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… The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1 Corinthians 15:45

1. SIGNS in Bible lexicon are omens revealing where we stand in prophetic calendar and what follows in divine agenda. For example, Noah’s Ark was a SIGN illustrating END of antediluvian world, “And God said unto Noah, The END OF ALL FLESH IS COME before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them. ... MAKE THEE AN ARK of gopher wood; ...” [Genesis 6:13-14] The Ark signalled destruction to a wicked world but to Noah, sanctuary of SALVATION, “But with thee will I establish my covenant; and THOU SHALT COME INTO THE ARK, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee” [Genesis 6:18] There were SIGNS in every age which to those who BELIEVE were as candles in the dark and to those who BELIEVE NOT, tokens of condemnation. A generation that fails to  identify SIGNS OF THE TIME is blind and lost, “WE SEE NOT OUR SIGNS: there is NO MORE ANY PROPHET: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long” [Psalms 74:9] Thinking the END should come in their time, the Apostles desired the accompanying SIGN, “And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the SIGN OF THY COMING, and of the END OF THE WORLD?” [Matthew 24:3]

 2. FEAR is the ominous SIGN to this generation; never in human history had there ever been so much DISTRESS and palpable FRIGHT turned a common denominator to rich and poor alike. FEAR is the aroma of DEATH and HELL synonymous with perdition in those who have not Christ; as the world descends into paroxysms of FEAR, the whole world stands in terror of the fourth Apocalyptic Horseman, “... behold a PALE HORSE: and his name that SAT ON HIM WAS DEATH, and HELL FOLLOWED with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill ..” [Revelation 6:8] The world is terrified of a rogue asteroid smashing into the earth, a pestilence without cure, nuclear war, collapse of money and the list is endless, “... SIGNS in the SUN, and in the MOON, and in the STARS; and upon the EARTH DISTRESS OF NATION, with PERPLEXITY; .... MEN’S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the POWERS OF HEAVEN shall be SHAKEN” [Luke 21:25-26] What lies ahead are evidently frightening, yet not unexpected; the WISE understand the creeping shadows of horror and confusion as beacons of HOPE of imminent redemption, , “And when THESE THINGS begin to come to pass, then LOOK UP, and lift up your heads; for your REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH” [Luke 21:28] Those who know “THESE THINGS” yet give room to sundry FEARS slowly drift into a confused state of hopelessness and at grave risk of missing the mark.

3. FEAR is the SIGN to the world, as gathering of TARES to the Church, “The ENEMY THAT SOWED THEM IS THE DEVIL; the HARVEST is the END OF THE WORLD; and the REAPERS are the ANGELS. As therefore the TARES ARE GATHERED and BURNED in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world” [Matthew 13:39-40] TARES look so much like the real thing, having outward appearances of godliness but inwardly bereft of roots in TRUTH. As we see TARES coming together in BUNDLES, we know that the HARVEST of the earth is at hand, “... and in the time of HARVEST I will say to the reapers, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, and BIND THEM IN BUNDLES to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn” [Matthew 13:30] TARES are coming out of their Church closets to reaffirm their roots in global inter-faith BUNDLES, giving proof to prophecy; the hour of the MAN OF SIN is here, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a FALLING AWAY FIRST, and that MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition” [2 Thessalonians 2:3] The frenetic pace with which respected Christian leaders are reaching out across many divides in the name of peace and unity, tell us the “FALLING AWAY” is in motion. Again, FEAR is palpable but TARES may only be discerned, refuse to be deceived by TARES in priestly robes, “BEWARE lest any man SPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY and VAIN DECEIT, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” [Colossians 2:8]

4. SIGNS are for those who are called according to the purpose of God, even as Moses, “...  if they will not believe also these TWO SIGNS, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the WATER which thou takest out of the river shall BECOME BLOOD ...” [Exodus 4:9] THREE SIGNS were given to Moses and THREE to this generation; FEAR, TARES and the GOSPEL. Watch the SIGNS and take heed, in particular, to the THIRD, “And this GOSPEL of the kingdom shall be PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS unto all nations; and then shall the END COME” [Matthew 24:14] Until recently it was impossible to preach the Gospel in all nations at the same time; satellite communication now makes it possible. Some indeed preach Christ for personal gain, others of contention and what have you, “What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether IN PRETENCE, OR IN TRUTH, CHRIST IS PREACHED; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice” [Philippians 1:18] All three SIGNS point to imminent appearance of Jesus Christ and END of the present world, “Seeing then that ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all HOLY CONVERSATION and GODLINESS” [2 Peter 3:11] Now, is the time to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and prepare to meet your God.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8

