CONQUER YOURSELF.*


_*For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36-37).*_

Throughout history, there have been hundreds of well-known leaders who subdued other men. The whole world was subject to them; they had everything under their tyranny. Some were even so revered and placed by others in the class of God. But Jesus said, _*“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”*_ (Mark 8:36-37).

Never pride yourself in your ability to subdue or dominate others; rather, learn to use your authority over yourself. Conquer yourself! That’s when you really win: when you say to yourself, “I’m going to do the right thing and say the right thing only,” and keep at it.

When your words and actions are under your charge, consciously subjected to God’s Word, then you’re ready for true success. When you tell yourself, “Nothing filthy will come out of me” and consciously ensure such a lifestyle through the Word, that’s the way of victory.

Refuse to give vent or expression to satanic manifestations such as anger, hatred, bitterness, jealousy and envy. Be sure that only the blessings, grace and compassion of Jesus are seen and experienced by everyone around you. Make the choice that only His love and works of righteousness will effuse from you to your world.


*PRAYER*

*Blessed Father, I thank you for the blessing and privilege to receive your Word. My mind is stayed on your Word; the Spirit of excellence at work in me brings discipline and stability into my life, to produce fruits of righteousness and manifest your love, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.*

*FURTHER STUDY:* *||* *1 Corinthians 9:25-27 NLT* All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. 26 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified. *||*

*||* *Proverbs 25:28 AMPC* He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. *||*

*||* *Proverbs 16:32 CEV* Controlling your temper is better than being a hero who captures a city. *||*


Pastor Chris Oyakhilome (DSc. DD)

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Say this:

O Lord God, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ.

Your Word says, "...whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Acts 2:21).

I ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord of my life.

I receive eternal life into my spirit and according to Romans 10:9, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved," I declare that I am saved; I am born-again; I am a child of God! I now have Christ dwelling in me, and greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world! (1 John4:4).
I now walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah!"

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Brendaniel:

Never pride yourself in your ability to subdue or dominate others; rather, learn to use your authority over yourself. Conquer yourself! That’s when you really win: when you say to yourself, “I’m going to do the right thing and say the right thing only,” and keep at it.

Good. We shall set this as our standard, shall we, though I must point out the little issue of self righteousness that makes one think that whatever one says or does is the right thing and everyone else is wrong.

So, let me point out to us both what a very wise person once said.

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And whatever you might think, buda's forest is bigger than yours.

budaatum:


Good. We shall set this as our standard, shall we, though I must point out the little issue of self righteousness that makes one think that whatever one says or does is the right thing and everyone else is wrong.

So, let me point out to us both what a very wise person once said.

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And whatever you might think, buda's forest is bigger than yours.

there is nothing like self righteousness here, in life you are either wrong or right, there is no hanging on the fence and this isn't about competition, it's about the truth, either what you stand for is a lie or is the absolute truth...

Brendaniel:


there is nothing like self righteousness here, in life you are either wrong or right, there is no hanging on the fence and this isn't about competition, it's about the truth, either what you stand for is a lie or is the absolute truth...

Absolute truth, my ass! Or rather, according to whom?

In life, perhaps one is indeed right or wrong, but can you seriously claim you are qualified to determine right or wrong for others?

Brendaniel:
CONQUER YOURSELF.*


_*For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36-37).*_

Throughout history, there have been hundreds of well-known leaders who subdued other men. The whole world was subject to them; they had everything under their tyranny. Some were even so revered and placed by others in the class of God. But Jesus said, _*“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”*_ (Mark 8:36-37).

Never pride yourself in your ability to subdue or dominate others; rather, learn to use your authority over yourself. Conquer yourself! That’s when you really win: when you say to yourself, “I’m going to do the right thing and say the right thing only,” and keep at it.

When your words and actions are under your charge, consciously subjected to God’s Word, then you’re ready for true success. When you tell yourself, “Nothing filthy will come out of me” and consciously ensure such a lifestyle through the Word, that’s the way of victory.

Refuse to give vent or expression to satanic manifestations such as anger, hatred, bitterness, jealousy and envy. Be sure that only the blessings, grace and compassion of Jesus are seen and experienced by everyone around you. Make the choice that only His love and works of righteousness will effuse from you to your world....

