For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men (Titus 2:11)

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6)            Titus 2:11-14 “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” It could be the Elizabethan inky script that is causing needless controversy concerning verse thirteen. Grammatically, ‘the great God’ is in appositive construction to ‘our Saviour’, and a paraphrasing of it, therefore, is “the glorious appearance of that great Being Who is both our God and Saviour.” The Eternal Father is not expected to practically make a physical show of Himself outside heaven; it is the Eternal Son Who, fittingly Divine, does this manifestation.

                Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” None is greater than the LORD God. The only reason Jesus claims the epithetical “Alpha and Omega;” and “which is, and which was, and which is to come,” culminating in “the Almighty” is reminiscent of John 10:30, “I and Father are one.” Amen.

The Word versus Humanism

                The greatest hunger of the human soul is for the knowledge of his God. When God decided to “make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” of Genesis 1:26, Adam was created a free moral agent. Adamic free moral agency, make no mistake about it, has its extant source in his Maker. In corroboration of this fact is “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 9) That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:4&9). Oprah Winfrey’s belief that Jesus cannot be the only way does pitch Humanism against the LORD of Sabbath, Jesus, very God of very God! There is no fruitfulness of life outside Jesus, the Word of God. Going by the ratiocination of Adamic free moral agency there is a constancy of spiritual crave to apprehend the truth. Man’s quest for discovery is the commencement in the thought realm, made of words, silent or aloud. How can one establish the truth without consulting with the Truth: Jesus – the Way, the Truth and the Life – through Whom flows the life of the intelligent beings? What does one use in the thought realm? Words. No fruitful conclusion is ever attainable in complete occlusion of the Word. Ostracism of the Word, finding affirm establishment, the satanic ground of beguilement got its structure of the original sin.

                Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Growing up at the tender age less than ten, my sister Oye, now Pastor Mrs. Atiba, came home from school soliloquizing, “Oh, if Adam had not eaten of the forbidden fruit we won’t have to be dying.” In the quietude of my mind, I said to her, “Welcome to reality.” All it takes not to rock, unnecessarily, the boat of spiritual relationship with God is a strict adherence to the Word of God’s instructions. Why should an execrable history repeat itself? Was it not because Cain, who should know best, being the very first to open the Adamic matrix, saw a way that seemeth right? Allowing his ground to receive the seed of Satanism, Cain died: the man of perdition.

                Psalm 42:1 “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” The water is emblematic of the Word and the Holy Spirit. The wise free moral agent will run, like the Bride in Song of Songs 1:4 (confer Psalm 119:32 & 60; Hebrews 12:1), after Jesus; wanting only what the One Who first loved us wants.

                The wise one will constantly consider Psalm 51:5, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” He will not fail to remember that we dwell in a body of sin therefore anything that does not mirror the express Word of God must be jettisoned. We will constantly have the Holy Spirit ordering the steps of our daily lives.

                It says in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” which is the rippling effects of the six thousand years of Adamic sinfulness occasioned by the Garden of Eden fall. This is why one must make sure he gets born again by receiving Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour.

                Our watchword should be the philosophy behind 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.” Does it say, “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” of Mark 12:30? Is there any smidgeon of doubt that Hebrews 12:2 will aid your adherence to the Word of God, Yeshua Mashiakh? Amen.

                Get born again by saying this simple prayer; believing it with all 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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