Is Elvis Mbonye truly next to Jesus?

cherished, I greet you all in the love of our risen Lord and King, Jesus Christ! may additionally he proceed to bless and hold you!

I accept as true with a few of you've got considered a clip trending on social media of an interview via one of our native tv station journalists in which Simon Ssenyonga claims that Elvis Mbonye is greater than the entire men of God within the Bible, from Moses to every partriach, prophet, apostle and priest.

I don't have anything towards Elvis Mbonye, as someone. i love him as another person, created within the picture of God and that i hope him neatly. I don't even understand even if what Simon Ssenyonga has uttered has Elvis's consent or permission. i'm heartily worried though, as a result of I see no ground where we can base to believe it Christian or biblical.

Simon's claim that Elvis Mbonye is improved than all the saints and servants of probably the most excessive which have ministered and served Him on this planet from time immemorial, is, by using a ways, very unsettling!

Biblically, and at a few theological fronts, the observation is, necessarily, severe profanity. No prophet, no patriarch, no saint, no priest, no king of any variety and time has ever made the sort of claim about any man or woman. Even the disbelieving, a few of whom have uttered essentially the most atheistic statements, have not come any closer to this in reference to a mortal and finite human being! except we dismiss it without difficulty as a mere hyperbolic puffery, it is awfully misleading and dangerous to the flock of Christ, and all humanity.

From the clip I actually have watched and listened to, Simon makes right here claims about Elvis Mbonye:

He "is much larger than prophets Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist and all of the New testomony apostles"; he "has a greater best covenant"; "he's stronger than Moses, and Abraham"; he "comes after the order of Jesus Christ"; he "is each with and in Jesus"; he "is more advantageous than all" (these mentioned) in terms of "wealth, dominion and glory"; he "is seated subsequent to Jesus in the heavenly locations." Then he adds: "asserting that he's in Jesus is a real understatement"!

allow us to do a quick evaluation on the above claims:

a. If Elvis is way higher than Abraham, to whom God gave the title of 'the father of all believers', higher than Elijah who God used to elevate the useless and even who He referred to as to heaven alive, higher than John the Baptist, a relative and forerunner of Jesus Christ, who even baptised him, here is no longer a standard claim!

I say once again that if Mbonye is bigger than all of the apostles who saw, touched and shared moments and meals with Jesus of Nazareth, who lived a 33 year earthly lifestyles with the only begotten and incarnate Son of God Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, who, though in an earthly physique changed into co-equal and co-eternal with God the daddy and the Holy Spirit, THIS commentary isn't a standard one!

by the way, by way of all logical, rational and non secular specifications, to make such a declare, one need to have full abilities of those personalities and their ministries superior than any one else. for this reason, with the aid of implication, Simon infers that he himself is superior than all (including Elvis himself, to whom he attributes all these superlative characteristics), as a result of he (Simon), being omnisciently qualified, is in a position to make a perfect analysis, facilitated with a kind of an figuring out it truly is in a position to enabling him to rightly divide the insignial distinctions of these personalities and come to a conclusion that they are all below Elvis Mbonye! Congratulations, Simon!

b. Simon extra claims that Elvis has a "more best covenant". let us bear in mind that a covenant is a bond in blood it is heavenly administered. In reference to the work our Lord Jesus completed on the cross, the Bible talks of a brand new, everlasting and more desirable covenant, alluding to the undeniable fact that Jesus perfected all that the prior covenants had been meant to accomplish. The essence of the covenants derives from the adult of Christ, who's the first birthday party, not from the 2d party with whom he enters them. also, all prior covenants of works and grace are conveniently diverse forms of the equal covenant.

So, if the discipline of this claim has this new and greater superb covenant, that in itself doesn't make him entertaining, considering that all believers in Christ are partakers and topics of this new and greater covenant.

this is not a special covenant. quite, in it, all former covenants (Noahic Covenant (Gen. 6:18), Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. 12:1-three), Mosaic Covenant (Gen. 15:13-14; 19:four-6), and the Davidic Covenant (2 Sam. 7; 1 Chr. 17) have been made more suitable and new (Heb. 8:6).

c. Our liked, Simon, extra asserts that Elvis is superior than Moses! Moses who led the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, the lawgiver, one to whom the first 5 books of the Bible are attributed and to whom the 10 Commandments were given. Moses who break up the red Sea into two, is, in accordance with Simon, still ranked beneath Elvis!

