Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (five)

All bow in worship, in heaven, to the Lamb, JESUS CHRIST of Christianity.

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5)            I hear some people make asseveration that Christianity is not necessarily linked to every earthly problem. Quite untrue, I must make unteachable, the didacticism of wrong mindset of human calculation. Christians are followers of Christ; they follow Him because they are well aware of the One they have decided to follow. Does it occur to human reasoning that the first human couple was a practitioner of Christianity? They were God’s children. Jesus said to His disciples, “When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name;” and this verse definitely laid the foundation of divine brotherhood, in Luke 11:2. If the first of human creations were made in the likeness and also the image of the LORD God who entranced Eden every cool of the evening, is there any cause not to believe that they bowed in the latria before their Creator, who happened to be the pre-Incarnation of Jesus Christ? If the prototypes worshipped and followed the Christ, Christianity is irrefragably the established way of life in the agreed counsel of Godhead, even as it obtains in heaven.

The first earthly Eden Church

                We understand that Christ is the Word of God. The mystical body of Christ is the Church. The Church had its Adamic foundation in the Eden Garden. Every instruction pertaining to human business and activity must speak the Christian language powered by the Word of God. The first instruction given to mankind was, “to dress it and to keep it” found in Genesis 2:15. What is ‘dress’ in Hebrew? It is ‛âbad (aw-bad’): ‘to work; serve; labour.’ Without the mind of Christ you will not succeed as a worker, servant or labourer in civil or ecclesiastical functionality. This is the truth. The word ‘keep’ is shâmar (shaw-mar’): ‘properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to.’ The job of Adam, the head of humanity, is to protect the Eden garden, both spiritually and politically. His failure arose from not following Christ as strictly instructed. Take away the mind of Christ from any decision, and you have just bungled it before any action is taken. Before God, we will always be children. The wise Jehovah knew this so to Adam and his wife He gave instructions. Instructions are steps to be taken to ensure success.

                Why did God give Jacob the name Israel – which means ‘he will rule,’ or ‘a prince by the side of God’? It is because from Israel will come the rejuvenation of Christianity which Adam polluted with the original sin. In the wilderness, the LORD God gave them many laws to enhance fruitful coexistence between God and His created man. Most popular are the Ten Commandments; and most of which run through the statutory laws of global adjudication.

The Incarnation of Christ.

                Even if it is not in truth and in Spirit, most countries of the world observe the Sabbath. “In God we trust,” declares the ‘almighty’, American dollar. Murder is a very serious offence, where does it come from? God’s code of human conduct establishes this law, even with a capital punishment. Lying against one another is globally frowned upon; it carries legal punishments of different magnitudes. Affiliated to lying is the serious sentence on perjury. The ninth Mosaic Law published it in Exodus 20:16, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Adultery, prostitution, illegal acquisition of another person’s spouse, they have their emanation from the Christian Bible.

                Does the whole wide world not stand in celebrative still on Christmas, Easter and New Year’s days? Christianity. What was the reason for the Incarnation of the holy One of Israel? Christianity. Why did Jesus die? Christianity. The Antichrist, when he is revealed before the rapture, would he dare close down the Churches of God? The prayers of the saints of Jesus Christ will put him in deep trouble! He is a false Christ; he must therefore act an imitative “Prince of peace” of Christ’s millennial rule; he must bring peace to the world. Three and a half years after the rapture, when the true body of Christ had been removed, the power of Christ would contend with him, hell would be let loose! The removal of Christians from the earth will result in chaotic cataclysm: no saint to confront evil with, “Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name!”  Selah!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (four)

Only Jesus, the Divine, can give rest.

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4)            You must be very careful when pacifiable words of religious affinity are released into your system with an intention to solve a spiritual problem. Religious didacticism is designed to get you enlisted into its membership. Woe, I promise you, betides whoever goes on the transportational train of any other religious worship that has not the Christ as the Alpha and the Omega. You cannot find, through any spiritual search, the Author of the creationism anywhere else outside Christianity. Religious philosophies have a way of taking you off guard, designed to keep you away from the ultimate Way, Truth and Life – Jesus Christ. Will God allow more than one entrance into His rest? To do that will definitely breed spiritual turbulence. Any attempt to manage the coexistence of Christianity with man’s religion will end up a capricious treatment of God’s protocolary.

