Of God and Mankind

Proverbs 13:5 (AMPC)    “A [consistently] righteous man hates lying  and deceit, but a wicked man is loathsome [his very breath spreads pollution] and he comes [surely] to shame.”   Dear people of God, a true test of a person’s character is his ability to keep commitments once made.   Many people do not realize that failure to keep your word on any matter whatsoever simply amounts to lying and the Bible says all liars will go to HELL – Revelation 21: 8 ,   27.   Whether it is a pledge you made in Church or to a worthy cause, a promise to a friend, relative, spouse, sibling or colleague in the office, you must keep your word otherwise you are heading to an eternal damnation if you fail to repent, confess and make amends as applicable.   Nowadays, it means nothing for people to make a commitment and break it.   This is why politicians all over the world are notorious for saying things they would never do but  keep coming back during electi...

1 Peter 4:3-5 (GNBK) “ You have spent enough time in the past doing what the heathen like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lust, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols.    4 And now the heathen are surprised when you do not join them in the same wild and reckless living, and so they insult you.    5 But they will have to give an account of themselves to God, Who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”    Dear people of God, when anyone encounters Jesus, believes, repents genuinely and accepts Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord of his life, a new Spirit takes over the person as he becomes a new creation in Jesus Christ – 2 Corinthians 5:17.   However, because the person is still a baby Christian, the devil makes an effort using the new Christian’s friends to try to pull him back into a previous lifestyle of sin and immorality.   When the new Christian refuses to join his former friends in their reckle...