THE DISCIPLES GAVE THEIR ALL

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YOU ARE DOING LESS THAN WHAT GOD EXPECTS OF YOU!

The New Testament is the completion of the Old Testament. Our LORD Jesus Christ said ' l have not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it. It means the perfect pattern for any Disciples of Jesus Christ is the Template of The Master Himself as revealed in the New Covenant.

Pilate asked our LORD, a very crucial question when the Jewish leaders present him to Gentile ruler for sentencing. 

He asked  Jesus Christ " Are you the King of the Jewish?

The Disciples also had this line of thinking, they expected our Master Jesus Christ, to rule over the Nation of Israel and few expected that His mandate would be achieved through a painful death on the Cross.

We must come to this place of understanding in our thinking and Revelation that God's ways are not our ways. Truly, you have the mind of Christ if you have His words t dwell in you and align all your decisions and actions to the by divine revelations given to you by The Holy Spirit.

 it is the combination of The Written Word and Divine revelation that runs the Kingdom. The Bible noted that if the Ruler of this world had knew that killing the Saviour is God's strategy for taking back the Dominion mandate of Mankind, he would not have done it.

There is the Written logos that the Messaih would be borne by a virgin and that the Messiah would die but it takes present revelation to show that the death of The Saviour will redeemed Man from the Dominion of Darkness. 

The crucifixion and resurrection too back the Dominion mandate hereby bringing Believers in Christ to a status of sonship.

Revelation is the breathe of the Holy Spirit on the logos which makes it powerful. The Pharisees and Sadducees have the Law but they were diconnected from The Kingdom of Heaven because they did not have the Holy Spirit dwelling in their heart. 

The Word without the spirit is death because it is the Spirit that gives Life.

Our LORD Jesus Christ did not come to the Earth to become a King in the political, Economic, social and religious Spheres of Human Life.

Rather, The Saviour died and resurrected to purchase with His blood;  kings and priests for  God. 

He paid the ultimate price to take back the Dominion mandate of Mankind and bring us into ruling on the Earth.

"And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and made them to our God kings and priests; and they shall reign over the earth." Rev. 5:9-10

The Scenario before the death and Resurrection of Our LORD was that Satan, the Ruler of this WORLD would give the Kingdom of the world to those who bow to worship him.

"The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. If you worship me, it will all be yours.” Luke 4:12

Our LORD already paid the price for your reigning as believer; The Father has given every Believer every spiritual blessings received by Christ, our King in Rev. 5:12

"Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing".

The gifts, Life and power of the Holy Spirit is already made available for every Child of God to display the manifold wisdom of God to the World and manifest His awesome glory.

"A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the LORD— and he will delight in the fear of the LORD."

 Isaiah 11:1-5

The Book of John 15 shows that The Believer in the New Testament and under the New Covenant are the branches while our Master is the Vine. 

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit,'

John 15:5-8

So the seven fold Spirit of God is already given to every Christian.and not just the fivefold ministries of Apostles, Teachers, Prophets, Evangelist and Pastors.  Every believer can manifest these seven fold dimensions of the Spirit irrespective of their purposes.

God, our Father has also made known to every child of God, the mysteries of the Kingdom through the Hoy Spirit dwelling permanently in our Inner man.

"We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 

No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 

None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him— 

THESE ARE THE THINGS GOD HAS REVEALED TO US BY HIS SPIRIT. 1 Cor. 2:6-10

Our King, LORD, Saviour and Master during His sojourn on Earth fully discharged His potential and ministry on Earth. 

if God's purpose on Earth for Him was to become the political king of the nation of Israel, Jesus Christ, the Son of David wolud have become a KING to fulfil His divine mandate.

But He fully fulfilled His purpose as Saviour while He was  physically on the Earth and has handed the mantle to us;  the Believer to carry on the Kingdom mandate on Earth

"When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases" Matt. 8:16

Jesus left there and went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them. The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel. Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; Matt. 15:29-32

"At that very time Jesus cured many who had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind. So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor." Luke 7:21-23

Our Master fully discharged all that was given to Him. And He did not just raised 12 Successors, He raised at first 120 disciples and Believers and disciples in Al generations.

The Holy Spirit and the spiritual gifts that The LORD released on the Disciples did not returned to Heaven, The Holy Spirit is still on The Earth and He is interested in anointing men to do great exploits for the Kingdom.

The first Disciples and Apostles were the foundation of the Church and their manifestations of the Hoy Spirit was that glorious. 

Every believer in proceeding generations are lively stones built on that foundation whose Corner Stone is The Master Himself; our LORD Jesus Christ.

If believers in this generation must do as much work  as the disciples and the Master, we must pay the price.

The Disciples and our Master paid the price of GIVING THEIR ALL. And you must do the same. If not, you would have under utilised  the available grace and spiritual blessings. given to you 

TO BE CONTINUED

A L.Hephzibah.