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Lady39:
Yes sir Mr. Oblitz....u r 100 percent correct..

As I wrote..we are all on the same page.

Now please empty your mind about every idiosyncrasies you have about sabbath and read this very objectively...this is not my opinion but what the Bible says...

In Colossians 2:16-17 , the apostle Paul declares, “Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.”

Similarly, Romans 14:5 states, “One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.”

These Scriptures make it clear that, for the Christian, Sabbath-keeping is a matter of spiritual freedom meaning a matter of choice.

Sabbath-keeping is an issue on which God’s Word instructs us not to judge each other.

Sabbath-keeping is a matter about which each Christian needs to be fully convinced in his/her own mind.

In the early chapters of the book of Acts, the first Christians were predominantly Jews. When Gentiles began to receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ, the Jewish Christians had a dilemma. What aspects of the Mosaic Law and Jewish tradition should Gentile Christians be instructed to obey? The apostles met and discussed the issue in the Jerusalem council (Acts 15 ).

The decision was, “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood” (Acts 15:19-20 ).

Sabbath-keeping was not one of the commands the apostles felt was necessary to force on Gentile believers.

It is inconceivable that the apostles would neglect to include Sabbath-keeping if it was God’s command for Christians to observe the Sabbath day.

A common error in the Sabbath-keeping debate is the concept that the Sabbath was the day of worship. Some hold that God requires the church service to be held on Saturday, the Sabbath day. That is not what the Sabbath command was.

The Sabbath command was to do no work on the Sabbath day (Exodus 20:8-11 ).

Nowhere in Scripture is the Sabbath day commanded to be the day of worship.

Yes, Jews in Old Testament, New Testament, and modern times use Saturday as the day of worship, but that is not the essence of the Sabbath command.

In the book of Acts, whenever a meeting is said to be on the Sabbath, it is a meeting of Jews and/or Gentile converts to Judaism, not Christians.

When did the early Christians meet?
Acts 2:46-47 gives us the answer,
“EVERY DAY (not sabbath day or sunday) they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”

Now the big question is ;
Is there anything wrong with worshipping on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath? Absolutely not!

We should worship God every day, not just on Saturday or Sunday!

Many churches today have both Saturday and Sunday services. There is freedom in Christ (Romans 8:21 )

Should a Christian practice Sabbath-keeping, that is, not working on Saturdays? If a Christian feels led to do so, absolutely, yes.

However, those who choose to practice Sabbath-keeping should not judge those who do not keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16 ). and those who do not keep the Sabbath should avoid being a stumbling block to those who do keep the Sabbath.

I hope this is explicit enough.

Oblitz:
God has never given permission to any man to work upon it. Reader, by what authority do you use - the seventh day for common labor?No Christian of the New Testament, either before or after the resurrection, ever did ordinary work upon the seventh day. Find one case of that kind, and we will yield the question. Why should modem Christians do differently from Bible Christians?There is no record that God has ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the seventh day.As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after the restitution. (Isaiah 66:22, 23.)The seventh-day Sabbath was an important part of the law of God, as it came from His own mouth, and was written by His own finger upon stone at Sinai. (See Exodus 20.) When Jesus began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy the law. “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.”Matthew 5:17Jesus severely condemned the Pharisees as hypocrites for pretending to love God, while at the same tune they made void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition. The keeping of Sunday is only a tradition of men.

