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Although many do not realize this, false gospels exist and are even more common than the true Gospel itself. I applaud the modern Church’s fascination with the Person of the Holy Spirit yet perplexed by its lack of discernment, for this is what the true Holy Spirit always brings among His people. False gospels are harmful to the well-being of souls and damaging to the reputation of Christ’s Name. Hence it must be in our best interest to test and observe anything that comes through our ears in the name of religion. Below is the result of my own tests and observations that I have been doing in all these short years as a believer. It is a false gospel that offers and emphasizes worldly goods I passed by a certain place, many days before today. It was a shopping centre, sort of. And there they were, a minister with a loudspeaker, together with a few more individuals of his company. They were all wearing green bibs, with the inscription “Soul Winner” on the back. For a moment, I was so thr...

The lottery industry has become one of the fast-growing multi-billion businesses of the modern world. The million-dollar question is; what is wrong with a believer who partakes in this, where in the Bible does it condemn such? To gamble is to risk something of value on something that depends on random chance, while aiming for a big profit. As always, I do not care about what unbelievers do, my concern is the sheep of Christ. I aim to give them the full counsel of God, and to Biblically educate them in every area of their lives, then they will discern and decide for themselves what is right. Honestly speaking, Scripture doesn’t directly mention such things as lottery games. Even the casting of lots was nothing close to sports betting because they didn’t wager their incomes nor was the outcome dependent on chance but on the Lord ( Act 1:24-26 ). Regardless, the Bible is always sufficient to deal with all the issues of Christian living, directly or indirectly. The good side: fast cash ...

I assume your Bibles are already open to Romans 7:14-23. The subject matter is sin. First of all, we cannot properly deal with the sin topic without discussing these two false ideas. The first one is that someone can become saved, redeemed and forgiven, yet still continue in worldliness, carnality and sin lifestyle – willy nilly.  My easy target would be the “gay Christians”. Those who suppose that God’s love allows them to live a continuous homosexual life and still be counted as Christ’s sheep. But wait a minute, before we cast our first stones at the homos, let’s look inside our own churches that we attend, there, I see many young and grown folks, some of them even leaders and choirmasters who unashamedly do those X-rated acts with their boy/girlfriends, all in the name of “we are saved by grace.” “How can you that have died to sin, live any longer in it?” laments the Apostle (Rom 6:2). True believers, my brethren, cannot live in a continuous sin lifestyle all the days of their ...

Preaching is simply taking what has already been written in the Bible and explaining it, with passion and authority. As simple as it looks on paper, it’s not so easy when you are standing up there with all eyes staring at you. As I hinted last time, we do not need any more preachers, we already have enough bad preaching and noisy confusion. What we need is better preaching that is born out a real desire to see the salvation and the sanctification of God’s people for the glory of the Redeemer. Familiarize yourself with the Text As emphasized in the first part of this subject, any sermon that is not Bible-based is not a word from the Lord. Let me go on then and say that you must not only preach your Bible but you must know it – very well. Particularly that portion of Scripture that you will be speaking from . Read your verse(s) again and again. Then you repeat the same process until your mind knows exactly what it says even without looking. For this reason, I also recommend an easy-to-re...

I have hunted long and hard upon the earth’s surface, searching for just one missing piece in all our lives – it’s called joy. I just can’t locate it. There is something I have learned instead; life is complicated. Each day has enough to wipe away even those little joyful moments we think we have. Amazing enough, every time I open the New Testament, I see the good Lord lending out His hand of invitation towards His people through the words, “Rejoice in the Lord always, I say again, rejoice!” (Phil 4:4). There is a fine line between that which we know as happiness and joy itself. Happiness is more of a momentary good mood because of some favourable circumstances around one’s life. That sort of mood, of course, is bound to change as much as the wind of circumstances also shifts and turns with seasons. On the other hand, joy is a combination of happiness, peace, and hope deep within one’s soul. It is a work of the Spirit of Christ Himself, therefore, it doesn’t easily fade, regardless of...

And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” Mark 15:17-18 An inauguration is a ceremony by which a president is ordained into office, while a coronation is the same process of installing or crowning a king onto his throne. In our text above, we see these words towards Jesus, “hail King of the Jews!” He was even given a crown and a purple robe that only kings were worthy to wear. As we know, this Jesus, was and is indeed a King – a King of Kings that is worthy to wear as many crowns. And it was only fitting that the soldiers gave Him homage and honour – for thus what He deserved.  However, we observe something terrible about the Romans’ coronation of King Jesus; as serious as they were, they didn’t mean it. They were not by any means honouring our Lord, on the contrary, it was all mockery and blasphemy.  Let’s apply it to our lives then. We all love Jesus, right? And we indeed take ...

We must begin with a question; what is the purpose of preaching? What are we trying to archive with our preaching endeavors? To get this question wrong is the basis of bad preaching that we witness all around us. There are only two reasons for the existence of preachers; the salvation of sinners and the sanctification of saints . Let’s elaborate; Salvation of sinners – God’s primal desire for all of us is not healing and prosperity but it is salvation (1 Tim 2:4). And that salvation is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit when He changes a God-hating sinner into a Christ-loving saint. The reason why preachers lose this plot it’s because they assume that everyone within the sound of their voices is born again. They believe that to be saved is just to repeat the prayer of salvation after the minister and…congrats. Well, the problem with this is that many do pray that salvation prayer with their lips while their hearts are away. As evident by the reality that a great many – especially ...