WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT JEWELRIES

Did the bible or God at any point condemn people who use jewelries?

There are subjects I don’t discuss because I consider them as a distraction; they add nothing neither do they really deprive us of anything as believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. yet, satan and the enemies of the Church have exploited such subjects to create further confusion among followers of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This subject has often raised heated arguments for those who support and those who oppose use of jewelries.

The views of those who oppose use of jewelries

When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments. For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.'" So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb Ex 33:4-6NIV

This is the main scripture those who oppose the use of jewelries quote in their defense. They suggest that in this scripture God meant to say that it was those jewelries that made them sin by making idols. According to them, from that point God condemned the use of jewelries and declared it an abomination.

Some of them also quote the following scripture,

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. Gen 35:4NIV

They opined that Jacob also declared that jewels were abomination to God.

They also quote the following scripture to support their position

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear 1 Peter 3:3-6NIV

They refer to the above scripture to prove that the New Testament condemns the use jewels.

The points for those in support of use of jewels. 

If we want to be truthful about Exodus 33, we must take that scripture before Chapter 33, and then we will see that it was God that gave them the favour that brought those jewels. 

"And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians." Ex 3:21-22NIV

The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36 The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians. Ex 12:35-36NIV

We must also accept the fact that the bible was very specific about the reason that they took off their jewels at one point. It was in the process of mourning for the judgment that they had brought on themselves that God asked them to take off the jewels as sign of punishment. That scripture said that they were already taking it off before God asked them to remove them. 

When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments. For the Lord had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go with you even for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments and I will decide what to do with you.'" So the Israelites stripped off their ornaments at Mount Horeb Ex 33:4-6NIV

After this point, there is no scriptural indication that God proclaimed jewels or ornaments an abomination, rather we see in the subsequent chapters that God asked them to use the same jewels in His service

Moses said to the whole Israelite community, "This is what the Lord has commanded: From what you have, take an offering for the Lord. Everyone who is willing is to bring to the Lord an offering of gold, silver and bronze; blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows; acacia wood; olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece Ex 35:4-9NIV

From this scripture we can see that they still had some jewels in their custody after what happened earlier. God never proclaimed jewels an abomination in this place or any other place in the bible.

In fact, God referred to Himself as the jewelry of His people

Does a maiden forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number Jer 2:32NIV

If jewels were so offensive to God, I am very sure that He would not have referred to Himself as an abomination. Instead, we see in other scriptures that God boasted about decorating His people with jewels

"'I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you. I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments. I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck, and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was fine flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. Ezek 16:9-13NIV

True bible position about jewels.

It is difficult to prove that God hates jewels or sees them as abomination without perverting the bible; ant that is what those opponents of jewelries do. 1peter3:3-6 does not in any way condemn the use of jewelries. The statement is like when somebody tells a pastor, “What makes you a pastor should not be your suit or clerical robes. Rather you must imbibe the discipline of a true man of God”.

 It will be totally wrong to conclude that the statement implies that suits or clerical robes are wrong.

Apostle Paul expressed this view somewhere else

I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God 1 Tim 2:9-10NIV

The right word is expressed here; modesty. Not exorbitant or wasteful or extravagant in their dress manner. 

This scripture brings in something else; braided hair. Some theological school of thought argue that women should not dress their hair beyond use of hair thread. This also is not from scripture. Those who argue against “attachment” ought to know that the hair thread is made from the same petroleum materials as the “attachment”. Though there are cultures where people groom their hairs for sale. This is a matter of choice. If one is not comfortable with them, it is wrong to turn it into doctrinal issue,

Some even link it to jezebel; I am often shocked when I read servants of God mutilating scriptures to score their point.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not see an ornament or jewelries as a bad thing. In the parable of the prodigal son, here is the way He described the reception that his father gave to him and I hope that you remember that this is a type of the heavenly Father.

"But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. Luke 15:22-23NIV

“.. the best robe ... ring on his fingers, sandals on his feet and plenty of meat”, and that is for those who think a good worshiper of God will not eat meat.

In describing the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven, read this;

The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass. Rev 21:19-21NIV 

See the different kinds of precious stones presented in connection with God’s agenda for the Church and the coming kingdom. All these are presented in a positive light.

My position with regard to such matters is in the words of Apostle Paul;

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. Rom 14:1-3NIV

Indecent dressing is totally unacceptable. My father was a missionary when women come to church with only leaves across their private parts and their breast. Yet, it was never reported that he raped a woman. If we have problem with our flesh, we should ask God for grace, rather than attack the opposite sex. 

