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CAN I BE PERFECT BEFORE THE LORD? (IV)

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                                   If any in Christ: a new perfect, righteous creation (2Cor. 5:17)

(…continues from part 3…)

4)            Galatians 3:3 “Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Those who want to be perfect will not rely on the propensity of carnal habitus. Our motto should ever be “Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith!” The death, resurrection, ascension and session of Jesus has totally redeemed the born again Christian. He cannot go back to the ‘flesh’, a metonym for ‘human efforts’. If you are truly born again, Christ is your righteousness, not through the efforts of your moral rectitude.

                Philippians 3:15 “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.” The word ‘perfect,’ here in this verse, is teleios (tel’-i-os): ‘Full grown, adult, of full age, mature; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter completeness.’ Hebrews 5:14 “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” This ‘perfection’ is of a well tutored Christian. What Paul means about being “thus minded” is in the preceding Philippians 3:14 “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” The prize, an allusion to the Grecian Olympic Games, is actually the heavenly incorruptible crowns awaiting our perfect walk with Jehovah. This is why we should be very careful what teaching we allow into our minds. The truth, however, is that the perfection of our Christian lives rests absolutely on our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

                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.” We cannot, for one second, take our eyes of faith towards God off Jesus, and like Paul, should count those things we used to pride ourselves in, things we have lost, because of Jesus, as dung.

                James 1:4 “But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” The continual exercising act of patience can be painful and frustrating. ‘Patience’ in this verse hupomonē (hoop-om-on-ay’), has the definition of ‘cheerful (or hopeful) endurance in constancy.’ Patience becomes the test of our unwavering faith in the One with Whom we have to do. Abraham died, not walking, as the landlord of Canaan promise. His unwavering faith in Him Who had promised, earned him a big position in the Hebrews chapter eleven Hall of Faith. His faith earned him an enviable “Friend of God!” Like Adam – before his fall – we can be perfect. Like Enoch, Noah, Abraham and Job who stood firm in the word of God, we can be perfect. This essence of perfection, however, is not of our own. Colossians 1:28 “Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:” of, by and through Whom are all things; in Whom we live, move and have our being. We cannot, of our own, be perfect. Colossians 2:10 “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” for we can only be complete in Jesus.

                1 Corinthians 1:30 “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:” meaning that Jesus is our perfection, in whom we have our spiritual abode. Ephesians 4:13 “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” Who gave diverse gifts of offices to Christianity for its maturity and the perfection of our call into His marvelous light.

                Hebrews 10:14 “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” The last word ‘sanctified,’ is hagiazō (hag-ee-ad’-zo): ‘separate from profane things and dedicate to God; to make holy, that is, (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate.’ This sanctification gives us the perfection of stand before God.

                Hebrews 13:21 “Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” This is the proclamation of Paul and other writers of the Bible, “The essence of Christendom is a Person and not a better doctrine. Christ was the substance of his proclaiming, admonishing and teaching” (King Comments-EN on Colossians 1:28). “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2Corinthians 5:17).

                Hebrews 5:14 “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Babies are fed on milk. Meat, according to Pauline teaching is for those who have attained ‘full age’ which is teleios (tel’-i-os): ‘wanting nothing necessary to completeness; that which is perfect; consummate human integrity and virtue; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.).’ This is why Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). ‘Perfect’ is the same teleios. It is spiritual perfection, attained in association with Jesus Christ. Amen.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“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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CAN I BE PERFECT BEFORE THE LORD? (III)

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Continue to do things proving your perfection in Christ

 (…continues from part 2…)

HOW TO BE PERFECT (continues)

3)            If by the regeneration of the soul, man has become God’s child, he should maintain the spiritual status quo, doing everything that will never make him take any step towards the vomit of his erstwhile sinfulness. Paul, for this reason teaches, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Romans 12:2). The word ‘conform’ is a tragic suschēmatizō (soos-khay-mat-id’-zo): ‘to fashion alike, fashion yourself according to.’ Suschēmatizō comes from two words: sun (soon): ‘a primary preposition denoting union; with or together, that is, by association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession, instrumentality, addition, etc.;’ the second word is schēma (skhay’-mah): ‘the habitus, as comprising everything in a person which strikes the senses, the figure, bearing, discourse, actions, manner of life etc.; a figure (as a mode or circumstance), that is, (by implication) external condition.’

                What this ‘conform’ seeks to achieve is to get you to act in accordance with expectations; to make you suitable for a purpose. Is there anything wrong with getting you adapted to another nature? Certainly not, after all, God Himself encourages you to get adapted to His ideals by getting born again; but when a Christian receives an external invitation, contrary to the indwelling Holy Spirit, it is an alien conformational stunt of Satanism. Let us look at the Bible for acts of conformity to Satanism. Romans 13:13 “Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.” Another Pauline couch is Ephesians 4:18-19 18) “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19) Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.” Petrine epistle does not fail to take us back to those days of sinfulness in: “For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries” (1Peter 4:3):but, certainly, not any more. We are children of the Light by divine covenant.

