The Authoring of an ‘Unfinished Faith’! - Part 10

Beloved,

I was encouraged to realize that the Disciples-Made-Apostles had actually journeyed from The Beginning of Faith to The End of Faith when they found themselves writing with graced inspirations, the epistles which remain unreviewable till date! God’s plumb line for generations born and unborn was therefore downloaded through Their Walk, because they chose not to be nominal Christians but rather, live by every Spoken Word that proceeded out from the Mouth of The Father (Matt. 4:4)

Apostle Paul’s journey, like very few others, started with a raw encounter after he had carried out exploits with a Blind Mind against The Church (Acts 26:11/Gal. 1:13). He was then graced with a grave commission to the body of Christ after the Lord had dealt with his Inner Eyes because No Man Has Ever Walked With God Without A Restoration of The Blindness That All Men Experienced Through Adam. The Church must wake up to a truth that ‘THE NEW BIRTH DOES NOT OPEN THE EYES OF OUR UNDERSTANDING’! 

Paul was one of the few saints in history who had such a Quick Work In Righteousness carried out on The Eyes of His Understanding (Eph. 1:17-18), a compulsory experience before God can grant Believers-Made-Disciples an access to His Secrets, though believers from his day till date have ignorantly despised this Gracious Process, making it take years or decades for some, while others never embrace this chapter until they go to heaven with a Soul-State similar to that of The Thief On The Cross.

What was hanging on men’s souls was A Wisdom Called The World which was weightier than the residual life that was resident in their souls and Apostle Paul knew that believers would be slaves to it all their lives. He therefore had to enlighten them on the only solution that could deal with this i.e. – The Wisdom of God revealed in Christ Jesus (1Cor. 1:30)

Apostle Paul fulfilled his 3 fold commission to the Gentiles, kings, and the Children of Israel (Acts 9:15/26:17) after he had been built against the wisdom of Satan i.e. the Wisdom of the World

The Wisdom called The World is older than generations of men, was crafted by a onetime light (wisdom) bearer and without discerning/overcoming  it, believers would remain earthly relevant/celebrated but would never become an answer to God’s desire for Sons to arise!

I was also amazed to realize that the Lord personally dealt with vast weights that hung on the souls of all men that crossed His path. He did so with anointed words that quickened His Disciples-Made-Apostles who later confronted weights in the hearts and lives of other Christians.

1.  Little wonder why the Lord Jesus tried to confirm through his rapport with the Young, Rich Ruler that the weight of our earthly professions/attainment could ensnare one from Walking With God/Knowing Truth!!

2.  Little wonder why Gehazi drew back in his walk with a heavily anointed Elisha having treasured material possessions at the expense of the God whom Elisha carried, which was meant to come upon him like Elisha had earlier partaken of Elijah’s anointing.

3.   Little wonder why Nimrod could trade the path of submitting to the Life of Faith for a lustful ambition that enabled him to pioneer a pseudo civilization with a motive of Making a Name for themselves (Gen. 11:4c), the same trend that has come upon some Churches in the name of ‘exploits’!

4.   Little wonder why Samson could trade his consecration for the Pleasures of Sin, which is always but for a moment (Heb. 11:25) because carnality had overtaken his consecration!

5.   Little wonder why Demas departed from the Precious Faith Path which he trod with Apostle Paul, because the hunger for Things Present was above his thirst for Things to Come!

6.   Little wonder why The Flesh/Carnal Nature Wrote Some Chapters of David’s Life, because some Lurking Laws of Lust through acquired before and while he was a king had grown above his consecration to God!

7.   Little wonder why the weightier glories of having a child, Job, relationship and earthly possessions ‘by all means’ makes men excuse ‘all sorts’ just like Father Abraham once excused his affair with Hagar.

8.   Little wonder why the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and Priests of old were all subdued by the weight of their religious positions and lost a divine placement in God’s agenda, eternally!

