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It’s all about God. Jesus Christ is the Lover of my soul❤️❤️. @smcdao.
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Stephen Gerrald retweeted
FEAR GOD o!
There really is no context where it is biblically accurate to say "Jesus is not better than the believer."
Jesus as the head of the church, for instance, is not an exact parallel to husband as head of the wife. Both the husband and the wife are creatures. But both Jesus and the church are not creatures. Jesus exists by the necessity of His own being. The parallel therefore, though incredibly illuminating, has colossal limitations.
No matter how you situate our relationship with Jesus, one critical difference is that whatever (attribute) Jesus gives or even shares with us, He has such attribute necessarily, but we have it contingently. Read it again.
Secondly, Jesus may give me His righteousness, yet I cannot transmit it to others, but He continues to be the only one who can transmit it. So, you see, righteousness in me is not an exact mirror of righteousness in Jesus. Also, righteousness in Jesus is not merely a status. It is exhaustive. Jesus' righteousness means that He can not do (I don't mean He will not do, but I mean He can not do) anything wrong, because His righteousness is not just a legal status. It is not imputed. Righteousness is grounded in His beign. I hope you know what that means. The believer however CAN do things that are unrighteous, even though she is legally righteous. So, while righteousness exists in both cases, they are not identical in every sense. More, Jesus is the explanation of the believer's righteousness, and yet the same Jesus is the explanation of His own righteousness.
Thirdly, I need Jesus to sustain whatever I receive from Him. I continue to need Him to keep me in His righteousness, in His grace, in eternal life, etc. If Jesus were to leave me at any point (blessed assurance, He will not), I will lose everything He has imputed to me. He upholds all things. I don't. I stand because He is able to keep and continues to keep me. He has no keeper. No one sustains Him in eternal life, or in righteousness. His righteousness does not need any support to stay intact. Mine needs to be sustained. It is wrong therefore to say His righteousness is NOT better than mine. More, I think it is meaningless to say so.
Besides, according to scripture, the root and the branches are not the same simply because they both share in a common life (sap). As Paul said in his Roman correspondence, "remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you." If you are being upheld by another – one who is self-sufficient and needs no upholding – it is both inaccurate and irresponsible to say your Supporter is not better than you, particularly with reference to the very attribute by which he holds you up.
It is also sloppy to say because Jesus is our righteousness, and our sanctification, He is therefore not better than us. That same passage says He is our Wisdom. Is Jesus better than us in wisdom or not? If you say 'Jesus is not more righteous than me,' can you say 'Jesus is not more wise than me'?
I saw someone making a money analogy. It fails. If I have ten thousand Naira and I give it to you, it is no longer available to me to give to another person. And if you, the recipient, are generous, you can gift it to your friend. Jesus being our ransom is something infinitely richer and different than the money analogy suggests. The same Jesus is the ransom for us all. He does not diminish through donation. But whereas I can give you the ten thousand I was given, if I chose to, I can not transfer the righteousness I've received. Nevertheless, Jesus can. How then can I be as delusional as to say He is not better than me, even in righteousness!?
Okay, "As He is, so are we in this world." Yes, but it is: AS He is; not WHO He is.
Heb 7:7 (NKJV) says, "beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better." We are the blessed. We are lesser than our 'Blesser.' And He – Jesus – is better than us.
Again, 1Pet 2:17 says you should FEAR God.
Hallelujah.
Another Muslim has abandoned Islam and accepted Christ. He also converted 2 of his Muslim friends to Christianity in the process, Glory to God.
IP and I spoke to him recently, and after we talked, he did his research, got a sign from God, and the rest was history. @InspiringPhilos
Stephen Gerrald retweeted
You can get everything you want in this life and still feel empty. But Jesus ☝🏾
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Steven Bartlett, host of the podcast, The Diary of a CEO, released an interview with Christian apologist, John Lennox, this week, and his closing comments to him were fascinating:
"One of the most compelling arguments for God that you've presented (and your way of seeing the world and being) is not actually necessarily anything you've written in your books or not not necessarily anything you've said. It is actually you.
You have a certain peace and contentment that I rarely see in people that I interview, but I often see, and I've almost always seen, in the Christians that I've interviewed, and this is a interesting phenomenon for me...it seems to be a trend that a lot of the Christian apologists that I've interviewed have that anchoring that so many of us are looking for."
What a great witness.
Link to interview below
Stephen Gerrald retweeted
In the early church, membership begins by repentance.
Today, membership begins by attendance, yet we still don’t want to talk about repentance. You cannot have a Christ community without repentance.
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OF ZODIAC SIGNS, PALM READING AND THE GOSPEL.
What is the right answer?
Never abandon the creator for the created.
#askrev
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If a man or woman has a proven history of sexual indiscipline or misconduct .
Never be in a hurry to excuse that past .
Give things time .
Sexual indiscretion and indiscipline are hard habits to break .
Especially where those folks never intentionally set boundaries .
Give people grace .
However , also give ample time for them to show they have changed .
Forgive peoples past but take your time before you trust their “change” . Forgive but take time to verify .
