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Christianity Etc › Does Hell Really Exist? by FreshGreen(op): 6:23pm On Apr 23, 2016

DOES HELL REALLY EXIST?
What you're about to read is hard to believe. . .

Several years ago a book was published titled Beyond Death's Door by Dr Maurice Rawlings. Dr Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead. Dr Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a painless extinction". But something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming — descending down into the flames of hell:

"Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . . Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was "on end."

Then still another strange thing happened. He said, "Don't you understand? I am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like I had never seen before." (Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door,(Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3).

Dr Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place called hell!

". . . THEY DIG INTO THE HELL . . ." Amos 9:2
Another scientist Dr Azzacove Picks from Dr Rawling with this stunning revelation. He says "As a communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now believe in hell," said Dr Azzacove. "Needless to say we were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of Hell!"

Dr Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."

"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment."

"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of humans! (These details are from the translation of an article in a Finnish newspaper name 'Ammennusatia'.

Do you know why Jacques Costeau, the famous underwater explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime before he died? It is said that he stopped because he had heard in one of the underwater caves he was exploring, the sounds of people screaming.

There was also another time, when one of his men, who was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda Triangle, also had a similar experience. He signalled to be brought up immediately. After being revived from his shock, he told others of his frightening experience of hearing people's screams while under the deepest part of the sea.

The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!

In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell:
22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my fatherï¿½s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (Luke 16:22-28)

HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE."

THE BIBLE GIVES THE LOCATION OF HELL
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into hell. In Acts 2, Peter is speaking, verse 31, " . . . seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in HELL" When Jesus Christ died His soul went into hell.

And in Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says: "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the HEART OF THE EARTH. "The Bible is clear — Hell is inside the earth!

Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: "Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH."

On page 85 of Beyond Death Door, Dr. Rawlings writes patients who described hell said, ". . . this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way." Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees the Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth:
"So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called 'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and 'the abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .

The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. . .

To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows much more about the earth's interior than is actually the case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies are the same size as their physical bodies." (Henry M. Morris, The Bible Has the Answer, p. 220)

The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article entitled "Earth's Center Hotter Than Sun's Surface, Scientists Say". The article stated that scientists have recently discovered, "THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HAS A TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!"

Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by reporters, "When HELL surfaced upon the earth." The book, Volcanoes, Earth's Awakening (p.91) describes an erupting volcano as "descent into HELL".

YES! THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HELL!
In Numbers 16, the Bible gives the account of people falling into hell alive! "And THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive INTO THE PIT, and the EARTH CLOSED UPON THEM:" Numbers 16:32-33

Caspar Peucer, a famous fourteenth century astronomer and physician, who also researched and documented the volcanoe eruptions at Heklafell wrote some very frightening information in his research findings. Peucer, claims (as others) that "fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of teeth" could be heard "for many miles. . ." as these volcanoes erupted: "Out of the bottomless abyss of Heklafell, or rather out of Hell itself, rise melancholy cries and loud wailings, so that these can be heard for many miles around . . . there may be heard in the mountain fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)

And Caspar Peucer is not alone. There are others who believe they have heard "cries and screaming" coming from volcanoes. Most have tried to ignore the obvious. Some simply explain the "sounds of hell" to some rational meaning. But they are there. . ."The fearsome noises that issued from some of their volcanoes were certainly thought to be the screams of tormented souls in the fires of hell below". (Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)
Inside this earth, this very moment, there are millions of lost, tormented souls — burning, weeping, wailing — without any hope whatsoever!

In Mark 9:46, Jesus Christ says about hell: "Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Jesus said explicitly — THEIR worm — not a worm, or the worm — but THEIR worm. The Bible teaches that Christians will one day have a body like the Lord Jesus Christ. Scientists recently discovered cracks on the ocean floor where fire was leaking out. Do you know what they found around these fire-breathing vents in the crust? Eight-foot long worms, found no other place in the world! The book, The Deep Sea, by Joseph Wallace (p.39), reads, "Perhaps the strangest of ocean creatures recently discovered are Riftia, the giant tube WORMS. Measuring up to 8 feet in length, the worms are ONLY FOUND NEAR DEEP SEA VENTS."

And Jesus Christ said, "Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
National Geographic magazine truthfully titled their story on Volcanoes "Going To Hell". When PBS did a series on The Savage Earth, one episode was titled "Hell's Crust: Our Everchanging Planet". Everything we know. Everything we observe. Echoes the truth of a place called hell.
Nature magazine recently discovered (July 2002) what the Bible knew over 3,000 years ago. Inside this earth is "fire and brimstone": "Volcanoes may be more like hell than anyone realized. Eruptions disgorge streams of molten sulphur, the brimstone of evangelical preachers, which burns up before it can be preserved for posterity, new research in the journal Geology shows". (Nature, Science Update, July 22, 2002)

HELL IS A PLACE OF TORMENT
Jesus says of the man in Luke 16:
23 "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in TORMENTS. . . "
24 ". . . for I am TORMENTED in this FLAME."
28 ". . .PLACE OF TORMENT."
It is humanly impossible to comprehend the Bible description of hell. Nothing on earth can compare with it. No nightmare could produce a terror to match that of hell. No horror movie could describe itï¿½s fright. No crime scene with all itï¿½s blood and gore could begin to match itï¿½s horror.
It will be beyond anything humanly imaginable!

The Bible warns in Psalm 9:17, you will not only be in hell — you will BE TURNED INTO HELL! You will literally BE HELL! “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17

The Bible describes it as weeping (Matt 8:12), wailing (Matt 13:42), gnashing of teeth (Matt 13:50), darkness (Matt 25:30), flames (Luke 16:24), burning (Isa 33:14), torments (Luke 16:23), everlasting punishment! Jesus Christ says in Matthew 25:41, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING FIRE, prepared for the devil and his angels."

In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

HELL IS FOREVER!
Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT." Just look how the Bible warns of the eternity and permanence of hell:

everlasting fire - Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment - Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains-Jude 1:6
eternal damnation -Mark 3:29
eternal judgment -Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire -Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire - Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched -Mark 9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
fire unquenchable - Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever - 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever - Jude 1:13

What could possibly be worth eternity in hell? No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"

Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this THE JUDGEMENT"
Friend, it is appointed unto man once to die . . . and one day — YOU will die . . .
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments . . .

But God is a God of LOVE. . . Why would a GOD OF LOVE send me to hell? Yes, God is a GOD OF LOVE — but God is also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD demands payment for sin. Otherwise God would NOT and could NOT be HOLY.

Because God is holy — sin MUST be condemned. Joshua 24:19 says, ". . he is an HOLY GOD;. . . he will NOT forgive your transgressions nor your sins."

BUT FRIEND I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
God does NOT want you in hell because hell was not made for man. Matthew 25:41 says, hell was, ". . . prepared for the devil and his angels:"

Because God is a GOD OF LOVE, and He LOVED YOU so much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die a cruel death on a cross to pay the price a HOLY GOD demands for your sins.
Roman 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God does not send someone to hell. You choose hell when you reject Jesus Christ. When you refuse God's love gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. . .

DON’T GO TO HELL!
Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview,” I’m looking forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I belong." You say —a fool! But friend, when you say "No" to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin — you are saying the same thing! "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them, become a new creature in Jesus and you will be saved from the terror of hell.

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Christianity Etc › Does Hell Really Exist? by FreshGreen(op): 3:04pm On Apr 23, 2016

Christianity Etc › Moses' Striking The Rock Twice by FreshGreen(op): 9:29pm On Apr 18, 2016

MOSES' STRIKING THE ROCK TWICE

When the children of Israel complained of thirsty in the wilderness, God told Moses to speak to the rock before their eyes, Numbers 20:8. But instead, Moses disobeyed and struck the rock. Yet God answered and provided the water immediately, in fact the water came out abundantly. Numbers 20:7, 8, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”

Numbers 20:11, "Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank."

As a minister, you can be carrying out ungodly projects in your ministry, building multimillion edifice while many members are suffering of lack of accommodation and food to eat, yet you can still experience abundant success and progress. Your church can build university with expensive fees, and yet the presence of God still continues. Your church can be unfaithful to the biblical way of using tithes and offering, and still experience God's presence abundantly. Your pastors and church can be using different ungodly administrative systems, preaching heresies, and still continue to experience signs and wonders.

MOSES' STRIKING
When the children of Israel complained of thirsty in the wilderness, God told Moses to speak to the rock before their eyes, Numbers 20:8. But instead, Moses disobeyed and struck the rock. Yet God answered and provided the water immediately, in fact the water came out abundantly. Numbers 20:7, 8, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 8 “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.”

Numbers 20:11, "Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank."

As a minister, you can be carrying out ungodly projects in your ministry, building multimillion edifice while many members are suffering of lack of accommodation and food to eat, yet you can still experience abundant success and progress. Your church can build university with expensive fees, and yet the presence of God still continues. Your church can be unfaithful to the biblical way of using tithes and offering, and still experience God's presence abundantly. Your pastors and church can be using different ungodly administrative systems, preaching heresies, and still continue to experience signs and wonders.

As a person, you can be displeasing God, doing things that are not approved by the Lord, and yet things will be working for you. You know what? Moses disobeyed God and miracle followed his disobedience, but he was disqualified for entering the Promised Land. Your disobedience may not stop God's blessing in your life, and as a minister of God or church, your disobedience, selfishness, lies, worldliness, indulgences, unfaithfulness to spending offerings and extravagant lifestyle may not necessarily hinder God's flowing of anointing and flourishing of blessings in your lives and church, but they will definitely disqualify you from making heaven if you do not repent now.

If a minister of God sins or begin to live or teach enormously, he may still continue to experience signs and wonders and the anointing flowing, but his name has been removed from the book of life and he no longer qualify for heaven, yet the anointing may keep on flowing with miracles, signs and wonders. After God answered Moses’s prayer with miracle of water supply even in his disobedience, God sentenced him in His judgment in the following verse of Numbers. 20:12, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

God is not a respecter of any man, even the greatest man of God on earth in the Old Testament, in the person of Moses, was judged by God. God is not partial to overlook or cover sin of anyone, minister or members. He could not overlook the sin of a man after His heart like David, but gave due punishment. So any minister or Christian who commits sin, who teaches or lives in an unbiblical manner may still experience continuous flowing of anointing and blessings but he is playing with eternal judgment and condemnation if he does not repent now.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

If a minister of God sins or begin to live or teach enormously, he may still continue to experience signs and wonders and the anointing flowing, but his name has been removed from the book of life and he no longer qualify for heaven, yet the anointing may keep on flowing with miracles, signs and wonders. After God answered Moses’s prayer with miracle of water supply even in his disobedience, God sentenced him in His judgment in the following verse of Numbers. 20:12, "Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

God is not a respecter of any man, even the greatest man of God on earth in the Old Testament, in the person of Moses, was judged by God. God is not partial to overlook or cover sin of anyone, minister or members. He could not overlook the sin of a man after His heart like David, but gave due punishment. So any minister or Christian who commits sin, who teaches or lives in an unbiblical manner may still experience continuous flowing of anointing and blessings but he is playing with eternal judgment and condemnation if he does not repent now.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

Are you ready to rededicate your life to Jesus now or start a new life? Then repent! Confess all your sins, forsake them all and ask Jesus to forgive, cleanse you and save you. Please click on this link and read on how to be genuinely saved and start new life in Jesus and pray as directed http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

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Christianity Etc › Moses' Striking The Rock Twice by FreshGreen(op): 1:46am On Apr 16, 2016

Christianity Etc › Flow Of Anointing And Blessing In Backsliding by FreshGreen(op): 9:43am On Apr 13, 2016

FLOW OF ANOINTING AND BLESSING IN BACKSLIDING
"Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" Matthew 5:22, 23.

Can we say a pastor or minister is a genuine minister of God and living right with God as long as there is flow of anointing in his ministration? Can we also say a Christian is a genuine child of God simply because s/he is experiencing God's blessings and goodness? The Bible answer is no! Many are being deceived by what they see. The fact that a minister or preacher still experiences flow of gifts, miracles and anointing does not mean he is right with God. The same thing is applicable to every Christian, you are experiencing God's favor, fortune, blessing, healing, and miracles and so on, that do not qualify you to be a heavenly qualified Christian.

The signs and wonders in the ministrations of your Bishop, G.O, G.S Apostle or Pastor is not an evident that they are still right with God. Here are examples from the Bible:

SOLOMON WISDOM
King Solomon’s wisdom was a gift from God for him to fulfil and accomplish God’s purpose for his life. But when he was drifted into sin of adultery and eventually backslide into idolatry and cruelty, this gift of wisdom still remained, even to his surprise. Ecclesiastes 2:9, "So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me."

The fact that minister of God is still manifesting some gifts God which they received at the beginning of their ministries; it does not imply they are still right with God. The fact that ministers are still experiencing the flow of anointing, prophesying, casting out demons, doing wonders and different miracles do not indicate they are still in right relationship with God; and the flowing of anointing in a minister of God or manifestation of their gifts is not a reason for you to copy their lifestyles, by concluding in your mind that God is approved of them and whatever they do is right; if you do so, you may follow their lifestyles and doctrines which are opposite to the word of God, and find yourself to blame at the end.

I do baffle at how many Christians, including preachers, are running after fallible human begins as their mentors, by so doing, they pattern their lives, their ministries just as the person they set as mentor; they believe their mentors are right with God since they see flow of anointing, and by so doing they follow and copy some ungodly lifestyles and teachings of the mentors. Jesus alone is to be made a mentor, not any preacher or person, because only Jesus Christ is always right and never wrong; the Word of God is enough for us to take as life and ministerial Mentor.

CONTINUOUS BLESSING
God brought the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt to journey to the Promised Land. On their way in the wilderness, they sinned against God, ran into idolatry, yet God did not remove His pillar of the cloud that guided them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night. Nehemiah 9:18-19:
“Even when they made a molded calf for themselves,
And said, ‘This is your god
That brought you up out of Egypt,’
And worked great provocations,
19 Yet in Your manifold mercies
You did not forsake them in the wilderness.
The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day,
To lead them on the road;
Nor the pillar of fire by night,
To show them light,
And the way they should go.

