Unending Horizons Of Truth.

 Which Altar Is Speaking For You? The altar which speaks for the believer in Christ is the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than that of Abel; it is nothing but the cross of Christ where we have been redeemed from every curse. The mark of the altar in the old testament is that made by hands, built by man. If you go through the word altar in the old testament you would see pious men of old raising/building an altar unto Jehovah, from Noah to Abraham to Isaac & to Jacob etc. it is man building an altar to God. One of the marks of the veil over the old testament. In the light of the new testament however, it is not so. There is no such record or testimony of a man building an altar to God. No disciple, believer or pious man in the new testament was ever instructed or inspired by the Spirit of God to raise or build an altar unto God. This is very clear in scripture and very instructive for the altar of the new testament is not that which is made by hands or built by m...

Through Prosperity Shall My Cities Spread Abroad?  This is one of the most abused verses of scripture, which many preachers quote completely out of context, in a bid to legitimise a false gospel.  It's really absurd that those hell bent on proving that the gospel cannot be preached without money, readily quote this scripture 👇🏼  Zechariah 1:17.  The teaching generally drawn from the common English version of this prophetic scripture is wrong both textually and contextually.  The actual reading is "Cities overflowing with good, pleasantness or prosperity(ṭôb in Hebrew)" and not cities spreading abroad or multiplying through good, pleasantness or prosperity. 👇🏼  "Cry further, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity, and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.  The cities spoken of here, were already existing cities of Judah/Jerusalem, and the searchlight of prophecy is on their resto...

Here are some scriptures I read and I get so burdened seeing that much of what is being practised by many today as christianity and christian ministry is completely strange & different from what the apostles & early church practised in the bible 👇🏽 2 Corinthians 12:14-21 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?  I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all thin...

I know you must have heard some say that service is not complete without 'money offering', that you are not to appear before God empty handed. Do you know the implication of such an assertion in the light of scriptures in the new testament? It means our priestly service to God is not complete without offering money. Very grievous words! Many carelessly & ignorantly make such statements not knowing the implications thereof. Scripture clearly shows that whatever we offer to God in our priestly service is by Christ Jesus; whether we offer praise, thanksgiving, prayer, doing good by the communication of our substance, it is by Christ and it is acceptable to God by Christ. See Hebrews 13:15 & 1st Peter 2:5. Now scripture also shows that we are complete in Christ(Colossians 2:10), and this is not by anything we did or could do but by the grace of God which has placed us in Christ, so whatever priestly service we offer to God by him is complete.  When we offer praises or thank...

Dissecting & Discerning Prophecies. We're in that time again when diverse prophecies are flying in from different religious circles for the new year. It's very important for the people of God to be able to dissect & discern what is true & what is not, what is of God & what is not of God, being inspired by self, satan or the tendency to tell people what they will like to hear. Under the light & scrutiny of the  scriptures of truth, we must be able to discern what the Spirit of truth is saying and what he is not saying to the church. For instance if I come telling you that the Spirit is saying that this is the time for the manifestation of the sons of God, that cannot be true, the Spirit of truth cannot be saying that this is the time for the manifestation of the sons of God for that is not in anyway consistent with what the scripture of truth teaches. In the light of Romans 8:18-23, to assert that this is the time for the manifestation of the sons of God impl...

The Word Of The Lord To His People In A Time Of Declension. Here is the word of the Lord to his people in a time of serious spiritual declension & moral crisis in the church, in a time when strange fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness has become rife, the norm & the order of the day in professed christendom, in a time when those who by grace were once quickened out of deadness in sin, are found living as among the dead in sin; bereft of sobriety which is the mark of those that wait for their Lord, spiritually numb and insensitive, undiscerning, unbecoming in conduct & speech such that filthy things which should not be once named amongst saints, is that which we now revel in as having fun, entertaining & being entertained by foolish talking & jesting that are not convenient, comfortably walking in darkness & not as children of light. This is the word of the Lord to us in the midst of all these 👇🏽 Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and a...

