Table of contents Dedication Chapter one Why a virtuous woman Why some men do not marry virtuous women Chapter two What is marriage Biblical teaching on marriage Chapter three pg. 12 pg. 12 pg. 13 pg. 16 Characteristics or qualities of virtuous women i. Love ii. Wisdom iii. Prayer Conclusion pg. 16 pg. 25 pg. 31 pg. 32 pg. 16 pg. 2 pg. 3 pg. 3 pg. 4 Page | 1 DEDICATION I dedicate this book to my father and mother Mr. Ojame Okiror Robert and Mrs. Tino Ketty. In the same accord I also dedicate it to my lovely sisters and brothers. Page | 2

CHAPTER ONE The question of who a virtuous woman is, and has been a resounding one in the past, and contemporary times. However, why would scripture place emphasis on the need for every man to find a virtuous woman? This question not many people are able to answer. The character of every virtuous woman makes the marital journey beautiful, inspiring and effortless. Virtue is found in the state of the heart, and just like virtuous women, so do virtuous men too exist, although the focus of this book is on the virtuous woman. Each virtuous woman is holistic and complete in the character that builds them, and the distinction between them from the rest of the women is that they possess what other women do not. A woman, lady or girl may ask, is it possible for me to become a virtuous woman? The answer is YES, it is possible. Firstly, it is important to understand why God created woman. GENESIS 2:18 says, “Now the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper MEET (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.” This therefore calls for man to firstly understand himself, then he will be able to find a virtuous woman meet for him. Why? Because not every Page | 3 virtuous woman is meant for you, and that is why, you are set on the course of finding a specific one among the many, one who will better you. One may ask, do virtuous women exist? Yes, they do and will always exist. What then hinders some men from finding them? 1. Blindness Many are times when what we are looking for is closer to us than we expected, but then one gets blinded to the same due to many reasons, for instance, the inability to hear God’s Voice, looking from without than within, walking in the effect of past emotions, or even stereotyping. 2. Impatience Quite for some, because of what to them is delayed response from her, have walked away from what was meant for them. I know that love is an emotional journey, but again, one should be able to embrace the grace that comes along with it because 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 says, “Love is Patient”. Page | 4

3. Despair Life at times comes along with hard questions which often mount up to pressure. For instance, age to some has driven them into opting for anyone who comes their way, and for this, they have abandoned the original course of searching to find themselves a virtuous woman. 4. Ignorance Just like the question posed earlier, many men do not know the importance of finding a virtuous woman, therefore, they set for themselves “qualities” that match their expectations as to what type of woman they want and not necessarily what God wants for them. 5. Low self-esteem Some men find challenges in expression which is caused by various reasons, for instance, their upbringing, background, listening to nonBiblical dogma and psychological harm causing them to disqualify themselves as undeserving from their point of view. 6. Pride This is the one factor that has denied some men from virtuous women. It is not compulsory that a virtuous woman must accept whoever comes-by, this is because they too have the choice on who to them qualifies to be a fitting virtuous man. Page | 5 7. Timing It is an earthly law for everyone to reap what they sow, and for this, time is of essence. This means that what ones uses of the time accorded to them will determine the outcome, as seen by some men misusing their opportunity and later regretting. Furthermore, some men either delay or rush in their approach and therefore fail to subject women to certain tests, for instance, “to what extent she loves people.” 8. Lack of prudence SONG OF SOLOMON 8:4 says, “I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you never stir up or awaken love until it pleases.” This calls for men to discern how important it is to sow the right seeds at an appropriate time. Love has a timing which must align to God’s, Who makes everything beautiful in His time [ECCLESIASTES 3:11]. Therefore, some men have caused women to awake love before the right timing hence frustrating what was still processing to virtue. 9. Peer pressure Many men have often been influenced by their peers or those with authority over them, to do things so as to please them but not necessarily out of their will. This in most cases has forced some men into marrying the wrong partners, and even choosing to settle for less, rather than a virtuous woman. Page | 6

10. Lack of discipline This entails the ability to speak up for oneself. Some men have been found to have an imbalanced judgment in response hence not responding at all. For instance, some cannot say “no” to a woman and rather are dominated due to the “conscience question” of not wanting to “offend”. It is important for a man to say enough of a relationship that is not working and choose to wait on God for the best there is for them; which is a virtuous woman. 11. Self-centeredness This though quite similar to low self-esteem differs in the way that some men have always let their interests override those of a virtuous woman and hence lost balance in the relationship due to their ego. 12. Arrogance An arrogant man will always deter people because arrogance repels. Marriage calls for one to let go of certain characters and embrace change. This, some men are not able to take, because again some consider women as a weaker vessel in the sense that their opinions are inferior in substance and weight, which is a wrong perception. Page | 7 13. Inflexibility Some men have been offended mainly due to character issues. Inflexibility in this sense has denied many men of virtuous women because they might win the poll but her silence took note of every single detail of one’s character. 14. Multiplicity of choices PROVERBS 14:20 says, “the rich has many friends.” So it is that many men face a great challenge in decision making as to who their wife to be is. This has pushed some to place of choosing by the carnal senses hence a misdirection from the choice of the virtuous woman. 15. Beauty Although many men fall for beauty, few appreciate the fact that beauty is vain as per PROVERBS 31:30. As stated earlier, a virtuous woman is holistic in character and qualities, implying that beauty is not a standalone test for the virtuous woman. 16. Lack of perception and discernment The deception of the times; hypocrisy, has led many men into misjudging things, and this is caused by lack of perception. Perception is something important for everyman to have, because it will save them from what is usually hidden from the normal eyes and senses. Page | 8

For instance, smiling, kneeling or even outward temperance do not mean that one is a virtuous woman hence the need for perception and discernment. 17. Disobedience to spiritual promptings In life, one moment can be a defining factor to the many years ahead. In EXODUS 2:16-21 Moses at the well stood up, and helped Reuel’s daughters who were driven away by shepherds, and further watered their flock. This though to one might have been minor, but it opened a door for him to be given a hand in marriage to Zipporah by her father. Spiritual prompting is when God with urgency demands one to do or say something without even them having a full comprehension of the entire outcome from the prompt. Some men ignoring such instructions has caused them unnecessary delays hence frustrating what should have come easily. 18. Inability to ponder on the silent instructions from God God usually gives people hints on who their marriage partner is. In ESTHER 2:15, Esther obtained favour before king Ahasuerus because she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. PROVERBS 25:2 says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.” This knowledge is important for Page | 9 men because as kings, they are naturally meant to be seekers, and as scripture says, he who seeks surely finds. In addition to the above, just like Samson, some men have misused secrets by uttering them out and hence have been deceived into awkward predicaments of life. 19. Self-control issues This plays out in many dimensions, for instance, the inability to control anger, stay humble, or control the tongue. It is further depicted with how one lives their life. 1 CORINTHIANS 13:11 says, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.” Therefore, at a certain age certain things are not expected of men. 20. Forgetfulness PROVERBS 5:18 says, “Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.” Much as many people truly come from far, some of them are quick to forget where they have come from and who stood with them during the hard and trying times. This has been met by certain men engaging in extramarital affairs rather than staying in the first marriage, which is wrong. Page | 10

21. Pleasure PROVERBS 21:17 says, “He who loves pleasure will be a poor man.” This means that nothing seems to add up in one’s life, due to the love for pleasure, and the refusal by them to commit to holy matrimony. These though not exhaustive, are some factors that have hindered some men from their marital destinies, and as well caused some to abandon their marital destinies for the short fixes of life. Page | 11 CHAPTER TWO What is marriage? This is a marital union between a man and woman in the blessing and supremacy of God’s mind and ideology concerning marriage hence becoming husband and wife in unison to become one flesh [MARK 10:78]. Is marriage beautiful? Yes, it is. Man’s first expression of happiness is seen in GENESIS 2:23, where he said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.” Much as in Christ we are complete, there is something marriage adds up to a person, although again, marriage is not for everyone as some choose celibacy for purposes of serving God, which is okay [MATTHEW 19:1112, 1 CORINTHIANS 7:27-35]. There are times when one cooks food and although sweet, but feel that there is some missing ingredient to make it perfectly sweet, and so is marriage, for it makes the finest version of every man and woman. Page | 12

What is the Biblical teaching on marriage? 1. Marriage is God’s idea MATTHEW 19:3-8 says, “The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He Who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.”” The last statement captivates my heart, for it says, “but from the beginning it was not so”. This simply means that we have to always rely solely on what the Scripture says and not what man says because God authored marriage and defined how it is to be conducted to the minutest detail hence there is no need for any further interpretation of what is plainly elaborated in the Word of God. Page | 13 2. Marriage is the mystery of the Unity of Christ and the Church EPHESIANS 5:31-32 says, “For this cause shall man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” For one to have a full understanding of what the Scriptures call “one flesh”, they must first understand the relationship between Christ and the church. Much as from man came woman, and so did the church from Christ, the distinction is laid out in the sacrifice that Jesus died for the church [JOHN 19:30], whereas for man, he did not take up or mediate on behalf of woman [GENESIS 3:12]. This is the reason as to why we draw the mystery of marriage from the Unity, Relationship and the Love of Christ and the Church. 3. Marriage is witnessed by God GENESIS 2:22 says, “Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.” Here we see that God Himself officiated and witnessed the marriage between man and woman, so does He still do today. 4. Marriage is blessed by God In GENESIS 2:24 God said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” This Page | 14

is why MARK 10:9 says, “Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.” In addition to the above, GENESIS 1:28 says, “Then God blessed them, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”” 5. Marriage is holy HEBREWS 13:4 says, “Marriage is honourable among all, and the bed undefiled.” It is only in marriage that the bed is undefiled by intimacy. Furthermore, marriage is the seal of a sacred relationship. Above are some of the Biblical teachings on marriage. With emphasis, there is a great need for all people to learn to read the Word of God for themselves because we live in the era “where it is spoken, or it was said by” sounds ultimate rather than, “It is written”. It is also prudent for all people to allow the Holy Spirit to infuse the understanding of Scripture into them. Page | 15 CHAPTER THREE Before delving into the gist of this book, it is important to know that it is not late for one to subject themselves to the process that makes the virtuous woman of women. The Characteristics or qualities possessed by the Virtuous Woman. i. LOVE It is firstly important to appreciate the fact that Love is what makes the marriage. AMOS 3:3 asks a profound question saying, “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” Therefore without love, it will only be a matter of time. 1 PETER 4:8 says, “Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.” In other words, the pillar of Love is the substance through which every virtuous woman is made of. This kind of Love is the God kind, called AGAPE. It is multi-faceted and dimensioned just as elaborated by EPHESIANS 3:18 speaking of it having breadth and length and height and depth. Marriage does not make one what they are not already, in other words for two to become one flesh, there should be a place of breaking, flexibility and compromise whenever demanded. This may mean Page | 16

choosing to unlearn what one seems to know so as to allow oneself to learn the new. Love is the Mantle upon all virtuous women. This transcends the hypocritical kind that seeks praises from men but deep in the heart, one is so full of hatred. Below are some of the dimensions of her Love. a) Forgiving EPHESIANS 1:7 says, “In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” Virtuous women carry the wells of forgiveness, for they forgive easily and forget the past wrongs so as to embrace the future. This forgiveness flows so naturally from and within them, for there is nothing they cannot forgive. This is because of the wells of Love from which they drunk; which is Christ. b) Calmness 1 SAMUEL 1:6, 7 speaks of how Peninnah constantly provoked Hannah for not having child, and never is it written that Hannah fought or engaged in a brawl with her but alternatively she turned to the LORD to Whom she poured out her heart. Page | 17 All virtuous women are calm in character, and cannot easily be provoked, this is because they have rule or mastery over their spirit. c) Kindness In RUTH 3:3-11 Naomi instructed Ruth to show kindness to Boaz who later blessed her acknowledging that she was a virtuous woman. It says, “So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law instructed her… Then he said, “Blessed are you of the LORD, my daughter! For you have shown more kindness at the end than at the beginning, in that you did not go after young men, whether poor or rich. And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you request, for all the people of my town know that you are a virtuous woman.”” As seen above, kindness is the nature of all virtuous women. d) Covenant keepers Their word is stronger than a contract because of the depth anchored in it. RUTH 1:8-22 speaks of Naomi and her two daughters-in-law namely Orpah and Ruth who both lost their husbands. She later entreated them to return to their people because of how hard the situations of life were, and this what Scripture says. “But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn back, my daughters, go—for I am Page | 18

too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons, would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD … Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.” And she said, “Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.” But Ruth said: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.” When she saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped speaking to her.” When she gives you her word, there is no need to doubt it because of how firm and unshakable it is. e) Joy PROVERBS 12:4 says, “A virtuous and worthy wife is a crowning joy to her husband.” Joy is the one thing that cannot be faked. Page | 19 A virtuous woman is filled with joy, and diffuses it everywhere she goes and to all people including her husband. I have seen people who have never smiled all their life turn to smile and be joyous just because they married a virtuous woman. f) Peace PROVERBS 3:17 says, “Her ways are highways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” She is not only peaceful, but also a peace maker. When a virtuous woman enters one of the most unpeaceful families, there is a peace that comes into that family. Why? Because peace has come. g) Humility 1 PETER 5:5 speaks of how all people should clothe themselves with humility. Humility is the state of one’s heart. This is a strong pillar in discerning a virtuous woman, because no virtuous woman is proud. In ESTHER 1:9, and 12 queen Vashti missed it when pride caused her also to give a banquet at the same time when king Ahasuerus organized one, and further her refusal to turn up when required by the king nailed the peak of her pride. Page | 20

In other words, a virtuous woman will always side with the husband no matter how shameful it is rather than publicly mocking or openly criticizing him amidst others. h) Silence ECCLESIASTES 3:7 speaks of one of the ancient wisdoms understood by all virtuous women; a time to keep silence and a time to speak. This is the one principle ordinary women do not understand, hence have been found to speak where they ought to have been silent, or even silent where they ought to have spoken. i) Giving PROVERBS 31:20 says, “She opens her hand to the poor, yes, she reaches out her filled hands to the needy whether in body, mind, or spirit.” It is an essential characteristic for all virtuous women to be generous to the needy. This is the nature of their heart; to have compassion on God. PROVERBS 19:17 says, “He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and that which he has given He will repay to him.” Page | 21 j) Repentance PROVERBS 31:12 says, “She does him good, all the days of her life.” This involves the ability to acknowledge wrong and embrace change for purposes of preserving the lovely relationship. It is an easy for a virtuous woman to take responsibility for a fault even though not committed by her, this is because of how sensitive and cautious they are. k) Instructible All virtuous women are easily instructible. In others words, they died to an argumentative spirit. PSALM 62:11 speaks of how God has spoken once and twice I have heard. Virtuous women are instructible because their heart is soft and their ears sharpened to listen with the readiness to execute instruction to the minutest detail. In GENESIS 18:1-8 when Abraham was visited by God, he instructed Sarah to quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. This she did right away without questioning. l) Children lovers EXODUS 1:15-21 says, “The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of Page | 22

the other Puah, and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” But the midwives feared God, and did not do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive. The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, and have saved the boys alive?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty. It happened, because the midwives feared God, that He gave them families.” All Virtuous Women love children whether theirs or not, and further none of them does abort nor promote the same. m) Discipline PROVERBS 31:28 says, “Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her.” This is because of how exceptional they are in their consistency and delivery as they always get things done. Page | 23 n) Diligence Virtuous women always love everything they do, and do it wholeheartedly. PROVERBS 22:29 says, “Do you see a man diligent and skilful in his business? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.” No wonder virtuous women are always found by men of Purpose. Page | 24

ii. WISDOM PROVERBS 3:15 calls wisdom by a feminine character “she, and her”, meaning that all virtuous women are endued with Wisdom. Just as verse 13 says that happy is the man who finds skillful and godly wisdom, so it is that men marry Wisdom. Just like love, wisdom is infinite in operation and specific in expression, and below are the various expressions of the same. i. God Reverence JOB 28:28 says, “The fear of the LORD is true wisdom.” This takes various dimensions, however briefly, PSALM 1:1-3 says, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” It is in all virtuous women to fear God, and this is expressed in their actions, words, and convictions. Page | 25 ii. Vision In LUKE 1:59-64 much as the angel of the LORD had appeared to Zacharias in verse 11-20 and muted him, the Bible says this of Elizabeth, “So it was, on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him by the name of his father, Zacharias. His mother answered and said, “No; he shall be called John.” But they said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name.” so they made signs to his father—what he would have him called. And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, saying, “His name is John.” So they marveled. Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, praising God.” All virtuous women carry a distinct kind of vision which I could term as a prophetic mantle which also comes with the clarity of God’s Voice. In other words, it is in them to understand the unsaid and fully comprehend the said. This means that they do not require repetition of a matter because they are quick listeners. Page | 26

iii. Conceiver Virtuous women are conceivers, for they carry the ability to bring to maturity that which was immature. LUKE 2:15-19 speaks of how the shepherds made known to Mary and Joseph what was told them by the angel of the LORD concerning baby Jesus, which marveled everyone who heard it, BUT Mary kept all those things and pondered them in her heart. These were the words declared, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, Who is Christ the LORD.” This required more than just mere excitement but extra protection to the Baby whose Purpose was way beyond the ordinary. Furthermore, virtuous women carry the ability to read in between the lines. They can know when a person is speaking the truth or not. iv. Builders This I firstly heard from my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega. Virtuous women carry gifted hands to pioneer great things. PROVERBS 31:16 says, “She considers a field and buys it; From her profits she plants a vineyard.” This means that they carry wisdom to execute all their plans. Page | 27 In addition to the above, virtuous women carry a financial discipline and independence as seen above. This includes an acuity in business, in other words, they are wealth makers. PROVERBS 18:22 says, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD.” And chapter 10:22 speaks of God’s blessing saying, “It makes one rich, and does not come with sorrow.” v. Confession 2 KINGS 4:25-37 tells us of a Shunammite woman who had lost her son, but when asked by Gehazi about everything, her response was, “It is well” [verse 26], and in verse 28 she expressed to prophet Elisha what had happened, without uttering a negative confession (death). Virtuous women neither wail over situations, nor do they seek the world’s compassion, for they carry the strength to overcome challenges. PROVERBS 31:25 says, “she laughs without fear of the future.” vi. Cooking All virtuous women know how to cook. PROVERBS 31:15 says, “She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household.” My mother as a virtuous woman is the best person I know at cooking. This does not mean that they can prepare all dishes, but at least they can prepare something delicious for their household. Page | 28

vii. Commanding respect PROVERBS 31:26 says, “When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.” Verse 22, “she dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.” In other words, she thinks (lives) royalty and is never intimidated by circumstances because she can blossom from anywhere. Verse 23, “Her husband is well known at the city gates, where he sits with the other civic leaders.” In other words, the works of her hands give pride to her husband among the community because of her high work ethic which exceeds even that of men. Virtuous women carry an aura that no ordinary woman does carry, they command a honour that can only come from God. viii. She knows her worth PROVERBS 31:10 says, “Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies.” The question is, if she is more precious than rubies, what then is her worth? MATTHEW 13:45-46 says, “Again, the kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. When he discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it!” Page | 29 In this narrative, it is no longer about possessions, or accolades, but it is about you. This is why man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh. [GENESIS 2:24] ix. Excellence PROVERBS 9:1 says, “Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars.” Seven signifies perfection, in other words, everything she does is excellent. Furthermore, PROVERBS 24:3-4 says, “Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” The mere fact that wisdom ranks first in the hierarchy of knowledge and understanding, this means that virtuous women carry the substance required in the entire chain and cycle above. In other words, their houses are never empty or void of knowledge and understanding. Page | 30

iii. PRAYER PROVERBS 31:18 says, “her lamp does not go out by night.” All virtuous women are praying women. They understand the importance of prayer hence, not only do they have an altar but one that is consistently burning. They understand the fact that they are made through prayer and that everything in the physical aligns because they already aligned it in the spiritual realm. Page | 31 CONCLUSION Marriage has either made or broken people. I have seen once lovely men turn into beasts. I have seen once rich people become beggarly and destitute. I have seen a once outspoken marriage turn scandalous. I have seen once celebrated partners become suicidal. Therefore choose Wisely. All in all, marriage is lovely when God takes the lead. This means that He becomes the first resort to solve any situation, and that the spouses by choice choose to submit their marriage to God. On 26th December, 2025 a friend of mine called me and we met and had a conversation concerning marriage, after which I realized that many people are struggling with a similar question hence the reason behind writing this book and guide, though not exhaustive but at least helpful. Thank You God for Everything. For any inquiries or comments kindly reach out through: opalefrank94@gmail.com Page | 32

The Hen’s Cry OPALE FRANK

Contents 1. Introduction to this hen’s life 2. When Coccidiosis attacked 3. Reflection 4. Lessons learnt from this hen 5. Conclusion pg. 2 pg. 3 pg. 6 pg. 6 pg. 14 6. Final remarks to both parents and children pg. 15 7. A story told me by my Mum pg. 15 1 | P a g e INTRODUCTION Early 2026 something told me to observe this hen. Beautiful it was in appearance, with so much expectations from the owner who is a brother of mine. Twenty one days, it took brooding its eggs. Tough it was, and each time after brooding, it rushed out of the house with so much vigour causing the rest of the hens and cocks to flee for safety. As it lay on its eggs, we too faced it roughly as its beak intercepted any approaching feet. Eventually, we had the chirping of the chicks. Regardless, it took three more days sitting on them with no food or drink, patiently waiting for each egg to hatch. On the third day, it moved out with eight chicks leaving four eggs unhatched. At twilight, due to the height of the door step, its chicks often got stranded, hence lingering outside until helped amidst heavy scratches from its mother. On the other hand, no hen, cock or other chicks (birds) could access the door which was under blockage by this hen. A few days later, these chicks too developed the strength and attitude to access the entrance with no need for assistance. However, I noticed a great change in this hens’ character ever since it hatched; everything became exclusive to it with its chicks, for instance, 2 | P a g e

the feeder was fled from upon its sight by the other birds which posed a threat to all birds inclusive of the biggest cock which now became its puppet. Its presence in the compound was felt, and its chicks distinguishable from the rest due to their entitlement even with their mother at a distance. One day, a cat captured one of its chicks which we noticed having seen it chasing this cat wherever it went. Disappointing it was, to its owner who rescued this chick late having the cat’s teeth already chocked it to death. With seven chicks left, and to avert any further attacks from this cat, boundaries were erected hence a breather to this hen. About two weeks and a half later, Coccidiosis broke out in the area hence putting all bird owners on high alert. This however did not take long, when the neighbours’ outcry was heard, having this disease wiped out all their birds in just a few days. The birds which once loitered around now started to become scarce with the only option left to the owners being eating those mature since medication did not avail any quick recovery to the rapidly dying birds. Coccidiosis is a severe, fatal parasitic disease of the intestinal tract in poultry caused by Eimeria or Isospora protozoa which causes severe 3 | P a g e diarrhea, rapid weight loss, dehydration, among other effects, symptomized by bloody or mucus-filled droppings, ruffled feathers, pale combs, lethargy, decreased appetite, and huddling. (As per Google) Much as most birds at the neighbourhood had succumbed to this disease, none of our birds had yet been affected until a fateful afternoon when a neighbour came and told my mother that her birds were no longer safe. This notice to me was clear proof that our birds were the next which was evidenced by this specific hen being affected by swollen eyes on the next day. This intensity of this disease was not new to us since it once wiped out an entire compound filled with birds hence discouraging us from poultry keeping. My mother had just revived poultry keeping the previous year having missed chicken at a wedding party where chicken was served hence rejuvenating poultry keeping spirit for food consumption purposes. Upon us seeing this bird’s eye affected, we intensified on the treatment so as to avert any further possible effects on the rest of the birds which shared the same house. Medication did not seem to work on this hen hence the disease blinding both its eyes. 4 | P a g e

This pitied us upon seeing a once vibrant mother hen totally weak with no appetite to eat but surrounded by its chicks jumping and sitting over it. With no way of explaining to the chicks about the risks they could face when affected by the same disease, we tried to separate this hen from its chicks however the chicks always found their way back to their ailing mother. Soon grief hit its owner who knew the consequences of this hen not eating would eventually lead to death. Much as we tried to forcefully feed it, it deliberately refused to eat due to appetite loss. On the next day, it died. I thought that its owner would be emotionally broken, however he woke up knowing what had happened as he claims to have dreamt about its death. This therefore meant Alas! To these chicks. When the rains fell, they were beaten with no thought of fleeing to any shade because they were raised to know that their mother would always cover them. We took up some of their mothers’ responsibilities, unfortunately, they too were already affected with this disease. Daily, they arose to sun bath until sunset with no appetite for food. 5 | P a g e One-by-one they died till the very last. All the other birds followed through a similar cycle, although we ate some for a meal before they died. REFLECTION After observing everything, I was sent to reflect on how many people live like this hen. It reminded me of the rich man’s cry to father Abraham in LUKE 16:2728 saying, “I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come this place of torment.” Lessons from this hen 1. Essence of character ECCLESIASTES 1:9 says, “That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.” This clearly teaches us to allow love lead our lives because to just imagine that we are not first to live on the surface of this earth and neither shall we be the last, is humbling. To daily watch this hen scratch the other hens denying them the opportunity to feed along with its chicks, and continuously chasing them 6 | P a g e

away reminded me about how myopic some people choose to live their lives. At the time of this hens’ death, there was another hen with chicks almost the size of those it left behind, however, my belief is that if this hen had built a friendly relationship with the one that remained alive, perhaps it would foster its chicks, but only for the short-sightedness of the deceased hen which believed in its superiority and ego. Painful story my Uncle narrated to me He being a policeman and a crew member assigned to guard a certain judge told me of how they were mistreated, and how they were referred to as dogs by this judge. He narrates that one day as they sat next to the veranda at this judge’s residence, this judge while on the first floor called out his children and while leaning on the balcony pointed at these officers while telling his children, “I do not want you to be like those dogs”. The men and women whom he referred to as ‘dogs’ are the very people who offered him security inclusive of his very own family. This is how some people have chosen to be led by bad character rather than humility. 7 | P a g e 2. Always distance children from your issues I have seen parents who have always used their children as shields in matters beyond their mental ability to handle hence causing psychological torture to them and consequently mental health issues. Just like this hen which extended its chicks in a friendly manner towards it yet aware that it was affected by disease and as well knowing that these chicks would be prone to the same, so do many parents and guardians do to their children; encouraging them to follow the wrong path of life rather than standing up to correct them whenever they go wrong. It is divine wisdom to keep children neutral to whatever the parents are going through, and most importantly keeping them in a safe environment for their growth. For instance, no matter what a spouse has done, it is a wise thing to handle such issues outside the reach or hearing of the children. This is important because children are led by emotions and never about reason, so they can easily side with any parent or guardian, and for some end up carrying hatred and burdens in their hearts at a young age. 3. Teach your children to both know and love their relatives In this world, many families live in isolation from the people who really matter in life, and these are relatives. 8 | P a g e

Some parents assume that staying away from their relatives is the solution to healing the past wounds, however this is wrong because like this hen which lived in isolation, its chicks ended up being so lonely in a compound they once possessed. The importance of relatives cannot be over emphasized, however one can learn from this real story. I once saw a man who for a long time built in town and had amassed a lot of wealth, however by the time he passed on, he had not left anything back in his village implying that he did not associate nor support anyone from his home family. This became a reproach to him though gone, for he was mocked by both his people back home, as well as his friends who wondered what manner of man the deceased was hence a lesson to many who ignore their homes, from where everything began. It also looks beautiful when a family is united and cooperative, for this inspires other families and people therefore bringing a good repute. I recently attended a function where the master of ceremony interjected any person who sought to expose the family’s shortcomings in the presence of guests. He often said, “You cannot wash the family’s undergarments in public”, which I believe is an important aspect calling for discernment as to the right forum to address specific issues. 9 | P a g e I always do tell people that problems should not be the motivation for a hypocritical and temporal unity, because as a family joy should be celebrated together with long-lasting unity and love. Imagine the joy found in celebrating an important event in life convened by most relatives. Relatives are important, and children should relate with them at all costs even if it means sending them for holidays back home, which should be emphasized by parents and guardians. I have been so disappointed by some children who can hardly speak their mother tongue. To some although given local names, do not take pride in being called by the same. All children should remember this, that they can never be wiser than their parents who named them even before they could become anything although exception is put to some names which are ungodly. I have seen some children getting praised for their inability to speak their local language which isn’t hilarious, because why would an elderly person be made to bend to a foreign language they hardly speak or understand instead of a child embracing the same for purposes of communicating to such elderly people. 10 | P a g e

4. Always teach children to build their own legacies I love watching cartoons and one titled “Simba – the lion king” amuses me in that many people ride on the legacies of their parents, which is good. However when a child learns that they too have to build their own, this provokes them to do better and set a pace for the coming generations. When this hen died, it meant that an entire lineage was vulnerable to suffer the consequences of this loss. 5. Wisdom is the best Inheritance PROVERBS 24:3 says, “Through wisdom a house is built”. Many parents have invested most of their time in piling inheritance for their children instead of investing wisdom into them. I have seen children who have inherited great wealth from their parents only to squander it. Yes, wealth was left for them but not even the simplest of the wisdoms that ‘birth rights are not for sale’ was not deposited into them. If wisdom builds a house, then much emphasis should be placed to it by all parents because wisdom is justified by her children [LUKE 7:35]. In other words, your legacy will only be complete by the success of your children. 11 | P a g e 6. Hate is a divider whereas love is a reconciler There are homes where children from other homes are prohibited access, children advised to make friends with only the rich kids claiming that the poor ones are thieves or trash. A house of love will always be peaceable, filled with joy because love unites people, and attracts wealth and health. This hen did not have any friend and was proud to hate all the other birds on a fallacy assumption of protecting its chicks. It is therefore important to love people unconditionally regardless of the positive or negative energy they repay, because Jesus Christ teaches us to love both our friends and enemies [MATTHEW 5:44]. 7. Obscurity of the Future Just like this hen lived in an uncertainty of the days ahead of it, so do many people live. However, is this how life should be lived? Certainly not! For unbelievers, it is okay to live so, but for a Christian with a relationship with God, their future should not be a mystery but a mirror of what they already know. In other words, nothing should catch them off guard. 8. Committing children to God It is an important thing to give children a firm foundation of Christ, and this is why child dedication is an important aspect in a child’s life, because 12 | P a g e

a child is committed to God Who is able to keep them even after their parents’ departure. It is further a necessity to ground children in the knowledge of Our Heavenly Father, GOD. This is important because as children grow up, they should be able to build their own personal relationship with God. This also relates to how much liberty is given to children by parents or guardians when it comes to the things of God. I am blessed to have parents who have always granted me unrestrained permission to freely serve God, and so should all parents grant to their children. 9. Preparation This is one of the most undermined aspect of life by most parents. They were raised to become what they are, but instead of doing the same to better their children, they have instead taken up both their roles and those of the children under their guardianship. This in the long run means that their children may not step up to be the best version of their parents. For instance, how many businessmen are into equipping their children with the business discipline? I can boldly say, they are few which risks the posterity of the wealth built. Therefore, children ought to be prepared for the days to come. 13 | P a g e 10. Leadership It is a devastating thing for parents to live all their livelihood as the only bridge to an already broken family just awaiting for their departure so as rekindle the former bitterness, hatred’s and unfinished wars. Parents should try as much as possible to create a chain of authority in their families, for instance, instil an undisputed voice with a similar finality of decision as theirs. Families with only people but without a leadership are like sheep at the mercy of wolves. In addition to the above, leadership should not be for positional purposes but a service and an accountable role to the people and vice versa. Children should be taught to obey those in authority since all leadership is God given, and with such morals, there is a guarantee for a better future to the children and a great joy to their parents in both their presence and absence. CONCLUSION The blessing of children is a true revelation of God’s love for the people as an extension of their work. In 2012 crossover into 1st January, 2013, there happened a tragedy in our house where my father was involved in a road accident that claimed the lives of three of his friends leaving three of them alive with two incapacitated. 14 | P a g e

We grew up with our Mum and always missed our Dad whom we often engaged with on a phone call since he was always busy with his work which hardly gave him family time. When this accident happened, he says that he kept crying one thing, “my family, my family, my family, …” So emotional it was, as his last born like an angel came walking towards him, he narrates. This caused him to take us (his children) to where he stayed while he worked. We then got to understand how both parents’ love is important in a child’s life. Therefore, it is a divine call for all parents to create time for their families and children. I further call upon all children to dearly love their parents, guardians, sibling’s and all people because, “You will treasure life’s moments the day you understand that life is a journey of flashes” [82nd quote from The 138 Quotes by Opale Frank]. A story told me by my Mum She said that once lived two old women in a village separated by a thick forest. They loved each other and for a long time lived in different homesteads but often visited each other. 15 | P a g e One day, they suggested to live together due to the distances issues and old age. They shared responsibilities in an alternating manner since there was no one to assist them in their daily house work. After some time, one of them became severely ill, while the other was well. That evening, the sick one slept earlier leaving the other awake. The healthy one left the door open and awoke the ill one to close the door just because it was not her turn to close. They quarrelled about it and chose to just sleep with the door open. Later in the night a lion entered their grass thatched house and pulled out the sick one whose sleeping position was next to the door. As she wailed, the healthy one kept encouraging the lion to eat her because she neglected her duty of closing the door. She however still left the door open just because it was not her turn to close it, this lion after tearing the ill one into pieces, came for this healthy one who was also eaten. What then do you learn from this story? For any info, kindly reach out through: opalefrank94@gmail.com 16 | P a g e

Why children? Society is filled with vulnerable people who really need help. These include; men, women, and children. Prioritizing children doesnot mean that the other categories of vulnerable people do not deserve urgent attention, however with time, there will be an expansion of this innitiative to include them too. Growth is such an important aspect that is worth the world’s attention because just like trees, a tree without roots is more of a structure without a system. Why Now? I have heard an opportunity to look through the society I live in, and as well made research on the world’s most populated societies and have come to a conclusion that it is a Divine Call from Heaven to reachout specifically to the children. Who is a child? A child is any vulnerable person who needs protection from a harmful society, and firstly, giving them Godly direction on how to go about life. This includes creating awareness campaigns on how important children are, and the need for a joint cause so as to ensure that all children feel loved. What is God’s mind concerning children? Children are a blessing from God [GENESIS 1:22]. What is Society’s perception about children? “My children are only those biological from my loins and womb”, “My children are only those of my brothers and sisters dear to me”, “My children are only those of my current wife, and for the wife who left (divorced), I do not recognize them”. But where does this mind leave the rest of the children? In LUKE 10:30-37 Jesus gives this beautiful parable of the Good Samaritan saying, “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, who stripped him of his clothing, wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was. And when he saw him, he had compassion. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I come again, I will repay you.’ So which of these three do

you think was neighbor to him who fell among the thieves? And he said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him,” “Go and do likewise.” Something special about the parable above is that, therein Jesus gives a clear pattern on how to efficiently helpout the needy. Things that stand out are, 1. Man is wounded, 2. A good Samaritan who wants to help, 3. There is an inn with a willing person to receive whoever comes in, 4. Oil and wine poured as a first aid, 5. Two denarii offered the inn keeper for maintenace of the wounded person, 6. This is concluded as mercy shown. Secondly, a good Samaritan is a chain of likeminded people with a common good, to help and support those in need without seeking to benefit from it. Why is this Innitiative Important? To hear a child cry is equivalent to hearing Jesus cry. In MATTHEW 18:5 Jesus says, “Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receieves Me.” How did Jesus deal with children? MATTHEW 19:13-15 says, “Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.” MATTHEW 14:15-21 says, “When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.” But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.” He said, “Bring them here to Me.” Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.” How often do you show kindness to children? A child’s smile is one of the genuine and purest there is, which smile needs protection.

My interaction with children for over twenty two years has proven to me that all children deserve to be loved, and that there is no child love cannot change. I believe deep inside your heart is the strong love for the children which is the essence of this Divine Innitiative. How do I see children? I firstly see them as my own, and secondly, I see them as my young self. Have I risked anything for the children? Yes, and still do, just like many of you do. What really is the mind behind loving and advocating for children? It is because children are The Heart Of GOD. God loves children, and just like JOHN 3:16 says that in God’s expression of His love for mankind, He gave us Jesus as the best Gift thereis and shall be, therefore our love for the children should be expressed WHOLEHEARTEDLY. What moments standout for me with the children? 1. Carrying them I grew up loving children’s smiles and realized that when I threw them upto the air, they gave me the best of their smile. One day as I streched out my hand to carry a naked baby, his (baby’s) mother told me that due to teeth growth, he was affected by a running stomach. I paid a deaf ear to it since the baby too had strectched out his hand towards mine. I threw him to the air and as he smiled back at me, he dirt my face. Hahaha, everyone laughed on, so did I. 2. Two Lost children In 2024, two young friends of mine found two young children, one aged two and ahalf years and the other aged one and ahalf years who had disappeared from their home in a densely populated area where we lived in. They made several announcements from about 4:00 hours to 9:00 hours. As it came to 10:00 hours, they came at our door knocking for me since their parents could not accept the responsibility of lodging these little ones. We reported the matter to the nearest police station, who reffered us to the other because they too did not want that responsibility. The one we went to also reffered us to the main which required moving outside this community as it was half a kilometer away. We boarded two motocycles and therein as we travelled the youngest smiled at me which smile stuck in my mind to date. Upon reaching this station, a statement was recorded and we were sent back since the Police Children’s Family Unit was locked by 11:00 hours, hence we returned with these children. The question in our minds was on how to lodge these children, since we were all under our parents households who for various reasons could

hardly accept these children. I told these friends that l would take the responsibility. Upon reaching home, I did give them some small food as they looked hungry, they both once again smiled, I smiled back but knowing how much trouble I was already into since my parent was already furious. God is faithful, in that upon them finishing to eat, a call rung from the main police station that the children’s parents had arrived to the station. We took them there, and their parents were so happy, so were the children. We were thanked by them much as they did not have any monies to offer. To us, fulfilling what we had to do was enough since we knew that heaven has it recorded. Glory to God. 3. Sunday school lessons with the children This began by some parent requesting me to at least preach the Gospel to his young child aged six who was so notorious daily commiting offences such as theft, fights and verbal vulgar exchange with elders. This, she requested me as many times as I remember, however in my mind, I thought to myself that I was quite busy and engaged with academic schedules. In one moment as I reflected, I really felt the cry of this woman because I was once in a Sunday school class and I am a product of the work of the Gospel from such classes. Much as she permitted me to take this son-inlaw of hers to Church, I also realized that it is important for at least his parent or relative to move along with him. I also noted that the entire community needed the Gospel because children were left exposed to the harmful habits of the society. This caused me to start Sunday school lessons which was a replica of the lessons which happened at Church. I felt the impact of these lessons to these children who have daily requested for them (lessons). I also appreciate the willingness of their parents who have always sent their children for them. And there has been moral and spiritual transformation in these children. Glory to God. 4. Hi Five moments with children After the Sunday school lessons, sharing Hi Fives together gives me joy as children Hi five each other and me while smiling. 5. A crying child at the back of our house Around 2019, we heard a girl crying behind our house, she had run from her home due to domestic violence by her step-mother. It was around 11:30 hours. We reported the matter to our neighbors who were quite old in age but they did not give it any attention. I reached out to one of my neighbour, a girl who was my friend, she welcomed her and gave her accomodation for a night. Later in the morning, the matter was reported to police who reconciled her with the guardians. I thought to myself, why would such a young girl be exposed to a night’s lonliness?

6. Giving to children Seeing a child helpless causes an emotional disturbance to my mind. I remember praying to God when I was twelve years telling Him, “LORD, when You make me wealthy, I will use all my wealth to help the Needy.” Every time, I see the needy, I give all I that I have unreservedely. My heart feels an emotional attachment to all the poor and vulnerable people. At times, am emotionally striken and take times to cry to God about people’s situations. Story of a young girls’ generosity In 2025 as I returned from school, a young school girl aged about eight to ten who was eating fried G-nuts mixed with maize was asked by one of the street children to give them something to eat. She scooped part of it and gave to them. This touched my heart, making me appreciate the parents of this child in their absentia because of how they raised their daugther to know that all people are equal. Story of a young boy stepped In most Cities in Uganda, are people often known as Karimojongs, who to us from Teso are our Uncle’s and Auntie’s. These though not all, do survive through hardships such as selling and sorting beans or G-nuts from the markets. While at Mbale, a young boy who had stretched his arm under a truck so as to pick a fallen banana that was beneath it, had his arm stepped by this car. His loud shout while undergoing intense pain broke my heart as I asked myself when would such reproach for an entire Region end? Who heard the Judge’s call? Yes, I did. While attending a High Court Criminal Session in 2024, which was a defilement case of a young girl aged ten years, where the accused pleaded guilty during plea taking. Her Ladyship Justice Margaret Mutonyi in anguish stated that something has to be done in line with Research as to the cause of and how to curb this vice, because 70% of the criminal cases handled are those of defilement. Where does this leave our Society? Where does it leave our children? Where does it leave our future? Is Caning children good? Certanly not! There is need to distinguish between disciplining and torturing. Disciplining is aimed at teaching a child the right path through love, whereas torturing is an expression of one’s anger. There is a better way to teach, and this is through love. Moses taught retaliation where as Jesus taught Love. Love is a Greatest Teacher because of it’s impact [LUKE 7:47].

Are unborn babies children? Yes, they are. Every child when given an opportunity to live, are capable of becoming anything. In around 2019, my lovely mother while in tears cried after I preached to her the Gospel, and she narrated to me the reason as to why she cried. She told me of a relative and an elder then in the year 1999 into 2000 who pestered her to abort me because my Mum had recently given birth and quickly conceived me. She narrates being offered abortion herbs which she did take over and over again to a quantity enough to terminate a baby. She stated that at last she gave up on drinking these local herbs because of how bitter they were. I believe God as He always does had a Big Plan for my life, which I am grateful of, that I am alive today. My Mum did apologize to me, and she regretted saying she did not know who would have been preaching the Gospel to her, as I am her only child among the many, who preaches the Gospel. What is the Bibilical perspective about unborn babies? LUKE 1:44 says, “For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy!” This means that they too understand and indeed are purposed to live on earth so as to accomplish the mandates and assignments God has placed upon their lives. In JEREMIAH 1:5 God says, “Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” This clearly shows us that children are a Plan and Work of God. In other words, no child is a mistake, and parents are just a conduit of God’s work. How many children are aborted daily? Abortion is a demonic activity aimed at frustrating God’s Work on Earth. To me there is pre-abortion, abortion and post abortion. Let us think it out together. Pre-abortion This is an activity that frustrates carrying a child, for instance, death of either parents before conception. This aborts a possible destiny of a child purposed to be on earth. GENESIS 38:9-10 says, “But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD.”

Abortion This is where a child is already in the womb and killed before birth time. JUDE 1:11 speaks of people who have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit. Balaam a prophet in the Old Testament still made reference of in the New Testament, who for a wage was willing to curse the children of Israel, but for God’s blessing upon them could not do it but taught Balak to put a stumbling block before them, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality [REVELATION 2:14]. This stumbling block would eventually arouse God’s anger against them hence their destruction. Balaam’s doctrine has been adopted through various sophisticated ways of conducting abortions. And for this, ROMANS 1:32 says, “knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” Post abortion This is where a child is born but unfortunately gets killed when still young. For instance, MATTHEW 2:16 says, “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.” Many children are aborted daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, but again, is this what they deserve? Certainly Not! Becacuse they too like we are, deserve to live. It is suddening to imagine how many parents encourage their daughters to abort, how many boys force girls to abort, how many pharmacy’s (clinics and hospitals) and how many nations encourage abortion. For this must stop and only be excused for exceptional health circumstances. Why are Nations dealing with high crime rates? PROVERBS 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” This scripture calls for nurturing children when young so as to instill in them the discipline required for life. I have in pain observed the end of many, both young and old people who indeed I believe that if they had the opportunity of being raised well, they would still be alive today. Again to ask, how many people’s lives are affected daily by the bad actions of other people? When I look at Nations like America and some Continents like Europe, Asia, and Africa, and see how gun violence had ended the lives of prominent people whose impact to the world would be so much great, I

feel suddened and burdened on how important Raising children is hence this Great Divine Initiative. To see the rise of Rappers and their short living on earth is heart breaking; to imagine how a person plots to kill another persons’ son and daughter is so frightening. These people killed are raising children, and taking care of multitudes of lives and families. Everyone deserves to live and no one deserves death. Every man, woman and child has a core – deep in their heart. This is the one that requires to be tamed while early because cores are what people are made of. To sit down and imagine how Adolf Hitler who once was in a Church chior could become such a worlds’ threat leaves questions on the impact of the irresponsibility of parenthood. Backtracking how much resources were gathered for fighting Covid-19 convinces me that the world can indeed deal with every problem but for direction on how to do it. And just like Joseph in GENESIS 41:54, I set myself to Globally Minister to the children. Is it possible to curb crime to Zero rate? Yes, it is. If we all took up this cause of advocating for the children, and teaching them right on the Godly path, there is an assurance that crime will be dealt with efficiently. Why are young children still nurtured into slavery? A woman goes to the village and requests a parent to let her young girl aged five who is not schooling to be allowed to go and stay in town with the aim of working as a maid. What a pain! To daily observe such a young girl dress up a woman’s children and escort them to school for a pay which directly goes to her parent is so saddening. I believe that every child deserves a better future and protection from such barbaric actions. What about the question of Irresponsible parenting? Do Nations forsake their responsibility upon people attaining the age of majority? Certainly, yes! This leaves many helpless in the unencumbered liberty of permissiveness. But again, is this right? I say, NO. A young man impregnate’s an entire village and is untouched. Drugs are supplied in broad-day-light leaving all age groups frail and exposed to addiction.

Children are impregnated, and the police for a bribe opts to settle the matter outside court. Children are tortured and sexually abused in the watch of neighbors. How many children, youth and adults contemplate suicide for various reasons inclusive of depression? One would ask, “Where is the State? Where are the people? Where is the Church? Where are the various organizations?” And I say, we are here as the answer to such Questions. What then is the SOLUTION? GLOBAL ADVOCATE FOR THE CHILDREN This is abbreviated as GA4TC. VISION: To Reveal The Heart Of God to the parents, children and all Communities. MISSION: To Raise Global Ministers Unto the children. THEME: Prioritizing Children. OUR COLORS: Blue and Purple (Because we are Royalty). CURRENT GOALS: 1. Raising Volunteers to Champion Advocating for the children in their Communities. 2. Creating Teams in all Nations from Africa to the World. 3. Offering career guidance and counseling to the children. 4. Reaching out to parents with a simple message of loving their children. 5. Sensitizing communities through awareness campaigns and media visibility on the need to protect children. 6. Building a Corporate Team from all Fields with the intent of Inspiring children to believe in themselves.

7. Preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all children. 8. Broadcasting interactive Sunday School Sessions for the children. 9. Offering support to the children with the aim of giving them a decent future. 10. 11. 12. 13. Reconciling street children with their families. Being a family a children without homes. Reaching out to Nations with the aim of championing NationWide awareness for the children. Creating a systematized Leadership in all Communities and Nations. CONTACT INFO: Opalefrank94@gmail.com +256786058322 FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW MY SOCIAL MEDIAS: “OPALE FRANK”

Why this discussion? We live in the world where value is attached to almost everything, however many times what the world considers as value is in most cases valueless before God. In this world we have two kinds of existing things namely; the living and none living things. In GENESIS chapter 1 and 2 all other creatures were created with exception of the man in chapter 2 who God took time to form in verse 7 and woman in verse 22. One would think, because the earth had no form in GENESIS 1:2, therefore God should have taken time to form it however that was not the case because value can only be attached to the earth as long as man is in it. Man (includes woman) has a special Place with God. This David the Psalmist wonders in PSALM 8:3-4 saying, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?” The scripture right above carries God’s deepest emotions, and when GENESIS 3:9 says, “But the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?” Here one would assume that God was asking an obvious question, however the truth is that Adam had died. This death came at a time when God had rested from His work as revealed in GENESIS 2:2 saying, “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” This was a place of testation to God whether He would continue at rest when His lovely work (man) is dead or He would redeem it at whatever cost. Surely God had to leave His rest because man had fallen, and JOHN 3:16 says, “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world (man) that He [even] gave up His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” There is need to lay emphasis that the death with which man died was not in itself destruction because there was a possibility of redemption and this was done through Jesus Christ when He died on the cross for mankind. Jesus further explains the above aspect in JOHN 10:10 saying, “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance to the full, till it overflows.” This of essence implies that much as man fell in the Garden of Eden and died, man’s destruction is not yet but shall be at the end of the age. Jesus explained this end (destruction) in MATTHEW 10:28 saying, “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;

but rather be afraid of Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell (Gehenna).” This is the END of man, however God expresses His heart in 1 TIMOTHY 2:4 saying “I will that all people be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.” For this cause, Jesus Christ spoke of the Holy Spirit saying in JOHN 16:8-9, “And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me.” Believing in Jesus Christ as your personal LORD and Saviour is the greatest gift you could ever give yourself. Why? Because it is the beginning of you living. When Jesus Christ walked the face of this earth a question of His rest (Sabbath) was raised in MATTHEW 12:1-5 and in response He said, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who accompanied him—how he went into the house of God and ate the loaves of the showbread—which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for the men who accompanied him, but for the priestly only? Or have you never read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath and yet are guiltless?” IN OTHER WORDS, Jesus was inviting them into understanding that when man fell, God left (abandoned) His rest therefore simply put, “there was no Sabbath to observe”. ACTS 17:30-31 speaks of the former days of ignorance saying, “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to repent: because He has appointed a day, in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man Whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” This Man Jesus is God in Trinity. He was, He is and shall be. Briefly, one would ask saying, Who is Jesus? He is the I AM. John the writer in JOHN 1:1-4, 14 by the Spirit describes Him saying, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Giving a little hint on verse 14 where, “the Word became flesh”. This conversation stems back to ISAIAH 6:8 saying, “Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?” Explaining something. This was a Trinity Conversation; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Therein two questions are asked, 1. Whom shall I send, and 2. who will go for Us.

Prophet Isaiah explains the answer to the first question saying in ISAIAH 40:3, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”” This meant that the Holy Spirit was sent with a message about the coming of Jesus Christ, Who through John the Baptizer, the message was proclaimed. The second question, who will go for Us, this John explained in JOHN 1:14 saying He took on flesh, and this is Jesus [JOHN 3:16]. No wonder in LUKE 1:41 when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and she filled with the Holy Spirit prophesied about the Christ. This was the greeting, “Good Morning Holy Spirit”, and He leaped for joy. Jesus in LUKE 19:10 explains why He came saying, “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” In other words because man fell, He had to come for his redemption. This 1 PETER 2:25 speaks of saying, “For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” This means that the death of Jesus on the cross and His resurrection from the dead meant the beginning of a new life in Christ Jesus to all who believe in His name [2 CORINTHIANS 5:17]. Therefore, when He declared on the cross saying, “It is finished! [JOHN 19:30]” this meant that now we can boldly open up a conversation of His rest [Sabbath] and many more present truth realities. NOW, HEBREWS 4:3 says, “For we who have believed do enter into that rest.” Why Soul? It became a Heavenly Agenda as expounded above. If you want to know more about the soul, kindly look out for a YouTube sermon by my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega entitled “Phaneroo 173 – Spirit, Soul and Body.” MATTHEW 16:26 asks a Profound question saying, “For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” The conclusion of the matter is that, it is pride to reject Jesus Christ and humility to accept Him as your personal Lord and Saviour. SELAH…

The Salvation Prayer – If you have not yet given your life to Jesus Christ, then this is the perfect opportunity to do so. Simply repeat these words: “Lord Jesus, I thank You because You died for my sins and You were raised for my glory. Today, I receive You as my personal Lord and Saviour; I am born again. Amen.” Brief Highlight to the Gospel preachers. When JOHN 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than to lay down his life for his friends.” This Jesus fulfilled by dying for us on the cross, and no other shall ever do that because it is done [ROMANS 6:9-10], and therefore setting a new principle, “Greater love has no one than this; to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all creature” [MARK 16:15]. Therefore just as He instructed Simon Peter in JOHN 21:15-17 saying, “Feed My sheep” so it is now as the highest expression of Love. Like Apostle Paul in ACTS 26:16, for this purpose He created you; to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which He will reveal to you. NOW when PROVERBS 11:30 says, “He who is wise wins souls.” This is the Heavenly Agenda for you. With this understanding Apostle Paul says in 1 CORINTHIANS 9:16, “Woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel!”

