By which is meant the Church in Yorubaland, regardless of the composition of the Congregation.

For the Church and their Auditoriums in Abuja are no more than a collection of the various Nationalities residing in that city; created on the whims of a military, established as the enforcer of a Hegemony.

As in the days of old, where the Empires established their headquarters representing the power and opulence of the Empire without pretensions to neutrality.

By which it created Abuja, with pretensions to neutrality of the geo-physical space for its headquarters.

Which is the denial of the Peoples as creation of God.

The reality of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State, the imposition of the Hegemony.

To which flocked the various Congregations and Auditoriums, reinforcing the lie of the neutrality.

By which we know, the Church (congregationally) in Yorubaland must serve the purposes of the Yoruba Nation.

The Church in Abuja free to choose whom it will serve. What it will be.

Reinforcing the pretensions of the Post-Colonial State as the expression of transforming the Nationality into a “tribe”, individually and communally.
Or
Reversing the trend. Re-establishing the Nationalities. In and for themselves.

It is written:

“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” Romans 8:19

COVID-19, once again creating a defining moment for Africa in general; Yoruba World in particular.

The world, waiting for the vaccine, to be developed and controlled by global institutions represented by Big Pharma, in concert with Big Tech, utilizing Artificial Intelligence, woven together by a myriad of financial Institutions, operating within their National Sovereignties, to sustain their dominance.

Substituting themselves for the “the creation”; sole determinants of “the revealing”

And this, despite the evidence of possible engagement and neutralization of Big Pharma.

Oyo State Governor and the Chief Medical Director of UCH, Ibadan, among others, whose credibility may not be doubted.

Having survived the disease, clearly stated their course of treatment, providing sources for deliberate research with possibilities of providing treatments making a vaccine superfluous.

Upending Big Pharma.

And this is just one instance.

Yet, rather than pouring resources on research, Yoruba Nation’s “Men of God”, concerned more with “revelations” and “predictions” on COVID-19, sustaining the Peoples’ dependence on these as the possible antidote to the problematic.

Fulfilling what is written:

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

And this, the Truth of Jesus Christ.

By which He defined Himself:

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” Luke 4:18-19

Enabling the Church to become active participants in the shaping of our world; the Yoruba World.

Being confident of this very thing, that He who called us is capable of being our Great Shepherd, leading us in the path of Righteousness, following His footsteps.

“Proclaiming liberty to the captives”(Politically, the Yoruba captives of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State); “recovery of sight to the blind (Medically/Healthwise); “to heal the broken hearted”(Psychologically/Culturally); “to set at liberty those who are oppressed” (Economically).
All combined as the “Gospel”, the “Good News”.

This recognition of the possible response to COVID-19, the “day the Scripture is fulfilled.”

By which we know that this is “the revealing of the sons of God.”

For the pretensions of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State on addressing the pandemic is the manifestation of its inadequacy in coping with the health mechanism of her citizens, having been deprived of their humanity as a consequence of its establishment as a Post-Colonial State.

Denying us the capacity to develop Intellectual Property capability, a precondition for development.

Exemplified by the “loss” of capability to overcome Sickle Cell disease; the wasting away of several research reports gathering dust on University shelves; all because the Post-Colonial State is comfortable playing the role assigned to it as the executioner of our Humanity.

By which we become incapable of setting our hearts “to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.” Ecclesiastes 1:13.

By which we know that the Post-Colonial State cannot go outside the limitations placed on it by its creators; hence can do no more than sheepishly following what it is told to do.

Generating a false dichotomy between “hunger” and “lockdown”.

A non-choice, coming into play because of the nature of the Post-Colonial State.

Caught in an “emergency”, without a corrective roadmap. Its continued existence resting on the denial of our Humanity.

Re-establishing our Humanity being the first condition for addressing the emergency.

By which issues of “hunger” would have been on the table.

The Peoples not now having to make a choice between a health hazard and hunger, itself a health hazard.

“When I see the Blood, I will pass over you”, the physical manifestation of “proclaiming liberty to the captives”.

Now reversed as being the safety for the believer in times of the pandemic.

