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Rev   sermon otherwise called sunday messages are the words of God from the bible chapters with little explanations that aids fuller understanding , making it easy for us to apply Gods word to our daily living, these massages. makes use of local examples that will make you appriciate the wprd of God and know that according to prophet Hosea in the bible who said that God`s children are distroyed for lack of knowledge , many people read the bible but they do not get the import, that is they dont know how to apply it to thier daily living , but in the house of joseph, these messages are so made simple that one now sees that prophet hosea`s words are true because we dont know how to live Gods word, in the house of joseph where through this messages , able to know that whatever that goes wrong in our life we are responsible , which is inline with the igbo word that says "ihe na eme anyi si anyi n`aka" in the house of joseph God uses his messages to teach us how not to do our selves.read this messages and interact with the man of God in any area you need to know and how to apply it to your life in our help section or click here to go to our help section


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Our Cancelled IOUs Colossians 2:13-20: “having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions, 14 Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us).”(Vv 13-14)
31st March 2024   sermon source
The theme continues: God cannot do for us anything greater than which He has already done in Christ. When we were dead in our sins His Holy Spirit moved into our lives, cut into our sinful nature, and now continually seeks to render inoperative the power and energy of sin. Does that mean it is not possible to sin again? No, but it is possible not to sin. Because God has made us alive with and in Christ, and when His life pulses through our soul and spirit as we believe in Him then freedom from sin is/becomes possible in our life. From this point on Paul launches and linked this phenomenon into a graphic description of salvation, explaining that God has not only made us alive in Christ but He has cancelled the written code that was against us, nailing it to His cross, making it possible that whosoever believes in Christ is freed from sin and is saved! What a beautiful word pictures structured to give hope that enables us to work hard to resist sin and boost our chances of being saved in Christ Jesus. To get a better understanding of this: Let us take the first phrase: ‘cancelled the written code’. ‘Written code’ means a handwritten note. It is the Greek term for an IOU –an acknowledgement of a debt and recognition that payment is obligatory or compulsory, with certain penalties being required if payment is not made or met. The word translated ‘cancelled’ means to sponge or wipe off. This is what our Lord Jesus in Christ has done with all our sins because we cannot do it for ourselves due to the weakness that sin has rendered us. The written code that condemned us as a result of our sins has been sponged off by the blood of Christ that was poured out on the cross. Once we believe everything about Jesus Christ: His birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven, it is as if sin had never been or occurred in our life before. We then live our life in the sinless Life of our Lord Jesus Christ and thus become acceptable before God Almighty! This is why believe, trust, adhere, and rely in our Lord Jesus Christ is all about! You can now see why it is very important that we believe and trust in everything concerning our Lord Jesus Christ. But Paul uses one more word picture: ‘He took it away, nailing it to the cross.’ In ancient times the record of a debt, after it had been paid, would sometimes be nailed to a public notice board so that everyone could see that the matter was settled. Our Lord has taken away the debt of sin we owed and nailed it to the most public place in the universe –the cross; so that both the physical and spiritual could see as it serves ‘to whom it may concern’. When our Lord Jesus Christ cried ‘it is finished’ as seen in John 19:30. He meant that the work of our redemption and salvation was complete. The cancelled note hangs on the cross for all to see. This is why if you are able to live a sinless life to a very recognizable level here on earth, whoever that is spiritual will see it in you with a glance and the person will start looking at you with some kind of amazement as to asking in his or her mind: what kind of person is this but you will not know except you are spiritual too! This explains the reason why I will always tell you that some times, people see us in the public place and shout because once you attain this state of being, unseen beings as life guide always move along with you like bodyguards. Let us from hence try and be living a sinless life so that the Christ in us, as a part of God in our life right from birth will grow in the same proportion with our carnal bodily growth, this is the only time we can live a life of body and soul (spirit) together because the spirit is meant to guide and direct the body aright otherwise everything that you do in life will always be in error!
‘My Father will Be Waiting’ John 14:1-14: “And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.” (v3)
24th March 2024   sermon source
We said last week that the fear of death is often composed of three elements, and we have considered the first of these –the fear of the physical act of dying. Today we look at the other two –the fear of finality and the fear of judgment. Christians have no need to fear that death is equivalent to extinction, for Lord Jesus has said: ‘I am going there to prepare a place for you …that you also may be where I am’ (v2-3). Dr W.E. Sangster tells how, as a young boy living in the heart of London, he went for a walk one day and got lost. A kindly policeman took him by the hand and led him to the police station. After waiting for what seemed like several hours in a dingy room, a stern officer came and took him down a dark passage where he saw his father waiting for him. Sangster said, ‘It will not be different, I think, when I die. At the end of the dark passage (of death) my (heavenly) Father will be waiting.’ Though we shrink in the frailty of our human nature from what some refer to as ‘the Grim Reaper’, death really has but one mission –to bring us into God’s more immediate Presence and give us an eternal place in our Father’s house (where there are many mansions) of which our Lord Jesus spoke about. So from hence do not fear death for it is not finality extinction for real human beings as many people thought rather it is a passageway for us to meet with our Lord Jesus! Finally, let us take the fear of judgment. Research conducted a few years ago showed that this fear of judgment is not as common as it was many years ago. Fewer people now attend Church, and those who do generally speaking, rarely hear a sermon on ‘future judgment’. No man or woman, however, who knows Christ need fear judgment. And why? Because, as Apostle Paul so beautifully puts it in his letter to the Romans: ‘There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus’. In Christ, condemnation and finality extinction is in the past tense. This is the reason why every man must Endeavour to have Christ in him or her life by all means!
