THE UNINFORMED BRIDE REVEALED

                      THE UNINFORMED BRIDE REVEALED

I am the rose

The joy for which he died

And this I know I move you with delight

And when my heart condemns on every side

I take refuge in the truth

I am the rose to you

I am the rose

I am the lily

I am yours

I am your beauty

There’s going to be a wedding

It’s the reason that I am living

To marry the lamb

{Song: More Than Ashes by Tim Reimherr}

⁶ Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God
    the Almighty reigns.
⁷ Let us rejoice and exult
    and give him the glory,
for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
    and his Bride has made herself ready;
⁸ it was granted her to clothe herself
    with fine linen, bright and pure”—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.⁹ And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”{Revelations 19:6-9}

She is unaware of the wedding date neither does she know that she is the bride for which the whole of heaven sang hallelujah. The Father received glory and exaltation as the Elders and angels sang in anticipation of the Lamb’s bride. She is clothed in fine linen. She is bright and pure without spot nor wrinkles. She is righteous but knows it not. She was prepared for this day some thousands of years ago at Golgotha when the Lamb was slain and His blood shed for His bride. This groom paid the costliest bride price humanity has ever known and will ever know. The Price was a sinless precious blood, a humiliated soul, a body, a torn flesh, nail pierced hands, a life not ordinary but divine. O! What a love would have provoked such a price! Fortunately, the blood was accepted by the Father and the bride price was paid in full. Nothing left to be paid than for the wedding to take place yet the bride for which He died is unaware that her bride price has been fully paid.

For God bought you with a high price. So you must honour God with your body.  {1 Corinthians 6:20}

What a fortunate and precious bride. No doubt that she is greatly loved. Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. If he laid down His life for her then He must love her stupendously. It’s difficult to understand why she was so loved. Was it her beauty or her righteousness {character}.

 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. {Romans 5:8}

It is clear from the above verse that it was not for her beauty nor her character that she was so loved. She was still a sinner as at when he died for her. But how dare you pay a costly bride price for an unworthy bride. If he loved her for her character or beauty then that love was partial and conditional but it is obvious from the aforementioned verse that His love is Unconditional.

 Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.{Eph 1:4-6 Msg}

The above verses reveal that, the bride was loved even before the foundations of earth was laid. This means that she was even loved before she was created therefore it is not because of her good character or works of righteousness that she is loved.God, The father  just wanted her to be part of His family and to enjoy a lavish gift-giving love if only she accepts to take His son’s hand in marriage. This love is truly unconditional and unearned.

Now who is this fortunate bride that stole his heart, this bride that brought him down from his throne to take on the form of human flesh, this bride that brought eternal royalty into the realm of fallen man to be numbered with sinners? He took her form in order to win her heart. He had to look like her so she could recognize him although he became undesirable .Even though this bride was poor and unworthy, The father saw beyond her current state and fixed the costliest bride price ever for her suitor to pay.

2 …..He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
³ He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him,and by his wounds we are healed.⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth;he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,so he did not open his mouth¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes^[c] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
¹² Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,^[g]and he will divide the spoils with the strong,^[h]because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. {Isaiah 53.selected verses}

The price was bloody and costly and one would wonder what the Father had in mind. All these were done so that there will be a rebirth of the bride. She had to be cleansed from her filth and be given a royal apparel. She had to become righteous and majestic because her wedding will attract the Royalties of heaven; the elders, the angels, the great cloud of witness will be there, The father will present her spotless to the Lamb in his power and glory. It was impossible for her to appear before the heavenly realm in human form. Now she has to take on his form to become one with him in marriage. She needed a new life called Zoe. How did it happen and when was the bride reborn….

  

NOTES FROM EPISODE 1

(1) There is a marriage supper that will take place soon

(2) The bride is spotless, pure, bright without wrinkles

(3)  She is righteous but knows it not

(4) She was prepared for the marriage some thousand years ago by the blood of the groom

(5)  The groom who is the lamb was slain for the bride

(6) The bride was loved even before she was created

(7) She is loved unconditionally irrespective of her  character and beauty

(8) Her bride price which was very costly was paid in full.

(9) She must take on his form to become one with him in marriage.

