GOD IS FOR YOU : REVELATION TUESDAYS

GOD IS FOR YOU

In our discussion today, we are going to examine Ephesians 5:21-33, to be fully and truly blessed by what God is letting us in on. So pick up your bible, or your bible app on your phone and have a look in there.
Having read our text today, we discover that the relationship between Christ and the church is one that had been foretold right from the beginning, God using Adam and Eve as an allegory to convey this mystery across to man. Genesis 2:24 clearly states that “therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh”. It means that immediately Adam awoke from his sleep and saw the creation of God named Eve, they were “one flesh” existing in two bodies as Eve emanated from the bone of Adam, and they were equal before God. Thus, if A was equal to B and B was equal to A, that means A was B and B was A.
In the scripture today, the great Apostle Paul having restated Genesis 2:24 (in Eph. 5:31), goes on to state that this relationship that existed between Adam and Eve is a great mystery of the relationship between Christ (Jesus being the head) and the Church (You and I), he however admits that he does not understand the fullness of this great mystery, but that what is clearest to him is how Christ treats the Church and how the Church and Christ are one.
If that be the case, that simply means we are one flesh with Christ, and if A is equal to B and B is equal to A, that means A and B are the same. Following that illustration, A being Christ and B being the church, that means that we are Christ. Hallelujah. YOU ARE CHRIST! Isn’t that amazing? You are a representation of the Godhead here on earth, the manifestation of the display of the manifold wisdom of God to the principalities and powers in heavenly places. (Galatians 3:10).
Furthermore, having established that we are one body with Christ, “no one abuses his own body does he? NO, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the Church, since we are part of his body”. (Ephesians 5:29 MSG) This simply means that God is never going to inflict pain on us deliberately. Sickness, sorrow, affliction, poverty, oppression, disease are not from God. Why? This is because if God is inflicting you with such, that means He is inflicting Himself with the same thing. Nothing bad emanates from God. Christ is for you, Christ loves you.
“Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything He does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness” (Ephesians 5:26-27 MSG). Wow, isn’t this just marvellous? All Christ says about you and does for you is designed to bring the best out of you. His thoughts towards you are of good and not of evil, to give you a great hope and a bright future. This is God’s plan and expression to all Christians, YOU AND I. God is good and nothing evil emanates from him, because he isn’t the progenitor of evil. Evil and the works thereof are inconsistent with the character and nature of God. God is light, and in Him no darkness is found.
Brethren, learn this, if the gospel you hear doesn’t sound too good to be true, then what you are hearing is not the true gospel. If salvation and God’s love came by the works of law, then Christ died in vein.
If there is anything we are to learn today guys, please learn this, God is love, you are Christ by adoption through the blood of Jesus, and above all, God is for you. God bless you. Hallelujah.

Grace and Peace Multiplied

Gbolagunte Oladotun

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REVELATION TUESDAYS (OBEDIENCE : DIGGING DEEP)

OBEDIENCE: DIGGING DEEP
Hello guys, today we speak about obedience.
Obedience is one of the kingdom principles that is fundamental to the journey of life of any Christian. This is of course on two levels. The first is obedience to authorities, both spiritual and physical, and the second being obedience to the voice of God.
Today we will be speaking on the latter, obedience to the voice of God. We will see how obedience is an evidence of your belief of the word of God, and how obedience of that word will save you when the waves of life start crashing down on your plans on account of the word that came.
Let’s examine a scripture, Jesus was speaking, and He said, “whoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like; He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on the rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat VEHEMENTLY upon that plan, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.” (Luke 6:47-48). What Jesus was simply saying here is that obedience to His word that we constantly hear provides depths for us to lay our “houses” (lives) on a secure footing. The secure footing here being the rock. Another striking revelation this scripture brings to bear is that the rock is not found on the surface. The implication of which is that the stronghold of any man’s life, ministry and relationship with God is in His level of obedience to the instructions of God.
Another truth that this scripture reveals is the fact that the storms of life will come crashing down menacingly on any structure which is built in light of the word heard. Such structure could be finances, ministry, relationship(s), family, etc, but as far as that structure is built in the blueprint of the word, a flood will arise and the stream will try to collapse the “house”. However, as far as such structure/house is firmly affixed into the land, having created depth in the earth by obedience, the floods will not prevail.
This parable as given by Jesus indeed shows us why many persons in the body of Christ are not victorious. This is as a result of the fact that indeed they come the come, they hear the hear, but fail to do the do. When God lays plans in our hearts, and shows us what to do in dreams or visions, how many bother to ask God what role we are to play in all this, and actually obey?
What has God placed in your heart today in regards to that great future of yours? And what has He told you to do in respect of same as revealed through scripture? Are you following through with his instruction? If not, do so today as that obedience will form the depth upon which you will discover a rock which will hold that plan, vision or dream firmly. God bless you.
Grace and Peace multiplied
Gbolagunte Oladotun

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