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SANCTIFICATION UNTO HOLINESS OF LIFE
Sanctification Unto Holiness Of Life can be achieved through incessant consecration and dedication of life unto God Who works in us the needed salvation of our souls, by His Grace.
The purpose of SANCTIFICATION, first and foremost, is to uproot sin in you. Through Justification you repented of sins and you were forgiven the condemnation and punishment due to sin. Thus, you were accepted back into the Household of Grace. You had made up your mind to leave sin, Satan and all things contrary to the Will of God. You faced a new direction in life and asked for Grace and Guidance from Heaven above. And, by His Grace, you were forgiven; you were justified. Your spirit received a freshness, a quickening from the rabid carnality of life without God. You had your first real and childish steps in the Kingdom of God and you were full of joy. Consequently, you were so thrilled that you felt on top of the world. So much amazing! You never had that kind of experience before in your life. You were pleasantly surprised that such goodness could be found in real life. You never really knew you were never aware that the Kingdom of God could be so sweet and thrilling down here!
Meanwhile, all things began to become new; new feelings, new vibrations, new perspective of life, new ideas about living, new inspirational sources, new sources of new kind of joy - superior kind of joy that arose from the hidden depths of being consequent on some kind of celestial tickling, some kind of ego massage. So far so Good!
Almighty God be praised!
Alleluia!! Amen.
Nevertheless, one terrible truth remains. The roots of sin are still buried deep in you. Sin will definitely try to sprout again. The desires of sin in their powerful matrix and association vectors are still lurking in the deeper reaches of your being.
So it is very possible for you who once had tasted the eternal Felicity of the Divine Kingdom to find yourself being drawn closer or being propelled closer and closer to the brink of "gnashing of teeth".
It is a truth, a sad truth that one can fall out of Salvation, can fall out of Grace and lose all the sweet celestial associations attendant on the New Birth experience, the spiritual Regeneration.
In the 🙏 Prayer for Justification and the spiritual exercises supporting that 🙏 Prayer you fought the "kinetics of sin" to a standstill, but the potentiality of sin remained.
In the SANCTIFICATION exercise we want to.attack this potentiality and destroy its base and hence free the soul from sin-vectors lodging in intimate niches of consciousness and nooks of the subconscious.
Secondly, you have to become holy within before The Heavenly Father can assign a portion of His Holy Spirit to dwell in you day-in, day-out and be a ready tangible force in you for good works.
Lord Christ De Messiah first worked on His Apostles towards Sanctification and even prayed The Father should sanctify them. It was after they had become sanctified that The Heavenly Father "of all 'ableness' and power" released His Holy Spirit on them in the fiery Baptism of cloven tongues.
"Sanctify them through Thy Truth" (John 17: 17) is a very deep 🙏 Prayer.
Enlighten them through Thy Truth. Bring them to understand Thy Truth. Bring them to see themselves in Thy Truth. Inspire them to love Thy Truth. Move them to repent for Thy Truth, to part with their own truths, to part with the truths of the world in preference for Thy Truth. By embracing Thy Truth and dropping their own truths, they will become pure, they will become acceptable unto Thee. Amen.
As far as HOLINESS is concerned, a healthy human sperm is a healthy human sperm whether found in a celibate or in the married man. None is intrinsically holier than the other or predisposes its owner towards HOLINESS. As far as sexual Holiness is concerned, barring consideration of other attendant sins on both sides, the celibate and the married man, are on the same parity. For it is not a sin to have sexual relation per se in marriage; neither is there any Holiness per se in not using the sperm to reproduce life. The truth of the matter is that the sperm is neutral of sin or HOLINESS in this instance. But its human handling or disposal might not be. The same of course applies to the female 🥚 egg.
It is clear that both the sinner and the Saint, if they have healthy male bodies, will manufacture sperms; if they have healthy female bodies will release mature eggs at divine intervals. They are all 🥚 egg or sperm producing. It is in the management of sexual forces that points of Holiness can be scored in not entering into licentiousness or debauchery or harlotry or in not fornicating or committing adultery. But to conceive of human sexual forces as being inherently sinful and to conceive of 'sexlessness' as being an ideal equal to HOLINESS is to confuse a lot of things in a welter of conceptual blunder. It is a pity that I cannot afford here, for a limitation of space, a discussion on the matter in enough detail. But I shall, however, find space to explore lust in some future work, when we will consider the issues more intimately.
