Lecture Notes (1)
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A Compilation of LECTURE NOTES for future Theologians
TITUS EREMEGUONO EDEDJO (Lecturer)
OCTOBER, 2015
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My Lecture Note: On the 2nd Day of August, 2015.
Topic: The Covenant of Jesus Christ with Humanity
The Covenant of Jesus Christ with Humanity is highly CONDITIONAL; it is a “ONE on ONE affair” with Christ. You stand alone in the Covenant. What is therefore the Covenant? It is the AGREEMENT of “BELIEVE”. If you Believe in Jesus’ Doctrine, then you are His Disciple indeed. If you do not Believe, you are CONDEMNED!
The LIGHT (Jesus) came into the World about 2000+ years ago to demonstrate the CHARACTER of God Physically on Earth because He is Immanuel (God with us), but many preferred Darkness, and He was REJECTED and DONE AWAY WITH by the “World”. Jesus, however pronounced forgiveness at His death, and the Father heard Him. In His Teachings before His death, He said, No Sin against Jesus will be forgiven in the Holy Spirit era. This is because the ERA is the Period of Confirmation of PERSONS, and this JUDGEMENT is FINAL. In this end time, God carefully REINCARNATED the Generation that killed Jesus; some for Disgrace, and some others, for Upliftment.
TEXT: John 8:21-32.
MEMORY VERSE: John 8:31 – “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed”.
Scriptural backing: (John 14:23; 15:10; 15:1-4; 8:51; 3:14-21) and Genesis 15:5-6.
Vocabularies:
Words Meaning
doctrine : religious teachings
upliftment : glorification, promotion
My Lecture Note: On the 9th Day of August, 2015.
Topic: The Origin of God
Before the foundation of the Earth was laid, God has been existing alone in the Cosmos. It came to a Time when God decided to CREATE! He started this from the Heavenly realm(s) – Spirit World. This realm is the abode of experiments and reality. However, all the heavenly hosts are not created in the likeness of God. What He (God) did in the Spirit World does not make meaning to Him; He did that in order for Him to Create Living Beings that are like Him (God) in another abode called: Human World (Earth).
After God finished his experiments in the Heavenlies, He came to Earth to do the ORIGINALITY. After He laid the foundation of the Earth, He started a Brand New experiment on Earth; He called the first stage – the “Man World”. In His experiment, He discovered three Humans that are worthy of Note: (1) The Righteous Man (2) The Negative Man, and (3) The Assisted Man. God graduated to His second and final experiment: The Beginning of Man in the Bible – Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were experimental but real Man and Woman that God Tested, but they FAILED. In this scenario, God wanted Adam to bring forth two SEEDS: The Son of Man (Abel) and The Son of Perdition (Cain) in order for Him to study them again. When this happened, Cain killed Abel; God exclaimed and said: My experiment is finished, Go Abel and become Seth to rule the lineage of God PERPETUALLY!
TEXT: 1 John 3:1-12.
MEMORY VERSE: 1 John 3:12 – “not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous”.
Scriptural backing: (Genesis 1:1-2; 1:26-27; 2:16-18; 4:9-12) and Jude 1:10-12.
Vocabularies:
Words Meaning
perpetually : never ending
cosmos : the universe
perdition : destruction
scenario : situation
My Lecture Note: On the 16th Day of August, 2015.
Topic: The Land of Israel
God started Creation of the Earth realm in the Land of Israel. God descended on a Mountain that is known to Him alone and created Man out of the dust of the ground and rock fragments; He breathed on him and Man became Living. The Mountain in which God did this enterprise is called Sinai. It therefore means that the WHOLE WORLD IS ISRAEL BY ORIGIN.
The first Man and Woman in the revelation to Moses in the Bible Book of Genesis failed God, because, they disobeyed His commandment of not eating the forbidden fruit. When this happened, Adam and Eve lost the Land of Creation, and the Wicked One (Satan) took over the Land. God in His arrangement knows that this may likely be the case when He Tested Man (Adam). When Man failed, God allowed Creation to continue, with Satan in Charge of the Land of Creation. God later in the Course of Creation discovered a Faithful Man called Abraham, whom He TESTED; Abraham passed God’s Test Excellently and He (God) swore to Abraham with the Land of Israel: … you and your descendants shall possess the gate of your enemies in this Land. God thus established an Everlasting Covenant with Abraham. The AGREEMENT God had with Abraham is all about the Land of Israel that had been in constant contention from Creation till date.
Text: Genesis 15:12-21.
Memory Verse: Genesis 15:18 – “… To your descendants I have given this LAND, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates”.
Scriptural backing: (Genesis 12:1-3; 22:15-18; 26:3-5; 28:12-17) and Matthew 3:7-10.
