Bless beloved,
Last week this was sent but it
would be best to re-read it and even pass it on.
It has also been edited and the nuggets it holds
will empower you, down to the footage at the
end. Also notice the new title name and email
address. Peace!
HOW IT WAS IN THE
BEGINNING
“It is recorded in the bible
that Adam was made a “living soul.”
How could this be?
Living refers to earthly life
and life meant a beginning and an end. Soul
refers to that which is eternal; for example,
angels. Adam was formed from the earth; that’s
the life part of him. It wasn’t until God blew
his spirit in him that a soul was created or
placed in Adam’s body. One would say our flesh
is a coat for our soul and spirit. The earthly
part of him was live or living, but when God
blew in him, he became
‘a-live’.
He was what we call, born from
above.
Man is made up of body, spirit
and soul; many times the soul and spirit are
used interchangeably and are often confused, but
they are different (a distinction is seen in
Heb. 4:12). The body being the flesh, the soul
being the real you, and the spirit goes back and
belongs to God (Ec 12:7); it’s apart of God that
is built in you to function godly (Acts
17:27-28). Every man that is born was lighted
upon being conceived in the womb (John
1:9).
Unfortunately, the scenario with
the “tree of good and evil” which Adam ate from
was used to kill the spirit’s (or light)
function and thus breaking fellowship with God.
Even God told Adam he would “surely die” if he
ate from the tree he ate from.
However, God wasn’t speaking of
an immediate death, but rather it was spiritual,
physical and eternal. The only death that was
instantaneous was spiritual, in other words man
lost fellowship with God at the same instance.
That’s why many theologians sometimes refer to
spirituality as God-consciousness.
From then, man basically acted
based upon his body and intellect (mind- the
central thinking part of the body). His
relationship was lost so man lived based on what
he understood and sensed. This resulted in
murder, proud heartedness, lust, dishonesty and
so on. In other words, he became ‘egotistic’ or
a mindset that everything centered on him.
One preacher had this to
add:
Now, the tree of the “knowledge
of good and evil” had to go with the mind. God
made man a spiritual being. God made man’s soul
to be supreme over his mind and body [through
his spirit].
God didn’t make man physical; he
just gave him a body. God didn’t make man
mental; he just gave him a mind.
The devil knew if he ever got
man to die spiritually, if he was successful in
disintegrating the inner part of man that he
could cause the spiritual likeness of God to
disappear from …man. Then … man would be left
with a soul and body, with the ashes of his
spirit scattered around him.
Adam and Eve saw that the tree
had to do with their intellect; it had to do
with their minds. They chose to eat, so in other
words they were thinking, I’m going to elevate
my mind and make the pursuit or knowledge the
main thing in my life. The bible said, “They
knew…”
God set about to redeem man. He
would take the seed of Eve, and that seed would
bruise the devil’s head (Gen. 3:15): “And I will
put enmity between thy seed and her seed; it
shall bruise thy head…”
Notice that God said when the
Messiah would come that he would deal with the
HEAD of the devil. He would deal directly with
the intellect of the devil. Then, God said also
to the devil, “and thou shalt bruise his heel”
(Gen 3:5). Or, in essence, you’ll be able to
kill him - referring to Jesus' death on the
cross.
THE BRUISING OF THE
HEAD
“For since by man came death, by
man came also the resurrection of the dead. For
as Adam all died, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive” (1 Cor 15:21-22). Notice the word
‘a-live’!
Spiritual death led to all other
deaths, including the second death (Rev 21:8);
which is the soul’s torment in eternity. All
mankind was destined for eternal death, because
of Adam’s disobedience.
However, through Christ’s
spirit, there is salvation and an escape to
everyone who believes.
How?
“The first Adam was made a
living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening
spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). The word “quickening”
means to give life, as against our “Church”
belief, which associates it solely with shaking,
rolling, ‘get-into-spirit’ and other bodily
expressions. No. The word quickens means to give
life.
Christ was like Adam before he
ate the fruit, faultless and without sin. He was
spiritually alive and in connection with God
100%. Like Adam, Christ represents soul and
spirit covered in flesh, with the spirit ruling
over and/or guiding the entire body and soul.
The book of Matthew records that
he was not born of a natural birth, but that the
Holy Ghost overshadowed Mary. Christ, then, was
simply the Holy Ghost or ‘word’ covered in
flesh, waiting like a fine wine to burst open to
its drinkers. When the body was ripped away at
Calvary, his spirit resurrected on the third day
and that ‘quickening spirit’ was now available
to mankind. That is, a life giving
spirit.