40 Bible Facts Concerning the First Day of the Week

The very first thing recorded In the Bible is work done on Sunday, the first day of the week. (Genesis l: l-5.) The Creator Himself did this. If God made the earth on Sunday, can it be wicked for us to work on Sunday?God commands men to work upon the first day of the week. (Exodus 20.8-11.) Is it wrong to obey God?None of the patriarchs ever kept it.None of the holy prophets ever kept it.By the express command of-God, His holy people used the first day of the week as a common working day for 4,000 years, at least.God Himself calls it a "working" day. (Ezekiel 46:1.)God did not rest upon it.He never blessed it.Christ did not rest upon it.Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), and worked at His trade until He was thirty years old. He kept the Sabbath and worked six days in the week, as all admit. Hence He did many a hard day’s work on Sunday.The apostles worked upon it during the same time.The apostles never rested upon it.Christ never blessed it.It has never been blessed by any divine authority.It has never been sanctified.No law was ever given to enforce the keeping of it, hence it is no transgression to work upon it. “Where no law is, there is no transgression.”Romans 4:15 (See also 1 John 3:4.)The New Testament nowhere forbids work to be done on it.No penalty is provided for its violation.No blessing is promised for its observance.No regulation is given as to how it ought to be observed. Would this be so if the Lord wished us to keep it?It is never called the Christian Sabbath.It is never called the Sabbath day at all.It is never called the Lord’s day.It is never called even a rest day.No sacred title whatever is applied to it. Then why should we call it holy?It is simply called “first day of the week.”Jesus never-mentioned it in any way, never took its name upon His lips, so far as the record shows.The word Sunday never occurs in the Bible at all.Neither God, Christ, nor inspired men ever said one word in favor of Sunday as a holy day.The first day of the week is mentioned only eight times in all the New Testament. (Matthew 28:1;Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1;John 20:1, 19; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2.)Six of these texts refer to the same first day of the week.Paul directed the saints to look over their secular affairs on that day. (1Corinthians 16:2.)In all the New Testament we have a record of only one religious meeting held upon that day, and even this was a night meeting. (Acts 20:5-12.)There is not intimation that they ever held a meeting upon it before or after that.It was not their custom to meet on that day.There was no requirement to break bread on that day.We have an account of only one instance in which it was done. (Acts 20:7.)That was done in the night-after midnight. (Verses 7-11.) Jesus celebrated it on Thursday evening (Luke 22), and the disciples sometimes did it every day (Acts 2:42-46.)The Bible nowhere says that the first day of the week commemorates the resurrection of Christ. This is a tradition of men, which contradicts the law of God. (Matthew 15:1-9.) Baptism commemorates the burial and resurrection of Jesus. (Romans 6:3-5.)

Wow! I appreciate your insight but amazingly we are on the same page.

I keep the Sabbath day as well as every other days holy and just as Paul wrote as written in the article.."whether you choose to keep a day as special to the Lord or you want to keep all days special,do it to the glory of GOD nevertheless we must not allow ourselves to be enslaved by the act of keeping special days.

bobo65:
America is in for it


God's own Country is about to turn to a national brothel

That was 8n the past dude..the only advice I would give to him is to ignore provocative moves by the opposition and focus on making America great again.

maasoap:
Well, I quite agree with you on that. But my point is that MMM operators killed the scheme with their own intention at their own chosen time. People's confidence were still high as at December last year, that was why many new comers PH. And the accounts freeze had little or nothing to do with the media. They themselves scared the people by freezing and of course, I'm happy with their decision to close shop at 3 million participants mark. Imagine 10 million participants! National disaster.

Seconded.

Ask4Info:
And to think i used to picture you as a smart person.

lol! funny dude..if I sit you down to start lecturing you about Ponzi schemes you will understand my argument. ..but that is a topic for another day.

maasoap:
Social media and some funny blogs told them to freeze the participants account? Can you even remember their reason for freezing the accounts? Heavy traffic. Did that sound like there was panic? The months of Nov and Dec witnessed high level of involvement by many new comers. So, what are you saying? Did the participants really listen to noises in the media?

I know what I'm implying dude..the program will eventually crash but I'm talking about the present dilemma. ..Ponzi schemes is about numbers and Nigeria with over 200million people would have sustained it till 5 million membership strength.

I just don't like the crazy attention Nigeria media gave it.

maasoap:
Just imagine MMM still playing for another one year, the kinds of havoc it could have wrecked on the economy and the people would be simply catastrophic. It will range from micro and small businesses closing up on large scale, to serious widespread depression, suicides, high blood pressure, hypertension, marriage breakups, large scale dropouts at higher institutions and parents withdrawing their kids to less standard schools, to rise in general poverty level coupled with the current economic recession.
This is because the longer MMM stay around, the more more people get involved, and the more people become greed and put huge amounts of money into it individually.
Thanks to the operator for applying the break on time, the Association of Concerned Good Citizens of Nigeria is grateful.
Imagine if all these people with N500k and above in MMM had decided to partnership with the people who business ideas (but lack start up capital) to start micro, small and medium scale enterprises!
I hope the lesson was learnt until another ten years to come.