Special Thanks to my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega. You have deeply loved me and innumerable people through preaching Jesus Christ to us in and out of season. I love you Papa.

Like Jude the writer expresses, a shift from what he intended to write as depicted in JUDE 1:3 saying, “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints”. I too intended to write about what distinguishes you, however by the leading of the Holy Spirit this I write was priority and just like wind, we blow where the Spirit leads [JOHN 3:8]. What is Worship? This is service unto God with purity of heart and spirit [MATTHEW 5:8]. Who is a Worshipper? This is one who worships God in spirit and truth [JOHN 4:23-24]. How do people Worship? They worship according to the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ [2 CORINTHIANS 4:6]. Why this Book title? It speaks to the basic things each worshipper should know. In JOHN 3:10 Jesus asked Nicodemus a foundational question saying, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?” This implies that there are things God expects each person at a certain level to know, and to every worshipper below are some fundamentals. 1. Worship is a Revelation of Who God is. For one to worship, they must firstly know Who they worship. In JOHN 4:22 Jesus told a Samaritan woman, “you worship what you do not know; we know what we worship”. This means that you must carry the knowledge and understanding of What or Who you worship.

2. Worship is a Place. For one to worship, they must worship from a Place. PROVERBS 20:5 says, “Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out.” So when Jesus met the Samaritan woman at a well, He opened her mind to the distinct Place of Worship which is drinking and ministering from an Eternal Plane. 3. Worship is a Degree of God’s Presence. PROVERBS 6:27 asks a profound question saying, “Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?” When one Worships God, it shall be evident that they carry the results of the God they worship. 4. Worship is the highest degree of response to spiritual promptings. The spirit world operates in spiritual timings (Kairos) therefore some things will only carry weight when done at a designated spiritual time. In JOHN 12:7 Mary wiped Jesus’ feet with an ointment of pure liquid nard, this she did because although she had kept it awaiting His burial, this was the only time she could be able to embalm Him because He would resurrect on the third day when embalming is usually done. 5. Worship is Joyous. PSALMS 16:11 says, “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore”. The working of the Holy Spirit is so wonderful in that Joy moves Him. For instance ACTS 13:52 says, “And the disciples were continually filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.” You realize that Joy precedes the Holy Spirit, in other words there is a certain constant joy one finds in God which JUDE 1:24 calls “Joy Unspeakable”. 6. Freely you have received, Freely give [MATTHEW 10:8]. Right above is one the fundamental laws of preserving the anointing. The anointing of God makes you different, it separates and uniquely marks you. To everyone who truly knows the heart of God, they shall see God’s service as a privilege and not a transaction. Losing it is simple; putting a demand, price or pay in exchange for what God freely gave you. 7. Worship is a place of Reckoning oneself dead and alive to God in Christ Jesus our LORD [ROMANS 6:11]. No one can worship God except in and through Jesus Christ. This, GALATIANS 2:20 rightly puts saying, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me,

and gave Himself for me”. This implies that worship is a place of dead men and women offering their service to God. 8. A Worshipper must carry an understanding of God’s grace. ROMANS 5:8 says, “But God commanded His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” This means that a worshipper will always extend grace to those around them bearing a perfect example of Jesus Christ. For instance, He welcomed the little children rather than chasing them away, He was able to nurture the disciples to better people from their weaknesses, He was hurt by the loss of Judas Iscariot, He was able to save the life of a woman caught in adultery, He knew many people’s secrets but chose to keep them to himself, He loved public sinners (harlots, prostitutes, tax collectors) at the point where many could not. 9. Humility is a Life of every Worshipper. EXODUS 33:20 says, “No man shall see God (His face) and live”. In other words humility is the one defining mark for everyone who has seen God’s face. MATTHEW 21:44 says this of those who encounter God, that they are broken to pieces, or crushed to powder. Jesus lays down a great pattern on humility right from His birth to His death, for instance, PHILIPPIANS 2:5-8 says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 10. Every Worshipper carries the Mantle of Love. 1 CORINTHIANS 13:2 says, “And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have no love, I am nothing.” Love is the heart of God, and when HEBREWS 11:6 expresses saying, “for he that comes to God must believe that - “He is””. The statement “He is”, is a Place of LOVE (Agape). 11. Worshippers understand the power of sacrifice. God will always move you beyond your comfort zone; this every worshipper must know. In MATTHEW 26:40-45, Jesus thrice awoke Peter, James and John from sleep requesting them to watch and pray. They could have had a busy week, walked a long journey, or even stayed in the cold weather, which could be a justification for the heavy sleep, however just as Mama Kathryn Kuhlman says, “the Gospel will cost you everything”. In 2 CORINTHIANS 11:23-28 Apostle Paul gives an example of how much sacrifice he has paid for Christ’s sake saying, “Are they servants of

Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not. I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of my concern for the churches.” 12. Worship is a secret between you and God. ISAIAH 6:5 says, “For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” These are things you may never explain in human words even if you tried. It is Only God Who understands you, therefore when PSALMS 16:11 says, “At Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.” It is not until someone is drawn to that place, this will only be a mere scriptural reference. 13. Worship is a heart to heart communication with God. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:11 says, “For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.” A heart to heart communication with Him is a place of vulnerability, connectedness and oneness with Him. This is why Verse 16 says, “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart.” 14. Worship is a place of Brokenness before God. These are places where people let go and loose themselves for the sake of finding God. DEUTERONOMY 4:29 says, “But from there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” David in PSALMS 139:23-24 expresses his brokenness before God saying, “Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.” 15. It is a place where God’s will leads. JOHN 3:30 says, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” There is a way God can consume someone, for instance in EXODUS 3:2, Moses saw the

bush burned with fire, and it was not consumed, but the reason he turned in Verse 3 was to see why the bush is not burnt. GENESIS 5:24 says, “And Enoch walked in habitual fellowship with God; and he was not, for God took him.” This kind of walk carries speed, and time summed up in the statement - “willingness”. 16. A Worshipper interests in building intimacy with God. PSALMS 27:4 has this to say, “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in His temple”. This is the earnest desire of every worshipper; to know God more and more deeply. 17. A worshipper lives above offence. Always captivated by the story of William J. Seymour (told by my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega) who narrated how due to the Jim Crow laws William had to seat in the cold outside during the Charles F. Parham meetings. This, William did often for the sake of hearing the Gospel, and soon after he led one of the Greatest Revivals called Azusa Street Revival. In ACTS 9:25 Apostle Paul was let down through the wall in a large basket, in JEREMIAH 38:12 Jeremiah accepted Ebed-Melech’s words of putting the old clothes and rags under his armpits, under the rope so as to lift him out of the dungeon. Offence is one of the signs of immaturity in God; the feeling of selfimportance. My spiritual father always says for instance, “1. Proximity is not access, 2. If you are not recognized seek God more until a time where you cannot be ignored”. In a one story from him that struck my mind, he explains saying that in the earlier days of his ministry, he was invited to preach in an overnight as one of the preachers, when time came to introduce preachers and give them the time to preach, he was neither mentioned nor given opportunity to preach. He says he was heartbroken until God comforted him saying, “Keep your course, for a time will come when you will not be ignored”. From this I learnt a life lesson that you will never be insecure when you know who you are; directly implying that you will always be fine with or without recognition, you will always be fine sitting wherever whether at the back or in the middle because none of these things define you. 18. A Worshipper understands the God in secret through their service toward Him. MATTHEW 6:3-4 says, “But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable

deed may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.” It is amazing that JOHN 21:25 says, “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.” This implies that Jesus’ impact in the individual lives of people was too great that when a person came out to recount, it was evident that it would be impossible to record it all. As we grow in God we get to appreciate the satisfaction which comes along with secret service. 19. A Worshipper Worships God in spirit and truth [JOHN 4:23]. JOHN 4:24 says, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” This statement is a higher truth. How does one get the spirit? It is through birth by the Spirit. Jesus in JOHN 3:5-6 Jesus explains to Nicodemus what being born again means saying, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” This of essence means that one has to believe in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour and confess Him to be so, with their tongues as they have believed in their heart. This is the new birth (being born from above). What is Truth? Jesus Christ is the Truth [JOHN 14:6]. In other words a true worshipper is one (living in the resurrected life in Christ Jesus) who worships God in the revelation of Christ Jesus as revealed through the Word. 20. Worship has Dimensions [multifaceted]. EPHESIANS 5:19-20 says, “Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Here we see worship in form of; 1. Psalms, 2. Hymns, and 3. Spiritual songs. PSALMS 150:3-4 speaks of praising God with; 4. The sound of the trumpet, 5. The lute and harp, 6. Timbrel and dance, and 7. Stringed instruments and flutes. 1 TIMOTHY 2:8 speaks of 8. Lifting up holy hands. HEBREWS 13:15 speaks of offering the sacrifice of praise to God that is; 9. The fruit of our lips, and 10. Giving thanks to His name. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:2 says, “For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.” Here one worships God in 11. Spiritual tongues. NOTE: Worship is not all about the music and melodies but about the heart poured out to God in the revelation of Who He is.

21. A Worshipper knows how to minister to all people. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:24 says, “Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God”. In other words, you as the salt of the earth will always flavor any circumstance, and minister to any person in whatever situation just like salt is able to flavor any kind of sauce or food. It is wonderful to know that Jesus Christ was (and is) a friend to children, He had (has) a message for them too [MATTHEW 19:14]. 22. Worshippers know how to find God. ACTS 17:27 says, “so that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him, although He is not far from each one of us.” Knowing how to find God takes carrying the understanding of what He does the way He does (His ways). In ROMANS 10:20 God says, “I have been found by those who did not seek Me; I have revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me”. This is fundamental in that there is no formula to knowing how to find God but this you can only understand by His Spirit. 23. Worshippers know how to move God. Much as in GENESIS 3:8 the sound of the Lord God walked in the garden (during the Adam and Eve Eden experience), in EXODUS 13:21 the Lord went before the Israelites by the day in a pillar of cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light. Now we only move His heart. For instance, in ACTS 7:55-56 during Stephen’s stoning the Bible says, “But he, full of the Holy Spirit and controlled by Him, gazed into heaven and saw the glory (the splendour and majesty) of God, and Jesus standing at God’s right hand; And he said, Look! I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at God’s right hand!” Here God’s heart was moved by the Sermon Stephen preached as a testimony about the Word of Life Whom he heard, saw, gazed upon, and touched with his own hands [1 JOHN 1:1]. Among the many things that move His heart is helping the poor as PROVERBS 19:17 says, “If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD – and He will repay you.” 24. Worshippers know how to position themselves. In JOHN 4:20 a Samaritan woman said to Jesus, “Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary and proper to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither merely in this mountain nor merely in Jerusalem.” This implied that there would be (and now is) another kind of positioning which is spiritual and this is through Jesus Christ.

25. Every Worshipper should know that the Voice of God is Expensive. This statement my spiritual father often speaks relating to how, many people are unable to hear the Voice of God. You can listen to the sermons below about the Voice of God preached by my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega. 1. Phaneroo 422_Hearing The Voice Of God In The Hardest Times. 2. Sunday 257_Hearing The Voice Of God. 3. Phaneroo 371_Discerning The Voice Of God. 4. Phaneroo 176_The Three Distinctions Of The Voice Of God. He often says, “Loose anything but not God, or that place which hears the Voice of God.” 26. Every Worshipper is defined by Obedience to God. ACTS 5:29 speaks of Peter and the apostles who said, “We must obey God rather than men.” It takes the seeing Jesus Christ for one to walk in obedience. HEBREWS 11:24-26 says, “By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time; accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.” HEBREWS 11:8 says, “By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went but, not knowing where he went.” Always remember this, that Obedience is better than sacrifice [1 SAMUEL 15:22]. SELAH… The Salvation Prayer – If you have not yet given your life to Jesus Christ, then this is the perfect opportunity to do so. Simply repeat these words: “Lord Jesus, I thank You because You died for my sins and You were raised for my glory. Today, I receive You as my personal Lord and Saviour; I am born again. Amen.”

Worship is an important aspect to God that is why He sent Moses to Pharaoh saying, “Let My people go, that they may worship Me” [EXODUS 8:1]. NOW we understand how free we are because of the blood of Jesus Christ which purchased us from the bondage of the law and sin [GALATIANS 3:13]. We therefore stand in awe offering blissful worship crying out, Abba Father. I extend my appreciation to my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega thanking him for preaching the Word of God in purity of heart and spirit. Thanks Papa.

THE BRIDE; THE PILLAR AND FOUNDATION OF THE TRUTH. WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK. BY THE INSPIRATION OF: THE HOLY SPIRIT. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA.

There is beauty in Christ which cannot be found anywhere except in Him. The book of Acts 17:19-28 says, “They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.” Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you. The God Who made the world and all things in it, He, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn`t dwell in temples made with hands, neither is He served by men`s hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He Himself gives to all life and breath, and all things. He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings, that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live, and move, and have

our being. As some of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring.” In the above Scripture we see Paul address many aspects of Truth however our major focus will be concerning the statement he made saying that God does not dwell in temples made by human hands, which scripture is also emphasized in the book of Acts 7:47-50 which says, “But it was Solomon who built a house for Him. However, the Most High does not dwell in houses and temples made with hands; as the prophet says, Heaven [is] My throne, and the earth the footstool for My feet. What [kind of] house can you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place in which I can rest? Was it not My hand that made all these things?” John 1:3 tells us that all things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being; from this we clearly see that by the Spirit [Word of God] everything was created, meaning it will take pride for a man to seek to build a building and suppose to bind the Person of God in it. We see that the temple is more of spiritual than what men think it to be in the physical. Conversations of the temple started way back in the Old Testament, however it is worth noting that our fore fathers lived a life of pitching altars before God, this however with time was lost due to many

reasons however we shall not go into that. Altars are places of open invitation and relationship with God, however conversations of the temple came into place, when the man of God David had a conviction within himself that he dwells in a good house and yet the Ark of the Covenant of God dwells in tents. We see that by God telling him that his hands are full of bloodstains and that his son Solomon will be the one to build it, this did not mean that Solomon had clean hands and that he had not killed anyone, because we see his father David clearly instruct him to take vengeance over those who let`s per say disturbed him [David] while he was still king. This I believe was because God could not explain to him everything concerning the Christ at that time, for we realize that if David had built this temple [physical] it would mean a lot in the spiritual realm beyond what I could be able to explain at the moment; this is why everything is counted unto Solomon for building this temple, and for David, Christ came to establish his kingdom forever. To the man of God David, what he saw from the presence of God with the Ark of the Covenant [the blessing on ObedEdom`s house, the young boys who stretched-out their hands to support the Ark from falling], this is what moved him to seek to build God a temple although he proposed to build it with the reason that he dwelt in a better place, because we see

that what inspired him to go for the Ark was the blessing he heard on ObedEdom`s house, as we know that it is the presence of God that makes a temple, just as we are, due to His presence in us. We clearly later see the man of God Solomon build the temple as instructed by his father David who was directed by God to do the same. 1 Kings 6:19 tells us “And he prepared the Holy of Holies in the inner room in which to set the ark of the covenant of the Lord.” From this scripture we see that the Holy of Holies was set because of the presence of God with the Ark of the Covenant, however we see in the initial stages as revealed to us in 1 Kings 6:11-14, “Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying, Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes, execute My precepts, and keep all My commandments to walk in them, then I will fulfill to you My promises which I made to David your father. And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not forsake My people Israel. So Solomon built the house and finished it.” We see a conditional instruction given to the man of God Solomon as an individual for God to honor the house he was building, and after this condition, we see that after his acceptance, he was graced to finish it. This was the same scenario when the Law was set before the Israelites, and another time when the Israelites demanded for a king; the truth is that it is important to

listen, meditate, and understand the instructions of God because they are what preserve one in the course set for them, as we have seen in many portions of Scripture, Samson, Moses, the young Prophet and the old prophet in 1 Kings 13. We see in reality, that the man of God Solomon dishonored the initial instructions from God; meaning that certain things lost place, as we saw that God was even willing to fulfill the promises He promised David upon Solomon; this is not something small, I believe the man of God Solomon writing the book of Ecclesiastes whose major theme is vanity of vanities; this was because of the hollowness he felt, though this was not the first time as David also once expressed it saying “cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me [Psalms 51:11]”. Ladies and gentlemen God is all we need and without Him nothing in this world can satisfy us or even take His place, and from this we learn to never lose the wonder in Him, my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega always tells us to never get used of the presence of God, as we ought to always have reverence for Him. Let’s briefly talk about the Ark of the Covenant. We clearly see that many things that God revealed to the men of old were shadows of either those in heaven, or that yet to come. However

with emphasis just as Galatians 3:23-25 says, “But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.” Therefore when the reality is revealed, you are no longer subject to the dictates of the shadow but the reality. The Book of Hebrews 9:3-4 tells us, “After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies, having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron`s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.” Let us briefly talk about these three subjects. It should be noted that these things were preserved under God`s instructions, why? Because He is the God Who keeps records or certain things for remembrance or testimony. Manna; from this manna we ought to ask ourselves a certain funny question, of how and which preservative kept it in good state, because we all know that the manna as instructed by God to the Israelites was to be kept for a day and not to be kept for another day; here we

clearly see that the Word of God is the best preservative ever. We see in the New Testament Jesus hint on this manna in John 6 as in verse 31 He was asked by the Pharisees to show them a sign just as their forefathers ate manna in the wilderness quoting the scripture, “He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.”, verse 32-33 tells us, “Jesus then said to them, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Moses did not give you the Bread from heaven [what Moses gave you was not the Bread from heaven], but it is My Father Who gives you the true heavenly Bread. For the Bread of God is He Who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.” As seen above, Jesus` problem was not about the manna the forefathers ate, but it was the indifference of calling it the Bread from heaven; this will be expounded on in line with the temple. Aaron`s rod that budded; this is elaborated in details in Numbers 17 as the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, and instructed Moses to place rods of twelve tribes of Israel before the Lord in the tent of Testimony, however it should be noted that Aaron`s name was written on the rod of Levi, the priestly nation as the essence of all this was to prove to the Israelites that the appointments of God are unquestionable. This is where Aaron`s rod not only budded but also produced blossoms and yielded ripe almonds. Hallelujah. In the

New Testament Christ comes as a High Priest but not according to the order of the Levites but that of Melchizedek. The tablets of the covenant; in simple terms this refers to the ten commandments which Moses wrote as a replica of those he broke in anger which were written by God`s own hands. The reason to as to why it is called the Ark of the covenant is because it bore the covenant upon which God made with the Israelites His people, however with emphasis, what failed the men of old to fulfill as all covenants bind both parties as it is just like a contract, however the difference with this one is that Our Father did not discharge it because we breached it, but chose novation, as we see Christ clearly tell us in Matthew 5:17-18 “Don`t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn`t come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished”. What catches my attention is the place where Christ speaks of firstly the fulfillment of the Law which He did therefore implying that it is now vanishing, as we see that scripture tells us that there is no way a New covenant can be effected while the Old still stands as there must firstly be the discharge of the old before the new is entered into; this was done by Jesus for our sake when indeed no fault was found

in Him as Scripture reveals Him as One Who knew no sin. We see that in Scripture, there is no day God spoke from the Ark of the covenant, for its role was to keep the Israelites in remembrance of the past [Numbers 17:10], and also to prove to them that these were shadows of the original. We see this truly depicts to us that God honors obedience rather than sacrifice, as He honored the works of these men who firstly honored His instructions of the same. Furthermore, Hebrews 9:1 tells us, “NOW EVEN the first covenant had its own rules and regulations for divine worship, and it had a sanctuary [but one] of this world.” Here we are told that the first covenant had its own rules of worship, and its sanctuary which is of this world. We realize here that an altar [singular] was defined and erected to handle multitudes [plural]; meaning that peoples relationship with God were to depend on single individuals [the priests who had access to the so called temple with the Holy of Holies]; this I believe is why these men could restrict the relationship of God with His people to sin and yet twice in scripture we are revealed to that God wanted to deal with His people beyond sin, as Isaiah 1:18 says, “Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;

though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool”, and Hosea 4:6 which says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge”. We see that when scripture talks of something being earthly it implies that it was made by the inspiration of man, however there is need to distinguish between Revelation 11:19 and 21:22, in Revelation 11:19 the Bible says, “Then the sanctuary of God in heaven was thrown open, and the ark of His covenant was seen standing inside in His sanctuary; and there were flashes of lightning, loud rumblings (blasts, mutterings), pearls of thunder, an earthquake, and a terrific hailstorm”. Here we see that as in the Old Testament where it was only the high priest who had access to the holy of holies which was a shadow of the great original, here we see that when heaven was thrown open, John the revelator was thrown back into time past where he saw the ark of covenant in the sanctuary. Hebrews 9:7-8 says, “but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people. By this the Holy Spirit points out that the way into the [true Holy of] Holies is not yet thrown open as long as the former [the outer portion of the] tabernacle remains a recognized institution and is still standing.” When we talk about the outer portion, it is revealed

to us in verse 2, however beyond that, it is the physical temple that these men recognized it to be yet in reality was no more than a tradition, for example in it was a lampstand and a table with showbread set forth, of which Jesus tried to reecho this point to the Pharisees in Matthew 12:3-6 which says, “He said to them, Have you not even read what David did when he was hungry, and those who accompanied him—How he went into the house of God and ate loaves of the showbread—which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for the men who accompanied him, but for the priests only? Or have you never read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath [breaking it] and yet are guiltless? But I tell you, Something greater and more exalted and more majestic than the temple is here!” As seen above, Christ wanted to open these people to certain truths however their hearts were not ready to learn, as to be sincere, this was a great provocation of the highest order if the realty of this sanctuary was true; this is why God did not pay attention to David and his companions eating the showbread, however to us it was for our learning, no wonder it is the same reason why men in the law are the advocates of the Law which has outlived its usefulness as faith has been revealed. We also see Christ tell us that greater, more exalted and more majestic than the

temple is here, this would sound as a controversy but it was the real Truth, which we shall discuss later. From Hebrews 9:8 which says “By this the Holy Spirit points out that the way into the [true Holy of] Holies is not yet thrown open as long as the former [the outer portion of the] tabernacle remains a recognized institution and is still standing.” We see that by the fact that these Jews and their leaders were not willing to let go of this thinking of the physical existence of the Jerusalem temple, then there was a necessity to destroy it [physical] so that Christ may access the True Holy of Holies in heaven; this is the reason why Matthew 27:51 says, “And at once the curtain of the sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; the earth shook and the rocks were split”. Furthermore, Hebrews 9:11,12,23,24 say, “But [that appointed time came] when Christ (the Messiah) appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come. [Then] through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with [human] hands, that is, not a part of this material creation, He went once for all into the [Holy of] Holies [of heaven], not by virtue of the blood of goats and calves [by which to make reconciliation between God and man], but His own blood, having found and secured a complete redemption (an everlasting release for us). By such means, therefore,

it was necessary for the [earthly] copies of the heavenly things to be purified, but the actual heavenly things themselves [required far] better and nobler sacrifices than these. For Christ (the Messiah) has not entered into a sanctuary made with [human] hands, only a copy and pattern and type of the true one, but [He has entered] into heaven itself, now to appear in the [very] presence of God on our behalf.” Here we see that just as the earthly tabernacle was, there was also a heavenly one, and when Christ our High Priest offered Himself as a Living Sacrifice, He entered into the heavenly [the True] Holy of Holies [the true sanctuary] with a perfect sacrifice which was enough to cleanse our sins once and for all, and for this being accomplished, there was no more need of the temple in heaven, as we see that the earthly copy of the original destroyed when the curtain in the temple tore into two; meaning that the heavenly temple was also dealt away with as its usefulness is no more after the offering of the most excellent sacrifice. This is why in the book of Revelations 21:22 says, “I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Omnipotent [Himself] and the Lamb [Himself] are its temple.” In addition to the above, we see a similar conversation in John 2:14-22 which says, “There He found in the temple [enclosure] those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money

changers sitting there [also at their stands]. And having made a lash (a whip) of cords, He drove them all out of the temple [enclosure]—both the sheep and the oxen—spilling and scattering the brokers` money and upsetting and tossing around their trays (their stands). Then to those who sold the doves He said, Take these things away (out of here)! Make not My Father`s house a house of merchandise (a marketplace, a sales shop)! And His disciples remembered that it is written [in the Holy Scriptures], Zeal (the fervor of love) for Your house will eat Me up. [I will be consumed with jealousy for the honor of Your house.] Then the Jews retorted, What sign can You show us, seeing You do these things? [What sign, miracle, token, indication can You give us as evidence that You have authority and are commissioned to act in this way?] Jesus answered them, Destroy (undo) this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again. Then the Jews replied, it took forty-six years to build this temple (sanctuary) and will You raise it up in three days? But He had spoken of the temple which was His body.” As seen above we see Jesus distinguish to us these two things, as what men called the temple, to Him it was His Father`s house as He honors places of communion or where men gather to worship Him, and we further see that when He talked about the temple, He meant His body, for He

was true and serious about it, as we know temples are defined by the presence of God and nothing less of that, for we see scripture prophecy in Jeremiah 3:16 saying, “And it shall be that when you have multiplied and increased in the land in those days, says the Lord, they shall no more say, The ark of the covenant of the Lord. It shall not come to mind, nor shall they [seriously] remember it, nor shall they miss or visit it, nor shall it be repaired or made again [for instead of the ark, which represented God`s presence, He will show Himself to be present throughout the city].” We see that Jesus spoke of these men destroying His body for Him to rebuild it in three days, which is so powerful, for John 12:23-24 says, “Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit””, this was all manifested after the death of Jesus Christ which brought many sons to glory who define the glory of the later church being greater than the former. In addition to the above, 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 further tells us, “But someone will say, How can the dead be raised? With what [kind of] body will they come forth? You foolish man! Every time you plant seed, you sow something that does not come to life [germinating, springing up, and growing] unless it dies first. Nor is the seed you

sow then the body which it is going to have [later], but it is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or some of the rest of the grains. But God gives to it the body that He plans and sees fit, and to each kind of seed a body of its own. For all flesh is not the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies (sun, moon, and stars) and there are earthly bodies (men, animals, and plants), but the beauty and glory of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and while the beauty and glory of the earthly bodies is a different kind. The sun is glorious in one way, and the moon is glorious in another way, and the stars are glorious in their own [distinctive] way; for one star differs from and surpasses another in its beauty and brilliance. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. [The body] that is sown is perishable and decays, but [the body] that is resurrected is imperishable (immune to decay, immortal). It is sown in dishonor and humiliation; it is raised in honor and glory. It is sown in infirmity and weakness; it is resurrected in strength and endued with power. It is sown a natural (physical) body; it is raised a supernatural (a spiritual) body. [As surely as] there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.” We shall launch into details concerning the spiritual body shortly. In Scripture Jesus asked Nicodemus a fundamental question in John 3:10-13,

“Jesus replied, Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet do not know nor understand these things? [Are they strange to you?] I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only of what we know [we know absolutely what we are talking about]; we have actually seen what we are testifying to [we were eyewitnesses of it]. And still you do not receive our testimony [you reject and refuse our evidence—that of Myself and of all those who are born of the Spirit]. If I have told you of things that happen right here on the earth and yet none of you believes Me, how can you believe (trust Me, adhere to Me, rely on Me) if I tell you of heavenly things? And yet no one has ever gone up to heaven, but there is One Who has come down from heaven— the Son of Man [Himself], Who is (dwells, has His home) in heaven.” From this portion of scripture the next question would be, what are the heavenly things Lord? Briefly taking about them, John 4:19-26 tells us, “The woman said to Him, Sir, I see and understand that You are a prophet. Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary and proper to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither [merely] in this mountain nor [merely] in Jerusalem. You [Samaritans] do not know what you are worshiping [you worship what you do not

comprehend]. We do know what we are worshiping [we worship what we have knowledge and understand], for [after all] salvation comes from [among] the Jews. A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as His worshipers. God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality). The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, He Who is called the Christ (the Anointed One); and when He arrives, He will tell us everything we need to know and make it clear to us. Jesus said to her, I Who now speak with you am He.” As seen above we are defined to who a worshiper is as it is they who firstly are born of the Spirit of God [born again – as Christ explained to Nicodemus in John 3], and secondly, are submitted to truth [knowledge of Christ]; this means that what we see certain people take as worship now is deception of the highest order, as many think to define worship to be in the voices. Time immemorial we saw Abel, Abraham, Isaac and Israel define worship in their relationship with God, my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega always emphasizes that in Phaneroo “we are all ministers unto God” as there are no specialists and amateurs, remember God made us able ministers as 2 Corinthians

3:5-6 tells us, “Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God. [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.” The Bride [The Church of Jesus Christ]. My spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega always tells us that creation is spiritual whereas formation is physical, and that nothing can be manifested physically without it firstly being created in the spirit. Now I realize why scripture tells us that weapons of our warfare are not carnal, meaning that they are spiritual. Another may ask which weapons are these we have. Ephesians 6:11-17 says, “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world`s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in

the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace; above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” From the story of Adam and Eve there is too much to learn from that may not even be exhausted. Genesis 1:26-27 says, “God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 2:7 tells us, “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.” Who is Adam?

Before we delve into this discussion, it is worth noting that the term “Adam” relates or means “nature”. 1 Corinthians 15:45-48 tells us, “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a lifegiving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual. The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust (earthly-minded); the second Man [is] the Lord from out of heaven. Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was made of the dust (earthly-minded); and as is [the Man] from heaven, so also [are those] Who are of heaven (heavenly-minded).” The above scripture elaborates more concerning the first Adam and the second Adam. One may ask, was it necessary for the manifestation of the physical first then the spiritual last? Romans 8:29 [Msg] says, “God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of His Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity He restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in Him.” We see that although God formed the first Adam who was a living soul, He knew what He was doing just as we saw that this Adam disobeyed God at one point, and then the second Adam Who is the Lord of Glory;

the Perfect One; God`s original plan was manifested. We see that with this Adam being the intended plan of God, there were no restrictions put on Him such as “do not eat from the tree of life”; no wonder when He comes, He told us that He is Life and its giver, meaning that He was that tree in Eden, as Genesis 3:24 tells us, “So [God] drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.” And when He came He told us that He is the Way, He is the Truth and He is the Life, and that no man can come to the Father except through Him, in other words the Tree of life itself has been manifested, in that no more can Adam [first] access the spirit realm in the physical for that life as it was before when he had an opportunity to before the expulsion from Eden. In simple terms, when God spoke in Genesis 1:26-27, Let Us make man in our image, after our likeness, He created man in His Own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. From this portion of Scripture, it is worth noting that when God is creating someone in His own image and likeness; the reality is that because He is Spirit there is no way He will relate what He

creates to the physical, but it will also become spirit. Furthermore, with emphasis the Bible firstly speaks of creating man; singular, then still from the definition of this man, a female is created, although we see the Bible talking about male and female; and because we see that creation determines the formation, we therefore see the formation of Adam first, then from that man Adam`s rib a woman finds her definition, this is why when Scripture is talking about this subject 1 Corinthians 15:45 says, “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].” As seen above, the Bible does not include woman in the conversation of the first and the last [we shall soon explain the Last Adam]; this is because as earlier expounded, woman found her definition in man, as soil was not over yet for God to form her from it, but it was necessary to create her from a man. With that mind, now we see that the second man Adam [Christ] comes as a Perfect definition of God`s nature and likeness; this is why He is the Firstborn in all aspects in the Spirit, as Colossians 1:15-20 [Amp] says, “[Now] He is the exact likeness of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation. For it was in Him that all things were created, in

heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. And He Himself existed before all things, and in Him all things consist (cohere, are held together). He also is the Head of [His] body, the church; seeing He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, so that He alone in everything and in every respect might occupy the chief place [stand first and be preeminent]. For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him permanently. And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross.” The above portion of Scripture explains to us about the Christ, as we know that He existed before creation and that all things were made through Him and that He is the Firstborn in all things. What catches my attention is verse 19 which says, “For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him permanently” and verse 15 which says, ““[Now] He is the exact likeness of the

unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible]; He is the Firstborn of all creation”, meaning that when God in Genesis 1:26 says, “God said, Let Us make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness”; something happened in that conversation which John 3:16 and 17 tells us that, “God sent His Only begotten Son”, meaning it pleased God that Jesus Christ should come, or even that Jesus Christ accepted and said “Let me go instead of us making another after Our Own nature and Likeness”; this is the conversation Prophet Isaiah fell into in Isaiah 6:8, “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” This, he was taken in time past and whose decision was already made, as we see Scripture tell us that Christ [the Lamb] was slain before the foundations of the earth. We see that Christ responded to this question by accepting to come, as it is His nature to do things Himself, as many times in Scripture He has done things where questions arose, for instance in Revelations 5:1-7 which says, “AND I saw lying on the open hand of Him Who was seated on the throne a scroll (book) written within and on the back, closed and sealed with seven seals; and I saw a strong angel announcing in a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the scroll? And [who is entitled and deserves and is morally fit] to break its seals? And no one

in heaven or on earth or under the earth [in the realm of the dead, Hades] was able to open the scroll or to take a [single] look at its contents. And I wept audibly and bitterly because no one was found fit to open the scroll or to inspect it. Then one of the elders [of the heavenly Sanhedrin] said to me, Stop weeping! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root (Source) of David, has won (has overcome and conquered)! He can open the scroll and break its seven seals! And there between the throne and the four living creatures (beings) and among the elders [of the heavenly Sanhedrin] I saw a Lamb standing, as though it has been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God [the sevenfold Holy Spirit] Who have been sent [on duty far and wide] into all the earth. He then went and took the scroll from the right hand of Him Who sat on the throne.” As we have seen, even here Christ took on the responsibility to do that. Briefly, we see John the Revelator still speak about creatures; meaning, even now certain things in heaven cannot find a suitable word to describe them including the Lamb [Christ our Lord]; this is why Apostle Paul still saw things unlawful to utter, or which cannot be put in human language. Now I see why Scripture says that one who see`s God has to die, in other words there is no way one can see God unless they are dead to the first Adamic nature and alive in the

Spirit. This is why God is specific about His sons and daughters to be only those who have believed in His Son Jesus Christ and nothing else. Just as we saw Eve created out of man [Adam], it therefore calls upon us to discuss something about the Christ. The Bible in Genesis 3:20 tells us, “The man called his wife`s name Eve [life spring], because she was the mother of all the living.” When we read the above statement we realize that woman lost something big, and that man naming her Eve was an emotional experience because of what she had lost; for though man had lost his place with God, what woman had lost was too big for even him to bear though both lost much. As we see that man named woman Eve because she was the mother of all the living, for now she is not as we see that the text is in a past experience; meaning that presently she is the mother of all the dead; this is why Christ came to reconcile the dead back to life. The next question is, who then took the place of mother of all the living? It should be noted that Sarah is the mother of all nations [Genesis 17:16], just as Abraham is the father of many nations [Genesis 17:4], which word nations as revealed in us in Galatians 3:16 referred to One Man the Christ Who is the Seed of Abraham; meaning that Abraham is the

father of all believers [faithful] in Christ Jesus. In scripture, we see Jesus Christ return the conversation of “mother” which carried a spiritual bearing. Matthew 12:46-50 says, “Jesus was still speaking to the people when behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to Him. Someone said to Him, Listen! Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak to You. But He replied to the man who told Him, who is My mother, and who are My brothers? And stretching out His hand toward [not only the twelve disciples but all] His adherents, He said, Here are My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother!” This same account is given in Mark 3:31-35. We see in this portion of scripture Jesus signify something hidden, because, He would say “here are My mothers, brothers, and sisters” or “here is My mother, brother and sister”, however He said, “here are My mother”, we see that just as Adam had one wife who would make many replicas of him, so is Christ, He has only one mother [the church] who makes Replicas of Him, remember His instructions at the end, “go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

Furthermore, we see that just as woman was made out of man, and later became husband and wife [one flesh], so it is with Jesus Christ that woman [the Church] was made from Him and of which the marriage of the Lamb is at hand though we are already one Spirit with Him. Lastly, Ephesians 5:25-32 tells us, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, that He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless]. Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. For no man even hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members (parts) of His body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.” We see that Apostle Paul narrates the marriage relationship with the way Christ loved the church, for He begot the church [saints] when He died and was resurrected, and He in this marriage relationship with it came and resides in us making us the temple of God. For 2 Corinthians 6:16

tells us “For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” Child of God you are the true definition of the temple, for God dwells in you. Halleluiah. In case you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, and you want to do that today, Romans 10:10 with a heart one believes and so is justified, and with the mouth he confesses and confirms their salvation. Therefore having believed in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, proclaim it saying; Dear Lord Jesus, I have heard Your Word, I have believed it, today I receive You as my Lord and Savior, I am Born Again. Amen.

Other books written; 1. Grace found you, you believed it and preached it to others. [Born again, the new birth, the new you]. 2. Beyond mastery in the life above weakness. 3. The spirit of err. 4. Resurrection. 5. The Jesus Gene. 6. You are the Light of your family. 7. The Bridegroom`s Return is at hand. 8. The Revival and great awakening of IUIU. About the Author. Opale Frank is a spiritual son of Apostle Grace Lubega. One of the best things in life is to know God and His Son Jesus Christ. About this book. It talks more about the temple of God, the Church of Jesus Christ and many aspects, however just know that it is one of the books you not only read but the Holy Spirit will be guiding and communicating more to you. It helps us understand the importance of having a relationship with God, and many more you will enjoy as you read just as a man who falls on the spoils of the war. Alleluia.

WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK. BY THE INSPIRATION OF: THE HOLY SPIRIT. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA.

Often times we may have convictions of the Holy Spirit concerning many things in this life, however yielding to His voice is what makes the difference in everything. One man called Jeremiah complained to Yahweh when chosen saying that he was young, however in Jeremiah 1:9, the Bible says that God put His words in his mouth; this is what made a difference in his time, that when he opened his mouth to speak, men heard God speak through this young man. To us the same narrative is spoken in 1 Peter 4:11 “Whoever speaks, [let him do it as one who utters] oracles of God; whoever renders service, [let him do it] as with the strength which God furnishes abundantly, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ (the Messiah). To Him be the glory and dominion forever and ever (through endless ages). Amen (so be it).” We not like Jeremiah to whom the words of God have to be put, have it already within us because we are begotten of the Word of God which is Jesus Christ, and the only discernment of our commission into ministry is speaking the Word of God. However we realize that there is more we are called for in God as Acts 17:28 tells us “in Him we live, move and have our being”; this simply means that we derive our life and everything we accord our time [attention] from the Word. The Spirit of God is marvelous at what He does, for example His choices on

whomever He chooses, for Paul acknowledges this in 1 Corinthians 1:2629, “For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; but God chose the foolish things of the world that He might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that He might put to shame the things that are strong; and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that He might bring to nothing the things that are: that no flesh should boast before God.” We have seen God choose to reveal to the young generation things that in reality ought to have been expected from the men who have walked miles in Him, Matthew 21:15-16 gives us a glimpse of this when the Bible says that the chief priests and scribes saw things that Jesus did and the boys and the girls and the youth and the maidens crying out in the porches and courts of the temple, Hosanna to the Son of David, and said to Jesus, “Do You hear what these are saying?” and Jesus replied to them, yes; have you never read, Out of the mouths of babes and unweaned infants You have made (provided) perfect praise? [Psalms 8:2]. We realize that much as many truths are entrusted in many people which are profitable for the Kingdom of God, not many of them are being uttered to the Church and yet the return of our Master is at hand like never before; it is not a

mistake that God has risen young ministers across the world to proclaim His message of the hour. In the previous scripture, we saw Jesus narrate of how God has perfected praise in the mouth of babes, why? Because He is the God Who has no pleasure in the perishing of the wicked in their sin. Truth be told, when we read Matthew 24:14 “And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.” The fundamental question we need to ask ourselves is, what the preachers were preaching when the temple was being destroyed in verse 2; when men were being misled in verse 4 and 5; when wars were happening in verse 6; when nations are fighting nations, famines and earthquakes were the conversation of the day in verse 7; when men were persecuted for Christ`s sake in verse 9; when men are falling away from the Gospel in verse 10; when many false prophets are risen and deceive the flock in verse 11; when the love of many has grown cold in verse 12. This then we now realize why Hosea 4:6 says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to Me.” We feel the pain of God here when He speaks of His people being destroyed for a lack of knowledge, remember He emphasizes on the cause of this being that the priests have rejected knowledge. In the New Testament the

Bible calls us in Revelations 1:6 “priests unto the Most High God”; meaning that we are all called for the service of God which is men [souls]. 1 Timothy 2:4 further tells us that God desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth; this means that there is more to just getting men into salvation, to teaching them the full knowledge of the truth which is Christ Jesus. In addition, the Bible prophesying of the last days says in Isaiah 33:6 “And there shall be stability in your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the reverent fear and worship of the Lord is your treasure and His.” In all this we see that to God worship is only defined by the Spirit and Truth; this is why the Bible asks a profound question saying how shall they worship the God Whom they do not know? If Moses in the Old Testament was aware of this New Testament reality when sent to the Israelites in Egypt desired more to know what to tell them concerning this God, as Exodus 3:13-15 “They ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?” Then how much of Him should the New Testament Church know of Him. We have seen it even in the times we are in, as the most obvious truths the saints ought to know are not being told to them, and the irrelevant are being told them, however some portion of blame should be accorded to these saints, as they personally have control over their spirit to discern what is necessary for it, although some in

reality are still babes unable to discern doctrine. It should be noted that some people on the alters know what they are doing and because of this the Bible tells us in Romans 1:20-25 “For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse. Because, knowing God, they didn`t glorify Him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Jesus Christ spoke of many parables concerning the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God being likened to many things, for example a man who scatters [sows] seed, mustard seed, leaven, something buried in the field, dragnet which was cast into the sea and gathered in fish of every sort, human king who wished to settle accounts with his attendants, owner of an estate who went

out in the morning along with the dawn to hire workmen for his vineyard, a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son, to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Jesus speaking these parables had this to say in Matthew 13:52 “He said to them, Therefore every teacher and interpreter of the sacred Writings who has been instructed about and trained for the kingdom of heaven and has become a disciple is like a householder who brings forth out of his storehouse treasure that is new and [treasure that is] old [the fresh as well as the familiar]”. He calls these parables “Sacred Writings” meaning that they are more than stories, or wise saying as we realize that in Scripture what many people considered sacred was in reality not, for example at one point is the scribes and Pharisees who indeed conducted prayers in the temple were exposed by Jesus in Matthew 23:16-22 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, If anyone swears by the sanctuary of the temple, it is nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, he is a debtor [bound by his oath]. You blind fools! For which is greater: the gold, or the sanctuary of the temple that made the gold sacred? You say too, Whoever swears by the altar is not duty bound; but whoever swears by the offering on the altar, his oath is binding. You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred? So whoever swears by the altar swears by

it and everything on it. And he who swears by the sanctuary of the temple swears by it and by Him Who dwells in it. And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him Who sits upon it.” We realize that these Sacred Parables were said by Jesus Christ in His time in the flesh however their profiting were for a certain timing and the time is now; this is why He tells us in Matthew 7:6 “Do not give that which is holy (the sacred thing) to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before hogs, lest they trample upon them with their feet and turn and tear you in pieces.” Genesis 1:1-2 tells us “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God`s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.” This heavens is the same allegory when the Bible speaks of the first Adam and second Adam as 1 Corinthians 15:46 tells us “But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual.” As it was seen when God firstly said “Let us make mankind in our likeness; creation [Genesis 1:26]” but the formed Adam came into existence first “then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground; formation [Genesis 2:7]”. We therefore see the physical manifestation of this kingdom [heaven on earth] during King David`s time; this is why it is not a mistake that God calls

David a man after His own heart as Acts 13:22-23 “And when He has deposed him, He raised up David to be their king; of him He bore witness and said, I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart, who will do all My will and carry out My program fully. Of this man`s descendants God has brought to Israel a Savior [in the person of Jesus], according to His promise.” It should be noted that the kingdom of God already existed before anything as John 1:1-3 tells us “IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.” This therefore calls for no question concerning the kingdom of God as it is manifest in the Spirit, this is why in Luke 17:20-21 Jesus tells us “Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The Kingdom of God doesn`t come with observation; neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.””; this is the reason why most parables spoke concerning the kingdom of heaven, and a few concerning the kingdom of God, it is the reason why not even Jesus did claim [personalize] His person to be the Kingdom of God. It should be noted the center of deception in the last days by the

false Christs and false prophets will base on observation yet Christ has warned the Church concerning this same aspect as Mark 13:21-22 says “And then if anyone says to you, See, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, Look, there He is! do not believe it. False Christs (Messiahs) and false prophets will arise and show signs and [work] miracles to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (those God has chosen out for Himself).” Continuing on the kingdom of heaven, Isaiah 9:6-7 tells us “For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from the [latter] time forth, even forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” From this we see that the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was to establish the Kingdom of David forevermore, this is why David himself spoke concerning Jesus saying in Mark 12:36 “David himself, [inspired] in the Holy Spirit, declared, The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies [a footstool] under Your feet.” When Jesus came He indeed established the Spiritual kingdom of Which He is the

KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS [Revelations 19:16] no wonder in ignorance of what they were doing, they made Him were purple [a robe wore by the kings] [John 19:2], they made Him crowns of thorns and wore it on His head representing a crown [Matthew 27:29], at the cross an inscription over His head written “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” This was all we ever needed and waited for, by this also came the fulfillment of Scripture where God spoke saying that He would call those who were not His people His own, because in the establishment of His Kingdom many things were re-defined, for example, we now access to the Father through Jesus Christ and no longer through the priests as we now have a High Priest appointed by God Himself, we now live our life by grace through faith and no longer under the tutorship of the Law, there are now no distinctions or prejudices in the Kingdom as all are equal for example slave, free, male, female, Jew, Gentile, we died to the flesh and are alive to the spirit and the life we live is no longer for us but for God Who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light, as Christ lives, our citizenship is no longer of this world but of heaven, our treasure is laid up in heaven and not on earth anymore, we are now sons of God having been reconciled to Him through the blood of Jesus Christ, we are now kings and priests unto the Most High God, we now have eternal life through

believing in Jesus Christ and many more promises we now live in. This is the reason why Ephesians 1:19-23 tells us, “And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and the world which are to come. And He has put all things under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church [a headship exercised throughout the church], which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere with Himself].” Furthermore, Philippians 2:811 says, “And being found in human form, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. Therefore God also highly exalted Him, and gave to Him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” This means that indeed Christ

is the Risen King, and He is KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS. All these parables on principle call the Church of Jesus Christ for preparation, or to be prepared for His coming, just take an example of the normal earthly wedding ceremony where the wife is taken for makeup, formal training on how to conduct herself during the wedding for example even the words of appreciation to the parents and relatives of the husband, and many others to mention but a few. Remember these two couples are prepared from various places only meet for the function, therefore just picture one partner coming prepared only to be disappointed on the very day of joy to find an unprepared partner; ladies and gentlemen this is the very reason why the Bible clearly tells us that this day will be full of weeping and gnashing of teeth; and yet the initial question is why should one cry on the day of celebrations? Almost all these parables are alike calling for “preparation”, this is why our Master Jesus Christ tells us in Mark 13:33 “Be on your guard [constantly alert], and watch and pray; for you do not know when the time will come.” However, with emphasis, although we may not know the time of His return physically because even the worldly time will cease, we know His return time Spiritually. One may ask how?

The Bible tells us in John 13:1 “Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His time had come that He would depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” Here the Bible clearly tells us that Jesus knowing that His time had come; this was a spiritual perception, in realty you may not know the date, but your Spirit agrees that the time is at hand. Furthermore, He tells us in John 15:15 “I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]” Here we see that we have a place of relationship and intimacy with God, in other words, He reveals to us what is sort of hidden from the sons of this world. In addition to the above, the LORD tells us in 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 “But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn`t see, and an ear didn`t hear, which didn`t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love Him.” But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except

God`s Spirit. But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. Which things also we speak, not in words which man`s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God`s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can`t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. “For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?” But we have Christ`s mind.” We realize from this portion of Scripture that God can entrust you with what others are waiting for to receive in an uncertain future; we also see the precedence the spiritual relationship with God takes over the place of love; this is the very reason why certain men accessed certain graces in God without Agape as revealed in 1 Corinthians 13:1-2 [languages of angels, gift of prophecy, knowing all mysteries and all knowledge, having all faith]. However with emphasis, through Agape is the more excellent way. We see that because we are born of the Spirit of God which is One with Him as we are One with Him, He truly reveals to us everything and plans of our Father; no wonder this Scripture clarifies what Jesus meant when He said that no man [one] knows the hour of His return in Matthew

24:36 “But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”, we see that the text here does not include Spirit among they that do not know. Analyzing the statement, concerning angels, the Bible tells us in Hebrews 1:5 “For to which of the angels did He say at any time, “You are My Son. Today have I become your Father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?” We realize that it was the death through which Jesus died for us that He became the First Born among the dead bringing many sons to glory; this is why 1 John 3:1 tells us to behold what manner of love God has bestowed upon us that we should be called children [sons] of God. Indeed this was not told to angels but to us giving us preeminence over them. Secondly, Christ tells us that even Him does not know when He is coming, but only the Father knows this day and hour; remember what He told Philip having inquired of Him to show them the Father, the response from our Savior was that He and the Father are One; this is why He boldly spoke to the confused Pharisees and the world that no one can come to the Father except through Him; this is why He spoke saying that He who despises Him has also despised the Father Who sent Him. Alleluia. This means that He knows when He will return, for it is appointed by Him and revealed to us by His Spirit.

These things have to be taken serious, when we look into the world and see how deceptive the devil has held me in lying vanities of observations to the so called News and for this the devil will always do shocking things [evil] so as to keep the sons of the world speaking, throwing their opinions concerning [the so called uncertain future] yet to us as my spiritual father Apostle Grace Lubega says that the future is not a mystery to us. Look at how the devil has held people`s minds to what is not working, for example the Law, the prophet who has seduced many across the world having thrown some lines from the Old Testament to lure men who are moved by stories without proof led by carnality and all manner of fleshly appetites and yet time is at hand for the Bridegrooms return. The ground and basis of our preparation is through the Word. It is the Word of God that prepares every saint for the Return of the Bridegroom; this is the reason why in Christ`s prayer in John 17:6,14,16 He speaks to the Father of how He revealed to us His name, given us His Word, and how the Father should sanctify us through His truth, for His Word is truth. “Sanctify” means to make holy, cleanse from sin, consecrate, and justify; this is why Ephesians 5:25-27 tells us “…Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, that He might present the

church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].” We see that truly Christ shall be returning for a sanctified Church which Himself has cleansed or prepared by the Word. To see the seriousness of this kind of preparation, Revelation 20:6 tells us, “Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him one thousand years.” Now we understand why the devil fights a lot not only with the ministers of the Word but also labors so hard to blind men from the truth by gathering them to deceived deceivers just Luke 17:37 says “wherever the dead body is, there will the vultures or eagles be gathered together”, for it is a pity for one to I hearsay worship Mary the mother of Jesus Christ till breathe is out of their nostrils without confessing the Lord Jesus Christ as their savior only being seduced by the Dogma that Born Again is a religion.

In case you have never given your life to Jesus Christ, and you want to do that today, Romans 10:10 with a heart one believes and so is justified, and with the mouth he confesses and confirms their salvation. Therefore having believed in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, proclaim it saying; Dear Lord Jesus, I have heard Your Word, I have believed it, today I receive You as my Lord and Savior, I am Born Again. Amen. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. My name is Opale Frank. My spiritual father is Apostle Grace Lubega. PLOT. This book by the inspiritation of gives us insights concerning the Return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. writing it has been because of the vision I have concurrently seen over the years, and by the prompting of the Holy Spirit He caused me to write as He guides me, as I know that He does reveal big things to us beyond our age and status quo, as His only call is for you to avail yourself. Hallelujah.

WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK SPECIAL THANKS TO: AP. GRACE LUBEGA

WHAT IS FAITH? Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” One cannot hope for what they see [Romans 8:24], therefore faith is the tangible guarantee leaned on as catalyst for hope. Faith is God’s mind, and when John 4:24 says that God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. This means that worship is a Revelation of Who God is. HOW DOES FAITH COME? ROMANS 10:17 says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” This means that the word of God causes you to hear and therein faith is built in you. WHAT IS GOD’s MIND CONCERNING FAITH? 3 John 1:2 says, “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.” This means that faith does not only deal with prospering one in all things but as well touches their core which is health. Acts 10:38 says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, Who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” This means that faith brings joy to the world through the Gospel of Jesus Christ which Frees people from all manner of bondage. John 8:32 says, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” This means that ignorance is equivalent to bondage, and the Word of God is knowledge enough for one’s Freedom. Quotations. “I will teach faith until you walk on water” by Apostle Grace Lubega “God told me, Go teach My people faith” by Kenneth E. Hagin “The Holy Spirit” by Kathryn Kuhlman “Healing is children’s bread” by Oral Roberts NOTE: As you Read the laws below kindly note that sermons by Apostle Grace Lubega are available concerning those subject heads, and these quotes are from his Sermons. Below are the Infinite Laws of Faith: “Faith Announces” “Faith Believes God” “Faith carries Understanding” “Faith creates all things” “Faith creates from Nothingness” “Faith does not Consider” “Faith does not Wait” “Faith gives Glory to God” “Faith has degrees” “Faith has Laws” “Faith has Principles” “Faith is a Blissful Worship” “Faith is a Breathe of God” “Faith is a Builder” “Faith is a Charged Atmosphere” “Faith is a Continuous Feast” “Faith is a Covenant Issue” “Faith is a Crown of Victory” “Faith is a Currency” “Faith is a Demonstrator” “Faith is a Dialogue with God” “Faith is a Diligent Spirit” “Faith is a Discerner” “Faith is a Dynamite Kind of Prayer” “Faith is a Firm Foundation” “Faith is a fruit of Righteousness” “Faith is a Gift of the Holy Spirit” “Faith is a God-Impressed Conviction”

“Faith is a Great Commission” “Faith is a Hallelujah Praise” “Faith is a Healing Chronicle” “Faith is a Higher Degree of Prayer” “Faith is a Higher Truth” “Faith is a Kairos Moment” “Faith is a Key to Access” “Faith is a Language of the Spirit” “Faith is a Law of Exchange” “Faith is a life above Reproach” “Faith is a life of Gratitude” “Faith is a life of No Pain All Gain” “Faith is a Lifestyle” “Faith is a Light in our Hearts” “Faith is a Manifold Wisdom” “Faith is a Mastered Confession” “Faith is a Material” “Faith is a Merry Heart” “Faith is a Mirror of Possible” “Faith is a Moment of Redemption” “Faith is a Must” “Faith is a Nature” “Faith is a Pace-Setter” “Faith is a Place of Possession” “Faith is a Power of Association” “Faith is a Prayer Pattern” “Faith is a Priestly Consecration” “Faith is a Principle of Association” “Faith is a Principle of Investment” “Faith is a Purposeful Talk” “Faith is a Revelation of Christ and the Church” “Faith is a Revelation that Precedes Emotions” “Faith is a Revelation” “Faith is a Reward of Faithfulness” “Faith is a Righteous Living” “Faith is a Seed of Faith” “Faith is a seed” “Faith is a Shield” “Faith is a Song of the Spirit” “Faith is a Spirit of Prophecy” “Faith is a Spirit” “Faith is a Spiritual Character” “Faith is a Spiritual Weapon” “Faith is a Spotless Walk” “Faith is a Strong City Lit by God” “Faith is a Substance” “Faith is a Sword of the Spirit” “Faith is a Tamed Tongue” “Faith is a Thankful Prayer” “Faith is a Treasure” “Faith is a Vindicator of the Righteous” “Faith is a Weapon of Righteousness” “Faith is a Wild Mustard” “Faith is a Womb” “Faith is a Wonder up to Something” “Faith is a Wonderful World” “Faith is a Worshipper” “Faith is a Worthy Praise” “Faith is Acquainting yourself with God” “Faith is Active” “Faith is Actively Participating with God” “Faith is Advancing your Sight”

“Faith is Amplified Sound” “Faith is an Amazing Grace” “Faith is an Ancient Landmark” “Faith is an Ancient Oil” “Faith is an Anointing of Association” “Faith is an Armour of God” “Faith is an Art of Discernment” “Faith is an Art of Learning” “Faith is an Art of Surrender” “Faith is an Educated Human spirit” “Faith is an Eternal Indwelling Word” “Faith is an Eternal Provision” “Faith is an Exercised Spirit” “Faith is an Expected End” “Faith is an Impartation” “Faith is an Instrument of Praise” “Faith is an Uncodified Life” “Faith is Answered Prayer” “Faith is bearing God’s Vision” “Faith is Beautiful” “Faith is Beholding God’s Beauty” “Faith is Beholding God’s Face” “Faith is Beholding God’s Glory” “Faith is Beholding like in a Mirror” “Faith is being a Doer of the Word” “Faith is being a Fisher of men” “Faith is being a Labourer Together with God” “Faith is being Addicted to the Word” “Faith is being called to a Depth” “Faith is being Carried by God” “Faith is being changed by Beholding God” “Faith is being Delivered from People” “Faith is being Helped by God” “Faith is being in the Winning Team” “Faith is being Instructed in the Sure Things” “Faith is being of Good Cheer” “Faith is being Planted of God” “Faith is being Quickened by God” “Faith is being set up for Success” “Faith is being Spirit led” “Faith is being Submerged” “Faith is Believing in the Finished Work at the Cross” “Faith is Believing in the God of Possible” “Faith is Believing to See” “Faith is Believing without Seeing” “Faith is Bold” “Faith is Boundless” “Faith is Brightening your Countenance” “Faith is Building Life God’s Way” “Faith is calling things which be not as though they are” “Faith is Carrying God’s Full Counsel” “Faith is Carrying the Material of all things” “Faith is Carrying the Understanding of all things” “Faith is Ceasing your Time” “Faith is Charged Energy” “Faith is children’s Bread” “Faith is choosing God Above All” “Faith is Commanding your Days” “Faith is Compassionate” “Faith is Confident” “Faith is Connecting to Glory” “Faith is Conquering Life’s Trials”

“Faith is Conquering the Abandoned Realms” “Faith is Contemplative” “Faith is Counsel in a man” “Faith is counting it all Joy” “Faith is Cultivating a Prudent Spirit” “Faith is Cultivating Kindred Spirits” “Faith is Dealing with Spiritual Blindness” “Faith is Defining your Mark in the Silences of God” “Faith is Defining your spiritual Identity” “Faith is Determination” “Faith is Discerning the Voice of God” “Faith is doing as you see God do” “Faith is Doing the Unpredictable” “Faith is Doing your Part” “Faith is Doing your Thing” “Faith is Dwelling in God’s Commonwealth” “Faith is Dwelling in the Transformative Presence of God” “Faith is Dying to Live” “Faith is Effortless” “Faith is Embracing a Teachable Spirit” “Faith is Embracing the Righteousness of God” “Faith is Entirely Leaning on God” “Faith is Evoking Beauty through the Word” “Faith is Experiencing God in Reality” “Faith is Experiencing God” “Faith is Finding Purpose in Solitude” “Faith is Finding Purpose” “Faith is Fixing your star” “Faith is Fixing yourself” “Faith is Flourishing in God’s Courts” “Faith is Forgiveness” “Faith is Framing your Worlds” “Faith is Fulfilled Instruction” “Faith is Functioning Effectively in the Body of Christ” “Faith is Gentle” “Faith is Getting Interested in God” “Faith is Giving God Time” “Faith is God in the Detail” “Faith is God in the Infinite” “Faith is God in you” “Faith is God without Religion” “Faith is God’s Perfect Love” “Faith is God-Given Authority in you” “Faith is Growing in Grace” “Faith is Hearing by the Word” “Faith is Hearing God Sing over you” “Faith is Hearing God” “Faith is Hearing the Voice of God” “Faith is Hinged on the Word” “Faith is Holding it Together” “Faith is Holiness” “Faith is Honouring your Garment” “Faith is Increase in Consciousness” “Faith is Increase in the Anointing” “Faith is Insight into the Mysteries” “Faith is Insightful” “Faith is Investing in Knowledge” “Faith is Investing in Wisdom” “Faith is Joy Unspeakable” “Faith is Joyfulness” “Faith is knowing God’s mind on Nations” “Faith is knowing God’s Ways”

“Faith is knowing How God Does it” “Faith is knowing how Promotions Come” “Faith is knowing how to Ask” “Faith is knowing how to keep Knowledge” “Faith is knowing how to Walk in the Miraculous” “Faith is knowing it is Never too late for God” “Faith is knowing that God is Able” “Faith is knowing that God is Bigger” “Faith is knowing that God will never give up on you” “Faith is knowing that God’s eyes are on you” “Faith is knowing that in God all things consist” “Faith is knowing that Jesus is Alive” “Faith is knowing that Jesus is the Same yesterday, today and forever” “Faith is knowing that the Future is yours” “Faith is knowing that there is More in God” “Faith is knowing that there is no situation that cannot Change” “Faith is knowing that with God all things are Possible” “Faith is knowing that you are a Power House” “Faith is knowing That you are a star” “Faith is knowing that you are Blessed to be a Blessing” “Faith is knowing that you are Complete in Christ” “Faith is knowing that you are Excellent” “Faith is knowing that you are Loved” “Faith is knowing that you are more than a Conqueror through Christ” “Faith is knowing that you are more than a Vessel” “Faith is knowing that you are not Alone” “Faith is knowing that you are Qualified” “Faith is knowing that you are the Miracle” “Faith is knowing that you carry a Great Treasure” “Faith is knowing that you Overcame” “Faith is knowing that you own the seasons” “Faith is knowing that you shall not Labour in Vain” “Faith is knowing that you will finish well” “Faith is knowing that you will never be Ashamed” “Faith is knowing the How’s” “Faith is knowing the Way and Ways of God” “Faith is knowing what to Process” “Faith is knowing what you See” “Faith is knowing when God Speaks” “Faith is knowing you are heir(ess) to the Promise” “Faith is knowing your Life Teacher” “Faith is Laughing with God” “Faith is Launching into the Deep” “Faith is laying aside Traditions” “Faith is letting praises Rise from within you” “Faith is Liberty” “Faith is Light” “Faith is listening to the Word of God” “Faith is living a Born Again life” “Faith is living a Flawless Life” “Faith is living a Glorified Life” “Faith is living a life of Endless Increase” “Faith is living a Victorious Life” “Faith is living above Criticism” “Faith is living above Distractions” “Faith is living Above Fear” “Faith is living above Intimidation” “Faith is living an Exalted life” “Faith is living Beyond Additions and Multiplications” “Faith is living by Every Word of God” “Faith is living from the End” “Faith is living in Infinity”

“Faith is living in the Overflow of God” “Faith is living in the Presence of God” “Faith is living in the Present Truth” “Faith is living in the Simplicity that is in Christ” “Faith is living the Resurrected Life” “Faith is looking into your Future” “Faith is Making the Necessary Confession” “Faith is Ministering with your spirit” “Faith is Now” “Faith is Numbering your Days” “Faith is Obedience” “Faith is Opening the Eyes of your Heart” “Faith is Painting your World” “Faith is Patterned” “Faith is Personal” “Faith is Pitching a Tent” “Faith is Power” “Faith is Prayer” “Faith is Preparedness for the Future” “Faith is Prioritising the Word” “Faith is Progress” “Faith is Prospering with Great Good” “Faith is Provision in the Word” “Faith is Raising a Sound for God” “Faith is Readiness” “Faith is Reading the Word” “Faith is Real” “Faith is Receiving from God” “Faith is Reckless” “Faith is Reformation, Worship and Timing” “Faith is Rejoicing” “Faith is Respect Unto the Recompense” “Faith is Respecting the Presence” “Faith is Responsibility in the Presence” “Faith is Responsive” “Faith is Revelation over Tradition” “Faith is Ruling your spirit” “Faith is Salvation” “Faith is Sanctified Imagination” “Faith is Saying Yes to God” “Faith is Seeing God in the Sanctuary” “Faith is Seeing Jesus” “Faith is Seeing the Beginning to the End” “Faith is Seeing the End from the Beginning” “Faith is seeing the End of Perfection” “Faith is Serving God” “Faith is shining your light” “Faith is Sight” “Faith is Solitude among many” “Faith is Sound Enough” “Faith is Sowing to the Spirit” “Faith is Speaking into your Days” “Faith is Speaking Right” “Faith is Spiritual Alertness” “Faith is Spiritual Exercise” “Faith is Spiritual Momentum” “Faith is Spoken-Out” “Faith is Stability in Christ” “Faith is Stilling your soul” “Faith is Strange” “Faith is Strength” “Faith is Stretching Forth”

“Faith is Submission to Spiritual Authority” “Faith is Taking a Spiritual Leap” “Faith is Taking Charge as a Soldier of God” “Faith is Taking God Serious” “Faith is Taking that First Step” “Faith is Taking your Place” “Faith is Tangible” “Faith is that Good Fight” “Faith is that One Passion in Christ” “Faith is the Access to Grace” “Faith is the Application of Wisdom to your faith” “Faith is the Beginning of All things” “Faith is the Blessing of the Holy Spirit” “Faith is the Blessing of Walking in True Holiness” “Faith is the Blessing that causes you to forget your Past” “Faith is the Boasting of the Spirit” “Faith is the Desire of Nations” “Faith is the Fear of God” “Faith is the Fruit of your mouth” “Faith is the Glory of Having Victory without Battle” “Faith is the God Label” “Faith is the Gospel of Jesus Christ” “Faith is the Habitation of the Righteous” “Faith is the Heartfelt Continued Prayer” “Faith is the Image of God” “Faith is the Inheritance of Zion” “Faith is the Law of Cause and Effect” “Faith is the Law of Divine Compulsion” “Faith is the Law of Motion” “Faith is the Light that Shines your Path” “Faith is the Mind of God’s Grace” “Faith is the Ministry of Grace” “Faith is the Most Dangerous Confession” “Faith is the Power of an Endless Life” “Faith is the Power of Rejuvenation” “Faith is the Power of Unction” “Faith is the Power to Enjoy” “Faith is the Principle of Honour” “Faith is the Principle of Multiplication” “Faith is the Process of Things” “Faith is the Reason Jesus Came” “Faith is the Royal Law” “Faith is the Rule of the Mantle” “Faith is the Simplicity in Christ” “Faith is the spirit of celebrating others” “Faith is the Spirit of Deliverance” “Faith is the Spirit of Excellence” “Faith is the Spirit of Meditation” “Faith is the Spirit of Worship” “Faith is the Steadfast love of God” “Faith is the Sufficiency of God” “Faith is the Supply of the Spirit of Christ” “Faith is the Uncomplicated Salvation” “Faith is the Vision of Christianity” “Faith is the Voice of Life” “Faith is the Wisdom of Applying Grace” “Faith is the Wisdom of God” “Faith is the Wisdom to Listen” “Faith is the Work of God” “Faith is Triumphant Victory” “Faith is Understanding Free Grace” “Faith is Understanding how the Spirit World is Ranked”

“Faith is Understanding Seed Time” “Faith is Understanding Spiritual Timing” “Faith is Understanding that Scripture is Sacred” “Faith is Understanding the ‘In Him’ Realities” “Faith is Understanding the Benefits of the Forgiveness of our sins” “Faith is Understanding the Doing of the Lord” “Faith is Understanding the Life in the Blood” “Faith is Understanding the Love that Constrains” “Faith is Understanding the Mystery of Faith” “Faith is Understanding the Pattern of Faith” “Faith is Understanding the Person and Ministry of the Holy Spirit” “Faith is Understanding the Power of Fellowship” “Faith is Understanding the Power of Giving” “Faith is Understanding the Power of Jesus’ Blood” “Faith is Understanding the Power of Love” “Faith is Understanding the power of making Vows” “Faith is Understanding the Power of Patience” “Faith is Understanding the power of Realisation” “Faith is Understanding the Power of Spiritual Discipline” “Faith is Understanding the Power of the Word” “Faith is Understanding the Purposes of God” “Faith is Undignified Hallelujah” “Faith is Unencumbered Love” “Faith is Unexplainable” “Faith is Unlimited” “Faith is Unlocking your Next Level” “Faith is Unplanned Miracles” “Faith is Unpredictable Success” “Faith is Unpredictable” “Faith is Unwavering” “Faith is Visible” “Faith is Vision” “Faith is Visionary” “Faith is Walking in Certainty” “Faith is Walking in Divine Health” “Faith is Walking in Divine Provision” “Faith is Walking in Dominion” “Faith is Walking in His Fullness” “Faith is Walking in Open Doors” “Faith is Walking in Spiritual Sight” “Faith is Walking in the Blessing and Favour of God” “Faith is Walking in the Faith of God” “Faith is Walking in the Humility of Spirit” “Faith is Walking in the Path of Righteousness” “Faith is Walking in the Spirit” “Faith is Walking in the Word” “Faith is Walking in Victory” “Faith is Walking under Open-Heaven” “Faith is Walking with God” “Faith is Wisdom unto the Wise” “Faith is Wisdom” “Faith is withholding nothing from God” “Faith is Yes and Amen” “Faith is Yielding unto God” “Faith is your Inheritance” “Faith is your Manifestation” “Faith Is” “Faith knows how to find God” “Faith Knows no Distance” “Faith Knows the End” “Faith Looks Unto Jesus” “Faith makes A New”

“Faith makes Alive” “Faith makes Quick Listeners” “Faith makes Scribes” “Faith makes you a Pioneer” “Faith moulds Greatness” “Faith Never Fails” “Faith Pleases God” “Faith Prompts the Impossible” “Faith Provokes” “Faith Quickens things” “Faith Redeems Time” “Faith requires Death” “Faith requires Surrender” “Faith sees no mountain” “Faith starts from the Secret Place” “Faith sustains Grace” “Faith Trusts God” “Faith understands the Power of Positioning” “Faith Waits on God” “Faith Wholly depends on God” “Faith Works at Rest” “Faith works by Love” “Faith Works” SELAH

THE 138 SILENT QUOTES WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK

My Favourite Scriptures. PSALMS 36:9 – For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light. ACTS 17:28 – For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring. EPHESIANS 2:8-9 – For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. PSALMS 16:11 – You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. “WRITING TO INSPIRE” OPALE FRANK QUOTES 1. “When God is in your story, the rest shall always be history” 2. “You matter on Earth only if you find your Purpose” 3. “Unless you are your Best companion, your companions will always be your limitation” 4. “Meditation is the only way to dream big” 5. “Love is life’s all” 6. “Height is a mindset” 7. “Without movement, there is no change” 8. “Just as Earth is a location, you can choose to be a Location” 9. “When you sit with the princes, be a king” 10. “It is not about your tongue, it is about your heart” 11. “We vibrate more in Silence” 12. “Eloquence is all about Wisdom” 13. “Grace shall always supercede favour” 14. “Always write down what you understand then understand what you wrote” 15. “Without Jesus, Transformation is only but a Myth” 16. “If Noah built an Ark without Engineers, then you need the Despised to build your Dreams” 17. “Reflect before you sleep” 18. “When you are heart broken, drink water” 19. “It is never Quality until you understand the Consumer” 20. “Legacy begins with Consideration” 21. “Before showcasing, understand the opportunity” 22. “Do not keep secret what you are not willing to polish” 23. “Much as every story matters, there packaging makes the difference” 24. “If humility is judged by small things, then do them” 25. “Thank you will open you multiple doors” 26. “With a rich mind, there is no poverty” 27. “It is a noble profession only if you do it for God” 28. “The Journey to contentment ends when you move your eyes”

29. “Only serve when you choose to” 30. “It is neither weakness to be weak nor strong” 31. “You can only fish what you love” 32. “Rest when you panic” 33. “There is always one word for many” 34. “Anger is like a motor brake” 35. “Accountability is a key to faster growth” 36. “Always sit when your parents are speaking” 37. “When you are one be the difference, and when many, make the difference” 38. “Learn to rest if you struggle to be consistent” 39. “When awards become your motivation, without them, you will be jealous” 40. “Set your price because for every price there is a buyer” 41. “Better is Bold when wrong than Shy when wise” 42. “Always cover the light because no light can shine amidst wind” 43. “Choose what to prove because not all things are worth proving” 44. “Be quiet in places where you are not welcome” 45. “An old two thousand note is better than a brand new one thousand note” 46. “Listen to the music then sing later” 47. “Class is a boundary without walls unless you choose to see the walls” 48. “Specialization is better than Generalization” 49. “When before a lion, be mindful of what you feed it” 50. “Unique is being Persistent” 51. “Always worry when your mouth praises you” 52. “Observe whenever you enter any place” 53. “Do not risk if it is risky” 54. “It is better to be at the end than in the middle” 55. “Always have standby imaginary head phones” 56. “If it is not sweet, keep it to yourself” 57. “Always have God as your number One Friend” 58. “What has been done speaks better than what is yet to be done” 59. “It becomes beautiful only if you acknowledge God” 60. “Not every padlock is locked” 61. “It is never only if you give up” 62. “You are a better advocate of yourself only if you know” 63. “There is a number beyond nine, and that is you” 64. “When going to Church, move with your Bible” 65. “Always have a question for the wise” 66. “If you cannot move, first check on yourself” 67. “When before the rich, do not be envious” 68. “If you move by money, you may never move without money” 69. “It is dirty only if you see it” 70. “If you only smile with children, remember the old were once children” 71. “Fire without smoke is more dangerous than that with smoke” 72. “Energy will only be applied if not utilized in the mind” 73. “If your ‘no’ is not no, then you will have no ‘no’” 74. “Never prove yourself where you are disapproved” 75. “Silence is the sixth sense” 76. “Things are positive when you are positive” 77. “Always turn-on light in darkness” 78. “Do not share what worries you” 79. “Growth begins when you know that the world does not care” 80. “Always add a mile to a journey you have been taken” 81. “If all you have is God, then you have it all” 82. “You will treasure life’s moments the day you understand that life is a journey of flashes” 83. “Believing in yourself is like finding you” 84. “Whenever you are late, understand why?” 85. “The Earth is not only round but rotating” 86. “Meditation is a key to Success” 87. “If it takes nothing to dream, then dream” 88. “The beauty of every brain is in Exploration” 89. “’You cannot’ is just a statement but you are more than a statement” 90. “Excuses are a workshop of regret”

91. “Determination sounds good done than spoken” 92. “Act after thinking” 93. “Words speak loudest than actions” 94. “Keep the light after lighting up your vision” 95. “There is always light in darkness” 96. “When the game is done, ‘wait’” 97. “You rise to rise and only fall to rise” 98. “Move further if you cannot see closely” 99. “Be flammable if you are not the flame” 100. “The wiser you become, the deeper your voice” 101. “Become fish if you cannot catch fish” 102. “It is simple if hard and hard if simple” 103. “When you mind your course, your course will mind about you” 104. “Thought is the quickest way to failure” 105. “If failure is a package, choose to unwrap it” 106. “You fight best unwatched than watched” 107. “You eat the fruit and give me the seed” 108. “Your hands are dormant without the mind” 109. “When you see it, pay the price” 110. “If mindset is a setting, then lack is a mindset” 111. “If you run faster in the dream, then dream to run faster” 112. “Attitude is speed because speed knows no distance” 113. “You are as wise as your words” 114. “Behind every soul is a heart” 115. “Love is the key to impossible” 116. “Use a mirror to see where you cannot” 117. “Perfect is at every sharpest bend” 118. “Only give up to give in but not give in to give up” 119. “There is light at the end of the tunnel only when you see it at the beginning” 120. “There is neither experience without opportunity nor opportunity without experience” 121. “The louder your voice the quieter you become” 122. “There is no reflection without light” 123. “Love is Power” 124. “One at a time enters heaven’s Door” 125. “Judge a book by its author” 126. “Keep it if you cannot read it” 127. “Every gate keeper owns the place” 128. “Do not fight if you want to keep your beauty” 129. “You are as precious as your seed” 130. “Age is a full stop but a full stop is not age” 131. “Discipline is not consistency neither is consistency discipline” 132. “Always count the cost before rising” 133. “You only can if you cannot” 134. “Sit next to the window when you enter doors without locks” 135. “Always talk when you see money” 136. “If it can rain water, then it can rain money” 137. “They do not speak does not mean they do not care” 138. “Today is not tomorrow but tomorrow is today” THE END. THANK YOU.

THE SPIRIT OF ERR. WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK. BY THE INSPIRATION OF: THE HOLY SPIRIT. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA. 1ST EDITION.

Scriptural references to this book are from the Amplified Bible. Introduction to this Book. This Book helps us to understand the times in which we are in; as these times are strategic in the Kingdom times as the Bible speaks of Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life; therefore it is possible for one to know the Way [Who is Jesus], however embrace deception as the very Word of God and as a result walk in the path of destruction--for it is expedient for us to know the Truth in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will keep opening up to you more than what I can explain as you read this book. It is always wise to keep one learnt concerning that which is profiting, good and edifying to their inner man, ROMANS 16:19 says “For while your loyalty and obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I would have you well versed and wise as to what is good and innocent and guileless as to what is evil.” This means that to Apostle Paul, he would rather have you naive [ignorant, unlearned, and untaught] concerning that which is not of Truth, and teach you Truth because once one gets to know the Truth, he or she by that Truth, shall carry the ability [wisdom] to discern Truth from other seducing doctrines. In

JOHN 10:2-5 says “But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. The watchman opens the door for this man, and the sheep listen to his voice and heed it; and he calls his own sheep by name and brings (leads) them out. When he has brought his own sheep outside, he walks on before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will never [on any account] follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they do not know the voice of strangers or recognize their call.” We see that the sheep only and only know and recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd which is Jesus Christ, and because of this, they follow Him alone because it is Him Who they know. This is the reason to as to why even babies know [recognize] even just a little sigh [long breath] of their parents [anyone close to them], however in ISAIAH 1:3 God asks a question saying “The ox [instinctively] knows his owner, and the donkey his master`s crib, but Israel does not know or recognize Me [as Lord], My people do not consider or understand.” We see that the problem is in the refusal of one to know and recognize God as LORD. This verse also talks about the principle of submission, as we see that an ox indeed submits to his

master [man], however his master deliberately refuses to be submitted to God [His principles]. JOHN 15:5 says “I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.” We see that Jesus Christ puts emphasis in us firstly living in Him and He in us, and because of this we shall always be fruitful and bear fruits which are eternal, however to them who are not in Him are always helpless and whatever they do is temporal [cannot stand the test of time or fire]. When we know God, we understand His way of doing things, HEBREWS 4:12-13 says “For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.” We see that to us who

have believed in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, and to them who are yet to believe, the Word of God should be part and parcel of our life, this means that we ought to have a personal life and experience with the Word of God, not only waiting to be read for, but we also taking time to read it, as by this we shall by all means have the ability to discern Truth. In the Book of Acts it is revealed to us how the people of Jesus` time could not understand Him although the Scriptures were read to them every Sabbath, ACTS 13:27 says “For those who dwell in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not know or recognize Him or understand the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, have actually fulfilled these very predictions by condemning and sentencing [Him]”. This shows us that it is possible for such a thing to happen again even in these last times of the world. These people who dwelt in Jerusalem were read to these very Scriptures Sabbath after Sabbath, firstly by them who did not understand the writings, to people who bothered not to read and understand these writings for themselves. 1 PETER 1:10-11 says “The prophets, who prophesied of the grace (divine blessing)

which was intended for you, searched and inquired earnestly about this salvation. They sought [to find out] to whom or when this was to come which the Spirit of Christ working within them was indicating when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that should follow [them].” We see that although the prophets of old had prophesied about Jesus Christ, they still felt a nudge to know when these things were to happen, and yet to them to whom these prophesies were made had no compulsion to seek to know these things. 1 PETER 1:12 says “It was then disclosed to them that the services they were rendering were not meant for themselves and their period of time, but for you. [It is these very] things which have now already been made known plainly to you by those who preached the good news (the Gospel) to you by the [same] Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Into these things [the very] angels long to look!” We see that to us this salvation was kept and reserved for by the preaching of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, and yet even angels long to look into this matter. Apostle Paul in ACTS 17:10-11 says “Now the brethren at once sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea; and when they arrived, they entered the synagogue of the

Jews. Now these [Jews] were better disposed and more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they were entirely ready and accepted and welcomed the message [concerning the attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God] with inclination of mind and eagerness, searching and examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” We see that these Jews patterned their spirit with a readiness to not only hear the Word of God, but also prove what was taught them, by individually searching out the Scriptures to prove whether these things were so. This means that there is no way such a one can be caught off-guard, or even seduced from Truth. In DANIEL 9:2 the Bible says “In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass by before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem should end; and it was seventy years.” We see that Daniel had to read and understand the Scriptures and devote his life [time] into studying the times, and indeed found the answer. This means that everything one could ever need or want to know [answers to questions] are in the Scriptures. MARK

13:14 says “But when you see the abomination of desolation mentioned by Daniel the prophet standing where it ought not to be--[and] let the one who reads take notice and consider and understand and heed [this]--then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.” We see and realize that searching out the Scriptures ought to be a life style of a New Testament believer in Jesus Christ. 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17 says “Every Scripture is God-breathed (given by His inspiration) and profitable for instruction, for reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, [and] for training in righteousness (in holy living, in conformity to God`s will in thought, purpose, and action), So that the man of God may be complete and proficient, well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.” We see from the above Scripture that all Scriptures are from God and are profitable for instruction, reproof and conviction of sin, for correction of error and discipline in obedience, and for training in righteousness that you and I maybe complete and proficient [experienced], well fitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work. That means that one who has no experience with the Scriptures will in

one way or another seek to be complete by alternatives not sought in the Word. For example, to such a one, the very first response to situations [circumstances] will always be within the order of the world`s doing of things, however to one rooted and grounded in the love, having known the love of Jesus Christ, the response is from the very perspective of God. Scripture should be more real than anything, as we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, which means that the Word should be more real than the world, for these Scriptures were written for our learning and not for our keeping, ACTS 17:28 says “For in Him we live and move and have our being.” Therefore, we have and must live a life of the Word of God, and everything about you should be about the Word which your spirit has understood and had an experience with. In life we need to consider it fortunate to be seated under the ministers of the Word of God, and to them who are yet too, should make a choice of discernment not by what the physical eye sees but by what the Spirit of God is communicating to your spirit. The Bible clearly speaks of the wisdom in spending life in the Word of God, MATTHEW 25:1-11 says “THEN THE

kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish (thoughtless, without forethought) and five were wise (sensible, intelligent, and prudent). For when the foolish took their lamps, they did not take an [extra] oil with them; But the wise took flasks of oil along with them [also] with their lamps. While the bridegroom lingered and was slow in coming, they all began nodding their heads, and they fell asleep. But at midnight there was a shout, Behold, the bridegroom! Go out to meet him! Then all those virgins got up and put their own lamps in order. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out. But the wise replied, There will not be enough for us and for you; go instead to the dealers and buy for yourselves. But while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were prepared went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut. Later the other virgins also came and said, Lord, Lord, open [the door] to us!” We see from this parable that what set a distinction between these virgins [signifying the people now] was the choice they made, PSALMS 119:105 says “Your word is a lamp

to my feet and a light to my path.”, to this parable we see both “lamps and lights” spoken of which exist by the Word of God, to these virgins when the bridegroom came, the very first consciousness of the foolish ones was that they lacked enough oil to sustain their lamps, and yet to the wise, they bore a certain peace in their spirit when the bridegroom arrived, yet it is not in any way illustrated in Scripture that these foolish virgins got oil when they left to seek after one. What does this mean to us, it means that it is expedient for everyone to be established in Truth of the Scriptures and not being shallow minded in the things of God, or even occupied by the lying vanities of this world. This is why the Bible speaks in LUKE 13:28 speaks saying that there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when He returns, and the question is why should people cry when the LORD is come, and yet purported be worshipping Him, and the answer is simple; these five foolish virgins knew within them that it was necessary to carry sufficient oil for their lamps but they did deliberately refuse to carry it, this is why they did not even wait for the bridegroom to ask why their lamps were diming off. This means that there will be no excuse before God, for being unable

to be established in His Truth. For example, there will be no excuse for not believing in Jesus Christ, there will be no excuse for not knowing the Word of God, none will in any way shelter behind restrictions imposed by others, and many others. For the choice lies before everyone, if one knows the Truth, why should such a one reject it, for Jesus Christ says “He is the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one comes to the Father except through Him” [JOHN 14:6], why should one therefore refuse to believe. The Bible says that God is not a man that He should lie [NUMBERS 23:19], why then should one harden his or her heart from hearkening to the Truth. If one genuinely holds onto false doctrine, yet knowing the Truth of the Scriptures, how will such a one think they will escape liability before God? 2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 says “BUT UNDERSTAND this, that in the last days will come (set in) perilous times of great stress and trouble [hard to deal with and hard to bear]. For people will be lovers of self and [utterly] self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate [greedy] and contemptuous boasters. They will be abusive (blasphemous, scoffing), disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane. [They will be] without natural

[human] affection (callous and inhuman), relentless (admitting of no truce or appeasement); [they will be] slanderers (false accusers, troublemakers), intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good. [They will be] treacherous [betrayers], rash, [and] inflated with selfconceit. [They will be] lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather than lovers of God. For [although] they hold a form of piety (true religion), they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it [their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession]. Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].” From the above Scripture, everyone`s eye, ear and heart can testify that all these things have happened and are still happening, we have seen men love money to the expense of people`s lives [corruption, bribery, theft, murder…] and such has even reached to the alters of Churches, we have seen pulpits demand for money which is in no way accounted for, these the Bible says that their god is their belly, JUDE 1:12 says they are twice dead and plucked out from the roots, and the glory they recite of their achievements cannot in any way be compared to the

glory of the ministration of Jesus Christ whose life was devoted in souls. Indeed this same Scripture prophesied of the times we now live in where people are firstly without human affection, JUDE 1, speaks of it as a generation similar to that of Sodom and Gomorrah, for we cannot imagine the comprise that has crept in the so called church established by certain men who have crept in disguise of ministers of God and yet without the Spirit [Holy Spirit] [JUDE 1:4], as we have seen them promote inhuman practices by condoning marriage between same sex persons in the church, which is against the Biblical Truth, however to our surprise we have seen believers comfortable in such unstable foundations laid outside Jesus Christ. This is why the Bible says that they have eyes but they do not see, they have ears but they do not hear [ROMANS 11:8], and for this how do we expect one to smile when the LORD Jesus Christ is come. This is the very generation where people are lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and even rather than lovers of God, this is true of this generation where technology has created all kinds pleasure and amusements to the mind or senses like never before. Take an example, many have

been pre-occupied by lying vanities, however the Bible is against such an amusement enslaving you to the extent of it being preferred to God. Take an example of what the things below are doing to this generation, even to the sons and daughters of God [His Elect]. Look at how social media has occupied people; Face Book, WatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tik Tok… are doing to people. Look at what video games; football [Pes], car racing… is doing to people. Look at what Television; programs like sports, movies, cartoons, series are doing to people. Look at how games and sports have occupied people. And yet we know that these movies in the behind the scenes are just full of lying vanities, which have eaten up peoples time with God, and because of this men are always trading Truth for lies, what a pain! Look at how jobs, education, relationships, wealth, companies have taken preference to God in men`s hearts. Pastor Joseph Prince speaks and says “may you use social media as tool for the Gospel, and not the tool using you”. God we repent. The solution is available, 1 TIMOTHY 3:4 says “Avoid [all] such people [turn away from them].” This means that the solution lies in our hands, therefore it is upon us to choose ministers who can

Father you in God, and not holding onto deceived ministers purporting to be ministers of God. Let us therefore define err? Another word to mean “Err” is “Error”. It means deviating, wandering, rambling, diverging, devious and erratic. taw-aw' is the Hebrew word to mean err. A primitive root; to vacillate, that is, reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causatively of both: - (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way. Something about the spirit of Err is that it seeks to destroy many [with the one harboring it]. EZEKIEL 28:15 tells us of how Satan who was the anointed cherub of God until when iniquity and guilt was found in it as it [Satan] corrupted its own wisdom. We see in 2 PETER 2:4 that God did not spare the angels [fallen angels] who sinned, having been deceived by Satan. We see even in the Garden of Eden that the Satan indeed by its corruption, deceived Adam and Eve to their destruction, however by God`s grace and mercy He revealed redemption`s plan for mankind through Jesus Christ. For the question is, who

deceived both the angels, Adam and Eve? And the answer is, it is the Satan who did it. Why? Because that is the spirit of Err working to the destruction of many. REVELATION 12:9 says “And the huge dragon was cast down and out--that ageold serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity the world over; he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him.” We see that from this Scripture the Devil is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity, and as we know deceiving is unto ignorant people, and it is done with similar things. 2 CORINTHIANS 11:14-15 says “And it is no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light; So it is not surprising if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. [But] their end will correspond with their deeds.” Pastor Chris Oyakhilome once said that the devil is wise not to use a Nigerian dollar to deceive one since Nigeria does not use dollars but Naira`s. The reason to as to why Satan transforms itself into the angel of light is to deceive them who are in the light and also trap them [starve them without the Word] who are to enter into the glorious Light of God. The mind the devil is to perish with

many as it can, as Satan was already judged and is waiting for torment at the end of time, and because of this Satan has entered men making them who are already deceived to be deceivers of many. This means that the simple will be seduced into deception, and they shall forsake the faith knowingly and unknowingly, this is so sad but a fact, however by the knowledge and experience with the Word of God, there is no way such a one can stray. 2 TIMOTHY 3:14-15 says “But as for you, continue to hold to the things that you have learned and of which you are convinced, knowing from whom you learned [them], And how from your childhood you have had a knowledge of and been acquainted with the sacred Writings, which are able to instruct you and give you the understanding for salvation which comes through faith in Christ Jesus [through the leaning of the entire human personality on God in Christ Jesus in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness].” We see from this portion of Scripture Paul advise us to stay hold and firm in the things that we have learnt and are convinced of, knowing from whom we have learnt them from, this is the essence of a Father in the gospel and sonship

[filiation], no wander Jesus Christ had to be Fathered by God. That means it is not only necessary to hear sweet [enticing, encouraging] words from ministers of the Gospel but it is also worth examining them; with the wisdom that we are not approvers of ministers but we bare the choice of who has access to our spirit. And this knowledge in the Word of God is able to instruct us in our Lord Jesus Christ. We have seen the spirit of Err at work in very many portions of scripture and some of them include the named below. In the Book of Exodus we see that God liberated the Israelites from Egypt the Land of bondage, and led them through the deserts and almost close to the promised land, The LORD said to Moses in NUMBERS 13:1-33 to send scouts from each tribe to go and explore and scout the land of Canaan, on returning others brought an evil report about the land they scouted in verse 32, however Joshua and Caleb stood by what they saw by faith, however in Chapter 14:2 all the Israelites grumbled and deplored their situation, accusing Moses and Aaron, saying “Would that we had died in Egypt! Or that we had died in this wilderness! Why does the Lord bring us to this land to fall by the sword? Our wives

and little ones will be prey. Is it not better us to return to Egypt?” And because of this only Joshua and Caleb [men of faith] entered the promised land, and a large number of Israelites who had tested the glory of God during the punishments against Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, the feeding of manna, the feeding of water from the Rock and many other miracles, but chose to believe an evil report to the extent they were willing to stone to death God`s servants and choose for themselves others. HEBREWS 4:2 says “For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the learning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe).” This means that there will be no exemption even to this generation therefore we ought to hold onto Faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or else His Words shall not profit just as the Israelites did by

undermining His Word. This therefore calls upon us to lose everything that is not of faith, for example, the Bible clears says that the Law is not of Faith [GALATIANS 3:12], therefore this calls us to hold onto Grace, and nothing else. For this is Biblical. The spirit of Err seeks to destroy many, look at this; For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. [ROMANS 6:23]. 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. [ROMANS 3:20]. Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. [1 TIMOTHY 1:9-11] It is amazing that Paul declares that the Law was made for people who are contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, however we find that indeed the spirit of Religion knows

that it is leading people astray from the Truth, as the Law is the dogmas [center of the message] in these places, as we know the Law produces priests and followers with infirmities, yet to us who hold onto Truth have a High Priest without infirmities, Who begets sons and daughters [kings and priests] without infirmities. We are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus, this is sound doctrine. The Law is not for me and you, we hold onto Faith, further than that, we are for the Truth and not against the Truth. The choice lies on the reader to walk away from deception, trust and obey God. The Bible in 1 KINGS 16:29 tells the story of a one King Ahab [king of Israel] who copied the sins of his father Jeroboam, and on top of that married a Jezebel a daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians. The Bible speaks of him indulging himself in open evil before God, as he went further to adopt the gods of Jezebel known as Baal. It is true that when Ahab married Jezebel, his morals were worsened as he lost the sense of reason and analysis of the consequences of his acts. Ahab was a dormant figure, with his authority conferred to Jezebel, it was in these times that they who worshipped the Living God were on the run. To Jezebel, she

carried the authority of command in deception seeking after death of innocent people like Naboth. It should be noted that such seducing events as that of Naboth`s death are recorded also in other portions of Scripture, with Religion carrying the deceptive and seducing spirit as that of Jezebel, for example looking at the murder of Stephen, Religion spoke that he [Stephen] had blasphemed against the Moses and God. [ACTS 6:9-12], it also happened to Jesus Christ that Religion boldly accused Him for blaspheming Moses and God [MATTHEW 26:57-68]. We therefore see that Religion presents Moses in disguise of God, that is why when God [Jesus Christ] Himself came, they were against Him, as they preferred Moses and not faith, and this is true up to now. Back to Jezebel, it is one thing to set up policies which are contrary to the established principles of that home. Israel was a City of the Most High God however Jezebel, refuted it by establishing Baal foundations across Israel; this is madness of the highest order. Because of this, by fear and victimization of the people of Israel, they fell into this snare, hence many were indoctrinated with the spirit of worship of something other than God which indeed

led and continues to lead to the death of many people who follow the same path. All Ahab`s family died the death of dogs, inclusive of Jezebel herself. What does this mean to you and me, it means that there are people who indeed have deliberately chosen the way of darkness and their aim is to deceive as many as they can to join their ideologies leading to death, however it is wisdom for you and I to be established in Present Truth for us to carry the ability to discern Truth from deception. The characteristic about ERR is that it is so disappointing. In the Book of Acts of the Apostles 5:1-10 says “BUT A certain man named Ananias with his wife Sapphira sold a piece of property, And with his wife`s knowledge and connivance he kept back and wrongfully appropriated some of the proceeds, bringing only a part and putting it at the feet of the apostles. But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart that you should lie to and attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit, and should [in violation of your promise] withdraw secretly and appropriate to your own use part of the price from the sale of the land? As long as it remained unsold, was it not still your own? And [even] after it was sold, was not [the money] at your disposal and

under your control? Why then, is it that you have proposed and purposed in your heart to do this thing? [How could you heart do such a deed?] You have not [simply] lied to men [playing false and showing yourself utterly deceitful] but to God. Upon hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great dread and terror took possession of all who heard of it. And the young men arose and wrapped up [the body] and carried it out and buried it. Now after an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not having learned of what had happened. And Peter said to her, Tell me, did you sell the land for so much? Yes, she said, for so much. Then Peter said to her, How could you two have agreed and conspired together to try to deceive the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out [also]. And instantly she fell down at his feet and died; and the young men entering found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.” The question is “at what point did deceit enter Ananias and Sapphira`s heart?” In ACTS 4:32-37 the Bible says “Now the company of believers was of one heart and soul, and not one of them

claimed that anything which he possessed was [exclusively] his own, but everything they had was in common and for the use of all. And with great strength and ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace (loving-kindness and favor and goodwill) rested richly upon them all. Nor was there a destitute or needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses proceeded to sell them, and one by one they brought (gave back) the amount received from the sales And laid it at the feet of the apostles (special messengers). Then distribution was made according as anyone had need. Now Joseph, a Levite and a native of Cyprus who was surnamed Barnabas by the apostles, which interpreted means Son of Encouragement, Sold a field which belonged to him and brought the sum of money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.” With a close look at the above Scripture, we see that there were apostles and also disciples [new converts] through the apostles, therefore we see that these men firstly devoted to a life of prayer, and this is where in ACTS 4:31 the Holy Spirit filled them, Whose consequences were felt by firstly creating a bond [oneness]

between them all [household of faith], thereafter individual properties were without compulsion [coercion, fraud, misrepresentation, and duress or undue influence] sold and distributed the proceeds according to the need of different saints. We see that this was not by the ability and strength or might of these believers but it wholly the working of the Holy Spirit. However to the duo [Ananias and Sapphira], it is true that they were a company of those believers; probably the most committed in outer service at that time, however when they saw this habit and practice by the disciples and apostles, they hastily sought to do it also with their ability but unclear motives. You never know they also wished to be called apostles, faithful servants, as we see that before even they sought to sell the property , they first told it to Peter and the apostles, however after the sell, the seed of deception [acting service] in them was manifested when they connived to take part of the proceeds of the sale for their own benefit and went further to lay the rest at the feet of the apostles as the practice then was. We see that the apostles were many however by Peter God revealed the deception in these Duo. This is what

killed Ananias and Sapphira, who chose to act the Law in the place where grace was prevenient, as the sufficiency was not of the apostles and disciples but of God. As we know that by the works of the Law, no flesh shall be justified, and so will all those who seek justification by the flesh be destroyed. Therefore I choose to call this practice that done by Ananias and Sapphira “LIKE”. In Scripture, err of the Duo has been seen in various verses for example, when Satan desired to be like God, he erred as deception was found in him [Satan], this is the very way Satan told Adam and Eve that if they wanted to be like God, they had to eat the forbidden fruit and for this deception was found in them, during the offering of sacrifices before God by Cain and Abel where Abel offered a pleasant offering to God, this angered Cain who wanted his offering to be better or like that of Abel hence deception was found in him, who later killed his own brother, in the Book of Acts of the Apostles 8:18-19, Simon having believed, baptized and seen the working of the Holy Spirit on them whom the Apostles laid their hands sought to buy that Gift by offering money so that he also like the apostles may lay hands on men and they speak in tongues, this was deception.

What do I seek to mean in all this, it is in the mind of the devil to present lack before men inform of inequality as deception depicts others to have what others desire to have, let us take an example, in MATTHEW 4:8-9 the Bible says “Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory (the splendor, magnificence, preeminence, and excellence) of them. And he said to Him, These things, all taken together, I will give You, if You will prostrate Yourself before me and do homage and worship me.” These are the words the devil was telling Jesus Christ in the wilderness, however we see that Satan was presenting lack before Jesus Christ Who owned all things both visible and invisible, yet to the devil [deceptive] owns nothing but seeks to impose on others ERR as one who has; for we see that by the devil`s words tells Jesus that “all these things taken together, I will give you.” This shows us that once fails to know who he or she is, and Whose they are, they will indeed fall culprits of the chicanery of the devil. The Bible says in 2 PETER 1:3 “For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness,

through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue). By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.” This means that the only way one can escape the corruptions of this age is through full and personal knowledge of God, the Bible says that by this we overcome as He overcame the world, therefore we are overcomers. What does the Bible mean by moral decay? It means people blindly or corrupting their morals as well as affirming the same to be good and well. This is all due to the conscience of lack and also ignorance of the Scriptures, for example, due to the lack of knowledge of the Scriptures, the enemy [satan] has awakened many to the deception that one has to submit to it`s [devil`s] mind so as to attain what is on someone. Take a look at the so called Celebs, many of them have nothing they can add to a Christian believer other than luring them to their destructive way of life, as they affirm what is evil

[contradicting with God`s Word]. As we see in these times men where men set for themselves Icons from which they desire to be LIKE and therefore open their whole heart to these deceived men; even to the extent that without knowledge of God receive instructions as from God. For we have seen such Icons maybe say words like God, Jesus in their maybe songs which these blind followers tend to receive as Godly. But how can one believe the reports and instructions as of God from men who it is evident to them [by their fruits] that they are not of God? We have seen situations where men claim that they have fallen in love with certain Icons to the extent that they tend to practice what these Icons tend to do, what a pain!!! That even if it is writing on the whole body inclusive the eye--they are also willing to do that, even if they see them smoking things unknown to them--they will do it, they copy vulgar languages which in the first place was not in them; that there are more kind words in them. These very Icons they purport to follow are the very ones who openly abuse God, men`s eyes must open; if it is songs, learn to listen to the wordings, and if they in no way glorify God, cease to heed to them. That if something is morally bad, why

affirm it. These men who many tend to give their ears and time are just flesh and blood-nothing else, for they have chosen the path of destruction and tend to seduced men due to the desires of the flesh which the Book of 1 JOHN 2:16 says “For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one`s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]--these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].” It is evident as the Bible says that these things are not from the Father God but from the world which is passing away with all that and who belong to it, therefore child of God bare it in mind that you who has believed in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior ought to always use your body which is the temple of the Most High God [due to the residence of the Holy Spirit in you] for His glorification. This means that you should deny the flesh an opportunity to lead you the spiritual man, but let the spirit man lead this body. And also desire not or never be attracted to the ways of the evil, as their end is destruction if they do not turn to God Whose hands are open wide to receive them.