Unrelated to the liberty of the Peoples in the Post-Colonial State.

Despite the world having experienced one pandemic or the other. And with more expected.

The participation of Christians/Believers in addressing previous pandemics not in doubt; either as “ministers of the Word”; proponents and activists in the emergence of their National States and their Sovereignties; as academics/researchers/inventors in various disciplines, or as financiers of any of the above.

Rev Mojola Agbebi’s Inaugural Sermon, quoting The Apostle James: ‘Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is: “To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep one’s self unspotted from the world.”’

And by way of expansion, saying “I would add, however, that at present the cultivation of cotton, the raising of rubber trees, of coffee, kola nuts, etc., the calling forth the riches of the soil, sanitation, and the promotion of handicrafts form part of the pressing essentials of religion.”

This was 1902, before Amalgamation and the formalization of the Colony.

By which we know that the only period Mojola Agbebi’s “addition” came into fruition was during the time of relative Autonomy for the Regions, arrived at as the only possible way for the emergence of such admonition.

Recognized as the “Golden Era”, for the Western Region.

To which we must now return; having experienced and continue to experience, the indignities of the Post-Colonial State.

By which our manifestation as the “sons of God” would be realized.

Making it mandatory for the Church in the Yoruba World to champion the necessity for the actualization of Yoruba Autonomy.

To become a topical subject on the Pulpit.

Overcoming the constraints of a false dichotomy between the Pulpit and political engagement.

For many believers are already active participants on the political arena, leaving behind the truth of Christ as the embodiment of liberation.
Redemption: from sin. Miracles and wonders: liberating the beneficiaries from physical and emotional limitations preventing their being productive members of the society.

Being our righteousness in God, the Father.

To whom “ a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelation 7:9-10

By which we know, we will be able to become active participants in the post-pandemic world.

Having come into the fullness of the realization of our Nation and our responsibility to humanity; first, to the African.

Not afraid of the “chip”; “AI” or cutting-edge knowledge in all fields.

The first step to which is the decoupling from the Nigerian Post-Colonial State, the only measure of our capabilities.

Having a historical example in Mojola Agbebi and Obafemi Awolowo.

In contemporary times, Ayo Ladigbolu, Emmanuel Bolanle Gbonigi.

Now calling on the Church to embrace Autonomy/Self-determination in all its ramifications.

Getting the various Congregations to unite behind the Yoruba Referendum.

Calling for its actualization from the Pulpit as a Ministerial and Pastoral responsibility.

The Church, by this very act, repudiating the colonial holdover.

The notion that we are a “tribe” and not a Nation.

And our manifestation as the “sons of God”.

For whom “the creation eagerly waits”

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Wale Odeku

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By which we know, the Church (congregationally) in Yorubaland must serve the purposes of the Yoruba Nation.

The Church in Abuja are free to choose whom it will serve.

Enabling the Church to become active participants in the shaping of our world; the Yoruba world.

For the pretensions of the Nigerian Post-Colonial State on addressing the pandemic is the manifestation of its inadequacy in coping with the health mechanism of her citizens, having been deprived of their humanity as a consequence of its establishment as a Post-Colonial State.

Denying us the capacity to develop Intellectual Property capability, a precondition for development.

Exemplified by the “loss” of capability to overcome Sickle Cell disease; the wasting away of several research reports gathering dust on University shelves; all because the Post-Colonial State is comfortable playing the role assigned to it as the executioner of our Humanity.

By which we know that the Post-Colonial State cannot go outside the limitations placed on it by its creators; hence can do no more than sheepishly following what it is told to do.

Now calling on the Church to embrace Autonomy/Self-determination in all its ramifications.

Getting the various Congregations to unite behind the Yoruba Referendum.

Calling for its actualization from the Pulpit as a Ministerial and Pastoral responsibility.

The Church, by this very act, repudiating the colonial holdover.

The notion that we are a “tribe” and not a Nation.

And our manifestation as the “sons of God”.

For whom “the creation eagerly waits”

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Wale Odeku

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Yoruba churches im coming for them give me few minutes my daughter is crying

Mixing religion with politics

Good LORD