VBCampaign's Posts
Nairaland Forum › VBCampaign's Profile › VBCampaign's Posts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (of 29 pages)
 Politics › Re: Why Kamala Harris Cannot Be President (A Nigerian Perspective) - Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:15pm On Aug 27, 2024 |
Ojiofor:Brilliant 👏 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Why Kamala Harris Cannot Be President (A Nigerian Perspective) - Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 10:58pm On Aug 27, 2024 |
Namaster:Save for the bile, you made some sense |
| Politics › Re: Why Kamala Harris Cannot Be President (A Nigerian Perspective) - Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 10:57pm On Aug 27, 2024 |
Ojiofor:Word! |
| Politics › Why Kamala Harris Cannot Be President (A Nigerian Perspective) - Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:55pm On Aug 27, 2024*. Modified: 11:15am On Aug 31, 2024 |
Video adaptation of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMiVMeI43Q?si=2EgtzOVjuG9nwCn5 Why Kamala Harris Cannot Be President (A Nigerian Perspective) By: Deji Yesufu On 13th July 2024, former President Donald Trump was at Butler, Pennsylvania to campaign towards his re-election bid come November, when he was nearly assassinated. Even without any inquiries into what had happened, it was clear that the American Secret Service, the body in charge of keeping security that day, had bungled many things. First, why were there so many women on the security team that day? How did an assassin climb the roof of a building so close to the stage where Trump was to speak? How did this person get into the venue with arms and nobody could tell? What about the fact that people saw this guy climbing the roof, and were pointing it out to the security, yet nothing was done until the first shot rang out? So many questions stood unanswered until the investigations began. For whatever reason best known to Joe Biden, he appointed Kimberly Cheatle, a woman, in September 2022, to head the Secret Service. The woman is a paragon of leftist ideologies, filled with the deepest woke worldview. Her first mission was to fill the Secret Service with women – “what a man can do, a woman can do better…” nonsense was what nearly killed Trump that July afternoon. The whole incompetence of the security team was glaring to the world. If a 20-year-old could breach the security of America so easily, nations like Russia or China would humble the United States if they ever tried such an American leader. What I have just recounted is one reason Kamala Harris cannot be president of the United States of America. You will wonder: what business do Nigerians have with American life and politics? I think the answer is everything. Besides the fact that America is the biggest sponsor of gospel preaching all around the world, that nation also provides our world with some stability. Many crises have been stalled because the powers that be fear what America might do to them. So, if America ends up with an incompetent leader, the world will suffer for it. It became increasingly obvious to me that I needed to write on the dangers of having a Harris presidency when I realized that many news outlets in Nigeria are consuming CNN’s lies, woke propaganda and leftist ideologies. I was shocked when I saw even Rufai Useni hoping for a Kamala Harris win in the coming elections. Is it that these people do not understand the dangers of a Democratic Party presidency? Rufai will claim that a Democratic presidency will always be better than a Donald Trump government. People like Rufai Useni will argue that Trump is always bad news at the leadership level in America. For them, Kamala Harris is a lesser evil. I disagree. You should then ask: what is wrong with the Democratic Party? To understand what is wrong with these people, we will have to go back a few centuries. Once upon a time, the Western world was under the powers of a religious leader: The Pope. The invention of the printing press revolutionized thinking and ideas. One of the offshoots of this was the Protestant revolution of the 16th century. The Protestants were the first liberal and progressive thinkers. The problem, however, is that the moment progressivism starts, there is no end to it. So, after five centuries of the invention of the printing press, progressivism and liberal ideologies continue to progress – without an end in view. Today, men are becoming women, and women are turning into men. Our society is regarded as a post-religious society. Besides the laws of the land, people do not have a conscience of keeping the laws of any religious book. Christianity is frowned at as antediluvian. There appears to be a war against anything Christian, Christ, or God. The one party that upholds all of these ideas is the Democratic Party of the United States of America. If and when Kamala Harris comes to power, all of these ideals will come to complete fruition. There will be other developments too. American children will begin to claim to be cats and dogs and will be requesting to be taken to the vet rather than to hospitals. The American military, which at one time was the best and the most feared anywhere in the world, will be replete with women claiming to be men, while the men are shipped off as women. America will go to war with countries that still hold to basic traditional values of life and religion, and be thoroughly vanquished. Those who have predicted the defeat of America did not need a soothsayer to tell them; a little observing of where the American society is today will tell you more of where she is headed. The only thing that can stop these woes from coming to America (or maybe delay it) is if Kamala Harris does not become the president of America. The bad news is that since her installation as the Democratic Party flag bearer (she was never elected but selected), her popularity has been rising. A people deserve the kind of leaders they support, and because most of America is today given off to woke madness, Harris is God’s judgement on them. There remains, however, that little hope that she will not win the coming elections. A lot of Americans are waking up to realize that woke worldviews are destroying their nation. They all stood by as a complete 20-year-old novice shot President Trump’s head, narrowly missing the former president’s head by an inch. If Trump had been killed, America would have plunged into sustained civil war. This was the kind of thing that happened that precipitated the First World War and left the world with close to fifty million people dead – both civilian and combatant. America is today polarized between a nation that believes that certain traditional values, especially religious, should still be preserved, and those who think everything should be overthrown. Donald Trump is not a saint. But he represents a party that still believes in some basic conservative values – values that have made America what it is today. America is known for excellence. Kamala Harris and her cohort will bring that country to the dregs – and nothing better depicts this than the sham that occurred around the near assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life in July. Deji Yesufu is the pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan. He is the author of HUMANITY. Source Video adaptation of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMiVMeI43Q?si=2EgtzOVjuG9nwCn5 7 Likes 2 Shares