I may not be a participant but one fact I k ow is that MMM in itself did not crash but Nigerians and social media like naira land and some funny blogs caused the crash by causing Panic.

edo3:
Eyah and him wife go sit down dey enjoy d loot with am without conscience.

Why are some Nigerians so myopic?

Which loot if I may ask? If I were the guy I will stay here and wait for the police that will arrest me.

It was clear from the onset that it's a Ponzi and participants knew the risk before getting on board so what's the fuss about ?

It's like getting angry with a friend because he asked you to play baba ijebu lotto...

Lalasticlala I don't know if this makes sense

Happy Sunday

It has been a subject of debate for many years that the weekly religious gathering of christians ought to be on saturday which is considered to be the original sabbath day the last day of the week and not sunday which happens to be the first day of the week.

Before we go on let's quickly read these very important biblical passages.

"Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord” (Romans 14:5–6a )."

“But now that you know God or rather are known by God — how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? You are observing special days and months and seasons and years” (Galatians 4:9–10 ).

From the passages above we can see clearly that whether you worship on Saturday or Sunday and whether you choose to worship God everyday, it's absolutely your choice and there is no need to be enslaved by the act of keeping a special day.

As for the reason many christians worship on sunday i believe an examination of New Testament passages shows us important points:

1.The Jewish Sabbath was abolished at the cross where Christ “canceled the written code, with its regulations” (Colossians 2:14 ).

2) Whenever Christ appears in His resurrected form and the day is mentioned, it is always the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1 , 9 , 10 ; Mark 16:9 ;Luke 24:1 , 13 , 15 ; John 20:19 , 26 ).

3).The new testament never mentioned any Sabbath (Saturday) gatherings by believers for fellowship or worship. However, there are clear passages that mention the first day of the week. For instance, Acts 20:7 states that “on the first day of the week we came together to break bread.” In 1 Corinthians 16:2

Paul urges the Corinthian believers “on the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with his income.” Since Paul designates this offering as “service” in 2 Corinthians 9:12 , this collection must have been linked with the Sunday worship service of the Christian assembly.

4).Historically Sunday, not Saturday, was the normal meeting day for Christians in the church, and its practice dates back to the first century.

The Sabbath was given to Israel, not the church. The Sabbath is still Saturday, not Sunday, and has never been changed. But the Sabbath is part of the Old Testament Law, and Christians are free from the bondage of the Law (Galatians 4:1-26 ;
Romans 6:14 ). Sabbath keeping is not required of the Christian—be it Saturday or Sunday.

In conclusion,we are to worship God every day, not just on Saturday or Sunday.

Saintp:
I agree partly with you. However it boils down to leadership. The empty headed leadership we have in this part of the world cannot solve any problem unlike the smart solution leadership we see in western world.

Not all Igbo are interested in Biafra and they may even be in the majority. To solve this problem, conduct a referendum and even see the majority lies and don't be surprised majority will will vote no and this whole nonsense will end.
If not for referendum, one would have thought that every Scotish person wants independence from the UK but instead of UK govt using her Nuclear armed military to suppress them, they allowed them vote.

You See you can never solve problem of ideology with force. If after losing millions of people in 1967, and continues loss during demonstrations, they still come out to pursue their course, it shows that it is serious.

The truth is that if present leaders who witnessed the first war don't solve this problem now before the die, it is going to be much dangerous for our children in decades to come.

I wish the govt will be wise to tackle this issue smartly because they way the are handling this issue is breeding more hate than we can handle and remember in the hate game, there is no winner cos we all lose, the state of Nigeria confirms this assertion.

Well said

I don't wish him dead but if that happens I will say rest in peace...after all he is over 70 and even GOD gave us 70years to live...any extra year is injury time.

Psalm 90:10 King James Version (KJV)
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Joavid:
Can't marry a man who can't do the do o.

