Changing Lives:
The Gospel of the Kingdom
The Mystery of Prayer and the Mystery of Unanswered Prayers
Outing the Anti-Christ[1]
Prophet Ntemfac Ofege
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectualfervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
A Mystery is not something that cannot be understood. A mystery is something that can be understood only by the initiated.
And, prayer, my friend, is a mystery.
Answered prayer is a mystery.
Unanswered prayer is also a mystery.
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN OR WOMAN availeth much.
Meaning the effective-availing or answered prayer is not for the unrighteous i.e. those who do not have a right-standing with God.
Let me ask you this question. Let’s say Bill Gates is passing by you and you run after him craving a boon or a cash handout. You run after him praying: My father, my father. I need some money.
The man will disregard you like the idle wind.
Is he your father?
So too it is with God.
Stiff-necked, hardhearted fellows who refuse to accept God as their father and who are unrighteous cry out to him in times of their carnal needs so that they will take of his resources and continue their wasteful lives.
1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (HOMOSEXUALS), nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Ga 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
And, the kingdom of God is not inherited when you die.
It is for the here and the now.
You start possessing your possession and living divinity in humanity one fragmentoid of a second after you are born-again.
Do you desire to inherit the Kingdom of God?
Do you desire to be born again?
Do you desire that the Lord God accepts you as his child?
Do you desire to be born again of incorruptible seed and hence of God?
Do you desire that God continually hears you when you pray?
Then do this:
Now you can be a voice instead of a noise unto the Lord God
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God,” “for the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers.”
Ps 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry-prayers.
Are you a righteous man or woman?
The unrighteous have no business praying because then they have nothing to say, they do not even know how to say the nothing that they do not know how to say and they have zero locus standing to say the nothing that they have to say.
In fact in Psalms 50, the Lord God himself warns the unrighteous.
Psalms 50:16. But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. 23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
AMEN
Do you desire to be a righteous man or woman so that you can make an availing prayer?
Then do this:
Now you can be a voice instead of a noise unto the Lord God
Prayer is also fervent.
Fervent means heart-felt.
Fervent means from the heart.
Not from the head or the eyes.
WHAT IS PRAYER?
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Unuttered or expressed,
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast:
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward gleaming of an eye,
When none but God is near.
Prayer is the simplest form of speech
That infant lips can try;
Prayer, the sublimest strains that reach
The Majesty on high:
Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,
The Christian's native air,
His watch-word at the gates of death,
He enters heaven by prayer.
Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice,
Returning from his ways,
While angels in their songs rejoice,
And say, Behold he prays!
The saints in prayer appear as one,
In word, in deed, in mind,
When with the Father and the Son
Their fellowship they find.
Nor prayer is made on earth alone:
The Holy Spirit pleads;
And Jesus, on th' eternal throne,
For sinners intercedes.
"O Thou, by whom we come to God!
The Life, the Truth, the Way,
The path of prayer thyself hast trod,
Lord, teach us how to pray!"
MONTGOMERY
Why do we pray? Why must we pray?
Without you, God will not.
Without him, you cannot.
When the Lord God made the man, he gave unto this man DOMINION over all the things that he hath made. He will NEVER intervene in man’s sphere of influence until the man invites him in.
You invite God into the fray by… PRAYER!
The man has not yet taken away the gifts that he gave Lucifer, why would he take Dominion away from you?
How would you feel if after giving you his daughter in marriage, your father-in-law barges in continually,all the time, to show you how to see your wife?
Eternity has given Lucifer time, you see, and Eternity is using him for an on-the-job training in ruler ship and dominion of they that be the sons of God.
And Lucifer gets no salary.
Pay attention; let me walk you through this. If you understand this you will understand who we really are and why we must PRAY.
Friend, do you know why the Lord Jesus said a house divided against itself cannot stand?
Lu 11:17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
Let me tell you why.
You see the Lord God took a part of his spirit to make the man. And as you are so is he.
1Jo 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
The man got separated from the Lord God when he sinned. But Jesus the Christ stepped forth to restore the man in his connectivity to God and in his dominion. The man now became one again with the Father.
