CAN A BELIEVER GO TO HELL?

 CAN A BELIEVER GO HELL?
So many Christians are living in fear not knowing what has been done for them by the finished work of Christ on the cross. They struggle to please God thinking that self abilities is what guarantee acceptance with God. But not knowing God has been pleased In Christ for us.

Before I answer let's see what hell is and who it is meant for with scriptures. firstly hell as a term in the old testament and new testament have different words but almost similar in description the old testament was written in Hebrew while the new was written in Greek and the words used were mainly influence by the language usage of that time.

she'ôl

this is the Hebrew  word for hell and it means
sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit the underworld Sheol - the OT designation for the abode of the dead place of no return without praise of God,  wicked sent there for punishment righteous not abandoned to it, the place of exile (figuratively)of extreme degradation in sin

Now take a look at the Greek meaning of same word and who it is meant for.

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment
2nd Peter 2:4

Take a look at the meaning. The word is

tartaroo

the name of the subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to Gehenna of the Jews to thrust down to Tartarus, to hold captive in Tartarus

Now understand this that not for the believer  hell is meant for the wicked who has no memory of God

Psalms 9:17   The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

I had to go through all this description to show u that hell is meant for the devil the wicked and those without the memory of God take another look at this

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s unique Son

We believe then we are saved from hell and all of judgment. Our salvation is a total package. Our redemption was fully paid for. who has translated us  from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son.

What takes people to hell is one singular sin the rejection of the free gift of salvation which is Christ. A believer may sin but he is not condemned. sin has been paid for already when you live in sin you degrade your value,  place yourself in the level of the devil oppression but still u are saved but living stupid and God love you even in your  stupidest way and wants you to gain knowledge out of sin. Many believe that once you sin your salvation is lost hear this sin cannot take away your salvation.

Hebrews 5:9   And being made perfect, he became the author OF ETERNAL SALVATION unto all them that obey him;

just like doing good deed never made any right before God  or accepted,  because of the nature of the devil in man until that nature is put off in Christ man remain rejected.  so also now that he has put on Christ bad deeds will not make him go to hell.  but one beautiful thing is this he cannot keep on doing evil because that nature has been taken away it's called the old man and his deeds.  and now I put on the new man Renew according to the image of Christ.

Romans 6:6   Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.   Colossians 3:9   Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

And I know you will begin to shine and Excel in the knowledge of Christ don't give room to the devil grow in knowledge and understanding this is what the father want for us.

Romans  5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.  5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

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GROW IN GRACE 3

GROW IN GRACE,

This is the third part of our grow in grace series


After salvation, the next thing is Growing into maturity or reality of what saves you and that you are saved for... Not rapture or death...

If making heaven was next after salvation, you ought to have died the day you Believed... (Or Don't you think that would have gotten God fulfilled faster if that was the case?)

If all we have access to in this world is HOPE for something that we can't get now, then we are of all men most miserable

What is it that God has that he can't afford to give us now?

Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

1 Corinthians 13:11-12
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Now this is another scripture that they use to advocate their after the rapture theology, adulterating the word of God to suit their ignorance of the truth and of the power of God. But we are not of them 2cor.2:17

Paul said when He was a Child... Then he talked about when he became a man... So if he didn't become a man after rapture, He can't be meaning that he will know 'himself' as he is known after rapture... He didn't even add after rapture to it... So where did the idea that after rapture we shall have perfect knowledge comes from?... It is from satan... We ought to have perfect knowledge now... And God's people still perish because of lack of perfect knowledge... There is NOTHING there is to Know that you cannot know NOW

He said THEN... I shall know as I am known... Please why must your own knowing be after rapture?... Ehen?

God knows you as His righteousness, why must you wait till after rapture to know this truth and literally manifest it? Why? Tell me I want to hear...

He said THEN I shall know... The 'THEN' is when He grows up spiritually and stop doing things like a baby Christian...

