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Where Lies Your Focus?

     There is a general laissez-faire wind blowing across the world. People, especially those in authority think natural laws can be changed or modified to suit the prevailing ‘mood’ of the times; unknown to them, they are pushing and expanding the agenda of darkness over the earth and its inhabitants. The Church is not left out in this terrible trend. In fact proponents of this terrible move are mostly found in the Church. When confronted, they argue that they are protecting and propagating the Gospel. As if the Owner of the Gospel has lost touch on how to protect and propagate it! This terrible error have caused so many within the Church to lose focus; setting their sights on men rather than on God! Teachings that are contrary to God’s word are continually churned out and very few are the wiser to the antics of these towers of Babel preachers. They rob the hearers of the chance to be truly transformed by the truth of God’s word. Jesus Christ told the people: “Then He said to the

Are You Preaching The Kingdom Of God Or Making A Name For Yourself?

       When God created man and other living things on the earth, He gave an almost similar mandate to both (Genesis 1:22&24). To man He added an instruction which encapsulates the mission of man: “…And subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky and every creature that crawls on the earth” (Genesis 1:28b). However, by the time we read chapter three of the Book, what man was to subdue, subdued him. Thus, fear set in and man was unable to rule effectively. This fear led man on a path away from God, resulting in God wiping out all living things including man except for the family of Noah. The same mandate was given to him at the end of the flood which is, to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue and rule (Genesis 9:1-2); but man chose to do otherwise: “And they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth’” (Genesis 11:4).