Read John 17. Before he was crucified, the Lord Jesus prayed that this should be so.
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Friend, I will show you shortly that the above is actually the Lord’s Prayer.
Not the Our Father as you think.
The Our Father is the child’s prayer.
No God, let alone My God, would refuse a prayer of this intensity and volume.
For in this prayer lies prophecy pas and prophesy future.
Of course, the El Elyon heard him.
And God the father answered him speedily.
This is the reason why you and I are not one with the FATHER.
What has this got to do with a house divided against itself cannot stand, you must be asking.
God is a spirit.
His spirit now lives in you, if you are a Christian.
The spirit of God in you and your own spirit cannot have divided loyalties.
Your spirit cannot be PRAYING GOD for a girlfriend while the spirit of God in you is offering you a wife.
God is not the author of confusion
There must be an alignment.
There must be at oneness.
There must be an at-oneness or atonement.
That is why
2Co 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
The spirit of God in you will now use its powers to cause you to PRAY the Lord’s PRAYER for you so that he answers it.
Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
The man sees further than you.
The man knows further than you and his plans for you are the best because he knows the end from the beginning, you see.
See what he said about me even before I was born.
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Friend, what God has given, he has given.
His gifts are irrevocable.
Ro 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
And the Lord God made man in ‘OUR’ own image - in the image of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.
He made the man AFTER ‘OUR’ own likeness i.e. having the exact character of God.
Lizards give birth to lizards.
Dogs engender dogs.
A God can only reproduce gods by his sperma or Word.
Ps 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
If you are a Christ-ian, you are the child of a God who is a Spirit, who is Love and who exercises Dominion can only engender children who are spirits, who ought to be love and who exercise DOMINION over all things and over every circumstance.
Do you desire to be a Christ-ian?
Then do this:
Now you can be a voice instead of a noise unto the Lord God
Man is a spirit.
He lives in a body.
He has a soul.
The Man was born for DOMINION
So why are younot a spirit?
Why are you not love?
Why don’t you manifest dominion over all things and over every circumstance?
Listen, because Eternity is still making you to have the character of God.
That making process commences one second after you are born again. Christ appears in your life and starts fashioning you to be like unto God.
1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
The ‘when he shall appear’ herein is not in reference to the future perfect or the perfect future. It applies one second after you are born again.
Do you desire to be born again?
Then do this:
Now you can be a voice instead of a noise unto the Lord God
Now you can come into the very presence of God and talk loud.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Relativity
E=MC2
The Lord God speaks from Eternity and what he says in ETERNITY and from ETERNITY will manifest in time.
Eternity is the end
Time is the now.
The essential man is a spirit and spirits are infinite.
In spite of and despite the now, spirits, especially regenerated or born again spirits live in eternity.
You are not body, soul and spirit.
You are spirit, soul and body.
You are the child of God and your heavenly father made you for DOMINION.
He made you for ruler ship.
See something
Why is it that in Genesis 1, the MAKING of Man that the Lord God has created precedes the creation?
Gen: 6 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Which comes first; creation or making?
Why is the order reversed in this account?
Because the Lord God knows the end of the matter from the beginning and you are in the beginning.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
And why does Genesis 2 state emphatically that God finished all the work that he had to MAKE on the seventh day?
Gen 2: 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Friend, the answer is simple.
God is a spirit and a spirit is fathomless.
Who told you that God has finished MAKING you in his own likeness and with his character?
He created you, yes.
But he is still Making YOU to be like him.
And he needs the devil to train you be like him!
For no fee.
Friend, focus on the higher you.
1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
The Lord God is he who knows the end of the matter even before the beginning.
The difference between Eternity and Time.
The making of the man that the Lord God had created in his spirit necessitated an Executive Decision.
Speaking from ETERNITY, the Lord God said: Let US make man.
Genesis1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
But see Genesis 1: 27
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Notice that CREATION ALWAYS precedes MAKING.
You create in the spirit and then you make in reality.
Jer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Friend, once more, focus on the higher you.
Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Come ye hither to Zion where I am sitting.