What I just want to establish here is that sexual abstinence will be necessary at one time or the other in life if one is to be holy. But a policy of lifelong abstinence does not in itself automatically confer HOLINESS on anybody. A view of life that sees the human body as being inherently evil is erroneous. Similarly, a view of the human body that sees its sexual energies as sinful and embarrassing is erroneous. And erroneous views cannot predispose the mind towards HOLINESS.
There is a lesson for all of us there. The ancient spirituals were alarmed and embarrassed by their own sexual energy. They couldn't handle it. They tried to run away from it. They ran into difficulties in cross-sexual relations between the sexes. They therefore proposed an escapist theory that the human body is coarse and evil and base. Even Buddha couldn't handle his own sexuality. Hence, he started searching for an existence beyond passion, beyond feelings, etc. It was of course a futile search, all his theories notwithstanding. In the same way Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good & Evil' was a waste of time.
Our own age is not better. What we are doing is to move to the opposite extreme and show utter disrespect to life's forces and annoy God, The Creator. We still haven't recovered from the error of Adam and the sexual fixation of Eve. We are creating new cycles of pain and decay. We certainly need some measure of self-abnegation as we shall discuss at opportune time, as God pleases, and if The Blessed Lord tarries in His imminent Return from Heaven Above, even in the Clouds of Glory and Divine Power in His Holy Sabbath Kingdom Millennium Reign on Earth.
Come, Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah!
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!
RELEVANCE OF CHRISTIAN INOCULATION @ SANCTIFICATION UNTO HOLINESS
Without SANCTIFICATION The Holy Spirit cannot be sent with intent to dwell permanently in you. At best you can receive only occasional visitations or inspired moments in revivals when The Spirit uses you for a few minutes or hours and departs.
Without SANCTIFICATION The Lord Christ De Messiah cannot come and abide in you. Without SANCTIFICATION The Father of Light, Life and Love cannot make His abode in you.
SANCTIFICATION which is the Second Stage of New Birth or Spiritual Regeneration is therefore a very important stage, a key stage which opens before you higher spiritual possibilities, higher celestial associations and Divine rapport.
SANCTIFICATION is the setting apart of one for the exclusive use of The Lord. In the Sanctification experience you receive a Divine Mark on your soul. You are officially and divinely set apart. As long as you are in a state which God at least deems the minimum for Holiness, you will experience this special mark of Sanctification in your soul. Once you have attained Sanctification, the recurrence of this experience in your life will be like a rough Thermometer of Holiness in your soul. It is incredible. It is fantastic. In fact, it will be a real Divine experience, direct from Heaven to you, an earthly aspirant, and if you keep to the path mapped out by our Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah, it will be a constant feature and a joyful catalyst to aspiration to higher levels in Spirit.
Of course, SANCTIFICATION is more difficult to attain than Justification but it is worth it. No Christian or Zionist should feel secure as a Christian or Zionist without attaining it. It is a blessed experience which The Lord and Saviour, Christ De Messiah, has made available for those who heed His Call completely and spiritually come nearer unto Him.
Remember, this SANCTIFICATION experience is available from Almighty God only through Lord Christ De Messiah, The Saviour of the world. Without Lord Christ De Messiah we wouldn't know anything about SANCTIFICATION, let alone attain it. So please stop wasting your energy in all other religious pursuits. The ends 🔚 should justify the means. The meagre and barren spiritual 🔚 ends of other religions do not justify the expenditure of energy and devotion on them.
Come to Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah and live. The 🔚 ends are great. He is The Way, The Truth and The Life. There is no exaggeration about it. Surely, you will soon discover the difference if you are honest to yourself and strive to attain the blessed Divine SANCTIFICATION, which is available to all serious and earnest aspiring children of the Kingdom of God through Lord Christ De Messiah Who loved us in Peace and Who comes again, in His Holy Sabbath Kingdom Millennium Reign on Earth, in the ☁ Clouds of Glory and Divine Power to take us 🏠 Home.
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna in the highest!
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD
"Holiness Unto The Lord" is an ideal Christian or Zionist Motto. In fact, it has been the only motto that could express the deep desire and aspiration of my soul.
