John One One
THE SECOND MESSAGE OF UJU ACCORDING
TO THE SCRIPTURE TO
WORLD
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 the WORLD; 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 World according to the scripture.
JOHN ONE ONE
THE WITNESS AND THE PROPHECY
6. JOHN 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”
7. John 1:14 – “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory as of the only Son from the Father.”
8. Rev 19:13 – “He is clad in a robe dipped in blood and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.”
9. “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. He is before all things, and him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.” – Col 1: 15-20
10. Heb 1: 1-3 – “In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power.”
11. Prov 8: 22-31 – “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.”
12. Is 7:14 – “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel.”
13. Is 9:6,7 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called “Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
14. Matt 3:7 – “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
15. Ps 110:1 – “The LORD says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.”
16. Ps 110:4 – “The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.”
17. Wise men from the East: “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship him.” – Matt 2:2
18. Micah 5:2 – “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient of days.”
19. John the Baptist: “Behold, the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” – John 1:29
20. There are a lot of witnesses and prophecies confirming from of old to the present within the people who believe in God and people who do not believe in God that Jesus Christ is the true Son of God – the Messiah: the savior of mankind.
21. A lot of people believe in the creation of Adam and Eve; Adam being the first man (first Adam) created by God who could have led mankind to salvation, but for his disobedience mankind was led to eternal destruction. Many people name their sons and daughters after Adam and Eve testifying to the believe in the creation of Adam and Eve by God.
22. Why is it among these people and so many other people of the world find it difficult to believe in the second man (second Adam)?
23. 1 Cor 15:45- 47 state: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.”
24. Both the first Adam and second Adam were not made perfect but were to acquire perfection for themselves and for all mankind through obedience to God. They were both made weak, through which they would walk to acquire perfection(salvation).
25. The second Adam stated in 2Cor12:9 – “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” This implies that the second Adam acquired perfection in the weakness of the flesh, the same that beset the first Adam.
MANKIND NEEDS A SAVIOR – A MESSIAH
1. Adam was created to lead mankind to perfection through obedience to God. As a man of dust, he was beset with weakness, the same weakness beset by the second Adam – Jesus, whose power was made perfect in weakness through obedience to God.
2. But this was not the case with the first Adam, who lost his power (glory) through disobedience to God, and as a result, all mankind became subject to death.
3. It is evident from creation mankind needs a savior – a messiah that would lead mankind to live like God. It is the desire of God for mankind to live like Him – an eternal life in glory.
4. God could compel man to obedience, thereby making man like a robot, and resultantly denying him of love. For in genuine love is the freedom of choice.
5. The freedom to choose as a demonstration of God’s genuine love to man is stated in Gen 2: 16,17 –
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
6. A harder commandment was even given to the second Adam, as indicated in Mark 2:17 – “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” What a very big task, and a very risky one!
7. The fall of the first Adam brought about the coming of the second Adam to achieve God’s genuine intent for mankind – salvation.
8. There was no other man that could have achieved God’s salvation for mankind except God Himself in the form of man (Emmanuel), called Jesus. God took the form of man in his Son called Jesus to dwell among us out of love for the salvation of mankind – John 1:14.
9. According to John 1:10 – “He (Emmanuel – God with us) was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.”
THE WITNESS AND THE PROPHECY AND THE MANIFESTATION
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
10. Why the world, knew him (Jesus Christ) not?
11. But the world knew Adam and Eve!
12. The world even knew Moses, referred as the Law – one among the biggest witnesses to Jesus Christ.
13. The world even knew Elijah one among the prophets who fervently prophesized about the coming of the Messiah – Jesus Christ. And these two men – Moses and Elijah stood by Jesus Christ’s right and left-hand sides in the transfiguration, an attestation that Christ Jesus is the Messiah; yet the world struggle to believe in him – the savior of mankind!
14. Now the Holy Spirit – the Spirit of testimony and the Spirit of prophecy in the Law and the prophets – the very God Himself is a witness to Jesus Christ as the Messiah indicated in Matt 3:16,17 –
“And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him; and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased.”
15. God manifested Himself in His Son – Jesus Christ with miracles, signs and wonders.
16. The world believes in God; even demons believe and shudder – James 2:19, but fail to obey Him as you do. Even when it seems you obey God; your obedience must be through Jesus Christ for it to be acceptable by God for Jesus Christ is the only way, life and truth to God, no one comes to God except by Christ Jesus.
17. Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God.
18. Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God.
19. Jesus Christ is the judgment of God.
20. Jesus Christ is the Word of God.
21. Jesus Christ is the Mighty God.
22. Jesus Christ is the first and last prophet of God; every other prophet comes through him.
22. Jesus Christ is the only way, truth and life to God.
23. Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God – the only one created by the Spirit of God.
24. Jesus Christ is the Son of David.
25. Jesus Christ is the Son of man.
26. Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant.
27. Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the eternal life.