The fact that you are still witnessing continuous testimonies of blessing in your personal life, even though you have been compromising and continuing in sin, it does not serve as an indication that God is overlooking your sins or He does not count them, and it does not mean God will not throw you into hell if you die in that covered-up or common sin.

That you still hear from God personally or God keeps speaking to you through His prophets does not serve as a barometer that you are pleasing God. The children of Israel sinned against God and excruciatingly displeased Him, yet he kept the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire to guide them. Continuous checking up yourself in the word of God, watchfulness, prayer-fulness and fruitfulness in the Word of God are the right indexes and parameters for your spiritual condition.

CONTINUOUS MANNA
Manna was a food miraculously supplied by God to the Israelites during their years of wandering in the wilderness. God continuously provided manna for them for forty years without stopping even when they maliciously sinned and turned against Him in the wilderness. Exodus 16:35, " And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan."

The facts that the goodness and provisions of God continues in your life does not proves you are a candidate of heaven. The children of Israel committed sins against God that He was grossly displeased with them but He kept supplying manna to them. The flow of God’s provision and supplies that continues in your life or ministry, the financial, material blessings are not evidence of living right with God.

PROVISION OF QUAIL
Quail was a meat God miraculously provided for the children of Israel after they complained of eating manna alone. Though God was so much incensed with their lustful request, yet He provided the meat for them. Number 11:32, "And the people stayed up all that day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers); and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp."

Answer of provisions from God is not an indication that God is well pleased with you or you are still His child. The children of Israel lusted for meat after God has satisfied them with manna, this desire and request originated from lust and covetousness, yet God answered and granted them. You can receive permissive will and answer from God, but that doesn't implies you asked aright because problem will always follow permissive will and answer from God. God does not want you to get something, He does not want you to marry the person, He does not want you to go somewhere or He does not want you to start a business, but you insist with fasting and prayer; God may permit you, but problem will soon proceed therein.

God’s provision, blessings and goodness flowing into the life of a Christian cannot stop God from punishing him of his sin at the end. God can still continue to bless a man even if he had committed or still committing sin, and that cannot stop God from judging him according to his sin if such man does not repent and forsake the sin. The children of Israel lusted for meat, God provided the meat for them, and few moment after He punished them for asking for the same meat. Numbers 11:33, "But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague."

In your sin, God can be blessing you massively, you can be experiencing protection, provisions and preservation, but that does not mean you will not go to hell fire if you die now, and it does not mean you will make rapture if it happens now. The children of Israel were enjoying God's provision and protection, but majority of them could not enter the Promised Land, because of their sin. The end time false teaching that if you are righteous, you will enjoy prosperity or prosperity is a sign of righteousness, such teachings are from the pit of hell. You can be flourishing as a Christian in your business and finances, you can have the flow of anointing in your life as a minister, but without present and persistent holiness, you will end up in hell after all. So it happened to majority of the children of Israel, they got heavenly manna, and they perished and went to hell, because of unrepented sins.

Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!." Matthew 7:22, 23.

Genuine repentance, daily watchfulness, prayer and the word of God are the only means of gauging our personal relationship with God. It is not about how well yesterday or this morning, but about your present spiritual condition at the seconds, in which rapture or death can occur.

Are you ready to rededicate your life to Jesus now or start a new life? Then repent! Confess all your sins, forsake them all and ask Jesus to forgive, cleanse you and save you. Please click on this link and read on how to be genuinely saved and start new life in Jesus and pray as directed http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

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Christianity Etc › 7-yr-old Girl Reveals That Adeboye,tb Joshua, Oyedepo,oritsejafor & Others Will by FreshGreen(op): 11:50pm On Apr 10, 2016

7-Yr-Old Girl Reveals That Adeboye,TB Joshua, Oyedepo,Oritsejafor & Others Will Not Make Heaven, Say’s They Are Candidates of HELL!

Seven year old Iretioluwa is like every other children, but what makes her different is her spiritual proclamations, which makes her an extra-human being. When we were invited by her parents saying “our daughter wants you”. It was like a call not too clear. But upon inquiry made by a WHAT ELSE website, they claim they discovered that it was not just a call but a diving call that requires a diving response.

According to the website, they claim:
Ireti-Oluwa has become a friend of Jesus Christ upon whom she resides and proclaim messages for the world.
“Most times Jesus Christ appears to her and tells her lots of things especially hidden things which He (Jesus) wants us to know” declares the mother.

“But the most shocking of all she has been told is about men of God whom we reverence in this country and she told us to look for a Christian newspaper. In fact, she wrote the name of your magazine and we started looking for it” – the father cuts in.

We were ushered into the spacious living room of the Ifedayos when Iretioluwa was taking her breakfast. We waited for her to finish and we settled down for the business of the day.
Iretioluwa, a primary three pupil was so bold as she declared what she said was told her by Jesus Christ.

According to her, my Lord and savior said i should declare to Pastor Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God that he cannot make heaven. Though he started very well in spite of his works, he has compromised. “He has missed me a long time ago. I am only honouring my name in his life. He no longer has a place in me. Tell him to go back to his first love and drop every load of compromise he is carrying.

“Tell David Oyedepo that his hands are soiled with human blood. His name is not in the book of life. He has missed it a long time ago. Tell him what will profit him if he gains the whole world and end in Hell fire.

Olukoya of Mountain of fire and miracles is encouraging evil and doesn’t want to repent. Tell him to stop living a double life. He knows the stones in his hands, tell him to drop them if he MUST enter heaven, he has to live a complete life of holiness.

Ayo Oritsejafor is not my servant. He has gone astray in the pursuit of fame, power, money. Warn him to repent before he ends where his boss his.

T.B. Joshua is an advocate of Satan in Nigeria, he has sold his soul to the devil and he knows hell is awaiting him.

Christ Oyakhilome made a vow to Satan and he has succeeded to win souls for Satan. He is the front runner of the new age teachings in the world.

Many pastors that hoist flags of different churches know why they are doing so. Beware of such gathering.

Evil altar has reached an alarming rate in Nigeria.

HERE IS A NOTE FROM RTEM:
If you are a member of any of the churches these ministers are leading or such churches, then you are in a misled, unbliblical church, you can pray for God's leading either to leave such misled church or ask for God's grace to be different and stand for the truth if at all God wants you to still remain there.

If you take any of these ministers as your role model, you are shooting yourself at the foot. Among them are backsliders, sinners and agents of Satan. If their big names and popularity are blindfolding you from seeing the truth, then you need the light of God's Word to set you free.

If you are a minister in any of these churches, it may be impossible for you to remain a genuine minister of God and speak the whole truth without being a rebel.

At this end time, the best Spiritual guide you can have is the BIBLE, the best Bible Teacher without any error you can have is the HOLY SPIRIT and the best role model that will not mislead you can ever have is the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Christianity Etc › How God Showed Me The Vision Of Rapture & Hell (part Ii) by FreshGreen(op): 11:28am On Apr 08, 2016

HOW GOD SHOWED ME THE VISION OF RAPTURE & HELL (Part II)

When I looked at the people who were going up with the Lord, they were very calm, at peace and full of joy.
When I looked down at the people in destruction, I was surprised because some of them are supposed to be the people of God that I know (they are still alive). They were crying out in agony and pain. Yet the Lord said there was nothing He could do except they repent. At this point I had questions in my mind. Then the Lord told me to ask questions.

Q. Where is the destination of these people who are going up with You?
A. They are coming to be with Me where I prepared for them.
Q. For those going down in destruction, where is their destination?
A. They are going down to hell except they repent.
Q. Why are these people in destruction?
1. Hypocrisy – what they are in their mouth is not what they are in their heart.
Matt 15:7-9: “Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: “These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
2. Submitting to the spirit of paranoid that does not allow them to see sin as God sees it, thus making light what is serious in His sight. This spirit works directly against the Spirit of Truth.
John 16:13-14:
“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you”.

Consequently, they are not pure in heart, for only the pure in heart will see God (Matt 5:cool
“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.” Heb. 12:14.

MY GOING DOWN INTO HELL
When the Lord told me that the people in destruction are going to hell except they repent, then I asked the Lord “Can I see the place?” He said “Yes, you can see hell because you asked in a right way”.

The Lord said “Come with me” and the next thing I saw is that we were walking together in hell. When we got to hell, the Lord said to me, “This is the place you wanted to see, don’t be afraid because of who I will allow you to see, and what I will show you.” The place was very terrible. It was dark and I could hear screams of billions upon billions of people, men and women. Though the place was dark, I could still see because the light of God was shining. His face was shining like the sun in its strength. I saw the flames of fire looking reddish and multitudes of people as though they were swimming in the fire. The people I was allowed to speak to were in their individual pits of fire. These pits of fire are literally billions upon billions! They would try to come out of the pit, but it was as if the fire would melt them. I saw billions upon billions of demons running around. These demons were more or less making mockery of those there.

The Lord said “I will allow you to talk with three men who were top preachers from your country but are now in hell.”These are people I never met or knew on earth. Each of these men introduced himself to me and acknowledged that he deserved to be there in hell.
The first person I talked with was Archbishop Benson Idahosa (Church of God Mission International).
When I saw his state of suffering in hell, then I asked him some questions.

Q. Why are you here?
A. Covetousness and I was full of self-righteousness while I was on earth. And I deserve to be here.
Q. Are you used to the pains and the suffering?
A. No. The suffering is new every day.
Q. For how long have you been here?
A. Thirteen (13) years
Q. What if I want to come here where you are?
A. If you want to, you are welcome.

While I was talking with him his flesh would melt as if acid was poured on his face. All the time he was talking with me, he was in torment in his own pit of fire.

The next person I talked with was Baba Paul Gindiri (New Life for All). While he was looking at me, he was screaming in his own pit of fire. As he would try to talk, fire would come from his mouth melting his throat. Then the throat came back again and he was able to talk with me. As he was talking there was fire burning even inside his head and he was in real torment.

Q. Why are you here?
A. My works brought me here
Q. What works?
A. Guile (deceit, hypocrisy, falsehood)
Q. But I was touched by some of your messages I have listened to, yet you are here. Is your message that we are listening to also going to bring us here?
A. No
Q. Why?
A. If you allow the Spirit of the Lord to lead you and not your human mind, your life will glorify God through the messages.
The next person I spoke with was Pastor Philip Mokungah (Oasis Church, Plateau state). He was talking with me with his head upside down. The Lord says that was the state of his punishment at that hour.
Q. Who are you and why are you here?

A. I was Pastor Philip Mokungah. Now I know I am nothing and my self-will brought me here. And I’ve already sowed the seed of self-will and selfish desire in my family. The more it grows the more my punishment in hell increases. I was walking right with God then I gave room to the devil and he cut me off. He succeeded through my desire and at the end I divorced my wife. This was the first step that separated me from God. And I took it very lightly. Now I am here as a result of my self-will.
He also gave me a message for his family.

While I was talking with him, I also saw a woman who was a very popular female preacher from Nigeria – She introduced herself saying, “See me, see me, see me, Bimbo Odukoya,” but I was not allowed to talk to her but she was allowed to talk to me. She said what brought her there was secret sin, though she did not state what the secret sin was. The Lord made it clear that it was iniquity that took her there.

Ten other people spoke to me but I was not allowed by the Lord to speak to them. Eight of them are of other nationalities (Non-Nigerians).

There was a man I met in Indonesia where I went preaching in 2009. He said he was in hell because of wrong counseling. He was a counselor who was giving people wrong counsel.

One of them said he is there because of the spirit of irresponsibility.
Another said he came there because of gossip.
Another said he is there because of the spirit of bitterness.
A lady said she came there because of lying in the name of God.

There was a young man who said he was arrested while on earth for preaching the gospel and the devil cut him off in prison where he compromised his faith.

There was a woman who was just wailing but I could not pick out her words. There was an elderly man who said he wished he was me because looking at me I was not feeling what he was feeling.

I saw a young girl with a very long hair with different colors. She was a cultic girl who was in the choir of her church. The last person was a young man. He said he called himself into the ministry because he desired to help God. The hand of the Lord was not on him and therefore no grace. He went to so-called men of God seeking anointing of the Holy Spirit. As they prayed, they transferred the same evil spirits in them into him. He gave a message – “Be careful of those you allow to lay hands on you.”

The three men the Lord allowed me to speak with were very popular preachers. God, however, is not a respecter of persons for He is a just judge.

Acts 10:34-35:
“Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him. Rom 2:11

“For there is no respect of persons with God.
Rom. 11:22:
“Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.”

Coming out of Hell
After the Lord brought me out of hell, I was back in the light were I was before. Then I said, “Lord, can I ask a question?” He answered, “Why not”. “Lord, why did you allow me to have this experience. I’m afraid seeing these men in hell?” Then the Lord said to me, “I allowed you to see these men in hell because of the message you are carrying for this generation.” I now asked the Lord, “Can I carry this message of seeing these people who labored in Your vineyard, and yet ended up in hell?” The Lord said to me, “That is their choice. They knew the truth but they refused to confront themselves with the truth but others. You can carry the message because of the anointing that is upon your life”. “But Lord, You anointed these men as well and yet they have ended up in hell!” “It is because of their choice. If you also choose the wrong road like them, you will end up where they are. But my desire is that you continue on the right road”. This warning, of course, applies to all those going up with the Lord in glory! “What about those people who listen to their messages, would they be saved or lost like them?” “If they believe in Me, it is not their message, it is My message”.
Then the Lord raised His two hands and was leaving. Then I asked Him, “Lord, when are you coming to take us?” He said, “I Myself do not know, only the Father”; as He said this, He was looking up towards heaven. After this He went up. There were many angels with Him in the clouds and they went back with Him.

The end of the vision
After they left, as I looked, I was shocked to find myself still in the place of prayer where I first knelt before the Lord the previous day, 2nd of September 2011. I realized I had been with the Lord for about twenty-four hours yet there was no weariness or weakness in my body. Then an anointing came upon me and the names of some of the people I had seen in the vision began coming to me especially the lost ministers(who are still alive but have gone astray), for prayer. I was given specific prayer points for each of them. The general prayer for all the lost ministers is for God to open their spiritual eyes to see the need to confront themselves with the gospel of Truth.

