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jiggaz:
As a result of the preaching of a "neither hot nor cold" message, many of us Christians believe that our eligibility for being caught up with Christ when He returns for His saints (the Rapture) depends on our performance of the Ten Commandments, "how good we are" here on earth or even what we are doing at the time of His coming. Not so!
Just a quick intro before we see why not and what the bible says is the condition for being caught up with Christ at His coming.

The bible says in Ephesians 2:8- "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."

This "saved" encompasses salvation from hell to heaven, salvation from the power, pleasure and penalty of sin; deliverance from oppression and molestation of the enemy; deliverance from all earthly ills and being caught up with Christ when He returns for His saints. Our salvation in Christ is a complete package of which the Rapture is the final gift. it is a gift. We don't work towards it. We look forward to it. It is certain for all who are believing Christ (all whose righteousness is found in Christ and not their ability to keep the Ten Commandments.)

Being caught up with Christ at His coming (Rapture) cannot be earned by keeping the Ten Commandments or doing good works to get right with God. It is God's gift to all who are believing Christ. It is by Grace.

If your performance of the Law to get right with God is what makes you eligible for the Rapture, then it is no longer grace - God's undeserved, unmerited favour. Only by grace through faith are we saved. If it is by one's own effort, it is works so that one who believes so is not eligible. Romans 11:6 says
"And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work."

Grace is God's undeserved, unmerited favour. We can't earn it. We can't work for it. We don't get it by hard work. We are saved by it through faith which is also a gift.

But many of us still try to earn God's favour with our filthy rags righteousnesses and law-keeping! This is the height of self-righteousness and hypocrisy: to think that we can do what God's word says no one can do - to believe that we can earn points of righteousness with God by doing what the Law commands when Romans 3:20 says: "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are."

Our own righteousnesses are like menstrual rags according to Isaiah 64:6. Whatever we do to make ourselves worthy of God's goodness or be eligible for our bodily redemption (Rapture) in Christ are like menstrual rags.

If being caught up with Christ at the Rapture depends just a tiny bit on our own performance of the Ten Commandments or has anything at all to do with our efforts at getting right with God, where do we place Galatians 5:4 "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

Believing that it is one's ability to keep the Ten Commandments, be good, or not have one's hand in the cookie jar by human effort when Christ returns for His saints is what makes a person Rapture-ready means that that one has been cut off from Christ! No Rapture for such a one.

So who is eligible for the Rapture? The criteria for being caught up with Christ is to be a believer in Christ and to be
"alive and remain" at His coming, according to God's word.
We see this in 1 Thessalonians 4 where the believers there were concerned about what would happen to those that had fallen asleep in Christ (the word "died' is never used to describe such beloved of God). This answer isn't Paul's opinion. Paul said it "by the word of the Lord" :

13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words."

We (believers) who will be caught up with Christ (after those that are asleep in Christ are first caught up) are "we who are alive and remain" at His coming, not we who are doing our best to keep the Ten Commandments; not we who are fasting; not we who are obeying to the Law; not we who make sure that we do good all the time so that we can make the cut. Wonderful as these things are, it is "we who are alive and remain" that will be caught up with Christ.
But does this mean that we should just go and be sinning anyhow? Certainly not! Many people who do not yet understand think that we Grace people are looking for an excuse to live a hedonistic lifestyle. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Trying to be good and doing anything at all in order to get right with God by your own effort has quite the opposite effect on yourself and on your standing with God. Galatians 5:4 tells us this is how to get cut off from Christ -
"For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

Christ is of no effect in the lives of those who think that it is what they do or do not do that makes them right with God. These ones have rejected the gift of right standing with God that Christ died that they might have.

As for the effect on yourself, Romans 7:5 says: "When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death."
The "old nature" here is simply the sin nature that every human inherited from Adam by default, as it is written in Romans 5:19 "For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous."

Having the old nature means living outside the umbrella of God's gift of righteousness to us through Christ. Those who reject this gift of righteousness and depend on their good works to get right with God and be raptured have the old nature. These ones are not a new creation. They still have the Law as their standard of righteousness and thus, they all fall short and are under the curse. According to Romans 7:5, the same Law that such people try to obey in order to be righteous arouses evil desires in them and the result is more acts of sin that lead to death.

Romans 7:5- "When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death."

As the righteousness of God in Christ, we are a New Creation. Not under Law but under Grace. And this is the result: we get to produce a harvest of good deeds for God, yet not us but Christ in us! Romans 7:4 "So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the One who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God."

Doing things by our own effort to get right with God is not Grace. It is works. In Christ, we are not saved (including being caught up with Christ at His coming) because we are obedient. We are obedient because we are saved.Titus 2:14 says: "who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works."

