chieveboy:
May be we should really begin to question how the main and genuine event which happened at the Pentecost today degenerated to what it is today, where the main 'Signs' that accompanied that event is totally replaced with the employment of the negative power.

The three different and only times that the bible recorded people speaking in tongues (i.e. speaking in a different language or dialect as it were) were as follows:
1/ In the upper room, with Jewish pilgrims in attendance witnessing the disciples speaking in diverse & different dialects (i.e. Acts 2)
2/ In Cornelius house, with Jewish believers in attendance witnessing Cornelius' household speaking in a different language (i.e. Acts 10)
3/ At Ephesus, with 12 disciples of John the Baptist (i.e. Acts 19)

The whole objective of each and every one of these three occasions is for obtaining repentance & bring about acceptance

Now, the spiritual gift of speaking in tongue, simply is one out of the nine evidences of having the gift of the Holy Spirit, but its only a penterascal, who wouldnt know that this gift actually, is at the lower end rung of the hierarchy of spiritual gifts.

When prophecy and speaking in tongues, are placed together, as in, put side by side for comparison, the gift of prophecy, is much more preferred than the gift of speaking in tongues (i.e. check out 1 Corinthians 14:5a)

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chieveboy:
'Speaking in Tongues' is supposedly a means or the act of "speaking mysteries in the spirit realms" according to the users, which is supposed to be a sort of "advanced prayer".

Speaking in tongues, in its simplest form, is an activity of giving a clear and understandable speech in a coherent human being language

chieveboy:
I have done it before.

I am sure in a delusional way would have done it before

chieveboy:
The process of speaking in tongues is an effort to emulate or remake the original event of the 'Pentecost' which is a traditional Jewish event to celebrate the harvests.

Why leave out emulate or remake the forked or cloven tongues as of fire hovering over head

chieveboy:
This went different for a handful of folks who followed Yeshua (Jesus), and they saw some strange manifestations, one of which was that they strangely understood the language of the others and equally spoke them.

All the three different occasions that speaking of tongues took place happened to exclusively only to Jews (e.g. pilgrim Jews, sectarian Jews, doubtful Jews) and was to state and make known to them the good news aka gospel et cetera

chieveboy:
Here things you may for once wake up to and probably stop doing simply because it doesn't make sense :

1: Consider Buddhist chants, Eckist chants, Islamic etc. as the worship of devil or an invitation to them.

This includes and is not limited to Chants like HU, OM, Mana, etc.

Here's a thing you may for once wake up to and probably stop doing simply because it doesn't make sense:

1: Tongues, (i.e. the gloried and/or counterfeit incantations type) that snare unsuspecting believers with their learned false speaking in tongues deception and bad indoctrination that will lead to the lake of fire.

2: It is only some, lazy and indoctrinated Far-To-See (i.e. Pharisees) and Sad-To-See (i.e. Sadducees) somebody, looking for lesser praying effort, that believes praying or speaking in tongues, especially with using the voice and/or vocal cords, is praying in some mysterious heavenly language. This is shameless lazy and cutting corners manoeuvres praying things.

3: It is delusion and make believe, uttering gibberish and nonsensical noise, alternating between varying high voice pitches. When people are lazy to articulate their prayers, they resort to this quick fix alternate method to pray. I wonder why Jesus never employed this method, of 'speaking in tongues' if it really was that potent

chieveboy:
2: You do not want to label any religion devilish.

You want to call a spade, a spade, that it is, and not call a spade, a fork

chieveboy:
What you should do instead?

Simply embrace or try out any of those Sounds and Chants.

This is what you should do instead especially if you speak in tongues.

Revelation 16:13-14
13An evil spirit that looked like a frog came out of the mouth of the dragon.
One also came out of the mouth of the beast, and another out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14These evil spirits had the power to work miracles.
They went to every king on earth, to bring them together for a war against God All-Powerful.
But that will be the day of God's great victory.

Yes playing out in plain sight is the end time deception of the demonic spirit.

Where Revelation 16:13-14, is symbolised as three impure, unclean, loathsome evil spirits, that looked like frogs. Now, here's a question for you. How do frogs catch their prey?
Of course, yes, by using tongues to snare believers with coveted false speaking in tongues deception

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officialwdhtvv:
Daddy Freeze responds to Pastor Adeboye’s apology for his past message on tithing.

Take a listen!!!

#wetindeyhappentv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je5osasyxiE

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAuS3NgtG2y/?igsh=MXU4bW1paTZhc2Z2

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MuttleyLaff:
Freeze is not and has not said anything that hasnt for years been discussed here on the Religion forum
Posters over the years, have talked over thoroughly, this tithe topic,
All in order to reach all, so all reach a good decision and/or better understanding of giving,
of which views or arguments put forward concerning taxed, obligatory or imposition tithe no longer holds water

Offerings are OT old school things
and Jesus Christ has given the ultimate offering saving you from having to give any other
You actually give contribution(s) or donation(s) is what you correctly do
Of course freely giving works for anyone

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MuttleyLaff:
Fair do's

You cant see the wood for the tithe-trees

Freeze is not anti-tithe, same way, he is not opposed to the law of gravity
Freeze' crusade is not anti-tithe but is a crusade against the exploitation of people in the guise of tithe

SMH. Except for proving you're becoming good at making gaffes after gaffes
you've proved nada that Jesus wants us to give much more even up to 100% of what we have

If you have intimate knowledge of Jesus' modus operandi,
you wouldnt be using that single incident as a one-size-fits-all approach for every believer

It is to commendable for Pastor G O Enoch Adeboye to admit a fundamental biblical error he used to fiercely perpetuate and command straight up 10% or ten percent payment of income aka tithe

This title lie certainly has run itself to death at Pastor G O Enoch Adeboye foot

A lie has speed but truth, surely has endurance.

I want to thank the following champions on this forum who crusaded against how inappropriate ecclesiastical tithing is enforced

The seeds of the following lone voices in the tithe wilderness, have not being in vain and this fruit, is a testament to that
Big up to: WinsomeX, DrummaBoy, trustman, BabaGnoni, PastorKun, nuclearboy, JeSoul, Enigma, OkCornel

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jaephoenix:
Where in this post was any anti-slavery posture seen?

I dont follow you, so please advise:
1. How you mean 'Where in this post was any anti-slavery posture seen?'
2. Which post in reference are you asking?
3. Whose post n reference are you asking?
4. Where in scripture do you see God ordains slavery (i.e. as claimed by OP on the thread 's subject heading title) or ever ordained slavery please?

Think carefully before answering question #4 please and even give same question #4, deep & extra thought before putting forward pretext bible verse(s) to base your opinion on

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MrPresident1:
Kobojunkie aka nntr

Constipated confused dot com

MrPresident1:
Slavery is forever. When one side is in power, the other side is in slavery, and when this side returns to power, the other side become slaves

Isaiah 14:2

1 Corinthians 13:13
Three things will last forever
—faith, hope, and love
—and the greatest of these is love.

Your nescience caused you to type unwisely that slavery is forever

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jaephoenix:
Ok, so in other words, Yahweh doesn't want to change the norms for slavery, but decides to change the norms for other vices.
Thanks for your explanations

Mark 10:5
But Jesus said to them,
“Because of your hardness of hearts
[your callousness and insensitivity toward your wives and the provision of God]
he wrote you this precept.
(i.e. “It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied)

Matthew 19:8
Jesus replied,
“Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts,
but it was not what God had originally intended.

Beloved, just because everybody did/does slavery, didnt/doesnt mean slavery's right nor does it mean that, God had slavery originally intended or planned.

Now, my right honourable gentleman, it will be very, very intellectually dishonest of you, to try to take away the credit from God, that God came on board the slavery scene, by proxy Moses, not to negatively ordain slavery, but to sanitise, humanise and moralise slavery, and all trio undisputedly done with specific and unequivocally reforms

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NNTR:
“Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch/wreck like me.
I once was lost, but now am found
was blind, but now I see.”
- Hymn of John Newton,
former slave owner, reformed slave owner,
regenerated soul aka born again or born of the Spirit even born from on high

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

The heavily redacted 'Select parts of the Holy Bible:for the use of negro slaves, in the British West-India Islands' bible aka 'Slave Bible' readily comes to mind

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

“Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch/wreck like me.
I once was lost, but now am found
was blind, but now I see.”
- Hymn of John Newton,
former slave owner, reformed slave owner,
regenerated soul aka born again or born of the Spirit even born from on high

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

jaephoenix:
Please read before replying

You should take a leaf from your 'Please read before replying' book and copy from it

jaephoenix:
I specifically told you vices that were engrained and institutionalized which Yahweh specifically gave orders to prohibit. I told you homosexuality, idolizing etc were in place.

