Of God and Mankind

James 4:13-17 (AMPC) “ Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a city and spend a year there and carry on our business and make money.   14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? You are [really] but a wisp of vapor (a puff of smoke, a mist) that is visible for a little while and then disappears [into thin air].   15 You ought instead to say, If the Lord is willing, we shall live and we shall do this or that [thing].   16 But as it is, you boast [falsely] in your presumption and your self-conceit. All such boasting is wrong.   17 So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.”   Dear people of God, in the evening of Friday May 21, 2021, Nigerians were informed of a tragic event, the death in a plane crash of the nation’s most senior army officer, the Chief of Army Staff along with 10...

Matthew 10:32-33 (AMPC) “ Therefore, everyone who acknowledges Me (Jesus Christ) before men  and confesses Me [out of a state of oneness with Me], I will also acknowledge him before My Father Who is in heaven  and confess [that I am abiding in] him.   33 But whoever denies  and disowns Me before men, I also will deny  and disown him before My Father Who is in heaven.”   Dear people of God, a few days ago I watched a video where a young Christian man of North Eastern Nigeria origin testified how his father, a Christian also, was brutally murdered by the evil Boko Haram Islamist terrorists in September 2014.   He said his father was captured by the Boko Haram terrorists and asked to deny Jesus Christ, which he bluntly refused.   The terrorists then cut off his hand up to the wrist and asked him to deny Jesus, which he still refused. They then cut up to his elbow but the man refused to deny Jesus.   They then went ahead to shoot him twice i...

  1 John 1:7-9 “ But if we [really] are living  and walking in the Light, as He [God Himself] is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus  Christ His Son cleanses (removes) us from all sin  and guilt [keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].   8 If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude  and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts].   9 If we [freely] admit that we have sinned  and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].”   Dear people of God, the above Scripture was addressed by John the Evangelist to Christian believers.   There are s...

 Acts 26:17-18 (AMPC) “ 17 Choosing you out [selecting you for Myself]  and delivering you from among this [Jewish] people and the Gentiles to whom I am sending you – [Ezek. 2:1, 3.] 18 To open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, so that they may thus receive forgiveness and release from their sins and a place and portion among those who are consecrated and purified by faith in Me. [Isa. 42:7, 16.] Dear people of God, the above Holy Bible text is the mandate the Lord Jesus Christ gave to Paul the Apostle. This mandate remains the same even today from Jesus Christ to all Christians, His followers, who are genuine and sincere in their pledge of loyalty with unfeigned obedience to His commands in the Holy Bible. The mandate is the same because God can never change His standard or reduce it for any reason or anyone – Malachi 3:6a; Hebrews 13:8. It is therefore expected that a committed follower...

There is food for the physical body, which those who can afford it eat three times every single day of their lives. There are a number of ways food helps the human body, which according to the edx blog are as follows: (1)         Provides energy to get things done daily (2)         Repairs muscle and build DNA (3)         Helps the body insulate itself and improve overall health (4)         Helps one feel better and look attractive (5)         Helps to improve brain function, which includes memory and attention You can therefore imagine the impact on a human when there is no food to make the above activities happen. Eventually, a person who starves his body from food would die. Very few people also understand that there is food for the human spirit, which is the real person. When a person dies...

Matthew 13:44-45 “The kingdom of heaven is like a [very precious] treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid again; then in his joy he goes and sells all he has and buys that field [securing the treasure for himself]. 45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, 46 and upon finding a single pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.” Dear people of God, it does appear today’s topic and the Holy Bible passages are contradictory but they are not. What the Lord Jesus Christ is talking about is the value one should place on Heaven above everything else in this world. Jesus is talking about doing all you can within God’s grace to ensure you enter heaven because there is a great and terrible cost for anyone who would miss heaven at the end of his or her stay here on earth. Not every person reading this message would take it serious and I can assure you that every person who has died in th...