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It Is Good For The Heart To Be Established With Grace

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.

RIGHTEOUSNESS ~ The Ultimate Wealth of Christ

It was the GRACE of God that Jesus left His garments and tunic on this earth before He was crucified. He did not leave behind money and the wealth of this world; what He left behind were His garments and tunic, the robe of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

John 19:23 ~ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

These garments and tunic that He left behind on this earth were for us. Why did Jesus not leave behind money and the wealth of this world? As a young believer before, I used to make suggestion to Jesus that money and the wealth of this world would make more sense, more practical and useful... Hmmm...

Well, Jesus' garments and tunic were made of linen and fine linen respectively; and any seamless tunic is an expensive piece of craftsmanship. In the Bible, linen always symbolizes righteousness. In Matthews 6:33, Jesus personally talked about seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness and subsequently in the account of Matthews at the scene of  crucifixion, there were four soldiers dividing His garments into four parts. This gesture implies that at the cross, the KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS had left behind His righteousness, made available for all four corners of this world  to receive.

Therefore, those of us who are now in the grace dispensation which is after the cross, by putting our faith in His finished work, we have the privilege to receive His abundant and lavish provision of grace and the gift of righteousness!

It was His righteous body that was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon His righteous body, and by His stripes we are healed. He was on the cross naked, leaving behind His wealth i.e. the robe of righteousness. He was without sin and yet God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

Just less than twelve hours before His crucifixion, He shared with His disciples regarding the other Comforter whom the Father would send. This Comforter - the Holy Spirit, was to be sent to convict us, the believer of RIGHTEOUSNESS... Not of sin, not of wealth, not of health either but of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

John 16:10 ~ of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more;


Fifty days after His resurrection, the Comforter was given at the feast of Pentecost, and since then, the Comforter has been convicting the believers of RIGHTEOUSNESS…

Even though this event has been happening for two thousand years now, it is sad to say that we are still seeing preachers having to preach their hearts out in order to  “encourage” and “affirm” believers that they are righteous in God’s eye. In fact, righteousness is the nature of the born again believer and righteousness is not an act. It is just like me being reminded by my parents day after day that I am a man; even though I have already grown myself to be half of a “centurion”. There must be a spiritual conspiracy that is causing unbelief in the body of Christ.

Therefore, through the writings of the Pharisee of Pharisee who was an expert in the Law, the Apostle Paul (I suppose once a Pharisee, he is forever called a Pharisee) wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Romans 5:17 that for if by the one man offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive (Lambano in Greek) ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and of the GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

It was the Pharisee of Pharisee who claimed that this righteousness is not achieved through our performance but through our receiving from Christ Jesus; and grace and the gift of righteousness can enable us to reign in life through Him.

What a contrast… an “ordinary” Pharisee (GP) would command you to work out your own righteousness by abiding to the commandments; and yet the Pharisee of Pharisee (Specialist) instructed us to receive the abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness. Well, what do you say...?

With the help from the Holy Spirit, I began to realize that Jesus’ definition on His riches is RIGHTEOUSNESS not money or the wealth of this world. If we are righteous, the blessings and the wealth of this world will be attracted to us. The blessings and the wealth of this world are just like heat seeking missiles targeting those who are righteous by faith just as prophet Isaiah described in

Isaiah 60

5 ~ Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the gentile shall come to you.

6 ~ The multitude of camels shall cover your land, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephhah; all those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense, and they shall proclaim the praises of the Lord.

7 ~ and the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall ascend with acceptance on My altar, and I will glorify the house of My glory.

Therefore, I started to understand what Paul meant when he wrote 2 Corinthians 8:9 that we know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich. He was rich not because He got a lot of money and the wealth of this world but because He is righteous. He was poor at the cross not because He got no money or the wealth of this world but because He left His robe of RIGHTEOUSNESS on this earth. He was striped naked at the cross. Father God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Therefore, just by receiving His abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness, we received the abundant life that Jesus died to give us!

Romans 10:4 ~ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Those who have believed in Christ Jesus are already righteous. This is what Paul meant by righteous by faith. In the midst of my meditation on this verse, the Holy Spirit revealed another verse written by Apostle Paul, this dynamic truth just blew my peanut size mind away…

Ephesians 1:3 ~ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who HAS BLESSED US us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Wow...! He had blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places…? All the blessings are in us…? and all the promises and blessings are YES and AMEN in Christ Jesus…? Wow..., it is no more a matter of what are we going to have or what we do not have! The truth is, we already have all the blessings!!!

Yet we do not believe... and we cannot understand… and we cannot see the manifestation of our blessings…

The answer is "HEAR" and you can find it "HERE"….

Luke 8:18 ~ Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him.

The revelation of what Jesus had done at the cross reveals to us our inheritance and blessings in Christ. It is through revelation that we see every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. No wonder the Pharisee of Pharisee prayed for the Saints in Ephesus to receive the Spirit of Wisdom and Spirit of revelation that they might know the glorious Father better and their eyes of their heart may be enlightened in order that they might know the hope to which He has called them, the riches of His inheritance in His holy people.

Revelation brings out the riches and abundance in you… Therefore, take heed how you hear. For whoever has (REVELATION), to him more (BLESSINGS) will be given; and whoever does not have (REVELATION), even what he seems to have (BLESSINGS) will be taken from him.

Do you know now who's taken your blessings away..?

What About 1 John 1:9?

Apostle Paul wrote two third of the New Testament and did not mentioned a single time on confession of our sin... If confession of sin is the core of Christianity, Paul had done us an injustice. Join me with this video to understand the power of complete forgiveness from our Lord by Pastor Joseph Prince.