The Absolute & Exclusive Spiritual Headship Of Christ. Ephesians 1:22 "And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church..."  Christ is the only one whom God gave(appointed) to be the head over the church, and his headship over the church is in all things; there is thus no place for any man to claim spiritual headship over the church.  There is no one scripture which speaks of or even gives a hint of an apostle, prophet, teacher etc. being appointed or given of God to be a spiritual head or covering over God's people(the church).  Christ is the head over all things to the church/assembly which is his body; thus even in the relationship which exists in the body, scripture tells us that Christ is the head of every man and the man is the head of the woman.  It is such that even the woman in the body(church) who is without a man(a father or a husband over her), is yet not without a spiritual head/covering for Christ is t...

Service On The Altar To The Unknown God: Whom You Worship But Know Not. Through the lens of scripture we can see how present day christendom has become infiltrated by heathenism & heathenistic practices in service & devotions to different altars, temples & places of worship. In the book of Acts for instance, we see how a thought & teaching prevalent in present day christendom, is heathenistic; the teaching and presentation of God as one who needs something from our hands to be worshipped or to be offered something that he may in exchange, bless us, is not only furnished by ignorance of who God is but is also an ungodly/heathenistic belief & practice. What transpired in Acts 17 perfectly exposes this error which has become rife in present day christendom. There we see Paul in Athens, a heathen city given to devotions to several temples, shrines and altars. Their devotions were their delusions. Scripture said as he passed by and beheld their devotions, shrines & a...

In beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 "En arche" ..."in beginning", no definite article as speaking of any particular beginning not even the beginning of creation as captured in Genesis 1 is being spoken of here. "In Beginning...The Word" The Spirit of truth in the inspired words takes us back of all beginnings including the beginning of creation, and there the first thing we see when nothing else was & when absolutely nothing was known, is the Word. Nothing will/can be known outside of the Word & nothing will be brought into being(existence) as created, without the Word. "In beginning, the Word".....nothing before the Word... the Word here set forth in beginning not even as what is said or spoken but as a being/person who is the "arche": the first, the one that commences. This is so absolute that God is not even seen or known until the Word is set forth in beginning as the beginnin...

"For Christ has not entered into holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the face of God for us" - Hebrews 9:24. The emphasis of scripture in the text above is very clear, for scripture clearly shows & points us to where Christ our Highpriest has entered for us. He has not entered into 'holy' places made with hands upon the earth,  thus he cannot be found in them. He has rather entered into heaven itself. He is not in 'holy' places made with hands upon the earth; he is not in temples, altars or any religious platform set up by men upon the earth. It is idolatrous when ministers are occupied with & seek to occupy the people with 'holy' places & religious platforms/altars made with hands where Christ is not, instead of pointing them to heaven itself where Christ has entered as our Highpriest and is in the face of God for us. Where the emphasis of the minister is to draw men to eithe...

The church in touch with the Holy Spirit lives in the consciousness of the imminence of the Lord's coming, as seeing the day approaching. According to Hebrews 10:24-25, provoking ourselves unto love and good works and assembling together often to exhort and encourage one another is to be done in the anticipation & hope of his coming for us. Where this is not in view and we merely assemble together without seeing the day approaching and  hasting unto his coming, our gathering and love feasts is nothing but a social meeting/gathering. Beyond every doubt and confusion of men who are insincere with scripture, the bride that loves her bridegroom undyingly and passionately, desires and craves his coming as soon as possible.  Hope deferred makes the longing heart sick. As revealed by the Lord in Matthew 24, the servant who defers his Lord's coming in his heart, whether for fear or his imminent return or indifference to it, is an evil servant; and the disposition of his heart affe...