A baby Christians has only very little difference between them and an unsaved man, in fact it takes the gift of discernment to know their difference... They could still think and act exactly the same stuffs...

GROW up!!!! Grow..!!!!!!!!!!! I say again Grow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't wait for rapture, Grow

Philippians 3:20-21
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Can you see something?
The word "FOR" the Lord Jesus there should have been translated as "UNTO"...

We as believers DO NOT look for Jesus, Jesus is not missing... Rather We look unto Him, (looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of your faith) and as we do, we are being changed from glory to glory, our Vile body is being metamorphosed my the working of His Glorious power like unto His Glorious Body, it is then we will say death has been swallowed Up in victory... It is then sickness will no longer exist in our world. Our mortal body is being quickened so that it will stop being mortal...

Romans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Quicken is same as Give-Life-to

This makes me pray, this makes me meditate, this makes me cry with so strong a passion, I want to Know Him, I want to know the power that was so mighty as to raise Him out of death all by itself, I want know the fellowship of His suffering for me, I want to enjoy all that he suffered to get for me, I want to become regulated and conformed to the version of His death and the product of his resurrection, I want to attain all that he has attained for me... Not after rapture, it makes no uniqueness then if at all... The world which is currently encroached with corruption eagerly waits for me to manifest incorruption to it now...

Oh my... Thank God I can behold Him with unveiled face... Oh I am being changed... This body that I wear is made alive by the word of God, not by blood...

It is no more vile, it is no more mortal... It has taken so much Life, it is no more natural, it has Been affected by the quality of life that's in my spirit...

Don't put a new wine in an Old wine skin... The Holy spirit in me is the NEW WINE, and my once upon a time mortal body is the new wine skin... If it can't be made new, the power that broke Jesus through the grave would have torn whatever is mortal in it apart...

The wine is so new, No old wine skin can Hold it...It will tear... No mortality can carry God's power and not experience the Power.

1thess.5:23 says my Body is SEALED or PRESERVED by the spirit, Not only my soul, Not only my spirit But my body also...

This is Growth...

Colossians 2:6-7
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

How did you received Jesus the Lord? You should have received Him as someone who died and resurrected again by the working of God's mighty power... So walk ye in him that way, Live as resurrected, walk in Him, and in the power of His resurrection, Be established in the word of God... Grow up!

After paul has looked deep into the wealth of the riches of God's inheritance for the saints, He couldn't stop praying for the believers... He saw How deep we could express this divine power and Nature that the Gospel has made available to us

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GROW IN GRACE part 2

GROW IN GRACE,

We continue this series on growing in  grace make sure you must have read the previous part. Keep winning keep growing

See the beautiful promises of Jesus to the believers he bought with his precious blood

Luke 10:19
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Mark 16:17-18
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

But he that believes must grow up in what he believes in to manifest the "SHALLS". Not after rapture, they are signs, signs of maturity in the mystery of the Gospel of Christ.

Romans 8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

He didn't say manifestations of the believers, he also didn't say Children, He says Sons... Sons here is what the greek language calls 'Huios' it means a matured son, it means a Grown up child. A Child that can be an ambassador on the behalf of His father, A son that thinks like God, talks like God, Knows what the father knows, feels what the father feels, is driven by what drives the father, and He perfectly sees Himself the way the father sees Him...

I don't believe that manifestation is referring to sometimes after Rapture... No No No, it is referring to when your handkerchiefs and aprons begins to heal the sick like paul's, when your shadows like peter's begins to make sick people healed... The word of God talks about all this so that we can see stuffs to mature into...

Romans 8:18
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Now someone will say, He is talking about after rapture... After what? Does he mention rapture there? Does the believer have to die to have the Glory of God revealed in Him? (The bible says the believer is called to Glory 2pet.1:3) You better Grow to show forth God's Glory Now... God said He has Glorified you... Grow to manifest it... Grow UP... Stop sitting around church pews listening to stories on how you cannot loose salvation... Grow... After salvation, what next is not Rapture or death or making heaven, What Next is GROWTH... Paul grew, peter grew, John grew, Even Jesus Grew, Not only physically but spiritually.