Why this vision?
God is a merciful God who does not want us to perish.
1) This vision is for you personally, you need to view your own life, forget about the ministers mentioned there. You personally need to settle your relationship with God. You personally need to settle your account with God before it is too late. Are you genuinely saved? Are you living a holy and godly life or you are following the modern prosperity Christianity?

2) You need to repent now; you need to experience genuine salvation now before it is too late. It is not about saying, "God have mercy on me, Lord I need you to help me" but you also need to take step for your new life, you need to surrender your self and sins to Jesus by yourself, God will not do that for you.

3) Are you a child of God? Examine yourself. We all need to examine ourselves with the word of God. What is those aspects, habits in our lives that we have been overlooking, excusing or we think they don’t matter? Those things can hinder us from entering heaven if we don’t repent now. What is the restitution to make or who to forgive? Please, let’s all settle everything now. Let’s search our lives with God’s word and surrender all as we pray.

4) Flee from false teachings of worldly indulgences and prosperity focus. Those preachers who emphasize on prosperity more than purity, who tell you about earthly blessings more than the second coming of Jesus are lost ministers, irrespective of their popularity and prophecies. Read Matthew 7:21, 23.

Repent, confess your sins and forsake them, accept Jesus as your Lord and start a new life in Him. Look unto Jesus not any Pastor or Bishop.

NOTE: Remember your confession of sin is useless without repentance, readiness to forsake them.
Are you ready to rededicate your life to Jesus now or start a new life? Then repent! Confess all your sins, forsake them all and ask Jesus to forgive, cleanse you and save you. Please click on this link and read on how to be genuinely saved and start new life in Jesus and pray as directed http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

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Christianity Etc › How God Showed Me The Vision Of Rapture & Hell (part I) - You Have To Read This! by FreshGreen(op): 2:03am On Apr 06, 2016

HOW GOD SHOWED ME THE VISION OF RAPTURE & HELL (Part I) - You have to read this!

After a forty-day fast that I was requested to go through by the Lord, in the place of prayer, I suddenly saw light around me and then heard the audible voice of the Lord saying, “Men have seen the sky, the sun, moon and stars, the mountains and the hills and yet they fear Me not; I will not hold My peace anymore, I am coming to judge the earth.”

The Lord showed me an open vision of the rapture before He took me down to hell. The first person I saw in the vision was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. I have seen Him on several occasions before now so I know Him.

The Lord ALLOWED me to see the PRESENT CONDITION (not FUTURE DESTINATION!) of everyone He has privileged me to meet in my two and half year’s journey with Him. As well as many others that I have never met including those the Lord said I will meet in future.

1. I saw those who were going up in glory with the Lord.
2. I saw those were going down in destruction.

Those in Category 2 were far more in number compared to those in Category 1.
There were those who were not seen in Category 1 or 2. The Lord says these ones are hiding in darkness for there is nothing hidden in the Light.

Most of the ministers who were going up in glory, the Lord says, are not the popular ministers known by men on earth but are known by Him. However, I saw some ministers of the gospel that I know.

Most of the major ministers in Nigeria were seen going down in destruction. The Lord says this is the season of judgment. He says He cannot bear any longer what they are doing in His name for He is coming to judge the earth, yet it is not too late if they repent; but He says, “If you refuse to be sincere with yourself and repent, you know where you are going – your destiny is eternal destruction.”Just some of the major ministers among the so many ministers in destruction are going to be mentioned here for the purpose of their redemption. The Lord says it is not His will for you to be where you are right now and you know it.

These include Pastor Enoch Adeboye (Redeemed Christian Church of God), Bishop David Oyedepo (Living Faith Church), Pastor Tunde Bakare (Latter Rain Assembly), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor (President, Christian Association of Nigeria), Dr. Olukoya (Mountain of Fire and Miracles), Matthew Ashimolowo (Kingsway Church, United Kingdom), Pastor Chris Oyakhilome (Christ Embassy), Pastor T.B. Joshua (Synagogue of All Nations), Chris Okotie (Household of God), Evangelist Uma Ukpai and many others!

I have never met or known any of these ministers. However, some of these ministers were brought to me in the place of prayer for intercession during the forty-day fast preceding this vision. The Lord introduced them to me as lost ministers.

Christian national leaders from other countries include –Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Billy Graham, Joyce Meyer, Rod Parsley, Myles Munroe, Mike Murdock, Paula White, Ron Kenoly, Pastor Donnie McClurkin, Pat Robertson, Reinhard Bonkke, Pope Benedict, David Yongi Cho, Duncan Williams and many others!

The essence of mentioning these names is for these people to be warned by those who know them and love them so there can be a change in their ways before it is too late! My responsibility is to simply report what I saw and to warn, so I am free of their blood. There are many other lost ministers whose names cannot be listed here, but let everyone examine himself before the searchlight of the Holy Spirit. Each of us must confront ourselves with the gospel of truth before it is too late forever!

The truth is like a double-edged sword which if received reverently could comfort us and if rejected could crush us (Heb. 4:12-13).
This vision is a demonstration of grace and love from the FATHER-HEART OF GOD.

Q. Where is the destination of these people who are going up with You?
A. They are coming to be with Me where I prepared for them.
Q. For those going down in destruction, where is their destination?
A. They are going down to hell except they repent.
Q. Why are these people in destruction?

……to be continued in Part II

Why this vision?
God is a merciful God who does not want us to perish. The purposes of this vision:
1) You personally need to settle your relationship with God. Forget about the ministers mentioned in the vision, you personally need to settle your account with God before it is too late. Are you genuinely saved? Are you living a holy and godly life or you are following the modern prosperity Christianity?

2) You need to repent now; you need to experience genuine salvation now before it is too late. It is not about saying, "God have mercy on me, Lord I need you to help me" but you also need to take step for your new life, you need to surrender your self and sins to Jesus by yourself, God will not do that for you.

3) Are you a child of God? Examine yourself. We all need to examine ourselves with the word of God. What is those aspects, habits in our lives that we have been overlooking, excusing or we think they don’t matter? Those things can hinder us from entering heaven if we don’t repent now. What is the restitution to make or who to forgive? Please, let’s all settle everything now. Let’s search our lives with God’s word and surrender all as we pray.

4) Flee from false teachings of worldly indulgences and prosperity focus. Those preachers who emphasize on prosperity more than purity, who tell you about earthly blessings more than the second coming of Jesus are lost ministers, irrespective of their popularity and prophecies. Read Matthew 7:21, 23.

Repent, confess your sins and forsake them, accept Jesus as your Lord and start a new life in Him. Look unto Jesus not any Pastor or Bishop.

NOTE: Remember your confession of sin is useless without repentance, readiness to forsake them.

Acts 17: 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent

2 Timothy 3:1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.

This vision is not from RTEM but from Brother Sadiq Ibrahim (drkelvinstewart@yahoo.com) who God showed the vision. We asked his permission to post the vision. There are many acclaimed visions from God both fake and true, but after we prayerfully searched, we are convinced this is a genuine vision from God for our repentance. At a minister conference, about 5 people from different places shared the same vision as God gave them, to warn every one of us and these minsters to repent, that He is coming SOON. Some of the people God gave this vision said they have already informed most of these ministers, it is now left to them to repent, but then you can choose for your own dear life. The common message is: Jesus can come any moment from now.

Are you ready to rededicate your life to Jesus now or start a new life? Then repent! Confess all your sins, forsake them all and ask Jesus to forgive, cleanse you and save you. Please click on this link and read on how to be genuinely saved and start new life in Jesus and pray as directed http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

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Christianity Etc › How To Discover God’s Leading In Your Career And Business by FreshGreen(op): 2:58pm On Apr 04, 2016

HOW TO DISCOVER GOD’S LEADING IN YOUR CAREER AND BUSINESS
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.” Romans 8:14

If you are a genuine child of God, who has repented, confessed and forsaken your old sinful life and started a brand new life in Jesus Christ, you have the Spirit of God dwelling in you. Now, how will you know the leading of the Holy Spirit as regard your business or your career? Simple! The same way the Spirit of God leads you in your spiritual life when He tells you to go and read your Bible, to pray NOW, to fast TODAY; the same way He leads you in your ministerial life when He tells you to go and preach to someone, to intercede for somebody, and the same way He leads you in your marital life, that is the same way He also leads His children daily in business and career.

Since our business and career are not as important as our spiritual life, as our marital and ministerial life, then God’s leading in business and career is even much simple and easy, if we have been obeying God in our spiritual life, marital life and in the work of God.

In discovering God’s leading in business and career, you must:
1, Be Sensitive To Your Mind & Environment – Many times, God drops ideas to our minds in relation to our environment, but we are unaware of it.

2, Be Sensitive To The Word Of God – As you apply God’s word into your spiritual life, marital life, ministerial life, you must also apply it to your business and career. There are lots of scientific and business secrets in the Word of God, until you discover them, you will never know. I was reading Book of Psalm some years back, and I came across a verse that says God gives man break for strength and oil to shines his face. Then I discovered natural oils can make face glow and shine than chemical cosmetics, and so my wife and I began to do research on which oils are good for facial and skincare. We discovered this and started producing skincare oil, we got the name for the product also from the Bible, and many people are appreciating the product in different parts of the world now.

A woman was in the church; listening to the minister preaching as he quoted from the Bible, “Ye are the salt of the world” The woman was convinced to start selling salt, in which she prospered therein. God is leading many people through His word.

3, Dare To Move When God Moves You – Many Children of God who are destined to own multinational companies, to be CEO of their own companies but they remain employees, and some even remain unemployed because they are not ready to move as God moves them. Because of desire to work in a big and prestigious company, because of the ego and honor of working in a big company, you refuse to work on your own company, maybe because you don’t want to let go of the official car, of which if you start your own business, you also will be buying car for your workers.

4, Dare To Start Small – I have discovered by experience that success in business is not about how much money you have to start but how much leading of God you have. Many do lament that they don’t have huge amount of money to start a lucrative business, they don’t understand that it is not the size of the beginning that matters but the success of God. When my wife and I started a small business with N60,000/$280 about 2 years ago, it looked ridiculous, but within a year the business grew to more than N6million/$280,000. Do not despise the small beginning since you have a mighty God.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS & CAREER– You must surrender to God & Seek Him first!
To succeed in your business or career, you don’t need to be “smart”, do not compromise into sinful or satanic activity, but simply surrender to Jesus Christ, trust in Him, seek His will daily in everything, and obey just as He leads!

God has a great plan and purpose for you, you must obey Him to possess it, put Him first, seek His kingdom and holiness of life above your business or career success, seek to read your Bible and pray daily first thing before doing any other thing. Seek to do His work in His kingdom as your, do not pursue earthly things with what God blesses you with, but use the blessing for His glory, and great shall be your eternal joy!

Proverbs 3:5,6: Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

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Christianity Etc › How To Discover God’s Leading In Your Career And Business by FreshGreen(op): 10:43am On Apr 04, 2016

Christianity Etc › Same Category Of Ignorance (please Read This!!!) by FreshGreen(op): 11:19pm On Mar 29, 2016

SAME CATEGORY OF IGNORANCE (Please read this!!!)
1 Kings 3:11, “Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice.”

The prosperity preachers who center on riches, and the problematic preachers whose messages and prayers concern on the death of enemies “fall down and die”, they are both in the same category of ignorance.

Christians with better understanding seek and center their preaching and prayer majorly on the understanding of the word of God, and to be fruitful thereby. King Solomon had an open cheque before God to ask whatever he wished; Solomon did not ask riches or prosperity, and he did not ask that his enemies should fall down and die, rather he asked for the understanding of God’s will and way; this pleased God so well, “Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice” 1 Kings 3:11.

When we seek to understand the Word of God and center our concern and prayers on how to grow in the Lord and in His kingdom, God will add blessings into our lives and He Himself fight our enemies. 1 Kings 3:12, 13. “ Behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. 13 And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.”

So if Solomon did not ask for riches and for his enemies to die, why can't you do the same thing? if you read it that God was pleased with the request of Solomon for asking for spiritual understanding, why can't you do the same thing to please Him with your request and let Him do the same supernatural addition in your life. Jesus Christ promised us that if we seek first His kingdom - that is, how to be saved into God's kingdom and get others saved, and His righteousness - that is how to live in righteousness after we are saved and help others do the same, then He will add ALL others. "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Matthew 6:33

A pastor whose preaching and prayers majorly center on riches, blessings, prosperity and breakthrough is a carnal and misled pastor; a pastor whose messages and prayers center on witches and wizards, deliverance, the “fall down and die” of enemies instead of focusing and praying on how to grow in holiness and prepare for the rapture, such pastor is ignorant and misguided.

The prosperity church is a deceived and derailed church; the problematic church of “enemies die” is a disillusive church. What about you? What is the center of your prayer? What is the first and foremost in your prayer list and time? Do you care for riches of this world more than righteousness? Do you seek for righteous living in your prayer and priority? Do you care more about the problems of life than purity of life in your prayer time and focus? Are you more concerned for the enemies in your family to die than focusing on the old sinful nature and notion in your life to die? Which one do you first pray on and mostly?

In this very end time, there are increasing number of foolish virgins among Christian ministers and members who care for the minor than major, who center their affection on the temporal than eternal, and whose priority, purpose, prayer and preaching center on how to get a well-being in this life than to receive a well-done in heaven. The people whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. Philippians 3:19.

But if you chose to be among the few wise, then center your priority, purpose of life, prayer and preaching mostly and majorly on salvation into the kingdom of God and serving God in righteousness. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 3:2; Philippians 3:20

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Christianity Etc › Warning For The Wise!! by FreshGreen(op): 6:47pm On Mar 25, 2016

WARNING FOR THE WISE!!
" For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables." 2 Timothy 4:3,4

Do not wait until you miss the rapture before you realize you have been victim of prosperity and permissive pastors. Seek for the Truth that will transform your life to set you free from sin, that will rebuke and correct you.