1. Enoch never ceased to capture imagination of men, there are many fables but one thing is certain, “… before his translation HE HAD THIS TESTIMONY, that HE PLEASED GOD” [Hebrews 11:5b] By the time of his birth, the rot that culminated in the FLOOD in Noah’s time had set in; the revival in Genesis 4:26 did little to turn the tide, “And GOD saw that the WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” [Genesis 6:5] Some in his generation no doubt called upon the Name of the Lord, none “PLEASED GOD”, increasing the weight of the CURSE; this much Lamech confessed, “And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and TOIL OF OUR HANDS, because of the GROUND WHICH THE LORD HAD CURSED” [Genesis 5:29] Does this not sound familiar? Are we not weighted down by SIN in cesspools of toil and sorrows. Adam was 622 years old when Enoch was born and testified of the VOICE that WALKED in Eden as he did to all who came before him. When Enoch was sixty-five years old, took the first step to WALK with God, “And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD AFTER HE BEGAT Methuselah …” [Genesis 5:21-22]

2. The template of God’s relationship with man is best illustrated with “WALKING”, “And they heard the VOICE of the LORD God WALKING in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden” [Genesis 3:8] The VOICE of the LORD is the ALMIGHTY reaching out in fellowship to deliver us from SIN and DEATH; the VOICE of the Shepherd calling His lost SHEEP, “MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, and I know them, and THEY FOLLOW ME: And I give unto them ETERNAL LIFE; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” [John 10:27-28] God’s Sheep are those who not only HEAR but turn around to FOLLOW Him; Enoch knew the story from his youth but not until he was sixty-five did he take the first step. The same God is calling you to WALK with Him, as he did Abraham, “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD APPEARED TO ABRAM, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; WALK BEFORE ME, and BE THOU PERFECT” [Genesis 17:1] The GOSPEL preached in the name of Jesus Christ is the VOICE that WALKED in Eden calling you to REPENT and step in line with Him. As the joy of the Shepherd has no limitation for the lost Sheep that return, so is God PLEASED with those who REPENT, “I say unto you, that likewise JOY shall be in HEAVEN over one SINNER THAT REPENTETH, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance” [Luke 15:7]

3. WALKING with God is the spiritual odyssey of FAITH, “But WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD: for he that cometh to God must BELIEVE that HE IS, and that he is a REWARDER of them that diligently SEEK HIM” [Hebrews 11:6] The fathers, from Seth to Jared, no doubt had diverse measures of FAITH but not enough to maintain brisk WALK with God or PLEASE Him; FAITH without UNDERSTANDING is LITTLE FAITH and soon fizzles out; overwhelmed with WORRY [Luke 12:28] tormented with FEAR [Matthew 8:26] fraught with doubt [Matthew 14:31] We all get started with LIITLE FAITH even Enoch, GREAT FAITH is fashioned in deep communion in total submission to God, “The eyes of your UNDERSTANDING BEING ENLIGHTENED; that ye may know what is the HOPE of his calling, and what the riches of the GLORY of his INHERITANCE in the saints” [Ephesians 1:18] FAITH boosted with UNDERSTANDING of personal identity of God is delivered from concomitant disabilities of SELF, we are delivered from SELF and our FAITH firmly anchored in HOPE of the PROMISE not SEEN, “Now FAITH is the substance of things HOPED FOR, the evidence of things NOT SEEN” [Hebrews 12:1] When all else around Enoch had their FAITH submerged by WORK and TOIL of the CURSE [Genesis 5:29b] Enoch had his FAITH buoyed with HOPE in SALVATION that should come through Jesus Christ, “And ENOCH also, the seventh from Adam, PROPHESIED of these, saying, Behold, THE LORD COMETH with ten thousands of his saints” [Jude 1:14]

