RE: When Angels Couldn't Marry, How Could They Produce Human Giants?

What About The Giants Who Lived During David's Time?

Question: Question: Just now, gone through your article 'When Angels Couldn't Marry, How Could They Produce Human Giants?', and my doubts clarified, Brother. We read about giants in 2 Samuel 21:16 - 22. Shed some light on this Scripture.

Answer: Greetings to you in Jesus wonderful name!

I thank God that you understood about the sons of God who were Giants during Noah's time and that your doubt's were clarified.

Yes we read about Giants also during David's time among the Philistines, who tried to come against David even after he had killed Goliath in his young days itself, who a little later became the King of Judah and then of the whole of the nation of Israel in the prime of his adulthood at around 30 years of age for the Glory of God.

We read about that in 2 Samuel 21:16-22 - "15 When the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint. 16 Then Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose bronze spear was three hundred shekels, who was bearing a new sword, thought he could kill David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.” 18 Now it happened afterward that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was one of the sons of the giant. 19 Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam. 20 Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant. 21 So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him. 22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. "

We see in the above reading, David the King of Israel was fighting "Ishbi-Benob, who was one of the sons of the giant" from Philistines, who thought he could kill David  because he was not able to handle this giant man for a moment of time. But immediately, Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine giant and killed him. Thank God for all the team with which we are blessed to work with. When David could not handle the enemy for a while, his fellow warriors were used by God so that David himself could humbly stay intact spiritually before God and others through his humility by acknowledging his need for others who fight the battles of God along with him.

We know that David took five smooth stones when he went to battle against Goliath, one stone for Goliath and the other four were for his Brothers who might have conveniently stayed back believing the power of their elder Brother Goliath, and thus were not present there on that day (1 Sam 17:40).

The team of warriors who fought with David their King respected his spiritual life and guidance so much, that they did not want him to come and fight with them or lose him in a dangerous situation they were, as we have seen above through the Giant slaying battle they were facing on behalf of the nation of Israel.

Thus it was those four warriors of David core team, who later when David became King of Israel, they battle against the four Philistines giants and completed the Giant slaying rout.

How tall was Goliath in reality? Normally, we equate him with a giant, as most Bible translations state that he was over nine feet tall (1 Samuel 17:4, NIV). The Masoretic Text, the Hebrew text that has long been accepted by the Jewish people, states that Goliath’s height was “six cubits and one span.” Taking a cubit to be approximately eighteen inches and a span to equal six, this figures to a height of approximately nine feet, six inches. It seems Goliath may have had some Anakim blood in him (see Deuteronomy 9:2).

Goliath's four other Brothers might have had the same gene transfer which could have made them to be the huge and powerful giants they were at that time. When people become trained warriors and gene starts to get aligned to its new found status, it starts to record the physical things of stature and the frame within to produce better copy of more powerful Giants in the succeeding generation and to give them a opportunity to excel through hard work. This is what the lineage of giants did!

The world questions the possibility of the Biblical measurement of 9 feet and above Giants. But wait, look at today's world itself, who is the tallest man in the world at present?

In 2009, Sultan Kösen became the first man over 8 ft to be measured by Guinness World Records for more than 20 years.

In fact, Guinness World Records only knows of ten confirmed or reliable cases in history reaching 8 ft or more.

The part-time farmer from Turkey was found to be a towering 246.5 cm (8 ft 1 in) in height and he took the iconic title of Tallest living man.

Two years later, the 26-year-old was measured again in Ankara, Turkey, by which time he had grown to a staggering 251 cm (8 ft 2.8 in).

Here just as Goliath in the Bible we see a classic case of Giantism, Sultan was born on 10 December 1982, but he didn’t start his incredible growth spurt until he was 10 years old.

The rest of his family, including his parents and four siblings, are all average size. I believe that this one man came apart from the rest of the family, because this one Gene could have come within his blood stream to cause a giant growth but other sibling being mixed with normal parents from other lineage, it made a difference to be the just normal like any other for all other people of his family. Sultan's unique growth and massive height, as the medical field calls it as a condition known as "pituitary gigantism", which is the result of an over-production of growth hormone.

Then, in October 2013, he finally fulfilled his dream of getting married. Sultan and Merve Dibo, who is nine years his junior and just 5 ft 9 in (1.75 metres) tall, met through a mutual friend. Merve travelled from her home of Hasaki, in Syria, to his village Dede köy in Turkey to meet him. They were married two months later.

We know that the gene of all humans have been in deterioration all the while from the day they sinned, that is why the age of humans have been reduced by God so that sufferings or curses upon them could be bore by them to a acceptable level or else everyone would not be able to live happily, but would rather choose to die (John 16:33; Matt 6:34; Gen 3:14-19; 6:3; Rom 5:12, 21; 8:20-22; Rev 9:5, 6). Ever since the days of Noah, there has been a rapid deterioration and a decline in the age limit of humans (Gen 25:7; 35:28; 47:9; 50:22, 26).

My one question is, if 8 feet and above persons could be found before our very eyes, why not at the Bible time before 3500 years or even before that, better Gene of 9 feet and above like Goliath could have grouped together to produce such Giants? The world in darkness will not want to believe everything that the Bible says, because it hates the light which it carries within it to open the spiritual eyes and heart of the people towards God (John 3:19-21).

So this again and again disproves the false theory that the sons of God who came in to daughters of men to produce giants were human-angel hybrid, but rather were perfect humans with better physical Gene of Cain lineage who mixed themselves with normal people with great spiritual Gene of faith lineage of Seth (Gen 4:16-24; 4:25-26; 5:1-32; 6:1-4; 10:8-9).

There is every easy possibility among humans, to not just better themselves through selective breeding of great stock through gene, but it is a possibility that have come to fruition even in those days of old which produced warrior giants who were deadly violent and intelligent to strategize and rule over the people of the world through violence and force.

