Of God and Mankind

If you were asked what your most valuable possession were, what would be your answer? Or is it a difficult question to answer? I believe the answer people would give would depend on what they cherish most - for some, it is their car, some their children, some their money, some their marriage, some their spouse, some their business, some their home. For many people, it would be material things. Only very few would consider spiritual things as their most prized possession. When God created man, he made man out of the dust of the earth and breathed into him to make him a living being (Genesis 2:7). A human is thus composed of body, spirit and soul. The human body matures from childhood into adolescence, teenage years, adulthood, middle age and then begins to deteriorate into old age. The spirit is the part of the human that gives life, the breath of the Almighty God that returns to God when a person dies. When a person dies and is buried, the body or flesh decomposes...

In the Bible Book of Acts of the Apostles, we are told of a man Simon who had once been a sorcerer deceiving the people of his city with his magic but having heard the Gospel preached by Philip, he gave his life to Jesus and was baptized (Acts 8:9-13). However, Simon was so stunned by the miracles the Apostles performed by the power of God's Holy Spirit that he offered Peter and John money to get the same power to lay hands on believers to receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:18-19). In response to this request, Peter responded in Acts 8:20-22 "May you and your money go to hell, for thinking that that you can buy God's gift with money. You have no part or share in our work, because your heart is not right in God's sight. Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that He will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this. For I see that you are full of bitter envy and are a prisoner of sin." Dear friend, here was a believer who st...

Dear friend, in today's post I want to share with you a very powerful testimony of the greatness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and how He is the solution to all our challenges in life. I have a friend who works as a cleaner in the same office I work. He was a Muslim until recently when Jesus Christ converted Him with this power story I am telling. Early last month in April 2014, I came to work one morning and saw my friend's countenance looking sad. I immediately noticed because usually his face brightens up with a smile whenever he saw me but this day was different. I told him straightaway that something was wrong and he tried to brush it aside but I insisted. Finally, after pressing on, he told me his challenge - his wife was pregnant and a scan revealed the baby's legs was facing her cervix instead of the head. Indeed it was a major issue because that was the second time in about 5 months I was hearing such. In the earlier case, I advised the pe...

When the Lord Jesus Christ used five barley loaves and two fish to feed five thousand men not counting women and children (Matthew 14:13-21), the people were so stunned by this miracle that they wanted to make Jesus king by force but the Lord left the place without their notice (John 6:14-15). The people still looked for the Lord Jesus because they wanted more of such miracles. However, when they had found Him, He told them something else that stunned them - that His body was real food and His blood was real drink and whoever ate His body and drank His blood would have eternal life and He would raise such person up on the last day (John 6:51-56). When the people heard this, many of them stopped being Jesus' disciples and left because they felt the teaching was too difficult to follow (John 6:60, 66). Rather than call them back to offer explanations since He meant what He said, the Lord Jesus asked His Apostles if they too wanted to leave to which Peter responded in Jo...

What some or even most Christians don't understand is that without the Resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour from death, there would be no Christianity. While He was on earth as a human being Jesus said He came to die for the sins of mankind and that He would be tortured and He would rise again from death. He said it and He did it (Luke 24:44-48). Clearly, this is a pointer to the fact that Jesus Christ is God because no other Prophet in the history of mankind made such authoritative pronouncement about himself that came to pass. Prophets of old made prophecies concerning others and the future that came to pass but only Jesus our Lord and Messiah made a prophecy about Himself on such a critical subject as death and resurrection and came back alive to confirm it. The Resurrection story is so compelling that it not only began the Church Era (Christianity or Body of Christ), but the Apostles of Christ all died as martyrs for their faith in the Gospel Messag...

Dear friend, are you in the habit of getting angry when someone offends you or when you offend someone you keep malice and expect the person to come beg you? There are cases of even married couples who quarrel and keep malice for up to three months! The question to ask is, if the Lord Jesus Christ were to come for His Church today in Rapture, will He take such people along with Him? The answer is absolute no! This is because malice is not of God but of the devil or satan. Anyone who has been joined to Christ Jesus in Salvation has become a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17) and all unrighteousness should not be found in such person. What does one gain in keeping malice with another person? Each time you see the person, there is bitterness and pain in your hearts and you pass each other without saying a word. Now if you get to heaven and see the person, no doubt such malice would still occur. Unfortunately, the Lord Jesus cannot allow such persons to enter His Kingd...