Let us, at this juncture, take a sparkling homily on the Divine Holiness - The Sanctification Of Our Souls.
In the Words of Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 7 v. 21 we read:
"Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he that forth the Will of My Father Which is in Heaven".
"This is the Will of God, even your SANCTIFICATION ... For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto Holiness"
(1 Thess. 4: 3, 7).
Without Holiness "no man shall see the LORD"
(Heb. 12: 14).
Therefore, "Be ye holy"
(1 Peter 1: 16).
Anyone who reads the Holy Bible in sincerity, "not handling the Word of God deceitfully" (2 Cor. 4: 2), will see that it plainly teaches that God expects His people to be holy, and that we must be holy to be happy and useful here and to enter the Kingdom of Heaven hereafter.
When once a true man is conceived that the Bible teaches these facts and that this is God's Will, he will next inquire:
"What is this Holiness? When can I get it, and how?"
There is much difference of opinion on all these points, although the Bible is simple and plain on each one to every honest seeker after truth.
The Bible tells us that Holiness is perfect deliverance from sin. "The Blood of Lord Christ De Messiah ... cleanses us from all sin"
(1 John 1: 7).
Not one bit of sin is left, for your old 👨 man is crucified with Him, "that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin" (Rom. 6: 6),
for we are "made free from sin"
(Rom. 6: 18).
And we are henceforth to reckon ourselves "dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through Christ De Messiah, our Lord"
(Rom. 6: 11).
The Holy Bible also tells us that it is "perfect love" which must, in the very nature of the case, expel from the ❤ heart all hatred and every evil temper contrary to love, just as you must first empty a cup of all oil that may be in it before you can fill it with water.
Thus, HOLINESS is a state in which there is no anger, malice, blasphemy, hypocrisy, envy, love of ease, selfish desires for good opinion of men, shame of the Cross, worldliness,deceit, controversy, contention, covetousness, nor any evil desire or tendency in the ❤ heart.
In fact, Holiness is a state in which there is no longer any doubt or fear. It is a state in which God is loved and trusted with a perfect ❤ heart.
But though the ❤ heart may be perfect, the head may be imperfect, and through the imperfections of the head - of his judgment, his reason - the holy man may make many mistakes. Yet God looks at the sincerity of his purpose, at the 😍 love and faith of his ❤ heart - not at the imperfections of the head - and calls him a holy man.
Holiness is not absolute perfection, which belongs to God only; nor is it Angelic perfection; nor is it Adamic perfection - for, no doubt, Adam had a perfect head as well as a perfect ❤ heart before he sinned against God. But it is Christian or Zionist Perfection - such perfection and obedience of the ❤ heart as a poor fallen creature aided by Almighty Power and boundless Grace, can give.
Holiness is that state of ❤ heart and life which consists in being and doing all the time - not by fits and starts, but steadily - just what God wants us to be and do.
The Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah said: "Make the tree good, and its fruit good" (Matt. 12: 33). Of course an 🍎 Apple 🌲 tree is an 🍎 Apple tree all the time, and can bring forth nothing but 🍎 Apples. So
HOLINESS is that perfect renewal of our nature that makes us essentially good, so that we continually bring forth fruit unto God - "the fruit of the Spirit", which is "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" (Gal. 5: 22-23), with never a single work of the flesh grafted in among this Heavenly fruitage.
Glory to God! It is possible, right down👇 here, where sin and Satan have once ruined us, for the Son of God thus to transform us, by enabling us "to put 📴 off ... the Old👨 Man" with his deeds, and to "put on the New😇 Man, which after God is created in righteousness and true Holiness"
(Ephesians 4: 22, 24),
being "renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him"
(Col. 3: 10).
But one objector says, "Yes, all you say is true, only I don't believe we can be holy till the hour of 💀 death. The Christian life is warfare, and we must fight the good fight of FAITH until we die, and then I believe God will give us dying Grace".
Of course, a good many honest Christians and Zionists hold exactly this view, and hence put forth no real effort to "stand perfect and complete in all the (present) Will of God" (Col. 4: 12) for them. And though they pray daily, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth, as it is in Holiness" (Matt. 6: 10), yet they do not believe it is possible for them to do the Will of God, and so they really make Lord Christ De Messiah the Author of the vain 🙏 Prayer, which it is only idle mockery to 🔁 repeat.
