It makes me sooo sad when I see believers put themselves in a place where they must EARN God's favour, mercy or be doomed. Same favour that was received freely since they believed?
They are clear examples of the pharisees who they condemn and preach about everyday in church, only difference is that they believe in Jesus Christ, and in truth, that is all you need, but no, they must help God.
Of what use is it sef, believing in Jesus, when you can save yourself and become righteous in the sight of God by your deeds.
See now, God was over zealous in sending his son to die for our sins, something we could achieve on our own. Ofcz, I do not believe that one bit, but I feel that is what our modern day pharisees should be saying to themselves.
All I could do in church today was shake my head, put my face down and giggle at the thick show of self righteousness. It was laughable.
I wouldn't want to go into details of all that was said, but it was a Q n A session during Sunday school. The Sunday school teacher, sounding very educated, with well spoken English and all, kept conflicting herself, and of course the audience.
They could not find a common ground. I knew the right answer to their pushing back and forth, I could have silenced them all with it and probably be sent out of the church or be asked to stay back for deliverance or some brain washing of some sort to send me back to their state of bondage, where I formerly was. The common ground here was Jesus, simply Jesus, no thing more!
After dramatically raising and dropping my hand severally to answer their questions and just frigging shut everyone up for good, I had to scream at my loudest "why do you guys believe in Jesus anyway?" There was an unbearing silence for about 30 seconds while I stood fuming and watching their faces, each one.
But of course I didn't scream, lol, I craved to though. It would have been a clear show of my unrighteousness and unholiness in the presence of God, as defined by them. As if the presence of God is more in the church than it is in my house where I scream all day long if am in crazy mode. Oh! I hear someone say its more in church. Well you really need some spiritual reorientation while I need a pen fast. With no one sitting in the chair closest to me, I looked behind me to beg for one, and Oh My "craft filled" God, I saw an angel - the gloooriest of ladies - she had to be an angel, no she wasn't, and you'll soon find out why. Anyway I requested for a pen, twisting my voice to sound so unatural but beautiful all the same, I mean it had to be, I was talking with an angel, hello!
Getting the pen, I wrote these down
1:"Its so easy to understand and not contend or have conflicting opinions with the bible, from old to new, if the basis of your belief in God is through his love for us, by Jesus"
2: "Christians be limiting themselves, thereby limiting the eventuality of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross for us, by saying they do not have a blank check (special Grace) like God gave Solomon. They be praying for that Grace
That prayer gets to heaven and God is confused (he can n'er be) and he be like, I thought I gave ya'll everything, when I gave my son. Ya'll tryna wreck me of what I don't even have or what?
3: "I find it hard to agree with probably about 80% of things preached in most local churches today"
Done with that, then the bombshell!
"The new testament did not change anything about or in the old testament",
says an elderly man, father of the angel sitting behind me as I later found out, a man who prides himself in all things selfrighteous. It sounded so spiritual, everyone believed him, save me. WHAAAAT?!!! UNBELIEVABLE!! This level of "modern pharisee(ism)?" I was almost shouting out, muttering uncountable number of NOs under my breathe, shaking my head but soon felt like an agama lizard, so I stopped.
Fun enough for me tho, he said that in response to the teacher's answer to a question from the audience, which for someone who advocates strict adherence to the law, felt to me like conveniently sidestepping the law when you are uncomfortable with it.
This is the whole essence of God sending Jesus, in Hebrews 8:8-12
8 But God himself found fault with the old one when he said: "The day will
come, says the Lord, when I will make
a new covenant with the people of
Israel and Judah. 9 This covenant will
not be like the one I made with their
ancestors when I took them by the
hand and led them out of the land of
Egypt. They did not remain faithful to
my covenant, so I turned my back on
them, says the Lord. 10 But this is
the new covenant I will make with the
people of Israel on that day, says the
Lord: I will put my laws in their minds
so they will understand them, and I
will write them on their hearts so they
will obey them. I will be their God, and
they will be my people. 11 And they
will not need to teach their neighbors,
nor will they need to teach their
family, saying, 'You should know the
Lord.' For everyone, from the least to
the greatest, will already know me.
12 And I will forgive their
wrongdoings, and I will never again
remember their sins."
Now as a believer, you do not have to keep second guessing your deeds.
We are against sin, we say that all the time, its hurts your relationship with men. With God, all you need do is believe and confess to the kingship and lordship of Jesus Christ, you do not need to change nothing, he will do the change, you can't go and be helping God, No!
If you find yourself in -whatever you have defined- as SIN, declare, no, remind yourself that you are righteous through the blood of Jesus! Gradually as you so desire, you would see that sin fall off. It's by his Grace, by his blood, not your righteous works.
Check out the most important men from the old testament to the new testament, Abraham, Joseph, David and the list goes on, what righteous works were done by them before they were chosen of God? Moses for example, lived outside of the law which he so vigorously advocated. Joseph had no law or prophet to tell him it was wrong to lay with someone else's wife, he came to that conclusion on his own through understanding, I mean, his brother slept with his father's wife, and the father didn't even show a sign of anger till his death where he caused him. Abraham, did absolutely nothing, infact he lied that Sarah was his sister to a king, and in that lie, God still threatened the king. I can't still find the passage where he scolded Abraham for lying though. Or maybe the all knowing God did not know he lied? Of course not. Don't go about defining Sin to people. You do not know what SIN is. Live your lives for God, its that easy. Serving God is exciting when its only through Faith(believe). Believe on the finished (fulfilling the law) work of Christ on the cross. Leave the work of recreation to him. Lemme excite you. The sinner must be judged and purnished. Romans 5:17-19
"For if by one man's offence death
reigned by one; much more they which
receive abundance of grace and of the
gift of righteousness shall reign in life
by one, Jesus Christ.)
Therefore as by the offence of one
judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the
righteousness of one the free gift came
upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of one shall many be made
righteous. "
God in all his love for us, sent his own son in human form to take man's place. He became sin that knew no sin. In our place he was judged and purnished, so that we are set free. The freedom from sin, judgement and purnishment, the blessings of a righteous man, the power to be like him, to live like kings in this world, all these, he brought to us. That's why we celebrate Christmas
Finally as Joseph Prince would say:
"God is not interested in character/behavior modification, he wants a life transformation."
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