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02 - WHEN YOUR BACKGROUND WANTS TO PUT YOUR BACK ON THE GROUND

 Serious Christians Only 

(Continued teaching)

When Your Background Wants to Put Your Back on the Ground. 2

Is there a right and wrong way to carryout Family or Land Liberation?

Even though a section of Christian opinion holders try to deny it, the truth remains that our backgrounds or Family Trees have effect on our everyday living. Just as we have discovered in the volume 1 of this teaching, the Old and New Testament of the bible support this position.

In the fields of medical practice and criminology, this factor is referred to as predisposition. That is why a doctor would ask a patient, “Is there a history of mental illness in your family line?” or “Has anyone in your family died from heart-attack?” In criminology, when detectives are going after someone with criminal records, they study his kind of crime and they are able to tell the kind of places he is likely to go to. History has shown that it does not take experienced policemen much time to track the criminal.

In the spiritual space, we find these factors like driving forces moving their victims in the kind of choices they make and manipulate their environment to bring them to the predetermined end. The following scripture paints a perfect picture;

To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father's hardships." So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli. 1 Kings 2:26-27NIV

There was a political power play in the palace and Abiathar took sides with one group and his group lost out. That resulted in Abiathar losing his place as the chief priest of Israel and he lost spiritual and political relevance in the nation. Because of his previous faithfulness in the days he served David faithfully, he was spared from death. For an onlooker it would appear that all that was life but the bible quickly added that this was the result of some driving forces that exploited everyone and everything to achieve the fulfilment of the word of God spoken against the family line of Abiathar. (1 Sam. 2:30-36).

This is not always in the negative light. 

When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases." Matt 8:16-17NIV

The people of those days did not know that as they carried their sick ones to run in the direction of the Lord Jesus Christ, they were driven by a prophetic timeline.

The deliverance ministry is focused on fulfilling this call of the Lord Jesus Christ;

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matt 11:28-30NIV

That is why we are preoccupied with the negative side of this pull.

It is always heartbreaking when a believer discovers that he is still struggling with invisible forces in life. In such cases, it is observed that it takes much effort to make any meaningful achievement. In some cases the believer observes that even though he has assurance of salvation, his father’s house or community is struggling with some curses that won’t let them advance.

There are those who teach that once we are saved, devil flees away. You won’t be able to find biblical backing for that view, both in the New and Old Testament

"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land 2 Chron 7:13-14NIV

Yet, there are those who believe that there is still need for family or community liberation and have carried out several prayers in that direction, yet they don’t feel the impact. Hence the question, “Is there a right and wrong way to carry out family liberation?”

Many occasions I have been confronted with this question and I am always at a loss on what is the best way to answer the question. My concern is on two accounts; I don’t want to be seen as condemning other ministers on one hand but I don’t also want to give my audience false hope.

The perfect truth is that unless you break the covenants, the covenants and their effect remain. Family liberation is a covenant issue and unless they are handled that way, the process is wrong and the result cannot be same as when it is done the right way

1996 I headed the destruction of our traditional Ofor stool. Most people believed that I will not live long to tell the story. They felt that I was too young to attempt such. Older believers in my community fled the community because they did not want to witness the consequence of my “stupidity”. Well, three years after, the whole community came to invite me to destroy the community shrine. That was done on 31st December 1999. I wish to give God all the glory because there was no casualty on both occasions. I said this because we have heard of accounts where terrible things happened after family liberation like sudden death of the family or community head or the case where the ministers that went for the exercise died by daybreak

This kind of terrible report has spread fear such that some communities won’t want to attempt to destroy their shrines and idolatrous altars. Like I have mentioned in many of my writings, the oldest altar owns the land and controls the territory. That is why God will tell the Israelites to spare no shrine or altar in the land they were going to possess. When the Israelites disobeyed this instruction, the Lord was not happy because He was sure that the people will most likely lose their devotion to Him.

 In milder cases the people observed that there was no difference after they have destroyed the shrine and have done some prayers in spite of all the money that was spent to bring the deliverance team.

On the other hand, there are great results when it was carried out the proper way. There was the case when a mad man in the family suddenly regained sanity after the family liberation. We have instances when missing members of the family suddenly returned and fortunes of the family or community just turned for the better. In my community, the only upstairs building before the exercise was built with mud but after the liberation, we now have state of the art structures. In some cases people are liberated in to their marriages and God ordained destinies. There are instances when witches and wizards begin to confess and die.

