Good morning and welcome to another lovely Friday where we get to share the word of God.

I am really excited to have you with us again today, because our topic for today would open your eyes to something you might not have noticed before, let us get started.

We would be talking about # A NEW NATURE, and our text would be taken from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians, chapter five and verse seventeen

2Cor 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

I marvel at times at the absolute terms Paul and the early Apostles use when making reference to a man who is found in Christ. Here, Paul didn’t say “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new,… under the condition that you live a righteous life and not stain your garments”

NO!!!
The reason many believers have lived a defeated life is because of the things that they have come to believe over time. This is my heart desire, anyone who follows these teachings would not only be liberated completely, but also be a liberation to others. It is a simple gospel;
JESUS SAVES, I would just teach us how to apply and appropriate that NEW LIFE in our daily living.

Let us get into the teaching now

You would notice that the bible used two words “FLESH” and “SPIRIT” as the different natures a man can have. Let me say this now that the way a man behaves does not explain the nature he carries.

Someone can be very wicked in actions and be very disobedient too but carry the new nature, whereas another individual would give to the poor and be very loving but still have the old nature. So the nature of a person is completely independent on the characters they portray.

Please stick with me, I am going somewhere:

So what distinguishes one nature from the other? Remember our text “therefore if any man BE IN CHRIST”

Exactly! A man who is IN CHRIST is “SPIRIT” the one who is not in Christ is “FLESH”. It is that simple.

Now how does someone BE IN CHRIST?

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever BELIEVETH in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

It is just by BELIEVING, then Ephesians 2:8-9 says this:

8 for by grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 not of works, lest any man should boast

NO MAN IS SAVED BY WORKS, NO MAN IS CONDEMNED BY WORKS EITHER

It is Faith in Jesus that saves or condemns a person. If you have accepted Christ you need not be afraid of where your end would be, YOUR SALVATION IS SURE.

A knowledge of this would make you know how to approach God, not basing on your own righteousness, it would be impossible for pride to creep in if you know that nothing happens because of you, but because of God.

WE ARE NEW CREATURES, A NEW NATURE HAS COME TO STAY IN US.

Let us now study a portion of the bible briefly and I would close this teaching.

John 4:23

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father is spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

This particular verse has been quoted out of context (remember our teaching on contextual reading?   , if you don’t, go back to the first teaching on milk and meat and you would find it). This place have been taken to mean that you search your heart and your mind when coming to God in worship so He accepts your song, then we have misconstrued a true worshiper to be those who lead songs in church and wonders happen, or the brother that is always crying at the mention of Jesus NO!!!, That is not worshiping in spirit and truth.

Notice what Christ was talking about here, it was a topic on PLACES OF WORSHIP and not MODE OF WORSHIPPING, He said that a time is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem shall men worship God. Ask yourself, why do men go to those places to worship God?

The answer is simple, that is where God used to dwell, that is where His presence is.

So Jesus spoke that the PLACE OF WORSHIP would no longer be at Jerusalem, but IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. So till you understand this place where SPIRIT AND TRUTH WORSHIP, you might be lost in the issue of quality worship. Because Jesus also said that the Father SEEKETH SUCH to worship Him, it doesn’t mean that He is going around looking for the single people that are doing it well, it means that a GENERATION is coming who is SOUGHT by God, and that generation is the Spirit and truth worshippers.

Let’s go back to the book of Genesis and see a prophesy

Genesis 49:10

The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

Now who is Shiloh? It is THE MESSIAH. JESUS CHRIST. Amplified put it like this

……..until Shiloh [the messiah, the peaceful one] comes

So the prophesy said that ‘THE PEOPLE’ would gather unto SHILOH. Hold that thought

Remember that when people gather to worship God, it was because they wanted to see His glory. Picture this; they go to where God dwells, offer sacrifices, and worship, then God’s glory fills the house. But another prophesy came by prophet Haggai

Haggai 2:9

The glory of THIS LATTER HOUSE shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and IN THIS PLACE WILL I GIVE MY PEACE, saith the Lord of hosts.