28. Jesus Christ is the Bread of life.
29. Jesus Christ is the Living Water.
30. Jesus Christ is the King of kings, and the Lords of lords.
31. Jesus Christ is the High Priest of God and man – by the order of Melchizedek.
32. Jesus Christ is the King of righteousness and the king of peace.
33. Jesus Christ is the good Shepherd and the sheep gate.
34. Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
35. Jesus Christ is the Messiah. Jesus Christ is the tree of life.
36. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God.
37. Jesus Christ is the Spirit. Jesus Christ is the love of God to all creation.
38. Jesus Christ is God’s power of creation – heavens and earth and all the things in them were created through him and for him by God.
39. Jesus Christ is the Lord; the Rabbi; the Master of mankind.
40. Jesus Christ is the life-giving spirit. Everything about God is Christ Jesus and vice versa.
WHY THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT?
1. According to John 1:10 – “He (Emmanuel – God with us: Jesus Christ) was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.”
2. In the beginning God created man in His own image – male and female He created them, and blessed them to increase and multiply – Gen 1:26-28.
3. As written in Gen11:1 – “Now the whole earth had one language and few words.” And therefore they were one people ……..” – Gen 11:6.
4. The incident of Babel – Gen11:1-9 brought about the creation by God of tongues (different languages) and tribes and races (different people) that God scattered them abroad on the surface of the earth.
5. And of one race and tribe and language God chose the genealogy of His only begotten Son – Jesus Christ to manifest His glory to mankind; and the chosen people (race and tribe and language) became Israel. This is as stated in Romans 9:4-5
“They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be the blessed forever.” Amen.
6. It became obvious that they are the chosen people of God!
7. Going by genealogy Jesus Christ descended from their lineage from Adam to Noah, to Abraham, to David to Jesus Christ, as written in Matt 1: 1-17 and Gen 5:1-32.
8. And this clearly brought about envy by other people of the earth against Israel; and they were as such totally disregarded and hated and frequently besieged. Little or no attention was paid to them, leading to ignorance of the manifestation of the glory of God in the His begotten Son, the Savior of mankind by whom and for whom God created the heavens and earth and all the things in them. To God be the glory forever.
9. The same ignorance of the Savior – the glory of the living God – maker of heavens and earth and the all the things them befell on Israel. Israelites no knew the Messiah – Christ Jesus. And he came to his people and his people knew him not, how much more the world!
JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S LOVE FOR MANKIND
10. It has always been God’s genuine intention to reconcile man to Himself after the fall of man as a demonstration for His love to man. Remember God created man for His glory, and in His own image. The disobedience of God by man never denied man of God’s love to him, but rather it heightened the Love. As written in John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
11. This a clear prove that the only Son of God – Jesus Christ is God’s love for mankind – the world. But the world knew him not.
12. To manifest His love to man God took the form of man in the Son – Jesus Christ: “And the Word(God) became flesh (Emmanuel – God with us) and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth……” John 1:14
13. For who has seen Jesus Christ has seen God, as said by Jesus himself in John 14:9
“He who has seen me has seen the Father;”
14. Jesus Christ finally came to the world after so many prophecies pointing to him as the Messiah long awaited; and yet his people and the world failed to know him as the Messiah.
15. Jesus to prove himself as the Christ – the Savior, demonstrated with powerful signs and wonders and miracles through love and humility to God and man that I am the long-awaited Messiah: yet they didn’t believe in him. But for all who believed him he gave them the power to become the children of God.
RELIGION – THE MAIN CAUSE OF DISBELIEF IN JESUS CHRIST AS
THE MESSIAH
16. Religion is a channel formed by man to relate and reach out to a perceived deity. Man, by creation knows he is not alone; something is in him. And that which is in him he finds to know, and as result man begins a perpetual journey called eternity to identify himself with his Creator, because God has already put eternity in the heart of man.
17. Eternity means life without “death”: eternity in Christ Jesus, or eternity in damnation. Man feels in his heart that he is not meant to die, yes, because God has put eternity in the heart of man. And that’s absolutely right. Man is created not to die by God. God created man in His own image. And the image of God which is love is eternal.
18. The scripture says that God created man and put eternity in man’s heart: and this made man to desire eternity of life. But, man’s desire of eternity of life in his heart can be gotten only by one means, called obedience. Obedience to the word of God, as stated in Gen 2.16,17:
“And the LORD God commanded man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
19. This was the first commandment of obedience by God to man. This commandment of obedience to man, by God gives man the ability of choice; the freedom to choose. This makes man a little god, and not a robot: it bestows on man creativity, and therefore confirms that man is really made in the image of God. For the scripture says: man don’t you know that you are gods?
20. But man lost it all!
21. Man went ahead and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God forbade him not to eat. Man, disobeyed God: Gen 3.1-19 expound the fall of man!