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THE ENEMIES OF YOUR FAITH

THE ENEMIES OF YOUR FAITH

 ⁵ What I am eager for is that all the Christians there will be filled with love that comes from pure hearts, and that their minds will be clean and their faith strong.

⁶ But these teachers have missed this whole idea and spend their time arguing and talking foolishness. ⁷ They want to become famous as teachers of the laws of Moses when they haven’t the slightest idea what those laws really show us.{1Timothy 1:5-7 TLB}

Those who are fighting against your faith are the enemies of your faith. You have some of them as your spiritual fathers and mentors. You listen to their messages on television and on you tube every week. You read their posts on face book and other social networks. You seat under their preaching every Sunday. The enemies of your faith are all around you. I know it’s hard to believe that these people are against your faith but that is the truth. Another shocking truth is that most of them don’t even know that they are fighting your faith. When they preach, they think they are speaking God’s mind but a careful analysis of their messages will reveal that Christ is not glorified in their sermons. They preach self-glorifying messages. Messages that glorify the laws of Moses and down grade the grace that Jesus brought. They tell you that faith in Christ is not enough to save you. They make you think that you must obey the laws of Moses to become accepted by God. They quench your faith in Christ and make you trust in yourself. They tell you that the price of your salvation was not paid in full at Calvary’s cross and that you have a part left to pay by yourself. They are boastful and insult anyone who preaches the gospel of Christ; the good news that says faith in Christ is the only criteria for salvation. They threaten you with the message of Hell as though you have not accepted Christ and your fear of hell has replaced your faith in Christ. Amongst them are Bishops, prophets, apostles and all the religious title holders who do not even understand the mission of Christ to earth. They wear big crosses on their necks but do not have the slightest idea what the cross of Christ truly means.

I am going to show you how they fight your faith. Just as faith comes by hearing God’s word so also fear comes by hearing man’s word. If your faith diminishes after listening to their messages then it wasn’t God’s word that was preached. God’s word must build your faith and focus your trust on Christ not on yourself. What most of them preach is the tradition of men not the gospel of Christ.

They trouble you with unnecessary rules and regulations. They put a yoke of slavery on you again. Christ came to set you free from the yoke of slavery but these enemies of faith take pleasure in enslaving you again with religious rules and rituals.

 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

² Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. ³ Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. ⁴ You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. ⁵ For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. ⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

⁷ You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? ⁸ That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.⁹ “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” ¹⁰ I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. ¹¹ Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. ¹² As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!{Galatians 5:1-12 NIV}

They preach circumcision and argue that even though you have accepted Jesus Christ as your saviour, you are not truly saved until you obey the laws of Moses and the Jewish rituals. In other words, they esteem your keeping of rules above the cross of Christ. They infer that the sacrifice of Christ on the cross was not good enough to purchase your salvation, that his blood is not potent enough to wash away your sins. They claim that you are only righteous when you are able to keep all of God’s commands. They are offended whenever anyone preaches the Cross of Christ. They are not only enemies of your faith but also enemies of the cross of Christ. They persecute the true preachers of the gospel of Christ and make you partake in their slander.

They intercept your faith race and throw you into confusion. They fight your faith until you start thinking that you can only be justified by keeping the laws of Moses. They often win the battle over your faith and you become cut off from Christ just as they are. The moment you lose faith on the cross of Christ and desire to be justified by the works of the law, you are cut off from Christ and you fall from grace.

You must note that the people who fight your faith daily are not the Muslims or any Islamic group. Only a negligible percentage of Christians interact with those sect daily and they rarely try to convince you contrary to your faith in Christ. It is not the pagans either who fight your faith or any other religious group. The real enemies of your faith are in church. They are Christians. You interact with them daily. They claim to have accepted Jesus Christ but they are enemies of the cross and hate the gospel of Christ.

¹⁸ For I have told you often before, and I say it again now with tears in my eyes, there are many who walk along the Christian road who are really enemies of the cross of Christ.{Philippians 3:18 TLB}

Many of them just want to Lord over you and put you in a position of perpetual condemnation so you can depend on them and look up to them as spiritual leaders. They are wicked men. Real dogs and Paul says to beware of them.