There is a LATTER HOUSE been spoken of here, where the peace of God would be given and that house shall have a glory much more that what was experienced in temples (the former house).

Hope we are still together?

While teaching the disciples to pray, Jesus made some prophesies that I would like us to look at

Matthew 6:13….. The last part

……. For THINE is the KINGDOM, and the POWER, and the GLORY, for ever. Amen.

There is a people who would inherit a Kingdom, they would possess the power of that kingdom, and it would be glorious.

So GOD’S GLORY MOVED FROM BUILDINGS (MOUNTAINS AND JERUSALEM) TO A PEOPLE (SPIRIT AND TRUTH)

Those that have accepted Christ has a NEW NATURE, let us see how the apostle Paul put it

Philippians 3:3

For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

Did you see that? Paul didn’t have to even come to the church in Philippi and ask them to come and sing so that he would know good worshipers, NO. He was writing to the TRUE WORSHIPPERS. So a believer who doesn’t sing a single tune in their life time is as much a true worshipper as Pastor Donnie Mc Clurkin, or Don Moen, anyways you get the idea.

An understanding of this makes you know how to give God glory, which I would talk about particularly in subsequent studies. But it has nothing to do with songs coming out.

See the distinction here; songs can be used to glorify God, but not to bring God glory.

Songs majorly excite us and not God. That is why we have our favourite songs and artists which differ and these songs brings different reactions in us, does that mean that God is different? NO!!! We are the different ones.

I hope you now know your new nature, a people that worship God in spirit and truth, a generation that brings God glory.

I would end with these verses of the scriptures to show how we became spirit, remember that this change took place when Christ died and resurrected, because this NEW PEOPLE shall only gather unto SHILOH.

Let’s see how we became spirits and not flesh

1Cor 6:17

But he that is joined unto the Lord is one Spirit.

When you accept Christ, you become joined to God, and have the same spirit with Him.

So when the bible makes such statement as ‘the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God’ in Romans 8:16, it doesn’t mean that the Sweet Holy Spirit of God would come and be talking with your own spirit, I am sure that hasn’t happened to most people; and then the devil would come with condemning thoughts like “are you sure you are really saved?”

Give him the YES YES YES answer, because you are saved.

It means that your spirit with the Spirit of God, together, are now bearing witness. It shows a joint relationship and not a news flash from God’s Spirit to yours.

Take a time to re-read this particular chapter of the bible (ROMANS 8) with this understanding, and see how the light of God’s word and love would shine into your heart, you might even pray in tongues for those who have been hindered by fear for a long time now.

YOU ARE SET FREE, YOU ARE A GENERATION THAT CAN TRULY WORSHIP GOD, because it takes God to worship God. And HE lives in YOU.

YOUR SALVATION IS SURE

We would meet again next week, if you can, download this song “no longer slaves” by Bethel music.

I love you all, stay in Grace, let us hear your comments and testimonies.

Once again, I love you.

 

Welcome to another teaching on Milk & Meat, today we would be touching a topic that would spill into more teachings. It means we wouldn’t be exhausting the teaching today.

Remember how we started last week with the new birth? Well now that you have gotten someone saved, you need to learn how to get them to maturity. Being born again is termed THE NEW BIRTH and not the NEW MATURITY, there is a need for growth and this platform would take us from the milk to meats of our spiritual realities in Christ.

Bear this one thing in mind, at any level of growth you find yourself, YOUR SALVATION IS SURE

Let us get right into the teaching for today.

Our topic is THE HOLY SPIRIT, we would focus on His baptism. If you haven’t heard of this person, don’t be disturbed, after this teaching and several others to follow, concerning Him, you would get well acquainted with Him.

And notice I have been using HIM? YES!!!! HE IS A PERSON.