22. From that very moment man’s relationship with God became strained. God was angry with the disobedience of man; suffering and death came about as a result. God cursed man, woman and the serpent: Gen 3. 14-19. God drove man from His presence, and guarded the way to the tree of life: Gen 3. 22-24.
23. From that point on man began to fight for his life. In course of the fight for his life, the desire to live forever was still in his heart.
24. Eternity of life is in the heart of man! Man doesn’t want to die. He wants to live like God, but lost the opportunity to do that. His strive became to achieve this elusive desire. He wants to re-establish a contact with his deity; and in the course of doing that, man developed a channel to relate and reach out to his deity, which became a religion.
25. Man formed a channel to relate and reach out to his deity. And that channel is called religion.
26. God never formed any religion, but man did, and God is the only living deity.
27. But God’s love for man is still intact. God’s relationship with man is love, because God is love, and love is God as the only living deity to eternity!
28. God in His infinite mercy accepted the religion of man but gave him a standard: what to do, and what not to do to regain and achieve the desire for eternal life.
29. All religions of man are acceptable to God, but for God’s standard.
30. O’ man, if you want me in your life; if you want me to be your God, keep my Word! Obey my Word!
31. Obedience to my Word is my standard, says the LORD God Almighty, and in Spirit and truth.
32. It is evident that religion brought about disbelief in God and Jesus Christ, and mainly the disbelief in Christ Jesus that made Jesus Christ to say in John 14:1
“Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.”
33. Religion created another Jesus Christ, and thereby established another righteousness order than the righteousness of God which is Christ Jesus as written in Romans 10:3
“For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, that everyone who has faith may be justified.”
Christian Religion Today, the most Hostile Religion on Earth!
1. Christian religion or Christendom is a religious jurisdiction of people who claim to worship God through Jesus Christ. Their claims and practices are more hypocritical than real. They are the likes of Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees mentioned by Jesus Christ in Matt 23.1-39. Their religious lifestyles were reaffirmed by the Lord in Matt 5.20:
“For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, You will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
2. They are Babylon the great in Rev 18.1-24; a hypocritical religion: wolves in sheep clothing!
3. They hijacked the way, life and truth that could have led man to salvation, and blocked it totally without themselves entering. This is stated by Christ Jesus in Matt 23.13:
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.”
4. The so called Christian Religion usurped the power of Tree of Life and disenfranchised men from it. As a result man who could have gained salvation from the Lord are shut out and left to die without the Lord.
5. These hypocrites built a very hostile barricade against men; and this led men to look the other way and started forming various and diverse religions devoid of the way, life and truth to salvation.
6. But in this idolatrous religion called Christian religion today, are few people of God. It is like a vineyard where you have purportedly the weeds and the crops. Obviously as noted by the Lord they would be allowed to grow together until the time of harvest: the crops would be harvested and taken into the barn (heaven); and the weeds would be gathered and be burnt (hell). This act is evident in the Parable of the weeds of the Field in Matt 13.24-30 and Matt 13.34-43.
7. But in spite of this parable, God in His infinite mercy is still calling His people to come out of them as written in Rev 18.4,5:
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
Christian Religion Vs Other Religions of Man!
8. Christian religion, wow!
9. The name, Christians was mockingly used to label people who wanted to be like Jesus Christ, after his death and resurrection. And this was first in a city called Antioch, about 300 miles to Jerusalem. In defiance to the mockery the people claimed the name; and the name stuck and stuck forever!
10. As a result, this allegedly shameful name left a trail of followers, both fake and real to this day!
11. Jesus Christ never founded any religion, be it Christian religion or any other religions of mankind. Jesus Christ never opposes any religion, but accepts anyone who genuinely loves him by keeping to his words: John 14.20,21. This was the disposition of the then Christians: genuine lovers of Christ.
12. The adopted name Christians (Christ-like) in the real sense of purpose and intent should be truly for the genuine worshippers of Christ Jesus, but to this day, it is not! The religion formed in line with the name Christians called Christian Religion as of today was formed not by the true followers of Jesus Christ in spirit and truth. Christianity is not invented to be a religion, but a spiritual way of life to salvation.
13. Christian religion as of today was formed by people whose hearts are far from worshipping God in spirit and truth. The Christ-like nature of the then Christians was totally lost.
14. The worshippers of God in spirit and truth do not have any religion: this is because they do so in their hearts which is their spirit; and such God seeks to worship Him as written in John 4.23:
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.”
15. These true worshippers of God do not have any religion, as stated in John 4.21:
“Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.”
16. As a religious practice, Jews used to go to Jerusalem to worship God, and the Samarians go to the mountain to worship God (John 4.20). This is so to this day, man has continued to form different types of religion believing that they are truly worshipping God: this is pure fallacy!
17. This is pure fallacy as acknowledged by Jesus Christ in John 4.24:
“God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
18. From the above understanding it is evident that Christianity as a religion is of no avail in the true worship of God. All religions be it Christianity or others are equal before God.