In the Book of MARK 9:42 says “And whoever causes one of these little ones (these believers) who acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin, it would be better (more profitable and wholesome) for him if a [huge] millstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.” In this portion of Scripture, we see that Jesus Christ speaks bitterly about them who cause the little ones who acknowledge Him to stumble and sin, that they would be better for a millstone be hung about their neck and be thrown into the sea. Therefore what was He meaning? When the Bible talks about little ones, it means children. In MATTHEW 19:14 the Bible says “But He said, Leave the children alone! Allow the little ones to come to Me, and do not forbid or restrain or hinder them, for of such [as these] is the kingdom of heaven composed.” As we all know that we are children [sons and daughters] of God having believed in Him as our Lord and Savior, however we see in MATTHEW 18:14 Jesus say “Just so it is not the will of My Father Who is in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost and perish.” And as we know that this is why God sent His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to die as a Sacrificial Lamb for the whole world

regardless of the background, color, gender, age, country, and many other descriptions which to some men are a source of discrimination; to us Jesus came and died for everyone who would ever come into the world, as He died for our past, present and future sins, and also made us righteous through His grace which by His blood reconciled us to God--this is the Greatest Gift in human history and therefore one has to just receive Him for their personal salvation. However in MARK 9:42, Jesus Christ speaks of how better it would be for one who causes one of these little ones to sin and stumble to be hung about his or her neck a millstone and thrown into the sea. The Bible speaks in HEBREWS 10:31 saying “It is a fearful (formidable and terrible) thing to incur the divine penalties and be cast into the hands of the living God!” This gives us a reason to inquire into this matter. The word stumble means “to stagger because of a false step, err, error, to mislead, to cause to err, make an error, blunder, to trip.” The Greek word to mean stumble is-Πταίω, ptaiō, ptah'-yo meaning; to trip,

that is, (figuratively) to err, sin, fail (of salvation): - fall, offend. Causing the little ones to stumble [err] has been manifested in various ways as we have seen children born in families and because of that they from childhood are indoctrinated and loaded burdens against their own will with harsh conditions and because of this they end up settling in places where they are not meant to settle in. look at the spirit of religion; the principle behind it is producing children as many as they can, and thereafter load and indoctrinate their harsh conditional beliefs and ideologies over these little ones who in return also do the same as this is their multiplier effect. This specifically is what Jesus Christ was addressing in MARK 9:42 where these little ones are caused to stumble in err, however even more than that, even to the one who is erring the Bible in ACTS 17:30-31 says “Such [former] ages of ignorance God, it is true, ignored and allowed to pass unnoticed; but now He charges all people everywhere to repent (to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins), Because He has fixed a day when He will judge the world righteously (justly) by a Man He has

destined and appointed for that task, and He has made this credible and given conviction and assurance and evidence to everyone by raising Him from the dead.” This means that no one anymore has an excuse because Jesus Christ came, died and rose again for the justification of them [we] who believe in Him as our Lord and Savior. Jesus in JOHN 16:7-11 said “However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to You [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you]. And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment: About sin, because they do not believe in Me [trust in, rely on, and adhere to Me]; About righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God), because I go to My Father, and you will see Me no longer; About judgment, because the ruler (evil genius, prince) of this world [Satan] is judged and

condemned and sentence already is passed upon him.” Therefore from the above Scriptures we see that it is expedient for one to believe in Jesus Christ for their redemption from the destruction of the way of the devil whose judgment was already passed. We see that the issue of sin and righteousness are only dealt away in Christ Who is the propitiation for our sins, and Who also deals away with the Law as we by His grace become righteous through His blood on the cross from where He took our place of unrighteousness and we His place of righteousness. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 says “For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].” Therefore it is only and only in Christ that sin and guilt is dealt away with, therefore by His grace He says that the day, hour and time of salvation is now for one to believe. Religion has built things around it which seem to be appealing to the senses and which seem true however whose end is destruction, we have seen certain nice

names given some for differentiation, we have seen it [religion] encourage dressing up in a certain way; for what is the mystery in all this, we have seen it mark people in deception for the identification of it`s deceived people, we have seen it build certain personnel’s who are to be believed in yet in sincerity are false; the mind behind religion is to keep under its guard certain people in ignorance and against them that preach Truth, as we all know that religion sets men to the hatred without cause of them that preach Truth as Truth is an abomination to them, and yet it is the only source of their salvation. 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-10 says “The coming [of the lawless one, the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of [pretended] miracles and signs and delusive marvels--[all of them] lying wonders--And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved.” We see that the antichrist will and are open handedly welcomed by them that have rejected Truth [Jesus Christ], one has a choice either to believe in Jesus Christ

and also walk in His Word or else perish with this temporal generation which is driven by all manner of lusts, hatred, evils, disease and immorality and deceptions which all gratify the flesh and not God. AMEN. If anyone wants to receive salvation, he or she having believed in the heart can declare openly these words with the mouth saying; Dear heavenly Father. I believe with my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and confess with my mouth that He is Lord and Savior over my life, I am born again. Amen. Therefore you who has confessed these words can find a Bible teaching and grace preaching Church and continuously understand the new you who is Spirit. Amen. I refer you to listen to a sermon series entitled “PRESENT TRUTH” by Apostle Grace Lubega which will direct you in the understanding of certain fundamental Truths in which many now Err in.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Opale Frank is a son to Mr. Ojame Okiror Robert and Mrs. Tino Ketty. My spiritual Father is Apostle Grace Lubega of Phaneroo Ministries International. PLOT. This book helps us to understand the beauty in indulging ourselves in Truth as we know that Truth is the anchor to our souls, and therefore without it men are toasted to and fro by all manner of false doctrines which tends to occupy them, waste them and present them before God as the servant in LUKE 19:21 who said that he was constantly afraid of his master whom he probably heard wrong things about, so it is expedient for everyone to know God for themselves. For any information please email: opalefrank94@gmail.com.

LIVING THE BEYOND MASTERY IN THE LIFE ABOVE WEAKNESS 1st Edition. REALITY OF THE LIFE FROM WITHIN. WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK BY: THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA

Introduction to this book. REFRENCES ARE MADE FROM THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE. This book opens our eyes to the purpose and mandate that we have been called for in this LIFE of Faith. We see that most people tend to devote their lives to what the man of Ecclesiastes calls vanity of vanities. One of the keys to liberty in the things of the Spirit is the consciousness of being forgiven by God, and further than that knowing that you have been justified freely by the ultimate sacrifice of His Son at the cross. We see in ISAIAH 6:5-8 that Isaiah could not realize and perceive the call of God upon his life until when his iniquity and guilt were dealt away with as verse 7-8 says “And with it he touched my mouth and said, Behold, this has touched your lips; your iniquity and guilt are taken away, and your sin is completely atoned for and forgiven. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” This can only and only be found in the grace of God. One of the ways the children of God have limited the working of God upon their lives is by them walking in a life of guilt and yet God does not condemn them. 2 CORINTHIANS 7:10 says “For godly grief and the pain God is permitted to direct, produce a repentance that leads and

contributes to salvation and deliverance from evil, and it never brings regret; but worldly grief (the hopeless sorrow that is characteristic of the pagan world) is deadly [breeding and ending in death].” This shows us the need to be considerate about the end of everything we indulge ourselves in. The greatest pain and cry of the heart will be on what you were unable to do when the grace to do it was available. JOHN 21:18 SAYS “I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, when you were young you girded yourself [put on your own belt or girdle] and you walked about wherever you pleased to go. But when you grow old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will put a girdle around you and carry you where you do not wish to go.” We therefore by this wisdom seize opportunity as the Kingdom realities are of “NOW”.

O ften, I have over-heard people speak and narrate how they have been subjects or objects of attack by the devil. Many of them have found themselves in a constant cycle of debilitative; enervating; decrepit; feeble; infirm; rickety; sapless; or weak admissibility to the chicanery; chicane; shenanigan; guile; or wile of the devil. This has left them in despair [virulence, dire, wretched, forlorn, outrageous - condition], and guilty in conscience as a result of guilty pangs and guilt-ridden emotions making many guilt-sick, however here comes the good news of the gospel to you. What is weakness??? Weakness is the subjection of [by] a strong entity to a weak entity. What does “subjection” mean??? It means conquest, subjugation, the act of subjecting, or bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing, the state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government of another; a state of obedience or submissiveness; as, “the safety to life, liberty, and property depends on our subjection to the laws”, the act of putting down or under, dependence, subordination, forced submission to control by others.

What does “entity” mean??? It means that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or non-living), a real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence. What does “weak” mean??? It means lack of physical strength, one which is reduced in quality, strength, or spirit. What does “strong” mean??? It means powerful, firm, sure, and hard. That means weakness is when a superior personality is controlled [restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds] by an inferior subordinate. Strength can only be defined by the Spirit, which means without the Spirit weakness dominates. JOHN 1:1-5 says “IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].” Carefully observing the above Scripture, the Bible says that in Christ

was Life, however to men this Life was Light, and this Light shines on [unceasingly shines] in darkness, for darkness has never overpowered it. That means that without that Life, men [all people] live in constant darkness [under the dominion of the devil]. Remember that in darkness is no hope [trust with confident expectation of good], we see that Life presented to men was and still is their only Hope; that Light to men elevated them above darkness [hopelessness] which was there old friend—this old friend darkness was an enemy [wolf in sheep`s clothing] leading us to destruction “the way of death”, however Christ “played us a video of where this old friend [darkness] was leading us “we saw ourselves in eternal torment in hell, we saw ourselves taught evil things which stirred the wrath of our Father [God] upon us and very many things we cannot dare imagine or express in words”, having seen all this our eyes opened and we came to see and realize [regret] the time we had spent under blindness. We also came to get a New Friend Jesus who enlightened us, and also Himself being Life, He then and then gave it [Life] to us [when we believed in Him and all His Words], everything changed as He elevated us from darkness [the old friend] into His marvellous Light [of the Son of glory].”

He tells us in DEUTRONOMY 30:19 “I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live”. From this portion of Scripture we see the heart of a FRIEND indeed revealed to us by Him advising us to choose Life. In this generation as Jesus says in JOHN 5:43 “I have come in My Father`s name and with His power, and you do not receive Me [your hearts are not open to Me, you give Me no welcome]; but if another comes in his own name and his own power and with no other authority but himself, you will receive him and give him your approval.” We see that people just choose the way of the devil [darkness] without maybe the devil making an invitation to them, as it is only God who showed us the right choice which is “LIFE”. DEUTRONOMY still tells us that by virtue of us choosing life, all our descendants will live—this fulfils the Scripture in MATTHEW 5:14 which says “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” Jesus tells us in LUKE 8:16 “No one after he has lighted a lamp covers it with a vessel or puts it under a [dining table] couch; but puts it on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.” This means that, if it is not in men to hide the light`s they have lit, how much then we who are lit by

God Himself. He cannot risk us to be hidden, He reveals us openly to everyone and everything [even to darkness inclusive]. Not as men do [the reason they set a light on the Lampstand is that for those who come in to see specifically the light and not anything else; that means that if one is not willing to come in, he or she will not see that light. This could also mean that when there is no one willing to go in so as to see the light set by men for men, they create all avenues to lure men into what they want them to see, however to us, God sets us high above everything as we are seated with Christ in the heavenly places far above all Principalities, Powers, and Dominions. When the Bible compares us to a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden, we note that in the first place this city is higher than anything inclusive of the hill itself, secondly what gives distinction to this city is not necessarily its height but the Light. This means that it is possible for a city to be on a hill, but surrounded by brighter lights: this is not what God has called us for; He has called us to shine that everything everywhere may see the Light [Jesus Christ] so that they may glorify the Father in heaven as MATTHEW 5:16 says “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.”

One could ask why I emphasize only the Spirit to be the only distinguisher between light and darkness. I now therefore state my case this way; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45 tells us “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a lifegiving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].” We see the words “first and last” give significance to Adam. The question is “what did God intend or purpose for Adam?” Was it just for him to only tend [care for or look after] the other creature`s or more than that. Where did God position the Garden of Eden— was it earth or heaven. Why was it that Adam fell for what he was given to keep under guard, and why when he fell another guard was put to keep and guard the way to the tree of life. [GENESIS 1, 2, 3]. From the above we see that Adam rushed; for God had big and many things just for him, however due to disobedience [loss of trust in God], all the plans God had for Him were painfully ended “just like that”, this pleased the devil who beguiled Eve then Adam as it [the devil] thought that that was the end of mankind. Remember, the devil no matter how it presents itself, is jealousy for man and its aim is the complete destruction man. From time immemorial, it had continued to pursue this plan, remember God`s love for man has

never ended as it is man who chooses deliberately to hate God, yet to Him “He abides faithful [ROMANS 3:3]”. In the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve fell, man was punished but the devil was cursed. It should be noted that the mind behind punishment is reformation of one punished, and not their destruction. This meant that after reformation, there would be restoration of mankind, however to the devil, it fell to the Hole it had dug for us [Genesis 3:14]. This means that the devil`s plan was a failure. Just imagine how angry the devil was, when the stoned it prepared for another backfired to it [the devil]. This did not make it the end of mankind, God made a covenant with Abraham where He promised Abraham descendants as many like the dust of the earth, the stars of the sky [GENESIS 13:16, 15:5]— these [the Israelites] God called “My people”. Throughout the Old Testament, there had been battles of how the devil could cause the wrath of God to be turned to His people [the wrath of God to be turned from the devil to mankind] but all was in vain, for example in the times of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and Lot and the families were preserved, times of the Great flood Noah and family were preserved, in the time of Jonah with the Nineveh people, they were preserved having repented, during the journey to

the promised land only Joshua and Caleb reached the promised land [GENESIS 19, GENESIS 7:1, JONAH 4:11, NUMBERS 14:30]. With all this, a remnant and posterity subsisted; this also meant that the plan of the devil was a flop. Therefore by God`s Love, He prepared Himself an Adam to come and complete [replace] what the fallen Adam was unable to complete. That means that this second Adam was also able to inherit [receive] the promises God intended for the first Adam or even more than what the first Adam was to receive. Glory to God that Jesus said to us that greater works shall we do because He goes to the Father; the Bible says that JESUS took our place of sin and we became the righteousness of God through Him; that means that Jesus re-instated us to the full ability to receive what was meant for Him as the second Adam [as we start from where He finished – that means that we are rested in Him]; that is why the Scriptures testify that the glory of the Later Church shall be greater than the Former. The distinction with the second Adam was that He was the Lord of glory, as JOHN 1:14 says “And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an

only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favour, lovingkindness) and truth.” This second Adam was God Himself; just imagine it, He left His majesty, the praises of the angels, just to pursue man. This Jesus narrates a hypothetical story of a good shepherd who leaves the ninety nine sheep to seek for the lost one and when He finds it makes a feast just for that one lost and found sheep [MATTHEW 18:12]. This Jesus did by Himself leaving heaven for earth, just for man, thereafter, the Bible says that when one sinner repents the angels in heaven make a feast over such a one [LUKE 15:10]. This very Adam [Christ] dealt with the devil once and for all, COLOSIANS 2:15 says “[God] disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross].” That means that all that was against us [the devil-disease and everything-sin, the Law] was dealt with by Christ on the cross. Jesus said it is finished; meaning He had accomplished all that He had come to do on earth, HEBREWS 2:13-17 says “And again He says, My trust and assured reliance and confident hope shall be fixed in Him. And yet again, Here I am, I and the children whom God has given Me. Since, therefore, [these His] children share in flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human beings],

He [Himself] in a similar manner partook of the same [nature], that by [going through] death He might bring to nought and make of death--that is, the devil--And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives. For, as we all know, He [Christ] did not take hold of angels [fallen angels, to give them a helping and delivering hand], but He did take hold of [the fallen] descendants of Abraham [to reach out to them a helping and delivering hand. So it is evident that it was essential that He be made like His brethren in every respect, in order that He might become a merciful (sympathetic) and faithful High Priest in the things related to God, to make atonement and propitiation for the people`s sins.]” From the above Scripture, we see that God through Jesus Christ gave us a helping hand and He [God] ignored the devil. Just imagine it like this, the devil pushed us from a cliff, and in the process it [the devil] also fell due to the force it exerted to push us. However God sent His helping hand towards us [who were fallen due to sin], and we were saved through His hand which He reached out to us, however He ignored the devil`s hand; and the devil fell to the bottom of the cliff. Just imagine this, if the devil knew that it was not going to die [perish], it

would not stretch-out it`s hand towards God to be saved. However some have also chosen deliberately to take it minor for God to stretch-out His hand towards them, and in return have refused to willingly offer back their hand toward God for their salvation! Just imagine that. Similarly, it is and by the devil that all evil was in the world and to men making them sons of disobedience, however God stretched out His hand towards us by sending His and only begotten Son in His likeness to save the whole world from sin [which would eventually lead them to death], however although God played His part, He gave a choice to people to believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and live, or reject Him and perish with the devil [the father of lies (deception, seduction), the god of this world]. Remember God stretching out His hand towards us who deserved death cost Him too much to all that He ever had for instance He had to leave His Majesty [Realm—royal jurisdiction], He had to be like us [just imagine the potter also becoming clay just to plead for certain clay and also to show the clay the right path they should follow, He was subjected to laws of the earth just for our sake], He gave up His life just because of and for us. This was the last and final fall of the devil as Jesus crushed the devil`s head once and for all, therefore we are free from the

consequences of the devil. MATTHEW 12:29 says “Or how can a person go into a strong man`s house and carry off his goods (the entire equipment of his house) without first binding the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.” MARK 3:27 also says the same “But no one can go into a strong man`s house and ransack his household goods right and left and seize them as plunder unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may [thoroughly] plunder his house.” This is the general principle spiritually and physically, we see that the devil was our father in this world, however Jesus [from another Kingdom—the Lord of Glory] in order to rescue us from the devil had to firstly destroy it [the devil], then freed us and took us firstly as His servants however He gave us a right to be His children [sons and daughters of God]. Take an example of Uganda being in need to possess [win] a World Cup trophy, it has to completely defeat all the teams [nations] in the competition, then a trophy be awarded to it, but not just taking it, then later fight those who come after the trophy [this is why the Kingdom of God is at rest, so are we]. This is why when we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we cease from works and rest in His finished works at the cross. LUKE 4:18-19 says “The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the

Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity], To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord [the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.” Therefore we see that we were and have been released and delivered from the oppressor [the devil], who Jesus crushed and never to be heard of for eternity. However up to now we see some people who are born again [born anew from above, new creatures, Spirit born] hold beliefs [endless genealogies] of here say “Jesus left some unfinished business, some have gone further to hold themselves to have curses from the ancients [parents, grandparents, families]” and because of this; some of these things have ended up becoming a reality in their lives, as PROVERBS 18:21 says “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life].” So this Scripture does not exempt a Christian; you ought to know the purpose of the power in the tongue and the kind of fruit it must bear for you as a master [one who has learnt to bridle it], as to us we bear fruit worthy of repentance. Another thing to those

who have believed in Jesus Christ but still hold false beliefs of being bound by the devil, ask yourself this question “if you could not deliver yourself when the devil bounded you in the first place, how then now do you seek to deliver yourself having Jesus Christ destroyed the devil; that means that such a kind of a Christian who does not believe in the finished works of Jesus Christ at the cross and lays another foundation to him or herself therefore need for such a person to reconsider themselves whether they are still in the faith.” 2 PETER 2:19-22 says “They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of depravity and defilement--for by whatever anyone is made inferior or worse or is overcome, to that [person or thing] he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through [the full, personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition is worse [for them] than the first. For never to have obtained a [full, personal] knowledge of the way of righteousness would have been better for them than, having obtained [such knowledge], to turn back from the holy commandment which was [verbally] delivered to them. There has befallen them the thing spoken of in the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and, The sow is washed only to

wallow again in the mire.” From the above portion of Scripture, we are given a scenario of a Christian born again who willingly having been cleansed and set free from what had bounded them, then deliberately choose to go back in their former place; this the Bible says is “bondage of the highest order” as the state of such a one will eventually end up worse than the one they thought to be bad, as the Bible says that they are overcome by whatever they lay. Just imagine with me, the devil was clearly defeated by God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, thereafter certain men believe--that, however later themselves build doctrines [not Scriptural] of the existence of the devil in their lives [remember the devil is dead (crushed (defeated) by Christ)], then the devil who is dead in return becomes manifested in their lives and are defeated by it [the devil]. This is the same way people having believed in Jesus Christ through faith as their personal Lord and Savior, thereafter leave [depart] from the grace of God which is through faith in pursuit of the Law. The Bible says that they enslave themselves in the very things they were delivered from; this is beyond bondage. Child of God you are not like a sow which is washed only to wallow again in the mire; God did not cleanse you from sin for you to be entangled again in sin: that is why He picked you from

darkness and set you into His marvellous Light. The Book of GALATIANS 2:11-21 says “But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I protested and opposed him to his face [concerning his conduct there], for he was blameable and stood condemned. For up to the time that certain persons came from James, he ate his meals with the Gentile [converts]; but when the men [from Jerusalem] arrived, he withdrew and held himself aloof from the Gentiles and [ate] separately for fear of those of the circumcision [party]. And the rest of the Jews along with him also concealed their true convictions and acted insincerely, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy (their example of insincerity and pretense). But as soon as I saw that they were not straightforward and were not living up to the truth of the Gospel, I said to Cephas (Peter) before everybody present, if you, though born a Jew, can live [as you have been living] like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how do you dare now urge and practically force the Gentiles to [comply with the ritual of Judaism and] live like Jews? [I went on to say] Although we ourselves (you and I) are Jews by birth and not Gentile (heathen) sinners, Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through

faith and [absolute] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God). But if, in our desire and endeavour to be justified in Christ [to be declared righteous and put in right standing with God wholly and solely through Christ], we have shown ourselves sinners also and convicted of sin, does that make Christ a minister (a party and contributor) to our sin? Banish the thought! [Of course not!] For if I [or any others who have taught that observance of the Law of Moses is not essential to being justified by God should now by word or practice teach or intimate that it is essential to] build up again what I tore down, I prove myself a transgressor. For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ`s death for me] myself died to the Law and all the Law`s demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to and for God. I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives

in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. [Therefore, I do not treat God`s gracious gift as something of minor importance and defeat its very purpose]; I do not set aside and invalidate and frustrate and nullify the grace (unmerited favor) of God. For if justification (righteousness, acquittal from guilt) comes through [observing the ritual of] the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous.]” From the above portion of Scripture, we are given an example of what compromise can do to the Church [Body of Christ], we see that Paul an Apostle--not from men nor by or through any man, but by and through Jesus Christ and God the Father, just like Peter was appointed to the Jews, he was appointed by God to the Gentiles. Thereafter he went about teaching the grace firstly to men of reputation [the leaders] including James, Peter and John who also welcomed and received the grace as from God, however shortly after, because of need to appeal to the emotions of everyone, Paul himself said that before the Jews [people who follow the Law] came from James to the place where they were staying, these Apostles freely ate and mixed up with

the Gentiles, but when these Jewish people came, Peter firstly separated from the Gentile brethren [the New converts – let`s say born again Christians who were formerly Gentiles], this was responded to by all the Jews who were in that place inclusive of Barnabas so as to appeal the emotions of the Jewish visitors. Thanks be to God, Paul had to rebuke Peter in humility [remember Peter was given to preach to the Jews; God did not intend him to preach the Law to them but grace, that`s the reason God positioned Paul to have access to all the Apostles of the time, who received the grace in humility.] as by rebuking Peter the minister to the Jews; the Jews too were rebuked and instructed from the same instructions accorded to Peter [as they learnt from Peter.] Paul further said that them too being Jews, by reason of the Law were unable to find justification in it [through works], therefore had to believe by faith in Jesus Christ just like the Gentiles do, so as to attain justification which is by faith and not of works lest any man boost. Paul equates it to building what you destroyed; it is indeed time wastage to seek to establish what you at one time destroyed [this is so serious, remember Jesus destroyed the old temple, only to build a new one, however by men rebuilding what was destroyed by Christ—this the Bible says

that it`s destruction requires Christ to die again on the cross; which is impossible for Christ to die again, for He died once and conquered all things once and for all]. In GALATIANS 3:1-5, Paul addressed the same spirit in the Galatian church [even up to now], asking them with bitter words such as “poor, silly, thoughtless, unreflecting, senseless” as to whether they attained the Holy Spirit by works of the Law or by faith. That means that this act of drawing back is in itself equivalent to witchcraft [sorcery; enchantments; charm; intercourse with evil spirits]. From the above portion of Scripture Paul speaks and says that he died [he was crucified with Christ], for it`s no longer him who lives, but Christ lives in him; and the life he now lives in the body he lives by the faith in [of] the Son of God, Who loved him and gave Himself up for him. That means that the man of weakness [the fleshly man] ceased to be when Christ took over his life, Paul now lives a constant life of faith as Jesus [Faith Itself] lives [Paul has no control over his life]; this is why Paul speaks that it is a small thing for him to be judged, as he knows nothing about himself [1 COINTHIANS 4:3-4]. Just imagine this statement, so are you who believe in Jesus Christ, reckon yourselves to be dead to the flesh [world] and alive to God living a life void of offence firstly before God, and then

man. This can only be by you knowing your position spiritually, the Bible speaks of us saying in 2 CORINTHIANS 5:16 “Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh].” From the above Scripture we are elevated and revealed to who we are [we who have believed in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior]; that we are Spirit, and everything in us is spirit [inclusive of our mind, consciences, and judgements], therefore take an example, if there is any man who is “as to the world wicked”, how do we see things; as men do, or as God does. MATTHEW 6:22 says “The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light.” By the Bible speaking of the eye, it is only because light is visualised by the eye, and the eye without light is blind due to darkness. The flesh [carnal mind] can neither understand nor discern spiritual things, this is because spiritual things are spiritually discerned. That means that a man who has not yet believed in Jesus Christ is blind [cannot see because they dwell in the dark, and have not yet seen the Light (of the Gospel)], and to

the man who has believed in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior do see by virtue of the spirit in them, this is because the spirit [being the primary person] receives and partakes all the spiritual things of God. The Word of God is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path [PSALMS 119:105]. We therefore see that a lamp in itself is a source of light [ought to always be lighting], therefore God has set every born again [Spirit] Christian as a minister of what has shone in and is shining within them; this is the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is why Jesus Christ [the Light of the World] calls us [who have believed] the light of the World [we ought to cast vision into men]. When the Bible speaks of Light, it also means Life, therefore you are the life of the world--glory to God, that means that you revive dead things and also redeem [recover; retrieve; save] time [as we are born of a Redeemer [author of redemption]]. This is why our thinking pattern changes, the Bible tells us in ROMANS 4:17 “As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the non-existent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed. This is how God operationalizes the Life in Him, so should we. We ought to speak out what

have believed; this is how the life in us is operationalized, therefore when the world calls men a thieves; we call them ministers of the gospel, when the world condemns men; we justify them by the spirit of Christ Who died and rose again for their justification--this is how people change [are transformed]. You are already above weakness; Believe it with the consciousness of how much God loves you. What then is “Mastery”’? The Greek word to mean mastery is “Exousia” which means – (in the sense of ability), privilege, that is, (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concrete magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegate influence: - authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength. What then is “Life”? The Greek word to mean life is “Spendo” which means – to pour out as a libation, that is, (figuratively) to devote (one`s life or blood, as a sacrifice) (“spend”):- (be ready to) be offered. The beauty behind Mastery is in the transition of one “to be a bearer of completion” and his or her ability to bring fruit to perfection. The Greek word to mean perfection is “Megaleios”

which means – magnificent, great things, wonderful works. The heart of a master is in patience. My Spiritual Father Apostle Grace Lubega in his statements always emphasizes in “believing in people as God is in the process of working them” and “you cannot take men in places you have not been”. Spendo can only be understood in the “Service of God or in ministry”. LUKE 4:43 says “But He said to them, I must preach the good news (the Gospel) of the kingdom of God to the other cities [and towns] also, for I was sent for this [purpose].” This shows us that the heart of the minister is firstly in winning souls to the kingdom, and further than that-watering [continually watching over, praying for, teaching, instructing, fathering] them with humility and patience of spirit, in earnest expectation of good. The man of God Kenneth Hagin once quoted Charles G. Finney to be a man who made an impact in the kingdom of God, as he not only won multitudes of souls to the kingdom of God, but also by the grace given him of God mentored those souls that “Eighty percent” of them matured and actively participated in the gospel. 1 TIMOTHY 2:3-4 says “For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior, Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and

recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. This shows us that there is more after one getting saved and the question is, “where does this leave the Church?” This leaves ministers who have transcended mastery with the same hunger which kept Jesus Christ moving from place to place ministering answers [The Gospel], without putting consideration to things like money, clothes, microphones, machines and other things which men think are vital for the ministering of the Gospel. Jesus at one point asks His disciples whether they lacked anything when He sent them without money bags, clothes, silver and gold, and their response was that they did not lack anything. In this generation some ministers have allowed the worldly elements to define for them the gospel, to the extent that these elements [money] are more than souls—what a pain! ACTS 11:19-21 says “Meanwhile those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose in connection with Stephen had traveled as far away as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, without delivering the message [concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God] to anyone except Jews. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on returning to Antioch spoke to the Greeks also, proclaiming [to them] the

good news (the Gospel) about the Lord Jesus. And the presence of the Lord was with them with power, so that a great number [learned] to believe (to adhere to and trust in and rely on the Lord) and turned and surrender themselves to Him.” In this portion of Scripture, the heart of service is revealed to us, we see that a Minister [you and I] choose to look at things not as men see but as God sees. The Gospel of Jesus Christ shall [can] never be stopped, we see that when fear for persecution had arisen after the stoning of Stephen to death, certain disciples only determined to preach only to the Jews, however a few of them also preached the Gospel to the Greeks [Hellenists], from this boldness the Bible says that God`s hand was manifested and a great number of Greeks received Jesus Christ, it was from this, that the believers were first called Christians. Glory to God, there is no man the Gospel of Jesus Christ cannot change [transform anew], however this firstly starts from the preparations of God. The question is how rooted and grounded are you? And on which foundation are you standing from? And what is your heart up to in Ministry of the Gospel? We see in the Scriptures men like Paul—a man who for all his life was jailed for preaching Truth, he was canned just for the Gospel. He was not and never intimidated by the surrounding

situations, he chose to run the race of faith in the expectation of the crown promised to Him of God. Men like James, who chose Jesus Christ and esteemed their lives not dear to them just for Christ’s sake, men with the anointing of God were thrown in dungeons and lifted up with rags however this did not shake them in any way. The question comes back to us, “How devote are our lives to God? How ready are we to be offered? The price of the Gospel weighs all things—if it means being hated for the Gospels sake, let it be, --if it means losing sleep for the Gospels sake let it be, --- to mention but a few. This Gospel cost the Apostles all they had, they sold their properties just for the gospels sake, they worked for the Gospel`s sake, they chose to Minister the Gospel in all their spheres of life. This only comes when one realizes the mandate of God upon his or her life. We from this point realize why a man like Paul who says that he was born past time, later on says that he has run a race and finished, revealed the whole counsel of God to all people and is accountable of any man`s blood. This is why we see that in only three years Jesus Christ had run His race and finished all that He had come to do on earth; no wonder Apostle John in JOHN 21:25 says “And there are so many other things which Jesus did. If they should be all recorded one by one

[in detail], I suppose that even the world itself could not contain (have room for) the books that would be written. A lamp when lit always ought to be burning, as we have been lit by God we must always been sustained by our spirit. I leave a question in us, “How do we feel like to live in the last days of the World? How do we feel having known that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is coming back anytime from now? Amen. If anyone is not born again, you can openly declare [proclaim] these words having believed in your heart Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, say “Dear God, I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is Your Son, and You sent Him to die for my sins and declare that You are Lord and Savior of my life, I am born again.” You are most welcome to the family of faith in the Son of God. Amen.

BEYOND MASTERY IN THE LIFE ABOVE WEAKNESS. LIVING THE REALITY OF THE LIFE FROM WITHIN. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Opale Frank is a son to Mr. Ojame OkIror Robert and Mrs. Tino Ketty. My Spiritual Father is Apostle Grace Lubega. There is something about the grace of God, for it is an answer to each and every man and woman. One thing about it is that it transforms men and by faith calls them who and what they are supposed to be and, in grace is the reconciliation between man and God. 1 JOHN 4:18 says “There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love`s complete perfection].” There is a big distinction in the way a man [woman] under grace prays, as we thank God for what He did for us through our Lord Jesus Christ at the cross, we thank Him for making us Righteous through the justification which is of Faith. Grace is the expression of God`s love for us and because of this we are never conscious of punishment [arising from fear; the master of bondage]. PLOT. This book opens our eyes to the reality of the life we live; not as they say we “shall” or we “will”, this life is of now. Once we live the life we must live now, there are many things averted, for example Jesus` instruction to the Church is “watch and pray”, Paul calls it “praying without ceasing”. We ought to ask ourselves a question of “what kept Jesus praying yet He was God and what was He praying for???” Part of His prayer is revealed to us in JOHN 17:1-26. And what made Him teach the disciples the so called “Lord`s prayer” which involved things like “give us our daily bread, lead us not into temptation, and yet He tells us in JAMES 1:13 that God tempts no man.” This is why Paul in EPHESIANS 1:17-20 always in his prayer prayed for the Church that God may grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, By having the eyes of our heart flooded with light, so that we can know and understand the hope to which He has called us, and how rich His glorious inheritance in the saints, And so what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places]. For more information please contact: opalefrank94@gmail.com

THE REVIVAL AND GREAT AWAKENING OF IUIU – “The move is here, the move of the Holy Spirit is here”. Written by: OPALE FRANK. By the inspiration of: The Holy Spirit. With special thanks to: Apostle Grace Lubega.

Revelations 12:11 speaks of how the Saints overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. When we speak about the blood of Christ, we literally cannot express it all but can only let it Speak as we realize that when the Bible speaks in Leviticus 17:14 saying, “the life of all flesh is its blood”, to us by virtue of the New Birth, Christ dwells in us inherently; for as others during the Crucifixion saw His blood flow down the cross, to us His blood [physical] accomplished the redemption of all flesh to now spirit [the New Man]. In John 6:54 Christ tells us, “He who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood has (possesses now) eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.” From the above Scripture we see Eternal life follow after the conversation of blood; in addition to the above, 1 Corinthians 1:18, 22, 23 and 24 says, “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God. For the Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and wisdom of God.” From the above Scripture we see that it is above all things fundamental

to understand Christ; just like the Jews and Greeks who desired signs and wisdom did not see it in Christ yet to us, He is All in All [we`ve ever needed] as He is both the power and wisdom of God, which these men never saw in Him, this means a lot to us, for as of to-date the existance of divisions and alienations in the Body of Christ is because of just a simple truth; saints have not understood the Foundation which is Christ. It is undoubtable that the cross is a foundation the Church for we see Christ hint on it in Matthew 16:15-23 where the Bible says, “He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven. Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ. From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to

Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up. Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.” But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”” Briefly elaborating on the above Scripture, we realize that the application of these words in there original context is not a mistake; for 1 Corinthians 15:45 tells us that the first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. This means that the personality Adam is flesh with blood flowing through his veins, however the difference between the two is in what is in them; for the first Adam was soulish, whereas the second Adam was not only Spirit but also a life-giver of His same nature; this is why He speaks of the Words He speaks being Spirit and Life. Therefore when He asks Peter that Who do people say He is? Peter and the rest who in the first instance narrated of how some say that He is “John the Baptizer, Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” All the above answers were directed to the person of the first Adam

that is why “the Messiah” was not included among the opinions of men. So when Peter truly speaks of Who Jesus was saying that He was “the Christ” – He spoke this by the aid of the Father, because the flesh speaks concerning earthly things, and because of this Christ also defines who Peter is by firstly naming him Cephas which means “rock”; and later Christ goes ahead to speak concerning the Foundation of the Church whose pillar is hinged on the Cross; because the revelation of the person of Christ [Spirit] was after the death of Jesus [flesh]; this is why John 12:28 tells us that Christ was glorified already “as He was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”, and that God would glorify Him again; just for men`s sake; this is why after the glorification (the death and resurrection) Christ was bitter with Thomas who still wanted to see so as to believe [John 20:25,29], and for this sake, the Bible still speaks of all eyes seeing Him and those who pierced Him seeing the side which they pierced [Revelation 1:7, John 19:37]; this is because Christ shall return to the unbelieving World which will want to still see so as to believe hence the mystery behind “the open tomb with no bones and body of the Christ at the resurrection”, and His assension to Heaven in a visible form, yet

Scripture tells us that no flesh can inherit or access Heaven; of yet we saw that at His resurrection moments He ate with them [Luke 24:39-45]. It was on this background that Christ the Rock called Peter Cephas meaning “rock” because of the place of the oneness we become with Christ in that we are now inseperable from Him. For the Bible in Isaiah 51:1 tells us to “Look to the rock from which we were hewn and to the hole in the quarry from which we were dug”. Peter found his definition in Christ and it was not viceversa; this is why even David whose throne Christ came to establish for eternity also calls Him Lord; the indifference to this knowledge is what led to the death of Peter before his time, as he literally understood Matthew 16:18 as though on him [the person] Christ would build His Church. We look through History that Peter was crucified upward down; this probably meant that when Peter beheld that the death with which he was proposed for, being similar to that of the Christ, he let it be applied on Him although he had the Authority to refuse this kind of death by God; our Spiritual Father Apostle Grace Lubega once opened our eyes to the reality the slaying of James` head by Herod could be averted as it not the plan of God for Saints to die [sleep]

in wrong hands and by wrong means, as we saw that through the saints prayers Peter himself saw the deliverance of God through an angel from Prison, we also see saints like John who refused to die early or let go of their spirit before there time, Jesus Christ knew that before His time, none could lay a hand on Him, Apostle Paul by wisdom accepted to be lowered through a basket from the wall because he knew that he had too much to accomplish in the kingdom; No wander just after Matthew 16:20, in verse 21, after Jesus narrating His death and Glorification, Peter immediately [with the mind of being the one to whom the Church will derive its foundation], takes Christ aside to rebuke Him. It is no mistake that although Christ had a lot to teach the disciples, to the extent that He had to spend some private time with the three [Peter, James, and John] He could not release all that He wanted to tell them because He speaks in John 16:12 saying, “I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now.” For this cause, even after the infill of the Holy Spirit, there was still too much that God wanted to reveal not only to these saints but to the whole world however finding that they were still not able to bear it,

God had to put the assignment of all the twelve Apostles on a one man Paul, our Spiritual Father Apostle Grace Lubega always tells us, “the gifts and callings of God are without repentance but the assingnments change as they can be transferred to other ready and available men”; this is why we have to change our thinking to no longer do things for ourselves but for men in the World`s sake; as Christ Himself told us that He did not come to do His will but that of His Father. Scripture opens our eyes to our anointment by God for men just as Christ was High Priest not by the appointment of men but by the appointment of God. We see that God [Who has no pleasure in the perishing of men] could no longer delay the knowledge He had for the saints just because a certain saint to whom it was predestined to be delivered has choosen to stay indifferent to this call. Therefore, God Himself through Ananias spoke to Paul in Acts 22:14-15 saying, “The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from His mouth. For you will be a witness for Him to all men of what you have seen and heard.” Right above was the assignment that was given Paul; there is no doubt in what God can do in a saint who chooses to believe Him.

Thereafter Paul was seperated by God to be taught all He had kept without revealing due to the unreadiness of certain saints from bearing it; however we see that God destined Apostle [the person] to minister to the whole world, but he lost it somewhere in the initial instructions due to the guilt he had within him for his previous conduct of persecuting the Church and yet God was not condemning Him; for in this we learn that just as the Scripture tells us that, “if your heart condemns you, you should know that God is greater than your heart”; therefore because of this judgement in him, God tells him in Acts 22:21, “Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles”; this meant that the original hedge on Pauls life due to the innitial instructions of him having access to the whole world was now limited to only the Gentiles and not to the Jews although with emphasis, Pauls message would be relevant to both the Jews and Gentiles but the person Paul would be a stumbling block to the Gentiles. Apostle Paul further returns the conversation which Jesus spoke in Matthew 16:18, for in 1 Corinthians 3:10-11 he says, “According to the grace of God which was given me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man

be careful how he builds on it. For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.” Herein we now percieve that what the ears in Jesus` time could`nt bare was the “Grace Message” which is the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; this is why later Hebrews 13:9 tells us, “Don`t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.” Now we realize why Apostle Paul uses the word “who were reputed to be pillars” in Galatians 2:9 where he says, “and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.” From the above we realize that even in the fourteen years of Pauls separation and absence from Jerusalem, these Apostle held with esteem considering themselves as “pillars” to the extent that even the people considered them to be so, we see that the saint Paul reveals Christ as the Pillar as because the Message [Grace] is Christ, remember it is in the Grace that we see through [Truth is revealed];

this is why as long as one does not understand Grace, Scripture will always be a Mystery, yet to us Christ did reveal His full counsel through the Holy Spirit [1 Corinthians 2:10]. It is true and will always be that God shall forever bear testimony to the Word of His grace [Acts 14:3] and so shall it always be. Speaking concerning the hole in the quarry from which we were dug, the Bible speaks in Matthew 27:60 and John 19:41 that Christ was laid in a new tomb from where was a garden, and concerning this new tomb, with emphasis, it was cut out in the rock, and therefore by the Scripture in Isaiah 51:1 telling us to “look to the rock and to the hole in the quarry from which we were dug”; it seeks to tell us that in Jesus` death we found and derived our definition [being and purpose], this is why we lost ourlives to find it in Christ Jesus and that it is no longer us who live but Christ lives in us. When Christ spoke concerning His death, John 12:32 says, “And I, if and when I am lifted up from the earth [on the cross], will draw and attract all men [Gentiles as well as Jews] to Myself.” We see that this corresponds to the conversation in Matthew 16:18-19, as Christ speaks that in His death He will build His Church [the pillar and stay of Truth]; and that the gates of Hades

shall not prevail against it [the Church], and that to the saints He has given the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven; meaning we preach men into the Kingdom, this is why the Bible says that “we are the Light of the World”, and He has given saints Authority over the earth and the skies [heaven] and everything therein; why? Because He stripped [disarmed] the principalities and the powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross], therefore we now realize why power [Authority] was put in the tongue [spiritual] that whatsoever we decree is so and not otherwise. With this Truths it is an absurdity for a New Creature in Christ Jesus to hold onto false doctrine as the Gospel; for it is high time that saints should open their eyes to see and behold the doctrine of Christ with a pure conscience. The Bible says that unto us there is no such a thing as an idol; for to us there is no other God but one, the Father, of Whom we [have life], and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through and by Whom are all things and through and by Whom we [ourselves exist], the Bible adds on to say, that Nevertheless, not all [believers] possess this knowledge.

Concerning “testimony”, the Bible clearly tells us in Revelations 12:11 that we overcame by the word [utterance] of our testimony; from this we see that testimony is not in the multitude of words or the magnitude of the wonder, because we have one testimony which is Christ Jesus, this is why the phrase used is in past tense “overcame”, this is why 1 John 4:12 tells us, “BELOVED, DO not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world. By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source].”; this is the Message of the Grace of God, we all know that there is more to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as He transcended into the New Life, as He sat down with the Father in Glory after being given the Name above every other name that at the mention of that Name every knee of all those in heaven and underneath the earth and in the earth and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is LORD to the glory of the Father, we realize that many have been

deceived from the simplicity which is in Christ, this is why Paul tells everyone to take heed how they build upon this foundation, however the greatest pain which is not a threat is that many have built other foundations [dogma, religions…] which are not Christ, now we understand why Paul says that “whether in pretence of truth, Christ is preached.” In other words because in Christ is a self-cleanser which is the Word; there is no doubt that all foundations built by men shall cease by the test of time or fire; however again the pain is they which hold onto them for eventually will perish with it; for truly it is high time that men know God, because more than ever before knowledge preserves. Alleluia. Revival: means the renewed interest in something one was once indifferent to. Awakening: means rousing into activity. So one could ask about the theme of this mini-book [documentary], we hold onto what God has and is doing in us because sharing some of these stories not

only inspires men but also in one way or another awakens the fire in them. For it was in about 2019, when a few young men and women thinking it to be a mistake found themselves in a Higher Institution of Learning in which freedom of worship was and is restricted. Following conversations with some of them, they narrate that this Institution was not among the Higher Institutions of learning they expected to be in whose joining was in vain, not because of poor performance because most of them topped their classes with 19, 18, 17, 16, 15 points and many more excellent ones to mention but a few. Truly this was a divine appointment and plan of God, our Father Apostle Grace Lubega once preached a sermon entitled “Nzinga Biwaya” in other words a place of “Selah” [pondering or thinking about it]; for 99% it is not a mistake that we are in the places we are, remember the exclusion of the 1% are they that have not found or sought God concerning their purpose in those places. Innitially all of them bore imaginations of how difficult life would be in these spaces however Hope spoke always, as we are in the world but are not of the world. Slowly they connected to each other by grace [the

synchrony, Kairos]. Some met at the Balconies and part of their conversation was concerning “Christ”, some heard the famous ringtones “the words of this life with Apostle Grace Lubega” ring on someones phone at the back of the class and “Hallelujah” they responded slowly in the heart because of the environment, some from the Gospel T-shirts others wore. Glory to God, History reconciling like “a standing camel” lowering to seat. Truly, the principalities of the place existed but it was just for a moment; as Ephesians 6:12 tells us, “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world`s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” For it is one thing to behold a man, and it is another to behold the spirit behind a man. With Questions in their heart, on why their liberty [freedom] is judged of another mans conscience. However as the Bible says in Matthew 10:16, “Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; be wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves.”; to them this meant that it is wisdom not to attract

uncalled for attention, as one may think they are persecuted yet ignorance and pride is in bed with a man, which should not be the case with sons and daughters of God to whom wisdom is justified of. Due to the partial unity among these folks because they were new to each other and had to understand one another, they held meetings amongest themselves with the joy of meeting a their family of faith, as all of them bore the mind that they were the only born again saints when joining the institution just as revealed in Scripture when Elijah criedout to God saying that He was the only prophet left and they seek his life, yet there were more seven thousand [like him]. Slowly by slowly they considered by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit on how “this place would be made a habitable place”, “some proposed”, and others agreed to the fact that this world has no choice but to align itself to the nature in them because “they are the Light of the world”. Truly, this journey has been of patience with men by God, because much as everyone could have zeal for God, it had to be considered that there also existed such a thing called “zeal without knowledge”, and because of this some disconnected

from something that was truly beyond what everyone could ever imagine as God was preparing a work in them. Innitially, it was a consensus of only Law students, however thank God that “He does not despise small beginnings although He is not small” as per the words of Pastor Zac. This means that we had to expand, however baring in mind that this expansion was a work of God and not of self-centred abilities. Therein, by the synchrony of the Holy Spirit; all these saints had beheld and tested of the Brook “Phaneroo”, and those who had not were shown the Vision which speaks of itself as it Manifests; therein a New Door was opened that they often sat together to sharpen themselves and with humility correct one another, all willing to learn and unlearn certain things that were inferior to Truth; however it was evident among them that they held with esteem one another to be higher than self. With joy and happiness they praised God together, sat together and listened to sermons together in a room belonging to one of them, soon or later they listened to a sermon by Apostle Grace of how principalities are dealt away with by conquering the Capital and not by fleeing from it, as in the sermon, that

is why there are Mosques, Catholic and Protestant Churches, and the police stations at the City Squares; this is why the move of the Holy Spirit had to firstly begin in Jerusalem before it goes to the Antioch and the other parts of the world; this all meant one thing, that they had to return to the Institution, and therein God truly manifested His hand as more and more saints kept adding on and joining the chariot; for we thank God that truly each person had a part in this journey just as the Bible says that we all are parts of the body and cannot do without another, we started discovering our purposes in all that was happening as we came to agree that Purpose is primary and Education Secondary; inspite that happening of good challenges which were but for a moment as some due to good situations applied for living semesters and year, Covid 19 also came though, but all this was but for a moment as all these circumstances worked for our good, as it was short lived however with excellent impacts in us and what was still being defined; as we got ample time to serve God and reachout to men in our various areas of influence, got an opportunity to seat down and truly listen and understand the Word as some who were preoccupied academics as an excuse had no choice but

to listen to the Word, as it was a period of only they that Know their God lived. The aftermath of this period has been a good one, as the words of a one Lady Janechris go, “The move is here, The move of the Holy Spirit is here”, for the land has proven fertile and habitable, by God souls are being won to the Kingdom, miracles of healing of the sick happen in the meetings we have attended of the man of God Apostle Grace Lubega, we remember of a one student who came along with her sister for service from the Institution, for she instantly healed from several diseases inclusive of high blood pressure, kidney and lung issues, with bad ulcers, we have seen God`s transformation in the lives of various saints as their perception about God has changed through the understanding of His grace, many have not ended at receiving the message for themselves but have through it impacted their families, friends and relatives. As we are always amazed by the over whelming numbers that God has availed as every transpotation we receive new siants and the transportation means fill up to the brim, we have registered great academic excellence performance, the Manifest students submission has cut

across all course namely; Law, Medicine, BBA, ICT, and many others; “truly this is the work of God” we say. Like never before, their were saints we could not reachout to because of hardness, however God is at Work; people are yielded for it is no longer a place calling and holding onto men for it is viceversa, for just like a baby returns to mother so as to breastfeed; IUIU is submitted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we have seen people apply for admissions to the Institution because we as Manifest are there, saints have attended a one time Thursday meeting and vowed never to miss again because they have missed a lot, saints at the Insitution have connected to purpose and service like never before. We only thank God for what He alone can do. We thank God for the great thing He has began, and we know that no man can bring an end to what God is doing. Some saints in their final years regret why this thing started when they are living or have left, but the question to you the reader is, “Are you willing to let God do a great work in you or you want to do it your way?”. Our Father Apostle Grace Lubega always says, “it will hurt you when it does not begin with you”.

And to the schools with liberty of worship, how are you using your liberty, rather are you even utilizing it, “SELAH”. We thank God that doors to various Campuses have opened up, and by God we cease them. Thank you Jesus, for of You we have many things to say, but only have to let You speak, we Love You Lord, Thank You Jesus for Loving us and all mankind. We also thank our Father Apostle Grace Lubega for believing God and being of Great Importance to the Kingdom, thank You Jesus for such a Gift to the World. We thank God for the Manifest Secretariat and Administrators, IUIU loves you. With much love, we thank God for the IUIU Manifest Family, truly we have responded to the testimony you requested to be published to the readers. Hallelujah.

This Documentary has been written due to the demand of IUIU Manifest Fellowship it talks about many aspects with emphasis on what God is doing in IUIU and the rest of the World. Briefly about IUIU Manifest, it is a fellowship submitted to Phaneroo Ministries whose Vision Bearer is Apostle Grace Lubega. IUIU Manifest was pioneered by a one Muhwiire Alex under the guidance and permission of Minister Nesta Katende. It started in 2019 in around August, glory to God.

“ABSOLUTELY FAITH” 1st EDITION.

