INTRODUCTION

A book that teaches about who you are in Christ. A believer’s

authority is revealed through that believer based on his knowledge of
Christ (which is the knowledge REVEALED of himself).
The kingdom of God is not a physical building. God seeks to reveal
himself to the world. That revelation is our manifestation.
What the Believer needs is to understand who he is. This is the
summation of the Christian walk.

Luke 17:21, “Neither shall they say lo here! Or, lo there! For behold,
the kingdom of God is within you.

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 TABLE OF CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 THE PERMANENT WORK
 A BELIEVER SHOULD TEACH
 THE BELIEVERS GIVING
 WON’T YOU KILL YOUR ENEMIES
 CAUGHT UP (THE REVEALED)
 ABOUT APOSTLES OF PRAYER
 Chapter 1
THE PERMANENT WORK
The Gospel which we preach is himself in a believer. We preach Christ.
1) Is it all my sins that are forgiven?
2) What of past sins?
3) What of present sins?
4) Can a man be perfect?
5) If I die while committing sin, what happens?

Be sure to know that this concerns the believer. A Believer as regards

Christianity is someone who believes in the lord Jesus. Not that he feels
or believes Jesus is one of the Prophets, Not that he knows Jesus came
to take away sins.
A believer is one who believes in Jesus as a giver of life (Gods life).

John 3:16"For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten
son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life".

He believes in the death, burial and resurrection of the lord Jesus.

If He believes in Just the birth or the death and doesn't believe Jesus
resurrected, he isn't saved.
It’s in His resurrection a man obtains salvation. If Jesus isn't risen, then
there is no redemption.

1 Corinthians 15:1-3" Moreover brethren, I declare unto you the gospel

which I preached unto you which also ye received and wherein ye stand;
By which Also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto
you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Because you believed the Gospel is the reason why you are saved.

What did you believe?

Verses 3" For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,

What was Paul talking of?

"How that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that
he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to
scriptures".
The totality of the Gospel goes all the way from Christ incarnation (that
is his birth) to Christ ascension (after he left earth to the throne).
But the summation of the Gospel is in his death burial and
resurrection...

Verses 14 of 1 Corinthians says " And if Christ be not risen, then is our
preaching vain, and your faith is vain"
The word Vain literally means (Pointless, of no effect, empty).
In this context it was used to mean EMPTY. Kenos in the Greek. If Christ
is not reason then your believing is Pointless, has no value. You have
believed in nothing.
Verses 17 put it this way "And if Christ is not raised, your faith is vain;
ye are yet in your sins".

So the freedom from sin is anchored on the fact that he resurrected.

Believing is having the spirit of God.

Romans 8:9" But ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be (if that
is so) the spirit of God dwells in you".

If a man says he doesn't have the spirit of God then he didn't believe.
He is not of God. Continuing from verses 9 of Romans 8...
"Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his". Having
said all this,
Let us answer the above question 1-5.
What of Past and present sin? Can a man be perfect? And the rest.
The day you believed, you were forgiven for all your sins.

What Christ did was not to die for one of your sin, He became sin and
was punished in your place.
If you need to be punished again then Jesus didn't pay in full but Praise
God He did.

No man can condemn you.

Romans 8:34" who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died yea
rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who
maketh intercession for us"

Jesus didn't come to condemn. John 3:17" for God sent not his son into
the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might
be saved".

He has done it all, once and for ever.

Romans 6:10" For in that he died, he died unto sin once:
Hebrews 7:27" who needeth not daily as those high priest to offer up
sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's, for this he did
once, when he offered himself.

He was the sacrifice. The priest of old had to offer sacrifices every now
and then but Jesus was the lamb. He offered himself.

Hebrews 9:12" Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own
blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.

He did not just obtain redemption; it was eternal (Forever)

Hebrews 10:9,10" Then said he lo, I come to do thy will o God, He
taketh away the first that he might establish the second".
What is this second?
Verses 10" By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all".
That is to say your past, present and future sins has been forgiven.

Hebrews 8:12" For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their

sins and iniquities will I remember no more".
He didn't say when they sin again I will remember. NO!
He doesn't remember any of it at all.

Hebrews 10:16,17, “This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, saith the lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and
in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more”

Not to worry, God sees you perfected in Jesus. It’s not about you; it’s
about what he has done for you. If it were to be dependent on you, you
can't be worthy.
Romans 5:19" For as by one man’s disobedience many were made
sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous”.

