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Saturday, January 25, 2025

The eighth integral aspect of believing in Jesus Christ

8. BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE ETERNAL ONE

The eighth integral aspect of believing in Jesus Christ is that He is the eternal One, denoting that He eternally existed and since He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Jesus retained the same glory which He had with the Father before time began. In His prayer to the Father Jesus said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as you have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.’

“And this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was” (John 17:1-5).

Jesus Christ said quite explicitly, “I and My Father are One” In revealing the Father to the disciples Jesus said, "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves” (John 14:7-11).

In His prayer to the Father Jesus said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as you have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.’

Yes to believe in Jesus Christ one must believe that He is eternal, “His years are throughout all generations. Of old He laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of His hands. They will perish, but He will endure; yes, all of them will grow old like a garment; like a cloak He will change them, and they will be changed, but He is the same, and His years will have no end” (Psalms 102:24-28).

And at the end of the thousand year reign of Christ`s kingdom on earth, then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power: For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.

The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. For "God the Father has put all things under His feet:" But when He says "all things are put under Him," it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted: Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him, who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all” (1Corinthians 15:24-28).

Believing in Jesus Christ therefore, is more profound than most people have realized, and unfortunately because of this lack of understanding, many of those who profess to believe in Jesus Christ, do not ascribe to Him the glory and honor due to Him as the eternal God, which is the main objective for worship, even by the angels and the hosts of heaven.

To be continued

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Why should a day of great joy to all peoples be unknown to them (part2)

Again I beg to ask the question why should a day which was ordained to be a day of great joy to all peoples be unknown and hidden from them and thus having the need to be substituted by the pagan festival of Christmas?

According to prophet Daniel the kingdom of God will be established during the reign of the fourth kingdom (the Roman Empire). For thus he wrote; “As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it in pieces.” But the court, shall sit in judgment and his dominion shall be taken away, and to be consumed and destroyed to the end.’

“And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High’ their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them” (Daniel 7:23, 26-27).

The kingdom of God is the principal and ultimate objective for our righteous way of living. It is stated that when Jesus returns He will separate the sheep from the goats, and say to the sheep on His right hand, “Come you are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world” (Matthew 25:34).

The prerequisite for inheriting the kingdom of God is the immortality of our body; because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Now in order for the immortal to put on immortality, and for the perishable to become imperishable, the Holy Spirit must dwell in the individual; because it is only if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through His Spirit which dwells in you.

The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God, nor will the immoral, idolaters, adulterers, sexual perverts, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, and robbers inherit the kingdom of God. Those who are guaranteed inheritance in the kingdom of God, and reaps God’s ultimate plan for man are those who drinks the water that Christ has given which is His blood, and it will become in him a spring of water, which is the Holy Spirit, welling up to everlasting life, which is the immortality of the human body. This is what believing in Jesus Christ entails, it is not merely a vague nebulous ideology with little or no substance.

But as believers, how do we demonstrate our belief in Jesus Christ as being the King of kings and Lord of lords? The way one demonstrates his/her belief in Jesus Christ as the King of kings and Lord of lords is by observing the Feast of Tabernacles which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ and also foreshadows the Millennium when the kingdom of God will be established on earth.

Remember, Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and the way the King and the Lord of hosts will be worshiped in the future is stated as follows; “And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles” (Zechariah 14:16).

This festival commemorates the day the Word became flesh and tabernacle among men and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. When Jesus was brought before Pilate and he asked Him, “Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37).

By observing the Feast of Tabernacles is how Jesus Christ is acknowledged as the King of kings and Lord of hosts and we have been forewarned saying; "And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles" (Zechariah 14:16-19).

Here again we see clearly that this festival was ordained for the joy of all peoples so I beg to ask the question again, why should a day ordained for the joy to all peoples be hidden, unknown and had to be substituted with the pagan festival of Christmas?

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Sunday, January 12, 2025

Why should a day of great joy to all peoples be hidden or unknown to them?

Now I beg to ask the question, why should a day that was ordained and destined for the benefit of all humanity be hidden or unknown to them? For this is what was foretold on the day on which Jesus Christ was born; an angel said to the shepherds who were keeping watch over their flock “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” (Luke 2:9-11).

And even when the wise men from the East came searching for Him thy asked; “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him." “And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh” (Matthew 2:2; 11).

The gift of gold was to honor Him as King; the frankincense was to honor Him as Man and the gift of myrrh was to honor Him as God.

The first message Jesus brought when He came to Galilee preaching the gospel of God was, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the gospel.” (Mark 1:14-15).

When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, He replied, “The kingdom of God is not coming with your careful observation, nor will people say, ‘Here it is, or there it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in the midst of you” (Luke 17:20-22).