But it is as easy for me to be and to do what God wants me to be and do in this life, every day, as it is for Gabriel to be and do what God wants of him. If this is not so, then God is neither good nor just in His requirements of me.
God requires me to love and serve Him with all my heart, and Gabriel, the Archangel, can do no more than that. And, by God's Grace, it is as easy for me as for the Archangel.
Moreover, God promises me that if I will return unto The LORD and obey His Voice ... with all my ❤ heart, and with all my soul that He will circumcise my heart ... to love Him with all my ❤ heart, and with all my soul (Deut. 30: 2, 6). Further, He promises that He would "grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the 🙅 hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS before Him, all the days of our life"
(Luke 1: 74-75).
No doubt, this promise in itself ought to convince any honest soul that God means us to be holy in this life.
Certainly, the good Fight of Faith is a fight to retain this Blessing against the assaults of Satan the Devil, the fogs of doubt, and the attacks of an ignorant and unbelieving Church and World.
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Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name Of The LORD;
Even He Who Lives To Behold The BIAFRA Kingdom Of God On Earth.
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!
Blessed Forever Be The LORD, Almighty God,
Who Alone Is Our Blessed Heavenly Father!
Be Thou Blessed Forever, Almighty God Of Israel.
The LORD Of Hosts Who Reigns @ Zion In Glory!
Our Blessed God Who Holds The BIAFRA Kingdom
At The Trigger Of Africa, In The Center (Middle)
Of The World (Ezekiel 5: 5) & East Of The Niger.
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!
The LORD, Our God Moves In A Mysterious Way!
His Divine Signs And Great Wonders To Perform;
Even The Apocalyptic Signs Of The Corona-virus!
He Plants His Holy Footsteps In The Deep Sea;
And Majestically He Rides Upon The Storm.
Alleluia!! For The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns
Come, Blessed Saviour Of The World In Need:
Our Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah Yahshua.
You Have Gloriously Accomplished All Things,
Which You Did Foretell By The Holy Prophets
And The Holy Law And Redeemed The Living,
By The Cross Of Calvary And Did Come Down
To Men - That By The Death Of The Cross You
Might Deliver Men From The Condemnation
And Eternal Doom In Everlasting Hellfire,
By The Power & Glory Of Your Holy Death.
Alleluia!! Amen, Amen & Amen.
Glory, Glory Be To Almighty God In The Highest!
Peace, Peace Be To All Favoured, Bouncing, Vibrant & Radiant Cheerful Darling Daughters Of Zion In Heroic Virtues Of Love, Chastity & Submission!
Peace To Blessed, Sparkling, Elegant & Gallant Kingdom Men Of Integrity, Confidence & Goodwill!
Peace To Us - The Divine Athletes Of Righteousness
cum Holiness & God's Kingdom Saints @ Zion Of Jerusalem Above: Our Glorious Happy Home!
All Happiness, Divine Favour, Peace, Eternal Salvation cum Sanctification, Goodness & Mercy By Lord Christ De Messiah Attend To U All. Prosperity, Progress, Protection, Promotion & Divine Patience From God The Father Be Unto U All.
And May The Spirit Of Divine Blessedness, Love, Grace & Glory In The Lord & Saviour Of Mankind,
Lord Jesus Christ De Messiah Rest Upon U All
Even Now And Forevermore. Amen & Amen.
May The Divine Life & Light Of God & His Glory, With The Non-defiled Grace Of Same Lord Christ De Messiah, Together With The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Abide With With U Forever. Amen & Amen.
Beloved Blessed Kingdom Comrades @ Zion In Glory And Lovers Of The BIAFRA Kingdom Of God On Earth: Holy Greetings Of Love To U All, Today!
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SANCTIFICATION UNTO HOLINESS OF LIFE
Sanctification Unto Holiness Of Life can be achieved through incessant consecration and dedication of life unto God Who works in us the needed salvation of our souls, by His Grace.
