... AN APPRAISAL ON WHY OUR DEFINITIONS MUST CHANGE SO WE CAN BECOME STAKEHOLDERS OF GOD'S PEACE
Dearly Beloved,
Over the years, I have come to agree
with the Lord that A FREE MAN IS SOMEONE TO WHOM IT HAS BECOME CRYSTAL CLEAR
THAT HIS LIFE AND PEACE SHOULD NOT BE DEFINED OR REGULATED BY EXCITING
HAPPENINGS OR DISAPPOINTMENTS THAT RESIDES UNDER THE SUN. (Rom. 8:6/Mal.
2:5/Eccl. 1:8-9)
SO BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE CHIEF ASSET
IS A FREEDOM THAT IS BORN FROM ABOVE BY TRUTH (Jn. 3:31/8:32), WHOSE
DEFINITIONS OF GOD’S GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS RUNS CONTRARY TO THAT OF MANY
OTHER BELIEVERS OR CARNAL MINDS. Such a believer
would gradually experience the IVORY PALACES IN CHRIST JESUS (Ps.
45:7-8/Eph. 1:3) where he would naturally LIVE BY FAITH (1Pet. 1:23/Heb.
10:38). Ultimately, he would experience GOD’S ETERNAL DWELLING PLACE (Ps.
90:1) where he would naturally ABIDE IN LOVE (1Pet. 1:23/1Jn.
2:10/14/17/3:6)
1Pet. 1:23 Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible (seed/word), by the
word of God (two edged – Heb. 4:12), which liveth (faith) and
abideth (love) forever.
True freedom
has a synonym called the peace of God and it can become the inheritance
of those who choose to despise (hate) the peace being offered by the world (Jn.
14:27/12:25). By default, our natural well educated mind is a friend of this
world and at enmity with God (Job. 22:21-23/Rom. 8:7/Jam. 4:4), and as such
it can’t understand the subtlety of the peace being offered by the world. So
our judgement (ways/thoughts) has to be overhauled/changed.
God’s provision to
address this enmity (obstacle) is the provision of His Faith - the faith of the
new creature; the faith of the world to come. As we learn of him and walk
in him (Matt. 11:29/Col. 2:6), we would come into many justifications of
the Spirit like the Lord did (Matt. 3:17/17:5) and become SHAREHOLDERS OF
GOD’S PEACE. We would unlearn sin and receive the prescription of change
that Jesus gave in 2Cor. 3:18. Like it is with our recreated human spirit, our
souls would also come to a place where it can witness to the fact that “WE
ARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD”. (2Cor. 5:21)
·
2Cor. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding
as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
·
2Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made (a future tense/expectation) the
righteousness of God in him
So, a very crucial
activity that is currently going on is that of God raising men that would be
made free enough to disobey Satan and all that he represents! Like
our Lord Jesus and his apostles, these communities of saints would be empowered
by the gospel of God (Rom. 1:1/1:16) to disown every pseudo peace that the
world offers men at a hidden cost (Jn. 14:27/Matt. 16:26). Their material
comfort (which can be a form of pseudo peace) would not be esteemed at the
expense of walking in love toward the saints (Eph. 1:15c/Gal. 6:2/6:10/1Pet.
1:22/2Cor. 8:2)
Our first or second
degrees (which doesn’t give us an edge over God’s enemies) cost us some
discipline and qualitative investment of time and resources. So it is with the
profession of faith (1Tim. 6:12/Heb. 3:1). Hearing the tutorials of God’s
righteousness and mixing it with unfeigned faith in our hearts should cost us
much more (Rom. 1:16/10:17/Heb. 4:2). Through this shortcut, the definition of the
Christian faith as a religion would be expired in us and we would
give this generation the right interpretation of the Christian faith as a
lifestyle of adventuring truth.
Our generation must
seek God for God, not just for things that perish with the use!
We must not hold back from seeking the Lord with all our hearts, soul, strength
and mind. As we do, Christ Jesus as the prince of peace would come and indwell
our hearts by His Faith (Eph. 3:17/Jn. 14:21), and would tarry in us until he
finds our hearts comfortable enough for him to beacon to the father to join him
(i.e. “relocate” from heaven) so they can both indwell us together (2Cor.
6:16/Isa. 66:1-2/Jn. 14:23/Rev. 21:3).
This is how we would
hasten the timeframe in which the enemies of the true church would be judged
(Rev. 6:14/12:9/Ps. 110:1), so that this age can to be shut down and the world
to come unveiled, Amen. (Heb. 1:10-12/2Pet. 3:13/Rev. 21:1-2)
Blessings!
Tayo Fasan
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