CONTROL YOUR MIND BY THE SPIRIT AND STOP LIVING BY SIGHT (SENSES) 2COR 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. 2CO 5:7 (FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT) Old things pass away before God but they don’t pass away in the mind because memories do not vanish when we accept Jesus Christ by faith. We were redeemed from sin so that a believer could constantly renew the mind by knowledge of Christ to live in the realty of the new live we have in Him and escape fleshy lusts. EPH 4:23 AND BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND (COL 3: 9-10) 9 LIE NOT ONE TO ANOTHER, SEEING THAT YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS;10 AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM: We need to redeem the mind from the memories of the past constantly. Even the memories of a good thing done to a brother in Christ could be an obstacle. I said this because
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HE RAISED US UP WITH CHRIST 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. EPH 2: 6 AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER, AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS To rise with Christ is a reality that comes to the life of someone who accepts Jesus Christ by faith to receive eternal life. You cannot be raised with Christ in unbelief. Unbelief keeps men in the grave of ignorance. Ignorance is a big grave. Christ came to save the whole world from sin but many are still buried in the grave of ignorance through unbelief. The life of a believer begins by faith in Christ. This is the reason believers should know their stand in Christ. The knowledge of Christ keeps us ahead of every doubt and fear that the world brings through natural occurrences and challenges. An unbeliever cannot say he has risen with Christ because he is dead in the grave of ignorance through unbelief. COL 2:
A BELIEVER DOES GOOD NOT EVIL GAL 6:10 AS WE HAVE THEREFORE OPPORTUNITY, LET US DO GOOD UNTO ALL MEN, ESPECIALLY UNTO THEM WHO ARE OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH. The main reason Christ came to take away sin for man is for man to become totally good and do good. (John 1: 29) This means that man would no more be walking with the heart of sin but the hearts of love. The heart of evil has given way for the hearts of love the day we received Jesus Christ as our lord and Savior. This means that a believer walks with the mind of Christ not the mind of man which is soaked in unbelief. This was the heart of man. JEREMAIAH 17:9 THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS, AND DESPERATELY WICKED: WHO CAN KNOW IT? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. GEN 6: 5 AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS ONLY EVIL C
STOP WAITING FOR RAPTURE AND START PREACHING THE GOSPEL. So many Christians have lost sight of the vision Christ has for the Gospel to reach every creature. MT 24:14 AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS; AND THEN SHALL THE END COME. MARK 16:15 AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE Why? Because it is through the Gospel that God will do everything that He stored for man in Christ Many have relapsed to waiting every day in tears confessing what they call sins to appear broken and contrite in heart so that God will not despise them for rapture’s sake without knowing that sin is dead. Rapture is hidden in the Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation and immortality not in your confession of sins. We should use those times to reach out to more souls who are still ignorant of this Good News …that God has reconciled with man in Christ. Christ gave the Great Comm
JESUS CHRIST IS LIFE A man starts living the day he accepts Christ in to his life. Though sin is dead but a man living in unbelief does not have life. He is a common person without life and hope even though he is breathing because he refuses to accept the giver of life. He is therefore condemned by his unbelief and cannot be in the Kingdom of God. JOH 3:18 HE THAT BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED: BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, BECAUSE HE HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. This is because the real life which is eternal life does not come by chance. It comes through faith in Christ whom God had made a propitiation for sins so that eternal life could be possible FOR men to live here on earth. 1JOHN 2:2 AND HE IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS: AND NOT FOR OURS ONLY, BUT ALSO FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD. …2 and He is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (WNT)
YOU HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN I grew up in a religious family. After passing through the normal religious protocols then I had the first confession of my sins many years ago before receiving the Holy Communion. When I received Jesus Christ into my life I had another version of confession of my sins. This time did not have to go to any clergy but I could confess my sins in the house and before any prayer meeting or fellowship because it would be a hindrance to the move of the spirit or physical resources that God wants to lavish on us in the fellowship. In the first stage it was just a religious activity that guarantees God’s forgiveness and also qualifies you to be standing in faith to receive Holy Communion, But in second stage there were many scriptures that were used to buttress the performance. PROV 28:13 ¶ HE THAT COVERETH HIS SINS SHALL NOT PROSPER: BUT WHOSO CONFESSETH AND FORSAKETH THEM SHALL HAVE MERCY. PSAM 32 : 5 I ACKNOWLEDGED MY SIN UNTO THEE, AND MINE INI
ON THE CROSS On the cross both sin and man died but Christ did not die. He was made sin for the body of sin to die in man and not in God. As God He cannot die, But as man He took on the body of sin on the cross for sin to die through his death. Roman 6: 6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,( NOT THE BODY OF CHRIST ) that henceforth we should not serve sin.( 2Cor 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 On the cross man died with Christ for sins that man would be dead to sin and free from sin. Ro 6:8 Now IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST, we believe that we shall also live with him: 2Tim2: 11 It is a faithful saying: FOR IF WE BE DEAD WITH HIM, we shall also live with him: Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin Because man died with Christ man became dead to sin. Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
A BELIEVR IS THE TRUE IDENTIY OF GOD. God was invisible until Christ manifested in the flesh so that man could see God in the flesh and relate with Him the way He truly is. God is not anything outside love.( John 15: 12-27) Christ was the physical manifestation of the spiritually real God John 4:24 GOD IS A SPIRIT: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. In the Old Testament the prophets walked with God because they could only relate with God based on the shadows of things to come. This is the reason no believer would ever like to be like Elijah or Moses. Those men never had the accurate nature on God. But the believer do not only walk with God , the believer walks in God. John 1: 18 NO MAN HATH SEEN GOD AT ANY TIME; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. John 10:30 I and my Father are one. John 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: Romans 12:5 So w