I explicitly told you that you are going beyond the scope of the thread and the limits of its 'God Ordains Slavery' title heading. What part of that dont you get at all.Hmm?

jaephoenix:
Did Yahweh give specific laws against them? Yes ...

Read my lips, I am not going to be drawn or be distracted by your nonsensical and ignorant wrangle.
If you still want to continue with your lopsided argument, simply limit it to slavery, serfdom and bond-servitude, well thats if you know what the differences and distinctions are between the trio

jaephoenix:
... So why didn't he do the same for slavery.

God came on board to sanitise, humanise and moralise with specified and unequivocally undisputed reforms

jaephoenix:
This time slowly read my question before you give the answer your pastor brainwashed into your brain

Making a statement of this kind and make it like in this manner, betrays how a feeble, shallow person who lacks depth you are

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

jaephoenix:
Another bullshit.

Never mind, when the sky falls, you'll wish you have this good bullshit to take cover under

jaephoenix:
Wasn't idol worship, homosexuality etc rife in the old testament?

Your off topic question goes beyond the scope of the thread and the limits of its 'God Ordains Slavery' title

jaephoenix:
So why did Yahweh specifically tell Israelites not do all those but somehow forgot to tell them not to be slavers.

Mind you, God doesnt forget. God's never being in the forgetfulness business

jaephoenix:
Also he specifically said they should take slaves from their neighbors.

Response follows immediately below

jaephoenix:
So what are you defending?

Refuting the 'God Ordains Slavery' falsehood

As Ive earlier advanced slavery, serfdom and bond-servitude were all already instituted and established prevailing social chaos or disorders prior to God coming on board to sanitise, humanise and moralise with specified reforms, so what's that difficult in giving credit where credit is due

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adeniyi65:
I'm not trying to be blasphemous house. But I think intellectual dialogue could help us all as a society.
Here is what I have to say. I am doing a research on slavery which I'm trying to make a video after it to enlighten our populace that European shouldn't be blame for trans Atlantic slave trade which the community of Internet scammers dodge behind as the reason why they are scamming them back now. But I was surprised when I checked the perspective of christianity on the subject. It was so terrible that I have to stop mid way and drop tears for horrible actions religion had watch on to happen to people that God claimed he created in his image. Even animals should be treated better compares to Bible narrative.

Although I have long left the fold of religion for some reasons. But I see this as barbaric of all.
One of the passage in the Bible that hurt my mind so much on this subject is Exodus21:20. In fact the whole of that chapter 21 shouldn't be allowed to read into children and young teenagers' hear. Exodus 21:20-21 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.


In my own opinion, I will advise the those in charge of primary education to ban OT from the reach of primary school pupils. That book is too gory to feed our children.

MrPresident1:
cc nntr

To start with and with all due respect, it is disingenuous and libellous to affirm that God ordains slavery, that was already instituted and establish, prior to Him coming on board to sanitise, humanise and moralise it with reforms

Slavery already was a reality in the system (i.e. Genesis 9: 20-27, has the first mention of slave/slavery in the bible) before the emergence of God's slavery reforms

If you are married, you know that one dont neccesarily cut off ones privates because of not wanting to traumatise ones kids from the shock of seeing ones little man, aka third leg, sometimes pka JT or John Thomas, but one simply covers up, in their presence, if one is au naturale (i.e. in the nude), so your ill advice, to those in charge of primary education to ban OT from the reach of primary school pupils, can be dismissed off as pure balderdash.

The Bible is not a prejudicial or discriminatory book, it is part, a history book, educational book, inspirational book et cetera, that lays out facts and absolute truths as happened

Take note that according to 2 Timothy 3:16:
'All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and is profitable for instruction,
for conviction [of sin], for correction [of error and restoration to obedience],
for training in righteousness
[learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately
—behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage];'

The bible unapologetically presents the good, the bad, the ugly and the gory in all their glories

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StillDtruth:
See it low blow and personal attack all because you had nothing valid to say and yet you wonder why the world see that you atheists are devils and demons who deserve to be killed by accidents, joblessness and all.

Wainey:
Bro, there are 6points in FP that you could defend.

You didn't defend any, rather u came here start attacking people, such a God fearing christian

Its because posters like him are not fooled by the 6 points in your OP nor are they taken in to want to give any defence of the 6 points.

They notice the subtle perversion of truth in the tone of your post, the misinterpretation and misrepresentation in your language. These all down to your OP being full of bad energy, negative bullshit, falsifying vibes and sneaky tricks

Now, before you play your favourite 'you didn't defend any of the 6 points' card with me, know that all the 6 points are tenable, however, it's one thing to explain each of the 6 points to you, and its another, for you to understand

You brought drama to the table and surprised that everyone gets up and leaves

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

KwaraRat:
The IPOB/Osunidiebt banza that deleted my thread on Jewish religious sanction on sleeping with 3yr old Toddlers will live to bury his or her children.

You banned me for using the word "yeast" in another thread but left one BLA mkpirimiri banza cannibal who was openly making terrorist and death threats on our security officers deployed to your banza yeast .

Well, I will let it pass since the idiot olofo Seun has cucked again to you Zionist terrorists.

Back to the topic, which is that , Talmudic satanic Babylonian modern day Judaism explicitly allows for the rape of toddlers (both male and female) as long as they are no less than 3yrs and one day and no more than 8ys.

This is the religion of Satan some of you heathen swines claiming Christians claim are in agreement with the teachings of Christ.

I will be posting Talmudic Rabbinical ramblings to show how depraved and evil Judaism , Jews and the evil state of Pissrael is.

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MuttleyLaff:
What Jerómejnr said didnt deem commenting on, as everyone knows the Talmud isnt God inspired
- at least, not if we're going by 2 Timothy 3:16 guideline
Anyway, trawl through my past posts, to see what my take is on the Talmud is
(e.g. use the search tool with search word muttleylaff+talmud)

Better still, saving you the time & effort, you should be able to pick out my view on the Talmud from the below snippet touching on another subject

- SNIPPET -

(4) The Oral Law of the Jews (later written as the Talmud)
- the interpretation of Moses' Law by the Scribes and Pharisees.

It is followed by the Orthodox Jews to this day as of equal authority to the Bible.

They falsely claimed it was passed down from Moses by word of mouth.
Jesus clashed with Pharisees over this law. He rejected it and came against it's legalistic spirit (Matt15:3, Mark7:3).

Now when 1 Cor 14:34,35 refers to a law of silence for women, it couldn't be:
(1) because there's no such law in the Old-Testament and he would say 'it is written';
neither is it found in the Gospels (2).
Neither is it (3) because it is clearly a pre-existing law.
Therefore by a process of elimination it must be (4) The Jewish Oral Law (the laws of the Pharisees)

This is confirmed by the phrase: 'As also SAYS the Law.' - a reference to the ORAL law rather than the WRITTEN law (scripture).
(see also Matt 5:21,27,31, 33,38,43)

Also, we know this because it agrees completely with the Talmud and applies to Orthodox synagogues today. The service is for men only. Women are discouraged from even learning, but are sometimes allowed to watch from the gallery, for their place is at home not with things too high for them! And it would be shameful for them to speak in a meeting.

TALMUDIC QUOTES illustrate this:
A Jewish Prayer:'Praise God He hasn't created me a gentile, a woman or an ignorant man.'
'The woman, says the law, is in all things inferior to the man.'
Only men could speak in public (Beraktoth 4,36; Mishnah Aboth 1,5)
No woman could give a testimony or conduct business. (Mishnah Shabbath 4,1)

Women were viewed with disregard and repression, and the Talmud contains many distasteful insults of women's character. They were to be avoided. They were not required to know or fulfil the law and so few were learned.

One said: 'May the words of the Torah be burned rather than be given to women.'
In public worship they were segregated and silenced and so had to ask questions of their husbands at home.

Clearly the writer of 1 Cor 14:34,35 reflected this Pharisaical attitude to women and used this Jewish Law to support his views.

So why would Paul say something that stands in contradiction to the immediate context and the rest of the New Testament? Why would he establish this teaching on Jewish Laws that elsewhere, both he and Jesus rejected?

The simple answer is these verses are not Paul's teaching!
Paul's letters are written in response church situations. 1 Corinthians is the most responsive of them all. Paul had received reports about what was going on (1:11, 5:1, 6:1,8 ), and the church had sent a letter to Paul with many questions (7:1,8,10,12,25; 8:1,4; 12:1; 16:1). There was disunity (1:10-12,3:3). In particular there were 2 groups of people saved from different backgrounds disputing -Jews who tended toward legalism, and Greeks who tended toward license. Paul goes through the issues and questions raised one by one.