Vocabularies:
Words Meaning
contention : heated disagreement
enterprise : project or undertaking
My Lecture Note: On the 23rd Day of August, 2015.
Topic: The Beginning of Earth
Earth begins with a Habitation called the Man World. It is a World of Experiment in conformation to the Pattern of God in the Heavens. God did not condemn any person in this exercise. He (God) used the experience He gathered to do another but FINAL Experiment on Earth.
In the Beginning of Earth, God allowed Man to play with NATURE as a WHOLE. At this time, Man has No Instrument of Test; No reason to believe that God exists. So Man started having Fellowship with created things as he enjoys the handwork of God. Some of them started worshipping the River, some, the Rock, and some others, the Tree, etc. This became the Origin of Religion – a Time when there was No reason to believe in the existence of God. But on one fearful day, God Inaugurated an Instrument of Test. He spoke to the Man World collectively on that day that all should worship created things with Righteousness. Only ONE MAN understood the Act of God on the day He spoke with a Voice. His name is the Righteous Man. Another Man misunderstood the Act of God on that day; his name is the Man of Power (The Negative Man). While another Man obeyed the Ministry of the Righteous Man, his name is the Assisted Man.
Text: Genesis 1:1-13.
Memory Verse: Genesis 1:10 – “And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the water He called Seas ….”
Scriptural backing: 2 Peter 2:4, Jude 1:6, (John 17:24; 1:1; 17:3-5). Study Genesis Chapter 1.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
inaugurated : introduced
instrument : measuring device
fellowship : friendliness
habitation : natural environment
My Lecture Note: On the 30th Day of August, 2015.
Topic: The Test of Man (1)
The Beginning of Man in the Bible is Adam. When God wanted to CREATE Man (Adam), He (God) had Two Options in Mind: Option A, which is short and precise; and option B, which is long and cumbersome. God favoured Option A because He thought that Adam which He created with Perfect Sense must pass the Test He intended for him. Nature however, favoured Option B. Satan which is an integral part of Nature told a LIE against God; the Woman (Eve) which God created for Man believed the LIE – Genesis 3:1-6. That Eve believed the LIE is no surprise to God, but the Fall of Adam is not only a SHOCKER to God but a set back of MONUMENTAL PROPORTION to Him. The Fall of Adam made God to prosecute Creation with Option B.
Option B is Complex; it is like the WIND which blows this way and that way, we don’t know where it is from nor where it is going – John 3:8 refers. Option B is full of Surprises: provoking different questions from the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law, e.g. (When the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from, but we know where this Man is from – John 7:27), (We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and how can you say, “The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is the Son of Man?” – John 12:34 refers), (“… can anything good come out of Nazareth? ….” – John 1:46); examples abound.
Text: John 7:40-53.
Memory Verse: John 7:52 – “… Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee”.
Scriptural backing: (John 8:57-59; 7:12-15; 9:28-30; 8:21-24) and Matthew 22:41-46.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
cumbersome : hard to handle or complex
integral : fragment of a whole
monumental : very large
precise : clear
proportion : amount
abound : plentiful
My Lecture Note: On the 6th Day of September, 2015.
Topic: The Test of Man (2)
God Tested Woman (Eve) with His first Instrument of Test (SERPENT) in the Beginning of Man (Adam), and she FAILED. While on the other hand, God Tested Adam with the first Woman (Eve) in the Beginning of the Bible, and Adam FAILED! In this scenario, Adam and Eve became Man and Woman with 50% knowledge of Good and 50% knowledge of Bad. This can be put Mathematically as: +50% Good and -50% Bad. When these two values come together, they neutralize. View this equation:
+ 50% + (-50%) = 0%
In other words, Adam and Eve scored 0% (CREATION STAGNANT).
In this exercise, God was greatly DISTURBED, but He allowed Creation to go on with OPTION B; Man and Woman became Human Beings with 50% opportunity to be GOOD and 50% opportunity to be BAD. God thus declared with a SHOUT to Man and Woman: “The offsprings that you shall beget will also have the same opportunity that is in YOU (+50% Good and -50% BAD)”.
Text: Genesis 2:15-25.
Memory Verse: Genesis 2:16-17, “And the Lord God Commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die”.
Scriptural backing: (Genesis 3:14; 3:16-19; 3:22-24), 1 Timothy 2:13-14 and Romans 5:18-21.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
stagnant : no progress
neutralize : of no effect
beget : bring into existence
My Lecture Note: On the 13th Day of September, 2015.
Topic: The Parable of the Tares of the Field (Sower)
This Parable is very ANCIENT just as every other Parable that Jesus spoke is ancient. Life has been existing before the Beginning of Man (Adam) in the Bible. So, this Parable has its root in the Spirit World. In this Parable, there are two Principal Sowers: The Son of Man (Jesus) and Satan (the Wicked One). Jesus is the Sower of Good Seeds, while the adversary (Satan) is the Sower of Bad Seeds.
