Saints of the Living God, GREETINGS!
Our theme or subject is “The Easter
It is another week, and we thank and rejoice
in the Living God, our Heavenly Father,
through the Lord Jesus Christ, for His
provision, love, care, and his indwelling
peace in us by the Divine Person of the Holy
Spirit.
Main Bible Scripture:
1Peter 2 v 24
Other Associated Scriptures: Matthew 27
v 35, Mark 15 v 24, Luke 23 v 33, John 19 v
17-18 and so on.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, in the Name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for
another week of divine health, divine peace,
divine provision and divine wisdom and
revelation of God, the Father of spirits. We
come today, this very hour, in our own
accord, to feed our born-again spirit
beings with the rich nutrient of God’s Holy
Word. We agree that your Word is the truth.
We trust the Holy Spirit to bring the light of
God’s Word into our minds and the
direction of that Word into our spirits. We
trust you, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we will
be doers of your Word and not hearers,
readers or speakers only. In Jesus Name.
Amen
Theme/Subject: The Easter Message
Message.”
The Easter message is really what the angel
and the Resurrected Christ instructed the
‘Women’ to go and tell the other disciples.
To go and tell what? To go and tell that
Jesus is risen from the dead (see Matthew
28 v 7). We also noted that when Christ
Jesus was raised from the dead; we were
also raised with Him from spiritual
death. The ‘we’ in my last sentence
signifies: you and I that are born-again in
Christ Jesus.
For God made us alive
spiritually with Christ and raised us up
together with Him and made us sat
together with Him at the right-hand of God
Almighty in the heavenly (see Ephesians 2 v
4-6). God did all that for us because of His
great love with which He loved us in
Christ Jesus. You need to renew your mind
to know that in Christ Jesus; you are
greatly loved by God. No one will ever love
you as the Father of spirits, loves you and I
in Christ Jesus. I know the boyfriend or
girlfriend that you are now dating or seeing
may try to tell you that he loves you more
but that is not true. You will soon find that
out pretty quickly.
Your natural mother may try to tell you that
she loves you more but that is not true.
pg. 1
Your natural father may try to tell you that
nevertheless, not my will, but as You
he loves you more but that is not true. Your
best friends may try to tell you that they
love you more but that is not true. In Christ
Jesus, God greatly loves you. He greatly
loves me in Christ. Renew your mind to this
reality and continue to live a life of an
overcomer in Christ. Please pause and
reflect!
In series 01, we noted from God’s Word that
Jesus went to hell not because He
committed sin but because He allowed His
Father (now in Him, our Father) to put the
sins of the world on Him. He became the
very nature of the old serpent, Satan, on the
cross for us. He became our old nature. The
spiritual death nature. That is not the end;
He was the first born over all creation (see
Colossians 1 v 15).
1 Peter 2 v 24 reads “Who Himself (Jesus)
bore our sins in His body on the tree (the
cross), that we, having died to sins,
might live for righteousness – by His
stripes you were healed.”
The sinner commits sin(s). But He who
through obedience allowed sin to be put
on Him does not commit sin and therefore
is not a sinner.
Jesus prayed – “O My Father, if it is
possible, let this cup pass from Me;
will!” For the very first time, the Father of
spirits allowed the sins of the whole world
to be laid on Him or put on His Beloved
Son, our Lord Jesus. And in doing so, for
the first time, the Beloved Son was
separated from His Father or died
spiritually and entered hell not because
He committed any sin(s) but sin was laid on
Him. Because He had done no violence, nor
was any deceit in His mouth (see Isaiah 53
v 9).
Somebody may say ‘I cannot understand
that Jesus went to hell’.
My brother or sister, it is not about what
you can or cannot understand with your
naturally head but in Christ, it is all about
believing God’s Word in your spirit or in
your heart and practising the Word by
saying or doing. You and I in a million years
cannot understand God’s Word with our
heads but we can believe God’s Word in
our hearts or in our spirits.
The point here is that, allow Him go to hell.
He is our REPRESENTATIVE! Do not STOP
HIM. For if He did not go to hell, then you
and I had to go there and that would be the
end of us.
But Him, our Lord Jesus Christ, who knew
no sin, was made sin for us, so that in Him
pg. 2
we might become the righteousness of
the right-hand side of God with us by the
God (see 2 Corinthians 5 v 21). Jesus, our
Lord, ended-up in hell, defeated Satan and
all his forces and resurrected by the
operation of the Father. Out of the Father’s
great love; we were made alive with Christ
and He raised us up with Him and seated
us up with Him at the right-hand of the
Father with Christ (see Ephesians 2 v 4-7)
That was not the end of our journey with
Christ but it was the beginning of our New
Life of righteousness in Christ. Not by
works, lest, anyone should boast. Our
boasting as sons and daughters of the
Living God in Christ Jesus should be
centred on ‘who God the Father has made
us in the Resurrected Christ Jesus’ and what
He is working through us by the Holy Spirit
today for preaching Christ to the world.
It is Jesus who descended into the lower
parts of the earth (hell) and He is also the
One who ascended far above all heavens,
that He might fill all things (see Ephesians 4
v 8-10).
But the overarching point here is that we
need to continue to renew our minds to the
teachings of the Holy Scriptures that Jesus
descended into the LOWER PARTS OF THE
EARTH (Hell) and He that descended also
ascended far above the heavens to sit at
operation of the Father of spirits.
Sadly, many born-again children of God
have not renewed their minds to these
realities of what God’s Word teaches but
rather what their church doctrine and creed
teach and they become enslaved in their
minds by religious teachings instead of
teachings from Scripture as inspired by the
Holy Spirit. Many churches today teach
religion and not the true gospel of Christ
Jesus. To them, Jesus could not possibly go
to hell in their un-renewed minds but they
still nailed Him to the cross with their
ignorance of the word of God.
