A Child of God
THE FIFTH MESSAGE OF UJU ACCORDING
TO THE SCRIPTURE TO
CHRISTENDOM
A message from Uju a servant of Christ Jesus by the grace of God through Christ Jesus, according to the word in the scripture,
2. To CHRISTENDOM; glory and honor be unto LORD God Almighty and Christ Jesus our Lord savior forever and ever. Amen.
3. According to Amos 7.14-15:
“Then Amos answered Amaziah, I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, “Go prophesy to my people Israel.”
4. So am I, Uju, a worker of art by trade; the Word of God, the Spirit of God, in the name of Christ Jesus appeared to me in a flame of fire from the Scripture; and I immediately prophesied saying, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand” to people of the world.
5. I am no pastor, evangelist, prophet nor an apostle, but by the grace and mercy of God the father of Christ Jesus, I am writing this message to Christendom according to the scripture.
A CHILD OF GOD
Not everyone created by God is a child of God. No!
6. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” – Gen 1:1.
7. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;” Gen 1:26.
8. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Gen 1:27
9. And God blessed them, and God said to them “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the that birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” Gen 1:28.
10. In the beginning Cain and Abel characterized these identities: a child of Devil and a child of God
11. Cain became a murderer, because of his evil deeds – a child of Devil; and Abel was an innocent just man – a child of God, according to the scripture in Gen 4:1-16.
12. From creation God has a spiritual lineage to this day unto eternity through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit that carries his eternal life.
JESUS CHRIST
The First Son of God and The First Child of God
13. Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God – John 3:16,
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in him should perish but have eternal life.”
14. Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God, means that Jesus Christ is the only one created directly by the Holy Spirit of God; while all other creation – heaven and earth and all the things in them were created through and for Jesus Christ by God through his Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus.
15. This is according to the scripture in Col. 1:15-16,
“He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities – all things were created through him and for him.”
16. In reaffirmation of Jesus Christ being as stated above, the scripture in Prov. 8:22-33 testified,
“The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth; before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.”
17. Jesus Christ is also the first child of God – the first child and only child of the Holy Spirit of God born of a woman as attested by the scripture in Matt 1:18,
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with Child of the Holy Spirit;”
and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from sins.”
18. It is evident from the testimony that Jesus Christ is first and only child of the Holy Spirit born of a woman.
19. Jesus Christ again is the first-born of the dead! According to the scripture in Rev. 1:5 it testified,
“and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.”
20. It is obvious that without the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ unto eternal life all creation is doomed to eternal death.
21. Jesus Christ has to die in order to defeat Satan the holder of death to enable whoever believes in him to gain eternal life once and for all creation.
23. Jesus Christ was born of the dead, because all creation is dead without his birth from the dead; he became alive from the dead after defeating death by the hand of Satan. And, he is the first one to be born of the dead without, all creation is doomed to eternal death.
You must be Born A new!
Nicodemus
24. The conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus Christ brought to light the foundation of eternal life, without which is impossible be a child of bound to eternal life.
25. In the course of the conservation, the Lord made indispensable responses to Nicodemus as follows according to John 3:3; 3:5-8,
“Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” “Truly, truly, I say to, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so, it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
26. Everyone born of a woman is flesh, and therefore a sinner. For Adam had sinned before the birth of man by Eve; and sin and death spread to all mankind by their fall.
27. Everyone born of mankind is a sinner – flesh, and consequently cannot be a child of God, and cannot enter the kingdom of God.
28. As a result you need to be born anew not by man but by the Spirit of God to be a child of God, and therefore, enter the kingdom of God.
29. It became obvious, that anyone born by the Spirit of God is a child of God.
30. But, the Lord says that you must be born of water and the Spirit to be born anew and become a child of God and enter the kingdom of God. Water as mention by the Lord is the word of God, the Spirit as mentioned is the Spirit of God.
31. The scripture noted that without faith it is impossible to please God; and faith comes by hearing the word of God. You must hear first the word of God, and do what you hear, which gradually transforms you to a new person by the Spirit of God through Christ Jesus.
33. Therefore this the only process that leads you to being born anew – by water and the Spirit.
34. This is the reason why you are mandated as a disciple of the Lord to preach the word of God to all and sundry, to enable the Spirit of God to work on the hearers and doers of the word.
35. Thus, a child of God is one born of water and the Spirit of God through Christ Jesus.
36. The Lord said again about a child of God being like the wind – you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes. By this it implies that a child of God is led by the Spirit of God as He wills.
A New Creation – A Child of God
37. Unless you a child of God – being born anew by water and the Spirit you cannot enter the kingdom of God, says the Lord.
38. The desire and divine intent of God is to make all his children both Jews and Gentiles through Christ Jesus born by water and the Spirit.
39. In the time past God walked only with the people of Israel through divine promise and election, but today God is reconciling all and sundry who believes in his Son – Christ Jesus through grace in the Holy Spirit not by works of the law, nor by righteousness of man nor by exaction of anyone.
40. God through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit is making a new creation where grace is given to both the dead and the living to become his children.
41. The grace given to dead to become children of God necessitated the preaching of the gospel to them, though dead in the flesh they might live in the spirit like God, because God through Christ Jesus will judge both the living and the dead according the scripture in 1 Peter 4:6,
“For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, that though judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the spirit like God.”
42. Who were these dead? They were all that died from the beginning, from Adam to the last that died before the dead of Jesus, wherein he went and preached the gospel of salvation unto eternal life such that whoever believed in it shall live forever though dead.