|
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Abel Damina Question By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:52am On Aug 23, 2024 |
MrPresident1:Very wrong |
| Christianity Etc › The Abel Damina Question By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 6:54am On Aug 23, 2024 |
The Abel Damina Question By: Deji Yesufu The million-dollar question on Abel Damina’s neck is this: is he a false teacher, a heretic, or a God-sent reformer of our day? When the Protestant Reformation began in earnest in the 16th century, Roman Catholics often referred to them as heretics. The protestants called the Pope the Antichrist. There is never an end to name-calling between religious groups. Nonetheless, as a commentator on religion, I feel that it is incumbent on me to explain to those who read what I write what I think of Abel Damina. I have given a speech on him before on the Reformed Naija TV (RNTV). This essay will be a culmination of my thoughts on this man who has come to be quite divisive in the Nigerian religious space. At the RNTV, we extended a public invitation to Damina to come and speak to us. This is after I had sent him a private email. We got no response. It was following this that the Honest Bunch got him to speak on their podcast. While I still think many questions were left unanswered following Damina’s visit to that show, enough was said on that set for one to draw some healthy conclusions about who Damina is. A lot can be deduced from the background of a man. I learnt that Damina is from Saminaka in Kaduna State. His parent were pastors, carrying out mission work with the Assemblies of God. Assemblies of God are some of the foremost Pentecostal denominations in the world. He explained that things were very difficult for his missionary parents – and I understand this; not from experience but from hearing stories from missionaries’ children, who were greatly deprived because their parents feared God too much to manipulate church finances and politics to their advantage. Damina also explains how he met the Lord Jesus Christ. He did not see a vision or hear from an angel. Rather, he considered carefully the religion that his parents proposed to him and made an intelligent commitment to follow Jesus Christ. He did not mention this but missionary duties may have taken him to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. He settled to work there and God blessed his ministry. Having been in missions since 1984, and also associated with the biggest names in Nigerian Pentecostalism, including Archbishop Benson Idahosa, Abel Damina can be said to have seen it all in Christian ministry in Nigeria. Besides this, his hailing from northern Nigeria, a region that is constantly under persecution from Moslems, must have deepened his faith in Jesus Christ. Damina’s eventual renouncing of the Prosperity Message would have come from his understanding of what true Christian practices were, compared to the false Christianity of the Word of Faith movement he eventually imbibed. Another positive that can be gleaned from Damina’s testimony is how he eventually renounced the Prosperity Gospel. When he spoke of being empty, and seeking something other than the wealth, fame, and attention that that kind of ministry brings, it is something a lot of us who were once in that system can testify to. One clear doctrine that Jesus Christ taught was that there are only two gods in our world: mammon and God. It can only take God the Holy Spirit for a man to renounce the god of mammon. When Damina warns against the errors of tithing, it is not so much as to condemn tithing as a practice but to point at the system of mammon that many churches can turn it into. And this spirit of mammon can be found in all denominations – it is not just the Pentecostals that are peddling it. I digress. As a friend has pointed out on Facebook, godly discernment is our ability to point out what is true even within a false system; and also, state what is false within a true system. Whatever else we may hold against Abel Damina, he is pointing at something the Lord of the Church is concerned about: money has become the all-pursuit of many churches today, and it is time that true believers repent and return to the Lord of the Church who has never made mammon the centre his activities among his people. As we rejoice over a few good things about Abel Damina, one must also point at some erroneous doctrines he peddles both on his pulpit and even during that interview. Abel Damina is a modalist and he also espouses hyper-grace. These theological positions are historically heresies in the body of Christ and those who have chosen to call him a heretic stand on these points. During the interview, Damina spoke of God becoming a man in the person of Jesus Christ. This statement is sound doctrine, except that Damina makes these assertions with the worldview of a modalist. Even during the interview, Damina said that God being “Almighty” means that God can become whatever he wants. If he wants to be God the Father, he simply changes to this; if he wants to take up flesh and come to earth in the person of Christ, he does so; and, if he wishes to be Spirit, he becomes the Holy Spirit. “God can do whatever he wants…” Damina asserts. This is modalism. The orthodox position on the person of God is that God is a tri-unity – Trinity. The trinity states that God is one being but three persons. There is the one being of God – which is confirmed by scriptures like Deuteronomy 6:4: “Hear O Isreal, the Lord our God is one Lord”. But he is three persons in this one God, and this is especially exemplified in the New Testament, like the occasion of Christ’s Baptism when God the Father spoke from heaven, and God the Holy Spirit came upon God the Son. These were three persons, representing the one God-head. Orthodox Christianity affirms that the tri-unity of God is not a phenomenon