Blessing – Page 10 – Prince Chimaobim

WHAT IS HOLINESS?

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Monday August 21, 2023

WHAT IS HOLINESS?

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Hebrews 12:14 (KJV)

Holiness in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word ‘qodes’ a word that highlights the realm of the sacred in contrast to everything common and profane. The adjective ‘qādôš’, “holy,” refers to Yahweh and what belongs to him. In various places in the Hebrew Scriptures, Yahweh is called by the title the “Holy One of Israel.” Whatever that belongs to Yahweh is holy. Time, space, objects, and people—all can become holy if they belong to Yahweh. The temple in Jerusalem was considered holy space, and the objects used in worship holy objects. The Sabbaths and feasts of Israel were considered holy days or seasons. And the Israelites were called Yahweh’s holy people by virtue of belonging to Him. The New Testament uses the words ‘hagiazo’, to “make holy” and ‘hagio’ “holy” or “sacred.” Yahushua is called “the Holy One of Yahweh”(see Mark 1:24, Luke 4:24). And those who acclaim Yahushua as Lord are called ‘hagioi’, or “saints.” As believers, we are literally set apart, made holy, because of our relationship with the one who bridges the gap between a holy God and sinful human beings.

DOING RIGHTEOUSNESS

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Sunday August 20, 2023

DOING RIGHTEOUSNESS

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
I John 3:7 (KJV)

Do you notice that our opening text says “let no man deceive you?” That is because there was and still is a teaching that once saved is always saved no matter the kind of life you lead. The teaching says that you have the nature of righteousness therefore, you can never be wrong or unrighteous. Our opening text is saying that such teaching is deceptive. If the nature of righteousness you claim to have does not manifest in practical righteousness, then it is fake. The nature of righteousness makes people to do righteousness. It does not engender to sin and iniquity. You cannot be swimming in iniquity while still claiming that you have the nature of righteousness because by their fruits we shall know them (see Matthew 7:16, 20). If it is grape fruit that you are producing, you cannot claim that you have the nature of orange. Never! What shows us who you are is the fruit that you are bearing. At least that is what the Lord Yahushua taught us. So, there is a doing of righteousness. You are standing right with Yahweh by redemption and that not of anything that you could ever do. It is a gift of Yahweh because of what the Lord Yahushua did for us at Calvary.

RIGHTEOUSNESS NATURE

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Saturday August 19, 2023

RIGHTEOUSNESS NATURE

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away? behold, all things are become new.
I Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

The problem of sin is not just an act but a nature. Sin is a nature in the unsaved. That is why just a decision to stop doing something cannot suffice because sin is who you are if you are not born again. In the same vein, for the believer, there is a new nature called the nature of righteousness which you received at salvation. You are not a refurbished person at salvation, you are a new creation. This literally means that you are now a new specie of being that has not existed before. That is the mystery of righteousness. While you are seeing yourself as someone that just believed in Yahushua as Lord, the real fact is that you are a new creation that does not have a past. That is because your past was crucified with HaMashiach on Calvary. So, quit feeling the pain of what you did in the past, the record no longer exist at that point you believed and confessed with your mouth the Lordship of HaMashiach, your past was wiped out. You are now a new creation, a new specie of being that has no past. That is not all. You now have a new nature and that is the nature of Yahweh, the nature of righteousness. This new nature is what makes it possible for you to be able to stand before Yahweh sinless and able to accommodate divine presence. This nature of righteousness is why you can live a holy life. Without being righteous, you cannot live righteous. Your being determines your doing. Why does a lion roar? Because he is a lion and it is in his nature to roar. Why does a sinner commit sin? Because he is a sinner and sin is his nature.

