The Gospel is Light. One minute of the shining light will consume all the darkness of the ages. Every religion functions under the law of extinction but Christianity lives amidst them without constraint/limitation. We don’t need laws that limit others from expressing themselves. Darkness will always be afraid of Light because it cannot comprehend it; that is the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is only the Gospel that can be spoken from the conscience without any iota of lie, deception or covering; it can be exposed completely.

Romans 8:17

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. 

We cannot be glorified with Him if we are not going to suffer with him. Sonship is the major part of the Gospel that must be available if there is going to be salvation. No man’s life is said to be cut short in the realm of Eternal Life; it’s not about long life but Eternal Life. Apostle John was the one that brought the true record/revelation of the person of Jesus. God established those things that were discussed by the Apostles and Prophets (brought them to reality) through John. If we will know Jesus as the Son of God, God will have to open our eyes to them through the writings of John.

John 9:1-41

The miracles of Jesus in the book of John are pointers to who Jesus is. Everyman is born blind and the light of this world worsens the blindness. No man by study discovers God because the world lies in darkness. Christ is the end of the law; the law was meant to lead the Jews to the Messiah. The Pharisees were against men confessing Jesus as Christ. Verse 39 shows that the miracle in this chapter was a sign. There is a realm of life that man is to come into, which is by seeing or sighting.

John 11:25-27

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. Believest thou this? She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. 

The issue of new birth is attached to the Sonship of Jesus, the Son of God. Martha’s confession revealed that the Son of God is the Life and Resurrection that should come into the human race. The summary of the Gospel - Faith is resident in believing in the Son of God; this is the foolishness of the message. We will spend our lives on earth on the revelation of the Son of God. All the epistles are letters establishing the Gospel of the Son of God, which is the message that God has come in the flesh.

The whole concept of life and death to man is about falling down and being no more; this concept is however misconstrued. This is why the greatest thing man fights for is how to survive on earth and he often seeks long life to finish his project of marrying, having children, and so on, then die. This agenda is however far from the life of the Eternal, which is living forever in a sphere that is undying and cannot diminish. Eternal Life is a life that has quality and essence. Jesus did not come to give long life but Eternal Life.

Death to Jesus is being separated/alienated from the Life in God. Once a thing is separate and cannot access the Life of God, it is termed as dead. This is a very bad state in the view of God and heaven. Hosea 6:1-2, John 10:25-28. God gives Eternal Life to them that follow Him. His sight means His life and anything that is not in His life is not in His sight. The word of God for those who follow Him is for them to inherit Eternal Life and to live in His sight. The things of His right hand are the things of His sight. Psalms 16:11. Anything that is not Eternal Life is not in His sight. A man who is in God’s sight can never perish. The lot of those that believe and follow on to know will inherit Life and Eternal Salvation. 1 John 5:20. It is the knowledge and revelation of God that is Life Eternal.

John 10:17-18

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. 

Jesus received the doctrine/teaching to lay down His life and take it again. The mystery of faith is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ which was demonstrated in the three days of His suffering, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. No man will pluck us from the Father’s hand as long as we keep on believing; we will be eternally united with the Father. Jesus was raised from the dead by the glory of the father. Jesus was made sin by the glory of the father, which enabled Him to die on the cross, Galatians 3:13. The curse He bore qualified him to die on the tree, so we cannot die if we can keep receiving commandments from the Father.

John 10:20

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? 

The faith of men will be hung on the Son of God, who has power to lay down His life and raise it back again. John 5:17-23.  Jesus died for saying ‘He was the Son of God’. Anyone that believes the Messiah but does not believe in the Son of God is a liar; because there is no record that removes the Messiah from the Son; the Messiah must be the Son of God. The Gospel is meant to demystify God, which Jesus came to accomplish. A son does the same thing the father does and the exact way that he does it. The fatherhood of God is about who He is and the extension of His genealogy. By nature, the Father primarily quickens the dead and raises up to a place where He (the dead) can be of reckon in His sight.

The Father’s profession is to raise children and He gave the Son the same ability to raise. The Son also has capacity to raise a dead man; to build him from the realm of the dead to the realm of Eternal Life. John 11:25. This shows that the Father has raised Him (the Son) to become the Resurrection and the Life. God cannot die because He is resurrection; He will only die/expire/be corruptible if He has anything in Him that is not resurrection. John 5:21. The nature of the Father is in the Son, who can only do what is preserved in the Father. Resurrection is a sphere of life that made God higher than all creatures. The sphere has the capacity to quicken/give life to death. Death does not affect the Trinity (the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit), rather they terminate death through the makeup of their nature.

In the realm of Eternal Life, a Son is the biggest light that does not depend on any other life as he is self-generating. The dying out of the natural sun will expire/exhume creature because by nature, it was created to preserve/sustain creatures. In creation, the sun is a life giving body. The Lord is also a Son, the Father is a life giving body and what He gives is His life, which is called Resurrection. Resurrection acts upon life. If we believe, we will live and if we keep on believing, we will never die, meaning we move from the realm of life to Resurrection. When life is congealed, it breaks out into Resurrection.