YOUR CHURCH!
If you see your church preaching or praying mostly on blessings, financial or material breakthroughs, miracles, or physical prosperity - that is, 8 out of every given 10 messages, prayer points or books - then you are in a modern satanic church, irrespective of the name or background of the church.

YOUR PASTOR!
If you notice your pastor, bishop or prophet preaches or prays mostly on earthly blessings, prosperity, problematic prayers, deliverance, material of financial signs and wonders or breakthrough, meaning that 8 out of his 10 messages, prayers or books center on these stuffs, then your pastor is either a false minister or fallen minister!

If most of the topics of your church programs or yearly stickers/watch words center on earthly, material or financial stuffs, like prosperity, breakthrough unlimited, open heaven of miracles, favour abundant, waves of glory of blessings, manifestation of earthly blessings, success unlimited, fast track of blessings, miracles, deliverance from problems or evil powers, signs and wonders, and such; then you are in the church of Balaam, you may soon be shocked after the rapture!

AND YOU!
If your priority, purpose and pursuit at this time are majorly about earthly things of housing project, vehicles buying, and earthly success, then you are in danger of imminent Anti-Christ.

HERE IS THE WORD OF GOD!
1 Timothy 6:3-10" If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with GODLINESS, 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5 useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself."

"6 Now GODLINESS with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

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Christianity Etc › THE WRONG Perspective.........please Read This. by FreshGreen(op): 9:10pm On Mar 23, 2016

THE WRONG PERSPECTIVE.........please read this.
Which one is the largest: A Peanut, An Elephant, The Moon, or A Kettle?

Looking from a short sight, an Elephant is the largest, but looking in real sense and long sight, the Moon is far bigger than Elephant more than 1000 times.

The same way most of us view life, we see the present more important than the future, we care for the present world than eternity, we see “now, now” more precious to us than “then”. Yes, that is how Satan wants you to think and act, he wants you to give what you need most for what you need the moment, he want you to sacrifice your soul for the pleasure of your body, he wants you to see this present world bigger and more important than your eternity.

Do you care of getting money, getting job, getting contracts, getting visas, getting married, getting everything that can make this life comfortable for you at the expense of holiness and righteousness? The devil will tell you to focus on this present world and then you can think about heaven later. But who knows what will happen before tomorrow? And for what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Be wise, don’t give what you need most for what you need the moment; don’t sacrifice your eternity for this present perishing world. Surrender your life to Jesus completely without deceiving yourself, confess and forsake your sins, read your Bible daily and pray for God’s grace to please Him. Live with eternity in view, you may not get everything you need here at everything but as long as your name is still in the Book of Life, you are the wisest. Don’t compromise like every other Christian, Worker or Pastor around; be different because you don’t want to go where they are going. You have a dream, a focus, to make heaven, and look only unto Jesus.

Hebrews 11: By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

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Christianity Etc › Bible System Of Giving - Part 2 by FreshGreen(op): 7:29am On Mar 22, 2016

BIBLE SYSTEM OF GIVING - Part 2
"So let each one give as he purposes in his heart" 2 Corinthians 9:7

(3) PERSONAL: Giving must be personal!
Giving must be personal not general or by comparison. If you are truly a child of God and the Spirit of God is in you, if any minister comes to you and says God says you must give something, that is not wrong; but you as a child of God whose heart the Spirit of God dwells, you must also have personal conviction and confirmation from God. But everything is wrong when a minister of God says you should just take what he says and you praying about it is an act of unbelief. The point is that many people who were scammed by fraudsters were victims because of love of inordinate gains and covetousness; so also many who are giving, sowing in the churches today are not doing so because of their personal love for God but because of the promised shortcut blessings by the ministers and their churches. And when you hear testimonies of blessing as a result of unbiblical giving, you don't know that majority of such testimonies are also gotten in un-biblical manners and means, which will not be included in the testimonies.

Acceptable giving to God's work or God's people must be personal. The fact that everybody is giving in a church does not implies you must give, giving is personal; and the fact that nobody gives does not mean you must not give. The fact that somebody gives big amount does not means you must likewise give, it is personal and you have the right to make your personal decision on when to give, where and who to give, how to give and the amount to give by your personal conviction. "So let each one give as he purposes in his heart." not as he is persuaded, not as he is commanded or impressed.

(4) BY NEED: Giving is by the need, not by the position!
This is the Bible truth you might not have heard before and you may never hear in your church.

(i) Bible does not say we should give to somebody because he is a pastor or minister of God, except if he or she has genuine need. The common notion that giving to men of God, even if they don't have genuine needs, will bring blessing to your life is false and extra biblical phenomenon. Giving to a man who is rich without a genuine, important or basic need will only bring eternal curse into your life. Proverbs 22:16, "He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty." Giving to a rich pastor or person only brings a rich curse; the poverty here does not necessarily means financial, but spiritual poverty and ignorance.

God never commanded people to give to somebody simply because he is a minister of God without genuine need; Jesus Christ never instructed disciples to give to people because of their spiritual positions or because they are apostles. Elijah or other prophets never asked people to give to them simply because they were prophets of Most High God when they were not in genuine or basic needs. The Apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ never preached that giving to them because they were apostles of God would bring blessing to you. So where did we get the teaching of "sowing into vital ground"? Where do our bishops, G.Os and other preachers of today get their messages from?

The teaching that sowing into the lives of big bishops, General overseers or senior pastors will attract you blessing is anti-biblical. If the G.O or Senior pastor does not have basic need of food like Elijah, if he is not in need of accommodation like Elisha, and if he is not in need of basic materials or basic amenities like Apostle Paul, then your giving to him is baseless, useless and immaterial to God.

A pastor or bishop who has millions of dollars or his national currency laying fallow in his bank account, and you are adding to his money is simply a kingdom waste; a pastor or bishop who has a car and another for his wife, and you go to buy another car for him while nothing is wrong with the two cars he and his wife have, such giving is simply a spiritual ignorance and craving for shortcut blessing. A pastor or Bishop that has accommodation where he lives and you build or buy another house for him is a waste to the kingdom of God. When you ignore brethren in your local church, family members who have basic needs, singles who are trusting God to marry but no finance, unemployed brothers and sisters who need incentive to start something, missionaries in remove villages who need just little amount to reach people with the gospel, pastors in your village that just need basic amenities to sustain their ministries and home; when you ignore such people and you are sowing or partnership with a senior big pastor to maintain his luxurious amenities, to tour the world or to fuel his private jet, it simply means you are spiritually ignorant. Such sowing or partnership will only attract God's judgment. Do you know that one can give and have problem as a result of that giving when it is given in un-biblical way?

When you ignore people with genuine needs, with basic needs and you go ahead to give people with social needs or with comfort needs, it means you are either looking for human favor or you are looking for shortcut blessing of prophetic declaration from such big pastors. But the mistake here is that the whole popular and big ministers of the world can pray for you, they can make total prophetic declaration on you but they cannot answer the prayers by themselves, only God can answer prayer. God does not answer prayer by big names of a pastor or bishop but by the name of Jesus and based on our heart motives. Such senior pastors may psych you with different testimonies or prophecies, but you will never find a backing from the Bible.

TWO TYPES OF GIVING
(1) General Giving: General giving is giving to people generally around us: families, friends and foes. Giving to anybody in the society, to anyone who asks as long it will not aid or abet ungodly activity. We can also give to organizations or campaigns for good purposes in our societies.

(2) God's Giving: Giving in the name of God, for the sake of God, to God's works, to God's people or projects in the church or ministry. Only children of God who are genuinely saved can acceptably give for the sake of God.

GIVING IS A MUST
It is a must give, because it is God's command. Luke 6:38, "Give and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”

It must be a continuous base in accordance to God's work. We must give when we have little and much as long as it is shareable. Luke 3:11, "He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.” Don't wait until you have a lot before you can give, don't wait until you are asked to give before you give. It is good to give surprisingly, that is, giving to people who do not expect from you and what they don't expect. Look around you as the Lord leads you, give; look among your family members, give; look around in your church, give; look in your workplace, give; look on along the road, give. When you give surprisingly, God also gives you surprise gift. "Give and it will be given to you." Luke 6:38.

WHY GIVING
As children of God, we should generously give, because:

(1) It's God’s command. Luke 6:38

(2) It's God's work. Without our giving, God's work will suffer lost. You may not be a full time minister of God, but you must fully minister to the needs of God's works and full time ministers. Philippians 4:18

(3) It's for heavenly treasure in God's kingdom. When you understand that every penny you give here on earth stores treasures for you in heaven, you will want to give more and more. If you are a child of God and waiting for the kingdom of God to come, you will not want to get to heaven with no treasure in store for you; you will want to save and store more in your heavenly home.

Matthew 6:19-21.“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

(4) Giving brings earthly blessings. When you freely and generously give to people, to God's works and God's people, you will receive rewards in heaven and on earth.

Philippians 4:18, 19Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God. 19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 20 Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.

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Christianity Etc › What Is Not Enough Today….. by FreshGreen(op): 8:36pm On Mar 20, 2016

WHAT IS NOT ENOUGH TODAY…..

If you are a child of God, serving Him with all your heart, and you are facing some tough situations, I am here to encourage you never to stop serving God, never to slow down or be discouraged, because what is not enough or what you don’t have today, will be more than enough tomorrow.

Imagine you are in any of the following situation:

Having Financial Difficulties?
Maybe you have no job, no accommodation, and no money to meet basic needs in your life or family, if you have Jesus as your Lord and you are faithfully serving Him without compromise, He will serve you with the best that will not involve any form of sins. There three things many children of God usually do wrong when they are in financial needs: 1, Worry instead of worshiping God. You worry because you can’t imagine how possible solution will come. Divert your energy of worrying into worshiping God even in the presence of embarrassing needs. 2, Compromise into sin. Many children of God fail to be faithful to the end in time of needs, many Christians compromise to get job, contracts or traveling documents in sinful ways and thereby miss the wonderful purpose of God for their lives and so they live the rest of their lives in wrong path except they repent and retrace their ways back. 3, Looking unto men for help. The more you look to men for help, the more you get frustrated and feel bitter. Why do you look up to men for your help while you are supposed to look unto God? Let God do what only Him can do in your life.

Not Even Enough Money for Transport Fare – You may be having financial challenges that you don’t have enough money for transport far to school, to workplace, to church or for evangelism, and you have to trek several distance in the hot sun, you know what? Days are coming when you will always find yourself inside air-conditioned car that you will need to create time to trek for exercise.

Like Being Single Forever?
If you are a godly brother or sister and you are single, the devil may make it look like you are being single forever, as if it will take eternity for you to eventually get married. But the truth is that if you continue serving the Lord faithfully without compromise, you will not only get married but happily married and within few weeks after marriage, you will forget all your years of singleness. Just rest on the Lord, the miracle may be closer than you expect.

Single and Having temptation for Premarital Sex?
If you are a single brother or sister, sometime temptation for premarital sex will come, as if waiting for sex until marriage is too distant a time. The devil will portrait sex as something you need now, as something that will make you super-fulfil, but the truth is that premarital sex gives few mins enjoyment that fades quickly and replaces it with far years sorrow and regret. You will not want to do something for 5 mins and regret it for more than 50 years, will you?

When a child of God falls into premarital sex, the presence and angels of God will depart from the person and demons will be replaced and many evil attacks are done into the person’s life by the demons. But when you wait till you get married, you will have as many times to enjoy sex with your spouse and the presence of God will always abide with you. Do you know your remaining time of waiting is not as long as how far you have waited? So it worth waiting through for the remaining few time. Do not yield to the temptation of premarital sex that will ruin your destiny. “Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. 17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.” Hebrews 12:16-17.

Not Having Children In Marriage?
If you are married and you are still waiting on the Lord for children, your waiting is for wonder, because your womb is reserved for special children. Do not allow pressure or people to mislead you against God’s will. What you need is to be more devoted into God’s will and work, and the wonderful children will follow. Do not allow the little delay to cause you running from mountain to valley in the name of prayer, let God do what no man can do, and don’t allow men to hijack the glory of God in your life.

The family waiting on God for children today, same family will soon be working for birth control tomorrow after they have enough children; the barren couple today, after God’s visitation, will soon be spending to bar more children from coming in the name of family planning when they have more children. What is not enough today will soon be more than enough if we trust God.

If you have been experiencing miscarriage after marriage, the Lord will visit you with miracle pregnancy that will be too heavy for any force to frustrate in Jesus name. Keep serving God as God is about to serve you with the best.

Whatever situation you are, whatever solution you need, what matter is that you should have the Savior Jesus Christ in your life, and seek Him with all your heart and everything will be settled, that is sure!

“If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my hard service I will wait,
Till my change comes.” Job 14:14

God bless you!

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Christianity Etc › 4 Acceptable Ways Of Giving by FreshGreen(op): 6:22am On Mar 19, 2016

HERE ARE FOUR BIBLICAL ACCEPTABLE WAYS OF GIVING

(1) Give Your Life Before Your Money: Giving your money, properties or possessions to God's work is totally useless without first giving your life to Jesus in genuine salvation. The most important and first thing to give is giving your life to God, because the first gift you ever received came from God was your life; God breathed life into man and man became a living soul, so we must give Him our life back, first and foremost. He is your first Giver and He must be your first Receiver and the gift is your life, to give back the life He has given you.

Whatever you give unto God or in God's name without new life in Jesus Christ is nothing and unacceptable. While modern churches may say anybody can give to God's work, Bible says only the regenerated people who have genuine salvation and living above sins are accredited by God to give to His work. When it comes to giving for God's sake, genuine ministers of God and genuine church of God does not receive from people who are not genuinely saved. 3 John 7, "because they went forth for His name’s sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles."

(2) Give To Minister With Needs: Do not give somebody except you first see a genuine need. Don't give because somebody wants you to give, don't give because somebody is a minister of God, don't give to people because they have anointing or they are popular; you should only give to people if they are have genuine needs. That is the acceptable giving. If you give without meeting genuine need, your giving is useless and a waste. Your purpose of giving must aim to minister to the need of people. Philippians 2:25, "Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need." Giving to minister to people needs is what makes your giving acceptable and pleasing to God. "Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God." Philippians 4:18.

