Born Again!!

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

LOOK AT THE CROSS

LOOK AT THE CROSS.

Luke23:35 to 46

35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,

37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

 43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

44 ¶ And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. {earth: or, land}

45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

And in John 3:14

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

The Lord Jesus Christ who is the author and finisher of how faith, started his great work of redemption, liberation and reconciliation on the cross.

          The message God is driving into our hearts today, is that of a clarion call to do nothing else but to just  “look at the Cross”  even though we are not required to travel all the way to Golgotha to do this, at least not physically, or to watch a movie of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, but what is required of us is to humble our hearts  under the Holy spirit and let the words of the Bible give insight to our spiritual eyes to behold Jesus and the whole event of Golgotha in perhaps a different light, different but important.

          This new light will only come into our spirit by teachings and understanding brought about by the works of the Holy spirit in our lives. Beginning with a proper understanding of each word, sentence and verse of our key text and other related verses of the bible. This is a necessity to receiving the message of the Holy Spirit from Calvary on this glorious day.

Understanding Calvary.

          A vivid picture of Calvary on this glorious day would reveal the following parties and activities.

Chapter 23: 35       1.       The people stood looking,

                             2.       The Rulers sneering and mocking

Verse 36                3.       Soldiers mocking and offering soured wine to Jesus Christ

They wrote an inscription of the charges brought against him. But by the providence of God the inscription exculpated Christ and proved to his crucifiers to be rebels against God and murderers of the king. Matt 27:37:

And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

It is not to be wondered that they wished Pilate to alter the inscription. John 19:21 as it was recorded of their infamy.

19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

 20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.

The Cross.

God doesn’t do things by accident, He never makes mistakes for he is the chief planner of the entire universe, He orchestrate everything to happen this way and under this circumstances for the  scriptures says in Ecclesiastics 3: 11:

He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

This have settled all questions that our minds might have, these questions may include:

·         Why crowd, rulers and solders and did they acted the way they did?

·         Why should there be only two male factors?

·         Why must they have been condemned to crucifixion on the cross, on the same day and time as that which would mark a change to the entire history of this world.

The answers to these questions would only mean that God have a very important message that he wants us to learn from the cross of Christ.

The word “robbers” as used in the King James Version is translated as “rebel” in the today’s New Living Translation. These two malefactors on the cross are of cause crucified for their sins, this remains the ultimate faith of all mankind who have not been saved for the scriptures says in:

Romans 3:23         For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

and

Romans 6:23          For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The malefactors on the cross are symbolic of the whole human races. The bible says in the book of Isaiah 53: 6:

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. {laid...: Heb. made the iniquity of us all to meet on him}

Just as sinners and rebels that we are we deserved the punishment of sinners as prescribed by the scriptures in Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ezekiel 18:20

 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

And James 1:15:

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The process of death by sin is often a gradual growing process but its effect is very devastating.

The rebels were not nailed to the cross they were tied to it. This is significant of the fact that in most cases, our willingness to remain in sin, that keeps us bound by sin. For we are not nailed to sinful conducts, we are only tied to them, because of the habitual control that sin posses and the nature of sin, Sin always find a home in the hearts of human wherever they may be. Sin have always remain at home in our hearts and its power is so domineering that we always find the war unwinnable when we try in our own effort, but the great news is that we can be loosed and set free, if we possess the willingness to depart from our sinful ways the power of God is available wherever and whenever to set us free. To this the Apostle Paul cried in Rom 7: 24:

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

We have been tied to the cross and left for death by the greatest enemy of man (sin). The absence of God breads Sin, for God attracts the Opposite of sin which is Holiness and righteousness.

Christ died for the ungodly.

          Jesus died along side these two criminals he bore the sins of the world and paid the price, Hebrew 2:9:

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

His suffering on Calvary was great, he did not die of a broken bone but of a broken heart, for even the charges for which he was crucified had exculpated him of any wrong doing deserving death, but all this happen so that the scriptures will be fulfilled, John 1:29:

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.  

The Lord Jesus Christ suffered separation from God the father Matthew 27: 46:

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

He wasn’t tied to the cross like the others, but was nailed and died suffering the ultimate fate for sins, which is death by serving the punishment for the sins of men.

          The truth is that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, he died for the criminal who said in Luke 23:39 “save yourself and us” not excluding the second criminal that spoke in chapter 40:

“do you not fear God, seeing that you and I are under the same condemnation…”

However, our response to the cross is what determines our destiny, is it going to be a glorious victory over the enemy of our soul or a sad condemnation to eternal darkness. The clear result for both of the criminals actions on the cross, holds a lot for us to learn, perhaps this is the most important message that the Holy Spirit of God would want  us to learn. One earned eternal damnation while the other earn salvations for his soul, the salvations which he received can never be exemplified in more beautiful words than those used they the Lord Jesus Christ when he said “Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise..”

