THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION 2
Join Our WhatsApp Group & Start Getting Streamglobe Devotional Text & Audio From Us Daily. Click here to Join ☞ https://chat.whatsapp.com/2IQhNHE2U4CJiumx8Y0r0X Devotional Audio☞ http://bit.ly/aud1457 Don’t miss the Streamglobe International Conference. Details here ☞ http://bit.ly/2zktjal Matthew 6:33 (NLT) Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Chijoke had a strange dream more than once, and he became really disturbed. In the dream, an old woman with a walking stick was holding him captive in a farm as a slave, and he would work there for hours. Each time he tried to break free, the old woman so overpowered him that he would faint and wake up with a headache. He couldn’t understand why he would be having this kind of experience because he was quite committed to the church. He requested to see his pastor. When the pastor saw him, the spirit of prophecy came upon him and he began to tell Chijoke that his real bondage was bondage to sin. Chijoke had two girlfriends and was living like an unbeliever. ‘You are ready and willing to do whatever it takes to be free from this bondage of the old woman, but you have not taken any step to seek the face of God and receive freedom from the more dangerous bondage of sin which made it possible for you to be under this bondage in the first place. You have been made free in Christ, but you need to enter this freedom by violence. Stop being a slave to sin’. People are willing to pray and fast and go for night vigils to receive freedom from perceived demonic bondages, but they do not put that level of violence in entering their freedom from sin. When a person seeks the kingdom of God, he also would seek His righteousness. This means he would fight everything of unrighteousness that is found in his or her life. Like the Psalmist in Psalm 139:23, he would subject himself regularly to heart check. He would purify his ways (see 1 John 3:3). And he would be violent against sin. -SD Abraham Yearly Bible Plan: Haggai (In Devotional Audio) Streamglobe is interdenominational. Kindly share this with your contacts and let’s touch lives together. WhatsApp : +1 (701) 802-0743 www.streamglobe.org
Streamglobe International Conference 2017
Theme: In Times Like These Date: Friday 24th- Saturday 25th November Time: 4:30 pm(Friday) 9am & 4pm on Saturday Venue: The New Covenant Gospel Church. 115B Ikorodu road, Fadeyi, Lagos Ministering: Pastor Babatunde O. Isiaka (United Kingdom) Evang Victor Madubueze (Ghana) Pastor SD Abraham(Nigeria) In music Minister Uti Great & Others
LIVING WORKS
Do not allow the abuse of works by legalists to make you prevaricate concerning the question of salvation and works. Is eternal salvation obtained by works? NO! Is eternal salvation maintained by works? YES! Hmmm..if you did not get it by works how can you maintain it by works? Brother, can you tell me the difference between evil works, dead works, and good works? 2 Peter 1:10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; (Amplified Bible) Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall. Read verse 3 and see that God has given us all things, and then says ADD them to your faith. What you are adding, is it from you or from God? Is it your works or His works? Read Philippians 2 and see that God has worked everything in, and said work it out. “Sir, it is work out, not work for!” “Sir, with all due ‘wordspect’. Please, shut up!” The question is this: “Is salvation maintained by works? When you are maintaining something, are you working for it? If I give you a house, and say occupy till I come, maintain it for me Are you working to get the house?” “No Sir, but but but…” “See your head! But what? If I give you a house and say maintain it, and you maintain it like a house, then I won’t take it from you; but if you turn it into a brothel, and I warn you several times, but you don’t listen, I will shake you out of my house. Now listen, don’t let people say many things together that are unrelated just to deceive you. Okay?” Do you work for salvation. No. Do you work out salvation? Yes. Do dead works or works of the law maintain salvation? No Does salvation COME WITH ITS OWN WORKS? YES, IT DOES. Do you maintain salvation by keeping laws? No Do you maintain salvation by working out everything God has already given you? Yes. Is it your maintenance that guarantees your salvation. No. Is it your maintenance that proves your salvation is guaranteed? Yes! 2 Peter 1:10 (New Living Translation) So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away. If you are not working anything out, Day in, day out You do not believe in your heart You only believe with your mouth That is not living faith That is dead doubt. If you believe the lie that works have nothing to do with salvation, you won’t walk in the Spirit, you keep walking in the flesh, you resist the Holy Spirit, you don’t mortify the evil deeds of the body What will happen to you? Romans 8:12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh– Romans 8:13a For if you live according to the flesh, YOU WILL DIE. The serpent says “You will not surely die” He is still speaking the same lie through false teachers, even to the church (see 2 Corinthians 11:3) Brother, the Bible says “you will die”. Amplified says, you will surely die. NLT says, you will perish. See that word “debtors” in the 12th verse? Hey you, Mr. Anti-maintenance, I’m talking to you. Do you see that word “debtors”? “Yes, I do” It means obligation, or duty. We have an OBLIGATION to live right and work that which is good. It is something that has to be done. It is not optional It is not a question of if or maybe or probably It is an obligation It is living by the power of the Spirit It is work(s) And if you walk in the Spirit, and mortify the carnal tendencies of the body, walk in love and obey the gospel, what will happen to you? Romans 8:13b But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, YOU WILL LIVE. 1. Finished Works of Christ 2. Current ministry of the Holy Spirit. 1. We have been delivered from darkness 2. We cast off the works of darkness 1. We have been made light 2. We put on the armor of light and walk in the light 1. We are in the Spirit 2. We choose to walk in the Spirit 1. We are not in the flesh 2. We choose to not walk after the flesh 1. The old man has been crucified with Christ 2. We mortify its members and evil deeds 1. The old man is crucified with Christ 2. We put off the old man 1. We have been recreated in Christ 2. We put on the new man 1. