Month: December 2025

January 2026

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Welcome to year 2026

Over the decades of my theological studies, I have found out that pedagogism of effectual, scriptural didacticism must pay attention to context, names and numbers. Let me do this starting from January. It is also the first month of the Roman calendar; named after Janus, the two-faced Roman god.

Janus is the idolatrous god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings. Need I reiterate that doctrinal issues of idolatry must stem from Satanism? “Satan,” one preacher of the gospel of Jesus says of him, “is the ape of God.” Wanting to be believed, the Devil must embark on the journey of ascribing the things of Jesus to himself. He ascribed ‘doorways’ to Janus because he must ape John 10:9 “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” Both the Father and the Son own the ascriptive “which is, and which was, and which is to come,” in Revelation 1:4 & 8. To both of Them is the ascription of “Alpha and Omega; the beginning and the ending” in Revelation 1:8 and Revelation 21:5-6.

On account of the two-faced religious stance of Janus, this tells me that he is neither here nor there, therefore, wallowing in deficiency of spiritual profitability. It is quite understood that only the Divine Persons of the Trinitarianism possess the essence of ubiquity; if, by Janus’ two headedness Roman mythology teaches he can see all at once, that is another fallacy of Satanism.

Lucifer: god of this world 2Corinthians 4:4

We should be very careful this 2026 lest Lucifer, the god of this world, deludes us into idolatrous doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings of catastrophic affinity. Jesus told us that, Lucifer knows his days are short. So, what do I expect from the old dragon? I certainly expect him and his billions of demons not to waste any time in the execution of Lucifer’s tripartite motto of “kill, steal and destroy.” Unwary lots live in abject ignorance of seemingly attractive establishments of Satanism. Satan will, no doubt, continue to covet man’s participation in his numerous evil societies. In fact, too many so-called churches are really satanic enclaves. Those who desire to do God’s will must come to Jesus in faith.

Matthew 7:15 false prophets, are ravening wolves.

Now let us look at the numbers. Two is the number of testimony. True faith must be based on God’s Word. Believe that, the LORD God by your side, your testimonies must flow like the oil that flowed down Aaron from his head to his toes. Allow the numbers to beef up your faith in the LORD God.

Two and zero making twice ten, twenty, means I will testify that the trials of 2026 are under my feet, bruised shortly! There is no need stressing myself to overcome satanic shenanigan. All I have to do is place his evil inventions under my feet, by faith. He cannot do anything about my faith. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego stood their faith ground and the Devil could not have his nefarious ways with them. Have faith.

Made in the image and likeness of God: Adam.

Four is the number of creation. Add two and two, and believe that you are billed to create wondrous and lasting opportunities this year. Does the good Book say that “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” in Genesis 1:26? Having been created in the image of the Creator, what stops me from creating opportunities to the glory of my Creator? Believe, continue to believe in the express Word of God and the exhibition of your faith will see you on top of situations. Amen.

Then, there is 6. It is the number of man, on account of having been created on Day Six. When Adam, the first Man, was created, God gave him the dominion of the whole earth. Of course, this Adam did fall, and Divine justice gave his hegemony over the entire earth to his conniving enemy, the old Eden serpent. But as the LORD would have it, it was not the end of the story. Four thousand years later the manifestation of Immanuel turned the tables on Lucifer. All that is of Divine requirement is power of your fervent faith in the LORD God of creationism. And you will testify that the LORD Who has helped you on six occasions will not abandon you on the seventh (perfection of need).

Do not drop the ball of faith

Do not drop the ball of faith and you will not fail in creating the best of opportunities in this 2026. The last numeral of 2025 is of grace. Riding on this grace of the LORD God will see to your successes of 2026 because you are the Adam of God’s creative investment. Praise the LORD!

I will hold onto the fervency of my faith; which will remain unflagging by the antics of Satanism. Satan came to inspect the results of my trials (2+2+0+6=10); he found me, like Job, having come forth as pure gold. We are the conquerors this 2026. The Almighty will, by your faith, see to the desires of your heart. God does not disappoint, ergo, I will, certainly, not be disappointed this year, 2026.

