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The flesh(human body) profits nothing(John 6:63) Flesh & blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God(1st Corinthians 15:50). The flesh does not abide; all it eats, ingests, wears, puts on, takes up, gathers or amasses to itself ends in decay & decomposition/corruption. No matter how much you sow to the flesh, the harvest at the end of the day is corruption/decomposition - Galatians 6:8. The flesh being futile is naturally inclined to vanity. All it seeks, desires and craves for are vain things, ephemeral and transient. It does not desire nor care about spiritual things or anything eternal. With it's lusts, affections & works, it is opposed to and contrary to the things of the Spirit, lusting against the Spirit and warring against the soul. Galatians 5:17, 19-24; 1 Peter 2:11. You want to know just how hostile the flesh is? It does not give a damn about where your soul is going to hereafter. All it cares about is it's own pleasure & satisfaction in this life...

All Flesh Is As Grass. "All flesh  is  as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." - 1st Peter 1:24-25. Do we live & walk in the consciousness of this undeniable scriptural truth about the frailty & futility of the flesh, which states that all flesh is as grass? Words of truth lifted by the apostle Peter from the prophetic book of Isaiah: 👇 Isaiah 40:3-8 " The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God! Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see  it  together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken. A voice...

Contrary to what scripture teaches about this present age being an evil age with satan as the god of it, the natural human mind reasons that since the church is in the world this must be the church age. The church being presently in the world does not automatically make this present age a church age; neither does t he fact that it's a conventional teaching make it so. The fact that the messiah came into the world & dwelt amongst men did not automatically constitute/make the time he was here a messianic age. On the contrary scripture says "He was in the world and the world was made by Him but the world knew him not. He came to his own, and his own received him not"(John 1:10-11). When asked by Pilate: "Are you the king of the Jews?"; He answered and said: " My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." John 18:33-3...

From the beginning of the new year, i received a strong burden to teach on this subject & disseminate the scriptural truth concerning it.  Three days ago i got a message from a brother who sent in some questions and made mention of the 'church age' in one of his questions. That really got my attention, knowing that i've borne a burden of ministry along those lines for some days. As i pondered in silence, it was impressed on me that it's time to share on the subject and not keep back.  There are different strains of doctrinal error & confusion today stemming from the assumption that we are in an age known as the church age.  Scripture nowhere speaks of any such thing as a 'church age' or 'christian age' as the scholarly yet overly assumptious minds of men, who take up theology as mere intellectual exercise, have assumed & assigned to this present age.  In Galatians 1:3-4 scripture refers to this present age as an evil age.  "Grace to you,...

A Midnight Crisis & Cry Coming On The Church.  A deep spiritual crisis is coming to the church, that will make men arise to begin to ask questions like never before and seek spiritual understanding, to understand the word of God, to understand & give heed to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.  As in the crisis of the days of Eli & Samuel, when the word of the Lord was scarce/rare in Israel & thus precious/costly, and there was no open vision as the eyes of the highpriest had waxed dim such that he could no longer see, yet the lamp of God in the temple had not gone out, so is the crisis situation in the church today and it's growing in intensity (see 1st Samuel 3:1-3).  In the midst of the confusion/noise of conflicting voices which many are accustomed to, such that it's difficult for Samuels to tell/discern the voice of God, there will arise a distinct midnight voice/cry calling for the preparation of the bride in view of the imminent return/coming...

There are obnoxious individuals you have to deal with; abhorrent places you find yourself in, extremely difficult situations/circumstances you're going through & earnestly seeking escape from, yet God put you therein to form Christ in you. Egypt was a crucible God put Israel in to form her as a nation; Egypt was a place of the affliction and reproach of Israel as they were enslaved and maltreated, in bondage and affliction, in pain and agony of soul. It was God's will and plan that they should pass through that time/phase of intense affliction and suffering in Egypt to be formed as a nation. Moses by faith refused greatness, refused to be identified with royalty, and rather chose to suffer affliction with his brethren(Israel) & scripture says he did this, having esteemed, deemed/reckoned the reproach of Christ as greater riches/wealth than the treasures/treasury of Egypt(Hebrews 11:24-26). Who would have thought that the affliction of Israel(God's people) in Egyp...

According to the Gregorian calendar it's a new year. Nothing is actually new under the sun and nothing changes with the coming of a new calendar year; time is still ticking and racing to the end of the age, it's still the same world of uncertainties, where men's lives are like vapour, where everything is temporal & transient, where events come and go. It's still the same earth with the same sun rising in the east and setting in the west, the same moon and stars coming out to grace the dark skies at night.  The dawn of 2021 unfolded with a surreal moment in the history of human democracy...the insurrection/invasion of the US capitol on the 6th of January....one of the darkest & most notorious days in US political history, fraught with fear & much uncertainty as to the future.  As fresh as it is in our minds, it remains like a nightmare of just yesterday, yet a year is almost gone past it.  How time flies indeed, racing to an end & how the christian living...