                To the question in every mind asked by Thomas, it says in John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Now, it is evidently clear that most people read the Bible like they read the thrilling novels of James Hardly Chase. They read it like they go through Wole Soyinka or Chinua Achebe just to pass Literature examination or Bible Knowledge course. For this reason, let me explain the above Scripture. “I am” in the Greek is egō eime and it is the same as Jehovah – I AM THAT I AM – which means ‘self-existing One’. The noun ‘way’ is hodos (hod-os’) ‘a road; by implication a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively a mode or means; destiny.’ Jesus, the great I Am, is the true course of divine life. Grammatically, definite article ‘the’, preceding ‘way’, ‘truth’ and ‘life’ admits none other person, save Jesus Christ.

                Without Him, the Saving Compass, none can experience eternal life; does it not say, somewhere, “without Him was not anything made that was made” and again of Whom it says, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (John 1:9). From this same John 14:6 He is the ‘truth’ which is alētheia (al-ay’-thi-a): ‘fact, reality, certainty.’ Through Christianity one comes in contact with Jesus, the Eternal Foundation, even the truth that sets one free. The reality of salvation is activated by the protocol of the Christian Bible. Jesus is ‘life’, zōē (dzo-ay’) in Greek: ‘life – unending life of the Divinity.’

                The Author of Christianity says in John 10:8 “All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.” Every salvific utterance that fails to acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus is a manipulation of Satanism; the reason being that He is ‘the Door leading to redemption of souls. “All other ground is sinking sand”, as the old hymn truly sings it. Matthew 11:27 “All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” The word ‘knoweth’ is epiginōskō (ep-ig-in-oce’-ko): ‘to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know accurately.’ Without Christianity, which is the pillar and ground of the truth through the Church, there is no accessibility to the eternal Father.

                And Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, taught the elders of the Temple of Jerusalem what religion had failed to reveal concerning Jesus, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12 ). Mark 16:15-16, “And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Those who refuse to trace their steps back to Jesus, their first love, will be lost forever, for turning their backs on Christianity. Corroborating this verse is John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”

                1Corinthians 3:11 “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” Christianity is the way of life. It is the only redemptive agency. Jesus Christ, the true Saviour, is its foundation. No other religious leader before the Incarnation – Baal, Buddha, Krishna, Tao etc. – or those who showed up after His resurrection and ascension – Zoroaster, Muhammad etc. – knows  the way. These religious leaders must be followers of Jesus or have hell very wide opened welcoming them as each of them died. 1Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” the Author of Christianity, who continues to reach out, saying, “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest!”

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…” (Revelation 1:8)

                Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” Alpha and Omega are words that meet with divine protocolary. Being the first and the last of Greek alphabetical characters of word productions, what it prognosticates is that every other letter in between those letters are definitely of Him. Is Jesus the Word of God? Then the conceptual intent of Alpha and Omega points to the fact that every word from or of the Divinity is definitely Jesus Christ. The Personage of Revelation 1:8 is the beginning and the ending, meaning that He has no beginning and no ending. He is the “which is” the Owner of the present time of creation. He is the “which was”, Whose existence goes beyond the eternality of the past. He is the “which is to come” the Master and the Lord of eternity to come. This Person of Revelation 1:8 is the Almighty, the Author of Christianity. Selah!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (three)

Three crosses against dramatic red sky

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3)            Salvation is multifaceted. There is the ordinary day-to-day life’s salvaging instances: from debt; impecuniosity; childlessness; hunger; educational pursuit; embarrassment; marriage instability etcetera. To be saved from debt and impecuniosity earthly money is the solution. Pregnancy saves the one from barrenness. Food will definitely save the hungry souls; and get admitted into a very good school and your academic problems receive solution. Medical, financial and human connectivity can easily solve human embarrassments. It may be very difficult, but marital wahala (Yoruba for problem) may be solved with money. These are earthborn questions that cause hardships to carnal existential mindset; they do not extend beyond terrene reality.  

                Salvation of the soul is the true salvation, found only in the Christian Bible. Salvation is exclusively a theological question. Only the Creator, who goes by the Genesis 1:1 generic sobriquet of ‘ĕlôhı̂ym which means ‘deities, magistrates and mighty ones’, has all it takes for the abrogation of the mortal sentence of Ezekiel 18:4 passed on human sinfulness, which vaticinates, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” The sanguineous crucifixion of the Golgotha atonement changed everything, affording the second chance culminating in the volte-face turn from hellish approach back to life, brokered by the Author of creationism. Of the redeemed souls of Christianity Peterine couch reveals, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1Peter 2:9-10).

                I believe, and sincerely too, that the Christ has an ungodly representation in every religion, simply to strike an acceptance balance. Islam calls Him an etymologically unacceptable Isa according to Arabic language. Why do you think Krishna holds an exalted position in Hinduism? It is all about the Christ. The millennial government of Jesus is expected to have Christians as governors. And in the heavenly assizes, Christians are the judges of mundane deeds. 1Corinthians 6:2-3 2 “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3) Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?”