I am the head and not the tail. The Deuteronomy 28:13 Hebraic word for ‘head’ is rô’sh (roshe) meaning: ‘beginning, captain, chapiter, chief.’ And that, by the grace of the LORD God, is what we are. The Hebrew for ‘tail’ is zânâb (zaw-nawb’): ‘something vile, or contemptible.’

This year 2026, I am the rô’sh and never the zânâb, to the glory of the Author of faith, the LORD God, which is, and which was, and which is to come; the Almighty.

Welcome to January 2026.

You want to get born again? Believing it with all your heart, say this prayer:

DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, I COME TO YOU NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED FOR MY SIN. I BELIEVE THAT YOU RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD. I CONFESS WITH MY MOUTH THAT JESUS IS LORD AND I RECEIVE HIM NOW AS MY LORD AND MY SAVOIUR. I GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY. AMEN.

The Eternal Gift

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Jesus the Creator of all things

Boxing Day does not stop putting one in deep reminiscence of the eternal gift: that Divine donation to all mankind for the restoration of Adamic walking cadaver to eternal life. The process of this Divine giving culminated in the Emmanuelisation of the Second Member of the Godhead, celebrated globally on the Christmas Day, the 25th of December. It is quite true that we cannot, from scriptural documentation, state categorically when exactly Christ was given to the world.

This Gift is the best of all gifts to come from the LORD God. Christmas signifies the phenomenal event of God, the Creator, becoming Man. Many stories credit the Christmas of December 25th to Nimro-Semiramic invention of a day marking the theistic celebration of Nimrod, the sun god and not forgetting the moon goddess, Nimrod’s wife, Semiramis. The choice of 25th December is credited to Romish Church. Most people, including Christians, believe the origin of Christmas is the pagan feasts to worship the solar god Sol Invictus, Saturn’s god Saturnalia, or the Persian solar god adopted by the Romans, Mithras. Academically, this view is also known as historical religions theory. The theory suggests the Catholic Church in Rome, Italy, began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in 336 CE to replace the pagan celebrations.

Semiramis holding Tammuz before Nimrod, the sun god.

The Roman Catholic Church, the importer of Nimro-Semiramic religious feast, is truly guilty of so many faux pas didacticism of the Scripture, including the inventions and fixing of Christian festival dates. Has the Christ of the Bible got anything to do with the deification of Nimrod? Certainly not, but owing to the facticity of The Nativity, and because we do not have true and categorical documentation of His date of birth, there is really nothing idolatry about the December 25 day for the celebration of the fulfilment of Isaiah 9:6.

We understand that Christ, according to the Bible, 3) “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4) In him was life; and the life was the light of men” John 1:3-4). This Johannine script agrees totally with Pauline 16) “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17). It is written concerning the Author of creationism: 1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made” (Genesis 2:1-2).

Having created all things including time and measurements of time, the LORD God, Jesus Christ, owns all. If He truly owns all, the 25th of December, another measure of time, belongs to Christ. What day of every year is not found in day one to the day seven creationism of Genesis chapter one? Christ began creating in Day One through to Day Six; and the immediate following Day Seven, He rested. Right? Does that not tell everyone that the Creator owns all days of human existence? Arguably, the actual day of the LORD’s birth is lost to humans. If on the 25th December, the entire globe decided to honour Him, the LORD God, with the celebration of this eternal gift, what is the abominable thing about it, knowing, especially, pretty well that it is the Owner of all days that is being celebrated?

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given

What momentous stance this Gift is can be best understood from the Davidic “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalm 51:5). This leads to the ominous “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23); which eventually leads to the annihilative “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” (Ezekiel 18:28). From the day of the original sin of Eden, man had become nothing less than a walking cadaver. Matthew 18:14 reads, “Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.” The only way God will ignite the practicality of this verse is definitely by putting the soteriology into force. It is for this reason we have Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” The ‘child,’ yeled (yeh’-led): ‘something born, i.e. a lad or offspring’; is quite different from the ‘Son’ ben (bane): ‘(used widely) a son (as a builder of the family name)’. The credentials of this ‘Son’ is too divine to be an offspring. The ‘Son’ is all at once the “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” This is the Personage of John 1:3-4; Colossians 1:16-17 and Genesis 2:1-2 – the LORD God of the Bible.