we can sufficiently explain on this side of heaven. We however affirm what scripture says – we are loud where scripture is loud, and silent where scripture is silent. Another trouble with Damina is his hyper-grace. While he did not mention it in the interview with the Honest Bunch, it is replete in his sermons. Damina discourages Christians from repentance. He explains that the moment you are saved, you need not repent again. Now, this is hyper-grace. They are the ones who teach an extreme of the love of God and give the impression that there is no wrath with God. Damina mentioned in the interview that it was not God who sent down fire on men through Elijah. He explained that when God became man in Jesus (modalist worldview), he did not tolerate such a perspective from his disciples in Luke 9:55. Why would he now be the one to do it in the Old Testament? Damina confuses the attributes of God here. The same God who is loving is also perfectly just. The Bible teaches that there is a time for everything – the day God brought fire down on men in the time of Elijah was a day of judgment. When Jesus came to the earth, it was a time to save sinners. The same Jesus will return to judge the world and this time, he will be sending sinful men to an eternal hell – judgment. Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever, means that the same Jesus who judged men in the Old Testament will judge them in the days to come. And, even in the New Testament, we did not have to wait till the end of time to see Christ judge men: Christ killed Ananias and Saphira for lying to the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts. That was judgment. When Damina denies the truth of God’s wrath, he espouses hyper-grace and he is teaching false doctrine. What then do we say to all these? My position on Damina is essentially subjective. I put myself in his shoes. There is nobody who learns Bible doctrines by himself: we are all products of our reading and teachers. When Damina explained that his first port of encounter, as he doubted the messages he had been professing, was Andrew Wommack, I understood him perfectly. Wommack is a Pentecostal and a Word of Faither – but he is one that you will regard as “tamed” – not on the extreme at all. I believe that Damina has since graduated from Wommack and has been listening to some hyper-grace teachers, along with some people who teach modalism. When I left the Pentecostal religion, my first port of call was dispensationalism, through the teaching of R. B. Thieme Jr. I have since left dispensationalism and now I am confessionally reformed Baptist. I grew in my understanding based on the teachers God sent my way. This is why I argue that Damina is “Apollos” and not a heretic. Damina needs teachers and not those who will condemn him. The Bible talks about a pastor being “able to teach”. I believe that the ability to teach is not necessarily possessing great Bible knowledge, but being able to carry doctrine in one’s lifestyle with grace, humility, and respect. Preachers are men with very strong opinions. If you are going to convince a man against what he previously holds to be true, you are not going to do it by winning an argument with him. It takes patience, time, and lovingly conveying your views to him. Damina learnt his new-found doctrines from people who spoke respectfully to him in a way he could assimilate their messages. If those of us who are reformed, who condemn Damina as a heretic, will win him to our side, we will have to reach him and his followers with a different modus operandi. There is no doubt the fact that hyper-grace and modalism are heresies, but you will never convince anyone about the errors of their religion by beginning with labelling them heretics. Even when Paul the Apostle was speaking to the Athenians, he did not call them idolaters. He spoke to them with respect: he said that the God they call unknown is the maker of heaven and earth. Let me end this essay by introducing two men that those of us in the reformed community know. They are John MacArthur and Derek Prime (late). MacArthur is well known, and Prime is little known; but both are reformed teachers, however with two different flavours. While MacArthur is the fiery type, Prime is not. And both have been used by our Lord to bring great good to our world of religion. I think we can all learn to speak the truth with love. We can all learn to convey a difficult message with grace and respect. And we can all trust Christ to do a work in men, a lot more than our criticism will do. There is no doubting the fact that calling a man a heretic will protect the sheep of Christ from being deceived by him; there is also the place where you understand that this man is growing in his understanding of the Christian message, and we must convey an already offensive message with a lot less offence from us. I hold the position that Abel Damina is not a heretic. He is a man who Christ is doing a work on, and the true church holds a duty to him to pray for him and his followers and to lovingly convey the truth to them. Damina has a great platform, and the revival of religion that we have all been praying for in our nation can begin with him and his listeners. Those of us who hold to sound doctrine can position ourselves to help these people have a better grasp of the Saviour in the days to come. Deji Yesufu is the pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan. He is the author of HUMANITY. Source
|
| Christianity Etc › Re: Covetousness (video) By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:40am On Aug 15, 2024 |
Everything is Grace: We Have Been Given So Much... the article referenced in the video: https://textandpublishing.com/everything-is-grace-we-have-been-given-so-much/ |
| Christianity Etc › Covetousness (video) By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:38am On Aug 15, 2024 |
Deji Yesufu, Pastor, Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan, teaches on contentment in this video. He deplores the widescale corruption borne on covetousness in our society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1U-dA4XMAM?si=qzq7pdipGXqqyBcf |
| Politics › Segun, My Plumber, Died By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 7:13am On Aug 13, 2024*. Modified: 10:50am On Aug 13, 2024 |