Stephen Gerrald retweeted
Seven Ways to Build a Spiritual Routine That Lasts
Introduction
One of the great struggles in the Christian life is not getting stirred for a day. It is staying steady for years. A man can get convicted on Sunday, make promises on Monday, start strong on Tuesday, and be back in the weeds by Friday because he built his spiritual life on emotion instead of structure, impulse instead of discipline, and excitement instead of rootedness. That is one reason so many believers live on a cycle of bursts and collapses. They are not always insincere. Many of them mean well. They love the Lord, they respect the Book, they want to pray, they want to grow, and they want to be faithful. But wanting a thing and building a life that actually supports that thing are not the same matter. A spiritual routine that lasts does not happen by accident. It is built on purpose, under Scripture, by the grace of God, with enough honesty to stop pretending you are stronger than your habits.
Now let us be plain about something. A routine by itself is not spirituality. Plenty of religious dead men have routines. Pharisees had routines. Formalists have routines. Lost church members have routines. So the point is not to create a mechanical religious machine and call it revival. The point is to build a stable frame around the real life of God so that Bible reading, prayer, obedience, fellowship, witness, and growth are not left to the mercy of your moods. In other words, routine is not the life itself, but it can help protect and strengthen the life. A trellis is not the vine, but it helps the vine grow the right way. And a believer who refuses all structure because he wants to stay “free” usually ends up a slave to distraction, inconsistency, and spiritual drift.
That is why this subject matters so much, especially for younger believers or for older believers trying to recover lost ground. The devil does not mind you having spiritual intentions as long as they never harden into spiritual habits. He does not mind your admiration for prayer if you never become a man of prayer. He does not mind your respect for the Bible if the Book stays closed half the week. He does not mind your appreciation for holiness if your routine feeds the flesh more than it feeds the new man. A spiritual routine that lasts must be built with truth, realism, and discipline. So let us walk through seven ways to build one that actually holds up.
Chapter 1: Build It Around the Bible, Not Around Vague Inspiration
The first way to build a spiritual routine that lasts is to build it around the Bible, not around vague inspiration. A great many Christians fail here because their routine is built more around spiritual atmosphere than around the actual word of God. They may enjoy sermons, quotes, songs, devotionals, podcasts, clips, and emotional moments, but those things are often orbiting around the real center instead of being the center. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God” (Luke 4:4). That means the believer’s daily sustaining food is not general Christian content. It is the words of God. If your routine is not designed to get the Book open and in front of your face regularly, then you do not have a strong spiritual routine no matter how many other religious pieces are lying around.
The Bible is not merely one part of the Christian life among many equal parts. It is the ground of understanding, correction, wisdom, comfort, conviction, and direction. Psalm 119:105 says, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” A man trying to build a stable spiritual life without stable Bible intake is like a builder trying to put walls up with no foundation underneath them. He may get some visible shape for a little while, but the whole thing will shift when pressure comes. New believers especially need to get this down early. The routine should not first ask, “What inspires me today?” It should ask, “Where is the Book in my
To say that I wasn’t surprised by this gesture would have made me a liar. Thank you pastor @TNTJohn1717 and grateful. More grace, sir🥹🙏🏾❤️
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As an Ex-Muslim, let me explain Muhammad and “The Satanic Verses” in the Quran.
This will shock you.
was a good prophet until he wasn't. I wanted to believe he was sincere, that maybe he was just misunderstood, maybe he repented later on in his life.
But the more I studied the timeline of his ministry, the harder it was to ignore the shift.
Early Muhammad in Mecca preached peace, talked about one God, and tried to win over Jews and Christians. But later in Medina, that’s when it changed.
Suddenly, it transitioned to power and polygamy and violence, and revelations started sounding a lot like personal convenience. Then there’s a part nobody really wants to talk about in apologetics - “the Satanic verses.”
Ibn Ishaq, Islam’s earliest biographer, says Muhammad delivered verses that glorified pagan idols and then blamed it on Satan. And you tell me, how does a prophet mistake a demon’s voice for God’s?
Imagine if Paul or Peter did that.
Imagine if Jesus said, “oops, that part was from the devil.”
You would never trust that message again. But with Muhammad, there’s a double standard where you’re not allowed to question. Even when he married a child, took extra wives, and had people killed, you’re told to submit.
And that’s when I knew.
A real prophet doesn’t serve himself.
He sacrifices himself to serve others.
Only one man in history never changed under pressure and still laid down his life.
And that’s Jesus Christ.
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Real men don't jump from bed to bed with random women. He fears God and finds joy in righteousness.
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You know what DIDN’T shock me when I came to Christ as a Muslim?
Jesus, the real Jesus. He didn’t shock me at all.
What shocked me was how consistent He was with the God I was reading about in the Torah.
I’m reading the Bible for the first time and thinking: “Wait a second. This God, Yahweh, is always stepping into humanity.”
He’s not distant.
He walks in the garden.
Adam and Eve hear Him.
He wrestles with Jacob.
He appears as the angel of the Lord.
He speaks to Moses face to face.
So when Jesus shows up, it doesn't feel random. It felt like the next step.
People act like the Incarnation came out of nowhere. It didn’t. It’s progressive revelation. God revealing more of Himself, culminating in Christ.
The Trinity isn’t random theology. It’s God with us. God for us. God among us.
Isaiah said it 700 years before—Emmanuel, God with us. That’s prophecy.
So here’s where I got stuck: Why is it easier to believe God walked, spoke, appeared, wrestled—
but suddenly He can’t enter His own creation?
That logic doesn’t make sense.
For me, recognizing Jesus as God wasn’t a leap. It was the most natural next step.
And once I realized the Torah was revelation from God, not the Quran, I knew where I had to stand.