The Christ, the Creator took the responsibility for man’s creation, and decided to save the lost Adamic soul. No angelic might could successfully manage the soteriological process and come out victorious. Only God can do it. The world must receive the Divine donation of God the Son. This is Jehovah’s greatest gift from eternity to all eternity. God gifted Himself on Christmas Day to the sinning world. Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Merry Christmas and do have a wonderful Boxing Day! Amen!!

Get Jesus initiated by getting born again: pray this prayer, believing it with all your heart. Say,

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

HE IS THE WORD OF GOD (six)

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For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men (Titus 2:11)

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6)            Titus 2:11-14 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” It could be the Elizabethan inky script that is causing needless controversy concerning verse thirteen. Grammatically, ‘the great God’ is in appositive construction to ‘our Saviour’, and a paraphrasing of it, therefore, is “the glorious appearance of that great Being Who is both our God and Saviour.” The Eternal Father is not expected to practically make a physical show of Himself outside heaven; it is the Eternal Son Who, fittingly Divine, does this manifestation.

                Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” None is greater than the LORD God. The only reason Jesus claims the epithetical “Alpha and Omega;” and “which is, and which was, and which is to come,” culminating in “the Almighty” is reminiscent of John 10:30, “I and Father are one.” Amen.

The Word versus Humanism

                The greatest hunger of the human soul is for the knowledge of his God. When God decided to “make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” of Genesis 1:26, Adam was created a free moral agent. Adamic free moral agency, make no mistake about it, has its extant source in his Maker. In corroboration of this fact is “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 9) That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:4&9). Oprah Winfrey’s belief that Jesus cannot be the only way does pitch Humanism against the LORD of Sabbath, Jesus, very God of very God! There is no fruitfulness of life outside Jesus, the Word of God. Going by the ratiocination of Adamic free moral agency there is a constancy of spiritual crave to apprehend the truth. Man’s quest for discovery is the commencement in the thought realm, made of words, silent or aloud. How can one establish the truth without consulting with the Truth: Jesus – the Way, the Truth and the Life – through Whom flows the life of the intelligent beings? What does one use in the thought realm? Words. No fruitful conclusion is ever attainable in complete occlusion of the Word. Ostracism of the Word, finding affirm establishment, the satanic ground of beguilement got its structure of the original sin.

                Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Growing up at the tender age less than ten, my sister Oye, now Pastor Mrs. Atiba, came home from school soliloquizing, “Oh, if Adam had not eaten of the forbidden fruit we won’t have to be dying.” In the quietude of my mind, I said to her, “Welcome to reality.” All it takes not to rock, unnecessarily, the boat of spiritual relationship with God is a strict adherence to the Word of God’s instructions. Why should an execrable history repeat itself? Was it not because Cain, who should know best, being the very first to open the Adamic matrix, saw a way that seemeth right? Allowing his ground to receive the seed of Satanism, Cain died: the man of perdition.

                Psalm 42:1 “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” The water is emblematic of the Word and the Holy Spirit. The wise free moral agent will run, like the Bride in Song of Songs 1:4 (confer Psalm 119:32 & 60; Hebrews 12:1), after Jesus; wanting only what the One Who first loved us wants.

                The wise one will constantly consider Psalm 51:5, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” He will not fail to remember that we dwell in a body of sin therefore anything that does not mirror the express Word of God must be jettisoned. We will constantly have the Holy Spirit ordering the steps of our daily lives.

                It says in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” which is the rippling effects of the six thousand years of Adamic sinfulness occasioned by the Garden of Eden fall. This is why one must make sure he gets born again by receiving Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour.

                Our watchword should be the philosophy behind Hebrews 12:2 “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Does it say, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment” of Mark 12:30? Is there any smidgeon of doubt that Hebrews 12:2 will aid your adherence to the Word of God, Yeshua Mashiakh? Amen.

