Of God and Mankind

LUKE 16:14-15 (AMPC)   “Now the Pharisees, who were covetous and lovers of money, heard all these things [taken together], and they began to sneer at and ridicule and scoff at Him.   15 But He (Jesus Christ) said to them, you are the ones who declare yourselves just and upright before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted and highly thought of among men is detestable and abhorrent (an abomination) in the sight of God.”   Dear people of God, in today’s world, material riches have come to be associated with success with very little or no attention paid to the source of the riches.   This has fuelled the culture of ‘just do anything for money’ because according to the world, “the end justifies the means.”   This was why the Lord Jesus Christ made it clear to His listeners that one cannot serve God and mammon, that is, riches, or anything in which you trust and on which you rely that takes the place of God in your li...

  MALACHI 3:6a (AMPC) “ For I am the Lord, I do not change;”   HEBREWS 13:8 (AMPC) “ Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is [always] the same, yesterday, today, [yes] and forever (to the ages).”   Dear people of God, the early Christians had distractions to contend with in the course of their lives but probably not of the same magnitude with modern day Christians.   Over the centuries, the devil and his evil cohorts (demons and their human agents) have devised so many ways and strategies of causing distractions in Christendom with the sole objective of ensuring nobody enters heaven.   Unfortunately, the devil’s destructive efforts at Christians though aimed at men and women appears more focused on the womenfolk.   From a recent confession I read from a former satanist turned Pastor Jonas, the devil is angry at women because of two major reasons:   (1) As God has ordained, women are the means of reproduction of new human beings into this world as people die. ...

  PROVERBS 5:16-21 (AMPC)   “Should your offspring be dispersed abroad as water brooks in the streets?   17 [Confine yourself to your own wife] let your children be for you alone, and not the children of strangers with you.   18 Let your fountain [of human life] be blessed [with the rewards of fidelity], and rejoice in the wife of your youth.   19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant doe [tender, gentle, attractive]–let her bosom satisfy you at all times, and always be transported with delight in her love.   20 Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, and go astray?   21 For the ways of man are directly before the eyes of the Lord, and He [Who would have us live soberly, chastely, and godly] carefully weighs all man's goings.”     HEBREWS 13:4 (AMPC) Let marriage be held in honour (esteemed worthy, precious, of great price, and especially dear) in all thing...

MATTHEW 5:31-32 (KJV) “ 31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:   32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of FORNICATION, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.   MATTHEW 19:8-9 (KJV) “He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.   9 And I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for FORNICATION, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.     Dear people of God, over the years, many Christians have been ignorantly fed wrong information about a condition under which a man can divorce his legally married wife, which according to them is when the woman commits adultery.   As a result of this misinfor...