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How Could God's Sons If They Are Angels, Could Marry Women On Earth?

When Angels Couldn't Marry, How Could They Produce Human Giants?

Question: Brother, We read in Job 1:6, God's sons and Satan stood before God in heaven. Here God's sons denote God's angels. We read from the Gospel that angels don't marry. In Genesis 6th chapter, verses 1 to 5, we read God's sons married human women and begot giants. How these God's sons could marry women on earth?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Yes we see in the Book of Job which is the first Bible Book that is ever written as an inspired Book within the Canon (Jam 5:11; Ezek 14:14), which is way before the Book of Genesis and the succeeding four books which were written by Moses the Man of God and through Joshua his assistant trainee (Deut 29:1; 6:1; 5:1; 4:44-49; Acts 7:22; Exo 17:14), in its beginning itself we see a cosmic conference in heaven that regularly took place where Satan and his angels came along to participate and get instructions regarding the purpose and will of God to be fulfilled through them on earth. These angels were all guarding the earth as a watcher, going to and fro around it to keep the spiritual climate intact through executing the judgment and justice of God (Job 1:6; 2:1; Dan 4:13, 17, 23; Eze 28:14). So the very context in the Book of Job, supports the idea of truth that angels were called as the sons of God, Satan being one of them also came among them to present himself before the Lord (Job 2:1). There is not a iota of doubt that God's sons here denote God's angels.

Turning to the New Testament, when Jesus was speaking the truth regarding the purpose of marriage, he explains clearly that it is there because in the beginning of humanity itself it was institutionalized by God for humans to co-habit and produce and multiply children for the Glory of God (Gen 1:28; 2:20-25). He in fact was saying that in reference to earthly marriage, in heaven when humans begin to live in the sphere of heaven, through resurrection on the judgment day after their physical death because of knowing God (John 5:28-29), or even in hell fire because of dying in unbelief with the fallen angels (Matt 25:41, 46), there in heaven or hell they do not marry at all because they do not have the potential to have sexual intercourse and produce kids as they are all heavenly beings who were created for the purpose of watching over the earth and executing the Glory of God (Gal 3:19; Heb 2:5; Matt 22:30; Mark 12:25).

Having found that there is no loop hole to say that angels could have sex and produce children unlike the humans, in the whole of the context of the Old and New Testament Bible, let us delve in to the problem verse of Gen 6:1-5, which was misinterpreted by humans who do it out of context to produce unhealthy doctrine that produces confusion instead of clarity to the children of God within the Church. The best way to avoid wrong doctrine is to know the correct one. Praise the Lord!

Gen 6:1-5, 6-7 - "1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”"

1) Humans Were In Context And Never Angels - We see in the above verse 1 that "when men began to multiply on the face of the earth", which means this context is all about increasing human population on earth that God is speaking about, it does not speak about angels at all. We know that when God created man in His own image (Gen 2:7), He created him "male and female", which means God has united both "male and female" as one in His own image and sees them as one in him who is Adam the son of God (Luke 3:38). In other words, only when Adam operates in unison through faith with Eve, God could see them both as "being heirs together of the grace of life", so that humans prayers may not be hindered by walking out of the will and purpose of God ( 1 Peter 3:7). Every man who walks in the will of God to marry another woman who is a believer (1 Cor 7:2, 5; 6:13-15, 16-20; 2 Cor 6:14-16, 17-18), does the will of God not only for his own life but for the generation that is being produced by him that God wants in faith (Gen 6:9-10; Malachi 2:15-17; 1 Cor 7:14).

2) So Who Are The Sons Of God? - We know that the preceding Chapters deals with the generation of believers verses the generation of unbelievers produced through Cain (Gen 4-5). In Genesis 3rd Chapter we see the fall of humans in to sin from innocence, then in Chapter 4 we see the works of faith and works of sinful flesh get separated in Cain and Abel, towards the end of this chapter 4, even though Abel was dead in faith (Heb 11:4), his blood was asking God for justice and vengeance upon the wicked (Heb 12:24; Gen 4:10), which made God to separate the righteous through faith from the unrighteous through their unbelief, thus making way for the sons of God and sons of the evil one to be identified (1 John 3:10, 12; John 8:44).

3) Noah's Grace Of Marriage Through Salvation Faith Within - Even though we see the works of people externally, which is rooted in their belief system within their heart internally (Jam 2:18, 26; Prov 4:23), the true connotation speaks of the internal spiritual life that is hidden behind the external physical life (Gen 2:16-17; 3:11). Thus Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord because he married a believer which was the work of faith expressed through his life (Gen 6:9-10; 11:10), though it might have taken him a long time to find her, and the same happened to their three sons which might have taken a long long time to find the right bride for them (1 Pet 3:20), yet their faith was made perfect through their work of faith in marrying believers which then led them towards building the ark of God together in faith which saved the believing world from the eternal and also physical destruction of the ungodly men of the world (Jam 2:22; Heb 11:7). The brides for their sons could have been converted through the exemplary lives of faith that this family lived before their very eyes, as we see that the brides families were not part of the people saved through the ark. Hallelujah!

4) What Wrong Did The Sons Of God Do? - The sons of God who were having faith within their heart, was waylaid by Satan through the external beauty of braided hair and jewels and beautiful faces of the unbelievers just like Balaam who used the same technique to completely destroy those believers in the nation of Israel (Gen 4:20, 21, 22; 1 Peter 3:3; 1 Tim 2:9-10; Rev 2:14; 2 Pet 2:15; Jude 1:4). The same is happening in our generation too just as it has been prophesied by Jesus (Matt 24:37), thus through the Media of television, internet and social media....the sons of God have begun to lust after the beauty of the daughters of unbelieving men to finally marry them and produce children who are struggling to keep faith, and thus they sadly have begun to continually produce the works of the flesh through unbelief in their lives, just as those who are in the world (Gal 5:19-21; 1 Cor 10:11, 14-22; Rom 15:4). Wake Up and Repent Saints! Every believer should choose what God requires which is a believing marriage partner, and not as they want especially in the area of marriage (2 Cor 6:14), which has the ability to make God feel sorry and let them go on to be judged along with the world through the works of the flesh that they have been involved in (1 Pet 4:17; Gen 6:3, 6), like the world within their heart which has become the idol of their life instead of the place where God should be the only one enthroned (1 Cor 10:22; 1 John 2:15-17).