4. ENOCH PLEASED GOD not because he was blameless, “Even as Abraham BELIEVED GOD, and it was ACCOUNTED to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS” [Galatians 3:6] Enoch PLEASED God by what he SAW, Jude 1:14, and BELIEVED of Christ thousands of years ahead of time. He UNDERSTOOD by REVELATION that the LAMB on the throne was God, in Christ, “SLAIN” to grant us victory over DEATH [Revelation 13:8] Enoch’s FAITH was so strong DEATH could not have him and was God PLEASED, “BY FAITH ENOCH WAS TRANSLATED that he should NOT SEE DEATH; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that HE PLEASED GOD” [Hebrews 11:5] The same God is PLEASED when eyes of our UNDERSTANDING are enlightened to SEE the fulness of the FATHER in the SON, “… in the MIDST OF THE THRONE and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a LAMB AS IT HAD BEEN SLAIN, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD sent forth into all the earth” [Revelation 5:6] We, as Enoch, shall be translated not because we are faultless but by evidence of diligent FAITH, “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all HOLY CONVERSATIONGODLINESS and GODLINESS, Looking for and hasting unto the COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, …” [2 Peter 3:11-12]

1. Genesis 1:26 was a firm PROMISE to make Man in the IMAGE and LIKENESS of God, “So God CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, in the IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HE HIM; male and female created he them” [Genesis 1:27] We were created in God’s IMAGE, His LIKENESS was reserved that it might be the BLESSING of OBEDIENCE. In Abraham, the PROMISE was formalized with BLESSING when God said, “That in BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE, ... And IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE NATIONS of the earth be BLESSED because thou hast OBEYED MY VOICE” [Genesis 22:17-18] Fulfilment of the PROMISE was God manifest in Jesus Christ, the fulness of the Godhead and express IMAGE of His Person [Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 1:3] In Jesus Christ, God became like us that we might be like Him, “That the BLESSING OF ABRAHAM might come on the GENTILES THROUGH JESUS CHRIST; that we might RECEIVE the PROMISE OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH FAITH” [Galatians 3:14] LIFE of God is His SPIRT, the PROMISE was to replicate His SPIRIT in us, giving us ETERNAL LIFE by GRACE through FAITH in Jesus Christ, “And we know that the SON OF GOD IS COME, and hath given us an UNDERSTANDING, that we may know him that is true, and we are in HIM THAT IS TRUE, even in his Son JESUS CHRIST. This is the TRUE GOD, and ETERNAL LIFE” [1 John 5:20] 

2. Validity of a PROMISE is commensurate with willingness and ability of the PROMISOR; who is as God ALMIGHTY, able to fulfil His PROMISE? “Declaring the END FROM THE BEGINNING, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE” [Isaiah 46:10] Nothing will stop God but ourselves, notwithstanding He is FAITHFUL to His PROMISE. Whereas we receive treasures of His PROMISE in this weak and beggarly bag of flesh and bones and in constant danger of losing it to present instabilities and hardships of this world, God is FAITHFUL to His WORD, “But we have this TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS, that the EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER MAY BE OF GOD, and not of us. We are TROUBLED on every side, yet not DISTRESSED; we are PERPLEXED, but NOT IN DESPAIR” [2 Corinthians 4:7] Well aware of our limitations, we have absolute TRUST in the EXCELLENCY of God’s POWER to make us tamperproof, “In whom YE ALSO TRUSTED, after that ye heard the WORD OF TRUTH, the GOSPEL of your SALVATION: in whom also after that YE BELIEVED, ye were SEALED with that HOLY SPIRIT of PROMISE” [Ephesians 1:13] The PROMISE comes with firm assurances of HOPE in the appearance of Jesus Christ by which we are SEALED till we shall be revealed in His LIKENESS, “Beloved, now are we the SONS OF GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but WE KNOW that, WHEN HE SHALL APPEARS, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for we shall see him as he is” [1 John 3:2]