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer; believing it with all your heart:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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HE IS THE WORD OF GOD (five)

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(…continues from part 4…)

5)            John 14:14 “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.” The statement of this verse is absolutely marked with ponderous profundity. Let us begin with ‘ask’, aiteō (ahee-the’-o): ‘to beg, call for, crave, desire, require, prayer of demand.’ The next, ‘any thing,’ is tis (tis): an enclitic indefinite pronoun: means ‘some or any person or object.’ Then we have ‘do’, poieō (poy-eh’-o): ‘make, fashion, create out of something.’ Jesus says, “If you make a prayer of demand concerning any person, an object or a situation in my name, I, Jesus, will go into creation to make it happen;” in paraphrasing John 14:14. It is definitely pregnant with the enunciation of the abstrusity of His Deity. Prayers come from all over the globe. The ability to give positive treatment for every prayer, the asseveration of John 14:14 makes Jesus Christ not only the Omniscient, Who knows the heart of all praying tongues, it spotlights His divine Omnipotence: for it takes Almightiness of divine power to create and make desires happen for individuals. What is more? It enunciates the incogitability of His Omnipresence. How can any intelligent entity be truly present everywhere? Is it not mind-boggling? Scriptural facticity of John 14:14 gives an apocalypse of the Deity of Jesus Christ who is at once Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent.

For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.

                Matthew 12:6-8 6) “But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. 7) But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 8) For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.” It is so an awesome phenomenality that the more one lifts through the pages of the Bible, as if unwrapping His swaddling cloths as He lay, the Incarnation of the unseen God, in the manger, the more nonpareil astonishment sweeps over your being when the truth of His Divinity hits your intelligence. How can a one born of a woman of carnality be greater than the Jerusalem Temple of the Most High? How can the supposed ‘son’ of Joseph receive Scriptural accentuation of LORD of the Sabbath? It blows the mind!

                The Jews, in egregious ignorance, hold Jesus guilty of breaking the Sabbath law. They did not know that standing before their carnal gaze is the Entity of Genesis chapter one. He has an inclusion in the Elohiym of the first verse of Genesis chapter 1. He is the Light of the third verse. In John 1:1-3 verse one reads, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Not wanting the reader to be in doubt about who this Personage is, emphasis must be laid on verse two, which reads: “The same was in the beginning with God.” The third verse, one of my favourite Scriptures, is so explanatory: “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

The Lord stooped down to write what He wrote on Mountain of Sinai

                The One Who made all things is aptly the Author of the creationism: Christ Jesus. Amen. So, if you will just allow me to take you on a Scriptural journey back to Genesis, it says of the Creator, 2) “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3) And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made” (Genesis 2:2-3). Incredibly true is this facticity: the One Who promulgated the Ten Commandments is also the Entity of John 1:14, Who in His bid to save a guilty as charged adulterer, stoop down, I believe, to write what He, on Mountain of Sinai, wrote on the table of stone supplied by Moses, on the ground.

                The One Who must stoop to save the world, Who also stood before the haranguing Pharisees, doubtless, from scriptural revelation, is the LORD God Who rested on the original Eden Sabbath day. Eye-popping, mind boggling is the awesome epiphany, looking at Him which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty, in the presence of Whom they stood, who had believed the words of Jesus, and who began to see Him not truly the son of Joseph, but like the believing centurion, “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39).

                John 10:15 “As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.” These two verbal ‘knoweth’ and ‘know’ mean the same thing because both are the same Greek ginōskō (ghin-oce’-ko): ‘have absolute knowledge.’ The John 10:15 disquisition is in His capacity as the Messiah, Whose goings forth hath been of old. As the Divine Logos, Jesus Christ is the Omniscient Second Member of the Godhead, ergo, He knows everything the Eternal Father knows. This is the information that our carnality fails to apprehend. There is absolutely no reason to wallow in doubt regarding the unfathomable essence of Jesus. Paul in Colossians 2:3 wrote, “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Is it some? Does it say a huge amount of it? No. Pauline Holy Spirit inspiration says, “all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Of what hue is the delineation of Omniscient essence captured if Colossians 2:3 fails? Selah!