19. Therefore the so called Christian Religion which I called Christendom is never a religion of choice by God; for God has no religion! Christendom is the rebellious city called Babylon: Rev 18.1-24.
20. Christendom could equally be referred to as the City of Babel in Gen 11.1-9; because in them are diverse religious peoples, tongues and cultures opposed to the true worship of God: Rev 18.2-4,
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul spirit and hateful bird; for all nations have drunk the wine of her impure impassion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness.”
21. As a result of the judgment of Christendom – Babylon the great, God is urging all true worshippers of Him to come out of her as stated in Rev 18.4,5:
“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her Plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her Iniquities.”
The Great Delusion!
22. The allegory is that the so called Christian Religion strongly believe that they are the only way, life and truth to salvation! This is complete lie. A pure lie and self-deceit: a great delusion!
23. But, in real truth they could have been the route to salvation, nevertheless they lost it; just like the Jews!
24. Paul had an undeniable love for his kinsmen, the Jews in pointing out the problem they have with the word of God: Christ Jesus. In his explanation of the rejection of Israel in light of the gospel was a divine justice; the Jews, Paul explicated, pursed righteousness not based on faith in Christ Jesus, but based on the works of the law. And, no one is justified before God by the works of the law or righteousness but by faith in Christ Jesus obtained by grace and mercy of God.
25. The Christ by flesh was a Jew, an Israelite from the tribe of Judah, and he stated that salvation came from the Jews – John 4.22.
26. Paul wrote in Rom 9.4,5 that:
“They(Jews) are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed forever.”
27. It is obvious from the above understanding that the Jews were in the frontline of the salvation of mankind, but they lost it, and there is a divine purpose in it!
28. The same thing is applicable to the so called Christian Religion: to them belongs the foundation of the gospel laid by the apostles whose cornerstone is Christ Jesus. They obtained the faith, hope and love of God through Christ Jesus out of grace and mercy of Almighty God. To them belongs the New Covenant traceable to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by faith in Christ Jesus.
29. But, they lost it all like the Jews. The great delusion is that they strongly believe they have it. No, they don’t! And there is a divine purpose in it, just like in the case of the Jews.
28. The same thing is applicable to the so called Christian Religion: to them belong the foundation of the gospel laid by the apostles whose cornerstone is Christ Jesus. They obtained the faith, hope and love of God through Christ Jesus out of grace and mercy of Almighty God. To them belong the New Covenant traceable to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by faith in Christ Jesus.
29. But, they lost it all like the Jews. The great delusion is that they strongly believe they have it. No, they don’t! And there is a divine purpose in it, just like in the case of the Jews.
The Divine Purpose in It
1. I, like Paul have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart for my fellow Christians from a clear conscience: born in a Christian family of Anglican decent, a stronger believer that Jesus Christ is the lord, a “church” goer and over-bearing to Christian faith well above other religious faiths. But by the mercy and grace of God through Christ Jesus I realized that all these good attributes can never lead me to salvation: I needed something better as the best is yet to come in Christ Jesus.
2. Consequently, Christ Jesus in his infinite mercy cleared me of the great delusion, and showed me that this kind of righteousness is of the scribes and Pharisees and can never make me to enter the kingdom of heaven – Matt 5.20:
“For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
3. Remember, the scribes and Pharisees were Jews, very zealous in the belief and practice of righteousness based on the law in the days of Jesus on earth. Paul was even an ardent Pharisees before his conversion by Christ Jesus to the way, truth and life to salvation.
4. Do not forget that belief and religious practices of the scribes and Pharisees amongst other Jews came from the law of Moses under which Levitical priesthood was instituted; but because they didn’t purse it through the works of faith, perfection eluded them.
5. This is the same scenario with today’s Christian Religion!
6. From Cain and Abel hostility has been between two opposing forces in beliefs and ways of life. The same is transmitted and existed between Jews and the so-called Gentiles. But it has been the desire of God to reconcile the opposing ends in a bid to end the hostility, and make one people from the diversity through faith in His son – Christ Jesus.
7. Jesus Christ came to bring an end to the hostility first between man and God, and second between man and man through the gospel. The Lord in effect established a ministry of reconciliation to bring all men in holiness and righteousness to God not based on works of the law but on faith through him, who is the resurrection and the life, such that all men, God’s willing will be saved!
8. So the Lord’s purpose of both the Jews and the Christian Religion is to reconcile all men irrespective of religious inclinations to salvation: the divine purpose in it as written in Rom 11.32,
“For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.”
9. The mercy of God to all men irrespective of religions will evidently bring salvation to them among those who through faith in Christ Jesus pursed righteousness, to the Christian Religion first, and the rest of the religions.
10. Therefore the ministry of reconciliation through the gospel is devoid of religious volitions.
11. You would then ask me – how will other religions outside Christian Religion be saved.
The Salvation of other Religions outside Christian Religion
12. Like I earlier stated: according to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. The practice of a religion may also include sermons, commemoration of the activities of a god or gods, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, rituals, rites, ceremonies, worship, initiations, funerals, marriages, meditation, invocation, mediumship, music, art, dance, public service or other aspects of human culture.
