₦airaland Forum

Onyiibazz:
Never will you see a people as confused as christians. Today they want the old testament, tomorrow the old testament is outdated and they go for the new. After two thousand years of waiting for the arrival of their master, they are still arguing about the faction that has the original interpretation of their holy story book!!!

You seems to be confused personally. Jesus can set you free with Truth. Ignoring the Truth will not save you. Half-truth will not save you, but the whole truth. Salvation and new life in Jesus, being delivered from sin and saved from satanic oppression, are you?

dsquare33:
Mr Op, After carefully reading your analysis on RCCG it is either you are biased or you have a personal grudge against Pastor E.A Adeboye.It is has a result of God's grace on G.O that made RCCG to grow to what it is today. So you expect the church not to grow apart from the spiritual aspect finacially.What you wrote was one sided agreed there are some bad eggs in the church; is it only in RCCG church that You have bad eggs?Don't we have corrupt pastors in other denominations?You said you went to Redemption Camp and you noticed the moral decadence at the camp.What is happening in the Church generally today is as a result of the Church sleeping spiritually and infilteration of WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING and this is one of the signs of the end time which is carefully stated in Mattew13vs24 - 30.2nd Peter 2vs1-3. As a good christian are you not suppose to interceede in prayer for the Church because the church is the body of Christ.Please for the love of Christ stop this calumny and slander against the man of God and against RCCG.Your likes is what makes the world say perverse and malicious words against the body of Christ.Christians are their own worst enemies.

Here is what you said here on Nairaland on June 28th this year, " if only the church leaders had done their assignment by teaching the true sound doctrine,but instead almost all of them had gone in the way of Balaam,they are building monuments for themselves rather than building the church hence the moral decadence." According to you, who are the church leaders that have gone the way of Balaam? Read your Bible from Genesis to Revelation - you cannot change a thing without challenging it. You must rise up and pray and preach against sin and worldliness, irrespective of who is involved. If I had mentioned the pastor of a white garment church, you might have been convenient with it. Try to defend the truth than a tall person. God bless you

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

BEWARE OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE PHARISEES
Matthew 16:6, “Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

Jesus Christ warned His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, that is the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducee, because they were destructive. The doctrines of Pharisees are friendly and familiar, but they are dangerous.

Some Doctrines of The Pharisees:
CONCERN FOR SIGNS MORE THAN SALVATION
Matthew 16:1, “Then the Pharisees and Sadducee came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven.”

The Pharisees cared for signs from Jesus than the salvation He brought for them; their doctrines and teachings centered mostly on signs, because they were only looking for signs, and cared not for the salvation of their souls. The same doctrine is popular and paramount in the Christianity of today, everywhere. Preachers are preaching and praying mostly about signs and wonders, prophets are prophesying majorly about signs and wonders, and people are running after signs and wonders; they care most for miracles, blessings, breakthrough, healing, provision and protection from Jesus than Salvation of their souls and sanctification of their lives.

If your pastors preach about signs and wonders, miracles and blessings more than salvation and sanctification of life, it means your pastors are modern Pharisees. If your Bishop, G.O, or Senior Pastor teaches about breakthrough of prosperity and deliverance more than holiness and righteousness of life, it implies you are a victim of the doctrine of Pharisees. The worst of all is if your preachers or favorite pastors spend majority of the time of their messages, for example, spending about 55minutes to preach about God’s promises of blessings, breakthrough and prosperity, and when it remains like 5 minutes to round up, they begin to make fire brigade altar call without spending good time to talk about salvation – in order to pacify their conscience as if they still preach salvation, and to deceive you that you are in a bible church – please get it clear, if such is the situation of your church, it simply means you are under the hypocritical deception and delusion of Pharisees.

CONCERN FOR OUTWARD THAN INWARD
Matthew 15:1,2, “Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

The doctrine of the Pharisees centered on outward well-being more than inward well-being, they cared for physical outlook than spiritual outlook, and they were particular about human approval than God's approval. Similar doctrine is being copied and circulated everywhere today. The preachers and pastors care for your physical well being than your spiritual well-being; they are concern about your earthly progress than your eternal destiny. The modern doctrine of Pharisees repeatedly preach and pray about financial and material prosperity, but care less about purity of life.

The truth is that, outward prosperity has nothing to do with the well-being of your soul. You can get all the prosperity of this life, you can be so prosperous financially, materially and medically, and yet your soul remains poor and famished. Outward prosperity has nothing to profit your eternal soul, what profits your soul is purity of life after the salvation of your soul in Christ Jesus.

If you are in a church or under a ministry where prosperity of life is mentioned and emphasized more than purity of life, then you are in serious danger of the doctrine of 21st Century Pharisees. Do you have a Sermon Note Book in which you jots messages in your church? Then check the last 10 messages in your church or 10 CD of your favorite preacher; if majority of the messages and sermons center on earthly blessings, promises of prosperity and prayers more than messages of holiness, purity and preparation for the second coming of Jesus Christ - if such is the case with you, then you have been feeding on the leaven and loaves of Pharisees for your destruction.

RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES WITHOUT ACTIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS
Matthew 23:23, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.”

Activity in the name of God without active relationship with Jesus is a mere religion. The Pharisees were more concerned about paying tithes than living a life of justice and mercy. Paying tithes-sermon is a common sermon in many churches today; paying tithes is good and biblical, but more than that is presenting your life as a living sacrifice, holy and accepted to God, which is your reasonable service. The truth is that, tithes payment is not meant for everybody in the church except those who have totally surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ- you may not hear that from your modern preachers. God wants us to first present our lives holy unto Him before we begin to pay tithes. Those G.Os, Bishops and pastors who say everybody, including unbelievers, should pay tithes are modern and mere Pharisees.

If you are not genuinely saved and serving God in holiness, you need not to be concerned about paying tithes and offerings, your concern should be to first surrender your life to Jesus and be sanctified. Preachers who preach tithes more than more transformation of life in godliness are modern Pharisees. You are not qualified to pay tithes or help God’s work until you totally surrender your life to Jesus and start new life of holiness in Him. Your tithes and offerings are useless and baseless without the salvation of your soul and sanctification of your life.

Isaiah 1:13-16
Bring no more futile sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of blood.
16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil.

CONCERN FOR SELF THAN SACRIFICING
Matthew 23:14, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.”

The Pharisees’ doctrines and determinations were all about their “self interest and ego”, they would misinterpret the scriptures just to serve their personal benefits. They were after their self exaltation and luxury, they were looking for the best seat for pride and comfort. These Pharisees devoured widows’ houses in the name of giving to God, they discouraged adult children from taking care of their parents in the name of giving to God.

The similar thing is happening today: modern gospel teaches that giving to big pastors, senior pastors, bishops and prophets is more acceptable to God and profitable than giving to your parents or people around you who are in need. By so doing, many ignorantly ignore their parents, family members and friends in need so as to sow into a big pastors and their multimillion building projects. Have you ever heard a saying that the life of some particular pastors are the most vital land to sow seed? Such statement has no biblical back, it is from the pit of hell. Many Christians are ignorant, so they ignore people around them who have basic and genuine needs, and they go ahead to give prophetic seeds into the lives of big pastors who have millions laying fallow in their bank accounts.

Jesus warned us to beware, run away, from the doctrines of Pharisees and scribes. They are destructive and misleading. You will do yourself more good if you take heed to the warning of Jesus Christ. Do not feed your precious soul with the leaven of Pharisees, no matter how little; because a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Galatians 5:9. No matter how little a false teaching is, it has the capacity to contaminate a whole life, family and ministry.

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THE TRADITIONS OF ELDERS ON GIVING
Matthew 15:2-6 "Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” 3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition."

Traditions of elders are popularly accepted notions in Christianity which has no biblical backing, they are human imaginations and opinions placed equal to scripture as if it is from the Scripture. Such teachings and traditions are seriously upheld and believed as if they are from the Bible. Lay Christians who cannot search the scriptures, or who respect their senior pastors more than the scriptures will take and swallow such traditions without cross checking from the Bible. You will save yourself from serious danger if you confirm every teaching from the Bible before you digest in your life.

THE TRADITION ABOUT GIVING
The scribes and Pharisees taught the people that instead of giving to their parents, they should give to the work of God; they were teaching the congregation that giving to them in the name of God was more profitable and acceptable than giving to their parents. They were turning Scriptures upside down, they were using the name of God to exploit people, in the name of giving to God; they made people to ignore their parents and people who were in needs.

The similar thing is happening today: modern gospel teaches that giving to big pastors, senior pastors, bishops and prophets is more acceptable to God and profitable than giving to your parents or people around you who are in need. By so doing, many ignorantly ignore their parents, fellow church members, family members and friends in need so as to sow into a big pastors and their multimillion building projects. Have you ever heard a saying that the life of some particular pastors are the most vital land to sow? Such statement has no biblical back, you will never read it anywhere from our founding fathers of faith, either in America or Africa, it is the statement of our modern preachers, it is from the pit of hell. Many Christians are ignorant today, so they ignore people around them who have basic and genuine needs, and they go ahead to give prophetic seeds into the lives of big pastors who have millions laying fallow in their bank accounts.

