ABUNDANCE IN EVERYTHING
There certain promises in the Bible which has conditions attached to it fulfillment and this conditions are meant for the believer. But there are certain blessings and promises that Christ Jesus our LORD has already fulfilled it's terms and conditions
The believer receives and enjoys these blessings and see the fulfillment of God's promises through faith in the LORD Jesus Christ. The promises and blessings in John 10 falls in this category.
John 10:9-11 TPT
I AM THE GATEWAY
The Kingdom of God is first an Entity and then an invisible physical immobile location in the heavenlies. Its the dwelling of God, the Almighty and His invisible sons who live to honour His command. God is awesome and His ways is sincerely beyond the senses of the ordinary man. It takes the Holy Spirit to take a Believer into the deeps and depth of the Almighty.
Jesus Christ is the Gateway unto God- The Everlasting Father, (who is the Creator and the Righteous Judge of the whole Universe. ) No being can have direct access to God without faith in the Name of Jesus Christ. No person can enter the Kingdom without faith in His Name. Cornelius was a God -fearing man; schooled only in the way of Jewish mode of worship. But his devotion to the law of Moses could not qualify him to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, given only through faith in the powerful saving Name of Christ.
Who are Jews?
Jews are the descendants of Abraham: God's servant and God's friend. God entered an eternal covenant with Abraham- His descendants will be the inheritance of God forever. God is a covenant keeper, He keeps his covenant as long as the terms and conditions of the Covenant is kept.. "When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.” At this, Abram fell face down on the ground. Then God said to him, “This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations! What’s more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations.
I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them! “I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God.” Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility. This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised. You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you. From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth.
This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased. All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my everlasting covenant. Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”
Genesis 17:1-14 NLT
In the above covenant: God said the descendant of Abraham will be His people forever. And the terms of the covenant is that every male child must be circumcised on the eight day. It shows any male child born into an Israeli family who is not circumcised at the eight day is not a Child of God according to the Abrahamic covenant. But any male child circumcised on the 8th day has access to the blessings of Abraham.
The Abrahamic Covenant necessitated our LORD Jesus Christ coming into the Earth as The Seed of Abraham and a Son of David. He had to come in fulfillment of the Covenant God cut with the man named Abraham. Israel had first priviledge access to our LORD Jesus Christ because the God of Abraham, Isaac , Jacob is The Covenant keeping God. He will never break His covenant.
The people of Israel had the priviledge of first choice- they were given the honour of been the people who first received Jesus Christ our LORD as Saviour. The Almighty Himself in human form preach the Gospel to Israel in honour of the Covenant He entered with Abraham, their fore- father. But after the Resurrection, circumcision of the fore-skin is no longer the condition for access to God and His Kingdom. The only Way by which anybody can be saved is by faith in Christ Jesus , the Saviour. Jesus Christ, the SAVOUR and Messiah is the ONLY Gateway to the Father and the Kingdom of God.
BENEFITS/DIVIDENDS OF FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS
1.LIFE
2. SATISFACTION
3. FREEDOM
4. EVERYTHING IN ABUNDANCE
5. MORE THAN YOU EXPECT
6. LIFE IN FULLNESS UNTIL YOU OVERFLOW
TITHING & OFFERNG
FROM CRADLE TO DEATH....
From cradle to death and the tomb; Christ Jesus our perfect pattern and example was sponsored and financed by seeds from His followers.
Yesterday, l shared the scripture in Acts 4 that shows that the disciples had everything in common and some gave their all to support the visions of the Gospel.
After the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Apostles were full time ministers supported from the purse of the Church as emphasised by the epistle of Apostle Paul in 1 Cor. 9:7-14
".....Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and that those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel."
Even CHRIST our perfect pattern in all things was supported financially by those who were healed, saved and delivered by His ministry.
God started using men who believe in Christ ministry to meet His financially needs from His birth.
The three wise men who brought the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh were worshippers whose heart was stirred by God to prepare Jesus and his parents financially for their trip to Egypt.
"When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route. Matt 2:9-12
In the same chapter, the Bible says in verse 13 that Joseph departed with Christ and His mother for Egypt.
So we can rightly deduct that the trip to Egypt was sponsored by the gifts from the wise men.
God also used financial seeds from women to help Christ work. The women supported God's work by their hard earned salary.
In Luke 8:1-3
"After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Chuza, the manager of Herod’s household; Susanna; and many others. These women were helping to support them out of their own means."
When Jesus needed to feed the multitudes, it was the seed provided by a young lad that was used to feed the multitudes
"Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people
John 6:5-12
He used the boats of Peter to minister to the people
" One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”
Luke 5:1-4
Christ needed to have communion with His disciples and God again used another man to provide the room where this took place.
And finally, Christ our Saviour was buried by a the seed of a tomb sown by Joseph..
"As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away. "
Matthew 27:57-60
From cradle to death, to the tomb Christ Jesus our perfect pattern and example was sponsored and financed by financier seed from His followers.
Why should Christ Church on earth do otherwise.
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