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Religion / Salvation Is Intrinsically Eternal, And Can Never Be Lost If Ever Possessed! by djoguns: 10:37pm On Aug 13, 2017
SALVATION IS INTRINSICALLY ETERNAL, AND CAN NEVER BE LOST IF EVER POSSESSED!
Salvation as defined by redemption is eternal in elemental subsisting constituents and intrinsic (belonging to the essential nature of a thing : occurring as a natural part of something) nature, and anything short of this is not bible salvation. Eternal security is not an added licentious advantage to be largely, blatantly and freely exploited by the cantankerous and vile believer, rather it is the conceptual and original value of redemption. Redemption does not just afford the privilege of eternal security, instead divine salvation is eternal security by nature. Eternal security is not a rider to salvation, rather it is salvation in itself. What God ever gives man in faith in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection is ETERNAL SECURITY ON THE GROUNDS OF ETERNAL SALVATION, AND IF THIS IS NOT SO, THEN THE BIBLE IS FALSE IN DIVINE ACCURACY.
I have heard some folks argue that it takes faith to be saved, and not works, Eph. 2:8,9 Titus 3:4-5 (which is true), but that one needs to continue to believe, to keep being saved. Literally put, it does not require works of righteousness on our part to be saved, but it requires works of performance by the laws to keep being saved.
An unsuspecting person may assume that this statement is true, but it is rather false. Faith in the death of Christ, and his resurrection gives ETERNAL SALVATION, which cannot be lost by nature, and is not sustained by faith, continuous or more faith. If you backslide, become recalcitrant, sinful, and even preach against Christ, you still forever posses ETERNAL SALVATION WHICH CAN NEVER BE LOST. THE EVERLASTING PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST ENSURES THIS. If this is not so, then Christ died in vain! THE REAL NAME OF SALVATION BY CONCEPT IS ETERNAL SALVATION.
Religion / The Blessedness Of Christ by djoguns: 11:13am On Jul 19, 2017
THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHRIST
There's so much Christ brought our way by His death and resurrection that many are yet to fully understand. If we ever comprehend the depth of redemption we'd never again portray the believer like some destitute, helpless sufferer trying to just manage through life. Some say, 'God, I'm nothing but a worm...' A new creature?
If any man is in Christ he is a new creature (2 Cor 5:17). This word is transliterated from the greek word 'kainos ktisis' which means a new specie that never existed before! It's not a refurbishment of the old life neither is it just another new or fresh start for the old man. It's the birth of a new man in Christ. This man is decked, adorned, and intrinsically decorated with all of God's glory. He is the reflection of Christ. All that's in Christ is in Him. He's a proud possessor of God and has inherited all that God has and is by nature. This is why he's described as a joint-heir with Christ. Rom 8:17; 'And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.'
The word 'heir' simply means a possessor. This means the child of God is not destitute of spiritual blessings. He does not need mercy, grace, power, anointing, justification, foorgiveness...HE HAS ALL THESE ALREADY!
Eph 1:3; 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.'
Ladies and gentlemen, God has emptied himself on humanity in Christ! There's nothing God has that he hasn't given us! It's such a largesse! The words of the prophet Joel comes to mind...
Joel 2:28; 'And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions...'
He has poured out his spirit. This is all He is! God is Spirit. He has emptied Himself and lavished upon us all He is. The very substance that makes God, God is in us right now. We must renew our minds to this truth of the word. The believer is not some destitute, empty, impoverished, and spiritually bankrupt person. He houses the fullness of God right now!
The word 'heir' as used at Rom 8:17 also means one who receives his allotted possession by right of sonship. This means he doesn't work for this. He's not trying to qualify to obtain the inheritance. His sonship is the qualification! He has all he has because of his origin and birth; born of God!
Gal 3:18; 'For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.'
The inheritance is not by the works of the law. As a matter of fact, the moment it's about the law it's no more an inheritance but a debt or wage (Rom 4:4). It's an inheritance because it's not earned but freely obtained.
Eph 1:11; 'In whom WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.'
Col 1:12; 'Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light...'
The expression 'He hath made us meet' in other translations simply means he has QUALIFIED US. Are you qualified as a believer? YES! You are not to try to get the inheritance, rather you are to discover, know, and acknowledge this from the word.
Eph 1:18; 'The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of your calling, and WHAT THE RICHES OF THE GLORY OF HIS INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS.'
