Introduction

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”Ephesians 2: 8 – 9

Now, the great gift. You might say overlooked. The great gift that God gave. For by grace are ye saved. You’re already saved through grace, through faith.

You accept it as a gift. If you have to buy it, or something like that out there, there wouldn’t be a gift any longer. It’s already a gift. And God, your healing the same way. And your salvation runs right along together there.

When you witness to others about the Lord Jesus, tell them that they are already saved. The Lord Jesus, the mighty God, has already tasted death for everyone. It is now left to whosoever will believe it. Isaiah 9: 6; Hebrews 2: 9; John 3: 15.

If this Bible is your doctrine instead of some church, then you can worship God in spirit and truth. They cannot, this lip service, because how can anybody with a part truth, part lie, part false, part this, part that, how in the world can they worship God in the truth and in the spirit? It’s an impossibility.

If anybody asks you what’s your doctrine, you tell the whole word of God. Because they’ve made so many Bibles, you may not be able to say Bible, unless you say King James. But you just tell them my doctrine is the Bible, all of the Bible. That is, the words of God is my doctrine. You get away from that, you’re in deep trouble.

God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit as the Scriptures give it. John 4: 23 – 24.

What causes our physical bodies to be changed to gloried bodies at the time of translation? It is the simple faith in you that started with true salvation in your soul, that has now grown to translative faith.

It is simple faith, and that simple faith can grow by leaps and by bounds. It’ll grow until finally that faith will cause a vibrant change. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, it’ll reach the point that you’re changed and caught up to meet the Lord in the air with those that have been resurrected out, and they’ve come back to their bodies, to stand before the Lord. That’s how powerful the faith, so powerful, that the change finally comes in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. John 11: 25 – 26; 1 Corinthians 15: 51 – 53.

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”Romans 6: 23

But that gift of eternal life, it’s yours. So, the gift of eternal life, this great mystery, the Jews said, that’s a man. So simple that they overlooked the great gift.

The “gift of God” is the very life of the eternal God Himself. It means there is no higher gift throughout the entire Universe that you can receive, because you cannot receive anything higher than the very life of the eternal God.

God’s eternal life is your eternal life. It means the life of God is your life, and your life is the life of God. The Bible calls the Lord Jesus “our life”. Colossians 3: 4.

It means you have been with Him from eternity, and you shall be with Him for eternity.

If you were to pass on before the translation, the eternal life that you now have will continue in the third heaven, paradise, and will continue for eternity at the time of translation when your physical body is changed to the glorified body, a body that is immortal. 2 Corinthians 12: 1 – 4; 1 Corinthians 15: 51 – 53.

The faith that speaks and does those things, and He gave us a little part of that in us, a part of Him, to use to get what we want, to use to fulfill the word of God, and the promises of God.

“The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!”

“Behold saith the Lord do ye not know this Scripture? Ye were with Me when the Morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy!” (Job 38:6,7)”

“that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God”.

While you are alive on this earth, there is no greater joy in your soul than to know that you shall be with the Almighty God for eternity. Leap for joy. Luke 6: 23.

No matter what problem Satan may bring to you, it makes no difference because the eternal God is your life, and He is in control of all creation.

For your life to be hidden with the eternal God, inside of Himself, means your life is also eternal. Colossians 3: 2 – 3.

You are a joint-heir with Christ, the eternal God, and you shall inherit all things from Him. You shall sit on the throne to rule with Him for eternity. Romans 8: 16 – 17; Revelation 3: 21.

Lord Jesus, you are our eternal life. We were with you when you created the morning stars, and we shall be with you throughout eternity as you bring forth more creations. We thank you for giving us eternal life. Thank you, Jesus.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of the Sermon

We listened to a sermon titled “The Great Gift”, CD # 1345, by Brother Neal Frisby.

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

Now, the great gift. You might say overlooked. The great gift that God gave. The only Son, Him, Himself, come in the form of flesh, and so forth like that. He’s trying to tell us something. He’s telling each one of us to give of our prayers, to give of our time, to give of our faith, to give to witness, or we give financially, whatever we do, or give to worship, we give of our time to God, and we thank Him for it. He has a record book on all of that.

