Introduction:  Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, August 1, 2021

This sermon talks about the fact that what disqualified the foolish virgins from making the rapture was the fact that they did not understand that the Lord Jesus is the Almighty God.  

The eternal God was the person that walked “the hot roads of Galilee, and gave rest to the weary!  Healing the sick of Israel!”    

The devil knows that there is only one God, and yet on this earth, he spreads the untruth that there is more than one God (James 2: 19).  

Why will the devil spread this lie?  It is because he does not want you to make the rapture.  It is because he does not want you to have true peace to your soul.  It means you cannot put on the whole armour of God if you do not understand that the Lord Jesus was God in human form (Ephesians 6: 11).  

Only those who will accept the name of God as the Lord Jesus Christ will become His bride.  Unto her is given the Lord’s Kingdom to rule with Him (Revelation 3: 21).  

Isaiah 9: 6, John 1: 3, 10 and Colossians 1: 16 – 17 are so plain and understood by them because they were born to believe these Scriptures.  

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, August 1, 2021 

We listened to a sermon titled “Jesus – Past, Present & Future”, CD # 1058, preached by Brother Neal Frisby on 6/30/85 (AM).

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

Let the dead praise the Lord.  Their bodies are in the grave, but they are somewhere praising the Lord.

If you do not believe that Jesus is God, then your body and heart cannot rest in the Lord.  

If you believe that there are three Gods, and not that Jesus is the only God, you cannot have true peace to the soul.  You are being taught a doctrine that is partly right.

When you have the proper revelation of who Jesus is, you have a sound mind, the body will correct itself; diseases and oppression will have to go.

Isaiah 43: 10-11 states:  “Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen:  that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he:  before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.  I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.” 

The Lord Jesus was before time; He was before the planets were made.

Jesus said:  “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8: 57 – 58).

If you believe that Jesus was in the Old Testament, He will work for you in the New Testament.

Jesus is the ruler of trillions of worlds.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13: 8).  

You cannot have sane mind if you believe that there are three Gods.

It is one eternal God manifesting in three ways, in three offices – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The Lord God became a human being, gave up His body, shed His blood and gave us eternal life.  You cannot give eternal salvation unless you are eternal.

Two supreme rulers cannot exist at the same time.

The disciples said:  “What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” (Mark 4: 41).

Devils do not like the true revelation of who Jesus truly is.

Make Him who He truly is and you will receive deliverance.

The churches today who do not accept that Jesus is the eternal God are still denying the Lord Jesus His kingship just like the Jews did to Him when He first came. 

When you hear the truth, stay with the truth.

The foolish virgins almost got the full word of God, the full truth about who Jesus is.  In the great tribulation, they will understand who Jesus truly is, but it will too late, just like the Jews will also find out.

The Bible states Jesus is Emmanuel, meaning, God with us (Matthew 1: 23).

If you believe God in the Old Testament and you believe He is the same Lord in the New Testament, then you will see Him working for you.

Isaiah 9: 6 clearly states Jesus is the mighty God.

Devils cannot deal with the true word of God; they cannot deal with coals of fire.

The same one in the Old Testament is the person that died on the Cross.

Jesus said unto Philip:  “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?  he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”  (John 14: 9).  

I started the sermon.

It is those of us on this earth that are having the discussion on whether there is only one God in heaven who has been from eternity and whether He is the same person that came to die for our sins as the Lord Jesus.

If you were sitting in heaven, you will see only one person – the supreme ruler; the Creator of heaven and earth.

Isaiah 6: 1 -5:  “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.  Above it stood the seraphims:  each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.  And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts:  the whole earth is full of his glory.  And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.  Then said I, Woe is me!  for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:  for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”

There was only one person in heaven.  The Seraphims cried He is the LORD of hosts.  Isaiah stated he had seen the LORD of hosts.  

What disqualified the foolish virgins from making the rapture was the fact that they did not understand that the Lord Jesus is the Almighty God (Matthew 25: 1 – 12).  

They are not able to believe Isaiah 9: 6 describing the Lord Jesus:  “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.”  

They are not able to believe John 1: 3, 10 describing the Lord Jesus.  Verse 3:  “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”  Verse 10:  “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

They are not able to believe Colossians 1: 16 – 17 describing the Lord Jesus:  “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:  all things were created by him, and for him:  And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” 

In the great tribulation, they will understand that the Lord Jesus is the Almighty God, but it will too late by then, just like the Jews will also find out who He truly is.

James 2: 19:  “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:  the devils also believe, and tremble.”  

The devil knows that there is only one God, and yet on this earth, he spreads the untruth that there is more than one God.  

Why will the devil spread this lie?  

It is because he does not want you to make the rapture.  