The purpose of SANCTIFICATION, first and foremost, is to uproot sin in you. Through Justification you repented of sins and you were forgiven the condemnation and punishment due to sin. Thus, you were accepted back into the Household of Grace. You had made up your mind to leave sin, Satan and all things contrary to the Will of God. You faced a new direction in life and asked for Grace and Guidance from Heaven above. And, by His Grace, you were forgiven; you were justified. Your spirit received a freshness, a quickening from the rabid carnality of life without God. You had your first real and childish steps in the Kingdom of God and you were full of joy. Consequently, you were so thrilled that you felt on top of the world. So much amazing! You never had that kind of experience before in your life. You were pleasantly surprised that such goodness could be found in real life. You never really knew you were never aware that the Kingdom of God could be so sweet and thrilling down here!
Meanwhile, all things began to become new; new feelings, new vibrations, new perspective of life, new ideas about living, new inspirational sources, new sources of new kind of joy - superior kind of joy that arose from the hidden depths of being consequent on some kind of celestial tickling, some kind of ego massage. So far so Good!
Almighty God be praised!
Alleluia!! Amen.
Nevertheless, one terrible truth remains. The roots of sin are still buried deep in you. Sin will definitely try to sprout again. The desires of sin in their powerful matrix and association vectors are still lurking in the deeper reaches of your being.
So it is very possible for you who once had tasted the eternal Felicity of the Divine Kingdom to find yourself being drawn closer or being propelled closer and closer to the brink of "gnashing of teeth".
It is a truth, a sad truth that one can fall out of Salvation, can fall out of Grace and lose all the sweet celestial associations attendant on the New Birth experience, the spiritual Regeneration.
In the 🙏 Prayer for Justification and the spiritual exercises supporting that 🙏 Prayer you fought the "kinetics of sin" to a standstill, but the potentiality of sin remained.
In the SANCTIFICATION exercise we want to.attack this potentiality and destroy its base and hence free the soul from sin-vectors lodging in intimate niches of consciousness and nooks of the subconscious.
Secondly, you have to become holy within before The Heavenly Father can assign a portion of His Holy Spirit to dwell in you day-in, day-out and be a ready tangible force in you for good works.
Lord Christ De Messiah first worked on His Apostles towards Sanctification and even prayed The Father should sanctify them. It was after they had become sanctified that The Heavenly Father "of all 'ableness' and power" released His Holy Spirit on them in the fiery Baptism of cloven tongues.
"Sanctify them through Thy Truth" (John 17: 17) is a very deep 🙏 Prayer.
Enlighten them through Thy Truth. Bring them to understand Thy Truth. Bring them to see themselves in Thy Truth. Inspire them to love Thy Truth. Move them to repent for Thy Truth, to part with their own truths, to part with the truths of the world in preference for Thy Truth. By embracing Thy Truth and dropping their own truths, they will become pure, they will become acceptable unto Thee. Amen.
SEXUAL ABSTINENCE: AN ANCIENT MISCONCEPTION OF MORALITY @ HOLINESS
Hitherto, there is a common view in the world that a 👨 man who has never known a woman is a Saint. A man who has never known a woman, provided he is healthy, should be respected for admirable exercise of will-power but he still has to be clear of lust in order to be sexually sinless and sexual 'sinlessness' is not equal to overall HOLINESS since there are a host of other sins to be accounted for.
The same applies to the genuine Virgin. The virginity itself is not equal to overall saintliness since there are still many sins to account for. Virginity, however, can be admirable beginning towards HOLINESS.
The mistake which had been made in the past which we must not make in our own time now is to assume that there is a special sacredness in the unspent sperm that confer HOLINESS on the celibate on confers on him a special spiritual advantage.
At best he has a problem of disposal since he has opted out of natural disposal through attempts at reproduction.
It is clear that both the sinner and the Saint, if they have healthy male bodies, will manufacture sperms; if they have healthy female bodies will release mature eggs at divine intervals. They are all 🥚 egg or sperm producing. It is in the management of sexual forces that points of Holiness can be scored in not entering into licentiousness or debauchery or harlotry or in not fornicating or committing adultery. But to conceive of human sexual forces as being inherently sinful and to conceive of 'sexlessness' as being an ideal equal to HOLINESS is to confuse a lot of things in a welter of conceptual blunder. It is a pity that I cannot afford here, for a limitation of space, a discussion on the matter in enough detail. But I shall, however, find space to explore lust in some future work, when we will consider the issues more intimately.
