Of God and Mankind

Luke 14:26 (GNBDK) “Those who come to Me (Jesus Christ) cannot be My disciples unless they love Me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.”   Galatians 3:28 (GNBDK) “So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.”   Dear people of God, there are many ways Christians compromise their faith for fear of men. Some of these ways are obvious but some are not so obvious and those who do these things are not aware of the dangers they subject themselves to in the eyes of God.   How can you call yourself a Christian and claim that though you do not believe in the discriminatory practice of the Osu caste system of South Eastern Nigeria BUT you cannot have anything to do with them or sanction a marital relationship with someone labelled an Osu?   For those who do not know what the Osu caste system is all about, I...

John 12:42-43 (AMPC) “ And yet [in spite of all this] many even of the leading men (the authorities and the nobles) believed  and trusted in Him (Jesus Christ). But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that [if they should acknowledge Him] they would be expelled from the synagogue;   43 For they loved the approval  and the praise  and the glory that come from men [instead of and] more than the glory that comes from God. [They valued their credit with men more than their credit with God.]”   Dear people of God, whenever you are in the midst of non-Christians, are you able to openly declare that you are a Christian? Does your lifestyle prove that you are a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ?   A number of us are like the leading men of the city in today’s lead Holy Bible text whose profession of Christ is only when they are in Church or the privacy of their home.   Once they step outside, they are shy or feel ashamed talking...