By the above statements I intend to say that there are right and wrong ways to carry out family and land liberation. The text scripture supports my opinion. To understand this very well, you need to think of marriage covenant. Until a man follows due process to divorce his wife, she remains his wife and any other relationship is adultery. I mean this by legal terms and as a Christian bible view point. In the law court you can’t just tell the magistrate that the reason you want to send your wife away is because you want to marry another woman. 

The first thing is to pin point the reason for the liberation and that is what will determine whether you just need some prayer warriors to come and pray for your family or you need a professional team that understand the language of the land

The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. Deut 21:5NIV

Not every kind of court handles divorce matters but only the customary court. As in this case, there are ministers with the apostolic anointing to deal with matters and I have observed that the land and forces of nature hear them. It is sad to state hear that some see land liberation as money making venture and jump at it. Not a few of such people have complicated their lives in the process. There are also false prophets who just get involved to exploit people to make financial gains. These form greater number of those who have died as a result of entering into spiritual conflicts with demonic powers. Remember the sons of Sceva in Acts19:13-. 

It is also necessary to point out that there are people who want “fast-food” deliverance processes. The “money-man” of the family is coming in from Germany and will return the next day after the liberation, so everybody is obeying him because of his money. Nobody has fasted and no proper preparation has been made. When they consult people like me, we demand that they calm down and deal with issues but they are not interested. So they look for those that will give it to them fast. In some cases, the “money-man” dies after the exercise or some kind of bad news is heard. Then the family begins to blame God or the deliverance team

Humility: Family liberation calls for humility of heart; it should not be an effort to make things to start working well for the family but a process for the family to break free from ungodly ties with satan and terminate the powers of evil covenants that provoke curses and divine judgment on the people. The people should therefore not concern themselves only with the material gains that will follow but on the spiritual warfare ahead. We have instances where drug dealers and international prostitutes call for family liberation because they want things to get better in their sin businesses. Unfortunately they find fake deliverance ministers who are willing to offer it to them. I have met instances where family members don’t want to reconcile with their kinsmen and they want me to liberate their land from evil covenants and curses. When we insisted on the right thing, they turn away and go to those that are willing to give it their way. We have cases where a man threw away his legally wedded wife and when we insisted that he was wrong, he went to a “powerful prophet” who went to uproot fake charms from the land. There are cases when after they had destroyed those charms somebody runs mad.

There must be period of fasting and humble submission to God before family liberation.

There are proper ways to break curses and covenant especially if those curses are generational. Destroying the material shrines is not as important as the processes. There were definite terms that established the shrines or that brought in the negative situations, hence it is important to understand divinely established principles to destroy them.

I discussed these in detail in two of my books, CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED TO FAMILY TREE and COVENANTS: HOW THEY AFFECT PEOPLE

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WHEN YOUR BACKGROUND WANTS TO PUT YOUR BACK ON THE GROUND 1

Why believers may need Family or Land liberation

Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters." Isa 23:4NIV

In this scripture we are presented with the declaration of a particular geographic location, and it spoke shame and emptiness. My reader, this is the kind of voice speaking into the life of some people. These spiritual generational voices argue against their citizens when such citizens aspire to move beyond what they permit. Spirits from some of these backgrounds insist on backwardness and that is why members of these families or communities who venture in to exalted political office positions are suddenly disqualified. In some cases, they hate western civilization and so when their citizen venture going to Europe or the USA they are repeatedly denied visa. In some cases they want an aspiring medical doctor to serve them in a shrine by the waterside as a witchdoctor.

My prayer is that any of such voices pulling you back will be silenced in Jesus’ name.

It was 2003 on my way to Togo that a servant of God whom I met in Lagos State, Nigeria asked me to return to my home town and deal with my roots before crossing the border. At that time I used to make mockery of believers who believe that one’s family tree can hinder one’s development in life or ministry, but then circumstances around me compelled me to give it a try

Joy was suffering from a mysterious life threatening sickness that had defied all cures 

My second daughter had died only a year ago

My ministry was not finding direction

My marriage was as good as gone because my former church had convinced my wife that her sickness was the result of God punishing me because I left the church where my father had worked as a missionary. My father in the Lord was in agreement and asked me to abandon more than hundred members in Imo State to return to Onitsha, Anambra State.

Having been convinced, or rather confused, by them I returned to Owerri to pack up my things to head back to Onitsha, the Lord made me understand that He had not spoken to the prophets that advised us to go back to my mother church. He gave glaring proofs that He was with me. To be candid, that journey to Togo Republic was like running away from the crisis in my life and ministry, because Joy had taking sides with them as they told her that was the only way she could remain alive.