When you come before the throne, something similar to what I preach, and the power that’s on me, and so powerful, and positive, that He puts here. It’s a little insignificant compared to what really God is at His throne, but something similar, you go to feeling have I been there before? And you go to seeing such power.

The faith that speaks and does those things, and He gave us a little part of that in us, a part of Him, to use to get what we want, to use to fulfill the word of God, and the promises of God.

He is real, the great gift of the Lord.

Now, after God performed so many miracles for Israel, fantastic miracles, all the way through the Bible. But the time that Christ arrived, the Lord Jesus, it had kind of dropped down to just lip service. Just a type of tradition of men, and yet they claimed the Old Testament Bible, but the foundation was not on it at all. It had changed because men got their ideas into it.

And there was a living Spirit standing, part of the throne, right before there. And power, that is, power that He would give them at that time there. And they failed to see what Jesus was talking about. In fact, they used the Bible to fight Him, but it did no good.

How great the gift. This gift so great that Satan tried so hard all the way through. That fight, all the way through there, that wasn’t just the things that were going on at that time. From the six thousand years where the promise, the Messiah would come, that was Satan fighting to cut that off, all the way up until Jesus stepped out and rebuked him at the end of four thousand years. He came forth. Such a mystery, such a fight that Satan put up to stop that, and then afterwards, to stop it and kill all the disciples, kind of stop that message from coming through. Satan will do anything and everything he can to stop the powerful message of the Lord. Satan will throw up walls, get you to unbelief. Stay right with His word.

So, the gift of eternal life, this great mystery, the Jews said, that’s a man. So simple that they overlooked the great gift.

You accept it as a gift. If you have to buy it, or something like that out there, there wouldn’t be a gift any longer. It’s already a gift. And God, your healing the same way. And your salvation runs right along together there.

And then we find out here, in Ephesians 2: 8 – 9, For by grace are ye saved. You’re already saved through grace, through faith. There it is. And that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of the works, lest men should boast that they had something to do with it. God has completed the course. It is a gift.

And so, the gift of God. It’s why salvation must be a gift because man has no ability to blot out his sins or to give himself eternal life. He’s lost. He’s no way of doing it himself. He cannot do anything.

In Romans 3: 10, it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. They were all gone out of their way. They are altogether become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good. No, not one.

But that gift of eternal life, it’s yours. The fact salvation is free, it does not mean that it didn’t cost anything. It is a free gift. It cost at that cross a man’s life, tied in with God.

Yet, a great price has been paid, that you don’t have to do that, to receive it. And He’s done it. It is a free gift. How great and how wonderful. God, yet while we were sinners, the just died for the unjust.

Salvation is wonderful. Oh, what divine love it is. A simple, so simple they’re overlooking it because it is a gift. But it’s coming from God. He made it that way. Nobody can say I didn’t know, it was so complicated, I didn’t know what to do, that won’t work at all if you’ve heard the Gospel for a minute.

Jesus says, The Jews could not believe because they received honor from one another. But how can you believe like that, He says, without receiving first the honor of God.

They were so busy climbing to the top, getting over one another, and trying to please man, and who was important, and trying to please this, and trying to please that, that they never pleased God. He said, How can you believe giving honor one to another and not God? That’s what Jesus said.

The Jews saw Christ sinless life. They saw a good sinless life that He lived. And they tried to turn it into sin, but they couldn’t. It was so rare to see anybody with the qualities that He had. They couldn’t believe it was true. And they tried to twist up that rarity into something that was odd, something that was akin to that devil. It was so strange. And He was so peculiar. He was so different than they were. And He was so sinless in purity.

So He was so rare and peculiar with that power.

They’re the ones that went the other direction from the Word of God. And they had become in that condition that He was just like the Word of God would send you. Just like the Word of God would proclaim it. And because He come just like the Word of God, then He become the peculiar one. And they came opposite the Word of God. They were out of order, saith the Lord. All of them were out of order. So, the Jews would not hear. They didn’t want to hear it.

He said, worshiping the Lord Jesus is not just restricted to church, and not just restricted to one locale, or one denomination, or one movement. Worship is not restricted anywhere. You can pray at home, on the street corner. You can pray in church. You can pray in your house. You can pray anywhere that you’re at. You can pray in a store, and He’ll hear you. Jesus told them that. Then you had to go to a certain place, you see, or God wouldn’t hear you. And Jesus said the time will come, and that is now, that is coming through, when He was crucified, and so forth like that. True worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.