The errors of today are not new, there are men who walked in those paths in times past, they're only being repeated & recycled in generations of men who fail to learn from it's history. If we fail to learn from the mistakes made by others in the past, we will end up making the same mistakes in the future. Many years ago we derided and even chided MFM members for the way they pray violently, chanting die, die and fire🔥 fire🔥 repeatedly. Many years after, most of us are praying that same way; praying like the heathen who think they would be heard for much speaking. Vain repetitions & vociferous outbursts in prayer which have become a daily chant(Matthew 6:7-8) What did we learn all these years? Virtually nothing! It's a very disturbing cycle & trend. I have christian brethren who joined me at the Redemption camp when Pst. Benny Hinn came for a crusade there in 2005. I remember how at the close of the first night, we saw some MFM members holding hands, shaking th...

The subtle opposition of the enemy is so commonly by imitation of the truth and also by weaving error & truth together, so that the truth therein can attract true souls and thus put them off their guard against the error mixed with it. How essentially is the present time a day of such terrible mixture that's rarely discerned, especially by those merely following & walking after men and not the truth as it is in Christ. Sadly, deception becomes the lot of those who can't discern it, just as Eve was deceived for failure to detect/discern the lie in the mixture of truth & error the serpent fed her mind with. The true apostolic burden & jealousy over the church is to guard the singleness of devotion to God & espousal to the One husband and head of the body(church), which is Christ. Only thus can our minds be safeguarded from being beguiled and deceived by the enemy's subtilty & craft in making a perfect mixture of truth & error. Where there is divide...

Abraham was made to learn in his body the lesson of the divine ways; he was made to face in his own body the impracticability & futility of natural effort as night by night those pendant lamps of heaven shone down over his whitening head, and the word of promise whispered in the stillness, "So shall thy seed be." There was absolutely nothing in his own body, age, strength or power that looked like it. He found in himself everything inimical and opposed to even the very thought of the possibility of bringing forth a seed. So Abraham had at last to walk before an Almighty God with a "body now biologically dead", which he could reckon upon no more. In his experience God would have us learn this, which we're often so slow to learn; that faith in ourselves is only so much unbelief in Him, and a hindrance to the blessing He has for us in his Word.  We must come to that point where we no longer have ourselves or any other thing in view for reckoning but His Word. G...

Manifestations Of Power Devoid Of Godly Character (Recipe For Spiritual Disaster). True spiritual measure & value is not in manifestations of power, glory and influence but in the development of christian character; conformity to the image of God's Son(Christ) ie. growth unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ(Christlikeness). Satan can manifest power & glory, appear as an angel of light; spirits of devils can work miracles, command breakthroughs & testimonies, gather a mammoth crowd of people to a crusade or meeting ground, such that those who judge by outward appearance will most assuredly say 'this is revival'! 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Revelation 16:13-14 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go for...

Few days ago i read a lengthy post by a certain preacher who was making a case to prove that there's nothing like 'transactional gospel' in the bible.  In the opening lines of his write up he stated that "the phrase(transactional gospel) is someone’s thought to justify his opposition to the preaching of prosperity, it’s not in the word of God."  Honestly it baffles me to see someone making a lengthy argument and even quoting scriptures to prove that something is not in the bible while it is right there on the pages of his bible.  Little wonder why the apostle in his admonition to Timothy said: "give attendance/heed to reading"(1st Timothy 4:13).  There are many portions of scripture which many churchgoers for years and ministers who have been preaching from the bible for decades, have never read or heard being preached.  This is so worrisome and the reason why some years ago, i opened a Facebook page called 'Scriptures Hardly Read Today'.  Now le...

Often we hear believers say the church is under attack, the church is being divided etc. Sadly, the real attack on the church is the least discerned; it's systemic, endemic, very subtle with no hostility but hospitality in the arms of infidelity, and it is WORLDLINESS. As early as the days of the early church, it was worldly wisdom which crept into the church in Corinth, that bred divisions & religious hero worship even along the lines of affiliations to true ministers of the gospel of Christ, and it led to such false assertions as: "I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of Cephas" - a declaration of membership and belonging to ministers instead of Christ, who is the one Head over all & uniting all members as the one from whom the entire body is derived & the one all is to grow into, unto the measure of the stature of his fullness. This very subtle and sinister attack of worldly wisdom against the church has been on for centuries and has waxed & prospered gr...

