Text: I Corinthians 1:18 – 29, Deuteronomy 6:3-5, Act 2:37, Acts 1:9, Romans 6:2 -, Matthew 11:25, I Corinthians 1:26, Genesis 6:1, 2 Timothy 3:1-7, I Corinthians 14:34, I Timothy 2:11
What is the meaning of simplicity?
Simplicity by definition simply means “very simple”, “Uncomplicated”, “Uncompounded” and that’s the nature of the God we are serving, he’s so great that without any explanation, nobody can argue that God who created the heaven and the earth is not the greatest, but the mystery of this greatness is that he hides himself in simplicity, and he does his things in simplicity; that’s the reason the whole world is missing him. They miss him because the way he makes himself known is so low. The people of the world had so made themselves great that they can’t see him in his lowliness, an example is how the so-called big men of this world can’t be accessible until when people gets to book appointments to see them, but our great God who is bigger than all men combined, had made himself so accessible to us all, without collecting a dine. Isn’t that wonderful?
The Gospel in Simplicity
This Gospel that we bring to you today was not a gospel God entrusted into the hands of brilliant people of the world – At all – He chose the foolish things of this world to confound the wise. We serve a God who reveals himself in simplicity that even a babe can see him, only those who are destined for destruction cannot see God’s simplicity. Look at “salvation” that God made free for us to access, to those who are perishing the process to it is foolishness. And that’s why we have different religious sect promoting false doctrines about the God-head, and we even have some not believing God had a son; we have people question the redemptive mission of the Lord Jesus Christ, saying how can one man die for the sin of the whole world, they are like this because the preaching of the gospel is foolishness unto them, and to us it is the power of God. (Amen)
Sometimes we can’t really blame them for their school of thoughts and carnal questions, it is because denominationally churches had painted three Gods to them. (God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit). This is the highest order of idolatry, there is no one God in three persons, there is no three separate God anywhere; There is only One God (Deuteronomy 6:3-5). Polytheism is idolatry, and that’s why God in his simplicity made himself known that he’s one not three in one or three separate God.
Dear reader, if you want to follow God, and also have a hope of seeing God on the last day, you have to be humble and believe the word of God than the word (doctrines) of men, no matter the status of the man in as much as what he’s saying is not in the bible you don’t have to believe such, because God will not judge us on the last day by the word of men, – He will judge us by the bible (The word of God). Doctrines like trinity, baptism outside the name of the Lord Jesus Christ have no foundation in the bible and should be vomited from our spiritual tommy if actually we want to start a walk with God.
Today, we claim to be married to Christ, if you are married to Jesus Christ as you supposedly claim, you have to take his name in Baptism, name here, is not God the father, God the son, and God the Holy ghost, – if you are reading and you have being baptized in the name of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Ghost, you have to be rebaptize using the redemptive name of our Lord Jesus Christ, because Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are not the names given for baptisms (redemption), rather they depict titles; and that’s why even a man cannot have the name father, A father must have a name !!!, Because father is a title given to a man who had attain a fatherhood position and we have several people out there who had attained this position – Then who owns the name Father?.
Wife, daddy, father, mother, daughter cannot be a name of a person, they are all titles. Jesus said in Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore Baptizing them in the name, not names of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit” and the apostle were able to understand this and they baptize in the name of Jesus Christ which is the name of the Father, the name of the son, which is also the name of the Holy Spirit; this is God in simplicity – There is nothing of God you have to go to school to learn, you learn the things of God by the Holy Spirit (The spirit of God in You)
“You have a sacrifice to Pay if you want to see Jesus Christ”
God of Simplicity in Choices
Declaration of Peter in Acts 2:28
God is so simple that even in his choices he picks people with no class, people with no education. He went on to pick fisher men, men of low class to share with them his mind, there where men of dignities, men like Nicodemus but God choose the likes of peter, James and others. Peter who was given the key to the kingdom had no education, but he had one thing that every believer should seek after and that is the Holy Spirit, by the Spirit of God he was able to declare the right water baptism in Acts 2:38 in a simple way with a number of 120 believers.
