Of God and Mankind

Acts 19:18-20 (AMPC)   “ 18 Many also of those who were now believers came making full confession  and thoroughly exposing their [former deceptive and evil] practices.   19 And many of those who had practi s ed curious, magical arts collected their books and [throwing them, book after book, on the pile] burned them in the sight of everybody. When they counted the value of them, they found it amounted to 50,000 pieces of silver (about $9,300).   20 Thus the Word of the Lord [concerning the attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the Ki ngdom of God] grew  and spread  and intensified, prevailing mightily.   Dear people of God, we started the first part of this post and explained how the devil can hold believers in ransom as a result of previous covenants entered into whether wilfully or mistakenly.   If you missed it, please click this link to see the first part and then come back to this page to see the second and concludin...

Revelation 3:20 (AMPC)   “ Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears  and listens to  and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.”   Dear people of God, see what my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is saying to you in today’s lead Scripture.   There are very many people who say they don’t need Jesus. As far as they are concerned, they are free to live their lives the way they choose and so nobody should bother them with any Gospel message about Repentance, Salvation, Prayer, Church, Eternity, Heaven, Hell, Righteousness, Holiness, etc.   For this set of people, they want to go to night clubs, drink alcohol, chase the opposite gender whether they are married or not to commit fornication and adultery, watch immoral movies, crack immoral jokes, read immoral literature, etc.   There are a second set of people who speak of a different Jesus from what God’s Word in the Bible tells u...

Ephesians 6:16-17 (NKJV)    “A bove all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench ALL the fiery darts of the wicked one.  17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;”   Dear people of God, in the first part of this post, we saw how faith determines the outcome Christians experience in their daily lives.   We also saw that faith comes from hearing the Word of God and this means the Word of God is non-negotiable for the Christian who would make significant progress in life.   In today’s main text above, Christians are advised to take the shield of faith with which they would be able to quench ALL the fiery darts of the wicked one, the devil.   How does the devil shoot his fiery darts? Through negative thoughts that take root in the heart when accepted from a spoken negative word externally, through dreams and even incantations. As long as the Christian is alive in this...