In the Beginning of Man (Adam) in the Bible, Man and Woman FAILED the TEST of God; thus, the Seed of Good (Jesus) and the Seed of Bad (Satan) became implanted in their Spirit (+50% Good and -50% Bad). The materialization of this was the birth of CAIN (the Seed of the BAD ONE) and Abel (the Seed of the GOOD ONE). The First Seed of the WICKED ONE becomes CAIN and the First Seed of JESUS becomes ABEL. Both Seeds were allowed by God to grow together; and Cain killed Abel! In this arrangement, CAIN became the Father of all the SEEDS of the Wicked One (SATAN) and ABEL who later REINCARNATED as SETH became the Father of all the SEEDS of Jesus (GOD ALMIGHTY). The Seeds of CAIN are CANDIDATES for HELL and the Seeds of SETH are CANDIDATES for HEAVEN after the GREAT SEPARATION!
Text: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43.
Memory Verse: Matthew 13:30 – “Let both grow together until the harvest and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn”.
Scriptural backing: I John 3:10-12, (Matthew 25:41; 25:46), Jeremiah 15:1-3 and Isaiah 1:2-4.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
Implanted : placed
ancient : old
adversary : opponent
materialization : result
My Lecture Note: On the 20th Day of September, 2015.
Topic: The Course of Nature (1)
We have learnt from our previous studies that Nature took the Course of Option B – which is long and cumbersome, and also full of surprises. In the Course of Nature, Adam first gave birth to Two Significant/Prophetic Seeds – Cain and Abel. Cain is the Father of the Brood of Vipers and Abel/Seth is the Father of the Lineage of God; while Adam on the other hand, is the Father of the Null (0%) Children. Let us concern ourselves with the Family of God (Seth) and the Family of Satan (Cain).
Cain's Family in the Course of Nature Perfected Wickedness. A father in this lineage called Lamech became 77 times more wicked than his first forefather CAIN. This family is specialist in killing the Righteous without a CAUSE. Before the birth of Seth, this lineage had consolidated wickedness.
The lineage of Abel/Seth on the other hand, is the Family of Righteousness and Godliness. Notable examples in this lineage are: The Original Enoch (the Preacher of Righteousness), The Original Lamech (Man) which is the father of Noah (Son of Man). Noah in this lineage is Abel/Seth by REINCARNATION. Noah became the Saviour of the Earth that God cursed because of Adam. Noah continued with the lineage of God and He passed baton to his other side Shem – his heir apparent.
Text: Genesis 4:16-26. Read Genesis 5.
Memory Verse: Genesis 4:24, “If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy sevenfold”.
Scriptural backing: (Genesis 3:17-19; 4:8-11), John 8:44, Revelation 18:24 and Matthew 23:29-33.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
consolidated : made firm
significant : important
heir apparent : right to an inheritance
brood : family
null : amounting to nothing
My Lecture Note: On the 27th Day of September, 2015.
Topic: The Course of Nature (2)
In the Course of Nature Part (1), we studied that Noah is one of the righteous Men in the genealogy of God. Noah was a Perfect and Just Man who walked with God. His generation was extraordinarily sinful, and this provoked God to wrath. God decided to erase that generation, but Noah found grace in the sight of God. He (God) told Noah His intention to destroy that world; He gave Noah directions of what he should do in order for him to Preserve the Earth. Noah followed the leading of God perfectly and he did exactly what God instructed him to do. At the end of the day, God established a COVENANT with Noah and the Earth. The covenant is that of Blessing, fruitfulness and Multiplication – Genesis 9:1 refers. Adam lost the Ordinance of Blessing, fruitfulness and Multiplication because he failed the Test of God. Another appendage to this covenant is the abolishment of the CURSE God placed on Earth and the Eternal Existence of Planet Earth.
After the deluge of God, Nature continued, with Noah and his family in Charge of Creation. The WORLD became REPOPULATED through Noah and his family. At death, Noah passed baton to his other side Shem. In the lineage of Shem, God later discovered another righteous Man called Abraham.
Test: Genesis 6:1-14.
Memory Verse: Genesis 6:9, “… Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God”.
Scriptural backing: (Genesis 8:20-22; 9:11-13; 9:16-19), 2 Peter 2:4-5 and Luke 17:26-27.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
extraordinarily : unusually
appendage : attachment
ordinance : authoritative order
deluge : severe flood
abolishment : removal
My Lecture Note: On the 4th Day of October, 2015.