St. John 3:8 records what will
happen when someone is born of that spirit, “the
wind bloweth where is listeth, and thou hearst
the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
cometh, and whither it goeth, so is everyone
that is born of the spirit.”
Look at the composite that is
used to describe someone who is being born of
the spirit – wind.
Where else could that be found,
besides the day of Pentecost?
When God blew his breath on Adam
to make him come alive. In fact, the very word
spirit means breathe; both the Hebrew word ruach
and the Greek word pneuma, used for spirit,
means breath and/or wind.
Remember, God is not a human
that breathes in oxygen and release carbon
dioxide. So he made Adam come alive and somehow
its nature (the process) is similar to
wind.
And, John 3 continues to say,
“so is everyone that is born of the spirit.”
YOUR RE-BIRTH QUALIFIES YOU TO
WITNESS
That was a quote from the book or manuscript,
“The Voice…” You might ask, “How
does this link to Evangelism?”
Well, first, the purpose of evangelism,
whether on a large scale or personally, is to
generate the intended soul(s) into becoming born
again; or as cited earlier, to undo what Adam
did. Therefore, if you evangelize, directly or
indirectly, and someone got saved, you would
have been used to ‘birth a soul’ into the
Kingdom of God; literally! This cannot be
achieved unless you are also ‘a-live.’
This is where the devil is much
disturbed; you alone ‘a-live’ is enough but when
you have the ability to make more ‘lives’ he
become petrified. As Elder Campbell once said,
“When God made Adam in his image, the devil had
an headache, but when he made Eve he had
hiccups. Because he not only saw one creature in
the image of God, but now two; plus he was more
devastated when God told Adam to be fruitful and
multiply – in essence, create more creatures
with God’s image.”
That’s what we are doing as born again
Christians and the devil is Mad about it; as he
was in the beginning. The bible recorded that
Jesus is the last or second Adam. He was the
first ‘man’ after Adam who was like Adam before
he fell; that is, perfectly joined to God with
an upright soul. This then puzzled me when I
first read it, “he shall be filled with the Holy
Ghost, even from his mother's womb” (Lk 1:15).
This spoke of John the Baptist, the only man in
the bible that was recorded as having this
happen to him.
I then pondered, how is it he wasn’t the
second Adam; the spirit in him was alive, making
him also ‘a-live’ just like
Adam? Why wasn't he the second Adam?
Because, though he was ‘a-live’ like Adam, he
couldn’t produce more ‘a-live’ humans, like how
Adam could; with Eve of course. In other words,
though he was filled with the spirit from birth,
which makes his spiritual nature born again, he
couldn’t make anybody else born again. That’s
why he said, “I indeed baptize you with water
unto repentance: but he that cometh after me …
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost” (Matt
3:11).
Jesus Christ the man, was not only ‘a-live’
but he could give life through the quickening
spirit. Not only that, but everyone who he has
made ‘a-live’ can make others ‘a-live’ too! The
power that Adam had with Eve to create more
beings with the image of God, fully humans,
spiritually alive and connected with God has
been restored. In other words, you, granted
you’re truly born again, have the power to
create life! Now the devil has worst than a
“headache” or “hiccup.”
CLEARLY SEEN HERE
This was clearly demonstrated in this verse,
“Then laid they their hands on them, and they
received the Holy Ghost” (Acts 8:17). Or even
this powerful untaught verse, “Whose soever sins
ye remit (remove), they are remitted unto them;
and whose soever sins ye retain (don’t remove),
they are retained” (John 20:23). I don’t know if
you realize it yet, the power you have! In you
is the power to make the ‘dead’ come ‘a-live;’
both the ones walking around and those in the
grave.
This includes the reason for the topic
“Evangelism is Life – Do or Dead.” If you’re in
church and claim to be save and not one single
solitary person have received the baptism of the
Holy Ghost influence by you, directly or
indirectly, chances are, you’re dead; as in not
save.
WHY IS IT A 'DO OR DEAD'
THING
Evangelism is not the main purpose of you
being born again, but if you’re born again you
will evangelize; whether to a person on your job
or in front of a crowd. Similarly, Adam and Eve
wasn’t created to make babies, but God fixed it
in them that that they will have sex, Eve get
pregnant and more humans with God’s image are
created; if God wanted, he could have make tons
of humans as he did when Elijah spoke to the dry
bones. However, instinctively, Eve must get
aroused sexually and Adam two times more, which
will result in intercourse and consequently
children.
By spiritual instinct in every born again
believer, other born again believers will be
birthed. This is not only an accepted doctrine,
but it is a fact! Unless you produce more born
again believers you’re not born again; as in
save. Sounds harsh, but it’s not, really. The
Jehovah witness have an idea of this, however,
the carriage is before the horse as with many
who preach Acts 2:38 before belief. You don't
evangelize to show that you are save. When you
become save, you'll automatically begin to
evangelize; one way or the other.