Hebrews 7:25" wherefore he is able Also to save them to the uttermost

that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them".
The word uttermost in the Greek means pan-tel-ace (in no wise,
totality).
Hebrews 10:14" For by one offering he has perfected for ever them
that are sanctified ".
You are one of those whom the father has brought to himself and has
perfected.
John 6:37" all that the father giveth me shall come to me and he that
cometh to me I will in no wise cast out (in no situation or
circumstances).
That is to say no matter what he does I won't throw him away.
He made you complete in him (Colossians 2:10).
What God views as sin is unbelief.
It was what Adam did in the garden. God had said (do not eat except
you will die).
The devil said (eat you won't die).
Adam disbelieved God (unbelief).
Gen 3:4" The serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die"
Verses 6 (the woman ate and her husband).

The plan was for them to eat the tree of life which symbolizes Christ
today.
No record that they ate that tree called life.
So God had to come and offer himself (life) through his son Jesus.

So hence, Christ says.

I am the way, the truth and the life (He is the life).
John 6:48" I am the bread of life"
Verses 51, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any
man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I give is
my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world".

In other words Jesus says I will give my life that if any comes to me, He
will live forever (never perish).

How does a man come to him?

John 3:18" He that believeth on him is not condemned:
So to eat of that bread of life is to believe in Him.

Remember we said God sees sin as unbelief (fornication, malice,

murder are fruits of sin, all works of sin). If the root (unbelief) is taken
off and the tree cut down, the fruits (works of sin) are forgotten.
This is why any man is condemned only in unbelief.
Verses 18" He that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God".
You are condemned if only you do not believe in Jesus.

SO ARE YOU FORGIVEN FOREVER?

Yes, as long as you believe!
How do I know?
As long as you believe, He can't cast you away and he has perfected you
forever. He has taken your punishment once and for all (for every other
time). We have seen all these above with references to scriptures.

HE HAS ALSO SEALED YOU UP.

God is so wise; He knows that the devil will always try to get his
children against Him. Satan will try to penetrate in and deceive (as his
name implies-The deceiver).

So for preservation and security purposes, He did a surety on those

who believe, and this preservative doesn't expire till the last day. It’s
called the day of redemption. It’s the day where our body will be
transformed, where immortality will swallow up mortality, where the
body will be transfigured to be like his glorified body.

NOTE: we are in those days.

Ephesians 1:13,14" in whom ye trusted after that ye heard the word of

truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom Also after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise, which is the earnest of
our inheritance until the redemption of our purchased possession unto
the praise of his glory.
2 Corinthians 1:22" who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of
the spirit in our hearts".

HOW DO I KNOW THE REDEMPTION HERE REFERS TO OUR BODY?

Romans 8:23" and not only they, but ourselves groan within ourselves
waiting for the adoption to wit (witness) the redemption of our body".

The word Sealed in the Greek is Sfrad-id-Zo. It means to Preserve or

secure.
We are secured till that day.
Gala 3:13" Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth
on a tree.

What if I die committing sin?

Philippians 1:6
Firstly, why will a Christian think this way? Why will you wish to remain
a baby?
Anyway understand that the qualification for Gods acceptance is to
believe in his son.
What man views as sin is the works of sin.
In believing Sin was dealt with, so you are saved whether you die
committing sin, but to think you would die committing sin Is absurd.

James 1:23" if any be a hearer and not a doer, he is likened to a man

who looks at the mirror.
Verses 24" He looks at the mirror and leaves forgetting what he looks
like"

So scripture didn't say a man who doesn't obey Gods word changes
from being his child. It says He forgets who he is.
So what will that man do?
Verses 25(says he should continue to look). The remedy for a believer’s
growth is that he continues to study.
 Chapter 2
A BELIEVER SHOULD TEACH
I have often heard many excuse their selves when it comes to the
teaching gift.
You hear, I am an apostle not a teacher.
Let those who can teach do so, I am a prophet.
The question therefore comes (can the teaching gift stand on its own?)

Study your Bible.

You will find out teaching backs up all other ministerial gifts.
Every believer should be a teacher of God’s word: it’s not for some kind
of believers.
In Acts 13:1" Now there were in the church was at Antioch certain
prophets and teachers; as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger
and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with
Hero's the tetrarch and Saul.
The prophets are also called teachers here.

I Timothy 2:7" whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, (i

speak the truth in Christ and I lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith
and verity.
Paul calls himself an Apostle yet a teacher of God’s word to the Gentiles.
Hebrews 5:12"For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have
nerd that one teach you again which be the first principles of the
oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk and not
strong milk.
Paul is saying you all are supposed to teach.
Teaching can't be a ministry gift on its own.

A prophet, pastor, apostle and an evangelist are supposed to be

teachers of the Gospel. You can grow with how you teach Gods word as
you listen to others. It accompanies the other gifts.
A popular scripture which many teach this from is Ephesians 4:11. But
before we look at Ephesians, let's look at 1Corinthians 12:28-31. And
clarify some things.
(28)And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily
prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings,
helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
(29)Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers
of miracles?
( 30)Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all
interpret?