3. Permit me to illustrate with SARDINES SEALED in a can. The SARDINES once swam freely  until they were caught in the net and so once were we in the world, swimming in the ocean of SIN, “Again, the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE UNTO A NET, that was cast into the sea, and GATHERED OF EVERY KING: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and GATHERED THE GOOD into vessels, but CAST THE BAD AWAY” [Matthew 13:47-48] The NET is the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ, bringing in many kinds including “SARDINES”; the catch is sorted and separated to be SEALED. Separation is according to HEARING; SARDINES are those who HEARED both MESSAGE and MESSENGER and can respectfully say to the Preacher, “... Now WE BELIEVE, not because of thy saying: for WE HAVE HEARD HIM OURSELVES, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD” [John 4:42] Expectedly, SARDINES to be SEALED are washed, fins and tails removed to fit into the can; so must we be washed and cut in the IMAGE of the Lord by His WORD for us to abide in Him and He in us, “Now ye are CLEAN THROUGH THE WORD which I have spoken unto you. ABIDE IN ME, AND I IN YOU. ...” [John 15:3-4] We are SEALED not because we go to Church but by PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP of Christ in YOU and you in HIM, “MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE, and I KNOW THEM, and THEY FOLLOW ME: And I GIVE UNTO THEM ETERNAL LIFE they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” [John 10:27-28]

4. We are SEALED BY PROMISE, “Now he which STABLISHETH US with you in Christ, and hath ANOINTED US, is God; Who hath also SEALED US, and given the EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT in our hearts” [2 Corinthians 1:21-22] Though we are in the world, we WALK not after the manner of the world but conduct ourselves in the WISDOM of God, as in James 3:17;  REDEEMING THE TIME, free of offences, “WALK IN WISDOM toward them that are without, REDEEMING THE TIME. Let your speech be ALWAY WITH GRACE, seasoned with salt, that ye may know HOW YE OUGT TO ANSWER EVERY MAN” [Colossians 4:5-6] As OIL preserve SARDINES in the can, we are preserved WITHIN by the OIL of UNDERSTANDING, our minds transformed both to KNOW and DO what is GOOD and PLEASING to God, “For it is GOD WHICH WORKETH IN YOU both TO WILL and TO DO of HIS GOOD PLEASURE” [Philippians 2:13] The times are hard yet our FAITH is unshaken in God  to deliver on His PROMISE; we are in Him and He, working in us to PLEASE Him, as He did in Enoch, “BY FAITH Enoch was TRANSLATED that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this TESTIMONY, that HE PLEASED GOD” [Hebrews 11:5]

1. UNDERSTANDING is the EYE of the body, “ ... if therefore thine EYE BE SINGLE, thy whole body shall be FULL OF LIGHT. But if thine EYE BE EVIL, thy whole body shall be FULL OF DARKNESS. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” [Matthew 6:23] As our EYES need LIGHT to SEE, so do we require Spiritual LIGHT, the KNOWLEDGE of TRUTH in Jesus Christ to GET UNDERSTANDING “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I AM the LIGHT OF THE WORLD: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the LIGHT OF LIFE” [John 8:12] For those who have received Christ, WISDOM is indispensable; UNDERSTANDING is a life-long spiritual odyssey, WISDOM is the diet that keeps us in the WAY, that we should not make fools of ourselves, “Yea also, when he that is a FOOL WALKETH BY THE WAY, his WISDOM FAILETH HIM, and he saith to every one that HE IS A FOOL” [Ecclesiastics 10:3] By all means, let us desire and tenaciously ask God for WISDOM that our quest for UNDERSTANDING be not in vain “If any of YOU LACK WISDOM, let him ASK OF GOD, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” [James 1:5] WISDOM will keep you in the WAY, UNDERSTANDING will establish you in eternal RICHES and GLORY of God’s King, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore GET WISDOM: and WITH ALL THY GETTING GET UNDERSTANDING” [Proverbs 4:7]

2. UNDERSTANDING comes by REVELATION, the SON reveals the FATHER to you and in you, “... NO MAN KNOWETH who the SON is, but the FATHER; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the SON WILL REVEAL HIM” [ Luke 10:22] Revelation of the FATHER in the SON is beyond what a Mentor may pass to his Mentee, it is the MYSTERY of God manifest in flesh and blood to REDEEM us to Himself; He must indeed become like us that we might be like Him, “And without controversy great is the MYSTERY of godliness: GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, ...” [1 Timothy 3:16] Only the SON may REVEAL the FATHER to you and in you, and He does to those who purge themselves of “OWN UNDERSTANDING” to GET His UNDERSTANDING [Proverbs 3:5] The proof of UNDERSTANDING is knowing who you are in Christ, in Him we are joined to God and made PERFECT IN ONE, “I IN THEM, and THOU IN ME, that they may be MADE PERFECT IN ONE; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me” [John 17:23] Eve was deceived because she lacked UNDERSTANDING of her IDENTITY; she had no reason to be like gods, she was made in the image of God [Genesis 3:5] In Jesus Christ we are SONS of God and Joint-Heirs with Jesus Christ, having this UNDERSTANDING let us live above the DECEITS and CORRUPTION of the present world, “Know ye not that ye are the TEMPLE OF GOD, and that the SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU?” [1 Corinthians 3:16] 