The kingdom of God establishing itself on earth was revealed to the first world ruling king in a dream during the days of Daniel the prophet. In unveiling the dream to the king the prophet Daniel said; “The stone which you saw O king that was cut out, but not by human hands, and struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces; then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found; But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain (kingdom) and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:34-35).

In interpreting the dream to the king Daniel said; “You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory, and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you rule over them all, you are the head of gold.”

Daniel informed the king and said; “after you, will arise three other kingdoms inferior to you, and in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever; just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to you what will take place in the future. The dream is certain and its interpretation is sure” (Daniel 2:36-45).

To be continued

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Lucius Joseph

Friday, January 10, 2025

Believe that Jesus Christ is the King of kings

7. BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE KING OF KINGS

The seventh integral aspect of believing in Jesus Christ is to believe that He is the king of kings and Lord of lords The principal and ultimate objective for God sending His Beloved Son into the world to die for the sins of man, and to be resurrected in glory was to fulfill the everlasting covenant and promise which He made to Abraham and his descendants.

It is stated that, “When the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that they might receive the full rights as sons.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, so that by faith they might receive the promise of the Spirit.

Because they are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into their hearts crying, “Abba! Father” So they are no longer slaves, but sons, and since they are sons, God has also made them heirs. Heirs to the promise God made to Abraham and his descendants (Galatians 4:4-8; Galatians 3:14).

In confirming the immutability of the covenant which God made to Abraham and his descendants, the apostle Paul wrote; “Brethren, let us take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside, or add to a human covenant that has been duly established so it is in this case: The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed. The scripture does not say “and to seeds”, meaning many people, but “and to your Seed”, meaning one person, who is Christ”.

And regarding the promise the Lord made to David He says; “The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will make a righteous branch sprout from David’s line; he will do what is just and right in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety, this is the name by which it will be called: The Lord Our Righteousness.’ “For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, nor will the priests, who are Levites, ever fail to have a man to stand before Me continually to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to present sacrifices” (Jeremiah 33:14-17).

Both offices of King and High Priest were fulfilled by Jesus Christ, thus guaranteeing the continual existence of both the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

And with regards to the everlasting covenant the Lord made with the house of Israel the prophet Isaiah wrote; “For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Of the increase of his government and of peace there will 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 this time forth and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord will perform it” (Isaiah 9:6-7).

So the million dollar question is, when was Jesus Christ inaugurated as the King of kings and is there a specific date that commemorates the day that Jesus Christ became the King of kings and Lord of lords?

To be continued

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Saturday, January 4, 2025

Are believers inadvertently worshiping God in vain?

Jesus Christ quite emphatically stated; “Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:' these people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men" (Matthew 15:7-9).

One should also be mindful of the fact that, even if one does not personally or directly involved in practicing something wrong but approve of those who practices it is as guilty as the one who does it. For thus it is written; “who, 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” (Romans 1:32).

So then, what has been the involvement of believers in the Christmas and New Year’s celebration? Let us focus on the New Year celebration. Is the 1^st of January the beginning of the New Year? If it is who ordained it is it the Lord God who created the heaven and the earth? And who said to Moses and Aaron; “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you” (Exodus 12:2).

So what is this month which the Lord the Creator of the universe ordained as the first month of the year? The month which the Lord the Creator of the heavens and the earth ordained to be the first month of the year is the month on which on the fourteenth day is the Lord’s Passover and so we have been duly instructed saying; “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night” (Deuteronomy 16:1).

The month of Abib according to the Jewish calendar is the first month of the New Year and it is the first New Moon in spring and with regards to the fourteenth day of this month the Lord said; 'So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance” (Exodus 12:14).

So there is absolutely no doubt as to when is the first month of the New Year so beg to ask the question where is this idea of celebrating the beginning of a New Year in January came from?

We have been given the assurance saying; “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7).

It is therefore no secret that such a thing would happen for we have been forewarned saying; “The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, Trample it and break it in pieces. The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; He shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings. He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High, and shall intend to change times and law: (Daniel 7:23-25).

We have been duly instructed saying; 'Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings which arise out of the earth.” The fourth beast or the fourth kingdom is the Roman Empire with all its rise and falls and having the characteristics of the three previous beasts or kingdoms has received from Satan his power, his throne and great authority as we have been duly instructed saying; “Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.’

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him" (Revelations 13:2-4).

This fourth beast or Kingdom which is the Roman Empire is the one who changed times and law. For example; the word September originated from number seven, October originated from number eight, November originated from number nine and December originated from number ten.

I therefore beg to ask the question, when we disregard the laws and principles established by the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth and start following the principles set by the Roman Empire are we not worshiping Satan who gave his power, his throne and authority to the Roman Empire?

The choice is ours for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he/she has done, whether good or bad.

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