Do not stay concentrated on that low level of the flesh and its low laws where you are now.
Come ye hither!
See why you must make an effort to read your Bible and PRAY.
See Romans 8.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 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.
Does Prayer Change God?
Suggesting that it is your prayer that causes the Lord God to act is the father of all IGNORANCE and a total insult to this God who is Love; this God who is a spirit; this God who is Eternity; this God who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient.
It is plain stupidity.
Friend, prayer does not change God. “I am the Lord; I change not.”
Mal 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
“The Father has life in himself, and this life is eternal life.” Throughout the eternal ages it has been God who “gives to all life.” There is infinite perfection in the divine integrity. “I am the Lord; I change not.”
Do you know the meaning of live in apposition to death?
Life is wisdom and knowledge and understanding and counsel and power or good health and righteousness and the love of God.
And then some.
There is no law against the attributes of life.
The life of God is in the spirit of God and if you have the spirit of God, you have life.
You can tell when one has the spirit of life by their FRUIT.
Galatians 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
You can also tell when one is infested with the spirit of death.
Folks desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Fleshy.
Self-seekers.
Galatians 5: 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
How exactly do you say that your PRAYER caused God to change when he is God is the Father of lights, but also that in his conduct of interplanetary affairs there “is no variableness neither shadow of changing.”
1Jo 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
He “declares the end from the beginning.” He says: “My counsel shall stand; I will do all my pleasures” “according to the eternal purpose which I purposed in my Son.” Thus are the plans and purposes of the God: eternal, perfect, and forever changeless.
“Whatsoever God does, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it.” The Lord God does not repent of his original purposes of wisdom and perfection. His plans are steadfast, his counsel immutable, while his acts are divine and infallible. “A thousand years in his sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night.” The perfection of divinity and the magnitude of eternity are forever beyond the full grasp of the circumscribed mind of mortal man.
The reactions of a changeless God, in the execution of his eternal purpose, may seem to vary in accordance with your changing attitude and your shifting; that is, they may apparently and superficially vary; but underneath the surface and beneath all outward manifestations, there is still present the changeless purpose, the everlasting plan, of the eternal God.
There is finality of completeness and perfection of repleteness in the Lord God. God’s primal perfection consists not in an assumed righteousness but rather in the inherent perfection of the goodness of his divine nature. He is final, complete, and perfect. There is no thing lacking in the beauty and perfection of his righteous character. And the whole scheme of living existences on the worlds of space is centered in the divine purpose of elevating all will creatures to the high destiny of the experience of sharing the Father’s Paradise perfection. God is neither self-centered nor self-contained; he never ceases to bestow himself upon all self-conscious creatures of the vast universe of universes.
God is righteous; therefore is he just. “The Lord is righteous in all his ways.” “‘I have not done without cause all that I have done,’ says the Lord.” “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” The justice of the Universal Father cannot be influenced by the acts and performances of his creatures, “for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, no respect of persons, no taking of gifts.”
How futile to make puerile appeals to such a God to modify his changeless decrees so that we can avoid the just consequences of the operation of his wise natural laws and righteous spiritual mandates! “Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap.” True, even in the justice of reaping the harvest of wrongdoing, this divine justice is always tempered with mercy. Infinite wisdom is the eternal arbiter which determines the proportions of justice and mercy which shall be meted out in any given circumstance. The greatest punishment (in reality an inevitable consequence) for wrongdoing and deliberate rebellion against the government of God is loss of existence as an individual subject of that government. The final result of wholehearted sin is annihilation. In the last analysis, such sin-identified individuals have destroyed themselves by becoming wholly unreal through their embrace of iniquity. The factual disappearance of such a creature is, however, always delayed until the ordained order of justice current in that universe has been fully complied with.
Changing Lives:
The Gospel of the Kingdom
The Christ-ian: Bestowed Righteousness
Outing the Anti-Christ[1]
Prophet Ntemfac Ofege
Mt 24:14 And this gospel (Good News) of the kingdom (salvation, righteousness, power, prosperity, divinity, immortality, Christ) shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
The Christ-ian is righteous, holy, sanctified and justified.
