Apst Titus Malachias

08/02/2026

‘TAKE OFF YOUR FILTHY CLOTHES’
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“Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.”
‭‭[Revelation‬ ‭12:10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]
“Then the angel showed me Jeshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord. The Accuser, Satan, was there at the angel’s right hand, making accusations against Jeshua.”
[‭‭Zechariah‬ ‭3:1‬ ‭NLT‬‬]

Joshua had an encounter with the Lord in a vision; and as he stood in the presence of the angel of the Lord, satan showed up with his usual devices: accusations. We must understand that, satan’s preoccupation is accusations! He has three job descriptions: to remind us of sin; makes us sin-conscious and finally accuse us of sin.

The introductory text does not tell us what exactly satan was accusing the priest of but subsequent verses do justice to that. We read:
“Jeshua’s clothing was filthy as he stood there before the angel.So the angel said to the others standing there, “Take off his filthy clothes.” And turning to Jeshua he said, “See, I have taken away your sins, and now I am giving you these fine new clothes.””
[‭‭Zechariah‬ ‭3:3-4‬ ‭NLT‬‬]

Who told Joshua his clothes were filthy? Remember Adam and Eve? This is called sin-consciousness!The filthy clothes were the sins of the high priest and these were satan’s cause for accusations. Joshua was sin conscious, he felt sinful, filthy and unfit before the Lord.But watch this :” see, I have taken away your sins...”.The Lord, out of His great compassion, clothed the high priest with His righteousness so he might be able to stand in His presence.

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.”
[‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭54:17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬] 2Cor 2:11

Strengths of the Believer:
1) We are equipped and armed with the necessary weapons through the Word of God to rebuke the devil.(Zech 3:2)
2) Our righteousness is from the Lord.
3) We are like burning sticks taken from fire 🔥
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
‭‭[Revelation‬ ‭12:11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

Further Reading: Zechariah 3:1-10

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Malachias

10/01/2026

THE REVELATION OF GOD

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
1Jo 5:20 NKJV

Jesus is the first and the last revelation of God. He is the eternal and perfection purpose of God. What the son did was to reveal and manifest the invisible God to us. God is Spirit and He can neither be seen nor understood; He is a mystery. The knowledge and revelation of God would have continued to be a mystery without Jesus. God needed to reveal Himself through a medium and that medium is Christ Jesus.
So Jesus explained to His disciples who wanted to know whom the father is, and He said: " I am Way, the Truth and the Life, you cannot access and know the father except through Me". That is true! He is simply saying that: " I am the only Way to God, I am the only Truth of God and likewise I am Life of God.

This means if you choose any other way, then you are simply lost; and if you reject Him, you have embraced a lie and if you do not have Him then you are without life. Sweet! It satisfies and pleases God to make Jesus the lamb of God; and to have the Godhead dwell in Him bodily. For He Himself testifies that Jesus is worthy to represent Him as a Son. Chiefly, Jesus is the salvation (life) of God, and then He is the perfect revelation of God.

John the beloved noted, " And we know that the Son of God has come to give us understanding that we may know the true God". Unfortunately, some people do not have this understanding- so they cannot say that Jesus is Lord. Well, they definitely will, just that it may be too late. Again, Apostle John noted, "We are in Him who is True".Wow! We are in Jesus Christ, who is the Truth of God.
And we "know", we do not just "believe". You must strife to go pass believing to knowing. This is why the Pauline prayers are very important to the believer. "You must be filled with the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him..."

Finally he says, "This is the true God and eternal life".
The Godhead is complete in the Son such that, if you have the Son, then you have God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah! It's funny when someone says Jesus is/was just a prophet! How can it be? He pre-existed everyone and every creation for that matter. He was in the beginning with God (John 1:1). In fact and Truth, all things were made by Him, through Him and for Him (Col 1:16-17). One day He told the unbelieving Pharisaic Jews who questioned His deity that, " ... I tell you the truth, before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:58). What else do you want to hear?