“Be not conformed to this world” (Romans 12:2)

                In Exodus 23:2 “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:” rab (rab) is the Hebrew word for ‘multitude’. It has the meaning: ‘abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality,’ pointing to great men of wealth, politics and the judiciary. The word ‘decline’ is nâṭâh (naw-taw’): ‘to stretch or spread out; by implication to bend away (including moral deflection) i.e. pervert.’ The word ‘wrest’ which is the same nâṭâh underlines the seriousness of this verse paraphrased as “do not pervert with your mouth, in conjunction with many, to pervert justice” – double perversion. That there was only one Jeremiah against very many holders of the prophetic office did not make Jeremiah’s vatic stance an improper wrongness.

                Stand out courageously on the word of God, and perfection is attributed to you! Exodus 23:2 epitomizes the Ninth Commandment. “Neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline” simply warns against false witnessing. 1Peter 1:14 “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:” and the clausal “fashioning yourselves according to” is the same earlier mentioned Greek suschēmatizō of Romans 12:2 and the word ‘not,’ [mē (may): ‘no, not lest’] negates this conformity. It is true that those days of your ignorance, God brings not to His divine judgment, having cleansed you from all unrighteousness when you got born again; but is it not disturbing to the mind to find a Christian masquerading in the garb only fit for idolatrous beings?

Worldly games ‘’do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible” (1Cor 9:25).

                1Corinthians 1:10 “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” The injection of demonic polarization has torn the Church into fragments of diverse views of doctrines. We do not speak the same thing. We lack the perfection of being joined together. Some stress the fact that so long as they lead people to Christ for salvation, there is nothing to really worry about. What such people do not understand is that wrong teachings will weaken believers spiritually. Those weaknesses make one lose heavenly crowns. We run so contrary to one another when it comes to the exegetical didacticism of Scripture. Satan has successfully made sure of this. It must be understood that when Christ, our life, appears true children of God will “be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Amen!

                1Corinthians 14:20 “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” Scriptural maturity leads to individual’s perfection. ‘Malice’ is kakia (kak-ee’-ah): ‘ill-will, desire to injure; wickedness, depravity; wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws.’ Babies are always saying, “Daddy says…Mummy says,” in negation to external advisory intrusion, proving to be truly teachable. Babies lack the maturity of evil deeds. If in the act of malice we are babies, then, like the obedient child, when the evil one leads towards malice, our confession is, “The word of God, my Daddy, says…” concluding in quoting the Scripture to circumvent the Devil’s mischief. It is the foolishness attached to Adamic carnality that turns us against the righteous word of God.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“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!” 

(…to be concluded…)

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CAN I BE PERFECT BEFORE THE LORD? (II)

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Christians are children of God

(…continues from part 1…)

2)            1John 5:2-3 2) “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.” Why would the Apostolic office of John write to the generality of Christianity that the keeping of God’s commandments are not grievous? Barus (bar-ooce’), the Greek for ‘grievous’ means: ‘weighty, that is, (figuratively) burdensome, grave, oppressive, wearisome, unsparing, cruel:’ God’s commandments are the footprints of His dealings with us. We understand that the One Who first loved us has shown us the committed love of agapé.

                The love of a parent does not permit him to twitch his nose when cleaning up his child of the putridity that comes from emptying the bowels. Commitment. The wife toils tirelessly to make the husband and the children comfortable. Commitment. Selflessly, the politician does everything to take care of the needs of the hoi polloi, the middle and the upper classes of the population, knowing that that is what the LORD God expects of him: he is committed to his political job. The love of Christ enables us not to perceive God’s commandments as being grievous. Having been graced with the attributes of love, the Holy Spirit has fortified us to live seamlessly in our walk with Jehovah. What constitutes perfection before God is doing His divine will.

“I am the Almighty God; walk before me” (Gen 17:1)

                The LORD God is an economist when it comes to the use of words: verbosity cannot be found dancing on the lips of the Divinity. Adamic perfection is attainable. If not, He would have misused the words of Genesis 17:1 “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” Abraham’s integrity before the LORD his God was indubitable. His faith in God, unwavering, was absolute. Yes, one can be perfect before God. What does it take? Strict adherence to His instructions and commandments is all it takes.

                Deuteronomy 18:13 “Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.” Moses was told to inform the children of Israel of this perfection, which is not impossible to attain. Verses ten to twelve tell them how to go about this perfection: keeping away from the abominations of the land they were about to entrance. Imperfect way before God, the Creator of verse nine is “passing through fire” found in the tenth verse. This is an initiation ritualism into the worship of Moloch, where the child is led through two fires by its cultic priest. The next is “use of divination,” that is. foretelling secret things to come. They are not to be “observer of times” meaning the use of superstition to declare days of luck and observance of horoscope.

