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The Most Expensive Bride Price Ever Paid

I heard a quite amusing story I think from a radio station about a community in Benue State where the elders and people of the community had to arrange an emergency meeting to discuss an important issue that concerned bride price.

And the reason the meeting became necessary was because there was a growing concern that the cost of bride price in the community had become to to expensive and unaffordable, hence was responsible for chasing away men from their women, as the number of unmarried women in the community was observed to have risen at an alarming rate. Hence the need for something to be urgently done about it.

It was kind of funny to me because I'd never heard of such a thing before, where the single issue of bride price would warrant such an important meeting of the elders and people of a community.

But if it was really a true story that men were keeping away from the women of the said community because of the high cost of their bride price, I believe it wouldn't just be because they couldn't afford to pay the bride price for such women or that it was too high for them, but that to them the women of that community were not deemed worthy of such a high bride price.

However whatever the reasons were for the men not going to pay the high bride price of those women of that community, I know that the high bride price that kept away men from those said women was nothing compared to that which was given to a certain man to pay for His bride, because it was the most expensive bride price ever.

But despite that it was very high price for Him to pay for His bride, as it would cost Him His everything, He still didn't run away but paid it in full, because He really loved His bride, so no amount of bride price would have been too much a price to pay for her that could make Him to abandon Her, and take to His heels.

And the price for His bride involved Him being subjected to all sorts of mockery and humiliation, being spat on, having a crown of thorns planted on His head, beaten severely, having to carry a heavy cross to the place where He would be pay the ultimate bride price with His life, as He would be nailed to the cross and have His side pierced and be given His last breath and death.

And all this He did for His bride to make sure that He didn't lose her, but secured her for Himself for eternity.

Unfortunately though, despite going through all that suffering, humiliation and paying the ultimate price of His life for His bride, His bride was yet being taken away from Him.

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I had a close relative who had paid a very high price for his bride, so whenever his bride misbehaves he would lament and say to her, "na the money wey I pay for your head na him dey pain me pass".

That was because he payed a very high price for her and yet it was nothing close to that which Jesus the bridegroom had paid for his bride.

I read a story of a girl that died and met with Jesus in the after life, and one thing she kept mentioning, which I wasn't surprised about, was the extent to which He was weeping for His bride, especially considering all the efforts and sacrifice that He had made on her behalf, as yet she was still being kept away from Him, His love, His salvation, His peace, His hope and everything that He had wanted for her to partake of, that made Him go to that extent for her.

"Na the price wey hin pay for Hin bride na him dey pain am pass".

It cost Him everything men, and I just dey feel for my Master, so real that I no fit just hold back the tears as I dey type this thing so, when I see wetin people dey use everything wey hin suffer go through for Him bride dey do, chei my Master done really suffer oh. Kai!

Some think that He came down all the way from heaven down to the earth, and made all that sacrifice, for them to be doing whatever they like, and be living "the luxurious life" buying privates jets, building gigantic church buildings, and be competing amongst themselves in terms of earthly riches.

Some others think that He did it so that they can stay in one place and be proudly claiming to be christians, while they see the others(Muslims, atheists, pagans etc) as something else, which is not up to what they are, because it is now an effort that has been reduced to the level of bragging rights.

It's really really sad for me because my Master's efforts and sacrifice to this extent deserves much better than what was being made of it.

I mean why can't they see that the Master's bride means everything to Him, that makes Him always weep for her, i mean why?

Maybe it's because they weren't the ones that had to pay such an expensive price and give their life for the bride, hence they don't really care about the bride or the price that was payed for her.

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No wonder Jesus had to make it a mandatory price for all those who walked with Him to pay, and also the standard of the church He founded, to sacrifice everything they had even as He had done, otherwise it would be a case of what today's church has turned into presently, where Jesus would thinking about His bride, and they would be thinking about everything else, as they wouldn't be able to emphatize with Him with respect to the sacrifice He made for His bride.

