THEME: CHRIST’S GOVERNANCE OVER GHANA’S DIVINE DESTINY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY 

In this last instalment of the series “I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST”, we invite the church to a “tea party”. Together, let us sample the blessed waters of Love, Life, Light, and Liberty, Truth, Peace, Righteousness, Joy, and Hope in Christ Jesus. There is also set on the table the soulish rest in Him, the garment of praise and thanksgiving, the spirit of holiness, righteousness, and faithfulness, the full armor of God and the heavenly inheritance of sonship and glory in Him, the Master Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace, King of Glory. 

Beloved, there is Life, Victory, and Hope in Christ Jesus. There is fullness of joy in fellowship in Him with the Triune God.  In Him and in His Name, we have the assured presence of God. Christ is the spirit and way of the blessed assurance of Divine Nature, Eternal Life, Peace, Righteousness, Joy, Holiness, and Glory.   

O people of God, believers obedient to the commandments of the Most High and the testimony of Jesus Christ: thanks be to Christ for our salvation, deliverance, and redemption from the depravity, desperation, and death; from the corruptibility, mortality, and futility of the fallen human nature; and from the imprisonment and captivity within the dominions, kingdoms, and thrones of the world set in place by Satan and fallen man. Thanks be to God for the cancellation of curse, condemnation, and death, and the standing Divine wrath and judgement against man and creation. 

Praise the Lord, we are free in Him! (John 3: 16-17, 31-36; 8: 34-44). We are set apart by the Truth and the testimony of the goodness and mercy of God.  We are the proof of the Spirit, Cross, and Blood of Jesus Christ and the Power of His Word, His Name, and Presence with us. 

It is a joy that we have entered into this state of sonship and Divine nature, victory and liberty, eternity and glory. It is reassuring that Christ Jesus—the eternal spirit of life and light, truth and liberty—has become our identity, inheritance, and glory through the mercy of the Father. There is the mystery of sonship and marvelous light of God through Christ Jesus our Lord. It is this that makes us a Holy Nation and a peculiar people of God to Ghana, Africa and the world. 

Beloved, we have become, and indeed are, the core group of citizens who are endowed with Divine Spirit and Light, Power and Authority. We have access to the court and throne of God to obtain power and authority, mercy and goodness, knowledge, wisdom, and light to make Ghana shine truly as a people and nation redeemed, married, and made Holy unto God. The Church People are the citizens of the Light, Hope, and Glory of God, the core citizens of chosen and blessed Ghana, Beulah Land, God’s Kingdom Glory Nation and People.  Christians and the godly people of Ghana are vessels of hope for Africa and the dark, oppressed, and captive peoples of the world. The Divine Blessedness and destined glory of Ghana and Africa rests upon the church people of Ghana and Africa. 

Beloved, the Christ spirit and blood, the victory and sanctification in His reconciliation, and His redemption mission hold great prospects for the human race. There is peace, joy, and hope to the nations and peoples of the world—Jews and gentiles, black, white, and yellow, male and female, children and adults. 

Christ is THE ARK of escape for bewildered, captive, fallen human race destined for death and extinction from pending divine condemnation and judgment. He is the Spirit of Salvation, Redemption, Resurrection, and Restoration. The Father has released Christ, the Divine Spirit and Power of Sonship, for the redemption and restoration of man, and the gathering of creation back unto Himself. Christ is also the Spirit-Power to save and restore, hold, sustain and preserve all creation unto eternity.  He is the spirit-power that holds, sustains, and preserves the integrity, sanctity, and purity—the beauty and glory of creation not only in this world but also in the world to come.  

Without controversy, He is God made manifest in the flesh. (1st Timothy 3: 16). He is far above all angels, principalities, and powers, might and dominion, and every name that is named—not only in this world but also in the world to come (Ephesians 1: 19-23). 

The Father has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be the head of the Church. The Church, being His body—the physical, social, and cultural expression of His Spirit at work among me— is the open door for revelation, proof, and demonstration of the Fullness of the nature, stature, and glory of Him, Christ Jesus the Lord.  What a blessing!!  What a privilege!! 

This is the fundamental reality of the church witness of Christ, and the love, mercy, knowledge, wisdom, and power of God the Creator.  In Christ Jesus, God the Eternal Father, has opened a door not only for the redemption and restoration of man but also f or the transformation and raising up—or promoting—man into glory far above angels, principalities, and powers. In Christ, the Church people of God can stand, do stand, and indeed contend in victory over principalities and powers. 

This is so because Christ is an open door of divine nature, authority and power, knowledge, and wisdom for works of glory on earth, among peoples and in the nations, of the world. Herein lies the authority and power of the Church in spiritual, physical, social, and cultural order. His Spirit and Word, His Blood and Name, constitute a tower and mountain of power, authority, and glory. 

In and with Christ Jesus, the Creator has manifested, and identified with, and exalted man unto glory as a Spirit-Being of eternal life, light, power, and glory. This is the mystery of Christ and thus the goodness and mercy, wisdom and power of God behind the Gospel of Christ. What good news that must be told!  What liberty that must be declared!  What a heritage for the human race, nations, and people! 