² Watch out for those wicked men—dangerous dogs, I call them—who say you must be circumcised to be saved. ³ For it isn’t the cutting of our bodies that makes us children of God; it is worshiping him with our spirits. That is the only true “circumcision.” We Christians glory in what Christ Jesus has done for us and realize that we are helpless to save ourselves.{Philippians 3:2-3 TLB}

We who are true Christians do not put confidence in outward ritualistic ceremonies and religious laws. We depend on God to help us. We know that without the cross of Christ we are helpless. Our faith is the cross of Christ and there we find glory. We know that we are saved by grace through faith and that not by ourselves hence we cannot boast of any works that we have done to gain salvation but our boast is in the Lord and His death on the cross.

Let me show you what Jesus Christ said about those who are fighting your faith. You will notice that they are your religious leaders; pastors and reverends:

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 ^1-3 Now Jesus turned to address his disciples, along with the crowd that had gathered with them. “The religion scholars and Pharisees are competent teachers in God’s Law. You won’t go wrong in following their teachings on Moses. But be careful about following them. They talk a good line, but they don’t live it. They don’t take it into their hearts and live it out in their behavior. It’s all spit-and-polish veneer.

^4-7 “Instead of giving you God’s Law as food and drink by which you can banquet on God, they package it in bundles of rules, loading you down like pack animals. They seem to take pleasure in watching you stagger under these loads, and wouldn’t think of lifting a finger to help. Their lives are perpetual fashion shows, embroidered prayer shawls one day and flowery prayers the next. They love to sit at the head table at church dinners, basking in the most prominent positions, preening in the radiance of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees, and getting called ‘Doctor’ and ‘Reverend.’{Matthew 23:17 MSG}

These religious leaders keep making new rules and package them in bundles for you to obey while they themselves don’t obey such rules. They love to see you staggering and breaking the rules without helping you to stand. They sit in high tables in church meetings and love to answer titles “Reverends, Doctors and Elders” They preach what they don’t practice. They tell you that you can’t do anything unless you take permission from them. They like to be in charge of your life so they can glory over you. They are dangerous hypocrites and desire to keep you far from the truth which sets men free from the slavery of the laws. Do you know that these your religious teachers and pastors are leading you to hell? They work so hard to get you converted and once you are, they set you on the pedestal to hell.

¹³ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people's faces, but you yourselves don't go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter! ^14 [b]

¹⁵ “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You sail the seas and cross whole countries to win one convert; and when you succeed, you make him twice as deserving of going to hell as you yourselves are!{Matthew 23:13-15 GNT}

These religious leaders block the way to the kingdom of heaven and prevent you from entering the kingdom because they themselves don’t want to enter. It takes faith in Christ to enter the kingdom and Jesus Christ is The way, The truth and The life. No man gets to the father except through Him. Faith is the ticket to heaven. Faith gives you God’s righteousness and that qualifies you for the kingdom of heaven. Unfortunately, your religious leaders are damned for hell and they also try to fight your faith. They introduce you to a road which does not lead to heaven. The road of the laws and religious rituals.

¹⁸ God paid a ransom to save you from the impossible road to heaven which your fathers tried to take, and the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver as you very well know. ¹⁹ But he paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. ²⁰ God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but only recently was he brought into public view, in these last days, as a blessing to you.

²¹ Because of this, your trust can be in God who raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory. Now your faith and hope can rest in him alone.{1Peter 1:18-21 TLB}

The impossible road to heaven is the way of the Jewish laws. The way of circumcision and religious rituals. This road doesn’t lead to heaven at all. Unfortunately multitudes are following this road because they believe that they must obey so many commandments before they can make heaven. The road is broad and wide and it leads to destruction. Only few have found the way of the cross, the way of faith and hope in Christ. The narrow way. It doesn’t involve so many rules. Just one requirement; faith which works by love. It is so narrow that only few believe in it. Many Christians prefer to keep Ten Commandments and other religious rituals before they can feel qualified for heaven but the road that leads to heaven is narrow with just one law, the law of faith and love. This is the road that leads to life. The faith road. Those who will live and be justified must have faith.

¹³ “Heaven can be entered only through the narrow gate! The highway to hell^[b]is broad, and its gate is wide enough for all the multitudes who choose its easy way. ¹⁴ But the Gateway to Life is small, and the road is narrow, and only a few ever find it.{Matthew 7:13-14}

Christ Jesus is the door. Enter by Him and you will be saved. Only through faith can you enter by Him.

⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. {John 10:9}

Let no man therefore destroy your faith because that is all you need to enter heaven.

These enemies of faith didn’t just emanate in our generation, they had been even from the time of Apostle Paul. This was an encounter he had with them.

Then fourteen years later I went back to Jerusalem again, this time with Barnabas; and Titus came along too. ² I went there with definite orders from God to confer with the brothers there about the message I was preaching to the Gentiles. I talked privately to the leaders of the church so that they would all understand just what I had been teaching and, I hoped, agree that it was right. ³ And they did agree; they did not even demand that Titus, my companion, should be circumcised, though he was a Gentile.

⁴ Even that question wouldn’t have come up except for some so-called “Christians” there—false ones, really—who came to spy on us and see what freedom we enjoyed in Christ Jesus, as to whether we obeyed the Jewish laws or not. They tried to get us all tied up in their rules, like slaves in chains. ⁵ But we did not listen to them for a single moment, for we did not want to confuse you into thinking that salvation can be earned by being circumcised and by obeying Jewish laws.{Galatians 2:1-5 TLB}

I am certain that most of you have these false Christians in your churches who keep bringing up rules and regulations and make you think that your salvation is based on Jewish laws. They send spies to follow you up and down to find out if you are committing sin or not. Their aim is to bring accusations against you. They dare not see you talking to the opposite gender, they will draw conclusions based on lies. Most pastors are preaching their village traditions as to what kind of clothes to wear and what hair style or make up to do and they think they are preaching the gospel. They find fault with everything you do and argue about the wearing of trousers, tying of hair and wearing of gold jewellery. They know nothing about the gospel of Christ Jesus that is based on faith in the finished work on the cross. They preach Jewish laws and call it the gospel. They are not aware that the Jewish laws were never meant for the gentiles. The gospel to the gentiles is salvation based on faith in Christ Jesus. It has nothing to do with laws. Even the Jews who had the laws no longer uphold the law as criteria for salvation because God’s way of putting people right with Himself has been revealed and it has nothing to do with the laws. It is simply by faith in Christ Jesus.

²¹ But now God's way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even though the Law of Moses and the prophets gave their witness to it. ²² God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all: ²³ everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence.²⁴ But by the free gift of God's grace all are put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free.{Romans 3:21-24 GNT}

It is by faith in Christ that we have been set free and stand firm on grace ground. This faith is what your enemies of faith are fighting against. They want to strip you of your freedom in Christ and entangle you again into the slavery of Jewish laws and village traditions. Paul says not to listen to them not even for a moment.

The enemies of faith preach fear every Sunday and you go home feeling like you are the devil himself. They know so much about hell but know nothing about heaven. After preaching the horrors of hell to their congregation, the only thing left is for these members to dream of hell in their sleep and see the illusion of what their pastors preached about in hell. They come up with stories of how they saw Christians in hell just because of the hairstyle or make up they wore.  Their fake stories are exactly the same as the ignorant preaching of their pastors. How come everyone keeps dreaming about hell? What happened to heaven? Why are there only few Christians dreaming about our real home, Heaven? You see, Christians are more conscious of hell than they are of heaven. What an anomaly?

The heroes of faith in Hebrews chapter 11 were looking forward to a city whose builder and maker is God. They anticipated heaven not hell. Men of faith anticipate heaven. Men of laws, enemies of faith anticipate hell. Men of faith know that Christ in them is their hope of glory but men of laws are fearfully expecting judgement.

THE FIGHT OF FAITH

THE FIGHT OF FAITH

There is a fight going on in the body of Christ. It is not a fight between the world and the church neither is it a fight between Satan and Christ. It is not a fight which the physical eyes can see nor can the human mind understand. It is a fight from within, an attack by enemies from within. It is not a fight against your health, fame or money. The arrows are not targeted at your career nor your religion neither are they focused on your family. The battle is against something which the physical eyes cannot see, something eternal, a substance, an evidence beyond physical vision. It is a fight against your FAITH.