3. UNDERSTANDING is not a GIFT, you work to GET it, “... I Daniel UNDERSTOOD BY BOOKS the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish SEVENTY YEARS in the DESOLATIONS OF JERUSALEM” [Daniel 9:2] Daniel “UNDERSTOOD BY BOOKS” the timeline of DIVINE AGENDA but Jerusalem with her many Priests because she would not search the Scriptures for UNDERSTANDING and for which Jesus, “... wept over it, “Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the THINGS WHICH BELONG UNTO THY PEACE! but now they are HID FROM THINE EYES” [Luke 19: 41-44] Brethren, our HOPE and PEACE in present global instabilities and excruciating is not in protests or regime change but in the WORD of God. Let no man deceive you, everything God had DONE, is DOING and will yet do are established in the Bible and therein is our PEACE. Let us SEARCH and DIG DEEP into Holy Scriptures for UNDERSTANDING of our place in Prophecy, “STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH” [2 Timothy 2:15] You must not allow your UNDERSTANDING of extant worldwide disorders and fear Jesus Christ is at the door, “And when THESE THINGS BEGIN TO COME TO PASS, then LOOK UP, and LIFT UP YOUR HEADS; for your REDEMPTION DRAWETH NIGH” [Luke 21:28]

4. UNDERSTANDING surpasses WISDOM as heaven is beyond earth, “The LORD by WISDOM hath founded the earth; BY UNDERSTANDING hath he ESTABLISHED THE HEAVENS” [Proverbs 3:19] UNDERSTANDING was the difference between WISE and FOOLISH VIRGINS in Matthew 25:1-12; the WISE UNDERSTOOD what needed to be DONE; they took OIL in their lamps, “They that were FOOLISH took their lamps, and TOOK NO OIL with them: But the WISE TOOK OIL in their vessels with their lamps” [Matthew 25:3-4] Beloved, now is the time to fill your VESSEL with OIL of Spiritual Maturity and be no more food for False Teachers, “That we henceforth be NO MORE CHILDREN, tossed to and fro, and CARRIED ABOUT WITH EVERY WIND OF DOCTRINE, by the sleight of men, and CUNNING CRAFTINESS, whereby they lie in wait to DECEIVE”[Ephesians 4:14] OIL of UNDERSTANDING cannot be sold or passed by impartation; it is pressed in the mill of HOLINESS and SEPARATION to God. I charge you therefore to, “... present your bodies a LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY, acceptable unto God, ... And BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD: but be ye transformed by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” [Romans 12:1-2] GET UNDERSTANDING while there is yet time. Night is coming when no man may work.

Having made known unto us the MYSTERY OF HIS WILL, … Ephesians 1:9

"...  BLINDNESS in part is HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, until the FULNESS OF THE GENTILES be come in" Romans 11:25

DON’T DROP THE BATON, Which some professing have erred concerning the faith … 1 Timothy 6:21