Examples of when Paul is clearly responding to what one group has said are 6:15-20 (Greeks); 9:1-11; 11:1-16 (Jews) and 15:12,35,36.

Sometimes he refers what they are saying and then he answers them -e.g.1 Cor 4:8: 'You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us.' (this is what some of them had claimed) --'and indeed I wish you did reign, that we might also reign with you.' (Paul's answer - see also 4:10)

Sometimes he even quotes what they say and then answers them. The problem is that there are no punctuation or quote marks in the Greek and the translators often miss them out.

Some examples of this, are when he responds to the 'loose' Greeks as in 6:12,13:
(You say) 'All things are lawful for me.'
(I Paul) say: 'but all things are not helpful.'
(You say) 'All things are lawful for me.'
(I Paul) say: 'but I will not be brought under the power of any.'
(You say) 'Food is for the stomach and the stomach for foods.'
(I Paul) say: 'but God will destroy both it and them.'
We see the same in 10:23,24.

In questions about idols Paul challenges those who pride themselves in their knowledge but who do not hold it in love. (8:1-3) 8:4: 'We know that -'an idol is nothing in the world and that there is but one God' (again he quotes their words (their knowledge) before he answers as confirmed in v10,11.

Other examples are when he responds to the 'legalistic Jews', 7:1:
'Now concerning what you wrote to me,
(some of you said) 'It is good for a man not to touch a woman.'
(But I Paul say) 'Nevertheless because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife...'

Now we can understand what is happening in 1 Cor 14:34,35.
Paul is quoting what some Jewish converts to Christ, had written in a letter to Paul, complaining about women being involved in church services. Although they were saved they were used to male-dominated synagogue - worship and so found the equality of women in church life hard to take.

They were saying: 'Paul, these women are prophesying, praying out loud, speaking in tongues. The Oral law says it's shameful for a woman to speak in public. Tell them to shut-up!'

So as Paul is teaching on every member participating in church services, it is the natural place for him to deal with their objection. So he quotes what they say: 'Let your women keep silent in the churches, for it is not permitted for them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for women to speak in church' (v34,35)

Then he answers them: 'What, came the word of God out from you? or came it to you only? If any think himself a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you (not the Talmud) are the commandments of the Lord (the true authority) But if any (choose to be) be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' (v36-38) Paul replies by asserting his apostolic authority above the Talmud.

This also explains why these verses come out of the blue, interrupting the flow of thought, which is picked up again in v39,40: 'Therefore brethren,covet to prophesy and do not forbid to speak with tongues.'

The placement of v34,35 in the passage as a clear interruption and marked contrast to what Paul is teaching, serves to separate them from Paul's own views.

We conclude that Paul isn't silencing women, rather the opposite!

Those who are too quick to agree with v34,35 have unwittingly submitted to an unchristian pharisaical spirit

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Bottom line, the Talmud is to the Bible, what the Hadith is to the Quran.
Enough said

https://www.nairaland.com/newpost?topic=2552459&post=37449163
Religion / Re: Scriptural Proof God Wants Us Wealthy. by MuttleyLaff: 8:01am On Aug 29, 2015

Shouting into the wind
Poster who lie to self, and believe own lies are unable to recognise truth, even if truth perches on the nose bridge

cc: Christistruth02, Zooposki, Botragelad, Elusive001, illicit

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Davidobi255:
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, And to day, And for ever." - Heb 13:8

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1). From the very first verse of the Scripture reveals the divine nature of God through His Word. This opening statement identifies Jesus Christ as the living Word of God incarnate, the embodiment and expression of the invisible God to mankind. All those who seek to know the one true God must come to know Him through Jesus, "the way, and the truth, and the life." (John 14:6).

When God revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush, Moses asked for His name. God responded simply, "I am who I am." (Exodus 3:14). In Hebrew, this is "ehyeh asher ehyeh," suggestive of a perpetual present tense - "I am the being One" or simply "I am." Through this revelation, God established His identity as the one true, self-existent God - the eternal "I am." All other so-called gods had a beginning, but the one true God has neither beginning nor end. He simply and profoundly exists as "I am." There is nothing deeper that can be known of God than the fact of His raw existence as the great "I am," underived, self-sustained & independent of creation.

Why did God choose such a seemingly simple yet profoundly meaningful way for Himself? By calling Himself "I am," God emphatically asserted His transcendence & self-existence apart from anything in creation. Nothing caused or defines God - He simply is. As the eternal "I am" who was not created by another, God alone can declare "I am" without qualification. This singular claim establishes God as the sole deity, uniquely set apart from all finite, contingent beings.

Throughout His ministry, Jesus regularly applied God's self-revelation "I am" to Himself, boldly identifying with the divine name and eternal nature it conveys. When confronted by His critics demanding to know if He was the Messiah, Jesus declared, "Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58). By using "I am" in the context of His pre-existence, Jesus deliberately identified with the eternal God revealed to Moses. He was claiming full equality with the Father, which is why His audience tried to stone Him for blasphemy. (John 8:59).

On another occasion, when Jesus encountered His disciples on the stormy sea, He stated, "It is I; do not be afraid." (John 6:20). Again, Jesus employed God's self-revealed name to comfort them, applying the divine "I am" to Himself. He made other profound "I am" declarations - "I am the bread of life" (John 6:35), "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12), "I am the door" (John 10:9), "I am the good shepherd" (John 10:11), "I am the resurrection and the life" (John 11:25), "I am the way, and the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). Through these prominent sayings, Jesus revealed Himself as the manifestation and expression of the invisible God. He alone could rightly declare such spiritual realities using "I am," pointing directly to His deity.

Jesus took God's self-designation revealed to Moses - the most profound yet simple way to identify the self-existent Creator & openly applied it to Himself. In doing so, He firmly planted His feet alongside Moses as the sole legitimate recipient and bearer of that divine name. By wielding "I am" so freely, Jesus was making an audacious assertion of absolute identity and equality with the Father - a claim so radical that it could only be received as utter blasphemy or as the testimony of the one true God.

The revelation of God's name as "I am" also communicates that He is whoever we experience Him to be. While primarily signifying God's eternal self-existence apart from creation, it leaves room for an intimate relationship. If one prays and knows God as their healer, they can rightly call Him their healer. If someone trusts God during trying times and sees Him provide, they know Him as their provider. Whenever we encounter God acting in our lives, whether through answered prayer, times of provision or comfort in sorrow, we come to perceive Him through those experiences. While "I am" denotes God's absolute transcendence, it also signifies His immanence within our lives - He meets us where we are. So the all-powerful Creator, who simply exists as pure being, also chooses to be known personally however we experience Him at work through our relationship with Him by faith. Both dimensions are conveyed by God revealing His name as the great "I am."

Through Christ's bold "I am" claims preserved in John, the fullness of God is revealed. Jesus tore back the veil on the divine mystery and demonstrated conclusively that He is none other than Emmanuel - God with us. He aligned Himself with the eternal "I am" & affirmed His identity as the incarnation of the self-existent Creator. As such, Jesus deserves full faith and worship as the only name through whom we are redeemed. (Acts 4:12). He who is the eternal "I am" humbled Himself to become man and declare the glory due His name through these simple yet powerfully theological claims. Only God can make this claim & Scripture resonates that Jesus is that eternal "I am" - our promised Divine Savior, Emmanuel, worthy of all love, honor and trust without reservation as Lord.

'I AM, I AM' carries a connotation of 'I AM ....', essentially a blank cheque, as it were, kind of meaning, fill in the blanks as much as you are able to and/or capable of.

Yes, two of the most powerful words in the world for both God and human beings (i.e. you, I and everyone) are 'I AM' and/or 'I am'. This for the simple fact that evidently whatever you put behind those two words (i.e. 'I AM' and/or 'I am') is your reality (i.e. something about you that has an existence and/or substance)

Do not underestimate or underrate the power of the two words 'I AM' and/or 'I am'. They are a self assertion and/or self fulfilling prophecy about self

Abba Yahweh, Most High God, we come humbly and boldly before your Holy presence. Hallow be thy Name. We exalt You and praise You and Your holy name. There's none like You, and none to compare with You. You one and only of a kind. You're God Almighty.

You said to Moses, that You never revealed who You are, that You never revealed to the patriarchs the meaning and significance of what You are, what You can become, who You are and/or what or who You will be, but that the patriarchs only knew You as El Shaddai, and not as 'Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh' aka I AM that I AM. Father it is with reverence and the utmost respect that we come to You. We love you simply because you first love us. Abba, thank you.