Topic: The Course of Nature (3)
In the Course of Nature Part (2), we ended our studies with another righteous Man called Abraham. Abel/Seth became Abraham by REINCARNATION. It therefore means that the Spirit of Abel/Seth is in a NEW BODY called Abraham. In God’s usual characteristic way, Abraham is to be TESTED again whether he will pass the Tests of God in the generation in which he is born into. God did this and Abraham passed the tests of God excellently (though, not without errors). A notable one is when he was tested by God to sacrifice his Covenanted/Prophetic Son Isaac. God swore by His Holy name to Abraham after he passed this Test, and God eventually Confirmed His Eternal Covenant with Abraham. In this arrangement, God got the Father and Son relationship on Earth, as it is in the Heavens above. Abraham became Father, and Isaac became Son. God thus declared in His Heart and said: In the future when I shall hatch my RESERVED WISDOM in the Holy Spirit era, Abraham shall be Father, Isaac shall be Son, and I, God Almighty, shall be Holy Spirit. This Act shall be called the “Eternal Conclusion of God”.
At death, Abraham passed baton to his other side Isaac. During the Course of Nature in the genealogy of God, He (God) later discovered another righteous Man called David.
Text: Genesis 22:1-3, 9-18.
Memory Verse: Genesis 22:16-17, “And God said: By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son ….”
Scriptural backing: (Genesis 12:1-3; 17:1-4, 7-9; 15:1-6) and Romans 4:11-13.
Vocabularies
Words Meaning
characteristic : typical
My Lecture Note: On the 11th Day of October, 2015.
Topic: The Course of Nature (4)
In the Course of Nature Part (3), we ended our studies with another righteous Man called David. Abel/Seth became David by REINCARNATION. In the genealogy of Jesus Christ according to Matthew in the Bible Book of Matthew 1:1-17, David was the only person that was referenced a king among all the kings that ruled Israel – Matthew 1:6 refers. David is therefore an epitome of a righteous king. “Paul” or Saul in Acts 13:22 by inspiration revealed the identity of his arch-enemy David as a man after God’s own heart, who did all the WILL of God.
David was not only a king but a Prophet and a Warrior. David is not like the Kings/Queens/Presidents/Popes, etc, of this generation of Titus Eremeguono Ededjo who dine and wine in their castles and send their subjects to war; but David was a king that fought wars by his own hands. His first major battle was the defeat of Goliath (a satanic giant) who defied and disgraced Israel for 40 days without response from Saul and his subjects. After series of battles, David as reported in 2 Samuel 5:1-3, was installed as king over Israel by all the 12 tribes of Israel according to the working of God.
At death, David passed baton to his other side Solomon. During the genealogy of God, He (God) later discovered another righteous Man called Joseph – the husband of Mary.
Text: 1 Samuel 16:1, 11-14.
Memory verse: 1 Samuel 16:13, “Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward ….”
Scriptural backing: (1 Samuel 16:18; 17:11; 18:14-16) and (1 Chronicles 28:4-5, 11-12, 19).
Vocabularies:
Words Meaning
epitome : perfect example
castles : fortified buildings
installed : established
My Lecture Note: To be studied on the 18th Day of October, 2015.
Topic: The Course of Nature (5)
In the course of Nature Part (4), we ended our studies with another righteous Man called Joseph – the husband of Mary. Abel/Seth became Joseph by REINCARNATION. In our Course of Nature so far studied, we have identified Abel/Seth as … Noah … Abraham … David … and now Joseph. As Joseph, he became the foster father of his ETERNAL FATHER – Jesus Christ (God Almighty). Let us now concern ourselves with the Eternal Father of Joseph – Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the Sower of Good Seeds; His first Good Seed is Abel … and now Joseph. God Almighty (Jesus) in His Infinite Wisdom decided to do an incomprehensible Mystery (Secret Truth) by coming as a Son through the womb of Mary, the wife of Joseph, to be fathered by Abraham, because he (Abraham) is the only person that is like God Almighty. In this scenario, God exemplified the Father and Son relationship on Earth as He did it in the Heavens above. In other words, Abraham/Joseph is the only person that can “fosterly” father God on Earth.
In God’s Ministry on Earth, Jesus had 12 Apostles, which He later narrowed down to Peter, James and John. Peter, James and John, are business partners – Luke 5:4-11 refers, and they are also related by Blood and Spirit. In the Course of Nature Part 6, we shall know the identities of these Three APOSTLES.
Text: Matthew 1:18-25.
Memory Verse: Matthew 1:23, “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, God with us”.
Scriptural backing: (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6-7), (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19) and Luke 1:31-35.
Vocabularies:
Words Meaning
incomprehensible : not able to be understood
fosterly : naturally
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NOTE:
- All Scriptural Source is from the Holy Bible: The New King James Version.
- This Compilation is SERIES 1.
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