 New Year's Eve/Cross Over Night.  The Cross-over night religious roller-coaster has gathered much momentum once again: Cross-over, suffering over, lack over, poverty over, pain over, sorrow over, sickness over, death over with thunderous roof-shaking 'Amens' from year to year.  Christ surely wouldn't have to come again if we can have a world with all these things over.  The new year eve/crossover services, come with superstition and religious fantasy, as the people are told by most of the preachers that what they do on that night, will determine what their entire new year will be like.  The people become so gullible as they are poised and primed, to do whatever they are told to do, in their hopes that the new year will be an elixir of sorts; an end to all their problems and challenges.  It is thus not a surprise to see the crossover services, branded with themes like "crossover to take over", "crossover night of storms over, pain over, sorrows over, fail...

Is He Really The Reason For The Season?  If there should be a crime-free, evil-free, death-free, tragedy-free, sorrow-free day, it should be Christmas day, sadly there is no such day upon the earth, not even a single second free of evil in this dark/ sin-laden world.  Many say Christ is the reason for the season, but let's pause and ask ourselves is he really the reason for the season? A season fraught with increase in evil & all sorts of moral vices, as men are most desperate to make gains & lay hands on enough cash to spend on excesses of revelling in debauchery. Could such be worthy of the Holy One as to say He's the reason for the season?  Will you cheat, falsify figures, sell goods/services at exorbitant prices/costs, kill, maim, engage in wild parties, orgies & lewd dancing etc. to celebrate Christ?  Is Christ the reason you did all that? Can you stand before God and say you did all of that because Christ is the reason for the season?  It's an ...

 The Blessedness Of The Meek & Weak. Meekness is unobtrusive, self-effacing & not self-assertive. It is a virtue that is often taken as weakness but it is not weakness in the sense of absence of power/want of strength but strength/power under restraint; strength/power put under/under control. This makes a meek man who may seem/appear weak, even stronger than he who goes about expressing power and showing strength without restraint/control. In the scriptures of truth we learn that true power with God is known in the place of meekness & weakness.  The power and strength of God is revealed in it's perfection, where the human vessel is weak, under & utterly abandoned to the grace and might of God - 2nd Corinthians 12:9-10. In Revelation 3:8 we see how saints in Philadelphia, who are of small strength(weak in the authority/power of their own will), kept the word of the Lord's patience & did not deny his name. Of course in being weak in themselves, they absolutel...

Guarding Against The Tendency & Doctrine Contrary To The Heavenly Calling/Hope. The history of the church is one long story of the tendency to settle down on earth and to become conformed to this world, find acceptance & popularity here & eliminate the elements of conflict/enmity with the world and of pilgrimage in it. With every break of the light of revival, which has seldom shone/rayed in, the inclination & gravitation of hearts to this dark world, soon eclipses & instituitionalizes it, turning it into an earthly thing, an organisation, a new denomination or sect. From the high altitude of the first years as set before us in the book of Acts, the church in it's pristine and sublime state, began to decline, until the church publicly and generally became an earthly institution, a mere religious organisation even politically attached to the earth. The battle all through her history has been in this connection; whether the church would maintain or retrieve...

Recently i came across a video message of one Joshua Selman, and i was sore grieved & peeved, seeing him teach outright blasphemy with much gusto, to the delight of his gullible hearers.  He said: "You need economic empowerment to raise the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is very heavy, you need resources to lift it up". To start with, in lifting and exalting the name of Jesus; giving him a name above every name, what material resources did God use to do that? Did God have to lavish his church with so much resources and make the apostles so rich materially in order to lift the name of Jesus? It's an insult & blasphemy to say the name of Jesus needs material resources/riches to be lifted up. When in John 12:32-33, Jesus himself said if i be lifted up from the earth i will draw all men to me, was he not referring to his cross (his suffering, death, shame & reproach)? As poor and unlearned fishermen, the apostles of Jesus were lifting the name of Jesus everywher...

The Spirit Of Denominationalism Beyond The Four Walls Of Denominations.  The spirit of schism & denominationalism is so subtle that it can be found thriving so strongly even in the midst of those who have broken out of the four walls of denominations. There are many today who deem themselves to be reformers and have left the four walls of denominations, yet they are caught up with the "isms" identified with doctrinal divides...calvinism, arminianism, cessationism, continuationism etc. How in the world would a christian consider himself to be a calvinist or arminianist, a cessationist or a continuationist, except it be that something other than Christ and being identified as Christ's(belonging to Christ) has become the obsession? When a doctrine which should lead to Christ/reveal Christ falls short of that in the hands of men and becomes something in itself...a movement, an affiliation, a religious/doctrinal sect/camp of all who embrace it, and even a foundation on whi...