Believers, don't let anyone deceive you into thinking that your right living and being zealous for good works as well as your salvation from your addictions, sins and bad habits can be accomplished by sheer determination and self-will. This is why Christ came. To "redeem us from every lawless deed." To redeem means to "regain possession of (something) in exchange for payment." This means that these sins hold such that are under it in captivity and a price has to be paid in order for such to be set free; a price that Christ paid for with His blood! He is our Redeemer. Without Him, we an do nothing.

This is God's undeserved, unmerited favour. His Grace. And our being caught up with our Lord Jesus Christ to be with Him forever fits right in there with every blessing that He has freely blessed us with in Christ.
Many think that this is "too cheap a gospel" but it cost our heavenly Father the most precious Treasure in heaven: our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Believers, with the Lord as your Righteousness and you having none of your own, understand that your being "raptured" has been paid for with Christ's blood, alongside every one His blessings (His righteousness, healing, peace, deliverance, all) that He ordered for you and you have received and are enjoying today. All are freely given with Christ (Romans 8:32.) Christ ordered our bodily redemption alongside all of His benefits that we enjoy today when He shed His blood for us and no one, nothing can mess His order up.

You believing one; you who are the righteousness of God in Christ; you who have no righteousness of your own from doing works of the law but have Christ as your righteousness; you whose boast is not in your own ability to fast or pray for 72 hours straight by your own effort but boast only in Christ as your Saviour and Redeemer; you will be caught up together with the saints in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air to be with Him forever. Look forward to it!

Believe Right and you will Live Right!



http://rightbelieving101..nl/2017/03/the-rapture-who-will-be-caught-up-with.html?m=1

Macsjebs:
Source: https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-whos-who-in-the-new-talibans-inner-circle-12384557

HolinessForever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5EDJX5gdzQ

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15888353/taliban-thugs-dodgems-theme-park/amp/

onthehill:
Afghanistan: "If You Supported Biden, Pray That Boko Haram, ISWAP Don't Take Over Nigeria''- FFK

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked Nigerians who supported President Joe Biden during the US presidential elections to start praying that Boko Haram and ISWAP members don't come knocking on the gates of Abuja or take over Nigeria, just as the Taliban have taken over the reins of affair in Afghanistan, IgbereTV reports.

In a post shared on his Instagram page, FFK stated that the US President should have opted for ''tactical withdrawal'' of US forces in Afghanistan instead of the "capitulation he embarked upon."

He claimed that such a thing would never have happened, if former U.S. President, Donald Trump was still in power.

His post reads;


https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpvMomjtNR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

post=104827481:
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/15/politics/us-embassy-kabul-afghanistan/index.html

Macsjebs:
Lovely

Updating9JA:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/08/12/airport-concession-fg-opens-up-on-lay-offs-of-faan-workers/

koldej:
I'm sorry to disturb you sir/ma, I'm currently in a position I feel I needed a serious advise.
I rounded up my service year, Nov.2020, luckily I was able to secure a job in a construction company jan.2021 although m on probation (1year).
I managed to secure an half plot of land this month somewhere around Ogun state from my little savings(as a result of this I don't have any savings in my acct)
my probation period will be over by dec. With little chance of being retained.
I'm actually planning to rough things through to Dec. again this year so that I can do the foundation of the land(which means I will not be having any savings) with high probability of not being retained.
Is it advisable to do this when m sure I will probably not be retained or I should save to invest in a business?
Still below 26yrs, pls I need ur opinion and suggestions..thank you

Chuky7:
Has anyone experienced this. This is where I find myself. And I keep getting talks like it's a bad thing. Talks like your last has married before you shouldn't you be ashamed. Some even go to extent of proclaiming abomination.

For me all this one's no concern me. I am a playboy at heart and will marry at my own time or not at all. Depends on how I feel.

Peace of Mind and Freedom is Priceless. Don't Take it away from me.

So have you had similar experience please share

allwell51:
Bride refuses to smile as her husband sprays her Naira notes at their traditional wedding

Watch video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5_8LWG3eE

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSVf6Cgg4W/?utm_medium=copy_link

MeghaneMorgane:
I am a young lady in my mid 20s. I don’t live with my parents. I live alone because I work in another city different from where my parents live. My problem now is immediately I get back home from work, I begin to feel lonely. Because of this, I like to close late from work just to keep my mind busy. I close early only if I have other errands to run or if I am very tired.

When I get home, I speak with my parents who try their best to keep me company. But there is still lots of time left before I go to bed. In the height of my boredom, I come to nairaland. Then I go to other blogs to read the news. I read all the news blogs I normally follow. I check out my chats on WhatsApp and Telegram. Usually there isn’t anyone chatting with me because everyone is busy with their lives. I go to Youtube which I have become tired of watching. And at some time I’m just bored to my mind. I don’t like to impose myself on anybody and so I only chat with people who come to chat with me including neighbours.