                They should not be involved in the business of “enchantment”. The word ‘enchanter’ is the Hebrew nachash (naw-chash’): ‘1. (properly) to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell. 2. (generally) to prognosticate.’ A ‘witch’ is in covenant relationship with Satanism. A ‘charmer’ is a one who ‘fascinates (by means of spells) and subdues noxious animals or men. ‘A consulter with familiar spirits’ makes use of certain words and or rituals to engage in evil designs. While ‘wizard’ is yidd`oniy (yid-deh-o-nee’): ‘1. (properly) a knowing one. 2. (specifically) a conjurer of familiars. 3. (by implication) a familiar (i.e. an intimate ghost or spirit guide);’ the ‘necromancer’ is one who makes inquiries from the dead. Is it difficult not to get engaged in these things God abhors? If not, then, keeping away from these things of Satanism makes one to walk perfectly before God. Amen!

Job…a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil (Job 1:8).

                Job 1:1 “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” 2Chronicles 16:9 “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.” ‘Perfect,’ from this verse is shâlêm (shaw-lame’): ‘complete (literally or figuratively); especially friendly.’ Psalm 101:6 “Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.” In this verse ‘perfect’ is tâmı̂ym (taw-meem’).’

HOW TO BE PERFECT

                The perfect LORD God has made it less arduous for those whose hearts seek Him to attain unto perfection before His scrutiny. Malicious thoughts are constantly running through the minds of people through the agency of Satanism. In order to get this evil from man’s system Jesus taught in Matthew 5:24 “Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” You cannot serve two masters, spiritually speaking, God understands this facticity. To help you get freed from the contamination of malice: a sowing of Satanism, the Word of God tells you never to show yourself in the presence of the Most High Jehovah with Lucifer as your companion.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“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!” 

(…to be continued…)

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CAN I BE PERFECT BEFORE THE LORD? (I)

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Sinless Adam

1)            On the day of his creation the Adamic prototypicality – a perfection of intelligent being – opened his eyes for the first time and beheld none other than his Creator. Covered, as he lay in the dust, in the clayey foundation of his being, the first Adam was created in sinless perfection. Standing up, it was an uprightness of a perfect being, even before the perfect LORD God. For days, weeks, months or years of scriptural unaccountability the Adamic prototypical couple existed in a lifestyle of perfection. They were perfect until they allowed themselves into smearing their consciences with the ways of Satanism, leading to the break away from divine connectivity.

                If it was not possible to be perfect again the Bible will never make mention of Genesis 5:22 “And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:” where the verbal ‘walked’ is hâlak (haw-lak’): ‘to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, to die, live, manner of life (simply put, ‘lifestyle’)’. Was Enoch the first to do the lifestyle of hâlak with God? His ‘walk with’ Elohim is the Hebraic יתהלך yithhallech, meaning: ‘he set himself to walk,’ it was a tenacious enthusiasm of an appropriated lifestyle before God that Enoch got himself engrossed in. Who taught Enoch this hâlak? Adam, the great grandfather of mankind, was around for centuries. At age one hundred and thirty years Adam fathered, biologically, Seth. When Seth gave birth to his son Enos at age 105, Adam was 235 years old. When Enos begot Cainan at age 90, his grandfather was 325. Cainan, giving birth at age 70, placed Adam’s age at 395. Fatherhood of Mahalaleel at 65 pushed Adam’s age to 460 years – still alive. Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, had Enoch at age 162, the year Adam clocked 622. At age 65 of Enoch’s fatherhood, Adam’s age climbed up to 687. How old was Adam when Methuselah had Lamech at age 187? Adam was eight hundred and seventy-four years old. Adam did not witness the birth of Noah, Lamech’s son, but the Great Grandpa of humanity lived to witness the growth of Lamech to an adult age of fifty-six!

Noah walked with the LORD God

                Adam saw eight generations (excluding Cain) after him. Could Adam be the first to stand spiritually upright and after having been forgiven not know how to teach righteousness of hâlak to his children, grand children and great grand children? I, honestly, cannot imagine anyone of Adam’s descent not travelling all the way to present Adamic addition to Father Adam. Adam taught his progenies how to walk with the LORD God of creation. His home housed all the antediluvian saints: for how could they know of their origin if they stayed away from the leader of the antediluvian age and especially the righteous walking saints?

                Whoever believes that we cannot be perfect spiritually must have skipped a particular word in Genesis 6:9 “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” The word ‘perfect’ is tâmı̂ym (taw-meem’): ‘complete, sound, whole; what is complete or entirely in accord with truth and fact (neuter adjective/substantive) entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth.’ Walking with God means doing the things pleasing to the Creator. The only way to the physical practice of this walk is to place each of your own feet of tread exactly on the footprint of the LORD’s walk. Hâlak, defined as ‘lifestyle’, makes the LORD’s walk His ways, thoughts and instructions. How does one perform God’s hâlak? It is found in the Mosaic utterance of Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5) And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” The word ‘love’ is ‘âhab (aw-hab’): ‘to have affection for (sexually or otherwise); befriend, desire, to breathe after anything, hence, longing.’