Because such people have been taught repeatedly that it is more profitable to give to a big Pastor, Bishop or a daddy GO than giving to missionaries, village pastors or people around; since everybody is looking for a shortcut blessing from God, they keep "sowing" into the lives of such big Pastors. The notion of this tradition is that as respective a minister of God is before people, so he is before God, and there will be a respective return - monumental error!

Can you imagine a Christian buying a very expensive car for a big pastor who has more than 3 vehicles already, while he ignores neighbors and church members who need small car to do business so as to survive their families? Can you imagine many Christians donating for multimillion church auditoriums while many families of same church can’t afford to pay their house rents? We are living in the age where Pharisees are the Pastors and Sadducee are the teachers. So people ignore the basic needs of people around them to meet the luxurious needs of their big Pastors, daddy GO or Papas for them to pay their private jets' tax.

So was the reason when of these "Big" pastors in Nigeria clearly stated in a program that he is richer than Bill Gate, because if he needs a car, shoe or anything and inform the congregation, he would get them in multiple.

There is no where in the Bible that says giving to a big minister makes your giving special and brings more blessings; the notions are traditions of elders.

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, families who have basic needs, singles who are ready 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 who need just basic amenities to sustain their ministries; when you ignore such people and you are sowing or go into 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 a person can give and have problem as a result of that giving? When it is given in un-biblical way. If you give to the rich, either a rich pastor or a rich person, you will attract God’s judgment on yourself. Proverbs 22:16, "He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty."

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 Prophets, Pastors, Apostles and Bishops can pray for you, but they cannot answer the prayers themselves, only God chooses which prayer He will answer. God does not answer prayer by big names of a pastor or bishop but by the name of Jesus Christ. Such senior pastors may psych you with different testimonies or prophecies, but you will never find a backing from the Bible.

HERE ARE FOUR BIBLICAL INJUNCTIONS FOR GIVING:

(1) Give Your Life Before Your Money
Giving your money, properties or possessions to God's work is totally useless without you first giving your life to Jesus in genuine salvation.The first and foremost gift to give to God is to give your life Him, because the first gift you ever received came from God, He is your first Giver, and He must be your first Receiver - and that gift is your life, to give back the life He first gave 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 do 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 To 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 simply a minister of God, don't give to people because they have "heavy" anointing or because they are popular. You should only give to people if they 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 at ministering to the needs 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's 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 it meets needs in the lives of the person or 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 Minister With Needs
When it comes to giving to ministers of God or works of God, you can give as much as possible, and as many time as possible to meet genuine and necessary needs, not because of their positions and not to meet excessive or unnecessary needs. Multimillion church building projects are inessential to the salvation and transformation of lives. 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 all and give to all men, to Christians or Non-Christians; but the needs of the brethren in the Lord come first. Galatians 6:10, "Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith."

Our lives, our teachings and ministries should not base on traditions of elders but on the unchanging scriptures as written in the Bible; by doing so, we will be free from errors and doctrines of Pharisees.

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ATTEMPT TO HELP GOD
"And when they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark; and he died there before God. " 1 Chronicles 13:9-10

God is Almighty and All-powerful, All-sufficient and Self-existent God who lives from everlasting to everlasting. He sees all things, knows all things at the same time. He is the Helper of all and needs no help from anyone, and from Him flows all goodness and blessings. For a human being or any being to attempt to help this Almighty God is a terrible mistake and sin, because it is an act of despising, dishonoring, and reducing God to a person who needs help. Attempting to help God is a terrible mistake of all time, and that was what Uzza did, he saw that God's Ark was about to fall and he decided to help God hold it back despite the fact that God had lay down instructions on who to touch or carry the Ark. God was angry with Uzza and He struck him to death.

How People Attempt To Help God Today
Many are acting like Uzza today. In your personal life, you attempt to help God after you are trusting God for a blessing and then take ungodly means to help get or fast track the blessing. When you are trusting God for a particular job, contract, position or provision and you know God has been working it out for you all along, but it gets to a point, due to some circumstances and challenges, it seems the blessing may not get to you; so to avoid further delay or disappointment, you have to commit a little sin to make things work out. Then you go ahead to testify of the goodness of God. That is the terrible sin of helping the Almighty God.

God promised you provision, a promotion, a position or a partner, and He was working it out all along, but along the way it got stuck as if it would never succeed or come to pass if you don't commit a little sin to help things work, if you don't tell little lie, if you don't reduce your age to get the job or appointment, if you don't adjust your information to get the papers and document done, if you don't compromise to keep the job or the possession, if you don't permit per-marital sex to keep the relationship, if you don't please people to get their favor, if you don't give the bribe to complete the process. "Look, everything will fall apart except you do something now, you can't say you trust God and fold your hands here, heaven helps those who help themselves. If you don't do this, you will miss everything, the life time golden opportunity.

"There is nothing wrong doing it, it is just to help what God has promised and started in your life, everything works together for God's glory, He understands." That is what Satan and people around you will suggest to you in such situation, even believers, even pastors. But it's left to you to either trust God fully and let His will be done in your life or you turn foolish like Uzza in attempt to help God to perfect what He started in your life.

When God promises or proceeds something in your life, you must trust Him to perfect it. When things gets tough and stocked or stopped along the way, just keep trusting God, don't lean on your understanding, don't be foolish like Uzza in the name of helping things out. Don't follow the multitude of ungodly counsel. God who promised, who started the good work will surely perfect it in His own way, with a better one even if the one you expected does not work; it is a test of your faith, God want to see if you really love and trust Him like Abraham who gave his Isaac, and like David who refused to kill Saul to help God's plan come to pass in his life. When we trust God with all our hearts, He turns disappointment to reappointment.

If you are a child of God, you need to answer two these questions:
(1) What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

(2) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or unclothedness, or peril, or sword?

"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:31, 35, 38-39.

Prayer
LORD God, You are our Father, our Redeemer and our Helper, help us to trust and look unto You always for help. LORD, help us to reject ungodly suggestions and benefits; no matter the condition, to trust You always, no matter the trials or threats. We ask in Jesus name. Amen

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THE MYSTERY OF GOD’S “NO REMEMBRANCE”
“For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more” Jeremiah 3:34

One of the mysteries of God and Christianity is this “No more remembrance”. It’s complex and has difference faces. When God says He remember no more, He is not pretending or saying it for just saying, it is real, it’s so exactly, it’s a mystery. A mystery is something beyond human understanding, human comprehension, and this no-more remembrance is simply a mystery.

When God remembers our sins no more, the record is deleted from His memory and the consequence is removed. The mystery of No-more-remembrance is applicable to human sinful works and as well as good works as the case may be.

The mystery of God’s no-more remembrance is applicable to these two aspects:

(1) Repentant & Confessed Sins

When we come to Jesus Christ with a repentant heart and confess our sins to Him, God forgives all our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Every man on earth has a record before God; every sin committed is recorded in heaven against the person. But when we are sorrowful for our sins with a broken spirit and contrite heart – that is a repentant heart – the realization of our sins as sins, as terrible and displeasing to God and the readiness to forsake those sins; when God sees these in us, He cannot despise us no matter how terrible or how long the sins have been. When we sincerely realize and really ready to forsake those sinful lifestyles, God forgives us through Jesus His Son and uses the Blood of Jesus to cleanse us from all sins and also cleanse our records from all those sins.

Immediately, He does not remember all our sins any more! This is a mystery, beyond human understanding. How can all-knowing God forget what we did wrong, what we did against Him for many years? He forgets because He has forgiven through Jesus and the Blood of Jesus has wiped them away and that is forever. Those sins can not stand against us now nor forever, we become as innocent as never sinned, the righteousness of Jesus covers us and God sees only Christ’s righteousness. No remembrance, no consequence, no condemnation, but peace from the presence of God follows. Here is what God says, “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live.” Ezekiel 18:21, 22.

To have this unspeakable experience, you need to realize your sins both small and great, ready to forsake all, not some, not serious ones, but all and then you confess all and ask Jesus to forgive and cleanse you. You tell Him you want to accept Him as your Lord and ask Him to save you. Thank is all! Read: 1 John 1:7-9 and Colossians 2:13-15.

(2) Going Back into Sin
When a child of God who has been previously washed and forgiven by the Blood of Jesus Christ goes back into sinful life and rejects the calls to repentance for restoration, all his righteousness, services, and labor in the kingdom of God for short or long period will be forgotten and wiped away. God will not remember all the holy living, good deeds, and effort in the services again. This is mysterious, how can God forget all the righteous living of many years, godly life, labor of love, sacrifices and services in the ministry and work of God for many years? The persecution the person endured, the preaching and evangelism the person did for God, the persistence in service, suffering, sacrificial giving, and all the holy and righteous living of the person will be forgotten by God because the person has gone back into sin or compromised with the world, because of un-confessed sin, because of secret sin, because of simple, common sin and because of it-doesn’t-matter sins. This is really mysterious. God says, “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.” Ezekiel 18:24. God forget and He doesn’t remember or retrace the righteousness of the person anymore!

The doctrine of once saved is saved forever is doctrine of demons to deceive many to destruction. The doctrine of once saved is forever covered with the righteousness of Jesus without your righteous and holy living is satanic device to dilute God’s word and lead many to eternal doom.