                The truth is that not only prophets yearn for the soteriology; even holy angels of God go to Church to learn of the Christian Bible. 1Peter 1:10-12 10) “Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 11) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.” The ‘look’ of verse 12 is parakuptō (par-ak-oop’-to), a Greek word worthy of note, meaning: ‘To stoop to a thing in order to look at it; to look at with head bowed forward; to look into with the body bent.’ Does angelic stoop towards the Christian Bible not make Christianity the only way of salvation? The soteriology is nothing short of a conundrum. Faith: that is all it takes to unravel the enigmatic stance of it; complete faith in the Word of God.

                What applies to Christianity is not the Old Testamentary Exodus 15:26 “And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.” This verse is meant for Israel in the flesh. This is the protocol of Scripture that suits the New Testamentary Christianity which has its couch in 1Peter 2:9-10 9) “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.” What difference do you see presented in this Peterine General Epistle? There is not a single string of human attachment, intended to aid the actualization of God’s promise. The true believer is substantially immune to apostasy. He has obtained mercy, better explained as ‘unmerited favour’. He is too divinely favoured to be derailed. He has been designed never to experience Adamic fall again. Amen.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (two)

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2)            What does it say in John 3:3? “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” What is this doubly uttered ‘verily’? It is amēn (am-ane’) in the Greek, meaning: ‘(properly) firm, that is, (figuratively) trustworthy; adverbially surely (often as interjection so be it)’. Know of certainty that ‘born again’ come from the Greek gennaō (ghen-nah’-o) anōthen (an’-o-then). Gennaō is procreation – spiritually. And what is anōthen? It is ‘from above; by analogy from the first; by implication anew.’ The adverbial ‘Verily’ means ‘truly’. Who is the Truth? Jesus. Who is the Amen? Is it not the same Jesus of today, yesterday and forever? The veridicality of John 3:3 begins with the double Amen! If it is firmly established that the death, resurrection, ascension and His session of Jesus Christ is for the rebirth of the lost souls who assemble in Church to worship God the true Saviour, then it suffices to agree that Christianity is the only way to eternal salvation.

                Why ‘born again’? “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). The Adamic original sin did engender the facticity of Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” The natural birth of humanity is fraught with wickedness. The day I came to the understanding of Psalm 51:5, with shock I realized that without making the sound of a syllable, I already have my dwelling in sinfulness, even from my innocent period of foetal existence! Nicodemus, to whom Jesus made this salvific verse known, was a religious leader of the Pharisee sect of Judaism. The way to salvation of the soul cannot be traced to any religious affiliation.

Jesus hosts Nicodemus in John chapter 3

                Being a born again Christian is the path that heads straight to the new and the living way established by Jesus Christ when He said, “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:28). Nicodemus went to meet with the very Foundation and the Head of the Church, the pillar and the ground of truth, where Christianity is practised. The new birth is actually midwifed by the Holy Spirit, God from above. ‘Except’ and ‘cannot’ are two strong negating terms showing the impossibility of salvation without going through Christianity founded by Jesus.

                Encapsulating the entire Bible is John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Salvation to all mankind through Jesus, whose atoning blood erases the sin that herds unbelievers into hell, is what John 3 verse 16 makes known to all. Where is this taught? The Christian Church. The eighteenth verse reads, “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” You either come to Jesus and be saved, or go elsewhere which seems right in the sin contaminated perception of humanity and perish forever. Christianity awaits all and sundry; “Come unto me all that labour and are heavy laden,” Jesus calls out, and concludes with the most reassuring, “and I will give you rest.”

                How does one get born again, you may ask? Romans 10:8-10 is the text for the salvific prayer formula: 8) “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Who carry out the evangelism of the soteriology? Christians. The word ‘confess’ of the ninth verse is homologeō (hom-ol-og-eh’-o): ‘to say the same thing as another, i.e. to agree with, assent.’ What are you expected to confess? The Lordship of Jesus Christ over your life; that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; believing that Jesus died for your sin; believing that Jesus rose from the dead; and from your heart, believe these things as you say them. Say the prayer truthfully and the Holy Spirit enters your heart to vacate it no more. You have become God’s child and that is forever. Amen!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Christianity Is The Only Way To Salvation (one)

