Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, October 9, 2022
Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, October 9, 2022
This sermon talks about various subjects.
Giving is associated to the book of life.
The book of life may be a volume, but it is the mind of the Almighty.
Giving is associated to that book of life, because why, His children that love Him will give out of their heart, and not just out of necessity or because they are forced or because they are actually told to do it or they are pulled to do it, but they will give out of their heart, because they are associated to the Lamb’s book of life, according to the Bible.
I don’t care what you give in this life, I don’t care what you give to the Lord, it is already been recorded. He knows all things from the beginning.
In His mind is the book of life. That was in His mind, in the very beginning.
In the very mist of God, in the Holy Spirit, we were there with Him. Before the foundation of the world, He has chosen us.
So, in the beginning, the book of life was in Him. Oh, what a great God. You can’t imagine how immense He is. It is incredible.
And all those for 6,000 years that worshipped idols and did not care about the Lord, these He will judge from the heart. Others that done it, the wrong seed, He will have something to say about that.
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!!
He is going to come back. See, redeemed means to bring back. We are going to come back to see Him. Can you say Amen? Because we were with Him, in the Spirit, in His mind, before we come to this body.
And when we leave, we are changed. We will go back to Him again because we are part of Him.
Romans 6: 23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Eternal life means a life that is eternal; that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!
The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!
You may say how I wish that my son is like that boy over there, or my daughter has a professional job like that girl over there, or my wife is like that woman over there, or my husband is like that man over there? How do you know whether each of these people you are referring to has a life that is eternal?
You cannot thank the Lord Jesus, the Almighty God, enough that the life you now have is eternal. That “is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!” It has “no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!”
You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas
Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, October 9, 2022
We listened to a sermon titled “The Books!”, CD # 936B, preached by Brother Neal Frisby.
In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:
You give to the Lord and He is going to bless you. When you do not give to the Lord, He catches up with you.
When you give to the Lord, it is a wonderful thing.
Giving is associated to the book of life.
The book of life may be a volume, but it is the mind of the Almighty.
In His mind is the book of life. That was in His mind, in the very beginning.
Malachi 3: 10: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”
Malachi 3: 14: “Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?”
Malachi 3: 16 – 17: “Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.”
The Lord wrote a book of remembrance to those that took heed.
I don’t care what you give in this life, I don’t care what you give to the Lord, it is already been recorded. He knows all things from the beginning.
Ephesians 1: 4: “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”.
The book of life goes in His mind, His thoughts.
If you were not in His personality of thoughts, the cosmic knowledge of the Holy Spirit, you will not be here.
You borrowed a body. You’ve been with God all the time and don’t know it. You borrowed a body when you were born. He breathed the life in you that is going back to Him.
In His conscience, billions and trillions of years ago, before anything that moved on the face of the deep, all over, in His mind, His thoughts and in His book of life is with Him. Oh, the volume of His book.
The book of life, in the mind of God, and everyone of you will meet Him again.
See, He knows and foreknows us all before we ever arrived on the scene, every cripple, every person that is born wrong, however they are to come.
His divine purpose cannot be overruled. It cannot be overthrown.
And all those people that spoke things out of their mouth they should not about the Lord and how He runs things, their mouths are going to be shut. They will be frozen when He gets through revealing His plan of how and why He done all of these things.
In the very mist of God, in the Holy Spirit, we were there with Him. Before the foundation of the world, He has chosen us.
Ephesians 1: 5: “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will”.
We are in the manifold will of God.
All those that were not as the children of the Lord in the mind of God, in His thoughts before we knew any words; all those that were not in that light of His book, at the end of the age, will worship the Antichrist.
The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, whose name was written before the foundation of the world.
And while going from the predestination here, before the foundation of the world, He adopted us. We are His children by the Lord Jesus Christ. It was His pleasure, His will, to bring each one of us.
Those that make it into the Kingdom of God alone, without any blessing, will be completely flabbergasted when they see what He has prepared.
Giving is associated to that book of life, because why, His children that love Him will give out of their heart, and not just out of necessity or because they are forced or because they are actually told to do it or they are pulled to do it, but they will give out of their heart, because they are associated to the Lamb’s book of life, according to the Bible.
The Lord loves a cheerful giver because it is associated to that, and He wrote a book of remembrance, Amen, to those that got behind the Lord.
Those that believed Him feared the Lord, got behind Him, and He wrote a book of remembrance. Where will that be at? Right along with the book of life on your deeds and how you treated God’s servants.