Our text would be two today; Acts 1:5, and Acts 1:8

Acts 1:5

For John truly baptized with WATER, but ye shall be baptized with the HOLY GHOST not many days hence

Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come UPON you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

 

So we would look to answer some questions,

#who is the Holy Spirit?

#what has He come to do?

#who is He given to?

#how does He baptize?

#how to receive the Holy Spirit

 

Let’s get straight to business

#WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

He is that person who enabled Jesus to do EVERYTHING He did while here on earth. Jesus was 100% man while on earth and He was able to achieve ALL He did with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Look at the following verses Luke 3:22, Luke 4:1, Luke 4:14, and Luke 4:18-19
Let’s see one of them; Luke 4:18-19

18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath ANOINTED me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

YES, CHRIST DID ALL HE DID WHILE ON EARTH THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT, what has that got to do with us?

Remember His promise in Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come UPON you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

That same power that was available to Jesus while on earth is also very available to you today to those who BELIEVE IN HIM John 7:37-39. See what Christ promised in John 14:12

12. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the WORKS that I do shall he do also; and GREATER WORKS THAN THESE shall he do, because I go unto my Father.

We know who enabled Christ to do His work, the same person is made available to us all today, NO MAN CAN ANOINT YOU, NO OIL CAN ANOINT YOU, NO WATER CAN ANOINT YOU!!!!
ONLY THE ONE THAT ANOINTED JESUS CAN,

THE SWEET HOLY SPIRIT.

Many people have reduced Him to a genie in a bottle, the wind or a feeling, but NO!!!

Let us see His significance in the Life of a believer. That leads us to the next question.

#WHAT HAS HE COME TO DO

John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:12-14

Notice in all of these places that the Spirit TEACHES and TESTIFIES about Jesus. I would leave it at this, and in further studies we would make distinctions and have a better understanding of these very words, so bear them in mind.

Let’s get to the next part immediately

#WHO IS HE GIVEN TO?

Simple, THOSE THAT BELIEVE.

On one hand no unbeliever can receive Him, because He wasn’t given to the world. On the other hand, no believer needs any other standard or ritual before receiving Him, because He was given FREELY to all believers.

John 14:16-17

Did you see that? The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it has not BELIEVED. Where Salvation was given to ALL MEN.

Titus 2:11

11. For the GRACE of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to ALL MEN.

But only those who BELIEVES in this GRACE brought through Jesus is qualified to be baptized by the Spirit. Also notice in verse 16 of John 14, read earlier, that the Holy Spirit is given to us FOREVER. He doesn’t leave, He doesn’t go on vacations, as a matter of fact, YOU CANNOT CHASE HIM AWAY.

He lives in you FOREVER once you have accepted.

Look at how Paul’s letter to the Ephesians chapter 1 verse 12-13 put it

12. That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first TRUSTED in Christ
13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the WORD OF TRUTH, the GOSPEL OF YOUR SALVATION: in whom also after that ye BELIEVED, ye were SEALED with the Holy Spirit of promise.

Did you see that? In those days, when someone believes, he is sealed by the Holy Spirit that was PROMISED to them that believe.

People in our own days have failed to receive a FREE gift even after believing because receiving has been made about THEM and not about God.

NEWS FLASH: it has never been about you, any doubt that hinders you from receiving freely this free gift is a lie from the devil.

Rom 8:14

14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

This simply means that the people who are the sons of God are led by His Spirit too, it doesn’t mean that some people are Christians, but they are not born again, so they live wrong, and they are not led.

This would be as wrong as calling a Lion a Dog, just because it is a house pet. Even if you shave its mane, a Lion remains the same because it became a lion BY BIRTH, so also is he that is born of the Spirit. YOU HAVE HIS GENE IN YOU.

It’s funny how the name given to believers by Pagans would become a huge distraction and is slowly leading us into RELIGION. The name CHRISTIANS happen to appear just 3 times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and 1Pet 4:16), 2 of which was by unbelievers.

The church called themselves SAINTS, BELIEVERS. Have you believed? IF YES, you are a SAINT. There is nothing like being a born again Christian. You are either born again or you are not, a believer or you are not.