For this was what He asked the rich young man to do, who despite having scaled thru the first hurdle of righteousness, was said to have been really saddened because of the high price that Jesus had asked him to pay for him to be able to walk with Him, that he walked away sadly from Jesus, as the price seemed too high a price for him to pay, as it would cost him his everything.

But it was the same price Jesus asked of Him that all His disciples who walked with Him had to pay for them to be able to walk with Him, as this was what Peter one of His first twelve asked Jesus soon after the rich young man had bulked at that high price that Jesus had asked of Him in this respect:

"...Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?" Matthew 19:27KJV

So they had all payed the same price as the Master had done, that's why they were able to feel the same way as Jesus did for the bride, because it also cost them everything.

I am also able to understand where Peter was coming from because when one has invested everything he had into a cause, he was worthy of knowing what he would get in return, because of the high price he has paid for it.

And Jesus seemed to agree with that view, as this was His response to that Peter's question:

"...Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." Matthew 19:28-29KJV

Maybe that perfectly portrays the difference between that church which Jesus founded and today's church in a nut shell, even the high price they had to pay to become a part of it.

As while those of that church sacrificed their all for the sake of the Master's bride, those of this church have more or less sacrificed nothing in comparison, as highest, they are at the level of righteousness where that rich young man was, even the same who couldn't make the grade at the time.

That's perhaps the reason why they do not care about the Master's bride as those of the first church did, because it did not cost them close to as much, even their all to be a part of it, as it was in those days when the church first began.

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Perhaps it takes someone paying a similar price, to feel the same way the Master feels about His bride, hence despite being a part of the church today, i still feel the same way He does about His bride, because it cost me my everything to walk with Jesus at the level I do.

That's why despite that it's not my own bride, or that I wasn't the one that payed her bride price, I am able to emphatize with the Master concerning the tears He always sheds for His bride which men are depriving Him of, because It also cost me my everything to walk with Him.

Hence i'm also able feel His pulse, as though I was the one that went through all that spitting, mockery, humiliation, chastisement, beating, brutalization, nailing, piercing, and even death, which is the most expensive bride price any man had ever had to pay for His bride.

So maybe na the price wey I pay na hin make am to dey pain me so much, and perhaps why a lot of church folks here can't understand why i go to extent I do for the Master's bride, because I know how much her bride price cost Him.

And hence while they may see the others as such as something else, I see them as my Masters bride which He gave His everything for to become His own.

And this includes all the atheists, Muslims, pagans, and if possible even the satanists here and beyond, because they all are part of the reason my Master had to pay such a heavy price.

So I would do everything I possibly could, give everything I possibly could, inclusive of my life, with the Holy Spirit helping me, to ensure that the my Master was not deprived of His bride, having payed her unprecedented bride price.

So that if at the end, His bride, whom He had payed the ultimate price for still refuses to come to Him, it wouldn't be that the Master was being deprived of his bride, but that His bride simply refused to accept His payment of her bride price, and hence Him as her bridegroom.

God bless.

It cost Him so much.

The price was paid long ago and Jesus even prayed to resist temptation of escaping it.

Na picture of Jim Caviezel I dey see for hia o

RepoMan007:
The price was paid long ago and Jesus even prayed to resist temptation of escaping it.

What's your point?

That it's now irrelevant and/or He ran away and didn't pay it?

Sheunma:
Na picture of Jim Caviezel I dey see for hia o

Just an illustration to show how costly the bride price was.

Thanks and God bless.

Jesus did it for you and I.

RepoMan007:
The price was paid long ago and Jesus even prayed to resist temptation of escaping it.

lol dude u are wrong.
he never wanted to escape anything because that was the sole reason He even became flash @first.
it has to do with two things.
1.missing the presence and relationship with the Father,which had never happened.
2.Time
is it His proposed time to drink the cup?

He gave His everything!

jesusjnr2020:
He gave His everything!

Like you said the bride price involves money not suffering.
Your story doesn't add up bro.