Thread by @GbengaWemimo

The sinner was once darkness but upon hearing the gospel & believing he got translated out of darkness into God’s marvelous light and also became light

He was once darkness dwelling in darkness and in Christ he became light dwelling in the light
His identity and position changed

Now in Christ, he might do some wrong things due to his level of growth and the out working of his new reality!
If he got filled with the Holy Spirit immediately and was nurtured by the right gospel, he will overcome the carnal man quickly and make only a few mistakes due to the

Flesh but if he got born again and was put in a religious gathering with the “performance” gospel, he will remain a Neppios (unskilled and immature) believer for a very long time.
If he or she was made to wait for the Holy Spirit to fall from heaven for many months, things get a

Little complicated.
He or she doesn’t get to exercise his faith and remains locked in the flesh while his new nature is purely spiritual
Praying in tongues helps us grow quickly because it is a mind bypass process which enabled our bodies to acknowledge and engage the Holy Spirit

Directly.
The more a believer engages the Holy Spirit, the more he or she change in mindset, perception and language
Jesus said the Holy Spirit Is the one who will teach, guide and lead us into our new reality and lifestyle as believers.
Denominations tried to substitute the Holy

Spirit (because they don’t know how to impart Him on believers and trust Him to develop believers) with Bible studies and human teachers. All that does was create hypocrites because humans were not meant to do the duty of the Holy Spirit in training the new believers. There is a

role for human teachers and a role for supernatural teachers in the church. Apostle Paul was taught by the Holy Spirit, he wrote this plainly in the Galatians. He said all the time he spent with Peter was two weeks! When you read his writings, you will see the depth to which the

Holy Spirit can take one to if He is allowed to do his work in us.
Human leaders end up teaching denominations and slanted gospels that legalize hypocrisy and keep the believer loyal and committed to the payment of his tithes and offering and also sowing seed.
I remember the day

I got ordained as a Deacon. We finished the ordination and some of us needed to use the ATM, so we queued you at a bank
Suddenly a fight broke out.
Somebody came to beg the first person on the queue to allow him withdraw some money because he had an emergency. The person obliged

The next person insisted he must go and queue at the back because he had given his space to someone who was not on the queue, he refused.
They started fighting.
The ordination tag was still on their necks.
Their language, thought pattern and orientation was very carnal and the

Others on the queue didn’t do any better.
Even pastors on the queue took sides depending on how they perceived the gesture of the man who gave someone who was not on the queue the space to withdraw some money.
Eventually it was settled, everybody got to collect some money and yet

neither of them or their supporters parted as friends.
It was a bitter row, the type that got me thinking for days with tears in my eyes.
I am not saying believers don’t have disagreements, but there is a way disagreement ends that quickly dissipates bad blood and bad taste...

Becoming a deacon in that denomination meant you had been born again, a consistent tithe payer, a house fellowship and HOD of department(s)etc
But it is very consistent with religion, to produce actors and pretend as long as we are on the flesh we cannot do better. This is why

Many are afraid of the once saved, always saved truth
They know they are not yet saved, they are hoping to get saved somewhere along the way
They have given their lives to Christ but their lifestyle was still carnal and full of secret sins, so they convince themselves they are

Saved when they get it right.
The moment darkness got translated into light, it cannot be untranslated
Sin has nothing to do with deed and everything to do with identity
The unbeliever is darkness, no matter how much good he does he or she is still darkness as long as he or she

Did not accept Jesus Christ as Lord and saviour
Good works cannot save anybody
So here is the problem
The “so called” born again who is living a carnal life and doing all sorts of wrong things.
We don’t want to believe such is going to heaven because that would mean encouraging

such to go on living recklessly
We want such to believe heaven will reject him or her if he doesn’t change
This places a psychological leash on the excesses of such
We are wrong!
Such a believer is suffering already
There is nothing as painful as an eagle living as a chicken!

I have seen sin break people in pieces many times
I have seen pastors die untimely deaths and at least a spiritually gifted sister die of AIDS because of the choices such made after becoming a believer.
It’s like a new born baby who crawled into the fire and got badly burnt

We cannot say he or she is not human, but he or she will have to live with the consequences all the days of his life
There is a way the word of God gets into the reality of the new creature if we allow him or her to be led by the Holy Spirit as designed by God. Religion has made

a mockery of this process
The doctrines show this
You can lose your salvation by sinning but you cannot become saved by merely being upright
A very unbalanced weight
Eternal life is temporary life depending on what you do.
When you refuse to put a slave in his place, you raise a

Problem!
Solomon said it is dangerous to put a slave on a throne!
If he is born again, he is a son and you must put him in the palace
When he gets into the palace and realizes who he is, he will shed the old nature and grow into his royal status very quickly but if you keep him

In a position where he is never sure who he is, he will continue to behave accordingly. Good today and bad tomorrow. Lacking consistency and unable to do better. A lady once came to me in tears, she said “Why can’t I stop cheating on my husband? I try and try ambit I cannot! She

Is a believer, a Sunday school teacher and yet her struggle with adultery after she became born again lasted over ten years. She said she went for a wedding once and to her shock she realized she had slept with almost all the men at the wedding reception!
I told her the gospel

And she began to live it.
Confessing who she is daily “I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, I have the life of God in me! I and my Father are one! Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world!”
She took it as a joke at the beginning but within a year she was

A totally new person
Even she forgot what her past used to be like
The last time we talked about how she was, I realized she became uncomfortable seeing herself that way
Why?
Because for her old things had really passed away & all things are become new!
Assert your reality today!