9.   Little wonder why the weight of Peter’s traditional/religious mindset limited him from being persuaded by a heavenly vision (Acts 10:17-19) to open up to a New Testament ministry of Revelation which he had to later sit under the ministry of Apostle Paul to learn of 

10.Little wonder why the weight of human mindsets/theologies and doctrines/traditions of men (Col. 2:8) are effortlessly limiting men from entering God’s higher purposes, hidden from the foundations of the World

11.Little wonder why the weight attached to ‘Working for God’ has subtly substituted the place of ‘Walking With God’ and ‘The Act of Talking To Men About God’ has gradually substituted ‘The Art of Talking To God about Men’!

12.Little wonder why some believers rest and build a tabernacle around The Glories of The Milk of The Word rather than journey (1Tim. 2:4) to the meaty aspects of God’s

13.Little wonder why the tutorials of the Apostles from Romans – Revelations delivered The Strong Meat of The Word and made the Souls of Believers Like Unto Gold, because it Primarily Promoted The Faith of The Son that imparts An Eternal Work of Grace For Spiritual Perfection!

Bless You!

The Authoring of An Unfinished Faith – Part 9

Beloved,

I realize that many have an insufficient idea of what God is really asking His saints. Like an employer would hardly ever agree to share his employee with another employer and like a sincere wife would hardly ever agree to share her husband with any other woman, so also the lord God will not share the soul of any believer! Satan knows the value of the soul much more than many and that is why he would stake the World for it (Mark 8:36) which gives rise to some salient questions like:

·         What really is The World and how does it get men spotted without them discerning it for decades?

·         Why did the Lord Jesus and His Holy Apostles have to appraise themselves before departing to heaven as having Overcome The World with a particular kind of Faith? Jn. 14:30/1 Jn. 5:4

·              Why did they track and brand as Wicked, the wisdom of the world that once Crept into the Church during their days but is now Celebrated in some cycles of Churches? Jude 1:4/Jn. 2:26/5:19/Gal. 1:4

·         What insightful knowledge did Apostle John have about the World that made him summarize its three fold operation as The Lust of The Eyes, The Lust of the flesh and The Pride of Life? 1 Jn. 2:16

Human language and vocabulary has always been very limited in explaining spiritual issues, but I can deduce from the epistles that:

·         The World is anything traceable to the enticing tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, i.e. any wisdom not traceable to the Tree of Life which Adam failed to eat, but later raised in Christ Jesus. Gen. 2:9/Jn. 6:53/2 Tim. 4:10

·         The World is an enlightenment (a light called darkness) that makes men self-sufficient and falsely fulfilled without God. Matt. 6:23/2 Cor. 11:14/Jn. 3:19

·         The World is that which Satan presented on a platter of gold to Jesus in the wilderness as Lusts of the Flesh/Eyes and the Pride of Life, the same glories he has sold to everyman that have ever seen the sun from Adam to infants today, while the only few who have escaped this snare did so to the degree in which they submitted to the Leading of The Spirit. Matt. 4:1-10/1 Cor. 12:2/Rom. 8:14

·         The World is that subtly packaged Hope that drives both men of High and Low degree. Ps.2:9

·           The World is the fruit of a perverted Cherubic Wisdom of Satan which we can only defeat when we attain spiritual Wisdom (Trees of Righteousness) Isa. 61:3/Lk. 2:52/1 Jn. 3:2

·         The world was the wisdom used by Satan in building the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and Priest into religious structures of unbelief that veiled many from ever knowing the New and Living Way. Mark 6:6/Heb. 10:20

·         The World was the intelligence employed by the likes of Nimrod in crafting an alternative path/civilization that stifled the Life of Faith and thereafter moved a generation of Souls from the sight of Ararat where they earlier drew inspirations of God from where Noah’s Ark rested unto Shinar where he built kingdoms like Babel. Gen. 10:9-10

·         The World is a weight that daily influences men to despise God’s kind of life (ZOE) through lustful choices made when we gratify the cares of life (BIOS).

·         The World is that school master that instructs men in the Art of Compromise, making men to trade Things to Come (Spiritual/Eternal) for Things Present (Carnal/Ephemeral). Mark 8:36/Heb. 11:20/12:16

·         The World is that which may sometimes fail to stop an unbeliever from the new birth experience but would fight such tenaciously from growing FROM FAITH TO FAITH via Doctrines of men, philosophies and traditions of men, all skillfully used to turn many away from truth/sound doctrine unto fables. Matt. 15:6/Col. 2:8/Col. 2:22/2 Tim. 4:3-4

·         The world is that which keeps men busy with religious activities that can’t reveal Christ, leaving believers with stunted spiritual growth and the gates of hell unperturbed.

