DATE: 17/4/2022
TOPIC : Transition into everlasting kingdom.
TEXT : Col. 1:12-13b; 2 Sam. 9:1-11
Ministering Elder Tosin Ogunlumade
Mephibosheth is really a picture of you and me before God. Until we become God’s children by being born into his family, we were enemies of God and exiled in Lodebar. God’s enemy is any person born with the nature of Adam. Rom 5:12-14. Mephibosheth was a member Saul's family who disobeyed God like Adam but was given a special invitation to the King's house. This story is placed here to show us the type of salvation that is available to us through Christ Jesus. Like David, Our Lord searches for us until he finds us. Like David did, Once Jesus finds us, he tries to have a little talk with us. Then if we are willing and ready, our Lord Jesus redeems us. Jesus restores all that we have lost, and returns us to our Father’s table in peace. We were heirs to our heavenly Father before the fall but became paralyzed in Adam..... Rom. 5:12-14.
When you come to Christ you transit
1. From sin into righteousness. 2 Cor. 5:21; Col.2:11-15; 1 Peter 2:22; Heb. 10:14,17
2. From condemnation into justification. Romans 3:23-24; 4:25; 8:1-2; 5:1...
3. From darkness into light. Ps. 119:105; 18:28; 27:1; Jn. 9:5
4. From enemity into fellowship. Col. 1:20-23
5. From slavery into sonship Ps. 3:7; Rom 6:
6. From curses into blessing. Gal. 3:13; Ps 3:8
7. From death into eternal life. 2 Tim 1:10; John 5:24
8. From mourning into singspiration. Ps 5:11; Is 60:20
9. From stagnation into progress. Acts 3:1-11
10. From wretchedness into wealth. 1Sam. 2:7-8
11. From barreness into fruitfulness. Ps 1:3; Luke 10:38-42
12. From shame into glorification. 2 Tim 1:8-9; Ps 3:1-3
13. From being forsaken into chosen. Titus 2:11-14; 1Pet. 2:9; Is. 64:4
14. From distress into rest. Matt. 11:28; Heb. 4:1-3
Cleave to Jesus Christ now and be out of Lodebar ( pastureless) into God's eternal plan. Heb. 10:14. Ps 23:1--