FEAR GOD o!
There really is no context where it is biblically accurate to say "Jesus is not better than the believer."
Jesus as the head of the church, for instance, is not an exact parallel to husband as head of the wife. Both the husband and the wife are creatures. But both Jesus and the church are not creatures. Jesus exists by the necessity of His own being. The parallel therefore, though incredibly illuminating, has colossal limitations.
No matter how you situate our relationship with Jesus, one critical difference is that whatever (attribute) Jesus gives or even shares with us, He has such attribute necessarily, but we have it contingently. Read it again.
Secondly, Jesus may give me His righteousness, yet I cannot transmit it to others, but He continues to be the only one who can transmit it. So, you see, righteousness in me is not an exact mirror of righteousness in Jesus. Also, righteousness in Jesus is not merely a status. It is exhaustive. Jesus' righteousness means that He can not do (I don't mean He will not do, but I mean He can not do) anything wrong, because His righteousness is not just a legal status. It is not imputed. Righteousness is grounded in His beign. I hope you know what that means. The believer however CAN do things that are unrighteous, even though she is legally righteous. So, while righteousness exists in both cases, they are not identical in every sense. More, Jesus is the explanation of the believer's righteousness, and yet the same Jesus is the explanation of His own righteousness.
Thirdly, I need Jesus to sustain whatever I receive from Him. I continue to need Him to keep me in His righteousness, in His grace, in eternal life, etc. If Jesus were to leave me at any point (blessed assurance, He will not), I will lose everything He has imputed to me. He upholds all things. I don't. I stand because He is able to keep and continues to keep me. He has no keeper. No one sustains Him in eternal life, or in righteousness. His righteousness does not need any support to stay intact. Mine needs to be sustained. It is wrong therefore to say His righteousness is NOT better than mine. More, I think it is meaningless to say so.
Besides, according to scripture, the root and the branches are not the same simply because they both share in a common life (sap). As Paul said in his Roman correspondence, "remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you." If you are being upheld by another – one who is self-sufficient and needs no upholding – it is both inaccurate and irresponsible to say your Supporter is not better than you, particularly with reference to the very attribute by which he holds you up.
It is also sloppy to say because Jesus is our righteousness, and our sanctification, He is therefore not better than us. That same passage says He is our Wisdom. Is Jesus better than us in wisdom or not? If you say 'Jesus is not more righteous than me,' can you say 'Jesus is not more wise than me'?
I saw someone making a money analogy. It fails. If I have ten thousand Naira and I give it to you, it is no longer available to me to give to another person. And if you, the recipient, are generous, you can gift it to your friend. Jesus being our ransom is something infinitely richer and different than the money analogy suggests. The same Jesus is the ransom for us all. He does not diminish through donation. But whereas I can give you the ten thousand I was given, if I chose to, I can not transfer the righteousness I've received. Nevertheless, Jesus can. How then can I be as delusional as to say He is not better than me, even in righteousness!?
Okay, "As He is, so are we in this world." Yes, but it is: AS He is; not WHO He is.
Heb 7:7 (NKJV) says, "beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better." We are the blessed. We are lesser than our 'Blesser.' And He – Jesus – is better than us.
Again, 1Pet 2:17 says you should FEAR God.
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Dem go wish sey dem no come world cup 🥶🥶🥶
#Worldcup
Grace is the emblem of the church, and holiness is her ensign.
Without grace, the church has no message.
And without holiness, the church has, no voice.
There is no grace without holiness
And no holiness without grace.
We preach grace because God is Love
And teach holiness because He is a consuming Fire
Grace is forgiveness, generosity and acceptance
Holiness is consecration, abstinence, and separation.
Both are the two sides of the same faith.
Grace accepts you as you are, but holiness will never let you stay like that.
Grace embraces people, holiness won't touch what's unclean
Grace embraces the sinners, holiness stays far from all sin.
Those who understand grace alone are quick to condone - They say "NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU...And then add, I cannot tell you what to do. Do you. Whatever works for you. That's your truth"
And those who understand holiness alone, are quick to condemn. They say "GO AND SIN NO MORE! And then add...Stop sinning! You are on your way to hell! You are a sinner!"
But Jesus said.