How dare you not grow?

The Glory will be revealed in you... Not only when we are raptured, But Even NOW... That's if we grow....

See Jesus' prayer...

John 17:5
And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

And we as believers can pray in this manner today... He says "And NOW o father... Glorify me Now... Not after sometimes... Not after rapture, not after death, But NOW

The desire of the righteous shall be granted, but that's if he has a desire, that's if like apostle paul, he has something he passionately looks forward to in His spiritual walk as he matures...

Philippians 3:10-14
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Can you see a desire to Grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus in paul?

Paul wanted to Know Christ... Can you imagine? the person that has appeared to Him several times, and this was after he could see death as an option, he could now be choosing between whether to depart from this world or not to... He was bit on his wrist by a viper, he didn't die, the viper died instead, and you think his physical body was still mortal?

He want to Know Christ so much that he would literally attain the resurrection of the dead... Let me help you understand that... Paul wanted to literally live like a person who once died and is now resurrected, Never to die again... Not by dyeing and resurrecting but through attainment by any means... Can you feel this?

2 Corinthians 4:10
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Always bearing the consciousness of Jesus' vicarious death in my emotions and consciousness so that my physical bodies can manifest divine Life...

Paul wanted to, before he left the earth be able to attain and apprehend all that Christ has apprehended for him, He wants to literally become what the word of God reveals by the spirit in him...

He knew that immortality has been brought to Light through the gospel 2tim.1:10, He knew that death has been destroyed and abolished but now he wants this truth be made literally real through Knowing Christ...

This Knowledge is not talking about having an idea in your head...
It is the kind of Knowledge that makes you that which you know or that which the knowledge talks about...
You literally become one with what you know, that's the knowledge we are talking about here...
It is only by a consistent fellowship with the spirit of reality that this can be done...

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

He says we are Changed as we behold(grow)...
To be continued.........

Grace and glory team......

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GROW IN GRACE

We are going to be going through  a series on grace this period remain blessed

GROW IN GRACE, part 1

There are Lots of errors that has been allowed in the body of Christ by many of his members today that aches my precious heart whenever I see how strong this errors has built mind sets in certain of them and some of these errors are already taking the shape of truth with many people's view, many great preachers have adopted them as their truth, they actually make sense to us in a way, but little do we know that the fact that it makes sense does not makes it truth, so we never questioned them, we Just nod whenever we hear them, but they are assumptions, they are Branded lies, they are seeds of satan, they are demonic influences, they are messages of darkness taking the appearance of light messages, they are nothing but misunderstood word of God, arranged by canal and satanic minds.

So, I am sure the word of God DOES NOT agree with such delusions...

(You will understand, just read on)

The truth is; after you became a new creation, Born again by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1pet.1:3) you became a new born baby in Christ... 1pet,2:2 There are so many things a baby cannot do, even if he sees a lot of people doing it, even though he makes attempt, yet he can't, Just because he is still a babe.
When he grows, he may be able to...

Galatians 4:1-2
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

There are appointed times by the father, and this appointed times are not on any calendar, the time are fixed on your level of growth, not until a particular age in years spent in school of theology, But on a particular stage of your spiritual growth... You may live for the next 2000 years, but if you refuse to Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, you Just will not get it right...
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So God like  every mother is desiring that you Grow first, when(TIME) you grow, you will manifest... That's God's principle. It is the principle appointed of the father...

So the error many at times is having not grown, and yet setting the limitation of divine realities in our minds by our immature personal experiences, pushing the obvious ones in scriptures to after rapture and not even seeing the essence of spiritual growth...