SEGUN, MY PLUMBER, DIED By: Deji Yesufu I had some plumbing work to do in the house, so I tried to reach him. Segun has a terrible habit of forever changing his phone numbers. I have tried to explain to him in the past that in the modern day, the phone number is our equivalent of an office. “The kind of work you do is not the one that you are required every day, but the day you will be needed, your phone number is the only connecting link to you…” I will advise him. “Daddy, mo ti gbo…” (Daddy, I have heard). I did not particularly like the idea of him calling me “Daddy” but I have since come to grasp with the fact that I am no longer in my twenties and thirties – I am a lot older now, and Segun, who would only have been about twenty-one, could very much be my child. I liked Segun a great deal because he was diligent at his work, and he hardly complained. I promised him that as soon as I had some big plumbing work to do, I will give him the contract. For that reason, I enjoyed a great deal of rebate off his “workmanship” cost. Even though I often felt that he inflated the cost of his materials, but I did not bother to investigate it too much. That is the way things work around here: artisans like Segun integrate their “workmanship” into the cost of material – that is the only way they can get something meaningful for the work they do. So, because I do not have plumbing works to do too many times around the house, I usually will not call Segun for some three to six months period. The last time I saw him must have been sometimes late last year. I had spent the better part of the past three days trying to reach Segun on the phone. He had taken to my correction and had stopped changing his lines whenever he misplaced them. So, I was convinced that he was only unreachable temporarily and would be available soon – perhaps he had been unable to recharge his phone. When I could no longer reach Segun, I called another plumber whose number I had on my phone. I did not even know who this person was but when he arrived, I realized that he was Saheed – a plumber I had used before I began to use Segun. I would learn, in the course of our interaction, that Saheed had actually trained Segun in plumbing. As we debated the cost of materials, I told Saheed that I could not understand why Segun was unreachable. Saheed looked at me with some incredulity: “Segun is dead…”, he replied. “What? What killed him.” Saheed explained that Segun had battled a certain illness for years. It might have been something related to his liver because it often left him swollen all over his body. He explained that the family had spent a lot of money on Segun’s health, and for a while it appeared that he was actually getting better. One day, some three months ago, he woke up gravely ill. He was taken to the hospital, but he could not be saved. One of the downturns of a failing state is its inability to provide health care for its people. Health care institutions are usually at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels in society. Things like headaches, malaria, and even child births are taken care of at the primary level. While the secondary level hospitals cater to conditions that are more severe. The tertiary hospitals, like the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, should cater to very severe health conditions that the primary and secondary health institutions cannot deal with. The situation that we find ourselves in Nigeria, however, is that the primary and secondary health institutions are almost comatose. So that hospitals like UCH are overburdened and are having to care for health situations that lower health institutions should be able to deal with. The Nigerian federal government must be commended for keeping tertiary health institutions functioning till now; if not for this there will be no health institutions for the ordinary people to go to. Even at present, people still patronize medicine men and other local and unorthodox health places – because they find government hospitals too expensive to go to. When we realize that the strength of a nation are her human resources, we will understand that catering for the health of our people is a duty we must do at all cost. Anyone can get sick, and when accessible and affordable health care is available, such people will get well with time. We owe our people the duty of ensuring that they get well. The late Nigerian sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in his book: “The Strategy and Tactics of the People’s Republic of Nigeria” wrote: “Health is the foundation and fountain of a full and happy life. It is indispensable to every truly successful venture or enterprise. Other things being equal, the healthier a person is, the more productive and more useful he is as an economic agent and as a member of society. Indeed, we regard health as so paramount that we are prepared to give and do anything to secure it, whenever its loss is threatened… In order to enjoy full health at all times, we must do certain things habitually. That is to say, we must breathe fresh air; drink good water; eat food which is adequate in quantity and quality, and appropriate to our individual vocation… The government has a duty to every citizen to assist him or her to do all these things…” Awolowo wrote this book in the closing months of the Nigerian civil war. He understood that soon the military would be out of government, and he was positioning his ideas for a working Nigerian society through that book. What Awolowo wrote in 1969, he had practiced in earnest when he was in office as the Premiere of the Western Region between 1952 and 1959. The Action Group ensured that two things was free to their people: education and health care. The point they were trying to make was that the strength of a nation lies on its human resources. A child who is born within the Nigerian geographical space, should not have to rely on the resources that his or her parents to get an education or to have access to good health care. Awo, who himself had risen from very humble beginnings, understood that Providence gifts a nation with human beings and instils wisdom within them. Education hones this wisdom, while health care protects the vessel holding this wisdom. When, as the case is now, people have to preserve their health based on the resources they have, and also get an education in a similar way, the country loses human resources because the children of the poor will not have access to health care and education. While I am not totally open to a socialist ideology, as Awolowo championed in that book (because I believe that government should not be all-in-all in society – that is recipe for totalitarianism), I believe that no country can run away from some kind of welfarism for its people – particularly for the poor. At the worst, there should be a place for people like Segun to get an education and to get care for their health. It was probably because he could not get free education that he learnt plumbing; and while at his duties, his health