"Neither do I condemn you...". That's GRACE.
"...Go, and sin no more.". That's HOLINESS.
For even though grace is the message, yet it is how we sound when we talk about Jesus. Grace is the heartwarming sound of the Christian faith.
And even though holiness is the voice, yet it is what we say to people - Repent! Turn away from your sins. Jesus is calling you to himself
Therefore the one is inseparable from the other. True grace teaches holiness, and true holiness is the immediate and continuous result of God's grace.
Titus 2:11-12
For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God...
God bless you.
There is a present discourse over an assertion from a hypergrace camp which briefly stated says that
There is no second coming of Jesus, because He has come forever.
Fundamentally, hypergrace is scared to death of anything to do with judgment. This is the mischievous thread that runs through the motley mismatch of manmade misconceptions and deceptions falsely presented as Christian doctrine.
What they truly and deeply fear is the righteous judgment of a holy God.
So nearly every tenet they strenously strive to uphold is based on this christless apprehension.
Once you know this, you can see such absurdities coming a thousand mile off.
It is why tell themselves that once you are saved, nothing that can affect that salvation. Not disobedience. No rebellion. Salvation is a prison.
Some persuade themselves into the deception that a believer cannot really sin. It is probably just his flesh that sins, not his spirit. And it changes nothing between him and god.
All the above because they know God will judge the unrepentant.
They say God's Holy Spirit will never convict the believer of sin. Any bad feeling over any sin cannot be God's Spirit. You just don't really understand 'righteousness'
They convince themselves with much futility that there's no need to confess any wrongdoing because all future sins have been forgiven.
Because they are not willing to face the holy God in Christ.
The word says God is a consuming fire. They say - oh, that's got nothing to do with destruction. It's just a purifying type of fire, you know, for roasting corn and making eba.
Because they have run from the Lion and the Lamb
They then re-create for themselves a god, a jolly barbie. A god that cannot judge evil, cannot destroy anything, or kill anyone. Santa Claus basically.
Because that's the only god that aligns with their choice delusions.
Some of these precious souls maintainn that there's no heaven at last. Heaven is not a place. It is just 'the reality of the believer.'
The whole idea is that nothing is coming. No day of reckoning. God has done everything. What you do does not really count. They quickly add - we are not saying live anyhow oooo (but if you do, nothing do you)
A look at these deplorable postulations reveals a group of people fallen headlong into the deception of building for themselves a religion of shallow and awry but verbose teachings marinated in tongues and spirituals, where repentance, obedience, and the fear of God have no real scriptural weight.
See, the return of the Lord Jesus is not like the first coming.
He did not come to judge the world. He came to save it.
He will not come to save the world. He will come to judge it.
So they say - He is not coming o. He will just appear like nepa officials, but not that he will come laidat. He don already come tete. Hehehehehe
That is called the resurrection-is-already-past assembly of liars. The fellowship of the anathema maranathas. Apostle Hymenaeus and Pastor Philetus
II Timothy 2:17
And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort,
II Timothy 2:18
who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
II Timothy 2:16
But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
Jesus has already come.
One preacher said - there's no heaven where Jesus ascended into.
He ascended into the believer.
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Revelation 22:20
He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
Revelation 22:21
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Happy Sunday.
One day we asked a simple question from the epistles. Not from Leviticus or Jeremiah, but from Jude
Jude 1:5
But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that THE LORD, HAVING SAVED the people out of the land of Egypt, AFTERWARD DESTROYED those who did not believe.
We asked - who destroyed those who did not believe?
The answers from this simple comprehension passage were as absurd as
- unbelief
- boko haram
- the wilderness
- alagba moses
- coronavirus
- angel dogonyaro
- the law
- thanos
- hamas
- the nigerian economy
- severe malaria
- miokukusheshe
Apparently Jude was not informed of these latest developments
And that's when we knew we were dealing with unfunny comedians.
[P.S. The apostle Jude was actually referring here, to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ]
@The_Nin0@Bibi_tweets@ThaBoyYom@Wizarab10 Interesting perspective, following your conversation it's apparent you truly desire to walk in that reality but dont know how to go about it or you just dont like the fact that others do and you don't. Which is it?