13. Please let me remind you again that all religions are equal before God; they all stand to gain the same salvation be it Christian Religion or not, for God is not a partial God. The claim by one religion above other religions to salvation before God is a false claim. God has not chosen any religion as the only way, truth and life to salvation except through his son, Jesus Christ.
14. You would say other religions do not have Jesus Christ. Yes, they do, but do not know that they have Jesus Christ: this is because of the false claims and usurpation of the so called Christian Religion that have led them away from obtaining salvation.
15. But salvation is not a physical acquisition!
16. Jesus Christ is no longer flesh and blood but a spirit; and as a spirit his dwelling place is in the hearts of men irrespective of religions. And no flesh and blood will inherit the kingdom of God. So is no longer the claim or believe one has in associating with one religion that grants him salvation but his conscience.
17. Consequently, salvation is of the conscience which is in the heart of man or his spirit. And the conscience of man is God.
18. God is your conscience O’ man and He dwells in your heart: whether you claim Jesus Christ by Christian religion or not by other religions, your conscience is God and He dwells in you.
19. So as a follower of Christian Religion you do not have any advantage over one who does not in the face of God.
20. The scripture says that there are some who have not encountered the gospel in any form but behave as one who has, their consciences exonerating or condemning them. So by reason of conscience you are either condemned or freed by God irrespective of your religious inclinations.
21. Unmistakably, those religions that are physically disenfranchised by Christian religion to the commonwealth of God which is Christ Jesus have such in their hearts. So, they do not have excuses to give not gaining salvation through their religious understanding, beliefs and practices.
22. One would still ask me how other religions would be saved when they do not have same structure of worship as Christian Religion wherein Jesus Christ is venerated as the way, truth and life to salvation? Would other religions abandon their ways of worship and move over to Christian Religion’s way of worship? How would they cross over where the process of admission to Christian Religion is a herculean task?
23. All these views and questions are 100% accurate! Christian Religion like I earlier mentioned is the most hostile religion on earth. They have fenced and walled up themselves that it seems near impossible to go in or out within and outside the numerous and diverse denominations in the Christian Religion.
24. It is evident that these dissimilar denominations in the Christian Religion fight one another in the claim of the right worship to salvation; they, as a result set an unachievable precedence to gain acceptance, and strive tooth and nail to win a convert; and when they resolutely win a convert they make him as more sinful than he was.
25. This abysmal attitude was noticed and condemned by the Lord in Matt 23.15,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you transverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”
26. These captured proselytes or Christian Religion captives are those who falsely call themselves, sisters, brothers and born-agains: hypocrites! And the ravenous captors, the so-called men of God – fakes; and are more devilish than their captives: they live in fleeting pleasures of sin claiming that it is the manifestation of righteousness.
27. These extremely bad settings and trappings of Christian Religion have put away other religions who could have gained the salvation of the Lord.
28. God is very aware of this beforehand and has rejected them in their impenitence as He did to the unrepentant Jews.
29. God as a resolve made a divine means wherein other religions shall come into the way, truth and life to salvation. This divine means are their hearts, wherein they listen to their consciences in their various and diverse religious beliefs and faiths as to what is right or wrong and follow suit.
30. This divine arrangement would contain the spread of the religious virus bringing an unholy death to all and sundry until the time of the 1st Resurrection and 1000 years reign of righteousness: Rev 20.4-6.
31. Every religion has a structure of devoted worship with spelt out dos and don’ts which help to keep in check the faithful ones and irreligious ones, their consciences exonerating or condemning them.
32. Within this framework worshippers approach the throne of God for the salvation of their souls with or without the physical mentioning the name of Jesus Christ which many of them do not know about: they ignorantly do those things through Christ Jesus that would lead them to salvation.
33. Remember the scripture says that in the days of ignorance the Lord forgives; meaning ignorance in faithfulness of conscience as to Saul to Paul. To this the Lord will give us full understanding later.
34. Please I sincerely plead with those religions other than Christian Religion to continue in those acts they deem expedient to the salvation of their souls; the LORD God is with you. For God will bring every works of man irrespective of religions to judgment through Jesus Christ.
THE RELIGION OF CONSCIENECE
1. Is the religion of conscience – the way, and the truth and the life to salvation?
2. But, the way, and the truth and the life to salvation is Jesus Christ according to John 14:6
3. Does it imply that Jesus Christ is the Conscience? The Silent Voice that speaks to you in your heart the judgment of good and evil? The Silent Voice – the Spirit that speaks to you in your heart the judgment of good and evil.
4. But, according the Scripture the Lord Jesus Christ is the Spirit as stated in 2Cor 3:17; if the Lord is the Spirit – the Silent Voice: the Conscience is the Lord Jesus Christ!