5) Giants On Earth? - The Bible says, "There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown," what do we really incur from the above verse? Giants were not only huge and blessed physically in the days of Noah, but mentally they were very sharp enough to identify and solve problems that humanity faced. When the sons of God who were believers who had faith internally married with the daughters of men who were beautiful externally, they bore children who were giants, who were not only physically strong, but also had a inclination and a sanctified desire to build faith internally (1 Cor 7:14). These mighty men of old, were men of renown skill to bless the humanity as a whole physically because of a little faith as a mustard seed size within them that made them the sons of God (Matt 17:20), yet they did not have faith to overcome the flesh, because of which they were not able to bless the humanity spiritually unlike Noah in their generation (1 John 5:4, 5). Giants were children of believer and unbeliever mixed parentage. The violence within the unbelieving Cain race (Gen 4:23-24), spread within the mixed parentage of believer-unbeliever families who produced giants [(i.e.) Nephilims in Hebrew root words] of both physical and soulish skills, heroes, violent warriors of great fame and reputation in those ancient times but without spiritual thirst for God and his righteousness (Mat 5:6, 10; 6:33; Eccl 12:1). Thus God found no righteous man on earth whom he could shower his grace upon except Noah and his family who were the true spiritual giants who condemned the whole world without vengeance and violence through their living testimony which they preached through their lives (Heb 11:7; 2 Peter 2:5).

What was the message that Noah Preach? When God beheld the corruption of the earth and determined to destroy it, he gave Noah divine warning of the impending disaster and made a covenant with him, promising to save him and his family. As a righteous man, Noah “found favour in the eyes of the Lord” (Genesis 6:8), this was his message he gave to them all, that the reason he is building the ark was because God is going to completely destroy the world once it is over. He built a ark to save him and his household from the disaster of flood through faith, of which the whole world that have seen no rain during their times because God supplied water to the plants and trees through "a mist [that] went up from the earth and watered the whle face of the ground" (Gen 2:6), made them mock his work of faith which was the ark, which later saved him and his household without fail when the flood of God's judgment came upon the whole world (2 Pet 3:3-6, 9). Giants with all physical strength and height and skill of renown to let loose violence on earth and control it were destroyed by the flood completely, but the spiritually meek giant Noah and his household survived it all and entered in to the new world order of God!

GLORY TO GOD!

6) The Giants Were Not Human-Angelic Hybrid - The great question for many are, 'We read God's angelic so called supernatural sons married human women and begot giants. How these God's sons [(i.e) if they really were angel-human hybrid giants] could marry women on earth?' Remember, God has no sons except through faith (John 1:12; Rom 8:14; Gal 3:7), if these so called human-angelic hybrids were really giants, then there is no salvation for them because Christ came to help only the sons of Abraham which is of faith (Heb 2:16). But we know from the New Testament, that all of these sons of God who had faith but did not take pains through trials and tribulations willingly during Noah's time to perfect their faith through their works (Jam 1:2-4; Heb 12:5-6, 7), lived a fruitless lives with no difference in their character except the name they held as believers (1 Cor 3:15; John 15:2-3; Heb 6:8; 1 Cor 11:28, 29-30, 31), they were judged by God in the flesh through the flood but were saved by Jesus in their spirit through the Spirit in advance even as he later preached to them the Gospel of salvation in the prison in which they were kept (2 Peter 2:4-5; 1 Peter 3:18-20; 4:5-6; Rom 4:5-8; Rev 3:16). By the way, they were all taken with Him to heaven after His resurrection, who were all resurrected along with Him (1 Pet 3:18-21; Matt 27:52-53; Isa 26:19; Eph 4:7-10). So according to the Word of God, there were never any human-angelic hybrid ever. Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! GLORY!

7) The Lord Judged The Earth Because Of Continual Wickedness And Evil Thoughts - Finally, God judged the earth not because there was a human-angelic hybrid that he could not control as though He is no more omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, but rather he saw "the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually". The giants were not the cause of the destruction of the generation who lived during Noah's times, but their violent behavior and demoralized selfish character made the earth become a living hell (Gen 6:11-12, 13), as their thoughts were continually evil and the wickedness of man was great in all the earth. Woe to the sinner for he cannot escape the judgment of God! Angels can never be able to marry human women, because they do not have physical bodies, and also they do not have the sexual ability to procreate children as they are all spirit beings. Only humans with dust made physical bodies, can be able to marry, have sex and procreate children for the Glory of God. Hallelujah!

From what we have seen expounded in context, I appeal to you to make a healthy judgment to deny false doctrines of the times we live, and repent for the sins we have been involved in by turning to God and overcome it all for the Glory of God to live a life of holiness as a testimony to our generation like Noah and his wonderful family. May we build a family just like Noah did through faith. Praise the Lord!


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What Does The Parable Of The Unforgiving Servant Teach Us?

If We As God's Children Are Not Ready To Forgive Others Of Their Mistakes And Debts, Will God Allow Demons To Torture Us Until We Choose To Pay Our Debts?

Question: What does the parable of the unforgiving servant teach us? If we as God's children are not ready to forgive others of their mistakes and debts, will God allow demons to torture us until we choose to pay our debts?