1)            The first time one sees the word ‘salvation’ in the Bible is found in Genesis 49:18 “I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” Patriarch Jacob uttered this verse when blessing his twelve sons before he slept as God’s saint. The expression ‘waited for’ is the Hebrew qâvâh (kaw-vaw’): ‘to bind together (perhaps by twisting), that is, collect; (figuratively) to expect’. The next word is ‘salvation’ which is yeshû‛âh (yesh-oo’-aw): ‘something saved, that is, (abstractly) deliverance; hence aid, victory, prosperity’. The last word, ‘LORD’ is Yehôvâh (yeh-ho-vaw’): ‘the proper name of the one true God; unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of ădônây; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.’ The last time of its biblical couch is found in Revelation 19:1-2 “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:” 2) For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

 “I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” (Genesis 49:18)

                Jacob had to bind himself to the true God of Israel in his expectation of His salvation. Your expectations of God’s beneficence are the result of the collections of the word of Scriptures upon which faith is based. The Hebraic yeshû‛âh has a very close affinity to Yehôshûa‛, the Hebrew name for Joshua, the leader of Israel after Moses, to the promised-land; the same name was adopted by Jesus in the Incarnation. Yehôshûa‛ means ‘Jehovah saved’. Note that Jacob did not say, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Elohiym.” There is truly nothing, absolutely wrong with Elohyim (plural of Eloahh): for the Christ is involved in the Persons of the Elohyim concerning the Trinity.

                Divine salvation calls for the shedding of the life serving crimson fluid. Ineluctable is the attraction of the covenant that appropriately goes hand in hand with salvific responsibility of the Divinity. The first allusion to the phenomenality of the Church is when Divine utterance proclaimed, “I will make him an help meet for him” and in the creation of the Woman, it says, “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man” (Genesis 2:22). Bânâh (baw-naw’) is Hebrew word for ‘made’ which means: ‘To build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.’ The Woman, female Adam, is a building – the Church.

“And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman”

                What did God do in His resolve of building the woman? God pulled out a rib: definitely a blood spluttering business. Adam, in that material time, was absolutely sinless! The purity of that blood became the covenant, paving way for the forgiveness of the original sin. “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out” (Romans 11:33)! This is the first known salvific encounter between the Creator and mankind. Jehovah is the covenant name of the Creator as the SAVIOUR.

                Note also that Jacob uttered the Genesis 49:18 verse between two names: Dan and Gad; the meaning of Dan is ‘judge’ and Gad is ‘a troop’. The saved person must have been judged to be in sin. The prayer of salvation troops the Trinity into the heart of the believing soul and the Holy Spirit takes over completely so that the Christian can successfully invade the covens of evil occupation to destroy the unholy work of Satanism. It also means that God is both the Judge and the Saviour and, from eternity past, had decided to build the Church, making use of redeemed souls as the visible material blocks of the otherwise spiritual Church. Sōtēria (so-tay-ree’-ah) is the Greek for ‘salvation’ in Revelation 19:1 which means: ‘Rescue; deliverance, preservation, safety; a safe return; security, guarantee for safety; ways of preserving it’. Scripturally, whoredom is idolatrous practice. Any one or assemblage that worships not the true God is engaged in spiritual prostitution. There is one God. Serving another spiritually is to have forsaken the true God. The first marriage in the Garden of Eden was not only between God’s children, the LORD God is the Father-in-law of the pristine couple.

                In the eternal mind of God, He must marry the Church to redeem her. For this theological reason, it is a divine taboo to worship another god. Many so-called churches are institutions of Satanism. Religions that do not worship God in truth and in Spirit – Jesus being the truth, and the Holy Spirit being the Spirit of Truth – do so in fruitless vain. Jesus died, like Adam (before the emergence of the Eden woman), for the Church, established for the preservation of saved souls. The Holy Spirit, after the death, resurrection, ascension and His session on the right hand of the celestial Majesty, continues to nurture the Church: providing the Church with pastors, evangelists, prophets and the enabling power to go marching on, till the day of the rapture.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Better Not Make The Mistake (5)

David’s terrible mistake with Bathsheba

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5)            Did God push Adam into sinfulness? All He did was to allow him to be given a trial for which He had already given Adam the strength and the authority of dress and keep to easily overcome. One Adamic error plunged the entire race of humanity into hardships of centuries – consequences of mistakes can be very dire. And God met with Cain, whose heart wore the evil blanket of darkness, “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?” Proffering the only solution to his waywardness, God reminded him, “and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door” (Genesis 4:7). The word ‘sin’ is chaṭṭâ’âh (khat-taw-aw’): ‘sin offering’; and ‘lieth’ is râbats (raw-bats’): ‘to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal)’. God had already seen Cain’s heart of Satanism, bent on punishing Abel for no wrong doing. “A heart of satanic darkness needs spiritual redress,” the LORD God understands, and His agapē stance, wanting to equitably remove curse from Cain, told him, “for your heart of wickedness, come to me, the Forgiver of sins; bring a sacrificial sin offering and I will cleanse you of unrighteousness.” One mistake, more often, leads to several erratic deeds.