Here we have the opportunity to rewrite our life history, this criminal have lived all his days in evil, he have committed so much evil and wrong that the corrupt justice of the world have no remedy for him, but to make him face the worst sanctions there is, which is death. For God meet with him not when he was in the world fulfilling the lust of his heart, not when he was caught, tried and imprisoned and not when the sentence was issued, he earned salvation for himself right on the cross just before he died, praise God! He wouldn’t have chosen a better time in accordance to His Wisdom. The rebel that was called into God’s kingdom also played his part, he believed in the Lord ship of the Lord Jesus thereby fulfilling the scriptures in John 1:12 to 13

12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:                                                                                                

  13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

                                                                                                                                

Today the voice of God is calling his power is available to give that which you soul needs above else, it is the Lord Jesus that gives salvation, the set one free, he is the only one that have won the battle against sin, this is evident in the scriptures that he was found without sin, and now he has offered to help us win this battle against the enemy of our soul all that we need to do is to believe in him. Please hearken to him and let your story be transformed from hell to heaven, remember there were two criminals and they remained criminals but the story changed in the sense that only woke up to find himself in hell and the other one joined the saints in paradise. Heaven is where we do not deserve but God in his righteousness gave the opportunity to all as he is presently doing to you. What is your response?

New Year Message.

We thank God for making it possible for us to have seen another year, the year 2011. this year we at Gospel For all Nations will be committed to doing the work that have been given to us and spreading the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, as we continue to remain a tool in the hands of the Creator we pray that God finds us worthy vessels to be used by Him.

Even though we will want to, we will not set any limits on our expectations for this year we a totally sold out to the will of the Holy Spirit.... and as such we can only expect that His will for us be done this year.

So we implore you to continue to pray for us and this great task that God have committed into our hands so that we can redeem the time for the days her evil.

Thank you and continue to dwell in the love of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Gospel To All Nations

The aim of this blog is to start in a little way what the promises of God will be perfected in, for this is just our day of little beginnings. Gospel for all nations is a mandate and instruction given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ in Mark 16: 15.
“He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creations”. TNIV. Also in Mathew 28:19.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (NKJV)
This Gospel is for all Nations, the people of all tribes, to the people of every country, every state, province etc. it is the word that dwells on the truth, the very truth that sets one free. It is the truth about the Son and his absolute authority to set us free indeed. He is also the Light John 1:5 the very light that lighted everything that commet into the world John 1:9. He is the life John 1: 4, the very bread of life, in him we are have life and life abundantly. A summary of this attribute of Jesus succinctly embodied in the great claim of John 14:16 which say:
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
We preach this word to all creations, regardless of their background, origin, status, occupation, social and economic conditions etc. this word is the message that every human needs, it answers to the urgent and ever crying needs of the inner heart of every human being on the face of the earth, in this world we are not all equal as a result of varying reasons, some may be as a result of our actions or inactions or even as a result of other superseding circumstances. What makes the difference at the end of every human life is this: have you heard the word? And if you did what was your response to it? This is the most important distinguishing ground that will stand at the end.
The word which is made for all creation is the word that was from the beginning John 1:1, the world was with God and the word was God. It was through the word that the whole earth was created and nothing was created without the word John 1:3. The word became flesh and He dwelled amongst us and we beheld his glory the glory of the only begotten of God who is full of Grace and Truth John 1: 14. Our cry today on the streets of the whole earth is perfectly similar to that of the Samaritan woman of John 4: 29 which say:
Come, see a Man who…….. (NKJV)
We are calling to every creation to come and hear the word, most importantly because we profess what we have received because we believed Him. Jesus is the message to all Creation and the entire world, still after over 2000 years he is still the proven answer for the world today.
In the cause of these periodicals we would like to state that we are a voluntary, non-denominational organization, we are not a church and will not be structured as one, the mandate given to us is to preach the undiluted, uncompromised, unedited and every refreshing word of God to the Nations of the world. We believe in the supremacy of the Bible as God’s Holy word and the primary Authority and Constitution and ground norm of our Holy Faith. for after all it is the truth, the very truth as contained in the scriptures that sets us free from the law of sin and death and more so the world is in need of manifest libration now more than ever before.
In the course of bringing these message to all nations through these medium, we would also from time to time publish messages of exemplary Men and Women of God who were not necessarily Pastors, or Reverend or men of God as could be simply put, but where those that most importantly knew their God and without any iota of doubt have been referred to as GOOD CHRISTIAN. We will explore the life and messages of people like R. A Torrey, Smith Wigglesworth, D. L Moody and the inexhaustible list of the numerous Fathers of the faith and also from contemporary men of God, who preach a balance Gospel.
We surely trust in God to carry these messages to the world, because it is the Holy Spirit that convicts one of sin, righteousness and judgment and we wish above all the work of ours will have a lasting impact on your lives.

Bro. Simon Atai Paul
For Gospel to all Nation International.