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Religion / Re: Pastor Impregnates Two Sisters In Lagos (pictured) by JacobsAdewale: 1:35pm On Feb 26, 2016 |
Very shameful that a "pastor" could be associated with such a crime. May the Lord help us all. |
Religion / God's Nonsense by JacobsAdewale: 1:32pm On Feb 26, 2016 |
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Key Verse: “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate” 1 Corinthians 1:18-19 The theme of this section is the power of the cross, and Paul is going to show clearly what the cross does in human thinking and in human affairs. The cross has become the symbol of Christianity today. Women wear it on chains around their necks; we use it as decorations. We have become so familiar with the cross that we have forgotten much of the impact it had in the first century. It was, for these early Christians, and for those among whom they lived, a horrible symbol. If you had used it then as a symbol it would have made people shudder. We would get much closer to it today if we substituted a symbol of an electric chair for the cross. Wouldn't it be strange driving across this country to see church steeples with electric chairs on top? The cross is significant in Christianity because it exposes the fundamental conflict of life. The cross gets down below all our surface attempts at compromise and cuts through all human disagreement. Once you confront the cross and its meaning, you find yourself unable to escape that final judgment of life as to whether you are committed to error or committed to truth. We must understand what Paul means by the word of the cross. First of all, it means the basic announcement of the crucifixion of Jesus. There are many religious groups based upon various philosophical concepts. But when you come to Christianity you do not start with philosophy, you start with facts of history that cannot be thrown out. One of them is the incarnation of Jesus, the fact that he was born as a man and came among us. Another of the great facts of our faith is the crucifixion. Jesus died. It was done at a certain point of time in history and cannot be evaded. This is part of the word of the cross. He did not deserve it, but by the judgment of the Romans and Jews alike he was put to death for a crime that he did not commit. Paul is pointing to the judgment that the cross makes upon human life. When you say that Jesus was crucified you are saying that when the finest man who ever lived takes our place, he deserves nothing but the instant judgment of God. And that is a judgment on all of us. That is what people do not like about the cross. It condemns our righteousness. It casts aspersion on all our good efforts. The word of the cross always produces two reactions. First, the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. It is silliness, absurdity, nonsense, to those who are perishing. If you have ever tried to witness to somebody who has a sense of sufficiency about himself, you have discovered the folly of the cross. To come and tell such a person that all his efforts and all his impressive record of achievement is worth nothing in God's sight, you will immediately run into the offense of the cross. The other reaction is that the cross is the power of God to those of us who are being saved. To us who are being saved, the cross is the key to the release of all God's blessing in human life. It is the way to experience the healing of God in the heart, the deliverance from the reign of sin, and the entry into wholeness, peace, and joy. The cross is an inescapable part of that process. *** Written by Ray Stedman’s Ministry *** Feel free to leave your comments and if you will like to read more of this, visit my blog: http://www.truthmediaonline..com. Would love to have you be my guest. From your brother in Christ, Jacobs A. |
Religion / Re: Nigerian Christian Blogs by JacobsAdewale: 1:38am On Feb 26, 2016 |
Wow! Great blogs I will like to visit sometime soon. However, my Christian blog is: http://www.truthmediaonline..com. |
Religion / A Hole In The Wall by JacobsAdewale: 6:19pm On Feb 24, 2016 |
A HOLE IN THE WALL Text: 2 Chronicles 16:9; Proverbs 5:21 Prophet Ezekiel was directed by God to enter a room in the temple through a hole in the wall. He obeyed and was met with a surprise. There were the elders of Israel engaged in idol worship right inside God's temple! Their conclusion was, "The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth." Really? Many people hide under cover of darkness to engage in unspeakable evil. Darkness does not hide you from God because light and darkness are alike unto Him. A young Christian almost yielded to temptation. He got his fiancée behind closed doors and proposed sex[/http://truthmediaonline..com.ng/2014/09/sinful-morality.html]. The godly lady calmly replied, "No problem". Then pulling out a handkerchief from her bag she said, "Before we proceed please take this and cover the face of our Father in heaven because I don't want Him to see what we are about to do." The message was powerfully driven home and the young man broke down in tears. "The LORD's throne is in heaven: His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men" (Psalm 11:4). God sees us from His throne. He see you from above. Examine your life whether it's in line with the will of God. Feel free to leave a comment if you learned a thing or two from these write-up. Thank you. [http://truthmediaonline..com.ng/]The Truth Media[/http://truthmediaonline..com.ng/] ...building the body of Christ |
Religion / Re: Question: Did Jesus Read The Bible? by JacobsAdewale: 6:12pm On Feb 24, 2016 |
This question isn't logical at all. As a matter of fact, He did read the Bible and [www.truthmediaonline..com]If you are a Christian[/www.truthmediaonline..com], check up your Luke 4:20. |
Poems For Review / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition by JacobsAdewale: 1:11pm On Jul 26, 2012 |