We thank you for today, and this day's Davidobi255 (m) at 3:48pm timely post. We thank you for your breath, that's within us, Your ruach aka breath that keeps us alive, alive in the land of the living and on this side of eternity. We thank you for today, because today is the day, You made and we are glad and rejoice because of it. We thank you for knowing You, for being our lifeforce and powerful force to reckon with in our lives. We thank you for everything, thank you for the roof over our head, the warm and cosy shelter we have, we thank you for the clothes covering us, thank you for the food, the drinks. We thank you financial blessing, for giving us the power to create wealth, thank you for our good health, thank you for grace & unmerited favours, your love, blessings, mercies, kindness, spiritual gifts. We thank you for being our healer, deliverer, defender, protector, our knight in shinning armour. We worship, adore and praise you. Why? Its simply. It is because you deserve the honour glory, praise and offering of thanksgiving.

Without You, without You prominently featuring in every aspects and spheres of our lives, we're nothing and amount to nothing. With You, we are champions, champions already ...

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Throwback:
The king is dead, long live the king.

Iku doro. Ọba ti waja

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Angelfrost:
Sigh...

Kobe Bryant and daughter
Herbert Wigwe
Several soldiers

...Now, this family!

What's going on with America's aviation sector?!!

How has Sleepy Joe not declared a state of emergency on that sector?!!

Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perisheth, And no man layeth it to heart,
And godly men are taken away, None considering
That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Dr Myles Munroe, Pastor 'Bimbo Odukoya
Isaiah 57:1 words of consolation

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Daejumong:
God wanted to kill Moses but his wife saved the situation!

Exodus 4:24-26
24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him.
25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it.”Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
26 So the Lord let him alone.

Men of God, Pastors and brothers, learn from Moses and Zipporah. Always carry your wives along in your spiritual journey and decision making! They will help you!

The kind of ballsy and high spirited virtuous woman you want to be on your team

elated177:
Daejumong, you do realize that it was Moses' son and not Moses himself that she did that to, right?

Smh. Where did you read Daejumong saying anything otherwise to Moses' son got circumcised by his mom?