1. The Good Shepherd LOVES His Sheep and gave His LIFE for her, “I am the good shepherd: the GOOD SHEPHERD GIVETH HIS LIFE for the sheep” [John 1o:11] Jesus Christ is the Good Shepherd who gave His LIFE for all men to be joined in ONE FOLD, “… I LAY DOWN MY LIFE for the SHEEP. And OTHER SHEEP I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall HEAR MY VOICE; and there shall be ONE FOLD, and ONE SHEPHERD” [John 10:15-16] He came first to Israel but she was BLIND and LOST, that the purpose of SALVATION to ALL men by GRACE through FAITH in His NAME might be fulfilled, “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this MYSTERY, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that BLINDNESS in part is happened to Israel, until the FULNESS of the GENTILES be come in” [Romans 11:25] We are the OTHER SHEEP whose “FULNESS” loom over this GENERATION. The error of Israel is fallen on us and we are in jeopardy of His prophetic lamentation, “… Nevertheless when the SON OF MAN COMETH, SHALL HE FIND FAITH on the earth?” [Luke 18:8] We are the GENERATION OF LOST SHEEP, famished and scattered, who the Good Shepherd is calling to return, “For if God SPARED NOT the natural branches, take heed lest he also SPARE NOT THEE” [Romans 11:21]
2. FULNESS of the GENTILES is the time allotted to prepare the Church, as BRIDE, for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb [Revelation 19:7-9] As wedding bells ring a mixed multitude of goats and sundry beasts scramble for seats reserved for Sheep, “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The LORD KNOWETH THEM THAT ARE HIS. And, Let every one that nameth the NAME of Christ depart from iniquity” [2 Timothy 2:19] We are the GENERATION that fill the pews every Sunday crying Lord, Lord but neither know His VOICE nor FOLLOW His precepts, as it is written: “My SHEEP hear MY VOICE, and I KNOW THEM, and they FOLLOW ME: And I give unto them ETERNAL LIFE …” [John 10:27-28] We are His Sheep not by regular Church attendance but by HEARING Him REVEAL the MYSTERY of the Father in the Son and REDEEMED by GRACE through FAITH in His NAME, “… no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the SON WILL REVEAL HIM” [Luke 10:22] We are Sheep of His pasture who  enter by the DOOR of revelation of God in Jesus Christ; if any man enter through any other, he is a Goat LOST among Sheep, “Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the DOOR OF THE SHEEP. … I am the door: BY ME if any man ENTER in, he shall BE SAVED, and shall go in and out, and find pasture” [John 10:7,9] The DOOR is open today for the repentant Goat, tomorrow may be too late.
3. We are His Sheep and of His own made us Shepherds, CALLED according to His purpose, saying to Peter; “… LOVEST THOU ME? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, FEED MY SHEEP” [John 21:17] I speak to Minsters and I am one, CALLED to FEED HIS SHEEP not to “EAT” or SCATTER but to LEAD and GUIDE them to still waters and green pastures. Are we better than the Pharisees, who “… bind HEAVY BURDEN and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers” [Matthew 23:4] Have we not departed from the SIMPLICITY that is Christ and descended to laying heavy burdens on His Sheep in pursuit of fleeting shadows terrestrial glory? But I fear, lest by any means, as the SERPENT BEGUILED Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST” [2 Corinthians 11:3] If the Shepherds be BLIND and LOST in the labyrinth of self-centeredness, it is no surprise the Lord is grieved with the Shepherds. We are the GENERATION to who so much was committed but fell short of expectation, “But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever MUCH IS GIVEN, of him shall be MUCH REQUIRED: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” [Luke 12:48]
4. The Good Shepherd sorrows for His LOST SHEEP, “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” [Revelation 18:4] Let the Goat in Sheep clothing REPENT and return through the DOOR, JUDGMENT is at hand when Sheep and Goat shall be separated by the Lord, “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a SHEPHERD DIVIDETH HIS SHEEP FROM THE GOATS: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left” [Matthew 25:32-33] To everyone favoured to be CALLED into the ministry of Shepherd, let us examine ourselves, redress our deficiencies and do away with all “… hidden things of DISHONESTY, not walking in CRAFTINESS, nor handling the word of God DECEITFULLY; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God” [2 Corinthians 4:2] To the flocks, LOST and FAMISHED, return to your first LOVE, the Shepherd of your soul, “For ye were as SHEEP GOING ASTRAY; but are now returned unto the SHEPHERD and BISHOP OF YOUR SOULS” [1 Peter 2:25] If you have not done so, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour today, AMEN

