Changing Lives:
TRAINING IN DIVINITY
Outing the Anti-Christ[1]
Prophet Ntemfac Ofege
Mt 24:14 And this gospel (Good News) of the kingdom (salvation, power, prosperity, divinity, immortality, Christ) shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Col 1: 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God; {to fulfill...: or, fully to preach the word} 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: {in: or, among}
Friend, the uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict who you really are – divinity, divine and the child of God.
Ps 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Ga 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Iron sharpens iron.
Pr 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
The Lord God planned those challenges to sharpen you, to train you to be a God.
Friend, you cannot train yourself.
You cannot coach yourself.
Look at it this way. What if you are a Neymar, for example, and the Lord God himself is your coach?
What magic won’t you do with the ball?
See, this scripture, which again has been misconstrued by these fire and brimstone preachers who suffer from a chronic disease called half-gospel.
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Work out your salvation with FEAR and TREMBLING, yes!
But see the next verse.
Php 2:13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
Have you seen it?
Emmanuel!
God with us! God in us! Working in you! Might in the midst of you!
Friend, let go and let God do it for you.
You have tried to do it by yourself all these years and you have failed.
Woefully!
Not step aside and let my God do it for you!
All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Are you a coward? Then you desire courage — strength of character. You must, per force, be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.
So doth the Christ IN YOU, sharpeneth you.
Ro 8:11 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.
QUICKEN herein means fast-track.
High speed vitalizing of your mortal body and everything concerning you.
And to build courage and strength into you while dismissing cowardice to its empty nothingness, then you must, per force, need strength in your INNER MAN by the WORD of God though faith.
Ro 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
You get this courage and strength, not by your own power and might but by calling upon the name of Jesus.
1Sa 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
Zec 4:6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, this is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
Are you the egocentric, self-centered type who lacks altruism — service of one’s fellows? Then life experience must provide for encountering situations of social inequality. Do you lack hope - the grandeur of trust - or that ability to trust completely? Then your existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties. Designed to make you prevail.
Do you lack faith – the ability to be guided by the VOICE of God which is itself the supreme assertion of human thought?
Ro 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Then your mind will find itself in that troublesome predicament where it knows less than it can believe. Until you find faith you cannot please God.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Do you hate the truth and the ability to go wherever it leads? Then you will grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible. Do you desire idealism — the approaching concept of the divine? Then you will struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.
Do you lack loyalty— devotion to highest duty?
Then your will carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion; until you learn loyalty with practical details.
Remember, the valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default. Is unselfishness — the spirit of self-forgetfulness — desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor.
But friend, you are not alone on this challenging training to be divine.
Hear the Lord God himself:
Isa 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
We do notwalk alone. The Lord Jesus made the promise to be with us till the end of the ages. He even sent us the Allos Paracletus, the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, another him, to be with us and the strengthen us and we arise and return to the Father.
Mt 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Friend, this is not the end of it. We came from somewhere and we are going back somewhere.
We are going back home.
Man is a Spirit, he lives in a body and he has a soul.
The Soul came from the Father.
This journey through the earth has a purpose.
To return us to divinity.
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.
But, pay attention. It does not work like that. To be rekindled, regenerated, reconnected, born-again of the incorruptible seed of the Lord God himself, you must indeed be reconnected to the Lord God himself.
You sin, the Lord God is too holy to behold sin but in Christ he looks at you as if you never sinned. For one thing, Jesus the Christ or Yeshua, or Yahushua, the Ha-Maschiach is our propitiatory. He bought us back from the sin of separation from God called DEATH. In Christ, you are now born-again, reconnected to God.
God is life. He has life. In him you have life. Outside him, you have no life. This is what the Lord Jesus came to give us – the Life of God which is in him. If you have Christ, you have life. If you do not have him, you are dead forever –separated from the Lord God forever!
1Jo 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Friend, do you desire to have the Son of God so that you might have life and live forever?
Then do this:
The Lord Jesus did not come to start a religion.
He did not come to start a religious organization.
He never told any man, or woman, to start a religious organization.
Why then did he come?
People do not pay attention but the man himself told us why he came to the earth in very simple language.
Joh 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Notice something.
Here is a man talking to living beings that he is come to give them LIFE and to enable them live life abundantly!
Were they dead?
If indeed they were living, what kind of life was the Christ talking about.
It is called Zoe or ETERNAL LIFE!
It is the God-kind of life!
It is the life that is found in God!
If you are connected or reconnected to God, you have life!
You cannot die!
Oh, your body might be dead but you live on in the essential you – the Spirit you!
Ro 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Notice something in John 10:10
It is not: I CAME!
The man says “I am come.”
Very interesting man, this Jesus!
I AM COME!
Friend, one nanosecond after you invite Jesus into your life, you are regenerated, born-again, rekindled.
You now have ZOE or Eternal Life.
Nothing can separate you from God when you do this thing.
Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast. Is pleasure — the satisfaction of happiness — desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.