The children of the Lord will give out of their heart because they are the children of the Lord.
So, in His mind the book of life, besides whatever He wants in the inside of it.
So, in the beginning, the book of life was in Him. Oh, what a great God. You can’t imagine how immense He is. It is incredible.
The hairs on your head are numbered, saith the Lord. And also what you give is numbered.
In the cosmic knowledge of the Holy Spirit, in the beginning, we were with Him. Amen.
He is going to come back. See, redeemed means to bring back. We are going to come back to see Him. Can you say Amen? Because we were with Him, in the Spirit, in His mind, before we come to this body.
And when we leave, we are changed. We will go back to Him again because we are part of Him.
I started the sermon:
I read from Scroll # 232:
FOREKNOWLEDGE – Way back in the eons of time we don’t have words to describe how long ago in eternity it was! But the Lord of Hosts always foreknew us. And at the proper moment. Like a great cocoon spawning out of God’s mind and in the mist of His presence all of us were foreknown and came at His appointed time since Adam. Many Scriptures reveal this. One of them is Eph. chap. 1 – And here is another one Job 38: 6-7, His chosen was with Him when He laid the foundations of earth’s corner stone. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
I read from Scroll # 23, Part II: TIME AND ETERNITY –
If we have “Jesus” at death we will change out of this time zone and step into the eternal zone (life) “At the rapture the body changes, our time stops and blends into eternity.” (no time limit!) People who go to hell will be there probably millions of years, yet they will not have eternal life like the saints will. “For ever” is not the same as eternal! I have a feeling something will happen. There is more to the spiritual death they suffer in (Rev. 2: 11) than we have a right to know! The fact death came to man is a prophetic picture of what God will do eventually unless he has (Jesus) eternal life! Whatever happens to hell we know one thing it will seem like eternity to them (but it will not be the same as God’s eternity!) – Psalms 90: 4
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.)
Luke 16: 19 – 31: “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”
Luke 23: 39 – 43: “And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
In the sermon book – “RESTING IN PARADISE!”, Bro. Frisby stated the following:
From Page 3: All of your life you’ve probably been wondering about this and have never in your heart been able to fix it just how it’s supposed to be.
From Page 4: Now Satan set up confusion but Paul’s visit to the third heaven put a stop to satan! Can you say amen? You see, during that time they were wondering. Sadducees would say, you know, after death there isn’t any more, and the Pharisees they would say something else that you’re dead in your grave and you’re there and they didn’t know which and what had happened.
And so later through the messenger, a major messenger, Paul, he was able to bring the truth and stop satan’s mouth concerning the Christians Paul loved so dearly; so many of them were being taught that when they died their bodies were just dead in the grave and they had to wait all of the time to see the Lord. And Paul put a stop to it. God caught him up to the third heaven Paradise!
Now death to the Christian is sweet, it’s harmonious! They just transfer into a heavenly bliss! Can you say amen to that? Now this is written by the pen of the Lord like I would write a letter. Much of this is quotations that He gave me. Never fear! The experience is better than the life that you’re actually living now.
From Page 5: Their body rests there but their personality and the very spirit of them is in Paradise! That’s the third heaven, but it is not the final heaven. That will come at the translation and the uniting of the resurrected bodies when they come back together and we go up! Then the Lord transfers from that paradise part of third heaven; it’s a resting place! Then they’re caught up in the final heaven. And there was where John was caught up!
From Page 6: And so we see, the Old Testament saints rested in a place called “Sheol” the Bible says. And that’s near Hades but not where the wicked are at at all. And the wicked are in Hades, a place prepared for them.
From Page 7: Now “Queber” in the Hebrew is called the grave. That’s where the body is. These are the Hebrew words that we’re using now. And then there’s called in the book of Revelation the “Gehenna,” which is the lake of fire where all the wicked go at the final judgment. How many of you know that? They go into the lake of fire which is different than Hades, the resting place. While they are waiting for, it is a hell alright, but they’re waiting for the final judgment at the white throne.
Now you see, you have a resting place for the wicked before the final judgment and you have a resting place for the Christians before the final heaven. That’s thus saith the Lord!
And then Jesus said in Luke 16: 19-26, it reveals a parable, a vision-like parable, what was coming before he even went to the cross, or what it would be like.
This St. Luke 16:19 – “Now there was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores.”