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer; believing it with all your heart:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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HE IS THE WORD OF GOD (four)

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John 14:9

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4)            John 14:9 “Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” Search the entire Scriptures, and you will not find anywhere that anybody called Jesus by the sobriquet Immanuel. In all the three years He had been with them they had marvelled at His teachings. Regardless of the cult-like proximity they shared with Immanuel, they could not apprehend His true essence. Did they not recall the revelation the Father gave to Peter as regards His Christological quiddity? They found it almost impossible to acknowledge the theological connectivity that makes the Christ being Immanuel, the true incarnation of the Father. And the reason is not farfetched, there is absolutely more to Jesus than meets the carnality of human aggregatory eyes of judgment. Not until it is brought to your knowledge how can you fathom the quiddity of the Jesus Christ, whose goings forth is from of old from everlasting: the Ancient of days?

                What does it betoken, Christologically, by the assertive, “He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father”? Does this statement of Divinity not take us back to John 10:30 “I and my Father are one”? The Members of the Trinity constitute one indivisible God when the latria is involved. Each One of Them possesses celestial Fatherhood. The One Who vacates not the empyrean throne is God the Father. Seated also in the event of creationism or better still of re-creationism, is the Holy Spirit, providing all the energy to enable Adam to prefigure Jesus and for the Woman to represent the Church, making Him the Paternal source of being. Who is the Everlasting Father of Isaiah 9:6? Is it not Christ Jesus? Coeternality of the Members of the Godhead accounts for their coetaneous existence. The word ‘one’ of John 10:30 is heis (hice) meaning: ‘essence’. So, what Jesus told the disciples was, “I share same nature in all respects with the Father: the perfections, attributes, glory, that is read of Him, I, the Christ, equally possess. Philip, I am the express image of the Father, so, how could you ask Me to show you the Father?” Hallelujah!

                From the Commentary of Biblical Illustrator it explains the phenomenon of “The Father manifested in the Son” thus: Our Lord meant that in His person, as well as by His doctrine, miracles, benevolence, life, death, resurrection, ascension, God is manifested, as far as could be, even to our senses, as well as to our understanding, and that this is the clearest manifestation God has been pleased to make of Himself to man on earth. Hence, to such as wish to know God, we must say, Behold, and consider, not only His works of creation; look not only at the dispensations of Providence, which manifest such attributes as the works of creation were not calculated to discover; nor read and consider only His Word, which shows Him still more; but behold the person of His Son, who is “the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature” (Col 1:15; Heb 1:3; Joh 1:18 (refs3)). Would we discover the Father’s wisdom? Let us hearken to Him who is the wisdom and word of God incarnate. Would we know the Father’s power? Let us observe it in the miracles of Christ. Would we know how holy God is, and the nature of His holiness? Let us observe the spirit which Jesus breathed and the conduct He maintained. Would we know whether God be a kind and compassionate Being, and what is the nature of His benevolence and love? We must look how these qualities were displayed in the character of Jesus Christ. Would we see His meekness, patience, forbearance, and long suffering? Let us observe how these dispositions shone forth in Christ. Would we have a display of His justice? Let us see sin condemned and punished in Him who “gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God.” Do we wish to see the love of God exemplified? Observe Christ dying for us, “dying for the ungodly;” “when we were enemies, reconciling us to God by His death.” Would we know God as our Creator? Observe Christ secretly and insensibly multiplying the loaves and fishes; observe Him giving sight to the blind, and life to the dead. Would we know God as our Preserver? Let us contemplate Jesus upholding Peter while walking on the water. As our Governor? Let us observe Him controlling the powers of nature, “rebuking the winds and the sea, and producing a great calm.” As our Redeemer? See Him “giving His life a ransom for us.” As our Saviour? Consider Him coming “to seek and to save that which was lost.” Would we know God as a Friend? Mark the familiarity and tenderness with which Jesus conversed with His disciples. As a Father? Observe Jesus “begetting us again by His Gospel,” and see His parental care for His disciples. In a word, if we wish to know the mind, dispositions, and intentions of God towards man, we must see them delineated and exhibited in the doctrine, example, and works of Christ. In order to this, however, it is necessary we should be enlightened by the Divine Spirit (1Co 2:11); that we be “taught” and “learn of the Father.” (From Biblical Illustrator).