Scripture says God desires that all men should be saved & come to the knowledge of the truth, and to that effect he sent his Son who came and gave himself a ransom for all. It is in view of this truth that the apostle in his epistle to Timothy, exhorts that prayers & intercessions should be made for all men with no exception 👇🏼 " I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men; for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;  For this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God, who desires that all men should be saved and come to  the  knowledge of  the  truth. For God is one, and  the  mediator of God and men one,  the  man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony  to be rendered  in its own times." 1st Timothy 2:1-6 Having spoken of God our saviour in the 3rd ...

The only spiritual value of our gathering/assembly is in the Lord being with us(His presence) & not in the number of people in attendance; and the Lord will only be present with us if our gathering is actually unto Him. "For where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matthew 18:20 It's very important to note that t he actual rendering of this scripture text in Matthew 18:20 is not "In my name," as in the common english version; but "Unto my name:" His name being thus the central point of gathering. "In His name" would imply by His authority, or as representing Himself: both are of course, true of the body of believers as bearing the light/witness of the risen Christ in a dark world, but neither of them defines the nature of the christian assembly as portrayed in the actual rendering of the text..."Gathered Unto his name". It simply means it is a gathering unto Christ and none othe...

Horrors Of False Testimony In Ministry As Set Against True Testimony. False testimony in essence, is marked with exaggerations and distortions of truth. Even where Christ is preached but not according to the truth as it is in the scriptures of truth, there you have false testimony of Christ and those bearing or preaching such a testimony are thus false witnesses. In 1st Corinthians 15:14-15, the apostle says: "but if Christ is not raised, then, indeed, our preaching is vain, and your faith also is vain. And we are found also false witnesses of God; for we have witnessed concerning God that he raised Christ, whom he has not raised if indeed those that are dead are not raised." If in preaching Christ, we make exaggerations in a bid to promote the cause of christianity upon the earth, making it appealing, attractive and acceptable to men, we are preaching a false testimony and are false witnesses of God. False testimony is thus never to the honour or glory of God but to his dish...

Praying In The Name Of The God Of One Preacher Or Another. There's absolutely no scripture that shows where any believer or church saint appealed to or prayed in the name of the God of any minister/preacher of the gospel like calling upon the God of Paul, the God of Peter or the God of John.  The only place something close to that played out in the days of the early church, is in the case of the sons of Sceva, who tried to cast out a wicked spirit in the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches ie. The Jesus of Paul; clearly showing they had no personal revelation or relationship with Jesus, but merely appealing to the Jesus of Paul to have the same results Paul has when he prays in the name of Jesus. Acts 19:13-16.  No man who has a personal revelation of Christ and relationship with God as Father will stand praying in the name of the God of any minister like praying in the name of the God of Paul or in the name of the God of Peter, even Peter and Paul would rebuke such nonsense ...

The Dangerous Assumption That Whatever Your Pastor Tells You To Do Must Be The Holy Spirit Telling You To Do It. Heard a popular pastor quoting a fragment of the 17th verse of Hebrews 13 & doing so out of context, to buttress a dangerous point, which is that whatever your pastor tells you, whether you are persuaded by the Holy Spirit or not, just do it.  This he did, asserting that whatever your pastor tells you to do must be the Holy Spirit telling you to do that. Those who have the rule over you are simply those who have spoken the word of God to you as clearly written by the apostle in an earlier verse(vs. 7) of the same Hebrews 13 👇🏼  "Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation." Earlier in chapter 2:3 he had written about the so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord himself, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.  Them...