Do not give to people if there is no genuine need to meet. Your giving can only be acceptable if you are meeting needs in the lives of people.

2 Corinthians 9:12, "For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God"

Romans 15:25-27, "But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. 26 For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. 27 It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things."

It is very important to give to those who have none. "He answered and said to them, “He who has two tunics, let him give to him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.” Luke 3:11

(3) Give To Ministers With Needs: When it comes to giving to ministers of God or works of God, you give as much as possible and as many time as possible to meet genuine, necessary needs not because of their positions or to meet excessive or unnecessary needs. Multi-million church building projects are inessential into the kingdom of God. Acceptable give is to meet necessary needs not ambiguous and excessive needs. Philippians 4:16, " For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities."

(4) Give To All: We are commanded to be good, to give to all men, Christians or Non-Christians; but the needs of the brethren in the Lord comes first. Galatians 6:10, "Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do well to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith."

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Christianity Etc › Bible Standard Of Giving by FreshGreen(op): 9:37pm On Mar 17, 2016

THE BIBLE SYSTEM OF GIVING
(How to give, who to give, where to give and when to give)

2 Corinthians 9:7, "So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver."

The biblical standards and principles of giving include how to give and who to give as children of God. Giving must be willingly, freely and personal! Let's look at them one after the other:

(1) WILLINGLY: Giving must be willingly!
"Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the Lord: gold, silver, and bronze...Then everyone came whose heart was stirred, and everyone whose spirit was willing, and they brought the Lord’s offering for the work of the tabernacle of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments." Exodus 35:5,21

In giving to the work of God, to the people of God or offering in the name of God, it must be willingly, that is, it must be your own wilful giving, not a matter of "give or you have problem", "give or no blessing of God". God does not accept anything from us without our wilful interest; though He gave us everything we own or have, yet, He doesn't force us or compel us to give Him anything back. God created us as free moral agents to make our own choices. From Genesis to Revelation, anywhere in the Bible where people were asked to give for God's work, you will not see any where people were compelled verbally or prophetically forced to give for God's work.

In many churches system today, when it's time to give for God's works, a minister would come out and begin to preach the message of "Give or miss everything", "Give or have problem" in the name of motivating people of God to give, which is not biblical and not necessary. When people are told about needs for God's works, for church projects as it may be the standard of the Bible is that people should be allowed to willingly make their choices to give or not, people should be given the chance to make up their minds on the amount to give as the Lord leads them. The system of persuading people to give and give big during the period of offering is extra-biblical system.

What makes an offering or giving acceptable and reward-able by God is willingness, not the amount you are persuaded or prophetically forced to give by the so-called motivating messages. The willing mind is what matters not what you give simply because you don't want to disappoint your pastor or you don't want to be embarrassed for not giving. In our churches today, we are practicing several unbiblical means of collecting offerings. Some churches even go to the level of calling names of their church members if people are not willing to give or come out to pledge; they call names of the people in the church and tell them they must give. That has turned the giving to compulsion, such is unbiblical and unacceptable.

Some pastors say they can compulsory it for you to give because they want you to be blessed. That is wrong and ungodly. God desires and wants us to be blessed more than any man or minister, the great desire of God for His children is to enjoy His full blessings, including financially; God says giving brings His blessing BUT He does not force us to give. Much as God want us to give and be blessed, He only wants us to give willingly. 2 Chronicles 29:31:

Then Hezekiah answered and said, “Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the Lord, come near, and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord.” So the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.

Using the name of God to enforce people to give unto God is ungodly and unbiblical, God never directed His servants anywhere in the Bible to push or force people to give for His work in the name of loving to bless them.

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 8:12, " For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have." It means your willing mind is the basis for your giving to be acceptable by God. The first thing is your willing mind, then your willing amount, no matter how little or how big. If you willingly give $2 for offering, it is acceptable than when you give $2000 by the will of your pastor or any minister. So, if you want your giving to God's work or anyone to be acceptable and rewarded by God, don't allow any preacher to push you to give against your willing amount through their "so called" motivating speeches, and don't let anyone spoil your mind by despising your little amount. Your offering can be accepted and appreciated by a pastor and not accepted by God and it can be honoured by God and at the same time despised by men.

(2) FREEWILL: Giving must be freely. In giving to the cause of God or to people, it must come from your free mind. Ezra 2:68, “Some of the heads of the fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God, to erect it in its place"

Anything we give to God's work or to people must be from our free minds and free decisions. Anything you give to your church's project or to interdenominational ministries without your own free will is like a religious duress and not acceptable by God. When it comes to giving to God's works in our churches and ministries, should we not look into the Bible and check how the people of God gave to God's work or we should just ignore biblical examples of giving and receiving, and be presumptuous?

Freewill system is not the type of system of many churches today where specific amounts are dictated to people to contribute without allowing them to freely make their decision by themselves. The system of "dictating" or "sharing" specific amount for people to contribute in the name of God's work is non-biblical and ungodly. No place in the Bible where offerings were collected or given by sharing or dictating system, it is more or less forcing people and indicating that people of God cannot give less than the exact amount, and that is out of their freewill.

Some tactics against Freewill Giving
(i) Psychological Force: This is commonly used by many churches today. It's "Offering Call" just as Altar Calls are made. The minister calls several amounts of money from the higher amount to the lowest amount, and asking people to raise their hands or come to the altar as he calls each amount. In a local church where almost everybody knows one another, you may be forced to go out when a particular amount is called, the amount that will fit your level, the amount that will not embarrass you in the present of others, which will not disappoint your pastor also; even if that amount is not freely from your willing mind. You may go out to give or pledge to give certain amount to be acceptable by your pastor and fellow people in the church, but the bad news is that it’s not acceptable by God.

2 Corinthians 9:5, "Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation."

From this Bible verse, we see "which you had previously promised" before the arrival of Paul's ministers, not after the arrival of any ministers, not after the motivating speeches of any minister.

(ii) Spiritual Force: This is another anti-biblical means of forcing people to give against their freewill. The minister may say God told him that everybody must give all the money they have with them, he can also personalize it to an individual by saying "God says you must give everything you have to God." People use God's name to indirectly force you to give while God Himself does not force people to give to His works.

Offering or giving is acceptable when it is freewill and that is biblical. Psalm 54:6, "I will freely sacrifice to You" If you care for your offering or giving to be acceptable and rewardable by God, it must be free from psychological or spiritual force, it must be freewill offering. "And whereas you are to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem." Ezra 7:15

(3) PERSONAL: Giving must be personal!
"So let each one give as he purposes in his heart" 2 Corinthians 9:7
.....this will continue tomorrow. We continue this teaching tomorrow on giving to God’s work and ministers of God, and those who are qualified to receive and who are qualified to give offering. You can follow the teaching on our Facebook page, profile or groups.

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Christianity Etc › Freewill Offering Vs Forcewill Offering by FreshGreen(op): 1:39am On Mar 16, 2016

FREEWILL OFFERING VS FORCEWILL OFFERING

About 10 years ago at a Deeper Life Bible Church, the district pastor announced the names of some prominent leaders, workers and members for a meeting in his office, and I was one of them; the pastor discussed the matter of settling long time electricity bill of the church and some other needs in the church. Thereafter the total amount needed was calculated, and the pastor decided to share the amount needed equally for every one of us to contribute. I observed that there were people who could not afford to pay up to the amount equally shared, and there were people who could afford to pay more, so in the presence of all I suggested to the pastor that instead of forcing a certain amount on every one, he should distribute a sheet of paper for everyone to write the amount they would freely give. The pastor accepted my suggestion and we all freely wrote what we could afford to give. After collecting the papers, we calculated and we realized much more than we needed.

Different churches today are using different means to raise fund for the need in the church or ministry, but unfortunate most are using ungodly and unbiblical means to raise fund. From the beginning of the Bible to the end, there is only one single method of raising money for God’s work and that is by freewill. Freewill means the ability to act at one's own discretion; it’s synonymous to freedom of choice, liberty, independence.

God’s way of raising fund from His children for His work is only by freewill, for the people to freely and willingly determine if they wish to give, what they want to give and when they want to give. Every other means is ungodly and non-biblical.

The first fund raising for God’s work in Exodus 35:5 “Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as an offering to the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze”. Also in verse 29, “The children of Israel brought a freewill offering to the LORD, all the men and women whose hearts were willing to bring material for all kinds of work which the LORD, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.”

In the New Testament, here is the standard the church followed: So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7

Because of the love of money in the church today, different ungodly methods are being used to raise money. One of them is what I shared earlier where a specific amount is forced on every one to distribute, they don’t care about their freewill, they don’t care about how they purpose, and they make them feel it is a matter of necessity. All these churches claim to be Bible churches but raising fund in unbiblical manners.

Other ungodly methods of fund raising in the church include prophetic force will, psychological force will, point force will, etc.

These pastors and ministers who indirectly or directly force their members to give God certain amount do claim that it is because they love the people and want them to be blessed by God. But how can your love for people make you go against God’s standard? Moses and Paul so loved children of Israel that they wished they could be cast out of Book of Life just to get children of Israel saved instead, but with all their sincere love and passion for Israelites, they allowed them to freely give to God has they purposed. If your love for God makes you break God’s standard, then something is wrong.

Any giving to God’s work that is not freely given with cheerfulness is not acceptable to God. Forcing people to give to God makes them forfeit the blessing of giving.

Some ministers today say people should give by faith, to give all they have by faith, to change their mind and give more than they willingly purposed. Such is fake, it is manipulated against their freewill through a preaching before offering; such motive is like faith for money doubler. The Bible standard of giving offering to God is not faith but freewill.

God is interested in our tithes and offering, but His standard of freewill has not changed. As children of God, we must give to God’s work and give offering cheerfully, freely and willingly but do not be manipulated to give against your freewill. As ministers of God, do not allow the needs in God’s work push you to compromise the Bible standard of collecting offering, do not follow the popular ungodly method of force will, remember that God will always provide for Himself when it comes to His work. We don’t need to forcefully do God’s work, we just need to faithfully do it and leave the rest to Him.

2 Corinthians 9:7, “So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.”

God bless you

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Christianity Etc › Beware Of Human Wisdom In Your Career And Business by FreshGreen(op): 6:18am On Mar 15, 2016

BEWARE OF HUMAN WISDOM IN YOUR CAREER AND BUSINESS

Early this year as I was driving, I was listening to a program on the radio of a business coach, business instructor; he was giving ideas of making financial success, investment and all that. He later gave a point saying, “You can negotiate your debt but don’t negotiate your investment.” What he means is that we can postpone the payment of our debts, maybe house rent, children school fees etc. so that we use the money to invest immediately and promise to pay the debt later. He later said some other things that really captivated me. So I concluded I would use the ideology, to postpone my debts and invest more. But that was not the will of God for me, which was not the wisdom of God and the way of God.

I followed God’s will to first settle my debts - from our factory rent to other business matters to personal matter including an elderly man I was to balance debt of about N50,000, I called him and I heard he is dead, then I took the money to his wife. I also decided to settle some little promise of financial support to some people. I paused my New Year investment to settle some debts in line with God’s word but opposite human wisdom.

You know what? If you want to succeed in your career, business or marriage beyond human understanding, you need to follow God’s word, not human wisdom. While most of these business coaching, mentoring, business books and ideas are fascinating, they are grounded on human wisdom, which is opposite God’s word.

When the word of God says we should owe no man, the wisdom of the world says even if you have the money, you can use it to invest and postpone your debt.

When the word of God says when you believe, you shall see the glory of God, the wisdom of the world says that seeing is believing.

When the word of God says give and freely give, the wisdom of the world says you must be prudent in spending and give sparingly or nothing.

Which wisdom is controlling your life, human wisdom or God’s wisdom?

Here is the gospel truth: Any investment or personal project you embark on that gives you no room to settle necessary debts as much as you can or that makes you not to give or help some needed people, then you are worldlier than the people of the world, you are using your human power to succeed.

It is a grave pity to see some brethren or Christian family, because of their personal projects such as building project or buying car, etc. or because of investment, they will close their eyes towards assisting their family members or brethren financially, because they want to complete their projects or complete the money to buy car, latest phone or electronics. They claim to be financially prudent while they are spiritually stupid. And such people will still call some people worldly? Are they not more earthly minded, worldly and earthly focused? Worldliness is not only about the physical worldliness of dressing, music, movies, etc. but the most dangerous worldliness is that of the mind, when your mind is set on earthly stuff at the detriment of the fruit of the Spirit, and you still claim of being prudent.

We need to trust God before we can lean on Him and follow His way even though it contradicts the wisdom of the world. In our business, career and family, if we desire unlimited success and progress, we need to follow God’s word, way and will, if we do not want to expose ourselves to evil attack, we must follow God’s word, and if we don’t want to miss the rapture in the name of pursing earthly things, we must care to follow God’s leading on our we spend and be selfless.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the LORD and depart from evil.
8 It will be health to your flesh,
And strength[c] to your bones.

27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
When it is in the power of your hand to do so.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
“Go, and come back,
And tomorrow I will give it,”
When you have it with you."

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Christianity Etc › How Our Pastors Become Super Rich Than The Politicians by FreshGreen(op): 12:10am On Mar 12, 2016*

HOW PASTORS BECOME SUPER RICH

This generation is witnessing highest numbers of multi-billionaires and multi-millionaires among the ministers of God than ever before. Since the beginning of Christianity from Jesus Christ to the Apostles to our contemporary men of God such as John Wesley, Martin Luther, D l Moody, etc. there have never been this type of super-rich, luxurious and extravagant ministers of the gospel as we have now.

How did they get their riches? For example, Nigeria has more rich ministers of God in the world among the top 10 richest ministers, whereas Nigeria has one of the highest numbers of people living below poverty level in the world, and one of corrupt countries in the top 10 most corrupt countries.

From America to Africa to Asia we see super rich ministers, how did they get their riches? Does God send angels to bring cash for them from heaven? NO. Were they such super rich before they started the ministry? NO! They claim they are living above world economy, and that their finance source can never dry. And many wonder, where are they getting their multiple finance that make them super rich, even richer than the people they pastor and even the corrupt politicians? How do they manage to live such luxurious and extravagant lifestyle which our governors can’t afford?