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 journey is back to the FATHER: from five-senses to multisensory; from ordinary to mystic; from deity and divinity: The journey is from finite to infinite; from TIME to ETERNITY: from body to spirit, from man to God – from carnal to divine in spite of and despite our humanity.
We are evolving from five-sensory humans into multi-sensory or spiritual humans.
The Lord God designed our five senses to enable us perceive physical reality. But he also put a spirit part of himself into us to enable us reconnect to a larger, higher dynamic spiritual systems where he operates. There is reality beyond our five senses. Higher life is possible. Divinity in humanity is possible. It takes belief and confession of our belief by faith to get there. It takes wisdom and knowledge and understanding and counsel and stamina and righteousness and the love of God i.e. the Holy Spirit to stay connected to the spiritual realm and stay connected.
See what the Bible says about the matter.
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.
1Co 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Have you started the journey?
Do you know how to start the journey back home?
Read Romans 10:8-13 and do all it says therein. Tell yourself: I am going somewhere. This is not all there is about me!
See something.
Romans 8:9-17 and the emphasis on joint-heir-ship.
Romans 8: 9-17 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 has 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.
People seldom pay attention to this – the divinity in man at CREATION.
Ever bear in mind — God and men need each other. They are mutually necessary to the full and final attainment of eternal personality experience in the divine destiny of universe finality.
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.
Now are we.
Today!
Right here, right now!
When you are through down here, when your course has been run in temporary form on earth, when your trial trip in the flesh is finished, when the dust that composes the mortal tabernacle “returns to the earth whence it came”; then, it is revealed, the indwelling “Spirit shall return to God who gave it.”
There sojourns within each moral being of this planet a fragment of God, a part and parcel of divinity. It is not yet yours by right of possession, but it is designedly intended to be one with you if you BELIEVE and CONFESS that JESUS IS LORD –
See it for yourself.
Romans 10: 8-13. 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God 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 put to shame. 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same [Lord] is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him: 13 for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Friend, the Lord God knows very well that some man cannot discover the secret to ETERNAL life for themselves. That is why he appoints apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers to show you the WAY.
See the continuation of Romans 10 from verse 14.
Romans 10: 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!
Friend, it is beyond imperative that you make the prayer in Romans 10:8-13 and be born again.
It is a matter of life and death.
Romans 10: 8-13. 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach: 9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus [as] Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God 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 put to shame. 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same [Lord] is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him: 13 for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
It is a matter of choice. Which will you choose?
Jer 21:8 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
I set before you this day the choice – between life and death.
De 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
I set before you this day the choice Between ETERNAL Life in Christ or ETERNAL death.
De 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Eternal life or eternal death, which do you choose?
God bless you.
In Jesus Name
Amen.
[1] With notes from World Last Chance, Shepherd Staff, the Bible KJV, The Urantia Book, Pastor Oyahkilome, Pastor Randall Worley.
--Nigeria’s Jim Jones: Millionaire Prophet, T.B. JOSHUA ALLEGES ATTACK ON CHURCH- Yeye dey smell!Head of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, Evangelist Prophet T B Joshua, has alleged that the collapse of a section of his church complex last Friday may have been caused by an attack (by haters and possibly Boko Haram terrorists) on his Church. According to him, the collapse goes beyond the allegation of structural defects, as have been variously and maliciously speculated.
Speaking to journalists after a CCTV footage of events leading to the building collapse suddenly surfaced and was shown to journalists at the church premises on Saturday, Prophet Joshua said a plane, which eyewitness swore was a military jet, had earlier began circling around his holy prayer ground, where he usually retreats to for spiritual upliftment a few distance from the church location as early as 10.00am. Not paying much attention to it, he said he left the site and headed for the church complex for meditation and to freshen up, only to be notified by his aides that the plane had also stopped circulating and headed towards the location of the church.Not long after, he said he also got a security briefing and report from his officials that the military type plane was sited hovering over one of the buildings in the complex. He said the plane circulated four times before the building suddenly collapsed at exactly 12.44 pm. The video footage actually showed the plane hovering above the five-storey building said to be an accommodation facility, first at 11.30, and then four times within three minutes. The plane then came back again circled the building again and left. At exactly 12.44 when it looked like it was all over, the building suddenly came down, collapsing all at once.
According to the prophet, some officials of the church and so-called eye-witnesses, the building collapse looked very much like "Chemicalized Demolition" and may yet be a new dimension in the terror onslaught in the country.
Apologizing for the hostile treatment said to have been meted out to the media on the day of the incident by his church members and security operatives attached to the church, Prophet Temitope Joshua said he did not make any official statement Friday because he did not want to create any panic or give an impression that terrorists have invaded Lagos. He also said that the video footage was there to corroborate his point, while also declaring that if indeed it was a terrorist attack, the perpetrators are not likely to stop with Friday’s incident. Asked to comment on the number of casualties, the prophet simply said: ‘Rescue mission was still ongoing.’
One of the church officials, who craved anonymity however told this reporter that nearly all the people in the building have been pulled out and that “miraculously, nearly all survived”.
One of the NEMA official on site was however overheard saying that about 17 deaths have been recorded, with about 119 injured.
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