The beginning of the church started in a very simple way, and the great men of that time knew nothing about it. The Apostles gathered in humility and in expectant from God because they listened to Jesus Christ who had instructed them before hand to gather and wait for the promise of Father (The Holy Spirit) that should fill them before they could be witness of him to the world. That simple obedience of “waiting” brought about the wonderful message that pricked the heart of over 3000 people at Pentecost, they weren’t like our so-called preachers today who think they can learn God in a school, and that’s why they are empty. – you have to wait to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be a witness of God, not by graduating from a theological school. Peter on the day of Pentecost inaugurated the church by the Holy Spirit, and he stated what it entails to be part of the body of Christ. Below was what he declared and it still holds today:
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.”
Baptism is our spiritual rite which signifies burial and resurrection with Christ. It’s an important and simple action that we must take using the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, (even though to those that are full of the wisdom of this world are blinded to it). It’s a pity today we have people running around doing baptism in the of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit which has no reference by the scripture where it was done. Baptism is by immersion into the water (which depicts our burial with Christ and our pulling out from the water depicts our resurrection with Christ). – If anyone refuse to take the name of Jesus Christ in baptism, they cannot rise with him on the that of resurrection – For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection
The Birth of Jesus in Simplicity
God is a God of simplicity, he was to send his only begotten son, and his son was to be born using a human womb, he went to pick a woman with no class in the whole of Jerusalem, if it was today, the choice of men would have been queen Elizabeth of England, because of her reputation; but God does not work like that, he’s an epitome of humility. Brethren please don’t ever try to be proud before God, stay humble, no matter what you think you have today God made them. The greatest human being that ever walked on earth, the son of God was portrayed by God in humility, then who are you? He by passed the best of hospitals to birth the savior of the whole world in a manger, it’s so simple that it became a stumbling block to the Jews and it flew over their head knowledge because God hid himself in simplicity. He chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. – you want to find God? be humble, you want to know the truth of the bible? you can only see it in God’s simplicity
God’s Simplicity in The Days of Noah
Remember that Jesus Christ compared the days of Noah with what it will also look like when the son of man (Jesus Christ) shall come. If the same way we have churches spread across today, we have the same exact attribute in the days of Noah, God in his simplicity bypassed all the big men of that day and picked a farmer to walk with, a farmer who had no standard of education in his days. The world then was full of abomination, people no longer fear the lord just as we have it today in our world, men today are marrying men, practicing all sort of perversion but Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord, and God revealed his mind to him in a simple way, he gave him a message to counter those acts, but they refused to listen because the preaching of the cross is foolishness to them that are perishing. Who would have imagined an ark could save people from flood? Noah in his days was tagged a foolish man with no education, because they feel it’s unrealistic; But when God’s time came it caught up them like a whirl wind, and they all perish because they refuse the word of God.
In this age we are in, God is purging his people, please let us repent, and make ourselves ready for the bridegroom, the world can never get better, don’t be deceived, thing will only get worst (II Tim 3:1). God has prophesied these things that are to be in this end time in the scriptures and nothing can stop them, God is just obligated to take care of his children because we believe the truth (in him).
I Corinthians 14:34 & 1 Timothy 2:11 (God positioning Women in simplicity)
Today we have people contest the position of women in the church fighting the word of God, we even have people say there was a problem in Corinthians church and that’s why Paul gave them a law, but the same problem cannot be in the church of Corinthians and Ephesus – it was an instruction of God through apostle Paul to establish the mind of God in simplicity. There is no women pastors in the body of Christ, their God’s given position is to learn in subjection to the word of God and not assume a position of authority in the church. It’s okay for a woman to be a keyboardist, a singer, a prophesier, etc., but when it comes to leading the church of God, it’s a bridge to God’s word. The lord in his simplicity has placed us in our given positions, let us remain there and enjoy his blessings
Shalom!