INTRODUCTION TO THIS BOOK. Scriptural references are from the Amplified Bible. This book helps us understand the new life to which we have been begotten into in Christ, it clearly explains the subject of Resurrection to a believer in Jesus Christ, it also goes further to explain the Kingdom of Heaven, Biblical Truths about the Rapture and very many Truths concerning you and I. When reading this book more and more revelations will be opening up unto you as the Holy Spirit shall be leading and communicating to you. 2 Contents. Brief Introduction of personal life…………………5. Paul`s experience………………………………………….8. Your name must be in the Kingdom………………9. Buffeting the body by Apostle Paul……………….11. Heart ennobled by grace………………………………..16. Understanding a heart established in grace……19. Ignorant love for the Law……………………………….23. The free gift of God………………………………………26. Law has nothing with justifying one……………….32. Understanding of Heavens……………………………..33. The message of John concerning new Heaven...41. Understanding the Kingdom of God……………….47. A voice prophesied by prophet Isaiah…………….50. The ministry of John the Baptist……………………..55. The false Christs……………………………………………59. Truth about the prayer in Matthew 6:11……..64. 3

Kingdom of Heaven……………………………………..66. The Rapture Biblical understanding……………..73. Resurrection………………………………………………..87. You died to sin…………………………………………….104. Living in a new life………………………………………110. The Great shaking……………………………………….123. Confession to the new life…………………………..129. 4 W hen growing up, we were told that in heaven are two books; one of Life and one of Death that incase of any wrong our names were rubbed off from the book of Life and written in the book of Death, because of this we kept in constant repentance “the wrong way” saying all the time “God forgive me for the sins I have committed knowingly and unknowingly”, this was because of the fear instilled in us that we could die at any time when our names were still written in the book of Death, therefore the only escape route was keeping the lips in motion seeking for a pardon from our Father God. I remember 5

of a time when my father got worried having noticed that I often kept talking to myself, and to him, he thought I could possibly be running mad, however the more we grew in Christ we came to realize that there was a better way to go about with life and this was through salvation in Him as our personal Lord and Savior, and for this confession, our names were for eternity written, sealed and stamped in the book of Life having been now a registered in Heaven as its Citizens. We came to realize the existence of a miserable situation in the world, that some people parted from our eyes for 6 good and never to be seen again, as some of them as the slogan says “from the soil one came and to it they return”, however this was not satisfactory to us as we kept on questioning those around us as to why this is so? Because in JOHN 16:21 Jesus says “A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief (anguish, agony) because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers her pain (trouble, anguish) because she is so glad that a man (a child, a human being) has been born into the world.” We asked of what aroused that joy which suddenly drove away the travailing of birth pangs, and 7

we came to realize that birth of a life is joyous, however this joy can only be celebrated when one also has the life in them to see and welcome the other life. This is the same expression Paul talks of in 1 CORINTHIANS 9:26-27 saying “Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary. But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a 8 counterfeit].” This is the very reason Jesus told the seventy disciples in LUKE 10:20 “Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven.” Then the question is, “Is it possible to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to others and the preacher him or herself be disqualified from the Kingdom?” The answer is yes. The Bible in MATTHEW 7:21-27 says “Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name 9

and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name? And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock. And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who built 10 his house upon the sand. And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell--and great and complete was the fall of it.” When Apostle Paul speaks of him buffeting his body, he simply seeks to mean that his body should not direct him concerning things of God as it is weak and inferior to the things concerning the kingdom, but through the Word he may sharpen and position it to be responsive to the leading of the spirit man, as to him [Paul], he saw of the possibility of the frail body making one unfit for the kingdom. He gives an example of a boxer, athlete who keep on training and 11

exercising to maintain a fitness as they are in a race although they do this for a corruptible and perishable crown, however to us whose crown is not as theirs how ought we not be exercised in the very things we profess, not by acting like the very substance of the things [as a counterfeit], but as one beholding the very substance of what we speak of; for it is possible for an un praying man when given audience to play prayer, as to Paul even if he be the preacher of the Word, he still seeks the application in him of the very Word he preaches, for it is true that you cannot take one to a place you have never been, however we ought not to 12 lose the wonder of those places just because we have been in them. I believe that this is the very reason to as to why Jesus Christ [our Lord and Master] prayed although He was a Son of God. We have seen people waste time with an already judged fellow [the devil] who is just awaiting the end of time for its punishment in hell, to the extent that they have forgotten about salvation-their new life in God, and because of this many of them have had little time for God as most of their time is spent with the devil for example knowing and studying how the devil manifests itself, and the question is, “ever since they 13

started addressing and studying the ways of the devil, how much has that knowledge helped them?” As we know what this knowledge can do, for the man of ECCLESIASTES 1:18 says “For in much [human] wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” This is what human knowledge can do, it increases sorrow in one, as to many of these people can even boldly declare that Satan is stronger than God, what a deception! MATTHEW 12:34 says “You offspring of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil (wicked)? For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the 14 heart the mouth speaks.” This means that even the audience of these people with doctrines of devils, at the end of the day their speech, or preaching will also be concerning the devil; these are the very people who are always conscious about curses [ebikolimo], and the question is that, are they still on the foundation which Paul laid, or they are in another foundation which they have laid for themselves--Apostle Paul tells everyone to take heed how they build upon that Foundation which is Christ the Chief Corner Stone of the Church. [1 CORINTHIANS 3:10, MARK 12:10, EPHESIANS 2:20]. In the Book of 15

HEBREWS 13:8-9 the Bible says “Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages). Do not be carried about by different and varied and alien teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established and ennobled and strengthened by means of grace (God`s favor and spiritual blessing) and not [to be devoted to] foods [rules of diet and ritualistic meals], which bring no [spiritual] benefit or profit to those who observe them.” We see emphasis put on one`s heart being established in grace, as it is impossible to understand God and His Word without embracing His grace. In 16 GALATIANS 1:6-9 Apostle Paul speaks saying “I am surprised and astonished that you are so quickly turning renegade and deserting Him Who invited and called you by the grace (unmerited favor) of Christ (the Messiah) [and that you are transferring your allegiance] to a different [even an opposition] gospel. Not that there is [or could be] any other [genuine Gospel], but there are [obviously] some who are troubling and disturbing and bewildering you [with a different kind of teaching which they offer as a gospel] and want to pervert and distort the Gospel of Christ (the Messiah) [into something which it 17

absolutely is not]. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to and different from that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to external punishment)! As we said before, so I now say again: if anyone is preaching to you a gospel different from or contrary to that which you received [from us], let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment)!” Here Apostle Paul speaks of certain men who alter the Gospel of Christ so as to dissuade believers from Jesus Christ, not because they have 18 somewhere else to take them but because it is there deliberate move to tend to the destruction of even the believers by offering them another gospel which is not actually the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so Paul speaks of the necessity of one`s heart being established in grace [Christ] and not any other doctrine [teaching], and to them that preach other doctrines not of grace to be accursed. Therefore let us define and understand what it means by ones heart being established in grace. Established in Hebrew means, khaw-zak 19

A primitive root; to fasten upon; hence to seize, be strong (figuratively courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer: - aid, amend, X calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage (-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong (-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand. 20 Grace is a person of Jesus Christ. In JOHN 1:17 the Bible says “For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” That means that there is no way you can define grace without defining the person of Jesus Christ. We see that firstly the men of the Old Testament had to abide by the Law [Ten Commandments] so as to be at peace with God [DEUTERONOMY 28:1], however none could keep up to the standards of the Law [ROMANS 3:23], as one who defaulted in one commandment meant that they had broken all the Ten Commandments. Therefore it meant that all of them were 21

walking in [perpetual] sin, and unreconciled [not at peace] with God. In addition to that, since Moses was given the Law, it was name tagged to him as “The Law of Moses”; this means that he could choose to increase or add more to it [the Law], this means that the men of Old were loaded with a load they could not carry by themselves. This is why in the Old Testament, its people longed and waited for the Promised Messiah Jesus Christ to come, however on His coming, the Religious Leaders of His time believed that they could keep up to the Law, meaning that there was no need Jesus Christ to them. At this point Jesus 22 shocked them by telling them that if a man looks at a woman lustfully [with an evil eye], he commits adultery with her in his heart [MATTHEW 5:28], this means that even that woman was also in one way or another guilty of adultery, and also that if one hates his brother, he has committed murder in his or her heart hence a murderer [1 JOHN 3:15], and that if one had divorced his wife except for adultery, when he or she marries when that partner is still alive, they commit adultery [MATTHEW 5:32], this meant that even if these Religious men thought they could keep the whole Law, it was evident that they could not. It 23

should be not that even up to now, Love has to be the center of life of a New Testament believer, therefore there is no need for one to be reminded to walk in Agape [the God kind of Love], we see that one walking in Agape cannot seek divorce, as it is also a life of a New Creature to walk in forgiveness. However to these Religious leaders, they clung to the Law of which to us we know that Law has no feelings, for it`s slogan is that it must not be broken, this is why Moses gave a punishment of “an eye for an eye”, “a tooth for a tooth”. This is the very reason to as to why the woman caught in adultery [JOHN 8:3-4] was to 24 be stoned to death without regard to various circumstances for instance, was there evidence to prove so, who did she commit adultery with, what if it was forcefully done against her will, who was her husband in the first place. The Law could not even give chance for her to defend herself, it could not even imagine that this very woman could at one time mother children who could come to worship and commit their service to God, it could not even put into consideration that the people who would enforce its dictates would be committing murder with their hands yet already guilty of sin and unpunished hence could remain in 25

the hypocrisy that they are holy yet dying and leading a life tending to death. I remember one time in my village of a certain man who always beat up and left men who were alleged to have involved in theft unconscious, however one day when a police dog was brought following a certain theft, it directly pulled him out of his house with the evidence of the exhibits, just imagine what happened next? This was and is the very essence of Christ Jesus. When we talk about the grace of God, it means the free gift of righteousness through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ when He offered Himself as a 26 Lamb without blemish once and for all to all who believe in Him [ROMANS 5:16-17, 1 PETER 1:19, ]. This is because He fulfilled the Law for us who could not fulfill it, so he delivered and purchased us from it and reconciled us to God by His own blood, however it should be noted that the distinction between the Law and Grace is that the Law is of works whereas the Grace is of Faith, that means that there is no connection between the Law and Faith, as the Law does not and cannot have its roots in Jesus Christ, yet for Faith it is wholly dependent on Jesus Christ. ROMANS 3:20-28 says “For no person will be justified (made righteous, 27

acquitted, and judged acceptable) in His sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law. For [the real function of] the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin [not mere perception, but an acquaintance with sin which works toward repentance, faith, and holy character]. But now the righteousness of God has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the Law, although actually it is attested by the Law and the Prophets, Namely, the righteousness of God which comes by believing with personal trust and confident reliance on Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [And it is meant] for all who 28 believe. For there is on distinction, Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives. [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, Whom God put forward [before the eyes of all] as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood [the cleansing and life-giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received] through faith. This was to show God`s righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over and 29

ignored former sins without punishment. It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in the now season) that He Himself is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has [true] faith in Jesus. Then what becomes of [our] pride and [our] boasting? It is excluded (banished, ruled out entirely). On what principle? [On the principle] of doing good deeds? No, but on the principle of faith. For we hold that a man is justified and made upright by faith independent of and distinctly apart from good deeds (works of the Law). [The observance of the Law has nothing to do with justification.]” GALATIANS 2:16 says 30 “Yet we know that a man is justified or reckoned righteous and in right standing with God not by works of the Law, but [only] through faith and [absolutely] reliance on and adherence to and trust in Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). [Therefore] even we [ourselves] have believed on Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law [for we cannot be justified by any observance of the ritual of the Law given by Moses], because by keeping legal rituals and by works no human being can ever be justified (declared righteous and put in right standing with God).” It is clearly evident 31

that the Law has nothing to do with making one justified and righteous therefore by the Bible saying that one`s heart ought to be established in grace, it means that one has to believe in Jesus Christ by faith in His sacrifice when He offered Himself as Lamb offering for the propitiation of our sins, then one`s life should be of faith and nothing else, believing in the message of the cross which is entirely of love and mercy by God not counting sin on us anymore but righteousness--for this is what enforces right living, as the Spirit of God is at work in us, transforming us daily for the best through His Word which renews our 32 minds to the life we now live in Christ. This is what a heart should be established in. Before talking about resurrection, let us understand certain things namely; Heavens, Kingdom of God, and Rapture. HEAVENS. Here let us use the Message Version Bible to understand this subject. In GENESIS 1:1-10 the Bible says, “First this: God created the Heavens and Earth-all you see, all you don`t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God`s Spirit brooded like a bird above the 33

watery abyss. God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, He named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning-Day One. God spoke: “Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!” God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: He named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning-Day Two. God spoke: “Separate! Waterbeneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!” And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the 34 pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.” From the above Scripture, we see that God created everything on its own apportioned day, we also see that firstly each created thing stood independent of another until when reconciled, for example He had to separate Light [day] from the dark [night], the greater Light [sun] to shine by day, and the lesser light [moon] to shine by night, and the stars were to shine throughout day and night. We also see that when God created the Heavens and Earth in verse 1, the Heavens had no need for much attention in terms of giving it Lights, however in 35

verse 2, we see that the Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, and an inky blackness. This is the reason God created a firmament according to other Bible versions, which is also called the Sky according to the Message Version as quoted above. We see in Verse 8, God name this Sky Heaven, of which this is distinct to the one created in verse 1, because this one had to do with giving the Earth form, as we see that in verse 2 that the Earth was bottomless, this very Sky [Firmament, Heaven] was the very one to hold the Lights [sun, moon and stars] spoken of in verse 14-16, as the Bible in verse 17 says 36 “God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth.” We also from verse 6-10 the Bible say “God spoke: “Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!” God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: He named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning--Day Two. God spoke: “Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!” And there it was. God named the Land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.” We see that God created this sky in the midst of water, that means that there was 37

water on its top and bottom, bearing in mind that the Earth was a bottomless pit, therefore God spoke Land into existence having gathered water beneath Heaven into one place, He therefore called that Land Earth, and the water Ocean--so it is up to now. It should be noted that all this was being done to give form to the Earth created in verse 1, of which up to now the Sky and the Land still exist. After this we see that green seed-bearing plants, and fruit-bearing tree were also created to further give beauty to the Earth, man was also created and formed to tend everything created by God in Verse 2628. Speaking of this Heaven [Sky, 38 Firmament], in GENESIS 7:11-12 the Bible says “It was the six-hundredth year of Noah`s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.” In GENESIS 8:2 the Bible says “The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit.” We see that in the days of Noah, the ground springs erupted; meaning that water was coming from underground onto the Earth, and also the windows of Heaven [Sky] were thrown open; meaning that the water on 39

top of the Heaven was just pouring onto the Earth--this is the reason why the Earth in forty days was covered by the flood, and also took one hundred fifty days when the floodwaters was covering the Earth. In 2 PETER 3:10 the Bible says “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will vanish (pass away) with a thunderous crash, and the [material] elements [of the universe] will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.” We see that the heavens spoken here is the Sky we always see, and it is true that the heavens and the earth will all vanish with the works of 40 man in it, this gives us a reason to store up our treasure in Heaven which shall not be destroyed nor stolen, neither can a moth eat it up, we ought although in this passing Earth think about the end of our souls, of which the safety and surety is in believing in Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, and also embracing His grace upon our lives. We see that at the appearing of Christ the Heavens [sky] and the Earth shall all vanish. In the Book of REVELATION 21:1 we see John the Revelator say “THEN I saw a new sky (heaven) and a new earth, for the former sky and the former earth had passed away (vanished), and there 41

no longer existed any sea.” In the Book of 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-17 the Bible says “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first. Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord!” This is so powerful, the Bible speaks of us [who have believed in 42 Him] whether dead or alive by the time of His coming, shall be caught up in the clouds to meet Him in the air. It should be noted that it shall be in the New not the Old Sky and Earth which shall and are passing away. Speaking of the Heaven in GENESIS 1:1, The Bible in Acts 7:49 says “Heaven [is] My throne, and earth the footstool for My feet. What [kind of] house can you build for Me, says the Lord, or what is the place in which I can rest?” We see that this Heaven is the throne of God. In the Book of MATTHEW 3:16-17 the Bible says “And when Jesus was baptized, He went up at once out of the water; and 43

behold, the heavens were opened, and he [John] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him. And behold, a voice from heaven said, This is My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I delight!” from this portion of Scripture, during the baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ, John the man of the Spirit saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him [Jesus Christ], we see that this was as a result of the open heaven. As we know that if it was the heaven [sky] spoken of here, firstly, the people around would marvel at it, and secondly, water would pour from it. In the Book of ACTS 7:55-56 the Bible 44 speaks of Stephen saying “But he, full of the Holy Spirit and controlled by Him, gazed into heaven and saw the glory (the splendor and majesty) of God, and Jesus standing at God`s right hand; And he said, Look! I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at God`s right hand!” Here we see that Stephen was filled and controlled by the Holy Spirit that he saw opened heaven, from which he saw the Father and the Son [Jesus Christ], we also note that although he said look, the people [accusers] who surrounded him could not behold the same, as this was Spiritual and not physical as the sky [heaven]. We also see 45

that Peter in ACTS 10:11 was able to behold open heaven in a vision of the Spirit of God. In the Book of REVELATION 19:11-13 John says “After that I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse [appeared]! The One Who was riding it is called Faithful (Trustworthy, Loyal, Incorruptible, Steady) and True, and He passes judgment and wages war in righteousness (holiness, justice, and uprightness). His eyes [blaze] like a flame of fire, and on His head are many kingly crowns (diadems); and He has a title (name) inscribed which He alone knows or can understand. He is dressed in a robe dyed by dipping in blood, and the 46 title by which He is called is The Word of God.” We see that when John the Revelator beheld open Heaven, with the Son of God as this was all inspired by the Spirit of God and not with his carnal senses. KINGDOM OF GOD. The word kingdom comes from two words namely; “king” and “dom”. Of which “dom” means Jurisdiction, property and jurisdiction, dominion. The Hebrew word to mean Kingdom is; mal-kooth', mal-kooth', mal-koo-yaw' meaning; a rule; concretely a dominion: - empire, realm, reign, royal. 47

As we have seen above, kingdom means; Rule, Dominion, Empire, Realm, Reign or Royal. Talking about the King, we see that Jesus Christ is the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS as revealed to us in REVELATION 19:16. This means that there is no glory here on earth that can be equated to His glory, not even of the Kings and Queens we see here on earth, not even that of England. In the Old Testament we are told of a one King called Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon whose dominion was felt across the earth and whose authority superseded all the ones of other kings on earth combined [DANIEL 4:20-22]. This compelled him to 48 exalt himself, however we see that by experience he came to believe that there is only One God Who rules in the heaven and earth; this is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Israel. [DANIEL 3:29, 4:37] and this was good to his soul which I believe was saved. In Scripture we see two related words spoken of and these are Kingdom of God and Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of God was spoken of or prophesied right from the Old Testament; of which we know that prophecies are for preparation by those to whom it is concerned. In the Book of ISAIAH 40:3-5 Prophet Isaiah spoke saying “A voice of one cries: Prepare in 49

the wilderness the way of the Lord [clear away the obstacles]; make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God! Every valley shall be lifted and filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked and uneven shall be made straight and level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory (majesty and splendor) of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.” Here we see that Isaiah the prophet of God prophesied of a voice, and also the words which that voice will be speaking at that particular time to come. However we note that this voice speaks of our Lord and Savior Jesus 50 Christ Whose way was to be prepared in the wilderness and deserts of which we know that these are places of testation’s, troubles and much hardships; this also shows us that Christ indeed came to make the blind see, as He particularly did not come for the [self] righteous but for the sinners to make them see the Salvation of God, as a Hope to the hopeless and a Father to the fatherless. In the Book of MATTHEW 3:1-3 the Bible says “IN THOSE days there appeared John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness (Desert) of Judea And saying, Repent (think differently; change your mind, regretting your sins and changing your conduct), for the kingdom of 51

heaven is at hand. This is he who was mentioned by the prophet Isaiah when he said, The voice of one crying in the wilderness (shouting in the desert), Prepare the road for the Lord, make His highways straight (level, direct).” We therefore see that John the Baptist was the voice prophesied of by prophet Isaiah, and therefore let us look unto the message of John the Baptist. In JOHN 1:6-16 the Bible says “There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came to witness, that he might testify of the Light, that all men might believe in it [adhere to it, trust it, and rely upon it] through him. He was not the Light himself, but came that he might 52 bear witness regarding the Light. There it was--the true Light [was then] coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him]. He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own--His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him. But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name--Who 53

owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!] And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacle (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. John testified about Him and cried out, This was He of Whom I said, He Who comes after me has priority over me, for He was before me. [He takes rank above me, for He existed before I did. He has advanced 54 before me, because He is my Chief.] For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift.” Here we see that John the Baptist`s ministry was to prepare men for the coming Messiah and to testify or openly declare to them Who the Messiah spoken of by him Is. We see that this John faithfully did, as we see that he sought not his own glory but that of the Father by him faithfully serving his purpose. We see that on the coming of Jesus Christ, for the whole of His life He involved in teaching people about the 55

Kingdom of God. In JOHN 6:51 the Bible says “I [Myself] am this Living Bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever; and also the Bread that I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh (body).” Here we see that Jesus Christ when still walking on the face of this earth called Himself the Living Bread that means that He was a consumable which whoever eats of it lives forever, and also speaks of His Body being one that will be laid down for the life of this world [to Whom the people in the world were to believe in His sacrifice]. In JOHN 6:63 He said “It is the Spirit Who gives life [He is the Life-giver]; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever 56 [there is no profit in it]. The words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life.” Christ introduces us to the look at Him beyond the perspective of the flesh [physical] which indeed He laid down for our salvation, to the Spirit [His Word that proceeds from Him]. We see that Christ indeed speaks of the Words in and from the Father in Him being Spirit and Life, and that whoever has an intimacy and accepts these Words to work in Him or her has eternal Life in them. In 1 TIMOTHY 3:16 “And great and important and weighty, we confess, is the hidden truth (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible in human flesh, justified and 57

vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, [and] taken up in glory.” We see that Jesus Christ was more of the Word, and that is why most of His time was devoted in teaching about God; this is why in JOHN 17:8 He said “For the [uttered] words that You gave Me I have given them; and they have received and accepted [them] and have come to know positively and in reality [to believe with absolute assurance] that I came forth from Your presence, and they have believed and are convinced that You did send Me.” We have seen in these times where some people have devoted much of their 58 time in making certain physical representations to suit the representation of the Spiritual, of which we know that nothing physical can be able to represent anything spiritual about God, that is why the Bible warns us of these last times when people will be and are speaking of physical representations of Jesus Christ. In the Book of MARK 13:21-23 Jesus warns everyone who believes in Him saying “And then if anyone says to you, See, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, Look, there He is! do not believe it. False Christs (Messiahs) and false prophets will arise and show signs and [work] miracles to deceive and lead astray, if possible, 59

even the elect (those God has chosen out for Himself). But look to yourselves and be on your guard; I have told you everything beforehand.” We have seen Christ clearly endeavor to declare to us what and how crazy the world is; that men are ready to believe physical things as manifestations of the Spiritual things, for example take a look at how people have poured all their hearts and emotions [even finances] to believing in images created by men without even the Spirit of God resident and working in them, they have gone further to create for themselves idols and are well convinced that they depict God, what a deception unto blind men who are led by 60 the blind! With humility and a pure heart, a rosary has no connection with God, the so called Mary sculptures have nothing to do with Jesus Christ as we see Christ Himself tell us to believe in the Words He speaks of the Father, we have seen a great deception carry about it a great number of people with all their wealth, lives, and everything devoted to another Jesus afore warned by Paul who said that if anyone preaches any other gospel except that which we delivered to you, let such a one be accursed. We therefore see that the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Kingdom of God. This is the very reason why Jesus Christ when requested by His disciples who wanted to 61

be taught how to pray said to them in MATTHEW 6:9-11 said “Pray, therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed (kept holy) be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.” When analyzing the above statements we see that indeed Jesus Christ on earth was the physical manifestation of God on Earth, however as the realm of God in most cases when He performed all manner of miracles commanded and instructed the people around to tell no one until the will of God was done on Earth [MATTHEW 17:19, LUKE 9:21, MARK 5:43, 7:36] of which the will He spoke about was concerning 62 His death and resurrection; this is why when He had risen, the Bible says in MATTHEW 28:9-10 “And as they went, behold, Jesus met them and said, Hail (greetings)! And they went up to Him and clasped His feet and worshiped Him. Then Jesus said to them, Do not be alarmed and afraid; go and tell My brethren to go into Galilee, and there they will see Me.” We see that Jesus Christ having risen commanded them which He met to go forth and tell the brethren [they who believed in Him] that He was risen and that He was to meet them in Galilee. Here the will of God was now done, as Jesus had died for the sins of the world, hence accomplishing the 63

will of the Father, we therefore see that indeed the Kingdom and the will of God were now done on earth as it was in heaven, we see that in the prayer taught the disciples in MATTHEW 6:11 the Bible says after the fulfillment of the first and second promises [Your Kingdom come, and will be done on earth as it is in heaven], verse 11 says “Give us this day our daily bread.” We see that here the bread requested for was no longer the Law, but Grace, because of the establishment of another covenant [New Testament]—where He said that He will no longer remember our sins or even count iniquity upon us [who believe] but on Jesus Christ. AND the consequence of 64 the fulfillment of these promises are revealed to us in verse 12-13 which are; 1. Our sins are forgiven, 2. We are above temptation [we are overcomer`s as the greater one lives in us, for it is no longer us who live but Christ lives and the life we now live in the flesh we live unto God who loved us and gave Himself for us], and 3. We have been delivered from the hand of the devil, and we are now bestowed unto the Kingdom of the Son of God. This is the Kingdom of God which is already come as we boldly declare the Word of God to all flesh through the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is able to turn all flesh which is as grass into Spirit which is eternal. Choose to believe 65

God through Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. When we are speaking of the Kingdom of Heaven, we simply mean the Realm of Heaven. We see Jesus tell Pilate in JOHN 18:36 “Jesus answered, My kingdom (kingship, royal power) belongs not to this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My followers would have been fighting to keep Me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, My kingdom is not from here (this world); [it has no such origin or source].” We see that the Kingdoms of this earth is not like that of God, for to this world, its kingdoms have an end but that of God has no end for it is eternal. In Law, one cannot be tried in 66 a court that has no jurisdiction to try a matter, this also we saw that during Jesus Christ`s trial, since He was from a heavenly jurisdiction [which also belongs to Him], both Pilate and Herod kept moving Jesus up and down as the matter of this trial was beyond their earthly court systems jurisdiction, however Pilate just did try the matter with his exclusion as he charged the blood of Jesus on the hands of them who demanded His execution yet he found Him innocent. In EPHESIANS 2:19 the Bible speaks of you who has believed in Jesus Christ saying “Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of 67

citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God`s own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God`s [own] household.” We therefore see that just as Christ is not of this earth, so are we also who believe in Him, for our citizenship is now in heaven, and because of this the Bible says that we are of the household of God [Faith] and joint heirs with Christ. What then? In EPHESIANS 3:5-6 the Bible says “[This mystery] was never disclosed to human beings in past generations as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles (concentrated messengers) and prophets by the [Holy] Spirit. [It is this:] that the 68 Gentiles are now to be fellow heirs [with the Jews], members of the same body and joint partakers [sharing] in the same divine promise in Christ through [their acceptance of] the glad tidings (the Gospel)” This means that not only has Christ reconciled us to God, but also reconciled all the people who believe in Him as people of one household [brothers and sisters], this is the reason to as to why Love [Agape] is the greatest commandment, we also see that because He is Love, therefore the balance between Faith, Hope and Love is Love [Agape]1. In 1 JOHN 3:14-19 the Bible says “We know that we have passed over 1 I RECOMMEND YOU TO READ A BOOK ENTITLED “LOVE THE WAY TO VICTORY BY KENNETH E. HAGIN.” 69

out of death into Life by the fact that we love the brethren (our fellow Christians). He who does not love abides (remains, is held and kept continually) in [spiritual] death. Anyone who hates (abominates, detests) his brother [in Christ] is [at heart] a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding (persevering) within him. By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [in Him]. But if anyone has this world`s goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow 70 believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth (in practice and in sincerity). By this we shall come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we are of the Truth, and can reassure (quiet, conciliate, and pacify) our hearts in His presence.” We therefore see that Jesus treasures the love of the brethren with the God kind of Love before one seeks to think they Love Him, and we see this kind of Love [Agape] defined in 1 CORITHIANS 13:4-8 which says “Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is 71

envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God`s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all 72 circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]. Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].” In life nothing can define you other than Love [Agape], not even faith or hope can do define you, but Agape. You are an original of Jesus Christ and not a counterfeit. RAPTURE. In Scripture, the Rapture is clearly spoken of in 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-17 which says “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will arise first. 73

Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord!” We see here the Bible speak of the dead in Christ firstly resurrecting, in the Message version, the Bible says that they will go first; this means that when they resurrect, they will have no business to do with tarrying on this earth, but will directly go to meet the Master in the clouds, and then those who are still alive will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master Jesus Christ. What a joy and glory!!! 74 In simple words “Rapture” means Ravishing, Ecstatic or Transporting. That means that process of movement between the Earth and the Clouds. However let`s get more understanding on this subject. In 2 THESSALONIANS 2:314 the Bible says “Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition), who opposes and exalts himself so proudly and insolently against and over all that is called God or that is worshiped, [even to 75

his actually] taking his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God. Do you not recollect that when I was still with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining him [from being revealed at this time]; it is so that he may be manifested (revealed) in his own [appointed] time. For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, [but it is] restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one (the antichrist) will be revealed and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of His mouth and bring 76 him to an end by His appearing at His coming. The coming [of the lawless one, the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan and will be attended by great power and with all sorts of [pretended] miracles and signs and delusive marvels--[all of them] lying wonders--And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a misleading influence, a working of error and a strong delusion to make them believe what is false, In order that all may be judged and condemned 77

who did not believe in [who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely on] the Truth, but [instead] took pleasure in unrighteousness. But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obliged [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning as His firstfruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, and reliance on) the Truth. [It was] to this end that He called you through our Gospel, so that you may obtain and share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).” This same Scripture is interesting in the 78 Message version, however we see that three things are spoken; 1. Apostasy, 2. Debut of the Anarchist, 3. A real dog of Satan. Apostasy can also mean falling away; this means “an abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion or departure from one`s faith or renunciation of a religious faith, or backsliding.” Debut of the Anarchist means “first public appearance of the Antichrist (the causer of confusion, the Lawless one-this is political as it pertains a government.)” A real dog of Satan is Satan himself 79

revealed. Concerning the above mentioned subjects, in the Message version, the Bible clearly tells us in 2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12 that “The Anarchist`s coming is all Satan`s work. All his power and signs and miracles are fake, evil sleight of hand that plays to the gallery of those who hate the truth that could save them. And since they`re so obsessed with evil, God rubs their noses in it--gives them what they want. Since they refuse to trust truth, they`re banished to their chosen world of lies and illusions.” We see that though Satan is held back from being revealed, this does not mean that the antichrist is not at work in the world, 80 however we see that because men have hated the Truth of Jesus Christ [except you and I], because of this the Bible says God gave them what they wanted, as verse 11 says “And since they`re so obsessed with evil, God rubs their noses in it--gives them what they want.” We have seen God do this at one time when the Israelites demanded for a king to be like the rest of the nations; this God did by anointing Saul as King through the Priest Samuel, so it is even this time. However we see that in the Book of Revelations this very portion of Scripture is talked about in REVELATION 19:19-21 “Then I saw the beast and the rulers and leaders of the earth with their troops 81

mustered to go into battle and make war against Him Who is mounted on the horse and against His troops. And the beast was seized and overpowered, and with him the false prophet who in his presence had worked wonders and performed miracles by which he led astray those who had accepted or permitted to be placed upon them the stamp (mark) of the beast and those who paid homage and gave divine honors to his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns and blazes with brimstone. And the rest were killed with the sword that issues from the mouth of Him Who is mounted on the horse, and all the birds fed ravenously 82 and glutted themselves with their flesh.” We see that the antichrist`s source of power is from Satan whose reign on earth having been released by God shall be for a short time as Christ will by the Sword of the Word that departs from His mouth blow [destroy and end] the devil and all his work. The instructions of the Word of God to you and I is that we should take a firm stand, with our feet on the ground and head high, keeping a tight grip on what you were taught; this is holding onto the Truth of the Word of Jesus Christ. The Bible in HEBREWS 13:56 God says that He will never leave us nor forsake us, we can boldly say “The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized 83

with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me?” We see that the false prophet and antichrist are all men, however with the power from Satan, the Bible says that they will perform great signs and wonders and deceive many, as we all know that to people who have rejected Christ [the Truth], they indeed fall for this deception with a lot of ease, Jesus spoke of this very prophesy that there will come many people calling themselves the Christ, and even doing all manner of wonders even to what He did in the Scriptures however, it is Truth that stands the test of time. We see that these afore said false prophet and antichrist will even 84 defile the temple of the Most High God, oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Jesus tells us that do not look there when they tell you that Jesus is over there. I wonder the men who will wilfully give their ears and eyes and attention to seduction, Do not believe it, for in believing it, you give up on your faith. In 1 PETER 2:6-9 the Bible says “For thus it stands in Scripture: Behold, I am laying in Zion a chosen (honored), precious chief Cornerstone, and he who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him] shall never be 85

disappointed or put to shame. To you then who believe (who adhere to, trust in, and rely on Him) is preciousness; but for those who disbelieve [it is true], The [very] Stone which the builders rejected has become the main Cornerstone, And, A Stone that will cause stumbling and a Rock that will give [men] offense; they stumble because they disobey and disbelieve [God`s] Word, as those [who reject Him] were destined (appointed) to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God`s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into 86 His marvelous light.” We see that believing in Jesus Christ is for your good, and for the good of your soul, believe His Word is True. RESURRECTION. In the year two thousand when I was born, there happened something fundamental in that in this year there was a great fear sparked off in very many parts of the world that Jesus Christ was to return. It should be noted that the Antichrist also cease such opportunities beguile them who are founded in simplicity of this passing age. As far as I know is that from this year to to-date this period has been characterized by a great awakening in the Spirit. We see 87

that in the periods of the year two thousand going back, the glory of the men in these times cannot be compared to the one of these times spiritually and not carnally, for example we saw the men of God hold meetings of two thousand to at most five thousand in a tent camp and this was a great number of men. We also realize that many people in those times did not get an opportunity to hear what many hear and have at their disposal today; which is available everywhere and this is the Word of God. This Jesus one time said in MATTHEW 10:14-15 that to a city [meaning a person] who rejects His Word, it will be more tolerable for the 88 city of Sodom and Gomorrah than for such a one, because this city did not have that opportunity to listen to this Word, probably they would be saved just like that of Nineveh. The Bible in MATTHEW 12:41 says “The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, Someone more and greater than Jonah is here!” We see that this is one of the most fortunate generations, as we see that the Bible speaks of a time when the sons of men will be taught by God Himself, and this is the time. In JOHN 6:45 the Bible “It is written in [the book of] the Prophets, And they shall all be 89

taught of God [have Him in person for their Teacher]. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me.” When Jesus walked the face of this earth, the Bible in COLOSSIANS 2:9-10 “For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature]. And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit-and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].” We see that in Jesus dwelt the fullness of 90 the Godhead and we also are in Him, for the Bible in COLOSIANS 3:3 says “For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.” Glory to God that when you see me, you see Christ. The Bible in 1 CORINTHIANS 12:27 says “Now you [collectively] are Christ`s body and [individually] you are members of it, each part severally and distinct [each with his own place and function]”, this means that you have no excuse for not serving God, for example if it is giving to a ministry to further the work of ministering the gospel to the remotest places, do it. We realize that one of the last promises 91

is that knowledge shall increase, this is open ended whether one is born again or not, as to us in the Spiritual aspect of it, more than ever before we realize these are the times when the knowledge of the Word of God is needed like never before. And on the worldly bit of it we see the increase in technology from the Year two thousand like never before, as it has been evidenced by invasions after invasions; for we have seen wonderful cameras invented, gadgets [tabs, phones, laptops and many other things to name but a few], worldwide internet, You Tube, Face Book, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and very many social platforms, we have seen conference 92 platforms like Zoom, Free Conference Call, Google Meet and many others, speakers and microphones, mobile phones, Televisions and radio stations, and more and more invasions and with all God has let them be for the furthering of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We have seen man try to give all kinds of explanations to all these kinds of technologies and hopefully more to come, but the Truth is that God let all these things be just for the Gospel`s sake. When talking about resurrection, in JOHN 11:1-26 the Bible says “NOW A certain man named Lazarus was ill. He was of Bethany, the village where Mary 93

and her sister Martha lived. This Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was [now] sick. So the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord, he whom You love [so well] is sick. When Jesus received the message, He said, This sickness is not to end in death; but [on the contrary] it is to honor God and to promote His glory, that the Son of God may be glorified through (by) it. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. [They were His dear friends, and He held them in loving esteem.] Therefore [even] when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He still stayed two days longer in the same place 94 where He was. Then after that interval He said to His disciples, Let us go back again to Judea. The disciples said to Him, Rabbi, the Jews only recently were intending and trying to stone You, and are You [thinking of] going back there again? Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? Anyone who walks about in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees [by] the light of this world. But if anyone walks about in the night, he does stumble, because there is no light in him [the light is lacking to him]. He said these things, and then added, Our friend Lazarus is at rest and sleeping; but I am going there that I may awaken him out of his sleep. The 95

disciples answered, Lord, if he is sleeping, he will recover. However, Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He referred to falling into a refreshing and natural sleep. So then Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus is dead, And for your sake I am glad that I was not there; it will help you to believe (to trust and rely on Me). However, let us go to him. Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, Let us go too, that we may die [be killed] along with Him. So when Jesus arrived, He found that he [Lazarus] had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away, And a considerable number of the Jews 96 had gone out to see Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him, while Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha then said to Jesus, Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. And even now I know whatever You ask from God, He will grant it to You. Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again. Martha replied, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said to her, I am [Myself] the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on) Me, although he may die, yet he shall live; And 97

whoever continues to live and believes in (has faith in, cleaves to, and relies on) Me shall never [actually] die at all. Do you believe this? She said to Him, Yes, Lord, I have believed [I do believe] that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One), the Son of God, [even He] Who was to come into the world. [It is for Your coming that the world has waited.]” Here we see that Lazarus a friend to Christ died however Christ spoke to the disciples concerning his death saying that he [Lazarus] was asleep. We realize that this was a heavenly language, as we know that to the earthly understanding of death is that death is the end of one`s life here on 98 Earth, however to us who have believed in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we know the distinction between Life and death. And in this regard concerning Life, we see that in JOHN 3:16 the Bible says “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.” We see that the issue of Life and Death are in a person either choosing to or refusing to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Lord and Savior over their lives, and nothing else. We also realize although death is 99

presented in very many ways for example; he who does not have the Son does not have Life and such a one abides in death, the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, I was once alive without the Law but when the Law came sin revived and I died. We see that the only solution to all these multi-faceted manifestations of death is believing in Jesus Christ. For He said in JOHN 14:6 that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life; no one goes to the Father except through Him, so emphasis is in believing in Him and leaving the rest to Him. Looking into Scripture we see that very many people had ever died and come 100 back to life, for example, in the Old Testament we saw both prophet Elisha and Elijah restore dead sons of the widows to life [2 KINGS 8:2], in the New Testament we saw Jesus Christ raise a dead girl in MARK 5:41, however there was a distinction in Jesus` death on the cross and resurrection from the dead. In COLOSSIANS 1:18 the Bible says “He also is the Head of [His] body, the church; seeing He is the Beginning, the Firstborn from among the dead, so that He alone in everything and in every respect might occupy the chief place [stand first and be preeminent].” We see that the Bible talks about Jesus Christ as the Firstborn from the dead, that means that He conquered 101

death with its consequences and gained back His Life, for in JOHN 10:17-18 He said “For this [reason] the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life--to take it back again. No one takes it away from Me. On the contrary, I lay down voluntarily. [I put it from Myself.] I am authorized and have power to lay it down (to resign it) and I am authorized and have power to take it back again. These are the instructions (orders) which I have received [as My charge] from My Father.” This means that this death of Jesus Christ was for our benefit as COLOSSIANS 2:13-15 [MSG] says “When you were stuck in your old sin--dead life, you were incapable of responding to 102 God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the state wiped clean, that old arrest warrant cancelled and nailed to Christ`s Cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.” We see that the death of Jesus Christ was for our liberation from the power of sin and death as by His death He robbed of death its power. In REVELATION 1:18 the Bible says to us “And the Ever-living One [I am living in the eternity of the eternities]. I died, but see, I am alive forevermore; and I possess the keys of death and Hades (the realm of the 103

dead).” This clearly shows us that Jesus Christ overcame death to which we all were on a death sentence and therefore to us [you] who has believed in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, the Bible says that you were baptized into His death and you rose again with Him, in ROMANS 6:1-14 the Bible says “WHAT SHALL we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God`s grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the 104 baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God]. We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin. For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men]. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we 105

shall also live with Him, Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions. Do not continue offering or 106 yielding your bodily members [and faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness. For sin shall not [any longer] exert dominion over you, since now you are not under Law [as slaves], but under grace [as subjects of God`s favor and mercy].” Therefore looking at the above Scripture we realize that the death of Jesus Christ at the cross was to end the reign of death on earth [to believers in Him] which death was energized by the Law 107

which presented men as slaves of sin. In this regard the Bible says that we who believe in Jesus Christ were in the like manner baptized into His death; meaning that we were buried with Him by baptism into death that as He was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, we also should walk in newness of life. When talking about this newness of life, we see that our old man [fleshly carnal first Adamic man] was crucified with Christ so that the body of sin might be destroyed and that we should no longer serve sin, as by our death to sin, we have been freed from sin; which means that death also has no dominion over you [us]. We also see that Christ 108 being raised from the dead dies no more as death has no dominion over Him--so are you, as by His death He died unto sin once, that the life He now lives He lives unto God--so are you. And because of this the Bible tells us in verse 12-13 that you should not let sin reign in your mortal body; this means that since you have dominion over sin, you have the ability and power to reject its dictates, but present and yield yourself unto God, as one alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness. My spiritual Father always talks of God delivering you from one thing to present you to another, therefore in this new life, you have been 109

presented as an instrument of righteousness; that means that from you proceeds righteousness as you are the righteousness of God having been begotten by His grace. We realize that since Christ overcame death, you also overcame it and therefore you cannot die again having died to sin the root cause of death, therefore to you [the believer in Christ] you sleep in the Lord, having been resurrected into a new life in Christ the Resurrection and Alpha and Omega of everything. We see that in Scripture, when Christ was informed that Lazarus His friend was dead, He called it “sleep” and not death, we realize that He was 110 communicating to Martha telling her to be strong since He “the Resurrection” was there. This Resurrection Christ spoke of was not concerning that of the resurrection of the dead on His second coming, but it was of “Now”; meaning even to us who have believed in Him we reckon ourselves alive and risen into a new life with Him [Christ]. This does not mean that the so called resurrection has happened, we see that just as Jesus woke Lazarus from his sleep, so will we be woken up from sleep at the appearing of Christ in the clouds, whereas the dead [of this world] will be resurrected from the dead for judgment; of which to us who believe in Jesus Christ, at His 111

appearing we will be caught up to meet Him in the clouds not for judgment but eternal joy and celebration with Him. The Bible speaks of this day in REVELATION 1:7 saying “Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall gaze upon Him and beat their breasts and mourn and lament over Him. Even so [must it be]. Amen (so be it).” We see that the Bible speaks of every eye seeing Him, even those who pierced Him; meaning that even those who condemned Him and did not believe Him shall all be mourning and lamenting. It should be noted that the religious leaders of those times relied on the Law 112 yet Faith was come, which Faith they rejected of which we know that no flesh shall be justified by the works of the Law as the Law itself has nothing to do with justification but it shows you sin and condemns you therein without showing you the way out of sin, of which Jesus Christ clearly told us that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one comes to the Father except through Him. And I also wonder how the men that relied on the Law for all their life time shall make it, as we see that the Law is of works and not faith, therefore how will they workout the flying [transportation] to meet Christ in the clouds, which enrapture is totally of Faith. This is why I 113

realize why the Bible in MATTHEW 24:17, says that let him who is in the field not come down and go into the house to take anything [MARK 13:15], and in MATTHEW 24:40 that Two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left [LUKE 17:36]; this means that this shall be an absolutely faith winking of an eye event just like the Israelites and the Egyptians passing of the angel of death over Egypt [EXODUS 12:23], the Bible says that He will separate His own just as a shepherd separates sheep from goats, for the Bible says in MATTHEW 25:31-34 that “When the Son of Man comes in His glory (His majesty and splendor), and all the holy angels with 114 Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them [the people] from one another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats; And He will cause the sheep to stand at His right hand, but the goats at His left. Then the King will say to those at His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father [you favored of God and appointed to eternal salvation], inherit (receive as your own) the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” PHILIPPIANS 2:8-11 tells us “And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of 115

death, even the death of the cross! Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, That in (at) the name of Jesus every knee should (must) bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, And every tongue [frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” There is something funny about the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes, in MATTHEW 22:23-32 the Bible says “The same day some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection [of the dead], came to Him and they asked Him a question, Saying, Teacher, Moses 116 said, if a man dies, leaving no children, his brother shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother. Now there were seven brothers among us; the first married and died, and having no children, left his wife to his brother. The second also died childless, and the third, down to the seventh. Last of all, the woman also. Now, in the resurrection, to which of the seven will she be wife? For they all had her. But Jesus replied to them, You are wrong because you know neither the Scriptures nor the God`s power. For in the resurrected state neither do [men] marry nor are [women] given in marriage, but they are like the angels in heaven. But as to the 117

resurrection of the dead--have you never read what was said to you by God, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead but of the living!” Considering the above Scripture we see that the Sadducees held that there was no resurrection because of a foolish premise which they reasoned by their thoughts, we see and know that the things of God are not of logic or reasoning, but of Faith as we believe in His Word, we see Jesus tell these Sadducees that they held this question in them just because they knew not the Scriptures nor the power of God. Just look at how certain things can make one 118 miss the Kingdom of God. We also see Jesus speak of a fundamental principle, that He said that He is the God of the living and not the dead, as already pointed out that we who live this body [flesh] in Christ do not die, we sleep in this body, and go to be with the Father in heaven. This is the very reason the Bible speaks of the twenty four elders in heaven worshipping God [REVELATION 4:4], this is why the Bible speaks of us having a cloud of witnesses cheering upon us [HEBREWS 12:1], this is why the Bible speaks of Lazarus the beggar having died then gone to rest at the bosom of Abraham [LUKE 16:23], this is why when Jesus rose from the grave, He ascended 119

to Heaven [MARK 16:19]; this means that we are alive to a Covenant that precedes the grave. We also see the deception that is held by certain people that they shall be given in to marriage; this is false. Believe in the Son of God. Speaking of this time [end of time], the Bible speaks in HAGGAI 2:6-7 saying “For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake and make the [starry] heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations and the desire and precious things of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts.” We see that the things concerning this shaking happened on the 120 day Jesus Christ gave up His Spirit on the cross, the Bible in MATTHEW 27:45-54 says that; 1. From the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land; meaning that the sun and stars in heaven were no longer giving there light. 2. The veil of the temple was rent in twain from top to the bottom; meaning that another temple not made with human hands was being established. 3. The earth did quake, and the rocks rent; implying the shaking on earth. 4. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many; this firstly showed the defeat of 121

death, and the power of God concerning the New Covenant that was established through Jesus` death and resurrection from the dead. We also note that after these saints arose from the dead they did not return to the grave but went to stay with our Father God. We also see that this is now the latter house spoken of in HAGGAI 2:9 saying “The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.” [JOHN 5:29] We see that to this house [Church] it is God Who is in control of it, and no more is man in charge of it; we see that Jesus became our High Priest, Mediator, Advocate, and 122 everything. However we see of another shaking which is not designated in the Time frame [as the sun and moon which are for season and times shall be no more], the Bible says in REVELATION 6:9-17 “When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed for [adhering to] the Word of God and for the testimony they had borne. They cried in a loud voice, O [Sovereign] Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth? Then they were each given a long and flowing and festive white robe 123

and told to rest and wait patiently a little while longer, until the number should be complete of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed as they themselves had been. When He [the Lamb] broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun grew black as sackcloth of hair, [the full disc of] the moon became like blood. And the stars of the sky dropped to the earth like a fig tree shedding its unripe fruit out of season when shaken by a strong wind. And the sky rolled up like a scroll and vanished, and every mountain and island was dislodged from its place. Then the kings of the earth and their noblemen 124 and their magnates and their military chiefs and the wealthy and strong and [everyone, whether] slave or free hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, And they called to the mountains and rocks, Fall on (before) us and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne and from the deep-seated indignation and wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come, and who is able to stand before it?” We see and know that this day is full of grief, however what catches my attention is that all these categories of people had things that occupied and wasted them for example, Kings and 125

noble men could be occupied with serving men in their leadership positions and also utilizing their wealth, slaves could have been occupied with serving the royals and pleasing the king, however we see that all these excuses will not be applied on that day, as the question will be pertaining to why someone refused to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God; these are the very people spoken of in many of Jesus` parables which spoke of them who were invited into the feast but turned down the invitation. For LUKE 14:16-20 says “But Jesus said to him, A man was once giving a great supper and invited many; And at the hour for the supper he sent his servant to say to 126 those who had been invited, come, for all is now ready. But they all alike began to make excuses and to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and I have to go out and see it; I beg you, have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine and put my approval on them; I beg you, have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come…” This means that at the time of the invitation these people had certain things that were bigger than the invitation and yet to us we know that we lose our lives only to find it in Christ. This means that it is also possible in the 127

present world for someone to sing worldly music or play all sorts of entertaining movies, games for people who have received Salvation, and then at the end when they have not secured their place in God. This calls for someone to make a choice pertaining their life. Amen. 128 If anyone wants to receive Jesus Christ as her [his] personal Lord and Savior, please say out [confess] the words below having believed in your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Say; Dear Heavenly Father, I believe with my heart that Jesus Christ is Your Son and Lord and Savior over my life, I declare that I am born again. Amen. You are now born again into a new life. 129

ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Opale Frank is a son to Mr. Ojame Okiror Robert and Mrs. Tino Ketty. My Spiritual Father is Apostle Grace Lubega. One thing I realize is that God is up to something big in your life; things bigger than what the world can give or offer to you, to what He has offered to you, as 2 PETER 1:3 says “For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).” And the question is about what you choose to personally and intimately know of Him Who invited you with the best invitation we have ever received. PLOT. This book enlights us about Biblical truths concerning very many aspects inclusive of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, Rapture, and Resurrection. It is one of the beautiful books for you to read in this generation concerning the mind of God for you. For more information email: opalefrank94@gmail.com.

GRACE FOUND YOU, YOU RECEIVED IT, AND PREACHED IT TO OTHER`S. WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA 1st Edition.