43. The Lord also preached the same gospel to the spirits in prison (fallen angels) before the great flood in the days of Noah as stated in 1Peter3:18-20,
“For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is eight persons, were saved through water.”
44. It is undisputable that the preaching of the gospel brings about faith; and the doers of the gospel through faith shall be saved – the principle of being born by water and the Spirit: born anew.
45. The above revealed event demonstrates the infinite mercy of God through Christ Jesus reconciling all – the dead and the living; Jews and Gentiles to himself as children of the Spirit.
46. It became obvious God recreated the heavens and the earth through Christ Jesus such that if possible all mankind shall be His children: a new creation giving birth to children of God through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
47. Therefore if you are born anew by water and the Spirit through Christ, you are a new creation, and so, a child of God!
48. Consequently, you don’t need to belong to any religious group, tribe, tongue, race, nation or any human distinction to be born anew by water and the Spirit through Jesus Christ.
49. For this reason the scripture says in Acts 10:34,
“Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
All-sufficiency of Christ as a New Creation
1. The scripture is warning you as a new creation of God through Jesus Christ in Col.2:8,
“See to it no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.
2. The scripture is reminding you – child of God in Col 2:9-10 that,
“For in him the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fulness of life in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.”
3. The scripture is counselling you – new creation of the Lord in Col 2:11-12 that,
“In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; and you were buried with him in baptism. In which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.”
4. The scripture is putting it to you – born anew of the Lord in Col 2:13-15
“And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having cancelled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands; this he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him.”
5. The scripture is still warning you child of God in Col 2:16-19,
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or a sabbath. These are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.”
6. The scripture is drawing your ear, born again of the Lord in Col 2:20 -23 saying,
“If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations, “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things which all perish as they are used), according to human precepts and doctrines? These have indeed the appearance of wisdom in promoting rigor of devotion and self-abasement and severity to the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh.”
7. In summary, as a new creation, the Lord has lifted the yoke of oppression and slavery off you from deceitful people of God more especially the false ministers of the Lord; therefore, you do not need to relapse again.
8. Today, these deceitful people of God and false ministers of the Lord are branding themselves as Christians – hypocrites!
New Life in Christ as a New Creation
9. Now you are born anew by water and the Spirit through Christ, you are a new creation, and so, a child of God! The journey to eternal life for you has begun: is a process.
10. Note: you don’t need to belong to any religious group, tribe, tongue, race, nation or any human distinction to be born anew by water and the Spirit through Jesus Christ. For this reason, the scripture says in Acts 10:34,
“Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.”
11. Remember O’ child of God, you are saved by grace and not by works of the law or by works of righteousness of man or by your own power. By grace means a free gift of God, not as a reward of your obedience for were disobedient before you were saved: you were a stark sinner.
12. As you been saved by grace through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit it becomes necessary that you should be more careful to observe and obey that for which you are called lest you fall.
13. As a new creation of the Lord, you are now under constant attack by Satan, but the Lord will deliver you all through. For him who is in you is greater than Satan and his cohorts.
14. Therefore, the scripture commands you as written in Col 3:1-25 to focus and pursue heavenly things where the Lord is seated at the right hand of God; you should put to death what is earthly in you:
“………. fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.”
15. The scripture is pleading with you as written in same Col 3:1-25 to,
“Put on then as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another, and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, you must forgive.”
16. The scripture is charging you to,
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teach, admonish one another in, all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
17. Recall, not all should be told you, rather through you sincere seeking for the Lord, he will by himself teach you things that will lead you to eternal life more than anyone will do. Just devote yourself to constant reading of the scripture with prayers, praises, songs, psalms and thanksgiving in the Holy Spirit with all manner of supplications; engage in periodic fasting as the Holy Spirit leads.
18. Endeavour to live a holy life, shunning the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of heart.
19. The Lord will definitely lead you to salvation. Remember, is you and God only. He will never forsake you!
20. Finally, the Lord has charged you O’ child of the Almighty God,
“Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo I am with you always, to the close of age.” – Matt 28:19-20
21. Thus, rejoice in the Lord, for he has set you free indeed from the grip of sin and dominion of death unto eternal life. Amen!
A Christian is not a Child of God; but a Child of God is a Christian!
1. Note, not everyone created by God is His child; and all born of woman is flesh, and a sinner; and therefore cannot enter the kingdom of God, unless is born anew by the Spirit of God.
2. Thus, a child of God is one born of water and the Spirit of God through Christ Jesus.
3. The word Christian as first used in Antioch to identify the disciples of Christ Jesus, is today marred by hypocrites – synagogue of Satan. It has become a brand name used by Christendom – the Babylon, to deceive the world; fake and false disciples of the Lord.
4. These wicked hypocrites have usurped the name to defraud the conscience of many in their fold leading them to eternal damnation.
5. Today the identity of a Christian is a taboo to other religious authorities of opposite faith. It does not any longer go down well with other religious faiths who stand amazed to the hypocrisy of the so-called Christians. As a result, it is a shame to identity as a Christian in some parts of the world because of the hypocritical nature of Christians.
6. A Christian to many of the world is a deceit of faith. What a shame!
7. Today, a Christian is not a child of God. No, he is not! He is a religious hypocrite!
8. This is my final warning as stated above. Please, shine your eyes, lest you are led astray.
9. May the mercy and love of God through Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit be with you now and forever more. Amen.