NO MORE DEATH 13-18
NO MORE DEATH 13
When we wish someone's death, they die.
David was anointed king of Israel in place of Saul the refused king of Israel. Saul had rebelled against the Lord, not carrying out His instructions to detail. God deposed him and sought David, a man willing to obey God even if it means death. Jealousy arose in Saul's heart and wanted to end David's life in misery. This made the Lord's anointed leave the city for wilderness, after all, there was no Ark of God in the city. Neither was God happily present. Nabal whose name means "fool" was one enemy David met while seeking refuge among the crags and the rocks of ages. At first, Nabal scoffed at the Lord's anointed calling him "a runaway servant", then denied him benefits for providing him confidence and security. David wanted to end Nabal's life but was intercepted by Abigail, a graceful woman who understood the anger of a king. Ten days later, Nabal died.... Wishing or bewitching someone's death is as strong as killing them and God charges for murder, holding that person accountable for the life lost, even if nothing like it happens. David thanked God that his way was obstructed and didn't have to show him....Wilful sins are more grievous before God and quite repulsive as the vashtied Saul, who was determined to silent the Chosen one.
NO MORE DEATH 14
When death occurs leaving no evidence whatsoever, it is implicit.
Moses the disciple of the Lord died on the mount of Pisgah, having mapped the promised land in the spirit and was glad for the Lord's most holy people entering into their rest. Moses the meekest man, was primarily commissioned to lead Lord's people out of Egypt to worship the LORD in the wilderness and probably, settle them. With him was a saviour, Joshua who worked hand in hand helping God's work. In the course of his duty, Moses did not give the Lord the honour due Him saying, "...shall we bring you water out of this rock, you stiff-necked people..." God was wroth with him and his brother Aaron who were leading the assembly and God said to them, "You won't enter that land either." Moses pleaded with the Lord thrice but God said, "Enough!!" Joshua was commissioned thence to lead God's holy people further. On mount Pisgah, Moses the man of God, saw everything that Israel would be, their troubles and how to avert them, but could not come down to relate with the elders of Israel – saw he Christ's suffering. ALONE, HE CLIMBED THE MOUNT AND DIED. Everybody knew outrightly Moses had died as Joshua took over the air waves, leading. Amazingly, Moses remain could not be found for Jehovah had "buried" him. The next time his body would be seen was at the Mount of Transfiguration with the Lord Jesus, with them, Elijah. These three are alive! Alleluia! Moses had been taken to heaven by Michael because he received a better promise than that promised land when he pled with the Lord. He's alive! Moses is alive! Praise the Lord!!
NO MORE DEATH 15
"No one sees the Lord and live!"
Everyone who sees the Lord dies. No one having seen the Lord continues to live, living his own life. "Seeing the Lord" means coming to know and understand the Lord. Our dear lives end the very moment we see the Lord. And the life we thence live is by grace of His own life, for Him. Alleluia! Manoah, Samson's father was one who exclaimed these words as he saw the angel of the Lord ascend to heaven on the premise of his sacrifice. The angel of the Lord who was the Almighty had done astonishing things – he poured out the meal offered him as offering to the God and fire blazed out from within the rock on which it was poured and burned the offering. On the flames and aroma of this sacrifice, the angel of the Lord ascended back to God on High. Manoah thought they would die physically but his wife, Samson's mother encouraged him saying, "If the Lord meant to kill us, He won't have given us this promise." And the promise is the might man Samson, who was born at God's word – that he'd begin the deliverance of Israel from the Philistines. Isaiah saw the Lord and DIED saying, "Woe to me! I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips!" And the ministry of the prophet took a new turn. Likewise, Peter saw the Lord and DIED. He fell on his knees crying, "Away from me Lord, for I am undone"....At the very instance we see the Lord, our lives are substituted, His life for ours–we die and are changed to live His own life in our body. It was painful that Manoah didn't follow the course he had received in deep fear with trembling. He could not lead Samson definitely, with clarity. The young man became a circumstantial leader who stumbled on his calling and remained doing just that until the day of his death - on his own he discovered he was a saviour. By providence, he uncovered his own destiny. Manoah probably, became complacent along way because he didn't "really" die having seen the Lord.
NO MORE DEATH 16
Ascension to heaven is to cease living on earth. This also, is a kind of death – triumphal.