He wasn't listing in the order of superiority.

It’s like saying characteristics of humans..
1-they can talk.
2-they can see.
That would not mean talking is superior to seeing right.
That will just be listing in an orderly manner.
Paul was saying these is how things should be done in church not that
one ministry gift supersedes the other.

Having said that, look at it again;

He also asked,
Do all heal?
Do all speak with tongues?
He wasn't saying there are some that cannot do this, it was a question.
Remember what Jesus said in Mark 16:16" This signs will follow them
that believe....they will lay hands and get the sick healed, they will
speak with new tongues.

So healing the sick and speaking with tongues was/is for all believers.
If Paul was saying not all can heal, that would be contradictory.
Though all have not been able to do this doesn't mean they could not
be able to or cannot.
So in Verses (31)Paul admonishes" but covert the best gifts".
How does a Christian covert? it’s by Stirring it up.
These gifts reside in your spirit.
To covert means to DESIRE, It means Zeloo in the Greek.

The way a believer shows he desires is with prayers and then you see
those gifts becomes effective in operations.

Reading verses 29 of 1corinthians 12 should tell you Paul wasn't setting

these gifts in ranks, because it also says
(…are all workers of miracle? do all heal?).
The question is, are all believers not supposed to work miracles or heal?
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT-

So let us look at Ephesians 4:11

"And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
He says all these gift is to bring the believers to full knowledge..
Nobody attains knowledge without learning, without having to be
taught.
So these ministerial gifts are given to men to bring men to a perfect
knowledge of Jesus.

It’s in teaching, the believer gains knowledge.

In these verse, "AND" was used to show two different meaning (deh
and Kai).
"deh" in Greek is a primary particle, adversative or continuative used to
show CONTINUITY..
"Kai" is a composition used to show a connection between things.

Back to Ephesians.

He gave some Apostles and (Deh) (continuing), some Prophets,

But when he came to teachers AND became (Kai) meaning a connection.
It was no longer (deh) but (Kai) to show the connection between all
those gifts and teaching.

So Paul says all these ministry gifts (Apostles, prophets, evangelist and
pastors) are connected to teaching.
No matter what you operate with, you should be learned in God’s word
so you can teach other believers.
Why God has put you there is so that you can grow and groom other
believers.

It’s a FOUR FOLD MINISTRY, all built in and through teaching.

We are all supposed to be teachers of the word.

Paul would say to Timothy, "Study to show yourself approved".

Why do we study?
So that you can "Rightly divide the word of truth".
So I say to you Study, listen and teach. You are a teacher of God’s word.
 Chapter 3
THE BELIEVERS GIVING
Are RICHES obtained by GIVING? Many rich men are stingy & many
poor men are generous.

It’s so true (YOU see them around you too). Teaching that you cannot
lack as a Christian, your giving makes you rich, and all of such has made
lots of Christian folks lazy.

CAN A CHRISTIAN LACK?

Never teach the GOSPEL as what brings riches. It has no Biblical proof.
Some believers would say lack is a sin; a Christian shouldn't or cannot
lack and thereby make it look like any believer who lack is inferior.

You hear things like if a believer lack, there are some principles he/she
isn't applying, maybe he doesn't sow, and maybe he is defaulting in his
tithe.

The Macedonian churches gave yet out of their little and abject Poverty.

2Corinthians 8:1" Moreover brethren we do you to wit (witness) the

grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:
2: How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and
their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality”.

With Poverty they still gave because giving was taught on the right Note.
They weren't cajoled and tricked to give.
There was no sow big to go big, sow great to go great. They were
taught giving as a means to feed those among them who needed.
In verses 14, "But by equality, that now at this time your abundance
may be a supply for their want, that their abundance may be a supply
for your want: that there be an equality”.

Nobody tried to show that he or she possessed much but (that there
should be equality).
No big man, those who felt they were superior to others.

When Paul talked of sowing and reaping (if you are not careful with
study), you will think that he is saying as some say today (sow up to go
up), but No! He was talking of giving without grumbling and as you
giving as you desire.
This is the blessing of giving, in that you are not forced (its willful).

2 Corinthians 9:5" Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the

brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up
beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same
might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
So they were not to sow being covetous (that is, aiming at receiving
from their giving- it was to be cheerful).
Verses 7" Every man as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not
grudgingly or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver”.

So giving wasn't to be done out of compulsion but as the man wishes

and what he wishes. It wasn't to be by necessity (A necessary giving
where you do not have a choice).
So Paul prayed….
Philippians 4:19" But my God shall supply all your need according to his
riches in glory by Christ Jesus”.