“The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground” (Genesis 4:10).

                Cain’s decision to dishonour God’s Fatherly advice led him to the first Adamic murder charge and guilt. Consequently Cain became the first Antichrist: for the LORD God of his encounter is the Christ in His pre-Incarnational manifestation. What happened to those who turned deaf ears to the one hundred and twenty years of Noachian evangelism? Did they all not suffer annihilation save eight, Noah and his immediate household? David made the ungentlemanly mistake of not taking his eyes off the nakedness of the bathing Bathsheba. What was the end result? Lust, adultery and deceitful cover-up which culminated in David’s guilt of treacherous murder of Uriah, Bathshba’s husband, were the eventual results. Could David have really done that evil? Better not make this mistake.

                One lustful act of David got God so angry that a prophet was sent to David saying, “Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10) Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife” (2Samuel 12:9-10). King David reigned in the eleventh century B.C. that is over one thousand years before the birth of Jesus. From then till this twenty-first century A.D., the land of Israel has not ceased to face wars.

“Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab” (2Samuel 24:4)

                When you venture into acts horrendously backed by contumacious spirit, God finds a way to step in to prove you wrong. This reminds me of the documentation of 2Samuel chapter 24 verses 3 and 4 “And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? 4) Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.”

                After David had done his heart’s desire, the repercussion was God’s anger when He sent His prophet saying, “Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 13) So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me” (2Samuel 24:12-13).

Jesus taught Nicodemus the regeneration of John 3:3

                Above all, the most nefarious commitment of sin is to live throughout your lifetime refusing to do John 3 verse 3, which reads, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Why should a man be born again? “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23); what brought sin to the world is found in Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Man was born a sinner, from the womb of motherhood. Spiritual progeny, midwifed by the Holy Spirit is what born again is about. Getting born again requires unequivocal faith in the finished work of the cross: believing that Jesus is the Son of God; that He died for your sin; that He arose from the dead; you must believe in His Lordship, on account of which, you have decided to receive Him as Lord and Saviour. Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual – to accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour. You cannot afford to make the mistake of remaining unregenerate spiritually. John 3:18 says, “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Selah!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Better Not Make The Mistake (4)

“Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15).

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4)            I see frustration and especially, greed accounting for the reason for theft. Unbelievably, thieves rage in complete madness when you steal from them! Theft changes God’s order of His beneficence. A robber’s act, subjectively, points the finger of accusations to God, second-guessing Divine protocolary distribution of properties. What the Devil ceaselessly does is don your mentality with the toga of greed. The demonic spirit of theft becomes your conspirator, teaching you how to carry out undetectable heists. The mistake of petty stealing is that it makes you a person of immorality. There is an antisocial graduation from petty theft: armed robbery. It is very difficult to make a U-turn as an armed robber. Your success depends on the taking of innocent lives, lives of those whose properties are not yours, which you brutally take from them. Then your conscience becomes so seared that it defies permeation of mercy flow. You, like Lucifer, see yourself as another god to be feared! Theft is satanically involved.

Lucifer has always pulled the strings of sins

                Irrationalities abound on planet earth. Satanism has managed to pump them into the beliefs of souls. A long time ago I scolded a primary four lass for lying, and to my surprise her response to the charge was, “Brother Teacher, if one does not lie, how can one successfully make money?” Seated very closely and listening to my charge and her irrationality was her grandmother, who had nothing to contribute: for her silence acquiesced with the lass’s view of life. Inferiority complex has created a mammoth wannabes. There is a certain uniqueness that comes with every creation of intelligent beings. It is not difficult finding out what you are cut out to be; do it, and you are a star of immense recognition. Just be you, and you are on the way to huge success. Most of the time it does not come as quickly as you expect, but when you learn to keep all your five thousand eggs in one small basket of faith in the LORD God, He takes the divine responsibility to actualize your life’s desires, making sure that not one egg gets cracked or lost. Amen.

God did give the laws of the earth

                Does God not know that mistakes will be committed? Why does He not stop them, after all He is a very responsible Jehovah? God knew there will be commitment of mistakes; it is for this reason He gave mankind His laws. Being the Alpha and the Omega, the Almighty, He had to give us laws to warn intelligent beings not to make mistakes of sinfulness. Your argument is, “So, if He knew I will commit this blunder and I do everything to make sure the mistake never happens, do I not prove the Almighty Omniscience wrong?” And still ruminating through your mind, “Also, looking at it from the angle of inevitability, if the LORD God has seen it coming, what can one do to avert the ineluctable futurism of divine establishment?” This thinking is sheer determinism. The doctrine of the Bible does not operate on fatalistic tendencies. God made us free moral agents. He does not create anybody to populate the number of insanity.