Salvation is by triumphal death. Our escape from the earth's corruption to the heaven of greater works is a triumphant entry into glory. A life of being born in the flesh but not belonging to the flesh, of being in the world but not living according to patterns of the world is a victorious life anywhere. This is the sweet experience of everyone who truly believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, only begotten of the Father. BELIEVING MEANS YOU LIVE AS HE, NOT JUST LIKE HIM. Yet there's a spirit which denies or refutes that we'd be saved bodily. It teaches that the body-flesh is the sinner, this spirit is of the Antichrist. It pictures Jesus as "great" but not in the body. Bible already teaches, it's the soul that "sins" – every sin emanates, sprouts from the soul before it manifests in body....Enoch ascended to heaven bodily, he was not found because God took him. Elijah ascended to heaven bodily by a whirlwind in chariots of fire, because he was a man who "despised" money and any supremacy above Lord as God. The ruling council in heaven, the twenty-four Elders were people like us who proved God as One and Only Lord. They lived in this world but were exclusive in their dealings or affairs. They all ascended bodily....you remember that when Lord Jesus resurrected, he arose with some saints?? These holy persons ascended with Him. At the trumpet sound, we'll be changed and shall receive a new body incorruptible as though a seed planted, coming out fresh. Our soul which is the seed shall receive a new body for the ascension. Like a seed that's engineered or manipulated, then planted for results, is our soul programmed by our daily works and way of living. Once planted, it can only sprout out its hidden works. Excuse me, how does your soul function? What smells out of your being – aromas or pungence? Ugh? How's your thought life, especially when you're alone, very lone? How are your conversations? You see, these are seeds for the harvest.
NO MORE DEATH 17
SLEEP DEATH IS THE DEATH OF CHRIST JESUS OUR SAVIOUR. IT IS THE MOST HOLY OF ALL!!
The Lord died on the cross and was confirmed dead by the evening of same day He was crucified. While others' bones were broke to ascertain their passing, the Lord was exempted because He was already dead by Three, post meridiem. For three hours, darkness covered the earth, thick darkness covered the people. These were the agonizing moments for the Lord as He was brutalized and gruesomely murdered, after He was beaten and tortured then nailed to the cross, shedding His blood. HE DIED. And as the light was being restored on earth after the total eclipse, and the world was waking to the brightness of a new beginning, the Lord was alive in the Spirit and descended to the grave –Hell. This was made possible because the Father and Son share One Spirit, just as in any family, the man and his wife are one.... Hell was shaken and were all its habitants, helpless. An august visitor was in the building –who was wrongly accused and violated. Speechless, the Devil and his cohorts, surprised at His persistent life. They thought He was gone – really dead all His holiness was ended, but in the grave He was even more lively....He couldn't be charged with any wrong, Hell was thence powerless to detain Him. One by one, two by two were they submitted and disarmed, disgraced as a new management for Hell operations was now emerged. It is the Lord Himself, the King of glory!! Alleluia!!! He took the key of Hades, saved His own and resurrected on the third day of His crucifixion. ALAS, HE HAD ONLY SLEPT! Hey, are you part of Jesus? Do you abide in Him? Does Jesus abide in you? You risk Hell's punishment if you're not in Him and He in you! You make a costly mistake, even indelible, if you take His love and grace for granted at an hour like this because no one dies and lives again! FOR THIS JESUS, IS THE SAVIOUR FROM BOTH SIN AND HELL.
NO MORE DEATH 18
THE FATHER ALSO DIED TO HAVE THE WORLDS CREATED.
The worlds that we now see came to existence through the Father's faith. God who is Spirit substantiated His thoughts and beliefs, becoming Someone whom we can feel, see, touch and relate –a good work of grace! It took eternity, times immemorial for God to become ground, of which everything was then created. Having created, He made some still. All things came from Him –His ground, His nothingness that God became the Source and Sustenance of every single thing in heaven and earth, seen and unseen. Creation did not actually begin until God became the GROUND and reason for all things. THE FATHER DIED TO HAVE OUR WORLD CREATED. This is why those who haven't been earmarked or had their names written in the book of Life before the founding of world would worship the world – prefer the Beast (typical human life) and worship the image of the Beast, which is money. There are two books of Life, the Father has one, the Son has one and these two are one! The Father was the One slain before the founding the world, He laid down His precious life to have us appearing....ADAM WAS CREATED FROM THE DUST OF GOD'S GROUND, NOT DUST OF THE EARTH'S GROUND!