-The woman who Jesus referred to as giving much in the temple was
poor.
Been rich or poor can apply either to believers or unbelievers but God
supplies our needs.

The saints at Jerusalem lacked.

Romans 15:26" For it has pleased them at Macedonia and Achaiah to
make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

Being a Christian is not a criterion for being rich and it doesn't mean
you should be poor either.
Depend on God to supply your need and bless the work of your hands
as you labour.

There are many believers who let go of materialism and lacked because
of the work of God.
Jesus attested to this fact.
Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58"The son of man has no place to lay his head".

1corinthians 4:1,12"Even unto this present hour we both hunger and

thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling
place; and labour; working with our hands: being reviled, we bless;
being persecuted, we suffer it:”

Paul says (they were often times hungry). This wasn't just about
persecution. They suffered LACK because of the Gospel.
Whiles so many teach that the Gospel brings wealth, scripture teaches
otherwise. There are times we lack as believers and even give out of
nothing not hoping to receive for the gospels sake.

We give for the Gospel to reach others and to further Gods work. We
do not give to be rich or to get blessed. We are blessed in Christ Jesus.
GOD GIVES FREELY
We often hear, ‘if you give to God, He will give back to you. If you don't
sow, give or tithe, the devourer (Satan will attack your finances).

Without much ado, the devourer has been defeated-and you are far
above him.
Ephesians 2:6" and hath raised us up together and made us sit together
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus..

So now a believer sits with Christ.

See where Christ is;

Ephesians 1:21,22" Far above all principality and power and might and
dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also
in that which is to come:

So you sit with Christ far above all darkness (far above Satan)
Satan has no say in your life talk more of your finances.
In Malachi, when He said the devourer would devour, it was clear that
they were not in Christ. But you are!
You can't compare the Old Covenant believers with a Man in Christ.
A man in Christ is beyond the devils reach in all areas.

Teach the believer to give because he needs to, do not trick, cajole or
persuade him to give by bringing in Satan (THAT GIVING would be with
fear- ERROR).

Do not preach it as though God even eats the money and will only bless
based on how much is given.

GOD HAS BEEN IN THE BUSINESS OF GIVING all along. He gave Jesus
freely without our demand.
He gives you life on daily basis (you don't need to pay).
God never gives to you because he expects something in return.
His giving is tagged FREE.
If it’s not FREE, it’s not from him.
He isn't a hungry God. He owns it all.
Psalm 50:12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is
mine and the fullness thereof"
He never gives to you so you'll give back to him.
He supplies your needs because he loves you. He cares for you.

Matthew 6:26"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly father feedeth them.
Are ye not much better than they?"
.Matthew 7:11 says" if you can give to your children" how much more
will your heavenly father give good things to you if you ask".

SO WHY do we give?
-We give because we are like our father (it’s our lifestyle).
-We give so the needy will have. You can't say I don't have much (Start
with the little you have). Whatever you give cheerfully is accepted. God
loves it.

Acts 2:45" And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all
men, as every man had need.

Acts 4:35" And laid them at the apostles feet and distribution was made
unto every man as he had need"
- We give for the furtherance of Gods work (To take the Gospel to
others).

Note: GOD DOESN'T SUPPLY YOUR NEED BECAUSE YOU GAVE.

HE GIVES TO YOU BECAUSE HE IS A GIVING GOD.
Change your attitude towards giving.
Don't ever give because you expect to receive it back.
Give because you are a giver. Choose to act like your father. I AM A
GIVING CHILD, I don't know of YOU.

There’s one beautiful song I love…

I let my treasures go, as I let it go,

What I give to God I never lose,
So I open up my heart,
I open up my hands,
Jesus wants to save the world through me….

NOTE- I never said there is no blessing in giving. There is, but it cannot
be the reason for riches or becoming wealthy. Multiplication of
resources will happen because you had resources first of all.

CHRISTIANS are not the only RICH people? Read the Bible properly,
you'll find so many unbelievers were rich. Also look around you, many
sinners are wealthy too.

A typical example in the Bible is the rich young man;

Matthew 19:16" and behold one came and said unto him, Good master,
what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
Judging from his statement, this was the very first time he met Jesus.
He wasn't among the disciples, but see what scriptures said about him.
In verses 22" But when the young man heard that saying, he went away
sorrowful: for he had great possession.
It was acknowledged that he was rich yet he just met Jesus.

Zacchaeus was also wealthy.

If you say it’s because he stole, you probably have not looked at that
Passage properly.
 Luke 19:7, "And when they saw it, they murmured, saying he had gone
to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

He wasn't called a sinner because of stealing.

