I Can Do It

Here I will reference my Dad before he repented for an objective indulgence.

He was an acute smoker, there in boarding he met the bad guys in the first year, they taught him, he mastered in it, money wasn’t a problem, he was a member of the Presidency, and he smoked in packets all day long for years.

We met him like that, from time to time, he had a resolution to quit smoking, and it often lasted for about weeks before he returned again to smoking; he desired to stop it, but the strength wasn’t there.
Sin without the Blood of Jesus is more powerful than us – we can’t say no to sin without divine assistance.

Sin isn’t our friend, it may seem well now, but not all long well.
He continued that way, smoking and hating to smoke, but who could save him from what he hated?
One day, teachers of the Gospel knocked on his door, and that was where the journey unto salvation began; in about a week, he was baptised in the Holy Ghost.

My Dad wasn’t a pagan, he was active in the church, but after meeting those preachers, he joined the born-again church, and there he met God face to face for this first time.

His baptism in the Holy Ghost was specular, the congregation felt the wave, and his name became Bro. Christopher, that name brother is an identity of a brethren in the midst of the saints, he cherished it.

Not that he quit smoking, it was like everything about smoking was erased from his memory; in fact, it seemed like he forgot he ever touched a cigarette, he carried his Bible and went about preaching and counselling.

Widows said to Apostle Paul, you killed my husband, some said you killed my wife and children, some said you imprisoned my parents and Paul replied them, “I Paul have wronged no man.”

He didn’t deny by saying no, he meant it was his old self that did the killings not this Paul standing before them.

Even if we have killed or did some dirty bad things in the past, when we repent, the records are all erased.

Repentance is a transformation, it erases every past, whether you remember them or not, past mistakes will continue to have effect until repentance comes.

He received the power that defeated sin, he didn’t need to struggle again to quit smoking, Jesus already struggled for him on the way to the Cross.

Sin kept destroying destinies of men till Jesus came, He became the structure of sin so that He can destroy sin in its full structure, His suffering and death was the suffering and death of sin likewise.

The Cross of suffering represented the burden of sin, as He lifted it up, the burden of sin was lifted up, and He struggled with the Cross so that we can’t struggle to defeat sin again.

What shall we tell God if we allow what was defeated to defeat us, what excuse shall we give on the Last Day that the defeated defeated us?

Because Jesus became the structure of sin as written in the Book of Isaiah 53, His death on the Cross was also the death of sin.

The mockery, the rejection, the humiliation, the beating, the piercings, the crucifixion etc were also what sin was subjected to suffer to free us from its suffering forever.

When they laid Him down in the tomb and covered Him up, it explained sin was also laid down and covered forever.

But there was a difference, sin never resurrected but Jesus resurrected, and sin shall remain in that covered tomb till the day of judgment.

Sin was a heavy burden “Cross” on mankind, no one could lift it up, and for this the Son of Man was sent to lift that Cross and He made a shame and mockery of it before the world.

I can. You can. We can do it

We can do it, we can overcome the power of sin only by the strength in the Blood, no one, not even the righteous Abraham overcame sin, he struggled to please God, the prophets and the people of Old struggled to keep about 600 Laws, in the end none of them could please God because the power to suppress sin couldn’t be found in written Laws and commandments, for this reason a lighter Law was sent, the Grace of God came.

-Kanayo Ebuka