The secret of their riches in the Bible, it is a foretold warning of the secret of these super-rich ministers. Read it in the Book of 2 Peter 2:3, “By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.”

Their Secret
The secret of all our super-rich gospel ministers all over the world is deceptive words – deceiving their followers with deceptive words and their followers in return donate their wealth.

How could they successfully gather wealth from several thousands of their followers and become super-rich, are their followers such gullible? NO, their followers are not gullible but covetous. On the part of the rich ministers are deceptive words, according to the Bible, and on the part of the followers is covetousness. The Bible says, by covetousness these so called ministers of God will exploit you. You know what it means? These so called ministers of gospel have deceptive words and their followers have covetous heart, now when deceptive words meets covetous heart, there will always be exploitation. It is a simple chemistry – when deceptive words meet a covetous heart there will be exploitation, and that is exactly what the Bible says. 2 Peter 2:3.

The multi-millionaire preachers in America, in Africa, in Europe, in Asia are successfully exploiting their followers with their deceptive words because those Christian followers have covetous hearts. Here is how it happens:

The super-rich preachers use deceptive words of prophetic declaration of products without productivity, and their followers give them prophetic offering. Now, how can there be products without productivity, simply by raising up your hands or by giving all the money in your account to the prophet? It is because the followers are covetous; they want the products in a cheap way without productivity.

The super-rich preachers preach prosperity of God without purity of life to please God. When the Bible says we should seek first the kingdom of God and its righteous living, the super-rich preachers ignore purity, holiness of life and preach prosperity. The followers follow because they are covetous of a cheap, sweet gospel.

The prosperity preachers preach peace of God without pleasing God. They preach crown without cross, they preach faith without faithfulness, they preach resting in the Lord without restitution, they preach forgiveness of God without forsaking sins, they preach confession without repentance, they preach wonders of God without watchfulness in Him, they preach second touch of God’s supernatural blessing without preaching the second coming of Jesus; they preach open heaven of God’s blessing without the open heaven of God’s judgment.

These super-rich pastors promise heaven abounding for their followers without holiness of life, whereas it is written clearly in the Bible that without holiness no man shall see the Lord, Heb. 12:14, it is because the followers have covetous hearts for sweat free gospel.

They deceive you with deceptive words for your cheap money because you have covetous heart for cheap gospel, for broad road.

I heard someone talking of his bishop, he said in around 1985, God told the bishop in America that, “My son, go to Nigeria and deliver my people from poverty and make them rich.” But 30 years after, the bishop who had little and maybe one or two cars then, now has privates jets and many things, and Nigeria whom he came to deliver from poverty is getting poorer, more unemployment, more poverty, lack of primary healthcare, more crimes, and education is more expensive. Now who has made who rich? Is it the bishop who has made Nigeria rich or covetous followers of Nigerians who have made the bishop rich? The Bible says by covetousness these so called ministers of God will exploit you.

I was in a church some years ago and the pastor announced that their daddy G.O was coming to Abuja for special Holy Ghost service and anyone who wanted to see daddy G.O in a special meeting should collect invitation card of N15000. The same daddy G.O who told his followers that they should redeem their firstborn children with money to avoid firstborn curse. These are the same super-rich ministers who collect first fruit offerings, prophetic offering into their personal accounts. They exploit you with deceptive words because you too have a covetous heart.

The Bible says the judgment of God is coming of all these super-rich, luxurious, prosperity preachers, and motivational speakers. “for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” 2 Peter 2:3

All the prosperity preachers, super-rich pastors, motivational speakers are working for Satan and the judgment of God is waiting for them, including those who follow them and donate for their false ministries.

“But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption, 13 and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime.

They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, 14 having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices,and are accursed children. 15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.” 2 Peter 2:12-15.

Do not be among the deceived; do not wait till after rapture before you realize you are being deceived. Desire genuine salvation and choose the narrow path that leads to heaven.

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Christianity Etc › SCREEN SAVER. Lesson From This Joke by FreshGreen(op): 12:29pm On Mar 09, 2016

SCREEN SAVER: Lesson From This Joke!
A rich man died and immediately found his soul at the gate of heaven. The angel at the gate told him, “Now you are dead and you are here for judgment. You didn’t serve God well with all your heart, but because of all the great and good efforts you made for humanity when you were alive, I will give you uncommon privilege. You have the chance to choose where you want to go, hell or heaven.” The rich man asked the angel to permit him to have a look of both heaven and hell before he could make a choice. The angel permitted him, so he allowed him to first view hell.

When the angel took the rich man to hell, he saw beautiful ladies wearing swimming kits, dancing and having fun with glasses of wine. Then the angel took him to see heaven, there he saw angels singing hymns and praising God. So the angel asked the rich man to make a choice. The rich man said, “I will choose hell, it is fun and more exciting there, let me go to hell” Then the angel said, “According to your decision.”

The rich man was thrown into hell, and to his greatest surprise he found himself in the flames of fire with furnace raining upon him and demons ready to torment him for ever. The rich man cried to the angel, “What happened? Where are those beautiful girls having fun that I saw here before?” The holy angel replied, “What you saw then was just a screensaver”

This a joke, because no choice or repentance after death, it is judgment. Hebrews 9:27. But this shows how Satan deceives people with the things of this world.

Whatever you see in this world are mere screensaver; the fun, fame, fancy, fashion, and fortune are empty screensaver that have nothing to profit the real you, which is your soul. Do not sell yourself to sin because of earthly pleasure and position and then find yourself in eternal pain and plaque. Why will you give a permanent heavenly paradise for a passing earthly possession? Don't be a fool. Do not exchange your soul to Satan just for screen-saving something that can't last as your soul. Don't be stupid.

Your soul is the real you, your soul will last forever just as God will be forever, and just as Satan will be forever; if you surrender your life to Jesus Christ and follow Him till the end, you will last with God forever in heaven and in pleasure; but if you remain in sin or fall back into sin, you will be forever with Satan in hell fire, and in pain. YOU HAVE THE CHOICE NOW!

Luke 16: 24 Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.

Matthew 16: 26. “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”

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Christianity Etc › How To Sustain The Abiding Presence Of God In Your Life by FreshGreen(op): 7:50am On Mar 07, 2016*

HOW TO SECURE AND SUSTAIN THE PRESENCE OF GOD

Psalm 15:
LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle?
Who may dwell in Your holy hill?
2 He who walks uprightly,
And works righteousness,
And speaks the truth in his heart;
3 He who does not backbite with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend;
4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised,
But he honors those who fear the LORD;
He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
5 He who does not put out his money at usury,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be moved.

1. Surrender all to Jesus Christ.
To experience the abiding presence of God is not majorly by fasting and prayer, but by total surrender to Jesus Christ. You cannot continue in your sin and experience the awesome presence of God.

You need to surrender your life to Jesus Christ afresh in holiness and righteousness. You repent, confess and forsake your sin. Make all your ways right, settle necessary restitution and allow Jesus to be the Lord of your life. Do not allow Satan and Sin to dictate your life this year.

2. Seek Him daily. You want to secure and sustain God’s presence in your life? You need to seek God first thing first daily. Seek His word daily in your daily devotion. Spend time with God daily in Bible reading and prayer. You must endure to finish reading Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Meditate daily in the Word of God. The Lord revealed to me that those who seek Him more in Bible reading and meditation will experience divine leading and guidance of God than never before. What we need more this year is not more of fasting (though we need to fast often) but more of meditation of God’s word and applying it into our daily living.

Do not be stupid to miss your daily devotion for a day this year, no matter how busy you may become. There is no excuse for being foolish or being consciously stupid, because only the fool will allow whatever to hinder them from having personal refreshing and renewing time with God.

3. Serve God than never before. There is no idle time in the kingdom, every genuine child of God must be occupied in serving God at every time, everywhere and with whatever God blesses you with. If there is anytime we are closer to the Rapture, it is this year 2016, and if there is any time of urgency to preach the Gospel to all, it is this year. Preach the Word of God at all time, you cannot overdo it. Share the Word of God with believers for edification. Preach and share God’s word on phone, on Facebook, online, on board, in your workplace, in your school, to your family, friends, strangers, TO ALL.

Intercede for both sinners and the saved. We need one another intercession than never before. As we share God’s word, we must also share love with one another, which is part of serving God. Share from the little you have and seek for brethren in need and do not hesitate to share and assist. The doors of outpouring blessing of God will be shut against those we are selfish and stinging this year. God needs your tithes and offering and giving to brethren, friends and even strangers need your sharing.

As you surrender all to Jesus Christ, the Author and Finisher of our lives, and as we seek Him daily without interruption and serve Him with all our mind and strength, great will our joy and rejoicing this year in Jesus name!

Psalm 16:11, “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”

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Christianity Etc › Left Behind by FreshGreen(op): 4:58pm On Mar 04, 2016

L E F T - B E H I N D
Luke 17:35, "Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”

If you miss your booked flight at the Airport, you can wait for another flight, but there is a flight you must not miss, because it will happen once, that is the flight of the rapture to heaven, it is called the catching away of the saints by Jesus.This rapture will happen within seconds when the angels of God will blow the trumpet…in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound. 1 Corinthians 15:52.

There will be sudden disappearance of Christians who have experienced genuine salvation, who have opened up their secret sins, settled needed restitution and living in holiness and righteousness from the blemishes of the world till the seconds of the rapture. Many people will be left behind throughout the world, many Christians will be left behind also, why? Because they are not well prepared. The left behind at the flight of the rapture will be left to blight of the Anti-Christ and eternal doom; that will be devastating and destructive occurrence which never happens since the beginning of the world. This unprecedented occurrence can happen any seconds from now without any warning or feeling of awareness.

If you have not surrendered your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord, you are at the danger of being left behind to the mercy of Satan, If you are postponing your salvation, you are in serious danger; you need to surrender your life to Jesus now. if you are a Christian and toiling with sins, rising and falling, you need to rededicate your life to Jesus totally now! If you have been saved, serving God but there are some little worldliness in your lifestyles or unconfesed sin, or inconsistency in your Bible reading, prayer life, Christian life, or unforgiving people you have ignored, or unsettled restitution, you may also be among the left behind group, you need to surrender and settle all now. It may happen right when you are angry or getting involved in something sinful, and that is the end.

You need to totally surrender all, every area of your life to Jesus and at all time, because the rapture will happen within seconds and there will not be second chance for another rapture.
Many Senior pastors and big ministers of God will be left behind, many church leaders, workers and many Christians will be left behind, and all unbelievers will be dazed, at last, it will happen!
If at the moment you are reading this message rapture has not happened, then you have the choice to make the rapture. Without delay, you need to surrender all to Jesus, if you are a believer, you need to check your life and surrender all, no sin is too small to hold you down not to make the rapture, even if your big pastors do not oppose it, even if you have reasons to support yourself, even if everybody is doing it. Don't be fooled, don't be arrogant or defensive at this time, just surrender all to Jesus, because He is coming any moment from now. You must leave behind your sins, sinful partners, materials and gains so that you will not be left behind.

You have a choice: leave all behind for Jesus now, let the people and world leave you behind or you are left behind at the rapture?
Matthew 25:13, ““Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.”

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Christianity Etc › Deliverance By Holiness by FreshGreen(op): 11:02pm On Mar 02, 2016

DELIVERANCE BY HOLINESS
“But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.” Obadiah 1:17

About 3 weeks ago, on 18th of Oct. this year (2015), I received a text message on my phone, it reads,

“Sir, I need deliverance from ogboni cult group. Our leader is a spirit being that has power to command anything; he can appear and reappear anywhere. He lives in the air, many pastors are members too and top politicians in this country. I want to leave them but am afraid because of the covenant and oath I took with them”

I later called him, and let him know that there was no prayer or deliverance program that could deliver him except salvation in Jesus Christ, that genuine salvation in Jesus Christ would not only deliver him from evil group but deliver his soul from eternal judgment. I also told that this salvation is not a shortcut for relief temporal attack, but a total surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ – meaning that he should make a decision for genuine salvation in Jesus Christ that will transform him entirely, not just a means to be free from evil group. He was ready to surrender his life to Jesus Christ, I told him to forget the issue of the evil group and focus on his relationship with Jesus and his eternal life in Him. He prayed and surrendered his life to Jesus Christ.

After praying with him and leading him to Jesus Christ, he asked, “what about the cult group, the covenant, the demonic leader?” I told him not to be concerned about that, but to focus on his personal relationship with Jesus, reading his Bible, studying it, and making amendment of his life, that it is not his responsibility to be concerned about the evil forces, God would take care of that, but his concern is to start a new life of holiness and righteousness. At initial he was so afraid to talk with me on phone, saying the group was monitoring him, but I made him to understand that Jesus was with him to save him more than the demons that would destroy him.

Since then we have been talking on phone, his spiritual life has been going forward, he started doing the necessary restitutions, confessing to his wife all his unfaithfulness, and all others. The last time he called me about 3 days ago, he has been doing fine in the Lord, I asked him about the demonic evil group, and he said he never heard from them again. God has been wonderful!

PERMANENT DELIVERNACE
If you found yourself in cultic or any evil group, they may tell you there is no way out! Yes, there is no way out except Jesus Christ, He is the only Way, Truth and Life. What you need is simple – Genuine salvation in Jesus Christ. You must genuinely repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them and start a wonderful new life in Jesus Christ. You don’t need a pastor or bishop before you do that, you can do that right away and Jesus will set you from, not only from that evil group but from all your sins and eternal sorrow.

PERSISTENT BONDAGE
Many people are suffering from bondage and attacks of enemies, they are looking for deliverance, and many churches and pastors and misleading them with all sorts of “enemies fall down and die”, fasting and prayers, anointing program, deliverance services, and etc. while those people continue in sins and worldliness. What type of deliverance are you looking for while you are still under the bondage of sin? The all-round deliverance you need is salvation in Jesus Christ. I am not talking about answering altar call, but genuine salvation that starts a new life in Jesus Christ.