Every Christian is in a fight of faith but surprisingly many are unaware that they are in a fight. They are ignorant of this fight because their opponents are actually wearing the same camouflage with them and bear the same name “Christians”. They seat together in church halls every Sunday with their opponents and sing songs to God. Majority of the armies in the opposing team are pastors and church leaders with a lesser percentage being church members. You listen to their messages weekly and these messages are targeted at your faith. Faith cometh by hearing but it has to be the word of God. Most of the time what you hear in church are doctrines of men and not the word of God hence your faith doesn't grow. Your faith diminishes as the day goes by and is gradually being replaced by fear. If God has not given us the spirit of fear and the messages you hear weekly make you fear then you ought to ask yourself if it’s actually God’s word or human doctrine. The bible says we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear. This means that fear puts you in bondage because fear has torment. Whenever the enemies of your faith preach to you, you are being tormented by fear. This fear is an evidence that you lack the knowledge of how much you have been perfected in love. This your lack of faith has affected your boldness and makes you afraid of judgement day. You are fearfully expecting judgement and anticipating shame and disappointment on that day because you have been told lies about God and brainwashed with human doctrines. You must understand now that you are in a battle and your opponents are fellow Christians who are enemies of the cross of Christ. The most important virtue of your Christian life is obliterated weekly and you must rise up and fight back. It is the only fight you will have to fight as a believer and it is a good fight. Once you gain the victory in this fight you are eternally an overcomer and will have no need to fight any other battle in life. You must fight for your Faith with everything you’ve got.

¹² Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. {1Timothy 6:12}

⁴ For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.{1 John 5:4}

Why must I fight for my faith? Someone may be asking. Well you see, you cannot lay hold on eternal life if you don’t have faith. Your eternal life is a product of your faith and once your faith is destroyed your eternal life is destroyed alongside. So to keep possession of your eternal life you must fight to keep your faith. No faith no life. Those who will live eternally must have faith. Therefore the first reason why you should fight for your faith is to lay hold on eternal life.

 ³⁷ For, as the scripture says,

“Just a little while longer,
    and he who is coming will come;
    he will not delay.
³⁸ My righteous people, however, will believe and live;
    but if any of them turns back,
    I will not be pleased with them.”

³⁹ We are not people who turn back and are lost. Instead, we have faith and are saved.{Hebrews 10 GNT}

Soon the Lord is coming back again and He will not delay. Those who have faith will live. They are the ones whose faith has made them righteous hence they will live eternally.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die; ²⁶ and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?”{John 11:25-26 GNT}

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.{John 3:16 GNT}

Another reason why you must fight for your faith is that it is your faith that provokes God to save you. Your faith makes you righteous and that brings salvation to you. So if anyone must be saved such a one must have faith.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.{Ephesians 2:8-9}

It is through faith that we are saved and it will take faith to also sustain our salvation. Once you lose your faith in this fight, you lose your salvation alongside. I know many people think that to lose your faith is to fall into sin and they call it backsliding. That is a misconception. To lose your faith is to depend on your works and the laws to make you good enough before God. The bible often contrasts faith with law and works not faith with sin. Hence the opposite of faith is not sin but works and the laws. This means that to backslide is to depend on works and on the laws. It is to lose your faith. It means to draw back. To remove your eyes from Jesus and fix them on yourself and how good you can be by the works of the law. He is the author and the finisher of your faith. The moment you begin to boast of your works and what you could achieve by yourself, you lose your faith and your salvation. But we are saved through faith, not by works so that no man can boast.

The third reason why you must fight to keep your faith is because God will have no pleasure in you if you lose your faith. If you draw back, His soul shall have no pleasure in you. If you draw back you will be lost but if you protect your faith your soul shall be saved.

 ³⁸ And those whose faith has made them good in God’s sight must live by faith, trusting him in everything. Otherwise, if they shrink back, God will have no pleasure in them.