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29:31 don't cover your sins and don't join other people to cover their sins all right so so that is that many years ago
29:40 uh when I was learning this I was a new Christian I was learning some of this things dealing with my sexual passions
29:46 and all of that I was in the University then that's over 20 years ago I came across um a write up by selin Hughes and
29:55 selin Hughes said this he said that that sin in a Christian is like the dying
30:02 kick of a dead man he said it is like the dying kick of a dead man now uh if
30:09 you have ever killed a chicken before you would understand what selin Hughes is talking about the minute the neck is
30:15 cut off and the wind pipe are cut off and you carry the chicken and you put it in the bucket to remove the feathers
30:21 with hot water most of the time you see that the kick the leg is still kicking it's still kicking you know sometimes if
30:28 you do not cut the neck very well the chicken will get up and start running until it grains out of blood completely
30:34 and then it dies okay this is what this is what sin is in Christians sin is the
30:41 dying kick of a dead man that's the truth sin is dying the only thing of
30:49 cost is we want it to die quickly so when you fall into sin realize that the
30:56 Lord has won the victory over Satan over the world over your sins but the Lord
31:03 wants it translated into your life the Lord wants you to gain total victory
31:08 over sin the Lord wants that kicking dead man to be dead completely and it is
31:15 very very possible all right it is the reason why there is such a thing as the Pastoral Ministry I open my article by
31:22 talking about a scripture uh let me let me refer us to that scriptures in Hebrew
31:29 chapter 5 verse uh one start reading from verse one for every high priest taken from
31:36 among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God that he may offer both
31:41 gifts and sacrifice for sin verse two he can have compassion on those who are
31:46 ignorant and are going astray since he himself is also subject to weakness because of this he's required as for the
31:54 people so also for himself to offer sacrifices for sin and no man take no man takes this honor to himself but he
32:01 who is called by God just as Aaron what is the scripture saying is saying that
32:06 there's something that happens in the levitical priesthood uh whole sacrificial process what happens is that
32:12 the um the priest brings the when it comes to sacrificing for the people the
32:18 first thing he does he makes sacrifices for his own sins first he sacrifices for
32:25 his own sin now when he has been absorved and the Lord has forgiven his own sin then he ministers to God's
32:33 people he makes sacrifices for the sins of God's people that process has not
32:38 changed our God is the Lord Jesus Christ he has given to us the Pastoral minist
32:45 the pastor is a person who has applied the benefits of Christ's death and
32:51 Resurrection to his life first his own sins have been forgiven he knows how to
32:56 go to God to find peace with God through Jesus Christ as he does that he's able
33:02 to minister to God's people so my prayer is that as you're dealing with this
33:08 issue may the Lord grant you pastors may the Lord give us pastors because I hear
33:13 of so many things that go on in churches and it is extremely sad pastors get
33:19 information about people about people's weaknesses about their past about their sins and then
33:25 begin to use it against them in fact they begin to even tell people about it everybody in church gets to
33:31 know about it it is a very sad thing and I pray that if there are pastors who are
33:36 doing this and are watching it that that the Lord will grant you repentance because I mean it is there I do not
33:42 think there's anything worse than that you are custodian of people's
33:48 information not to use it against them but to use it to help them the same Sal
33:54 Hughes in some recent studies I'm having with my children was talking about the fact that Jesus sees us in two ways
34:00 first of all the way we are and the way we are going to be that is the way the pastor must see the pastor must see the
34:07 people he pastors the way they are the the sins they are battling with and then
34:12 he must be able to see what they can become all right so we there is no other
34:18 person that should be more patient with people than pastors okay and we must be able to help people to realize that
34:24 their sins have been forgiven in Christ Jesus and then we must be able to translate that whole Beauty Panorama
34:32 into practical Christian Living there are two types of Holiness that I see in
34:38 scripture it's either a phical kind of Holiness or true Holiness from the Lord
34:43 Jesus Christ if you're somebody who have gained Mastery over sin through phism
34:49 through self-will through uh self-denial and so many by your own physical
34:56 strength at the end of the day you will have a certain pride of your success and
35:02 you will look down on others if you're somebody who have found victory over sin
35:08 by the grace of God Alone by sinning and coming to the Lord for forgiveness and
35:14 experiencing cleansing over Years you'll be able to minister to other people
35:19 because you know that what you have is not of yourself but it has been given to
35:24 you and then you pray that the Lord does the same to other people also so masturbation in
35:30 a Christian is a sin but it is it is a sin that would not damn you however the
35:36 Lord wants you to have Mastery over it how do you do it number one stay away
35:41 from your trigger points number two walk on your mind get your mind to be fruitful number three get married get
35:48 married and as you're doing all of the be patient with yourself find a local church find a pastor to watch over you
35:55 to be accountable to and the Lord himself will help you and I trust that
36:00 it doesn't matter that sexual sin it doesn't matter the Lord who has said
36:06 that he has given us sanctification and he has called us to possess our vessels
36:11 in sexual uh Purity He will grant you that Grace to increase in sanctification
36:17 as dictated over your victory over every sexual sin that you have whether it is
36:24 masturbation or any kind the Lord himself will do it I want to thank you very much for watching my video my name
36:31 is xxxx xxxxxxx Pastor Providence Reformed Baptist Church here in the city of Ibadan
36:37 if you want to get to know more about what we do send me an email at newx at
36:44 gmail.com okay please uh share uh my video with uh other people and by all
36:50 means subscribe to my channel thank you very much for watching
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14:44 it's something I call the blessedness of the Christian all right Paul the Apostle while talking about justification by
14:51 faith as God has given to Abraham he reads from Romans chap 4: 5 reads and I
14:58 quote but to him him who does not work but believes on him who justifies the ungodly his faith is accounted for
15:06 righteousness verse six just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness
15:14 apart from works so the blessing of justification by faith is that God is
15:20 able to give us righteousness besides whatever we do okay like I wrote in my
15:27 um article I said that my children catechism which is something all of us must learn okay and I'm always blessed
15:33 by it using the opportunity to learn it myself my children CM says that justification is God forgiving Sinners
15:40 and treating them as if they had never sinned that is what justification is
15:45 unfortunately we can't go into justification now all I want to talk about is what Christ has done for us
15:52 what has Christ done for us Christ has given Christian a true blessing a true
15:57 blessedness and that blessedness is what uh David wrote about in Psalm 32 which
16:03 Paul is reiterating now in Romans chapter 4 it reads and I quote verse 7
16:09 blessed are those whose Lawless days are forgiven all their Lawless days all their um what do they call it um
16:16 masturbation sexual sin everything every sin that a person who has been Justified
16:22 commits has been forgiven will be forgiven has been forgiven in the past is being forgiven right now will be
16:29 forgiven in the future and whose sins are covered I think this is even more blessed okay so I say something like
16:35 okay if it happens that the devil says this particular sin cannot be forgiven then you tell the devil that there are
16:42 sins that also can be covered so it's not just that the sins are forgiven God
16:47 also chooses to cover them and whose sins are covered and then lastly blessed
16:52 is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin so what is the scripture
16:58 saying he saying three kinds of blessed number one God forgives all B all sins he forgives all the sins of God's people
17:05 he forgives them because of Jesus Christ secondly if it happens that there's one
17:10 sin that is spoken out somewhere and that appears not to have been forgiven God will cover the sin thirdly if there
17:18 appears to be one sin somewhere that has not been covered that has not been forgiven that has not been covered the
17:23 Bible says God will choose not to use that sin against God's people why
17:29 because of what scripture says earlier on God gives us a righteousness besides
17:34 our works the righteousness of his holy son so it must always begin with what
17:40 Christ has done if we're going to talk about what the Christian is going to do if even if we're going to talk about
17:46 overcoming masturbation we must start always with what Christ has done so that
17:52 the Christian life becomes translating Christ's victory over sin to our own
17:59 victory over sin in this life that is what the Christian Life is translating
18:04 it what Jesus has done in full the 100% the Lord has Acquired and bringing it
18:10 into our own scores and then translating it into practical Christian Living
18:16 practical Holiness we are going to use the rest of our lives to do that amen
18:22 and I trust that by the mercies of God when we are facing death you know we can
18:29 have a confidence that by the grace of God Alone not by our works or our effort by the grace of God Alone we have grown
18:36 in Grace we have grown in sanctification of life amen so now we now come to the
18:43 main subject of our discussion how do we overcome masturbation how do you deal with this
18:50 thing practically number one I mentioned it before like to mention it at my first
18:56 point the first thing you want to do is that you want to separate yourself from your trigger points you want to separate
19:02 yourself from your trigger points and you're going to do some very practical things okay young people who probably
19:09 see themselves bound to this thing and want to be accountable may want to submit their phones their systems their
19:16 laptops to their parents and it is very very easy these days all you have to do is you there are there are some apps
19:23 that parents can have on their phones with which they can use to browse I mean check your own phone they will see
19:30 whatever you're doing on WhatsApp they will see whatever you're doing anything you're doing on your system and on your
19:35 phone they can see it and they can shut those things down and they can hold you accountable okay so for young people who
19:41 see themselves bound to this things they can submit themselves to such accountability okay another thing is
19:48 that you might want to also separate yourself from certain I mean if you're bound to um cuz one of the things that
19:56 triggers masturbation is uh watching X ated movies so if you're finding yourself watching this thing you want to
20:03 make yourself accountable to somebody and then you want to cut off yourself completely from certain website and
20:08 certain things that bring the triggers okay uh there are other triggers maybe
20:14 friends there are friends that you associate with and all they just talk about is sex and vulgarity and all of
20:20 that you may want to end such relationship bring it completely to an end okay if it is going out some
20:27 nightclubs and all you may want to separate yourself okay sanctification in itself in the Biblical word for
20:34 sanctification actually means separation you want to remove yourself from such things okay so there are trigger points
20:41 there are things that encourage sin there are things that encourage sexual sin in you you want to separate yourself
20:47 from them that's the very first thing okay and it might sometimes it might look like cutting off an arm or removing
20:55 an eye but Jesus has said that if we're going going to go to heaven we are going
21:00 to take those steps all right it's not something that God is going to do for us but the spirit of Jesus that is within
21:07 you right now is telling you this is what that man is talking about this is what I don't know what it is but you
21:13 know those particular things you must end your relationship with those things bring an end to them okay separate
21:20 yourself from your trigger points all right the second thing you want to do is you want to understand that sexual sins
21:27 like every other sin is actually a sin of the mind but I think it is even more in a sexual for sexual sin that's why
21:34 Jesus was saying that he that looks on a woman with lust in his eyes has already committed adultery with her in his heart
21:41 okay so Jesus is basically saying look this thing is a mind thing the war is in
21:46 the mind that is why our ministers or pastors who fall into sexual sins are
21:52 actually disciplined seriously because one they would expect that the minister would know better
21:59 that the minute he's beginning to cross certain boundaries he would know better and he will separate himself from it if
22:05 he cannot do that he can't handle the Pastoral office it's as simple as that in some other U Christian Traditions
22:12 they forgive their Pastors in reformed sets we sack the pastor there's no forgiveness the man will leave the pull
22:19 pit he will go and join the Pew he'll go and join the people in the Pew and become like any other person if you
22:25 cannot deal with sexual immorality then you don't have have any sanctification if you don't have any sanctification
22:31 there's no Holiness to pass to the congregation okay so it's a mind thing
22:37 all right you must understand that it's a mind thing so what do you do after you have separated yourself from your
22:42 trigger point the next thing is you want to engage your mind fruitfully
22:48 fruitfully 2 Samuel chapter 11 what happened to David David sent his men to
22:54 go and fight War he sat down at home Idol and before he knew it he began to
23:00 see somebody else's wife bathing on the on the roof if David was engaging
23:05 himself in Warfare and he was directing his men on the field of battle his mind
23:10 would not have been running to another person's wife it's as simple as that engage your mind fruitfully so that
23:18 means study for those of you who are student engage get into your studies
23:24 read make sure that you do not waste your time with frivolous things move movies uh phone website all those things
23:32 separate yourself from them study get your mind working fruitfully okay for
23:39 those who are working get into fruitful work do something work with your hands
23:44 write an article uh that I'm talking about the things that I do easily write an article
23:50 write a book do a research pursue some um higher Noble tasks get your mind
23:57 working okay another I I do is I get I enter into debate how in fact some people
24:05 wonder wonder why I get into so much debate is because I'm trying to get my mind working and getting my mind off
24:10 certain things that rubbish that I filled my mind off with when I was in the
24:16 world okay so I try as much as possible to get my mind working get your mind
24:22 working let it be fruitful get your mind working on something that is healthy
24:27 that is that is is fruitful that will benefit Society get your mind
24:34 working that's the anst says that the the idol mind the idol hand is a devil's
24:40 workshop it's same thing the idol mind is a devil's Center you come and all start whispering all kinds of demonic
24:46 things into your mind you start carrying them out okay now when you have dealt with your trigger points and you're
24:52 exercising your mind fruitfully an exercise of mind fruitfully doing that fruitfully will
25:00 lead you to begin to do fruitful work and anybody who is doing fruitful
25:05 genuine successful work will begin to earn money it's as simple as that anybody who's using his mind well will
25:13 begin to become productive and then he will begin to earn money when you begin to have money in your hand get married
25:21 get married because no matter how much you separate yourself from your trigger points or no matter how much you engage
25:27 your mind you still have a body that God has given to you for
25:33 procreation when you see a woman your body will stand men will wake up in the
25:38 I mean early in the morning and they ... I don't know whether I should add this into the video but their
25:44 something will stand it's it's the way God designed it. You know when my young
25:49 my son was growing on one of the ways my mother my wife and I wanted to know whether he was a healthy boy was when he
25:54 wakes up in the morning does is his uh penis strong that's that's a healthy man
26:00 wakes up with a strong with an erection that's that's how God designed
26:05 us it can't be you can't you can't I mean it's not something you can run away
26:11 from all right and when a person has his sexual hormones raging that way he has
26:18 he must find a way of channeling it and the way God designed it is get married
26:24 get married legally and come together with a woman a man comes together with a woman a
26:31 woman comes together with a man not same seex marriage but man and woman marriage
26:39 one monogamous marriage not polygamy one man one woman one marriage enough for a
26:49 lifetime okay get married and find your fulfillment in your spouse there are
26:55 certain things prayers and fasting will never take away it won't take away your sexual urges it won't it will be there
27:00 forever TI Li Li God put it there okay so God who put it there wants it
27:06 controlled you know know how to possess your vessel in sanctification or he wants it controlled not for it to be
27:13 removed completely all right so not all of us are going to be Uno I've not even seen a Uno anywhere in my life before
27:21 most people that I see have sexual passions and the sexual passions have to be controlled so do not forget that we
27:29 are in the poor period in my discussion where I'm talking about translating the done work of Jesus Christ to the work
27:36 that we must do ourselves there's something Jesus has done totally he has
27:41 delivered us from the power of sin he has saved us from sin our sin is not going to damn us but the Lord wants what
27:48 he has done perfectly to be translated to our life through growth in Grace
27:54 growth in sanctification all right so as you doing all of this as you separating yourself
28:01 from your trigger point engaging your mind fruitfully and you get married one thing you want must do not just with
28:08 masturbation or any other sexual sin but every other sin you have to be patient with yourself okay you have to learn to
28:15 forgive yourself when you fail you have to be patient you try again repentance and Faith you try again it's nobody's
28:21 asking you to go to a reverend father and confess your sexual sins to them no what they asking you to do is if you
28:28 you're truly possessed of the spirit of God when you commit sin you will have true Contrition you'll be able to repent
28:35 and you'll be able to stand up again and try again and you try again and you try again until you gain Victory and someday
28:42 you'll gain Victory you look back and you realize that ah so this was how I used to be of course you now go on to
28:49 help other people who are having those struggles I hear so many people who get
28:54 into sexual sins and rather than admit to their failures they begin to make excuses uh some of them even blame other
29:01 people some of them try to you know change the subject and push the excuse
29:07 to other people such people are not they are not even born again that's the truth of the matter okay if you have failed
29:14 sexually you should simply repent before the Lord there will be consequences for
29:20 your for your sin and when those consequences come face them gently
29:26 honorably as a Christian admit you failed okay and you're sorry about it

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VBCampaign:
In this video, Pastor Deji Yesufu, minister at Providence Reformed Baptist Church Ibadan, situated at the University of Ibadan, talks about the sensitive subject of masturbation. He proffers biblical solutions to it.

