PONDER, REFLECT, AND TAKE HEED – By Bishop Ephraim O. Ikeakor

….PROSPERITY PREACHERS AND PREACHINGS HAVE DONE MORE HAVOC TO SOUND AND BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY THAN WITCHCRAFT.
….WHAT IS THE SOUND BIBLICAL SOURCE AND ORIGIN OF THIS VERY POPULAR AND RAMPANT SEED OF FAITH DOCTRINE IN ALL CHURCHES NOW?

….. UNTIL WE DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN GIVING TO GOD AS A BET, AND GIVING TO GOD AS WORSHIP, WE SHALL CONTINUE TO INSULT AND EMBARRASS GOD WITH MOST OF OUR GIVINGS.

…… SEED OF FAITH GIVING SHOULD WILFULLY AND VOLUNTARILY ORIGINATE FROM THE GIVER , AND NOT THROUGH COERCIVE COMPULSORY DEMAND AND SPIRITUAL PEPEDINCULAR PROSPERITY PREACHING.
….. THE MOST SENSIBLE, MOST IMPORTANT,AND MOST VALUABLE ISOLATION IS ISOLATION FROM SIN AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
……. THE TRUE ANTICHRIST IS ANY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH WHO LIVES HIS/ HER LIFE CONTRARY TO THE WAY OF CHRIST, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF THE WORD OF GOD.

….. THE NEGATIVE EFFECT AND SUFFERING OF LOCKDOWN BECAUSE OF A VIRUS IS VERY LAUGHABLE WHEN COMPARED WITH THE GRUESOME EFFECT AND TORTURE OF LOCKDOWN AND LOCK-IN IN HELLFIRE BECAUSE OF SIN AND SINFUL LIVING.

……WE READ THE BIBLE WITHOUT BELIEVING IN THE BIBLE. OUR ATTITUDE TO CHALLENGES OF LIFE REVEALS THAT MOST OF US ARE RHETORICAL READERS OF THE BIBLE, AND SYNTHETIC RECITERS OF THE BIBLE.

……YOUR LIFESTYLE IS THE ONLY SURE PARAMETER AND YARDSTICK FOR MEASURING WHETHER YOU ARE A PRO-CHRIST, OR AN ANT-CHRIST.

……CALLING ON GOD FOR SOLUTIONS, DELIVERANCE AND SAFETY IN YOUR TIME OF TROUBLE AND NEEDS ONLY MEANS TURNING GOD INTO YOUR MERCENARY AND SPARE TYRE.

…….LIFE IS COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS, JOYLESS,PURPOSELESS AND ABOVE ALL ETERNITY-LESS IF IT IS NOT LIVED IN JESUS, AND CONTROLLED BY JESUS.

……ANY SACRIFICES YOU CAN MAKE TO MAKE HEAVEN AND ESCAPE HELLFIRE IS WORTH MAKING, AND THAT IS YOUR MOST ESSENTIAL AND MOST VALUABLE SACRIFICE.

……IT IS NOT YOUR DUTY TO KNOW THE DATE FOR CHRIST’S SECOND COMING AND RAPTURE…YOUR DUTY IS TO BE A READY BRIDE FOR HIM AT ALL TIMES.

……IT IS A GREAT EMBARRASSMENT TO GOD THAT AFTER MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED TIMES OF COMMANDING YOU IN HIS WORD , THE HOLY BIBLE NOT TO FEAR, YOU STILL LIVE IN FEAR. THIS IS NOTHING BUT REBELLION.

…….AS A CHRISTIAN, IF THIS PERIOD OF LOCKDOWN DOES NOT MAKE YOU A DEEPER AND MORE ARDENT BIBLE STUDENT EVERYDAY, THEN YOU ARE NOT JUST LOCKED DOWN, BUT YOU ARE A COMPLETE KNOCKOUT AND A KNOCKDOWN .

……IF THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE RUNNING HELTER SKELTER IN FEAR AND CONFUSION JUST BECAUSE OF A MICROCOSMIC AND INFINITESIMAL VIRUS, WHAT SHALL THE WORLD DO WHEN THE KING OF KINGS, THE ELSHADDAI, AND THE CREATOR AND OWNER OF THE WHOLE EARTH COMES WITH HIS ANGELS AND ARCHANGELS IN DEAFENING AND BLASTING TRUMPETS TO JUDGE AND HARVEST HUMANITY????

……..ONE OF THE GREATEST REVELATIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS THE UTTER SPIRITUAL SHALLOWNESS AND EMBARRASSING UNREADINESS OF MOST CHRISTIANS FOR THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.

……. IF YOU ARE WORSHIPPING GOD FOR WHAT HE WILL DO FOR YOU, THEN BE READY TO BE AN ATHEIST VERY SOON, BECAUSE THE TRIAL OF OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH HAS BEGUN IN EARNEST.

…….IF THE CRY OF YOUR HEART IN PRAYER ALWAYS IS NOT “ OH LORD MAKE ME FIT AND READY FOR YOUR KINGDOM ALWAYS “ THEN YOU ARE A CUSTOMER AND A VISITOR TO THE CHURCH, NOT A DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST.

……. REMEMBER, THE SON OF GOD DIED THE DEATH OF MEN SO THAT THE SONS OF MEN WILL HAVE THE LIFE OF GOD, AND LIVE THEIR LIVES FOR GOD.

…….THIS IS THE TIME FOR SPIRITUAL RADICALISM, AND CHRISTIAN FANATICISM IN WITNESSING FOR CHRIST. SPIRITUAL LUKEWARMNESS IS BOTH A DAINT AND A DEFICIT TO GOD IN PARTICULAR, AND HEAVEN AT LARGE.

……. SILENT AND NOMINAL CHRISTIANITY IS VERY REPULSIVE AND ABHORRENT TO GOD IN TIMES LIKE THIS.

WHAT I SAID BEFORE, I SAY AGAIN,TAKE HEED. OUR SALVATION IS NEARER NOW THAN WHEN WE FIRST BELIEVED.