In Matthew chapter 1, the author told us about the family tree that Jesus, literally, came from.
This chapter of the book talks about how Jesus Christ was born in the flesh.
In thinking about this, I found God, not only choreographing, but also deliberately chronicling the events and the life that led to the birth of Jesus Christ, just like He did in the creation of heaven and the earth in Genesis chapter 1.
Also, in thinking about the birth of Jesus Christ and the family in which he came from, it is important to note that ‘Christ’ is not his surname.
The Bible introduces him as Jesus Christ. Jesus is his name, Christ means the anointed one. Jesus is his person, Christ is the enablement that the Holy Spirit brought into his life, upon him that helped him to achieve and accomplish God’s purpose on the earth.
I want you to continuously see the impact that the anointing of the Holy Spirit brings into the life of a mere mortal to enable him accomplish his purpose upon the earth.
Jesus Christ was just a man, was flesh and blood just as you are. He was Jesus until the moment when the Holy Spirit came upon him.
He was conceived of the Holy Spirit but then when the Holy Spirit also came upon him – at his baptism – Christ was appended to his name.
This showed that the enablement which the Holy Spirit brings into the life of any individual will allow the Holy Spirit come into his space.
And not only was his humanity on display. God also wanted us to see that when the Holy Spirit comes and merges with your humanity, you enter into a world of limitless possibilities.
He was called Christ because it shows that the moment the Holy Spirit came upon him, every constraint, every restraint and every inability that flesh could have converged on him, the Holy Spirit enabled him to overcome such restraints.
To give an example of this, My name is Dr. Yemi. Yemi talks about my humanity. Doctor talks about the relevance my training had enabled me to achieve, or to come into with my humanity.
In other words, God was saying that you are only as relevant, or that the grace of God makes you only as relevant as you apply the grace to where humanity finds you.
If you are into business, the enablement of the Holy Spirit brings such capacity into your business and literally as Jesus was referred to as Jesus Christ, you literally are referred to by whatever it is you are called.
But that Christ factor begins to manifest in your business because of the enablement of the Holy Ghost. And God has not called us to live lives that are detached of where we have found our humanity.
God has not called you to only live and join the anointing in Church. God expects you and I to go into our daily activities, carrying the fullness of the anointing into our businesses, into our career, into our families and wherever humanity finds us.
He expects a free flow of the anointing because that is where the anointing is relevant.
“The anointing is not relevant outside of where your humanity finds you.”
When we use the word “Christian,” the problem with most of us is that, immediately, our minds shift to the moral aspect of being Christ-like.
The apostles were first called Christians in a town called Antioch. And the reason they were called Christians was not because people looked at them and they were moral beings.
You are not a Christian just because you display a higher level of morality, that is part of it. You are a Christian because the same signs and wonders that was is Jesus Christ is reflected in your life.
And so, being Christ-like extends far beyond just your moral standing. It extends into the space of your career. It extends into the space of your family, into the space of your business.
So, when the Bible says Jesus Christ, it’s saying, when the enablement of the Holy Ghost came, his humanity literally became submerged in divinity and we could not see the difference in his daily life.
To further illustrate this, I want you think of a wood used for construction. To understand what I’m about to tell you, you need to read briefly Exodus 25.
In Exodus 25, verse 10, when the Lord gave Moses instruction to make the ark, the instruction was very clear.
Exodus 25:10, “And they shall make an ark of shittim wood (The ark of the covenant which literally represents the Holy Spirit indwelling us in this day and in this generation): two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.“
What God was saying to Moses was that you would take a wood, and when you get the wood, you will line the wood on top with pure gold, which represents divinity, royalty and inside as well, you will line with pure gold, such that what was an ordinary wood on the outside, because gold comes on it on the outside and on the inside, people look at that wood and it looks like this is divinity.
But when they look in between the wood, they realize that there is a free flow between divinity, which is the gold on the outside and the wood inside which is the humanity.
God is saying the gold on the outside represents the grace and the enablement of the Holy Spirit but I do not want it detached from your daily life which is your humanity inside.
So that when people see you show up in the office on Monday morning, they see the divinity, but then they realize you come with your humanity to work as well and they say, “Is this God or is this man or is this man God?”
The problem is that most of us come with our divinity to church on Sunday and when we get home, we take off our divinity to work just as mere mortals on Monday.
God is saying is that when Christ is mentioned in connection with your name, your divinity and your humanity merges so much to produce result consistently, people are saying “is this God or is this man?”
That is the reason why the disciples, when Jesus Christ asks the storm to be still, they said, “what manner of man is this?”
Because his divinity and humanity have blended into one. And you will only be as relevant as where God has positioned you.
This teaching was by Dr. Yemi Osinaike on Sunday morning. To listen to the full message, visit What the blood has done to your family tree