Of course, Simon's view could have been fueled through Elvis's contemporary claims of chatting with the Almighty on phone, having a one to one stumble upon with Jesus, to an extent of describing what he feels like (very handsome and funky) etcetera. as the faithfuls, we should still now not be perplexed by that. in the future, the Lord will deliver the actuality to mild!

d. That Elvis is greater than all when it comes to "wealth, dominion and glory" is yet another unfortunate claim. by dominion, in view of primary semantics, does Simon check with Elvis's sovereignty and handle over the complete universe? by using glory, does he suggest that he's stronger than all in class and elegance? i'm led to announce that such attributes belong to God the Almighty, probably the most Sovereign, by myself!

Ssenyonga nevertheless says that Mbonye is wealthier than Abraham and all! to come back to this conclusion, one need to have a clear and complete figuring out of Abraham's wealth and all others', as well as its equivalence in view of present day specifications of quantification. since the Bible mentions categories of Abraham's possession, but now not the portions, i ponder if this claim derives from a statistically and biblically recommended mind!

Simon extra asserts that Elvis lives with and in Jesus. here is actual of anybody because of the indisputable fact that all creation changed into made by way of him, in him, and thru him (Rom. 11:36; Col. 1:16; John 1:3), however also, spiritually, that we, the saved or born once again, abide in Christ and in fellowship with God via him. In Christ we live and stream and have our being (Acts 17:28). This capability that we derive our being from his. we're and are living because he is and lives. In Christ, we who agree with and born of God, are heirs and co-heirs with him (Rom. eight:17). So this doesn't put anybody particular person Christian above others! There is no one who is more in Christ than others. Any alert Christian ought to prevent the 'holier-than-thou' angle, as a result of, though one can also be mature than yet another as a Christian, no one can be greater saved than one other. it's like announcing that one is more or less alive, human, enjoyable, perfect, or even mo re or less lifeless than a different!

finally, there's an element which moves Simon's utterance closest to solid blasphemy. it is the place he says, "to claim that he (Elvis) is in Jesus is an irony." really! Taken as true this observation would qualify as a larger than existence theological blunder! My inference derives from its implication: What would he be if it have been now not an underestimation?! I request fellow Christian apologists and the whole church to brush aside this statement, either on grammatical or without difficulty on wide of the mark grounds! it's with no trouble as a result a conditioned and confined perception, not suggested via a sound, biblical, Spirit-led, theological inquiry.

In conclusion, i beg you liked, young and lively Christian believers, desist from this craving for superiority and greatness! What did Jesus teach his disciples when they argued about who the most advantageous of them became? He confirmed them a little newborn and noted that the least of them is the top of the line (Luke 9:46-forty eight).

again bear in mind his reply to the mother of both sons of Zebedee, who, when in search of for their greatness, asked him to grant that they each and every sit down by way of his aspects when he returns as king. He replied to her, "that is not mine to provide, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father" (Mat. 20:20-28). Then he recommended his disciples: "...whoever wants to turn into first-rate among you need to be your servant, and whoever wants to be first have to be your slave (verses 26-27).

beloved, the Bible condemns delight. It really says that it goes before destruction, and a haunty spirit earlier than a fall (Prov. sixteen:18). allow us to stroll in humility, fiends! Jesus instructs us, "Take my yoke upon you and gain knowledge of from me, for i am gentle and humble in heart, and you will locate rest in your souls (Mat. 11:29).

also, dear young men and women, kindly study the Bible! Take time to feed your mind and heart so you can be smartly equipped now not to be swayed round through any kind of educating that claims to be the fact. conceal God's note for your coronary heart, so you might not sin in opposition t Him (Ps. 119:11). read God's observe so that you aren't taken unawares.

liked of God, as these utterances begin to flood the banks of our spirituality, be aware Paul's caution: "See then that ye walk circumspectly, no longer as fools, however as sensible, redeeming the time, since the days are evil" (Eph. 5:15-sixteen).

may additionally the Lord proceed to give us wisdom and victory over any form of false and misguided teaching! Lord Jesus, protect us your flock and bride. Amen!

The author is the Bishop of West Ankole Diocese