10/09/2021
Let me be blessed to share with you the first part of my book.
BECOME A SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN IN END TIMES.
INTRODUCTION.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, it is your Brother Banyelera Donald called to be a minister of Christ after being redeemed and bought with the blood of Jesus Christ, when the grace of God appeared to me while I was still a sinner, grace and peace be with u. Amen.
The spirit of God has inspired to me with the truth of God's word, on how to become a spiritual Christian and to know the real truth of the word of God, not being taken with the false teaching and doctrines of the end time season,
In this book, I am so blesses to share what the spirit has put on my heart and hope that you who read it will also be blessed too as you get to know more the word of God and what God wants you to do while you are still in this world.
Grace, peace and joy always be to you. Amen.
CONTENTS
1. God's plan to mankind.
2. Sin in the world.
3. God's plan of reconciliation.
4. God's plan for salvation to all mankind.
5. Christ born into the world to bring God's salvation.
6. Apostle Paul's teaching strengthening the Church.
7. Love in the Christians.
8. Be awake! End time false teaching comes.
GOD'S PLAN TO MANKIND.
In the beginning God created heaven and earth, (Genesis 1: 1) and after God creating heaven and earth, he separated heaven from earth, and in six days he made all his creation, but after creating all, he said, " let us make man in our own image, in our own likeness"(Genesis 1: 26).
What does it mean if we read the above scripture? In all creatures created on earth, there is only one creature which was only created in the image of God and in the likeness of God, this means that God had a very big plan for that creature, which is man.
Therefore let us know why God decided to create mankind in his own image and likeness, because God wanted some one to represent him on earth, to have dominion over all his creation on earth,(Genesis 1:26
[26]Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”).
God created mankind and gave him authority over all creation because he was his representative on earth, God gave mankind to eat and drink from his creation, (Genesis 1:29
[29]Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.) he set apart a garden of Eden for him to get food, (Genesis 2:8
[8]Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.), God wanted to rule the earth with mankind but because man became disobedient to God, all the authority which was given to him, was taken and man started to suffer on earth which he was stay on in peace and joy representing the image of his creator.
God had created man to be eternal on earth, with no death, he had created man to long live on earth but because of his disobedience, death came on earth, and the earth was cursed because of the disobedience of man and God's plan for mankind was cancelled by God after rebellion.
SIN IN THE WORLD.
What happened to mankind? How did mankind fell short of the glory of God? We are going to start from the beginning and see how sin came on earth in the book of Genesis 3(Genesis 3:1-3
[1]Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
[2]The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
[3]but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”).
My dear reader this is the origin of sin after the woman telling the serpent the secret between God and man, the woman never kept the secret and this brought death to all mankind, that secret was not to be told any creature on earth, because in that secret was mankind's righteousness and autority but after revealing that secret to the serpent , man fell from the groly of God which brought death on earth.(Genesis 3:6,13-14,16-19
[6]When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
[13]Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
[14]So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
[16]To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
[17]To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
[18]It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
[19]By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”).
What do we learn from this as Christian of today? We have to know the source of our righteousness, redemption, and autority, we have to be knowledgeable to the word of God not to be deceived with anything, as we see in Genesis, the woman accepted to be deceived by the serpent which brought the fall of all human race .(Genesis 3:3-4
[3]but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
[4]“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.).
We have to be knowledgeable to all advises that are given to us and judge whether they bring to us in the good relationship with our God the Father who is art in heaven.
It is my prayer for you that God continue to give you his spirit and be inspired more and more. Amen.
GOD'S PLAN OF RECONCILIATION.
After sin coming on the saface of the earth, the earth was cursed, death was introduced on earth, all authority was taken from mankind and mankind was to suffer all the days of his life on earth and after sin, man started a struggling life on earth(Genesis 4:1-2
[1]Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
[2]Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.)
Through this time of struggling, God started his plan of reconciliation because he wanted man to return to the original purpose of why he was created, not only that, God was so gracious and lovely to man, he never wanted sin to rule over man and he started guiding mankind the way of living in righteousness.(Genesis 4:6-7
[6]Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?
[7]If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”).
God never left man because he had sinned, but he started guiding him what is right and what is evil, and through man listening to God's word, he lived and received righteousness, through hearing the voice of God and obeying it, this was the first way of living to all human race in the beginning time. (Genesis 6:13-15
[13]So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
[14]So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
[15]This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.), through hearing and obeying God's word, man lived righteous in the sight of God(Romans 4:3
[3]What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”).
This is the first way of living to human race and let me be blessed to share with you the second way of living which is the living according to the law, that after man resisting to listen to God's voice, God decided to put law on man that who ever does what the law says, receives righteousness from the works of the law(Exodus 20:1-17
[1]And God spoke all these words:
[2]“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery
[3]“You shall have no other gods before me.....), and this second way of living man had to walk under law or he was a slave of the law,(Romans 10:5
[5]Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”).