Not because of what he or she did.
Not because he or she is not a sinner by his own standards, not because he or she is not a sinner by the adjudication of his or her peers, not because he or she is not a sinner by the standards of his church but because he or she now has a right standing by the only standards that matter – the Lord God’s.
2Co 5: 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
In Christ, God sees you as righteous or having a right standing with him.
You can now march into his presence and talk loud.
Romans 3: 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Justified means just-as-if you never sinned.
He states clearly that you are justified if you are in Christ.
In the Old Testament priesthood, only the High Priest was allowed to come into the very presence of the Lord God, and this after proper sanctification to offer sacrifices.
The Christ-ian is a New Testament Priest who does not need ceremonies to march into the presence of the Lord and talk loud.
He or she lives there, right in the presence of God – continually.
Heb 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
In fact, the veil in the temple got torn at the death of Jesus the Christ on the cross to demonstrate that hereto, we can now freely march into the very presence of the Lord God and talk loud.
The Lord God does not say you will be holy and sanctified and justified only if you obey these laundry lists of laws and commandments.
He says you are holy if you are in Christ and if Christ lives in you.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Righteousness means right standing with God.
You do not obtain a right standing with God because of your morality, your piety or your tithes or the number of Masses you attend or by being a fire and brimstone preacher or because you are the Most Reverend Archbishop Pope Deacon Apostle So and Sp or the offerings you give.
You obtain a right standing with God by being in Christ.
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Mt. 5:8).
Translation: Blessed are the righteous for they shall see God.
“His (God’s) servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name (God’s name—Rev. 3:12) shall be in their foreheads” (Rev. 22:3, 4).
Such a wonderful hope, if we truly believe it, ought to have a profound effect on our lives.
Men, and women, through time have set their own standards of righteousness because they are ignorant of the god-given and free righteousness.
Ro 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Ro 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
In fact, Christ came to bequeath unto us the righteousness or the right standing or the justification or the holiness of God.
It is for this cause that the son of man was manifested.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Friend, there are gospels but there is the Gospel of the kingdom.
Gospel means Good News.
The good news of the bequeathed and free gift of righteousness in all who are in Christ is one of the gospels of the kingdom.
Do you desire the free gift of righteousness?
Do you wish to have a right standing with God in Christ Jesus?
Then do this:
To live is Christ.
Taste and see for yourself. I can only say that all other commentary or persuasion would be bathos compared to the real Christ and the real God as they truly are.
Unfortunately, as simple as this is, many will not do it.
Unfortunately.
Now, the Gospel of the Kingdom is when we unveil and reveal or both reveal and unveil the deep secrets of God.
The Gospel of the Kingdom is when we speak mysteries and about mysteries.
1Co 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
The word mystery as used in the Bible is not about issues that cannot be understood. The mysteries in the Bible are about things that the Lord God has concealed in his Word and he desires to reveal them to those who believe.
Or those who be+Live.
A mystery is thus a truth that can only be understood by the initiated.
In his time, the Lord Jesus unveiled and revealed many things about the kingdom of God but he spoke in parables.
In fact, the most lethal revelations about the Lord God and his ways and his kingdom are contained in the parables.
“The kingdom of God is like…the kingdom of God is like...”
Until you are able to decipher the hidden message of the parables you may never know what exactly Jesus meant.
In Matthew 13, the Parable of the Sower, itself pregnant with meaning and in meaning, the disciples asked Jesus why he spoke in parables.
Here his answer.
Mt 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Mt 13: 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mt 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
Mt 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
But when you have the Spirit of Truth, he shall unveil and reveal all things unto you.
The Spirit of Truth is the Allos Paracletus.
He is the Holy Spirit.
Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
We have unveiled and reveal the mystery of Christ working in you, as you, for you with you and you in our Divinity in Humanity, Salvation Gospel, Prosperity Gospel and other segments of our e-group and Facebook-Prayerpoint Powerpoint teachings.
We will gladly return to the Christ in You message again very soon.
Unto you this day then is given to know another very deep mystery of the kingdom of heaven – the changed paradigm of the free gift of righteousness, its power-potential and how being declared righteous (holy, justified, sanctified) by the Lord God himself ought to glorify you.