failed and he did not have the resources to access the best health care. In 2004, I wrote my mother a long letter, where I explained a lot of my challenges to her. Mother lived in the United States and she appeared to be able to read more into my letters than I wrote down. I think I took the art of writing from her – and those who write also know how to read. As I closed my letter, I explained a certain health challenge I had. I told her that I was trusting God for healing. My mother was alarmed after reading that letter. She told me to abandon all my search for a job in Lagos then, and head to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) for care. She sent me all the money I needed. I followed her instructions. I had developed osteomyelitis somewhere on the surface of my skull, and the wound around there had not healed in ten years. The doctors took me through a very minor surgical procedure – where they removed the surface of the infected skull and took it for testing. They wanted to eradicate every possibility of cancer infection. Thankfully, the result returned that it was not cancer. In the process of treating the surgical wounds with antibiotics, a ten-year old wound disappeared. If not for the quick thinking of a mother and the resources she provided, and the availability of a tertiary health institution, I would have been dead at a little over twenty years of age – about the same age Segun died. Socialism is based on the idea that all human beings are equal – regardless of the station in life that we find ourselves. So that the resources of a land should be equally distributed to the citizens of that country. It then posits that government should be vested with powers to equitably distribute these resources. Most governments in the world are based on one kind of socialist ideology or the other. The problem is never at positing ideas; the problem is always successfully implementing these ideas. Nigeria is reverting to an age-old system where the rich and the privileged hold to power and reserved all the opportunities that society provides for themselves, their children, and their cronies alone. The problem with systems like these is that it is usually not meritorious, and the ordinary man would hardly be able to emerge from it to become somebody in life. This kind of system eventually precipitate violent revolutions that leads to the overthrow of the privileged and the installing of a leadership that will cater to the need of the people. Some of us are writing these things because we are convinced that society need not burn down before it can embark on necessary changes. The government that we have on ground only need to be faithful to the promises they make to the people. The least a government can do, both at local, state, and federal level, is to make basic education and health care available to her citizens. Adieu, Segun, my plumber. Deji Yesufu is the pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan. He is the author of HUMANITY. Source
|
| Politics › Re: Electronic Voting: University Of Ibadan As Case In Point by VBCampaign(op): 7:27pm On Jul 29, 2024 |
. |
| Politics › Re: Electronic Voting: University Of Ibadan As Case In Point by VBCampaign(op): 3:36am On Jul 27, 2024 |
CC: Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44, condider for front page |
| Politics › Re: Electronic Voting: University Of Ibadan As Case In Point by VBCampaign(op): 11:32am On Jul 26, 2024 |
BALLOSKI:I agree 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Electronic Voting: University Of Ibadan As Case In Point by VBCampaign(op): 3:35am On Jul 26, 2024 |
Praxis758:Yes. No government has political will to do the right things any where in the world. The people compell governments to doing the right thing. We do it through public opinion and Adekunle James has started the conversation. |
| Politics › Electronic Voting: University Of Ibadan As Case In Point by VBCampaign(op): 5:52pm On Jul 25, 2024 |
Electronic Voting: University of Ibadan as a Case in Point by Adekunle JamesSource: https://fij.ng/article/electronic-voting-in-nigeria-the-university-of-ibadan-as-a-case-in-point/
|
| Politics › NEPA - Give Us Light (video) By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 6:12am On Jul 22, 2024 |
In this video, Pastor Deji Yesufu calls out NEPA. It is simple: if this country has power supply, 90% of her problems will be solved! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx23-257yjs?si=GykTn3FOHPG7-X-V |
| Properties › Re: Shortlet Services At Ikorodu by VBCampaign(op): 12:19pm On Jul 15, 2024 |
Features offered: 1. A fully equipped three bedroom house. 2. The three bedroom can be modified to two or one room outfit. 3. Has guest toilet, one toilet facility for two rooms, and fully insuit room. 4. Fully air-conditioned. 5. Situated in a band A area of Ikorodu with 24 hour power supply. 6. Has solar power installed that works. 7. Internet TV fully paid for. 8. Within a secured estate of B. O. Benson Estate at Ibeshe, Ikorodu. See the attached video for more. Contact us via WhatsApp: 07065254425. |
| Family › Re: Band Of Brothers By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:09am On Jul 15, 2024 |
The Story Behind a 24-Year-Old Photo By: Deji Yesufu I will begin to tell this story from a courtroom in the United States of America. My mother, Henrietta Temilola Yesufu (nee Williams), stands before a judge. My baby sister, Adewumi Yesufu, is about eight years old and standing beside her mother. The prosecuting team, acting on behalf of the State, are threatening to deport my mother back to Nigeria because she had overstayed her study visa to the USA. The Judge, a particularly mean man (mother said that his handicap might have contributed to his mean spirit), explains that there is no reason why he would not grant the prosecution their wish to send mother back to Nigeria. The year would be around 1993. Mother tells the judge that she has been a good citizen, and contributes immensely to the community as a teacher, handling a particularly difficult aspect of the State of California – Compton (those who know that this is where Dr. Dre came from, understand mother’s point). My mother then goes ahead to add that she even wishes that her four sons, who are still in Nigeria, join her in the USA. The judge was not going to have this line of thinking. He shot back: “… if war were to break out in Nigeria today, those boys should be fighting to preserve their country…” Mother told me later that she replied to the man under her breath: “My sons would not fight Nigerian wars”. Mother was wrong. Facebook has this thing where people try to recreate photos of themselves after many years. When my brothers and I took this photo yesterday, nobody was thinking of recreating anything. My sister-in-law, Comfort Yesufu, was the person who continued to press us to take photographs. The truth of the matter was that I was not in the mood for taking photographs, and if ever one has taken a photo reluctantly, this is one. My niece, Divine Yesufu, had to plead with us to smile after the first shot she took appeared like men heading to a mourning house. But one should thank God for family. Everybody is wired differently in a family setting. While the men are thinking about preserving and providing, the women are thinking of feeding and merry-making. That was the mood that we all were in when we visited my father in his house, here in Ibadan... There story is concluded: https://textandpublishing.com/the-story-behind-a-24-year-old-photo/ Deji Yesufu is the Pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan. He is the author of HUMANITY. Source
