Nobody should trivialize sin. Sin is dangerous, evil. If it will take God going to the cross to judge sin, then you can imagine how dangerous it is. That is why we need to come clean before we can approach this holy God. Only those who have clean, pure hearts, who have not lifted up their soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully are the ones that can ascend. Without ascending, you cannot receive the blessing.
Christianity without character is zero. Christian without Christ is equal to nonentity. Every child of God must imbibe the qualities of God; part of the character of God involves holiness, righteousness, wisdom. Nothing dazzles like purity. Purity is power. As we ascend, let us drop the lower things we are holding on to, they are our worst enemies and those are the things that can prevent us from ascending.
I cringe whenever I see the kind of easy theology that a lot of people are brandishing today. The essence of this exercise is to get us to the point of sitting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. As we legislate, all the things that should be under our feet will never be above our head in Jesus name. This programme will enable you to ascend so that you are positioned where God has placed you, position of comprehensive dominion.
Sin made man to lose dominion when he succumbed to satanic overtures and united his will to the will of the snake in the garden. Thank God for Jesus, the pattern Son, who came to save the world and to deal with the issue of sin. Jesus has empowered us:
- To live above only, to appropriate his finished work.
- To break away from the serpentine ways.
- To unite the purposive will of God, to do it and to fulfil it.
- To live for him, to set our affections on the things that are above, always tuning to the frequency of heaven.
- To be translated into his image.
- To be transformed in order to be transformers.
- To be healed in order to be healing agents.
- To be delivered in order to be deliverers.
- To be worthy ambassadors of Christ while we are here.
- To be empowered to operate in the highest with his grace abounding.
That is strategy for living! Anyone who is not living for Christ has a long way to go.
TO BE CONTINUED.