In verses 2" And behold, there was a man named zacchaeus which was
the chief among publicans, and he was rich.
He was known as a sinner probably not among the Pharisees.
Note that he had not met Jesus before now.

Now, verse 8 was zacchaeus's statement and it showed cheating or

stealing as a probability.

8NIV: But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here
and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated
anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount ".

Take note of the word (IF), It was a probability.

Are men RICH because they pay TITHE?

You will agree with me that many who are wealthy do not pay tithe and
many who pay tithe are not wealthy.
Abraham the first man to give tithe was already very rich before ever
doing so.
Why was Abraham rich?
Genesis 12:1" Now the lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will show thee:

So we agree together that at the time God spoke to him, he was still
living in his father’s house.
His father had just died in Genesis 11:32, so his father’s possessions
were his.
In verses 5" And Abram took sarai his wife, and lot his brothers son and
all their substances that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
gotten in Haran: and went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into
the land of Canaan they came.

Did you note words like SUBSTANCES (material things) and SOULS
(servants).

So before Abraham ever paid tithe, he was wealthy.

Which Poor man would have gone to fight a nation?

Genesis 13:2"And Abram was very rich in cattle’s, in silver and in gold"
He had about 300 servants.

Genesis 14:14" And when Abram heard that his brother was taken
captive, he armed his trained servants born in his own house, three
hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
See his statement after he returned
In verses 23 "That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe latchet,
and that I will not take anything that is thine, lest thou shoulders say, I
have made Abram rich:
Equating it to riches of this age, that is a lot.

Jacob gave God condition for paying tithe.

Genesis 28:20,21" And Jacob vowed a vow saying, if God will be with
me and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on, so that I come
again to my father's house in peace; then shall the lord be my God.

NOTE: All through his stay in Laban's house (his uncle), No record of
tithing. Yet he was very wealthy.
He gave God condition for tithing. If it were to be now, some preachers
would say, “your delay to pay will sink you” and they will vomit all sort
of threatening.

The question now is, How do MEN become WEALTHY?

Many believers are lazy so they remain poor. Others work, God blesses
and supplies.
Every wealthy person you ever hear of or know has a means of earning,
whether they are Pastors, Muslims, Hindu's or Buddhist.

Paul helps us here (He worked throughout ministry).

Would you like to say, “Paul didn't really know God”, maybe Paul didn't
have the God’s revelation on giving to receive, or Brethren seed harvest
and the likes…
Paul worked:
Acts 20:33:"I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing...

34NIV: You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my
own needs and the needs of my companions.

35NIV: In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work
we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself
said: It is more blessed to give than to receive.

So Paul even attributed working as a means to help the needy.

But some will say Paul was a Levite, He was the Apostle of that time,
probably the most known, He was their reverend and they even gave to
him.
Well, somehow YOU ARE NOT WRONG but He Worked.
He called it labour (hard work).

Likewise Priscilla and Aquila worked too (ministers of the Gospel and
fellow helpers of Paul).
Acts 18:1-3" After this things Paul departed from Athens and came to
Corinth; and found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately
come from Italy with his wife Priscilla;(because that Claudius had
commanded all Jews to depart from Rome) and came unto them, and
because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and wrought:
for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

These ones were like the Deacons of then but they worked.
Hence Paul admonishing the believers, says to the lazy folks 'Steal no
more'. Only a lazy believer will resort to stealing.

Acts18:1-3"Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but

must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they
may have something to share with those in need"
So even those who stole should stop stealing and should work to give
the poor.
In all these, we have not seen Paul talk of giving as a means to receive
but to feed the needy.
These were to all believers.

I hear People say as believers, we don't sweat to be rich, riches just

come, and we believe and trust God for supplies.
My brother if men are working for you, Great. But it’s still your
business right? If you shut down the business or company, you’ll soon
be poor.
If you are a Pastor (Probably sowing helps because you have Brethren).
If nobody sows again, just IMAGINE what will happen.

For those who still feel it’s not by working a man attains wealth, Paul
will speak again to you.
1Thesselonians 4:11,12 "And that ye study to be quiet and to do your
own business and to work with your hands as we commanded you;
Why should you work..? Paul continues in verse 22" That ye may walk
honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of
nothing.

A man, whether he is a business man or a Pastor who decides not to

work, has built up capacity over the years still from laboring.
No man just flew to the top.
Its either they had (Wealthy parents, had connections with top
personnel or worked hard). You'll rarely find someone who stumbled
over riches, even when they are, some of them had never heard of
giving in their entire lives. So it wasn't out of giving they became rich.