The Three Elements of Fear Isaiah 43:1-13: “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you. 3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt [to the Babylonians] for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba [a province of Ethiopia] in exchange [for your release].” (v2-3)
17th March 2024   sermon source
We ended last week with the question: can we experience a release from the fear of death? Our answer was yes, we can! Many people, some Christians included, see death as an intruder. Gandhi, the great Indian leader and politician, started his model of the Swaraj movement to help people overcome the fear of death. Politics was only a minor part of his purpose. ‘My aim’, he said, ‘was the abandonment of the fear of death. So long as we let ourselves be influenced by the fear of death, we can never attain freedom.’ So the fear of death is one tool that Lucifer and his cohorts uses to hold people down as slaves instead of people seeing death as a gateway to freedom into a more better life in eternity especially for true Christians, they resorts to fear! When we come to look at the fear of death, it seems to consist of three elements: First, the fear of the physical act of dying. Second, the fear of finality. Third, the fear of judgment. Let’s look first at the fear of the physical act of dying. This is very real to some people. Perhaps they have suffered and know, through bitter experience, how pain lacerates and hurts. Doctors assure us that what some people call ‘the agony of death’ is felt much more by those who are watching than by the one who is passing away. Sir Frederick Treves, an eminent surgeon, said, ‘A last illness may be long, wearisome and painful, but the closing moments of it are, as a rule, free from suffering. There may appear to be a terrible struggle at the end, but of this struggle the subject is unconscious. It is the onlooker who bears the misery of it.’ Add to this natural phenomenon the supporting power of God’s never –failing grace, and it is possible to look even this physical aspect of death quietly in the face and say, ‘My enemy –you are not really the terror that you seem.’
The Valley of the Shadow of Death Hebrews 2:5-18: “And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.” (v15)
10th March 2024   sermon source
We come now to the phrase which many commentators see as marking the halfway stage of this Psalm: ‘Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me.’ The scene these words conjure up in mind is that of the evening time, when the shepherd leads his sheep down the mountainside into the valley, where long flickering shadows lie across the trail. The sheep, because they are so timid and defenseless, are often frightened by this experience. But they follow the shepherd and are comforted. They will not fear evil because he is with them. Millions of Christians have been greatly comforted by this verse as they have passed through the dark valley of death. It underlines the fact that although death may appear to be a dark valley, it is not something to fear, but an experience through which one passes on the path to a more perfect life. The Good Shepherd is well aware of our fear of death and constantly seeks to reassure us that, for the Christian, death is but a dark valley opening into an eternity of endless delight. He has told us: ‘Surely I will be with you alway’ –yes, even in the valley of the shadow of death! What a comfort –what a consolation. Many Christians fail to enjoy life because of a morbid fear of death –it overshadows all they think and do. The message translates our text for today: ‘…. Free all who cover through life, scared to death of death.’ Note the fear in some of the words: ‘cower’, ‘scared to death’. Can there be a release from such fears? Thank God –there can! And there is! This is why we must make sure that we are in Christ all the days of our life without falling by the way side out of temptations!
‘Kicking Up Our Heels’ John 16:1-15: “But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].” (v13)
3rd March 2024   sermon source
We spend one last day meditating on the phrase: ‘He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake’. The benefit of following the Lord’s path, of being guided by the Holy Spirit of God rather than our own self-determined ways, is that we shall be led from one good pasture to another without trouble, without failure and without frustrations. A good Shepherd always endeavors to keep his sheep on the move, thus avoiding over-use of the land and enabling them to continually enjoy wholesome, fresh forage. Philip Keller says, in commenting on this point: ‘… whenever the shepherd opens a gate into fresh pasture, the sheep are filled with excitement. As they go through the gate even the staid old ewes will often kick up their heels and leap with delight at the prospect of finding fresh feed. How they enjoy being led on a new ground.’ kicking up our heels means having a lively and enjoyable time, or doing things you enjoy. Do you experience a similar excitement as the Good Shepherd leads you day by day to wholesome, fresh food? Are you someone who wants to continually feed on just one doctrine or truth, and never go over to enjoy the other pathways and pastures which God has for you in His Word? Be assured of this –God wants us to move with Him day by day and discover fresh revelation as He opens up to us new insights and understanding of His precious Word. Every Christian can meet the day with as much joy as a sheep that is being led into fresh new pasture. Spiritually we can kick up our heels and leap with delight at the prospect of finding fresh new food. Expect God to show you some new insight day by day. Faith is expectancy –according to your expectancy be it unto you.
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