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What is the name of captain Philips ship

THE. WEALTHY DONT FIGHT THEMSELVES. THEY ALLOW YOUR IMAGINATIONS RUN WILD.

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YOU DIDN'T STATE YOUR LOCATION. SO YOUR LONG DISTANCE MIGHT BE A THREE HOUR DRIVE OR TWO DAYS JOURNEY.

LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP ARE COSTLY TO MAINTAIN BOTH FINANCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.

1. FIRST YOU SPEND MONEY CALLING, WHATSAPPING, FACE BOOKING, SKYPING, TELEGRAMMING AND MANY MORE. MEAN WHILE YOU COULD SAVE ALL THESE MONIES ON YOURSELF OR SPEND LESSER ON THE GIRL WHO'S CLOSER.

2. INCESSANT MONITORING QUESTIONS LIKE: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WHO IS THE GIRL/GUY ON YOUR DP? YOU CHEATING ON ME? DO YOU LOVE ME?
ALL THESE STRESS FILLED QUESTIONS ARE CUT SHORT IN A CLOSE RANGED RELATIONSHIP.

3. TRUST WILL ALWAYS BE AN ISSUE. ANYTIME YOU ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO RESPOND TO YOUR CALLS AND MESSAGES ESP AT NIGHT TIME; THE MIND WILL BEGIN ITS GAMES AND TRUST ME, THE MIND IS A PERFECTIONIST. IT NEVER LOSES IN ITS HOME GROUND.

4. YOU GUYS MIGHT BE COMPATIBLE ON THE ONLINE WORLD BUT MIGHT NOT BE IN THE PHYSICAL. MANY RELATIONSHIPS ARE SWEETER ONLINE THAN OFFLINE.

SO MY BROTHER, WITH THESE FEW POINTS OF MINE HOPE I HAVE ABLE TO CONVINCE YOU AND NOT CONFUSE YOU THAT SUKURAT IS BETTER THAN ADRIANA.

DON'T TAKE THIS SERIOUS.

SCAMMER. DONT FALL VICTIM

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Several times I've seen post from people claiming they have nothing to eat and my first response is usually to ask how they can even afford data when they can't afford food. I never understood until I found myself in that position. I had to borrow data to come online.

Something to distract me from the Hunger and pain. The picture you're looking at is the last meal I had. I had to decide what I needed more. To transport myself to church with the last N100 I had in my life or feed myself. So I bought garri, sugar and a sachet of water. What happens tomorrow I do not know. I've not had any water in 2 days. I used to boil my drinking water on my camp gas before I ran out of gas. Our water is very dirty. I can't afford to get sick. How did I even better here? I used to be alright. I used to slay. But I was sleeping with a married man who took care of me in return for sex. The comments on Nairaland turned my life around. You people set me on the right path. But that path is about to be the death of me. My determination is strong but it gets harder everyday. Especially now. What do I do from here? How do I carry on? If I backslide today, I just want to be able to justify myself that I tried.

SCAMMER

Oga this ur ranking no correct. How many people can afford video streaming on YouTube? Nairaland is the first. no doubt.

source: http://dailypost.ng/2017/11/11/rich-pastors-ignoring-poor-falana-mocks-adeboye-others/
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) condemned the rate of poverty and unemployment in the country, despite the existence of billionaire Christian leaders.

Falana at the ongoing Lagos Book and Arts Festival (LABAF) holding in Freedom Park, Lagos, took a swipe at Nigerian pastors, accusing them of milking their congregants

The legal luminary wondered how most of them lived in so much affluence but failed to give back to the society.

He also mocked General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, for saying RCCG will have as many branches as possible.

Falana lambasted Adeboye and other clerics who prefer to increase branches, instead of focusing on other institutions like schools and hospitals.

His words: “Most of the richest pastors in the world are from Nigeria, yet our people are getting poorer.

“If many of us had not attended mission schools built by the Catholics and the Anglicans…but what are we building now? What are our churches giving us?

“They are promising to build churches in every street. All the warehouses in Apapa built by Awolowo have all become churches and business centres.”

Recall that Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie recently criticised Adeboye’s comment, stating that there is no Godliness in increasing church branches.

“I heard that one of my colleagues, (Pastor Enoch) Adeboye, said that he would love to build churches everywhere so as to make it easy for worshippers to walk to them.

“But for me, that is a useless statement. How can you say you will build churches everywhere? What kind of churches are you talking about?

“Look at traffic in Lagos for example, and those who are pastors are traders and a good number of them are business men. Such churches in most cases are more like business houses!

“Look at the number of churches springing up in Lagos. If the Muslims start building mosques like that, does it show that Nigeria is a religious country?”

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Many think believers in Christ should tithe (defined as giving 10 percent of one’s income), and many use the language of “tithes and offerings” in worship services. Others are equally convinced tithing is not required for believers.

Which view is more faithful to God’s Word?

This certainly isn’t a matter over which believers should break fellowship. Love is far more important than our view on tithing (1 Cor. 13). Still, I would argue tithing isn’t required or even encouraged for believers in Jesus Christ. But such a stance needs to be explained.

TITHING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

What does the Old Testament say about tithing? Abraham gave a tenth of his spoils of war to Melchizedek (Gen. 14:20), and Hebrews appeals to this account to support the superiority of Melchizedek’s priesthood over Levi’s (Heb. 7:4–10). God met Jacob at Bethel and promised him covenant blessings; the patriarch promised God a tenth of everything granted him (Gen. 28:22).