·         The World is that which fights Christians either with ease or lustful ambitions after making them assume that they have sighted and entered the Kingdom at new birth when only their human spirit did and their souls was only granted the potential to do so after obeying faith. Jn. 3:3/3:5/2 Pet. 1:11/Rom. 1:5/Heb. 5:9

·         The World is Satan’s boast, having scented everything that perishes with use with lusts.

·         The World is that which a true preacher of the Gospel would passionately and skilfully confront like the Apostles did, while preparing the flock for true holiness and righteousness Acts 20:28/Eph. 4:24

·        The World was the wisdom which Christ judged on the cross via the Wisdom of Meekness, via the foolishness of God that is wiser than all the wisdom of men. Jn. 16:33/James 3:13/1 Cor. 1:25

·        Before the unveiling of the beast (the man of Sin) the World would remain Satan's the greatest weapon to steal, kill and destroy the souls of men. (Jn. 10:10/Rev. 17)

·         The World is that which can ONLY be discerned after we have fulfilled the Faith and Love precepts (Eph. 1:15) and after the Eyes of Our Understanding has been Enlightened. Eph. 1:17-18

This list is endless! As the population of the earth have been on the increase, so also have the victims of The World’s Wisdom been on the increase

-      With all the increase in the Military/Scientific/Economic might of Nations today, there have also been an increase in confusion! Creation have been groaning for a deliverance from the bondage of the corruption (The World) and this can only take place by the Manifestation of The Sons of God! Rom. 8:19

We need to be raised, built, established and this can’t take place by The Faith provisions of the Milk of The Word but by The Faith provisions of The Meat of The Word, i.e. by The FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD! (Heb. 6:1-3/5:12-14/Gal. 2:20/Acts 26:18

The True Church (individually and corporately) must therefore walk from Faith to Faith (i.e. from the hearing to the receiving of the end of faith, the salvation of our souls), because thereby would we complete our obedience and commit God to avenge every disobedience that can be traced to the 1^st Adam/fall of man. (Rom. 10:17/Rom. 1:16/1Pet.1:9)

Then would we bear the image of the heavenly like we once bore the image of the earthly and we would encounter a Superior Wisdom ordained from the foundation of the world, hidden in the face of Christ, destined to raise Sons!

Then would God judge unrighteousness which has been fostered by this World, close this age and summon the New Heaven and Earth wherein Righteousness dwelleth. 2 Cor. 3:18/Eccl. 1:16/1 Cor. 1:21/2:7/Eph. 3:10/2 Pet. 3:10-13

Bless You!

The Authoring of An Unfinished Faith - Part 8

Dearly Beloved,

-          There is a Gospel that must not be ignored, which was specially committed to Apostle Paul and documented in about two-third of the entire New Testament.

• That Gospel had substances that would ESTABLISH those who have received the initial Faith-Foundation of The Sincere Milk of The Word (1Pet. 2:2).
• That Gospel contained everlasting commandments of how to OBEY THE DEEPER ASPECT OF FAITH and it is pregnant with divine materials that could build Saints with wisdom that is superior to that which Lucifer used in weaving this world!
• An Old Testament edition of this Gospel was what separated some Hebrew chapter 11 old faithful unto God, causing it to be declared concerning them that “the world wasn't worthy of them”, because of the state/stature that their souls attained after being exposed to it! Heb. 11:36-38
• -          That Gospel is the spiritual mechanism that would move us from BELIEVING IN THE GOSPEL unto OBEYING THE GOSPEL = Rom. 16:25-26

Rom. 16:25-26 Now to him that is of power to ESTABLISH you according to MY GOSPEL, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the OBEDIENCE OF FAITH

Rom. 1:5 By whom we have received Grace and Apostleship, for Obedience To The Faith among all nations (i.e. all Souls)

(Pls note that Faith here is not Faith Towards God described in Heb. 6:1) but A Refined Edition of Faith that can discern and subdue The Wisdom of This World/vanity)