Here is the Word of God, “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1. What does that means? It means you can only escape God’s condemnation if you don’t continue to work according to the flesh, which is sinful desire and life. The declaration of “No condemnation” is applicable to those who repent, confess and forsake their sins and start to “walk in the spirit”. Walking in the Spirit is living righteous and holy life.

If you have not forsaken your sin, you need to repent now and confess those sins to Jesus, ask Him to forgive, cleanse and save you, and then forsake all those sin as you start to walk in the Holy Spirit by Holy Spirit for holy life. If you have gone back to sin, backslidden, you need to run back to Jesus now as a matter of urgency; it is the mercy of God that has kept you from being smitten by Satan, now run back to Jesus before the next minutes. If you have given and re-dedicated your life to Jesus now, then no turning back, no going back into sin and the worldly life a minute for you may not and never have a second chance.

You are blessed as you take the right step for the right stand!

HEBREWS 10:26-29
“For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?”


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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 naked— 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

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GENUINE SALVATION - BIBLE STUDY
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Mathew 7:21, “ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”

I was talking with a man on phone one day and in asked him if he was born again. He said, “Yes and who isn’t?” He sounded like being born again is the common thing everybody is doing this day, and especially in a Christian predominant region like ours, who will not mind to be born again and continue his life as he has been living and begin to enjoy prosperity and blessing of God? That is the type of salvation many people have today, but that is the kind of salvation these modern Pentecostal preachers are preaching. But that is not a genuine salvation.
Today, many people believe you are saved and born again as long as you are going to church, or because you answered an alter call in the church, or because you have joined the workers in your church. Many think they are better and matured Christians because they have gone through several training and programs in their churches, because they have been ordained, because they are not involved in God’s work, because they are giving to God’s works, because they are now speaking in tongues or doing more prayers and fasting. Some think they are saved because they have been attending Pentecostal Gospel Church. And some may believe they are born again because they pay tithe and offering and give good amount of money to the church and their pastors. You may also feel you are saved just because you read bible and moved during the praise and worship.

Salvation is none of the above. Many people who claim to be saved this day are into delusion of grandeur. Today every body who claims to be Christian is born again, and you see them right in old sinful lifestyle. Salvation is not religious activities. Satan is deceiving many people with wrong notions of being saved, he does not want them to realize their false salvation until it is too late.

Do you think you have saved? What is the evidence? Why not check it out if you have not been caring about false salvation. You can check it yourself and be sure of your profession before it gets too late. Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord, “shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven. “ That means that not everyone who claim to be saved are really, and you know Jesus is not respecter of any man. So it would do you more good if you check proof your claim of salvation for some few minutes in the word of God.

Evidence
For us to be certain we have something real and original, then we must have the evidence. There is evidence of salvation in the Bible that settles every doubt and false claim. This evidence proves if you are truly saved, and the good thing is that it does not condemn you if you are not but it guides how to be genuinely saved. The evidence of salvation is not something made by a particular church or pastor; it is the standard of the Savior Himself clearly stated in the bible.

The Lord says in that same verse, “Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord, “shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven. “Here the only evidence of salvation is doing the will of God! Every other evidence is insufficient. “Not everyone who says” What we say is not what matter; we can confess Jesus as our Savior, we may come out for alter call, we may speak in tongues, we may even preach to other people, but all that we say do not matter as much as what we do. And do you know that all we do don’t the matter except one doing, which is doing the will of God.

You may do many wonderful things for God, but if you don’t do His will, He is not reckoning with you. You may do many works of ministry as worker in the church but if you don’t do His will, all your other works are baseless.

You may do signs and wonders in Jesus name, but if you are not doing His will right in your life, he doesn’t know you. You wonder how is it possible that doing wonders and miracles, preaching and speaking in tongues are not enough evidence of salvation. Jesus said they are not, they are not as important to Him as doing His will. He 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! “

Jesus said “many” you know when Jesus says many He means many, that may be majority. And He said all that are not evidence of genuine salvation; that you calls Him Lord; that you go to church, that you receive blessing and miracle from Jesus are not an evidence that you are saved, he said those who perform the miracles cant use that as an evidence, but those who do the will of His father. So, do you want to be among the many with insufficient claims or the few that do His will?

Doing the will of God!
The only evidence of a genuine salvation and eternal life is doing the will of God. As you can see it is not going to church or working wonders, it is not speaking in tongues, but doing the will of God. Doing the will of God is not something natural, is not something you can pretend to do. By nature you are opt to doing your will and sinful desires. It’s only when you are truly saved that you can do the will of God. It takes a genuine salvation for you to be doing the will of God, it takes genuine salvation for you to subdue your own will and doing God’s will.

So, having known that the will of God is only the evidence and barometer of genuine salvation then what is doing the will of God? Doing the will of God means to abandon your old sinful lifestyle and to abide in the word of God. That implies you must abandon something and abide in new thing. That is doing the will of God. Your old sinful life is controlled by Satan and new life is in Jesus; and there can’t be two masters in a single life. Its either you continue in your usual old life and forget about God’s will or you abandon, forsake those sins and abide in a new life in Jesus.

The bible says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. “ 2 Cor 5:17. For you to abide, be in Christ genuinely, old things must first pass away. It means for you to do the will of God, you must first do away with yourself. So can you see that it is more than saying “Lord, Lord,” Can you see that it is more than going to church or for alter call and mere confessing? Can you see that it is easier than speaking in tongues? It’s simply abandoning your sinful life and abiding in Jesus at the expense of Jesus’ grace and power.
Continuity
There was a time when Jesus was preaching in the temple; many believed him as their Savior. But Jesus knew that is not all about genuine salvation is not everything involves in doing the will of God. So He told them in John 8:31, “then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed. “Do you believe Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Have you confessed and forsaken your sins and accepted Jesus into your heart? That is not all, to confirm your salvation and membership in the kingdom of God; you must abandon your old lifestyle and abide in Jesus.

Doing the will of God is forsaking your old sinful life, sinful friends, sinful job, sinful dressing, and sinful claims and starting a new life in Jesus. It is not about how bad you have been or how much you look decent. It is about new life in Jesus. The evidence of a genuine salvation is that “if anyone”, any one you may be or anyone you claim to be in church or outside the church. If anyone is in Christ, he or she is a new creation, and old things have passed away and all things have become new. “All things, your words and deeds, your confession and your ways of life, your behavior, your disposition, your heart, your soul and spirit, all things have become new! That is the evidence of genuine salvation. Anything less than this is self deception and will lead to eternal disappointment.

Repentance is the Key
Have your wondered why you have answered several calls and yet you have not got the genuine salvation? Do you wonder why you have confessed your sins over and over and you find yourself keep reverting back into the same old life? Do you wonder many people confess Jesus as Saviour and still continue in their old sinful habit? It is simply because no repentance; Confession without repentance is empty. You find yourself relapsing in to your sin because you only confess those sins but you didn’t repent Genuine Salvation is not all about confessing and claiming, but firstly repentance and then confession is made.

Repentance is the key to genuine salvation and new life in Jesus, but modern preachers today have ignore their. They manifest the indecent haste process of confession and claim which is unbiblical. That is the reason you see counterfeit born again Christians today whose confession do not square with their ways of lives. Because there is an omission of repentance. The first message delivered in the New Testament by John the Baptist is on repentance. In Matthew 3:3, John started his ministry in wilderness of Judea saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is of hand; Jesus Christ began His ministry with the message of repentance in Matthew 4:17,From that time Jesus began to preach and is say ,”Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. The First sermon of the Apostles centered on repentance, in Acts 2:38, “ Then Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ” And Apostle Paul said in Acts 17:30, “ Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now command all men everywhere to repent.

Many pastors and preaches in their churches, on TV and Radio, and in their books tell you to just confess and claim, saying some words after them and, hey pesto, you are saved! That is end time error, and you see big preachers falling into this erroneous line. They are oversimplifying the gospel, cheap but fake gospel of salvation is the gospel that omits repentance and jump into confession. They want to make salvation simple and sweet, without bothering or scaring people about forsaking their sins. But there is no essence of confessing sin if no readiness to forsake.

Jesus didn’t begin His preaching with confessing; when the people asked the Apostle what to do to be saved, Peter didn’t say, confess and claim” but he said, “Repent”. Repentance is the first step to genuine salvation and new life in Jesus. To repent is for you to realize your sins as sins, to be sorrowful for your sins and ready to forsake those sins. Then you move forward to confess then. If you just make a casual confession without a sincere deep sorrow for your sins and readiness to forsake them, you are not going to arrive at a genuine result of salvation. If you just confess your sin without readiness to forsake them, then you are going to have a sorry case. You must be sorry for your sins and ready to forsake them, without these your confession is superficial. The Bible says, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confess and forsakes them will have mercy.” Proverbs 28:13.

So at this point, the right question is, “since you have been confessing those sins, have you truly repented? “ Since you have been claiming Jesus as your Lord, Lord, have you abandoned your old sinful life and start a new life in Jesus? Since you have been speaking in tongues, working in church, casting out demons and doing many wonders, are you abiding in the word of God and pleasing Him till date? You can check your claim right now and take the due process into genuine salvation before you are doomed at the gate of Heaven. Repent from your sins, whatever sins, small or great, confess them and start a new life in Jesus.

