The Chairman of The Church of Pentecost in Ghana, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, explained that the only way to be part of God’s family is to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Saviour.
“Anyone who accepts Jesus as Lord, no matter the background, is born into God’s family and has become a brother,” he said, “Whoever believes in Christ becomes part of God’s family; they come with their nationalities; they come with their race; they come with their backgrounds; they come with their perspectives. Whether we like them or not we have become one family in Christ and then we form the temple of God in which God dwells by His Spirit.”
During the Sunday ‘Special Evening Service with the Chairman’ series, Apostle Nyamekye explained that the church is an extension of the family of God in heaven. He also mentioned that the church is a house of many vessel, which makes it great.
Apostle Nyamekye urged the church to be “the new humanity, God’s new community, a model of a human community, a family reconciled to God and to one another, who love their Father and love each other with whom God dwells by His Spirit and this Spirit cries in them “Abba Father!”
He said that as a new human race who no longer alienate but reconciliate, the church must avoid division and hostility but rather encourage peace and unity.
Apostle Nyamekye explained that if a person belongs to Christ, then they are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise that was made, without taking into consideration their nationality, sex, etnicity, and educational.
“Our identities have been dissolved in the blood; we have all put on Christ so Christ covers our identities,” he said.
Apostle Nyamekye read Ephesians 2:18 and Romans 8:11 to emphasise how Jews and Gentiles have access by one Spirit to the Father through Jesus Christ.
“Jesus’ Father is our Father; the Creator Holy Spirit lives in us. The same Spirit that was in Christ is the same in us, who are born again. By this Spirit, He cries Father and with the same Spirit we also cry Father,” he said.
“In this family, if God is our Father, then Jesus is our big brother because we know that He is the Son of God.
“Jesus rent the curtains that separated us from God and has allowed us access to God and reconciled us to one another. We have been born into the body of Christ and God’s family.”
According to Apostle Nyamekye, the power of a great family of God lies in unity.
“The greatness of this family or the power of this family is not because God is our Father, No. Not because Jesus is our big brother, No. But it is in our unity; our oneness. Our unity is our beauty, our testimony, our strength that we are children of God,” he said.
However, Apostle Nyamekye stated that: “Disunity renders our prayer non-effective and our fellowship unavailing. So without unity, we may have God, we may have Jesus; we may have the Holy Spirit but our prayer will not be effective. So when we gather together it will be a futile exercise, sometimes a waste of time.”
Apostle Nyamekye explained that the devil always sows seeds of disunity among the people of God to divide them to see themselves as enemies. The Word of God is therefore the guide for the people.
“In this family, our rule is the Word; it sets our boundaries. Our aim is His glory. Our rule is not what angels say; it doesn’t come from the dreams of people. Angels serve us; we don’t take instructions from them,”.
Apostle Nyamekye told church leaders to be careful not to build what Jesus has demolished.
“The Gospel has the power to equip the believer with the help of the Holy Spirit to live holy and God-honouring lives.”
Source: Church of Pentecost