Answer: Greetings in the awesome name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!

Parables are earthly stories told by Jesus to reveal the heavenly realities and truth that really matters, because knowing the truth can only set us all free from the earthly way of thinking and instead transform us all who are believers in to heavenly way of thinking (John 8:32).

Heavenly way of thinking is to think and see the way God sees our earthly life and situation through His eyes. Actually it is to see this temporal life on earth as a training ground of truth to actually inherit the eternal life in heaven with God (Rom 12:2; 2 Cor 4:18; 5:7).

These parables are not for the unsaved, even though they hear it, they will have a good time of a little intellectual stimulation or a short laugh, but the spiritual message behind it is exclusively given by God for the seeking disciple who will be able to understand it for the Glory of God, so that he or she might become a practitioner of truth to live it on earth!

Here we go and delve in to the parable,

"21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. 23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 25 But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 27 Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. 28 “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ 29 So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. 31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. 32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ 34 And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. 35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”"

God's Family Business

When we come to God, we humble ourselves to tell him that we are sinners in need of the Savior who can save us from sin and death (Luke 18:9-14), God sees our faith and get pleased to save us from sin (Eph 2:8-9). In other words, we just came to God in desperation and asked him to forgive our sins and make us new, but God in His love chose to draw near to us, and that too not only forgive our sins but above all make us His children too (1 John 1:9; 2:12). O what a privilege!

God's family business is forgiveness. In fact, God gives and gives and forgives always, we as humans get, get and forget always. This is the saga of the whole human race since the fall of the first man our forefather Adam in to sin, after which we all became sinners not just by our choice, but by our birth itself (Rom 4:12, 19; 3:23; Psa 51:5; 58:3; Eph 2:3).


We are sinners not just because we sin, we sin because we are sinners by our very nature as the sons of our forefather first Adam (1 Cor 15:22). So what was God's idea to redeem us from sin and make us receive His eternal life? His plan was already in place even before the foundations of the world (Eph 1:4), which was sending His very own Son who had no sin nature to this earth and help him live a sinless life, and to sacrifice his life for humans like us to redeem us all through this ultimate sacrifice for all humanity to believe Him and receive eternal life (2 Cor 5:21; 1 Pet 2:22; Rev 13:8; 1 Cor 15:21-22, 23; Rom 8:15-16, 17-18, 19, 20-21). Hallelujah!

So we did not choose Christ to get saved just by accident or incident, Christ Jesus chose us in Him to get saved because of His love for us (John 15:16; 1 John 4:19). How did we get forgiveness? Is it just because we confessed our sins that we were forgiven? No, confession is just a means for the restoration of fellowship with God through Christ (1 John 1:7), but the ultimate reason we were forgiven is because Christ Himself willingly gave us His life sacrificially on the Cross first so that we could accept Him as our Lord and Savior of our life (Rev 13:8; Eph 4:32; 2:8-9).

So when God forgave, did he forgive just our past and present sins? Or the forgiveness of God includes our future sins too? God who knows the end from the beginning, to Him all of our sins were foreseeable, and therefore He is not surprised by our past, present and as well as our future sins (Isa 46:10). Because Christ died once and for all time for all of our sins, God's counsel has stood to do all His pleasures in the life of Jesus Christ, so that salvation for us and its righteous demand could be accomplished for the Glory of God (Heb 9:22, 12; John 19:28, 30; Rom 3:24, 25-26), because all of our sins of the past, present and future has been paid by Jesus, there is no longer an offering for sin because of God, once and for all time forgiving all of our sins in Christ Jesus (Heb 10:7, 10, 12, 14, 17-18). Hallelujah!

When we become a believer in Christ Jesus, all of our sins are forgiven by God forever and ever (Col 3:13), we are on our way to new earth and new heaven to be with God and Christ forever and ever for the Glory of God (2 Pet 3:12-13). When we are forgiven, we forgive others because of receiving His nature as we have all become a member of God's family to do His business (John 1:12; 2 Pet 1:3-4; Eph 4:32). Not only we preach and teach the forgiveness of sins to others who are in need of it (Luke 24:45-48), but we also do learn to practice more and more, to forgive the debts of others as God in Christ has already forgiven all our debts (Matt 6:12). Glory to God!

How Many Times Should I Forgive, How often Should I Forgive?

""21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.""

The context of the following Parable comes through the above questions that Peter the apostle asked to Jesus. Peter asks Jesus how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? We know that when others come to see that we are forgiving their mistakes, faults and debts easily, then they themselves get tempted to take advantage of our forgiving heart to irritate us and again sin against us a little more. If they still find that we forgive them of their mistakes that they have again made, they try to make a mockery of our forgiveness towards their sin and become bold enough to sin more and more against us which makes us look like a circus joker to them.

Understanding this nature of humans to take advantage of forgiveness, Peter the apostle expected Jesus to answer him back with a well balanced answer of a few times. But to Peter's surprise, Jesus says, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven." In other words, Jesus' answer does mean that He wants Peter to forgive his brother's sin not just seven perfect times, but even if he takes advantage of your forgiving heart, He wanted Peter to forgive seventy times seven which means infinite number of perfect forgiveness. Hallelujah!

People say , "To err is human; to forgive, divine," means that it is the nature of a human being to make mistakes, because humans are not perfect. However, forgiving someone for his mistakes is an imitation of the mercy of God. Of course, the idea is that it is good and moral to forgive people for their human failings.

As much as it is not in the nature of man to be perfect, still we all want to be perfect, in the same way, it is not in the nature of any human to forgive, but still we all need to forgive because God expects humans to forgive others just as He has chosen to forgive all the countless fault done by us humans, so that God could continue to supply good things in our lives so that we could enjoy God's life on this earth who are not worthy of it by sin nature.