Jesus says in Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord’. Shall enter the Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” The action word there, “does” is not a past tense. If you have done the will of God in past and you are not doing it now is as the same as those that never done it. “Does” is personal and present, we must personally continuing doing the will of God until we get to heaven. it is continuous doing.

Many will say to Jesus on the day of judgment, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, done many wonders in your name?” These many people might have started well doing the will of God at the Beginning and derailed into sin and worldly indulgence, but because those gifts didn’t cease, because they kept speaking in tongues , doing wonders and the words of knowledge, since the anointing and gifts of wisdom God poured them continue, they feel relaxed that everything is fine, until they were dozed with the four words from Jesus, “ I never knew you” Because you are still going to Church and working, because you still speak in tongues and rescue blessing from God; because God delivers you and protects you, because you are doing many signs and wonders in Jesus name, that is not an evidence that you are still in Him , but those who are doing His will.

Your passport to heaven is your repentance and confession, and your visa is you abiding in the will and word of Jesus through new life.

“The Jesus said to those who believed Him, “if you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.” John 8:31

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HOW PEOPLE (BELIEVERS) ARE GOING TO HELL FIRE WITH 911 BUSES - Elizabeth, Italy.

My revelation goes like this:- The Angel of the living God came to me and said, let us visit a place and suddenly we appeared in an office where we saw four men in the office and they were talking but I was not hearing what they were saying and they also did not see I and the Angel so, the Angel introduced the men like this (the G.O from the head quarter, the pastor of a branch and the other two pastors accusing the branch pastor) then, the Angel said these are the things that are happening in the churches, that when the Lord of the church comes in or when He send His Angels to the church, the people don't see or recognize His presence because they are busy fighting for positions, too occupied with the things of the world and the Lord or His Angel will take their leave.

Then the Angel said lets go and we went down the stairs,immediately, we appeared in a street here in Europe and immediately, we appeared in a busy road in Lagos Nigeria called (IKORODU ROAD) and we both stood in the middle (opposite Obanikoro bus stop) watching vehicles coming from Surulere and heading towards Maryland and there were these five 911 buses which came one after the other and in front of each bus, was written in capital letter DESTINATION (HELL FIRE very bold), by the side of the bus was this Bible verse Matt. 7:13 "Broad way leads to destruction"

When the first bus came, it was already filled with passengers from where it was coming from (each bus has two conductors) but the two conductors were still calling passengers and people were fighting to enter into the bus (they spoke with different languages) , the people entered through the two entrance doors of the bus, through the windows and some climbed the bonnet and entered through the wind screen; now let me describe the demons:- the one driving the bus has many hands with one he cleanse the side mirror, with one he adjust the side mirror, with one he cleanse the wind screen and with two, he was holding the steering he was ready to move and with one he was holding the gear, his eye balls were reddish.

One of the demon conductor has camel skin and was having dread on his head; the second demon was very black has the structure of a frog and they were both calling passengers like this:- hell fire! hell fire!! hell fire!!! the Rapture is about to take place, the Son of the Most High God is about to come, there is no time on our side hell hell! hell!! hell fire!!!! ( these was what the demons were shouting of at each 911 bus that came and as people were entering, these demons were mocking them and laughing this kind of mockery laugh)

But when the third bus came, it was filled with women, some were carrying loads on their heads, some on their backs, some were carrying bags, even some of them lapped themselves and only four men entered into the bus, among these four men was the two pastors we saw in the office of a church that was reporting the branch pastor so when these pastors met us were I and the Angel was standing, I told them to see how people are entering those buses with the bold writing DESTINATION:- HELL FIRE but before I could finish speaking, the two of them crossed the road and the older man entered through the window while the young man followed those one entering through the wind screen, I was calling them but the older one told me that they can't wait; that they would rather enter this bus which they have seen than to wait for the ones to come later.

Then I heard people calling my name from the sky that I should not cross the road and they said that there were you are (which is here on earth) is where we attached importance to positions like REV., BISHOP, PASTOR,EVANGELIST e.t.c but there (in Heaven) where they are, there is nothing like that because everybody is call brother or sister so it was then I realized that my feet were glued to where I was standing and I said to them I can't even move my feet from here. When these buses come, it will enlarge itself to enable it contains more passengers.

Now, when the fourth bus came, the Angel told me to call the attention of one of the conductors and I beckoned to the one at the back of the bus so he give me his attention but did not leave were he was but we could communicate and I asked him why were they calling passengers into the bus then he spoke like this:- Satan the devil our master asked us to bring more souls to hell and that there is no time on our side because the Rapture is about to take place and the Son of the Most High God is about to come.

Let me describe the demon that I spoke with:- he has frog structure very big almost the height of the 911 bus, has green eye balls, his teeth were sharp and rusted like old nails also, the teeth were stained with blood so when he finished talking with me he laughed this kind of mockery laugh and continued to call passengers into the bus.

Now when the fifth bus came, the Angel called my name and asked if I know the people that was entering those buses then I answered and said, no sir then I asked him who are they? then he said that these are believers who because of one! one!! sin are entering these buses (sins like:- unforgiveness, pride, arrogant, lies, hatred, anger, gossip, unloving, strive e.t.c) he also said that in the Gospel of Mark chapter 16 he did not mention any verse that those who did not accept our Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior are already condemned he also said that in 2 Timothy 2:24-26 that, the servant of the living God must not be quarrelsome; he then stretched out his right hand and asked can't you see them quarreling and fighting among themselves?, he said again the servant of the living God must be gentle, have self-control and he asked again, are they gentle or do they have self- control? he then said to me write it down and share it with your brethren.

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THE REDEEMED CHURCH AND GOD ON PARALLEL 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 focus on RCCG and the statement of their GO that he is richer in material and wealth than Bill Gate. The founder of this church, Rev. Akindayomin, a man of holiness and righteousness, God called him and gave him a covenant church.

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, all of them were content with little and sharing with all. 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?

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. 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 not fighting, rather 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 today in RCCG.

You must be happy of being a member or leader of RCCG, 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? If you were not in RCCG about 20 years ago, everything I'm saying may be strange to you - that is, if you don't know the RCCG of old, you will not see anything wrong with RCCG of this age, in fact you will be shouting for joy like the new generation of the Jews who did not see the former Temple in Jerusalem, while the elders were weeping for the new Temple. Ezra 3:12

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.

" 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 naked— 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

[quote author=Freegift75 post=36799079]www.leadership.ng/news/452905/im-richer-than-bill-gates-pastor-adeboye

[THE REDEEMED CHURCH AND GOD ON PARALLEL 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 focus on RCCG and the statement of their GO that he is richer in material and wealth than Bill Gate. The founder of this church, Rev. Akindayomin, a man of holiness and righteousness, God called him and gave him a covenant church.

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, all of them were content with little and sharing with all. 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?

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. 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 not fighting, rather 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 today in RCCG.

You must be happy of being a member or leader of RCCG, 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.

" 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 naked— 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]

[quote author=Freegift75 post=36799079]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 focus on RCCG and the statement of their GO that he is richer in material and wealth than Bill Gate. The founder of this church, Rev. Akindayomin, a man of holiness and righteousness, God called him and gave me a covenant church. 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, all of them were content with little and sharing with all. 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 that 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?

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. 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 not fighting, rather 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 today in RCCG.

You must be happy of being a member or leader of RCCG, 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.

" 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 naked—
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

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 focus on RCCG and the statement of their GO that he is richer in material and wealth than Bill Gate. The founder of this church, Rev. Akindayomin, a man of holiness and righteousness, God called him and gave me a covenant church. 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, all of them were content with little and sharing with all. 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 that 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?

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. 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 not fighting, rather 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 today in RCCG.

You must be happy of being a member or leader of RCCG, 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.

" 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 naked—
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

HOW TO BE SAVED AND START A NEW LIFE IN JESUS!

Dear reader, it’s by God’s mercy to exist to this time, Satan’s plan for us is to die in sin and doom forever in hell fire. Without genuine salvation, there is no way we can escape the judgment of God, so count it as a great privilege to have this opportunity, and so you need to make the best use of it for your salvation and new life in Jesus.

How can you have genuine salvation that will guarantee eternal life with Jesus and grant you the grace to overcome sin, Satan and self? Please follow the following steps:

No Excuse, but admit it.
If truly you need God’s mercy to pardon your sins and give you grace to overcome them, then you need to face it by yourself and acknowledge your sin. Don’t excuse sin because everybody is doing it - in your church (even your pastors, parents or partners), in your family, in your place of work, etc. Don’t says, “Does that means everybody doing it will go to hell fire?” Yes, everybody can go to hell and God will still be righteous. Jesus said instead of you to be thinking how many will be saved, YOU strife to be saved NOW. Don’t excuse sin because of its popularity, it’s in person - you, face it. And sin is sin, either small or great, there is no difference, you just be sincere and confess it.