I obeyed the servant of God and more so because he offered me the bottle of oil free of charge. My mother who was gifted in vision was at Onitsha at the time. That night she told my sisters that I was in the village and was doing warfare prayers. She saw the demons and evil forces which I was dismantling.

This piece is not supposed to be a long write up, so I will leave the rest of the story for a bigger work.

Let me tell you some things about my background

My ancestors were warriors and warriors of those days resorted to many diabolic spiritual powers in their battles. To acquire those powers required making all manner of covenants with different spirits that gave them victory in wars. 

The good news is that I led my kinsman to destroy these ancient charms and shrines in 1996 and 1999 in a community liberation exercise. 

My father was among those who welcomed the gospel quite early and I saw at least two churches he planted. He was among early followers of Scripture Union Nigeria and he believed in the holiness doctrine. It is then surprising that he married four wives. The fact was that his first wife died mysterious after the birth of a son; the second wife was diabolic and for the sake of his life he sent her away but she also left a son behind; the third wife committed adultery and he had to send her away. My mother was the one that stayed with him till death.

My two stepbrothers who are late now were pushed into this kind of situation by the evil forces that affected our father. The first son married three wives in the same broken order as our father before he died leaving behind four underage children. My second stepbrother refused to send his wife away or adopt polygamy and he died leaving behind four underage children.

Joy’s sickness started after she had her first son. Even though by divine providence, unlike my father and stepbrothers, her first and second children were girls, the attack started when she had her first son.

This is to make you understand where the devil was pushing me to but I am a believer and a deliverance minister. I am the only one among my brothers who saw his grown up children and still living with my one and only wife. This is not because I am powerful but just by the grace of God.

I have another town’s man who rose to prominence in the gospel ministry but had a shameful fall. He fell into immorality, abandoned a flourishing ministry to go into politics. His ministry partners came from Canada and took him back by force. He returned after about five years and bounced back in the ministry. After a short time as a travel evangelist he went to be with the Lord. There was another one who was also heavily anointed and gifted in the knowledge of the word of God, but he too could not fly too high owing to these spiritual forces. I discovered that I was not the first to manifest the raw anointing power from my kinsmen but they often struggled and will end up woefully. Hence, I adopted some principles in my ministry to help me to prevail over such powers.

Let me stop thus far because more testimonies could hurt some people. Yet, I wish to let you know that unless you deal with your background it may force your back to the ground.

Our text speaks of the authoritative statement of THE VOICE OF THE SEA; this voice spoke shame and frustration on Tyre and Sidon and concluded to assert that 

"I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters." Isa 23:4NIV

I want to believe that Sidon was daring to advance to a particular higher level and the authority from his background said something like,

“Sidon, are you crazy? How can you ever imagine that you can go thus far? Have you ever heard that any of your brothers or sisters or even your ancestors ever attempted that? Sidon, your lot in life is shame and bareness”

If I were you I will cry, “God forbid!”

Owing to the fact that we still live in this world and we wear the human flesh, there are some factors that are attached to your person even after you are born again. These factors both spiritual and physical like to assert themselves on you and whatever you do. I like to let you know that it will take a process to push out of these things. Here is what the Lord Jesus Christ said to some people – 

"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. Matt 12:33-36NIV

For some people it is to move from poverty to prosperity; for some, it is to move from illiterates to elites; for some it is to move from slaves to kings. The Lord Jesus Christ said that there is a making process for the family tree to shift thus. 

It could also be the result of a ripened generational punishment. What I mean is that people from their background had done terrible things like bloodshed, idolatry, witchcraft, slave trade, ritual killings, etc. and the present generation happens to be the ones whose turn it is to face the cumulative punishment resulting from generations of sin and wickedness. Here is what the Lord Jesus Christ said to his audience,

Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all. Luke 11:50-51NIV

Take note of the way the Message Bible put specific clarity to it;

What it means is that every drop of righteous blood ever spilled from the time earth began until now,. from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was struck down between altar and sanctuary, is on your heads. Yes, it's on the bill of this generation and this generation will pay. Luke 11:50-51. The Message Bible

To break free or terminate this kind of situation is what we refer to as, Family or Community Liberation or Covenant Breaking.

I discussed this in a broader sense in my books, 

1. Challenges Associated to the Family Tree

2. Covenants: How They Affect People

3. Naboth: Not My Portion

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WAS HE BAPTISED IN WATER?

 WAS HE BAPTISED IN WATER?

The condemned criminal that was on the cross with Jesus Christ; was he baptised in water? 