If humans fails to forgive, then God starts to feel sorry and grieved for making man because it is to learn forgiveness by receiving it from Him that He has been created Him, and thus reflect His nature on earth without which violence will start to increase day by day to make it a living hell (Gen 6:11). The thoughts of humans will become evil and wicked more and more through sin if he chooses to live without reflecting the nature of God which is forgiveness (Gen 6:5-6).

So the bottom line is, even if a brother sins against us again and again, and comes again and again to say sorry with repentance for what he has done, we should choose to forgiven him of his sins towards us (Matt 18:15; Luke 17:3-4). In other words, we should be ready to always forgive others faults even when they do not turn up to ask sorry from their heart (Matt 5:23-26). Why we need to do this if this will make ourselves look like a joker to others? It is to keep ourselves from getting in to a prison of hate, malice and wrath which then day by day will grow and spring up to become a root of bitterness to cause trouble to our spiritual life, and thus defile our life to cause spiritual fornication which will deny us later from inheriting the blessings of repentance even if we seek at that time with tears (Heb 12:15-17). So it is better to bless others who sin against us and forgive them in our heart, to avoid ourselves getting caught in the prison of unforgiveness which will cause us to be kept away from the holy Presence of God because of lack of reverence towards it (Matt 5:43-48). The more we learn to forgive the debts of sins others do against us, the easier it is for us to connect to God because of walking in this perfect nature of God which is forgiving the sins of others which they do against us.

Remember saints of God, unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die. The heaviest thing in your life you can carry is a grudge, which when left by itself will suck your life and bring you death. Never go to grave, much before time because of drinking the poison of unforgiveness to die a untimely death.

Praise the Lord!

Jesus Opens Up About How The Kingdom Of Heaven Works Positively With Forgiveness Through This Parable!

"23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 And when he had begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. 25 But as he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. 26 The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 27 Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. 28 “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ 29 So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. 31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. 32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ 34 And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. 35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”"

In the above Parable, we see how the Kingdom of God works positively for a person with forgiveness and negatively against those who fail to forgive others. How often does a king will want to settle accounts with his servants? We can say as long as the king wants to show his glory to others, he will want to settle accounts with his servants. So here was a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants, and especially one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. Think about it, a talent is 6,000 denarii, or 20 years of daily wages for a six-day workweek. That means this servant actually owes the king 60 million days of wages, which is actually an infinite amount for him to pay back to the king.

But as we know he was not able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be made. In spiritual life, how much do we owe God, we owe him an infinite amount of debt because of our sins (Rom 6:23). God tell us to pay him back according to the law, which tells us that we along with our family which includes our wife and children, will all be liable to pay up for our mistakes. We all as un-spiritual people, were sold as a slave to sin to pay our debts (Rom 7:14; 1 John 2:2).

Then we see, the servant therefore falling down before the king, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. All humans seek to pay God back through their religious way of life, but in spite remain unsaved in their sin to get curses for it in their own lives and families (Gal 3:10). But thank God, for all those who ask God to forgive of their unpayable debts of sin through sincere repentance, God in his benevolent nature who is the master of that servant and also ours too will move with compassion, release us, and forgive us of the unpayable debt of sin to give us eternal life and thus release us from the fear of death (John 3:16; Heb 2:14-15). The servant who fell down before the king, received the goodness of the king because of His very own benevolent nature. In other words, we get saved from sin for eternal life to live with the King in His Heavenly jurisdiction and the Presence of His goodness and His Kingdom, but once we are saved to live with God through the restoration of His nature within us, He expects us to forgive others just as he had forgiven us of our sins in our own lives (Eph 4:32).

So Then What Happened To The Saved Servant Who Was Forgiven By God?

"28 “But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ 29 So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ 30 And he would not, but went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt. 31 So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved, and came and told their master all that had been done. 32 Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ 34 And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. 35 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”""

When we were forgiven by God, God expects us to forgive others just like he has forgiven us. So only 'forgiveness' is God's family business. But that servant who was forgiven by the King, went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred days wages. That servant fell down at his feet and begged him to have patience with him so that he could be able to pay soon. See how he reacts to his subordinate servant who owed him so little? First of all he does not want to forgive the debts of his servant but instead threw him up in to the prison of bitterness against him, till he will be able to pay the debt he owes to him.

Every fellow servant who reports of such unforgiveness to God the king, whether it is the senior servant of God or junior who holds unforgiveness in their heart does not matter much, but rather will be taken seriously and dealt with His chastisement until that unforgiving person repents of his unforgiveness towards that fellow servant in prison (Heb 12:3-11, 12-17).

Putting the other person in prison is to offend the offender by defending ourselves through vengeance (Heb 10:29-30). God says that vengeance belongs to him as he is the king and we are the servant (Rom 12:18-19). God gets the glory when he executes vengeance for us in His time, which will be the perfect time for us too. But when we try to execute vengeance through anger, it never fulfills the righteous requirement of God to continue to bless us in our life (Jam 1:20).

So when the king heard what has happened through his forgiven servant to the imprisoned servant of his, he too must have felt grieved in his heart and said to the unforgiving servant, 'Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?' In other words, when God forgives us and saves us from sin, he expects us to forgive the sinners who sin against us because we have received his very own nature as his dear children. The unforgiving servant has no valid reason to say before God because of the infinite amount of debt that God has already forgiven him by saving him from sin to make him his servant to serve him. Serving God after salvation is a privilege given specially because of the compassion and pity that he had on sinners like us who pleaded him to forgive us (Eph 2:1-10). We are saved to serve him all the days of our earthly life and thereafter in our heavenly life too!

So for a saved person, no reason can ever be a valid reason for him to remain in unforgiveness, because of the uncomparable amount of debt for sins which he had been forgiven by God through the payment He had made through the sinless life of his very own Son, Jesus the Christ to redeem us, and save us from death which is the rightful wages of sin (2 Cor 5:21)!