Psalm 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight

Make a Genuine Confession
Do you wonder why you’ve made several confessions of your sins and yet you still have guilt of those sins, you still go back into such sins, and your salvation is not certain or you find yourself going back into your sins? It’s simple: you didn’t make genuine confession. Genuine confession is not just using the name of Jesus, not answering alter call and so on. Take the next 2 steps that lead you to genuine salvation in Jesus Christ:

First Repent before You confess.
There are many fake confessions, but if you sincerely want to make acceptable confession, you must first repent. No need for you to confess if there is no repentance in you. Repentance is thoughtful realization of your sins and determination to forsake them. If you confess without readiness to forsake the sins you confess, you are simply wasting your time, and the sins will soon get you down. To repent is not to be sorry for your sins, if you are sorry without readiness to forsake all, you will have a sorry case and that is not a genuine salvation. Humble yourself before God now and surrender all.

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

Pray It All
Now all you need to do is to go before in prayer as you confess your sins and ask God to forgive you through His Son Jesus Christ. Tell Him you are sorry for how you have lived and all you have done, ask Him to cleanse you by the Blood of Jesus and give you a new heart and a new spirit. He will do it as He has promised in His Word saying, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9.

Now is the time for your salvation! Do not delay further, do it now, don’t allow Satan to distract or delay you, because another chance may not come. You can pray the prayer for the next 5 to 10 minutes.

Have you prayed the prayer for your salvation? Then let me pray with you:

“Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for our sins, thank You for coming to seek us and counting us worthy to be saved. You promised that if we come to You, You will not cast us away; that if we admit and confess our sins, no mater how many and how terrible, You will forgive and cleanse us. So I pray for this beloved, as s/he has repented, confessed and asked for Your forgiveness, save her/him and give her/him a new nature of Yours to live for You from today. Thank You Lord because You have answered, for we prayed in Jesus name. Amen.”

Now You Are saved!
Now, you are saved, you are born again with a new life by Jesus Christ. You need to start the new life guided by God’s Word. You have to disassociate and detach yourself from old lifestyle; old things that are not according to God’s Word and friendship that can pull you back to old life in sin. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” You can’t continue in your old lifestyle anymore, you are now a genuine, heaven recognized child of God and your life must be guided by His Word. You need to be reading Bible every day and praying about your new life. You should be reading at least 2 chapters of Bible everyday and take time to pray for your spiritual growth and daily strength; you can start from Matthew chapter 1. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding before you read and pray after you finish reading. Pray for God’s grace and Spirit to live daily according to His word and to overcome every temptation on your way, and be watchful every time at every situation in your new life in Jesus!

As you have now started a new life in Christ Jesus, heaven is rejoicing over you as your name is written in the Book of Life. Look only unto Jesus, not any man or any pastor. There are many false teachings everywhere because we are in end time, so let the Bible be your supreme guide!

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NOT FAR FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Mark 12:34, “Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”

The knowledge of God is very important, it makes us close to the kingdom of God. But being close to the kingdom of God is not enough, and having the knowledge of God is not enough to make us qualify for the kingdom of God. Not far from the kingdom of God is “almost” but not yet, not far but not in.

You can be so close to somewhere and never enter there, you may not be far from a house and never enter in. There is difference between too close and being able to enter. The same is applicable to the kingdom of God. Your knowledge of God and your service unto God are wonderful, they make you close to the kingdom of God. You are now committed to things of God, you read your Bible and pray, you are devoted in your church and working for God, you pay your tithes and go through Bible class; now you know a lot about the things of God, you know your Bible more better and you pray more and preach better. But without practicing what you know, without holiness of life and righteousness of living, being clearly obvious in your life, you cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Not Far, But Not InMany Christians of this day are not far from the kingdom of God, that is how Jesus would describe many today. When God showed revelation to people that out of a million of Christians, who are serving God, about very few thousands will make the rapture if it happens now. And what about the rest of the devoted Christians? They are not far from the kingdom! Not far from the kingdom of God is not enough, because it is not how far, but how sure. You may be so committed to the things of God, suffer and sacrifice for the work of God, but you may not be reckoned in the kingdom of God, if your name is not written in the Book of life in heaven .

Whatever you do for Christ or in the name of Christ without your name written in the Book of Life is a waste and totally baseless. The first thing you need to get settled and secured is your name to be written in the Book of Life and to still remain till minutes, without that, all others are immaterial to your life. You can be so busy in your church, so committed to God’s work; you can be performing miracles, teaching, winning souls, doing deliverance, leading, pastoring and praying day and night, if your name is not in the Book of Life till date, all your efforts are total useless.

You may be a well known Christian in your family, among your friends and on the Facebook; you can be a renown Christian minister of this generation, but if your name is not presently written in the Book of Life, you are not recognized in heaven and no place for you there.

Jesus Christ described that man in Mark 12:34 as not far from the kingdom of God, but not yet in at the same time. Your knowledge of the Bible without genuine salvation makes you not far from the kingdom of God, but fall short from entering in. until you have genuine salvation, you will be found wanting to enter the kingdom of God. Until you totally repent from all sins and forsake them at the same time by starting a new life, you are fall short of the kingdom of God.

If you have ever experienced genuine salvation, but you are not walking in total holiness and righteousness of life, you are also fall short of entering into the kingdom of God. When you are saved, your salvation gives you the grace to see the kingdom of God, that is to be so close by reaching the gate, but you need to walk out your salvation in holiness and righteousness by walking with God, it is then you can enter into the kingdom of God.

John 3:3, “ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:5, “Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”

There is difference between seeing the kingdom of God and eventually entering there. Without being born of water and Spirit, which is sanctification of life, you cannot enter there. Daily watchfulness in prayer and Bible reading, applying the Word of God into our lives to be fruitful therein are the means to live a sanctified life. Without holiness and righteousness no one can enter into the kingdom of God.

Now, what is the essence of not far from somewhere but never enter there? What is the use of being close to a desired building compound but never gained entrance? What is the benefit of going so far because of something, and at the end fall short of it?


Dear beloved, what is the essence of your being a Christian and at the end you are not qualified to enter heaven? Or rather, what is the use of claiming to be a Christian, being devoted in your church, working for God, paying tithes and offerings, praying and preaching of Christ, and at the end you are not permitted to enter the kingdom of God? What is the use of your Christianity without your name written in the Book of Life? What is the use of your Christian confession and profession without holiness of life?


Have you ever asked yourself this question of why will you do all these for Christ and never make the rapture? Why will you go so far for your Christian faith and at the end go to hell? How tragic will that be? With all your working for God? How terrible will it be with all the knowledge of God and grace and mercy of God you have, and you carry everything to hell, to end up with unbelievers, demons and devil?


I think what worth doing, worth doing well. Why will you not do ALL it will take to make heaven? Why will you not surrender ALL your life to Jesus now and get your heaven settled? Why will you allow that particular sin in your life or that covered sin and unsettled restitution to eventually disqualify you from entering heaven after you have gone so far? Why will you allow the secret sin, common sin, “it doesn’t matter” sin, “my pastor does not oppose it” sin, “we are doing it in our church” sin to block your ears from hearing the sound of the trumpet of the rapture?

Beloved, why will you not settle all at once now and surrender all to get your name secured in the Book of Life, so that whenever rapture or death comes, you will not have cause to cry?

R E P E N T!
Repentance is a matter of urgency now, for all of us. Let’s put aside pretense, realize your self, realize your sins, no cover up. Then renounce and forsake them at once, no procrastination! Confess your sins and shortcomings to God, no excuse; because those excuses will not help on the last day. Ask Jesus to forgive you as you also forsake them. Be determined to start a new of total dedication of holiness and righteousness in Jesus from today, and never turn back or fall back, come what may.

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A VISION ABOUT RAPTURE: ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?
The VISION:
"I saw myself and another sister walking side by side jesting normally,
A man was walking at the other side; suddenly the man turned and said;
"the rapture has just taken place 30 seconds ago", and looking at the time
it was 1.00.30s AM. The man proceeded by saying go in the left direction
you will find other Christians there. Go now I give you one minute.
I asked him what about you? He turned and said I am the antichrist who has
lived in your midst for so long waiting for this day.

I was confused but my spirit said run, my daughter, run. We ran and when
I turned back; lo and behold the man had turned to the antichrist.
We kept running and saw many people running as well. We
got to a very large auditorium and saw multitudes of Christians.
Brethren it was a terrifying experience.

People of high standing with God, Prominent men and women of God, loved
ones and friends. I couldn’t comprehend this so I screamed, God what
happened? The Lord now took me in the spirit to five churches:

1. I saw the pastors announcing that the rapture had just taken place
and that people should start receiving the mark right there in the church
that this will substitute the beast mark and enable them to buy and sell.
Brethren, what made me weep was that the innocent and ignorant members
started receiving this mark not knowing it was actually the mark of the beast.
The Lord then said all these pastors are agents of the beast who has been
ordained to mislead the people and who already have the beast mark
before his manifestation, and I saw marks on the right arm of all these pastors.
A brother who was fortunate to see who to call him to start running down to the
place where all other Christians are was shot in the leg as he was about climbing
the top of the Christian’s hide out.