If this Bible is your doctrine instead of some church, then you can worship God in spirit and truth. And that’s what Jesus was trying to say to the Pharisees. They cannot, this lip service, because how can anybody with a part truth, part lie, part false, part this, part that, how in the world can they worship God in the truth and in the spirit? It’s an impossibility. That’s why when He preaches this word, you worship Him in the truth of this word, what it said, and how you believe it. He does not live in unbelief. They’re so tangled up they can’t have no faith, they’re all tangled up.

That word of God done right makes that soul happy. That’s what the word can do, and will do, otherwise, it’ll just lay there. You’ve got to put it into action. You’ve got to believe it.

People ask me, what is your doctrine? I finally just prayed and prayed. And finally in prayer, I got up and I said, and the Holy Spirit spoke, and I said, the King James, this Bible, the words of God, that is my doctrine, and it alone. The Bible said that is the only doctrine, is the words of God. So, I don’t know what they’re trying to do all over the world. But they sure don’t have the whole word of God as their doctrine. So, if anybody asks you what’s your doctrine, you tell the whole word of God. Because they’ve made so many Bibles, you may not be able to say Bible, unless you say King James. But you just tell them, my doctrine is the Bible, all of the Bible. That is, the words of God is my doctrine. You get away from that, you’re in deep trouble. It’s the word of God and the faith in God.

God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit as the Scriptures give it.

Jesus commends the enthusiastic worship of His people. I mean enthusiastic in their heart, because one time they try to quiet them down, it’s making so much noise about it. They would just praise the Lord, making a lot of noise, and they try to quiet them down. Jesus told them that if they quiet them down, He said the rocks would immediately begin to cry out in praises, because He has that kind of power. He was telling some things that they could not understand. That was no false statement. That wasn’t just no wild statement out there. He meant exactly what He can do and will do.

Christ, the Lord Jesus, He commends the energetic and enthusiastic worship of the children today. Jesus wants the worship of those little children and enthusiastic words. He wants that because He said so in the Bible, and He told them to let them go on, let them come to me. Suffer not the little children come on, and in the Bible even the babes, you know, praise God, so forth like that. So, you children it is your heritage to worship the Lord as long as you can get that voice out there, and you praise the Lord. You’re beginning to grow. Then you’re beginning to be guided by a force you may not entirely understand all the time, but you’ll be guided. It’s in the old Bible prophets, when they were young, Samuel, and Joseph, was two of those in the Bible and look at what God did in there. Let the little children Praise the Lord.

Sometimes, they get to know enough about God that they can pray some of you oldies out of trouble. You might be suffering and they’ll pray the prayer of faith. You might need God to do something, and you say, that kid of mine, you can’t look upon him now; you didn’t train. If he’s right, you raise that little child up, then he can join in anyway. And if not, he can pray you the prayer of faith in the hour of need. Those little kids, teach them faith. Teach them all about the word of God.

It is simple faith, and that simple faith can grow by leaps and by bounds. It’ll grow until finally that faith will cause a vibrant change. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, it’ll reach the point that you’re changed and caught up to meet the Lord in the air with those that have been resurrected out, and they’ve come back to their bodies, to stand before the Lord. That’s how powerful the faith, so powerful, that the change finally comes in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

Everything in this world, since the first man, Adam, was born into this world, everything is clocked to utter perfection, and ever since the first creation of man to the final one that goes into that body, in fact till the final thing is over with, He has it in utter perfection. Whether He causes delays and speeds up and then delays and speeds up and then delays and speeds up, He’s got it all timed out. He will not miss a second of it. He’ll be when that takes place, that change that He has before the foundation of the world, He knew exactly when He would do it. He knows those things because He’s infinite, and when that point comes, all hell, and all creation, they can’t stop it.

God gave us a love gift. That’s what He was, and He gave us the gift of love, and that’s the Lord Jesus, the one that you will love so much.

Scripture Reading

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”Ephesians 2: 8 – 9

Now, the great gift. You might say overlooked. The great gift that God gave. For by grace are ye saved. You’re already saved through grace, through faith.