If there is anything that you should have as a believer it is the HOLY SPIRIT, FULLY, and even though He is the one that birthed us in Christ, there is an important need to be BAPTIZED by Him.

Christ told His disciples to WAIT for this, it has to be a very important step in our WALK with God. And that would lead us to the last and most important part of this study, the BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

# HOW DOES HE BAPTIZE?

Notice first that the word BAPTISM is immersion or covered with something. Change the mind-set of baptism being immersion in water.

See 1Cor 10:2, people were baptised under the cloud and sea, then Christ promises a baptism that happened in Acts 2:4

4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

When the Holy Spirit baptizes, you speak with other tongues. That is the outward sign that you have been baptized in the name of Jesus. Jesus never promised to baptize anyone with water, but with the Spirit, and all those who are baptized in this way SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES.

I feel in my spirit that this is a topic we are to treat separately so I would stop here for now. However, I want you to know that once you have believed, there is no other ceremony to get you qualified to receive the Holy Spirit Baptism, with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

Now the last thing I would ask is this, have you believed? Go ahead and receive. Do you know anyone who hasn’t received yet, and has believed? Help them receive too.

Some people are specially called along this line in ministry, but you can help anyone receive by faith, by following these few steps below.

#HOW TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT

• Let them know that God has already given the Holy Spirit and He is a free gift, you don’t have to beg or wait for Him, it is just on your part to receive.
• Let them know that anyone that is saved (who believes in Jesus. John 3:16) is ready to receive right away
• Tell them that when you lay hands on them, that they would receive the Holy Ghost
• Let them know what to expect, the Spirit moves on their vocal cords to give the utterance, they would have to cooperate with Him to speak. It is not a formula that has excitement to it, in fact, it might be the driest speaking they would do, and it might be excited to, just cooperate with the Spirit and speak.
• You would use your discernment here; It might be necessary to get people over their fears, you cannot receive the wrong spirit if you ask God to fill you after you have believed in Jesus. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE (Luke 11:11-13)
• Let the person open his mouth and be ready to use it, they cannot CLOSE their mouth and then SPEAK in tongues. They should tell God in their heart that they are receiving right away by faith, Also they shouldn’t say anything in their known language. It would be like trying to drink of the Spirit with your mouth filled with words from your flesh.
• Keep the person from being distracted, let one person and not a group minister to someone who wants to receive at a time.
• Most importantly, BE LED. At times you might have to speak in tongues yourself or flash forth some spiritual gifts for the person to let loose and follow you into that river of waters.

We would speak and learn more on the Holy Spirit and His relationship with a believer.

Till next Friday, stay in GRACE. And remember

YOUR SALVATION IS SURE!!!!

 

Hello!

A very warm welcome to the first teaching on this platform.

Milk and Meat is set to teach Believers who they are and also help them to establish their rights in Christ.

I hereby encourage that you follow this series with an open heart and I promise that it would not only be a good tool to disciple yourself and others to maturity with, but also a life changing experience in the way you see God’s word.

Let your testimonies be voiced all around the world, in Jesus name, amen.

 

Let us begin with this

Heb 6:1-2 (KJV)

1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God

2 of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

The afore mentioned things are what Paul called the PRINCIPLES of Christ’s doctrine, the Amplified version calls it “the ELEMENTARY stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ” so I would not be in error to affirm that every believer should be well acquainted with these haven believed for some time.

However I have come to realize personally that very few amongst us can teach properly these basic principles and another handful have actually come to believe it themselves, so with that in mind I have decided to begin with the basics so that we can learn them, grow past them and move on to perfection.

KEY WORDS

I want to introduce and define some terms that I would be using in the course of this study and further studies at that, so no one gets lost along the way.