It is because he does not want you to have true peace to your soul.  It means you cannot put on the whole armour of God if you do not understand that the Lord Jesus was God in human form.  Without the whole armour of God, you will not be able to push back all of the attacks from the devil.  Ephesians 6: 11 states:  “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

Matthew 1: 21:  “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:  for he shall save his people from their sins.”  

“The mighty God” was born and He was called Jesus.

Isaiah 43: 10-11 states:  “ before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.  I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.” 

It means no God was formed before the Lord Jesus, because He is “The mighty God”, and no God will be formed after him.   This Scripture also states:  “and beside me there is no saviour”.  There cannot be any other saviour besides the Lord Jesus.  Only the Lord Jesus has eternal life which He has given to us through salvation.  

Revelation 1: 8:  “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”  

In Revelation 1: 11, the Lord Jesus states:  “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last”.  

In Revelation 1: 17 – 18, the Lord Jesus states:  “Fear not; I am the first and the last:  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”  

That is why in Heaven, you are only going to see one person, the eternal God, the Lord Jesus, stating:  “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”  

Psalm 90: 1 – 4:  “LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.  Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.  Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.  For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” 

It means every Scripture that you read in the Old Testament that mentions God, whether the eternal God that appeared to Moses, to Elijah, to Jacob, to Joseph, to David, to Joshua, to Samson, to Isaiah and all others, is the same person that stood before the Jews as Jesus because there is only one God. 

Anytime you read about God in the Old Testament, you can substitute that name for Jesus.

John 8: 56 – 58:  “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day:  and he saw it, and was glad.  Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?  Jesus said unto them, Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” 

You will notice that the Lord Jesus did not say:  “Before Abraham was, I was” as such a statement would have put him in the past.  Rather, He told the Jews:  “Before Abraham was, I am”.  This statement was enough for the Jews to have known that they were talking to the Almighty God.  He was telling them that not only did He exist “before” Abraham was created, He will remain in existence into the future for eternity.  He has been in existence “before” Abraham was created, before there was anything called time, and here He was, standing  in front of them, in human form, as the Lord Jesus.

I read from Scroll # 35:

“Behold what I have spoken about the water is true!  What I have spoken about my name is true!  It is I the Lord Jesus which has spoken unto my people the Bride!  And unto them who will take my name will become my Bride!  And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me!  For she has spiritually married me and has taken my name the Lord Jesus Christ, for she is My own, the very handy work of my spirit!  For even now the time must shortly come when I will take her to My palace.  Watch!  I say watch!  – Behold now is the end of the age come!  And I will reveal hidden manna!  I was God walking in the body of Jesus, walking the hot roads of Galilee, and gave rest to the weary!  Healing the sick of Israel!  I am your Lord let no man deceive thee!  And there is no other God besides Me!  Behold I have hidden myself in Jesus in such a way that the foolish virgins and the world can not see Me, Until the time that I shall reveal it, but My Elect was born to believe it and another they will not hear I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, YEA A MANS HAND HAS NOT WRITTEN THIS, BUT THE HAND OF POWER THE LORD OF HOST HAS WRITTEN IT! 

I continued with the sermon.

This Scroll states:  “And unto them who will take my name will become my Bride!  And unto her is given my Kingdom to rule with Me!  For she has spiritually married me and has taken my name the Lord Jesus Christ, for she is My own, the very handy work of my spirit!  For even now the time must shortly come when I will take her to My palace.”  

It means only those who will accept the name of God as the Lord Jesus Christ will become His bride.  Unto her is given the Lord’s Kingdom to rule with Him (Revelation 3: 21).  The Lord will take her to His palace (John 14: 2 -3).

The Scroll further states:  “I was God walking in the body of Jesus, walking the hot roads of Galilee, and gave rest to the weary!  Healing the sick of Israel!  I am your Lord let no man deceive thee!  And there is no other God besides Me!  Behold I have hidden myself in Jesus in such a way that the foolish virgins and the world can not see Me, Until the time that I shall reveal it, but My Elect was born to believe it and another they will not hear”.

The eternal God was the person that walked “the hot roads of Galilee, and gave rest to the weary!  Healing the sick of Israel!”    

It also states:  “And there is no other God besides Me!  Behold I have hidden myself in Jesus in such a way that the foolish virgins and the world can not see Me, Until the time that I shall reveal it, but My Elect was born to believe it and another they will not hear”.

It means the reason why Isaiah 9: 6, John 1: 3, 10 and Colossians 1: 16 – 17 are so plain and understood by you is because you were born to believe these Scriptures.  The foolish virgins will not get to understand these Scriptures until the great tribulation when it is too late and that is why they missed the rapture.   

You want to thank the Lord Jesus that He has given you the grace to understand that He is the Almighty God.  He will take you with Him on the day of the rapture and you will rule His Kingdom with Him for eternity.

Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

www.gospelwordministry.com