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1 Timothy 4:6-10 6 If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good
minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the
good doctrine which you have carefully followed. 7 But reject
profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself toward
godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is
profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is
and of that which is to come. 9 This is a faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptance. 10 For to this end we both labor and suffer
reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of
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Exercising oneself is a form of sacrificial
laboring to achieve a goal or several goals. The athletes are known to
go through a lot of self subjection and physical exercises with the goal of
winning a gold medal and honor among men. He goes through a period
where He might have to abstain from certain forms of behavioral
patterns like over eating, smoking, excess alcohol and sex all to keep
Himself fit for the event that will eventually give Him His sought
after glory. In likewise manner a university student might
also discipline Himself so that He can concentrate on His studies
all with the aim of achieving a good degree that will make the way
to success smooth for Him. He might have to turn down excess partying and
drinking sprees and other forms of distractions that will hinder Him
from getting to His goal. There are countless examples and you will
agree with me that laboring is a form of exercise that leads to
benefits no matter how you look at it.
The world is full of men
laboring or exercising themselves to achieve something in this life.
During their period of preparation, people are hardly known but when
they achieve their goal they become known and honored. Just
imagine a 100 meters sprinter who has gone through years of
preparation unnoticed but the moment he wins a gold medal like we
see in the Olympics, He becomes a celebrity which attracts wealth
and honor. The once unknown figure now meets and shakes hands with
presidents and other important figures in this world. All those who
started off with the sprinter and backed off due to distractions and
the rigorous nature of the training period watch from afar off in
regret when they behold their colleague in glory. If they had a
vision of the joy and glory that lay ahead they would have
persevered until the end.
Even
after receiving the a prize, the athlete continues on in
excising himself so maintain His Medal and to possible win better
and greater honors. So while enjoying His new found glory and fame
he continues on in exercising Himself otherwise He loses His crown.
You will agree with me that at times it is best never to taste
riches than to taste it then lose it. So to get the crown the
athlete exercises Himself and after getting the crown He maintains
the crown by continuing on in exercising Himself.
We have
received word in this last days concerning the glory of Christ that
is to be revealed thorough those who hear this message and
diligently seek out this mystery. Christ has showered us with
extremely powerful prophetic gifts of spiritual wisdom that has
opened our eyes and is opening it continuously to understand Him
that is true and our place in Him. Some of us do not have an idea of
how valuable the mystery of Christ is. I have spoken to men who will
pull revival crowds enough to fill a stadium who were astonished and
humbled at some of these things that we speak. This message is a
message that billions have sought and are still searching for, yet
the Lord has graciously granted us hearing ears to hear Him speak.
We have
received word of our true perfect, immortal and holy nature which we
lost a knowledge of in this dark age. Christ is revealed from heaven
to reveal our place and inheritance in Him. Hearing this mystery,
understanding it and embracing it is the key to our liberation from
the powers of death. Holding on to the knowledge of the Son in us
and continuing in this doctrine is the only way into the courts of
God's Paradise. If we hold on to the lie (Self knowledge after the
flesh), we will only suffer the rigors of hell and deny ourselves of
God's tender mercy. The world is passing away and we pass away
with it, if we hold on to the lie.
When
the message first came, many rejoiced at the revelation truth and
many put on zeal but as time goes by many have fallen by the way
side. Many have been seduced by the multitudes into turning aside to
religion to promote the lie of the Devil. Many have turned aside to
the world to hold on to the traditions of men that seek to promote
morality and traditions of men. Some have gone after gain and
increase in this material world and have indeed seen and known
nothing but sorrow. All this goes to confirm the word which says
many are called few are chosen. Thousands of Hebrews left the
bondages of Egypt during the days of Moses but only two of the men
above the age of twenty ever tasted of the land flowing with milk
and Honey; Few ever entered the rest of God because they were
seduced and drawn away by the acts of the nations about them. They
all rejoiced initially after their liberation from the Egyptians;
they also sand with songs of assurance of their allegiance with God
only for their carcasses to litter the wilderness.
Brethren let us not be deceived neither should we be carried away by
the things that we see in this world of appearances because they
will come to naught. Do not be deceived by miraculous signs and
wonders that litter the earth today because many of these systems
are founded on falsehood. The only thing that we can ever gain is a
total procession of our true lost identity in God; that which we can
ever hope to achieve is a restoration to our place in the eternal
Godhead. With the revelation of ourselves in Christ, We have to
rediscover ourselves in Christ, who is the only true God and eternal
life.
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1John 5:20 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. |
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John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know
thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent. |
True illumination and understanding is knowing yourself as you are
know of Him, which is in Christ and as Christ, who is one with God.
It might sound hard for some to crack but take it.
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We are
understanding that we are Him, we are united in one and inseparable.
Now we have to walk in this revelation continuously, we have to labor
and exercise ourselves in this revealed truth otherwise we stand the
risk of losing our reward. What is our reward? our reward is Him
(God). Those who overcome seat on the throne as God and inherit all
the glory of God. God and the totality of His glory is our exceeding
great reward which we have to seek out. That is why Jesus prayed
saying Father glorify me with thine own self with the glory I
had with you before this world was.
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John 17:4-5 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have
finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O
Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was. |
Jesus
had glorified the Father by manifesting the mystery of Christ the
Son to the world and His reward was His glorification or exaltation
into the Father consciousness. We who are called, are called to
exercise this mystery before the world so that they may believe it
and be saved. Those who do this inherit eternal life which is our
selves in Christ in union with God. This can sound deep at times but
understanding this mystery and walking in it causes the day to dawn
on us. Getting a hold of this truth and laboring in it is the way to
the salvation and peace we seek.