• The Lord Jesus knew that believers would be faced with the challenge of journeying against The Gravity of The Carnal Nature, so he graced his Apostles to discern the faith he used to beat the devil hands down, a faith that would enable them deal with the fallen state of Satan’s Wisdom and such was THE FAITH THAT RESIDES IN GOD

• The Lord knew that many believers who won’t discern that the born again experience can’t deal with the blindness of hearts and minds that came upon mankind through Adam, so he ordained the Faith Provision in Eph. 1:15 to bring the saints into the Love Provision in Eph. 1:15b after which they would qualify for an encounter with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation Eph. 1:17-18 that would open them up to the first course of Spiritual Knowledge, which is the Knowledge of God

• The Lord knew that without this Ephesian 1:17-18 experience, believers would ultimately ‘make it to heaven’ but would fall short of ‘inheriting the kingdom’, i.e. inheriting him and reigning with him in the world to come.

Rom. 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to MY GOSPEL.

Generations of believers are yet to discern the precept upon precept faith instructions in Ephesian chapter 1 and proceed to other chapters which can’t be unlocked unless we access/take root in its counsels. The entire New/Old Testament books would remain a ‘closed book’ if the verses from Eph. 1:1-1:23 isn’t unlocked and we need to yearn for mercy here. This is where our Spiritual eyes would be opened to the realm of the Spirit/the epistles.

Acts 26:18 …to Open Their Eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God (No wonder Paul raised converts like Timothy who attained Sonship also)

Lk. 4:18 ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and RECOVERING OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND…

(This is what Eph. 1:17/18 & Acts 26:18 was making reference to, and this is where the church is lacking. WE NEED NEW TESTAMENT REVELATIONAL TEACHINGS TO DO JUSTICE TO THIS DIRE NEED)

You may therefore agree with me that Apostle Paul could only speak unto such Churches/saints As Unto Spiritual (1Cor. 3:1), as unto matured ones (1 Cor. 2:6) after Eph. 1:15/17-18 had been fulfilled which was the legal ground for them up be opened up to higher faith transactions in the Spirit.

Such Deeper Faith Realm is where we would be empowered to graciously lay down our carnal life (daily to self) and be prepared to inherit The Hidden Wisdom of God ordained for The Glory of The True Church (1Cor. 2:7b/Eph. 3.10).  this is how fallen spirits would respect us

Satan’s greatest fear has been the pending Enlightenment of Believer’s Spiritual Eyes, because through it, they would go from ‘Faith to Faith’ and the pillars of ignorance that has kept Satan up in the air since Adam’s fall would ultimately be hewn down! (Isa. 14:12/15-17)

May The Blessed Church of Christ, corporately find Great Mercy and Grace to encounter The Spirit of Wisdom & Revelation needed to unveil the Knowledge of Christ to us, Amen!

Bless You!

  

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The Authoring of an 'Unfinished Faith'! - Part 7

Dearly Beloved,

I realize that one of the major challenges before The Church of Christ is to HALT EVERY OTHER RAT RACE INDUCED BY THE WORLD through the preaching of a True/Balanced Gospel. Then would we see the distinction between unbelievers/carnal believers (who primarily ‘seek things present’) and Christians (called to ‘seek things above’)

Heb. 11:8 ‘By Faith (i.e. Beginning of His Walk/Faith) Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance (i.e. End of His Walk/Faith), obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went’.

We can see that the Faith that the apostles came into was neither the initial kind of ‘Faith Towards God’ which was described as ‘Faith in The Lord Jesus’ to churches in Ephesus and Colosse (Eph. 1:15/Col. 1:4), but rather, Christ’s Own Kind Of Faith that would make a believer beat every scheme of the enemy hands down

2 Cor. 6:17-18 ‘Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty.

(This is a promise that would be delivered by the revelational Face Ministry of Christ and not the Ministry of His Hands where we can get miracles)

You may therefore agree with me that the Faith Father Abraham used to lay down Isaac on Mount Moriah was Faith according to Knowledge and not the initial Faith according to Believing which we he used to believe God for a child and to increase in silver and Gold! It was a type of God’s Faith at work in Him that made him Know Isaac would be raised from the dead by resurrection power!