Pastor Joseph Prince

An Evening Stroll with Prophet Daniel

I had a privilege to be led by the Spirit to have an evening stroll with Prophet Daniel. After I have walked through the first chapter of the Book of Daniel, I began to understand why Prophet Daniel was able to see the end time events though he was from the dispensation that was before the cross. As I walk again through this spiritual memory lane, let me show you the insight that I have been blessed with…

Daniel

1:1 ~ In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

1:2 ~ And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god. And he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

This Jerusalem can represent our church or even every individual because we are all the temple of the Holy Spirit. This Jerusalem is a place where the Lord gathers us together corporately and imparts us with His gospel of grace. As we all have been enlightened by the Lord and have been set apart by the message of grace, we are in this world and yet, not of this world. 

Though we are in this world and yet not of this world, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is here all the time to besiege our Jerusalem. The meaning of this word “besiege” is to surround a place with arm forces in order to capture it or force it to surrender.  As such, king Nebu is here, constantly throwing us with the Babylonian teaching which is the teaching of the mixture of grace and law. As he has some of the vessels of the house of God, this king Nebu is able to mix the teaching that is from the Lord with the teaching from the world. He will also besiege our Jerusalem with the teaching based on worldly value, humanistic value and the teaching from the Tree of the knowledge of the Good and Evil.  This is a coalition party that appears in the first part of the verse from John 10:10… The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. 

Daniel

1:3 ~ And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs that he should bring some of the sons of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the rulers;

As I walked on this verse, I discovered that those who help king Nebu to dispense Babylonian teaching, teaching with a mixture of grace and law, teaching that is full of human sentiment, worldly value and from the Tree of  the knowledge of Good and Evil, king Nebu gave them a very beautiful title call the “master of his eunuchs”. Hmmm … What a title! I would never want to be a eunuch! Praise the Lord, as I look at the ministry that my Lord has given me - ministry of dispensing pure grace, my King of kings, Lord or lords, crowned me with a title called royal priesthood. What a contrast between these two kingdom!

Daniel

1:5 ~ And the king gave them the portion of a day in its day from the king's food, and the wine which he drank, even to rear them three years, so that at their end they might stand before the king.

This was a dark avenue... as I stepped onto verse 5, we can see that the initial motive of teaching Daniel and gang with the language of the Chaldeans had turned into a spiritual conspiracy. King Nebu had instructed the master of his eunuchs to serve them with king’s food and wine…Hmmm… what a spiritual conspiracy.

In our Lord’s Table, He serves us with bread and wine. Our Lord serves us with the food that is from His finished work at the Cross – His own broken body and His blood. His finished work was the end of the old and beginning of the new. Our Lord’s Table ushers us into the New Covenant where the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Our Lord’s Table ushers us into His righteousness which is through the path of faith not by work because everything had been finished by Him at the Cross. He leads people into rest.

As king Nebu did not know the mystery of the cross that had defeated him completely, for if he would have known, he would not have sent our Lord to die on that Cross.  As such, he can only serves the food and wine that is before the cross full of rituals and religion ceremonies.  His table is full of condemnation that is based on do and don’t, right or wrong which misleads people to end up working for their faith. Therefore, King Nebu’s table ushers people into the path of righteous by work with performance orientated doctrine.

Daniel

1:8 ~ But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the king's food, nor with the wine which he drank. So he asked permission of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

As I was in this avenue, although there were four young men among them, I overheard only Daniel resolved not to defile himself with king Nebu’s food and wine. At this instant, I was prompted to realize that as we have all been enlightened by the Lord with the pure gospel of grace, we too, need to make a decision not to be defiled by king Nebu’s food and wine. Making such a decision is a very personal thing as when we came to our Lord while we were still sinner, we too, have to make a personal decision to accept Him as our Saviour. The Spirit also enlightened me to realize that towards the end of this book, we could find only Daniel was able to prophecy the end time events but not his friends. In a few avenues down this verse,  we will be able to see clearly why Prophet Daniel was able to see the end time events under his desperation. 

Daniel

1:9 ~ Now God had caused the official to show favour and mercy to Daniel.

In this verse, I witnessed the Lord granting Prophet Daniel favour and mercy in respond to his resolution. We all know very well that favour is grace. As for mercy, the Spirit prompted me to understand that the word mercy is written here because Daniel was under the dispensation of law whereby Christ had not been glorified yet. If this is in our dispensation, this mercy would be replaced by righteousness because of the Cross. This insight immediately reminded me of my favourite verse from Romans 5:17… Wow...!

Daniel

1:12 ~ I beg you, try your servants ten days. And let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.

With the favour (abundant provision of grace) and mercy (gift of righteousness) from God, Daniel asked for vegetable to eat and water to drink instead of king’s food and wine. Wow… this is the most beautiful avenue of all…

In the original Greek, vegetable means seed, while water symbolized the Holy Spirit. Seed by itself is the final stage of a plant life and a seed is a finished product. A picture like this immediately reflects a seed as to the finished work of Christ. If we do not plant this seed, a seed remains a seed. If we plant it, it will grow into a tree and bears multitude of fruits. Likewise, if we do not depend on the Finished Work of Christ, our spiritual life can never grow and not to mention bearing fruits of the Spirit stated in the Book of Galatians.

This is the reason why this avenue is so beautiful… The Spirit began to show me the parable of a sower in this avenue. We could never sow a seed on the stones (law), because when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water (Holy Spirit is not a witness of law). We could not sow the seed by the path and a path is a picture of mixture of soil (grace) and stone (law) which means Babylonian teaching. The seed was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of the air and ate it up. We could not sow the seed among the thorns (worldly and humanistic teaching) because when the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth. 