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ 2. We live righteously 1. We have been sanctified and made holy 2. We pursue holiness 1. We have been forgiven 2. We repent and confess our sins 1. The Spirit of God lives in us 2. We follow the leading of the Spirit 1. The blood of Christ cleanses us 2. We cleanse ourselves from every filth 1. The Father is pleased with us 2. We live to please the Father 1. God so loved us 2. We love God 1. God is reconciling the world to Himself 2. We love men; we persuade them; we warn them. 1. God is working salvation in us. 2. We are working out that salvation. 1. Objective: accomplished for us in Christ without our active participation 2. Subjective: being accomplished in us right now through our active participation. You say salvation has nothing to do with works. O boy, I say it has. You say salvation is not maintained
God’s Grace & God’s Law
By Dr. Ebele UzorPeters The key to understanding how grace and the law relates is simple: the law cannot be fulfilled by being under the law. It is fulfilled and surpassed, by being under grace. If I want to travel, I have to lock up my house, and it is a very big house. I have to check the gas cooker, disconnect appliances from every socket. I have to put off every switch, shut every window, and close every door. It usually takes me about an hour to do all this And on my trip, I’d be searching through my mind to see if I left anything undone. Most times, I remember a tiny window I didn’t shut and just pray some rodent or serpent does not climb in during the two or three weeks I’m gone. When I get back, I check through every room to make sure all is well, before relaxing. I travel a lot, and this is my routine. It’s extra stressful and imperfect, but I’m used to it. That’s like being under the law. One day, a friend tells me about these modern security systems that monitor your house especially when you’re gone, with CCTV and all. Now when I travel; after I’m done packing, I shut down the whole house by pressing one button on the remote. All windows, all appliances, and all doors are shut down with just one click; and when I get back, I simply sit down over a cup of orange juice, and go through the computer generated analysis of the cctv footage. All my struggle to do this and that has ended, yet I am achieving the same thing even more perfectly. That’s like being under grace. Grace means God does for me what I could never do for myself. The law means I try to do everything myself and fail, grace means I allow something or someone who does it far better, to do it for me So the law means struggle, and grace means surrender. If I check from room to room after installing the modern security system, that’s trying to be justified by my works, and making the grace of Christ of none effect I have to rely on a remote. I have to give up my old method of locking up for the new system. I have to give up my house to this new system and trust that it is secure even though I haven’t checked it myself. I begin to experience grace by surrendering what I was struggling with (the old man). If I don’t want to struggle, so I reject the law; and I refuse to surrender, that is not grace. My house will be burgled. If I’m tired of struggling with the law and facing the condemnation the law brings, but I do not surrender my life to Christ and present myself to God; even though I have rejected the law, yet I am not under grace I have simply entered into lawlessness. Grace is not lawlessness; Grace is the in-working of the capacity for the purpose of the law to be fulfilled. . Another illustration (meaning the story above is an illustration,) is that before I got my modern security system, I never asked my steward to lock up the house because that was even more stressful. I’d have to explain everything to him and he still won’t totally get it; so when I had to travel, I’d give him a leave, and do the thing myself. However, with my son, I don’t need to bother. I don’t have to say much; He knows exactly what to do. Where I’d have had to give my steward 53 separate instructions so that he does not forget anything; I just told my son…I’m travelling in three days, I don’t know if you could come give papa a helping hand. If he could take a break from school, I usually just said to him “Lock up the house, don’t forget the attic”. That’s all. That’s grace. But my steward had to write all the 53 things down and go about with the list one by one….check this, check that, disconnect this, fold that up and put it up there. …it was more stress. Among those 53 things was the very same “Lock up the house, and all the windows in the attic”. The other 52 simply had to be added because he does not really know me and how I operate. That’s the law. Likewise the 613 laws of Moses contain the greatest commandments “Love the Lord your God with all your heart”, and “Love your neighbor as yourself”, but until Christ came, 611 other laws had to be used to explain those 2….because there was NO real CAPACITY TO LOVE God, generally speaking. But when the Son of God came and renewed our hearts, we understood that on those 2 laws hang not only all the 613 laws, but also the prophets. He put in our hearts the capacity to love with the love of God. It is by this capacity to love that grace delivers from being under the law, sets aside all the extra laws used to explain the intent of the law, sets aside that righteousness which comes by keeping the law; but powerfully upholds the law, by fulfilling it in us. That is, the righteouness of faith (that righteousness which is by faith in Jesus Christ) fully satisfies the righteous requirements of the law and makes it unnecessary to try to attain to those requirements by keeping the law through your own effort. . Galatians 3:21 Well then, is there a conflict between God’s law and God’s promises? Absolutely not! If the law could have given us new life, we could have been made right with God by obeying it. Galatians 3:22 But the Scriptures have declared that we are all prisoners of sin, so the only way to receive God’s promise is to believe in Jesus