1. CONTEXTUAL READING: this would probably appear as ‘IN CONTEXT’ most of the times. It is as the name implies, reading a thing in the context it appears. This would need a knowledge of the (PRE-TEXTS) texts before the verse in question and the (POST TEXTS) texts that appear after the verse in question to know what was being said in the present verse under study. This is done to eliminate error in interpreting the word of God because a lot of people have lifted off verses from the word to make it say things that it didn’t not say, even those with a clean heart. So most of the teachings we would be doing would have to be done looking at verses IN-CONTEXT
2. INTERNAL EVIDENCE: this is when we use another chapter in the same book to explain the verse or chapter under study. It helps to connect both the writer’s way of understanding and also his tone and expertise in communicating. This helps us to curb error also as we would see.
3. EXTERNAL EVIDENCE: as the name implies this comes to play when a totally different book from the one in study is used to explain for proper understanding. For example taking something from the book of Jude to explain what is being studied in the book of John. This is where the biblical “in the mouth of two or three witnesses” comes alive. However, this is also the point where the error of lifting verses out of context have readily occurred. So we would hereby get into the external evidences with our brains ready and our spirit alert and also make sure that the external evidence we are looking at is in context to begin with.

 

These three terms would help us as we study and if there be need to introduce another, it would be well defined too. Let’s move into the first study which would be;

#1. SALVATION (THE NEW BIRTH)

Our Key Scripture to study this would be the book of John chapter 3 we would run through verses 1 to 18 and I believe by the time we get to 18, somebody would have been transformed in mind.

JOHN 3 (KJV)

1.there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nichodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

2.the same came by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles thou doest, except God be with him…….

This Nichodemus came to Christ thinking He was one of the prophets, all he knew was that Christ was a teacher that came from God, but he was about to learn something crucial that night, look at Jesus’s next statement

 

…………3. Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

1. Nichodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?…….

Let me first bring our attention to something. This man came seeking miracles and Jesus quickly turns his eyes to the new birth. Notice that Nichodemus was not a novice in the OLD BIRTH, he said exactly how it is achieved “you are born the first time from the womb” and Nichodemus was well aware of that, but he had no clue whatsoever on how the second birth was to occur, so from this point in the conversation all that Christ was trying to do is to teach a teacher of the law how the NEW BIRTH was to take place.

Let’s learn from Christ

………5. Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God…..

Let us pause a little because this verse here has been exported to teach a lot of things one of which is water baptism. So let’s study it a bit. Quickly if this place was talking about being “born of water” to mean water baptism, it would defeat the teaching that Christ was doing.

Why did I say this? He was trying to explain how someone can be BORN OF THE SPIRIT, so if you take off your eyes from the lesson being taught, you are likely to slide into error.

I will hereby attempt to explain it in context and with external evidence to show what Christ meant by WATER in that verse.

To look in context Let us see the next verse

…..6. That which is born of the FLESH is flesh; and that which is born of the SPIRIT is spirit

7. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again

(Imagine the expression on Nichodemus’s face)

8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit…….

And suddenly you do not see WATER mentioned again. Let us go back a bit, to where Christ was coming from (teaching a new type of BIRTH to someone who only knew how to be born of the FLESH) and where He was headed (to explain the birth by the SPIRIT) and those are the contrasts we see in verse 6.

So I would say here that water and the Spirit mentioned above is the same exact thing. It is like saying my Father, the President is coming tomorrow. If your father is the president it would be one person that would arrive and not two. But that doesn’t explain the words “and of” in the verse. We would come to that

How did I get that idea you ask? Well contextual reading explains it, but let us also take a look at an internal evidence

John 7:37-38 (KJV)

37. in the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink
38. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water……

If you read this place and run off, be sure to run amiss, because all you are going to teach would be about water, but what did Jesus mean? See the very next verse

…….39. (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that BELIEVE on him should, receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given: because that Jesus was not yet glorified)

If I was to interpret verse 37 to be that Jesus said “come and receive the Holy Spirit” I would be correct now wouldn’t I? And, take note of the way the Sweet Holy Spirit is gotten, by BELIEVING ON HIM. That standard has not changed as yet, we would get to that. For now let us reconcile verse 5 with the teaching Christ was doing, this time we would need another witness, let us see what Paul has to say about the Sweet Spirit and drinking.