A seed is to be sowed into good soil (grace), with a lot of moisture (witness by the Holy Spirit) and with no stone (law) but full of "organic" fertilizer called dung. This dung is our self-righteousness as defined by Apostle Paul in the Book of Philippians.  Likewise, this revelation reflects the finished work of Christ can only work well in the environment of pure grace, with the anointing of the Holy Spirit where believers have already counted their self-righteousness as dung.

With the above insight, I was amazed to realize that during Prophet Daniel’s dispensation, he was actually feeding on the Finished Work of Christ with the anointing from the Holy Spirit and under the favor and mercy of God. No wonder He was a great prophet who could see the end time events! I began to realize that as for our dispensation of grace, when we look back and fix our eyes on the Finished Work of Christ, we too can understand the mystery that was hidden before the foundation of the world!

It was a wonderful spiritual stroll... I have discovered the key to unveil the mystery that was hidden before the foundation of the world. This key is the finished work of Christ… and only His Finished Work works because even in the Old Covenant, the Finished Work of Christ applied to father Abraham's insight when he offered up Issac at Mount Moriah and now through Prophet Danial's resolution.

We who are under this grace dispensation, have to resolve to partake nothing but His Finished Work!

CSI

For the past eleven years, I have heard preachers and my previous pastor preaching on the verse where the LORD spoke to Cain regarding the consequence of his offering. Their explanations had never satisfied my inner being until the LORD led me to take a different point of view in a different angle and to link this incident with the happening in the Garden of Eden.

Genesis

4:6 ~ And Jehovah said to Cain, Why have you angrily glowed? And why did your face fall?

4:7 ~ if you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it.

To understand what is “sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it”, we need to connect this incident with what happened in the Garden of Eden. The moment God put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpent’s seed and woman’s Seed, the devil had started his scheme to eliminate her Seed.

If you were to take the Bible as it is, I suggest to you that it was indeed the first murder case in human history. Assuming that I am a crime scene investigator and looking at this story from the TV series CSI (crime scene investigation) point of view, I began to understand what the LORD meant by ”sin was crouching at the door“. As the devil was not all-knowing, it had to judge from outward behavior. It had to put thought in people's mind so that it could observe their responses. He saw that the LORD had respect to Abel and his offering while He did not have respect to Cain and to his offering. In the situation of Cain being rejected, the devil put thought in the prideful mind of Cain and therefore Cain glowed with anger and his face fell!

From here, the devil made the judgement that Abel must be the woman's Seed that the LORD was talking about because the LORD had respect to Abel and to his offering. Due to Cain behavior, the devil grabbed the oppertunity to make use of Cain to get rid of Abel. Did the LORD know about this? Yes, the LORD reminded Cain why have he angrily glowed? And why did his face fall? If Cain does well like Abel, will he not be accepted like Abel? And if he does not do well, sin (the devil) crouches at the door; and its desire is for him, to make use of Cain, and Cain shall rule over it (Cain had a choice to rule over the devil by offering up what Abel was offering). 

The LORD had given man free choice… This free choice had caused Eve to fall and again, this free choice had caused Cain to fall too. This so called free choice or human's right, that this modern society is fighting so much about, has also causes this world to fall. The LORD said to Cain that he should rule over it, meaning Cain had a free choice to offer up the kind of offering that Abel was offering and he and his offering would be respected as well. A devil could not rule over a man with humble heart... But instead, the kind of pride that caused Satan to fall was in Cain and Cain chose not to offer up the kind of offering that the LORD respected. He chose to kill Abel and the crouching devil had its desire fulfilled. 

From this incident, we can see that the behaviour of Abel was a picture of Grace where he depended on the goodness of the fat. While the behaviour of Cain was a picture of religion (works of the flesh) where he depended on the goodness of his labour.

Hallelujah, the LORD had offered up His Begotten Son to this world at the cross. The LORD had cut an everlasting covenant with mankind through the cross. Yet He extended His free choice once again to all mankind; a free choice of choosing this Offering that He respect or otherwise.  If you have chosen the Offering that He respected, He respects you. If you choose grace (unearned, undeserved and unmerited favour) that He has extended to you, He respects you. It is all about His grace, His finished work at the cross not our works. It is all about His grace not our religion.

He is asking this question again. “And if you do not do well, sin crouches at the door; and its desire is for you, and you shall rule over it…”

Inception - 101 Lies Taught in Church Every Sunday

If  the act of "inception" is to secretly implanting an idea in a person's mind so as to change the course of that person’s action, I think there is a conspiracy going on in the body of Christ for the past two thousand years...

As a born again, Spirit filled believer, you are cordiality invited to consider the matters listed below...

In helping you to access to the matters, the link to the following videos by Dr. Steve Mcvey of Grace Walk Ministries are made available by clicking on the link. These video resources are from Grace Realized Website.