 The Ecstasy Of "Pentecostal" Papacy Coasting To Apostasy. The autocratic ecstacy of papacy in catholicism, which the protestant movement once stood against, has now pervaded the entire sphere of denominationalism especially the so called Pentecostal denomination/movement; with men and women becoming heads of churches and so called 'spiritual' papas and mamas...thus the making of a religious monster of many heads, speaking perverse & diverse things/languages; discordant voices of confusion with the mystery of iniquity working in the midst, and drawing out from the lines of the past, all the elements of History-Babel leading to Mystery-Babel. Paving the way of apostasy, deceiving and leavening until the whole lump is leavened and the peak is reached at Mystery Babylon; the harlot bride church given over to strong delusion, and destined for ruin & damnation at the manifestation of the son of perdition.  The prophetic voice and warning of separation in this time ...

THE SONS OF ISSACHAR: THE 'REBELS' OF THE PRESENT-DAY CHURCH SYSTEM & THE DIRE NEED FOR TRUE SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. In 1st Chronicles 12:32 scripture speaks of the sons of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.  This is a scripture most of us are familiar with as it is loved and often quoted by preachers, but have we ever cared to keenly study and see/know the context in which these sons of Issachar were spoken of as men who had understanding of the times? If we go back a bit to verses 22 and read down to 32 we can glean from scriptures, a better understanding of the context and what the Spirit is saying in these inspired words of scripture. 22-32  "For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God. And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD...

The Absolute Deity Of Christ (Part 1) For one who is in possession of the New Testament, there is scarcely a need to quote a text to prove the absolute deity of Christ.  It is only human will that can fail to find it there; though it would be another thing entirely to say that there are no difficulties in the comprehension of it. Of course there are difficulties! That a babe born in Bethlehem, growing in wisdom and stature in the carpenter’s house in Nazareth should be at the same time the God of all men, this is a difficulty which no one thinks of denying.  The Old Testament states it, and draws attention to it twice, in words that were written long before the day of Christ: The prophet in Isaiah 9:6 says "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, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Father of eternity, the Prince of peace." Again, another prophet in Micah 5:2 says "But thou, Bethleh...

 True Spiritual Authority & Leadership.  True spiritual leadership is a selfless, transparent & exemplary leadership which exemplifies & models following the Lord, turning men into disciples/followers of the Lord. The passion & obsession of every true spiritual leadership is to see that men follow the Lord.  In 1st Corinthians 11:1 we read the apostle Paul say "Follow me, as i follow Christ"; In other words, follow me, as i model & exemplify following the Lord to you. If i do not model & exemplify following the Lord, if i do not show you how to follow the Lord, then you have no business following me. This is the apostle who had earlier rebuked this same assembly in Corinth, exposing their carnality in walking/ordering themselves after men, while asserting membership/belonging to men as though they had been bought with a price by men and not the Lord - 1st Corinthians 3:1-4. In Acts 20:28, 30 we see this same apostle warning against spiritual leader...

Self Denial: Basic Truth Of Christian Discipleship. The most subtle enemy of the believer is Self and many professing believers today are ill-disposed to the basic truth of christian discipleship which deals with that enemy and that is "deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Christ".  It is a very difficult thing to deny Self especially in a day in christendom when much of the message focuses on Self...self discovery, self development, self improvement, self confidence, self worth, self esteem etc. as good as all these may sound we may ask: where is the place of the cross of Christ in all these things?  Where are the disciples who are denying themselves, taking up their cross to follow the Lord daily & not taking up a self made & self-oriented cross(burden/responsibility) to follow their spiritual ambition, pursuit of purpose or to follow men who will empower them in the pursuit of their ambition? The Government Of The Spirit vs Self Government.  Self discov...

(Part 2).  We're still considering the solemn times in present day christendom whereby men with an open bible, are boldly and unashamedly teaching rebellion against the heavenly hope, calling, inheritance and citizenship/homeland of the believer in Christ.   The delusion of dominionists(those who hold unto the teaching that the church is called to dominate and take over this world and it's systems), stems from a lack of understanding of the heavenly calling of the church: they are confused about the eternal, heavenly inheritance/birthright and citizenship of the church.   As earlier stated in the first part of this meditation, some teach that we are not saved to go to heaven yet scripture clearly says we're born again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us - 1st Peter 1:3-4. Now let's pause for a while and focus on the implicat...