Many people do not understand the meaning or magnitude of this salvation in Jesus. When you are genuinely saved, He delivers you from sins and every form of bondage of Satan and enemies, physically and spiritually, sickness, past covenants and commitment, and you become a new creature in Him, He begins to fight your battle for you; your only fight is the good fight of faith. No genuine child of God is bound to remain in bondage of attack, curse, evil covenants, and hereditary curse or evil, because everything has becomes new in Christ, and greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4.

BUT WHY?
But why do we see many children of God being attacked by evil forces, suffering from hereditary curses? The answer is simple – it’s according to their faith. Many are ignorance of the victory in Jesus Christ, they live in perpetual bondage even in the freedom in Christ. Many churches are misleading people that salvation in Jesus Christ cannot totally set them free every bondage. It will only be according to your faith – what you believe is what becomes of you.

When the boat of the disciples was sinking on the lake, they were so afraid and troubled, then they cried to Jesus for help, but Jesus did not say the situation was normal, but he asked them, “Where is your faith” Luke 8:25. So, it is possible for Jesus to be present in the boat of your life and still sink, simply because you’ve lost your faith. It is better you get your lost faith in Him before you get lost.

Faith in Jesus Christ means being victorious in Christ over Satan, principalities, powers, evil people, program, plans of enemies. You see, Satan will not first attach a child of God except he first attacks his faith in Christ. When your faith in Christ is not victorious over all, then you will be defeated at some point. If you or your pastor makes you believe that generational curse can still have power over your life after you are saved, so it will. If you believe enemies can attack you, so it will be. That is the reason you see the set of Christians who pray problematic prayer never stop praying such prayer, because they are never free. It will simply be according to your faith.

I heard a story about a pastor; a young girl who was possessed of evil power walked to him and asked him, “Sir is there anybody that evil power cannot overcome?” The pastor said no, that anybody could be attacked and overcome by evil power. The pastor was attacked and killed that same night, because he confessed it by himself.

Deliverance does not come by all these problematic enemy fall down and die, special deliverance program, prayer city Mountain and marathon prayer, but total deliverance comes by genuine salvation in Jesus Christ.

NOTE: Many Christians also remain under bondage of enemies because of unsettled restitution, while they are busy praying and fasting for deliverance. Unsettled restitution exposes believers to old curses, covenants, attacks and persistent bondage of the devil and loss of heaven at the end.

CONCLUSION
If you are in any evil cult or covenant, the only way out is salvation in Jesus Christ through repentance, and that you can do now! If you are suffering from any attacks of the devil or if you want to live a victorious life in Jesus and live in eternal blessing with Him, surrender all to Him, start a new life in Him, settle every restitution, serve the Lord and stand firm in faith!

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Christianity Etc › Re: The Redeemed Church And God On Opposite Paths by FreshGreen(op): 11:46am On Mar 02, 2016

asalimpo:
Don't you have anything better to say than this daft reply?

@op
the redeemed you knew was smaller. Now it is larger. Like all large families, it will have issues.
Criticising the overseer, for the inherent problems in the family is wrong. In paul's time, didnt the churches he founded have problems?
There was fornication,adultery, a man sleeping with his father's wife, division,splits,sectarianism, defection (demas left the ministry for las vegas). Name it,he had it.
Would you then point accusing fingers at paul,saying, he was weak that's why there were so many problems?
Redeemed is seeking to be a worldwide organisation. It needs more money to achieve its objectives. The chief sherpherd will have to delegate so much tasks to under shepherds.
The quality of supervision from the under shepherds may be what is being witnessed.
I'm not a redeemed fanboy. Just saying, this could be one angle to the problem.
You dont know it all, hence your judgement could be wrong.

Everything you mentioned about the few mixed multitude in the ministry of Apostle Paul was right, however you missed it in 2 ways: 1, Those wrong people you mentioned were few mixed multitude, when few ungodly people mixed up with the church of God, who are tares in wheat, but Apostle Paul wheat was more than tares, but what we have in RCCG and many other churches today is multitude mixed up with the world, the tares are more than the wheat. When we have 1 Judas and 11 Johns, we are on the right path, but when we have 11 Judas and 1 John, then something is wrong, that is the situation with RCCG and many churches today - 11 Judas and 1 John, 11 Demas who are are not even going to Las vegas but causing havoc in the church and 1 Timothy who is silenced to a corner. 2, Can you compare the lifestyle of Apostle Paul with Pastor Adeboye? Rich pastor, poor nation, and poor apostle in a rich nation. The problem of RCCG is Pator Adeboye, he lost sigh of holiness and moderation and the majority followed him. Apostle Peter, Apostle Paul discerned sin and rebuked it in public in the church, but Pastor Adeboye can only discern blessing and upcoming prosperity.

Christianity Etc › Why Many Keep Rising And Reverting Back To The Old Vomit. by FreshGreen(op): 12:19pm On Mar 01, 2016

Why Many Keep Rising And Reverting Back To The Old Vomit.

Many people desire to serve God and live life of holiness. Many, knowing fully well that the only way to escape eternal destruction and danger of hell is by serving God, but they can’t why it is difficult for them to serve God in genuine salvation without falling back into sin. Many people have tried several times to repent and confess their sins but they can’t understand why they keep confessing and committing the same sins, why they keep reverting back to sinful vomit or why they are only struggling with their Christian life and can’t stay long. Answering altar for salvation many times but can’t resist temptation of sin.

On the other path, some are serving God in a way but they always find themselves back to the old addicted sin that is serving as a stronghold in their Christian life. It could be a sin of masturbation, fornication, adultery, pornographic, anger, etc. and unfortunately many have been discouraged by the devil to abandon their desire to serve God. The devil may tell you, “See, you are not meant for this Christian life, no matter how many times you try, and you are always a failure, you are too weak spiritually for God’s standard, just stop deceiving yourself.” Such thought is from the pit of hell to discourage and destroy you.

The Lord is revealing to you right now why you keep confessing and committing sins, why your Christian life is always forward and backward, why you keep falling back into those sins, and why you have not be able to steadfastly serve God. There are three things you lack all this while and when you understand these 3 things now, your Christian life will never remain the same again, you will experience total deliverance from sins with the peace and strength of God to serve Him for the rest of your life without falling back again. Here are the three things you need:

GENUINE REPENTANCE
Before you can experience genuine salvation and serve God in righteousness, you must first experience genuine repentance – which is the foundation of salvation in Christ. There is difference between repentance and remorsefulness, which is difference between Peter and Judas Iscariot. Genuine repentance is to realize all your sins and ready to forsake them. If you only realize the immediate sins, maybe like masturbation, fornication, and you ignore some other sins, you are not genuinely repenting so there will not be genuine salvation. If you realize all your sins and you are not ready from your heart to forsake those sins, you are not repenting; you are only being remorseful or being sorry for your sins and such will not bring victory over sins. Genuine repentance that guarantee total freedom from sins is to realize all your sins – both small and great, serious ones and simple ones, and ready to forsake them.

This is the first step into total freedom from sin and genuine salvation that guarantee eternal life. Before you confess your sins, before you answer altar call, you must first genuinely repent in this respect so that your confession will not be empty. Confessing sins without genuine repentance of realizing all your sins and readiness to forsake them all is a waste of time. How you keep confessing sins without first repenting from those sins.

The false gospel of this modern day that leads people to altar-call and confession of sins and confession of Jesus Christ as the Savior without first teaching and leading people into genuine repentance is satanic manipulation to give people fake salvation and false hope in Jesus. No matter how many times you confess your sins, no matter how much time you answer altar call or repeat prayer of salvation, without genuine repentance, you will keep confessing and committing the same sins.

“He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13.

AFTER YOU ARE SAVED
After you genuinely repent, confess your sins and saved from sins, you will need two things to do and keep doing for you to maintain your salvation. It is a bad news that many people are saved but they lose their salvation and fall back to old bondage of sin because they lack the understanding of new life in Jesus Christ. It is possible for you to be saved in the morning and lose the salvation in the evening if you don’t take these two necessary steps. Salvation is conditional, not an unconditional certificate.

Many people do experience genuine salvation but fall back into sin because they fail to take these two steps after they are saved. And the same thing is applicable to falling back into addicted sins.
Failure to do the right things after you are saved will lead you to fall back into sins you have rejected. Let’s look at the Word of God, Matthew 12:43-45:

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

This reveals why many people who were genuinely saved usually fall back into sin. Behind every sin is an unclean spirit, and when you genuinely repent and experience salvation, the unclean spirits will go out of your life, including the addicted sins, and your heart will be swept clean and in order, but if you do take the right steps of total separation and devotion after you are saved, some forces of those sins will come back and you will fall back into old sins.

So if you don’t want to keep rising and falling, if you don’t want to keep falling back into the addicted sins, you need SEPARATION and DEVOTION after you genuinely repent from all your sins. Let’s look at them one after another:

SEPARATION
After you have experienced genuine salvation, the first step you will need to take immediately is separation, you must separate yourself from every connection to old sinful life, from things that will not help or support your new life in Jesus Christ such as worldly music, movies, magazine – you will delete or destroy them; you will immediately stop going to places that will not help you spiritually includes worldly churches. You must detach yourself from people that will not help your spiritual life, friendship or relationship. You must destroy every sinful, worldly or cultic material in your possession including all the worldly dresses, clothing, jewelries – you don’t keep them or give to people, but you get rid of them completely and immediately.

After you experience salvation, failure to separate yourself from old sinful and worldly things and people will lead you to fall back into sins. Instead of you to move forward with Christ in new life, those things or people will pull you back into darkness and your old vomit. That is what Apostle Peter says in 2 Peter 2:22, “But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

Every Christian journey that will successfully lead to heaven must daily involve separation as a continuous exercise. Separation from worldly, sinful things and people is not only for new convert, it is not only useful for us at our early Christian level but continuously till we get to heaven because when you separate yourself from this sinful or worldly thing today, the devil will introduce another thing tomorrow. That is the reason the Bible warns us to daily search ourselves so as to continue the spiritual exercise of separation. Unfortunately many long-time Christians and Christian ministers are majestically marching straight into eternity without realizing that the devil has implanted some ungodliness, uncleanness or worldliness into their lives, because they fail to exercise daily spiritual checking for separation.

DEVOTION
Salvation in Christ is the beginning of new life as the foundation of our faith, separation is your commitment to settle your new life and devotion is your consecration to God to seal your new life in Christ Jesus. Devotion unto God involves three things:

(i) Daily prayer. To maintain a victorious Christian life, you need a fervent prayer life, praying for God’s sanctification, strength and grace every day; praying for the spiritual understanding and knowledge of God to help you avoid errors. A heavenly minded Christian must spend much of his prayer time on his spiritual life, but the carnal minded Christians pray more about earthly stuff, blessings, provision, and attack against enemies. You must pray morning and evening about your new life in Jesus, let your spiritual life be your priority in your daily prayer, and every other things good will follow. Prayer strengthens us to resist the temptation of sin. Matthew 26:41. “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

(ii) Daily Bible Reading. It is a must for you to spend at least 30mins daily to read and meditate the Word of God. Don’t just read, but prayerfully read and meditate, thinking over and over the Bible passages as you read until you understand and take note. The Word of God helps us not to fall back into sin.
Psalm 119:9-11,
“How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11 Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

The more you read and meditate the Word of God, the more you are being purified and renewed in the Lord.

(iii) WATCHFULNESS. Watchfulness is simply to work out your professed salvation with trembling and godly fear. It means to carefully apply the Word of God you read and the grace of God you receive through prayer into your daily living. That is when we become fruitful in the Lord. So that the grace we receive in prayer and the strength we receive in the Word of God will not be in vain, we must be watchful how we live our lives, how we talk, how we behave, how we response to people’s provocation, how we abstain from distance appearance of sin, how we dress, cloth we wear, the motive behind our dressing, the motive behind our desire for money, all these must be controlled by the Word of God – this is what watchfulness is all about.

Genuine repentance to salvation in Christ Jesus, total Separation from worldly and sinful things and people and complete Devotion unto God through daily prayer, Bible reading and watchfulness. These are the steps we must daily and carefully take in our journey to heaven.

“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:8-11.

God bless you as we continue in this glorious journey to heaven. Forward ever, and backward never in Jesus name.

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Christianity Etc › The Redeemed Church And God On Opposite Paths by FreshGreen(op): 1:15pm On Feb 29, 2016

THE REDEEMED CHURCH AND GOD ON OPPOSITE PATHS

A proverb in Nigeria says, "When a plantain is spoiling, we say no, it is only ripping well" An unripe plantain is rich and contains several nutrients, and when it begins to ripe, it looses its nutrients and could cause health damages, but then it becomes finer, and sweeter; it becomes more presentable and attractive. The same thing is applicable with RCCG and many churches today. But the focus is on RCCG here. The founder of this church, Rev. Akindayomin, a man of holiness and righteousness, God called him and gave him a covenant church, that is Redeemed Christian Church of God - RCCG.

Then the church was unpopular because of its strict stand on holiness and righteousness. They were called "Gospel church" those who preached holiness and stood for it. They were not after materials stuffs, their sisters dressed godly, not flamboyantly, all of them were content with little and sharing with all.When their choir ministered, people bowed their heads in sober mood by the heavenly touch of the singing ministration, not like the jumping, shouting and crazy yelling with entertainment choir of today. Then companies were writing the church for employment because of the faithfulness and diligence of their members. I would not have joined them because of their standard of holiness since I was not saved then. That was the RCCG I knew when I was in Ilesha, Osun state in 1989 to early 90s.

But today, RCCG is more popular, richer and everywhere, in fact, they are proud of their parishes in every corner of Nigeria and many other countries, they are the fastest and still growing church, beautiful auditoriums everywhere. In Abuja here where I live, RCCG is like the richest church. But where are their godly virtues of old? They have exchanged their spiritual riches for materials and financial riches, they boast of financial riches while they are spiritually miserable. I lived in Redemption camp for full 6 months in 2010, and with what I saw in the dept of RCCG - the corruption, sexual immorality, unfaithfulness, etc. among the core leaders to the least members, I can categorically say this church is spiritually poor. A church where a music director wanted to sleep with a sister choir before permitting her to sing praise and worship at the Holy Ghost night? And God cannot open the eyes of the GO to discern or detect sins among people close to him and rebuke it openly as Apostle Peter did in Acts chapter 5, the GO can only discern blessings and upcoming prosperity?