Matthew 16:6 ~ “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

#1 Salvation Is You Giving Your Life To Christ

#2 A Christian Is Just a Sinner Saved By Grace

#3 When You Became A Christian, God Changed Your Life

#4 Becoming A Christian Means Having Your Sins Forgiven

#5 Our Sins Are Under The Blood Of Jesus

#6 Your Greatest Need Is To Love God More

#7 The Answer To A Weak Christian Commitment Is To Rededicate Yourself

#8 The Holy Spirit Convicts Unbelievers of Their Sins

#9 The Christian Life Is All Of Him And None Of Me

#10 You Can Go Too Far With Grace

#11 Grace Is A Very Important Doctrine

#12 Grace Can Lead To A Careless Attitude Toward Sin

#13 Your Greatest Responsibility Is To Serve God

#14 You Need To Try Hard To Please God

#15 Christ Wants To Have First Place In Your Life

#16 God Expects You To Do Your Best

#17 God Wants To Give You What You Need

#18 If You Resist Sin You Will Become More Godly

#19 There Are Certain Religious Rules We Need To Keep

#20 We Must Feed The New Nature And Starve The Old Nature

#21 We Need To Continually Ask God To Forgive Our Sins

#22 When We Do Wrong, We Are Out Of Fellowship With God

#23 You Should Live By The Teaching Of The Bible

#24 You Can Overcome Temptation By Being More Disciplined

#25 You Need To Find God's Perfect Will For Your Life

#26 Your Problems Are From The Devil

#27 The Answer To Our Nation's Needs Is A Return To God's Laws

#28 God Is Disappointed When You Do Wrong

#29 God Won't Put More On You Than You Can Bear

#30 Legalism Refers Only To The Belief That Salvation Is By Works

#31 You Should Go To Church

#32 Our Denomination Is The Right One And Everybody Else Is Off Base

#33 God Is Angry When You Sin

#34 The Christian Life Revolves Around What We Do For Christ

#35 God Punishes You When You Sin

#36 Attending Church Will Keep You From Growing Spiritually Cold

#37 You Should Be Ashamed When You Sin

#38 There Are Secular And Sacred Things In Life

#39 You Need To Think About The Sins You Have Committed

#40 We Need A Revival

#41 We Should Befriend Unbelievers In Order To Win Them To Christ

#42 You Need To Do Your Part In The Christian Life

#43 Evangelism Means Leading A Person To Pray For Forgiveness For Their Sins

#44 God's Patience Is Wearing Thin

#45 We Need To Pay The Price To Be Used By God

#46 We Need A Fresh Anointing

#47 God Will Bless Us Because We Keep His Commandments

#48 We Need To Speak Out Against Sin

#49 Repentance Brings God's Goodness Into Our Lives

#50 We Had Better Be Careful Or People Might Abuse Grace

#51 Grace And Truth Need To Be Kept In Balance

#52 We Should Pray To Be Stronger So God Can Use Us

#53 We Should Ask If An Action Would Be Right Or Wrong Before Doing It

#54 God Only Speaks Today Through The Bible

#55 It Is A Sin To Be Depressed

#56 We Need To Focus On Overcoming Our Sins

#57 You Shouldn't Express Negative Thoughts And Feelings Toward God

#58 If You Repent Of Your Sins, God Won't Condemn You

#59 Your Sins Alienate You From Your Heavenly Father

#60 You Must Make Jesus Lord Of Your Life

#61 The Spiritual Disciplines Are Things We Do For God

#62 We Need More Faith

#63 The Holy Spirit Convicts Us Of Our Sin

#64 Your Sins Can Disqualify You From Being Used By God

#65 We Should Ask Ourselves "What Would Jesus Do?"

#66 You Will Be Blessed Because You Tithe

#67 We Are Saved To Serve

#68 We Need Spiritual Power

#69 We Should Work For God

#70 We Should Live By Christian Morals

#71 How You Behave Affects How God Feels About You

#72 Marriage Is A Fifty-Fifty Proposition

#73 Nobody Is Perfect

#74 Your Heart Is Desperately Wicked

#75 You Need Your Church (Or Pastor) To Be Your Covering

#76 You Need An Accountability Partner

#77 You Should Do Better

#78 God Wants To Give You The Victory

#79 You Grow In Holiness

#80 You Should Pray To Love Christ More

#81 Serving Christ Will Make You Closer To Him

#82 You Can Backslide From God

#83 We Are Positionally Righteous

#84 God Looks At You Through Jesus Christ

#85 God Wants You To Be Happy

#86 We Should Invite God's Presence Into Our Church Service

#87 We Should Do Everything Jesus Said

#88 Faith Requires That We Act Positively In Every Situation

#89 We Need God's Law To Reveal His Righteousness

#90 Christ Empowers Us To Keep God's Law

#91 God Doesn't Answer The Prayer of Non-Christians

#92 If You Don't Forgive Others, God Won't Forgive You

#93 We Shouldn't Do Anything That Might Offend Somebody

#94 God Needs You

#95 We Need To Let God Out Of The Box

#96 If You Pray Long & Hard Enough, You Can Change God's Mind

#97 The Truth Will Set You Free

#98 You Must Forgive And Forget

#99 It's Better To Burn Out For Christ Than To Rust Out

#100 We Should Keep Short Accounts With God

#101 Sunday Is The Christian Sabbath

The list might go on......

1 Corinthians 5:7 ~ Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 


Luke 8:18 ~ Therefore be careful how you hear. For whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have. 

Inception - Implanting of Idea

Inception?

Ya, inception…

From Hollywood…?

No, this is Holy Word…!

I watched this movie together with my family about a week ago after a strong recommendation from my sons. My two boys went with us again after they have watched this movie the night before. This movie was quite confusing at first, but Adrian was quick to guard me... to understand their dreams.

This film, a variant on the heist genre, centers on Dom Cobb, an "extractor", who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. His abilities and questions about the death of his wife have cost him his family and his nationality, but he is promised a chance to regain his old life in exchange for planting an idea in a corporate target's mind. This process of planting of an idea, known as "inception", is less familiar and far more difficult than Cobb's usual job of "extraction".

This act of "inception" is to secretly implanting an idea in a person's mind so as to change the course of that person’s action. This idea could be a virus in a person’s mind when the bearer started meditating on it. The first inception in the entire human race took place in the Garden of Eden when the serpent implanted doubt into Eve’s mind.

Genesis 3:1b ~ Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the Garden?”

We can read in the Bible that God gave Adam and Eve freely all the trees in the Garden to eat from, including the Tree of Life which was in the midst of the Garden… except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. In God’s eye, the Tree of Life is in the midst of the Garden. This mean to say He sees life in the midst of us and He put life as a center focus and that is why He offered up Jesus to give us this abundant life…

When the act of inception came from the serpent, instead of seeing the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden, Eve saw the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst… Instead of speaking what God has spoken, she spoke contradictorily to what God has spoken.