                This Hebraic love – of God – is akin to Greek agapé as Moses put it in Deuteronomy 7:8 “But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” Quoting from Deuteronomy 6:5, we read in Matthew 22:37-40 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38) This is the first and great commandment. 39) And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40) On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”  This ‘love’ in the Greek is agapaō (ag-ap-ah’-o): ‘to love (in a social or moral sense).’ This is the verbal form of agapé, ‘love feast; God’s kind of love of commitment.’ The word of God says, “because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers”; which proves that this love is just not mere palpitations of the affection that the heart is often experiencing. ‘Âhab with its Greek cognate agapé is a lifestyle of commitment.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“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!” 

(…to be continued…)

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CONJUGAL PALAVER (1)

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                How could you fail to remember the instructional words of your husband, dear Mrs. Wife? You cannot afford to forget the generative utterance of the mouth of your husband. Your push into the mind of forgetfulness is a connotative disregard to the oracular afflatus of the Most High. The spirit of your forgetfulness is a goad of Satanism. The day you said, “I do,” to him is the day of his installation as the priest of your marital home. This is God’s protocol. There is, absolutely, nothing you can do about this, Mrs. Wife.                                                                                                                                                       He doubles as the head and the priest of the family.  

Marriage is a covenant

                Be wise, dear wife, and accord him all the support he needs. His instructions, his wants and vision earnestly need you to be his biggest fan and supporter. If you did not know these things concerning a husband then what are you doing in his life? If you had an awareness of this phenomenon regarding marriage and you decide to veer off the course of his words, you are nothing short of a Delilah and of course, the Jezebel come to disrupt the spiritual equilibration of the desideratum needed by this man to achieve his goals, as far as God is concerned.

Think Jesus, matrimonially.

                Marriage is solely God’s institution, designed to enable the population of righteous offspring of humanity. The LORD God who created Adam, the male, is the same Creator who brought Adam, the female, into physical phenomenon. As far as God is concerned, the pristine duo had spiritual briefing of His existence. Each had been briefed separately on his or her conjugal role. God brought the female to the male to be introduced to him, the first occupant of Eden Garden, and to see what he had to say about that new creativity. The superintendency of the male Adam is underscored by the facticity of the female Adam being brought into the Eden, where Adam, the male, sat in occupation of it in his domination of the entire globe.

                An affront to the ethics of divine protocol is not only unladylike; it is a total disregard to the physical presence of the Creator. You do not, as a matter of courtesy, welcome yourself into a home of the landlord, who is setting his eyes on you for the first time. The male Adam had to utter the words of welcome, not to the Creator who happens to be the true Owner, but the newly introduced entity, to whom was given the sobriquet, ‘Woman’.

                It is, whether you like it or not, and without sounding chauvinistic, a man’s world.

                No doubt, would it have been an affront to the protocol of the Creator’s institution if the Bible had recorded the introduced one as saying, “This is the bone of my bones and the flesh of my flesh, he shall be called man.” The aberrational push of the breath of those words were put in check by the briefing which the LORD God had etched into her psyche. The first set of the word ‘man’ that shows up in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 to chapter 2:22 is hyponymically ‘Adam’. It comes out a total number of 11 times (Genesis 1:26, 27,2:5, –twice in 2:7–, 2:8, 15, 16, 18, 22; and 13 times if you add the two times Adam comes in chapter 2 verse 19. It is the Hebrew ‘âdâm (aw-dawm’): ‘ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.).’ It (‘âdâm) comes from a root: âdam (aw-dam’): ‘to be red, red. To show blood (in the face), that is, flush or turn rosy.’                                                                                   

                It was the responsibility of the man to name, being the head of the family. The authority found in verbal pronouncement lies with Adam, the male. He stands, dear wife, in authority before the Creator, even to His divine admiration. Mrs. Adam, how could you have forgotten the Divine briefing of the day of your making? As you walked the first ever walk side by side the Creator, did He not intimate you with the protocol to be observed in the home you were about to be ushered into? God did tell you that His word was with the man. That every utterance of authority concerning the marriage institution must proceed from the lips of the man: for he is the appointed priest of the Most High God in your home. Amen.      

One flesh divided into two!

                She should have accorded her husband her infamous serpentine discourse. It never occurred to her where she was plunging the entire human race when she thought within herself, “I’ve got this.” The tempter meant a wicked business! Unbeknown to the woman was a tsunami that had taken the innoxious form of a three minute’s foggy drizzle. It, she ominously thought, was just a harmless curiosity that hissed through fanciful fangs devoid of venom of paralysis. She took upon herself, the role that had no existence in the marital code of Eden –God’s home.

                She spoke, unconstitutionally, without the authorisation from the authorised Adam. Words, before God, are so important that they must be brought before His adjudication. Armed with an idiotic confidence, unfortunately, she did not know that she was actually working against the will of God. What an ironic event! The one who was created to bait the enemy of God into incarceration is falling prey to a serpentine manipulation!  