God visited the sinless couple

                Forces of darkness initiate evil eventualities more often; the good Lord sees it and expects you to activate your free moral agent dynamism. It is so amazing that the Book of Genesis holds the origination of all Adamic eventuation. Creating the first Eden Garden couple intelligent beings, God gave them the responsibility of free moral agency. Being beings of creationism, they did not possess the faculty of the Omniscience, ergo, prone to acts of gaucherie. To protect them from solecistic goad of evil Lucifer, God instructed Adam, concerning Eden, “to dress it and to keep it.” The two active dress and keep definitely, put Adam in responsible charge of the Garden, God’s House. ‘Dress’ is the Hebrew ‛âbad (aw-bad’): ‘to work, serve, labour.’ Shâmar (shaw-mar’) is the Hebrew for ‘keep’ which means ‘to guard, observe, give heed, have charge of, keep watch and ward; protect.’ Hebraic understanding of ‛âbad and shâmar told Adam, “You are totally in charge of the administration of this world; you are the worker and the protector of it and if any irresponsibility is found here, I, the LORD God, will hold you responsible,” in the clearest terms.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Better Not Make The Mistake (3)

King Ahab married the wrongness of Jezebel

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3)            A young girl would not allow this young man to have his way with her. The erotic asked, “Why can’t we do this?” “Well I don’t know whether you are ready for marriage or not,” as she did not want to throw herself at someone not committed to marriage to her. The guy searched for a non-existent letter, which curiosity made her ask, “What are looking for”? He told her that he was looking for the letters which his own father wrote to him worrying him to marry. “Let’s do this and we will be on our way to marriage.” “Really?” she asked. “Yes, of course!” Was there any marriage after that? None! The guy made himself unavailable for marriage to the girl: it was a deceitful plot to have his way. Ask yourself why Delilah never told Samson her reason for what she sought to know. She deceived Samson to make wealth. Samson broke God’s law which told every Israelite not to marry a non-Israelite. If he had not committed that error, Samson, the strongest man in history, would have judged Israel for much longer time. God’s laws must remain unbroken. It is always well with you keeping God’s instructions. Cain roamed himself all his days without leaving the city of Enoch in the land of Nod.

The thief cometh to steal…

                I remember the story of a shepherd lad who got bored sitting down for hours looking after the sheep. To get himself out of the dreary boredom he decided to play a practical prank on the villagers. “Wolf, wolf!” he cried. The unsuspecting dutiful village people run out to help the poor boy. The deceitful shepherd rolled on the ground laughing aloud, finally freed from boredom at the expense of the villagers’ gullibility. Another day, he repeated the deceptive prank; he could not help laughing at the gullible villagers. One day, not in the dream of his sleep or his erstwhile deceptive prank, as the story unfolded; a real menacingly, very brutishly ravenous wolf came. They thought he was deceiving them as before. They saw tears running down the shepherd’s cheeks. None believed him till the wolf had had its way. Better not make this mistake, it could spell disaster.

                One of the worst mistakes is to marry the wrong man or the wrong woman. If the man fails to adhere to Divine stipulation of “love your wife”, the woman will suffer in that marriage. Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” and should the wife be decided against the express instruction of “submit unto your husband”, there will be no peace in the home. Ephesians 5:22 “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” This ‘love’, of divine expectation, is agapaō (ag-ap-ah’-o): ‘to be fond of, to love dearly.’ This agapaō is the verbal form of agapē (ag-ah’-pay) ‘brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence; love feasts; God’s kind of love.’ One great Bible teacher defines agapē thus: “A love called out of the heart of the lover, on account of the value the lover has placed on the object of his love.” Quite ponderous, I believe. This is the love of Divine display towards Christianity: for God saw the Christ-value on those who would accept Jesus, the Author of salvation, and bestowed agapē on His object of love. Amen.  

Romans 5:7-8

                This love is not a feeling per se, it is a commitment. This love will not say, “I love her, because of her hair, legs, face, intelligence, beauty, fame or wealth.” The agapē  love stems from his commitment to the success of God’s institution: marriage. The word ‘submit’ is the Greek hupotassō (hoop-ot-as’-so): ‘to arrange under, to subordinate, put in subjection, obey.’ The wife is expected, by the Institutor of marriage, to package herself and place herself under the instructions of her husband. The thing is, if you do not see this man as intelligent enough to place your being under him, just do not make the mistake of getting confined to him in marriage.