Genesis 3:2-3 ~ The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruits from the trees in the Garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruits from the tree that is in the middle of the Garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die’”

Do not entertain doubt. Do not let anyone make you doubtful of the Father’s love for you. The Father had given up His One and Only Begotten Son just for you. He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Christ died on the cross to give us Good News, the Gospel of Grace. If anyone come preaching to you other than Good News, the Gospel of Grace, beware, an agent from the lying camp is on a mission of   “Inception”, trying to implant doubt into your mind…

Matthew 16:6 ~ “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Have you been "incepted"?

1 Corinthians 5:7 ~ Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Spiritual Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. In the body of Christ, many believers suffer from this spiritual mental disorder and the signs and symptoms depending on the individual, a person suspected with spiritual schizophrenia may experience the following conditions:-

“Sometimes God is angry with them, while sometimes He is happy with them.”

“Sometimes He bless them, but sometimes He curses them.”

“Sometimes God cares for them, and they do not know why, sometimes He leaves them.”

”Sometimes they feel like He wants them to rest, and sometimes He just wants them to labour!”

“Today, He prospers them, hallelujah , but tomorrow, God may give them poverty to humble them…”

“Today, He may heals them, but tomorrow, He may give them a disease to teach them a lesson.”

"Today, He forgives all their sin. Tomorrow, they are responsible for all their wrong doings.”

“They must make every effort to tithe so that God will not curse them…”

Welcome to a Schizophrenic Church!

If you are sitting under such a ministry, you are actually allowing yourselves to live under two types of covenant i.e. the Old Covenant of law and the New Covenant of grace. This kind of church environment allows a mixture of law and grace in their preaching. This kind of mixture is causing the congregations to "torn between two lovers (Mr. Law and Mr. Grace), feeling like a fool..." The obvious evidence of this Schizophrenic influence is that, they have failed to put Christ and His finished work as their center focus. 

In this kind of man centered environment, believers are led to believe that sometimes God is good to them and sometimes God may not be good to them. This insecurity is not from God but from the preacher himself. His spiritual Schizophrenia allows the religious spirit to nullify the power of the cross and blind them from seeing the dynamic power of God.  The obvious sign of this belief is that, they are more concerned with their own behavior. They believe that their behavior can determine the blessings of God. You do good, you get good, you do bad, you get beat. 

This kind of belief system is no different to any other religions at all. Please do not continue to humiliate our Lord Jesus and what He had done for us at the Cross.

The New Covenant was cut with the Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, but they deny this Blood and anchor their faith on the covenant that was cut with the blood of bull and goat. In the Old Covenant, God said: “You shall not, you shall not, you shall not…” and He demanded our behavior and righteousness. But in the New Covenant, God said: “I will, I will, I will…”  because God demanded Jesus’ behavior. In this Covenant of Grace, God lavished His own righteousness as a gift to those who believed in Jesus. 

According to the Apostle Paul (the Apostle of grace to the Gentile), this Schizophrenic message is not a Gospel/Good News at all. For the same reason, he was astonished that the Galatians were so quickly deserting the One who called them by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different Gospel, which is really no Gospel at all (the Schizophrenic kind of message). With this Schizophrenic kind of message, some people are actually throwing the listeners into confusion and are trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ. He prayed that God would punish anyone who preaches anything different from his message, the message of Grace! He was so concerned that it did not matter if that person was one of his people or an angel from heaven.  Paul had said it before, and he would say it again. Indeed he hoped God would punish anyone who preaches anything different from what you have already believed. Remember we are all called to live by grace through faith...

Why was Paul so angry to pronounce a double curse over those who preaches a different gospel? I don't think we need to be a rocket scientist to understand that this kind of Schizophrenic message is actually leading people to seek their own righteousness. When anyone attempt to be justified by law, they have been alienated from Christ and they have indeed, fallen away from grace. 

For our heavenly Father had chose us in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love, He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with His pleasure and will, to the praise of his glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ. 

My friend, this is what the Bible means "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ". The message of Grace is the truth and the truth can set you free. This Grace message is the Gospel that Apostle Paul defended with all his heart. This Gospel of Grace can heal you from your spiritual Schizophrenia!

Which Table Are You Partaking From?

In my previous post entitled "Confusion", King Nebuchadnezzar has been exposed of his conspiracy to confuse the redeemed. From his table, he lavishes his royal food and wine! Be discerning enough not to feast from his table. His table is called the table of confusion. The royal foods and wine is the teaching with the  mixture of law and grace which in one hand disarms the purposes of the law was given for and on the other hand neutralized the resurrection power of God’s grace.

Before us in the presence of our enemies, our Redeemer prepared the Table before our enemies.  We are partaking His Body and His Blood from His Table. This table is victorious, full of undeserved, unearned and unmerited favor of God. We come to our Lord's Table to enjoy and celebrate His victory and all that He had done for us! 

Before we continue, may I ask whether which table is your "Jerusalem" partaking from?  What is the difference between these two tables? Well, This king Nebu prepares his table before of our own weakness. When we come to king Nebu’s table, we need to legalistically confess all our sins and this is an insult to our Redeemer's finished work! This king Nebu is trying to copy the way our Redeemer prepared the Table but he leads us to eat and drink in an unworthy manner and as a result, many are weak and sick, and many sleep.   But when we come to our Lord’s Table, we partake with thanksgiving and acknowledgement of our Lord’s finished work in remembrance of Him. Because of  His grace, His body had open up a new and living way. The more we come, the more we live! Our Lord’s Table is full of solid truth which is His broken Body and His Blood!