2. In the next church, the pastors were just speaking of the good things of the scripture and didn’t talk about the 2nd coming of Christ and warn the
people of the wages of sin. The irony of it was that all these pastors and
their members were left behind.

3. Then I saw a church where people really emphasized the coming but all the people didn’t go as a result of the hidden sins which weren’t known to man and
they had not counted as sin. I wept bitterly because this was a church where
holiness was professed and held in high esteem.

4. I saw a church where people concentrated mainly on attacking demons and
where the true word was also preached but the people didn’t go due to
malice and lack of spiritual concentration.

5. In d last church the people were actively involved in preaching the word and talking about the 2nd coming, but these people did not go.The whole lot was full
of hypocrites who disguise themselves in shepherd’s clothes.

I was then taken back to the place where the multitude were and then I saw that the people of the beast came and Christians started scrambling for safety. Brethren it was a terrifying experience. Women forgot their children, husbands their wives.

The Lord then said others have received the mark. Prominent men of God all over
the world, Christians and loved ones.
I asked the LORD why these people didn't make d rapture. God showed me

1.This man was perfect with me until two hours ago.
2.That other man had a small portion of his heart released to the devil.
3.That other brother was too occupied with the things of the world in terms
of land and property acquisition that they took over his life.
4.That other one, I gave him a mandate to pay a certain portion of money to the church and he procrastinated it till now: sin of disobedience.
5.That other man loves his cheque book more than his life. You can see that he
even has his cheque book with him. I wonder what he can buy with the money
now, hope you know they are no more his.

I wept because so many little things which we humans don’t count
were counted by God.

The Lord said, all these things which have been happening on earth have
all been pointing to the end but despite all this, my people do not take heed. I am giving the last warning. Consecrate your hearts to me, my people. The trumpet
would have been blown one hour ago, but I pleaded with my father. However,
I can plead no further. The trumpet is already in the mouth of the Angels ready
to be blown."

THE REALITY:
SALVATION
You need to surrender your life to Jesus now and experience genuine salvation without any further delay so that you will not be among the miserable that will miss the rapture. There is no need to deceive your self or delay your genuine salvation that gives power over sin. It is free for for you, to help better, please click on this link to read how to experience genuine salvation https://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-to-be-saved-and-start-a-new-life-in-jesus/270674586372252

Or you contact us: Revelation of the Truth Evangelical Ministries, RTEM. Nigeria.
Email: rtemoutreaches@yahoo.com Tel: (+234) (0)803 924 9751, (0)705 937 3351

REDEDICATION
Rising and falling in sin will not allow you to make the rapture, you need to rededicate your life to Jesus and start better afresh. Please click on this link to repent and rededicate your life to Jesus Christ http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-to-be-saved-and-start-a-new-life-in-jesus/270674586372252

RECOMMITMENT
Are you really a child of God, living in holiness and righteousness? Yes, you have experienced genuine salvation, sanctification and serving God. You ignore worldly things, dress and lifestyle. But what about the cares of this world? Your building project has made you earthly focused as if this world is your permanent home. You find it hard to help others because of your building project, and the car you want to buy, and now you don't even care about others again, what other worldliness is worst more than that. If your Christian family think that you are not complete until you buy car or build house, then you are among the worldly Christian.

If truly you are heavenly minded, can you sell that your precious car to help that family in your church that has need? If not, you are among the worldly Christians. Many godly Christians in godly churches will miss the rapture because of the worldly care of building house, buying car, etc. These things have become competition in many churches, in fact if you are not mobile or have your own house, you may not be recommended to become a leader in the church. If Satan did not succeed to seduce you with the fashion and lifestyle of this world, He might have conquered you with the concerns and cares of this world. while so many "holy" brothers and sisters are deceived by the cares of this world, will you not rededicate and recommit your life to God and live a simple life in this world as a stranger?

If you will like to totally surrender or rededicate your life to Jesus Christ, please click on this link, read and pray as directed https://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-to-be-saved-and-start-a-new-life-in-jesus/270674586372252

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A VISION ABOUT RAPTURE: ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE?
The VISION:
"I saw myself and another sister walking side by side jesting normally,
A man was walking at the other side; suddenly the man turned and said;
"the rapture has just taken place 30 seconds ago", and looking at the time
it was 1.00.30s AM. The man proceeded by saying go in the left direction
you will find other Christians there. Go now I give you one minute.
I asked him what about you? He turned and said I am the antichrist who has
lived in your midst for so long waiting for this day.

I was confused but my spirit said run, my daughter, run. We ran and when
I turned back; lo and behold the man had turned to the antichrist.
We kept running and saw many people running as well. We
got to a very large auditorium and saw multitudes of Christians.
Brethren it was a terrifying experience.

People of high standing with God, Prominent men and women of God, loved
ones and friends. I couldn’t comprehend this so I screamed, God what
happened? The Lord now took me in the spirit to five churches:

1. I saw the pastors announcing that the rapture had just taken place
and that people should start receiving the mark right there in the church
that this will substitute the beast mark and enable them to buy and sell.
Brethren, what made me weep was that the innocent and ignorant members
started receiving this mark not knowing it was actually the mark of the beast.
The Lord then said all these pastors are agents of the beast who has been
ordained to mislead the people and who already have the beast mark
before his manifestation, and I saw marks on the right arm of all these pastors.
A brother who was fortunate to see who to call him to start running down to the
place where all other Christians are was shot in the leg as he was about climbing
the top of the Christian’s hide out.

2. In the next church, the pastors were just speaking of the good things of the scripture and didn’t talk about the 2nd coming of Christ and warn the
people of the wages of sin. The irony of it was that all these pastors and
their members were left behind.

3. Then I saw a church where people really emphasized the coming but all the people didn’t go as a result of the hidden sins which weren’t known to man and
they had not counted as sin. I wept bitterly because this was a church where
holiness was professed and held in high esteem.

4. I saw a church where people concentrated mainly on attacking demons and
where the true word was also preached but the people didn’t go due to
malice and lack of spiritual concentration.

5. In d last church the people were actively involved in preaching the word and talking about the 2nd coming, but these people did not go.The whole lot was full
of hypocrites who disguise themselves in shepherd’s clothes.

I was then taken back to the place where the multitude were and then I saw that the people of the beast came and Christians started scrambling for safety. Brethren it was a terrifying experience. Women forgot their children, husbands their wives.

The Lord then said others have received the mark. Prominent men of God all over
the world, Christians and loved ones.
I asked the LORD why these people didn't make d rapture. God showed me

1.This man was perfect with me until two hours ago.
2.That other man had a small portion of his heart released to the devil.
3.That other brother was too occupied with the things of the world in terms
of land and property acquisition that they took over his life.
4.That other one, I gave him a mandate to pay a certain portion of money to the church and he procrastinated it till now: sin of disobedience.
5.That other man loves his cheque book more than his life. You can see that he
even has his cheque book with him. I wonder what he can buy with the money
now, hope you know they are no more his.

I wept because so many little things which we humans don’t count
were counted by God.

The Lord said, all these things which have been happening on earth have
all been pointing to the end but despite all this, my people do not take heed. I am giving the last warning. Consecrate your hearts to me, my people. The trumpet
would have been blown one hour ago, but I pleaded with my father. However,
I can plead no further. The trumpet is already in the mouth of the Angels ready
to be blown."

THE REALITY:
SALVATION
You need to surrender your life to Jesus now and experience genuine salvation without any further delay so that you will not be among the miserable that will miss the rapture. There is no need to deceive your self or delay your genuine salvation that gives power over sin. It is free for for you, to help better, please click on this link to read how to experience genuine salvation https://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-to-be-saved-and-start-a-new-life-in-jesus/270674586372252

Or you contact us: Revelation of the Truth Evangelical Ministries, RTEM. Nigeria.
Email: rtemoutreaches@yahoo.com Tel: (+234) (0)803 924 9751, (0)705 937 3351

REDEDICATION
Rising and falling in sin will not allow you to make the rapture, you need to rededicate your life to Jesus and start better afresh. Please click on this link to repent and rededicate your life to Jesus Christ http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-to-be-saved-and-start-a-new-life-in-jesus/270674586372252

RECOMMITMENT
Are you really a child of God, living in holiness and righteousness? Yes, you have experienced genuine salvation, sanctification and serving God. You ignore worldly things, dress and lifestyle. But what about the cares of this world? Your building project has made you earthly focused as if this world is your permanent home. You find it hard to help others because of your building project, and the car you want to buy, and now you don't even care about others again, what other worldliness is worst more than that. If your Christian family think that you are not complete until you buy car or build house, then you are among the worldly Christian.

If truly you are heavenly minded, can you sell that your precious car to help that family in your church that has need? If not, you are among the worldly Christians. Many godly Christians in godly churches will miss the rapture because of the worldly care of building house, buying car, etc. These things have become competition in many churches, in fact if you are not mobile or have your own house, you may not be recommended to become a leader in the church. If Satan did not succeed to seduce you with the fashion and lifestyle of this world, He might have conquered you with the concerns and cares of this world. while so many "holy" brothers and sisters are deceived by the cares of this world, will you not rededicate and recommit your life to God and live a simple life in this world as a stranger?

