READ: COLOSSIANS 1:12-15
Sometime in the 80s, the
Lord showed a brother a vision. In it, he saw an old man with all his hair
gray, announcing: “I want to get married.” The brother looked at him, laughed
and said: “Who will marry an old man like you?” Not long afterwards, he saw
people flying to the sky in large numbers. He was wondering what was going on.
So he too rose up his hands to join them but fell back on his bed and woke up.
You will not miss the rapture in Jesus name.
The main purpose of creation was because God wanted to get married. Do you know that every time somebody gives his or her life to Jesus Christ, the fellow is actually saying, I have accepted Jesus Christ as my husband? Salvation like any other marriage has its contract. Whenever someone marries to Jesus Christ, there will be three basic changes: First, there will be a change of name. You used to be named after Satan, but now you are named after God because you have become a child of God. In no other religion do adherents see themselves as the children of God, hence they see us a peculiar people that we really are.
Secondly, there will be a change of accommodation. Whether you are aware or not, the day you got married to Jesus Christ, you were translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13). You used to live with your father, the devil in the kingdom of darkness where sickness, poverty, and other evils were of daily occurrence. But the day you married Jesus, you changed accommodation and moved kingdoms. You are now seated with Jesus in the Heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).
Thirdly, there will be a change of responsibilities. Before you were married to Jesus Christ, you were free to do anything you liked. You were not expected to pay tithes, preach the Word of God, follow-up sinners, work and serve Jesus, spend and be spent for Him. But after your marriage to Him, you were placed under these responsibilities and more. In fact, from that time, His Word became law. Since then you can enjoy divine health because you are married to the Chief Physician. How are you playing your wifely role in support of your Maker and Husband?
The main purpose of creation was because God wanted to get married. Do you know that every time somebody gives his or her life to Jesus Christ, the fellow is actually saying, I have accepted Jesus Christ as my husband? Salvation like any other marriage has its contract. Whenever someone marries to Jesus Christ, there will be three basic changes: First, there will be a change of name. You used to be named after Satan, but now you are named after God because you have become a child of God. In no other religion do adherents see themselves as the children of God, hence they see us a peculiar people that we really are.
Secondly, there will be a change of accommodation. Whether you are aware or not, the day you got married to Jesus Christ, you were translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son (Colossians 1:13). You used to live with your father, the devil in the kingdom of darkness where sickness, poverty, and other evils were of daily occurrence. But the day you married Jesus, you changed accommodation and moved kingdoms. You are now seated with Jesus in the Heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).
Thirdly, there will be a change of responsibilities. Before you were married to Jesus Christ, you were free to do anything you liked. You were not expected to pay tithes, preach the Word of God, follow-up sinners, work and serve Jesus, spend and be spent for Him. But after your marriage to Him, you were placed under these responsibilities and more. In fact, from that time, His Word became law. Since then you can enjoy divine health because you are married to the Chief Physician. How are you playing your wifely role in support of your Maker and Husband?
MEMORIZE:
COLOSSIANS 1:13 –Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has
translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.