³⁹ But we have never turned our backs on God and sealed our fate. No, our faith in him assures our souls’ salvation.{Hebrews 10:38-39 TLB}

So long as you keep your faith, God will continually have pleasure in you and you are assured of your soul’s salvation. You don’t doubt whether or not you will make heaven. Your faith gives you assurance that you are a citizen of heaven. Any Christian who is doubting his eternal destination has lost his faith and has backslidden. Why are most Christians uncertain of their eternal destination? The reason is because they are gradually losing the faith fight. Their opponents have preached to them that the criteria for them to be eternally saved is to keep a bunch of rules and perform certain rituals. Therefore they not being able to obey all of those rules and religious rituals are afraid and uncertain of their eternal destination. They have their eyes fixed on laws and religious rituals and have sacrificed their faith on the altars of religion. When they first believed Christ, they had all their trust in Him to take them to heaven but as soon as the faith fight started, their faith began to waver and diminish. Their belief in Christ as their righteousness and the propitiation for their sins was gradually replaced by their confidence in the flesh and on external religious ceremonies. They now measure their readiness for heaven by their self-righteousness as those who perverted the scriptures have erroneously taught them. They now doubt the gift of forgiveness and the gift of righteousness. They have lost faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross and are trying to work a work that Christ already finished. As I wrote in my book titled “Trees of righteousness”, self- righteousness is always unstable. Righteous one day, unrighteous the following day. They have faith today and have fear the next day. It is this staggering nature of their faith that makes them fearfully expect judgement. 

Whenever you lose your faith, you have sinned. Sin cannot make you lose your faith but when you lose your faith you have sinned. Why? Because whatsoever is not of faith is sin and the law is not of faith. What does that mean? It means that whenever you start depending on the law and religious rituals to make you righteous, you have lost your faith and that is sin. The bible calls it a deliberate sin. You have rejected the saviour.

²⁶ If anyone sins deliberately by rejecting the Savior after knowing the truth of forgiveness, this sin is not covered by Christ’s death; there is no way to get rid of it. ²⁷ There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible punishment of God’s awful anger, which will consume all his enemies. {Hebrews 10:26-27 TLB}

Did you notice that the sin of losing your faith is not covered by Christ’s death? It means that there is no way to get rid of it. It is an unforgivable sin. Why unforgivable? Unforgivable because you don’t believe in the gift of forgiveness and the gift of righteousness and hence it cannot profit you. Christ already died and paid for your sins but you don’t believe that He paid for your sins and that your unbelief is in itself a sin that cannot be gotten rid of. Christ cannot come and die again for only you so you can believe. He died once and for all and what is next is judgement.

²⁵ The Jewish high priest goes into the Most Holy Place every year with the blood of an animal. But Christ did not go in to offer himself many times, ²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer many times ever since the creation of the world. Instead, now when all ages of time are nearing the end, he has appeared once and for all, to remove sin through the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God. ²⁸ In the same manner Christ also was offered in sacrifice once to take away the sins of many. He will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are waiting for him. {Hebrews 9:25-28 GNT}

He defeated sin, hell and the grave. His return is not to deal with sin again but to save those who have faith in Him and are faithfully expecting Him. Therefore if you don’t believe that His death paid the debt for your sins in full, you are left on your own to face the judgement by yourself. His judgement is fierce and full of fury. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Another reason why you must fight for your faith is because if you lose your faith, you cannot be brought back to repentance again. A believer who suddenly started committing sin intentionally and perpetually can still be brought back to repentance. God’s grace can reach out to him and save him like the prodigal son who came back to his senses. There is hope for a tree says Job; that if it be cut down and its root wax old in the ground, nevertheless at the scent of water, it shall sprout up again. So it is with any believer who keeps sinning. The righteous falls seven times and rises again with his righteousness intact by faith. But a man who has lost faith cannot be brought back to repentance.

⁴ For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God's light; they tasted heaven's gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit; ⁵ they knew from experience that God's word is good, and they had felt the powers of the coming age. ⁶ And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame. {Hebrews 6:4-6 GNT}.

I hope that by now you understand the gravity of the danger of losing your faith. It means that you cannot repent of that sin. You simply drew back unto perdition. You believed the good news initially when you first accepted Christ but because of false brethren who crept into the church and preached the laws of Moses and religious rituals, you abandoned the goodness of God’s word, forgot that He gave you the Holy Spirit by faith and worked miracles amongst you. You didn’t remember that the gifts of the Holy Ghost He lavished on you were not because you kept some religious laws. You felt the powers of the eternal age. You were graciously running well until you were intercepted by your opponents, the enemies of faith and the race you began in the spirit by faith was now turned into dependence on fleshly perfection. Who has bewitched you apostle Paul cried out?

 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

² This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

³ Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

⁴ Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

⁵ He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?{Galatians 3:1-5}