John 15:2 states, “Every branch in me that
beareth not fruit he taketh away…”
This scripture wasn’t speaking of Christians
only, though is says “branch in me.” As seen in
the 5th paragraph of this letter, we are all in
him. Paul himself taught us this while speaking
to some pagans at Athens. He said to them, “he
be not far from every one of us; For in him we
live, and move, and have our being” (Acts
17:27). Therefore, we are all in him. But it’s
when he is in us we become born again and by
this union, like Adam and Eve, we must birth
other souls, guaranteed!
Christ himself said, “He that abideth in me,
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit” (John 15:5). [Fruit here is not
necessarily speaking of the “Fruits of the
Spirit,” but literal souls; verses 8 and 16
persuade us so].
You might say that in verse 4 it was a
command to abide in him and he will consequently
abide in us; “Abide in me, and I in you.”
No! It was said to strengthen the sentence
after it, which states, “…the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself;” as to say, except this happens
one cannot bear fruit. To further elaborate let
us go back to John the Baptist, he said,
“he that sent me to baptize with water, the
same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the
Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the
same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost”
(John 1:33).
This is where you have the advantage over
John in that he couldn’t make others ‘a-live’ as
you can. The spirit was in him but it didn’t
remain ‘as’ it remained with Christ. Also, this
is where Christ abides in you and remember, you
were always in him; therefore as a true born
again believer you must bear fruit. Notice what
John said, “the spirit descending and
remaining.” For the spirit to remain one has to
be sinless, that’s why Adam lost it and John
couldn’t give it; for John, the lamb that was
slain for the whole world wasn’t crucified as
yet. Also, that’s the reason right after the
spirit descended upon Christ, he was led into
the wilderness to be tempted. If he had sin, the
spirit would have left him and he couldn’t have
the right to birth other souls; neither could
we.
Christ lived a sinless life and was crucified
so that you might be sinless; and regardless of
your ‘failings’ every 40 years (it’s possible)
you can still evangelize and birth souls into
the kingdom of God because you’re justified!
DON’T BE HINDERED
That’s why in Romans 8:30 Paul listed these
in the following order – Predestinate
(foreknew), call, justify then glorify [Glorify
here not only speak of heaven but also glory on
earth for ministry, Christ himself said, “a
prophet is not without honour”].
In other words, before you go into ministry
you have to be justified (born again) or you
can’t birth other souls; because God’s spirit is
not in you, though you are in him. However, once
that spirit comes in you, it will remain as it
did with Christ, because of his sinless life
which he exchanged with yours on the cross.
That’s why Paul continued to say in Romans
8:31-35,
“What shall we then say to these things? If
God be for us, who can be against us? He that
spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to
the charge of God's elect? It is God that
justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is
Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us. Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ?”
Why is Justification need? Because Paul knew
that in Separation we cannot do anything and sin
separates us from God or as Christ put it, “the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself.” We would
have been dead and cannot make anyone else
alive.
Now, seeing that all born again believers are
in him and he in them (Justified) and by this
union you will automatically make others come
‘a-live’, why then is the knowledge of
Justification needed?
Because, even though the devil knows he
cannot stop you from making others come
‘a-live,’ he still can make you
sin [by causing tribulation, distress,
persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword
etc] and uses it to intimidate you not to
evangelize as much as it is need. Remember
these, “you can’t do that, look what you did
last year or yesterday,” “God won’t accept that
you just…,” “who told you you can preach, you
are sinner, get right with God first.” These are
actual statements the devil put in the minds of
born again Christians; though most usually snap
back, but even tardiness can mean a life.
One of the most recent used trick of the
devil on the mouth of many preachers in this
Laodecian age sounds like this, “you don’t have
no money, car, job etc, God is not with you;”
“Who God sends he blesses financially;” “Nobody
is not going to listen to someone poorer than
them, the church must arise and take the wealth
of the land.”
The Apostle Peter said, “Silver and gold have
I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth” (Acts 3:6). He
had something that was intangible; he had
something to give worth more than anything else
in the entire universe. He had the resurrection
power. The power to make the dead and the
“living-dead” come ‘a-live.’
If you’re born again, you have it too. Don’t
be hindered to use it to the fullest extent.
If you’re in the ‘church,’ with a claim to
salvation and you’ve never won a soul to Christ,
chances are you’re not save. Because evangelism
is a “Do or Dead” situation. You do it if you’re
truly saved and you’re unsaved (dead) if you
don’t do it.
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