Finally God is angry when we remain in unforgiveness and will surely deliver us to demonic torturers to torment us on earth, because of our bitterness against our fellow humans who have offended us and are in debt to us. Remember, the torture in this life will go on until we pay up what was due of us, which is to forgive our fellow human servant who are in debt towards us because of their sin against us. In short, until we choose to forgive others of their fault, our fault of unforgiveness will be kept against us.

I have seen personally in my life and in other believers life, when those who have failed to forgive their husband, wife, son or daughter or relatives or strangers or neighbors of their faults and sin against them, went to the extent of dying miserably in their unforgiveness which must have been a untimely death, and a miserable one too in their lives. Let us let go of all unforgiveness in to the hands of God, who will help us to forgive others when we ask Him to give us His strength. God always without fail will give grace to the humble so that they will never stumble in their lives (1 Pet 5:5). Praise the Lord!

Have we forgiven all the debts of all who have sinned against us day in day out before that end of that day, before the lights could go off in our home (Matt 6:11-12; Eph 4:25-27)? If we have failed to forgive others of their sins against us after the end of that day, we have already given place to the devil to gain control with a foot of his inside the house of our body which is the temple of God. So let us keep our slate clean by forgiving others before we go to the bed to sleep overnight. O Lord help us!

When the Father in Heaven fails to forgive our sins because of our unforgiveness, the devil will have a open door to attack our lives because of the lack of the presence and power of God. May we always remain loyal to our Heavenly Father and be like him in forgiving others of their sins and faults done against us, so that through our lives God will be glorified in all things. Hallelujah!

Only when we live like Jesus, God will be glorified the most through our saved lives. Forgiveness is mandatory for every citizen to continue to live in the Kingdom blessing of Heaven by remaining in the Presence of God! GLORY!

Forgive others no matter what, because remember no matter what, you are already forgiven by God!


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Do We Realize That A Friend In Need Is A Friend Indeed Especially In Spiritual Things?

What Did Jesus Reveal To Us Spiritually Through The Parable Of A Friend Who Comes At Midnight?

Question: Do we realize that a friend in need is a friend indeed especially in spiritual things? What did Jesus reveal to us spiritually through the parable of a friend who comes at midnight? Does persistence with God pays off when it comes to saving of souls?

Answer: Greetings in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Luke 11:5-8 - "5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’? 8 I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.".

Plainly reading the above parable, makes us to think of certain things deeply. Is God our friend? Yes indeed, Abraham our Father of faith was called as a friend by God because of His faith in the Word of God (Jam 2:23; Isa 41:8). We too become a children of God and a friend to Him, when we start believing the Word of God that He has spoken to save us, God becomes our friend indeed when we believe Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior (Gal 3:9; Eph 1:6; 2:13; Heb 11:6).

Let us hear the Parable thrown to us as a question to answer from Jesus, ""5 And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; 6 for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’?".

In other words, think about it, will we ever go to a friends home at midnight and wake him from his sleep just to lend for our visitor friend three loaves? My honest answer is a big no. Even if we have the courage to disturb our friend at midnight for a loaf, what if he answers like this, I am asleep with all my children and the door is already shut, I cannot rise and give to you, so better get lost friend to come in the morning. It is like a slap to our face, self-respect and dignity, so better we will get lost at that moment itself. Jesus answers in the same way just like us, to a casual friend, the other friend who is in sleep will not rise up and give that three loaf to him who is in need because he is just a botherful brotherly friend. If he had been a stranger, he would have caught the attention of that friend who would have risen up from his sleep, because every stranger will be considered a thief in the mid-night time to be driven away harshly or punished, or else he must have been a mad-man to be handed over to the judge for his intrusion at midnight. Every friend have the right to privacy at the night time to sleep.

Has God Become Our True Friend To Make Us Ask For The Salvation Of The Unsaved Friends?

Then Jesus goes on to a deeper level, come let us deeply delve in to the spiritual message. A friend in need is truly a friend indeed, which means a friend who helps us when we really need help is a true friend. If we are a casual friend, we will not let go off our self-respect, dignity to intrude and barge at midnight in to a friends house who are all already asleep with his family, and then further dare to ask him for three loaves of bread. But if we let go off the self-respect and dignity and become a botherful and shameless friend, then we will venture out to ask and disturb that friend till he rises up from his sleep and gives the three loaves we have asked for. For this to happen we cannot be a stranger but a true friend who is ready to bother our sleeping friend, until we get what we want. In other words, we need a faith that persists in humility ready to get mocked by any one, a trust in the true friendship that will never fail. When we are too confident of our friendship with our sleeping friend, only then we will be able to do that unthinkable act of disturbing at midnight just for three loaves of bread and as a result of it, get it even if that is silly to know that we have become empty completely not able to supply to others who have come our way.

Think about it saints, even if we have asked for our own house that three loaves, that friend would have risen up easily knowing our need, but when he realizes that it is for another friend who has come to our house, he will not even bother to provide it at midnight. But what will make that friend to rise up and give three loaves of bread at that time is the shameless persistence of the know friend and his good heart of kindness towards others. Remember saints, the Greek word for “persistence” is actually “shamelessness” (anaideia). Hallelujah!

Three loaves are the one substance of the Trinity, who give themselves in three separate persons to give life to the dead or hungry unsaved friend to become alive in Him, who is able to do it spiritually, so that supernaturally the bread of life continues to endure in them for eternity (John 6:26-27, 32-33, 34-35, 49, 58, 63; 10:30; 6:63).

