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Father I thank you for your Mercies,Grace and Favour in my life in Jesse name amen.

Why does God not declare himself as the God of Adam? For we know that Abraham sinned even as Adam did. Why then did He not call himself the God of Adam? Why did He not say the God of Abel, the seed of Adam? Why instead did He call himself the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob? Why according to the flesh was our Lord Jesus presented in the New Testament as having been born of the seed of Abraham? Why from among all men should God have called himself the God of these three particular persons?

Hmmm

ochibuogwu5:
Great Grace!!!

Indeed!!

Ihedinobi3:
Hello there.

Thank you for your kind words.

Regarding your observation and advice, on the one hand, I had meant to keep the lessons coming, but the new series I picked up turned out to be pretty heavy. Additionally, Nairaland seems to lend itself better to my Q&A projects than to exhaustive teaching. That is why I eventually left this alone. That is not to mention other delimiting circumstances that have intervened over the months. The work that I am currently tied up with is probably never going to be posted on this thread, although I originally meant it to be.

On the other hand, starting out, I did want significant engagement from readers on this thread, but that was never going to be even likely, because it is the rare person who is even interested in really studying the Bible the way that it should be, and because here on Nairaland everyone wants to be a teacher. For these reasons, engagement, if it ever happens, tends to be for the worse rather than for the better. So, the style of writing used was meant to discourage the sort of liveliness that Nairaland is used to. Clearly, it succeeded at doing so. I don't think that to be a loss. Anyone who loves the Truth is almost certain to find this thread on Nairaland, and the lack of rampant activity on it will not turn them away.

Cheers.

You are right bro.
Not just NL but Nigeria at large .
Majority of our youth hate reading.
God will continue to see us through
Just keep it up.as been lead by the Spirit.
Cheers

amen

The city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light. (Revelation 21:23 NLT)

Light is not a mental thing: that is to say, it is not just a matter of having a store of mental knowledge. That is not light. It is possible to have an enormous amount of doctrine and truth and never be luminaries, that is, never register impact upon darkness. Real light is experimental: that is to say, it is the fruit of experience, the experience of suffering. How have you children of God come to know what you do know of the Lord, that real kind of knowledge of the Lord which is so precious to us, which means so much and which makes you in that measure of value to others? It is through suffering, it is through the difficult way the Lord has led you, it is through the work of the Cross that He has wrought in you. “The Lamb is the lamp” – suffering leading to knowledge, to light, to understanding. It is the only way. These people at the end will be in the good of a great and wonderful revelation which has come by their fellowship with Christ in His sufferings. It is very true. It may not be too comforting from one standpoint, but it is true; and it ought to help us to realize this: that the Lord, in the way in which He is dealing with us, in the sufferings which He allows to come upon us, is really seeking our education, that we may have a knowledge of Himself which can only come that way, and which is a peculiar kind of knowledge of tremendous value to us and through us to others. We do not learn in any other way. It is the Lamb, always the Lamb-principle, the way of suffering and sacrifice and self-emptying, that brings us into the knowledge of the Lord. “The Lamb is the lamp thereof”; and, just as it is deeper death unto fuller life, so it may often be deeper darkness unto fuller light.

The Lord seems to lead us in a way where we are less and less able naturally to understand Him. He gets us altogether out of our natural capacity, beyond our capacity for interpreting His ways. We just do not know what the Lord is doing, or why He is doing what He is doing; yet it is the way by which we come to a very real kind of inward knowledge of Himself. It may not be capable of explanation in words to anybody, but we know, somehow or other we know, and that is a mighty thing, a mighty power of knowledge. It is light through the Cross.