1Cor 12:13

13. for by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and hath been ALL made to DRINK into one SPIRIT

Look at Paul explain what Jesus was teaching, let us merge them together

There is a way you were BORN AGAIN, by the SPIRIT and everyone who is born again came to be so only BY THE SPIRIT. So it is the Spirit that birthed us into becoming the same BODY with Christ. Now that I have used both contextual readings and evidences to prove that WATER in JOHN 3:5 spoke of the Sweet Holy Spirit, let me now do what I should have done since.

If you get a Greek concordance and look up that verse the word translated “AND OF” in the verse is the word “KAI” and it is better translated as “WHICH IS”. Now put that back in the verse and it reads

…..5. Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water which is the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God

And that verse has a whole new meaning to it, and need I say the accurate meaning also. I didn’t use this concordance because reading in context would have done good justice to it if we kept our minds out of the river and focused on the teaching at hand.

 

From this place, you will notice that Nichodemus now knows how the Spirit birth differs from the Flesh birth, but one question remained unanswered, HOW THEN DOES THE SPIRIT BIRTH TAKE PLACE? And he was a wise man, he asked questions. See what he said next

….9. Nichodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?….

How can one then come to have this Spirit birth? Jesus answered well. Please I need us to concentrate on this answer because it is the doctrine of SALVATION: that is how those that had been and would ever be born of the Spirit would get to be born.

….10. Jesus answered and said unto him, art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

11. Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, we speak what we do know and testify that we have seen: and ye receive not our witness.
12. If I told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man which is in heaven…

These statements made here by Christ suggests the doubt rising from within Nichodemus, it is either the Spirit’s gift of the word of wisdom or a facial response that triggered this. Christ then had to take Nichodemus to what he was familiar with: THE LAW

….14. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:….

Christ went back to the scriptures to interpret a prophesy, this is what He affirmed in John 5:39 (KJV)

“39. Search the scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

This is a study we would do in time, because if you do not see the revelation of Christ in the scriptures (Genesis to Malachi) then you did not get something right, because Christ said they lack eternal life, they just testified of Him. Eternal life can only be found in Jesus. See John 17:3.

Also see the next verse

………15. That whosoever BELIEVETH IN HIM should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now this is how someone is BORN OF THE SPIRIT, BY BELIEVING IN JESUS, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.

You do not see a clause added to or removed from it, you have the Spirit once you believe that Christ came in the flesh to pay for your sins and give you His righteousness, and this birth is irrevocable, NO ONE CAN STEAL THE SPIRIT FROM YOU, NOT EVEN YOU YOURSELF. This would raise a lot of questions which I am well willing to answer, you would see links and contacts at the end of this study and you can also freely ask here as a comment.

Let us finish the study like this, I would use two different translations to end this study by putting up arguably the most widely read verse in the bible, accompanied by 2 other verses

JOHN 3:16-18 (KJV)

16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever BELIEVETH in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18. He that BELIEVETH ON HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

That was pretty clear and straight forward, believing, not good works, not bad works, not giving, not even evangelism… is the only thing that can get one saved or get one condemned. Let us look at another translation:

 

JOHN 3:16-18 (THE MESSAGE BIBLE)

16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: he gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust in him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-king Son of God when introduced to him.

 

EXACTLY!!!! That is how one can get saved and anyone who has believed has been birthed by the Spirit. Let us move on from this basics of salvation, and move on to maturity. And my prayer is that for everyone who will follow and practice these teachings, the eye of your understanding would be enlightened and if you endeavour to study, the word of God would dwell richly in your heart and in no time, you would be a work man who need not be ashamed for you would rightly divide the word of God with skills that would cause many to marvel.

Let us grow together,

YOUR SALVATION IS SURE.

Your brother in Christ, ucTRUTH. Grace is with you.

 

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