It's a call to know the inheritance, not to pray to get it! I tell you truth, our churches will experience a radical shift in practice and manifestation of the spirit when we renew our minds with this truth. We must start saying what the word says. We must sing it alone. We must forsake emotionally inspired songs or culturally tainted forms of praise. We must allow the word alone prompt the praise of God in Christ. We are not destitute! We have the fullness of God!
So, rather than say, 'Lord I need your grace'
'Lord please have mercy on me'
'Lord, please anoint me or I die'
'Lord, forgive me lest I be consumed'
'Lord, empower me'
'Lord, show me your love...etc.'
Let us say, 'Lord thank you for your grace'
Thank you for your mercy...
Thank you for your anointing...
Thank you Lord for your forgiveness...
Thank God I'm empowered...
Thank you Lord because you have loved me!
This is the language and vocabulary of the new creature. This glorifies God while the former is a slap on his face. The new creature is God's work, therefore to portray him as destitute is to say God's product is poor and of no value. When you despise any product, you despise the producer equally. Thank God for redemption!
Religion / Spiritual Growth 1 by djoguns: 9:15pm On Jun 24, 2017
SPIRITUAL GROWTH 1
Spiritual growth is not a growth of spirits. This is so because spirits are discrete individualisticallly individualised entities that do not grow, for no man knows the way of the spirit, Eccles 11:5. The way of the spirit is like the wind that bloweth where it listeth, for thou hearest the sound thereof..., john 3:8.
Spiritual growth is not a growth of or in activities of ecumenical or ecclesiastical commitment more than a neonate becomes muscular by playing football.
On earth, we work hard on physical growth before activities, because we know that growth ought to presipitate activities. Howevever in Christianity, so saddening enough, we claim to be growing, or to have grown considerably because of church activities, like getting the facilities ready for use on Sundays.
It is not about titles of attainment in a local assembly, or special ordinations as earthly human rewards for gifts to the ministry. It is not mandated by time, rather it is relative to time, which means, it is possible that inspite of time, growth has still not occurred, I cor 3:1, heb 5:11-13.
Spiritual growth is the development of our (Christians ) minds, which results in outward transformation in our earthly walk after the nature of Christ within us. It is the development of our minds after Christ, as we understand the nature within us, called the "new creature", whom we are in Christ, as we read redemption in the bible by the power of eternal life. The growth is proliferation, extention, increase, broadening of soulical (mind) capacity, which results in a walk after the new creature. Our hitherto dead spirit, now born after God in Christ's death and resurrection is called the new creature.
Spiritual growth is predicted on some indices
1. There can never be spiritual growth without a craving after the unmitigated, pure, shear, unadulterated word (reasonable, logical, truthful, core and cardinal message ) of God, I Peter 2:2.
2. There can never be spiritual growth without a definite encounter with the truth of whom God made us in him. Many times, we attend church, and listen in on nonsense. At other times, we are not attentive, alert ..too busy with church, not blessed by the word at church.
3, 4, 5.
The Jews at Berea had a better charter than their counterparts at Thessalonica because they received the word of God with a readiness of mind, and went back to search if the things they heard were so, Acts 17:10-11.
A medical doctor in our church walked into a Wednesday service and I preached that since it takes the spirit's departure from the human body to die, the Christian must not die till he decides to. I declared that even if your head is cut, place it back carefully, and move on...John 6:63. You can decide to live in the worst ailment..read Paul at Phil. 1:23-27
She listened rapturously, was "blessed" by the word. Sometime later, she was involved in a accident, and according to her, she was laid streched out by passers by on the side of the muddy road on a rainy afternoon. Suddenly, she felt herself slipping out of her body, lifeless. She suddenly remembered, it takes the spirit's departure to die, she decided to stay back in her body...SHE IS STILL A LIVE TODAY!
Do you receive the word, or you just attend church? Do you really encounter the truth of redemption each time you hear the bible preached? .....
Religion / Being Tossed To And Fro by djoguns: 9:07pm On Jun 24, 2017
There's such a thing as being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine and the cunning craftiness of men. Wind of doctrines...today you are drinking anointing oil for breakthrough, tomorrow you are washing your head at a river for same breakthrough, next week you are bathing with a special soap for the same breakthrough...tossed to and fro...
A man of God is on the hill, you run after him. Another shows up in the valley, you crawl down to find him. Another one is on TV, you hug your TV tightly never to let him go until he blesses you.
You are unstable because you haven't being fed the truth of the word. Eph 4:14; 'that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive...' Lack of discernment is the character of babies. Everything goes as long as it sounds good and nice. The christian must lay hold on the truth of the word so as not to fall an easy prey to evil men and deceivers that abound today in such scary and staggering numbers...