What I just want to establish here is that sexual abstinence will be necessary at one time or the other in life if one is to be holy. But a policy of lifelong abstinence does not in itself automatically confer HOLINESS on anybody. A view of life that sees the human body as being inherently evil is erroneous. Similarly, a view of the human body that sees its sexual energies as sinful and embarrassing is erroneous. And erroneous views cannot predispose the mind towards HOLINESS.
There is a lesson for all of us there. The ancient spirituals were alarmed and embarrassed by their own sexual energy. They couldn't handle it. They tried to run away from it. They ran into difficulties in cross-sexual relations between the sexes. They therefore proposed an escapist theory that the human body is coarse and evil and base. Even Buddha couldn't handle his own sexuality. Hence, he started searching for an existence beyond passion, beyond feelings, etc. It was of course a futile search, all his theories notwithstanding. In the same way Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good & Evil' was a waste of time.
Our own age is not better. What we are doing is to move to the opposite extreme and show utter disrespect to life's forces and annoy God, The Creator. We still haven't recovered from the error of Adam and the sexual fixation of Eve. We are creating new cycles of pain and decay. We certainly need some measure of self-abnegation as we shall discuss at opportune time, as God pleases, and if The Blessed Lord tarries in His imminent Return from Heaven Above, even in the Clouds of Glory and Divine Power in His Holy Sabbath Kingdom Millennium Reign on Earth.
Come, Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah!
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!
RELEVANCE OF CHRISTIAN INOCULATION @ SANCTIFICATION UNTO HOLINESS
Without SANCTIFICATION The Holy Spirit cannot be sent with intent to dwell permanently in you. At best you can receive only occasional visitations or inspired moments in revivals when The Spirit uses you for a few minutes or hours and departs.
Without SANCTIFICATION The Lord Christ De Messiah cannot come and abide in you. Without SANCTIFICATION The Father of Light, Life and Love cannot make His abode in you.
SANCTIFICATION which is the Second Stage of New Birth or Spiritual Regeneration is therefore a very important stage, a key stage which opens before you higher spiritual possibilities, higher celestial associations and Divine rapport.
SANCTIFICATION is the setting apart of one for the exclusive use of The Lord. In the Sanctification experience you receive a Divine Mark on your soul. You are officially and divinely set apart. As long as you are in a state which God at least deems the minimum for Holiness, you will experience this special mark of Sanctification in your soul. Once you have attained Sanctification, the recurrence of this experience in your life will be like a rough Thermometer of Holiness in your soul. It is incredible. It is fantastic. In fact, it will be a real Divine experience, direct from Heaven to you, an earthly aspirant, and if you keep to the path mapped out by our Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah, it will be a constant feature and a joyful catalyst to aspiration to higher levels in Spirit.
Of course, SANCTIFICATION is more difficult to attain than Justification but it is worth it. No Christian or Zionist should feel secure as a Christian or Zionist without attaining it. It is a blessed experience which The Lord and Saviour, Christ De Messiah, has made available for those who heed His Call completely and spiritually come nearer unto Him.
Remember, this SANCTIFICATION experience is available from Almighty God only through Lord Christ De Messiah, The Saviour of the world. Without Lord Christ De Messiah we wouldn't know anything about SANCTIFICATION, let alone attain it. So please stop wasting your energy in all other religious pursuits. The ends 🔚 should justify the means. The meagre and barren spiritual 🔚 ends of other religions do not justify the expenditure of energy and devotion on them.
Come to Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah and live. The 🔚 ends are great. He is The Way, The Truth and The Life. There is no exaggeration about it. Surely, you will soon discover the difference if you are honest to yourself and strive to attain the blessed Divine SANCTIFICATION, which is available to all serious and earnest aspiring children of the Kingdom of God through Lord Christ De Messiah Who loved us in Peace and Who comes again, in His Holy Sabbath Kingdom Millennium Reign on Earth, in the ☁ Clouds of Glory and Divine Power to take us 🏠 Home.
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna in the highest!
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD
"Holiness Unto The Lord" is an ideal Christian or Zionist Motto. In fact, it has been the only motto that could express the deep desire and aspiration of my soul.
Let us, at this juncture, take a sparkling homily on the Divine Holiness - The Sanctification Of Our Souls.