If you will like to totally surrender or rededicate your life to Jesus Christ, please click on this link, read and pray as directed https://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-to-be-saved-and-start-a-new-life-in-jesus/270674586372252

You can also contact us on email or phone for prayer, counsel or if you need biblical enlightenment on personal issues:

This message is from Revelation of Truth Evangelical Ministries, RTEM

Our Email: rtemoutreaches@yahoo.com

Our Tel: (+234) (0)803 924 9751, (0)705 937 3351, (0)802 578 7942.
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WHY MANY CHRISTIANS OFTEN RISE AND FALL (A Must Read).
A child of God falling back into sinful habits or lukewarmness is as a result of two major things: Careless and prayerlessness. If a child of God goes back into a particular old sinful nature or become lukewarm and cold again, it is not because he was not saved at the first instance, it is not because he has not been delivered from those sinful habits after he dedicated his life to Jesus, and it is not because Christian life is meant to be a rising and falling thing; It is due to one’s carelessness and prayerlessness.

CARELESSNESS
1Corinthians 10:12, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall”

When you are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ or when you rededicate your life to Jesus to start better, He sets you free from sinful habits and gives you His grace and Spirit, but you need to take heed – that is being watchful, so that you don’t fall back into sin and become lukewarm later. Carelessness comes into Christian life through different means:

(i) Overconfidence: You become overconfident when you, knowing by the Word of God and by the warning of the Holy Spirit that something may lead to sin, but too confident in yourself that you will, "take care of the situation" and that it will not lead you to sin. It is a subtle deception of Satan, and against the Word of God which warns us to always take heed. Staying or moving close to the spot of sin, and being confident that you will not fall into sin is overconfidence of carelessness.

Overconfidence has no backing of God's grace; it simply means you are on your own, because it is against God's warning and word. Many have fallen because of self confidence of "Nothing will happen, I am not a baby Christian." And when something happen it become hard to say something.

(ii) Little Foxes: other forms of carelessness are little foxes. “Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.” Song of Solomon 2:15. This is a common carelessness that we all need to daily watch against. They are casual habits but cause lots of destructions, they are simple but they sink several Christian fervent faith. Little foxes in Christian life are Inconsistent Bible reading, over-talking, unbecoming jesting and exaggeration in expression, getting involve in worldly stuffs like worldly dress, makeup, worldly friendship, watching worldly movies, listening to worldly music which cannot edify your soul, reading romantic novels, browsing pornographic websites, looking at Unclad pictures, thinking or talking about immoral stuffs, using worldly materials, watching worldly TV shows like American Idol, African Idol, Big brother Africa, unwholesome TV Reality shows, dance competition, wrestling, etc. These habits slowly drain spiritual strength, hinder spiritual growth and the flow of the fire of Holy Spirit in one’s life, and then make a Christian spiritually week to resist temptation. Little foxes are hard to trace to one’s spiritual downfall, because they don’t cause the damage immediately, but one thing you can discover is that when you get involve in any of those habits, you feel spiritually light and empty.

PRAYERLESSNESS
1 Thessalonians 5:17, “Pray without ceasing.”
A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian, period! You cannot stay long in your new dedicated life in Christ without consistent prayer life; you cannot grow in your Christian life without a growing prayer life, and it is biblically impossible to experience and maintain fervent Christian life without a fervent prayer life.

Prayer and Bible reading/study are the only sources of strength, and why prayer is very important is that it takes prayer to understand and apply the Word of God. It is in your daily prayer you ask for daily grace and strength. A prayerless Christian will be too weak to resist temptation of old sinful life. When the Spirit of God wakes you up at night to pray or moves you at any time to pray even you don’t plan to pray, if you fail to respond immediately, it will only leads to falling. Jesus prayed always and instructed us to pray always. In prayer, we take our spiritual weakness and challenges to God for grace and strength.

That is the reason it is mostly important to maintain daily and consistent personal quiet time, devotion. Satan can’t attack you directly, he has to first attack and distracts you on your daily devotion; when your daily devotion becomes inconsistent, and it will not take long time before you find your back on the ground again.

Ephesians 6:18, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints”

We must be watchful, vigilant and prayerful always!

1 Peter 5:8-11, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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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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DEFILING CLOTHING
"Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the Angel." Zechariah 3:3

Devil has strategized several means to defile Christians and disqualify them from making the rapture and heaven at last, and so many Christians are falling into these traps. One of the defiling traps is defiling dress by many acclaimed Christian women, including ministers.

Defiling Dress:
(1) Uncovered - Any top that shows the trace of your breasts. As a woman, if you wear blouse, shirt, or top, it may be a local made or foreign made, it may be traditional style or Western style; if the dress does not cover your chest properly, that is, if a little trace of your beasts is shown when you bend down, it means you are gorgeously wearing defiling clothing. You don't need to wear a turtledove top, but you must wear clothing that properly and perfectly cover your breasts even when you bend down.

Majority of Christian women wear top that stylishly show their breasts, because Satan has successfully polluted fashion world and the minds of the tailors so that about 90% of women's tops are defiled. Today, those dresses do not seem wrong again, because every Christian woman wears it, including pastors wives. But the question you should ask yourself is: why will you wear clothes that will show your beasts as a woman? What is your motive? Showing your private part to the world is not only a sin but a serious defilement. Any top that cannot cover your chest properly if you bend down is a defiled clothes, and those who wear it are defiled, unknowingly.

(2) Tight. Any dress you wear that is tight on you, either top or skirt, which shows the shape of your body is a defiling clothes. Showing the anatomy of your body is a modern way of giving people the idea of your unclothedness, and it is not part of holiness in Christ. Those who wear tight clothing are unwittingly entrapped by Satan. Many will later discover this after they die or after the rapture, but it will be too late. You need not to wear a baggy dress, but it must be free on you without any inconveniences, or conveying your body shape.

(3) Transparent. Wearing a dress that is transparent is not only sinful but naturally silly. The biblical and philosophic purpose of wearing clothes is to cover unclothedness, so if after you wear clothes, your body is still revealed, it is nothing but spiritual and moral indecency, and defilement to the soul. A Christian woman who wears clothes in a way that her underwear is revealed is not a good example of a godly and chaste woman.

(4) Short. Wearing armless top, mini skirts or gowns which do not properly cover you kneels are defilement to your Spiritual life.

Urgent repentance is very important, and then to do away which such defiled dresses and clothing immediately. You may be a matured, or old Christian woman, you may be a minister or women leader; like Joshua, he was a leader but he unknowingly wearing filthy garment. This ministry has the mandate to reveal the truth as guided through the Word of God and the Spirit of God; it is your responsibility to accept or reject it, but I pray for everyone reading this that the Lord will open your spiritual eyes and give you understanding for the truth and to be fruitful there in.

John 8:32, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

THE BIBLICAL ENLIGHTENMENT ON "RIGHTEOUSNESS"
We are not saved by the works of righteousness which we have done:
Titus 3:5, “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,”

But we are saved for works of righteousness in Christ by His grace:
1 John 3:7, “Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”

Those preachers are churches that teach that when you saved, you are covered by Jesus’ righteousness and your righteous living does not matter are misguided end time anti-Bible teachers. Let no one deceive you with permissive teachings, we are not saved by our works of righteousness but not for unrighteous living. When you are genuinely saved, you start to live righteous life by God’s grace. You must be righteous just as He is righteous, just by His grace. Heaven is meant for the righteous not unrighteous people.

“Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.” 1 John 3:7.

Thee false teachers about righteousness claim they are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Then if you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, sin must be under you not over you.

Romans 6:12, "Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."

Beware of permissive false preachers!

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8 Lies That Destroy Marriage
Every wrong behavior begins with believing a lie.
by Bill Elliff

Imagine meeting with an engaged couple a few weeks before they are married. With excitement they describe how they met and how their relationship developed. The husband-to-be proudly describes how he set up a perfect romantic evening so he could pop the big question.

Then they surprise you by saying, “We want to get married and have some children. At first we will feel a lot of love for each other. Then we’ll start arguing and hating each other. In a few years, we’ll get a divorce.”

Who would enter marriage intending to get a divorce? And yet, divorce is occurring at alarming rates. A large number of people in my church have been hurt deeply by divorce—they’ve been divorced themselves, or they’ve felt the pain of a parent or relative divorcing.

As common as divorce is, I’m convinced that most of them could be avoided. Mark this down on the tablet of your heart: Every wrong behavior begins with believing a lie. Our culture promotes many deceptions that can quickly destroy a marriage. Here are eight:

Lie #1. "My happiness is the most important thing about my marriage.”

As a pastor, I can’t tell you how many people have justified breaking up their marriages by saying, “I have to do this. God just wants me to be happy.”

But according to God’s Word, a spouse’s individual happiness is not the purpose for marriage.

The Bible says in Colossians 3:17: “Whatever you do in word or deed,” do for the glory of God. While all parts of creation are to glorify God, mankind was made in God’s very image. Through marriage, husbands and wives are to reflect His character and have children who will reflect His character … all the way to the end of time.

Every marriage knows unhappiness. Every marriage knows conflict. Every marriage knows difficulty. But everyone can be joyful in their marriage by focusing on God’s purposes and His glory instead of individual happiness.

