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I am worried about the state of the church. Not really because there is anything wrong but because of those who extort my pity – the people who make merchandise of the church and those who mock it as if there is anything new that has not been there from the beginning.
For those who mock the church even as they are hell-bound, do they not know that the church is a human organisation run by humans and not angels? If there are quack doctors and lawyers, and quackery in virtually all other professions, why do people think that the church should be exempt?
Unfortunately, this category of critics and cynics does not sincerely intend to right the obvious lapses in the church. Their intention is to rubbish the church. They are recruits of the devil in its vocation of casting aspersions on the church and by so doing blocking people’s access to God and salvation. I pity them. They don’t want to enter heaven but discourage those who want to.
As for the merchants who bear nebulous titles to deceive the gullible, the Lord says loud and clear that He will reject them on the last day.
Jesus knew about these rogues; He still does. During His earthly ministry, He even flogged them out of the house of God. However, He told us to now allow both the good and the bad to dwell together until the day of gathering.
It is laughable that some people, even among the clergy, sometimes call for the government’s intervention to rid the church of its malaise. Which government; as rotten as they are? The government has no authority to judge another man’s servants. They work or purport to work for God but only God will deal with them at harvest time when the wheat shall be separated from the chaff, which shall be burnt with unquenchable fire.
There are many self-pontificating righteous ‘preachers’ out there. Their ministry is to antagonise others. Their church is in the cloud, leveraging social media to gain ephemeral clout. They revel in the throng of confused men and men ‘following’ them to damnation.
People with itching ears hail them for titillating them with what they want to hear. They strip the entire church naked because of activities of the perishing few and yet feel they are spreading the gospel and winning converts. This is weird. After painting the church with tar, what attraction would it hold to a sinner?
For those who do not know, or pretend not to know, or don’t want to know, the undeniable truth is that God knows everyone’s work and soon comes with His rewards. Revelations 3:8. Everyone shall be duly rewarded for work done.
God does not reward like our shifty politicians, whose craft in deception is incomparable. They tell the masses to tighten their belts but loosen theirs, bursting at the seams. They promise minimum wage but inflict maximum pain.
I am reminded of a discourse on my town’s platform a few days ago on the propriety or otherwise of Constituency Project. This arose when notable empowerment programmes of some lawmakers were shared on the platform while our zone was bereft of any such thing save for the occasional distribution of some grains of rice, sewing and grinding machines, etc.
Well, my view on this constitutional immorality is that Constituency Project by another name is a conspiracy project. It is a fraudulent partnership between the executive and legislature to support each other while looking the other way, as the looting continues. But for a few of these lawmakers, who try to impact their communities, most corner the funds meant for the so-called Constituency Project. The executive will not bother them, and, quid pro quo, the ‘legislooter’, sorry, legislature, will not oversee the executive to checkmate his asinine or adverse policies for the people. The constituency project is the wedding ring binding two criminal arms of government together.
Even then, yes, we are all part of the scheme. Our expectations of these hybrid politicians are overly malapropos. Where do we expect them to get the money to satisfy our greed if not to collude with the executive to steal from us by whatever name?
I seem to have veered off course, not so? Well, not really. Whereas people hail, dine, and wine with these roguery bandits in power, they delight in making the church their fall guy.
Yes, the church is the light of the world, and must shine forth in our dark world, just as our national grid is supposed to give the country light. However, we experience and pay for darkness more often than light. This is because of deliberate criminality in the system. If we devote as much time used to heckle the church to calling the politicians to account, Nigeria would become far better for it.
Please, do not get me wrong. Without me saying it, God has already laid the axe on the fruitless trees occupying the pews or altars in His house. Matthew 3:10. Those who quench the light of the spirit shall wallow in everlasting darkness where they will spend eternity, gnashing their teeth in sorrow and regret. It is never acceptable to pose a stumbling block to the house of God whether you are a fraudulent ‘pastor’ or a crusader of righteousness of which you are also deficient.
Let me share some of God’s plans for these so-called prophets and pastors who ‘thus say the Lord’ when the Lord did not say anything:
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves….For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” Matthew 7:15; Matthew 24: 24
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds”… This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.” Jeremiah 14:14; 23:16
Now whose fault is it if you fail to heed these warnings? People forsake sound teaching of the word of God preferring spurious doctrines churned by glib-tongued showmen.
There is, perhaps, no time in history that sin has become more fanciful than now, and drawing more souls away because of its beautiful casing.
I read about a lesbian Chelsea footballer, Sam Kerr, who is ‘expecting’ a baby with her lesbian lover, West Ham midfielder, Kristie Mewis. It all sounded so weird, especially with the avalanche of congratulatory messages she got. What a distorted world; castrated and flaccid!
We get fascinated by repugnant deeds that provoke the Lord to wrath, tempting Him to send down acid fire on humanity like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.
That’s why Donald Trump is returning to the White House; to reclaim America, God’s Own Country for God. Democratic lewdness almost swallowed the country founded on Godly principles but there is now hope for America, and Israel. Trump is not a saint but hate him for all you want, the world shall soon know why God brought him back.
A lesbian is supposedly a man-hater and would not want intimacy with him. Is it then not odd that you would hate me but love my sperm or vice versa for the homosexual who would hate me but covet my egg to form ‘your child’? The world has gone to the dogs.
Today, wives are for hire or barter or crowd orgies. Women have no qualms mating with dogs. Men are siring children with their daughters even as sons are bonking their mothers. In our world, elders are eating the meal meant for children, who are left to starve to death or sold like articles in the market. What a world!
Yet the church bashers do not see these evils. Of course, they will not because they are of their father the devil, and their will is to do his desires. John 8:44.
Shalom!
