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  • How Christ Came & Fully Dealt with Man’s Greatest Problem

    Sin is man’s greatest problem, not merely because of what it does outwardly, but because of what it separates inwardly. From the moment it entered, sin brought guilt, corruption, death, and distance from God, leaving humanity unable to restore itself. Christ did not come to manage sin, reform behavior, or postpone judgment. He came to deal with it fully, decisively, and forever.

    In His coming, God addressed sin from every possible dimension, leaving nothing unresolved and nothing undone. The Scriptures reveal this complete work through twelve interconnected realities: blood, water, fire, garment, fragrance, oil, light, body, cross, sacrifice, life, and Spirit. Together, they testify that sin has been confronted, judged, removed, and replaced with life in Christ. Let’s explore!

    BLOOD

    1. Hebrews 9:14
    How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

    2. Revelation 1:5
    Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.

    3. Ephesians 1:7
    In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.

    WATER

    1. Galatians 3:26-27
    For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

    2. Ephesians 5:26
    That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word.

    3. 1 John 5:6
    This is He that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.

    FIRE

    1. Matthew 3:11
    He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.

    2. Malachi 3:2-3
    For He will carry out a purifying process. He will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s bleach. He will be as a silversmith who sits refining and purifying silver. He will purify the Levites, refining his priests until they are like pure gold and fine silver. Then I, Yahweh, will have those who bring me offerings in righteousness.

    3. Luke 12:49
    I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

    GARMENT

    1. Isaiah 61:10
    He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness.

    2. Romans 13:14
    But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

    3. Revelation 7:14
    And have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

    FRAGRANCE

    1. Ephesians 5:2
    …Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

    2. II Corinthians 2:15
    For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

    3. Psalms 45:8
    All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.

    OIL

    1. Isaiah 10:27
    It shall come to pass in that day that his burden will be taken away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

    2. Leviticus 8:12
    He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, thereby anointing him to make him holy.

    3. 1 John 2:20
    But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things.

    LIGHT

    1. John 1:7
    Ephesians 5:8
    For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

    2. John 8:12
    I am the light of the world: He that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

    3. 1 Peter 2:9
    But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

    THE BODY

    1. Hebrews 10:10
    And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

    2. 1 Peter 2:24
    Who His own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

    3. John 1:29
    Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (Implied sacrificial body offered for sin).

    THE CROSS

    1. Colossians 2:14–15
    Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
    And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

    2. Galatians 6:14
    But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

    3. 1 Corinthians 1:18
    For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

    THE SACRIFICE

    1. Hebrews 9:26–28
    But now once in the end of the world has He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

    2. Hebrews 10:12
    But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.

    3. 1 Peter 3:18
    For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.

    LIFE

    1. John 10:10
    I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

    2. Romans 5:10
    For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.


    3. 1 John 5:11-12
    And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life.

    SPIRIT

    1. Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    2. John 3:5-6
    Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.


    3. Romans 8:10-11
    And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he shall also quicken your mortal bodies.

    4. Galatians 5:16
    Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

    5. Ephesians 1:14
    The Holy Spirit is the down payment on our inheritance, which is applied toward our redemption as God’s own people, resulting in the honor of God’s glory.

    • Blood deals with guilt
    • Water cleanses
    • Fire purifies
    • Fragrance satisfies God
    • Oil empowers
    • Garment covers
    • Light reveals
    • Body bears sin
    • Cross executes judgment
    • Sacrifice satisfies justice
    • Life restores what was lost
    • Spirit applies, seals, sustains, and completes it all.

    This completes a twelvefold framework of Christ’s finished work in dealing with sin, revealing a single, coherent redemptive reality. The blood of Christ deals with guilt, redemption, forgiveness, and the cleansing of the conscience, while water cleanses, sanctifies, and incorporates the believer into Christ. Fire purifies and refines what belongs to God, burning away all that contradicts His holiness, and the garment of righteousness covers the believer with acceptance before God. Christ’s sacrifice rises as a fragrance that satisfies God, and the oil of anointing breaks yokes, empowers, consecrates, and enables true service. Light delivers from darkness, reveals truth, and governs the new walk of the believer.

    In His body, sin was borne and judged once for all, and at the cross sin, accusation, and hostile powers were executed and defeated. Through His once-for-all sacrifice, divine justice was fully satisfied and sin was put away forever. Life is restored in Christ, eternal and abundant, replacing everything sin destroyed. The Spirit stands as the living agent who applies, seals, sustains, and completes all that Christ accomplished, for without the Spirit the work of Christ would remain historical, theoretical, and impersonal, but with the Spirit it becomes present, active, and eternal.