Even when it is late at midnight time before the Rapture which is the secret coming of the Lord (Rom 13:11-12; Jam 5:8; Acts 16:25; 20:7; Job 34:20; Matt 25:6; Mark 13:35), people who are seeking God even at that late hour will receive salvation when someone perseveres enough to ask God to supply the eternal bread of salvation to such friend who come to them in their spiritual need (1 Tim 2:1-4). One person at a time can be saved even up to the time of rapture freely through the Church (John 20:21-23; Matt 25:9), but the hard question is, have we persisted enough to ask the Lord and get from Him heavenly manna that could save people from sin and make them a saint in an instant (Acts 2:36-39; 16:30-34; Matt 9:37-38)?

Only people who realize that they are empty to help others of their own selves, can come to God in humility asking him for three loaves of the bread of salvation, very late even at the mid-night time for a friend who is in need.

God Delays Are Not Denials, In fact It Is His Willingness That Tests Our Worthiness?

"8 I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs."

God is amazed always at persistent faith that never lets him go, such faith carriers are so shameless enough to beg him to let His willingness be shown to others at their own cost of self-sacrifice done personally to reveal His love for them (Matt 15:28; Luke 7:9; Gal 5:6). The three loaves of bread that the friend asked the sleeping friend was not for himself, but for a visitor friend who had come to his house. God sees such sacrifice of faith, and is pleased to answer such persistent shameless demanding prayer of faith that saves, and never lets go of God's willingness to answer always at all times even when it is delayed, so that the Glory of His love for them can be testified before the whole universe for eternity! Praise the Lord!

God's delays are not denials, in fact it is His willingness that tests our worthiness to receive His answer (Luke 21:36). God always is willing to answer us, but how many of us are serious enough to claim the promises of God that are ours as God's children, and persist shamelessly to wait until we receive our answers from God (Matt 8:2; 2 Cor 1:21-22, 24)?

For those people who want to be great soul-winners, but do not have a persistent faith to shamelessly ask God to give them the three-loaves to save others of their eternal hunger and save them from sin and death for eternity cannot receive an answer from God (Jam 1:2-8). Their faith without works is useless and dead (Jam 2:26).

But those people who never let go of God's willingness, and are bold enough to dare to say to God, that I will never let you go unless you answer me for the salvation of my friend in need, even at the cost of leaving all to follow Him will receive both socially and materially from Him for the Glory of God later in this life (Mark 10:26-28). Surely they shall receive even up to a hundred fold for their faith now in this time and in the age to come eternal life of treasures in God who will reward them without fail in Glory for their faith practiced on earth (Heb 11:6; Mark 10:29-31). Hallelujah!

A casual believer cannot become a great soul-winner (John 21:18-19; 1 Tim 3:1-7), because he is just a friend of God who is not serious enough to let go of His dignity and self-respect and become shamelessly persistent before God until he answers him with the salvation of one soul at a time or many at a time because of His willingness to save them (2 Pet 3:9).

But every disciple of the Lord Jesus who bears fruit in their lives for the Glory of God by abiding in Jesus Christ and letting His words abide in them (John 15:8, 7), who consistently pay the price of denying themselves and carrying their own cross daily to follow Jesus will always become great soul winners by their shameless persistent faith that will please God and make Him to give them as many bread as he needs to collect more and more treasures in heaven (Luke 9:23-26).

GLORY TO GOD!

Have we become a disciple of Jesus Christ in our lives for the Glory of God? Are we bearing the fruits of God's character in our lives so that we could become a channel of blessing to the unsaved world in need of salvation? Are we praying shamelessly and persistently till we get the answers from God to see people saved from sin and death to receive eternal salvation faith in their lives for the Glory of God? Have we asked the bread of life from God to save others as many as we need or have very limited interest in others to be saved for eternity? Remember, faith without works is dead, may our faith be active and alive enough to save others, heal them and cause them to inherit eternal life for the Glory of God! Every soul saved through your persistent faith is a eternal testimony of treasure in Glory that will stay with you for the rest of eternity. Hallelujah!

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What Is The Real Cost Of Discipleship?

What Does It Mean To Leave All To Follow Christ?

Question: What is the real cost of discipleship? What does it mean to leave all to follow Christ?

Answer: Greetings in the most wonderful name of Jesus Christ!

"25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, 26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’? 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. 33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:25-33).

Always when people come to experience the miraculous power of God and His supernatural works, "great multitudes" will always follow Him without fail to receive more of His goodness in their earthly lives for earthly benefits (John 6:26-27). But Jesus does reveal his goodness to all humans without precondition, but only to His disciples He does reveal His spiritual goodness for their eternal benefits (John 6:28-29, 40).

Nearly everyone who believes in Jesus is called to become a disciple of Jesus (John 6:66), but only those who know the price of being a disciple and in spite choose to follow him become a disciple for the Glory of God (John 6:67-69).

A disciple is student learner who learns the character of his Master by being obedient to all His commands, and become loyal enough to serve others with that same attitude of mind for the Glory of his teacher and Master. A disciple of Jesus is a worshiper, a servant, and a witness. A disciple cannot be greater than his master, but can be like his master (Matt 10:24-26)!

The True Cost Of Discipleship

A person can believe Jesus and can seek to follow Jesus, but to be a real disciple, one needs to acknowledge the Lordship and Kingship of Jesus Christ, and then forsake one's own will and instead seek to fulfill the desire, will and purpose of Jesus. So many stumble at this point of time, when they realize the huge earthly cost of being a disciple costs them (Mark 10:27-22; Matt 8:18-22; Luke 9:57-62). Being a disciple of Jesus is to die to our own will by denying it and instead take up our cross by seeking to fulfill His will for our lives and then follow Jesus (Luke 9:23).

There is a personal cost that we have to pay in order to be a true disciple of Jesus.

Certain people get confused when they read the cost of discipleship, "26 “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. 27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:26-27). The confusion in their heart goes to the extent of making them ask the following question, "Why does Jesus want us to hate our immediate family members?" Does Jesus teach us to hate? No, please do not misunderstand and stumble in your spiritual life. We can get better clarity regarding this verse when we read another saying of Jesus that says, "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." (Matt 10:37).