Religion / Holy Ghost Convocation by djoguns: 8:42pm On Jun 24, 2017
Holy Ghost convocation, NY 2017, message title: Divine Suprises...prayer /fatherly blessing- father bless me anyway, anyhow, please use anybody, Lord. Use demons or angels to bless me my father. Lord, please use my enemies, people that hate me to bless me.
Ron K. - We are going up to the high places, we are going up to the high places; to tear the devil's kingdom down. We are going to recover what he stole from us!
Thomas D. - The devil has stolen your joy, your health, peace, money children and locked it up in his house, and he thinks you will just sit back and be quiet. No, let us go to his house and take back what he stole from us.
Agbala agbara Olorun ki ba ti: Ogo wa ti Esu to ki lo, mo pa la se, ki o da pada ba yi. ( I command Satan to return my glory which he has stolen)
Agbala pa milerin : Ogo re ti Esu ti gba, yi o da pada ba yi ( the devil is restoring your glory, which he stole to you)
These and other prayers that have synonymous contents are ubiquitous. I could go on, and on. THE THOUGHT THAT SATAN HAS STOLEN ANY GLORY GIVEN BY GOD, KEPT BY GOD IS A VERY ERRONEOUS ONE! HOW CAN SATAN STILL OUR GLORY IN CHRIST. IT IS VERY SPIRITUALLY ILLITERATE AND RATHER UNFORTUNATE TO SAY THAT GOD COULD USE DEMONS TO BLESS CHRISTIANS. YET SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF UNLEARNED PEOPLE CHORUSED...AMEEEEN.
Know ye not that every good and perfect gift cometh from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variableness, neither shifting like shadows, James 1:17 and that whatsoever God doeth shall be for ever, nothing can be added, and nothing taken from it..Eccl. 3:14 . He is the great God and Father of spirits, Heb. 12:9. He dwells in a light that no man can approach unto, I Tim. 6:16. He is the only potentate, the king of kings and Lord of Lords..I Tim 6:15.
In those days, we were told that if your article of fabric disappears mysteriously and suddenly appears again, you should rather never wear them again, but burn them up, because of the possibility of demonic contamination, while it was out of sight. Well, I noticed alot of hypocrisy this, for no one ever burnt a recovered stolen vehicle, or professional certificate. No one ever burnt a recovered stolen digital gadget or device. .hmmm, just religious lies.
However, ever, ever, if Satan lays siege on the spiritual survelance and tight security of God's glory in our lives, and successfully loots divine treasury, then we as children of God, most high can never, ever have the wherewithal attillery to recover them again forever.
Just like I wonder what the blood of Jesus can do in deliverance! A person possessed by God through the blood of Jesus shed (speaking specifically of his sacrificial death), is dispossessed of God by demons, and we try to ask or plead the same blood for a possible anti redemption re-deliverance. It can never work, we are just being shovelled inside-out, as renigads of psychological and religious confusion. The deliverance ministry concept is a spiritual hoax.
If the devil has stolen your glory, leave it with him, he possibly has deposited his seed of decay and corruption in it. Try to get another glory. The only other issue difficult to resolve is that the same way he stole it the first time is still an ever living possibility. He could come back stronger!
The man whose glory could be stolen died in Christ Jesus. The man who could be dominated by the devil has risen with the power of eternal life beyond the possibility of any type of reach by Satan. YOU ARE A NEW CREATURE! Stop the lies. The devil could not have stolen our glory in any way. Stop the unbelief. Stop today.
Religion / There Are No Contradictions In The Bible by djoguns: 10:25pm On Jun 17, 2017
There are no contradictions in the bible. If you find any seeming inconsistency, the right attitude to maintain is that of diligent study to find out what you're missing, rather than concluding immaturely that there are contradictions in the bible. For instance, at Exo 24:9-11, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel were said to have seen God. Christ came on the scene and at John 6:46 makes a shocking statement..."Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father."
The Apostle John, based on this revelation from Christ says the same - John 1:18; "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." This sounds very contradictory! Moses claimed to have seen God and Christ says no man has seen God! The truth of the matter, ladies and gentlemen, is that Christ for being deity is superior to Moses and for this, His revelation is more credible and accurate. If He says they never saw God, then I believe Him! Now, who did they see? They saw angels!
Act 7:38; "This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us..."
Act 7:53; "Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it."
Gal 3:19; "Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator."