    By His blood Jesus secured redemption, and by that same blood He made us forgiven and accepted; through water He cleanses, and so He made us clean by the washing of the Word; He baptizes with fire, and thus He kindles our hearts with holy zeal; He offered Himself as a sweet fragrance to God, and now our lives rise as a fragrance of Christ; He is the Anointed One, and He has given us the anointing by the Spirit.

    He is righteous, and He clothed us with the garment of righteousness; He is the Light of the world, and He made us light in the Lord; He bore sin in His body, and made us His body on the earth; He died on the cross, and crucified the old man with Him; He became the once-for-all sacrifice, so we now offer spiritual sacrifices; He rose as Life, and made us alive together with Him; and through the eternal Spirit He accomplished all this, then gave us that same Spirit to dwell in us and make His finished work real and living within us.

  • The Good, the Bad & the Devil

    God is good and the devil is bad. A 3-year old can perfectly understand this statement but a 30-year old may have his/her own doubts. How can such a simple statement be so difficult to understand? That’s because the systems of the world work hard to make the devil more real to us than God. Not just that; sometimes certain mindsets and ideologies make us think as if God is the devil. Even worse, sometimes we make God look like the devil’s accomplice, allowing evil to befall us as He looks unconcerned.

    As a result, the world makes it easier for us to blame God and unfortunately, people generally fear the devil more than God. No doubt the “God is good, and the devil is bad” statement is becoming a hard pill to swallow for the average person. Good is the new bad or bad is the new good? How come the devil is getting sympathy votes while God is getting blamed like He is the devil?

    People are so bent on believing that God is not always good that they will be tempted to believe that the devil is sometimes good as if they are the determiners of what is good and bad. God is good. The devil is bad. It’s not just their acts, it’s their embodiment. No matter what God does, it’s good. No matter how bad it looks, it is good. Look in the mirror; who could have imagined that dirt would look so good? lol

    In the same vein, no matter what the devil does, it’s bad. He doesn’t have the ability to do good. Remember the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? His good seems right to man but the end is death. His good leads to evil. No matter how good it looks, it turns to evil. He’s accursed. In fact, that’s the same curse that worked its way and spread throughout the earth when the portal of sin was opened. Everything in its natural state will eventually corrupt. No matter how beautiful a flower is, it will begin to decay and suffer death as its wage.

    The same logic that makes us confuse good with bad is the same one that makes us confuse love with lust, confidence with arrogance, sustenance with greed and so on. It is important to understand that good and bad takes their roots in Love and hate respectively. If God’s Love for us and the devil’s hate for us has been downplayed in our thinking, obviously it will be hard to understand who is good and why He’s good and vice versa.

    Since you’ve heard time and again why God loves you, how about I tell you why the devil hates you?

    The devil wanted so bad to be like God (Isaiah 11:14) that he convinced a third of the angels in heaven that God is bad to make him look good. Before God humbled Him, He made man in His image and likeness. Do you get it? What the devil was dying to be, God put it in dirt and multiplied it all over the earth. God made man what the devil wants to be.

    The devil was thrown down to earth only to be teased and terrified by the very people with the deity of the Godhead dwelling within them. No wonder He hates your guts so much. Any good he does for you is an attempt to exchange for the authority as an image of God. Remember Esau so you don’t sell your priceless birthright for the devil’s cheap goodies.

    Now you not only know why God loves you so much, but you also know why the devil hates you so much. Don’t ever think he has anything good to offer in any way. God created you to be more superior to the devil. It should make you more confident as a being and also cautious enough to not hand over your authority to it. So live life knowing that not only is the devil under your feet, but the good God is on your side. Isn’t God good?

    I love you ❤️

  • The False Gospel of HyperGrace

    There is a kind of deception that has lured this generation into fervent deception. This generation thinks they understand Grace more than all the preceding generations by making it look like Grace only began to take fruit in the 21st century. The average Christian believes God would have smacked all of us dead like He used to do in the Old Testament had it not been for Grace. When Jesus died, we hadn’t sinned yet. Therefore, Jesus died for our past, present, and future sins. What I’ve just said is not necessarily false. It’s not even about what is being said. It’s about what it insinuates. Lies are 100% lies. Deception is a spectrum that can have as much as 99% truth and 1% lies.