|
| Family › Band Of Brothers By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:05am On Jul 15, 2024 |
Pastor Deji Yesufu speaks on the matter of purpose and nation building in this new video. He extrapolates from the story of his own family and extends lessons to nation like Nigeria undergoing nascent development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aEyBHR6HYU&t=727s |
| Properties › Re: Shortlet Services At Ikorodu by VBCampaign(op): 8:28am On Jul 11, 2024 |
The facility is only a few minutes drive to the Ikorodu Ferry Terminal, where you can take a boat to Lagos Island. Many prefer this option because this bypasses the large traffic between Ikorodu and Island Lagos. Also, the cost of renting an apartment in Ikorodu is a lot cheaper than the Island. You can have the best of two worlds: quick access to the Island, and relatively cheap acccomodation. WhatsApp 07065254425 for more details. |
| Properties › Re: Shortlet Services At Ikorodu by VBCampaign(op): 10:38pm On Jul 10, 2024 |
To see our facility, watch this 56 seconds video. For more details, WhatsApp: 07065254425. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcZm2gXEKI?si=sWr2umi-Kb1aQRLE |
| Properties › Shortlet Services At Ikorodu by VBCampaign(op): 10:33pm On Jul 10, 2024 |
Features offered: 1. A fully equipped three bedroom house. 2. The three bedroom can be modified to two or one room outfit. 3. Has guest toilet, one toilet facility for two rooms, and fully insuit room. 4. Fully air-conditioned. 5. Situated in a band A area of Ikorodu with 24 hour power supply. 6. Has solar power installed that works. 7. Internet TV fully paid for. 8. Within a secured estate of B. O. Benson Estate at Ibeshe, Ikorodu. See the attached video for more. Contact us via WhatsApp: 07065254425.
|
| Christianity Etc › Re: Overcoming Masturbation By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 7:53pm On Jul 05, 2024 |
Continued... The picture this scripture is painting for us is that of the Levitical priesthood. It is saying in essence that the people God calls to this ministry are sinners. And that before they offer up sacrifices for the sins of the people, they offer sacrifices for their sins first (Leviticus 16:6). But as they do this, they do it with compassion, realizing that they are partakers of the same grace they are extending to others. When sexual sins are talked about in church, you get the impression the ministers preaching are immune from this problem. If you are not careful, the very thing you have shared in private with your pastor will soon become public news in the congregation. I believe the way God designed it is that those who have battled a sin, and who have found the grace of God to overcome it, are the ones best suited to minister to others battling it. It means that you come to a subject with compassion and grace of heart, and you are patient with others until you see them overcome. Before God, sin is not in grades. A person who may not be besotted by sexual weakness may have anger problems and a history of killing people. All sins are sins, and it is the same sacrifice that is offered that both absolves and cleanses from sin. Another point of view that must be seen before we look at practically overcoming masturbation is the subject of Christ’s death and sin itself. Christ died for the sinner – of whom I am chief, said Paul the Apostle (1 Timothy 1:15). If an apostle will call himself a sinner, it means God has given you and me freedom to freely associate and identify ourselves with our sins. But the good news is not that we are sinners; the good news is that Christ died for our sins. The challenge with this doctrine is not knowing that Christ died for sins; it is understanding that Christ died for my sins. Paul the Apostle goes further to explain in Romans 4:7-8 that there is a blessedness that comes with the death of Christ for our sins. It is this: that our sins are forgiven; our sins are covered; God will not impute iniquity on his people. My children’s catechism defines justification as “God forgiving sinners and treating them as if they had never sinned”. R. T. Kendall said that the most controversial statement Martin Luther might have made was when he said to Philip Melanchthon: “…sin lustfully that grace might abound…” The simple-minded will say Luther was encouraging lasciviousness in his followers. No. Melanchthon was a very careful believer, who would not be found with a trace of sin on his conscience. Luther, his pastor, felt Melanchthon was not enjoying the grace of God. So, he explained that until Melanchthon experienced the deepest sin, and found God forgiving him all the same, he would not understand the grace. Nothing paints this better than that publican’s prayer: God be merciful to me a sinner. We preach the cross of Jesus Christ, not because we enjoy being called pastors; we preach the cross because we are the first beneficiaries of God’s mercies. Like Aaron, we applied the sacrifices of Christ’s death to our sins first. True pastoral work is then extending that grace to those who hear us. It is the reason why compassion for sinners is one of the leading attributes of a true pastor. We now come to practical matters: how does a Christian overcome masturbation? The first thing of course is to hope and pray that God the Holy Spirit has done a true work in the life of the Christian. A Christian who still finds himself masturbating or is involved with any kind of sexual sin must show true contrition. There must be a genuine desire to be rid of the sin. The next thing that must be done is that this person must make the effort to avoid trigger points. It could come in what you see, the movies you watch, some websites