John 5:22

For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: 

The Father taught the Son how to become The Life and the Resurrection. Judgment, which is the matter of Resurrection, is what makes the Son; it is the knowledge that is of eternal value. In human form, the judgment makes man avoid anything that has to do with natural death; but when our eyes open up to the life of Resurrection, the fear of natural death dissipates; this shows a change of/ a shift in judgment. When death has been administered to a man as judgment, it makes him fear the realm of devils until he is subdued under them.

Our faith must be established on the God that raises the dead, which is the power of God. The raising is not that of being raised from the grave; it is the raising of men who seem alive but are actually inside the grave that prevents them from the stature of Life and Resurrection. Jesus was said to have gone to God while on earth because He received the judgment (the things/thoughts) of God which brought Him to God, even while on earth. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. A stronghold is a thought against thoughts, which will be brought under Christ. Christ is a stronghold and imagination at a stature; He is also height at a stature.

Judgments are thoughts and strongholds. The Son of God is the One that the Father raised/built from the dead. John 7:16-17, 24. Doctrine teaches judgment and it is meant to make men know the judgment of God; what God sees as right. 2 Timothy 2:18. The Faith is tied to Resurrection; not only that God raised Jesus but also that Jesus raises whosoever He wills. Raising men from the physical death is not evidence that Jesus is alive; but the raising of men from spiritual death to Eternal Life shows that He is alive. Jesus gives physical evidences by His Will, but for believers, we need to know the evidence that Jesus can raise men from death to Eternal Life. Raising men from physical death can bring millions to church but cannot save them. Only the reality that Jesus lived on earth and was raised to become the Resurrection and the Life has the capacity to save.

God gave men physical evidence that Jesus was raised while He (Jesus) was yet on the earth by taking Him to the cross. Those who did not believe that Jesus was raised by God while He was on earth could not refuse the fact that He suffered, was nailed to the cross and died because they witnessed it; it was evidently set forth. The men who did not witness Jesus’ suffering received the reality of the event through the preaching of the apostles who witnessed the event firsthand. Jesus will not die the second time for men to believe in His raising, it is through preaching that the reality of His resurrection will dawn and men will experience the same death and life and will be raised with Him.

The dead knows when a man is dead because dead men dwell in the congregation of the dead. The same way, when that man is raised to life, the dead will know, because they will no longer see him in their midst. It is not the repetition of Jesus’ death but the revelation that He is raised; making it known and being persuaded that He died indeed as seen in the evidences - the scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

When Jesus speaks, He speaks Resurrection. The Father speaks Life and anyone that receives it receives Life. Though the Life cannot be seen, yet it works the work of life and raising within; it destroys darkness and takes away fears from within us. The Faith is tied to Resurrection; if Jesus died and was not raised again, then our faith is in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:17. It is not about His death but the Life. To those in the world, faith is the ability to believe God for everything, with or without Resurrection.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

The Gospel must be the basis of Faith. These are things that can deal with the body. Eternal Life is not about getting natural wealth or things on the earth. Though it has the life to do it, yet it doesn’t need that much because it understands that the law on the earth is attached to pleasure. Men are often afraid of tribulation. The natural possession often defines a man.  Resurrection demystifies these things, tribulations, peril and the likes, as belonging to a lower life. Verse 37 records the change in our nature. The Church often thrives in the midst of persecutions, meaning that what Resurrection needs to thrive is not what the earth provides.

Verse 35 records that the heaven sees these things as the instrument of upgrading us. Verse 38 records that Apostle Paul could reach this point because he has been raised. It is not the power to give answer to everything that makes you a Son. The suffering and its allies are training; the training is not how to come out of the sufferings but how to endure the process. Hebrews 12:2. Jesus went through process. Our faith is tied to raising and not to our doing/actions. The only work (action) is to believe on Him who God has sent; the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who is the custodian of Life and Resurrection.

Anything you receive as knowledge that is not hinged on the Resurrection of Jesus is not part of the Faith. It may have the ability to improve your present issues/state academically, martially, etc, but they do not translate to Life. 2 Thessalonians 1:10. When a process is completed, it brings Glory and another realm of appearance/manifestation. This process is an internal work that is designed not to be seen. The things that happen within are the major changes that trigger the changes we see.

The change in Christ is a series of internal change that burst forth on the outside. God gives judgment that quickens and gives power to change in the inside so that when He comes, He can be glorified in the saints and be admired by all men that believe. Christ did not die to go to heaven; he came to the earth for humanity.

Luke 24:44-48, Hosea 6:2.

The third day began when Jesus was raised from the dead. It is not the third day of Jesus in the grave but symbolizes the period after Jesus ascended. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead triggered the third day activity. The Church is birthed into the third day activity of raising. The gifts of Christ are gifts of resurrection; they are to raise men. Ephesians 4:8. Jesus is determined to move the Church of Nigeria to the third day. In these days, any minister that will be relevant in the Gospel will be raised into the third day; to raise godly men. Hallelujah!