Sometimes I just want someone around that I can talk to but I’m alone by myself. Single people, how do you cope with boredom. I mean single people who are really single not the ones cohabiting or visiting their partners. Some tips will be very helpful right now.

ManirBK:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/31/amotekun-kill-two-kidnappers-oyo

NwekeUG:
Nigerian fashion designer, Tolu Bally, took to her Instagram handle to share photos of her has newly-acquired 2020 Range Rover Vogue, IgbereTV reports.

She stated that she decided to pamper herself with the car.

She wrote;


https://www.instagram.com/p/CRwRATSsjAB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

SeeHim:
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/four-cultists-arrested-in-ogun-during-supremacy-battle/

Insecurity:
https://dailypost.ng/2021/07/14/hausa-residents-cry-out-as-rivers-govt-demolishes-shanties/

onthehill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn_x4RIKeVc

Bitcom:
This happened this evening at DLA road Asaba as I was returning from office.

Policemen shot a young guy inside 4matic 300 car, carried away his dead body, arrested one and 3 ran away. They were 5 young guys inside the 4matic car as policemen were seen pursuing them with their Sienna car.

The guys were driving very fast along DLA road Asaba as police were seen pursuing them shooting at them, just close to falcon club junction, unfortunately, the guy driving hit a fence and the car stopped moving. The Policemen then stopped their own sienna car, opened fire on them, shot one of them and he died instantly, 3 of them ran away as police was approaching to them, they arrested one.

They carried the dead body of the guy they shot together with one of them alive and quickly drove away.

People gathered at the scene lamenting and crying against the killing of the young guy. People confirmed that they were innocent as they didn't see any gun, illegal items or country banned goods with the guys. Their car is still packed at the scene as of 5:37 pm.

I will share the video link here as I will soon upload it on YouTube.

Pictures below...

Thebest12:
Hello Good morning nairalanders ,
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Pls I want to know am I about to experience heart break or I should do that now before she does it to me . My girlfriend just posted someone LOML . I just saw that on her stories. I investigated deeply and I found the guy's username . I saw that the guy has been commenting on her posts recently and I wonder why she posted the guy LOML . I tried to ask her but some people adviced me not to and that I should watch from distance. Okay just when I have decided to freestyle the matter , today again she posted same guy again . I am so pained right now , and confused.

Am I about to experience heart break .? Should I kuku end the relationship now ? Pls I need your advice

PENNYSWAP:
Greetings guys ..

I’m in an emotional trauma right now. This girl I have been dating , I want to marry and I have gone to her place and did a few of things my hand could afford traditionally .. I’m hoping to do the rest by Xmas .

She is a new graduate and she told me to open a side business for her to make small small change instead of being idle. If you don’t have tomorrow she will look for another man to give her.

I told her to give me small time to save up money .

There is this guy she always talks about that is a yahoo boy and has plenty money , long story short , she came to my house last weekend , we were discussing, I wanted to use her phone and play 9ja ludo but she insisted on not giving me the phone .. she held the phone , turned her back after pressing it for long she gave it to me .

I angrily seized the phone , told her I bought the phone and sim that I’m seizing it.

We later settle and she slept early hours of the nxt day , I woke up brought her phone and it was on plane mood , I removed it from plane mood and a text msg came in from some guy .

I went to her WhatsApp to check the guy out and behold , she blocked the number on WhatsApp.

I unblocked the number and sent him message first , we started chatting , the guy was saying how he loves her and all that shit and the money he sent her to open up a side business.

I woke her up , confronted her and she said she did it for me since I was wasting time to raise money for her , she had to take it from her class mate , the said yahoo guy .

That she’s sorry not to tell me about it since .

She said I should allow her answer the guys calls so that she can get more money from the guy. I agreed and gave her the go ahead but she promised that she won’t allow any man see her unclothedness aside me her husband to be.

My mind has been heating up , why she lied to me and hid something of this nature to me .

The other mind is telling me to impregnate her then dump her when she’s 6 months pregnant that if I leave her now , the guy might take over and I will be the mugu here .

Guys what do I do , I need to wicked this girl I swear , my mind is boiling

Some one I have done 45% of her dowry is doing this to me . Kai I be mugu Oooooo

I need advise from real niggaz

ISLAMBAD:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/06/24/uk-court-finds-18-year-old-nigerian-guilty-atm-robberies

mugnmuffin:
Dear Nairalanders,
I have an issue that has been on my mind for weeks now. My fiancé and I have been dating for over three years. I love him and he loves me too. We are physically attracted to each other. We’re both catholic but since I graduated, during my service year I gave my life to Christ, got saved and left the Catholic Church. So I’ve been a Pentecostal Christian since then. He on the other hand is still catholic. I subtly try to nudge him to consider getting saved, i.e acknowledging Christ as lord and savior and becoming born again but he is content with his laidback Christian life.

