Who is a Teacher?
In simple terms,
a teacher is a person trained to
impact knowledge on another
individual or individual(s) who need(s) to be
taught. This person called a teacher can
either impact knowledge under formal or informal environments. One does not
need to be a student of a regular class setting before they can benefit from
God’s teaching curriculum.
This book is therefore written for Christians to understand clearly what
the roles of God, our Teacher, are
in our lives especially as we run our Christian race.
Ordinarily, teachers are a
necessity in any society and their importance in the kingdom of God is quite
germane and should not take the back seat.
God is the most qualified person to teach His Church because He compiled
and documented the most comprehensive syllabus in the whole wide world,
Himself. This priceless syllabus called
The Holy Bible is free from
errors of intent and ambiguity.
This syllabus inspired by the Holy Spirit was written by men of God from
diverse backgrounds and vocations, who condensed their divine message to guide
God’s children. Some of these authors include but are not limited to, King
David who was a shepherd; Amos, the fruit gatherer, and herder; Moses was a shepherd when God called him to be a
prophet, while Solomon was a king.
In the New Testament, Paul the Apostle was a lawyer who learnt under
Gamaliel’s tutelage. Gamaliel was one of the premier teachers of the Law in the
first century. Gamaliel taught between AD 22-55.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work (1st Timothy 3:16- 17).
God is always the Best Teacher in the entire universe because He is the Author and Finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2) Who inscribed the Ten Commandments on stones (Exodus 20:1-17) in the Old Testament but has inscribed His Word in our hearts in this dispensation.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in
their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people”
(Hebrews 8:10)
As a teacher, I once told a brother in my Sunday School class that reading Christian literature is different from studying the Bible. God’s key reasons for teaching His children are:
1. God teaches
us to accomplish His purpose in making us soldiers for Christ by deliberately killing (eliminating)
all descriptions of civilian traits
or carnality (especially pride and disobedience) in us. (2nd Corinthians 10:5-6,
2nd Timothy 2:3-4) and inputting or knitting His thoughts into our souls
with utmost perfection or precision. With this configuration achieved, we are expected
to reason like Him and always obey Him:
“I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.” (Psalms 82:6)
In Abraham
and Sarah’s circumstances, God did not give them a child
of promise until “their body was as good as dead.”
Dwarfed blessings or breakthroughs are breeding ground for pride which
translates into gross disobedience, most times in Christendom. By saying
dwarfed blessings or breakthroughs, I meant blessings or breakthroughs Christians celebrate but they are
quite insignificant to what God would have wanted us to obtain from Him.
2. Secondly, God’s teachings are to help us fulfill
our destiny on earth and eternally
– Deuteronomy 28:1-13, Psalms 66:8-13, 2nd Timothy 4:
5-8.
God’s teaching’s methodology
1. God’s teaching
methodology comes from His Word we have quite easy access to, through:
(a) studying and (b) teaching as delivered by His ministers such as
Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors & Teachers – (2nd
Timothy 3:16, Galatians 1:11-17, Hebrews 4:12).
2. Another
teaching methodology is through practical application of His word – Matthew
28:16–20, Acts 9:15-16.
Note: God, most times needs to gain our attention before we can be taught of
Him and one of the most effective ways to do this is through trials – Zechariah 13:9, Romans 5:2-5,
James 1:2-4, 1st Peter 5:10.
At this time of trial, God allows our comfort to be ‘touched’
so we can look unto
Him or seek Him for solutions, because of the severity of the resultant wilderness experience – Deuteronomy 8:10-11.
King David documented some of his experiences
in the Bible as found in Psalms 35, 66:10-12, 88, 109, 120, and 129.
The root of His teaching
God’s teaching normally takes
root or reference from the first covenant Christians make with Him when they accept into their lives, Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour
(Acts 9:6).
Where there is genuine conversion, a New Convert does solemnly and
knowingly (or unknowingly) enter a covenant with Jesus Christ.
That was what apostle Paul did when he encountered Jesus Christ, asking a question,
“And he trembling and astonished said,
Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto
him,
Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do”.
Many of us certainly asked such question(s) in Acts 9:6, when you gave your lives to Jesus Christ but we did not wait for Master’s response or our Master’s response before we jumped into the ministry.
Brethren, I wish to apprise you that such covenants are never fluid in heaven; they are
cast in iron. Certainly, before you can effectively commence or discharge
your duties in God’s ministry, you must pass through wilderness experience for this covenant to be activated and
fulfilled.
Jesus Christ, God Himself, experienced some moments of wilderness experience; for example, He
prayed and fasted for forty days and nights. He also lamented on the Cross of
Calvary saying, “Father, why has Thou forsaken me?”
Prophet Elijah at a point cried out that God ‘left’ him. Prophet Jeremiah
tasted a pinch of
wilderness experience when he decided not to mention
God’s name anymore
(Jeremiah 1:5-10).
Wilderness Experience is not a joke in any way. Anyone who passes through
these experiences and remains carnal can never change again.
Whoever passes through
this experience must ask at some points
why God has decided to
abandon him. No! God will not abandon His own. You are not abandoned, please.
Christians before you passed through the experiences and they came out with
success stories but adorable scares. Please endure, it shall end in praise, in
Jesus' name.
Christians sometimes activate these spiritual contracts or covenants,
when we fulfill some of the examples mentioned below:
To be continued
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