The call of Jesus is without repentance

(…continues from part ONE…)

2)            The Church, His Kingdom, must be well equipped with the necessary hands to “dress and keep,” which are fundamentally entrepreneurial engagements of Church business. The Hebraic ‛âbad (aw-bad’), of the Scriptural ‘dress’ of Genesis 2:15 means ‘to work, serve, till.’ What Adam could not do to give satisfaction to divine specifications, Jesus, the Incarnation of God, perfected when He we read, “Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” (John 4:34). And in John 5:17, it says, “But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” Veridical pointer to the perfection of Adam’s work is seen in “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do” (John 17:4).

                For the work that must get done Jesus did this: John 20:22-23 22) “And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23) Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” Acts 2:4 “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” In Acts Chapter two, the Church of Jesus came into being, imbued with the vibrancy of the Holy Spirit, Who put the human administration of the nascent Church in the able hands of the Apostles, who carefully nurtured her into adulthood. Having weaned the Church into the state of accountability, the Apostolic Fathers in turn handed the continual growth of the Church into the Holy Spirit led Pastors of various local assemblies. The gift and the call of every Adamic intelligence, before God, remained untampered with: for it is without repentance.

Enoch remained God’s servant till he was taken away

                Enoch continued unabated in the prophetic utterances as God placed in his heart throughout his antediluvian age days till God took him, not experiencing death like all before him. From the antediluvian age up onto his sixth century birthday, and passing on to the postdiluvian era till his nine hundred and fifty years, when he died, Noah continued in his prophetic and leadership roles. Till he died at age one hundred and seventy five years, Abraham never stopped being the friend of God and His prophet. What Moses got called into, in ecclesiastical and political offices, he continued to hold even when oppositions came left, right and centre forty years after, at age one hundred and twenty years. If he had not angered God in the water provision episode, which brought a termination to his earthly life, maybe he would have lived up to Abrahamic 175 years. And Moses would never have stopped working for the LORD God in all his four fold offices.

                The disciples of Jesus run through different directions when the soldiers arrested their Master at Gethsemane in poltroonish apostasy. All they had to do was do a comeback; did Jesus reject them for the dastardly behaviour of disserting Him? When they came back, He immediately reinstated them, why? Jesus’ gift and calling are without repentance. The good LORD knows that the enemy is always at his evil work of to steal, kill and to destroy. Not wanting to give Lucifer any opportunity to feel victorious over God’s business, once you are called to ministering business, He allows you to go on performing your duty till death. There is nothing Lucifer, the enemy, can do about that. “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)! This is probably the reason why many Christians just cannot fathom why the soteriology, a Providential phenomenality, is of eternality in essence. The facticity of being born again is a gift, waiting for the day the individual will hear the altar call and will stand up to tie the divine nuptial knots with Jesus Christ, becoming the LORD’s mystical body. Methinks it says somewhere that “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Providential call is eternal

                Matthew 19:3-8 3) “The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4) And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5) And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6) Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 7) They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 8) 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.” What does the Lord mean by “but from the beginning it was not so”?

                Two beginnings I see here: God decided to make the Woman a help meet for Adam, not as a result of an afterthought. Divine counsel had from eternal past decided that Adam will have a wife because the soteriology must demand marriage between Christ and the Church for the perfection of soteriological establishment. The Pharisees call the first Book of the Bible bereshith meaning ‘beginning’, therefore, taking them to a most familiar ground, Jesus tells them, “From Genesis, the beginning of God’s creation, marriage has been so sacrosanct that divorce was never a thing to resort to.” Now if marriage suffers not divorce, how can one lose this salvation from sinfulness, knowing fully well that to be born again is absolutely a marriage with Jesus? Selah!

                The Bible says, categorically, “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Romans 11:29). Will God change His mind just to prove that He has a mind? Praise the LORD!

                Jesus will give you rest only if you will receive His life. Get born again. Say this simple 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!” 

  (Concluded)

Read part ONE here

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