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CONFORMED TO CHRIST IN GLORIFIED HUMANITY (PART III)

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“United to the Risen Christ in the New Creation” By Akin Ojumu The Christian hope of glorification does not rest merely on imitation. Christ is not simply an external example whom believers will one day resemble. The doctrine of glorification depends upon something far deeper: Union with Christ. Believers are not merely spectators of Christ’s resurrection. They are united to the risen Christ. Paul writes: Romans 6:5 “If we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His.” Our resurrection is certain because His resurrection has already occurred. The life of the age to come already exists in our Head, who is Christ. He has gone before His people. And because the Head lives, the body must live also. Paul says: Colossians 3:4 “When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” Christ is not merely the Giver of eternal life. He is our life. Our destiny is bound to His. THE HOLY SPIRIT AND RESUR...
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APOSTOLIC AVIATION: PAVING THE RUNWAY FOR THE MAN OF GOD

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By Akin Ojumu There you have it. The theological runway is being paved. The aircraft may not yet be in the hangar, but the sermon has already begun clearing the airspace. This is how the private-jet gospel is manufactured. You do not begin by saying: “Beloved, I want an aircraft worth several million dollars. Kindly empty your pockets.” That would be far too honest.  No.  First, you create the theology. You explain that ordinary commercial aviation is somehow incompatible with the dimensions of the “apostolic assignment.” You remind the congregation that the nations are waiting. Souls are perishing. Destiny is calling. The harvest is ripe. And apparently, Air Peace is delaying the Second Coming. Then comes the vocabulary. It is never called luxury. Luxury is for unbelievers. For the Man of God, it becomes mobility. It becomes Kingdom infrastructure. It becomes apostolic logistics. It becomes ministry efficiency. It becomes a tool for global impact. A Gulfstream with Bible vers...
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CONFORMED TO CHRIST IN GLORIFIED HUMANITY (PART II)

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“From the Empty Tomb to the Glorious Body” By Akin Ojumu Last time, we concluded that glorified humanity already exists. It exists in Jesus Christ. The Christian future is therefore not speculation about what redeemed humanity might someday look like. God has already shown us. Look at the risen Christ. If glorified humanity already exists in Jesus Christ, then the resurrection of Christ becomes the key to understanding our own future. Jesus did not merely survive death spiritually. He rose bodily. The tomb was empty. The same body that was crucified was raised. Jesus told His disciples: Luke 24:39 “See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” The resurrection preserves both continuity and transformation. It is the same Jesus. The same body. The same wounds. The same human identity. Yet His human existence has entered an entirely new mode of life. He will never die again. Paul writes: Romans 6:9 “Ch...
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CONFORMED TO CHRIST IN GLORIFIED HUMANITY (PART I)

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“Christ Is Even Now Still Fully God and Fully Man” By Akin Ojumu To say that believers will be “conformed to Christ in glorified humanity” is to confess something much richer than merely saying Christians will receive better bodies after death. It is a statement about the Incarnation, the Person of Christ, the resurrection of the body, the union of believers with Christ, and the final renewal of creation itself. The Christian hope of glorification is rooted in the identity of Jesus Christ. We cannot understand what believers will become until we first understand who Christ is.  And this is precisely where the great Christological confessions of the ancient Church become important. THE NICENE FOUNDATION: THE SON IS TRUE GOD The Christian faith begins by confessing that Jesus Christ is not a creature who later attained divine status. He is the eternal Son of God. The Nicene faith confesses Him as: “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one sub...
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SABBATH IS THE TRUE CLIMAX OF CREATION

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By Akin Ojumu Many people read Genesis 1 as though the creation story reaches its climax on the sixth day with the creation of man. It doesn’t. The creation account reaches its theological conclusion on the seventh day, when God rests from all His work. And that matters. Humanity is not the ultimate end of creation. God is. Man is certainly the crown of God’s earthly creation, uniquely made in His image and appointed to exercise dominion over the earth. But the creation narrative does not terminate with man standing triumphantly at the center of the universe. It terminates with God—God enthroned over His completed creation, delighting in the work of His hands. Genesis 2:2–3 “And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy.” That seventh day tells us something profound about why human beings exist. We were not created merely to work, build, multiply, rule, ...
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BABA ADEBOYE TURNS 1 JOHN 3:2 INTO A PROOFTEXT FOR TELEPORTATION (PART II)

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“From Glorification to Immigration” By Akin Ojumu In Part I, we examined how Baba Adeboye takes the magnificent promise of 1 John 3:2 and turns it into a prediction that Christians will someday travel from place to place, even to far-flung places across oceans, without cars, airplanes, ships, passports, or visas. According to this interpretation, because believers shall someday “be like” Christ, they will apparently acquire the ability to materialize wherever they wish. Just say, “I want to go to London.” And there you are. No airport. No airline. No immigration officer required. There is only one problem. That is not what 1 John 3:2 teaches. Not even remotely. WHAT DOES 1 JOHN 3:2 ACTUALLY SAY? Here is the passage: 1 John 3:2 “Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.” Where are the cars? Where are the airplanes? Where is London? Where are visas? Where are lock...
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