THE GENESIS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

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Friday August 18, 2023

THE GENESIS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin? that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV)

Righteousness means in right standing with Yahweh. Yahweh created man and placed him in Eden. In Eden, man was in right standing with Yahweh. We saw in Genesis 3:8 that Yahweh was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. He usually comes to fellowship with man in the cool of the day. It takes righteousness to stand before the Lord. Then, man committed treason and fall from his right standing position with the Father. Consequently, he lost the presence of Yahweh, and was driven out of the Eden, the place of delight. Sin is at the root of every form of deprivation in life. Sin was what pushed man out of the presence of Yahweh. In the interim, Yahweh was walking with people as they choose to obey His instructions to them. That was how Abraham stood out. Abraham was a Yahweh addict. Yahweh’s instructions was the delight of Abraham and that won him a covenant with the El-Shaddai. Then through the descendants of Abraham, the law was introduced to see if man can align in right standing again with Yahweh. But throughout all generations, no man has been able to keep the law. Yahweh saw the deplorable situation of humanity and decided to come to their rescue. Yahweh came in the person of Yahushua HaMashiach and fulfilled the law. Yahushua HaMashiach became sin, so that we can become the righteousness of Yahweh in Him according to our opening text.

THE HORRORS OF SIN (4): ABSENCE OF PEACE

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Thursday August 17, 2023

THE HORRORS OF SIN (4): ABSENCE OF PEACE

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
Isaiah 48:22 (KJV)

One of the first thing that happened to Adam at the fall was the lose of peace. Peace is that state of tranquillity spirit, soul and body. Peace is the absence of war both within and without. Peace is a state of perfect fellowship with Yahweh where man’s obedience is confirmed. At the fall, the first thing that happened to Adam was that he discovered he was afraid. There was a looming sense of conflict, war and contempt spiritually that made him hide from the presence of the Lord. The presence that he used to enjoy before was now making him afraid. Surely and truly, there is no peace unto the wicked. The wicked is the person that lives in rebellion against the Word of Yahweh. The wicked is that one that scorns obedience to the Word of Yahweh. Sin destroys the presence of Yahweh which guarantees peace and leaves us with war both within and without. You cannot truly be at peace with sin alive in you. One of the greatest treasures in this life is peace. Once, there is no peace, then every other thing will breakdown; health, marriage, career, business, etc. Literally, if there is war, everything shuts down. That is how destiny shuts down by sin. When there is no peace, life begins to shut down. So, peace is an inevitable asset in the race of life.

THE HORRORS OF SIN (3): SICKNESS, DISEASE AND AFFLICTION

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Wednesday August 16, 2023

THE HORRORS OF SIN (3): SICKNESS, DISEASE AND AFFLICTION

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 33:24 [KJV]

The root of sickness is iniquity. There was no sickness before sin came on the scene but as soon as sin reigned, sickness, disease and affliction became the lot of the depraved humanity. Every disease has its root in sin. Yahweh made provisions for everything in the Garden of Eden, but not for healing, because man was not created to be sick. But by one man sin came, and sin brought death, and everything that leads to death, including leukaemia, cancer, AIDS, name it (see Romans 5:12). The Lord Yahushua said, “Thy sins are forgiven thee” is the same thing as saying, “Arise and be healed” (see Matthew 9:6), because both sin and sickness have the same root. Every disease is a curse, and a curse is as a result of sin (Deuteronomy 28:15-68). The Bible calls all forms of sicknesses curses, whether fever, chest pain, bad eyesight, deafness, name it. No other theological or medical explanation can be stronger than what the Bible has to say. Sin is at the root of every disease; and until righteousness takes over, sickness will continue. So let go of sin, so you can enjoy eternal life in your health!

THE HORRORS OF SIN (2): DESTRUCTION

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Tuesday August 15, 2023

THE HORRORS OF SIN (2): DESTRUCTION

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
III John 1:2 (KJV)

It is a confirmed fact that iniquity always ends in calamity. This should not be difficult to grasp because the instigator of sin is Satan and the Lord Yahushua referring to Satan says in John 10:10 “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” If Satan is coming to steal, kill and destroy, it is important to ask what is the legal tender of Satan? Sin is the thing that gives Satan an inroad into your life to steal, kill and destroy. Sin’s ultimate is destruction. Beloved, you must internalize this fact that sin is not your friend, it is an arch enemy. Your destruction is sin’s mission. Are you going to allow sin to achieve its mission in your life? Sin removes you from the place of your safety which is the presence of Yahweh. In His presence, you are dwelling in a secure fortress. What sin does is to remove you from that hollowed presence because Yahweh’s eyes are purer than to behold iniquity (see Habakkuk 1:13). The Bible says sin separates us from Yahweh and hinders us from experiencing His help and blessings. ‘Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear, but your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.’ (Isaiah 59:1-2). Sin keeps us from knowing Yahweh and makes us blind, deaf and insensitive for the Holy Spirit. Therefore, most people will say there is no Yahweh, because they don’t experience Him. In their reality Yahweh does not exist. Sin has destroyed the presence of Yahweh from their lives.

