The disappearing of the law after completion meant that the law is no longer the means to eternal life, you don't need it for salvation, but before the completion, the law was the path to eternal life which was impossible to attain (Luke 10:25-28).
“Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose". if you look at the life of Christ, there is no writing by the prophets about His life after resurrection
They wrote about His life, death and resurrection, but after resurrection nothing was written about His life on earth. The laws and writings were written for Him to come and live it, and His resurrection was the completion.
The other part is how do i glorify God with the gift he has given? St Peter answered it when he said you should be a faithful stewards of God’s grace you have received, meaning, don't complain or demand praise, it's not yours in the first place, it's a privilege to be a vessel.
"In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven". I will begin with light, it takes considerable effort to block a light from shining, on its own it wants to shine, the urge is strong, like the urge to sin.
for it to shine means you just have to give in without much effort on your part. St Peter said, If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, this tells you shouldn't do things where you have to force yourself, this can lead to boasting.
Looking at the story concerning the widow of Zarephath, one will conclude that the faith that leads to salvation is a gift from God, He told Elijah, I have instructed a widow there to feed you. This is also echoed by Paul in Ephesians 2:8.
the story of Elijah during the drought makes you understand that God is a "big man", like for example, you're working working with someone like Elon and you will be thinking of how do we move to Spain in the next 30mins
When you work with God in a mission, Just know you have everything, you should be thinking in that direction, everything dey o, that "man" get money scatter, nor dey fear billing, lol.
@Thevine_ntwk Leave those books alone, try with the Bible, stay on verses, if you need to know what chapter or verse to start from, personally I follow the Catholic daily readings to search the scriptures.
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. phillipians 2:13
When you struggle it mean you're not there yet, and whatever achievements you have attained will not last when tested.
There's a sense that Christianity is hard, and we need to start preaching that. It's hard to not live your own life, it's hard to choose to be broke instead of doing yahoo/OS, it's hard to be celibate, it's hard to live a boring life without many friends. Consecration is hard.
I have said this a million times, if we remove ‘MAKING HEAVEN’ from the vocabulary of the church, most Christians have no real desire to live Holy lives.
The moment we tell people that they are eternally saved, God loves them unconditionally, the next thing they will say is ‘oh so I can go ahead and fornicate, I can go ahead and kill people’.
You can see that Christianity has not truly transformed people.
They are simply living in fear of hell or trying to make heaven!
This is the reality!
Like Apostle Lazarus said, once you remove heaven or hell from the conversation, the average Christian has no purpose for Christianity or existence!
God has given us His Spirit when we believed in Christ, He has given us His Spirit forever!!
We are called to manifest this heaven on earth and we will be rewarded for representing the Lord in heaven but we have not been called to make heaven or strife for same!
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
Philippians 3:20-21 KJV
The word ‘conversation’ is ‘polituemia’ which is citizenship!
This ‘making heaven’ doctrine has produced the most hypocritical Christians ever!
Self-righteous Christians who judge others for sinning differently.
Our Christianity is fueled by FEAR!
FEAR OF MISSING HEAVEN!
FEAR OF MISSING RAPTURE!
Yet God has not given us the Spirit of fear!!
Again, whatever you manifest after discovering that you are eternally saved in Christ and you are forever sealed with His Spirit, is the true measure of your spiritual growth and love for God!
Anyone can give, pray, fast, live holy etc., because they fear going to hell, the real spiritual growth is doing all those things because we are in the Spirit and we are God’s children!
This is why legalistic Christians are often so wicked, slanderous, evil and manipulative.
Their hearts are not changed, they only perform so they can make heaven!
The body of Christ will still discover that we cannot keep going christianity promoted by fear!
More biblically sound people are rising up!
Meanwhile, it takes certain open mindedness and maturity to understand Apostle Lazarus and his podcast, clearly, he is not affirming the views of everyone who comes on the podcast, rather he is being a cerebral conversationalist who is open to opposing views and that takes a certain level of intellectual maturity to do.
Blessed
@MojisayoD You look like you're struggling, and this ultimately boils down to sound knowledge. You should not be afraid to question things you don't feel right with, that is the only way to True knowledge
I don't know why people who looks smart in other areas tend to behave non smart when it comes to religion. When it's business you, you can't be played easily, but things of God, you will not do your own findings, and you just accept it just like that. You should be smart bro.
@AjeboDanny You were searching for truth in establishments, and the things you heard turned out to be mostly lies. You're a smart man, why don't you check the source and see what is written for yourself, this is not a calling, it's just for you to confirm your doubts.
The letter of St Paul to timothy about guarding the gospel against error tells you how important it is. The gospel is the seed of salvation, without it there is none. a distorted message of the gospel cannot produce salvation, it is very serious, this thing.