From Page 8: So it says here in verse 22 – “And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell, now look where he went from the grave. It said he was buried, didn’t it? Didn’t it! It said he was just buried. Right? He was buried.
But something else took place in the next verse. “And in hell, he lift up his eyes.” Now he moved. His body was in the grave, but he had been moved downward.
From Page 9: The beggar died and went to his grave but he wasn’t there. His body was there, but he looked up and he could remember. See, that shows you you’ll know one another in heaven!
And he looked up and he saw the beggar, the rich man did, and he said, well there he is! And God gave him a glimpse up to paradise and he looked and he saw him there. So he knew him and everything. And as Paul said, one of the secrets that he found out in heaven was that we’ll know one another and that’s on down in here. And so, there it was.
So we find that the spirit, the real personality of the beggar went on up, see? And we found out the real personality of the rich man went on down, but the two bodies were in the grave. And on the day that this same beggar that went up, he will unite with His body and be caught up together with us to meet the Lord in the air! Can you say amen? He’ll come back.
But the rich man that went down won’t be there because he’ll have to wait another thousand years and He’ll catch him up at the White Throne Judgment and there’s where court will be held for him! Can you say amen!
There’s a blissful place that God has prepared. And there’s an awful place prepared down below for the others that’s a resting place too.
In II Cor. 12:1-4 Paul heard unspeakable words while he was in paradise which is not lawful for a man to utter, he said. The apostle said he was caught up to the third heaven! No wonder Jesus said leap for joy! What a blessed peace and relief for the trouble soul. Settle it in you heart once and for all that you’re going to go where the Lord’s at! Can you say amen? In the presence of the Lord, it’ll be in the presence of the Lord there. And Paul said he was caught up. This will produce confidence. Keep thinking in your heart.
Now Paul’s trip was the reason he could write that you would recognize your loved ones. In I Cor. 13:12 it says, “But then shall I know even as also I am known.”
From Page 10: And the reason why he wrote this was, he says, and he looked around and he saw some of those that he had seen martyred – Stephen the martyr no doubt was here. And he was amazed and he looked at those that had passed on before him and he said I know you and you, and you!
Now that’s not the final heaven, that’s the resting place!
From Page 17: “We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord,” II Cor. 5:8. There’s no such thing as soul sleep. Now there are doctrines that teach when a person dies, the whole man goes into the grave soul, body, and spirit. But this is unscriptural; it doesn’t happen. They say the whole thing stays there until the resurrection. That’s unscriptural because the body is the house in which the soul and spirit live! “At death the inner man, the spirit, the soul goes to paradise! The house, the body goes back to dust! So the believer is absent from the body and he’s present with the Lord! That’s verse 8 of II Cor. 5: 1-8.
Then the translation will be two-fold. The resurrection of the dead in Christ, this will happen, and the translation of the living saints. It will happen. When it takes place it’s two fold. They will come back and unite with the bodies in the graves. They will be taken up in the air and then at the translation the living Christians will be caught up together with them.
From Page 18: And here is wisdom. Instantly at death the spirit of the believer goes to be with the Lord. “Then shall the dust – that’s your body, return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it,” Eccl. 12:7; read it yourself. All believers who have departed this life are now resting in paradise, Luke 23:42-43. You can find it here!
When Jesus comes in the translation He will bring them with him – I Thess. 4:14. The bodies of the departed believers will rise from the graves before the living believers are changed. The spirits of the departed will unite with the resurrected bodies, then all believers will be changed – I Cor. 15:51-52. And together will be caught up to meet Jesus in the air! And when He comes in the translation he will not touch this earth. He will descend about cloud level and he will call us up and say, Come up hither!
From Page 20: Then it says here. Jesus says, and he told me to bring it right in here like this, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Jesus is speaking of the first resurrection saints and those who will be raised from the dead when the translation takes place. “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me, it says, shall never die!” – John 11: 25 and 26.
I continued with the sermon:
Romans 6: 23: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
John 3: 15: “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Eternal life means a life that is eternal; that is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!
The real eternal spirit which God gives His saints had no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!
You may say: How I wish that my son is like that boy over there, or my daughter has a professional job like that girl over there, or my wife is like that woman over there, or my husband is like that man over there? How do you know whether each of these people you are referring to has a life that is eternal?
You cannot thank the Lord Jesus, the Almighty God, enough that the life you now have is eternal. That “is why it is called eternal life, it always was and always will be with God!” It has “no beginning and has no end and is like unto God!”
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