People of God, people of Ghana, people of Africa: we need not take pains to persuade you that the Church in Ghana has a special privilege and with-it great responsibility towards God, the nations and peoples of Africa and the human race as a whole. 

That God the Creator has invested, and is investing His Spirit, Power, Knowledge, and Wisdom in His people—and has great expectations of great returns and rewards for Christians and the Church body at large in Ghana—cannot be denied.  This is the grace of God of the centuries upon Ghana. 

God has great plans for Ghana, Africa and the world.  The End Times are times of distress, but they are also opportune to the church to proclaim the Good News, demonstrate Christ—the love, liberty, and joy in Him and gather creation back unto God through faith and hope in Him. 

Therefore, church gatherings are—and should be—times for the flock to be fully immersed into deepened connection with Christ.  They should be times for discipling and equipping the saints for demonstration of the goodness and mercy of God and the power behind the Cross, the end-time kingdom battles, and hope of eternal glory. The church in worship is God and man, angels, and creation in a celebration of love and joy. 

There are also times for the soldiers of the Cross to do battles to deliver and redeem man and creation, and to gather creation and establish the Kingdom of God on earth. For example, the present preoccupation in the world is with the material and physical condition of life, with little or no attention to the spiritual and soulish well-being of people. 

There is lost vision of future, lost vision of hope, and lost vision of life itself.  Men know nothing of, nor care about, heaven, the afterlife, and the future generations.  Preoccupation with the ‘now’ has made even governments and nations place little premium on tomorrow, future generations, and life itself. To millions, to live is merely to exist. To consume is life. Therefore, they believe the larger the consumables and possessions is greater life and power. But life, which is spirit, does not consist in consumables and possessions, in material wealth, or social ranking.  (Luke 12: 15) 

Unfortunately, philosophy and science, religion and art are now converging on consumption and possession. Capitalism and communism, liberalism and socialism, humanism and scientism, liberation and religion— all are now engaged with power, political, economic and military to amass and control consumption in the so-called global market democracy. 

It is sad, beloved, that some elements in the church—those we call the Anti-God Anti-Christ forces in the church—are seeking to turn the Gospel of Christ into consumption power and market democratic pursuits. To the extent, that many are employing and trying to mix Satanic power and human wisdom, and power with divine power in the truth, spirit, and power in the word of God (the scriptures) to attain earthly gain—consumables and property, power, and pleasure— fleshly, earthly-based physical, and material, emotional, and intellectual pleasure. But all this is vanity upon vanity, with neither permanency on earth nor heavenly eternal glory. 

May we humbly appeal that the Church and godly people in Ghana turn their backs to the prevailing spiritual, religious, and cultural order, and the political, economic, and social arrangements that not only deny God and Christ but also the divine chosen path of glory for the country as Beulah Land, a nation and people holy unto God.  We also call upon Christians as a whole to stand as one people, citizens of divine glory in the nation and Africa, against the Anti-God Anti-Christ philosophies and ideologies, nation building, progress, and social order based on them. The people of God must also stand against plans to turn the divine glory of the nation into ‘Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah political kingdom.’  The spiritual, political, and social order based on atheistic-humanistic philosophies supported by the powers of ancestral dead, gods, goddesses and deities, blood sacrifices and Anti-God Anti-Christ forces must be seen to be over. 

A totally New Ghana with a new foundation has been ordered, built, and established by God. The knowledge of God through and by Christ Jesus and the Church is the way of hope and path of glory for Ghana.  

This is a solid foundation.  Nothing, no one, no spirit, nor power can change it.  All that is required is vigilance on the part of the church, supported by a government established in the knowledge, fear, and honor of Him, Jehovah God.  Amen!  

The days of ancestral spirits and tribal war gods, the culture of darkness, blood sacrifices, witchcraft, sorcery, and charms are gone.  The times of global philosophical and ideological blocks of blasphemous capitalist-liberalism versus atheistic communist-socialism—have phased out. The emergent centrist governance of the two blocs cannot hold either.  But be as it may, Ghana is no longer the ground for ‘Osagyefo political kingdom order’ and the Nkrumah God, Father, and Redeemer of Ghana/Africa slogans. The military “chooboe” chants have become discordant, evoking, as it is bad memories of military musical chairs, despotism, open robbery of state chest, and national treasures, and decadence and fall in national pride. 

Ghana Beulah Land, a Crown of Gold and Royal Diadem in the Hand of God is the new order.  Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people He has chosen for His own inheritance is the spiritual, political, and social setting. 

Peace, righteousness, justice, and joy constitute the new order. Character and conduct established under the knowledge, hand and kingdom of God and His Christ is the spirit. Christ is the King of Glory and Governor of the New Ghana.   

Let all the People Praise Him! Crown Him King and Lord of all.  Amen and Amen! 

Beloved, please feel free to sip and drink deep the “Christ Tea” of life, peace, righteousness, and joy, victory, liberty, and glory. Hallelujah! 

December 7, 2010