Earlier this year, he asked to meet my parents and I let him. My parents like him especially because my younger sis is married and they have been waiting for me too. They’re glad I’ve someone. However, after the introduction,I regret it. I’m now certain that he’s not the one. I think about my spiritual life and how lukewarm he is about the things of God, I think about kids and how we’ll raise the, with such differing views about God and I’m discouraged. I feel like I’m settling because he checks all the boxes on the checklist of physical attributes. Another mistake I made is, I didn’t pray about this decision and that worries me because anything that involves him,I just act with pausing to ask God, but I always ask God about other aspects of my life. So it’s like my associating with him is a minus for my spiritual life and that’s a huge cause for concern.

At this point, I want to tell my parents I am not convinced it’s him but I’m afraid of the disappointment this will cause. *sigh* I’ll appreciate your thoughts, comments, criticisms...

UDOKABESTLUV:
Update From . COM

Armed bandits have shot and killed Anja Mallam, the village head of Dogon Daji in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Reports.

The state Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, who confirmed the incident to in a statement said the bandits raided the residence of the village head on Saturday, June 19 and shot him at close range, resulting in his instant death.

Governor Nasir El-Rufai expressed sadness at the report, and prayed for the repose of the soul of the village head, Learnt.

The Governor also sent condolences to the family of the deceased, and the entire community of Dogon Daji over the shocking and brutal killing.

The commissioner further stated that investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=316700633324698&id=100049542917085

NkanAkpanika:
https://www.facebook.com/223506687850114/posts/1719721424895292/

naptu2:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4267001306654436&id=492378324116772

post=102715590:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/gunmen-kill-12-injure-five-in-plateau/amp/

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Slimdan360:
Stop being a selfish and stingy person,the more u give,the greater u receive,know this and know peace

Ninobraw:
No need for a long story, I got married 2 yrs ago, during our friendship I mean courtship it was very sweet and lovely, we got married 2 yrs ago and I have 1 kid.

The problem I have is that, the girl's family come to greet almost every time and when they come they eat like elephant, anything eatable they eat it, they don't use eyes to see bread tea or butter in my room, they will finish it within a day, I will end up spending a lot during the time, when I noticed that it becomes offen i started telling my wife that I am broke, I don't have money. Although my wife is very nice she earns salary of 40k a month, and do funds and cook many times with her money.

Before now I was it okay, we are like a family, now i just realized that it is making me not think straight within a week oil and cooking things we bought will just finished the cartoon of indomitable that last the 2 of us before 1 month or month plus will just finish within 4 days of thier stay, some time 3 of her family will come once and another set will come again, my wife is the first daughter, the poor parents gave birth to 9 kids all in the name of looking for a boy, so she said although the 2 boys are number 7 and 9 position, her parents should be around man 60s and the woman 45yrs old. so now I am tired of the marriage, I don't know how to talk to my wife about it, that I don't like how thier family do come offend since we got married, my families has never come to sleep over in my place for a night talkless of spending holiday in my place my parents gave birth to only 3 of us 2 boys 1 girl.

Now i am just tired I can't be responsible for someone else burden why give birth to many kids and unable to train them, i plan to have only 2 or 3 kids only, and her family want to make me be like thier father sitting at home doing nothing depending on pension for survival, i have realized that I can't achieve what i should have achieved if i continue life this way.

Before our marriage, we agreed no family members is coming to stay with us, the issue now is they don't stay but come to eat and go, it's a big cheating to me I am tired for real, even if I say I don't have money and she use her own. The money should have be able to do other important thing . She spending is also affecting me a lot, we should have been able to buy land or car or live well, not feeding battalion. I am tired please I need advice on what to do.

Cutezt:
So I have this 9 weeks old eskimo dog, she is lovely and a beauty to behold. I love her so much and play a lot with her, but my only problem is that she doesn't know where to urinate. She urinates on my tiles which gets me annoyed a lot of times, I have watched dog potty training videos and tried all the tips but with very little success. I have a potty for her kept in the toilet but she prefers to urinate on my room tiles.

I have tried to keep the potty where she loves to go urinate but everytime, she shuns it and still urinate on the tiles, and at one point, I beat her and put her in the bathroom so she can see that when she urinated there, I won't beat her and will reward her, but this dog held the urine for over 10 hours and immediately I opened the bathroom door, she rushed out to the room and urinated on the tiles.

I don't know what to do again, please house, help me, she seems to be confusing the room for the rest room and the rest room for the room.