But we know from the teachings from the
Holy Written Word of God that Jesus was
nailed to the cross not for long. Jesus did
not spend too much time on the cross and
neither should you. Why? This is because
the cross is a place of defeat, fear, lack,
condemnation, suffering, and death.
Thank God for the cross of Jesus Christ. But
today, in Christ Jesus, you and I as sons and
daughters of the Living God are not
supposed to hang around the cross but
we are supposed to hang around the
throne of God. This is purely because of
who God has made us in Christ Jesus. Our
hang around place is not the cross but our
pg. 3
permanent hang around place is our
Father’s throne. We are invited to come
Around the throne of our heavenly Father
boldly to the throne of grace. In Christ, we
are sat confidently with Him in the heavenly
places at the right-hand side of God. The
right-hand side of God denotes a place of
Authority! Well, don’t just sit at the place of
authority in Christ and fail to exercise your
authority against the devil and his forces.
Are you still nailed to cross in your mind?
Then I will encourage you to renew your
mind to the spiritual realities of God’s Word
and come and hang around to the throne
of our Father with some of us and with the
twenty-four elders, with the four living
creatures and with the innumerable
number of the heavenly hosts and angels.
Come and take your rightful place in Christ
at the right-hand side of God as a dearly
son or daughter of the Living God. Jesus
endured the cross for us once and for all.
He is not still nailed to the cross, is He? No!
He is not. Why are you still nailed to the
cross in your mind as a child of God? Why
talk and yield to defeat, lack, sickness, fear
condemnation as a born-again child of
God? Why? I tell you why? It is because in
your mind you are still nailed to the cross
and trapped. But glory to God! Come over
to your rightful place in Christ – the throne
of your heavenly Father.
and at His right hand with Christ; we always
give the sacrifice of praise unto the Father
through Christ Jesus – our Lord! There we
give to Father the fruit of our lips through
Christ Jesus – thanksgiving and praises.
When you switched over to your rightful
place in Christ Jesus and exercise your
authority in Him, you are then able to give
thanks to God always in Christ (see 1
Thessalonians 5 v 16-18, Philippians 4 v 4).
You are then able to rejoice always in Christ.
You are then able to believe God and His
Word in your heart through Christ.
Believing is acting His Word. But you
cannot do that if you are still nailed to the
cross in your mind. Renew your mind to
realities of God’s Word. Please pause and
reflect!
O Apostle Thomas, but Jesus said “If
anyone desires to come after Me, let this
person denies himself, and take up his
cross, and follow Him (see Matthew 16 v
24.” Yes… Jesus did say that. I did not say
He did not. Did I? But know this, anyone
who is born-again in Christ Jesus has
already took his or her cross and is found
in Christ. Especially if this child of God puts
God and His Word into practice and
continues to grow in Christ.
pg. 4
Also, I like you to notice that when Jesus
In the Resurrected Christ Jesus, we have
said those words to His disciples, they were
not born-again in Christ Jesus. Eventually,
they were born-again after Jesus had
resurrected from hell, after He collected
every dropped of His own blood and after
He ascended and entered into the Most
Holy Place in heaven and after He
presented His own blood to the Father on
the heavenly altar. And after God, the
Father of spirits accepted His sacrifice and
glorified Jesus.
There, the Resurrected
Jesus obtained eternal redemption for us
all who will believe what He has done for
the world (see Hebrews 9 v 12). After all
this, the Resurrected Christ came back to
earth and appeared to many who
contributed to His earthly ministry and to
those who had believed in Him (see 1
Corinthians15 v 3 -9). This time though
Jesus came not with the natural body but
with the spiritual body, the incorruptible
body. From this point forward, all those
who believe in Him and receive Him as their
Lord and Saviour were born by the Father
of spirits and baptised with the Holy Spirit
and with fire. And in Christ, they rejected
the world where Satan is the ruler and
accepted the world of spiritual Life and
Righteousness through Christ Jesus.
already taken our crosses because we
have denied or rejected the world and its
ruler-
Satan!
For we are God’s
workmanship, created in Christ for good
works, which God prepared beforehand
that His children should walk in them (see
Ephesians 2 v 10, Colossians 1 v 13-14).
The Easter message is that Christ is RISEN!
He is Risen indeed! We were risen with Him.
Then, I will encourage you to renew your
minds to the realities of God’s Word and
take your rightful position in Christ – not
still hanging and nailing on the Cross and
in Hell in your un-renewed minds. But
rather taken your rightful place or position
in the Resurrected Christ Jesus. Begin to
perpetually hang around the throne of God
and at the right-hand of God in Christ Jesus
with perpetual praise and thanksgiving.
Happy Easter to you and your
households in Jesus Name. Amen
Closing Prayer
Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus we thank
you for your incorruptible living Word, that
Word has come to us, help us to be doers
thereof. In Jesus Name. Amen. To God be
the glory forever and ever in Jesus Name
by the power of the Holy Spirit. I know
pg. 5
that you are blessed by these teachings,
why don’t you share them with others to
be blessed also? It is also important to
get your feedback and how together,
through these teachings we are growing
in faith in God’s Holy Written Word.
Shalom!
To God be the glory forever and ever in
Jesus Name by the power of the Holy
Spirit. I know that you are blessed by
these teachings, why don’t you share
them with others to be a blessing also?
It is also important to get your feedback
and how together, through these
teachings we are growing in faith in
God’s Holy Written Word.
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By: Apostle Thomas Boakye
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