After the law given to mankind in the process of bringing man back to God, man never obeyed the law, his heart became hard that he could not do what the law commanded him to do.(Exodus 32:31
[31]So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold.), in the above scripture man never did what the law commanded him to do, and so God again was angry and he decided to destroy man but again God never gave up with man, he continued his plan on how he can bring man back to him.
Let's know the third plan for God on how to bring man back to him after man failing to obey the law and getting astray from God's law(Exodus 33:5
[5]For the Lord had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.’ ”).
God in his third plan of reconciliation, he deceived to put prophets so that when ever man sins, the prophets could guide man what God wanted him to do, the prophets did the work of God but again man never listened to them,(Isaiah 1:2-4
[2]Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!
For the Lord has spoken:
“I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.
[3]The ox knows its master,
the donkey its owner’s manger,
but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand.”
[4]Woe to the sinful nation,
a people whose guilt is great,
a brood of evildoers,
children given to corruption! ....).
Prophet Isaiah was used by God to bring man back to the will of God but man never listen to him nor to other prophets and God planed another plan of reconciliation which is the plan of today, the plan of salvation, the plan that brought God's only son Jesus Christ, the great God's plan is the plan of salvation.(Isaiah 53:1-5
[1]Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
[2]He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
[3]He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
[4]Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
[5]But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.).
Jesus Christ the great plan to bring all human race back to God through the paying of a great price of shedding blood to the redemption of all mankind.
GOD'S PLAN FOR SALVATION TO ALL MANKIND.
Gos's grace and love is abundant to man, he has never let him down , because he loves him, as we have been reading in the scriptures before, if it was me or u, would have given up with man, but God is not like human beings, God is God by his name YAHWEH, he made an everlasting plan in which all mankind will be reconciled and this is a plan of salvation(John 14:6
[6]Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.), all human race wiil get a way to God the Father only through Jesus Christ, no any other name given under the heaven that man will receive salvation except the name of Jesus(Acts 4:11-12
[11]Jesus is
“ ‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the cornerstone.’
[12]Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”) only the name of Jesus can bring salvation to all mankind.
God himself prepared an eternal rest to all human race which is in Jesus, let's first look in the book of psalms (Psalm 95:10-11
[10]For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
[11]So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ”), let's see on God's rest, these Israelites always kept the Sabbath which they knew that it was the only God's rest, but we read in the above scripture God swearing in his anger that they shall never enter his rest, this means that God prepared a rest for all those who fear him and this rest is in Jesus Christ(Matthew 11:28
[28]“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.), it is only in Jesus Christ that God put his rest that all who are weary and burdened will receive their rest,, let's see on God's rest, these Israelites always kept the Sabbath which they knew that it was the only God's rest, but we read in the above scripture God swearing in his anger that they shall never enter his rest, this means that God prepared a rest for all those who fear him and this rest is in Jesus Christ(Matthew 11:28
[28]“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.), it is only in Jesus Christ that God put his rest that all who are weary and burdened will receive their rest.
All mankind will receive eternal life only in Jesus Christ and God sent Christ to redeem all who believes in him(John 3:16-18
[16]For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
[17]For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
[18]Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.)
We therefore have only one option of believing in Christ and receive God's salvation or remain sinners awaiting for the reward of sinner when the time of judgement comes, because God has put salvation in Christ, that who so ever believes in him is pardoned, our lovely God has never given up with us but he is always there ready to forgive all those who come to him with a humble spirit asking for forgiveness (Psalm 8:4
[4]what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?) This question is very hard to answer but the simple answer for it is that God loves us and doesn't want to see us perishing.
CHRIST BORN IN TO THE WORLD TO BRING GOD'S SALVATION
The coming of Christ into the world was not an accident but it was fore told by prophet Isaiah that he will come(Isaiah 9:6
[6]For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.) Not only that, but even the angel of the LORD also prophesied the birth of Christ(Matthew 1:20-21
[20]But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
[21]She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”), this gives all mankind to understand that Christ came from God and in him there is salvation and without him, there is no salvation for man.
Christ came into the world like us because he wanted to be like man though he was from God, in oder to bring the word of God to all who listened in him(Luke 2:5-7
[5]He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
[6]While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born,
[7]and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.) The birth of Christ was amazing that no one expected a savior to be born in a manger but the humble and the wise understood the mystery of God and went to worship him.
In his chi!dwood he had wisdom that all who heard his words understood that he was a special child, a child different from other children(Luke 2:46-47
[46]After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
[47]Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.)
His baptism was amazing that every one who saw what happened understood that he came from God(Luke 3:21-22
[21]When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened
[22]and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”) his teaching was amazing, he had compassion to the people, the miracles he performed show he came from God(Mark 6:2
[2]When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. “Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing?) Jesus Christ is the savior of all mankind to all who believe in him.
He call all who needs God's salvation to come to him(John 11:25
[25]Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;) he is the light of the world(John 8:12
[12]When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”).
Christ Jesus died for the sins of all mankind so that all who believe in him receives the forgiveness of their sins, in him all who believe will be pardoned (Matthew 9:6
[6]But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”, John 8:24
[24]I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”).