(…to be concluded…)

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WHY EVE STUCK TO ADAM (two)

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(2)           Adam named her ‘woman’ ‘ishshâh or nâshı̂ym (ish-shaw’) which in the Hebrew means: ‘woman, wife, female; woman (opposite of man); wife (woman married to a man).’ It was of utmost prerequisite that he should name her. It was a fundamental prerequisite to actuate his ownership of an intelligent being before the inevitable usurpation of the enemy eventually did. Jesus -in Adam- must do it first. In naming her the existence of the church was engendered in an adumbration of “….I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” [Matthew 16:18]. Lucifer did everything to destroy this very important phenomenal event in man’s existence. Because in Adam Jesus succeeded, having tested the waters in Eden, it was time for Him to declare for all eternity, “and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

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Two important reasons the Devil chose to usurp the dominion of the earth via the woman was that since it was to the man that the oracle of the Divinity was given, he knew what a disastrous oddity it would be facing Adam the man. Even the evil Lucifer hated to lose in his nefarious enterprise! How I wish man would learn not to lose to the glory of Jesus. He chose the woman for the huge price of capturing the Church. Satan was of a deep savvy that the church and worship are quite the same. “Get the emblem of the Church,” he soliloquised, “and you’ve got the deified worship of your esurient crave. And the beguiled woman came under the guilty hands of a faux pas when she vomited the infamous “neither shall ye touch lest ye die” because it is absolutely unscriptural. She was guilty. The judgment is death!

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The innocent blood of Adam had gone forth and into the earth of sinful confinement. The same blood that went into her creation had, by the design of the Divinity, been made an atoning availability. To Lucifer’s chagrin the sinful duo did not die. Hallelujah! To reclaim the lost glory, Adam knew he had to name her again. Eve, which is Chavvah (khav-vaw’) in Hebrew means: ‘1. life-giver 2. Chavvah (or Eve), the first woman.’ “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Roman 11:33). Two is the scriptural number of testimony and of witness, ergo, twice named testified that God is the true Lord of this matrimony.

Adam renamed the woman to ensure the continuity of the marriage. It must take after God’s vision of: once married, is eternally married: where divorce is a spiritual illogicality which has no locus standi in the heavenly assizes. A proof of the fact that a member of the Church is eternally born again. “…..I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” [Matthew 16:18].

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God had put all necessary ingredients of marital success into the crafting of Adam. He was God’s disseminator of the oracular afflatus. God cannot lose. He must have His own desire. Jesus, therefore, got back His bride in Eve, the mother of the living. After the temptation, Adam’s wife was able to distinguish between faithfulness of the LORD God and the shenanigan device of the Devil, having been fed with his beguilement. She had learnt her lessons. Eve made her wise choice.

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The tempter asked her to come with him to rule the world. She would not fall for another cozenage. “I’ll make you the goddess of the entire globe,” was the next line of diabolism. Just imagine if Eve had embraced this fantastic offer of the supreme goddess of the entire world. Satan would have made use of the matrix of prototype of humanity. It would have been the biggest deal of satanic worship. Her first demonic son would be anointed as the supreme prince. “Quite impressive,” she admitted; but the Spirit of God showed her her future with Adam and Eve saw a much bigger picture! Amen!!

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Eve stuck with Adam for a good reason

She would rather get stuck with a poor Adam than cringe slavishly before Lucifer and all the huge opulence at his disposal. God showered her with mercy. She remembered that. She had had reinstatement bestowed on her. “This is a good God,” Eve had admitted to herself. “Quite unlike this deceiver;” so she decided to actuate the dream of the LORD God by sticking very closely to her husband. Eve saw the light. She saw the big picture.

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Blood sacrifice: an adumbration of the ultimate sacrifice of the Lamb of God.

In Adam’s sleep she saw the death of Jesus. The blood from his side foretold the Lord’s propitiation of atonement. Atonement, to her, read something different: at-one-ment! She will be one with the LORD God forever when the archetypical Jesus, whom her husband adumbrates, comes. The celestial bliss will wipe away all the tears of demonic afflictions. Her tectonic walk with the LORD is the walk of every Christian. Only with Adam will this walk receive rejuvenation in Christ. Eve stuck wisely to Adam.

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Semiramis giving suck to Tamuuz, the son of Nimrod or Baal.

It pays to be part of the big picture. Satan mesmerised Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis, who refused to look at the final analysis. They did his bidding; and the foolish couple remains the most idolized across the entire globe. Nimrod is the sun god and Semiramis, the moon goddess. Their foolishness stems from the fact of Psalm 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” A dichotomy of the adoration of entities had been engendered by satanical diabolism.

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She stuck with her husband, Adam, to bring God’s dream to fructification.

Praise be to Jehovah who did not allow Eve to fall thereby giving someone like me an opportunity to serve the LORD God, in the name of Jesus. Amen!  (Concluded)

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LOVE (What’s It?) part two

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                                   Out of the mouths of babes….

