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endlessjoe
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 PERFECTING THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION...

PERFECTING THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION- A MEANS OF BRINGING MANY SONS UNTO GLORY...

MINISTRY IS ALL ABOUT BRINGING MEN UNTO GLORY; IS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE A MAN'S NAME FROM JACOB TO ISRAEL. THE RESTORATION OF DOMINION AND AUTHORITY IS THE PERFECT PICTURE OF MINISTRY, ANYTHING SHORT OF THESE IS BUT A MERE ACTIVITY.

THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL HAVE SINNED AND COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD...PUT DIFFERENTLY, IF A MAN SINS HE FORFEITS THE GLORY OF GOD. MEN FELL SHORT OF GOD'S GLORIOUS EXPECTATION BY SIN. THE LOSE OF GLORY IS THE DEPARTURE FROM GOD'S GLORIOUS DREAM AND PLANS FOR ANY MAN. GOD GAVE MAN GLORY, WITHOUT GLORY EVERY IS NAKED.

GLORY SPEAKS OF BEAUTY, HONOUR AND LOT MORE. A MAN WITHOUT GLORY IS AS GOOD AS DEAD. IT SEEMS GOOD TO US AND THE HOLY GHOST TO MENTION HERE THAT A MAN THAT HAS MET GOD'S GLORIOUS EXPECTATION IS A MAN OF GLORY.

TAKE GLORY FROM PLACE THAT PLACE BECOMES A DESERT. SO, TO ADMINISTER THE NEW TESTAMENT SIMPLY SUGGEST THE BRINGING OF MEN TO GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN WHICH IS THE PLACE OF DOMINION AND DIGNITY. IT MEANS THAT A NEW TESTAMENT ADMINISTRATOR MUST KNOW THE SCOPE AND DIMENSIONS OF THE NEW WILL OR COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND HUMANITY. HE MUST BE MADE PERFECT.
PERFECTION HERE DOES NOT MEAN SINLESSNESS NOR INPECABILITY OF CHARACTER BUT MATURITY AND RIPENESS OF VIRTUE, YES A MORAL TESTIMONIA. THIS MATURITY IS NOT A PRODUCT OF FASTING AND PRAYER, THOUGH PRAYER HAS A VITAL ROLE TO PLAY, BUT THAT OF DAY TO DAY ENCOUNTER OF LIFE EXPERIENCES.

THIS IS BASICALLY AND ULTIMATELY WHAT PAUL MEANT BY THE CAPTAIN OF OUR SALVATION BEING MADE PERFECT BY SUFFERING. THE CAPTAIN HERE MEANS AN AUTHOR OR INITIATOR. JESUS IS THE AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH. HE DIDN'T ATTAIN THIS OFFICE BY CHEAP WAYS OR THROUGH ORDINATION OF ANY DENOMINATION, BUT THROUGH WHAT HE SUFFERED. 

PAUL SAYS GOD WHO COMFORTED US THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO COMFORT...THE MINISTRY OF COMFORT AUTOMATICALLY BECOMES A MAN'S THAT GOD HAS COMFORTED. ..THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE...SO THAT MIGHT BE ENABLED...THIS IS THE ROOT OF ALL IMPACTFULL LABOUR.

A MAN THAT HAS NOT GONE THROUGH DARKNESS BEFORE WOULD BE USELESS TO THIS DARK WORLD BECAUSE HE DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIENCE TO GIVE TEETH TO HIS MINISTRATION. ANY ATTEMPT TO FORCE IT WOULD BE MEANT BY OPPOSITION. WHO MADE YOU A RULER AND A JUDGE OVER US? WOULD EVER BE THE RESPONSE OF MEN TOWARD AN UNTRIED AND UNBAKED INDIVIDUAL.

THE NEED TO BRING MANY SONS TO GLORY IS GREAT IN OUR TIME. MANY SONS OF GOD ARE OUT THERE LIVING LIKE SLAVE, SICKNESS AND LIFE OF WOES HAVE BECOME CONSTANT AND DAILY EXPERIENCE OF MANY SONS. THE MANNER AND QUAILS IN THE CAMP ARE NOT ONLY REACHABLE BY FEW, THIS IS SCRIPTURAL. UNTIL WE ALL COME TO A PLACE OF GLORY ,THE NEW TESTAMENT IS BUT A RACIAL, CLASS AND ETHNIC ADMINISTRATION. 

GOD IS NOT OUT TO MAKE A CHAMPION BUT BRINGING MANY, MANY AND MANY SONS UNTO GLORY. THE ERNEST EXPECTATION OF THE WHOLE CREATION AWAIT THIS! THE CREATION ITSELF WILL BE SAVED FROM CORRUPTION BY THIS. IF WE DELAY TO COME INTO GLORY ALL AROUND US WOULD SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES. LET ALL BEARER OF THE GOSPEL THEN EMBRACE ANY TRAINING USEFUL TO THE BECOMING OF A MATURED CAPTAIN OF MEN'S SALVATION. AMEN!


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Emeka Joe Uzosike

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