It should make you chew steel and it makes you walk on water.
Genesis: The Fall of Adam
Let us start at the very beginning.
The Fall of Adam and the Concept of Sin: from the very beginning i.e. the Genesis Account.
Genesis 2
The Lord God planted a garden in Eden to the East and in the middle of the Garden were two trees.
Two trees
Not one.
There was the tree of life
And there was the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil
Genesis 2: 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
He commanded the man, not the woman.
Note that he spoke his commands to the man and not the woman.
The responsibility was onto the man. There is a teaching here to these so-called emancipated women who now think a man is their equal and their brother. Woman, leave him alone he is a man.
For your own good.
However, the Lord God said, you may eat freely of every tree in the garden but thou shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that is in the middle of the garden because the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.
The rest is history: but why did Adam not eat of the tree of life?
He would have lived for ever, no?
But then the man would have become a devil because redemption would now be impossicant – an impossibility that cannot happen!
Beguiled by the serpent, the woman ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and led the man thereto to eat.
The Lord God had categorically stated that on the day the man ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he would surely die.
But Adam did not die on that day.
He lived for 930 years thereafter.
Ge 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
So what death was the El Elyon talking about?
It is called Sin or the separation of the spirit of man from the spirit of God.
We were in Adam’s loins when he sinned meaning that the Adamic generation got contaminated by sin.
Ro 5: 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Salvation and Redemption in Christ
Our God is a God of secrets.
And his secrets are searchable.
The man had all along hidden the secret of salvation in the tongue of the man which man he had created in his image and with his nature.
See where he hid the salvation weapon, far from the petty wiles of the devil.
Pr 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
The tree of life is in your tongue!
The devil maybe caused the man to sin and thus separated himself from God, but the Lord God all along knew how easy it is for man to save himself.
Salvation is in your mouth, brother!
Salvation is in your tongue!
You take belief from your heart and you confess it with your tongue to be saved.
Ro 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
It does not matter who you are, where you are from, what denomination you are in: just take the belief from your heart confess it and ETERNAL LIFE is yours!
Do you want to be saved?
Do you desire eternal life?
Then do this:
Friend, unto you this day is given to understand (i.e. to get revelation) about the mysteries of Christ and the gospel that you may hear the unsaid, see the unseen, converse with the Lord God who is a spirit and now benefit from the fruit of salvation.
Unto you this day is given to understand, to Eido or become aware, of some of the greatest mysteries of the kingdom of God.
May the seeds I sow fall on good ground and may you bear much fruit in Jesus name for:
Lu 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
But before we start, if you are not yet in Christ, do this:
Friend, if you have done this simple thing in Faith and out of faith you are now a Christ-ian.
Christ lives in you.
God lives in you.
As you.
With you.
For you.
You.
And if Christ lives in you as you for you and you, why are you struggling to live for yourself, to live your life for yourself, instead on letting him live his life through you?
Friend, the drama of the Christ-ian experience is that we try to live for Christ (and we fail woefully) instead of letting Christ live for us and do it for us.
You are not a human being reaching out for a spiritual experience. You are a spirit, conceived by a spirit, living the human experience and the life of the spirit God who engendered you lives in you. You cannot stop him outing the spiritual through you as you. Once you have brought him into your life, he starts working in you, as you and for you.
Hear the Lord Jesus:
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
If any man loves me he shall keep MY WORDS!
Not my laws and commandments!
The words of the SALVATION prayer that you just made are in Romans 10:8-13
Ro 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Friend, when you become a Christ-ian the Lord God declares you righteous, holy and a saint.
Holy:
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Justified:
You become JUSTIFIED – Just-as-if.
Just as if you have never sinned, you cannot sin and you will never sin.
Mt 12:37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
You do not work yourself or do yourself to salvation.
You talk yourself to salvation by WORDS.
Ro 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Do this:
It is beyond imperative that you make this prayer and be born again.
It is a matter of life and death.
Eternal life and eternal death.