THE OBLOQUY by Jacobs Adewale. Credited to the constitution Is the freedom of prostitution, That the yearnings of the masses Are tagged a carcass in the state of ashes. In retrospect lies the embodiment of shame, Making reality a game for infants to become lame; Synonymous to a roller coaster Is the tenets of corruption in a legislative roaster. Is this democratic? As political leaders become renowned dealers and autocratic Possessed with lust for power And stealthily slaughtering hope in every hour. With each dawn Comes a muddling wind Polluting our munificent minds To embrace debacle in debilitation. For too long, We bluff by singing a contrite song; Forgetting our wounded etiolated bones In the quest to cease our conscience contentions. All is bewildered, Knowing not who possess the onus of emancipation; Far from the milieu of regeneration, Segregation continues to deter rehabilitation. When, how Will liberation surface To annihilate these political two-faced tyrants, Who aspire to multiply the sorrows of the downtrodden? I stand anonymous For the earth has been polluted; When the head is rotten, The parts are conserved for direct destruction. Who will salvage all? Some questions are best left unanswered, Till the revolution in evolution is born. 1 Like |
Literature / Mimesis By Jacobs Adewale by JacobsAdewale: 12:58pm On Jul 26, 2012 |
What a plague to be barren of serenity Lost in a milky way of indignity and atrocity With travails spurring faces to frown As irises turn blue for beating hearts to slow down. Sovereign souls are fettered by thoughts of peril Longing for succor to efface their brittle mood When to one another we are jealous and crude Constituting sycophants professing love not utterly real. Courage and hope both teach us to chuckle When quandaries pressure our skins to crinkle Though feisty, the deprived remain desolate Holding acquaintance of faith not to get too irate. Life is thus sweet at the other side Where stars glitter and beauteous moments flourish Through ample views of mirth as fate’s skylights slide Engendering folks to fight for their dreams rather than relinquish. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind That we fail to see the solutions we all seek to find For ignominy and futility have overtaken us Leaving behind bugs of burden to daunt and afflict us. Let bygone be the days we think like animals in the jungle Upholding the survival of the fittest to justify humanity’s hideous struggle. The good, the bad we strive to do Live after us for generations to hold on to. On the border line of segregation are society’s down-and-out With dour countenances for being a cast out Of a world they had hoped to make a difference; Now habituating piteously in despair due to what we call indifference. With the reflections radiating from our eyes, Are the revelations of how we’ve built our world with lies For doing the wrong and calling it right When we really can’t tell what is wrong from what is right. The past can’t be undone Rousing in us disappointments to accept what has been done And we don’t know why Hence, we let go of the guilt but at times remember and cry. |
Literature / Twists In Reality By Jacobs Adewale by JacobsAdewale: 12:23pm On Jul 26, 2012 |
No one seems to be tired of dancing To the one strange unfamiliar tune of oppression and gluttony. The wealthy sought life with their wealth; The poor and the tired heaped out of the way Forsaking their dreams for derision and deprivation. In the pupils of tomorrow’s teens, A colourless rainbow dwells Signifying promises of death and calamity. Our systems continue to deteriorate Making tomorrow a clueless puzzle And today a ridiculous riddle. The wicked thrives and plunders, Drinking the wine of violence, As the needy suffer with their strengths squandered in misery. Music albums litter the streets To be rendered in funerals’ services of songs. Fathers and mothers are robbed of tears One by one, their children drown in their fears. The famine, the drought Lingers on the road Supporting the tortured remnants of the flesh That spirits crave bitterly for liberation and levitation. Those with hope so little Walk in their shadows with poverty at heart; Seeking havens to escape being belittled. Endemically, rape escalates in velocity and gravity Polluting innocent ovaries of lasses To spawn embryos of chaos and disaster. The belt of morality is worn out With youths going madly naked In the name of fashion and modernization. Even adults cover their faces in shame To have spared the rod and … Homes knowing not what it means to dress glamorously Find delight wearing their dignified rags in secret To avert disgrace and abasement Thus, adhering to the cliché: ‘Cut your coat as it best fits you’. Gravid clouds weep in anger Resulting to the tornadoes and cyclones we already know With humanity trailing the path of darkness and doom; Making mortality rate all we have to calculate. In the slums we all tend to ignore, People live as though they deserve no life; Some caresses their beds and pillows at dusk, Wishing to never wake into this reality of acrimony and pain. The broken bones can never be made whole! The talented corpses can never possess a goal! The weak, the strong Languishes in the morgue Caused by the God-awful quake of yesterday And like the gypsies of the West, Never to return to the land of the living. Our old retire to stupor With thoughts flowing down memory lane; Singing long forgotten melodies To avoid sleeping and never to wake. Our dead who have always refused to die Sniffles dust and disgust With scent of roses laid in their memory Eroded by the virulent odour of our guilty spittle. The smiling full moon now frowns As twilight flags caution calls To whoever has eyes and can see That evil lies at every nook and cranny Waiting for whom to detain and devour. Militia trained to guard lives and property Are now pugnacious puppets to political kingpins, Fermenting the embers of injustice and ill-justice To scare the living day light out of our fragile veins. All is wearied and worried Knowing not the profitability of evolution; Mankind thrives unkindly in odium Only for our hope to be kindled by faith and beliefs In seeing the dawn of a different tomorrow With a wiser and prudent you and I in it. Our God, our creator, To you we kneel in homage Announcing the lurking bitterness in our hearts That these twists in reality Become a blessing in disguise for all of humanity. |
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