Jesus Christ teachings his followers to accept(Trust) and obey His teaching/commandments in order to gain that which He has promised. He did not command His followers to instead "look inwards" for solutions to the problem even of sin.

Jesus Christ commands that those who do not deny themselves, take up His cross and follow Him, you are not worthy of Him. The doctrine of Self-control, however, teaches such things as bringing your words and actions "under your charge" .i.e. self-control runs contrary to that commandment.

budaatum:

Absolute truth, my ass! Or rather, according to whom?

It has nothing to do with according to whom, In Life there are only 2 options either you are stand on a lie or you stand on the truth


In life, perhaps one is indeed right or wrong, but can you seriously claim you are qualified to determine right or wrong for others?

The law of man can be twisted, that's why you can use the word perhaps, even in the courts the Truth(as they call it) can be a lie based on facts and evidence, but the TRUTH will always remain the same regardless of how man twists evidence, facts, information and so on, man can get away with a lie as truth with the law of man, but man cannot get away with a lie as truth with the law of God and nature because it will remain the same, that's why I said, does the legality of man made laws make something true, No it doesn't, so for you to say that the legality of gay practice makes is right holds no ground for truth, so we can equally say that a legally made law can be an absolute lie and can be an absolute truth since I will not base my argument using man made laws because it can be faulted based on facts and evidence, so I will be using the law of nature to make my arguments.

Like I said earlier on, there are only 2 options with no perhaps: TRUTH OR LIE or do you have any other word you can use in between them, so it definitely means that in between countries that did not legalize gay practice and the countries that legalized gay practice, one set is standing on the truth and the other is standing on a lie( that's simply what it is).

Going further I asked you a question as to how you can find out the truth from a lie, well the simple truth is you put both claims to a test and test them to the extreme, anyone that fails under extremity is a lie and the one that stands is the truth, one thing you should know about a lie is it can sometimes start quickly and go faster than the truth but is bound to fail, the truth never fails, no matter the extremity, the truth only keeps refining and getting purer, a lie will need more lies to keep covering it and eventually fail under extremity.

I'll give you 2 examples based on my argument and one of them will answer the preacher's principle of society rotting away due to gay practice:

1. King Solomon is still known by many historians as the wisest man, I don't know if you know the story of his 2 wives who laid claim to a child, and Solomon put both claims to an extreme test, He said he was going to split the baby into 2 parts so they could share the baby, one agreed and the other cried and said No, the lie was revealed under extremity, the woman who agreed for the baby to be split was actually telling lies because the baby was not hers, while the one who disagreed was telling the truth, a real mother will never watch her baby split into 2, that shows you that the truth remains the truth regardless of extremity. you can read all here: 1 Kings 3:16-28

2. About the gay stuff we are going to put it to a test using the law of nature, remember I said to determine a lie from the truth, test them to the extreme, so we are going to test the law of nature to the extreme.
Let's extremely assume that everyone in world was gay, I mean women to only women and men to only men, what do you think will happen to mankind, maximum in the next 120 years mankind will go extinct, isn't that society rotting away...

Let us now extremely assume that everybody on earth was straight, would that affect the existence of mankind, No it will not, so we can equally say that gay practice will fail under extreme pressure and heterosexual practice will only get better and more refined under extreme pressure.
So we know which is a lie here and the truth, now you might say that well, doctors have been able to birth babies from the lab, a lie will always have explanation and things to cover it to make it look like the truth and also twist facts with evidence to prove points to make it look like truth but it will still fail in the long run and I will explain.

1. Firstly before the advancement of technology to birth babies through the lab or through any other medical means, it was only heterosexual sex that has brought mankind this far in existence, not gay sex.

2. Two people of same sex can never birth a baby naturally by having sex

3. If we consider poor countries who don't have the medical facilities or funds for the same sex couple to birth a child medically, it means very low rate of child production in such countries.