Sanctified:
Heb 2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified
In fact, the very second you become a Christ-ian, the Lord God wipes away your sins of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Whenever he looks at you, even if you think that you have sinned, even if the world thinks that you have sinned, the Lord God sees the blood of Jesus that was shed for you and he declares you justified.
He declares you righteous because righteousness is a gift from God and what the Lord God gives, he cannot take away.
Ro 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
Meaning the gifts of God are irrecoverable.
The Lord God has not taken back the gifts that he gave Lucifer at the creation, why do you think he can take back what he gave you as a gift – righteousness.
Righteousness means to have a RIGHT STANDING with God.
Righteousness means to be one with God.
Righteousness means holiness.
It means saintliness and sainthood.
Righteousness is a gift from God to all those who are in Christ, period.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Religious organizations and religious teachings tend to confuse and mislead many through their false and anti-Christ teachings when it comes to basic Christ-ian concepts like sin, the Mystery of the Cross, righteousness, the Mystery of the Incarnation and, especially, the Mystery of Christ in you.
These totally satanic institutions are led by the devil to hide these truths from you because they know that if you understood what sin is, what really happened on the Cross, that Christ, or the power of God or the Holy Spirit lives in you, as you for you and is you, your life will change.
You will have a more than devil-bashing faith!
You will operate in the fillness and the fullness of your potential as Christ!
Do you desire to be considered righteous in the eyes of the Lord God?
Then do this?
When you do this you are automatically a Christ-ian. You are automatically RIGHTEOUS and the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Righteousness means a RIGHT STANDING.
Righteousness means a RELATIONSHIP with God.
The Christ-ian now has a relationship with God with all its rights and benefits.
You are not righteous because you practice righteousness.
You are righteous because you are in Christ.
Before you became a Christ-ian, you were DEAD in sin, separated from God.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When you accept Jesus in your life by your belief and confession of your faith, the very Christ of God comes in to live in you as you for you and you.
Christ who is your life now appears.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear in the above is not talking about that distant time when the false doctrine of a Second Coming shall be effectual.
One fragmentoid of a second after you become Christ-ian, the Christ moves in.
This is the key mystery of your life as a Christ-ian.
In fact, it is the reason why you are a Christ-ian.
Christ in you, the hope of Glory.
Col 1: 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
If you are in Christ, God sees you as righteous because your sins were crucified on the cross. Go figure why we are baptized in Christ. Jesus was baptized in a river called Jordan and the Jordan means “descent unto death.” The River Jordan takes its rise from a town called Adam.
The anti-Christ, the Pharisees and the Neo-Pharisees would not have you believe this so that you may stay in bondage obeying laws and commandments that have been abolished.
Friend, if Christ lives in you and you live in Christ, who can separate you from the hand of God?
Can the Christ in you sin?
I will show you what sin is to the regenerated Christ-ian shortly.
God has set the standards for you to have a right standing and to have a relationship with him. Those standards are in Christ.
New Creation and New Creature Reality
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
We will eventually break down the sheer magic and power of you as a New Creature, a man that has never existed before; one for whom the old is gone and the new has come.
The anti-Christ and the Neo-Pharisees – hypocrites - want you to follow their own impossible standards. They have set new laws where there are no laws.
Ro 10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
The righteousness of God is in Christ Jesus, period.
Matthew 23: 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Whereas
Php 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Ga 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
See this: the LIFE, the delights and the power and the glory of being in Christ.
Ro 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 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. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Friend, all of CREATION awaits your rising this DAY as a Powerful Christ-ian because then you will demonstrate, manifest, display, ventilate unspeakable power and authority over all the works of the devil.
You will wreak havoc on the kingdom of darkness.
Our righteousness is in Christ Jesus, not because of some good deed we have done or some work we have done or because we have kept a law.
Ro 3: 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: He declares you holy.
Let us pour strong light or phortizo unto the grey areas.
Let us unveil the dark areas.
[1] With notes from World Last Chance, Shepherd Staff, the Bible KJV, The Urantia Book, Pastor Randall Worley.
--
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ambasbay" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ambasbay+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
0 comments:
Post a Comment