2Thess3:10-12; 10NIV: For even when we were with you, we gave you
this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat”
11NIV: We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are
not busy; they are busybodies.
12NIV: Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to
settle down and earn the food they eat.

Despite all, trust God to supply your needs but endeavor to work the
things that are good with your hands so that you’ll give to those in need.
 Chapter 4
WON'T YOU KILL YOUR ENEMIES?
Ephesians 6:12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood-
So our fight isn't against humans.
Continuing, "but against spiritual against principalities, against powers,
against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places.

So our fight is against Satan. The word Rulers in the Greek means Kos-
mok-krat-ore, meaning Satan.

The President of a fellowship in school approached me One day. He said

"You have divided the schools fellowship".

Funny, I had never stopped nor told anyone to leave that fellowship to
mine. I only taught Gods word.

This fellowship taught believers to pray their enemies to death; they

should see their neighbours as suspects, they justified it with
SCRIPTURES "Suffer not a witch to live".

It is pertinent to note that Moses who wrote that was not perfect in his
writings. There are things Moses wrote out of experiences, feelings or
emotions.
Mark 10:4-6 Jesus made us understand that "And they said Moses
suffered to write a bill of divorcement and to put her away, and Jesus
answered, (“For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precepts,
but from the beginning it was not so”).

And that same Moses is whom you want to give heed to in this New
covenant. NO!
I was also bewildered when I heard a renowned Preacher say on air,
"Are you holier than God, He killed, David also killed…”

That stung to my bone marrows. Dear it is compulsorily necessary for

us to know that our identity is found only in Jesus.
John 14:20 Jesus said, "At that day, ye shall know that I am in my father
and ye (You) in me and I in you".

Matthew 5:43-44 "Ye have heard that you should love your neighbour
and hate your enemy, but I say, love your enemy, bless them that curse
you, Do good to them that hate you and pray for them which use you".

I hear people say, Jesus said we should pray for our enemies but did not
give us prayer points.
That is deceptive..Look at the word BLESS, SAYS IT ALL.
I said this to a dear brother, he replied, "That was Jesus’ ministry, He
wasn't to kill, we do not have Jesus’ ministry”. But he was wrong, WE
DO.

Luke 9:54,55..Jesus rebuked his disciples for wanting to call down fire
on their enemies like Elijah "and when his disciples James and john saw
this, they said, lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down
from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
Verses 55" But he turned and rebuked them and said, “Ye know not
what manner of spirit ye are of" (You do not know the kind of spirit you
have).

Then he went further to explain the kind of spirit they had.

Verses 56" The son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to
save them"

So the spirit we have doesn't destroy but saves.

Ask yourself, what spirit did Elijah connive with to kill those people?
Ask, when people pray for others to die and they see the results, what
kind of spirit carried out that duty?

The Bible talks about the destroyer (The devil).You can’t go to Satan to
kill and in turn come to God for same purpose. It’s not SAME GOSPEL.

The Bible says this of God,

James 1:13" God cannot be tempted with evil". He is no associate with
anything evil.

2Corithians 5:18, 19 says Jesus gave you His ministry (Reconciling men
to Him).."And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by
Jesus Christ and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation".

He also says, "I do not wish any perish but all comes to repentance".
Note the word (ALL).

We can't see God truly in Moses or any other prophet.

See these SCRIPTURES,

Colossians 1:19, “For it pleased the father that in him should all fullness
dwell”. (All of Creation Consist (formed from) in the Son)

2 pet1:17, “for he received from God the father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is
my beloved son in whom I am well pleased”. (God is pleased in His son)

John 10:30, “I and my father are one”. (You can’t separate the son from
the father. The father is in His son).

A pastor said to me after hearing these things, "So you will watch them
kill you?"
Well, if only you understand truly that "YOU ARE SEATED WITH HIM"
far above all evil (Ephesians 1:21, 2:6), you'll be rest assured, you can't
be hurt.
I asked a fellow, if you saw Jesus walking with you every time and every
day, would you bother about any evil? (Answer that for yourself).

Jesus is not just with you, HE DWELLS IN YOU BY HIS SPIRIT.

People say, “It’s the spirit we kill not the humans”
(Don't be dumb, SPIRITS DO NOT DIE). Cease from praying on useless
things and enjoy the victorious Life, praying good for ALL men.
 Chapter 5
CAUGHT UP (THE REVEALED)
You are the revelation of Christ. Jesus is not coming to the church; He is
coming to the world through the church.

Revelation 1:7, “Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him; and all kindreds of the earth shall
wail because of him. Even so, Amen”.
He says, "All eyes will see him".

Where is Gods Abode?