5. Remember the Conscience is in the heart (spirit) of man wherein the New Covenant is established by God according the creeds of the New Covenant in Jer. 31:33,34
“But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more,”
6. The New Covenant is the basis of worship of God for the salvation of mankind; and this could only be achieved through Jesus Christ who is the Mediator of the New Covenant according to Heb 9:15,
“Therefore he (Christ Jesus) is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.”
7. I, then ask: how would the rest of the world in their diverse religions have access to Jesus Christ in order to gain eternal life? This is because Christian Religion has usurped Jesus Christ and blocked every access to Jesus Christ thereby disenfranchised them from the common wealth of salvation and denying themselves same inheritance as stated by the Lord in Matt 23:13,
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.”
8. My greatest fight would be to open the blocked access to Christ Jesus by the Christian Religion to enable men shut out of the kingdom of heaven to gain eternal life through Christ Jesus to this day.
9. But, how would I achieve this huge task without the Holy Spirit of God through Christ Jesus? Is impossible with me and man, but with God all things are all possible. Therefore, by the name of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God of glory I will definitely achieve this seeming impossibility.
HOW TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!
10. Surprisingly, a huge number of people is held captive by Christian Religion condemned to eternal damnation to their ignorance as mentioned by the Lord in Matt 23:15,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.”
11. Without doubts the utmost barrier to salvation in the world to this day is the Christian Religion! And the worst culprit is the leadership – so called men of God; while the victims are their members and the rest of the world.
12. First how do we rescue those held captive by these false men of God of Christian Religion? The freedom of those in captivity of Christian Religion would create an excellent way to salvation of the rest of the world outside the reach of Christian Religion.
13. The alarming warning in the freedom of captives held by Christion Religion – Babylon the Great, is already sounded by the Lord as in Rev 18: 1 -24. Their stock in trade is human souls – Rev 18:13.
14. Since the Lord has sounded the alarming warning to come out of Babylon the Great – Christian Religion as a fallen religion – Rev 18:2; what are you still doing there, O’ man!
15. You would say you are acting in ignorance to the worship of the Beast!
16. Yes, the worship that is going on in Christian Religion is the worship of the Beast! And this is to their ignorance. They are ignorant to a large extent that they are worshipping the Beast – the ancient Serpent, the Devil, the Satan: bearing his mark – 666; 666 the mysteries of iniquity.
17. The freed captives from the captivity of Christian Religion would ask, how do they worship the Lord outside the camp from which they are now set free?
18. The freed captives from Christian Religion – Babylon the Great captivity, may be of the opinion that the evil outside the camp of Babylon the Great – Christian Religion is more than in the camp. But that opinion is wrong. This is because the Lord would not warn against leaving the camp to you own danger.
19. The yoke placed upon Babylon the Great on men is so unbearable as revealed by the Lord in Matt 23:4,
“They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.”
20. From every indication the Lord has out love warned us to decamp from the wicked camp of Christian Religion, the scribes and Pharisees of our time.
21. The Lord in effect has revealed and provided an excellent and easier worship of the Father – the LORD God Almighty in order to gain eternal life in glory as stated in John 4:23-24,
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
22. The emphasis is on true worship for salvation is very clear, by the Lord – spiritual worship.
SPIRITUAL WORSHIP THE ONLY ACCESS TO GOD
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST
23. The worship of God in spirit and truth is referred to as spiritual worship – the true worship of God through Jesus Christ to gain eternal life. This is reaffirmed by the Lord in John 4:23-24,
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
24. According to the Lord, God is fervently seeking for those who worship Him in spirit and truth. The heart of a man is his spirit which is the breath of God, that quickens the body to become a living soul. At death the spirit of man returns to the owner – God, and man becomes a dead soul – dust. Therefore, the spirit of man never dies; it proceeds to eternity in glory or in damnation!
25. The activities of the spirit of man is well beyond religion – physical worship. It connects directly to the Spirit of God’ But, many a man is ignorant of this truth, that the spirit of man is linked directly to the Spirit of God: the reason why whatsoever man does affects God directly.
26. Man is of the heart(spirit) to God: the reason why whatsoever man does affects God directly. To ignorant so many a man does not know that the true worship (obedience to God through Jesus Christ) takes place in the heart(spirit) of man which occurs through believe.
27. So many a man believes in his heart in God – you do well; even demons believe in one God: false believe! The true believers in God must believe in God only through Jesus Christ: the only way, the life and the truth to God; and no comes to LORD God Almighty except by Jesus Christ.
28. But, we have false believers in God through Jesus Christ, referred to as hypocrites: wolves in sheep clothing. They are mainly the Christian Religion – the scribes and Pharisees of our time. The characteristics of them are exposed by the Lord in Matthew 23:1- 39: the worship the Lord with their lips, while their hearts are far from the Lord according to Isaiah 29:13,
“This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines he precepts of men.”