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU IT WAS ONLY BY LOVE THAT GOD SAVED US BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOR. INTRODUCTION TO THIS BOOK. This book helps us to understand who God has purposed us to be through Christ Jesus, what the Law really is and what Grace is, to understand and live a life of faith in Christ Jesus, to understand the baptism in which you have been baptized into Christ Jesus, to understand the deliverance of God for us from the Law of Moses to the Law of liberty in the 1 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Spirit (the Law of free men), to live a life beyond the cross of Jesus Christ, to understand that sin has no dominion over us, to understand and live the new life in the spirit, to understand the Bible; having been established in grace through faith, to understand the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, to understand Faith, Love and Hope, to understand the life of Salvation, to understand the service with which we have been called to in God. Scriptural references are made to the Amplified Bible version. 2

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Born again! Born again! Born again!!! When we were growing up, we grew up from different families and experienced different environments however what I am certain about is that there were words which stuck into our lips and were not only mere words – they carried life, feelings and imaginations beyond art. Some of these words include Mummy, Daddy, Brother, Sister, Uncle, Auntie, Grand Mum or Dad and a mention of any of these words aroused a feeling of joy beyond expression in our soul. To our attention many people some including our parents as we over heard 3 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU them talking about God, Jesus, church, Christmas, Resurrection Sunday, left many questions in us of which at times when we sought explanation were told that we were still young to understand them. This left us questioning about when we shall be considered grownups for certain answers to be openly told us. Some of us found the answers to our questions from people who openly declared to us the answers to our questions, some from school, church, songs and other places. This aroused a certain feeling in our hearts to know more about God and His Son Jesus Christ as we were told that God was the Creator of all things and we were His 4

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU children and He--our Father, Oftenly, when in Church and there was an alter call for people who want to receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, we found ourselves at the front and confessed Sunday after Sunday, this was for various reasons one of which was that we were introduced to the consciousness of sin and its punishment as told us was Hell, this caused fear in us as we were told that this (sin) makes us enemies of God, however we were not yet satisfied with the say that Jesus died for our sins once and for all, since we were still in sin although Sunday after Sunday we confessed Jesus as 5 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Lord and Saviour of our lives so as to be His friends again. Apostle Paul in 1 CORINTHIANS 13:11 wrote “when I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.” This pushes us to question ourselves whether we shall always continue in the old childish mind and mentality or we make up our mind to seek and know GOD ourselves. So let us move to maturity. Maturity is not about age, speech, reason or eloquence. In JOHN 3:10 Jesus askes Nicodemus”Are you the 6

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU teacher of Israel, and yet do not know nor understand these things? [Are they strange to you?] ”. This we ought to always know that learning carries the humility to listen and be taught as we see that Nicodemus being one of the renown leaders of his time humbled himself to learn from the Christ as learning is not only listening but also understanding and letting the Word you have received bear fruit in you as revealed in MATTHEW 13:8 by the seeds that fell on fertile ground as he who hears the Word and grasps and comprehends it; he indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundred times 7 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU as much as was sown, in another sixty times as much, and in another thirty. JOHN 3:21 says “NOW THERE was a certain man among the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler (a leader, an authority) among the Jews, who came to Jesus at night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know and are certain that You have come from God [as] a Teacher; for no one can do these signs (these wonderworks, these miracles-and produce proofs) that You do unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see 8

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother`s womb again and be born? Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not [do not be surprised, astonished] at My telling you, You must all be born anew (from above). The wind blows where it wills; and though you hear it`s sound, yet you neither 9 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU know where it comes from nor where it`s going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered by asking, How can all this be possible? Jesus replied, Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet do not know nor understand these things? [Are they strange to you?] I assure, most solemnly I tell you, We speak only of what we know [we know absolutely what we are talking about]; we have actually seen what we are testifying to [we were eyewitnesses of it]. And still you do not receive our testimony [you reject and refuse our evidence--that of Myself and of all those who are born of the Spirit]. If I have told you of the 10

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU things that happen right here on the earth and yet none of you believes Me, how can you believe (trust Me, adhere to Me, rely on Me) if I tell you of heavenly things? And yet no one has ever gone up to heaven, but there is One who has come down from heaven-the Son of Man [Himself], who (dwells, has His home) in heaven. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on the pole], so must [so it is necessary that] the Son of Man be lifted up [on the cross], In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts in Him, and relies on Him] may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever! 11 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgement;, no condemnation--he incurs no condemnation]; but he who 12

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ`s name.] The [basis of the] judgement (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this; the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but 13 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved. But he who practices truth [who does what is right] comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are--wrought with God [divinely prompted, done with God`s help, in dependence upon Him]. We need to ask ourselves “What does born again mean, what does believing mean, what does baptism mean, what does Spirit and spirit mean, what does salvation mean?” The very first reference to born again in scripture was in JOHN 3:3 by Jesus 14

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Christ Himself, and He went further to explain to Nicodemus that one has to be born of water and the Spirit so as to enter the kingdom of God. The Amplified reference to born again means born from above. JOHN 1:1-36 says IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines 15 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it]. There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came to witness, that he might testify of the Light, that all men might believe in it [adhere to it, trust in it, and rely upon it] through him. He was not the Light himself, but came that he might bear witness regarding the Light. There it was--the true Light [was then], coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not 16

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU recognise Him [did not know Him]. He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own-His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him. But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name--who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!] And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His 17 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, lovingkindness) and truth. John testified about Him and cried out, This was He of whom I said, He who comes after me has more priority over me, for He was before me. [He takes rank above me, for He existed before I did. He has advanced before me, because He is my Chief.] For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing 18

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ. No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known]. And this is the testimony of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? He confessed 19 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU (admitted the truth) and did not try to conceal it, but acknowledged, I am not the Christ! They asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not! Are you the Prophet? And he answered, No! Then they said to him, Who are you? Tell us, so that we may give answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself? He said, I am the voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness [the voice of one shouting in the desert], Prepare the way of the Lord [level, straighten out, the path of the Lord], as the prophet Isaiah said. The messengers had been sent from the Pharisees. And they asked him, Why then are you baptizing if you are not the 20

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? John answered them, I [only] baptize in (with) water. Among you there stands One whom you do not recognize and with Whom you are not acquainted and of Whom you know nothing. It is He Who, coming after me, is preferred before me, the string of Whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose. These things occurred in Bethany (Bethabara) across the Jordan [at the Jordan crossing], where John was then baptizing. The next day John saw Jesus coming to him and said, Look! There is the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of Whom I said, After me comes a Man Who has priority over 21 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU me [Who takes rank above me] because He was before me and existed before I did. And I did not know Him and did not recognize Him [myself]; but it is in order that He should be made manifest and be revealed to Israel [be brought out where we can see Him] that I came baptizing in (with) water. John gave further evidence, saying, I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it dwelt on Him [never to depart]. And I did not know Him nor recognize Him, but He who sent me to baptize in (with) water said to me, Upon Him Whom you shall see the Spirit descend and remain, that One is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. 22

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU And I have seen [that happen--I actually did see it] and my testimony is that this is the Son of God! Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples, And he looked at Jesus as He walked along, and said, Look! There is the Lamb of God! From the above script, we see that John the Baptizer himself confesses that he is not the Christ, however he was sent by God to prepare a way for Him! How? By reminding people to repent (a change of one`s mind for the better, heartily amending one`s ways, with abhorrence of his past sins) prepare for the Promised Redeemer of the world as 23 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU spoken by prophet Isaiah “A voice of one who cries: Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord [clear away the obstacles]; make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God! ISAIAH 40:3”, as prophesied by the prophets, even Moses [JOHN 1:45]. He was also sent to witness Jesus Christ to the people as by his own words said that God had told him that He Whom the Holy Spirit descends Upon inform of a dove [this happened before Jesus was baptized in the water--it was spiritual, then the dove that appeared after baptism was a manifestation of the Spiritual one John saw as a sign to him for the Messiah], He is the Son of God. 24

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU We need to note that the scriptures tell us that John was filled with the Holy Spirit right from the mother’s womb (LUKE 1:15), he is the greatest one born of woman (MATTHEW 11:11), and he came in the spirit of Elijah (Elias) [LUKE 1:17], that means he was distinct among men. This very John the Baptizer indeed not only witnesses Jesus Christ to the people, he also reveals to us two kinds of Baptisms saying that he baptises with water, however there comes He who baptises with the Holy Spirit whose baptism is greater than his and that Jesus is more preferred than him because He existed before he was, He is also John`s Chief. Remember John 25 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU was baptising with water and saying to the people to repent (change their mind for the better) where as telling people that he was not the Messiah (Promised One) who would liberate men (the world) from their sins however he came to witness (confirm, testify) Him to the people. We see in JOHN 3:5 Jesus tell Nicodemus that unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. This means that it is a prerequisite for one to be born of water and the Spirit to have Part and Lot in the kingdom of God. Let`s remember that Jesus Christ was baptised by John the Baptiser although John hesitated, In MATTHEW 3:15-17 26

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the Bible says “But Jesus replied to him, Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for [both of] us to fulfil all righteousness [that is, to perform completely whatever is right]. Then he permitted Him. And when Jesus was baptized, He went up at once out of the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he [John] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Him. And behold, a voice from heaven said, This is My Son, My Beloved, in Whom I delight!” We NOTE that although John had reverence for Jesus Christ, he had to baptize Him with “the least baptism” as he said, so as to fulfil the scriptures as the Holy Spirit 27 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU descended Upon Him inform of a dove after the baptism with water. What then is the Baptism of Water? Baptism of water means the immersion of one in water and raising him or her from water. Before the baptism of water by John the Baptizer, it has ever been in the Old Testament also referred to as the baptism of Moses, 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-2 ”FOR I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, that our forefathers were all under and protected by the cloud [in which God`s presence went before them], and every one of them passed safely through the [Red] Sea, And each one of them [allowed himself also] to be baptized into Moses in the 28

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU cloud and in the sea [they were thus brought under obligation to the Law, to Moses, and to the covenant, consecrated and set apart to the service of God];” We see that in this baptism of Moses was an immersion, as a cloud was on top of all the Israelites and they were in the Red Sea meaning in the water, however with this baptism we see that the Israelites were brought under the obligation of the Law, to Moses, and to the covenant. Why to the Law, Moses and the covenant? We need to note that God is up to sealing His covenants, we see that Him sealing His covenant with Abraham was by circumcision (ACTS 7:8, ROMANS 4:1129 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU And [God] made with Abraham a covenant (an agreement to be religiously observed) of which circumcision was the seal. And under these circumstances [Abraham] became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [did so] when he became the father of Jacob, and Jacob [when each of his sons were born], the twelve patriarchs.), we see that God also sealed His covenant with Noah with a Rainbow promising never to destroy the earth with floods [GENESIS 9:17]. God made a covenant (testament) with the children of Israel on Mountain Sinai [Horeb] where He had promised the day He encountered 30

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Moses that His children the Israelites would worship Him after being liberated from bondage [EXODUS 3:12], In EXODUS 20:1-23 God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments through Moses and in EXODUS 24:3 the Bible says “Moses came and told the people all that the Lord had said and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” This means that the Israelites consented to the covenant. Why Moses!!! - God chose Moses because He is the business of manifesting His strength in weakness and using the weak things to bring to shame the strong things [2 31 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU CORINTHIANS 12:9, 1 CORINTHIANS 1:27]. Moses himself in EXODUS 4:1-13 confessed of his inefficiencies. However, we note that for a covenant to operate there has to be shedding of blood, HEBREWS 9:18-22 says “So even the [old] first covenant (God`s will) was not inaugurated and ratified and put in force without the shedding of blood. For when every command of the Law had been read out by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of slain calves and goats, together with water and scarlet wool and with a bunch of hyssop, and sprinkled both the Book (the roll of the Law and covenant) itself and all the people, Saying these words: 32

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU This is the blood that seals and ratifies the agreement (the testament, the covenant) which God commanded [me to deliver to] you. And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the [sacred] vessels and appliances used in [divine] worship. [In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.” We see that the introduction of the Israelites to the Law brought about sin. How??? ROMANS 7:8 says “But sin, finding opportunity in the 33 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU commandment [to express itself], got a hold on me and aroused and stimulated all kinds of forbidden desires (lust, covetousness). For without the Law sin is dead [the sense of it is inactive and a lifeless thing]”, ROMANS 7:9 says “Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death).” By the scripture saying that Once I was alive, but when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died – this means that when Adam fell from the garden of Eden, I too was considered fallen (disobedient, sinner), however I was once alive 34

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU means the “time frame” when God made a covenant of Faith with Abraham, the Bible says that Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for Righteousness and circumcision was a seal for his believing (ROMANS 4:3, GALATIANS 3:6, JAMES 2:23)- It should be noted that Abraham did nothing to deserve this promise and gift by God--for he(Abraham) just believed, however when the Law came, it directed us to works “you shall do and not do” which made us conscious of sin and because of this we ended up sinning. ROMANS 7:7 says “What then do we conclude? Is the Law identical with sin? Certainly not! Nevertheless, if 35 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU it had not been for the Law, I should not have recognized sin or have known its meaning. [For instance] I would not have known about covetousness [would have had no consciousness of sin or sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, You shall not covet and have an evil desire [for one thing or another]”. Furthermore, it should be seen that even to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, by God instructing them “not to” eat or touch the fruit in the middle of the garden (forbidden fruit), aroused a feeling (desire, conscience) to do what was refused of them no matter the consequence (death) [GENESIS 2:16-17]. The 36

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU scriptures tell us that the Law in itself is holy, however it has no power to also make us holy [ROMANS 7:12-The Law therefore is holy, and [each] commandment is holy and just and good.] The Bible further says that a default in one Law implie (“s” or “d”) meant that you have defaulted in all [JAMES 2:10 For whosoever keeps the Law [as a] whole but stumbles and offends in one [single instance] has become guilty of [breaking] all of it.] This is why the Bible says in ROMANS 3:23 “Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives”. Because of the Law all men (flesh) were 37 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU considered sinners in the order of Adam. What then happened after the rejuvenation of sin? God appointed priests (in three orders with distinctions namely; Aaron, in the order of Levi [DEUTERONOMY 21:5], and in the order of Melchizedek [HEBREWS 5:4-6]), and apart the order of Melchizedek, all the other priests had to offer sacrifices inform of cows and goats for their sins firstly, then for the peoples sins. This they did annually, by offering the blood to the Holy of Holies (within the veil) [LEVITICUS 16:17]. These offerings were just for temporal cleansing of people`s sins, as, soon after people sinned again. There developed a practice of the rich 38

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU oppressing the poor, widows, and orphans through many ways such as grabbing their properties, flogging them due to inability to pay off their debts, inheriting the widows and many other evil practices yet the heart of God is in respecting and helping the poor, needy, widows and orphans [PROVERBS 22:22, AMOS 4:1, ZECHARIAH 7:10]. The rich did this just because offering sacrifices was not a problem to them. The poor at times offered animals which were lame, stolen and yet they knew that these offerings had to be holy and without blemish [LEVITICUS 1:10, 4:23, 4:32]. To the priests also developed a habit of greed and gluttony that they reached 39 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU an extent of eating the portions (fatlings) that belonged to God for sweet aroma, involved in immorality [1 SAMUEL 2:12-17]. This made God angry who later said that He had no pleasure in the sacrifices of the children of Israel [PSALMS 51:16,], their praises and worship as they were just making noise to Him [AMOS 5:23]. Thereafter God promised to make a New Covenant with the children of Israel, where He shall remove the heart of stone (the Law) from them and He shall replace it (stone or the Law) with the heart of flesh and He shall write His laws in their hearts and they shall know Him from the least to the greatest and there be 40

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU no need for one to tell another to know God as He shall be their God and them His people [JEREMIAH 31:31-34]. So beyond John the Baptizer baptizing Jesus Christ for the confirmation that He was the Christ, and calling people to repent [change of mind for the better], this very baptism was a signification of His [Jesus`] death and resurrection as we see that one is immersed in water and then lifted up. In Jesus accepting to be baptized by John, He subjected Himself to the order of things (He respected the process of things), this was more of submission, it should be noted that submission is not weakness. 41 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU In HEBREWS 7:7, Abraham is blessed by Melchizedek and the scripture tells us that the lesser person is blessed by the greater one, this blessing was a signification of the scripture which says that Abraham rejoiced to see My day and he saw it and rejoiced [JOHN 8:56], as we see that the same Melchizedek in the Old Testament was the Christ [HEBREWS 7:15]. In another portion of scripture we see that Jesus Christ is called Son of David [MATTHEW 9:27, 12:23, MARK 10:47, LUKE 1:32]! How come? In the Old Testament, God promised His servant David that He would preserve His kingdom and it shall have no end, this Christ did when He 42

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU came to continue that Kingdom as He is eternal [ISAIAH 9:7], by this He had to come from the lineage of David [MATTHEW 1:1] [the kingly lineage] however this did not mean that He was a Child of David as revealed in where He said that David himself said that the LORD said to my LORD seat at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool [LUKE 20:41-44] “meaning that David himself called Jesus Christ my LORD”. In another portion of scripture we see Simeon bless Jesus Christ as promised by God that he will not sleep until he sees the Lord’s Christ [LUKE 2:25-26]. 43 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Due to the promise by God to make a New Covenant with the children of Israel He had to fulfil it as He said He would do. The Bible says in ISAIAH 55:11 that the Word from the mouth of God shall never return to Him void, for it shall accomplish what He has purposed it. HEBREWS 6:18 tells us that it is impossible for God to lie [deceive]. The Bible says that seeing fault with the first covenant, He made a provision for the second one [HEBREWS 8:7-8, For if that first covenant had been without defect, there would have been no room for another one or an attempt to institute another one. However, He finds fault with them [showing its 44

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU inadequacy] when He says, Behold, the days will come, says the Lord, when I will make and ratify a new covenant or agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.]. The first covenant [the Law--of stone was Holy however it could not justify any man, it ministered to men there weaknesses without showing them how to move out of the weaknesses it had exposed (ROMANS 3:20-For no person will be justified (made righteous, acquitted, and judged acceptable) in His sight by observing the works prescribed by the Law. For [the real function of] the Law is to make men recognize and be conscious of sin [not mere perception, 45 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU but an acquaintance with sin which works toward repentance, faith, and holy character].). This very ministry blinded (veiled) men to think they could fulfill the Law by them working works of the flesh – this is why the same mentality was even in the New testament as a young man asked Christ “what can I do to inherit your kingdom [MATTHEW 19:16]”]. The Law was and is such a terrible thing that it leads to death, 2 CORINTHIANS 3:6 says “[It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally 46

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive.”, this means that the Law leads men to death, remember the Bible in ROMANS 6:23 For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord. The Bible further says in JOHN 1:17 For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ. Here we are given two packages one given through Moses and another coming through Jesus Christ. 47 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Therefore the ultimate question is “what is grace?” Grace means the unmerited, unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing. It means receiving something you have not worked for, or something you could not attain by virtue of birth, colour, sex, education, family background or associates and many others. In GALATIANS 4:22-31, We are revealed two a figure of two covenants basing on the children Abraham had “one according to the flesh (by his own strength or making) and another through God`s power (in fulfilment of the promise of God). We see that the one of Abraham`s own strength was 48

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU bondage whereas the one according to God`s promise was freedom. We should note that Abraham and Sarah his wife were promised by God a seed from Abraham`s own loins and Sarah`s own womb, this was practically impossible because they were beyond the age of conception, although promised by God, they resorted to seek an alternative [flesh- through Hagai the maid] instead of believing what God had promised. The one of God [Isaac] had a distinction as it was perfect, remember from Isaac came Jacob from whom the twelve tribes of Israel come forth. That’s why God`s name is “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel)” calling for faith 49 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU from us as HEBREWS 11:6 says “But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out].” Therefore God calls for faith and belief in Him. COLOSIANS 1:6 says that grace has its own inherent power as it does not require anything from you except believing. Therefore to us the baptism of water does not necessarily mean being immersed in water, it means us admitting and changing our minds that indeed we cannot fulfill the Law by ourselves and for that we need a Savior 50

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU over our lives. The Bible tells us that we must love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength [MATTHEW 22:37, MARK 12:30], PROVERBS 23:7 says “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].” This means that one’s mind has to be one or in agreement with the heart (source of all things in man [MATTHEW 12:34]). Then “What is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?” Firstly, the coming of Jesus Christ as revealed in JOHN 3:16 was to die for the sins of mankind. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45 says “Thus it is 51 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a lifegiving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. Herein we see that Christ has the authority to give life to mankind who were dead (alive to the flesh or world) in sin due to their birth in the first Adamic nature. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the cross was in fulfilment of the scriptures. GALATIANS 3:13-14 says “Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is 52

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU crucified); To the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, the blessing [promised] to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit. That means that Jesus bore the curses, sins and weaknesses of the world [flesh]. ISAIAH 53:5 says “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.” And 1 PETER 2:24 says “He personally bore our sins in His [own] 53 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds you have been healed.” This means that Christ`s death on the cross was also for the physical eternal health of our bodies. HEBREWS 9:16-17 says “For where there is a [last] will and testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established, For a will and testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive.” This means by Jesus being the maker of the New Covenant dying, it was giving legal effect or 54

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU operationalizing the New Covenant. Furthermore, Jesus Christ offered His blood for the establishment of the covenant hence Him being the ultimate sacrifice, not as the blood of the goats, bulls and sheep which only cleansed men for a moment, Jesus` blood did it once and for all [HEBREWS 9:1-28]. Furthermore, the testimony of Jesus Christ did not end in death, His resurrection from the dead meant that we indeed have been justified through Him, as revealed in ROMANS 4:25 “Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our justification (our acquittal), [making our account balance and 55 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU absolving us from all guilt before God].” When Jesus Christ died on the cross, many things happened firstly, the curtain (veil) of the temple was torn into two from top to bottom [MATTHEW 27:51, MARK 15:38, LUKE 23:45]. This is the very curtain that is revealed to us in EXODUS 26:31-35 from where God had revealed or shown Moses of the heavenly temple [tabernacle] to be used as a pattern of the earthly temple in EXODUS 25. Briefly about the curtain in the temple, in HEBREWS 9:3-7, the scriptures tell us of a second veil or curtain in the temple which beyond it was the Holy of Holies where the high priest entered yearly 56

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU with blood of the animals to offer for his sins and then for the people. This place was restricted to only the high priest, who also entered in fear for his life as any impurities [remember he is also human hence susceptible to sin (HEBREWS 7:28)]. These curtains were there implying the destroyed relationship between man and God due to man`s fall from the garden of Eden [disobedience] (GENESIS 3:1-24). It [curtain] also meant limitation to access the presence of God, as the priest did represent all the people. It further signified the Law, Moses having talked to God face to face, his face shorn bright as an angel, however with time, 57 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the glory on his face kept on diminishing which made him veil the face to preserve that little glory [2 CORINTHIANS 3:13]. THEREFORE, the tearing completely of this curtain from top to bottom meant that Jesus had reconciled the lost relationship between man and God “2 CORINTHIANS 5:18- But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him]., it also meant that there was now free access to God by everyone since Jesus 58

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU entered the Holy of Holies for everyone once and for all by His own blood, and as our High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, hence the limitation [the Law] was done away with through Christ [2 CORINTHIANS 3:15-16- Yes, down to this [very] day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their minds and hearts. But whenever a person turns [in repentance] to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away.] HEBREWS 10:16-22 says “This is the agreement (testament, covenant) that I will set up and conclude with them after those days, says the Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their hearts, and I will 59 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU inscribe them on their minds (on their inmost thoughts and understanding), He then goes on to say, And their sins and their lawbreaking I will remember no more. Now where there is absolute remission (forgiveness and cancellation of the penalty) of these [sins and lawbreaking], there is no longer any offering made to atone for sin. Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus, By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and declared and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through 60

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU His flesh, And since we have [such] a great and wonderful and noble Priest [Who rules] over the house of God, Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and silence) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.” Therefore, since the veil is taken away [done away with] through Christ, we therefore see that equality was also established in the Kingdom of God. 61 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU GALATIANS 3:28 says “There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” The veil had brought about division in worship most especially basing on sex [gender], as women were distanced from worship places, were denied speech in worship places--this Jesus brought to an end as we see the scripture says that there is no more male or female, for all are one before Christ. Secondly, another remarkable event that happened at the crucifixion, was Jesus telling one of the robbers who asked to be remembered by Christ when He reaches His Kingdom 62

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU [paradise], that he would the same day be with Him in paradise [LUKE 23:43]. This is one of the most controversial issues with many people`s understandings. They ask? 1. How come that a robber who has been a sinner at once acknowledges Christ and is offered an opportunity for the kingdom of God. 2. How come that Jesus who at one point told James and John that it is God who chooses who to seat at the left and right of His side [MARK 10:3537], later tells this man at the cross that He would be with Him that day in the kingdom of God. In EZEKIEL 18:18-32 God gives us a scenario of a wicked man who turns to Him from all wickedness 63 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and is forgiven as God has no pleasure in the death of a wicked man in his trespasses but that he should turn [repent] from all that and he or she be saved and live. I strongly believe that that man on the right hand side of the cross had ever heard about Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and on top of that all, he had an opportunity to see great happenings during the crucifixion of Christ such as the thunders and earthquakes, darkness [it was not a normal day]. This man did not take it a minor thing right from the start being with Christ crucified for, One [Jesus] innocence and them truthful offences they committed. As others mocked at 64

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Jesus Christ, the one on the left familiarized Jesus Christ, for him [on the right] chose to believe Jesus as words like “remember me when you reach your kingdom” were not revealed by flesh and blood, but by the Father in heaven. For we can ask ourselves questions like--how did this man know that Jesus had a kingdom, and yet this was even hidden from Pilate, and many other Jewish Leaders, Pharisees, Scribes and very many people. This also launches us to believing (by faith) in Jesus Christ as the Son of God to attain the Kingdom of God as this man believed, he did not work or do anything, he just believed, - this sets a 65 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU distinction with those of James and John who wanted these places just because of their intimacy [proximity] with Jesus Christ. Remember Christ is our [we who believe] Advocate, High Priest, Helper, and Intercessor [1 JOHN 2:1, JOHN 14:16, 26, 15:26], This Jesus does for only those who believe (faithful). Thirdly, when Jesus Christ died on the cross, He went and disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross] [COLOSIANS 2:15], removed the keys of death and hades from the devil [REVELATIONS 1:18], 66

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU went and preached to the souls that died in the times of Noah and the ones that believed in Him received life eternal [1 PETER 3:19-22], The tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep in death were raised [to life]; And coming out of the tombs after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many people. Implying victory to God`s kingdom. Now to us, these promises are passive without believing, even to the original Israel as a nation. It should be noted that Jesus Christ on the cross died for everyone`s sins in the world [JOHN 67 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU 3:16] irrespective of any differences such as either African or White, slave or free, male or female, circumcised or uncircumcised, Muslim or not. This Jesus did out of the very first love for mankind, and so it is up to one to believe in Him for not only eternal life but also His promises. Now there is a belief that Israel a nation with the original blood has inherited the kingdom of God by virtue of their birth. This is not so, the Bible says that if we say we are the descendants of Abraham, we must believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, and that we must have faith. The Bible says in GALATIANS 3:8-29 And the Scripture, 68

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU foreseeing that God would justify (declare righteous, put in right standing with Himself) the Gentiles in consequence of faith, proclaimed the Gospel [foretelling the glad tidings of a Savior long beforehand] to Abraham in the promise, saying, In you shall all the nations [of the earth] be blessed. So then, those who are people of faith are blessed and made happy and favored by God [as partners in fellowship] with the believing and trusting Abraham. And all who depend on the Law [who are seeking to be justified by obedience to the Law of rituals] are under a curse and doomed to disappointment and destruction, for it is written in the 69 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Scriptures, Cursed (accursed, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment) be everyone who does not continue to abide (live and remain) by all the precepts and commands written in the Book of the Law and to practice them. Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live. But the Law does not rest on faith [does not require faith, has nothing to do with 70

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU faith], for it itself says, He who does them [the things prescribed by the Law] shall live by them [not by faith]. Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); To the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, the blessing [promised] to Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit. To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, [if] even a man makes a last will and 71 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (ratified, confirmed). Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir). He [God] does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons, but, And to your Seed (your Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to one individual, Who is [none other than] Christ (the Messiah). This is my argument: The Law, which began 430 years after the covenant [concerning the coming Messiah], does not and cannot annul 72

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the covenant previously established (ratified) by God, so as to abolish the promise and make it void. For if the inheritance [of the promise depends on observing] the Law [as these false teachers would like you to believe], it no longer [depends] on the promise; however, God gave it to Abraham [as a free gift solely] by virtue of His promise. What then was the purpose of the Law? It was added [later on, after the promise, to disclose and expose to men their guilt] because of transgressions and [to make men more conscious of the sinfulness] of sin; and it was intended to be in effect until the Seed (the Descendant, the Heir) should 73 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU come, to and concerning Whom the promise had been made. And it [the Law] was arranged and ordained and appointed through the instrumentality of angels [and was given] by the hand (in the person) of a go-between [Moses, an intermediary person between God and man]. Now a go-between (intermediary) has to do with and implies more than one party [there can be no mediator with just one person]. Yet God is [only] one Person [and He was the sole party in giving that promise to Abraham. But the Law was a contract between two, God and Israel; its validity was dependent on both]. Is the Law then contrary and opposed to 74

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the promise of God? Of course not! For if a Law had been which could confer [spiritual] life, then righteousness and right standing with God would certainly have come by Law. But the Scriptures [picture all mankind as sinners] shut up and imprisoned by sin, so that [the inheritance, blessing] which was promised through faith in Jesus Christ (the Messiah) might be given (released, delivered, and committed) to [all] those who believe [who adhere to and trust in and rely on Him]. Now before the faith came, we were perpetually guarded under the Law, kept in custody in preparation for the faith that was destined to be revealed (unveiled, 75 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU disclosed), So that the Law that we might be justified (declared righteous, put in right standing with God) by and through faith. But now that the faith has come, we are no longer under a trainer (the guardian of our childhood). For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith. For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ. There is [now no distinction] neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ [are in 76

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Him Who is Abraham`s Seed], then you are Abraham`s offspring and [spiritual] heirs according to promise. Hallelujah, in this previous portion of scripture, the Bible clearly tells us that the Scripture [remember Jesus` own words are a witness to Him and He is the Word] foresaw that justification shall come by faith proclaimed to Abraham saying that in you shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, Abraham was accounted for as the Father of the faithful after him believing. This promise was made to Abraham and to his Seed which is Christ Jesus, from whom the nations were to 77 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU be blessed. This as the scriptures reveal to us that Faith came through Christ, and the justification or right standing of men and God was and is through believing in Jesus Christ as Abraham also believed. This goes beyond a mere say that “we are children of Abraham”. This was the problem with the Pharisees of Jesus` time who went about saying that they were children of Abraham. Jesus at one point told them not to presume saying to themselves “we have Abraham for our forefather” He told them that God was able to raise up descendants for Abraham from stones. [MATTHEW 3:9, LUKE 3:8]. So we do not need to lie to ourselves, we 78

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU need to believe in Jesus Christ for ourselves if not yet. The scriptures still further tell us that the Law is not of faith, and if it is of faith or justification comes by it, then there was no need for Jesus to come and die for our sins, and that He died in vain [GALATIANS 2:21]. The Bible says that the Law was a guardian bringing us to Christ, but now Christ is come, therefore there is no more need of the Law – this means that the Law had a duty of keeping us under its guidance in wait for Christ [to Jews before the coming of Jesus Christ], and since Christ (Faith) is come [died and resurrected], we no longer have need for the Law. Why? It has outlived its 79 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU purpose as a tutor because the Master is come. For example “a teacher in class chooses a student to be dictating or writing notes for the rest [students] to copy from the black board as he [teacher] attends to a parent, when the teacher comes back, the usefulness of a student selected to meanwhile represent the teacher will be done [over], hence making that student irrelevant”, that is the same thing with the Law. Now when Jesus [Faith] came, He further promised us a Helper who is the Holy Spirit Who would teach us more about the Father and bring us to remembrance of everything Jesus told us [JOHN 14:26], hence rendering the 80

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU commands written on stone unnecessary to us [who have believed in the Son of God]. Therefore, it is by faith through Jesus Christ that we are sons of God and children of Abraham. This further invalidates the doctrines of the Law [the ministry of death as the Letter kills], remember the Law is and was not for this dispensation but was for those [Jews] who lived before Christ Jesus. 2 CORINTHIANS 3:1-18 says “ARE WE starting to commend ourselves again? Or we do not, like some [false teachers], need written credentials or letters of recommendation to you or from you, [do we]? [No] you yourselves are our letter of recommendation (our 81 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU credentials), written in your hearts, to be known (perceived, recognized) and read by everybody. You show and make obvious that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, not written with ink but with [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Such is the reliance and confidence that we have through Christ toward and with reference to God. Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgements or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God. [It is He] Who has qualified us [making us to be fit and worthy and 82

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU sufficient] as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not [ministers] of the letter (of legally written code) but of the Spirit; for the code [of the Law] kills, but the [Holy] Spirit makes alive. Now if the dispensation of death engraved in letters on stone [the ministration of the Law], was inaugurated with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its brilliance, [a glory] that was to fade and pass away, Why should not the dispensation of the Spirit [this spiritual ministry whose task it is to cause men to obtain and be governed by the Holy Spirit] be attended with 83 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU much greater and more splendid glory? For if the service that condemns [the ministration of doom] had glory, how infinitely more abounding in splendor and glory must be the service that makes righteous [the ministry that produces and fosters righteous living and right standing with God]! Indeed, in view of this fact, what once had splendor [the glory of the Law in the face of Moses] has come to have no splendor at all, because of the overwhelming glory that exceeds and excels it [the glory of the Gospel in the face of Jesus Christ]. For if that which was but passing and fading away came with splendor, how much more must 84

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU that which remains and is permanent abide in glory and splendor! Since we have such [glorious] hope (such joyful and confident expectation), we speak very freely and openly and fearlessly. Nor [do we act] like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze upon the finish of the vanishing [splendor which had been upon it]. In fact, their minds were grown hard and calloused [they had become dull and had lost the power of understanding]; for until this present day, when the Old Testament (the old covenant) is being read, that same veil still lies [on their hearts], not being lifted [to reveal] that in Christ it is made 85 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU void and done away. Yes, down to this [very] day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their minds and hearts. But whenever a person turns [in repentance] to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom). And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory 86

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit. From the above scripture, grace is revealed to us in a glory exceedingly great, to which the Law cannot even be compared to it. To us who have been redeemed and saved by grace through faith [For it is by free grace (God`s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgement and made partakers of Christ`s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; Not because of works [not the fulfilment of the Law`s 87 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.] EPHESIANS 2:8-9]. We also see that we don’t attribute grace [the gift of God through Jesus Christ] to ourselves but to God, since it is not by our making or doing but by God`s doing, this also means that we stay humble and rested, and let God work and do His will. This also sets a difference between one under the Law and one under Grace, for example, In LUKE 18:10-14 Jesus Christ tells us of two men who went to pray, one being a Pharisee and another a Tax collector, of which a Pharisee when 88

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU praying said that he thanks God that he is not like the rest of the men-extortioners (robbers), swindlers, [unrighteous in heart and life], adulterers--or even like the tax collector who was also praying in the same place with him. He further said that he fasted twice a week and also gave tithe of all that he gained, whereas the Tax collector humbled himself and said “O God, favourable (be gracious, be merciful) to me, the especially wicked sinner that I am!”. Jesus responded saying that the Tax collector went home justified [forgiven and made upright and in right standing with God], other than the other man, for whoever exalts 89 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU himself shall be humbled and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted. As earlier on stated, the Law points a man to self-ability as the Pharisee also prayed by comparing himself with others [comparing themselves with each other they became fools, and a fool in his or her heart says there is no God; these two are alike] and also taking pride of what he does oftenly [fasting and tithing] thinking that this is what justifies him before God. In the present day today, people still take pride of themselves in many ways for instance, when maybe one gets good grades at school says “this was because of the hard work and the routine 90

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU reading I made, all our family is bright, ….” And to another when maybe asked or even goes on telling others what maybe his or her sources of riches are; says “I am a hard worker, it was because I am good at planning,…”. What I am saying is that the aim of “one” under grace having realised that the sufficiency is not of us but of God, will always give glory [credit God for everything] to God as “it is not about us, it is all about, to and for God”. The Bible clearly says that those who deny Jesus before men, He will also deny before God [MATTHEW 10:33], another could ask, “how do I deny Jesus before men?” the answer is when you go 91 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU against the will of God, let`s look unto Jesus for an example, He says that He came not to do His will but the Fathers will, He also says that if He says He does not know God then He is a liar, - so are you when you know that it is God`s doing yet account it to yourself. Furthermore, this shows us that moving, living and having your being in the Law is pride [all people under the Law are proud before God], as MARK 2:17 says “And when Jesus heard it, He said to them, Those who are strong and well have no need of a physician, but those who are weak and sick; I came not to call the righteous ones to repentance, but sinners (the erring ones 92

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and all those not free from sin).” We should therefore keep it in mind that there are two forms of righteousness; 1. Righteousness of the Law also called self-righteousness [this is the one Jesus refers to as those who are strong and well having no need of a physician], and 2. The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ – to this one Jesus said that He came for the sinners [the erring ones and all those not free from the Law], also came to make them who were blind to see. What we need to note from this which is of faith through Jesus Christ is that, we having realised that we are unable to fulfill the Law [our former husbands requirements], 93 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU we believed in the One Jesus who fulfilled it [the Law] for us of which we believe [through faith] in what He did, as He did it for us also who believe [the Bible says that He who knew no sin became sin for us and we took His place becoming the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ His Son 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21], by doing this, Jesus paid off the debt or dowry of our old husband [the Law] [this Jesus did by offering Himself as a ransom Lamb to attorn for our sins. For His blood was distinct from the ones of the bulls and sheep, His blood cleansed us once and for all and so sin is no longer a topic of discussion in our lives; Jesus is now the 94

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU centre of our life.] (fulfilling the requirements of the Law for us hence when He died we also died to sin which was our husband as it was the only way we could be discharged from the marriage bond with the Law) and we got married to a New Husband [Jesus Christ] having risen with the New Man who is Spirit. This believing in what Jesus did for us at the cross is humility as we openly declare that we by ourselves cannot and could not live upto the standards of the Law hence believe and receive the gift of righteousness through believing in what Jesus Christ did for us at the cross, and disregarding that grace is pride, hence 95 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU living directed by the Law is a proud living. The Bible in PROVERBS 14:12, and 16:25 “There is a way that seems right to a man and appears straight before him, but at the end of it is the way of death”, and in 1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 says “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” In JOHN 14:6 says “Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.” From the above Scriptures, we are directed to know that the Law, rules and regulations may seem right, however its end is 96

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU destruction [the Bible says that those who walk and keep the Law shall therein be judged by the Law ROMANS 2:12], it further reveals that the message of the cross [grace--Christ dying for the sins of everyone in the world- therefore we need to be in Him for Salvation (eternal life)] is foolishness (meaningless) to the ones perishing [not only non-believers but also those who cling to the Law and not faith, as believing has to be a continuous journey of faith and not a onetime thing]. The Bible telling us that Jesus is the Way and the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Him – this means that 97 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU anything,… (one) that does not profess Jesus, or even professes Jesus but differs or contradicts from His way [according to the teachings of the Bible], to your good, you ought to discern for yourself through the leading of the Holy Spirit, Scriptures, inner conviction, instructions from the children of God… you ought for your own good and for your soul to leave that place, company and find the right place as led by the Spirit of God, and the Scriptures which conforms to God`s Way, it further means that you have to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, for there is no other Way, no other Truth, no other Life but Him 98

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU alone. This further states to us that Salvation is not in religion, wealth, status and many other things but it is only and only in Jesus Christ. Let`s now delve into Righteousness and the Spirit. ROMANS 5:6 says “For when we were still without strength, in the due time Christ died for the ungodly.”, and verses 8 says “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.” When Christ died, we who believe in Him died with Him and when He rose we rose with Him in the Newness of spirit and life. ROMANS 6:114 says “What shall we say then? Shall 99 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be [in the likeness] of [His] resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [Him,] that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no 100

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present 101 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.” The Bible clearly tells us that when we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior [Saviour; Good Shepherd; Redeemer; Deliverer] we then and then die or are baptised into His death and rise with Him from the dead. The question comes that what dies and what rises??? When we die with Him, the flesh [one susceptible to sin]-- the First Adamic man ”The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality) [1 CORINTHIANS 102

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU 15:45] ” [nature] dies “remember Christ came to deliver us from the Law since we were rooted in sin, therefore we were originally married to the Law and therefore the only way we would be free from the liabilities of this marriage bond was through death so that we could be set free from the first marriage bondage so that we could marry another Husband which is Christ [Bridegroom, the Head of the “Church” – Bride [Body] MATTHEW 25:1, COLOSIANS 1:18]” therefore Paul reminds us [the Church] that we are no longer under the obligations of the old marriage but of the New one [of Christ]. On rising from the dead we rise with 103 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the Spiritual man [Spirit man], not again with the old perishable flesh or carnal man. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45 says “the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. JOHN 3:6 says “What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of Spirit is spirit.” From the above Scriptures we see that the Bible says that Jesus Christ was and is a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life] that means that He is Life in the first place and also a life Giver, as there is a difference between having life and having the ability to give life. That means that there is a very big distinction between what men call life 104

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and what God our Father calls Life, for example GENESIS 2:17 says “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in that day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” And JOHN 10:10 says “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” From the above we see that after Adam and Eve eating what was forbidden of them, they did not then and then die however there was something that was lost [deprived of] by them. When the Bible in JOHN 10:10 says that the thief comes only in order 105 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU to steal and kill and destroy, a critical look at these three words are one and the same, meaning “removing from what you already have to your disadvantage”, that means that the devil`s work is only to deprive people [men] of what belongs to them, to their disadvantage, MATTHEW 16:26 says “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” From this portion of Scripture we see that satan [the god of this world] in one way or another deceives [blinds] certain men to think that they are adding up “gaining”, yet in reality they are loosing [to their disadvantage – in the end their soul is not given into 106

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Christ] WHEREAS Jesus the Lord of Glory came that we may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance – He came to add up to us “we were dead in trespasses and He gave us Life which we did not have in the first place. The Bible says that He reconciled us unto God and we have now an inheritance in God, Our citizenship is now in heaven not on Earth – this is gain to us as we did not deserve it, He freely gave it to us anyway.” Another example, ISAIAH 2:22 says “Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?” This portion of Scripture talks about the people with the First Adamic nature – 107 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the living soul, that their breath is in the nostrils, that means that to some call this life yet it is not. Job in JOB 1:21 speaks of this kind of life that “Naked I came from my mother`s womb, and naked I will depart”. This Job spoke of this life is true, when he says that naked (in nothingness, emptiness, and simple) he came into this earth and the same way he shall return. Child of God you have a choice to make and now is the opportunity for you to believe in Jesus Christ for you to shift from that kind of so called life to the Life that Jesus gives, for He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. To Job had no choice since Christ was not yet manifested in the Flesh, 108

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU however to us He came, therefore where Job was speaking of returning, it is not so to us who have believed in Jesus and those yet to believe. That means that we do not leave the earth empty, as we are now begotten into a Living Hope “1 PETER 1:3-4 – Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [Born a new] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,”. You are 109 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU not empty, you are full of the Holy Spirit, you are full of Jesus. Your end is of the Lord “HEBREWS 12:2 as He is the Leader and the Source our faith and it`s Finisher”. This is confirmed by JOHN 17:3 which says “And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.” By this we see that eternal life is only and only found in Christ. Another example is in PHILIPPIANS 3:1-21 which says “FOR THE rest, my brethren, delight yourselves in the Lord and continue to 110

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU rejoice that you are in Him. To keep writing to you [over and over] of the same things is not irksome to me, and it is [a precaution] for your safety. Look out for those dogs [Judaizers, legalists], look out for those mischief-makers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we [Christians] are the true circumcision, who worship in spirit and by the Spirit of God and exult and glory and pride ourselves in Jesus Christ, and put no confidence or dependence [on what we are] in the flesh and on outward privileges and physical advantages and external appearances-Though for myself I have [at least grounds] to rely on the flesh. If any 111 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU other man considers that he has or seems to have a reason to rely on the flesh and his physical and outward advantages, I have still more! Circumcised when I was eight days old, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew [and the son] of Hebrews; as to the observance of the Law I was of [the party of] the Pharisees, As to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and by the Law`s standard of righteousness (supposed justice, uprightness, and right standing with God) I was proven to be blameless and no fault was found with me. But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I 112

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ`s sake. Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One), And that I may [actually] be found and known as in 113 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law`s demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith. [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], 114

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] out from among the dead [even while in the body]. Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own. I do not consider, brethren, that I have 115 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have this mind and hold these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also. Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that. Brethren, together follow my example and observe those who live after the 116

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU pattern we have set for you. For there are many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, who walk (live) as enemies of the cross of Christ (the Anointed One). They are doomed and their fate is eternal misery (perdition); their god is their stomach (their appetites, their sensuality) and they glory in their shame, siding with earthly things and being of their party. But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] Savior, Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to 117 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.” From the above portion of Scripture Apostle Paul speaks of himself having had all the necessities to have satisfied the requirements of the Law which establishes(d) self-righteousness, of this self-attained righteousness Paul rejected its dictates for Christ`s sake [the righteousness which is of Christ through faith]. We see that Paul in Scripture, was a man who with regard to the Law was blameless and therefore according to him says that he had a reason to boast in the flesh, however 118

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU this flesh he was to boast about is and was to perish [had an end, temporal apparel], and because of this he chose life eternal which is in Christ. He also goes ahead to warn people [then and now] not to put their confidence in the Law or flesh because there end is destruction. Let`s think together, Paul in accordance to the dictates of the Law was blameless, who of us [even you the reader] can just even near to fulfil the requirements of the Law in the flesh “do not`s” and if not any can, so just like Paul says let`s follow his example – he forsook the Law for Christ. GALATIANS 6:13 says “For even the circumcised [Jews] themselves do not 119 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU [really] keep the Law, but they want to have you circumcised in order that they may glory in your flesh (your subjection to external rites).” That means that those ministers of the Law themselves failed and have never fulfilled the Law that they teach to others, and their pride is presenting what they have failed to fulfil [the Law] for others too to fight or struggle trying to fulfil it, and their role is being watch dogs over other men and also giving the men they think have been able to fulfil the Law as examples to them who have failed to. These are the people the Bible in MATTHEW 7:1-5 says “DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so 120

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you [use to] deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. Why do you stare from without at the very small particle that is in your brother`s eye but do not become aware of and consider the beam of timber that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, Let me get the tiny particle out of your eye, when there is the beam of timber that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own 121 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother`s eye.” From the above portion of Scripture we see that the Bible clearly tells us some of the characteristics of men under the Law [religion], as they seek to judge others [in thought of correcting or putting one in right standing with the Law], just as my Spiritual Father Apostle Grace Lubega says “they torch others, when forgetting to torch within themselves”, they judge others in the same things they daily do [ROMANS 2:1]. However by the Bible advising them to firstly remove the beam from their eyes before they remove the tiny particle 122

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU from the brother`s – as we all know that even if one was to be given 1000 years in this world to be in subjection to the Law, they still shall be guilty for what they have done in the flesh “ECCLESIASTIES 11:8 says [Yes, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all; yet let him [seriously] remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility)!]”, that means that a man under the Law will die eventually in sin, therefore by the Scripture saying that one has to first remove the beam from their eye, in reference to MATTHEW 5:29 which says “If your right eye serves 123 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU as a trap to ensnare you or is an occasion for you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw it away. It is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be cast into hell (Gehenna).” It means that one should put away the Law and embrace grace through faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Therefore having that person embraced grace [understood, walked, and matured in it], then he can be in position to preach and teach it to one still in the Law, as through grace working by Faith we are the Righteousness of God (we are blameless, perfect, holy before God), we live a righteousness fostered life and 124

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU our judgements are spiritual [in faith], as we do not regard any man according to the flesh [2 CORINTHIANS 5:16], and as we know the Law is not of faith but of the works [carnality]. Therefore a man could be walking in the Law yet think has life, yet in reality is walking in death, Christ is Life and Him alone. It should be noted that even Moses from whom the Law was given, was also as quoted by Jesus, - does accuse or point fingers [with due respect] on them who fail in fulfilling the Law`s obligations just as the religious leaders then, now and tomorrow do. JOHN 5:45 says “Put out of your minds the thought and do not suppose [as some of you are supposing] 125 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU that I will accuse you before the Father. There is one who accuses you—it is Moses, the very one on whom you have built hopes [in whom you trust].” By the Bible saying that that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, the first Spirit mentioned in upper case means the Spirit of God, and the second in lower case means spirit in a man. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:11 says “For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man`s own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” From the 126

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU above we clearly see that the Spirit of God and the spirit in a man are both spoken of. The spirit in a man is because of believing in Jesus Christ who is Spirit and gives birth to spirit. However this should not seem confusing or difficult to perceive, the Bible says in Romans 8:9 “But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].”, the Bible still says that we who believe in Jesus Christ are one Spirit 127 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU with the Lord, the Holy Spirit resides in the inside of us, we have the mind of God, GALATIANS 2:20 says “I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” From the above, we see that we are one with God, and the connection between us and Him is spirit. We are the very ones Jesus speaks of as worshipers in spirit and in truth in JOHN 4:23 “A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, 128

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.” That means that worship before God the Father of all things shifted from the physical as done in the Old Testament to the Spiritual, because God is Spirit, those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth. ROMANS 10:14 says “But how are people to call upon Him Whom they have not believed [in Whom they have no faith, on Whom they have no reliance]? And how are they to believe in Him [adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him] of Whom they have never 129 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?” This means that the things of the Kingdom of God carry precedence or order, as we see that God Himself questions that how will people call upon Him without believing and having faith and trust in Him, the Bible says that he who comes to God must believe that He is and He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, it also further says that without faith it is impossible to please God [HEBREWS 11:6]. The question is how do you present yourself before God? – in faith or unbelief? Remember even to us who are born of the Spirit of God, believing is our nature [as long as we 130

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU are still alive in this temporal apparel “body”], it`s not a one-time thing. In addition to the above, some people have centred on a belief that "we serve one God" – this is a lie, why and how! To us we believe in God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ], There is only One God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and besides Him there is no other in heaven, earth or under the earth. Yet to the men of this world have many other small god`s in whom they believe in. Jesus Himself says “I and the Father are One, He who rejects [denies, does not believe] Me, does not believe in the Father [JOHN 10:30, 17:21, 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6]”, 1 JOHN 2:22 says 131 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU “Who is [such a] liar as he who denies that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah)? He is the antichrist (the antagonist of Christ), who [habitually] denies and refuses acknowledge the Father and the Son.” That`s why 1 JOHN 1:1 says “[WE ARE writing] about the Word of Life [in] Him Who existed from the beginning, Whom we have heard, Whom we have seen with our [own] eyes, Whom we have gazed upon [for ourselves] and have touched with our [own] hands.” That means when we are speaking of the God we serve, worship and adore, we speak from experience since we have had and have a relation with Him, to us He is a Father and we are His sons 132

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and daughters “what a glory”. Since the Kingdom of God is open to all that believe, the writer in 1 JOHN 1:3 says “What we have seen and [ourselves] heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And [this] fellowship that we have [which is a distinguishing mark of Christians] is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah).” Now looking on the subject of faith and believing, these two look alike, however one takes pre-eminence over the other, in as much as they go hand in hand. Why believe first, we understand that in 133 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU this world, many people have different perceptions to what they call believing and faith, but to us it is what the Scripture says that we go with, as the Bible says in PSALMS 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”, and we move by faith and not sight. The Bible in ROMANS 10:8-11 says “But what does it say? The Word (God`s message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach, Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God 134

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation. The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.” Glory to God, from the above portion of Scripture, how one gets born again is clearly prescribed, it should be noted that this is the only way, namely; 1. Believing in the heart that Jesus is Lord 135 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and that God raised Him from the dead. 2. Confessing with your own lips that Jesus is Lord. The Bible in 2 CORINTHIANS 4:13-14 says “Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak, Assured that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up also with Jesus and bring us [along] with you into His presence.” We see that the principle is firstly believing, then confess what you have believed with your own mouth as a confirmation to your personal salvation. The Bible says “[He has also appropriated and acknowledged us as 136

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU His by] putting His seal upon us and giving us His [Holy] Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee [of the fulfilment of His promise]. (2 CORINTHIANS 1:22, 5:5, EPHESIANS 1:14)”. JOHN 20:24-29 says “But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples kept telling him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the marks made by the nails and put my finger into the nail prints, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe [it]. Eight days later His disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, though they 137 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU were behind closed doors, and stood among them and said, Peace to you! Then He said to Thomas, Reach out your finger here, and see My hands; and put out your hand and place [it] in My side. Do not be faithless and incredulous, but [stop your unbelief and] believe! Thomas answered Him, My Lord and my God! Jesus said to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy and to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believed and adhered to and trusted and relied on Me.” From the above portion of scripture, we see that God has called and established us on 138

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the foundation of faith, to Jesus Christ as we know that He is not a show off, or it is not necessary and He does not prove Himself because He is the I am “I AM WHO I AM”, It should be noted that in the New Testament times God did not prove Himself, however He did so to the men of the Old Covenant just because the principle of their time is and was that they have to see something to believe, for example Moses was given the signs at his request (stick to serpent, hand becoming leprous, I AM WHO I AM) EXODUS 3:14, Hezekiah the shadow moving to degrees he requested 2 KINGS 20:10, however in the New 139 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Covenant for Jesus to appear to the disciples at that moment was just for Thomas, and also to clear doubt even to this generation [it should not be taken for granted "a light thing"]. Therefore we believe not because we have seen, however it`s by faith that we believe. Maybe taking us back a little, by Thomas holding that he must first see the marks in Jesus` hands made by the nails, and his hands to Jesus` side, I honestly believe that during the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, these two happenings of nailing and piercing Him tore deep into Thomas` heart “he cried and cried and kept on remembering these moments”, in other words he was 140

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU driven by emotions, to the extent that even when he saw Jesus Christ, the emotions of the happenings took the place of Christ. Therefore we can learn some lessons from it while making reference to Scriptures. 1. We should never let emotions override or control us. MATTHEW 6:26-27 says “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth and much more than they? And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life?” this drives us back to knowing what makes or adds to you, 141 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU being settled in mind and content. What Jesus meant here was that when you look at birds existent and alive, then you should know that God first dealt with you before he gave attention to the birds [we are precious to our Father, with Him, I and you ought to be anxious for nothing], another example is in HEBREWS 12:16-17 which says “That no one may become guilty of sexual vice, or become a profane (godless and sacrilegious) person as Esau did, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. For you understand that later on, when he wanted [to regain title to] his inheritance of the blessing, he was rejected (disqualified 142

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and set aside), for he could find no opportunity to repair by repentance [what he had made], although he sought for it carefully with [bitter] tears.” From this example we are clearly told Esau had sold his birthright to Jacob his twin brother just for a meal, thereafter he wanted to repossess it when it`s need came, since it was unavailable having sold it [shifted title], according to him opted to cry [opted for tears], and yet the solution before God was for him [Esau] to repent [change of mind for the better], remember if Esau was to only repent, God was gracious, merciful and forgiving to make Him repossess his birthright. This is the 143 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU same way God reconciled us through Jesus Christ to the very first love we had lost due to the fall of man from the Garden of Eden. Even up-to now God is calling us to the realm of worship in spirit and truth, so let’s not give place for emotions to lead us, Truth (the Word of God) is our leader. HEBREWS 11:1-3 “NOW FAITH is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. For by [faith— trust and holy fervor born of faith] the 144

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU men of old had divine testimony borne to them and obtained a good report. By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.” ROMANS 10:17-18 says “So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself). But I ask, Have they not heard? Indeed they have; [for the Scripture says] Their voice [that of nature bearing God`s message] has 145 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU gone out to all the earth, and their words to the far bounds of the world.” ROMANS 8:24-25 says “For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees? But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.” 1 JOHN 4:8 says “He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.” 1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 says “And so faith, hope, love abide [faith-conviction and belief respecting man`s relation to God and divine things; hope-joyful and confident expectation of 146

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God`s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.” GALATIANS 5:6 says “For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.” GALATIANS 3:26 says “For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.” HEBREWS 12:2 says “Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the [of obtaining 147 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” From the above portions of Scripture, we see that the subject faith can only be understood in the personality of Jesus Christ. Faith, hope and love, just like Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one and the same, and therefore one cannot seek to justify the presence of one in isolation or severance of another. With close look to the above Scriptures “where we see the word faith let`s put Jesus [where there are two we live second as faith]” HEBREWS 148

