The Gideon Abalaka

Teacher, Minister, Husband
#ManMustSabiJesus

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

ⓘ This user is VERY LOUD about the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@ElvisOkhifo Thank you, Sir 🙏

[Ameh Amana @AmehAmana]

WHEN I OPEN MY BIBLE
LORD Let me have encounters with the spirit of the word of God and
not just academics in Jesus name
LORD Let me have encounters with the spirit of the word of God and
not just academics in Jesus name

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

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.

[Judah Olorunmaiye @JudahMaiye]

I will not be your clown!

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@lessons_kingdom Luke 2v24 tells us that Joseph & Mary came to dedicate Jesus with a pair of pigeons or two turtledoves according to the law of Moses.

Leviticus 5v7 says to bring a pair of pigeons or two turtledoves if you can't afford a lamb.

Ergo, they were poor

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@Mohsule_ Out of curiousity...
Is a Christian song not supposed to be the Word in musical form?
Doesn't that still make it one of the means of grace entrusted to the Church like you mentioned?

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@Oguntoyinbodams But Dunsin and Pst. Nath no get partners when dem start and they weren't selling tickets abi?

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@_ndianabasi @gideonodoma I think you can do your own post and sound the way the Apostles will sound.
Thank you

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@Folaoluwasewa When Dunsin and Theophilus songs never finish? 😂

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

#NewWineTheAlbum
Me: This track must be my favorite

Next track later
Me:

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@ElvisOkhifo Straighting the Bible for 30 days teach

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

Sadly, you didn't point out anything!
Paul clearly stated that when you pray in tongues, your mind is unfruitful and you obviously need your mind to understand anything.
So, how would God speak to you in tongues when He obviously wants you to understand what He's saying?
Sir?

[edel Táyọ̀ @SaintAwoleesu]

I want to point out that no one who has ever claimed to have had any conversation with angels and God in charismatic circles has ever done so in their unbiblical “tongues”.

They seem to always speak to these “angels” and “god” in their natural tongues.

Arome Osayi, in all his heavenly tourisms never told us that Jesus ever spoke to him in a strange tongue that he did not know.

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@SaintAwoleesu Sadly, you didn't point out anything!
Paul clearly stated that when you pray in tongues, your mind is unfruitful and you obviously need your mind to understand anything.
So, how would God speak to you in tongues when He obviously wants you to understand what He's saying?
Sir?

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@oadefisayo That many people join to "fulfill individual desires" shouldn't stop you from joining for "fellowship" like you've said.
The both are not mutually exclusive, they can coexist.

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@JJExclusive1 Of all 365 days in a year to advertise your ignorance, you couldn't take today off.
Smh

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@RasineIrem People won't believe in miracles until they desperately need one

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@mypagacare I did a transaction since 20th May from my UBA to a PAGA recipient.
I was debited, she was not credited

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@Thatnsukkaboy_ MOG, food recommended by God to His Prophet?
Please, don't let us fight!

Oyigigi know pass all of us and e recommend am 😂

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

@gideonodoma 5 Million Naira
Open a Football viewing centre with side attraction like sales of soft drinks and snacks plus a Gaming Crib in a Student/Youth dominated area.
Use Solar Inverter (largely) instead of Generator to save cost

I currently do this business so I know there's profit.

[The Gideon Abalaka @gideon_abalaka]

Gen-Z ❌
Gen-I ✅

This is the generation of them that seek YOU, that seek YOUR FACE oh God of Jacob.

We are Gen-I 🔥

[Dunsin Oyekan of #Geni @DunsinOyekan]

There’s Gen millennial …
There’s Gen Z…
There’s Gen Alpha….

A new generation is Here!!!

GENERATION INTIMACY!!!