you view, some friends you keep, etc. Jesus gives us the example by telling us that if certain things cause us to sin, we must cut ourselves off from them no matter how painful doing it is (Matthew 18:8-9). The effort that you put into separating yourself from your trigger points, will bring you to greater levels of discipline over that sin. As you labour at doing this, you also want to give yourself means of grace. Go to a church where the word of God is taught. Occupy your mind with godly things – read a good book; indulge in writing an essay; get into theological debates; pursue a good course of helping the needy; etc. Just ensure that your mind is not idle. Sexual sins are a mind thing, and you will realize soon that the moment your mind is occupied doing something, you will have little time fixated on the things that trigger sin in you. As you do all these, I pray that you find a pastor or a spiritually older person whom you can confide in, and who can pray with you and also hold you accountable. All these must be done simultaneously and prayerfully, and you have to be incredibly patient with yourself. It means that when you fail, you consider it a fall; get up, repent, dust yourself, and get back at resisting sin. I also wish to ask that ministers who hold people’s past histories should never bring those things up against them, or share them with others. We must nurse people to spiritual health, not to use their past to hold them to ransom. Concluded here 5 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Overcoming Masturbation By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 7:45am On Jul 05, 2024 |
Overcome Masturbation By: Deji Yesufu Pastoral work is an extremely sensitive one and from time to time you get information from people you counsel that reveals a deep spiritual need that they have that has become something of an albatross to their walk with and work for Christ. Masturbation is the subject that I have in mind here. It is a secret sin, yet I feel it is a widespread challenge among young people in our day. This feeling is mainly intuitive but a deduction one can easily make as one observes the challenge that our days have sprung on us. Everything around us screams sex. From the television to the internet, to billboards, and then this thing, they call reality shows. It appears that women try to outdo each other in how provocatively they can dress. Then there is the proliferation of X-rated movies. When I was growing up, you had to make some effort to find those movies on the VHS cassette tapes. Now, X-rated movies are everywhere – thanks to the internet. What X-rated movies do to the mind is that they introduce watchers to the grim world of sexual perversion. Those who watch those things will do everything they see. The least watchers will do is masturbate – have sex with themselves. The real challenge with X-rated movies is that the images rarely go away – some people may take those images to the grave. It is the reason why those things are extremely harmful. Now, my essay is directed to believers. People who, in the days when they were in the world, indulged in watching X-rated movies (and may have been sexually active too) and now that they are Christians, they find that the images have not gone, and masturbation is still a secret sin. I pray that God the Holy Spirit will give grace to your heart as you read this, and I trust he will empower you to overcome masturbation and all other sexual sins you may be battling. As I ventured to tackle this subject, one scripture that kept coming to mind is Hebrew 5:1-4: “For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in thing about God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that, he also is compassed with infirmity. And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron”... Conclude the article here 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Overcoming Masturbation By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 7:39am On Jul 05, 2024*. Modified: 12:41pm On Jul 05, 2024 |
In this video, Pastor Deji Yesufu, minister at Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan, situated at the University of Ibadan, talks about the sensitive subject of masturbation. He proffers biblical solutions to it. Below, is also an article on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1tLyGkagNM?si=G95Kck7lpthWAL_N 5 Likes 2 Shares |
| Romance › Re: Lege Miami: How Not To Find A Spouse By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 4:00pm On Jun 26, 2024 |
| Romance › Re: Lege Miami: How Not To Find A Spouse By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:36am On Jun 26, 2024 |
[quote author=eedhrisademola post=130657850][/quote]Yep |
| Romance › Re: Lege Miami: How Not To Find A Spouse By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:32pm On Jun 25, 2024 |
| Romance › Lege Miami: How Not To Find A Spouse By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 4:46pm On Jun 25, 2024 |
Deji Yesufu stumbled on Lege Miami's videos and was aghast at his method of finding spouses for people. He shares how not to find a spouse using Lege as a case in point in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aPgcXPM-tw?si=69jpBpXPrT7L6VQ0 |
| Family › Re: Lege Miami: Doing Marriage The Wrong Way By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 6:46pm On Jun 24, 2024 |
Mryacks:  |
| Family › Re: Lege Miami: Doing Marriage The Wrong Way By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 2:36pm On Jun 24, 2024 |
Nukilia:Hopefully those who have ears to hear, will hear 1 Like |
| Family › Lege Miami: Doing Marriage The Wrong Way By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:40am On Jun 24, 2024 |