Ironically most ladies say this but so sad many ladies can't do the do.

Many ladies are so lazy,unskillful and they will be quick to say it's enough. ..smh!

FortuneTeller:
Mavrodi will just introduce MMM to a new country, the same as it was introduced to Nigeria after failing in other countries.

I was told by a friend this morning that it has moved to Ghana and that his older brother has also relocated to Ghana temporarily to catch in on the rush...I was amazed to hear this...smh

a some Nigerians are so myopic.

FortuneTeller:
This is a green card marriage. I believe the old white woman is aware and only wants some big black konji and attention. The man is selling himself as a slave temporarily, to gain access to a developed land. I hope the groom does not abuse this lady or run off with her money in the process.

This is the most insightful comment I have ever read from you as regards the issue of cross marriage.

It's been a while..how you dey?

addizzle:
I swear this guy get plans pass Buhari

Lol! the truth is that many guys condemning the guy will not mind doing the same given the opportunity..

What if the lady in question is just doing him a favor....I have learned never to judge.

It is quite easy to know a predetermined green card marriage.

The age gap between the couple as well as the true marital status of both party is a good pointer....but then I guess it is their decision. cc fortuneTeller

PDJT:
Now, how will this bring Unity to any country?

It can only reinvigorate people like me and my family to keep on pushing to be free from this British zoo!

Rest in Peace my young hero! Torment your killers and their families. Isee!
Your untimely death shall not be in vain, as the Zoo is now in a state of no return.

It shall never be well with Buhari and Nigeria.

I condemn in strong terms the arbitrary crazy killing of the ipod members but nevertheless I believe there are better ways of fighting for emancipation rather than blocking the roads and creating a tumultuous situation.

How can the same Igbos be part of the present government and same igbo are fighting for the actualization of Biafra nation...this to me is very funny.

Let the Igbos boycut any political appointment and activities that has to do with the Nigerian nation which will be the best move to show real seriousness.

Raymysterio:
Bros, I don take Mama Ebere Monkey tail for Benin. That is the #Highest... if you try am...and you no mad... your village people they sleep then...lol

lmao! there is one they call gegemu...the one nice sang about....gegemu de here mafiku sere. .

Raymysterio:
First let me fault this write up. The weed I know doesn't make anyone violent. Weed is a sedative that makes the one who took it very dull, lazy and in a quiet world of his or her own. Trying to connect weed and violence is the point at which I fault this whole story. Now am not saying Tonto doesn't smoke nor smoke weed. Am not saying Tonto can be or not be violent. But trying to connect her behaviour to weed intake is absolutely a scientific false. Alcohol, I can accept. Don't ask me how I know. I've don't research on drugs. One of my academic thesis is on "Effect of Drug Abuse among Youth". That's said, during my University days...lots of guys in my hostel smoke weeds. lots of them made 2.1 And mostly non violent. Always quiet. Sleepy and red eye... eating too much and slow in responding to speeches and actions.

Away from Tonto's story...

Do you know there are different types of weeds and different reactions?

We have

Oshogbo weed

Ajegunle weed

Orubebe weed

Brazilian weed and so on...

maybe you should try taking a mixture of Oshogbo weed mixed with Orubebe weed and garnished with Brazil substance and see the reaction before you conclude...lol!

modelsms:
Tonto from day one never looked like someone that would stay in marriage. In fact the separation is even long over due.

Oga Aproko..don't be too quick to judge...there are 3 sides to a story..

One fact remains...NO MARRIAGE IS PERFECT...I wish them a speedy reconciliation.

pressplay411:
He's not your typical 2-faced politician.
He doesn't care about being Politically correct.
And that scares the world.

Exactly...he amazes me with his down to earth approach to issues..I thought I was blunt...

The way he told hillary he would put her in jail..the lashing out to the CNN correspondent and his no holds bar tweets are something else...he will tell you straight to your face..if you like go and die..he cares less..lol!

Just take a look at the way he fearlessly answered this question about the proposed ban of Islamic countries into U.S


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fzosDYfywo

Enemyofpeace:
I doesn't know why they doesn't like this man

Because the world hates sincere and blunt people who say it as it is.

