God uses your trials to mould a stronger you

3)            Romans 15:13 “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” The word ‘hope’ is elpis (el-pece’): ‘(to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstract or concrete) or confidence.’ Herein lies another Apostolic styling of immanent Jehovah: God of Hope. The LORD God is not only the onliest object of our hope; spiritually, there is no other author of man’s hope. Romans 15:13 does not say that you will have mere hope through the agency of the Third Member of the Godhead, it teaches of arriving eventually to a plerophory of hope.

There is no gainsaying the fact that keeping all your eggs in one basket when it comes to faith in the God of the Bible is apropos. And, honestly, when I listen to this facticity – based on Jehovah being the onliest object of faith – à la human idiosyncratic stance of philosophic view, I know it really sounds like creating an entrapment for Christian bigotdom. The reality here is simply that sounding like it does not necessarily make it so. Too glaring are the facts: to be jettisoned. All religions of the world take something from the Bible, and doubt it as much as you can, all you need to do is place the documentations of other religious beliefs side by side with the Bible. Creationism, the first Adamic couple, the Great Deluge, the Nimrodic first global kingdom of Satanism, the Abrahamic threshold of the soteriological establishment leading to God’s Israel, are all appropriately documented by Moses, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit (Author of creation) in the Pentateuch. Other religious or philosophical documentations as pertaining to ontology or soteriology are derived from the Bible.

The Prince of peace: JESUS CHRIST

The soteriology – of paramount Adamic phenomenality – is indubitably Christological. If it is not, one should not find the Christological John 1:4 and 9 which reads, “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:” in the Bible. Both ‘men’ and ‘man’ found in verses four and nine are not of the definitions: ‘Christians’, ‘followers of Jesus’ or ‘born again people’; they have the same Greek anthrōpos (anth’-ro-pos): ‘manfaced, that is, a human being.’ What is John saying here? Any generational progeny of Eden first couple as well as of Noahide descent has a Christological gene infusion: affording his being, every right to enjoy from Divine economy. It has always been from God the Father, in the name or through Jesus Christ, and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. This is the theological truth, with no crooked dependence on neologism.  

We do not understand that God, for a very good reason, made man a needy person. Jehovah God is the only Good and the only source of goodness. Creating man in His image definitely makes the Adamic entity absolutely dependent on the Most High. Most favourable to mankind it is, to have his dependence on the LORD God. Why does the Scriptures teach one of the shortest, “Pray without ceasing” (1Thessalonians 5:17)? It is so that the needy Adamic entity will have that closest spiritual proximity with His Omnipotence. It is an insult to even allow it to cross one’s mind that God cannot save from any dilemma. The Lord God knows that His involvement will always give us victory. As you pray to Him in faith, not ceasing, the LORD God is fashioning the way of escape to give you the expected end. Amen.

Trials and temptations, as a matter of fact should toughen rather than freak us out. Romans 5:3-5 “And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4) And patience, experience; and experience, hope: 5) And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Hard times, many times, are good for spiritual maturity.

To the matured child of God tumultuous seasons should lead him to greater landmarks of winning more feathers to grace his cap. Not allowing temptations to freak one out works ‘patience’ which is hupomonē (hoop-om-on-ay’) defined as: ‘steadfastness; cheerful (or hopeful) endurance, constancy.’ Another laurel of acquisition is ‘experience’ dokimē (dok-ee-may’): ‘a specimen of tried worth; test (abstractly or concretely); by implication trustiness.’ The constant trustiness character of imbibition will lead to ‘hope’ which is elpis (el-pece’): ‘(to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstract or concrete) or confidence.’ Salvation is never meant to freak anyone out. It is always an incident that comes to prove how close one is to the LORD God. When God said, “Let us create man in Our Image,” Christ is meant as the Image, constituting the legality to access Divine authority not even available to angels. Knowing that the One you have your firm hope on is the LORD God which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty, your anticipatory mien is marked with a pleasurable wait. Amen.

Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. 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!” 

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