29. These are physical worshippers – vain worshippers of the Lord: worshippers in ‘Jerusalem and mountain’ – religious worshippers! ‘Church’ goers and temple worshippers – vain worshippers!
30. Since the true worship of God is devoid of religious inclinations or affiliations, why are you, 0’ man roped to religion? Must you be in one religion or the other to worship God? Why not live above religion in the worship of God? Don’t you know that God has no religion?
31. Don’t you know that true worshippers of God don’t have any religion: they neither go to ‘Jerusalem or the mountain’ to worship God, but do that in their hearts, as stated by the Lord in John 4:21,
“Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.”
32. And the Lord reaffirmed this in John 4:23-24,
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
33. According to the Lord, ‘Jerusalem and mountain’ worship – religious worship is not the true worship of God, either of Christian Religion or any other religion of man.
HOW DO I THEN WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH?
1. Like I said, the spirit is the heart of a man, which is the real you as a man, and wherein all the activities of life go on. In the spirit of man lives the conscience. The truth is the sincerity of the spirit to man and to his believe and God. The sincerity and honest purpose of life and deceit go on in the spirit.
2. The life of man is his spirit, which is the breath of God, Without the spirit, man is dead: if the spirit of man departs to the maker – God, man is dead.
3. For man is both flesh – dust, and spirit(life). The breath of God made man become a living soul. The soul is the spiritual property – spiritual entity of man, destroyable only by God as evident in Matt10:28,
“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
4. God is Spirit – John 4:24. God is the being; the being is the life. And life is perpetual – is ceaseless, for life is God. God is life – the being, wherein are all things in heaven and on earth, as testified in Acts 17:28,
“In him we live and move and have our being.”
5. The creation is God, and God is the creation. For all the things seen – both physical and spiritual, are indications of the existence of God; your ignorance is not an excuse.
6. If there is no God, why are you afraid of death? Why do you desire to live on?
7. Because there is God, that’s why you are afraid of death.
8. The fear of death at any instance is not a spontaneous action, but rather is caused by a spirit: I am talking about the fear of death which is different from a spontaneous fear – a natural fear, a biological function. No, I am talking about the fear to die: the fear of death.
9. The fear of death which is different from a natural fear – a biological fear, is caused by a spirit. And that spirit is God. For both life and death are in the hand of God. God is absolute in both life and death.
11. God pronounced death to man as a consequence of disobedience to His word according Gen 2:17,
“You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
12. Check the phrase – ‘you shall die’. The death as pronounced by God to the disobedience of man to His word is both physical death and spiritual death: mortal death and immortal death! If man had obeyed the word of God he could not have died both physically and spiritually.
13. God in His infinite mercy to man, moved to redeem man from spiritual death – immortal death. For it is not the desire of God that man shall die spiritually, I mean as a sinner, according to Ezek 8:23,
“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?’
14. When a sinner dies in his sin he dies spiritually.
15. Therefore both death and life are in the spirit of man by the hand of God; you are directly connected to God by your spirit – this is why God is so concerned with the spirit of man.
16. Whatever you do directly affects God, O’ man! And that you do, you do with your spirit.
17. The spirit of man is really influenced by religion, but should have been free from it. The first encounter the spirit of man has as a born sinner is religion, and sin through religion spread death to all mankind as from Adam to all through his disobedience to God.
18. The religion instituted by Adam as a means to win back the glory of God failed as indicated in the lives of Cain and Abel; even the innocent blood of Abel could not expiate for the sin of mankind, because it fell short of the glory of God from the sin of Adam , the consequences passed down to all mankind.
19. The worship that sprouted from the religion of Adam lacked spiritual essence to appease the Spirit of God for the salvation of mankind. Adam(man) in a shortfall of the glory of God can never please God because is carnal. And no man can please God except through the obedience of one man – the second Adam – Christ.
20. The indispensable need of Christ to please God, is borne in his revelation to the way, the truth and the life to please God for the grace to gain salvation. This is the life in spiritual worship – the spirit of man in obedience to God obtained in exercising faith in Christ.
21. The Christ in this regard is the teaching and life – works of Christ devoid of religion given to all mankind irrespective of human distinction – race, tongues, social, economic………., and various human persona.
22. For you to gain insight into the teaching and life – works of Christ for salvation, you should focus well above the physical attribute of the man referred to as Christ or the perception of Christ by religion that has overshadowed the spirit of the eternal life setting you away from a holy lifestyle.
23. To say the least, there is a yawning hole in man to fill and live a holy life as a property of peace of mind with God: goodness which leads to Godliness is inherent in the life of man; is inborn.
24. To gain a proper understanding of the works of salvation – the works of love of God through Christ, you have to first obtain the excellent knowledge of the man (Adam) called Christ, not taught by human wisdom or religion but by the Spirit of God through Christ which already in you but veiled!