Hi bro
It's a beautiful thread,but it has to be lively
I saw these thread like 2months back.
You need to be stable.
Thanks

hmm

My Father,thank you for Your Mercy,your Grace and Blood that continue to speak better things in my life and Destiny in Jesus name amen

amen

Hey

ochibuogwu5:
This is the major issue with our present day or generation of Christians. The Holy Spirit lead me to this truth just this August, 2019. For the past 22-years of struggling with the flesh to become like Jesus Christ without knowing that "what is born of the flesh is flesh and what is born of the Spirit is Spirit"
(John 3:6)
Christianity is a LIFE not a doctrine.
Christianity is a PERSON (Christ Jesus Crucified) living through the mortal-bodies of those who willingly and sincerely believe in his gospel after checking the advantage (Eternal-Life) and disadvantage (death of the flesh) of becoming a genuine Disciple of Jesus Christ.
Christianity is not *a motivational psychology* or *utterances* but A LIFE!!!!
Great grace

Correct bro!!
Gen2:22-23 says That God took a rib from Adam and made the woman with it.God didn't mix Adams rib with the dust/sand or any other thing before He made the woman.Adam too didn't accept any other thing expect what came from him to be his wife.
So it's with the Last Adam,He will never accept any other thing accept what came out of Him to be His Church.
Rom5:14
Our flesh(our natural decent,our blood)can never be accepted in the church.
Before we became Christains we are talented,filled with wisdom and eloquent.
When we became Christains it's natural to use these great wisdom,talents and eloquent in the church.but Christ is saying NO! It's not part of Him and can never be His bride/Church.

Romans8:5Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

Thank you Father for your Mercy and Grace upon my life.in Jesus name amen

Gen6:3And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive[a] with man forever, for he is indeed !FLESH!!yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
We must put our flesh to death.

You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. (Hebrews 3:13 NLT)

We talk about our motives, and we say, "Our motive was right!" We talk about our conscientiousness, we talk about our intentions; but you and I do not know what lies behind what we call our good motives. There is a deceitfulness about this human heart that defies our greatest attempt at tracking it down, and we shall never do it.... Here is where the church has become such a confused thing, and such a tragedy; for the prevailing idea is that if you give yourself over to God He will take you up and use you: "Bring over your humanity and consecrate it to the Lord! Consecrate your old man to the Lord, and go out and serve the Lord, with a consecrated old man!" it is utterly contrary to the teaching of God’s Word. The result is that in the work of God all the world over you have people serving the Lord in the energy of the flesh, in the reasoning of the flesh, in the emotions of the flesh. Meet them, counter them, frustrate them, and you meet something evil; you meet with a fight, a division, a schism, a scattering, and wholesale resignations.

Do you see what a havoc the enemy can make in that which is called the church, because people with best intentions and purest motives have come to serve the Lord with all their own intelligence, their own strength, and their own emotion? They have not seen that God has closed the door to the old creation, and that God’s attitude is this: "The only thing that can satisfy Me, that can serve Me is My Son, and if you are going to come into My service, He has to be the energy of everything, the Life of everything, the Wisdom of everything!" He has to be the governing, ruling reality in everything. It is not to be a matter of your impulses, but of His urgings and leadings by the Holy Spirit; not your sitting down to reason out what it would be good to do for the Lord, what ought to be done, what needs to be done, but what He shows you, nothing more.... You and I must not bring over our old creation and give it to God, expecting God to use it. God begins with birth. The church of the firstborn is something quite new, and it comes out of a death. That death is the death of an old creation, and the resurrection is of something that is not the resuscitation of an old creation, but the resurrection of something wholly of God.

Abba Father I thank you,for your Mercy that have swallowed up every judgement in my life .
Thank you Father in Jesus name amen

May we never leave or go weary in His hands in Jesus name amen.

OLAADEGBU:
Source

They should give him a break pls.

GLYCOLYSISS:
Eternal life ?
What do you understand by "believe in Him" in that passage ?
What do you have to say about these Bible verse ?
Ezekiel 3:20

20 Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness (right doing and right standing with God) and some gift or providence which I lay before him he perverts into an occasion to sin and he commits iniquity, he shall die; because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood will I require at your hand

Hi bro
Your above verses is part of the Law.and the gospel truth is that no man born of blood of the will of a man and of flesh can keep Gods law.
It's very impossible.the law is Holy and good but the demand of the law can never be met by any one born by flesh,blood and of the will of a man.
The law was never given to the Israelite for them to uphold No!!it was given with the full knowledge that it will be broken.only then will the world accept His Grace.
So back to your post,we aren't call to 'do'
But to 'express' as long as we want to DO that's please God which is self righteousness there will always be one more thing to 'DO'(JOHN19:17So He said to him, [e]“Why do you call Me good? [f]No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

18He said to Him, “Which ones?”

Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

20The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept [g]from my youth. What do I still lack?”

21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

22But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.)which we can't uphold before Him.
If we truthfully believe in Him.we don't need to DO anything but express what He have already done.
Expressing the Life of Christ in all our endeavors.our thoughts,mind,actions have to express Him.Gal2:20.

ponziponzi:
Lol. You are funny.

Funny Mayb that's the truth.

GLYCOLYSISS:
Eternal security,right ?
I have come across many Bible verses that don't agree with these eternal security doctrine.
And personally,I don't believe in it.
I can't even believe in it to start with

Rightly put Eternal Life bro
It's not our call bro but His.
John3:16 remember?

Janosky:
John14:28
"Remember what I told you: I am going
away,
but I will come back to you again. If
you
really loved me, you would be happy
that I
am going to the Father, who is greater
than I
am"
Jesus words "I AM going to the
Father" ,
who is GREATER THAN I AM"



@ Ephesians 1: 17
"that the glorious Father, the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ, would give you
a
spirit of wisdom and revelation as you
come
to know Christ better. "

Ichuka has "wisdom and revelation to understand the things of God."

Pls ,Explain Ephesians 1:17.
Explain John 14:28.
Thank you.

So who's the Father and the Son?
Are they Big and small god or what?

John1:12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
@Op am not against/for your foundational thing here.
Just to state some facts.
1.Christainity is a life time process(it has nothing to do with magic/quick action that's once you are born again everything is now rosy)the above verses stated that once we believe he gives us power to BECOME sons of God.so it's a process.
2.for a born again Christain to be fully mature the will of God Must subdue the will of his flesh,the will of his blood and the will of any man in his life.
That's the only voice/will he obeys is that of God.
And to hear His voice and abide to His wills continually the will of the flesh and that of man must be dealt with in prayers.also the voice from the blood in your vein has to be silent.too.
Because blood speaks.

Janosky:
John14:28
"Remember what I told you: I am going away,
but I will come back to you again. If you
really loved me, you would be happy that I
am going to the Father, who is greater than I
am"

Jesus words "I AM going to the Father" ,
who is GREATER THAN I AM" disproves &
RUBBISH the Trinity FRAUD of "I AM" John8:58.

John14:28, is Jesus Christ lying?
You're quoting twisted version of Phil2:5-7.

Jesus Christ said his "Father is GREATER THAN I AM" therefore your Phil 2:5-7, Jesus is equal to his Father, God is CONTRADICTORY to John14:28.
Either you're LYING or Jesus is ....
Jesus Christ is perfect, but you're NOT.
DON'T FORGET.

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@ Ephesians 1: 17

"that the glorious Father, the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ, would give you a
spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come
to know Christ better. "

Apostle Paul says Ichuka don't even know "the glorious Father, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ",

Your Trinity FRAUD done spoil your brain.
Pls , REPENT !!

Lol
Dude you' need wisdom and revelation to understand the things of God.
Why was God called the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ the Son?
Do you know the reason for those tittles?

ponziponzi:
So why was he killed by the romans?

Because that's the reason He came in the first place.
The wages of sin is death.thats Gods prescription.inorder to reconcile man with God.He came and took the side of man on the cross.

solite3:
This is the truth op. It is all about what God made us to be in Christ not what we made ourself to be.

Correct bro
The moment we stop looking at ourselves and focus on Him completely there and then we have spiritual experience and growth

bingbagbo:
Jesus is Lord

Yes He's
Remember Hebrew5:8 said He learnt obedience through what He suffered.
So obedient was actually learnt by the Son
and created/inserted as part of His creation on Calvary