Daniel the Prophet is the picture of the redeemed. He had the wisdom to resolve not to defile himself with the royal food and wine and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. He asked the official to give them vegetable and water instead and test them for 10 days.

Have you resolve not to eat from king Nebu’s table?

The root word for vegetable here is seed. Jesus mentioned about the Word of God as seed in Matthew 13. He also said in one of the parables that He is seed and unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Now with this compilation of the New Covenant truth on seed, we can see that Daniel by then had already been feeding himself with the New Covenant truth, for the Word was with God and the Word was God. This is not ordinary Word but the resurrected Jesus Himself. As for water, we can easily connect water with the Holy Spirit. As the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth, He only comes to glorify Jesus, the resurrected Jesus, Who is the Only Truth. That is why Apostle Paul preached in the Book of Romans that faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of Christ. The Christ here is the resurrected Jesus. Apostle Paul himself received revelation from the resurrected Christ and  with his revelation, he was able to write two third of the New Covenant. 

By the way, as I was writing this post, I was fascinated by the statement that my wife wrote on her Facebook wall. She wrote: No man understands the Scriptures, unless he is acquainted with the cross! What about that?

Well, after ten days of testing, Daniel and his gang looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. This is the consequence of the right nutrition for the spirit man… After sitting under a ministry that preaches only the grace of God for eight years, I noticed that those who are in the Grace ministry are healthier in their physical and spiritual life. They are better nourished as the Bible says they are eating meat, not drinking milk because they understand the teaching on righteousness. The newly converted in our midst know more fundamental truth than those “old” Christians who sit under a ministry that preach the mixture of law and grace. 

I am now convinced that Daniel who was in his dispensation already had the wisdom to prophesize on the coming of the Messiah and the end time events because of his  resolution to partake only vegetable and water. What about us, the redeemed who had resolved not to defile ourselves with the royal food and wine from the table of king Nebu, the king of confusion?  We have the vegetable (seed, the Word of Christ) and the water is in us (the Holy Spirit in us)… Wow!

Which table are you partaking from? Is it king Nebu’s table or our Lord’s Table?

A Bunch of Rubbish or Jesus?

"Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they're interested in is appearances—knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry, filling the air with Christ's praise as we do it. We couldn't carry this off by our own efforts, and we know it—even though we can list what many might think are impressive credentials. You know my pedigree: a legitimate birth, circumcised on the eighth day; an Israelite from the elite tribe of Benjamin; a strict and devout adherent to God's law; a fiery defender of the purity of my religion, even to the point of persecuting the church; a meticulous observer of everything set down in God's law Book. 

The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash—along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ—God's righteousness.

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Confusion

The Book of Daniel begins with the tale of two kings, Jehoiakim king of Judah and Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. This scenario gave me a contrast of two different forces in this universal and I am lured to picture  Jerusalem as the Church and Babylon represents the world. The name "Jerusalem" is a compound of two Semitic roots, "s-l-m" meaning wholeness, peace, harmony or completeness, and "y-r-h" meaning to show, direct, instruct, or teach. Jerusalem means "Abode of Peace," "Teaching of Peace", or "Whole or Complete Instruction". The word "Babylon" in Hebrews mean "confusion" (of languages), from the verb balbal, "to confuse by mixing". So, King Nebuchadnezzar is a king of confusion. 

During Daniel’s time, when Jerusalem was being besieged, some of the articles of the temple of God were also being delivered to king Nebuchadnezzar and he carried them off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god. Some of the articles  of the temple of God were with king Nebuchadnezzar and king Nebu indeed had made full use of these articles by mixing them with the teaching of the world.

King Nebu told Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to get some Israelites from the royal family and nobility, young men who were healthy and handsome, intelligent and well-educated, good prospects for leadership positions in the government, perfect specimens, and indoctrinate them in the Babylonian language and the lore of magic and fortunetelling. The king then ordered that they be served from the same menu from the royal table the best food, the finest wine. After three years of training they would be given positions in the king's court.

The redeemed have all the criteria this king Nebu is looking for. The redeemed are from the Royal family and nobility. The redeemed are healthy and handsome, intelligent and well-educated, good prospects for leadership positions in the government, perfect specimens, all because of the redeeming quality of our Redeemer, Christ Jesus. King Nebuchadnezzar takes pleasure in indoctrinating the redeemed with Babylonian language (Message with mixture of Law and Grace) and conspires to fascinate them with the lore of magic and fortunetelling of which he calls prophecy...

This king Nebu is no fool to dispense the worldly teaching alone; he mixes the worldly teaching with the truth from God (Remember he got the articles of the temple of God?). He would indoctrinate the redeemed to work hard for God for it is good that we work hard for God because He had already delivered His begotten Son just for us and save us. Now that we are saved, we have to work hard for Him. In case (well, most of the cases) if we do not have the strength to go on, ask for His grace as His grace is sufficient for us…

To sum up, Babylonian teaching emphasizes on our commitment with self effort plus Jesus’ effort; our hard work plus Jesus’ finished work; our obedience plus Jesus’ obedience; our sacrifice plus Jesus’ sacrifice; we nailing ourselves on the cross plus Jesus’ crucifixion at the cross! That’s not all, he would indoctrinate us to focus on Moses who represented the Law and Elijah the prophet, so as to divert our focus on Jesus, our Savior and water down the Gospel that we first received.

Mind you, the Father in Heaven rebuked Peter for suggesting on making three tabernacles. Peter himself gave the testimony on how he witnessed Jesus receiving from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory saying: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!" The Bible also clearly proclaims that the Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John the Baptist and Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for EVERYONE who believes. 

Well, have you ever wonder whether this king Nebu is in your Jerusalem? Are you confused in your Christian walk? For the Bible says, know the truth, the truth will set you free. Are you free? Or are you still wondering for the truth?