Paul in
a letter to Timothy
[1 Timothy 4:6-10]
admonished that Timothy should exercise Himself to godliness
according as He had received from Paul. He was also admonished to
shun old women's fables and hang tight to the good word of faith
that He had received. Paul in this letter was speaking in a
spiritual tongue to Timothy His son in the faith. He was
communicating to Timothy to shun the old teachings in line with
traditions and doctrines of the systems of men and the systems of
religion. He was telling His to shun the teachings of men that try
to present you as a separate entity from Christ. The teachings of
this world try to improve the outer body but neglects (or have no
knowledge) the true inner
man, which is Christ within. Religion and the traditions of men
walk hand in hand with appearances and can in no way profit a man
eternally. That is why Paul says bodily exercise profits little but
exercising ourselves in godliness which is in the knowledge of the
inner spiritual man profits both in this world and in the age to
come.
Even
the Lord Jesus admonished that we should labor for that which leads
to eternal life and not for goods that corrupts and fades away. He
further said the flesh profits nothing, it is the spirit that gives
life. If we received the manna from God, we live after the spirit
and no more after the flesh because the manna has come to reveal the
truth hidden from the foundation of the world to us. All our energy
and labor should be in coming to the complete awareness of the
treasure within us which is Christ. Religion and the traditions of
men only seek to better the outward man and make it holy and just
but they will discover that they are greatly mistaken. A pig can not
be transformed into a lamb, neither a lamb be transformed into a
pig. To get a lamb we have to lay our hands on a lamb not trying to
convert the pig to a lamb. Religion tries to convert the pig to a
lamb while the doctrine of Christ does away with the pig and takes a
hold on the lamb. The pig represents the carnal earthly man with all
His filth and carnal tendencies, while the lamb is the innocent
spiritual image we were generated in and lost a knowledge of all
this while. All un-regenerated men fall into the category of pigs
spiritually speaking, it doesn't matter whether it be Family members
or high religious figures.
Religion
and the doctrines of the systems of men are simply bodily exercises
that justify men before men and their systems, they try to preserve
the outer man and make it good, because they have no revelation of
the true inner man. On the other hand practicing the truth in Christ
is spiritual exercise that causes us to increase in the knowledge of
the true inner spiritual man that was from the beginning. Christ was
revealed from Heaven to educate us on that true internal man and the
glory associated with it. Discovering that inward man is all that we
really have to labor and exercise ourselves in.
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1John 5:20 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. |
John
the Apostle is saying that God did not appear to teach us procedures
and lettered doctrines of religion, He came to teach us about the
Christ who is from the beginning (The Truth) and our origin and root
in Him; the same is the true God and eternal life. The mystery of
godliness is in our understanding this mystery and manifesting this
mystery. Manifesting this mystery is done by our complete
conformation into Him likeness so that we be as Him in all purity,
innocence, love and power. As we manifest this mystery we find
rest and manifest the glory of God for the brethren to see and
be saved.
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1Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery
of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in
the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles,
believed on in the world, received up into glory. |
Like
Paul writes in
Timothy
3:16 the mystery of
godliness is indeed great yet rarely understood by men. Our calling
is to exercise this mystery as this is the only thing that pleases
God. We do this by ever increasing in the knowledge of Him and
decreasing the outward man after the flesh. As we do this we stand
in the realm of eternity connecting back to the way we were before
we got stuck in the lower mortal realms of the flesh.
Exercising in godliness means increasing in understanding, in
virtue, in self-control, in brotherly kindness and love etc. We
increase by transforming our thinking to His thinking and our ways
to His ways. Our eyes of understanding have to behold the creation the same way He beholds the creation. These
are the things we should do with all diligence day and night throughout all eternity. As we exercise ourselves in these
we discover ourselves in the heart of God's kingdom of light, we
discover that we are Him.
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2 Peter 1:5-11 5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to
self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness
brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these
things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who
lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has
forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10 Therefore,
brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure,
for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an
entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. |
LET
US REMAIN FOCUSED
Let us
never lose focus of our goal as coinheritors in God's glorious
invisible kingdom; may we not admire the multitudes that turn aside
unto gain of this world rather that the glory of God. In fact the
world of appearances portrays that we are in the minority when we
walk in this faith but open your eyes in the spirit and behold the
innumerable company of saints in our camp. Like the servant of
Elijah's eyes were opened to behold myriads of heavenly host, let us
always remind ourselves that they that are with us are more than
they that be against the Christ. Who are those against Christ ?
Those who fail to acknowledge this mystery and gather into Him.
Let us stir up
the gift of God within us unto eternal life by arising from the bed
of slumbering and follow on unto the end. Let us never let the
remembrance of the of this revelation of the glory with drown in the
deep places of the world. I say this sadly because I observe that
many that started off with us have gone to sleep. The manifestation
of Christ to humanity and His teachings are the only things to hold
on to dearly, because there is no other thing to gain or possess
apart from that immortal light and glory of God.
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2Timothy 1:6-10 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that
thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the
putting on of my hands. 7 For God hath not given us the
spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound
mind. 8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of
the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began, 10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our
Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath
brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
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Like
the bible say's let no man rob you of your reward, in other words
let us not be lured away by men who seem to prosper in this world
nor should we be intimidated by they who do not have the revelation
of the mystery that has been given unto us. Let us leave aside
bitterness and come in to love the name of the Lord.
God
Bless
Trevor
Eghagha
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