In the Words of Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 7 v. 21 we read:
"Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he that forth the Will of My Father Which is in Heaven".
"This is the Will of God, even your SANCTIFICATION ... For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto Holiness"
(1 Thess. 4: 3, 7).
Without Holiness "no man shall see the LORD"
(Heb. 12: 14).
Therefore, "Be ye holy"
(1 Peter 1: 16).
Anyone who reads the Holy Bible in sincerity, "not handling the Word of God deceitfully" (2 Cor. 4: 2), will see that it plainly teaches that God expects His people to be holy, and that we must be holy to be happy and useful here and to enter the Kingdom of Heaven hereafter.
When once a true man is conceived that the Bible teaches these facts and that this is God's Will, he will next inquire:
"What is this Holiness? When can I get it, and how?"
There is much difference of opinion on all these points, although the Bible is simple and plain on each one to every honest seeker after truth.
The Bible tells us that Holiness is perfect deliverance from sin. "The Blood of Lord Christ De Messiah ... cleanses us from all sin"
(1 John 1: 7).
Not one bit of sin is left, for your old 👨 man is crucified with Him, "that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin" (Rom. 6: 6),
for we are "made free from sin"
(Rom. 6: 18).
And we are henceforth to reckon ourselves "dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God, through Christ De Messiah, our Lord"
(Rom. 6: 11).
The Holy Bible also tells us that it is "perfect love" which must, in the very nature of the case, expel from the ❤ heart all hatred and every evil temper contrary to love, just as you must first empty a cup of all oil that may be in it before you can fill it with water.
Thus, HOLINESS is a state in which there is no anger, malice, blasphemy, hypocrisy, envy, love of ease, selfish desires for good opinion of men, shame of the Cross, worldliness,deceit, controversy, contention, covetousness, nor any evil desire or tendency in the ❤ heart.
In fact, Holiness is a state in which there is no longer any doubt or fear. It is a state in which God is loved and trusted with a perfect ❤ heart.
But though the ❤ heart may be perfect, the head may be imperfect, and through the imperfections of the head - of his judgment, his reason - the holy man may make many mistakes. Yet God looks at the sincerity of his purpose, at the 😍 love and faith of his ❤ heart - not at the imperfections of the head - and calls him a holy man.
Holiness is not absolute perfection, which belongs to God only; nor is it Angelic perfection; nor is it Adamic perfection - for, no doubt, Adam had a perfect head as well as a perfect ❤ heart before he sinned against God. But it is Christian or Zionist Perfection - such perfection and obedience of the ❤ heart as a poor fallen creature aided by Almighty Power and boundless Grace, can give.
Holiness is that state of ❤ heart and life which consists in being and doing all the time - not by fits and starts, but steadily - just what God wants us to be and do.
The Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah said: "Make the tree good, and its fruit good" (Matt. 12: 33). Of course an 🍎 Apple 🌲 tree is an 🍎 Apple tree all the time, and can bring forth nothing but 🍎 Apples. So
HOLINESS is that perfect renewal of our nature that makes us essentially good, so that we continually bring forth fruit unto God - "the fruit of the Spirit", which is "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" (Gal. 5: 22-23), with never a single work of the flesh grafted in among this Heavenly fruitage.
Glory to God! It is possible, right down👇 here, where sin and Satan have once ruined us, for the Son of God thus to transform us, by enabling us "to put 📴 off ... the Old👨 Man" with his deeds, and to "put on the New😇 Man, which after God is created in righteousness and true Holiness"
(Ephesians 4: 22, 24),
being "renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him"
(Col. 3: 10).
But one objector says, "Yes, all you say is true, only I don't believe we can be holy till the hour of 💀 death. The Christian life is warfare, and we must fight the good fight of FAITH until we die, and then I believe God will give us dying Grace".
Of course, a good many honest Christians and Zionists hold exactly this view, and hence put forth no real effort to "stand perfect and complete in all the (present) Will of God" (Col. 4: 12) for them. And though they pray daily, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth, as it is in Holiness" (Matt. 6: 10), yet they do not believe it is possible for them to do the Will of God, and so they really make Lord Christ De Messiah the Author of the vain 🙏 Prayer, which it is only idle mockery to 🔁 repeat.