Such faith so pleased God that he began a lineage in the Spirit through him, of those who would come into their spiritual inheritance, making you and I become Abraham’s seed meant to grow into ‘Trees of Righteousness’ and this can only take place when we change meals from The Milk to The Meat of God’s Word, from one kind of faith to another!

Like Joshua and Caleb, we must with a ‘different spirit/finishing faith’ press into our promised land which in the New Testament is a Spiritual/Eternal Inheritance in heavenly Places in Christ Jesus! Eph. 1:3

Bless You!

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The Authoring of an 'Unfinished Faith'! - Part 6

Dearly Beloved,

Our Lord Jesus faced a great challenge that preachers face today. He had an audience who weren’t growing in Wisdom (in The Spirit) as they grew in stature (in the natural - Lk. 2:52). Therefore remained shallow in spiritual understanding without the exception of the Lord’s disciples who could hardly interpret every inspired word Christ Spoke

It may therefore interest you to know that many of the exciting faith messages of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John where we easily relate with God’s Promises for The Natural Life has to do with The Beginning or Foundation of Faith!

The Lord started out by promoting an aspect of Faith (Faith Towards God) via Carnal Ministrations, i.e. via messages that men could carnally or physically relate with. He had to leave the aspect of unveiling Spiritual Ministrations (i.e. spiritual promise hidden in the Parables) to the apostles who later broke down his parables into counsels that would Build Us Unto The End of Faith (1Pet. 1:9)  

Jn. 3:12 ‘If I have told you Earthly Things (i.e. things that take place on earth including new birth), and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of Heavenly Things (i.e. things that take place in heavenly/spiritual places which we meant to fellowship with while on earth, things that glorious angels desire to know but can’t because its only given to man – 1Pet. 1:12/Heb. 2:6)?

Jn. 16:12 ‘I have yet MANY THINGS to say unto you, but ye cannot BEAR them now’ (i.e. things pertaining truth which must be unveiled by the Holy Spirit)

The kind of Faith that Christ was promoting in the synoptic gospels like in Matt. 11:29 was one which believers could relate with from spiritual Childhood unto Teenage years, but this certainly can’t take us into Adulthood (i.e. spiritual maturity/Sonship).

Young believers in the early years of the Christian faith are mainly faced with Mountains/natural Problems and there is a recipe of faith that empowers them to overcome such challenges. This recipe is a Faith is found in The Milk of God’s Word, an elementary or foundational aspect of the principles/doctrines of Christ, please see Heb. 6:1-2

Mark 11:23 ….that whosoever shall say unto This Mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

So, with all the manifestation of gifts of the Spirit that made believers in the Corinthian Church prosper outwardly, the intelligence of sin still hold them captive, because sin was spiritual and it takes a transformed/spiritual soul to overcome it. They were therefore at the mercy of receiving a more spiritual meal which was a faith described as “THE FAITH OF THE SON”

This is why:

-         John’s testimony in 1Jn. 1:1 was that a saint who started initially with the Beginner Courses of Faith but was later weaned from it and built by the Faith of The Son to an extent that his soul could laid hold of very Thronic life resident in God which our recreated Human Spirit partook of at New Birth!

-     Apostles Paul had to prepare the Ephesian and Colossian churches for a deeper Faith through ministrations that reveal Christ after they cooperated with the necessary initial faith weaning process. This was the legal ground for Paul to pray to the Father to ‘Open The Eyes of Their Heart’ (Eph. 1:17-18)

The same God that has been christened ‘Jehovah Sharp Sharp/Jehovah Now Now’ in my generation is the same God that kept Father Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Zachariah, Hannah, Mary e.t.c. waiting for decades, all because He actually wanted to give them something beyond the natural, something beyond what the ‘average Christian’ would celebrate as ‘breakthrough’.

You may therefore agree with me that ‘There is a Faith that would Build or lead unto Perfection! When The Church is United in this Faith, believers would attain a spiritual stature that can ‘House The Father & The Son’ (Jn. 14:21/23) like we ‘Housed the Spirit’ (Jn. 14:16) when we got born again. Until then, there would be no clear distinction between what a believer and an unbeliever seeks!

If not You, WHO? If not Now, WHEN? If not Here, WHERE?

Bless You!

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