You accept it as a gift. If you have to buy it, or something like that out there, there wouldn’t be a gift any longer. It’s already a gift. And God, your healing the same way. And your salvation runs right along together there.

When you witness to others about the Lord Jesus, tell them that they are already saved. The Lord Jesus, the might God, has already tasted death for everyone. It is now left to whosoever will believe it.

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”Isaiah 9: 6

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”Hebrews 2: 9

“That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”John 3: 15

If this Bible is your doctrine instead of some church, then you can worship God in spirit and truth. They cannot, this lip service, because how can anybody with a part truth, part lie, part false, part this, part that, how in the world can they worship God in the truth and in the spirit? It’s an impossibility.

If anybody asks you what’s your doctrine, you tell the whole word of God. Because they’ve made so many Bibles, you may not be able to say Bible, unless you say King James. But you just tell them my doctrine is the Bible, all of the Bible. That is, the words of God is my doctrine. You get away from that, you’re in deep trouble.

God is a spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit as the Scriptures give it.

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”John 4: 23 – 24

What causes our physical bodies to be changed to gloried bodies at the time of translation? It is the simple faith in you that started with true salvation in your soul, that has now grown to translative faith.

It is simple faith, and that simple faith can grow by leaps and by bounds. It’ll grow until finally that faith will cause a vibrant change. In a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, it’ll reach the point that you’re changed and caught up to meet the Lord in the air with those that have been resurrected out, and they’ve come back to their bodies, to stand before the Lord. That’s how powerful the faith, so powerful, that the change finally comes in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this?”John 11: 25 – 26

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”1 Corinthians 15: 51 – 53

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”Romans 6: 23

But that gift of eternal life, it’s yours. So, the gift of eternal life, this great mystery, the Jews said, that’s a man. So simple that they overlooked the great gift.

The “gift of God” is the very life of the eternal God Himself. It means there is no higher gift throughout the entire Universe that you can receive, because you cannot receive anything higher than the very life of the eternal God.

God’s eternal life is your eternal life. It means the life of God is your life, and your life is the life of God. The Bible calls the Lord Jesus “our life”.

“When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.”Colossians 3: 4

It means you have been with Him from eternity, and you shall be with Him for eternity.

If you were to pass on before the translation, the eternal life that you now have will continue in the third heaven, paradise, and will continue for eternity at the time of translation when your physical body is changed to the glorified body, a body that is immortal.

“It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.”2 Corinthians 12: 1 – 4

“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”1 Corinthians 15: 51 – 53

The faith that speaks and does those things, and He gave us a little part of that in us, a part of Him, to use to get what we want, to use to fulfill the word of God, and the promises of God.

I read from Scroll # 43:

THE ELECT SPIRITS WHICH WERE PART OF GOD, BEFORE THE ELECT BODY WAS CREATED – The real you (the spiritual part) was with God before it was appointed a body upon the earth through seed. There is a fleshly seed and a spiritual seed which was united! The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God! That is why after death our body is changed into the inner immortal spirit, that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God! And He breathed it into each of us (Gen. 2: 7) “Behold saith the Lord do ye not know this Scripture? Ye were with Me when the Morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy!” (Job 38:6,7) Our flesh body came upon earth by birth uniting with His spirit which was always with Him! And when we repent (salvation) we keep this spirit in order to always live with Him!! Read (Isa. 1:9 – Eph. 1:4) (Satan’s seed is a group, also the Lord has created a place for them.)

While you are alive on this earth, there is no greater joy in your soul than to know that you shall be with the Almighty God for eternity. Leap for joy.

“Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven”Luke 6: 23

No matter what problem Satan may bring to you, it makes no difference because the eternal God is your life, and He is in control of all creation.

For your life to be hidden with the eternal God, inside of Himself, means your life is also eternal.

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”Colossians 3: 2 – 3

You are a joint-heir with Christ, the eternal God, and you shall inherit all things from Him. You shall sit on the throne to rule with Him for eternity.

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”Romans 8: 16 – 17

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”Revelation 3: 21

Lord Jesus, you are our eternal life. We were with you when you created the morning stars, and we shall be with you throughout eternity as you bring forth more creations. We thank you for giving us eternal life. Thank you, Jesus.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

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