    We have reduced Grace to the message of sin in this generation. We don’t know Grace outside of the topic of sin anymore like other generations before us. Don’t get me wrong; God will forgive you for all your sins. God knows that. You know that. The devil knows that, and he will use it to his advantage. How many times have you casually sinned but didn’t fear because you knew Grace was available? One man said, “I prayed to God for a bike for so long, but He didn’t give it to me. So, I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. ” That’s where the deception lies. This post is written out of love so we hate sin, never tolerate it or play around with it, thinking no harm is being caused because we would be forgiven. Let’s delve in;

    Track Record

    Jesus, when He became man, was touched with the feeling of our infirmities as Hebrews 4:15 says, yet without sin although He was in all points tempted as we are. That is His eternal track record. Yes, when you sin and God forgives you, your sins are blotted as if you never sinned. However, what you lost in all this sinning and being forgiven is the reward of obedience. Adam and Eve sinned and God forgave them. We never got to know what the reward for their obedience would be like. What we saw is the consequences of disobedience. Although they were forgiven, given grace by experiencing the law of substitution, and given clothing and a promise, a curse was still released. Although the Cross of Christ absorbs the sin and its accompanying curses, it does not offer us the lost reward for obedience.

    The truth is that God will always reward obedience. Once you get to know what sin does, hate it. It sets you back several years, even. God can restore what you lost. What you lost is what you used to have before you sinned. However, there is something you never even got. It’s the reward of obedience. If you didn’t have it in the first place, it could not be restored. See, God will reward people’s track record. He will reward obedience. He will reward consistency. He will reward faithfulness. The question is, do you have a track record?

    Spiritual Authority

    There are places you will never reach in the realms of the Spirit with this kind of mindset. You will never know God beyond a certain level. Also, you will never be entrusted with a level of authority if you have not conquered your flesh. There are three major battles to fight and conquer; the flesh, the world and the devil. If you haven’t defeated the flesh, don’t think you’re any match for the spirit of the age and the god of this world. That is why the enemy wants you in this cycle of sin; Sin, repent, repeat. Once he has you there, you can never rise to the stature of your destiny. These are not even to be defeated once. It is continual warfare. A spiritual contention for the throne of your heart. That is why we are commanded to carry the cross daily.

    If you have not defeated your “personal demons”, what makes you think you can overcome territorial demons? You haven’t won your personal battles and you want to take responsibility for people? You will subject them to the covering of the demons you haven’t defeated, for crying out loud. That is why pastors who haven’t overcome the spirit of lust have a synagogue of perpetual fornication and adultery. God will give you more grace to overcome but He will not give you grace to enter the next level as a sign of mercy. You fight battles at the level of your spiritual rank. If you are stuck in the same sin cycle, God will forgive you always but you are not growing. The enemy knows this and has done it to many people. You are just a statistic to him.

    Future Judgement

    The fact that God has forgiven you does not mean that there are no consequences. Galatians 6:7 says “Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap”. The more you sin, the more grace abounds. What is the purpose of the abounding grace? So that you have a stronger force to overcome the sin because the more you feed sin, the more it grows. Forgiven sins do not mean no accountability. It will shock you to know that one day, God will hold you accountable for every single thing He gave you, including the abounding grace to overcome sin.

    Listen to the words of Jesus: ‭Matthew 11:21-22 NLT‬ [21] “What sorrow awaits you, Korazin and Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did in you had been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their people would have repented of their sins long ago, clothing themselves in burlap and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse. [22] I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will be better off on judgment day than you.

    More grace equals more responsibility. To whom much is given, much is expected. Some generations did more with little. To think God will expect little from us with what He has given us is a fallacy. God has standards. High standards. Even though He has long-suffering, one day the iniquities of the Amorities will be complete. To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every sin has reparations even though it is forgiven. Selah!

    ‭1 Peter 4:17-18 NLT‬
    [17] For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Good News? [18] And also, “If the righteous are barely saved, what will happen to godless sinners?”

    ‭Hebrews 10:26-29 NLT‬
    [26] Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. [27] There is only the terrible expectation of God’s judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies. [28] For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. [29] Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

    …to be continued

  • Why Did God Put The Tree In the Garden?

    Why Did God Put The Tree In the Garden?