Below, is also an article on the subject.

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Transcript
Follow along using the below transcript.

0:00 ... and so when we live in uncleanness when we live either in sexual immorality or masturbation or all sorts we are
0:06 dishonoring the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is grieved so we must know how to
0:11 possess our vessel in sanctification and on you must know it if you're truly possessed of the spirit of God when you
0:17 commit sin you will have true Contrition you'll be able to repent and you'll be able to stand up again and try again and
0:24 you try again and you try again until you gain Victory I'm coming to appreciate the fact that there are there
0:30 is such a thing as generational changes that is to say something that a former
0:36 generation experience and had challenges with a latter generation will not this
0:42 present generation of young people are coming um face to face with uh
0:49 challenges in life that I personally think is going to be rather overwhelming
0:54 and um if they do not find a way of dealing with it it's going to swim them up and probably
1:00 some of them will be dead long before they reach adult life if they do not deal with these things uh when we were
1:07 growing up I was born about the time when the HIV and AIDS was uh discovered
1:13 you know and we grew up to that but the generation before that didn't even experience HIV AIDS so that means that
1:20 they could be as promiscuous as they want they would not catch the disease we did not do such a thing okay uh today I
1:27 want to talk about a very sensitive top topic I've written about it but I still felt that I should make a video for
1:33 those who do not read they can watch the video and probably benefit from the subject I want to talk about
1:40 masturbation uh is a very very sensitive one and because it is quite sensitive I
1:46 am not going to begin with my opinion rather I'm going to try to see uh State
1:51 exactly what the Bible says about it before I go into it I'm going to use masturbation as a a topic to cover all
1:59 kinds of sexual sin and then I'm going to try as much as possible to allow the Bible to speak first before I begin to
2:05 give my opinion on the matter Paul the Apostle writing to the Thessalonians in
2:11 the first in his first Epistles to them chapter 4 verse1 reads and I quote
2:17 finally then brethren we urge and exalt you in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more just as you have
2:24 received from us how you ought to walk and please God for you know what
2:30 Commandments we give you through the Lord Jesus Christ verse three for this
2:35 is the will of God your sanctification that you should abstain from sexual
2:41 immorality that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in
2:47 sanctification and honor not in passions of lust like the Gentiles who do not
2:53 know God that no one should take advantage and the FR his brother in this
2:58 manner because the Lord is the Avenger of all such as we as we also fored you
3:04 and testified verse 7 for God did not call us to un cleaness but in Holiness
3:10 therefore he who rejects this does not reject man but God who has also giv us
3:16 his holy spirit so I'm just going to take a very quick overview of each of the verses that we cover starting from
3:23 verse three Paul the Apostle is saying that if you do not know what the will of God is please know it now the will of
3:30 God is your sanctification and then it goes on to say that you should know how to abstain
3:35 from sexual immorality there is a sense Paul is trying to compare sanctification
3:42 with abstinence from sexual immorality he's saying the sense that if you're going to grow in sanctification you must
3:49 know how to deal with this subject of sex okay if you do not know how to
3:54 possess your vessel in sanctification you haven't begun to grow in in sanctification it appears that
4:02 sanctification increase in sanctification is uh synonymous or yeah
4:08 synonymous with increase in knowing how to deal with the issue of sexual
4:14 immorality verse four that each of you would know how to possess his own vessel
4:19 in sanctification and honor I remember in my University days I saw this scripture and what actually came out to
4:26 me very clearly then was know it that was what came to to me I believe that's what the Holy Spirit put in mind he said
4:32 know it know how to deal with this thing in the sense that for the rest of your life you're going to be learning how to
4:39 know it you're going to know it what will trigger it in you will be different from what will trigger it in others so
4:45 the important thing is know this thing know how to possess your body Your
4:50 Vessel in sanctification and honor why did he put honor in it it means that the
4:56 people who do not uh the people who do not live in SE I mean sexual Purity are
5:02 actually dishonoring their bodies and eventually they going to face dishonor in life okay those who know how to deal
5:09 with it are living honorable that each of you should know it know this thing
5:15 okay it is no knowledge all right you must possess knowledge so by all find
5:20 the article that I've written study it possess knowledge watch the video get some insight and also from other people
5:27 also know how to possess Your Vessel in sanctification and honor not in the
5:33 passions of lost like the Gentiles who do not know God H if there was such a thing as Gentiles who did not know God
5:41 in the days when Paul was writing this letter it was I mean sexual immorality was so rampant uh all over the Roman
5:48 world all over we can't even begin everything that our generation experienced now or even more they
5:55 experience worse in those days okay the only thing of course they didn't have is that God had not begun to send the
6:00 judgment of diseases on them in those days but they had all kinds and of course they had some diseases too they
6:07 had syphilis they had uh gonorrhoea they had all of those things too okay. Verse six that
6:13 no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter
6:18 because the Lord is the Avenger of all such as we also for you and testify
6:23 what's Paul saying here he's saying that there is nothing worse than a person
6:29 leaving his own wife and going to take another person's wife and sleeping with
6:34 him says there's nothing what it says that if there is something God is going to deal with himself that is's not going
6:40 to wait to Hell he's going to deal with it in this life it is such a thing such
6:45 adulterous uh relationship and the truth of the matter is that every sexual immorality is adultery every because
6:53 you're either sleeping with somebody who is the wife of somebody else or you're sleeping with somebody somebody who is
6:59 going to be the wife of somebody else so every is and God will avenge it okay so
7:05 it says that it's a terrible thing please separate yourself from such because if you defra a brother brother
7:12 sleep with somebody else's wife God is going to deal with you himself directly
7:17 verse 7even for God did not call us to uncleanness but to Holiness or in Holiness what's he talking about here is
7:24 talking about masturbation okay masturbation is uncleanness is sin it is
7:30 uncleanness and he's saying God did not call us to such a lifestyle God has called us to what called us in Holiness
7:37 therefore he who rejects this does not reject man but God who has given us his holy spirit why does he mention the Holy
7:44 Spirit here because when it comes to sexual sin the first I mean the first
7:49 thing that is Dishonored is our body and our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit lives in our body
7:56 and so when we live in uncleanness when we live either in sexual morality or masturbation or all sorts we dishonoring
8:04 the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is gried so we must know how to possess our
8:10 vessel in sanctification and on you must know it you must know it it's possible
8:17 that you may some of the Insight I will share here might not be what will even be helpful for you it may just be
8:22 something that you just get you must know it know your trigger points separate from them okay so before we go
8:28 on the first point of C that I've been trying to make over and over or which maybe you may have missed because I
8:35 didn't emphasize it enough is this the mustabation is a sin that's it plain and
8:40 simple it is a sin we're in a time when all kinds of psychologists have come out and they talked about the fact that
8:46 masturbation is good for your body is all kind of studies they continue to do that the truth of the matter is that
8:52 masturbation is a sin masturbation is having sex with yourself okay and it is
8:58 sinful it is is uncleanness all right and it must be repented of it must uh we
9:05 must do everything by the power of the Holy Spirit to overcome it okay like I said I'm doing this video because
9:12 because of counseling young people and being exposed to certain information as a pastor I've come to realize that it is
9:19 a masturbation is a stronghold a serious thing in our time and um it is just the
9:25 Bedrock of so much uh other sexual sins that people can lead on to okay so if you
9:32 deal with masturbation and you know how to possess your vessel in sanctification
9:37 and honor then you can be sure that uh by the mercies of God you begin to know
9:43 how to live and increase in true sanctification of life like we have seen
9:48 uh earlier that sanctification and handling the issue of sexual immorality
9:53 work hand in hand the more we are able to deal with our sexual passion the more
9:58 we increase in our sanctification and as I go on perhaps I should also mention this and
10:05 that is that the Christian the Christian when I talk about the Christian I'm talking about somebody who has been
10:12 genuinely Born Again born of the Holy Spirit okay uh perhaps I should even say
10:17 straight away that like I mentioned in my article that it is possible for you to be born again genuinely converted and
10:25 still be having challenges with masturbation and still be having challenges with um sexual sin it is
10:33 possible very very possible and that's the reason why I'm making the video that the Lord will give to us Grace to be
10:39 able to overcome every kind of sexual sin okay so let's note this that the
10:45 Christian has been delivered from the consequences of sin that's the blessing
10:51 of the cross a person who has been genuinely converted by the power of the
10:56 Holy Spirit has been delivered from the concept consquences of sin what is the
11:01 consequence of sin death what is death in its real form death is eternal
11:07 separation from God death is eternal destruction in Hell okay so as many who
11:14 are genuinely Born Again born by the spirit of God they will not go to hell
11:20 they have been delivered from the consequences of sin they have been
11:26 delivered from the consequences of sin the challenge however is that many have
11:32 not been delivered from the power of sin okay while they have been delivered from
11:37 the consequences of sin we have not been totally delivered from the power of sin
11:43 and we are going to use the rest of our Christian Life to be delivered from the
11:48 power of sin okay so uh it's the same way with what they call even the
11:54 masturbation if masturbation is sin then the Christian will not go to hell for for committing masturbation okay or even
12:03 any sexual sin that's the truth the true Christian would not however God calls
12:08 every true Christian to be delivered from the power of sin the power of masturbation and every other sexual uh
12:17 iniquity okay so it is the whole process of going from bondage to sin or bondage
12:23 from in the power of sin to Total Deliverance that we want to discuss about in this uh in this video okay the
12:31 Christian Life will consist of battle with sin that's it that's it um there
12:37 are people there are all kinds of theological perspective you know um the Deep alive people teach and the Holiness
12:43 movement wesan they teach that uh you actually get some kind of sanctification
12:48 or that two types of baptism in the Holy Spirit the first one gives you speaking in tongu the second one delivers you
12:54 from the power of sin okay fortunately or unfortunately I've not any of them
13:00 that has been delivered totally from the power of sin except they want to deceive themselves as long as we live on this
13:06 Earth we will sin that's what first uh John chap 1 verse 7-10 says we we we
13:12 will sin okay and God has made provision for the place of repentance and Faith so
13:18 the Christian Life will consist of fighting battle with sin battle with sin
13:25 so they are going to because it's battle in every word they are numbers of battle okay so there will be
13:32 times of Victory there will be times of losses okay so in the time when you have
13:37 victory over your sin you rejoice you give praises to the Lord at a time when
13:43 you lose the battle over your sin what do you do you repent and receive Grace
13:48 from the Holy Spirit to continue uh the battle another thing I want to note is that the Christian Life will require a
13:55 comprehension of Christ's victory over sin and death now when you read um the letters of Paul
14:02 the apostles his letters are usually divided into two the first part deals with what God has done for us through
14:09 Christ Jesus the second part deals with this subject sanctification so if Jesus
14:15 has done this for us then we should go on to serve the Lord in spirit all right
14:20 in this in Holiness and so on that's how usually his letters come so there is a
14:25 need many times for us to understand what Jesus Christ has done for the
14:31 Christian what has Jesus Christ done for the Christian ladies and gentlemen let me uh lead us into um a scripture is a
14:38 scripture that I pray every day using as an opportunity to bless the Lord okay