Why has RCCG changed to opposite of where they stood before? Or why did Pastor Adeboye changed the landmark God gave to Rev. Akindayomin, which he upheld till he died? And you, you who were saved and brought up in the old faith when you were young, in secondary school and university fellowships, now you have joined the modern church system and worldly dress and have abandoned your beginning, seeing it as old school?

The Bible standard has gone elsewhere because of crave for population. If you are a member, worker or leader in RCCG, how many messages or books of Rev. Akindayomin do you have or have you read or listen to? Maybe none! RCCG is the only church where materials and works of the immediate past GO is evacuated almost completely. As if the books and messages of their founder who also was the immediate past leader were totally removed. None of his books or messages are promoted or reprinted, at least for every member to have access to the teachings and messages of the founder of their church. This present GO and admins will never do that, you know why? Their lifestyles, prayers and preachings are opposite the messages and standard of Rev. Akindayomin, so they CAN NEVER PROMOTE THE MESSAGES OR BOOKS of Pa Akindayomin in their present spiritual condition. Do you know any church on earth where the messages and books of the church founder and immediate past General Overseer is completely eradicated from the same church with no trace? Only in RCCG.

If God should open the eyes of Pa Akindayomin in heaven to see the church he left on earth, he will be weeping now, so also heaven is weeping on RCCG. But you are celebrating RCCG as a successful church, popular and powerful even to Aso villa here in Abuja.

The case of Pa Akindayomin and Pastor Adeboye is like the case of David and Solomon in the Bible. David fought the good fight of Faith, so also did Pa Akindayomin - we know how Pa Akindayomin started and how he ended well. But Solomon did no fighting, rather he did many buildings, from building Temple of God, to his personal buildings, to several idols, even to Chemosh - incessant building project is one of the signs of backsliding in any church. Solomon had many things, many wives, many riches, etc. just as there are many buildings and many members today in RCCG.

You must be happy of being a member or pastor of RCCG, especially if you did not witness the RCCG of old; because there is freedom, prosperity and promises and better life. No stress of holiness, no discipline of indecent dress, no restitution, everything is bureaucracy, and as long you can comply with the rules and regulations, you have no limit. But that will lead to where?

This is not the covenant church God used His servant Rev. Akindayomin to found, this is not the same church I knew in 1990, this is not the church of the Bible. Today, I will find it hard to join RCCG, not because of their high standard of holiness again, but because of their low and poor standard of holiness.

You can be very zealous to condemn this article, to choose to defend your GO rather than defending the truth. If you were not in RCCG about 20 years ago, then you may lack understanding of the beginning of RCCG, go and ask the elders who witnessed the beginning and strength of RCCG as a true covenant church of undiluted truth and holiness of heavenly minded church.

If you know where God began with you, where God was pleased with you that He made COVENANT with you, then that may help you to know where you have missed it along the way, and where you need to trace you way back. God is waiting for you at the point He made covenant with you, and same thing with Pastor Adeboye and RCCG as a whole. Go back to the old faith, the narrow old path of FEW serious minded, and stop defending this broad MULTITUDE, MANY faulty modern way before it is too late. The Rapture of the saints is imminent!

" Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’— and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and Unclad— 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your unclothedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.Therefore be zealous and repent." Revelation 3:17-19

Gideon Akande

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Christianity Etc › The Gracious Truth by FreshGreen(op): 8:37am On Feb 28, 2016

The Gracious Truth
John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

The true Gospel of the Bible is full of grace and truth. The grace of God through Jesus Christ is no condemnation, that is the grace of the Bible – God’s favour, God’s power to live above sin and victorious over Satan. And the truth of the Gospel is to go and sin no more after we meet Jesus Christ.

Are you living your life in the light of the truth of the Gospel or half-truth of heresy? We must repent before it is too late and rededicate ourselves to the whole truth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Genuine salvation of the Gospel is to repent, confess, forsake the confessed sins and follow Jesus in new life. Read 2 Corinthians 5:17

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Christianity Etc › Half Truth Of Confession Without Repentance by FreshGreen(op): 8:21am On Feb 28, 2016

HALF TRUTH OF CONFESSION WITHOUT REPENTANCE

Half-truth of confession without repentance will lead to no genuine salvation. We hear message of salvation of today in many churches, from many preachers as “confess and be saved”. That people should just come, come and come, then, “ If you want to give your life to Jesus Christ and begin to enjoy the blessings, prosperity, deliverance and healing, all you need to do is to confess, say it after me ‘Jesus , I have come to you, I confess you as my Savior’ Now you are saved.” This process of confession without repentance will NEVER bring genuine salvation.

That is the reason you hear funny things happening among them, because they don’t have genuine experience of salvation, that is the reason such Christians will continue in sin even after they have been ordained ministers, because the foundation is false and faulty.

How can you ask somebody to confess his sin without first telling him to repent? How can you say somebody is saved when the person does not understand what repentance is all about? Confession of sin without first repentance is half-truth that leads to heresy and hell.

Because the preachers who preach confession of sin without repentance do not understand genuine salvation themselves or they want multitude. Christians whose foundation is based on confessions of sin without genuine repentance will always find themselves committing the sins they have confessed.

Repentance will make somebody to count the cost before coming to Christ, that you must not only realize your sin, but you must make up your mind to forsake them, that you have the cross of self-denying to bear after you come to Christ, that Christian life is not about prosperity, prophesying but righteousness, truth and joy in the Holy Spirit.

The half-truth of confession without repentance, of coming to Christ and continuing in sin at the same time is heresy of this end time, which every Christian who wants to make rapture must watch against. Confession of sins alone will not bring the mercy of God, but only those who repent, confess and forsake the sin they confess will experience unlimited mercy. Proverbs 28:13.

God bless you
Gideon Akande
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Christianity Etc › What God Cares About! by FreshGreen(op): 8:02am On Feb 28, 2016

WHAT GOD CARES ABOUT!

1, God is interested in you to live a righteous life than your sacrificial giving and services.

Amos 5:21, 22 "“I hate, I despise your feast days,
And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings."

2, God has no delight in your melodious praise and worship without righteousness and holiness in your lifestyle.

Amos 5:23, "Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments."

3, First Thing First!
Your obedience to God's word, righteousness of life and godly living is most important and acceptable to God than your sacrifices, services and songs.

Amos 5:24, "But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream."

God bless you as you take heed!

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Christianity Etc › Why Many Christians Keep Confessing And Committing Same Sins by FreshGreen(op): 4:23pm On Feb 25, 2016

WHY MANY CHRISTIANS KEEP CONFESSING AND COMMITTING SAME SINS
-Why Many Keep Rising And Reverting Back To The Old Vomit.

Many people desire to serve God and live life of holiness. Many, knowing fully well that the only way to escape eternal destruction and danger of hell is by serving God, but they can’t why it is difficult for them to serve God in genuine salvation without falling back into sin. Many people have tried several times to repent and confess their sins but they can’t understand why they keep confessing and committing the same sins, why they keep reverting back to sinful vomit or why they are only struggling with their Christian life and can’t stay long. Answering altar for salvation many times but can’t resist temptation of sin.

On the other path, some are serving God in a way but they always find themselves back to the old addicted sin that is serving as a stronghold in their Christian life. It could be a sin of masturbation, fornication, adultery, pornographic, anger, etc. and unfortunately many have been discouraged by the devil to abandon their desire to serve God. The devil may tell you, “See, you are not meant for this Christian life, no matter how many times you try, and you are always a failure, you are too weak spiritually for God’s standard, just stop deceiving yourself.” Such thought is from the pit of hell to discourage and destroy you.

The Lord is revealing to you right now why you keep confessing and committing sins, why your Christian life is always forward and backward, why you keep falling back into those sins, and why you have not be able to steadfastly serve God. There are three things you lack all this while and when you understand these 3 things now, your Christian life will never remain the same again, you will experience total deliverance from sins with the peace and strength of God to serve Him for the rest of your life without falling back again. Here are the three things you need:

GENUINE REPENTANCE
Before you can experience genuine salvation and serve God in righteousness, you must first experience genuine repentance – which is the foundation of salvation in Christ. There is difference between repentance and remorsefulness, which is difference between Peter and Judas Iscariot. Genuine repentance is to realize all your sins and ready to forsake them. If you only realize the immediate sins, maybe like masturbation, fornication, and you ignore some other sins, you are not genuinely repenting so there will not be genuine salvation. If you realize all your sins and you are not ready from your heart to forsake those sins, you are not repenting; you are only being remorseful or being sorry for your sins and such will not bring victory over sins. Genuine repentance that guarantee total freedom from sins is to realize all your sins – both small and great, serious ones and simple ones, and ready to forsake them.

This is the first step into total freedom from sin and genuine salvation that guarantee eternal life. Before you confess your sins, before you answer altar call, you must first genuinely repent in this respect so that your confession will not be empty. Confessing sins without genuine repentance of realizing all your sins and readiness to forsake them all is a waste of time. How you keep confessing sins without first repenting from those sins.

The false gospel of this modern day that leads people to altar-call and confession of sins and confession of Jesus Christ as the Savior without first teaching and leading people into genuine repentance is satanic manipulation to give people fake salvation and false hope in Jesus. No matter how many times you confess your sins, no matter how much time you answer altar call or repeat prayer of salvation, without genuine repentance, you will keep confessing and committing the same sins.

“He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13.

AFTER YOU ARE SAVED
After you genuinely repent, confess your sins and saved from sins, you will need two things to do and keep doing for you to maintain your salvation. It is a bad news that many people are saved but they lose their salvation and fall back to old bondage of sin because they lack the understanding of new life in Jesus Christ. It is possible for you to be saved in the morning and lose the salvation in the evening if you don’t take these two necessary steps. Salvation is conditional, not an unconditional certificate.

Many people do experience genuine salvation but fall back into sin because they fail to take these two steps after they are saved. And the same thing is applicable to falling back into addicted sins.
Failure to do the right things after you are saved will lead you to fall back into sins you have rejected. Let’s look at the Word of God, Matthew 12:43-45:

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

This reveals why many people who were genuinely saved usually fall back into sin. Behind every sin is an unclean spirit, and when you genuinely repent and experience salvation, the unclean spirits will go out of your life, including the addicted sins, and your heart will be swept clean and in order, but if you do take the right steps of total separation and devotion after you are saved, some forces of those sins will come back and you will fall back into old sins.

So if you don’t want to keep rising and falling, if you don’t want to keep falling back into the addicted sins, you need SEPARATION and DEVOTION after you genuinely repent from all your sins. Let’s look at them one after another:

SEPARATION
After you have experienced genuine salvation, the first step you will need to take immediately is separation, you must separate yourself from every connection to old sinful life, from things that will not help or support your new life in Jesus Christ such as worldly music, movies, magazine – you will delete or destroy them; you will immediately stop going to places that will not help you spiritually includes worldly churches. You must detach yourself from people that will not help your spiritual life, friendship or relationship. You must destroy every sinful, worldly or cultic material in your possession including all the worldly dresses, clothing, jewelries – you don’t keep them or give to people, but you get rid of them completely and immediately.

After you experience salvation, failure to separate yourself from old sinful and worldly things and people will lead you to fall back into sins. Instead of you to move forward with Christ in new life, those things or people will pull you back into darkness and your old vomit. That is what Apostle Peter says in 2 Peter 2:22, “But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

Every Christian journey that will successfully lead to heaven must daily involve separation as a continuous exercise. Separation from worldly, sinful things and people is not only for new convert, it is not only useful for us at our early Christian level but continuously till we get to heaven because when you separate yourself from this sinful or worldly thing today, the devil will introduce another thing tomorrow. That is the reason the Bible warns us to daily search ourselves so as to continue the spiritual exercise of separation. Unfortunately many long-time Christians and Christian ministers are majestically marching straight into eternity without realizing that the devil has implanted some ungodliness, uncleanness or worldliness into their lives, because they fail to exercise daily spiritual checking for separation.

DEVOTION
Salvation in Christ is the beginning of new life as the foundation of our faith, separation is your commitment to settle your new life and devotion is your consecration to God to seal your new life in Christ Jesus. Devotion unto God involves three things:

(i) Daily prayer. To maintain a victorious Christian life, you need a fervent prayer life, praying for God’s sanctification, strength and grace every day; praying for the spiritual understanding and knowledge of God to help you avoid errors. A heavenly minded Christian must spend much of his prayer time on his spiritual life, but the carnal minded Christians pray more about earthly stuff, blessings, provision, and attack against enemies. You must pray morning and evening about your new life in Jesus, let your spiritual life be your priority in your daily prayer, and every other things good will follow. Prayer strengthens us to resist the temptation of sin. Matthew 26:41. “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

(ii) Daily Bible Reading. It is a must for you to spend at least 30mins daily to read and meditate the Word of God. Don’t just read, but prayerfully read and meditate, thinking over and over the Bible passages as you read until you understand and take note. The Word of God helps us not to fall back into sin.
Psalm 119:9-11,
“How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11 Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

The more you read and meditate the Word of God, the more you are being purified and renewed in the Lord.

(iii) WATCHFULNESS. Watchfulness is simply to work out your professed salvation with trembling and godly fear. It means to carefully apply the Word of God you read and the grace of God you receive through prayer into your daily living. That is when we become fruitful in the Lord. So that the grace we receive in prayer and the strength we receive in the Word of God will not be in vain, we must be watchful how we live our lives, how we talk, how we behave, how we response to people’s provocation, how we abstain from distance appearance of sin, how we dress, cloth we wear, the motive behind our dressing, the motive behind our desire for money, all these must be controlled by the Word of God – this is what watchfulness is all about.

Genuine repentance to salvation in Christ Jesus, total Separation from worldly and sinful things and people and complete Devotion unto God through daily prayer, Bible reading and watchfulness. These are the steps we must daily and carefully take in our journey to heaven.

“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:8-11.

God bless you as we continue in this glorious journey to heaven. Forward ever, and backward never in Jesus name.

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