                Marriage is a confinement, where two people from different parental backgrounds come together to live in harmony to the glory of Jesus. Many marriages continue to break in irredeemable pieces all because love – on the husband’s side –, and submission – on the wife’s side are in terrible lack. It is terribly cumbersome even if it is just one of the couple who fails on his or her part.The dangers of broken homes are too many. The home becomes a hell and spouses tend to seek what the home fails to provide elsewhere. Broken homes, when they affect the children, destroy societal growth.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Better Not Make The Mistake (2)

Naamah, the daughter of Lamech and Zillah (Genesis 4:22)

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2)            It is undoubtedly one of the world’s oldest profession – prostitution – the implication of which is evidentiary in the old, first ever city of Nod. It was an insurgent Cain who built that city of Nod and named it Enoch. The protrusive contradistinction proves that nothing good could come out of Cain’s city. Nod means vagrant, while Enoch means rest. Where is rest in an unsettled vagrancy? Selah. Genesis 4:20-22 20) “And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. 21) And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. 22) And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.” Tents and meat are components of hotelier’s business.

Cultic prostitution in the worship of the great temple of Diana

                Harp and organ of verse 21 point to the music industry. The name of Tubalcain’s sister, na‛ămâh (nah-am-aw’) means: ‘loveliness’. A feminine loveliness in the depravity of Cain’s city of Nod cannot be anything less than bewitching lure of prostitution. Scripturally, the names of antediluvian women hardly receive mentioning for the simple reason that the woman is God’s Bride. The first ever woman, Adam’s wife, in whom the Church is mystically hidden, is the only qualified antediluvian saint. She fell and received pardon – true to the Christian type. The next two women of scriptural mentioning (Adah – ornament; and Zillah – shadow) were women of marital aberration. Three, being the number of perfect manifestation, is Naamah’s tag to prove that the revelation of her name absolutely ostracizes her from the Church. She was no doubt into prostitution – cultic worship of Satanism. A prostitute is a woman of corruption. Prostitution is the religious employment of Satanism. What God, the Creator hates, Lucifer, the god of a depraved earth, must love and promote. Why should the worship in shrines of Diana include sexual orgies readily offered by its temple priestesses in the ritual or cultic prostitution? Kings of the world banked their enormous treasures in Diana’s Temple – one of the seventh wonder of the world. Sex truly dominates the world of today. Sex is an important tool of Satanism. Sex before marriage is the worship of Lucifer. One taste of illicit sex can keep you in satanic entrapment – better not make the mistake.

Illicit sex is demonically processed

                Is one night stand not fashionably accepted way of ‘catching fun’? You call it ‘one night stand’, I tell you the truth, it is actually ‘one wicked night with Satan, the dark lord of evil’. Has it not resulted in millions of blackmailed victims? You think your manhood is free to traverse the fleshly privacy of all femininity you come across? Kings, military generals, teachers, pastors, evangelists, politicians, great men and women of industries have fallen under the corruption of sex. You do not even know how demonic your illicit sex partner is. One sex can invoke demons into the destruction of your person. You think you are making money out of sex, but do you know that you could actually be dining with demonic principalities? The man had rubbed fetish substances of demonism on his penis. His entrance makes way for the destructive elementals to feed mercilessly on you. Your home becomes the playground for evil occupation just because you had sex with that beautiful, innocent looking, young girl. You did not know that she was on an annihilating mission.

Amnon, being stronger than Tamar, forced her, and lay with her” (1Samuel 13:14).

                Only the sadistic mentality of derailment tends to rape proclivity. It is the most dastard of evil. This is a typical example of satanic lust. Amnon, the first born of King David, thought he was sick with love towards Tamar, his sister of another queen of David’s harem. When he tried to force himself on Tamar, the princess said in 2Samuel 13:12-13, “Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. 13) And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? And as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.” What happened after he had satisfied his lust? 14) “Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. 15) Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone” (2Samuel 13:14-15). Wickedness of Satanism is accomplished! Can hatred ever be greater than love: for we know that God is love? The affection that burned in Amnon’s heart was a deceitful lust. Satan laid the trap; Amnon lay, a conquered victim in it.

The devil cometh to destroy (John 10:10)

                As the first born, he – Amnon –should have ascended the throne of Israel; the sexual plot of Lucifer cut short his princely life. The Devil, no doubt, whispered, “kill the rapist,” in the ears of Absalom, the brother of Tamar. 28 “Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. 29) And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled” (2Samuel 13:28-29).

