Of God and Mankind

At the end of speaking to an elderly man during an evangelism exercise today, he told us how his daughter from his third wife was about getting married and how happy he was and how members in his Church were amazed at the way he danced about his daughter's upcoming wedding. Third wife? This hit me and I now understood why God had led us to this man to preach the Gospel. This is the same man who had earlier said he believed in Jesus Christ and His power to heal his eye problem, spoke about how God had sustained him all these years, prevented armed robbers from killing him and how he was a deacon in his Church! So I wondered so much about this issue of a third wife that I asked the man if he thought a Christian should have more than one wife to which he said he had never had more than one woman at a time and even the third one was not staying with him. The man went on to narrate how the first wife had killed all her children through witchcraft and even committed adu...

In today's world, there is a lot of scepticism about people who claim to have heard from God. In these perilous times as the Word of God describes in 2 Timothy 3:1-5, so many people have come forward to say that the Lord Jesus Christ took them to show heaven and hell with a warning to mankind to repent before they die or else they will perish ETERNALLY in hell fire where many lost souls are currently languishing and being tortured by satan and his demons. Some of the warning messages from the people who visited heaven and hell are so shocking that some believe no one can be saved because the current lifestyle today is such that being a Christian is more of lip service than humble submission to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in both words and deeds. Dear friend, it was one of such messages I heard from then Linda Kumba Ngaujah of Sierra Leone that sent so much shock down my spine that I could not sleep well for a number of days! Here I was, thinking I was living a l...

Dear friend, today's post is the third and final in the series of the topic Wolves in the Church . In the first post of the series, we looked at wolves amongst members of the congregation of the Body of Christ. Last week's post considered wolves amongst the leadership of the Body of Christ. The third group in the wolves in the Church are the most dangerous of all, the agents of satan or lucifer or the devil as most people know him. Agents of satan have just one mission in the Church, which is to ensure that mankind does not benefit from the free offer of Repentance and Salvation God the Father Almighty gives us through His Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Agents of satan know that the Church of Christ is the ONLY place where the true Word of God is preached and the Word of God is like a fire and hammer that breaks rocks into pieces (Jeremiah 23:29), the rocks of human hearts filled with sin. Therefore, satan and his agents, who know that everyone outsid...

Dear friend, in my last post, we looked at wolves in the Church who are members. Today we continue that topic by looking at another group of wolves in the Church - at the leadership level. Recall I mentioned in my last post that the Church is the Body of Christ, the congregation of Believers, a Sacred place of prayer, praise and worship of God Almighty. At the leadership level of the Church, we have individuals, men and female, called by our Master, the Lord Jesus Christ, anointed by Him to continue the Ministry work of preaching the Gospel, winning souls for the Kingdom and shepherding the Church to obey Christ's commands as stated in His Holy Word, the Bible. In the course of carrying out this MOST IMPORTANT task of the Gospel of Repentance and Salvation, the Church leaders must necessarily work with and interact with the members as they cannot do it all alone. This is why the Word of God tells us in Ephesians 4:11-15 "And He Himself (Christ Jesus) gave som...

The Church is the Body of Christ, the congregation of Believers, a Sacred place of prayer and worship of the Almighty God of the Universe. It is a place where God's true Word is preached and practised wholeheartedly. It is not supposed to be a place where wrong is found. It is supposed to be a place where people who truly love God and obey His commandments are found - a place where integrity is the underlying character of members. It is therefore shocking to hear and learn of people in the Church engaged in one vice or the other, something that is only common to non-believers. The question is, how can someone who has heard God's Word, believed it, accepted our Lord Jesus Christ as Messiah still engage in fraud and deceit of his or her fellow believers? When such things are heard outside of the Church, it is expected because the Light of Christ is yet to shine on such person(s). Members of the Church are expected, in obedience to the commands of Christ Jesu...

Dear friend, it is good to study the Word of God, the Holy Bible, for as God's Word states in Deuteronomy 8:3b and Matthew 4:4, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word God has spoken." Christianity is the only acceptable way of life as far as God is concerned. There are many religions that believe there are many ways to get to God but again, Christianity, becoming a follower of Christ Jesus, is the ONLY WAY TO REACH GOD. Our Lord Jesus Christ says in Matthew 5:11-12, "Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." Apostle Peter states in 1 Peter 4:12-16, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's ...