Hidden Treasures

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned. I want to start by saying that, if you wear the lenses of performance-based Christianity, this could be a scary scripture, for it sounds like your salvation hinges on your behavior. Do good, get good, but fall away and you’re lost forever. We need to understand that the book of Hebrews was written to a group of Jewish believers in Christ who were tempted under the threat of pers...

Jesus tells us His bride, “You are all fair, My love, and there is no spot in you.” What was your reply to Him? “Me? All fair and no spot? You don’t know me, Lord!” But let me ask you, do you really think that God doesn’t know you? God sees reality like no one else sees it. He sees the perfection of His Son’s finished work in you. By one offering of Himself at the cross, Jesus has perfected you forever! (Hebrews 10:14) You have been made the righteousness of God in Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:21) And you will never find any spot in this righteousness that Jesus died to give you. So God wants you to see yourself righteous—all fair and spotless in Christ. Every day, be conscious of your righteousness in Christ. Say, “ I am the righteousness of God in Christ. There is no spot in me whom He has perfected with His blood.” When you do that, you are honoring Jesus and His finished work. If you are conscious of your sins, then yo...

What make us SAVE ( a born again)  is the deposition of the very righteous nature of God; Christ; the Holy spirit in the inside of our being. God therefore first blesses the inside of our being so that it Will break through like seed to the outside. Philemon 6 confirmed this by telling us that " there every good thing in us in Christ" Apostle Paul reinforced this thought in (Php 2:12-13). He says, "WORK OUT your own salvation with FEAR & TREMBLING; for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. My problem here is that, most ministers mistake what Paul says as a some sort of secondary approach to salvation. Paul says  "WORK OUT" he didn't say " WORK FOR" What Apostle Paul means was that, salvation is being worked inside of us until it works out of us. Salvation is a breakthrough Truth. Though it begins on the inside as the seed of Christ, it grows until it breaks out so all will see the manifestation of...

I've been asked on many occasions for my take on the above scripture, so in today's study I want us to see if we can get a clear picture of what brother Jesus  was teaching, Whether He was teaching us to keep the Law and fulfill it or He has come to fulfill it on our behalf. For me not to take much of your time, I will like to make my explanation short but am expecting you to use it as a guide to go back and study chapter 5-7 on your own. "Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets.......but to fulfill it".( verse 17) Now the preceding verses were so opposed to the teachings of the scribes and Pharisees that some might assert that He was a destroyer of the law. He replies that he has not come to destroy it, but to fulfil. He does not say that he has come to perpetuate the law but fulfil it; to complete its purpose. He was the end of the law. The law was a "schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but "after faith is come we are no longer unde...

Do you know that God calls us Beloved too? At the River Jordan the Voice from Heaven said of Jesus, This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Mt 3:17, KJV) Ephesians 1:6 tells us that God has accepted us “in the Beloved” (KJV). This means that God relate to us in the same way that He relates to Jesus. He accepts us, is well pleased with us,  He calls us His beloved sons. Joseph Prince writes about this in his book, Destined to Reign. He notes that in Matthew 3 God says of Jesus, “this is my beloved Son,” but in Matthew 4 the devil says, “If you are the Son of God…” The devil did not remind Jesus that He was the beloved Son of God and neither does he remind us. The devil doesn’t want us to know what God thinks of us because once you know you are beloved, says Prince, everything changes. We rise up against the enemy’s temptations and we stand secure in our God-given identity. Beloved, there is nothing you can do today...

Jesus not only forgives all our sin but He surgically removes our sinful nature (Col 2:11) and gives us a new nature (2 Cor 5:17). Sin no longer dominates us. By His powerful and effective grace we are able to say “no” to sin (Tit 2:12). Because of what Jesus has done, God not only forgives all our sins, He chooses to forget them too. “(Because of the cross) God is no longer counting men’s sins against them” (2 Cor 5:19) “I will forgive their sins and remember their sins no more.” (Hebs 8:12) It is human nature to keep score but the love of God revealed in Jesus keeps no record of wrongs. When the heroes of faith are hailed in Hebrews 11 their sinful deeds are strangely absent. Moses the murderer and Rahab the prostitute are praised for their faith, not rebuked for their sins. Yes there is freedom and reconciliation in confessing our shortcomings to one another (Jas 5:16). But there is no need for the Christian to keep on confessing sins to...

Apparently, some guys with PhD are saying so, and they backed their claims with 1John 1:1-10. "Yes! Albright, Those PhD guys are right". Don't be a joke, study your bible, don't just read it. Stop swallowing everything that you hear those PhD guys say from the pulpit. I don't have time to waste so let me make my point clear and leave you to go and study on your own. I want to start by saying that going to church doesn’t make someone a Christian and in the New Testament churches, there were plenty of people who were not saved. I’m talking of the “ false brothers who infiltrated our ranks” (Gal 2:4) and the false teachers, false apostles, and false prophets who seemed to follow Peter and Paul everywhere they went. Understand that the early church was a place of harmony and accord. In reality those churches were fractious battlegrounds between Christians, Pharisees, Judaizers, and outright crooks. ( please take note) If you carefully study the middle chapter...