In other words, Jesus throws a hyperbole, and says that when our love for the Lord Jesus and Master who has given for us His very own sinless life, is compared to the love we have for our biological parents and immediate family members, it should seem as though we are hating them when it is compared to the love we have for Jesus Christ. The supreme love of Jesus demands no less love in return than that highest love in response to His as a disciple. Any love that we give to Jesus in return that is lesser than that of our biological family members which is the highest for any human born on earth, is deemed as unworthy for the cost that a true disciple of Jesus has to pay.

Even if our parents or immediate family members such as our wife, children or brothers and sisters are able to make us disobey Jesus because of our love and commitment for them, it means our love for Jesus is less than the love we have for them. We are disqualified from being a disciple. So have we truly learned to hate our parents or all our biological family members? Are we carrying the cross that God has told us to lift up? Are we ready to leave our everything and follow Jesus as His disciple whole heartedly? Our cross carrying life is not an option for a disciple of Jesus, rather it is mandatory as the Lord Jesus wants them all to follow Him spiritually.

Will You Count The Cost For Building The Body Of Your Heavenly House And Be Ready For Spiritual Warfare To Overcome And Inherit Eternal Riches?

"28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it— 29 lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’? 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace. 33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:28-33).

A lot of people have a desire to become spiritually great and glorified by God, but when it comes to paying the cost of discipleship, many many believers fall on the way because they have not fully counted the cost whether they have enough ability in their life to lose anything in their earthly life, and instead gain everything in their heavenly life that awaits them eternally? Other worldly people who see the life of a disciple without the power of God and the supernatural working of God through them will mock their lives because it will be no different or unique than the lives they as unbelievers already live on earth in their abundance, spending it according to their own lust (1 Cor 15:19).

The cost of discipleship demands all of our desires to be given completely to our Lord Jesus and instead be ready to fulfill the desires of the Lord anytime and anyplace. Only such disciples will be able to see a finished house of great value within the lifetime of their lives on earth, after which they will be judged and rewarded, after which they will be made rulers in the world to come (2 Cor 4:16-18); 5:1-8, 9-11).

Not only that, to be a disciple of Jesus also means that we as a king under the King of Kings who is Jesus have to wage a good spiritual warfare against the devil who is "the prince of the power of the air" (Eph 2:2) and also the "god of this age" (2 Cor 4:4). We learn to wrestle in our spiritual life as a disciple of Jesus by standing against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this age and spiritual hosts of the wickedness in the heavenly places, through which the wiles of the devil are prevented from being executed in the life of a disciple, thus fulfilling the will of God and extend the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven (Eph 6:11-12). There are a lot to consider, especially regarding the spiritual warfare aspect, and that Satan is working constantly with much more of the evil angels against those who are half heartedly following Jesus to be a disciple of his. When the enemy is far off to attack someone spiritually, if that person is not ready for it, and honestly as a believer if he asks God for protection and peace in order to stay away from the evil attack, God sends a delegation of angels to protect his children and thus ask for peace (1 Cor 10:13; Job 1:10, 11-12; Matt 18:10-14; 26:53).

Unfinished Spiritual Buildings And Defeated Wars! Make A Turnaround For His Glory!

I have seen enough unfinished buildings and defeated armies because Of miscalculations and lethargy. So many people who have had no plan of how to finish construction were never able to finish their building. So many kings have been defeated mostly because of lack of planning to weigh the opponents strength and weaknesses as well as theirs.

In order to be a good disciple of Jesus Christ, we should first count the cost and then pay the price of giving up our own will and desires to fulfill the will of God and His desires and purpose for our lives, more and more day after day. By giving up and dying to our self, we receive the power and supernatural force of heaven which makes us alive and well to fulfill His plans, purposes and desires for our life and in the lives of countless millions around the world, and thus make us a blessing to the world around which is in need of the heavenly life of God (Php 1:21; 3:8, 10-11).

God rewards every believer according to their works (Rev 22:12), every work that is done outside of the will of God in their lives will be burnt to ashes (1 Cor 3:14-15), things that are not burnt in the judgment of God will remain as eternal rewards for the believer who has built his spiritual house for eternity by investing in it (Matt 6:19-21), these who have also waged intense spiritual warfare and have stood in the armor of God which has empowered them to stand strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Eph 6:10), will finally be eternally rewarded by God with His power, might and Glory (Php 4:19; Matt 6:4, 13; Jude 24-25)!

So the bottom line is, a life lived as a disciple of Jesus will need a forsaking of all their earthly desires in order to fulfill the will of God for their lives.

We have some hard questions to ask ourselves if we are considering ourselves as a disciple of Jesus Christ, so that we could align ourselves better in the exact path of Jesus Christ our Lord that he has prepared for us and also check ourselves to see whether our faith is active enough to rewarded eternally.

Do we love Jesus more than all our immediate biological family members like our father, mother, wife, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters? Have we forsaken all of our earthly desires to fulfill the heavenly desire of God for our life? Are we pursuing the plans, purpose and power of God to fulfill God's destiny? Are we lifting up our own cross daily by denying our will to fulfill God's will? Let us not call ourselves as disciples of Jesus by our own words, but let our actions and zeal for God make us to be called as disciples of Jesus by all people around us for the Glory of God (Acts 11:26; 4:13). May we become finished spiritual eternal palaces to the Lord, and continue to remain as undefeated victorious champion of spiritual warfare against the evil one as His disciples that strikes terror within them in the name of the Lord for His Glory! Truly we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus, because He has loved us eternally, and therefore because of it has saved us by paying the price for it by giving His own sinless life to redeem us and make us remain with Him forever and ever in His Presence. Amen.



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