    God creates man in his image and likeness. Man has no sin in him and no knowledge of sin and doesn’t even know how to sin. Then God creates two special trees; the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He puts them right where they cannot be unseen.

    Then, He tells man to eat from any other tree but the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Really? It’s like telling a kid not to switch on the TV. It only sparks more curiosity. Did God actually expect Adam not to eat from the tree?

    God is always revealing a side of Him we have never known. He’s the same yesterday, today and forever but to our limited capacities, today we understand Him as El-Shaddai, tomorrow He reveals Himself as El-Elyon. Our capacities are very limited in comparison to an infinite God.

    So God created Adam with the ability to grow and be more like God. Adam wasn’t fully like God. He had to grow everyday to be more like Him. How do I know this? Because even as completely new creatures in Christ, we still need to grow. To understand this more, check out my blog post on the Revelation of Mystery.

    So just as you’re born with a sex drive but you have to mature to a certain stage before you can “taste the fruit”, God put the tree there as a remembrance of further things to come and as a motivation to mature.

    Trust me, there are things that already belong to you that God gives you but still asks you to wait for the kairos moment. Just like kids gotta wait till Christmas Day to open their presents. You can open it 2 days before Christmas. It satisfies the curiosity but takes the fun out of the whole idea.

    Adam was like God. God has all knowledge of good and evil. (After all, He’s the judge of the universe. How will he judge evil if He had no knowledge of it?) But Adam wasn’t like God yet in that sense; he didn’t have “the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil” yet.

    How do I know this? Because after eating the fruit, God Himself admits that Adam now has the knowledge of good and evil. The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil….” in Genesis‬ ‭3:22‬.

    The sin Adam and Eve committed had little to do with the fruit. The actual sin was choosing the word of the devil over the Word of God. It was believing and obeying the devil. The sin was disobeying God. Alhough they had become enlightened, they became naked and ashamed and vulnerable. They hid from God, why not the devil? That’s what sin did and does to us all the time, no matter the kind of sin.

    God does not and cannot be tempted. God wasn’t tempting man. If this was so, Adam and Eve would have eaten the fruit long before the serpent (the enemy) came along. Adam and Eve had everything they needed. What did the enemy do? He tried to draw their minds to the only thing they couldn’t have at the moment.

    Are you being motivated to pursue the things of God while being patient with His perfect timing, or you’re focusing on what don’t have and desire to have it contemptuously?

    I love you ❤️

  • If Adam’s Sin Made Us All Sinners, Why Doesn’t Jesus’ Sacrifice Make Us All Saints?

    If Adam’s Sin Made Us All Sinners, Why Doesn’t Jesus’ Sacrifice Make Us All Saints?

    Christian Universalism argues that if Adam’s sin made everyone a sinner, Jesus’ sacrifice has made everyone a saint. Simple logic! It sounds about right. After all, Romans 5:19 says “because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous.”

    Adam’s sin brought sin into everyone’s heart even from birth. We had no choice but to sin. Sin was natural to us. Jesus’ finished work brought freedom from sin, breaking its yoke. But I still have a choice to enslave myself to sin if I want to.

    “But but…Adam’s sin made us sinners without a choice?” Wrong! Adam’s sin made us sinners with only one choice; to be a slave to sin. The choice to live free from sin was far beyond our reach. Jesus’ finished work gave us another choice; to be a slave to righteousness. Because we had initially made the choice of being slaves to sin, not making the choice of being a slave to righteousness still makes us sinners.

    This means that one becomes a saint by choice, and not by chance. That’s where Christian Universalism flawed. I should have a choice. What if I don’t want to be a slave of righteousness? This is about eternity; probably the biggest decision that needs my consent the most. “But but…if God wants to save all of us so badly, why doesn’t he make it an automatic process?” Where there is love, there’s choice. Where there’s no choice, there’s no love.

    What if someone doesn’t want to spend eternity with God? After all, if I can live my life here on earth without God, why should I be forced to spend eternity with Him? So people are not going into eternal damnation because of Adam’s sin, but because of their own choice.

    God has forgiven us all our sins – past, present, future – and has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ whether you agree or not. But guess what? You have a choice; to accept or not to accept. The choice is universal. And no one is choosing for you, not even God. In fact, we will need to make this choice everyday, not just in this age but throughout eternity.

    The choice is not a riddle too. For God will continually show what we must choose. He loves you ❤️