Heb 2:2; "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward..."
This is very clear from scriptures without any ambiguities or shrouded mysticism. It was an angel that spoke on Mount Sinai. This was the person they saw and called God because of their carnal minds. It takes the New Testament to explain certain events recorded in the Old, else we mix things up.

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Religion / Landing Yourself In Trouble With The Old Testament by djoguns: 10:18pm On Jun 17, 2017
You would land yourself in some serious trouble if you read the old testament books without proper understanding of the revelation of God in Christ. Heb 1:1-2; "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds."
God has spoken to us now in His Son. The things said by men in the old testament are to be judged by the revelation of Christ and not the other way round. We also don't accommodate all the views simply because they are in the bible. For us to accept it, it must be consistent with the revelation of Christ. For instance...
At I Samuel 16:15,16,23, 18:10 tells us an evil spirit from God came to torment Saul. Yet, James tells us God only gives good and perfect gifts...James 1:17.
At I Kings 22:23, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of the prophets. Yet we know God does not lie nor repent, even from some Old Testament accounts. You will never find this inconsistency in the doctrine of the Apostles. Titus 1:2; Heb 6:17-18. God does not work with lying spirits for there is no fellowship between light and darkness. The devil is not God's errand boy as portrayed by the job story.
Job says, God gives and takes away Job 1:21. This is not the revelation of God in Christ. He gives and keeps giving. There are several Christians hoodwinked already by this inaccurate descriptions of God hence believe God is after them and all they have. Job was in the dark as a carnal man, oblivious of the devil's workings
At Job 2:10, He also says shall we receive good from God, and not receive evil? So funny. This is also untrue. God does not test with evil. How does it even sound, God was playing a bet with the precious lives of His 'servant', in the which he lost all his children, just to prove a point to satan that Job was indeed faithful? Very absurd. Does God discuss with the devil on how he runs his activities? Does God approve his evil deeds? Hear Christ...
Luke 22:31-32; "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren."
Satan desired to sift Peter yet Christ never played a bet on whether he'd stand or fall. He prayed for him! God is never a party to temptation. Instead, He makes a way of escape...strengthens, upholds, help. We judge everything said about God by what the Son has revealed. This is God...
Romance / On The Issue Of Spirit Wife by djoguns: 4:15pm On Jun 12, 2017
My Mum thinks she can scare me into getting married...she said her Pastor said i had a Spirit wife and i needed to marry in real life as soon as possible to nullify d spirit affair...so i told mumsy; If i don already get spirit wife, wetin i want another woman for again? i can't cheat on my Spirit wife o. My popsy sef come dey halla instead of him to be proud say him be Spirit Father in law...To further scare me, She said; the Pastor said d Spirit already had 2 children for me!! Well, i just wan know if those children dey go school? If d spirits can train my children i'll be happy, i've always wanted my kids to school abroad...yes d spirit world is like abroad na. School fees may even be cheaper there so...benjoks
Education / Sunrise And Sunset by djoguns: 4:08pm On Jun 12, 2017
They say "The sun rises in the East and sets in the West" why e come be say na we wey dey North d sun dey hammer pass?? Sun wey rise in d East, set for West, na me wey dey North e wan come kill?? Oyibo wey no dey too feel Sun na dem wan tell us where sun dey Rise and set....make those Oyibo come spend 2 days for Maiduguri, they'll change their minds...People in Maiduguri can tell you where the sun was born and brought up before it started learning how to Rise and Set... As far as am concerned, The sun resides in the North, rises in the North, visits the East, West and south and returns to the North again set. Benjoks
Politics / Oshiomole And Other Governors Should Be Probe by djoguns: 4:02pm On Jun 12, 2017
I hear say dem wan probe all d Governors and i happy...especially those wicked to the youths like Oshiomole, how can u marry such a lady and be parading her before the youths, a lady that rightfully belongs to us.. If dem go seize Oshiomole assets make dem seize that girl join...i don't need his house or car, just give me that girl.....I hear say no pastor gree join them, the one wey finally gree sef reach church he confuse, he ask d girl reach 6 times. E look d girl look Oshiomole he ask girl "do you take this man as ur lovely wedded husband"..she said yes..
Pastor ask again "you are sure u take Oshiomole as your lovely wedded husband".
"Look into my eyes and tell me u take Oshiomole as ur lovely wedded husband".
When i see Oshiomole and him Wife wedding Picture i carry am go show my Pastor.... I say pastor i thought u said Light and Darkness cannot walk together! Now light and darkness don marry!