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IVYWonder9:
Do you know that some scientists have continued to question the authenticity of the Omniscience status of God due to some Bible Verses... For more info...
https://theskynow.com/2024/02/15/bible
-verses-that-make-god-not-omniscient-to-scientist/

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VBCampaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgRYWeEyaYE?si=nal57Ef4CK8DHJSR

“Breath of Life”: A Review by Deji Yesufu

... in summary the story line was original and very moving. It was a captivating story. Having established the positives, I move to a few negative and this would explain the reason I am giving the movie a generally low grading – see the final paragraphs for the movie’s score.

... My first criticism of the movie is the simplistic ending that was provided to it. Whoever wrote the story line of Anna (Umeh) coming into the room of Elijah (Imo) did an excellent job. That situation triggering his asthma and then leading him into the hospital was well thought out. I however do not think that it is realistic for a hardened atheist (Timi) to suddenly give up his philosophy of life and then lay down his life for another to live. It is something a Christian may do; but I do not see a hardened atheist doing such. That line was rather simplistic. I think if the screenwriters had taken their time, they would have successfully provided a link between the young man’s health challenge and recovery without employing those simplistic lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlpunOUxYSo
Tyler Perry’s Acrimony (2018 Movie) Official Trailer
– actress Taraji P. Henson

'Breath Of Life' is a nice movie, it has its fair share of mushy scenes. Gave me teary eyes, each time Timi was having his grieving and agonising moments.

This life sha, but nahin (i.e. the young Timi, real name Ademola Adedoyin) cause am nah, had nothing at all to do with God, and so was wrong for the older Timi (i.e. real name Wale Ojo, the main star of the movie) to have been blaming God for his error of judgment and fatal miscalculations.

Timi knew he'll be snitching, so wisdom, if he had listened, would have told him to shift his missus and daughter and move them to a safe place like Lagos, to be done well in advance, and in the time but not after the court judgment that he was doing

I am of the mind, that how his family was kpai was limp and lacklustre. Even the way, young Timi was tied up and tortured, didnt invoke a sense of the use of the imagination with plot.

Anna, (i.e. real name Genoveva Umeh) hmm, good acting skills, good figure, fair share of skimpy dresses, confident in her own skin enough to go swimming in the river. Wasnt sure of the reason for the nude silhouette portrait on the wall though. She's the feisty heroine in the movie, she stood up for herself to almost everyone in the movie, mum, dad, older Timi, even Elijah. Elijah would have been a goner, if not for God and her

Elijah (i.e. Chimezie Imo) really isnt a young new discovery, as the fella has been sharpening his craft as far back as 2018. Elijah, just makes me laugh, any small thing triggers his 'asthma' and you'll see him hyperventilate then fiam, see him pull out his inhaler

Bodi nobi firewood, pastor too wan go heaven, pastor too wan reach cloud nine. Was just a matter of time before the brief kisses, even Timi had set the stage, by questioning whats wrong kissing and all, especially if both parties know they are going to be an item for life et cetera.

I am trying to be impartial as possible and so dont really want to put a downer of the movie but has to be said that the trailers overhyped the movie. Put it this way, sensationalism trailers.

'Breath Of Life', lessons to be learned from watching the movie are:
1. Think everything through all over and all over again, before taking decisions
2. There is the principle of causality to contend with
3. God is omni-in-control (i.e. never out of control, never lose control)
4. The stool always stays behind at home for the bum to come sit on it (i.e. older Timi, soon realised this and duly made his comeback to God)
5. The movie 'Breath Of Life', reminds me of Zacchaeus and the tree planted well in advance to be put into use by Zacchaeus in his time of desperate need.
6. Know (i.e. with great confidence) that God (i.e. who is deeply concerned about us) causes all things to work together (i.e. as a plan) for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose (i.e. The N49M, the return back to God of Timi, the prodigal son, then the giving up of lungs and et cetera)
7. Every storm is not a test from God. Some tests are from the choices we make

'Breath Of Life' movie is in a league of its own, so I wouldnt necessarily want to rate it with a same standard of rating the movie 'Acrimony' by Tyler Perry, so while as for Acrimony, I'll score it 97%, I'll score 'Breath Of Life' with 61%.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

AntiChristian:
1. Who exactly is YHWH or YHVH?

YHWH or YHVH aka Yahweh & Jehovah is God

AntiChristian:
2. Is YHWH Jesus, the Son and the Holy Ghost? Or is YHWH solely the Father?

Yes to all the above, on a micro level its akin to AntiChristian being a son, a husband, a father, a brother, an employer or employee et cetera, this thread even is AntiChristian too

AntiChristian:
3. If the son-Jesus is YHWH, why does He never identify himself as such?

Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest tore his robes [in mock horror] and exclaimed,
“He has blasphemed [by making Himself God’s equal]!
What further need have we of witnesses or evidence?
See, you have now heard the blasphemy.

