Introduction

The cursory way most church and religious folks have handled the word of God has led to the assumption that salvation is separable from its contents and fullness. The picture painted is just like buying a gadget and all its accessories and wire chords are removed and sold again separately. God is not a hungry businessman desperate for our resource who gives us that kind of life. Salvation is a condensed package and must be seen as such.

So far, salvation has been seen as deliverance from sin and its consequences and a release into a ‘new’ God life. In effect, it is a total coming out of one life or kingdom into a new life or kingdom (Colossians 1:13). Salvation, we have understood, is also the arrival and stay in Zion whose description is beyond compare (Hebrews 12:22-24.) Then again, salvation has been established as entrance into God’s rest once you believe Hebrews 4:3.

Furthermore, spirituality is another endowment of Salvation, as the offerings of salvation cannot be naturally discerned (Romans 8:9). We have seen that salvation is the righteousness of God revealed in the believer’s life now (Galatians 2:21). The full content of all these discussed has left us with the quote that ‘outside salvation the church of God has no message whatsoever’. Let us move on as we establish that salvation is ‘supernaturality’.

Definition

The supernatural is that which is beyond and not subject to the laws of nature (regular occurrence, apparent, inevitable phenomenon, observable). The inter-relativity of spirituality and ‘supernaturalism’ is often confused.

‘When mortality accesses divinity, it is spirituality; when divinity functions in mortality, it is ‘supernaturality.’

Many are trying to modernize and revise Christianity from a demonstrably supernatural life into a secular self-enlightenment living (2 Timothy 3:5-7).

Jesus and His mission are being reinvented to an ethical philosopher reaching virtues and sublime moral codes operated by volition (incapable of deserving heaven) (2 Corinthians 11:4). Others are engaging in dualism and divorcing the sacred from the secular in their lives (Galatians 5:17, 25). 1 John 2:15 has been one of their bases, though it’s historically bankrupt and spiritually empty.

B. Prevalence of the Supernatural in Christianity

The truth is that Christianity is replete with the supernatural so much that any life away from the supernatural is not Christianity at all. The supernatural helps the giving of a historically accurate rendition of soteriological occurrences necessary to our faith.

• Matthew 1:18-23 – The birth

• Matthew 2:1-2, 12-13 – The Eastern Wise men

• Matthew 3:16-17 – His Baptism

• Matthew 4:24-25 – Healing – 8:1-3, 5-11, 14-15, 9:1-7,20-22, 18-25, 27-31, 32-34, 35

• Matt 8:26-27 – Calming winds & sea – Matthew 14:23-33, 36

• Matthew 8:28-32 – Casting devils – Matthew 15:21-28

• Matthew 15:32-38 – Multiplying bread – Matthew 17:27

• Matthew 17:1-8 – His transfiguration

• Matthew 21:19 – Condemning unfruitfulness

• Matthew 27:51-53 – Resurrection – Matthew 28:1-4,16-20

Matthew is not alone in this since Mark and Luke also do. However, John takes it even higher in his revelation of Jesus. E.g., John 8:12, 58, 11:25, 14:6.

This is how full Christianity is of the supernatural.

State of Affairs:

Now, there is a visible existence of bipolar views that present a dichotomy on the state of the new creation believer (Galatians 1:12-16, Colossians 2:8-10, 2 Pet 3:3-7). We have reason, logic, scientific methods, positivism, objectivism, materialism, and others in kind all in one corner (1 Corinthians 1:22).

Faith, spiritual leading, dogmatism, doctrine, subjectivism, irrationality, and sometimes superstition, among others, are all also in another corner (1 Corinthians 1:23-25, 2:4-5). The love to look educated, sophisticated, enlightened, and esteemed in status is the reason for the rejection of the simple-minded life of the gospel (2 Corinthians 11:3).

C. What is the Now Life?

Our whole supernatural life starts with our co-crucifixion and co-death with Christ (Romans 6:3-8, 2 Corinthians 5:14, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 2:20). Dying with Christ meant a total cancellation of the old way, level, state and paradigm of living (Romans 7:6, 8:1-2, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20.) A massive fundamental change occurred in our co-resurrection with Christ into a new life. This is what we call new birth or born again that is rooted in the supernatural. John 3:6-8, 1 Peter 1:3-5, 23. This reveals the total eradication of self-aggrandizement, actualization, centeredness but the implantation of the God life (Ecclesiastics 9:4-6, Ezekiel 11:19, Isaiah 43:19, Romans 10:9-12, Titus 3:5-7, Colossians 2:13-18.)

Salvation is the taking away of our autonomous, self-controlled life and the implantation of the Godhead in us (John 14:23, Acts 17:28-29.) So now salvation is the supernatural replacement of our lives and will with God’s own (Philippians 2:13).

Salvation, therefore, came to us as the direct metaphysical and physical reign over our lives by a real God. God in us is not a dormant or passive being but a hyperactive God. He does not come in you to master but transcends the ways of the world, which is supernatural living, 1 John 4:4, 5:4-5.

Part D

Before the cross, resurrection and ascension, Jesus had to train and equip His disciples in and with power to live the supernatural, Matthew 10:1, Mark 3:14-15, Mark 6:7, Luke 9:1. The disciples had success in their healing and deliverance ministries, Mark 6:13, Mark 16:20, Luke 9:6, Luke 10:17. Peter walks on water under supervision Mark 14:28-31 and unknown disciple casts demons Mark 9:38-40. After the resurrection and ascension supernatural acts of the disciples continued Acts 3:1-10,16,4:16, Peter – Acts 5:12, 15-16, 9:33-35, 36-41.

But not all of them were there with Jesus during the training and equipping.

• Stephen – Acts 6:5, 8, 7:55-56

• Philip – Acts 8:6-7, 26-40, 21:8-9

• Ananias- Acts 9:10-16, 17-18

• Agabus- Acts 11:28, 21:10-13

• Paul – Acts 13:8-11, 14:8-10, 16:16-18, 19:11-12, 20:9-10, 28:3-5, 7-9, 27:10-44, 5:18-21, 12:3-1916:20-34,

• Prison release- Acts 5:18-21, 12:3-19, Acts 16:20-34

This is because the ‘new creation’ by nature is in the domain of the Godhead and has the supernatural in Him. That is why we are counseled to be firm in a particular way in the following scriptures, Ephesians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Hebrews 6:19.

To Note

• The supernatural is the nature and norm of the new creation, while the natural is rare.

• The supernatural is the new creation’s birthright.

• It is not a Christian life if it does not regularly exceed your ability.

• With the natural convention, the supernatural invention comes as superior.

• When the supernatural becomes an appendage to your life, you live below your potential.

• The supernatural is a life whose possibilities are rooted in things not seen.

• If you settle for the natural, you miss the possibilities of the supernatural.

• The supernatural is an unexplainable plain of existence that consists of the invisible.

• Living the supernatural makes you a celebrant of God’s supernatural works in your daily life with God-centered testimonies.

• Settling for the unexceptional low cost is living like a turkey and forgotten you are an eagle.