A tenth of Israel’s seed, fruit, and flocks were given to the Lord (Lev. 27:30–32; Deut. 14:22–24; cf. 2 Chron. 31:5–6; Neh. 13:5, 12). The people gave a tenth to the Levites to support them (Num. 18:21–24; cf. Neh. 10:38; 12:44), and the Levites, in turn, were to give a tenth to the chief priest (Num. 18:25–28). Those who didn’t tithe were threatened with a curse, while those who did tithe were promised blessing (Mal. 3:8–10).

Though we might assume Old Testament Israel gave a total of 10 percent, it’s actually difficult to discern how much was given. We can’t linger over details in this short article, but some think the Israelites gave 14 tithes over seven years; others believe they gave 12. Regardless, when we add the required tithes together, the amount certainly exceeded 10 percent. In fact, the number was probably somewhere around 20 percent per year.

WHY TITHING IS NOT REQUIRED TODAY

There are seven decisive reasons for saying Christians are not required to tithe.

1. Believers are no longer under the Mosaic covenant (Rom. 6:14–15; 7:5–6; Gal. 3:15–4:7; 2 Cor. 3:4–18).

The commands stipulated in the Mosaic covenant are no longer in force for believers. Some appeal to the division between the civil, ceremonial, and moral law to support tithing. Yet these divisions, I would observe, are not the basis Paul uses when addressing how the law applies to us today. And even if we use these distinctions, tithing is clearly not part of the moral law. It’s true the moral norms of the Old Testament are still in force today, and we discern them from the law of Christ in the New Testament, but tithing is not among these commands.

2. The examples of Abraham and Jacob are not normative patterns.

Some think tithing is required because both Abraham and Jacob gave a tenth, and they both lived before the Mosaic covenant was in place. Such examples hardly prove tithing is for all time, however. Abraham’s gift to Melchizedek was a one-time event; there is no evidence he regularly gave God a tenth.

Jacob’s giving of a tenth signified his gratefulness to God for promising to be with him and to protect him. His gratefulness and generosity still speak to us today, but a historical description of what Jacob gave doesn’t support the idea that all believers must give God a tenth of their income.

3. Tithes were given to the Levites and priests, but there are no Levites and priests in the new covenant.

Levites and priests were tied to the sacrificial system of the old covenant. Now all believers are priests (1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6), with Jesus as our Melchizedekian high priest (Heb. 7).

4. The tithe is tied to the land Israel received under the old covenant.

Israel was supposed to celebrate a tithe every three years in Jerusalem. But that requirement cannot apply to Christians today. It related to the Jews as a nation—to Jews who lived in the land of promise. With the coming of Christ, the Jewish nation is no longer the locus of God’s people, though individual Jews are part of the church through faith in Jesus.

The earthly Jerusalem is no longer central in God’s purposes (Gal. 4:25). Believers are part of the heavenly Jerusalem (Gal. 4:26) and look forward to the city to come (Heb. 11:10), to the new heavens and new earth (Rev. 21:1–22:5). Abraham isn’t heir of the land of Israel, but of the whole world (Rom. 4:13).

5. If tithing is required today, how much should we give?

As noted above, the number was certainly more than 10 percent and closer to 20 percent. Those who advocate tithing should probably settle on 20 percent.

6. When Jesus affirmed the tithe, it was before the dawn of the new covenant.

Some defend tithing by saying Jesus praised tithing, even if he said it was less important than other things (Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42). This argument appears strong, but it’s not persuasive. Jesus also mentioned offering sacrifices in the temple (Matt. 5:23–24), but Christians don’t think—even if the temple were rebuilt—that we should do that. Our Lord’s words are understandable when we think about his location in redemptive history


Jesus spoke about sacrifices and tithing before the cross and resurrection, before the dawn of the new covenant. He used tithing and sacrifices as illustrations when addressing his contemporaries. He kept the law since he was “born under the law” (Gal. 4:4). But we can no more take his words as a commendation for tithing today than we can his words about offering sacrifices.

7. Nowhere is tithing mentioned when commands to give generously are found in the New Testament.

When Christians are instructed to give to the poor, they aren’t commanded to give “the poor tithe.” Instead, they are instructed to be generous in helping those in need (Acts 2:43–47; 4:32–37; 11:27–30; Gal. 2:10; 1 Cor. 16:1–4; 2 Cor. 8:1–9:15). For example, 1 Corinthians 16:1–4—a passage often cited in popular circles in support—doesn’t mention tithing; it relates to a one-time gift for poor saints in Jerusalem.

GIVE GENEROUSLY

Even though tithing isn’t required today, it does not follow that believers should hoard their possessions.

We are commanded to support those who preach the gospel (Matt. 10:10; Luke 10:7; 1 Cor. 9:6–14; 1 Tim. 5:17–18). And while we should enjoy the good things God gives us, we are also called to be generous to those in need (1 Tim. 6:17–19; 2 Cor. 8–9). Wealth can so easily become an idol, leading us to abandon the Lord.

Since God is to be our treasure, believers are to give generously and freely. For many in the West, this will mean giving more than 10 percent.

Still, Scripture doesn’t command Christians to give a tenth—and Scripture, not tradition, is our rule and authority.

SOURCE: https://thegospelcoalition.org/article/7-reasons-christians-not-required-to-tithe/

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