THE HORRORS OF SIN (1): SHAME

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Monday August 14, 2023

THE HORRORS OF SIN (1): SHAME

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:10 (KJV)

Shame is a function of nakedness. Sin makes you naked in the realm of the spirit. It is only a mad person that can be naked and not ashamed because there is no more mind to understand what is going on. Sin strips you of every form of covering, leaving you naked. Sin destroys the presence of Yahweh that forms a covering for the man, thereby, exposing him/her to attacks of the wicked. Sin is a barrier to honour in anybody’s life, whether white or black, literate or illiterate, young or old. No matter who you are, sin will never allow you to see honour. Wherever sin reigns, shame reigns. Wherever sin reigns, reproach reigns. Wherever sin reigns, men have no future. When the first man, Adam, sinned in the Garden of Eden, he was stripped naked. Yahweh called out to him, “Adam, where art thou?” Sin obscures you. Sin destroys your visibility confining you to the background of ignominy. Sin will strip any man naked of all honour, dignity and glory. Adam fell from grace to grass; he became a labourer where he was once the king. So sin must die for your glory to rise; sin must die for you to walk in holiness. No honour or glory awaits the crooked, because Proverbs 28:13 warns that “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper.”

MACHINERIES OF SIN (3): REBELLION

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Sunday August 13, 2023

MACHINERIES OF SIN (3): REBELLION

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
I Samuel 15:23 (KJV)

Rebellion is demonic. Let us quickly make a scriptural connection to show that rebellion is another form of witchcraft and by the judgement of Yahweh, the witch is not permitted to live. Exodus 22:18 says, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Our opening text tells us that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. That is saying that a rebellious person is a witch and by divine judgement, not permitted to live. That is how deadly rebellion is. It has terminated the lives of precious talented people. In the wilderness, it had the third mortality rate after immorality, and the menace of the god of gold. In Numbers 16:1-3, 28-33, rebellion claimed the life of a whole family. That was how Dathan, Korah, Abiram, and 250 others, and all their families perished! Rebellion destroyed an estimated one thousand people in one day! Friend, rebellion is of the devil, don’t give in to it. Rebellion is a deliberate reaction against order, targeted at leadership at all levels in the Church of the Lord Yahushua. Any church or establishment you find yourself in and you have doubts about the leadership, it is not a place where you can be blessed. So check out of the place, before you’re checked out. Rebellion is risky. Don’t expect to survive if you reject Yahweh’s order. To wish leadership evil is mental disorder, as heaven is a city of order. Leadership is required for human society to survive, whether in the secular world or in the Church.

HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (3): BE FAITHFUL

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Thursday August 10, 2023

HOW TO CONQUER THE GOD OF GOLD (3): BE FAITHFUL

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
I Corinthians 4:2 (KJV)

Luke 16:9-12 says, “9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness? that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?” The number one way covetousness is expressed is through unfaithfulness. But unfaithfulness will ground you and make you unfruitful! Unfaithfulness means playing out the other person, with the aim of taking advantage of him/her. You don’t go places that way. From what the Lord Yahushua said, you’re bound to fail. He said, “that when ye fail…” Unfaithfulness guarantees failure in our covenant walk with the Father. For instance, you’re a driver, and you are given some money to fill the fuel tank, but you then buy half tank and collect receipt for a full tank, because you know no one is likely to check the car to see if that was actually what you bought. You have only succeeded in cutting down your life by half! You have signed to end a driver or even lose that job. You have cut down your blessings. Unfaithfulness is a trap of the devil to make you a failure; don’t let him, because Yahweh wants to promote you!