25. This Spirit of God called the Holy Spirit is already in you, and very willing to teach and interpret spiritual truth that would lead you to the desired salvation. The reason why you do not know that the Spirit of God is in you is because of your focus on religion – the tradition of man. Once you turn your focus from religion and focus on the inner man – your spirit in light of seeking for the truth, definitely you will be set free from the shackles of religion to the freedom as given freely by God through Christ.
26. For what you need to know about God through Christ to gain salvation is already written on the tablet of your heart – your spirit. Only look inward – to your spirit to search out that already written on you heart by God through Christ irrespective of religion. No man but yourself will toe the line of salvation; yes, only you by the power of the Holy Spirit – the Spirit of truth, to interpret spiritual truth to your personal understanding and obedience.
27. Why we say spiritual truth is that not all truth is spiritual. It is only the spiritual truth that will lead to you to eternal life; and only the Holy Spirit of God through Christ has the sole interpretation of Spiritual truth, and therefore link your heart to Christ for salvation as a result.
28. You do not need any religion or man but God and your sincere yourself to seek for the spiritual truth which comes by the revelation of the Holy Spirit through Christ. You do not need to attend any religious gatherings for this. The revelation from God is direct to you through Christ for sincerely seeking for the spiritual truth.
29. Truly speaking, I am not telling lies, once you sincerely search for spiritual truth as for silver and gold, the mercy of God will definitely locate you, and you will as a result have the knowledge of God – the fear of God; and gain understanding of God – to depart from evil. I repeat, you do not need religion or man for this. All what you need is sincerity of purpose to seek for the spiritual truth as of silver and gold: Proverbs chapters 2 and 3 – please read through.
30. The surest means to have knowledge and understanding of God through Christ is by reading the Bible in all sincerity for those who can read.
31. The Bible, truly is a collection of books – spiritual writing (Scripture) by the Hoy Spirit of God through Christ by men so inspired by Holy Spirit called the Scripture.
32. The Scripture is not exclusively owned by anyone, religion or authority. The Scripture is the writing of God by men inspired by His Spiritual given to all mankind the power of knowledge and understanding of God unto salvation.
33. It is your property for spiritual truth. Do not shy away from reading the Bible (the Scripture) out of ignorance – for ignorance is a sin!
34. The claims Christian Religion or any other authority made to the ownership of the Bible – the Scripture is a grave one. They are dissuading you and a lot people from the spiritual truth thereby denying them salvation. Such false claims are the main road to captivity that leads to eternal destruction.
35. You don’t need to convert to Christian Religion or any religion of such, to own and read the Bible. Possession of the Bible doesn’t make you a Christian religious member. No! Rather it makes you to become a child of God.
36. Whether you read the Bible secretly or in the open is irrelevant; the truth is that you read the Bible without recourse to any relationship of man – first your household (your family) and man as a friend or a foe.
37. Remember Nicodemus knowing that Jesus is the Christ went secretly in the night to Jesus to seek out the truth to gain the kingdom of God. Nicodemus embark on this trip at night for fear of his fellow Jews being a staunch member of the Pharisees. And at the end of the day that led him to salvation, an excellent indication that salvation is a personal pursuit.
38. Don’t be a fool!
39. Engage yourself to this pursuit of the spiritual truth; truly speaking you are not bigger than Nicodemus – a man of great knowledge of the law of Moses, knowing fully well that knowledge cannot by any means save him except Christ. By body decent Nicodemus was well bigger to the man Jesus, but by spiritual knowledge and understanding Jesus is his Master and Lord. Therefore, he has to humble himself, and give in to a higher authority in Jesus in order to gain salvation of his soul, which was later given to him by God through grace of the Holy Spirit in Christ.
40. Please, I beg you with all my heart to follow the likes of Nicodemus, I strongly believe he wasn’t alone in the secret pursuit of the spiritual truth being a member of the Pharisees – one among the highest physical authorities of the day.
41. Remember again the Roman centurion – called Cornelius! As a Roman army commander – Roman government being the lords and enemies of the Jews, one would hardly trust he could be a true believer and follower of Christ. A risk he took that paid off handsomely, for at the end of the day he was saved together with his household by Christ Jesus by the hand of Peter the Apostle.
42. You might not be bigger than him, but even if you are, makes it wiser for you to toe the line of spiritual truth. If you cannot do it openly for fear of isolation, then do it secretly, and be saved.
43. Another in like men was the Ethiopian Eunuch!
44. And so many a people of like manner, not recorded in the Scripture. They secretly and sometimes openly gained salvation being people saddled with so much physical authority; and being aware that such physical authority is of no avail to the salvation of their souls, they put it behind not out of disregard but rather in combination, the Lord granting them the grace to do that not disrespecting the earthly master which the serve bodily, and the Lord which they serve with their spirit.
45. May the Lord grant you the grace to repent and proceed to salvation through obedience of the revelation of the spiritual truth by Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit of Lord God Almighty, the Father of glory; the immortal God belongs the eternal life forever. Amen