(…continued from the 1st part)                                                                                                                  In verse 5 of 1Corinthians 13, we have ‘behave itself unseemly’, aschēmoneō (as-kay-mon-eh’-o) is: ‘to be (that is, act) unbecoming’. ‘Seeketh not her own’ means ‘does not engage in things that would not be for the common good’. ‘Easily provoked’ is paroxunō (par-ox-oo’-no): ‘to sharpen’ i.e. (allow a sharp, rapid, acid anger in you). ‘Thinketh’, logizomai (log-id’-zom-ahee): ‘to take an inventory, that is, estimate (literally or figuratively)’. ‘Evil’ is kakos meaning: ‘worthless, injurious, depravity’.

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”Thinketh no evil’ means, according to Clark’s Commentary, “Believes no evil where no evil seems”. From Jamieson, Fausset & Brown’s Commentary, “imputeth not evil [ALFORD]; literally, “the evil” which actually is there (Pro 10:12; 1Pe 4:8 (refs2)). Love makes allowances for the falls of others, and is ready to put on them a charitable construction. Love, so far from devising evil against another, excuses “the evil” which another inflicts on her [ESTIUS]; doth not meditate upon evil inflicted by another [BENGEL]; and in doubtful cases, takes the more charitable view [GROTIUS]”. And I concur with an, “Amen!”

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Verse 6 says, ‘Rejoiceth not in iniquity’, because love will rather exult the verity and the truth but frown at falsehood. ‘Love’ in verse 7 covers, endures, all afflictions, without complaining. Believes all that are not palpably false. Hopes for the better even when others are tired of hoping. Endures patiently to the end. Verse 8 has ‘never’ oudepote (oo-dep’-ot-eh) ‘not even at any time, that is, never at all,’ and ‘faileth’, ekpiptō (ek-pip’-to) ‘to drop away; specifically be driven out of one’s course; figuratively to lose, become inefficient’. Love will never go out of fashion. It is truly eternal. Reverend Chris Okotie, in a teaching of his, said, “If you ask me the definition of God, I’ll tell you it is simply ‘love’.” How absolutely concise and very correct you are, my dear Pastor! One can only access this agapē of God when it is channelled through the energy of the Holy Spirit via an experiential knowledge of Jesus, the anointing Anointed.

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Jesus exhibited the spirit of longsuffering when He patiently taught His disciples to fit into the Kingdom of God that was at hand. Kindness of agapē drove Him to heal the blind man who had spent years beside the Bethesda pool, and for which same reason He fed about 18,000 people who attended His crusade. I just do not see why He will harbour any recourse to envy anybody, being the Creator of all in existence. Those who have attained the spiritual maturity should not for any reason wrap themselves at any point in time in the toga of jealousy. When you read where Jesus says, “Verily, verily I tell you…” He is pointedly making an intimation of the fact that He is not a braggart. God vaunteth not. Jesus is so humble you hardly see any marked difference when found in the midst of His disciples. He never puffed Himself up.

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The gentleman in Jesus would not permit Him to take steps of unbecomingness. Whatever Jesus sought for Himself was definitely for the common good of all. Selflessly, Jesus died for all sinners. Knowing what was at stake, Jesus did not allow the acidity of the provocative anger to burn Him out, enduring the grueling, sanguinary death of the cross. “Then said Jesus,” in Luke 23:34, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do…” in order to perfect ‘thinketh no evil’ thereby imputing no evil on His captors; a classic proof of a genuine adorable Lover.

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The Lord Jesus did not praise their business acumen at money changing, neither did He extol Judas’ business venture. He overturn the table, whipped them because, “ye have made it a den of thieves”, reminding them, “My house shall be called the house of prayer;” [Matthew 21:13]; and told him in Matthew 26:24, “The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born”.

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He swallowed death, stopping it from taking me to hell.

Twelve things do distinguish love. Twelve is the number of our Lord Jesus. One man of God defines agapē thus: “A love called out of the heart of the lover on account of the value the lover has placed on the object of his love”. It is truly a commitment: to take care of another person. Love, from my exegesis, is really not, “what’s it?” It is should actually be “who is it?” because Love is a Personage. The Lord Jesus epitomizes all what love is. Praise the Lord!

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LOVE (What’s It?) part one

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It does not find its true delineation in the realm of emotionalism. No doubt about the fact that emotion can be symptomatic of love, but is it not very well known medically that a symptom of tiredness does not necessarily serve as the diagnosis for malaria?

Our emotions are not stable. They do have the tendency to fizzle out at an advent of another experiential stage of existence. Emotions often becloud the good sense of true judgment of a prevailing issue. Feelings ride on the wings of volatility for prominence and survival. Your feelings cannot be wholly trusted.