Lie #2. “If I don’t love my spouse any longer, I should get a divorce.”

It’s a tragedy to lose love in marriage. But the loss of human love can teach us to access a deeper love—the very love of God Himself. That love is patient and kind … it never fails (1 Corinthians 13). It even cares for its enemies.

When human love dies in a marriage, a couple can enter into one of the most exciting adventures they’ll ever have: learning how to love each other with God’s love. Romans 5:5 tells us that this very love “has been poured out within our hearts, through the Holy Spirit.”

Lie #3. “My private immorality does not affect my marriage.”

A lot of people think, I can view pornography in the privacy of my home. It’s just me and my magazine, or computer … it doesn’t affect my marriage.

Oneness in marriage is hijacked by sexual immorality. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:15, “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute?”

In the 21st century, there are many ways to join oneself with a prostitute: physically, through the pages of a magazine, on a computer’s video screen, etc. Paul’s advice is the same today as it was thousands of years ago: Flee immorality (1 Corinthians 6:18).

If you take your emotional and sexual energy and spend it on someone else, there will be nothing left for your spouse. Those who continually view pornography or engage in sexual fantasies are isolating themselves.

Lie #4. “My sin (or my spouse’s sin) is so bad that I need to get a divorce.”

The truth is God can fix our failures—any failure. The Bible says to forgive one another, just as God in Christ has forgiven us (Colossians. 3:13).

“But,” you ask, “Doesn’t Matthew 19:9 say that God allows divorce in the case of sexual immorality?” Yes. I believe that it does—when there is an extended period of unrepentance. Yet, nowhere in that passage does God demand divorce. When there is sexual sin, we should seek to redeem the marriage and so illustrate the unfathomable forgiveness of God.

Some of the greatest life messages I know are the marriages of people who have repented from sexual sin and spouses who have forgiven them. Their lives today are living testimonies to the truth found in Joel 2:25: “… I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten.”

Lie #5. “I married the wrong person.”

Many people have told me, for example, that they are free to divorce because they married an unbeliever. “I thought he/she would become a Christian, but that didn’t happen. We need to get a divorce.” They recall that they knew it was a mistake, but they married anyway—hoping it would work out. Others claim that they just married someone who wasn’t a good match, someone who wasn’t a true “soul mate.”

A wrong start in marriage does not justify another wrong step. “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good,” says Romans 8:28, “to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

God tells us not to be poured into the world’s mold. Instead we are to be transformed and that begins in our minds. By doing this, God will give us exactly what we need for our lives. God’s will for us is good, acceptable, and perfect (Romans 12:1-2).

Here’s the key for those who are now married: The Bible clearly says do not divorce (with the exception for extended, unrepentant sexual immorality). God can take even the worst things of life and work them together for good if we will just trust Him.

Lie #6. “My spouse and I are incompatible.”

I don’t know a lot of husbands and wives who are truly compatible when they get married. In marriage, God joins together two flawed people.

If I will respond correctly to my spouse’s weaknesses, then God can teach me forgiveness, grace, unconditional love, mercy, humility, and brokenness. The life of a person who believes in Jesus Christ is developed by responses to not only happy things, but also to difficulties. And those very difficulties include weaknesses.

That is why we are told in Colossians 3:12-13 to “put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other.” My spouse’s weaknesses are not hindrances. Instead, they are the doorway to spiritual growth. This is a liberating truth.

If I will respond to my spouse’s shortcomings with unconditional acceptance, my love won’t be based on performance. I won’t say, “You need to live up to these expectations.” I will be able to accept my spouse, weaknesses and all. And that acceptance will swing open the door of change for not only my spouse, but also for me.

Lie #7. “Breaking the marriage covenant won’t hurt me or my children.”

When divorce enters a family, there are always scars. I know this firsthand; although I was an adult when my father committed adultery and divorced my mother, decades later there are still effects. Many consequences of divorce never go away.

Blake Hudspeth, our church’s youth pastor, also understands the pain of divorce. He was 5 years old when his parents divorced, and it was hard for him to understand God as Father and to trust people. “The people I trusted the most split up.” He also found it difficult to accept love from others “because I didn’t know if they truly loved me.” And Blake developed a fear of marriage. “Am I going to follow the trend of divorce, because my parents and grandparents divorced?”

Blake’s father even wrote him and said, “This was the worst decision I made in my life. It was bad. It hurt you. It hurt our family. When I divorced your mom, I divorced our family because I broke a covenant that we were a part of.”

Blake says that his parents (who both remarried) have embraced the gospel, resulting in him readily accepting advice and encouragement from them. “Watching the gospel play out … with my mom and dad was huge,” he says.

Lie #8. “There’s no hope for my marriage—it can’t be fixed.”

This may be the most devastating lie of all. Because in more than four decades of counseling couples, I’ve seen God do the seeming impossible thousands of times. In a dying marriage, He just needs two willing parties. God knows how to get us out of the messes we get ourselves into.

I tell these couples about people like Chuck and Ann, who were involved in drugs and alcohol before God restored their home. Or Lee and Greg, who were engaged in multiple affairs. God brought them back to Christ and to each other. Now they have six children and a marriage ministry. Or Jim and Carol who had taken off their wedding rings and were living in separate bedrooms and about to live in separate worlds when God redeemed them.

If you begin to think, There is no hope for my marriage, realize that, “With God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

We must combat the lies about marriage. The truth will set us free (John 8:32). God can fix anything!

GOD BLESS YOU!

This article is posted RTEM- Revelation of Truth Evangelical Ministries, copied from Family Life, USA. We we are interdenominational evangelical outreach for the well-being of your SOUL, spirit and body.

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COMING AND ABIDING
John 8:31, “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.”

Jesus Christ preached the Gospel to the people in the Temple one day, the Pharisees and Scribes opposed Him, but some few people, including Jews, believed in Jesus and came to Him. Jesus made them to know that their confession and coming to Him is not a complete and total work of their salvation, He said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed” John 8:31.

When you hear the Word of God, when somebody asks you to give your life to Jesus, maybe on personal bases or in a gathering; when you decide to surrender your life to Jesus after you hear or read God’s Word, when you answer the call for salvation, and you repent, confess your sins and accept Jesus as your Lord; that is the beginning of your relationship with Jesus, it is not the end. Your repentance, confession and coming to Christ are an integral part of your salvation, what would seal your salvation in Christ indeed is abiding in the Word of God.

Being born again is not just cash and claim stuff as the modern preachers and churches are misleading many souls to hell. To be saved means you come to Jesus, repent and confess your sins and then continue to abide in Jesus in newness of life. To abide in the Word of God is to abandon your old, formal sinful lifestyle and start a new life in Jesus. It’s reading, meditating and applying the Word of God into your life on a daily and continuous bases. If you just confess and continue the ways and manners you live before, if you just confess, pray and continue in your old lifestyle, you have made yourself to be a psychedelic Christian, one of these unrecognized Christians to heaven.

Salvation is not just confessing, it’s not coming out for altar call, but it’s confessing and coming out of your sinful life. Jesus knew anybody could be emotional to come and confess their sins, anybody could raise up his hands for salvation call, but that would not guarantee their entrance to heaven. He said what perfects our salvation, what confirms a man or woman to be a real born again is more than temporal confession, it is continuous abiding in the Word of God.

Our modern day preachers, pastors and Bishop may tell you, “You just say this prayer of salvation after me, then you are saved and you can start to enjoy the prosperity and blessing of God, you just believe and that is all” that is the reason these half-made born again cannot overcome sins, that is the reason you see a lot of funny things happening today among the ministers and members, you see these so-called born again living below sins and you wonder why everybody claims to be born again but no difference.

That is the reason you may be wondering in your personal life, after you are declared born again, your life remains as the same as old; because you were half-done. If your Christian life is based on faith of confessing without work of continuing to live in accordance to God’s Word, you are a half-done Christian and that is of no use. Faith of coming to Jesus and confessing is the first step to Jesus, but forsaking your sins and abiding in Jesus completes it, abiding to the end.

Jesus says, “If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed.” John 8:31. You need to abandon your old life before you can abide in the Word of God; you need to abandon the World of sin before you can abide in the Word of God.

You must also take note of this:
For you to go far with God you must go far from the world.

You must disassociate yourself from old lifestyle, old associations; you must detach yourself from anything of old that may pull you back to your vomit, the sinful relationship, ungodly friends, worldly music, worldly movies, worldly dressing, worldly materials, all must be taken away from you if you really want to abide in God’s Word, if you really want to be God’s disciple indeed.

Until you surrender all these to God and let go, you will always find yourself going up and down in your spiritual life, confessing sin and committing sin, becoming saint and behaving sinner. You need to surrender all, everything to God. You can do that now, just go back to Jesus, tell Him you are ready to surrender everything without reservation and you want to abide in Him. This is called rededication and consecration with determination of heart.

From here, you will be going forward and never backward. You can do that and the Lord will help you.

Please note that after you rededicate your life to Jesus afresh now, you need to be reading Bible everyday, at least two chapters, you can start from Matthew. You meditate and pray for God’s grace to abide, obey His Word. You must abide in daily Bible reading and pray, that is what will help you to abide in God forever.

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