                Imagine if Amnon had decided to toe the path of his great, great uncle, Joseph, and had banished the sexual thought with Tamar or any other lady? The historicity of the exalted throne of Israel would have been waiting for his ascension. Amnon means ‘faithful’; but he did not, like billions of people, live up to God’s expectation. Illicit sex killed Amnon. India is reportedly the country worst in notoriety for rape. Did I say rape is demonically operated? The vast land of India has about three hundred and sixty million gods of idolatry; is it a coincidence? I think not at all!

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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Better Not Make The Mistake (1)

Better it is not to make sexual mistake

1)            You may be forced to live with it for the rest of your life, unfortunately. It can be so unavoidably painful living with it. Compromises too ugly for you, to ever believe that you could allow yourself to be part of could be credited to your participation. It is, therefore, better never to allow yourself to commit certain mistakes. It could be a haunting entrapment: concoctions of Satanism; designed to embarrass you for the rest of your life. When the Devil comes after you his maniacal bourne is an irremediable calamity.

                Sex. People have often expressed this act in sweetness of carnality. It is erroneously called love when it is truly in pursuit of bestiality of carnal propensity. It has many offspring – fornication, prostitution, one night stand, rape, deceitfulness.

                In most of the sexual cases, it is an illicitness approached with a drive powered by the influence of Satanism, and often marked with the lust of bestial avidity. The moment lust takes the driver’s seat in coital propensity, nothing makes sense again; the male, especially the male, must have his depraved way through her feminine organ. Only the brute will defile the penetralia of the female. One thing we fail to bring into our understanding is that the sanctity of the female is an established fact of the Divinity. Adam the male had to be put to sleep for the actuation of her feminine counterpart’s existence. Her creation is the activation of the Church of God on earth.

                Marriage must precede any sexual knowledge of her by any man. The idea behind dâbaq, Hebrew word for ‘cleave’ of Genesis 2:24 explains my point: dâbaq (daw-bak’) means: ‘To cling, stay close, keep close, stick to, stick with, follow closely; to be joined together.’ Consequently, the ‘cleave’ of verse 24 says, “…and they shall be one flesh.” Is there any doubt when else or how else a man and a woman can be one flesh if not during the conjugality – strictly behind closed doors? If the Word of God is strictly “marriage before sex” and you think you can circumvent that divine clause, do have a second thought; and if you happen to be a person of impervious heart, then take yourself through to the tenth thought: better not make this stupidity of mistake. The stupid alibi I have always heard from illicit coition is the protectiveness of, “…we had a consensual sex.” The LORD God, the Creator, hates fornication – sex before marriage. What is outlawry? It is simply lawlessness! Fornicators are outlaws.

                How many fornicators are expecting pregnancy? Negligible few, I believe, are in this business of Satanism. The logicality of pregnancy pricks not the impervious conscience of fornicators. Pregnancies have scuttled or destroyed educational pursuits; and what about shame? It has brought untold stories of obloquy. Okay, you want protection from unwanted baby. But the pills can either do chemical damage or just fail to yield the desired result! Oh, you want to opt for the condom? Is it not possible for the rubber to have a faulty tear or hole? It is better not to commit this error.

                Galatians 5:19 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,” where the Greek for ‘lasciviousness’ is aselgeia (as-elg’-i-a): ‘unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, wantonness.’ ‘Uncleanness’ is akatharsia (ak-ath-ar-see’-ah): ‘in a moral sense: the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate living.’ Akatharsia is the opposite lifestyle of purity which is, no doubt, in concordance to the meaning found in Pauline Romans 1:24 and 2Corinthians 12:21, which definitely, makes ‘uncleaness’ to be ‘unnatural practices of sodomy and bestiality’. This is what the spiritual position of adulterous husband and fornicating bachelor are.

AIDS is the result of lascivious errors

                Unbridled sex can be destructive. “Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed” (Deuteronomy 28:61). Sexual disobedience caused so many diseases. Probably not knowing what particular name to give it, AIDS was the suggestion. It killed so many people in the nations of U.S.A. and S.A.; while the United States recorded most victims of HIV/AIDS on the planet, South Africa was the AIDS country of notoriety on the African continent. They found untimely death in what they termed ‘fun’. The best panacea for fornication is to take flight from its temptation. 1Corinthians 6:18, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” The word ‘flee’ is pheugō (fyoo’-go): ‘seek safety by flight; to run away (literally or figuratively); by implication to shun; by analogy to vanish.’ Joseph knew that every cell of the living responds as a conquered victim of sex, he knew the consequences of being found out. What did he do? Joseph ordered the agility of his feet, and like Usain Bolt, he won the race against fornication.

                Getting born again is a conscious effort on the part of an individual. Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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