There are so many beautiful things the word of God talks about that our canal minds naturally and conveniently shrinks from, we do not push it to when we grow up, But into AFTER RAPTURE... This is disheartening to God.

We push certain experiences of God's power to the age to come, when the bible calls us the partakers of the power of the age to come... So even if there are powers that are meant for the age to Come, we should partake of it NOW if only we can behold it, Desire it and mature into it...

What happens in most cases is that the moment we look at the word of God, and what it clearly talks about, and we know we are yet to be manifesting them, there is this carnality that makes us comfortably conclude that we shall be able to, But that's when we are raptured...

My question is what good does it do us then? What is the significance of Light in the midst of light? Is it not Darkness that gives Light its relevance? Would there still be darkness for you to shine through after rapture? You better wake up! It is Here Now that you can manifest the Glory of God, it is Now that you should reign in life, Now that Darkness is covering the earth and Gross darkness the people, it is Now that you Can show forth all of the Fullness of God that is in You...

I come to announce to you that you have been badly deceived if you got such a poor mindset about the word of God as something that will only become real after rapture... the enemy has done this... I wish and pray that you will be bold enough as not to allow such error in your life...

You are stronger, you are a Man or Woman of God, God is counting so Much on you, we are in the last hour, The world has waited so much for you to manifest who you are in Christ, you can't afford to fail God like some did, God is counting so much on You, He is anxious to work Great and mighty works in you, But the limitation is your mind set, you think certain things are only possible after rapture... But they are not only possible then, they also are even NOW...

Follow me, let's ride

To Be continued....

Grace and glory

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NO CONDEMNATION

As we live and experience so many things in life our thoughts and lifestyle are shaped by theses experience. But I would want to encourage believer to let their life be govern by the word of God  because the experience of the word produces the best life for a believer. Because of wrong experiences  and wrong messages lots and lots of Christians are living in condemnation . 

Condemnation is in two forms. 

one is you disapproving yourself because of what you have done or not done. 

 while the second.  is the feelings of getting a sentence of punishment because of an act.  We are going to be dealing with these two forms. 

John  3:17

 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

This scripture show us the intention of God towards us. God is not out to judge us or to Condemn us. His mission is for our salvation from all that the devil can offer. So one of Christ's mission is to free us from self condemnation and expected condemnation. 

Romans  8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Take a close look at that scripture it's makes it categorically clear that the those who are in Christ are not in any form of  judgement why? Because for you to be free from condemnation you must have a place in Christ Jesus. This is the understanding of the substitution work that Jesus has done for us. In His death burial and Resurrection  Christ took our place of sin,our place of death, our place of condemnation in all things.  The work of the cross is so clear it's for judgement to be taken away in the body of Christ. So Christ paid in full for us to be free from all judgement which we were supposed to face but Christ faced it for us all. Declaring us not guilty declaring us justify. 

NOW that we know we are not condemned because Christ took or our condemnation and paid the price for our judgement we are to live a life that is free from all negatively imagined judgement. When we make mistakes God does not leave us or does he allow us to be punished. Sometimes Christians feel that once you make a mistake God is waiting to punish you No!  Your punishment has been lifted. God cannot punish an offence twice, God punished Christ on our  behalf. 

John  8:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?  8:11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

This above story shows a woman who has committed a wrong and was punishable by law so they brought her to Jesus wanting a confirmation of condemnation but you will recall that His mission was not to condemn but to save.  Such kind of love has never been seen before in the history of mankind. She was wrong she was set for judgement but just as they waited Jesus showed us that no man can Condemn us so he also will not Condemn us. If our make has made us free let us live freely.  

I know you will say what if I keep doing wrong won't I be condemned I tell you this. your wrong cannot put God away from you.  It's you who run because you feel you have done too much wrong to be accepted by God again. But I tell you as much as your sins may be there is enough grace to help you.  This grace builds God's love within you and help you live right because all what it takes is the grace of God. His love is greater than our sins

Romans  5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

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