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Love is not a feeling per se. It is a state of being. Love, actually, is a Personage. In the book of 1John 4:8, it reads: “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love”. The 19th verse: “We love him, because he first loved us.” ‘Loveth’, ‘love’ and ‘loved’ (verse 19) is the Greek agapaō (ag-ap-ah’-o): ‘to love (in a social or moral sense)’; it is the verb form of agapē. ‘Knoweth’ is ginōskō (ghin-oce’-ko) ‘to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of, perceive’; ‘to “know” (absolutely)’. ‘Love’ in verse eight is agapē (ag-ah’-pay): ‘brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence; love feasts’. Agapē is a feminine noun, therefore, very productive. No one knew love until God showed it. The same love moved God to descend from His most highly exalted heaven to save the lost souls.

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Love, no matter what!

The grammatical femininity of agapē is indicative of worship. Whatever receives veneration has become a husband, spiritually. Jesus, who receives worship, is espoused to the Church {Ephesians 1:22, “And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church”; Ephesians 5:25-32, where verse 25 reads: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it”}. Nimrod has the appellation of Baal and one of the meanings of Baal is ‘husband’. Wherever you see the symbolism of the moon, crescent or the sun, know that it could be a replication of Baal worship. It should not surprise anyone that Diana worship involves libidinousness. Diana is the same person as Semiramis, the moon goddess wife of Nimrod, the Baal. Anyone who comes to Jehovah God with the agapē of Christ will be doing so with the role of a worshipping stance.

 

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The word, ‘charity’ in 1Corinthians 13:1-13 is Agapē, where we see the credentials of love. Faith is so vital that without it none can receive anything from God. We even understand that faith is what God employed at creationism. Hope keeps our faith at the highest degree of its zeal but love is the greatest among the three: “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” [1Corinthians 13:13]. “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” [Mark 12:30]. Love, unlike virtues like hope and faith, is all encompassing. It is the very essence of God. You show faith to exhibit God, but when you love you are God in disguise. It is for this reason esoteric cultism enjoins its initiated ones to cultivate the habit of philanthropy in order to balance the good with their evil deeds.

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God is a Spirit. Love, truly expressed, must flow from Him. You cannot manifest genuine love unless it is energized by the Holy Spirit. Verse three of 1Corinthians 13:3-8 reads, “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” Esoterically fueled philanthropy is an attempt in otiosity. Verse 4, “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up;” where ‘suffereth long’, makrothumeō (mak-roth-oo-meh’-o) means: ‘to be long spirited, that is, (objectively) forbearing or (subjectively) patient’. ‘Kind’ is chrēsteuomai (khraste-yoo’-om-ahee) ‘to show oneself useful, that is, act benevolently’. ‘Envieth’ is zēloō (dzay-lo’-o) ‘to have warmth of feeling for or against’; while ‘not’ oú (ou), is absolutely negative adverb no or not’. ‘Vaunteth’, perpereuomai (per-per-yoo’-om-ahee) Middle voice from πέρπερος perperos (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of peran (per’-an) –which   comes from– peirō (to “pierce”); through (as adverb or preposition), that is, across’.) means: ‘to boast’; ‘not’ is oú (ou). ‘Puffed up’, phusioō (foo-see-o’-o) means: ‘in the primary sense of blowing; to inflate, that is, (figuratively) make proud (haughty)’.       (…to be concluded…)

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The Mystery Of Wedlock (2nd part)

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         Satan, as the ape of Jehovah, waited for the reign of Nimrod to perpetrate the travesty of divinity. Nimrod established one universal religion, making him the true portrayal of the Antichrist. He, with his wife, Semiramis, and son, Tammuz formed the heinous trinity. Nimrod was the ruler of the world. He led them in a sacerdotal office and was worshipped as the sun god, Baal. Semiramis was appointed to the deified position which Eve, through her faithfulness to the covenant, rejected. His title of Baal means: ‘owner, lord and husband.’ The religious worship initiated the worshippers into an atrocious wedlock of esotericism. They became espoused to Nimrod spiritually. Lucifer understood the spiritual implication. Nimrod was Lucifer’s priest, hence, every obeisant gesture to Nimrod’s religious worship is in actuality an evil worship of the Devil himself. All married to Evil!

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Semiramis is Lucifer’s woman of his church

Many do not know what this conjugal phenomenon is all about. The design is for Christians only. The redeemed. It is God’s secret to bestow eternal salvation on man. God’s true love is revealed in His espousal of the redeemed. One must, as a matter of scriptural fact, be wedded to Jesus to receive the gift of heavenly citizenship. A good husband who has a gift for his wife learnt it from the Most High. Is there any proof that only born again Christians enters into this wedlock? The propitiatious blood of Jesus washes the born again justifiably sinless before the judging seat of the Creator. Adam entered into the primeval wedlock with the pristine woman, both of them quite sinless. The pristine couple were of the same Parent: the LORD God. Christians have one Holy Spirit, one Saviour and one Father. Any other marriage is a mere grotesque mimicry of God’s glorious institution.

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This mystical wedlock does not come to any termination. 2Corinthians 5:17 states that, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Old things are the natural sinful you. All things that ‘are become new’ speaks of your new spiritual existence. Verse twenty-one makes it crystal clear who owns the newness and whose righteousness you are wrapped in. You cannot lose your salvation as long as it has a connectivity with marriage for: of divorce Jesus catechized, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:6).

