Apostle Joshua Selma

(…continues from part three…)

5)            I am quoting another Apostle, Joshua Selma, who said this, “One time I started having encounters with the saints of old. Now, understand that every time we teach those things, the Bible is the foundational pattern for our spiritual growth. When we share these supernatural experiences it’s not to create a passion in you higher than your love for Scripture. These are only systems that support the things that Scripture has said. I remember I started having encounters with many of those you call Generals. And they will come to me and share mysteries. And some of them will share with me where they failed in their own generations. I remember in one of these encounters a middle height man came to me and the light that beamed from him; and when we were done talking, he turned, and on his way going, and I looked at him and I said, ‘You did not tell me your name, Sir.’ And he looked at me and turns back and said, ‘Paul.’”

The Bible is the foundational pattern for our spiritual growth

                Very apropos it is that the Bible, according to Joshua Selma, is the foundational pattern for our spiritual growth; also of impeccability is that supernatural experiences should, definitely, not create a passion in us higher than our love for Scripture. I, however, do not share the belief in the so-called Generals of the Lord’s Vineyard. I do not have any problem with a remark of jocundity that tags them as Generals. Now if you refer to them as Generals in the Lord’s Army, what do you call, Peter, James the great, John and Paul, the true Apostles of the New Testamentary order of the Church Age? Are all Christians not fellow labourers in the vineyard of Jesus? 1Corinthians 3:9 “For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.” Philippians 4:2-3 “I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. 3) And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.”

                Philemon 1:24 “Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.” Whether it is ‘labourers together’ or ‘fellowlabourers’ it has the same Greek sunergos (soon-er-gos’) with the definition: ‘companion in work, fellow worker.’  The greatest Minister of Jesus in Acts of Apostles, Paul of Tarsus, who took the gospel from Jerusalem to Europe, taught most of Christological mysteries, and also wrote about three quarters of the New Testament calls other Christians he got groomed for the Lord’s vineyard work ‘fellowlabourers’. In his own right, Paul of Tarsus is definitely Christianity Generalissimo. Paul, however, called himself fellowlabourer.

Can a true Christian operate spiritually without the mantle?

                Tagging some prominent ministers of God ‘Generals,’ especially those who delve into wrong teachings, in these days of end time approach, tends to aggravate the syndromic itchy ears that makes the likes of Joshua Selma go searching for the living and dead labourers in the vineyard to tap anointing. Why do I need Paul, Peter and or John to tap anointing from them when I have already in me the Eternal Father, Son and the Holy Spirit as eternal Dwellers? Are the indelible scriptural couches of John, Peter and Paul not available to me in the Bible? But those suffering from itching ears will travel from pillar to post, going on pilgrimages to plunder anointing from living Generals; and ransacking tombs of dead labourers. I heard and saw Orokpo saying, “Mantles are to be snatched from those who have them…because none of them want to willingly give them!” See what they have turned Christianity of the Lord Jesus into? The question I want to ask is, “Can a true Christian operate spiritually without the mantle?” These teachers make one believe that mantles and oil of anointings can replace Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 

                This is another submission of Joshua Selma, “I am a product of many anointings, I am a product of many encounters. Years ago, I started searching for those who carry the mantle of the Generals, because I felt there was a burden upon my life for this generation. And I wanted to become system of preservation and continuity of the programme of God. And one of the people l met began to tell me a story: that before Smith Wigglesworth died he called Lester Sumrall and said, ‘Do not die with this mantle. When you are old, find young men and transfer this grace upon them.’ And when he laid hand on me, he said, ‘You will become a continuity of these graces.’ This is like a relief; it has come from one person to the other. The chiefest of all encounters was when the Lord Jesus Himself appeared to me. Light in its brilliance came from Him to me. He did not speak with His mouth, but He was talking to me. I know what He was saying. The Lord spoke to me and said, ‘Son, today I give you My presence as a gift.’ And I saw this huge angel. And the Lord said, ‘This angel will walk with you, he is called the angel of the LORD’s presence.’”

Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. You were born in sin. 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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