Romance / Men Who Beat Their Wives Are Domestic Animals by djoguns: 9:52pm On Jun 10, 2017
Men who beat their wives are "Animals". Animals found in the house are called "Domestic Animals"...Men are found in the house...so examples of domestic animals are: Goats, Dogs, Cows, Men that beat their wives, Sheep etc.
But then again, as a man if you want to marry....marry woman wey you fit beat. I resolved a dispute last saturday, the couple actually fought and the husband was the victim. It was embarrassing o. Instead make i dey try pet the wife, na the husband i come dey...kai, e no make sense. E no good make man dey house make e no fit vex...but if your wife fit beat you, if she vex you are at risk, if you vex, na you still dey at risk..Am not saying you should beat her o, but let it be clear that you can beat her. Let it be that you are being a gentleman not that you have no option than to be a gentleman.
Nairaland / General / Reflecting On Nigeria As An Entity by djoguns: 9:42pm On Jun 10, 2017
I am now of the opinion that there are only 2 races, ethnicities or tribes in the world: the rich/influential/powerful and the poor/commoner/weak.
More often than not, the rich will create social structures to attempt to keep everyone in their respective place and will strongly resist and oppose any attempt of the poor aimed at joining their ranks.
Bringing it home to the Nigerian context, a Southerner, and specifically an Igbo, may think the Nigerian ethnic tribalism of the Hausa/Fulani against the Southerners and Easterners is the reason behind the resistance to regional resource control and fiscal federalism in Nigeria.
Some may go as far as believing that the Hausa/Fulani is THE enemy of progress of the Igbo.
But is that really true? Let us look more closely.
If the Hausa/Fulani elites were opposing the efforts of the Igbos simply for the sake of tribalism, one will expect the states that consist of the Hausa/Fulani tribe to be the most prosperous states in the country in every possible classification.
As we are all aware, the exact opposite is the case.
Clearly, we see that even within the Hausa/Fulani tribe, the rich is savagely raping and subjugating the poor.
Furthermore, the Nigerian 3rd Republic is 18 years old, and in this time, each state has been ruled by its own indigenes.
In the past 18 years, how has the lot of States in Nigeria improved compared with the days of military rule?
Have the Western elites significantly developed the West? No.
Have the Eastern elites significantly developed the East?
No.
Have the Southern elites significantly developed the South? No.
Have the Northern elites significantly developed the North? No.
So our biggest problem in Nigeria is not our inability to coexist as a nation of diverse tribes and religions. Our biggest problem is the strongly entrenched system of political elites that will gladly raise the dust of tribe and religion to distract our attention from the massive diversion of public wealth for personal gain.
In all honesty, I have to commend the elites for their political savvy displayed in their ability to keep the citizenry occupied with every other issue but the most important/pressing issue.
It cannot be easy to distract people with the exact same lie for 20 years without the people catching on.
Religion / Making Heaven by djoguns: 9:19pm On Jun 10, 2017
This idea of trying to make heaven as a believer is satanic. It's a strategic deception to hinder spiritual growth and development. It makes you concentrate your effort in the very wrong direction. So rather than spending time growing and doing the works of Christ, you are busy trying to 'make heaven'. How can you, a believer born of God, filled with the Holy Ghost, joint-heir with Christ, anointed with eternal life which is the very essence of God, be struggling to be in heaven? Can't you see you already have heaven brought to you? You're seated with Christ in the heavenly places! Eph 2:6. This is not some high sounding words but the truth of the word. I can't imagine my children struggling to be in their house. How does that sound? Mind blowing illiteracy...
Religion / Sin Does Not Live Here Anymore! by djoguns: 3:56pm On Jun 10, 2017
This was the title I gave to a message that I preached several years ago, after which I called a young lady forth, out of a 'large' church audience of less than five people, and laid my hands on her head for healing power, at Onikolobo, Abeokuta, Ogun State. She did not shake, nor move, neither did she scream. She did not slum nor did she rumble the seats.
She simply went back to her seat quietly, only to discover later that her blood genotype had been miraculously changed from SS to AS. She stopped being a 'professional patient' at Afonja specialist hospital, Ibara Housing Estate, Abeokuta. Ogun State. She is not anonymous, neither is this one of the Miracle mongers' advertorial, she is my wife's only consanguineous sister, and she is married, she is over forty years old, still healed. If you do not believe in healing power, you are ' gone'!