Winners take all, FIGHT TO WIN,

“For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them” Proverbs 1:32

1. Aside DEATH, SIN is perhaps the last thing men want to talk about and it is no surprise, they are two sides of the same coin, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the SOUL that SINNETH, it shall DIE” [Ezekiel 18:4] SIN, synonymous with Satan’s REBELLION against God, the error was re-enacted in man’s DISOBEDIENCE to God’s commandment in Eden, “Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: CURSED IS THE GROUND for thy sake; IN SORROW SHALT THOU EAT of it all the days of thy life” [Genesis 3:17] SIN, that is DISOBEDIENCE, is the identity of EVIL in man, “For the good that I would I do not: but the EVIL which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but SIN that DWELLETH IN ME” [Romans 7:19-20] Take note, Satan was guilty of REBELLION, for which there is no repentance  (Hebrews 6:4-6) Man fell into DISOBEDIENCE and enslaved to SIN; SIN by GRACE is dissolved in the BLOOD of Jesus Christ through FAITH (Ephesians 2:8) SIN is the reason we fall sick, die untimely, go through diverse emotional trauma, live in fear of death and many more; I have GOOD NEWS for you, “… BE OF GOOD CHEER; THY SINS BE FORGIVEN THEE” [Matthew 9:2]
2. God loves you as a Father loves His children; He feels your pain and longs to comfort you with exceeding joy but there is the matter of SIN, “Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; … your SINS have HID HIS FACE FROM YOU, that he will not hear” [Isaiah 59:1-2] SIN cannot be wished away, it is a DEBT that must be paid in full; God made the law and will not break it, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE [Genesis 2:17] Inasmuch as sinful man, enslaved to corruption is powerless to redeem himself from SIN, God manifest His LOVE for us in Jesus Christ, “… God commendeth his LOVE TOWARD US, in that, while we were YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US” [Romans 5: 7-8] Jesus Christ lived amongst us and was man as much as you and I; more important He was the fulness of God offering Himself in LOVE to REDEEM and RECONCILE us to Himself, “To wit, that GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation” [2 Corinthians 5:19] Jesus Christ paid the debt of SIN in full on the Cross and for all, irrespective of race, gender and status, with the proviso that you REPENT and BELIEVE, “For GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE” [John 3:16]
3. God’s offer of FORGIVENESS is to WHOSOEVER will BELIEVE. Do you BELIEVE God was manifest in Jesus Christ? Those who do, REPENT and RECEIVE Him as Lord and Saviour are no longer enslaved to SIN, “But as many as RECEIVED HIM, to them gave he power to become the SONS OF GOD, even to them that BELIEVE on his name” [John 1:12] An armed robber, drug addict, rapist, scammer or what have you, who comes to God through Jesus Christ in genuine REPENTANCE and FAITH in Christ as God manifest in FLESH will have his SIN FORGIVEN and BORN AGAIN, “Being BORN AGAIN, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the WORD of God, which LIVETH and ABIDETH FOR EVER” [1 Peter 1:23] We are BORN AGAIN not of the will of the FLESH but of God and as Jesus died on the Cross, so did we when we BELIEVED, and “… BURIED WITH HIM by baptism into death: that like as CHRIST WAS RAISED up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in NEWNESS OF LIFE” [Romans 6:4] NEWNESS OF LIFE in Christ is opposed to SELF; I no longer live to please myself but Christ, and become what He wants me to be, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but CHRIST LIVETH IN ME: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME” [Galatians 2:20] Jesus Christ gave His LIFE for me, He lives in me and I in Him; His LOVE as living waters refreshes my soul.
4. We are Children of God, whose SIN are FORGIVEN, Sons in the likeness of Jesus Christ and JOINT-HEIRS of His eternal glory, “And if children, then heirs; HEIRS OF GOD, and JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST; if so be that we SUFFER WITH HIM, that we may be also GLORIFIED together” [[Romans 8:17] We are HEIRS of God’s infinite treasures yet must continue for a while in this unstable and miserable world till the appearance of Jesus Christ when we shall receive the reward of our FAITH, “Beloved, now are we the SONS OF GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for we shall see him as he is” [1 John 3:2] Listen carefully, the GOOD NEWS of FORGIVENESS of SIN and SALVATION preached in the name of Jesus Christ has expiry date and the door is about to close as in the days of Noah “And THEY THAT WENT IN, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and THE LORD SHUT HIM IN” [Genesis 7:16] As soon as the door was closed, the antediluvian world was judged with FLOOD; the present world is condemned to destruction with FIRE, “… DAY OF THE LORD will come AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, … the EARTH also and the works that are therein shall be BURNED up” [2 Peter 3:11] Friend take the offer of FORGIVENESS today, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, Amen.

“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, He is proud, knowing nothing, …” 1 Timothy 6:3-4

“With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men” Ephesians 6:7

REJOICE, it’s your decision to take no one may make it for you

“And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay” [Daniel 2:43]

CULTURE OF THE CHURCH  as received from Christ and His Apostles is sacrosanct
[1 Corinthians 14:37]