4. The issue of DNA will cause a whole lot of havoc in coming years in countries that birth medically especially for the women folks who buy sperm, the world is still grappling with the issue of DNA fraud from women who cheat on their partners, the reason courts are able to determine cases easier these days are because of DNA tests, just imagine a world with so many bastards with brothers and sisters or even brothers and brothers or sisters and sisters(gay section) unknowingly getting married and having sex with each other all because they don't know their fathers or their mothers, Isn't that society rotting away, are we animals that a son or daughter will unknowingly sleep with his mother or his/her father as gay because he/she doesn't know.

5. The question I ask is would mankind accommodate all these problems because of pleasure, legalizing gay marriage doesn't change the fact that it will come with so many problems, that is why it is a lie, because you will keep adjusting and twisting it just to make it look like the truth and the problems will keep heaping up till it totally crashes the system, that's society rotting away, but in the end it remains a lie, legalizing or de-legalizing straight marriage doesn't change a thing, it stands in order without confusion...

6. Gay people claim that it is love that they practice, I laugh whenever I hear that, If you are gay and you are against a son or daughter for loving,having sex or marry his/her mother, sister, father, brother, uncle, aunty, cousin, grand-father, grand-mother and vice-versa then you are a complete hypocrite, because is not the same love you guys claim anyone can love, why would you stop 2 persons from loving each other, you would say it is bad, like the way straight people are saying you guys are doing bad, the question is where do we draw the line, some people are clamoring for such already, some others are clamoring for marriage and sex with animals, some are clamoring for sex and marriage with young boys below the age of 13 , I mean grown up old men trying to legalize sex with boys of 13 years and below, they call themselves men for boys,

THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE, THE TRUTH IS THE ONLY STANDARD...

Brendaniel:


there is nothing like self righteousness here, in life you are either wrong or right, there is no hanging on the fence and this isn't about competition, it's about the truth, either what you stand for is a lie or is the absolute truth...

Truth!

Lies!

Absolute truth!

Where do you get these stuff from?

Sheunma:

Truth!

Lies!

Absolute truth!

Where do you get these stuff from?

there is the truth of the world which can be manipulated by law, evidence and facts, and there is the absolute truth of life which cannot be manipulated by anything, that's why the law of man can be faulted and courts can pass judgements that seem right but with a whole lot of manipulations that are legal according to the law, but there is an absolute truth in every case in life and God is the only judge that works with the absolute truth because his laws cannot be manipulated with facts and evidence...

Brendaniel:

THE QUESTION IS WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE, THE TRUTH IS THE ONLY STANDARD...

Brenda, you see, this is where you confront a problem. You seem to be claiming that truth is determined by Gods, but here you are trying to draw lines with your own understanding of truth as if you are God's mouthpiece and the proclaimer of God's truth. Don't you think that you should leave line drawing to the Gods? After all, "Judgement is mine" says the Lord, and not "the Lord's judgement must be administered by Brendaniel"!

You sure do cast stones as if homosexuality is only or the greatest of sins despite it being written in what you'd likely consider to be the Holy Book of Truths that "inasmuch as you break one of the laws, ye have broken them all". It makes me wonder if you are aware at all of the truth of the law of:

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Is corruption and kidnapping not a greater evil for you to be concerned about where you live than the poo that others may chose to poke their own pokers in? Are you afraid that the punishment, if any, for homosexuality would be served on righteous you as if it is your poker that will stink of poo or do you fear that you and your's might be infected with homosexuality?

Sheunma:

Truth!

Lies!

Absolute truth!

Where do you get these stuff from?

Especially that last one, when the truth is in the eye that he beholds with.

budaatum:


Brenda, you see, this is where you confront a problem. You seem to be claiming that truth is determined by Gods, but here you are trying to draw lines with your own understanding of truth as if you are God's mouthpiece and the proclaimer of God's truth. Don't you think that you should leave line drawing to the Gods? After all, "Judgement is mine" says the Lord, and not "the Lord's judgement must be administered by Brendaniel"!

You sure do cast stones as if homosexuality is only or the greatest of sins despite it being written in what you'd likely consider to be the Holy Book of Truths that "inasmuch as you break one of the laws, ye have broken them all". It makes me wonder if you are aware at all of the truth of the law of:

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Is corruption and kidnapping not a greater evil for you to be concerned about where you live than the poo that others may chose to poke their own pokers in? Are you afraid that the punishment, if any, for homosexuality would be served on righteous you as if it is your poker that will stink of poo or do you fear that you and your's might be infected with homosexuality?

