Rich in Christ?

There is a craving/passionate hunger for wealth, riches and financial gains which has been created by many of our Christian leaders. This has been so crafted and embraced to the detriment of the primary essence of the Christian.

It is good to be rich. I desire financial riches. I want my members to have good wealth. Every Christian must understand that a lack of financial abundance is not a plague or disease. A Christian may not be financially buoyant for different reasons as famine, exposure, illness, tragedy(loss of a bread winner), laziness etc. In any of the situation above, the response or responsibility of the church is to be a support to lead the individual through the phase of financial lack to one of abundance.

The church should be careful not to trigger the greed for riches in members as the Apostle Paul warns about the deceitfulness of riches- it works against the rich and the poor.

It is out of place to base or measure the effect of the work of the cross of Jesus Christ on our financial supplies or the comfort it can give. The unbelievers have a boast in these also.

The blessedness of the Christian is primarily spiritual. Any other thing is secondary and should not be the standard. The church should focus first on teaching members to understand that coming to Christ is to a spiritual end. Christ did not die to make you the richest man in your community but to walk in the Spirit, living in the reality of the divine life and shining as light that you become in Him.

May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!
-Ephesians 1:3.

NB- if you continue reading from verse 4 . Ephesians chapter 1, you will be exposed to a few of these blessing(riches) available in Christ.

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The Blood of Jesus Christ!

The wonderful thing about the BLOOD of Jesus Christ is the efficacy of the achievements it has in the life of the believer. While a lot of us have a habit to plead the blood, it is right to mention that the power in the blood is not in the pleading but in the understanding of what it amended and acting by faith in it.

The blood of bulls and lambs are not worthy to be compared to that of the Saviour. An understand and an adjustment by faith made the old Testament believers enjoy the benefits of a shed blood.

The Israelites and their first born sons were preserved from death when the angel of death visited the land of Egypt in one of the plagues that broke pharaoh to release the people of Israel.
The blood of a lamb protected them from death.

The blood of sheep established the old Covenant at mount Sinai and the people lived by that covenant for centuries with God staying faithful to the covenant to be their God from generation to generation.
The blood of an animal enacted a covenant that was so glorious.

The blood of bulls, goats etc was shed to take away sins. In fact the blood of one animal was sufficient to take away the sin of the whole community for a whole year after the priests had laid hands on the animal thus conferring on it the sin of the whole people (not a few but all). It was for all Israel and for the year.
The blood of an animal forgave the sins of a nation for an entire year.

Having these typologies as a foretaste and proof of the unlimiting ability of of the blood of Jesus Christ, I beg to challenge you to take a step in faith and be confident in the power the blood of Jesus Christ provides. He himself presented it before the Father and it is accepted.
The blood of Jesus Christ cleansed you from all your guilt and filt ONCE(and for all), forgave all your sins, enacted the covenant of grace which you enjoy, offers you protection from the grip of death and hell...(if you have believed in Jesus Christ ).
Give it a thought- if the blood of animals could do so much(the few stated above) without pleading, How much more will the BLOOD of Jesus Christ do.

Heb. 9: 11-14; 10: 12, 14

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NB. Please read the book of Hebrews back to back to back to...