When asked in the 7th verse why Moses taught to divorce, Jesus answered in the 8th, “He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” God is a covenant keeper. Remember the scriptural caviar in Revelation 14:11 of whosoever receives the cultic name of the Antichrist is damned forever? So does the wedlock with Jesus! Should you still be in the dark concerning the divine security of the believer please search for my post titled, “Why Go Aminianistic Soteriology” and another one is “My Salvation (what can happen to it?)”

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God knows that if He leaves the maintenance of the redeemed life of Jesus us to, the impossibility stems from the fact that we lack the spiritual element of its sustenance. Jesus points out categorically in John 10:28 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” What a good Jehovah God we serve! He beheld our natural weakness even as He was designing our future eternal blissfulness and decided to serve as the inn-keeping Caretaker. Hallelujah! “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” [Romans 11:33]. Selah. I rest my case.

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Get born again. Say this sinners’ prayer, meaning it from 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!”               (Concluded)

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The Mystery Of Wedlock (1st part)

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The mystery of conjugal bond has an evincive appropriateness in Eve’s incapability to divorce Adam. It was the practical reality of the prototype union, lying equable in the bosom of the eternal Father, awaiting the historical Spirit-anointing of participatory wedlock between the Lamb and the Church, the annalistic representation of which will eventuate in the celestial realm of the seated Majesty.

The first woman was made exclusively for the man, his rib having been the main component of the creation of the woman. Rev. Chris Okotie, in his exegesis of the extraction of the rib, taught that only the rib looked curved enough to represent the rainbow which God used to make a covenant with man. In the same vein, going by this understanding of the rib connection, a binding conjugal relationship was bonded by the utilization of the man’s rib. Marriage covenant. The woman was made while Adam, the man, lay asleep just as Jesus, his prototype, would. His sinless sleep is a prophetic adumbration of the Calvary’s death of atonement leading to a lying in the tomb to a necessitation of the standing up of the Church. God, her Father-in-law, would, no doubt, have briefed her about her responsibility. She understood. When the temptation arose, she dutifully stuck with her husband.

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Eve did behave irresponsibly. She, nonetheless, deserves the proper encomiums for keeping God’s dream alive. God needed to enter into an everlasting relationship with a species of intelligent beings to prove Lucifer’s guilt and sentence to eternal hellish confinement. The first woman fell but she remembered her first love. She remembered the true unwavering love and its lavish engulfing radiation. There was no mistaking the reassuring dispositional affection towards her and the overpowering gentle attachment that she experienced during that walk with the most High. She would rather remain the follower of the God-ordained mortal dust of an Adam than to be a tiaraed goddess of the cosmos.

Lucifer’s beastly revelry would have known no bounds if his chicanery had earned him a triumphant conscription of the original Adamic female. She would have been his most perfect queen. Albeit it would not have made any difference to God’s intended purport, her apostasy would have afforded Satan an expediency to spread the potential importance of seeking spiritual aid from her esoteric deification.

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Satanic religious contraptions of trinity around the globe

The exclusiveness of the erection of a female for the man’s use highlights the legality of the union. The word ‘made’, in Hebrew, is bânâh (baw-naw’) in the book of Genesis 2:22 “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” Bânâh is an architectural term which means: ‘to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue, to build a house (i.e., establish a family).’ Remember Jesus’ divine promise of Matthew 16:18, “….I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” The woman is God’s own building. She is God’s property; an institution created for the portrayal of God’s faithfulness. By the time God brought the woman to Adam he was already standing in the justified rectitude of the dominant ruler of the earth. His consent, as God’s representative, was needed for the consummation of God’s objective. The woman became Adam’s property. Man’s ownership of his wife cannot be viewed in a derogatory manner. He owns her the very manner Christ legally owns the espoused Church.

‘Woman’ in Genesis 2:22 is ishshâh (ish-shaw’): ‘woman, wife, female.’ With an understanding that the Church is the body of Christ it is apropos to analogize that the woman, as the husband’s body, does surround him, hence, his bodyguard. The Church guards the word of God. The Eden ishshâh was a strong woman. Her strength comes from her husband, the lord of the earth, who prefigures Jesus, the true Builder by whose power ‘the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’ Amen! Knowing that He was leaving, Jesus had to empower His body with the pronouncement of Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

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                               The rib is reminiscent of the rainbow covenant

We form a mystical bond by the token of the rib. The covenant makes the wedlock a great mystery. It is owed to God the covenant Keeper. God’s irrevocable involvement is the invincibility of the invisible stance of wedlock. Ephesians 5:30 reads, “For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.” The 31st verse reveals an earthly phenomenal, “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mot\her, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” Verse 32 caps it with: “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”                                      

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Get born again. Say this sinners’ prayer, meaning it from 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!”   (…to be concluded…)

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