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21/09/2021

Tuesday September 21, 2021:

“LEPROSY: the spiritual condition of the 21st Century Church”. 1.6.

“LARGE CROWDS FOLLOWED JESUS as he came down the mountainside. Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him. “Lord,” THE MAN SAID, “IF YOU ARE WILLING, YOU CAN HEAL ME AND MAKE ME CLEAN.” JESUS REACHED OUT AND TOUCHED HIM. “I AM WILLING,” HE SAID. “BE HEALED!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared. Matthew 8:1-3, NLT. (Emphasis added)

In the previous editions, I tried to relate leprosy to the spiritual state of the 21st Century church by using the children of Israel in both the wilderness and the promise land to typify today’s church. And also used the personality of Naaman to typify the state of the 21st Century Church. We discovered that; Naaman like most of has was a very influential person, he was religiously correct like most of us, he had such an unapparelled stature, the only thing that made him despicable was his leprosy just as sin makes us despicable before God. His uniform and social standing couldn’t conceal his leprosy, likewise our position in the church or society cannot conceal our sins for long. In today’s edition, we are going to delve into our main text above.

The above biblical text reveals that, a large crowd followed Jesus as he descended from the mountain just as millions of us are claiming to be followers of Jesus but with our personal motives and agenda. The crowd who followed Jesus all had their reason for following. Some followed Jesus because of what they would eat or stand to gain, others also followed because of what they would see and gossip about and the last group are those who genuinely loved him. These groups put together forms the large crowd that followed Him. Also, not everyone of the crowd had a personal encounter with Jesus except those who desired and dared to meet him.

Among the crowd were also l***rs but not all of them got cleansed. Because they have become comfortable and used to their situation. To them, once they follow Jesus, their daily bread is assured. Even if Jesus doesn’t multiply bread and fish, by all means someone from the crowd might drop something for them. Therefore, it was okay for them to hang around Jesus, since it cost them nothing. Some of us in the 21st century church has the same disposition. We have become so comfortable and used to sin. It has become our normal practice to the extent that we no longer find it reprehensible to talk about them. We have become the crowd that followed Jesus in the above text.

When the l***r in the above text realized his despicable state and got tired of his situation, he left the crowd to personally meet Jesus to see him out of his leprous state. He defied the reaction of the crowd and focused on how to get out of his predicament. One thing he saw that eluded the crowd was that he saw Jesus as the only one who has a permanent solution to his problem. He was fed up with always trying to cover up just to mix with the crowd. For how long will he continue to deceive himself and the crowd. Therefore, he confidently approached Jesus.

Beloved, for how long are we going to put on a façade to deceive ourselves and others with our two-facedness. We are humble, holy and pious in church on weekends and ferocious beats at home and workplace on weekdays. Sometimes, our immediate families and close associates finds us interesting on how our leprosy suddenly get cured when we step into the church and then returns again when we get home or workplaces. Let us get weary of our leprosy and meet Jesus genuinely and our leprosy will be cleansed for good. God bless us all as we continue in the next edition. Shalom!

PRAY WITH ME
Lord Jesus, I thank you this day for my life. I thank you for making me realize the blight of my spiritual condition. I am sincerely tired of deceiving myself. Forgive me Lord! Holy Spirit, please help me, teach me, lead and convict me each time I fall into sin. This I pray in the name of Jesus! Amen!
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21/09/2021

There are many who claim that you can not support choice and be a believer. I would argue that the idea of being anti-choice is a new concept and that in fact the scriptures support choice. I also understand that this idea is not commonly taught in churches and that even for those who are Christians who support choice you might not be fully equipped with the theological and biblical tools to defend the position because few theologians want to just come out and blatantly support choice. So I wanted to give you those tools as best I’ve learned to use them to help you in these key discussions, especially for those folks living in red states that are up against laws being changed. There are two key biblical areas to look at when addressing the issue of abortion with those who say it’s contrary to scripture.