“…he that hath seen me hath seen the Father”

                Another Commentary runs thus: “Philip expressed a universal desire of mankind: to see God (cf. Ex 33:18). In a perverted form this desire leads to idolatry. Philip was probably longing for a theophany (cf. Ex 24:9-10; Isa 6:1) or some visible display of God’s glory. Jesus’ statement, Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father (cf. John 12:45), is one of the most staggering claims He ever made. The Father is in Jesus and Jesus perfectly reveals Him (1:18). Hence no theophany was necessary, for by seeing Jesus they were seeing the Father!”  (from Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament Copyright © 1983, 2000 Cook Communications Ministries; Bible Knowledge Commentary/New Testament Copyright © 1983, 2000 Cook Communications Ministries. All rights reserved.)

                Yet another annotation on John 14:9 exegetes: “Could any creature say these words? Do they not evidently imply that Christ declared himself to his disciples to be the everlasting God? (Adam Clarke Commentary).” Selah!

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer; believing it with all your heart:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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HE IS THE WORD OF GOD (three)

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I Am the Good Shepherd

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3)            Have you ever wondered how Jesus could affirm the statement of John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep”? Calling Himself the Good Shepherd is an affirmation of His Deity. Israel has not more than one Shepherd. Jewish psalmody has His exhibition in Psalm 80:1 “Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.” Who led Joseph safely to Egypt to ensure that Israel would be taken care of and multiply? It was Jehovah God. Who led Israel victoriously out of Egypt in an ireful Pharaoh chase? Jehovah did. Davidic acknowledgement is found in the most famous Psalm 23:1 “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” The Hebrew word for ‘LORD’ is yehôvâh (yeh-ho-vaw’): ‘Jehovah “the existing One”; the proper name of the one true God.’ Let us take a closer look at the John 10:11 words of Jesus. “I am the good shepherd:” begins with: ‘I am’: egō (eg-o’) eimi (i-mee’): ‘I exist’ which is the same as I AM THAT I AM, God’s name which He gave to Moses. I hear many people say, “Jesus never called Himself God.” The revelatory, dramatic scene of John 10:11 saw Jesus pointing at Himself saying, “This is the Self-existing good Shepherd.” Jehovah (I Am) has the definition of ‘One Who exists, by His own power,’ therefore, Jesus Christ did call Himself, “God.” Selah!

“Where is he that is born King of the Jews? We are come to worship him.”

                Matthew 2:2 “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.” Why worship a new born babe if the revelatory signs do not unveil the Deity from the third heaven; which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty? God revealed to the magicians the Incarnation of the Saviour of the world. They understood that this new born babe is the Messiah, the LORD God of the Bible. They understood that to the Incarnate Christ belonged the latria: to the Holy Babe they bowed in worship.

                John 3:13 “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” Nicodemus got further flabbergasted when Jesus intimated him with the words of the above verse. Quite abstruse this revelation of Him is. How could He, seated very close to Nicodemus, yet is seated in the throne room of heaven: quite abstruse. How else would one prove the facticity of the Divine ubiquity of Jesus? None can be present in more than one place. Omnipresence is the sole preserve of the LORD God, the Creator.

                John 10:30 “I and my Father are one.” I need to explain this verse via the Greek understanding of the words ‘are’ and ‘one’. I have found out that Christians just read the Bible without proper studies of Scripture. Let me start with the conjunction ‘and’ which is kai (kahee): ‘also, even, indeed, but. Origin: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force.’ The reason why I have to include the definition of ‘and’ is simply to teach the gross error of some teachers of the Bible who insist on Sabellian theological defect which insists that there is only one Person in the Godhead. Kai is an inference to distinction between the Father and the Son in the Godhead. The word ‘are’ is semen (es-men’): ‘First person plural indicative of eime (we are). Eime, when it is used for the Divinity speaks ofan existence outside of creationism. If Jesus used eime it means there are more than one Person in the Godhead. The next word, ‘one’ is an interesting heis (hice): ‘it is neuter: one, a, any, certain, essence.’ What Jesus intimated with them goes beyond the fact of having the same thoughts and intent as the Father; in paraphrasing, this is what He said, “I and the Father are of the same essence.” This is ponderous. The Christ is exactly as Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent as the Father in essence.