How do we know that we are His?
"The [Holy] Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,"
Ro 8:16 NKJV

Amen!

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10/01/2026

JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IS HOW GOD SAVES MEN

(And why Some cannot give their lives to Jesus)

One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: 'Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!'" (Luke 23:39)

Hanging on crosses at Jesus' right and left hand are two criminals, Greek kakourgos, "'criminal, evil-doer,' one who commits gross misdeeds and serious crimes."1162 Other Gospels call them robbers, Greek lēstēs, "robber, highwayman, bandit"1163 (Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27). Though they could have been common thieves, they also might have been the kinds of highwaymen that swooped down on lonely groups of travelers from Jerusalem to Jericho, stripped them of their possessions, and left them for dead, as in the case of the victim in the Good Samaritan (10:25-37). The same Greek word is used to describe them. Bandits like these two were the terror of travelers. Those who were able, traveled in larger parties.

One of these highwaymen, dying on a cross on one side of Jesus, now takes up the cat-calling begun by the soldiers, "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!" It was probably much like the cruel teasing of inmates that goes on in prisons today. It represents a general jab at authority of any kind. A pulling of everyone down to one's own level. The thief is making fun of Jesus' inability to do anything despite the exalted title of "Messiah" that has been used concerning him. Where is this talk of "Messiah" now? he sneers. You're dying just like us. Death is the great equalizer.

The verb used to describe the thief's taunts is Greek blasphēmeō, primarily, "to demean through speech," an especially sensitive matter in an honor-shame oriented society; "to speak in a disrespectful way that demeans, denigrates, maligns. Slander, revile, defame."

But the other criminal rebuked him. 'Don't you fear God,' he said, 'since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.'" (Luke 23:40-41)

These taunts are making the other condemned brigand very uncomfortable. The word blasphēmeō can refer to reviling humans, but also to "speak irreverently, impiously, disrespectfully of or about ... God." The second bandit has not lost his faith, for he asks, "Don't you fear God?" To stand by and participate in such an unrighteous act as to execute an innocent man is an impious, sinful act, and the second brigand refuses to desert his sense of right and wrong.

Then he said, 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.'" (Luke 23:42)

Two things to note:
- [ ] The fear of the Lord is all it takes to enter into the kingdom of God. The word for fear is the Greek word “phobeo”. It describes awe-inspired reverence to God. A man without this nature cannot come to God.
- [ ] And then putting your trust(faith) in God’s plan to raise up after death. We must understand that, Jesus is God’s plan to raise men up to Himself so they can spend eternity with Him.

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21/11/2025

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GOD WHO SHOWS MERCY

_“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”_
‭‭[Romans‬ ‭9:14-16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

Simply put, God is eternally Just and there is no unrighteousness with Him; He shows mercy to whom He pleases. One must note that, God works according to purpose. God and His purpose are inseparable and His interest has always been the purpose.

God chose and loved Jacob before he was born. His love for Jacob was not dependent of what he did nor what he(Jacob) would do but according to God’s purpose. He had always known Jacob would become Israel. Israel is God’s own portion; His inheritance through whom He would demonstrate His love and might to the nations.

So He says: “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”
‭‭[Romans‬ ‭9:13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

The question is, was Israel by himself more righteous and better than any other nation? No! Did God show him mercy? Yes!
The truth is, Israel tempted God severally in the wilderness. He even provoked God to anger in the wilderness several times. The Children of Israel murmured, complained and sinned against God in the wilderness.

How serious was their sin?
Read this:
“Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.”
‭‭[Hebrews‬ ‭3:10-11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]
That was their penalty!

However, when the Israelites came up against their adversary as they sojourned to the promise land, God again showed up and had mercy on them. A prophet was hired by the king of Moab to curse the children of Israel for he (Balak) dreaded the Israelites.

But this was the Word of God through hired prophet Balaam:
“God has not observed iniquity in Jacob nor has He seen wickedness(sin) in Israel. The Lord his God is with him...”