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU 11:1-3 “NOW JESUS is the assurance of the things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality. For by Jesus the men of old had divine testimony borne to them and obtained a good report. By Jesus we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God [Him [Jesus]], so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.” ROMANS 10:17 “So Jesus comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself).” What then is the reason for all this, ROMANS 14:23 says “But the man who 149 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU has doubts (misgivings, an uneasy conscience) about eating, and then eats [perhaps because of you], stands condemned [before God], because he is not true to his convictions and does not act from faith. For whatever does not originate and proceed from faith is sin [whatever is done without a conviction of its approval by God is sinful].” It is because God points all we do to be done in Christ Jesus, the Bible says that let him who glories glory in the Lord [1 CORINTHIANS 1:31]. That also means that the life of a born again Christian ought to always be believing [in] God. The subject faith is too wide to be expounded to the fullest however we 150

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU thank God for the Holy Spirit Who is always available to teach you and me in experiences of the Person of Christ. Having believed in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the Bible says in 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-18 “Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of 151 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].” Therefore you are new [spirit], you are not a sinner, you are the righteousness of God. 1 PETER 1:23 says “You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from one that is immortal by the ever living and lasting Word of God.” Just look at the amazing promises that you are in now having gotten born again, you are incorruptible, born of the Word of God [Jesus] Which lives and abides forever. Nothing can corrupt your spirit, not even sin, nor death, nor satan, nor angels, and even anything born or not 152

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU yet existent. You are pure before God, you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus, when God see`s you, He sees Jesus, believe God, trust Him at His word, allow not the outward earthen vessel [body] define you, the Bible says that you are seated with Christ in the heavenly places [EPHESIANS 1:20], you are a joint heir with Jesus Christ, you are spirit. Apostle Paul says in 1 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10 “But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and 153 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me! So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).”, that means that you need not to be intimidated by whatever is surrounding you just like Paul did, as he chose to look at it with the eyes of God 154

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU Who told him “My grace is enough for you; My strength and power are made perfect and show themselves most effective in your weakness”, 1 JOHN 3:20 tells you and me “Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemns us. [For we are in God`s hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].” Change your attitude about God, for He is at peace with you, He is in love with you, He is beyond what men here on earth call love, He gives examples of a prodigal son to whom the parent made for a 155 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU feast upon his return, He gives examples that even mother`s who patiently nursed their babies in the wombs for nine months can forsake their children, He says that even young ones of a lion can thirst and die of hunger whereas to you He [God] says He will never leave you nor forsake you, you will never beg for bread, He make`s a feast in Heaven for your sake when you receive salvation, He gave His attention to you ignoring the praises of the angels [ISAIAH 14], He says that He who touches you touches the apple of His eye, He never sleeps nor slumbers just because He has to take care of you, He watches over the whole city just 156

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU because you are in it hence even making the watchman irrelevant, to us He reserved the rest He promised having believed and had faith in Him, greater loved He showed to us that He gave away His life [good shepherd] for our sakes, He leaves [left] the ninety nine sheep just to pursue you and when found [finds] you was [is] joyful. Glory to God. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:18 says “But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word 157 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].” We see that God is up to men receiving salvation and knowing [knowledge, wisdom, and understanding] Him intimately. “That they may know the One true God and His only Son Jesus Christ, all should come to the knowledge of truth”. EPHESIANS 4:11-12 says “And His gifts were [varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us] some to be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries), and some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers. His intention was the 158

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ`s body (the church)”. The Bible says in ROMANS 8:29-30 that God foreknew, called, justified and glorified you before time. MARK 16:15 says “And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the good news (the gospel) to every creature [of the whole human race].” The Bible says that God wills all men be saved and come to the knowledge of truth [the saving power of God through Jesus Christ]. From all the above Scriptures we see that God did not only prepare salvation to you 159 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU alone but to the whole world, hence He has commissioned us who have believed to reach out to everyone by ALL MEANS. The Bible says in 2 CORINTHIANS 5:20 that we are Christ`s ambassadors [Christ`s personal representatives], therefore we have a cause to stand for. We are called for service as we all have a purpose in God to accomplish in this world, upon the completion of that God given mandate, we shall return home to the Father. Paul told the people of his time that him being in the body was for their good, and that he had revealed the whole counsel of God to them and hence was accountable for no man’s 160

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU blood. Child of God did you know that the “parable of the man who hid his talent and the salt without flavour having no way to be seasoned hence need to be trampled underfoot" was directed to specific individuals who choose to be on a comfort zone “to be out of God`s purpose and mandate upon their lives”, therefore I urge us to ask God through our Lord Jesus Christ concerning our calling. To those who want to receive salvation can speak out these words believing in his or her heart saying; Dear Lord heavenly Father, I believe with my heart that Jesus Christ died for my sins 161 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU and rose again for my justification, and that He is Lord and Savior of my life. I declare that today I am born again. Amen. For more about prayer, baptism, and many other spiritual material. Please you can refer to these material below: i. Sermon of Baptism, Prayer Codes, Faith Series, Seven Guiding Lights (pdf), Understanding Grace, Spirit, Body and Soul… By Apostle Grace Lubega. ii. Praying to get results (book), Believers Authority [book, 162

SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU sermon]… By Brother Kenneth Hagin. iii. Spirit, Body and Soul [book], The New you and the Holy Spirit by Andrew Wommack. This book was reviewed by: 1. Papa Muhwire Alexander 2. Papa Wafula Oscar 3. Papa Stuart 163 SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU GRACE FOUND YOU, YOU RECEIVED IT AND PREACHED IT TO OTHER`S. This book helps us understand the grace of God by which we were saved by faith in Jesus Christ, it helps us to understand the life we now live after salvation, it helps us understand the patience which is with God as His love draws men to repentance and also helps us understand that we all in the body of Christ have been called to service as the Bible says that to whom much is given much is required. About the Author. Opale Frank is a son to Mr. Ojame Okiror Robert and Mrs. Tino Ketty. Opale`s Spiritual Father is Apostle Of Phaneroo Ministries I was once rooted in the Law until came to know About the wonderful grace of God Grace Lubega International. the age of 16, when I being taught by Apostle Grace Lubega. This came after several invitations both at school and home from friends to go to one of the meetings the man of God. God`s hand surprises by the way He meet`s people at His own timing. One time I was too bored, so just like that I just got myself on the way in search for that place, indeed this was my day. It was a day like no other, I felt like not leaving the place of meeting, even after the service. I thought myself to know the Word of God, from then I realized that I knew nothing. I remember of days when my friends came and told me that they were righteous, and we debated Scripture from evening to almost 1:00 am in the morning until they gave up and said “let`s let him alone, for God will slowly deal with him”. From this ministry of Phaneroo I was opened to availability of Great Generals of God, the Great men and women of God in the past and this time. Special thanks to the Campus Manifest teams, and everyone. Glory be to God and Jesus Christ our Lord. For more info contact. opalefrank94@gmail.com 164

YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF YOUR FAMILY. There is more in god. LOOK TO THE PRIzE SET BEFORE YOU. MA RI R A WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK. BY THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA. 1ST EDITION. GE

Scriptural references are from the Amplified Bible. About this book. This book talks about very many aspects concerning the faith we have in God, it talks about marriage in its entirety, it talks about family, it talks about love, the contemporary situation, and very many things that the Holy Spirit will be teaching you as you go through it. Table of contents. Heavenly minded saints…………..9. The dust…………………………………..10. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel..13. Marriage ……………………………………24. 2 Spiritual things spiritually discerned……36. Every spoiling has origin………………45. Why burn with passion? ……………..58. The fruit of Love……………………………63. Under persecution principles…………70. Single for the service of God…………..75. Children………………………………………….92. Predestined by God………………………..96. The value of a soul………………………….100. Dying to find God……………………………..103. You are the Light of the world…………114. The prize set before you………………….132. 3

It is amazing to see that Scripture revolves around the relationship between God, man and woman. However we realize that it was all an initiative of God as He created and formed man and woman, reconciled the lost relationship by sending forth His Son to purchase their eternal Salvation when they fell. One of the most wonderful truth is that we have an attachment to everything the Scriptures talk about, for the Bible says in ROMANS 5:12-19 “Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power] because all men 4 sinned. [To be sure] sin was in the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men`s account where there is no law [to transgress]. Yet death held sway from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of the One Who was to come [in reverse, the former destructive, the Latter saving]. But God`s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man`s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God`s grace and 5

free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many. Nor is the free gift at all to be compared to the effect of that one [man`s] sin. For the sentence [following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free gift [following] many transgressions brings justification (an act of righteousness). For if because of one man`s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God`s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting 6 them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). Well then, as one man`s trespass [one man`s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man`s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men. For just as by one man`s disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the many were constituted sinners, so by one Man`s obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him).” We realize that to God there are 7

only two [b] Beings who ever lived this earth, namely; Adam and Jesus. In 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45-49 the Bible says “Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. But it is not the spiritual life which came first, but the physical and then the spiritual. The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust (earthlyminded); the second Man [is] the Lord from out of heaven. Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly-minded); and as is [the Man] from heaven, so also 8 [are those] who are of heaven (heavenlyminded). And just as we have borne the image [of the man] of dust, so shall we and so let us also bear the image [of the Man] of heaven.” In the Book of Genesis 3, what befell the first Adam is revealed to us in this way, GENESIS 3:14 says “And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [domestic] animals and above every [wild] living thing of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust [and what it contains] all the days of your life.” And Verse 19 says “In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you 9

were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.” In analyzing the above verses, we see that although Adam was formed from the dust as revealed to us in GENESIS 2:7 which says “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.” God did not intend man to have an attachment to it [dust]. We also realize that the dust itself was good according to God`s mind, however the issue was in the precedence of the curses and punishments which were [the serpent, Eve and Adam], in other words the principle of preeminence changed as 10 we all know that God had subjected everything inclusive of woman to the authority of man; this meant that it would be understandable if it was only woman who ate what was forbidden, because whenever God visited the Garden of Eden, His first concern was where Adam was [who then gave accountability for every creature]. We see that when sentence was being passed by God, the serpent was to “eat dust [and what it contains] all its days” meaning that since man was made from the innocent dust, he was to be subject to the mind of the devil all his life, and this is why the preposition changed as he was 11

to return to it [not just being buried after he died, but he was at end of the day to partake of the very destination of the devil]. This is the very reason why Jesus in JOHN 8:43-44 said “Why do you misunderstand what I say? It is because you are unable to hear what I am saying. [You cannot bear to listen to My message; your ears are shut to My teaching.] You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a 12 falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a lair [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.” Here we see that Jesus did not tell these people that they were of their father Adam from whom they came from; but He said that they are of their father the devil. This meant that although these men struggled in whatever way possible to walk in the path of God, they would eventually end up gratifying their father the devil. Thanks be to God Who made Abraham [by faith through believing] a Father of the faithful because of the preparation of the coming Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the lost bringing them 13

to reconciliation to the Father [God], as we know that Jesus to come in the flesh had to come from a lineage. This is why the Bible in MATTHEW 1:2 starts the genealogy of Jesus Christ from Abraham saying, “Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.” This is the very reason to as to why when Jesus Christ was manifested in the flesh, His message was about faith which comes by believing His Word and His Person. By Scripture we are revealed to the reason why God allowed Himself to be called the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Israel. In the Book of 14 HEBREWS 11:8-10 the Bible says “[Urged on] by faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went forth to a place which he was destined to receive as an inheritance; and he went, although he did not know or trouble his mind about where he was to go. [Prompted] by faith he dwelt as a temporary resident in the land which was designated in the promise [of God, though he was like a stranger] in a strange country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs with him of the same promise. For he was [waiting expectantly and confidently] looking forward to the city which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and 15

Builder is God.” Verse 13-16 says “These people all died controlled and sustained by their faith, but not having received the tangible fulfillment of [God`s] promises, only having seen it and greeted it from a great distance by faith, and all the while acknowledging and confessing that they were strangers and temporary residents and exiles upon the earth. Now those people who talk as they did show plainly that they are in search of a fatherland (their own country). If they had been thinking with [homesick] remembrance of that country from which they were emigrants, they would have found constant opportunity to return to it. But 16 the truth is that they were yearning for and aspiring to a better and more desirable country, that is, a heavenly [one]. For that reason God is not ashamed to be called their God [even to be surnamed their God--the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob], for He has prepared a city for them.” We see maturity spoken of in this portion of Scripture, relating it to GENESIS 13:14-18 which says “The Lord said to Abram after Lot had left him, Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity 17

forever. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be counted. Arise, walk through the land, the length of it and the breadth of it, for I will give it to you. Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt among the oaks or terebinths of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.” We realize that from what God was willing to give to Abram inclusive of the whole earth as He had instructed him stating all the four directions of the so called compass, descendants as many as the dust [remember the subjection of the 18 dust] of the earth; we see that the Abram chose them not as Verse 18 says that he moved his tent and came and dwelt among the oaks or terebinths of Mamre, we see that Abram looked not at not at this offer but by faith looked forward to the city [New Jerusalem] which has fixed and firm foundations, whose Architect and Builder is God [HEBREWS 11:10]. This is the reason to as to why the Bible tells in Verse 9 that Abraham [prompted] by faith he dwelt as a temporary resident in the land which was designated in the promise [of God, though he was like a stranger] in a strange country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs 19

with him of the same promise; this is the reason as to why Moses although did not reach the land promised to the children of Israel, was revealed to us in the transfiguration of Jesus Christ [MATTHEW 17:3] because of his faith in God, this is the very reason to as to why promised land to the Israelites was attached to carnal things such as milk and honey because them who followed after [the descendants] did not understand Abraham, this is the very reason to as ROMANS 9:7-8 which talks about the descendants of Abraham does not in any way reconcile them to the physical world but the Spiritual, as it says, “And they are 20 not all the children of Abraham because they are by blood his descendants. No, [the promise was] Your descendants will be called and counted through the line of Isaac [though Abraham had an older son]. That is to say, it is not the children of the body [of Abraham] who are made God`s children, but it is the offspring to whom the promise applies that shall be counted [as Abraham`s true] descendants.” What I seek to mean in all this is that marriage and family can only defined from the perspective of faith. In the Book AMOS 3:3 God asks a profound question saying “Do two walk together except they make an 21

appointment and have agreed?” Analyzing the above Scripture, in GENESIS 2:18 the Bible says “Now the Lord God said, it is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.” Furthermore, in GENESIS 2:21-24 the Bible says “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh. And the rib or part of his side which the Lord God had taken from the man He built up and made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. Then Adam said, 22 This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” We see God when making woman, made her from the rib of man, and from the place where the rib was taken from, the Bible says that flesh was put as a covering. This reminds us of the place in EZEKIEL 36:26-27 which says “A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I 23

will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.” In the New Living Translation the Bible calls the heart of flesh as a tender and responsive heart; this is the reason why when man at the Garden of Eden arose from sleep directly and positively responded to Woman the creation from God saying “This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. This meant that then and then Woman could understand man just as man understood her, this is no mistake that at the end of the day when man finds a perfect mate [wife] just as Adam was meant for Eve, they 24 introduce each other to their parents [Guardians] and the two become one flesh. The Bible says that God blessed and ordained marriage; it is big to understand the magnitude of the Words from God, the Bible in ISAIAH 55:10-11 says “For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose in the thing for which I sent it.” If 25

we see that God is very sure about His Word, He too desires our meditations to be in the surety of the promises He promised us. The Bible clearly speaks of the water watering the earth and because of this the earth carries the ability to bring forth and sprout; more than this, because of the waters the earth still carries the ability to discern between the sower and eater, who both require different results from the ground. We saw this manifestation when Christ was on this face of the earth, the Bible speaks of Him being the Sower, it speaks of Him being the Seed which is the Word of God, it speaks of Him being the Bread of Life 26 from Heaven, it speaks of Him being the Giver of Living water that those who take from it never thirst or hunger anymore; this means that to God, He is sure of the Son Whom He gave unto us that He is able to solve anything that is beyond your control; this means that we ought to look at the Word of God deposited in our heart which is able to do all things. In MATTHEW 19:3-9 the Bible says “And Pharisees came to Him and put Him to the test by asking, Is it lawful and right to dismiss and repudiate and divorce one`s wife for any and every cause? He replied, Have you never read that He Who made them from the beginning made them 27

male and female, And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united firmly (joined inseparably) to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder (separate). They said to Him, Why then did Moses command [us] to give a certificate of divorce and thus to dismiss and repudiate a wife? He said to them, Because of the hardness (stubbornness and perversity) of your hearts Moses permitted you to dismiss and repudiate and divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been so 28 [ordained]. I say to you: whoever dismisses (repudiates, divorces) his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” From the above Scripture, we see that the root cause for Moses permitting divorce was because of the hardness of heart that was in the men of his time, which hardness derived its roots from the Law which signifies a heart of stone. This heart God promised to replace with a new heart of flesh accompanied by His Spirit; this we see that in the New covenant we were established in having received Jesus 29

Christ as our personal Lord and Savior, the Bible says that we received a heart of flesh which is tender and responsive to the things of God. We realize that certain things are impossible to men of this world [although united into one flesh, such as forgiveness] but with God all things are possible; this is the very reason for Jesus Christ being the center of our marriages. In ROMAN 5:4-5 the Bible says “And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character [of this sort] produces [the habit of] joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or 30 shames us, for God`s love has been poured out in our in our hearts through the Holy Spirit Who has been given to us.” We see that the love of God has been poured out [shed abroad] in our hearts which are of flesh and not that of stone because of the Holy Spirit Who was given us; this means that the doctrine one listens to also matters, as we see that that in PROVERBS 4:23 the Bible tell us “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flows the springs of life.” because it is very possible to be with a heart of flesh which is well fed by stone [the Law], that means that such a heart 31

will produce inconsistent results. Such a heart is spoken of in MATTHEW 9:16-17 “And no one puts a piece of cloth that has not been shrunk on an old garment, for such a patch tears away from the garment and worse rent (tear) is made. Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” This means that for the temple in everyone corresponds with the right Message of grace and not the Law; it is so sad to see some hearts of flesh yielded to the Law, as we saw that the 32 Pharisees were walking in divorce, issuing divorce certificates just because Moses said so, and yet we realize that although Moses permitted it, it was not meant to be so from the beginning as we saw God in GENESIS 2:24 say “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” This Jesus re-affirmed in MATTHEW 19:5 repeating the same statement. In reality men whose marriages were [are] established by their own strength do not last and yet marriage is meant to be an eternal covenant. This I do not speak in my own mind but by the mind of God, 33

and this is not also mockery to the broken ones; what I seek to mean here is that when Jesus is at the center of your marriage, indeed there is no situation that He cannot reconcile. In the same Book of MATTHEW 19:9, Jesus touched the heart of the religious leaders of then, because we saw that they sheltered behind the Law of Moses to do and approve and satisfy their lusts, as to them issuing a divorce certificate was not a problem, and in this Verse Jesus zeroed them down by telling them that whoever married a divorced wife committed adultery. We see that these men considered themselves to be holy and yet 34 dying and being overcome with lusts and this is what we see in the now modern society as connivance, collusion and condonation to break up marriages have become the order of the day. There is a reason to as to why Christ compared marriage between a husband and wife to His love for the Church [Him being the Husband and the Church His wife]; this shows that just as the Christ cannot forsake the Church as nothing can separate us from His love, so should be marriage. Therefore partners ought to understand each other and be tolerant to 35

one another walking in Agape [Love of Christ] and forgiving one another1. Looking at certain Nations which have chosen to exalt the manmade Law above the Divine Law of God; see what happens, let no man deceive you that they can understand the things of God using carnal senses; it is impossible. In 1 CORINTHIANS 2:13-14 the Bible says “And we are setting these truths forth in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the [Holy] Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language [to those who possess the Holy 1 I recommend you to listen to Apostle Grace Lubega`s sermon on Love and Forgiveness. 36 Spirit]. But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.” We see that the Word of God clearly tells us that the world and its people cannot understand the spiritual things, and therefore it will also be unfortunate for us spiritual people to seek guidance or even walk in principles 37

established by flesh and blood and not God. Why do you think in even nations which know God marriages are failing day and night rapidly and divorce is the order of the Day? The answer is simple, men have forsaken their God, and chosen to do things the worldly way. This is also why unnatural relationships have also been tolerated with even in some so called churches. This is sad but a fact! Apostle Paul warned this generation concerning the same matter in 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-6 which says “DOES ANY of you dare, when he has a matter of complaint against another [brother], to go to law before unrighteous men [men 38 neither upright nor right with God, laying it before them] instead of before the saints (the people of God)? Do you not know the saints (the believers) will [one day] judge and govern the world? And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice? Do you not know also that we [Christians] are to judge the [very] angels and pronounce opinion between right and wrong [for them]? How much more then [as to] matters pertaining to this world and of this life only! If then you do have such cases of everyday life to decide, why do 39

you appoint [as judges to lay them before] those who [from the standpoint] of the church count for least and are without standing? I say this to move you to shame. Can it be that there really is not one man among you who [in action is governed by piety and integrity and] is wise and competent enough to decide [the private grievances, disputes, and quarrels] between members of brotherhood, But brother goes to law against brother, and that before [Gentile judges who are] unbelievers [without faith or trust in the Gospel of Christ]?” We see that Apostle Paul saw that the root cause of the problem was in seeking 40 counsel from ungodly men or men who do not understand the covenant in which you the Born again saint is in. For example we have seen partners whose first option is to run to men for counsel or advice. My father Apostle Grace Lubega wrote and preached about the Seven Guiding Lights of the Spirit and these include; 1. The inward witness, 2. Confirmation of Scripture, 3. The prophet, 4. Godly counsel, 5. Circumstantial evidence, 6. The peace of God, and 7. Provision. These things are so instrumental in a Christian life, you ought to desist from seeking opinions from every one concerning spiritual things like 41

your marriage, your family; this is why some of them fail. The Bible says in PSALMS 1:1-3 says “BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. And he shall be like a tree 42 firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].” Analyzing the above statement we see the Bible urge us to desist from living or walking in ungodly counsel as this is a place of wisdom for us to discern which company to seat in as wisdom as a Person speaks in us. In addition to the above, the Scripture tells you [and I] not to heed to their advice, nor relax and rest where mockers gather. We see that as a wife and husband your company has to be comprising of believers, those who can 43

add up to you and those you add up to Spiritually, and because of this the Bible says that you shall be like a tree firmly planted by the river side ready to bring forth fruit in its season. What God seeks to instruct you is to have wisdom in making choices concerning decisions, achievements and weaknesses in your marriage [life]; may you seek solutions in His Word and Godly counsel. We have seen a certain spoiling creep into people which cannot be understood or even explained and many who have adopted to it have termed it as a Western culture, yet too destructive in its own way. Briefly, there was a time in Africa 44 when people shot videos in songs when clothed decently, however a time has come where one does not feel that they have sung well until they expose their mortal body which in reality has an end or until they have spoken in a vulgar language. But why? In 2 SAMUEL 13:1-19 the Bible says “ABSALOM SON of David had a fair sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon [her half brother] son of David loved her. And Amnon was so troubled that he fell sick for his [half] sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and Amnon thought it impossible for him to do anything to her. But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab 45

son of Shimeah, David`s brother; and Jonadab was a very crafty man. He said to him, Go to bed and pretend you are sick; and when your father David comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come and give me food and prepare it in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand. So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, I pray you, let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand. Then David sent home and told Tamar, Go now to your brother Amnon`s house and prepare food for him. So Tamar went to her 46 brother Amnon`s house, and he was in bed. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked them. She took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, send everyone out from me. So everyone went out from him. Then Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food here into the bedroom, so I may eat from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother. And when she brought them to him, he took hold of her and said, Come lie with me, my sister. She replied, No, my brother! Do not force and humble me, for no such thing should 47

be done in Israel! Do not do this foolhardy, scandalous thing! And I, how could I rid myself of my shame? And you, you will be [considered] one of the stupid fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you. But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that his hatred for her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Get up and get out! But she said, No! This great evil of sending me away is worse than what you did to me. But he would not listen to her. He called the 48 servant who served him and said, Put this woman out of my presence now, and bolt the door after her! Now [Tamar] was wearing a long robe with sleeves and of various colors, for in such robes were the king`s virgin daughters clad of old. Then Amnon`s servant brought her out and bolted the door after her. And [she] put ashes on her head and tore the long, sleeved robe which she wore, and she laid her hand on her head and went away shrieking and wailing.” When Adam and Eve fell in the Garden of Eden, GENESIS 3:11 says “And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that 49

you should not eat?” For we know that God knew that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, but His issue was with the one [satan] who told them about their nakedness and directions concerning the eating of that fruit; this means that for every spoiling there is an origin; this is why Tamar pleaded with Amnon saying “This kind of thing isn`t done in Israel! Don`t do this terrible thing!” We realize that this evil upon Tamar by Amnon was because of a wrong company of Amnon whose good friend was Jonadab who the Bible says was very crafty [exceptionally streetwise; very subtle; very shrewd]. This we see that due to God`s principles in 50 Israel, the Bible says “Amnon thought it impossible for him to do anything to her”, for as we know that the Bible in PROVERBS 22:6 says “Train up a child in the way he should go [and in keeping with his individual gift or bent], and when he is old he will not depart from it.” We see that this Amnon also was taught, however we realize friendship is a heart to heart relationship; this is why the Bible in PROVERBS 18:24 says “The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” This means that there is a friendship that precedes even blood, 51

meaning that such a one also has access to one`s heart or the hidden treasure deposited into ones, and this means that such a friend can corrupt that treasure to one`s detriment, and for this the Bible says in PROVERBS 4:23 “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.” For we see emphasis put in one guarding their heart with all that they guard, because from [out of] it are issues of life; this is why I now see why Jesus warned us in LUKE 11:35 saying “Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness”, because it is possible for one to be deceived that they 52 are standing yet they are fallen and this is the essence of self-examination lest we run this race of faith in vain. When closely looking at the situation between Tamar, Amnon and Jonadab, we realize that a thing still happens even up to date however having undergone mutation. We see that it was Jonadab who opened Amnon`s eyes to a possibility of him fulfilling his lusts on his sister Tamar as PROVERBS 12:26 tells us that the godly give good advice to their friends; but the wicked lead them astray. Due to a spoiling learnt from the wicked ones, certain people have ended up corrupting the Truth of God, as some have 53

deliberately chosen to call certain things normal so as to satisfy [gratify] the lusts of their flesh whose end is destruction. Just as Amnon thought it to be love that he had for her sister, however we see that this was deception; it should be noted that there is no love outside God, for Christ Himself is Love. We have seen that a certain deception of this form creep into people`s minds to think that giving in their bodies to others is love; No! This is not true; Love can only be expressed in the person of Christ, for He speaks in JOHN 14:23 “If a person [really] loves Me, he will keep My word [obey My teaching]; and My Father will love him, 54 and We will come to him and make Our home (abode, special dwelling place) with him.” We see that to one who thinks loves God, there is a place of obedience at all costs to His Word, lest people perish in the compromise of the worldly and fleshly dictates. We have seen relationships built on the wisdoms of this world turn into hatred overnight, we have seen people be ashamed beyond the so called love in their engagements; we should know the principles of Love; for the Bible says in 1 JOHN 4:18 that there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out all fear, and this is why the story of Amnon and Tamar stands in history to 55

instruct and direct the people of our times concerning the way we ought to renew our minds by the Word of God. A certain friend of mine one time laughed saying that Christians entitle everyone a title “Sister, Brother, Mother, Father, Uncle and Auntie”, as to him he beheld things another way not inspired by the Spirit of God. HEBREWS 13:4 says “Let marriage be held in honor (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all things. And thus let the marriage bed be undefiled (kept undishonored); for God will judge and punish the unchaste [all guilty of sexual vice] and adulterous.” This means that in 56 all things marriage should be held honorable to both the married and unmarried [young]; this means that we ought to behold marriage as sacred, as well as honoring the married people from whom we learn from things concerning marriage. And also the Bible speaks of the marital bed being undefiled; this means that there is no other bed the Bible recognizes except the Matrimonial bed; therefore why should people be deceived in cohabitations, fornications, adulteries and all manner of lusts whose end is destruction. For Apostle Paul says in 1 CORINTHIANS 7:8-11 “But to the unmarried people and to the widows, I 57

declare that it is well (good, advantageous, expedient, and wholesome) for them to remain [single] even as I do. But if they have not selfcontrol (restraint of their passions), they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame [with passion and tortured continually with ungratified desire]. But to the married people I give charge--not I but the Lord--that the wife is not to separate from her husband. But if she does [separate from and divorce him], let her remain single or else be reconciled to her husband. And [I charge] the husband [also] that he should not put away or divorce his wife.” We see Apostle 58 Paul clearly tell us that it is expedient for one to remain single, however he says if one does not have self-control or instead of one burning with passions; they [unmarried or widows] should marry. This excludes the married because indeed it is foolishness for them also to burn with passion; this is why the Bible tells the wife that her body belongs to the husband and that of the husband belongs to the wife [1 CORINTHIANS 7:4]. We also see Apostle Paul by God urge the married stay married in other words not to separate or divorce, why? Because it is for their good, or if they are separated, they be reconciled. 59

We have seen people blame the up bring of their marriage partners but this should not be an excuse, because the Bible says that when one marries, the husband leaves the father`s house to be joined with the wife [not again in the wife`s parents home but their own] and the two become one flesh; this means that one ought to apply wisdom in all aspects of this long life marriage instead of blaming parents, because they become parents of their own with God as their over role Parent; for example there is need to apply wisdom in everything, Brother Kenneth E. Hagin wrote in his book entitled “Love The Way To Victory” saying 60 “I`ve trained myself through the years to think like: “How is what I’m about to say or do going to affect the other fellow? Love worketh no ill to anyone. Is what I’m about to say or do going to hurt the other person? If it is, then I can`t say it or do it.”” This is what Apostle Paul sought to mean in ROMANS 14:15 saying “But if your brother is being pained or his feelings hurt or if he is being injured by what you eat, [then] you are no longer walking in love. [you have ceased to be living and conducting yourself by the standard of love toward him.] Do not let what you eat hurt or cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died!” The question 61

is, How many times are we willing to abandon certain things just for another brother or sister`s sake? Most especially we the born again Christians, although we have a cloud of witnesses cheering upon us in heaven, we ought to know that here on earth we also have very many people who learn from us; for example, how do we conduct ourselves outside Church [fellowship], and in our homes or at work place and very many other places, therefore we ought to know that in us dwells a temple not made with human hands but one Whose maker is God, meaning that we are always before the presence of God. 62 The Bible has much to do with instructing people on issues concerning the use of the tongue. For it is true that we are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and because of this even our speech and responses change; for the Bible says in GALATIANS 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness, Gentleness (meekness, humility), selfcontrol (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [that can bring a charge].” The man of God 63

Kenneth E. Hagin explained the issue of fruit saying that fruit grows on the branches and not on the stem. In JOHN 15:5-8 the Jesus says, “I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned. If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be 64 done for you. When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.” This Scripture is wonderful, for we realize that we are the branches connected into the Vine [Jesus Christ] and He tells that unless we abide in Him [allow His Word to work in us], we cannot bear fruit; this means that it is up to everyone to allow the Word of God to work in them. This is why we realize that although a good tree bears good fruit, some branches can choose to be dormant [silent; inactive and indifferent] concerning the things of God, these the Bible says in JOHN 15:2 65

that “Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes way); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.” This means that even to God, He rejoices in His servants who bear much fruit; for the Bible says that in this God is glorified and this is what shows that we are true followers of God; for these ones the Bible says that He repeatedly prunes, and this is why even in the old ages we shall always bear fruit, glory to God for His faithfulness. Back to GALATIANS 5:22-23 when the Bible says 66 “But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit is”; this simply means that the person of the Holy Spirit is Fruitful, and because He now dwells in us permanently, His fruit are with Him in us and awaiting us to yield to His leading and by this we are exercised and exercising ourselves in His nature which is also ours. For example, in 1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7 the Bible speaks of Love a nature that is in us because of the residence of the Holy Spirit in us saying that this love never gives up [never fails], it cares more for others than for self, it doesn`t want what it doesn`t have, it doesn`t force itself on others, it doesn`t keep score of the sins of others, it takes 67

pleasure in the flowering of truth, and Trusts God always; this means that if the Holy Spirit is in your leading, He responds to the nature in Him by the Word deposited in your spirit man. This is the reason why the God tells us in ROMANS 12:2 to transform our mind which transformation is by hearing, reading and meditating on His Word, and by this our mind is renewed; meaning that the mind lets go of certain things or habits it once esteemed good, so that it abides by the Truths it has conceived hence proving [by experience] what is good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. In PROVERBS 15:1 the Bible says “A SOFT 68 answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.” Here we see that because the Holy Spirit is in us whose character is gentleness, kindness, joy, love and peace; our nature is the same and so we exercise ourselves in Him through His leading, for example, in MARK 15:1-5 the Bible says “AND IMMEDIATELY when it was morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole council, held a consultation; and when they had bound Jesus, they took Him away [violently] and handed Him over to Pilate. And Pilate inquired of Him, Are You the King of the Jews? And He replied, it is as you say. And 69

the chief priests kept accusing Him of many things. And Pilate again asked Him, Have You no answer to make? See how many charges they are bringing against You! But Jesus made no further answer at all, so that Pilate wondered and marveled.” In the Scripture above we see Jesus lay down certain principles of wisdom when faced with persecution, and some of the include; 1) Polite response; for we see Him gently respond to Pilate the governor who inquired from Him whether He was the King of the Jews. 70 2) Silence; for we see that although Pilate tried to pressure Him to give His defense against the accusations and allegations directed to Him. We also realize that the point of silence was not because He had no words to retaliate the accusations; but it was because He knew Who was on His side in spite of the multitudes, clergy and witnesses which all could have proven Him guilty. This is the same with us who have also been justified through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 71

3) Proving self to be right is not in our nature because we know who we are; we see that in the first place Jesus responded to Pilate when given an opportunity answer Who He really Is, however on the second opportunity given to Him to justify Himself, He just turned it down by saying nothing. 4) We judge and evaluate the hearts of men; we see previously the Bible say that Jesus did not commit Himself to them when they wanted to make Him King as He knew the hearts of men, later on we see the same people accuse Him for 72 blasphemy as King of the Jews. From this we know that not all opportunities are for utilization, remember these men`s hearts were even waxed and dull of hearing, and so silence was far much more than speaking. 5) The way we conduct ourselves and respond to persecutions communicates our maturity in God; this is the reason Pilate wondered and marveled at Jesus, in other words Pilate was taught and learnt much in Jesus` persecution. This is the same reason as to why the Bible in ACTS 12:24 73

says “But the word of the Lord [concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God] continued to grow and spread.” This means that the Gospel eventually outlives its persecutors as Gamaliel rightly spoke in ACTS 5:38-39 saying “Now in the present case let me say to you, stand off (withdraw) from these men and let them alone. For if this doctrine or purpose or undertaking or movement is of human origin, it will fail (be overthrown and come to nothing); But if it is of God, you will not be able to stop or overthrow or 74 destroy them; you might even be found fighting against God!” In the Book of 1 CORINTHIANS 7, Apostle Paul addresses a number of issues from the questions asked him by the Corinthian Church, however our point of discussion will be on two main aspects namely; 1. Sexual relations and sexual desire, and 2. The service of God prevails over everything. 1. Sexual relations and sexual desire. Looking at the Corinth Church, it was very spiritual however unlearnt in very many aspects; this is why in most cases they pursued knowledge so as to further grow 75

spiritually, in 1 CORINTHIANS 1:8-9 Paul tells them saying, “And He will establish you to the end [keep you steadfast, give you strength, and guarantee your vindication; He will be your warrant against all accusation or indictment so that you will be] guiltless and irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” In the Message version, Verse 9 says “God, who got you started in this spiritual 76 adventure, shares with us the life of His Son and our Master Jesus. He will never give up on you. Never forget that.” From this portions of Verses, Apostle Paul sought to awaken and align the consciences of the Corinth Church to the faithfulness and love of God as we see him emphasize that in all circumstances they ought to look up to God, as he used words like, “God will establish you to the end as He would keep them steadfast, strengthen them and guarantee their vindication [plead in their favor], He would keep them guiltless and irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, God is reliable, trustworthy 77

and ever true to His promise”, Apostle Paul further urged them never to forget that God will never give up on them. This all Apostle Paul reminded them because it was very possible for a born again Christian to forsake salvation because of the weaknesses [persecution and many troubles] they are facing in the flesh and yet God is able when given an opportunity to sort everything. Remember Paul was not speaking this to only the Corinth Church but to also you and I. In addition to the above, 1 JOHN 3:20 says, “Whenever our hearts in [tormenting] self-accusation make us feel guilty and condemn us. [For we are in 78 God`s hands.] For He is above and greater than our consciences (our hearts), and He knows (perceives and understands) everything [nothing is hidden from Him].” This means that whenever condemnation, guilt and whatever could come into our mind [heart], we heed to God [His Word] because He is greater than what could ever condemn you. Back to our point of discussion, in the Message Version 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-2 says, “Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? Certainly--but only within a certain context. It`s good for a man to 79

have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder.” Here we see that the question asked Apostle Paul by the Corinth Church was as though there were many sexual relations, which Apostle Paul corrected there understanding pointing them to one sexual relation and that is; that of a husband and wife. The question from the Corinth Church when modernized to the situation of the nowadays, it includes issues to do with the girlfriend and boyfriend relationship, 80 cohabitations and all sexual vices; talking about this so called relationship, it is out of [not within] the Biblical context; meaning it is was laid down through the wisdoms of this world which are brought to naught [nothing]. When I tried to search out for the so called meaning of girlfriend and boyfriend, the definitions I got was that “it is a relationship in which parties are romantically involved”, and the question is, involved with husband or wife? Whose answer is a “No”, this therefore should open the eye of a Christian believer to know that the world has a pre-conceived plan to belittle the Biblical truth to just something small; for 81

we have heard of situations where a husband is called a boyfriend, and wife a girlfriend; this is a wrong perception of Godly things. Furthermore, Apostle Paul speak of the strength of Marriage, in 1 CORINTHIANS 7:2[MSG] he said, “Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder.” From the above Verse we realize that even in the times of Paul [since they lived in the same world we live in today], the people of his time also had ungodly sexual desires. We see him say that sexual drives are strong, however 82 marriage is strong enough to contain this sexual drive. More than that, when a marriage is not established on purpose, it will be as though the aim of marriage is to only fulfill the sexual drive which is a wrong mentality; to you [me] we look to the bigger picture, for example to one with a broadened perspective of marriage, they see an opportunity to reach out to the relatives [in-laws] of the wife or husband with the Gospel of Jesus Christ; this is what keeps married partners faithful to one another even in long absences of the other partner, my Spiritual Father Apostle Grace Lubega 83

often tells us “to Look to the bigger picture.” 2. The service of God prevails over everything. We see in the Book of 1 CORINTHIANS 7 Apostle talk about the issue of one either being married or remaining single, as to him he preferred and urged those able to remain single. Verse 8-9[MSG] says, “I do, though, tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me. But if they can`t manage their desires and emotions, they should by all means go ahead and get married. The difficulties of 84 marriage are preferable by far to a sexually tortured life as a single.” Verse 29-35 says, “I do want to point out, friends, that time is of the essence. There is no time to waste, so don`t complicate your lives unnecessarily. Keep it simple-in marriage, grief, joy, whatever. Even in ordinary things--your daily routines of shopping, and so on. Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is on its way out. I want you to live as free of complications as possible. When you`re unmarried, you`re free to concentrate on simply pleasing the Master. Marriage involves you in all the nuts and bolts of 85

domestic life and in wanting to please your spouse, leading to so many more demands on your attention. The time and energy that married people spend on caring for and nurturing each other, the unmarried can spend in becoming whole and holy instruments of God. I`m trying to be helpful and make it as easy as possible for you, not make things harder. All I want is for you to be able to develop a way of life in which you can spend plenty of time together with the Master without a lot of distractions.” From the above portion of Scripture, Apostle Paul introduces us to a beautiful realm in God called Worship [Fellowship], to him he 86 preferred to be single [unmarried] just because he wanted to commune with God in an unbroken Fellowship [in simple terms without too much distractions and commitments with many other things]. It should be noted that this does not mean that all those who marry have a loose relationship with God. What this points us to is that we need to incline to the Spiritual aspect rather than the physical while making choices of our spouses, for example, the definitions of the physical are to what the eye can see, what the ear can hear [generally senses] and yet these are too destructive to the Spiritual destiny of one’s life. To us [you and I], we 87

examine the hearts of our spouses, we seek God`s mind about it and evaluate whether our would be spouses are able to understand and grow the vision of God upon our lives. This also in one way or another pushes us who have believed to a jurisdiction of choice [of our marriage partners] within the household of faith. Furthermore, being single without the understanding of God [like Paul did] is equivalent to hitting shipwreck, this is so because it will be doing a disservice to yourself. I one time got an opportunity to talk to a certain friend who wanted to be a clergy in a certain faith, my question to him was about what his motive was in 88 wanting to be a clergy. His response to me was that the clergy are given free cars, they sleep in good houses, they neither toil nor sow; this is a timid mind, for it is carnality. Apostle Paul beheld the end of everything saying that there was no time to waste with complications in this life. In addition to the above, Paul lays down a certain principle to the young and unmarried who have maybe not yet attained the age of marriage as per the laws of their nations [countries], or who are still working on maybe resources so as to marry. This principle states that they [young and unmarried] should just devout their life and everything to the 89

service of God, as we do not seek completion by marriage because we the born again believers are already complete in Christ. In the Book of MATTHEW, Jesus also emphasized on the issue of being single to those who are able, He said in MATTHEW 19:9-12[MSG] “I`m holding you to the original plan, and holding you liable for adultery if you divorce your faithful wife and then marry someone else. I make an exception in cases where the spouse has committed adultery.” Jesus` disciples objected, “If those are the terms of marriage, we`re stuck. Why get married?” But Jesus said, “Not everyone 90 is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn`t for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked--or accepted. And some decide not to get married for the kingdom reasons. But if you`re capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it.” In the Amplified Bible Version, the word “Eunuch” is used to mean those who have given in to live a single life. From this point of Scripture, we see that Paul meant the singleness which Jesus talked of in Verse 12 which states that some decide to get married for kingdom 91

reasons. With all this we realize that choices are made voluntarily at will of the decision maker, hence in all things whether single or married, it is expedient to esteem highly than any other thing your relationship with the Master and Father God. We also see Him say that marriage is a grace and it requires a certain maturity [both Spiritual and physical]. We ought to understand children or who a child is. Before starting this discussion, you a woman and man reading this book ought to always think positive of your children in the flesh and those to come; in other never admit certain thought into 92 your mind, such as thoughts of barrenness and miscarriages. Looking through Scripture, it was in parents of the children to speak into the destinies of their children either when still in the womb or at birth, for example in the Book of GENESIS 4:1 the Bible says “AND ADAM knew Eve as his wife, and she became pregnant and bore Cain; and she said, I have gotten and gained a man with the help of the Lord.” In addition to the above, GENESIS 30:22-24 the Bible says, “Then God remembered Rachel and answered her pleading and made it possible for her to have children. And [now for the first time] she became 93

pregnant and bore a son; and she said, God has taken away my reproach, disgrace, and humiliation. And she called his name Joseph [may he add] and said, May the Lord add to me another son.” As seen above, this was done over and over again in Scripture meaning that it was and is a Biblical principle laid down, so one could be questioning whether they were spoken over by their parents. The answer is yes, your life was spoken over by God. In the Book of JEREMIAH 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating 94 you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Remember this God was not only speaking to Jeremiah alone but to also you and I. In other words before you were in existence, God spoke into your life and saw you in His service, is it not wonderful? In addition to the above, ROMANS 8:28-30 says, “We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose. For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning 95

[foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He said justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].” From this we see that God spoke His service into your life, and He even prepared you for it by justifying and glorifying you having believed in Jesus Christ. However this does not deny 96 you as a parent from speaking into the lives of your children maybe when still in the wombs, as the Bible says that He [God] has given power over life in the tongue [PROVERBS 18:21]; that means that you can position your children to a life of obedience, joy, love and peace when even unborn; this is why John the Baptist had not to wait until he was born to be filled with the Holy Spirit, but was filled from his mother`s womb [LUKE 1:15]. In MATTHEW 19:13-15 the Bible says “Then little children were brought to Jesus, that He might put His hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked 97

those who brought them. But He said, Leave the children alone! Allow the little ones to come to Me, and do not forbid or restrain or hinder them, for of such [as these] is the kingdom of heaven composed. And He put His hands upon them, and they went on His way.” From this portion of Scripture we see that the parents of these children with a right motive brought their children to Jesus so that He might lay His hand upon them, from where they are rebuked by the disciples, which was responded by Christ saying, “Leave the children alone! Allow the little ones to come to Me, and do not forbid or restrain or hinder them, for of 98 such [as these] is the kingdom of heaven composed.” This is so painful, in MATTHEW 23:13 Jesus said, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men`s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.” We have seen such things be, as we all know that we are anointed by God for men, Apostle Paul says that these are the people Christ died for, in other words we by all means need to simplify the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people; why should we complicate things. For example, why should a price be put in the Gospel? The 99

Bible says in MATTHEW 10:8 “Freely (without pay) you have received, freely (without charge) give.” Another example is in LUKE 13:10-17 which says, “Now Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had an infirmity caused by a spirit (a demon of sickness). She was bent completely forward and utterly unable to straighten herself up or to look upward. And when Jesus saw her, He called [her to Him] and said to her, Woman, you are released from your infirmity! Then He laid [His] hands on her, and instantly she was made straight, and 100 she recognized and thanked and praised God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, There are six days on which work ought to be done; so come on those days and be cured, and not on the Sabbath day. But the Lord replied to him, saying, You playactors (hypocrites)! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it out to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day? Even as He said this, all His opponents were 101

put to shame, and all the people were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were rejoicing over all the glorious things that were being done by Him.” From the above portion of Scripture Jesus opens our eyes to know the value or preciousness of a life or a soul before God; this is what kept Jesus and the Apostles preaching and teaching the Gospel from time to time, this is what kept the approachable, this is what makes Apostle Paul in 1 CORINTHIANS 9:16 say, “For if I [merely] preach the Gospel, that gives me no reason to boast, for I feel compelled of necessity to do it. Woe is me if I do not preach the glad 102 tidings (the Gospel)!” It is so sad that we have seen people value their pet [dogs], assets and businesses than a soul, it would be funny for a neighbor to hunger and one provides a nice meal to a pet; this is what the Pharisees did, to them feeding a donkey is good, and healing a child of God which had failed them is bad because it was done not on their conditions. No wonder why certain people are angered when someone they stepped on is elevated by God. Jesus says that LUKE 18:22 that one has to die to everything which is material gain [the assets, wealth not setting their heart on them but on God.] before they follow 103

Him, for the Bible says that as many as are led by the Spirit these are sons of God. [ROMANS 8:14], because of this we respond to the communications or call of the Spirit, for example, as God communicated to Abraham to offer to Him his only son Isaac who was his only heir and love; in such a circumstance what would you do?; we see that God by this same principle offered His only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, this means that we ought to die to the world and be alive and connected to God. In Scripture Jesus emphasizes on the Christians adopting to the character of a child, in MATTHEW 18:1-4 the Bible says, 104 “AT THAT time the disciples came up and asked Jesus, Who then is [really] the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And He called a little child to Himself and put him in the midst of them, And said, Truly I say to you, unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all]. Whoever will humble himself therefore and become like this little child [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving] is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Here we see that if Jesus only meant to point us to only humility, He would symbolically use a sheep or dove, 105

however by use of the same principles spelt out by the Amplified Bible namely; Trust, Lowly, Love, and Forgiveness. We see that by all means we ought to trust God without much questioning Him on what and how He would do, we ought to be lowly or humble which humility is from the Biblical perspective [such as embracing and taking Him at His Word], we ought to love [walk in Agape] and forgiveness whose principle is forgetting and no more recalling the past for instance narrating the stories of the past.2 2 I recommend you to listen to the sermon entitled “Forgiveness, Love, and the Spirit of Humility” by Apostle Grace Lubega. 106 In EPHESIANS 6:1-4 the Bible says, “CHILDREN, OBEY your parents in the Lord [as His representatives], for this is just and right. Honor (esteem and value as precious) your father and your mother-this is the first commandment with a promise--That all may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth. Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord.” [COLOSIANS 3:20-21]. From this portion of Scripture we see both children and parents given responsibility or certain 107

expectations from God. Firstly with a child, obedience and honor to parents can also be understood from the perspective of them [our dear loving parents] being esteemed to have a superior mind, treating them with dignity, ranking them high above us in everything, treating them with a complimentary manner, putting them into consideration as the first priority, and also to add on this, never at any time being angry with them although they are at fault [loving, forgiving, praying for and supporting them by all means]. We also need to know that the place of honor and obedience is not from outward service 108 but from the heart. For example, how do we address our parents [both biological and those in the Lord], how do we respond to the needs of our parents [remember there is something called “being self-driven” as you need not to wait to be told something for you to act]. If anyone is reading this Book and you have an issue with someone above [superior or even lower to] you, may you release your heart today and do forgive them because of the Jesus Christ you have believed. I have always seen how joyful my mother and father introduce me to their friends; this in one way or another touches deep in my heart. We 109

have also seen some people even fear to reveal their parents to the people; this is so sad, no one in this world should ever be ashamed of either their home or parents. In every situation just know that God is counting on you for Him to change your household, for example if you come from a drunkard family do not be ashamed of it, but believe God for it`s conversion. Talking about parents, EPHESIANS 6:4 says “Fathers, do not irritate and provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to resentment], but rear them [tenderly] in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the 110 Lord.” From this Scripture, by the Bible using the word “fathers”, it does not mean that fathers are tougher than mothers, but because the two when married become one flesh, there is no offence in it meaning both mother and father in one expression. By the Bible urging parents not to irritate and provoke their children to anger, it simply seeks to mean that even children can be angered although they have no voice to speak it out. This is so fundamental because this could birth rebellion in a child which is very wrong, for example, which glory is it for a parent to be known in the whole neighborhood as the toughest [in terms 111

of caning], angry [short tempered], abusive, and quarrelsome. These are ungodly elements to be identified with you, how and why should you impose corporal punishment on your own seed from your loins so as to satisfy the invisible and intangible anger in you, we should not take pride in our very own crying and making noise for others over and over again. As a parent, the Bible says that you should rear your children tenderly in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord; this means that as a parent we ought to know and presume our children to be as those whom we know much over and so 112 we seek to teach them from where they fail, which teaching is from the Biblical perspective, for example the Bible says that love draws men unto repentance, he who is forgiven much loves much, and so we apply these truths in our dealings with our children other than applying gruesome experiments and ideas of this world leaving scars on the bodies of our children. When growing up, there was a certain joy in our hearts when our parents told us that we were forgiven and pardoned when in fault which deserved some strokes [kiboko]. As we all know that it is very difficult to preach Jesus to 113

someone you have frustrated and angered. In the Book of JOHN 8:12 says “Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.” Furthermore, MATTHEW 5:14 says to you the believer that “You are the light of the world.” There is something about light which we need to understand today. To most people, they consider whatever shines bright [glitters] and white as light. No, this is not true. The Bible clearly tells us that even Lucifer can transform itself as an angel of Light, the Bible still tells us 114 that even wolves have mastered the art of hypocrisy so that they can wear sheep`s clothing and keep in their company, and even feed around them. When Jesus speaks of Himself being Light, it simply means “An Identity”. In the Book GENESIS 1:1-6 the Bible says, “IN THE beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw that the 115

light was good (suitable, pleasant) and He approved it; and God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. And God said, Let there be a firmament [the expanse of the sky] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters [below] from the waters [above].” Understanding the above Scripture, we see that according to the mind of God, He did not create darkness, but darkness in its entity forced itself out into existence. As we see that when God created the heaven and earth, darkness forced itself into existence when 116 the earth was created. After this, as we all know that there can be no manifestation of anything without light, as EPHESIANS 5:13 says, “But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light”, in simple words manifest means being “visible and clear.” Because of this darkness yet God still had to create other things, He had to make light in Verse 3. In Verse 4, we see that God appreciated the light and called it good [suitable and pleasant]. We realize that this appreciation forced Darkness again to attach itself with light, which forced God again to re-separate light 117

from darkness in Verse 4 and 5. To further show that manifestation can only be made by light, we see that all the things were created during the day and not night. We realize that the principle of the day [Light] and night [Darkness] remained up to until the days of Adam and Eve as revealed to us in MATTHEW 13:24-30 which says, “Another parable He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while he was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed also darnel (weeds resembling wheat) among the wheat, and went on his way. So when the plants sprouted and formed 118 grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also. And the servants of the owner came to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have darnel shoots in it? He replied to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Then do want us to go and weed them out? But he said, No, lest in gathering the wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you root up the [true] wheat along with it. Let them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary.” Glory to God, for we see that in 119