But it is as easy for me to be and to do what God wants me to be and do in this life, every day, as it is for Gabriel to be and do what God wants of him. If this is not so, then God is neither good nor just in His requirements of me.
God requires me to love and serve Him with all my heart, and Gabriel, the Archangel, can do no more than that. And, by God's Grace, it is as easy for me as for the Archangel.
Moreover, God promises me that if I will return unto The LORD and obey His Voice ... with all my ❤ heart, and with all my soul that He will circumcise my heart ... to love Him with all my ❤ heart, and with all my soul (Deut. 30: 2, 6). Further, He promises that He would "grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the 🙅 hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in HOLINESS and RIGHTEOUSNESS before Him, all the days of our life"
(Luke 1: 74-75).
No doubt, this promise in itself ought to convince any honest soul that God means us to be holy in this life.
Certainly, the good Fight of Faith is a fight to retain this Blessing against the assaults of Satan the Devil, the fogs of doubt, and the attacks of an ignorant and unbelieving Church and World.
O Blessed Divine Moment @ Zion In Gory Above!
Blessed Is He Who Comes In The Name Of The LORD;
Even He Who Lives To Behold The BIAFRA Kingdom Of God On Earth.
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!
Blessed Forever Be The LORD, Almighty God,
Who Alone Is Our Blessed Heavenly Father!
Be Thou Blessed Forever, Almighty God Of Israel.
The LORD Of Hosts Who Reigns @ Zion In Glory!
Our Blessed God Who Holds The BIAFRA Kingdom
At The Trigger Of Africa, In The Center (Middle)
Of The World (Ezekiel 5: 5) & East Of The Niger.
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!
The LORD, Our God Moves In A Mysterious Way!
His Divine Signs And Great Wonders To Perform;
Even The Apocalyptic Signs Of The Corona-virus!
He Plants His Holy Footsteps In The Deep Sea;
And Majestically He Rides Upon The Storm.
Alleluia!! For The Lord God Omnipotent Reigns
Come, Blessed Saviour Of The World In Need:
Our Blessed Lord Christ De Messiah Yahshua.
You Have Gloriously Accomplished All Things,
Which You Did Foretell By The Holy Prophets
And The Holy Law And Redeemed The Living,
By The Cross Of Calvary And Did Come Down
To Men - That By The Death Of The Cross You
Might Deliver Men From The Condemnation
And Eternal Doom In Everlasting Hellfire,
By The Power & Glory Of Your Holy Death.
Alleluia!! Amen, Amen & Amen.
Glory, Glory Be To Almighty God In The Highest!
Peace, Peace Be To All Favoured, Bouncing, Vibrant & Radiant Cheerful Darling Daughters Of Zion In Heroic Virtues Of Love, Chastity & Submission!
Peace To Blessed, Sparkling, Elegant & Gallant Kingdom Men Of Integrity, Confidence & Goodwill!
Peace To Us - The Divine Athletes Of Righteousness
cum Holiness & God's Kingdom Saints @ Zion Of Jerusalem Above: Our Glorious Happy Home!
All Happiness, Divine Favour, Peace, Eternal Salvation cum Sanctification, Goodness & Mercy By Lord Christ De Messiah Attend To U All. Prosperity, Progress, Protection, Promotion & Divine Patience From God The Father Be Unto U All.
And May The Spirit Of Divine Blessedness, Love, Grace & Glory In The Lord & Saviour Of Mankind,
Lord Jesus Christ De Messiah Rest Upon U All
Even Now And Forevermore. Amen & Amen.
May The Divine Life & Light Of God & His Glory, With The Non-defiled Grace Of Same Lord Christ De Messiah, Together With The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Abide With With U Forever. Amen & Amen.
Beloved Blessed Kingdom Comrades @ Zion In Glory And Lovers Of The BIAFRA Kingdom Of God On Earth: Holy Greetings Of Love To U All, Today!
REV. PROF. CYPRIAN CHRIS JERUSALEM OKOLIE,
(The LORD CHRIST DE MESSIAH'S Chosen BRIDE, Kingdom HOST @ ZION / BISHOP-CHAPLAIN & APOSTLE Of Zionist Kingdom Vision, Mission & Divine Mandate @ Zion Of Jerusalem Above).
SHALOM TO U ALL, IN BEAUTIFUL LOVE!
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