You are only trying to be defensive here, I never endorsed any sin, corruption and kidnapping are all bad, you were the one who endorsed homosexuality as not been a bad thing, I only pointed out to you that it is a bad thing, I have my choices in life just like you have yours, do whatever pleases you, that's the freedom God gave everyone, but that will not stop me from speaking the truth, it's left for you to accept it or reject it, I have played my part and that's what matters most....

Brendaniel:


You are only trying to be defensive here, I never endorsed any sin, corruption and kidnapping are all bad, you were the one who endorsed homosexuality as not been a bad thing, I only pointed out to you that it is a bad thing, I have my choices in life just like you have yours, do whatever pleases you, that's the freedom God gave everyone, but that will not stop me from speaking the truth, it's left for you to accept it or reject it, I have played my part and that's what matters most....

First, I am not endorsing homosexuality. What I endorse is the right for individuals to do what they chose to do in the privacy of their bedroom since what they do does not in anyway affect me and nor am I in the bedroom police force.

The point is that what is true for you is not always what others consider true for themselves. And as pointed out in my initial post, you don't get to impose what is true for you on to others. After all, you too can accept their truth or reject it, which is precisely the essence of live and let live, or die and go to hell, if that be the case.

budaatum:

First, I am not endorsing homosexuality. What I endorse is the right for individuals to do what they chose to do in the privacy of their bedroom since what they do does not in anyway affect me and nor am I in the bedroom police force.

The point is that what is true for you is not always what others consider true for themselves. And as pointed out in my initial post, you don't get to impose what is true for you on to others. After all, you too can accept their truth or reject it, which is precisely the essence of live and let live, or die and go to hell, if that be the case.

budaatum, do what you feel like doing, the most important thing here is I have played my part...

Brendaniel:


budaatum, do what you feel like doing, the most important thing here is I have played my part...

We all play our part and do what we feel like doing, just that some think they are doing what God wants done when in truth they may end up gnashing their teeth, which is why one should beware of being holier than thou like tge Pharisee who is grateful for not being a tax collector.

So do not go bearing false witness about conversations you never had with buda when the facts and the evidence easily prove you haven't and can't even when the opportunity is provided you!

budaatum:


We all play our part and do what we feel like doing, just that some think they are doing what God wants done when in truth they may end up gnashing their teeth, which is why one should beware of being holier than thou like tge Pharisee who is grateful for not being a tax collector.

So do not go bearing false witness about conversations you never had with buda when the facts and the evidence easily prove you haven't and can't even when the opportunity is provided you!

I have played my part, the ball is in your court...

Brendaniel:


I have played my part, the ball is in your court...

We are not on the same court, Brenda. You got your ball to play and I got mine and the Lord will judge us all separately.

budaatum:


We are not on the same court, Brenda. You got your ball to play and I got mine and the Lord will judge us all separately.

Our meeting is not ordinary, it was ordained, I was told to tell you all what I told you, that is why I am not bothered what you do with what I have told you, the ball is in your court now, it's you and you alone now, I have done my assignment on your page, I am on my own too right now but I am fulfilled because I have done what I was told to do on your page of life, so even if you reject or accept what I have told you it doesn't change anything on my own page anymore...

Brendaniel:


Our meeting is not ordinary, it was ordained, I was told to tell you all what I told you, that is why I am not bothered what you do with what I have told you, the ball is in your court now, it's you and you alone now, I have done my assignment on your page, I am on my own too right now but I am fulfilled because I have done what I was told to do on your page of life, so even if you reject or accept what I have told you it doesn't change anything on my own page anymore...

Lol!

I too was ordained to tell you what I am telling you Brendaniel. That is precisely why I am bothered that you hear me. And even if you reject it, I will go on telling you because it will be painful if you are a lost sheep.

budaatum:


Lol!

I too was ordained to tell you what I am telling you Brendaniel. That is precisely why I am bothered that you hear me. And even if you reject it, I will go on telling you because it will be painful if you are a lost sheep.

No problem, It's only a matter of time, the truth will always stand out...