I love him for his non hypocritical lifestyle.

No evil shall befall him in Jesus name...AMEN
That guy has sincere intentions.

That man no longer wants the affair...what a lame excuse..what if the money yielded?

I'm beginning to have more trust in Trump's mantra...MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"

Every human has a right of association but as a believer in Christian IN MY OPINION...the foundation in which America was founded was tampered with when the supreme court upheld gay marriage...that is one abomination GOD does not joke about.

Another possible great move by trump is becoming a great ally to Isreal just as it was before the previous administration .....according to the bible...God blesses those who are friends of the chosen people...The Israelites

Let's see as situation unfolds ...

bamisepeters:
This post is just to tell the ladies or let me just say to confirm to the ladies what they "already know".

Men unlike women don't have many things to think about than making their live better and pleasurable, but those little things can cause more harm than good.

Here are 3 important things men thinks about:

1. MONEY

Money is not just the root of evils but also the pillar of all goods.

Every man want to be financially independent especially among their peers.

Every man want to be caring to their women as money takes important part when it comes to being caring to one's woman as money makes a woman more happier and maybe more loyal(though the belief of some men)
They want to give their children quality education and to make them look good among their peers.

Every good man thinks about how to be able to give when financial needs arise both in his family along with his siblings and that of the family of his woman.

The thought of this(money) alone can kill a man or make any man settle for evil to make the money when it is not coming through doing good, but it must not just be a justification for evil deeds.

2. WOMEN

Well, some men will say women don't deserve to be allowed too much in the mind as their other name is betrayal.

I don't share this same thought though, as i have seen many good women who deserves to be cherished.

A good man thinks about his woman, how she will be ahead of her peers, that when they don't see her they cannot make decision.

Many other men thinks about how to spend pleasurable moment with other women as the one at home has passed her prime.

The not-married-men also want to taste many ladies for the fun of it and to show superiority among their peers.

Even as many men proclaim that money takes superior part of their thought, when they don't have money they still think about women, when they now have the woman they start thinking about money.

3. SPORT

The popular sport is football which men made popular through their followership, what makes it different from the rest of the sports is still vague to me.

Football makes many men forget their sorrows, lack and wants.

When the game is about to start the woman must be careful as it can cause unending battle if she trespasses especially when the team the man is supporting is at the verge of losing or lost, it will be a huge commotion if he is into betting and that match will make him lose lots of money.

Little wonder many women support the team their man supports so that they feel the same way whatever the outcome of the game is.

Just like the way a man feels at the beginning of a relationship so also is the way they feel and think when they are anticipating the beginning of any match of their team especially when it is against a tough opponent.


Source: http://bamisepeters..com.ng/2017/01/3-most-important-things-men-thinks-about.html

Not all men.

As for me...in no particular order...

1.Self fulfillment
2.Sex
3.Heaven

After a thorough assessment of this man I can't help but love him because we have some things in common..he is fearless,blunt,down to earth and a great socialite .....

A typical Gemini.

2dugged:
you keep using the frustration line like a rabied fellow suffering from seizure, make no mistake i do like to be mentioned but not for stupid trash you type from your myopic corner, when you go outside to the real world and experience things, only then will you have the mouth to talk, not all this theories of an 18 year old you keep coming up with, mention me when you grow balls and experience, adiós

Young lady let me give you a word of advice...bitterness breeds cancer and cancer is a terminal ailment.

Anytime I encounter people like you online I quickly do a background check on them as regards their threads and previous comments and from what I have gathered I can only but pray for you.

Please rid yourself of bitterness and embrace peace to avoid grave consequence.Peace

lielbree:
The only reason a woman would want to be second wife is MONEY!

LOBATAN!

lielbree:
This shows you know nothing about women. Yes every woman wants the guy that all the ladies are eyeing, dose not mean she want to share him!
And no, 90%of women are not attracted to another woman's man, 99.9% of woman are attracted to money and social status as God created us to be!

Just read your comments again and you won't agree less that you don't even understand yourself ..have a great day biko.

And some people will ask me why I'm attracted to a lady with good cooking skills.