I tell you the truth, the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. The Truth is with Grace and Grace is Jesus Personified… This Grace that we share a lot is the glory of the Gospel of Christ! For the Gospel of Christ  is the power of God to SALVATION [(so-tay-ree'-ah) means rescue or safety (physically or morally): - deliver, health, salvation, save, saving.] EVERYONE who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek... Salvation here is not only save us from hell but our every situation in life! If you are confused, the Gospel of Christ can save/deliver you from your confusion!

It Is Not A Matter Of RM1.00 But Integrity

BEWARE of the parking system in BOULEVARD Shopping Mall in Kuching! Their time at the entrance is 15 minutes slower! Though they grant you free parking for the first half an hour, you'll end up paying anyway.

We knocked off from office at 5.00Pm and reached there at 5:10PM. We did our grocery shopping for our dinner and leave immediately. When we reached the exit, the attendant said RM1.00. But the shopping only took us 15 minutes!  When I asked for the time of entrance, I then realized that it was 4.55pm.  We reasoned with the counter attendant that we just knocked off from office at 5.00pm, how could we reach here at 4:55pm? She said I cannot follow my time but theirs.  We told her that the time at the entrance had been tampered but she still insisted that their time were correct.

We were not quite comfortable with their answer, so we drove one round to take the ticket at the entrance. With that ticket, I took a photo of it beside my watch. It was 17.28  HR on the ticket and 5:42PM on my watch!!! I drove out to the exit and asked the attendant this question: Do I need 15 minutes to drive from the entrance to the exit?

Time on my watch: 5:42PM.  Time on Parking Ticket: 17:28 Hour.

Festive season is round the corner, this tampering of time in their parking system could bring them a handsome sum of "Extra Income"!

It is not a matter of RM1.00 but integrity. Do tell your friends and beware!

Cheers!

Outside The Box

The new covenant of grace had opened up an ultimate gateway for the gentiles to approach God without having to observe Jewish Law. The Gospel was designed to bring good news to the poor in spirit, to proclaim freedom for the prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, bring freedom to the oppressed and to claim the year of the Lord’s favour.

Luke 4:18 ~ 19  "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Ironically, despite of its harshness, the law offers the proud religious people the opportunity to sing their praises to their self-righteousness. To these law observers, the notion of free grace is far too cheap and is “outside the box”. The Pharisees in Jesus’ day were a good example of this scenario. Bold souls who think "outside the box" have often been dismissed as eccentric, burned as heretics or even "stoned to death". Even in our time, those sincere and good intent Christians appear to have little tolerance for those who stray too far from their denomination traditions - no matter how biblically sound their arguments are…

To many, the offer of grace seems far too confronting to their logical mindset. They are reluctant to be reminded of their own spiritual nakedness and poverty. Like Adam, they look for fig leaves to hide themselves from God and creating religions to make convenient fig leaf.

In fact, it is observable throughout Church history and even it is observable in our day. Time and time again when God’s grace has visited the Church, the church institution has often either neglected it or sought to nullify it. They have paid too much attention on signs and wonders; their self-righteousness blinded  them from seeing that these signs and wonders are the pointers to His grace!

The Gospel of grace has not been fully realized widely by many Christian. Though shafts of light have periodically cut through history, the Church has remained in the shackles of mixture of law and grace, plus unhelpful traditions and denomination rulings. As such, the Gospel of grace which make up of two third of our New Testament Bible, remain classified as “outside the box” in many churches.

Critical Spirit?

By Mick Mooney of Searching For Grace

Critical Spirit?

By Mick on October 21st, 2009

It seems every time John tries to talk about the greatness of Jesus, and the trust we can have in his finished work and the reality of our New Covenant, he is labelled as having a ‘critical spririt’… But John doesn’t have a critical spirit, he’s just searching for grace...

Mick, I know by now what was really wrong with me seven years ago…! I was searching for grace and talked too much about the greatness of Jesus...

Listen To Him!

The famous account of the Mount of Transfiguration signified the universal Summit between the God Head and the Ministry Heads of mankind. It was intended for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the Summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult decisions. The news of this Summit had considerable media exposure as this event was well covered in the Good News of Matthew, Mark as well as Luke.

In this account, our Lord Jesus was bringing His disciples Peter, James and John up to Mt. Hermon, the venue of this Summit. As Peter speaks of Stone, James speaks of Supplanted while John speaks of Grace in Greek respectively, Jesus was in actual fact, attending this Summit with a walking agenda of “To replace the Law with Grace”.

During the meeting, Moses, the Ministry Head of the Law Ministry and Elijah; the Ministry Head of the Prophetic Ministry appeared in glorious splendour, talking with Jesus, who is grace personified. They spoke about the Jesus’ departure, of which He was about to bring to fulfilment at Jerusalem. Jesus’ death was always and still is, the centre theme of Heaven. Peter, the Head Boy from the School of Disciples, witnessed this splendid moment and with amazement, out of his religiosity he voiced out his suggestion of making three tabernacles: one for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

Our friend Peter, was like anyone of us who is religious, like to put Jesus, Moses and Elijah on the same level. It is out of our religiosity that we start the Sunday Service by allowing Elijah to point out our sins and subsequently followed by our confession, then followed by praise and worship. Moses will then take over the pulpit to tell us what wrong with us, how and what we should do. To end the service, we will then allow Jesus to step up for the altar call…

While Peter was suggesting of putting Jesus, Moses and Elijah on the same level, the Holy Spirit descended as cloud and enveloped them which made them very much afraid, and they were interrupted by a voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to Him." Listen to who? When the voice had spoken, they found no one but Jesus… Moses was gone and so as Elijah.