Christianity does not inspire, promote nor encourage sins, or sinfulness. I do not think that it is possible to rise from bible study and straightaway be motivated to sinfulness. It is not possible to be born of the spirit of Christ and preach or teach that sinning is appropriate or healthy for lifestyle in God, under heaven. It is not possible to be a Christian, aiding and abetting sporadicism of carnal behaviors in the mire and cuoagmire of unbridled list and evil concupiscence. How can an in-depth study of the word of God lead to a more loose, licentious, lax, lazy, and horrible Christianity?
To conjecture that I preach that Christ's death, and resurrection which is the most assured guarantee of ETERNAL REDEMPTION OFFERED BY GOD ON THE GROUND OF DIVINE SACRIFICE AND PROPRITIATIONAL ATONEMENT is good grounds for sinfulness is most saddening. I met our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ several years ago, and I have never had any moment of regret.
I have no special man of God's special weakness, addictions or habituations whatsoever, except to prayer and word study. I have never condoned sins, nor shrouded my hot displeasure for inconsistent walk in righteousness with any kind of frivolous extra-biblical message. I do not take anything alcoholic in the minutest trace amount, nor do I lead any questionable life. I have learned to possess my vessel in sanctification and honor and not in the lust of unbridled concupiscence as other Gentiles that do not know God, I Thess 4:4-7.
Jesus died an actual sacrificial death of reconciliation to deliver us from the yoke of sin, and the compelling nature of disobedience and rebellion to deity. We have now been enabled with a nature of dominion over sin. We are not meant to be pretenders, but people who have been transformed by eternal life forever. Eternal life vanquished the power and authority of sin. We indeed died to the subsisting element of sinfulness. Man altogether is born in sin and shapen in iniquity, psalm 51:5, but just as we have born the image of depravity, we now bear the image of holiness through Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour.
IN CHRIST, WE ARE DEAD TO AND FREED FROM THE POWER OF SIN ROM 6:2, 7, 15.
IN CHRIST, WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN DOMINION OVER SIN, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE, ROM 6:14
WE HAVE BEEN BOUGHT OVER, PURIFIED AND CALLED A SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE AN INNER ZEST TO DO GOOD BY NATURE. TITUS 2:14
WE WERE ONCE DARKNESS, BUT NOW ARE WE LIGHT IN THE LORD, EPH 5:8
JESUS WAS MADE A SACRIFICE FOR SIN ON OUR BEHALF, II COR 5:21
WE HAVE BEEN PERFECTLY SANCTIFIED OR CALLED HOLY BY THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST, ONCE AND FOR ALL, AND FOREVER, HEB 10:14
How can we say that the truth of Christ's power to redeem from sin is license for sinning or making a practice of sin. THE SEED OF GOD DOES NIT SIN. People who have been sinning as Christians even in our days have been doing so without any special license, or sermon from the pulpit. I am thinking that if my Pastor preaches THOU SHALL SIN FOREVER, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE A CHOICE. Nothing but the truth saves and sets on the path of a healthy spiritual walk with God....
The way to walk in propriety of holiness and spiritual decorum is to diligently and cautiously posses our vessels in sanctification and honor, which only comes by the word of redemption.
Walking in holiness, purity of life and healthy Christianity must be deliberate, wary, conscious, and consistently predicated only on the premise of an astute culture of CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM ALL INIQUITY, AND EMPOWERED US TO WALK IN HOLINESS. NEVER ON RELIGIOUS FEARS OF JUDGEMENT OR "MISSING HEAVEN".
WE ARE MEMBERS OF HEAVEN ALREADY, EMPOWERED TO LIVE OUR TEMPORARY TIME ON EARTH BY THE POWER OF HEAVEN, WHICH IS ETERNAL LIFE.
AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SIN NOT, I COR 15:34
HENCEFORTH, WALK NOT AS OTHER GENTILES WALK, EPH 4:17
POSSESS YOUR VESSEL IN SANCTIFICATION AND HONOUR, I THESS 4:5
CLEANSE OURSELVES OF ALL FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH AND ATTITUDES, PERFECTING HOLINESS OUT OF REVERENCE FOR GOD, II COR 7:1
ABSTAIN FROM ALL APPEARANCE OF EVIL, I THESS 5:22
PUT YE ON THE LORD JESUS AND MAKE NO PROVISION FOR THE FLESH..ROM 13:14
WALK IN THE SPIRIT, GAL 5:24-25
Family / Re: Identical Twin Sisters Who Are Pregnant At The Same Time (Photos) by djoguns: 10:52am On Feb 08, 2017
Congrat to them
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