Spirit v. Life

Life and spirit are two different issues. There are many things that are alive but that the scripture don’t attribute spirit to. In the story of creation God built all life and said it was good. The Creator set forth the motion of growth in all plant and animal life. Every creature of the air, land, and sea. However, the Creative Spirit only gave the breath of life to one and that was humankind. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Gen 2:7)” it was not the creation of man that caused him to be spirited but first breath. The breath of spirit being what creates actual life, not simply being organic matter, is what the Creator defines as being alive (Psalms 33:6, Job 34: 14-15, Ezekiel 37 9-10 and 13-14). Breath is what the scriptures consider life, or spirit, it is not until first breath that something is life. Many people argue the issue of John the Baptist and Jesus and the fact that they leapt in the womb. However, John the Baptist according to scripture is the reincarnation of Elijah (Matthew 11:7–14) and Jesus is the incarnation of God and so neither of these were new souls or life but old life coming into the world in new vessels. As a matter of fact the issue of them leaping in the womb is only mentioned because of its peculiar nature. It was clearly not the same kind of movement all fetuses make in the womb. Another issue brought forth is Exodus 21:22-24 and it clearly states that if a men who are fighting cause harm to a woman and she is pregnant, unless she dies the men are only to be fined for the miscarriage. Does this sound like the scriptures consider that equal to life? No, because life is spirit and spirit is breath.

Abortion in scripture

Even though it is prescribed under a particularly sexism understanding of ownership and jealousy their is a ritual for abortion directly in the Bible. If a man supposes his wife has cheated he may take her before the priest and should she be with child then the pregnancy will be terminated on site by way of a tonic given to the woman (Numbers 5:11-31).

The hey portion here is when it states clearly in verse 27, “When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry...”

Now, again this is a rule made thousands of years ago and is rooted in spousal ownership and is hardly an example of living relationships. It’s also removing choice from the woman and gives the spouse the right to miscarry her child which is obviously problematic and there in lies the danger of taking scripture literally. However, it does shed light on the fact that there are circumstances where even in the scripture a prescribed miscarriage or abortion is used as a remedy to an unwanted pregnancy.

For far to long the religious right has used the idea of not committing murder or “thou shalt not kill” to justify their stance on abortion. But you can only kill what has life and what is human life has spirit and it’s clear from the scriptures that life begins at breath and breath is life.

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11/09/2021

This is so amazing! Three brothers got ordained as priest on the same day! This is what we want, people read to sacrifice for the word of God and this what we are all called upon to do!!

10/09/2021

CATHOLIC DEVOTIONAL GUIDE



GOD AND HIS CREATION

GOD AND HIS CREATION

We firmly believe and unreservedly confess that there is only one true God, eternal and immeasurable, almighty, unchangeable, incomprehensible and ineffable, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons but one absolutely simple essence, substance or nature. The Father is from none, the Son from the Father alone, and the Holy Spirit from both equally, eternally without beginning or end; the Father generating, the Son being born, and the holy Spirit proceeding; consubstantial and coequal, co-omnipotent and coeternal; one principle of all things, creator of all things invisible and visible, spiritual and material; who by his almighty power at the beginning of time created from nothing both spiritual and material creatures, that is to say angelic and earthly, and then created human beings composed as it were of both spirit and body in common. (Profession of Faith, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215)

GOD AND HIS PROVIDENCE THE TRINITY CREATION AND THE ANGELS THE CREATION, NATURE AND FALL OF MAN

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Jesus is at the gate knocking anyone who hears and open HE IS READY TO DINE WITH YOU ARE YOU READY COME ON DO YOU KNOW HOW TO OPEN YOUR DOOR? THIS CAN BE DONE BY ACCEPTING JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOUR,DETESSING YOUR SINCE ,DOING RIGHT THING ALWAYS MAY HE HELP YOU TO ALWAYS BE AT THE RIGHT PATH AMEN!