Of God and Mankind

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...

The online dictionary defines disobedience as “ failure or refusal to obey rules or someone in authority”. The world is facing all the calamities today because of an act of disobedience to God’s commands. Thousands of years ago, God gave a simple instruction to Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of every tree in the Garden of Eden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the Garden. Only God knows for how long Adam and Eve kept this instruction until one day when the devil came and deceived Eve into disobeying God and Eve also made her husband Adam disobey God as well – Genesis 2:16-17; 3:1-12. The rest as they say is history, for today, humans are paying dearly for this avoidable act of disobedience. Not only did Adam and Eve and indeed all mankind descended from them die spiritually, all mankind is destined to die physically as well. Many people, Christians inclusive, do not bother to consider in their minds through meditation the gravity of the si...

I recently saw the obituary of a married man in his 50s who recently died in a ghastly vehicle accident. This man belonged to a group of Christians who believe there is no HELL. They also believe there is no trinity, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and not God, that there is no life after death and that all humans go out of existence once they die until when God would create a new heavens and earth. Unfortunately, all these beliefs are wrong because there are several Scriptures in the Holy Bible that disproves the erroneous beliefs of this group of Christians. I had the opportunity of discussing the issue of life after death with a female friend of mine who is a member of this group. I referred her to the true story of our Lord Jesus Christ’s transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-8. Peter, who was born hundreds of years after the prophets Moses and Elijah was able to recognize them. How was Peter able to recognize men who lived hundreds of years before him? It was ...

Dear friend, we have entered what is known worldwide as Christmas, the best season in the world. It is the best season in the world because the season commemorates the first coming of Jesus Christ the Messiah, in fulfillment  of God’s promise to send a Saviour into the world to redeem mankind from the eternal consequence of sin. Sin and death entered the world as a result of the disobedience of our first parents Adam and Eve to a simple command from God to them. The devil was the brain behind the evil scheme that led to sin and death entering the world when he deceived, first Eve and then Adam into eating the forbidden fruit as God had commanded them not to eat. Mankind was thus spiritually separated from God and destined to an eternal damnation in Hell, prepared originally by God for the devil and his demons – Matthew 25:41. However, as a result of God’s unfailing love for His greatest creatures, humans, He, God, left His glorious throne in Heaven and came i...

Dear friend, see what the Lord Jesus Christ says in Revelation 3:11, “I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one may rob you  and deprive you of your crown. ” This is a warning from Jesus Christ to His Body, the Church on earth. When a person dies, Christ has already come for that person. However, for the person who is still alive on this earth, this warning still applies because in today’s world evil has escalated to a terrible level. It is so because the devil and his agents know their time is short so they are trying all their best to ensure to distract Christians to lose their crown, which the Lord has warned us to ensure this does not happen. Jesus Christ came the first time to this earth as a human being to redeem mankind from the curse placed and spiritual separation from God as a result of sin and death that were the consequence of man’s disobedience to God’s commandment. Of course the devil was the brain behind this evil scheme...

There are many things that would send many Christians to an eternal damnation and some of these are subtle. Every single day, people all over the world continue to offend others and this sometimes results in intense quarrels that seem to have no end. Some hold on to grudges and resentment against others and it even causes sicknesses in their bodies for which they are unable to find any cure medically. The Bible tells us in Hebrews 12:14, “ Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration  and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord. ” For some Christians, this verse of the Bible appears to be a tall order and so they give a thousand and one reasons why they should disobey it because of the “severity” of the offences committed against them. They justify it and remain in that state of offence and resentment without caring a hoot about the danger ahead. Even when they are warned about the spiritual and even eternal implicatio...