1John 1:14, “Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he
will keep my words; and my father will love him and we will come unto
him, and make our abode with him”.
The word abode in Greek means mon-ay, meaning a Residence, by
implication mansion.
It’s the same word used in verse 2, where Jesus said, “in my father’s
house are many mansions”.
The word house in Greek means oy-kee-ah, meaning household.

So the father is a house, he dwells in every one of us (many mansions)

individually by his spirit.

Back to Revelation 1:7 where it says, “he cometh with clouds…..”,

Where would he come from?

Cloud in Greek means cloudiness (nef-el-ay). By implication it means to
take on a form.

If the father dwells in us, He isn’t coming to us, He is coming through us.
The word cloud is the same word used in Matthew 17:5, “while he yet
spake, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them”.
Matthew 24:30, “and then shall appear a sign of the son of man in
heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall
see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory”.
Jesus was speaking in parables.
The manifestation of the sons is the change of our body.
It is not when a believer heals, work miracles and operate better in the
things of the spirit as some have said. It’s called a glory to be revealed
through us.

Romans 8:11, “But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you”.

This quickening is the coming in clouds Jesus spoke about in Matthew

24:30. It was figurative, it simply means a change from our within (spirit)
taking place on our without (body).

Romans 8:18, “for I reckon that the suffering of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in
us”.
Romans8:19"For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the
manifestation of the sons of God.

This is immortality revealed on mortality.

1 Corinthians 15:53, “For this corruptible must put on incorruption and
this mortal must put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying: Death is swallowed up in victory”.

-This body will not fall off.

-It will not disintegrate.
-It will not melt.
-IT WILL CHANGE
2 Corinthian 5:4, “Not that we would be unclothed but cloth upon, that
mortality might be swallowed up of life”.

WHO IS LIFE?
John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life; no
man cometh unto the father but by me”.

JESUS IS THE LIFE

So immortality swallowed up of life simply means, the coming of Jesus

is his revelation of himself through us. We will be swallowed into him.
NOTE the word no man cometh to the father but through me.
This Brings our mind back to where Jesus says in John 14:2, “I go to
prepare a place for you..”

WHERE WAS HE GOING TO?

John 14:28, “ye have heard how I said unto you I go away and come
again unto you. If ye loved me, ye should have rejoiced because I go
unto my father”.
He wasn’t going to prepare a physical place. He was going to the father
to prepare a place for us in the father. This is justified when he says in
verse 2; “and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and
receive you to myself”.

NOTE: the word myself, not a place. Heaven is a position in God where
you now dwell. Heaven would be revealed to the world through us.
The word heaven means ouranos in Greek, meaning (an immaterial
world, eternity).

Heaven dwells in the believer.

Luke 17;20,21 “and when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, the kingdom
of God cometh not with observation…”
Bring your mind back to what scripture says, (appearance in the cloud,
meeting in the air). All these where figurative, pointing to this in verse
21, it says, “neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the
kingdom of GOD is within you,
22) and he said unto the disciples, The days come when ye shall desire
to see one of the days of the son of man and ye shall not see it (a day
will come when you will desire his coming but you will not see it).
What was Jesus driving at?
23) and they shall say to you, see here or see there, go not after them
nor follow them. (Jesus said do not follow observations because my
coming is not in observing signs and symbols)

NOW JESUS DROPS THE BOMB,

24) for as the lightning that lighteneth out of the one part under
heaven shineth unto the other part under heaven, so shall also the son
of man be in his days.
Jesus was saying, I will reveal myself through you guys, for heaven is in
you. He spoke in parables (john 16:12 I have yet many things to say
unto you but ye cannot bear them now), but in the epistles it became
clear; for mortality will be swallowed up of life.
I feel like shouting; PRAISE GOD! WOW!

So in verse 35 of Luke 17, “one will be taken” WASN’T TALKING ABOUT

FLYING OR A DISSAPEARANCE, it was talking about (BEING CAUGHT UP),
REFFERING TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR BODY.
Jesus came again through his spirit see John 14 verse 16 and 17, “and I
will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he
may abide with you forever”. Jesus was the first comforter (Note the
word ANOTHER).
It is clear in verse 17 he says this comforter is even the spirit of truth
(the spirit of Jesus who is truth) whom the world cannot receive
because he it seeth him not neither knoweth him but ye know him for
he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.

Remember Jesus had not died by this time, so he says he dwelleth with
you (presently) and shall be in you (future).
When Jesus resurrected and Mary saw him, he said, (john 20:17),
“touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my father but go to my
brethren and say to them I ascend unto my father and your father and
to my God and your God”.

Before now the disciples were not born again, so the spirit could not be
in them. Being born again is to receive the spirit. Hence when Christ
showed himself to them and they believed in him as one who has risen
and can forgive sins they received the spirit.
Verses 22 of john 20, “and when he had said this He breathed on them
and saith to unto them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost”.