Lege Miami: Doing Marriage the Wrong Way By: Deji Yesufu A vital philosophy that internet users should bring to use the facility is that the internet will give back to you what you truly possess. If you are filled with garbage, most of the content that you will consume on social media will be content that will increase what you truly are – making you worse off. The converse is also true. I do not know how I began to watch Lege Miami’s content. I suspect that I had clicked on one video of him, and then social media began to recommend his content to me. To me, at first, the videos were comic reliefs, until I realized that a lot of people may be feeding on this man’s work and in the process making the marriage institutions worse than it is already. This is why I felt compelled to write this essay to warn against the kind of marriages Lege Miami is dolling out to his viewers and to draw our attention back to what marriage is as defined by God. Lege Miami’s real name is Adams Kehinde. A little search on him reveals that he is a musician and an actor. But it appears that where he has finally found his niche is in matchmaking men with women via social media. With a following of 751,000 people on Instagram, Lege comes on his social media handle and opens the space up to anyone in need of a spouse. The person, male or female, joins Lege live. Lege does a short interview of the “prospective client”. He wants to know how handsome or beautiful the person is. He asks about their work – how much money they make. He even goes to the extent of asking them to stand up and station their phone in a place where he can view their physique, etc. When Lege is satisfied with what he sees, he begins to trade. With hundreds of people viewing his live program, many potential “clients” hook up and express a desire to enter into a relationship with the person Lege is offering. Lege wants to know how “fresh” an individual is. He is not too concerned with the character of the person; the moment a potential client appears haggard or unwelcoming, Lege removes him or her and moves to the next person. A few of the videos I have seen have led to possible relationships. Lege tells Punch newspapers that many of those he has linked up with are in thriving marriages. I do not doubt this. What I however suspect is that Lege’s modus operandi will produce more problems for people. It is not likely that people who go on Lege’s show will see my article: I would however be content to know that one person read this and takes caution. Marriage is too difficult a business for one to simply go on social media, fetch a spouse, and hope to live happily ever after with this person. Two things are very clear to me from Lege’s shows: first, there is a deep yearning for companionship in our world today. Social media has made it worse by increasing our tendencies towards individualisation with our increased attention to electronic devices. Rather than people building relationships with real people, people prefer virtual relationships. The marriage institution has not been helped with this phenomenon. Second, while people yearn for relationships, they are again returning to social media to find a solution to this problem. It is clear that the moment you see a spouse from social media, you will soon get tired of this person because of a culture of individualism you have built; and then you will return to social media to get another spouse. This is one reason the Lege Miami thing is not likely to work. Another reason is that social media cannot replace traditional ways in which marriages are contrived. If our generation does not continue to increase divorce rates, we might want to return to a time when marriages were much stronger and learn from them. Rather than coming to social media, linking up with an unknown person and trying to see if the relationship with this person will work, what has happened to good old family marriages? Where are those marriages that are contrived as young people meet up in churches and strike up relationships that last a lifetime? What has happened to good old recommendations from trusted friends, family, and colleagues? I still hold the position that the best marriages are the ones family contrive together. For those of us who are Christians, we should remember that of the three Jewish Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, only Isaac was in a marriage union that was monogamous. And that marriages were contrived by his father’s recommendation – after a servant had ventured out to search for a wife for him (Genesis 24). As our children grow older, we must have family and friends whose values we know very well. There is nothing wrong with keeping an eye on such a family with the view of linking up the children for marriage. The testimony of many old-time marriages is that the choices parents make for their children are usually better. This is just one. Then there are the recommendations that could come from friends. Some marriages are contrived through Christian fellowship, church gatherings, etc. I know of one marriage that came about through the internet that is still working – but I think that that one is an exception. The point I am trying to make from the Lege Miami matter is that marriage is too serious a business for one to just come on social media and then fetch a spouse. This thing is very much likely to end in heartache. There is one question Lege appears to never ask. He usually would ask if the person has children, but he never seems to ask if they have been married previously. He never asks if these people are virgins or chaste. He asked one twenty-three-year-old girl if she smoked marijuana. The girl admitted on camera she did, and he did not think there was anything wrong with putting a girl on drugs out in public. Surprisingly, a thirty-year-old guy joined up and Lege linked the two together – one of the few successful link-ups I have seen him do. Now, I know a little thing about young women hooked up on drugs in our times, and to say the least, it is the worst-case scenario you want to witness in a home. The way God designed the man and the woman, it is safe to say that any marriage between a man and a woman will work. The things that make for a successful marriage are not the things that Lege Miami looks out for in his potential clients. Looks, physique, and money are the flimsiest things in a marriage. In one year of being married to someone because of these things, they can all be gone. What makes for a good marriage is character – pure and simple. And You do not see character on the faces of people – you see it in their day-to-day lives. There is no way you can find such a thing on social media. Besides, if the people who come on Lege Miami’s shows are the people who possess his kind of worldview: who cuss easily; swear with abandon; use profanities; etc – if these are the kind of people Lege is linking up together, I fear for the kind of marriages we are building today. Marriage between two normal people is hard already; you do not want to witness marriage between two people with warped worldviews. The marriage institution is a good thing if it is birth in the right manner. Social media is not likely to give you a good spouse. My two cents. Deji Yesufu is the pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan. He is the author of HUMANITY. Source.
|
| Christianity Etc › Re: Should Christians Eat Sallah Meat? by VBCampaign(op): 11:33am On Jun 24, 2024 |
MaxInDHouse:Jesus kept the law as a Jew. Jesus fulfilled the law for Christians. Christians are therefore not obliged to keep the law - ceremonial and civil laws, that is. |
