christ.

Men and brethren, when we compare what God did for the Israelis of old, with what He has wrought for this generation; we will begin to understand what lies ahead of this adulterous generation. Yes, the Lord called Abraham and blessed him in all things. He also blessed the descendants of Abraham and made them the nation of Israel. He fought for them, fed them, clothed them, healed them – He was practically their God and they were His people. He led them and shielded them from place to place – shielding them from danger and perils. He gave them holy laws and customs as no other nation of the earth. We can also recall the ten plagues with which God brought His people out of slavery. He divided the Red Sea for their sake, even River Jordan. He fought for them spiritually and physically.

But all that the Lord did for the Israelis will pale into insignificance when compared to a singular thing He did for this generation, and preceding generations. When our God sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die on the Cross, it was also for this generation. In so doing, God virtually sacrificed Himself for mankind – to save us from our sins, and to make us His people – the people of His pasture. He did it, not for a people that loved Him – no, He did it even when we were neck deep in sins and iniquities. He loved us without a curse.

 And having glorified Himself through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, our God come down, and through the Holy Ghost, began to dwell in men -in as many as would accept the finished works of His Son on Calvary. And by what our God perfected on His Son on Calvary, human persons are to become temples of the living God – the household of God. Through His love, Christ is multiplied in men and women – in as many as believe in Him. And there has been nothing whatsoever comparable to this singular event even from creation – absolutely nothing.

But this incomparable act of love, wrought by our Creator, is now trampled upon by this generation with great impunity and wantonness.  Men and women created by God are contesting His very existence. They have created their own worlds, created by their own imaginations and inventions. Instead of folks to honor God Who created them, they are now worshiping satan who was just one of the servants of God in heaven before he was cast down. The level of godlessness in the world today surpasses all past generations put together. By our unprecedented evil deeds and acts, we have succeeded in maturing the earth for destruction.

The world has suddenly risen to challenge the authority of the Son of God. In many countries of the world, just mentioning the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in public is a taboo. In some, those that identify with our Lord are sent to prison, or are even executed. The name of our Lord is being erased daily from monuments all over the world, even by those He created. Indeed the cup of this generation is filled up just as the iniquities of the Amorites before God loosed His people from Egypt.

But, brethren, it would have been more tolerable to God if this madness is restricted to the world and to its people. But what is very critical to God and to all the hosts of heaven, is that this matter also pertains to the very Church of Jesus Christ. Without mincing words, one can boldly declare that there has also arisen a generation of “Christians” who do not know God, His Christ or of what Christ wrought on the Cross of Calvary. That is what we shall discuss in Part Three of this matter. Till then, keep watching and keep praying – for the days of this generation are numbered with the Lord.

TOPIC: A GENERATION HAS ARISEN THAT DOES NOT KNOW GOD.(PART ONE)

-THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD-
“And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that He did for Israel.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died being a hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which He had done for Israel”…JUDGES 2:6-10.


-WHAT I RECEIVED OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST CONCERNING THIS MATTER-
Men and brethren, those of us that are conversant with the Bible, would easily recall what transpired between God and Abraham, the first man to walk extensively with God – and out of whom the Lord birthed the nation of Israel. Time and space will not permit me to go into much details: suffice to reinstate that the descendants of Abraham, before they fully became the nation of Israel, sojourned in Egypt for Four Hundred And thirty Years, as slaves – even as ordained by God Himself, at the end of which He brought them with a great hand, and established them as one of the strongest nations of the earth. And we are living witnesses to this very thing.

The series of events that led to the birth of that nation are found in the biblical books of Genesis even to Judges. In establishing that nation, God showcased His power and might. He led Abraham out of his father’s heritage. He took him from place to place, with a firm promise to establish him a nation – and He did. And between Abraham and that nation, our God wrought signs and wonders in the midst of His people: to the comfort and preservation of His people, but to the amazement and terror of those who hated Him. He loved His people, fed them, clothed them, healed them, and gave them laws that no nation of the earth could ever boast of.

In the making of this great and mighty nation, God raised a prophet in the name of Moses, who rose to lead God’s people out of slavery, to take them to the land which God had promised them through their Father Abraham. Eventually, Moses did not make it into the Promised Land, but he established a record in his work with God that no living has ever or will ever attain.

Even though Moses never made it into the Promised Land, yet he did prophesy what the Lord was out to do in order to establish His people as a nation. Here are his very words:

 “For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the lot of His inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness: He led Him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him and there was no strange god with him.

….He made him to ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; He made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock: butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape” See the Book of DEUTERONOMY 32:9-14. And all came to pass – none of those words failed.

Men and brethren, this Jacob was the son of Isaac, who was also the son of Abraham. And through this Jacob, who was later named Israel, God began the making of Israel even as a nation. This Jacob also had twelve children, who were to become the twelve tribes of Israel. These twelve children, with their father, wives and children were the ones who went into Egypt, and later became slaves to the Egyptians.

But having spent four hundred and thirty years under slavery, God delivered them, even with a very strong and mighty hand. And having delivered them from the evil hands of Pharaoh of Egypt, He led them through the mountains and wilderness to the Promised Land – guiding them with the pillar of cloud by the day and with the pillar of fire by night. He fought their adversaries and turned curses meant for them into blessings. We can’t recount all that God did for this people in a single message such as this. To do so would certainly require writing a book and a very voluminous one indeed.

In recounting what the Lord did for His people, from Abraham to the Promised Land, we cannot overlook the closing remarks of Joshua. Joshua was about to be called home. But before he went to be with the Lord, among many other notable testimonies of our Lord, he also had this to add:

 “And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And ye know in all your heart and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you: all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof”…JOSHUA 23:14.

Yes, indeed, the Lord fulfilled ALL that He ever promised the people, all things – none failed to come to pass. What a faithful God we serve! God kept faith with every word He uttered on His people – He watched over them: from second to second, from hour to hour, from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, even from year to year – He never relented. He performed all at the due time and season. For our God is not a man that He will tell a lie, neither the son of man that He would relent on His words!

But after the death of Joshua, whom God appointed to lead His people after the death of Moses, a generation arose in Israel that did not know this God or of the wonders and signs He wrought amongst their fathers, right from the very day He called Abraham their father out of the land of the Chaldeans in Mesopotamia, to the days of their conquests in the Promised land.

And I strongly perceive that it was not necessarily because that erring generation did not hear about God or, about all His wonders and dealings with their fathers. They heard about Him, they also knew of His workings with their fathers. They knew it all. Yet, they chose to forsake the Lord, and followed the ungodly customs of their neighbors - to serve other gods: man made gods, gods with ears but hear not, with mouths but speak not – the works of their own hands.

They felt that it was better for them to live as their ungodly neighbors, who had no such laws to obey and no such customs to observe: such laws and customs as the Lord had ordained for His people. To that unfaithful generation, it was better and easier to serve idols than to serve God, Who would forever hold those who disobey Him to account. They preferred the pleasures of sin to the joy and beauty of serving the Lord in truth and in spirit.

That generation of Israelis were averse to “negative words” - an expression common to those who loathe the instructions of the Lord. That was that generation. But the terrible and woeful visitations that came upon them from God are not part of this message. They paid dearly for their wayward ways. Yet more terrifying and more fearful experiences eagerly await the present generation whose sinful and adulterous ways surpass all precedents.

Tomorrow, God willing, we shall try to see how our present generation has fared before the Lord and what awaits them. Till then keep believing and keep trusting in the Lord.