This is called the favor; the lovingkindness; and tender mercies of God. And He shows this mercy to whosoever He wishes. It is the underserving favor of God that can turn a sinful nation like Israel to a righteousness one and align him to His purpose.

He is able to cover up your sins and nakedness with the garment of righteousness mercifully. ( Ezekiel 3:1-5). Pls read.

So what do we do:
Simple! “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
[‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭4:16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

Hallelujah!

26/05/2024

04/03/2024

THE PRE-EMINENCE OF THE WORD

*lBut we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.‭‭[II Corinthians‬ ‭3:18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

_"... beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord..."_
The preceding phrase explains what people in the Kingdom of God ought to do; it explains our relationship with God's Word and the effect thereof. The Word of God has tremendous power to transform any man who earnestly contemplate it.

Paul explains the character and nature of the the believer after they have passed from death to life. He started by saying, "I urge you, my brothers and sisters in the view of God's mercy, that you present your body as a sacrifice... " Romans 12:1.
In the verse 2, he instructs: " Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed... "

You see, people who want to deceive and prey on your Superstitious mind would keep feeding you with some more superstition to tie you down to their whims. They will make sure they steal everything that looks "godly" in you and replace it with the worldly view of God's kingdom. Your liberty to the supernatural is in the Word only.

John's Testimony
‭‭1 John‬ ‭1:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬
"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life."( Ref John 1:1-12)
The Word that comes from God and is worthy of believing is JESUS Christ.

John says, He (the Word) was from the beginning. In fact, all things were made by Him and without Him, nothing was made that was made (NKV of John 1:1-3). And Paul emphasized, *"He is the essence of life, and in the fullness of the dispensation of time, He would gather all (visible and invisible) things to Christ [Eph. 1:10].

There is a man who was and is and is to come in revelations. When John saw Him, he felt down flat as one who is dead. The glory was so intense that, he could not stand on his feet to behold the majestic splendor and glory of heaven. His name is "The Word of God".

People of God, the prophetic word by the man of God Amos concerning the last days was that, " The earth will be filled with the knowledge and glory of God even as the waters fill the earth". And precedent to this erra is an unquenchable thirst and hunger for THE WORD OF GOD.

Hallelujah 🙌
Malachi.as

07/01/2024

THE UNFAITHFUL SONS OF THE FAITHFUL

Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
[Proverbs‬ ‭22:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

The keyword is "train" from the root word "chânak" in Hebrew and it means: " train up" ; "dedicate"; or "discipline". When we dedicate our children to God, the implication is that, we have offered them to God as living sacrifices (Rom 12:1-2). At this point, they now belong to God for God to do as He wills with them.

For instance, after Hannah had travailed in the presence of God for a son, she later on surrendered or relinquished same to God forever. ‭
"But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “Not until the child is weaned; then I will take him, that he may appear before the Lord and remain there forever.” [Samuel‬ ‭1:22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

This is what we call child dedication. As believers and faithful heirs of God's kingdom, we may not literally send our children to serve in God's temple forever but we must surrender them to His will. And this dedication must be intentional. We must deliberately lead the children to God through active discipline. The Bible calls it "train up the child" (Prov. 22:6).

But unfortunately, some of us deliberately renege on our responsibility to train up these children. We pretend we are following God but are spiteful towards His word. His word is "train up the child"!
There were very powerful men of God who failed to train up their children and they later became a snare and a reproach to Israel. In fact, they fought against God and He cut them off.

"Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord" (1Sam 2:12).They were Hophni and Phinehas, who were behaving wickedly, for example by taking for themselves all the prime cuts of meat from sacrifices, and by committing adultery with the women who serve at the sanctuary entrance. The sons Eli treated God's Temple with contempt by committing fornication with church workers.

Again, Samuel’s sons, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes and perverted justice. In spite of this, Samuel did not remove them (1Samuel 8:1-3). But the worst of these three unfaithful groups of sons is the son of Hezekiah whose mother was Hephzibah. His name was Manasseh and he bacame king in Judah at age twelve and ruled for fifty-five years.