This meeting adjourned with a warm affirmation of "do not be afraid" from the Lord. The resolution of "LISTEN TO HIM" i.e. "Replacing law with grace" was agreed...

In this dispensation of grace, are we really in tune with our Heavenly Father’s will? The Old Testament prophet calls out our sin to remembrance while the New Covenant prophet calls out the righteousness of Christ in remembrance. The law of sin and death tell us how and what we should do while through Christ Jesus, the law of the Spirit of life set me free and tell us what the Lord had finished doing at the Cross. Jesus is the Way and the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Him.

We are to LISTEN TO HIM from the start to the end of our service not Elijah and Moses…

LISTEN TO HIM... listen to Grace!!!

Grain, Wine and Oil

In the 23rd Psalm in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the writer describes God as Protector and Provider. The text, beloved by Jews and Christians alike, has often been set into music. For Christians, the image of God as a shepherd evokes connections not only with David but with Jesus, described as "the Good Shepherd" in the Gospel of John.

Recently I discovered the power pack from God in the 5th verse of this beautiful Psalm. This verse mentions of the Lord’s Table is Holy Communion and the oil that the Lord uses to anoint us is olive oil. These elements of the Holy Communion and the anointing oil can freely be found in the Old Testament as grain, wine and oil. However, these elements carry significant symbolic values of the sufferings of Jesus and these are the pointers that carry biblical value in pointing the believers to the Finished Work of Christ at the cross.

Psalm 23:5 ~ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

What a powerful verse this is. A resurrected life of abundant life is what the Lord had promised in John 10:10b. Psalm 23 is therefore the secret to divine granted abundant life in a Shepherd and sheep relationship.

Holy Communion and anointing oil are like medicine. These elements help us to believe the finished work of Christ progressively. We have this divine provision from our Lord, and we can eat and drink towards our health and prosperity that He had restored for us. We are to take good pleasure to look first to Communion and anointing oil before any other conventional provisions.

Grain – The Lord is our Bread and He offered His broken body to us as bread from heaven. In our nature world, the way we get bread from grain is to process it by sifting it, punching the dough and baking it at high temperature in an oven. These gestures are symbolic of the punishment Jesus Christ took on our behalf. During the process of making bread, the punching of dough has to be complete in term of force and time and Jesus, the way He sustained the sufferings were complete. He had totally absorbed all our punishments on His body.

Wine – The ways we get wine is to crush the grape fruit, trodden it and leave the fruit juice to be fermented. The crushing and troddening of these grape fruit also point to the suffering of Jesus and the colour of the wine has a symbolic value of Jesus’ precious blood.

Oil - The way we get oil is by crushing the olives. Jesus was crushed so that we can be healed. Crushing the olive fruit removes the bitterness and produces the oil. In the circular world, there are 3 pressings in the extraction of olive oil:-

The oil from the ‘first’ press is used for lighting the Holy Place. In substantial to Paul’s revelation, this first press serves to light us, as our body is the temple of God! In Gethsemane, it was the darkest era of darkness and distress, and Jesus was pressed until His sweat was mixed with blood, so that we may have light to see His truth spiritually.

The oil from the ’second’ press is used for medicine. Jesus was pressed the second time when He was scourged 39 times by the Romans soldiers so that by His stripes, we are healed!

The oil from the ‘third’ press is used for making soap. When Jesus was nailed at the Cross, His shed blood washed our sins away eternally!

All traditions in Christianity feature this Psalm prominently in funeral services. Hey, do we really need abundant life when we have passed on to be with Jesus? I think we need this Psalm more while we are still in the sheep pen (graceyard) instead of in the graveyard!

Wow... I want my cup to overflow in this graceyard! What do you say?

Back To The Basic

To be a doer of Word is to believe that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. How hard it can be for the Body of Christ to believe that they are righteous? It is very very hard...... cos' the Body of Christ has been "Christianized"!

Yes, we have been "Christianized"! We need to go back to the basic… go back to our first love… go back to the time when the Holy Spirit first convicted us of righteousness. It was in John Chapter 16 that Jesus first expounded on the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to convict the world of sin, the Body of Christ of righteousness and to judge the prince of this world!

When did the Holy Spirit first come to convict of the Body of Christ of righteousness?

It was at the Upper Room when the Day of Pentecost had fully come. The Holy Spirit came like a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and He filled the whole house where the 120 disciples were sitting. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

How long since the Body of Christ has been convicted of righteousness?

Since then, it has been two thousand years… all these while, the Body of Christ has been struggling to be taught on the issue that is actually their own rightful nature, the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus... What a conspiracy?

If you are a man, do you have to be taught on how to be a man? Or, if you are a woman, do you have to be taught on how to be a woman? But Christian, as the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, still need to be taught that we are righteous. Duh…!

Thanks to all those religious and legalistic teachings that encourage deserved and merited favor… this type of teaching is "Christianizing" the Body of Christ. We need to be "gospelized" by the teaching on undeserved and unmerited favor! It is all about His grace, His undeserved and unmerited favor! The Lord is stirring up Gospel Revolution to “gospelize” the world and the Body of Christ… That is why we need to be brought back to the basic as the time of shaking is here… so that things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
Hebrews 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Hebrews 12:25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,
Hebrews 12:26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, "YET ONCE MORE I SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO HEAVEN."
Hebrews 12:27 Now this, "YET ONCE MORE," indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.

We just need to believe that we are righteous by faith; we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. This is our rightful identity. By believing we are righteous by faith is our only work that we need to do to prove that our faith is not dead. The rest are blessings for which we only have to say Amen, to the glory of God through us.

It is so easy because of His grace. Let us go back to the basic and start majoring on the major... let us "gospelize" the "Christianized"!