Verse 38, Jesus said, “The field is the world, and the good seed means the children of the kingdom; the darnel is the children of the evil one.” As we know that God neither sleeps nor slumbers, but it was Adam who slept in the case of this parable as he forsook the instructions afore given him by God, from this we see that when man adopted to the words of the enemy, he fell from his place with God; this was the rejuvenation of darkness in the world again. Hereafter, we see that from the mercy of God, He gave man an opportunity to be revived; this we see that Jesus Christ had to come once and for all just as the light created in 120 GENESIS 1:3. This is the point from which Jesus Christ says that He is the Light of the world [JOHN 8:12, 9:5] although to the carnal eye could see the sun was still shining normally. Thereafter we see that this Light not only came to shine into the world, but He came as a door of manifestation us who believe in Him as children of God. This is why for this Light, John the Baptizer testified of Him saying in JOHN 1:5 “And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].” We see that for this Light, it is exceptional in that there is no 121

competition between Him and darkness, because darkness cannot stand or even compete Him; this is why He is a Light in the dark world, making of saints from the dark world; this is why when He died He could preach the Gospel to the dead as the devil looks on from a far off as Hell is emptied [depopulated] as COLOSSIANS 2:12-15 [MSG] says, “If it`s an initiation ritual you`re after, you`ve already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were 122 incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive--right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ`s Cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.” This is the Jesus Christ we speak of, as He purchased us from Darkness [which could not fight for us anymore to be under its authority] and He set us into [inside to be one and the same, partaking of His] Marvelous Light. We see that having Him set us into His Marvelous Light, He also calls us the Light 123

of the world [MATTHEW 5:14], from where He adds on to say “A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”; in other words, it means that, we have found an identity in Christ. However, it is worth knowing how we came to see and receive of that Light. ROMANS 10:8-10 says “But what does it say? The Word (God`s message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach, Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For 124 with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.” From the above Scripture we see and realize that everyone in the Light had to believe in Jesus Christ as their Personal Lord and Savior through the preaching of His Glorious Gospel. Through this Gospel, someone comes to believe in his or her heart that Jesus is Lord and Savior, which is accompanied by the confession of the same unto salvation; this is what you came for in this world. In the Book of 2 125

CORINTHIANS 4:3-6 says, “But even if our Gospel (the glad tidings) also be hidden (obscured and covered up with a veil that hinders the knowledge of God), it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing and obscured [only] to those who are lost. For the god of this world has blinded the unbelievers` mind [that they should not discern the truth], preventing them from seeing the illuminating light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ (the Messiah), Who is the image and Likeness of God. For what we preach is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves [merely] as your servants (slaves) for Jesus` sake. For God Who 126 said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah).” It is true that it is only by the Gospel of Jesus Christ that people`s eyes are open to behold the Truth and believe for their salvation, in this portion of Scripture Apostle Paul gives of a scenario where they preached the True Gospel of Jesus Christ however there were some who did not respond positively by believing in Jesus Christ; he later concluded that the god of this world had 127

blinded them that their eyes should not discern the Truth which is able to illuminate [enlighten] them; this is the same issue Jesus kept addressing in MATTHEW 13:14-15 which says, “In them indeed is the process of fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah, which says: You shall indeed hear and hear but never grasp and understand; and you shall indeed look and look but never see and perceive. For this nation`s heart has grown gross (fat and dull), and their ears heavy and difficult of hearing, and their eyes they have tightly closed, lest they see and perceive with their eyes, and hear and comprehend the sense with their ears, 128 and grasp and understand their heart, and turn and I should heal them.” We realize that having the devil deprived non-believers of their eyes, they will indeed use ears to see, of which it is impossible; these the Jesus says that they are judged already because of unbelief in Him [JOHN 3:18]. It should be noted that the devil can transform itself in each and every way, but it cannot reveal Truth to the hearers [if any] because there is no Truth in it but deception; for example, the devil cannot callout people for Salvation [it can never make alter calls, no matter what situation]. 129

Finally, HEBREWS 12:1-3 says, “THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us, Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and 130 perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds.” In this Scripture, we are revealed to that Christ faced great opposition and trials, however there was something that kept him moving in spite of such grievous opposition and bitter 131

hostility; and this was, the prize set before him. When we were young, we used to be told that God`s eyes are upon us and therefore we ought not to sin just because He sees and watches over us. However with all this said, this could not liberate us from sin, because sin felt like a force whose call we responded to every time it demanded. However when we grew in God, we realized that firstly, it is the Law which awakens our conscience to sin, secondly, we realized by the teachings of the Great Men and Women of God and attested to by the Scriptures that we were forgiven of God through His Love and Mercy which is unmerited and 132 for this we respond to that Love by faith and not of works. Even after this, some still felt some manifestations of the very weaknesses which were indeed dealt away by Christ, and the question is about what the problem is? The Bible in 1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 says, “You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.” We see that the Bible speaks of us being bought by a price, the Bible says in LUKE 14:28-30 [KJV] “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, 133

whether he have [sufficient] to finish [it]? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish [it], all that behold [it] begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.” We realize that Christ paid the cost and did everything for us; which means that we are living under the Finished Works of Christ. And the question is, what then is our responsibility in Him? The answer is simple. You should know that; You are in a race for an incorruptible crown, and the Bible says that just as the earthly races have rules, so has this Spiritual race [2 TIMOTHY 2:5]. The Bible in MATTHEW 134 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men.” We see that the reason to as to why salt is good is because its flavor which makes it possible to be seasoned; remember that there is a demand and mandate by God to every Christian, we ought to know the price by which we were bought; in simple terms we ought to know the Foundation in which we have been built in, after this we ought to understand and know the Prize that has been set before us; this is what 135

distinguishes one Christian from another. As we know that we have the authority over everything, sin inclusive, but how come that even to lips of the Church addictions are praised [exalted] day and night, and yet there are bigger things God expects us to indulge in, JAMES 5:12 says, “But above all [things], my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath; but let your yes be [a simple] yes, and your no be [a simple] no, so that you may not sin and fall under condemnation.” The principle is laid down here, that no more do we say “no” to satan`s works without power, but we say it with power and authority which is 136 resident in us as temples of the Most High God. We also realize that salt itself is responsible for its loss of flavor, this is the same with Christian believers; do you have substance? We see that as the Light of the world Jesus was able to transform the lives of His physical family into active ministry, and so it is with us, because our family status changed [to that of Faith], we by the heartbeat of God have a demand to reach out to our families for God, remember this is the reason God positioned you in that family. 137

If anyone there wants to receive Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, having believed in your heart, please confess the words below with your mouth, say; Dear Lord Jesus, I believe that You died for my sins and that You were raised for me, today, I receive You as my Lord and Savior, I am born again. Amen. You are now a child of God, and you have eternal life in you. Therefore you can join a Grace teaching Church and continue to know about the New Life you are begotten into. Amen. 138 Other books written by the author. 1. BORN AGAIN, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU. 2. BEYOND MASTERY IN THE LIFE ABOVE WEAKNESS. 3. THE JESUS GENE. 4. THE SPIRIT OF ERR. 5. RESURRECTION. 139

ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Opale Frank is a son to Mr. Ojame Okiror Robert and Ms. Tino Ketty. My Spiritual Father is Apostle Grace Lubega. PLOT. This book handles many aspects of which it focuses on marriage, family and a child. It is one thing for you to be born in a family and it is another thing to seek the mind of God concerning the reason to as to why you were sent by God into that family. Amen. For any information email: opalefrank94@gmail.com.

THE JESUS GENE. THE RETURN OF THE ANCIENT DAYS WITH A SPLENDID GLORY. THE MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE LATER CHURCH. WRITTEN BY: OPALE FRANK. 1st EDITION. BY THE INSPIRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO: APOSTLE GRACE LUBEGA

The Scriptural references are from the Amplified Bible and also the King James Version. INTRODUCTION TO THIS BOOK. This is a Christian Book which opens our eyes to the Truth of what God is communicating to not only this generation but also to the Church of Jesus Christ which has chosen to believe Him and His Word [which is True and Spirit filled]. It helps us to look beyond what we see with the physical eye to what the physical cannot describe. DANIEL 12:3 says “And the teachers and those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness (to uprightness and right standing with God) [shall give forth light] like the stars forever and ever.” God while speaking of them who turn many to righteousness was speaking of these times of the New Testament when indeed Salvation shall be preached for the redemption of men and for their righteousness which is of faith in Christ Jesus giving them [all men] an assurance of eternal life. JAMES 5:19-20 says “My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God`s truth, don`t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering from God.” This means that responsibility is laid upon each and every believer in Jesus Christ to minister Salvation to the men of the world and to the saints who have wandered off from God`s Truth. It opens us to more than the words written in can utter; to what the Spirit of God will be ministering to you as read it.

This is one of the privileged times to live-in in human history. When looking at the past, from where things revolved to the present, we realize that all the history of mankind has been about the Church of Christ. It is one thing for the worldly times to be categorized in “BC and AD” meaning “Before the birth of Christ and After the death of Christ”. Looking at the history of the Church of Jesus Christ, particularly the Early Church, these men and women lived the Life which is of God as it was no more about them but God alone. Let’s consider where it all began from. In the book of LUKE 24:48-49, the Bible says, “You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I will send forth upon you what My Father has promised; but remain in the city [Jerusalem] until you are clothed with power from on high.” We clearly see from the words of Jesus Christ, that indeed the disciples had indeed witnessed all about Him, and could narrate the beginning and the journey they have walked with Jesus Christ, however to Jesus Christ, this was not all He purposed for the New Testament Church. That is why much as they had the witness of Him, He instructed them to remain [tarry, wait on Him] in Jerusalem until they receive the power from on high [Holy Spirit] as promised by God. Remember, it has never been spoken of that the disciples of Jesus Christ healed anyone before the reception of the Holy Spirit, however in LUKE 10:1 the Bible says “NOW AFTER this the Lord chose and appointed seventy others and sent them out ahead of Him, two by two, into every town and place where He Himself was about to come (visit). Verse 17, The seventy returned with joy, saying Lord, even demons are subject to us in Your name!” In MARK 9:38 the Bible says “John said to Him, Teacher, we saw a man who does not

follow along with us driving out demons in Your name, and we forbade him to do it, because he is not one of our band [of Your disciples].” The Bible here reveals to us demons bow in reverence to the name of Jesus Christ. It should be noted this was the first of its kind in history. Let’s take a close look at the Old Testament times, it is true that the devil is revealed to us in two ways in the Old Testament; 1. In the Garden of Eden GENESIS 3:1 “NOW THE serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden?” and 2. Lucifer [the fallen angel] ISAIAH 14:12 “How have you fallen from heaven, O light-bringer and daystar, Son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the nations [O blasphemous, satanic king of Babylon].” Remember even before the creation of the Heaven and Earth, the Glory and Majesty of God existed, the angels also existed worshipping Him, however in GENESIS 1:26 “God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth.” We see that the reason for making man in God`s likeness is for authority, that means that man ranked high next to God. Although we know that there existed hierarchies among the angels and that`s why there was a rank of an archangel [A chief angel], there was a great threat posed to Lucifer an archangel from what this mankind would be like with time from the authority vested upon him [her], that is why in ISAIAH

14:13 Lucifer said in the heart “I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north.” We see from this portion of Scripture that the authority which was vested upon man elevated his rank even above the archangels which means man was also to be accorded worship, this is why they are later on referred in HEBREWS 1:14 as ministering spirits of those who are to inherit salvation. We therefore see that to this archangel, it thought that since it came to service early, it should be given authority which was accorded to man. This Jesus made reference too in MATTHEW 20:1-16, of a worker who grumbled at the master having been given the same wage with the person who was hired last. This shows God had referred to man “the stars” even before He revealed it to Abraham [GENESIS 22:17], therefore the devil pursued this evil plan as revealed to us in ISAIAH 14:13-14, it should be noted that there was no way the devil could reach to God before reaching out to man. ISAIAH 14:13-14 says “And you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” This Scripture reveals to us the existence of heights at this point in time that is why the devil sought firstly to exalt its throne above the one of man, then later ascend further to the heights to further exalt its throne to heights like that of God. It also shows us that the reason to as to why God is the Most High, is because He exceeds the heights, that means He stands on His own Rank, as He is the King of Kings, it is Him alone and no other or none equal to Him.

The plan of the devil was therefore accomplished at the Garden of Eden from where existed a serpent which in itself was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field [GENESIS 3:1], THAT means that it was a living creature made genius by God, which the devil [the archangel] used as an opportunity to accomplish its evil plans against mankind hence in GENESIS 3, the fall of both mankind and the devil, as for man was punished and the devil cursed. The results of all this was that both man and the serpent fell from their positions of appointment by God. Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden of Eden, whereas the devil [Lucifer, fallen angels] were thrown from Heaven. Both lost their places. In GENESIS 3:14-15 says “And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [domestic] animals and above every [wild] living thing of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust [and what it contains] all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.” This curse was more of spiritual than physical, because we see that after curse of the serpent physically [among the domestic and wild animals] because it accepted to be used by the devil, it transcended to the spiritual, where the devil and woman [mother of all the living], the devil`s offspring and woman`s Offspring. This means as we know that God is the creator of all Living things, however He bestowed the power of creation [of human race] upon woman, and as we know that Living things reproduce things of their own kind [1 CORINTHIANS 11:12 For as woman was made from man, even so man is also born of

woman; and all [whether male or female go forth] from God [as their Author]]. However to the devil, it has no power to reproduce, as it just entered [possessed] what it liked, that means that the devil had to lie in wait for the Offspring of woman, Which Offspring spoken of by God was Jesus Christ, as He was born of woman [Mary], and at the cross bruised, trod and crushed the devil once and for all. Therefore in the whole of the Old Testament the devil was revealed as a tormentor, 1 SAMUEL 16:15 says “Saul`s servants said to him, Behold, an evil spirit from God torments you.” This means that the devil was restless time after time as it had to oppress anyone it thought to be the Offspring spoken of that day by God at the Garden of Eden. It should be noted that man fell immediately after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that means that even before the pronouncements of punishments upon them [Adam and Eve], they were already fallen. Therefore, to man because he had fallen before knowing his position and authority accorded to him by God before the fall, he therefore had to regard the devil supreme to him just because the devil took advantage of the ignorance in man, and the knowledge it [devil] possessed, without which [knowledge] man and woman lived in perpetual fear of the devil, therefore throughout the Old Testament man lived in compromise of the devil, that is why even to Saul`s servants spoke of the devil to be [as] one from God [1 SAMUEL 16:15], which is false as we all know that the devil was cast from the presence of God. And that is why in the story of Job in JOB 1:6 the Bible says “Now there was a day when the sons (the angels) of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan (the adversary and accuser) also came among

them.” We see that Satan was not part of the sons of God, but also came as part of them, this further shows us that Satan was alienated from what it was once part of. Therefore because man in the Old Testament could not in one way or another redeem himself from the devil, he chose to consider it as a long lasting problem which came to stay, as we know a weak man holds no authority over a stronger one. Because the devil continued to lie in wait, we saw a great number of God`s people die and lose life in the devil`s guess work of Who, Where, When, and What the Offspring would look like, as we see that very many nations were stirred up by the devil against Israel, they went into captivity, they went into slavery and lived a life of bondage after bondage, in the times of Moses` birth many young babies were innocently killed, even in the times of Jesus` birth many children lost their lives, And this I believe was the bruising of His heel, because we know that the devil could not do anything to Jesus Christ, that is why in most cases they trembled, and waited for instructions such as “and He allowed them to go to the swine as they requested LUKE 8:32, in JOHN 1:5 darkness has never overpowered the Light. Thereafter when Jesus walks the face of this earth He tells us in LUKE 4:18-19 “The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity], To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord [the day when salvation and free favors of God profusely abound.]” We see that the Scripture

reveals to us that to the Spirit of God, the preaching of the Gospel was of more importance than the release of the captives from bondage. Why? Because it was possible for them to be released from captivity but still hold the same mentality of bondage. Therefore we see the preaching of the gospel was far beyond the release of the captives [man], to their salvation [The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness [eternal life]]. We also see that in one way or another the preaching of the Gospel [TRUTH] sets men free as it has its own inherent power, as 1 THESSALONIANS 1:5 says “For our [preaching of the] glad tidings (the Gospel) came to you not only in word, but also in [its own inherent] power and in the Holy Spirit and with great conviction and absolute certainty [on our part]. You know what kind of men we proved [ourselves] to be among you for your good.” We therefore saw in the Scriptures demons which had entered into various people scream when they confronted Jesus Christ, as we know that the devil had continued as usual to torment people [man] until when Jesus Christ [the Offspring spoken of by God] came, the distinction with Jesus Christ from man is that Jesus Christ knew who He was, and yet man although fallen, if he had only known who he was would not have accepted to be enslaved by the devil, as even though both of them fell, he [was] higher than the devil in ranking and so even on earth would be the same [what is done in heaven is done on earth]. That is why with the knowledge that was in Jesus Christ He never at any time fell for the devil`s temptations [whims], HEBREWS 4:15 says “He has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.” By the devil screaming out of people,

it meant that it finally met One above it, however this was not enough until it was finally crushed at the cross. It should not be regrettable that the great men and women of God in the Old Testament walked in a great power of God doing mighty things however none was able to cast out a demon, however thanks be to God Who through Jesus Christ crushed the devil once and for all at the cross. What did this mean to man, we now see that the coming of Jesus Christ was not only for the deliverance of man from the devil, but also for His salvation through the preaching of the gospel, Paul in ROMANS 1:16 says “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for it is God`s power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek,” we see that this salvation meant the restoration of mankind to his first place from where he fell, however this time round not with the corruptible body but with an incorruptible one as 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 says “For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].” That means by this restoration came authority upon man [us who believe, the Spirit man] as the Bible in MARK 16:17-20 says “And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they

will get well. So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and He sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied [it]. Amen. (so be it).” This is the authority resident in us who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that no more do we need the authority, for we have the authority in us, therefore the manifestations of the power of God must always be evident everywhere we are. Going back to the point of reference in the first paragraph, the disciples of Jesus Christ were normal men until they received the Holy Spirit in them. ACTS 2:1-21 says “AND WHEN the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place, When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them. And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words.] Now there were then residing in Jerusalem Jews, devout and Godfearing men from every country under heaven. And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together and they were astonished and bewildered, because each one heard them [the apostles] speaking in his own [particular] dialect. And they were beside themselves with amazement, saying, Are not all these who are talking Galileans? Then how is it that we hear,

each of us, in our own (particular) dialect to which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and [the province of] Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and the transient residents from Rome, both Jews and the proselytes [to Judaism from other religions], Cretans and Arabians too--we all hear them speaking in our own native tongues [and telling of] the mighty works of God! And all were beside themselves with amazement and were puzzled and bewildered, saying one to another, What can this mean? But others made a joke of it and derisively said, They are simply drunk and full of sweet [intoxicating] wine. But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them; You Jews and all residents of Jerusalem, let this be [explained] to you so that you will know and understand; listen closely to what I have to say. For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is [only] the third hour (about 9:00 a.m.) of the day; But [instead] this is [the beginning of] what was spoken through the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, God declares, that I will pour out of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels] and your young men shall see visions (divinely granted appearances), and your old men shall dream [divinely suggested] dreams. Yes, and on My menservants also and on My maidservants in those days I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy [telling forth the divine counsels and predicting future events pertaining especially to God`s kingdom]. And I will show wonders in the sky above and signs on the earth beneath, blood and fire and smoking vapor; The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon

into blood before the obvious day of the Lord comes--that great and notable and conspicuous and renowned [day]. And it shall be that whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord-Christ] shall be saved.” From the above Scripture we see a great distinction from the former disciples [Scholar, pupils, learners, followers, adherents, and supporters] of Jesus Christ after they were endued with the Person of the Holy Spirit, Now they became Apostles [Unction Preachers and Messengers] of the Gospel, not as those eloquent, articulate, persuasive, impressive, and fanatical but as they working by the power of the Holy Spirit as we see that the Holy Spirit has power and not only that, it has no bounds or limitations, that is why all men from all nations, tribes and languages could be communicated to and indeed understand what is being communicated by God. That is why at first, the disciples of Jesus Christ only intended to preach to the Jews and Greeks in the first place, which was not the plan of God, as we see His plan in JOHN 3:16 to be a universal plan, that is why they had to tarry in Jerusalem in wait for the Holy Spirit much as they were already hungry to minister Jesus Christ across the boundaries, we see that this Same Holy Spirit directs our speech [for He gives us utterance], Glory to God. We see Peter [a former fisher man, one with no education advantage ACTS 4:13] speak filled with the Spirit saying that it was just the beginning of what was spoken by God`s prophet Joel [JOEL 2:28] the days when God declared that He shall pour out His Spirit upon all mankind, and sons and daughters shall prophesy, young men see visions, old men dreams, His men and maid servants prophesy predicting future events pertaining especially to His kingdom. From this

we see that God is intentional concerning His kingdom, as we see Him willing to use mightily everyone who believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, this what the Scripture talks about in HEBREWS 8:11 “And it will nevermore be necessary for each one to teach his neighbor and his fellow citizen or each one his brother, saying, Know (perceive, have knowledge of, and get acquainted by experience with) the Lord, for all will know Me, from the smallest to the greatest of them.” We see that all spirit in this mortal body will all by experience know God, and as we know that experience is personal, in that you and I and everyone shall have this experience of the Holy Spirit by not only residing in us but also working through for the glorification of God. The Bible in 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9-10 says “But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed]. Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for the [Holy] Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man`s scrutiny]. We see that from this portion that there are things which no eye has ever seen, ear never heard and never entered into any heart of man God has prepared for those who love Him, and yet by the Spirit of God we have already been revealed to these things by the Holy Spirit, as to others it is just prepared for. What does this mean, it means that there are benefits which are granted us by the Holy

Spirit, as one of them is the freedom of access to even the profound and bottomless things of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man`s scrutiny], second is that the Spirit of God puts us ahead of time and this is the reason to as to why dreams, visions and prophesies are given us through the Holy Spirit. We also see that the revelations of the Spirit are always new or fresh, not as the man of Ecclesiastes says in ECCLESISTES 1:9 “The thing that has been--it is what will be again; and that which has been done is that which will be done again; and there is nothing new under the sun.” as to us we sound new things by the Spirit, which things need not a carnal man`s approval and that is why the writer of JOHN 3:8 says “The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” To everyone born of the Spirit of God, the world cannot understand them [you] and that is why in ACTS 2:9-11 all religions could unite and meet together because they understood themselves, but when the Holy Ghost fell upon the Apostles, they could not understand them although they [Apostles] spoke a language familiar to them, they had to call them drunk. In 1 CORINTHIANS 2:24 the Bible says “But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of progressively recognizing, understanding, and becoming better acquainted with them] because they are spiritually discerned and estimated and appreciated.” This means that the carnal man [non-born again] can never comprehend the

things of the Spirit as it is only those born of the Spirit of God who can understand Him, although the carnal man can only attest to a few manifestations of the Spirit of God which is just for their sake, such as they always hear a sound [just that] and yet God wills them too to come to the knowledge of TRUTH in His begotten Son Jesus Christ, that is why even these religious people heard a sound of the Holy Spirit which later a number of three thousand [3000] souls were saved from eternal damnation. We see that for the sake of us who have believed in Jesus Christ walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, God is willing to show wonders in the sky above and signs on earth beneath, blood and fire and smoking vapor; turning the sun into darkness and the moon into blood before the obvious day of the Lord comes--that great and notable and conspicuous and renowned [day]. What does this mean, it means that the Spirit of God is willing and can provoke God to reveal not only signs of the end but also the atmosphere of the end [sun darkening and moon turning into blood] itself just for our sake, this means that God is willing to do anything for a Believer walking in His Spirit, ROMANS 5:8-11 says “But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us. Therefore, since we are now justified (acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ`s blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin`s

dominion) through His [resurrection] life. Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection] through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy [our] reconciliation.” Here we see while we were sinners God offered Jesus Christ His only begotten Son, how much more now when we righteous will He give us anything, that is why He gave us all things, yet Paul even in that liberty in 1 CORINTHIANS 9:15-19 says “But I have not made use of any of these privileges, nor am I writing this [to suggest] that any such provision be made for me [now]. For it would be better for me to die than to have anyone make void and deprive me of my [ground for] glorifying [in this matter]. For if I [merely] preach the Gospel, that gives me no reason to boast, for I feel compelled of necessity to do it. Woe is me if I do not preach the glad tidings (the Gospel)! For if I do this work of my own free will, then I have my pay (reward); but if it is not of my own will, but is done reluctantly and under compulsion, I am [still] entrusted with a [sacred] trusteeship and commission. What then is the [actual] reward that I get? Just this: that in my preaching the good news (the Gospel), I may offer it [absolutely] free of expense [to anybody], not taking advantage of my rights and privileges [as a preacher] of the Gospel. For although I am free in every way from anyone`s control, I have made myself a bond servant to everyone, so that I might gain the more [for Christ].” We see that Paul a bondservant of God filled with the Holy Spirit, applies wisdom to know that even in his Liberties he pursues expediency. Even to this generation where the Spirit of God shall be felt like never before, we believe to see the freedom in the Gospel preached even to the preachers, as

these are the times when those with infirmities [disease, ail, illness, sickness, indisposition, malady, distemper, disorder, complaint, weakness] shall be looked for, for the manifestation of their healing, when we shall declare a word and it shall be [most especially pertaining the kingdom of God], these are the times that the whole world must be born again and it is so. Glory to God. Times when everyone is anointed and none carries the mentality of “a few notable men of God having results” as everyone shall and must have the experience of God`s hand and Spirit at work, as the Bible testifies in ROMANS 9:25-26 saying “Just as He says in Hosea, Those who were not My people I will call My people, and her who was not beloved [I will call] My beloved. And it shall be that in the very place where it was said to them, You are not My people, they shall be called sons of the living God.” What a glory to the Church of Jesus Christ. The Question at hand remains: “But what was the mystery in the Garden of Eden that made the devil wroth at man the way it did to the extent of risking loss its position?” let us consider it once again. GENESIS 3:1-3 says “NOW THE serpent was more subtle and crafty than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And he [Satan] said to the woman, Can it really be that God has said, You shall not eat from every tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.” We see from the text above that Satan was questioning the TRUTH of God. The word “really” could mean the “the actual existence”. The Greek

word to mean really is [GNESIOS] which means Legitimate (of birth), that is, genuine: - own, sincerity, true. What does this mean to us, satan, knew that once the Personality of God is put in question, then even the instructions therein will be neglected. This goes beyond the saying that God is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, to a situation where one deliberately chooses the way of the devil [doubting God]. At this event there was an exchange of Truth for falsity [lies or deception]. We see that originally Adam and Eve had Personality of God in them as Truth was resident in them, this is why Eve indeed truly declared what God had told them and did not in any way deceive satan, as they did not know lies. Thereafter the devil took of this truth in exchange of deception to both Adam and Eve questioning the Truth [existence] of God and this why for the first time when none had taught them how to lie, [as the devil did not instruct them on what to tell God] they had to deceive God. As we know that God had only opened Adam and Eve to all what was good, therefore the devil wanted to open them to the realities it [satan] had opened up also which are “EVIL AND CALAMITY” as revealed to us in GENESIS 3:5, after this questioning of the Personality of God, we see that immediately Eve`s eyes were opened to world of deception Verse 6 says “And when the woman saw the tree was good (suitable, pleasant) for food and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she gave some also to her husband, and he ate.” Verse 13 says “And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled (cheated, outwitted, and deceived) me, and I ate.” The world of deception is one in

which everything false is received as truth and everything true received as false. It also means a world in which everything evil is considered good and everything good is considered as evil. It also means a world in which calamity is considered as blessing and blessing as calamity. The word world in Hebrew means [Cheled] meaning “life (as fleeting portion of time), age, short time. This means that the world is a land that is time bound as well as a place full of options. As we see that Adam firstly was revealed to an atmosphere without options, however the devil opened him to another world also. This means that although this world is under a timing [beginning and end], it is also governed by options for example life and death, light and darkness and many others. We see that when Adam fell [from truth], they indeed dwelt in the world of deception [darkness]. That is why in the whole Old Testament and even in the New Testament men still doubted the existence of God [Jesus Christ], look at the Israelites, even after the Great deliverance from bondage to the Promised Land still doubted and questioned God, just because of the seed that was deposited by satan in them that day in Eden. Therefore we see in JOHN 14:6 the Bible says “Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me.” The devil`s questioning of God`s Personality was about this TRUTH “Jesus Christ the Son of God” hence the devil stirred up within Adam and Eve doubt of this Person of God concerning the Legitimacy of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son, and this is how the both Adam and Eve fell into the deceived [corrupted] world. And when Jesus comes and walks the face of this earth He preached the Word of God, as He often said that He came to do the will of the

Father and not His own will [JOHN 5:30]. He reveals to us JOHN 6:63 “It is the Spirit Who gives life [He is the Life-giver]; the flesh conveys no benefit whatever [there is no profit in it]. The words (truths) that I have been speaking to you are spirit and life.” From this point we see that there is another realm that Jesus Christ opened up to man and this is the one of the Spirit. This Spirit is a Person of God, just as Jesus Christ is a Person of God. He tells us of this Spirit being a Life-giver, in other portions of Scripture He is called the Spirit of Truth. JOHN 14:17 says “The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.” We see Jesus Christ clearly speak of this Person that the world cannot receive Him, for it does not see or know and recognize Him. This means that before the face of the world, Jesus Christ and the Person of the Holy Spirit are like a fallacy to it, and yet He is the TRUTH spoken of before ages, as ISAIAH 42:1 says “BEHOLD MY Servant, Whom I uphold, My elect in Whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice and right and reveal truth to the nations.” The Bible says that this TRUTH [Jesus Christ] is resident in us forever. What does this mean to the Church of Christ? It means that the Spirit of Truth which we have received, and is resident in us will always make us enemies to the world, as this why when we got born again even our citizenship changed [s], PHILIPPIANS 3:20 says “But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the

Messiah) [as] Savior.” Hallelujah, that means we no longer live in the timings of this world, we have no option but God alone. We have been found by TRUTH, He pursued us found us and indeed called us His own. JOHN 9:39 says “Then Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment [as a Separator, in order that there may be separation between those who believe on Me and those who reject Me], to make the sightless see and to make those who see become blind.” This means that we are distinct and separate from the people of this world although we seem to live in the same world with them. Therefore the question why is it that when we receive [d] this salvation, of what good is it for us again to stay in this world? The answer is to preach to others of the goodness of God for their salvation too, to them that believe. In JOHN 17:20 Jesus prays even for them who would come to believe in Him through the word and teaching of them that have believed as in JOHN 17:3 says “And this is eternal life: [it means] to know (to perceive, recognize, become acquainted with, and understand) You, the only true and real God, and [likewise] to know Him, Jesus [as the] Christ (the Anointed One, the Messiah), Whom You have sent.” We see that much as Jesus came to cause separation, time after time men of this world come to believe in Him for their salvation as by experience they come to see and realize the necessity of Jesus Christ in their lives. However this does not exempt the preachers of truth from persecution from them that are of their father the devil. The Bible in the GALATIANS 4:2129 gives us an account of two sons born by Abraham, one after the flesh and another born after the Spirit [Perfect will of God], one representing the Law which was given at Mount Sinai [Agar] in Arabia depicting

bondage, and that which is of the faith--the free son of the promise. We see that both of them are tagged with the name Jerusalem, however we see that the earthly Jerusalem is in bondage, however to us we are of the heavenly Jerusalem which is free. It is true that the bound son indeed persecuted the free son and the Bible tells us, cast away the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. We see that this is a serious issue, a matter of great concern. GENESIS 21:14-20 says “So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulders, and he sent her and the youth away. And she wandered on [aimlessly] and lost her way in the wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the bottle was all gone, Hagar caused the youth to lie down under one of the shrubs. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about a bowshot, for she said, Let me not see the death of the lad. And as she sat down opposite him, he lifted up his voice and wept and she raised her voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the youth, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said to her, What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the youth where he is. Arise, raise up the youth and support him with your hand, for I intend to make him a great nation. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled the [empty] bottle with water and caused the youth to drink. And God was with the youth and he developed, and he dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer.” From the above portion of Scripture we see that indeed as it is written, the son of the bondwoman was castaway, however this did not exempt God from taking care of that son, and therein He

promised to make him [bound son] a great nation, and yet we know of only one great nation spoken of in Scripture and this is the nation of Faith in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. That means that God would also save this seed born of flesh. Later on in the New Testament we see in JOHN 3:16 say “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.” This a great nation spoken by God that day with Hagar, her son was also given access to this Promise. We also see that it took the free Son [Christ from the heavenly Jerusalem] to come and redeem the bound son, by showing him [them] the Way [Himself—the author of Freedom]. This is why the Jews were shocked by the working of the Holy Spirit even to the Gentiles, ACTS 10:2546 says “As Peter arrived, Cornelius met him, and falling down at his feet he made obeisance and paid worshipful reverence to him. But Peter raised him up, saying, Get up; I myself am also a man. And as [Peter] spoke with him, he entered the house and found a large group of persons assembled; and he said to them, You yourselves are aware how it is not lawful or permissible for a Jew to keep company with or to visit or [even] to come near or to speak first to anyone of another nationality, but God has shown and taught me by words that I should not call any human being common or unhallowed or [ceremonially] unclean. Therefore when I was sent for, I came without hesitation or objection or misgivings. So now I ask for what reason you sent for me. And Cornelius said, This is now the fourth day since about this time I was observing the ninth hour (three o`clock in

the afternoon) of prayer in my lodging place; [suddenly] a man stood before me in dazzling apparel, And he said, Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and harkened to, and your donations to the poor have been known and preserved before God [so that He heeds and is about to help you]. Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is surnamed Peter; he is staying in the house of Simon the tanner by the seaside. So at once I sent for you, and you [being a Jew] have done a kind and courteous and handsome thing in coming. Now then, we are all present in the sight of God to listen to all that you have been instructed by the Lord to say. And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons, But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed [by Him]. You know the contents of the message which He sent to Israel, announcing the good news (Gospel) of peace by Jesus Christ, Who is Lord of all--The [same] message which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee after the baptism preached by John--How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him. And we are [eye and ear] witnesses of everything that He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And [yet] they put Him out of the way by hanging Him on a tree; But God raised Him to be manifest (to be plainly seen), But God raised Him to life on the third

day and caused Him to be manifest (to be plainly seen), Not by all the people but to us who were chosen (designated) beforehand by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. And He charged us to preach to the people and to bear solemn testimony that He is the God-appointed and God-ordained Judge of the living and the dead. To Him all the prophets testify (bear witness) that everyone who believes in Him [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Him, giving himself up to Him] receives forgiveness of sins through His name. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the message. And the believers from among the circumcised [the Jews] who came with Peter were surprised and amazed, because the free gift of the Holy Spirit had been bestowed and poured out largely even to the Gentiles. For they heard them talking in [unknown] tongues (languages) and extolling and magnifying God…” We now see it truly come to pass that everyone in the world irrespective of anything that seems to form difference can be saved through the preaching of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for firstly their forgiveness of sins and also reconciliation to the Family of Faith--the heavenly Jerusalem. This also means that a great and effectual door has been opened up by Jesus Christ for all who believe in Him for their salvation. Still speaking of the bound son, ROMANS 10:20 says “Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, I have been found by those who did not seek Me; I have shown (revealed) Myself to those who did not [consciously] ask for Me”. ROMANS 11:17 stills speaks of this people saying “But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of

the root and sap] of the olive tree.” This could look too simple however to serious, imagine with me how people live in this world [which is time bound] make destructive choices which costs them more than even what they could ever give or offer, to the perishing of their souls. One man once said that when one commits an offence [breaking these earthly laws], they are indeed imprisoned and thereafter serving their sentence “seem to be forgiven” and yet even the ones who convince him or her that they are now free and forgiven also have to give an account before God. What I am seeking to say is that reformation of people can only be found in Jesus Christ, and not in systems built by men. The Bible says in JOHN 8:36 “So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free.” Indeed this is the same freedom Jesus pronounced even to the Gentiles. We also note that men have gone further to establish religions, structures and systems that seek to prove men unworthy to reach out to God, and that they are to be communicated too as mediators between God and them [the ignorant people]. This is not true, if we profess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we need to give ourselves to Him alone, what I am seeking to say here is not the issue of submission [for submission is Spiritual], but on the issues where men in religion have bound people just like the devil did, as all religion is one and the same; for they know the Truth [that Jesus Christ is Lord] but deliberately choose to destroy people with false doctrines. Imagine with me, how someone [flesh and blood] can tell another that their sins are forgiven them by virtue of them pronouncing it [sins] to them. The times are changing and have changed, men`s eyes will and have opened like never before, as they shall individually seek God

and read the Scriptures themselves. As we know that Religion cannot demonstrate even an inch of God`s power yet luring people that they serve God yet instead starving them to death without even the understanding of the Scriptures. Change is come when these places shall be depopulated like never before. Dr. TL. Osborn once said “religion will pound us on the heads from now till doom`s day, religion came to play and pray on people, when God wanted to build a bridge to get back [reconcile] with the people, religion jumped in and said, we will be the voice--we will organize, we will ordain, we will send up the big ones, and they will speak with authority, and they will bring down the boom, and they will threaten and scare the people and they will make them pay, and we will get richer for them, and we will tell them we are the connection. Religion says “God” is not available, you have to come through us [religion], you have to pay us, bring the offering to us, give us the money and we will handle it, we will tweet for you to “God” meanwhile, you are unholy and not good, keep it cool baby or “God” will curb you.” TL. Osborn says that he has preached to all major religions but all have one thing in common—“keep “God” big and unapproachable and people worthless and down” and yet we know God is precious, good, and wonderful, and loving, and kind, and helping, and life giving, and up lifting and His is not mad at the world, He made us, we are His idea, He just wants to come to people but religion blocks the way.” This is the reason why religion will always seek to oppress the ministers of Truth. In LUKE 13:34 the Jesus said “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who continue to kill the prophets and

stones those who are sent to you! How often I have desired and yearned to gather your children together [around Me], as a hen [gathers] her young under her wings, but you would not!” we clearly see that indeed it has always been that the One from the heavenly Jerusalem seeks to set free or liberate the ones of this earthly Jerusalem which is and has always been bound, however this Jerusalem as it has always been doing, keeps killing those who are sent with Truth which is liberating to them. Religion in itself can do anything to protect its sanctity, even though it means killing it can do it, just for its security, in other words religion is insecure. Looking at the people religion has killed in seeking of its justification, Look at Stephen, innocent as he is, religion sheltered itself that he had blasphemed God and the Law [ACTS 7:1…], look at James who was slain just because of preaching the Truth [ACTS 12:2] as the rulers [Leaders] were and are still influenced by the deception of religion, this they and have always done to many saints, remember they did it even to Jesus Christ, saying that He had blasphemed God and Moses. What does this show to us, remember throughout all the Scriptures Jesus was bitter at religion and religious leaders, this means that they have another god they are serving and not the Living God, because they could boldly crucify Him just because He had blasphemed their god, and not the Living God. It is a choice for one to choose either to walk in this blindness or believe in the Living God and Him alone. We see that when the Holy Spirit came as promised by Jesus Christ to His disciples, persecution was sparked off like never before, however thanks be to God that they had a boldness to stand it and go through it. I often

look at the life of Paul, that this man was in prison [chained] all his life, he was caned all his life, and all manner of evil things were done to this man, but he continued to preach the Gospel, we read the New Testament and are blessed and graced by the writings of these men who went through the persecution as even to bloodshed but still did not give up. Men like John boiled in boiling water as an experiment to see what could kill him, men like Peter crucified upside down not because they wanted but for the sake of the Gospel they lost everything even their dear lives for the sake of it. Many people enjoy reading and speaking the life that was lived by the Apostles, however as we know that the Gospel is for men and women who have lost their lives, only to find them in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ boldly says in MATTHEW 10:16 “Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves; be wary and wise as serpents, and be innocent (harmless, guileless, and without falsity) as doves.” This means that we ought to have a wisdom on how to respond to the attacks of these wolves [those opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ], and this is only by the working of the Holy Spirit in us, it was never reported anywhere in Scripture that Paul abused them that persecuted him, he instead prayed for them. Why did he do this? Couldn’t he fight them? Couldn’t he call fire from heaven? This praying was by the prompting of the Holy Spirit, as we know how flesh and blood responds to situations, as it is always opposed to the way the Spirit does its things. This means that the more the persecution arose, the more the Gospel was preached and penetrated the hearts of men. Glory to God. By the working of the Holy Spirit, it was evident that men [believers] were not beside themselves as they had indeed

had an encounter with God. All manner of miracles were done through them by the working power of the Holy Spirit, the blind saw, the lame walked, the deaf heard, the dead were risen to life, infirmities were cured, many souls were won to Christ and many received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, everything they decreed came to pass [ACTS 11:28], and many others things. This means that the same Jesus Christ Who walked the face of this earth indeed resided in these men and women. JOHN 12:24 says “I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.” As we know according to the laws of seed and harvest, seeds reproduce their kinds, therefore having us been born again not of the corruptible seed but of the incorruptible seed which is the Word of God that lives and abides forever. We are reproduced with the same nature of Jesus Christ. This Seed has a multiplier effect as it blossoms anywhere and it withstands the test of fire, water, storms and time, Glory to God. With this nature of God, Jesus says that we shall do even greater things than He did [JOHN 14:12]. HAGGAI 2:9 says “The latter glory of this house [with its successor, to which Jesus came] shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place will I give peace and prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.” We have seen that after the lives of the Apostles of Jesus Christ who lived in a glorious glory, the period of 1860 to the early 2000, there lived great women and men of God who truly tested and walked in the glory spoken of by the Scriptures and doing greater things as Jesus Christ indeed spoke of [these being believers]. May be to

mentioned but a few as this is not conclusive to all as this period was indeed characterized by men who set a pattern to this living generation; firstly, greatly appreciating the Author of God`s Generals Books, Roberts Liardon for the great work of his writings which have indeed kept records of the walk of the great men and women of God which has indeed inspired many people. Unction ministers like A.A Allen, William Branham, Oral Roberts, John G. Lake, Kathryn Kuhlman, F.F Bosworth, Smith Wigglesworth, Marie Woodworth Etter, Lester Sumrall, Billy Graham, George Jeffreys, Benny Hinn, Bp. Benson Idahosa, William Seymour, Kenneth E. Hagin, T.L. Osborn, Charles Parham and very many others. These servants indeed knew what they spoke about, if it was about the healing power of God, they walked in it, if it was teaching about the Word of God, they taught it. Most of these men are long gone as they are at home with God, and yet up to now there works still stand. In the periods of the early 2000 to date, God has been faithful and has continued to use His servants and some include, however this is not conclusive as God knows all and all the parts of the body play an equal part in the body of Christ and that is its edification, nothing else. Men like Reinhard Bonkee, Pr. Chris Oyakhilome, Dr. Maurice Cerullo, Dr. Myles Munroe, Ap. Grace Lubega, Joseph Prince, Andrew Wommack and many others. These men have lived a patterned life. However the question at hand is that when these are long gone what next for the Body of Christ. We have seen situations where once strong ministries fade with the sleeping of the mantle carriers, the Holy Spirit which is at work with these men and women seeks to work in you too like never before, He seeks to do a new thing in you. Not because God is unable to

raise people with special anointing’s, He so intentional about your life, for you carry the very life which is of God and He speaks of this Spirit that He came to stay for eternity you and I. The Old Testament Prophets, and Priests had this Spirit rest upon them for just moments and yet even in that short time with the Spirit did great and mighty exploits, however to us the Father has made Himself an abode in us. And for this, how can we live as normal men, I personally I am spirit and not a man. I have over time studied my Spiritual Father Apostle Grace Lubega, that the Spirit of God in him, stirs up the inside of the listeners to hunger for God like never before not that they do not have Him, but because they seek to have an experience upon experience with God. This is the same Spirit of God that has stirred up the young generation in schools, universities, homes, and all around the world, testifying of the Person [Grace] of God upon man. And all these men indeed have always walked with results. Looking at the spirit Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, these Saints have day in day out ministered the Gospel and great and enormous results have been manifested in their lives, and yet the Spirit of God is willing to do a new thing in you and I. And this why I believe that these are the times when the Spirit of God shall be experienced by everyone irrespective of their age, education background, status quo, beauty and many other things that men things that men have built as standards for the Gospel. Talking about money, born again Saints have always had a worldly mentality that Gospel is dependent on money and that without money there can be no prosperity in Gospel, in other words they think that the Gospel is dependent on money, what a belittling of the Gospel!!! This is a timid view about God, for we know of

a God Who Authors and finishes what He starts. Jesus Christ in His walk on the face of this earth was never in any way conscious of money. There is a great deception that has and is creeping into the Body of Christ, that we see even saints themselves seeking to build Net Worth’s just as the men of the world do. What does the Bible say, MATTHEW 6:20-21 says “But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal; For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” The question is how are our treasures heaped up in heaven? The answer is by walking in the will [definitive purposes] of God upon our lives, this the Bible says that there our heart will be also, we ought to be Kingdom minded [Souls, Souls, Souls]. The Bible tells us that for God so loved the world; this means that in the world was His treasure, this is why His heart was mercifully and graciously poured out to the people in the world. We see that He died for us His treasure and also came and resided into us [our hearts], this is why because we are His treasure, He choose to seat us in the heavenly places where He is. Indeed a Kingdom mind is all we ever needed, this is why the Bible says that we have the mind of God, to execute Judgment, for we know where to set our hearts. GENESIS 47:1317 says “And [there was] no bread in all the land; for the famine [was] very sore, so that the land of Egypt and [all] the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh`s house. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the

land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bead: for why should we die in thy presence? For the money faileth. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread [in exchange] for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.” What does this show us, it shows us that money failed, and will always continue failing and yet we know that Jesus [the Bread of Life] never failed, therefore why attach failure to the Gospel. It is true that money is necessary for the running of the activities of God, however that should not be the excuse for manipulating or coercing people into funding Church activities, as we all know that God provides by His own way and not the worldly or man`s way. Because of this mind also certain men have deliberately opened up Churches not with the intention of building the Kingdom but seeking to satisfy their own lustful cravings. The Word of God never fails and never will it ever fail, for it overcame all things just as we overcame the world. The man of God Andrew Wommack once narrated of a situation where he had been struggling with financial issues, to the extent he and his newly married wife could not afford anything to eat for over two weeks yet pregnant [the wife], and the only financial solution was in the conference he attended from where books were displayed for sell and had a price tag which he could not afford and yet these very books were offering financial guidance to that problem. What does this mean, it means that Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ should by all means be made free for access to everyone because these are the very people Whom Jesus

Christ freely died for. Because of this I see a liberty in the re-definition of things in the Body of Christ, men will boldly move everywhere [in streets, lanes, hospitals,…] lead by the Spirit of looking for the lost just to minister to them and this is the move of the Holy Spirit in this generation, as not only will the Church of Christ be feared but it will also be a place of refuge to the whole world [which is lost] as Jesus Christ is indeed a mustard seed which grew and nests all kinds of birds, and shelters all kinds of animals [LUKE 13:9]. There is something about knowledge which cannot be fully expressed by words, however by God`s grace, with elaboration it will be expressed. The Hebrew translation of the word knowledge is written below: H3045 עַדָי yâda‛ yaw-dah' A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively instruction, designation, punishment, etc.): - acknowledge, acquaintance (-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, [un-] awares, can [-not], certainly, for a certainty, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be [ig-] norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to, let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have [knowledge], (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have [understanding], X will be, wist, wit, wot.

In both the Old Testament and the New Testament knowledge is one of the most emphasized truth as it appears most, this means that it is so fundamental to the Body of Christ which is you the reader and I. Why Knowledge? Let us define it as per the Hebrew meaning. As seen above we shall extract a few words, knowledge means: Awareness, Certainty, Comprehension, Advise, Discernment, Instruction and also being learned. Looking at all these interpretations, we see that the similarity in all of them is that they refer one to the spirit of humility as humility precedes knowledge. PROVERBS 4:1 says “HEAR MY sons, the instruction of a father, and pay attention in order to gain and to know intelligent discernment, comprehension, and interpretation [of spiritual matters].” This means that one firstly has to honor the Instructor [which is in this case God] before the instructions are understood. ROMANS 10:14 says “But how are people to call upon Him Whom they have not believed [in Whom they have no faith, on Whom they have no reliance]? And how are they to believe in Him [adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him] of Whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher?” From this portion of Scripture we see the order of things that the preacher must preach God, and that the people must believe the God preached before His Words find application in their lives. With this mind the Bible says that He replaces the hearts of stone with one of flesh in these who have believed Him through the Son [JEREMIAH 31:31], for the heart of flesh is for submission to truth, that means that there is no way one will be resistant to TRUTH, as it is truth that brings about awareness, certainty, comprehension, discernment and instruction. Therefore the question is where does the problem come from that makes people hesitant and resistant to truth, and the answer is that it originates from preachers who were not sent in

the very first place [ROMANS 10:15 And how can men be expected to preach unless they are sent.], and because of this, the listeners become indifferent to the things of God. However to us who have believed the True God and His Son Jesus Christ the Bible says in ISAIAH 33:5-6 “The Lord is exalted, for He dwells on high; He will fill Zion with justice and righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation). And there shall be stability in your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the relevant fear and worship of the Lord is your treasure and His.” This Scripture indeed talked about the times we are in; the times when Jesus Christ is preached for the salvation of men, then thereafter gain the stability [maturity] by wisdom and knowledge of the Son hence our stability for we become learned, and we take heed to instruction, and have the Spirit of discernment because of the Word resident in us which is sharper than any two edged sword and a discerner of all things--how won`t our times be stable?. These are the very times from where God instructed Daniel saying “But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the Book until the time of the end. [Then] many shall run to and fro and search anxiously [through the Book], and knowledge [of God`s purposes as revealed by His prophets] shall be increased and become great.” These are the last times of the world where the knowledge that was hid [concealed] by Daniel under instructions of God profit. And the Bible says in PROVERBS 3:20 “By His knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies distill the dew.” That means that by the Knowledge of God, indeed the Understanding of the Books of Daniel and Revelations shall be; to the edification of this Glorious Later Church. These are the times ISAIAH 11:9 “They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” On the face of it, this means that

a great wave new converts to salvation is come just because of the knowledge of His grace in this generation, and because of this, peace shall be established everywhere on this earth for the Spirit of God is in Control. The Knowledge of God in the Earth. If anyone wants to receive salvation, you can speak out these words believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, say: Dear Lord Jesus, I believe in my heart, that You are the Son of God, and that You died for my sins, and rose again for my justification, I receive You as my Lord and Savior, and I declare that I am Born Again. Amen. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Opale Frank is a son to Ojame Okiror Robert and Tino Ketty. My Spiritual Father is Apostle Grace Lubega. The moment I learnt of the Grace God from Phaneroo Ministries I then found purpose in this life that live on earth, and for it, I therefore a purposeful life and urge everyone God to make a choice now of Living a purposeful life as you are on earth for a vacation holiday, but God. PLOT. This book opens us to the realities of the life of a new creature as there must be a visibility of the working power of Holy Spirit in the lives of the believers. This book study`s the life lived by Jesus Christ, the Apostles, and His major notable servants of the past generation and also this generation, and the communication of the Holy Spirit to you and I about His readiness to work mightily in you. For more information: email opalefrank94@gmail.com Of I live by not for