I am of the Notion through scriptures that the Baptism of the spirit is at

salvation. Being filled is in speaking but it’s not the infilling (indwelling)
of the spirit. The spirit dwells in the believer when he received Jesus,
but the Believer gets filled (full of the spirit) when he speaks that is to
make an utterance.
He can get filled anytime and every time he speaks. This is what
happened on the day of Pentecost (they got filled).

Acts 2:4, “and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to
speak”. At this instance, this was the first time they manifested a gift.
So the scripture reveals it as they got filled to speak. It happens every
time a believer speaks with tongues the very first time.

We don’t get filled to speak, we speak to get filled.

Acts 4:31, “And when they had prayed the place was shaken where
they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness”.

So at salvation we were indwelt by his spirit. When we speak, we get

filled by his spirit.

Ephesians 5:18, “Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess: but be filled
with the spirit..”

This is same as what Paul was explaining when he said in 1Corinthians

14:1, “he that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself (gets
bold, becomes strengthened, and gets filled).

1 Corinthians 12:13, “for by one spirit are we all baptized into one
body”. We are baptized into Christ by his spirit, else we are not saved.
Galatians 3:27, “for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ
have put on Christ”.

What happens when we speak in tongues is same thing like when we

heal the sick. All are the demonstrations and display of the spirit’s gifts
within us. It’s called the gifts of the spirit.

1 Corinthians 12 speaks expressly about the spirit’s gifts.

We are born again by his spirit.

Romans 8:9, “But ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if so be that
the spirit of God dwells in you, now if any man have not the spirit of
God, he is none of his”.
So from henceforth do not approach God as a father so far away.
WHEN YOU WORSHIP
-God is worshiped in His temple.
Where is His temple? We are his temple.
So when we worship God, we worship Him whose temple we are. We
worship and serve a God who dwells in US.

-When we lift up holy hands, it’s to a God in us.

-When we pray, it’s to a God in us.

John 14:16, “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you forever,
17: Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you.

Jesus was talking about a future event, an event that will take place
after his death and resurrection.
That event has taken place; right now we have received the spirit of
God.
Jesus is risen! He is ALIVE!

Romans 8:15, “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to
fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba,
Father”.

Christianity will be much easier if you know that the God you serve has
made your body His Habitation.

OUR BODY WILL BE TRANSFIGURED

God is so wise, for preservation and security purposes, He did a surety
on those who believe and this surety is till the last day. It’s called the
day of redemption.
It’s the day where our body will be transformed, where immortality will
swallow up mortality, where the body will be transfigured.

Ephesians 1:13,14, “in whom ye trusted after that ye heard the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom Also after that ye believed,
ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise, which is the earnest of
our inheritance until the redemption of our purchased possession unto
the praise of his glory”.
The word Sealed in the Greek is Sfrad-id-Zo. It means to Preserve or
secure.
We are secured till that day.

2 Corinthians 1:22,“who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of
the spirit in our hearts”.

HOW DO WE KNOW THE REDEMPTION HERE REFERS TO OUR BODY?

Romans 8:23, “and not only they, but ourselves groan within ourselves
waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body”.
NOTE (we are LIVING in that day). It’s a process (The church is coming
to this place).
The believer has immortality in him. It’s from our within (Spirit) that it
will take over the without (body).

But Guess what? Till the end, the devil has no right to you, he can't get
to you, and he can’t undo what has been done.

SALVATION IS A PERMANENT WORK.

John 6:37, Jesus says (“I will in no wise cast you out”).
Hebrews 10:14 says (you are perfected forever)
If the devil cannot, Man cannot.

WHAT GOD HAS DONE IN YOU WOULD BE DONE TROUGH YOU.

Our manifestation will be the destruction of the world.
-It’s suddenly,
-It’s in a twinkling,
-It’s not a process.
It’s suddenly and this Gospel takes over.
THEN SHALL THERE BE THAT APPEARING, (the change of our body).

People won't need to line up as though we are counting census. Our

Revelation in our true form will be their judgement.

Jesus is coming through the church. He is already with the church.

Collectively and individually, we are His church (and He resides in His
church).
HE WILL BE REVEALED THROUGH HIS CHURCH.
In that day the whole creature would behold our glory.
This glory is Christ in the believer been revealed to the world.
We wait for that day (we are in that day).

THE CHURCH IS COMING TO THIS PLACE. Hallelujah! Praise God!

Oh say with me, I am a partaker because I am a son, his glory resides in

me and will be revealed through me.
It is CHRIST IN ME THE HOPE OF GLORY!

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