He was the worst king of Judah and he even outdid the evil things of Jeroboam. He rebuilt the pagan alters of Baal which his father destroyed and served them. ‭‭"Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger."[ II Kings‬ ‭21:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

He opposed every good thing his father stood for as if he didn't even know him. His father was one of the best kings of Judah.‭‭He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan. [II Kings‬ ‭18:4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

So what happened in the lives of the sons of Eli, that of Samuel and Hezekiah? Where did they go wrong? What didn't their parents do? It's simple, their parents did not train them up! For instances, we read that, though Samuel's sons were evil and perverted justice in Beersheba, he did not remove nor discipline them (1Sam 2-3). He just did not care! Likewise Samuel!

*Prayer*: In name of our Lord Jesus, grant us the Spirit of Wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of you. Grant us the grace to train up our children they way the should go. Hallelujah!!?

15/12/2023

*THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY*

Malachi.as

“But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.” [John‬ ‭15‬:‭26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

“…He, the Holy Spirit will testify of Me”. Just as Jesus is the perfect revelation of the Father, even so, the Holy Spirit is the perfect revelation of Jesus. And just as Jesus surrounded His will to the Father, even so, the Spirit does not speak except for the purpose of Jesus.

The point is, the Word is truth and so is the Spirit.The person of Jesus represents the truth of God and this is made manifest by the Word and the Spirit. The two have the same essence and purpose. Again, it takes Truth only to reveal Jesus as the only begotten Son of God.

You see, the grace and the capacity to share Jesus is trapped in the Holy Spirit. He is the strength and the enablement that empowers flesh and blood to witness about Jesus. The prophetic is not the madness we see in town; the true prophetic is wired to the witness of Jesus. The point is, where you see the Spirit of prophecy, there, you will surely see Jesus.

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” [Acts‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]
Yeah, we all desire that power but the power of the Holy Spirit moves men to testify about Jesus.

To witness about Jesus is not the work of some specialized task force with special anointing; it is the work of a believer. Jesus says, “You will be enabled by the Holy Spirit to be My witnesses”. No! Not you but the Spirit of God will work through you to testify about Jesus. Hallelujah! So therefore, the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.

Amen 🙏

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04/07/2023

THE MISTAKE OF MARTHA

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“And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.” Luke‬ ‭10‬:‭41‬-‭42‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The problem is, we are almost always under the impression that, we know what God wants. Like Martha, many of us think we have mastered the the will God. Martha, naturally overburdened herself with what she thought was the right thing. But you see, you cannot choose right when you set the Word aside.

The one must important thing on God’s agenda is His Word. Jesus explains to Martha that, the choice to heed God’s Word is the one most important thing to do (Ps 27:4). This is the one thing that God will not deny you; in fact, He would break bounds to feed you His Word.

On His way from Judea to Galilee, Jesus was “restrained” to pass through Samaria to feed a Samaritan woman with the Word. Then He tells the disciples who beckoned Him to eat that, “…,My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.” [John‬ ‭4‬:‭34‬ ‭NKJV‬‬] Do you see that?

Martha had erroneously imagined that, Jesus was wearied from His journey and ordinarily would need “food” to eat. But His food is the Word; spiritual people live more on the Word than common food. Jesus tells the unbelieving Pharisees that, “He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” [John‬ ‭8‬:‭47‬ ‭NKJV‬‬]

Simply put, those who desire God’s word are God’s children. The problem is, many pastors have created in us desires and tastes for all other things but the Word. It’s an error. This first, and the one must important thing is the Word. In Genesis (beginning) 1:1, God created the heavens and the earth. In other words before matter, space and time was the Word.

Genesis 1 talks God speaking things into existence but Hebrews tells us exactly “how”. It says, “ By faith we know that the worlds were framed (created) by the Word of God…” [Heb 11:3] People of God, we must understand that, the first thing God would talk to you about is His Word because the Word is central to His Will. As a matter fact, the first and the last revelation of God is His the Word. (John 1:1)

Hallelujah

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