He did identify Himself as such, even the Pharisee who are Far-I- See knew this to be a fact, hence they had Him arrested then brought Him to trial with this charge. (i.e. the Pharisees had been trying to cook His goose as far back or early as the John 8:57-59 incident, to just mention that one alone)

The Pharisees were conversant with the law and the writings of the Old Testament, and were quick to know that from certain words and phraseologies Jesus often and regularly used that He was divulging info about Himself being God

AntiChristian:
Despite this problem/ confusion as to who YHWH actually is, another issue has arisen. According to 2 Corinthians 12:4, the inexpressible name of YHWH is actually a man made name, derived to substitute the loss of the real name of God.

150% correct, only that YHWH even isnt a name

AntiChristian:
Yes, Christians and Jews do not really know the name of God.

You can say this again, because God, has an actual name outside of YHWH or YHVH aka Yahweh & Jehovah, that God simply was used to identify and tell about Himself

AntiChristian:
How can you call people to Christianity, if you don’t actually know who God is?

No one in the first place or from the beginning was called to anything called Christianity

AntiChristian:
NOTE
If YHWH is both 3 and also one distinct person – at the same time – then where is this indicated in the Old Testament? Since YHWH is not found in the New Testament (as the Christian God did not known how to represent His name in His Greek revelation).

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel:
Our God YHWH
—YHWH [is] one!.

John 10:30
I and my Father
We are One.

The Lord our God is one, so what's the problem with YHWH is both 3 and also one distinct person – at the same time.
Is Allah unable to be both 3 and also one distinct person – at the same time?
Has Allah a limitation of not being able to be whoever and whatever Allah needs to be at any time t?

AntiChristian:
Similarly, Jesus in the New Testament does not call himself YHWH and the Holy Spirit does not call itself YHWH, nor does the YHWH of the Old Testament identify itself as Jesus, Immanuel or as Mal’ak YHWH, but simply as YHWH.[/b]

Exodus 6:3
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob (Israel) as God Almighty [El Shaddai],
but by My name, (i.e. Shem, meaning a name even fame) YHWH, I did not make Myself known to them [in acts and great miracles].

No one can show from the Bible of God to the question about what God’s name is, Him, say YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH is His name

Fact is, God never called Himself YHWH as an actual, true nor personal name of His

Why would the Holy Spirit need to or have to call itself YHWH?
Does your tendency to given to ineptitude arguing call itself by your name AntiChristian

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NNTR:
I am not into time wasters, which is what the other two joker fellas with their infantile games are.

I gratefully welcome post(s) and mention(s) from anyone who is interested in knowing how YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH isnt and never was God's true and personal name, and fearlessly ready to provide their answers to the below questions.

Answering those questions, is my cue, to set the ball rolling with explanations

1. Extensively tell who and what you are (e.g. I am Joe Bloggs. I am a fictitious male specimen of a human being. I am one with an enquiry mind et cetera)
2. Whats your name?
3. Give a 5 sentences bio about yourself
4. Tell what YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH means.

1. Pronounce or vocalise YHWH?
2a. What does 'Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh' mean?
2b. What does JEHOVAH mean?
3. What to your best understanding is God's true and personal name is
4. Where did Moses tell the Israelites what God's true and personal name is?
5. Where and when did Jesus incontrovertibly state what God's true and personal name is?

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Re: My God Is Not Done With You. by NNTR: 11:48am On Jun 10
https://www.nairaland.com/8116133/god-not-done/2#130397117

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

VBCampaign:
𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗜𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

By: 𝑫𝒆𝒋𝒊 𝒀𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒖

James 1:20
for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God
[that standard of behavior which He requires from us].

Anger has it justifiable place and time, holy anger the more.

Our Lord and Saviour of the whole wide world, Yahshua HaMashiach was hurt by seeing the temple being heavily commercialised, (i.e. turned the house of prayer into a den of robbers) but controlled His anger by shooing them all out

I for one, believe that no one should be taught never to be or never get angry, but be better taught, how to be angry, learn not how to react, but learn how to respond, as anger in the wrong hands, with it being one letter short of danger, can spell bad news

When a mosquito lands on the testicles, no need for advising, that there is always a way to solve certain problems without using anger and violence.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

I am not into time wasters, which is what the other two joker fellas with their infantile games are.

I gratefully welcome post(s) and mention(s) from anyone who is interested in knowing how YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH isnt and never was God's true and personal name, and fearlessly ready to provide their answers to the below questions.

Answering those questions, is my cue, to set the ball rolling with explanations

1. Extensively tell who and what you are (e.g. I am Joe Bloggs. I am a fictitious male specimen of a human being. I am one with an enquiry mind et cetera)
2. Whats your name?
3. Give a 5 sentences bio about yourself
4. Tell what YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH means.

1. Pronounce or vocalise YHWH?
2a. What does 'Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh' mean?
2b. What does JEHOVAH mean?
3. What to your best understanding is God's true and personal name is
4. Where did Moses tell the Israelites what God's true and personal name is?
5. Where and when did Jesus incontrovertibly state what God's true and personal name is?

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Why dont you both go book a room in a motel, and go jack each other off there

Two indecisive grown up males scared of answering safe, gentle, harmless, inoffensive and not aggressive questions

Why would youse mention me, if you are not giving answers to the questions asked.

Anyways, if anyone is interested in knowing how YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH isnt and never was God's true and personal name, then first provide your answers to the below questions.

Answering those questions, is my cue, to set the ball rolling with explanations

1. Extensively tell who and what you are (e.g. I am Joe Bloggs. I am a fictitious male specimen of a human being. I am one with an enquiry mind et cetera)
2. Whats your name?
3. Give a 5 sentences bio about yourself
4. Tell what YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH means.

1. Pronounce or vocalise YHWH?
2a. What does 'Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh' mean?
2b. What does JEHOVAH mean?
3. What to your best understanding is God's true and personal name is
4. Where did Moses tell the Israelites what God's true and personal name is?
5. Where and when did Jesus incontrovertibly state what God's true and personal name is?

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Luke 9:54
And His disciples James and John having seen, said,
“Lord, will You [that] we may command fire to come down from Heaven,
and to consume them, as Elijah also did?”

Here we goat again

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Michael547:
When you are ready to explain, let me know.

I would be ready after you've got the frame of mind to play ball.

Didnt I tell you to please dont bother mentioning me again, if you cant bring yourself to first answer those four questions, as seen below?

1. Extensively tell who and what you are (e.g. I am Michael547. I am a male specimen of a human being. I am one with an enquiry mind et cetera)
2. Whats your name?
3. Give a 5 sentences bio about yourself
4. Tell what YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH means.

Thunder fire anyone that mentions and quotes me after they are warned not to, escape clause from the thunder fire, is to bring self to first answer those four questions, as seen above

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Michael547:
Oga you've not answered the questions I posed to you from the verses I quoted...
i've asked you to explain the verses.

Michael547 beloved, you're asking to have the cart put before the horse.

If you really need me to answer the questions you posed to me from the verses that you quoted, take it that, it is up to you to make the next move (i.e. the ball's in your court beloved)

You know what to do that will get me to humbly explain the question based on the posed verses

Please dont bother mentioning me again, if you havent the frame of mind to play ball.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Michael547:
Why not just refer those questions to yourself and make your point?

Michael547 beloved, the answers have to come from you. I dont want to misrepresent you

It is a two way participation exercise, where you take part, in answering the questions yourself first, then my turn, gives me the opportunity to easily move on to the next stage, using your answers to the questions in making the point with and show how YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH isnt and never was God's true and personal name

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}

Michael547:
Oga just rest since you don't have any superior arguments against the verses I showed you.

Michael547 beloved, to start with I dont do arguments, talkless do superior arguments. One can never win an argument with ignorance, so I deal with barefaced facts, truth and reality as is exactly what is the case on here about whether God's true and personal name is known to any human being

Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance (i.e. yours et al ignorance). Your ignorance cannot be enlightened through argument

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner (i.e. you). Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater (i.e. you). Your ignorance hates knowledge because it is true. Your ignorance fears giving answer to questions because it knows it will get exposed. Ignorance holds back understanding and so limits enlightenment

The taste of the pudding is in the eating. Try and answer below question and see if the explanations with aha moments, wont break into a fast and furious enlightenment gallop

Lets give it a go, shall we, using you as a test case. I'll give you start-up example with #1 question
1. Extensively tell who and what you are (e.g. I am Michael547. I am a male specimen of a human being. I am one with an enquiry mind et cetera)
2. Whats your name?
3. Give a 5 sentences bio about yourself
4. Tell what YHWH aka Yahweh or even JEHOVAH means.

_{Personal text: Jesus is not a theologian. He is God who told stories.}