John 14:6

                John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Having been with His disciples for over two years, yet Thomas, speaking the mind of them, “saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way” (John 14:5)? Thomas asked for ‘way’ hodos (hod-os’): ‘a travelled way, road; a progress (the route, act or distance); (figuratively) a mode or means.’ The Lord said He is ‘the way’. By extension hodos is more than ‘a path of tread’, it also means, ‘lifestyle’. Hodos also means, ‘the lifestyle that, indeed, takes one to God.’ Without the involvement of Jesus, the bliss of heaven is absolutely impossible. The same Jesus is the ‘Truth’, alētheia (al-ay’-thi-a): ‘what is true in things appertaining to God; reality’. Jesus, undoubtedly, is the reality of the invisible God. Zoē is ‘the unending life of the LORD God.’ Jesus is all of the above, perfectly.

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer; believing it with all your heart:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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HE IS THE WORD OF GOD (two)

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Is this not the carpenter’s son” (Matthew 13:55-58)?

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2)            Even His own people of His earthly sojourn did not believe His Messianic essence. 55) “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56) And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57) And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 58) And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:55-58). Did His own disciples believe Him? John 6:51-66 51) “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52) The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53) Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 66) From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” Calvinistic “the infinitude cannot be well known by the finite carnality” is here well appreciated. It takes very patient set of eyes to have an ocular grasp even of the close-by nose. It takes the staunch, original believing disciples, who had learnt to love the LORD God with all their hearts, minds, thoughts and strength of resolve to keep staying with Immanuel.

                1Corinthians 2:6-8 6) “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” How can this Word ever remain the recondite essence of Divinity and yet remain a classification of object of creationism? The Word cannot be partial God and partial entity of creation. That will be freakish rivalry with the Divinity. The Divine Logos is very God of very God. Babel language experience gives irrefragable credence to Jesus’ Omniscience. Billions pray everyday. To the invocating billions and thousands of languages Jesus Christ says, “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it” (John 14:14).

                There is, most certainly, more of Jesus, the Word of God, than our eyes and understanding are capable of apprehending. This, theologically, is what His Word of God essence bespeaks. John 1:1-4 1) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2) The same was in the beginning with God. 3) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4) In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” The word ‘beginning’ is the Greek archē (ar-khay’): ‘origin, (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concrete) chief (in various applications of order, time, place or rank); the extremity of a thing.’ This theological beginning is the commencement of the creationism. The Author of creation must, of certainty, be in proper existence before His authorship of anything. The same reason why examination papers cannot be as old as or older than the lecturing examiner is what strictly accounts for the reason why the Author of creation must be in existence before the eternal past. The eternal past cannot be accounted for à la scientific notation. The Word of God is the Ancient of days.

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad”

                The Jewish negativistic approach to the asseveration, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad” (John 8:56); made this Personage: the Word of God, to further flabbergast their thoughts. “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58). Should one permit curiosity that leads one to the question bordering on the historicity of John 8:56, we have to search the Scriptures. It takes us to Genesis chapter 18. Two of the verses quote father Abraham, 32) “And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. 33) And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place” (Genesis 18:32-33). Verse 32 is certainly not a monologue because, “Oh let not the Lord be angry,” is an Abrahamic statement captured in historical documentation. On the other hand, “I will not destroy it for ten’s sake”, is the response of the Adonai in the historicity of the day Abraham saw the Christ (in His preincarnation manifestation) and was happy. Adonai made His way down to our earth; headed straight to Abraham’s abode. The Visitant, escorted by two angels, held discussion with His host, Abraham, and even ate a sumptuous meal in His friend’s house. The LORD God, after His rapprochement with Abraham, left and went up to His empyreal abode; all these in historical facticity. Amen.

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer; believing it with all your heart:

 “Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

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