One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!" But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong."  Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:39-43NIV

The first question in the bible was asked by the devil and having witnessed how questions easily disorganize mankind, all through the ages he has continued to exploit it to confuse people. I don’t mean to say that asking questions is wrong but my point is that we ought to sound the spirit behind the question. Each time a movement will arise to attack the Church of Jesus Christ, they will start by raising doubt about the things we believe and they do this by raising questions. Unfortunately, these questions take the Church unprepared and while Christian leaders are scampering about in their confusion, the enemy has done the intended damage. Our congregants are already confused and attacking their leaders. Many souls have been lost because of this.

One of such questions that has been exploited is to condemn the practice of immersion baptism. The case of the condemned criminal who was crucified alongside the Lord Jesus Christ was used to question the justification of water baptism. The opponents of the Church doctrine of baptism argue that if immersion baptism were that important, why the Lord took the man directly to heaven without asking that he should be baptised first.

Let me first point out that The Lord reserves the sovereign will to take anyone to heaven without following the regular rules. Even in our country’s constitution, it is referred to as exceptions to the rule of law. Not long ago Joe Biden the president of America gave presidential pardon to some convicted criminals, which absorbed them from being punished for the said offences by any court in the USA. In the face of that there are still people serving jail terms for the same crimes. In the same way, the Lord could take anyone to heaven without immersion baptism or any other responsibility as required from Christians.

Having said that, we need to face the question, “Is it possible that the criminal in question was baptised in water?” Yes, if the Lord Himself demanded that believers should be baptised in water when they believed in Him, could it be that the man in question had been baptised? Mark16:15-16

On the surface, we could just say that it was not possible because the three men on the cross that day all died the same day. It was a capital punishment. However, let us allow the bible to answer this question.

The Tone of Familiarity.

There is what I refer to as a tone of familiarity in their discussion; that means that they all knew each other before they met on the cross of Calvary. If we consider the manner the two criminals addressed each other, there is no doubt that they knew each other before that day.

But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," he said, "since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve.

It is obvious that they undertook the same criminal venture for which they were being punished and it is possible that they were together in that same crime when they caught. When the second man spoke, the first criminal became silent and it is safe to conclude that his conscience pricked him and we are not told if he was led to repentance.

Let us now concentrate on the second criminal who is our object of discussion. 

He said something that suggests that he knew much about God, Jesus Christ and the truth.

But the other criminal rebuked him. "Don't you fear God," 

For the people of that age and especially among the Jews, this is a very strong word and not many religious people would use that phrase. If the Jewish leaders feared God, they would not have handed Jesus Christ over to be killed in exchange for Barabbas, who was a criminal. If they feared God they would not could up false charges against Him. The fear of God is beyond religion but a thing of purity of heart and devotion to God’s purpose.

Apostle had this to say about himself and his ministry team,

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 2 Cor 5:11NIV

As it is today, Apostle Paul pointed out that in those days the virtue of the fear of God was not common. Yet, the condemned criminal knew what it is to fear God.

His sense of judgment is another thing; unlike most men then and today, he had a sound sense of fair judgment. He never claimed innocence but accepted his sentence. Unlike the other criminal, he was not going to manipulate the Lord Jesus Christ to free him from his deserved punishment. If the Lord released the unrepentant criminal, he will yet return to crime. However, the good criminal said it was justice for him to die.

He knew Jesus Christ by name and respected His office as one who could save his soul eternally. Take note of the reverence in his tone;

Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

He knew that Jesus Christ was innocent. He might not have known it as then that the Lord was hanging on that cross for his sin and that of the whole world. Someone said that it was not nails that held Jesus Christ on that cross but the love He had for people like that criminal.

He knew that Jesus Christ had a kingdom. Besides the demons and very few of His followers, that knowledge was not common. However, this man knew that Jesus Christ had a kingdom that was not of this earth and he believed in that kingdom and wanted to be part of the kingdom. He asked the Lord to remember when He returned in His kingdom.

He knew and believed that Jesus Christ had the power to take anyone to His kingdom and even a condemned criminal like himself. Therefore, he specifically asked that the Lord should remember him when He returned in His kingdom.

He knew that even though the Lord Jesus Christ hung on the same location with them, death had no power over Him. He was sure that even if the Lord died on that cross, He was going to rise again. This was not a common knowledge then and even today.

He knew and believed that even in death, his soul was safe in the hands of Jesus Christ and he did all he could to establish a transaction in that regard.

All these point to one thing, this man was a believer in Jesus Christ who fell away and back to his former sins. He was among those who at one time stopped following the Lord.

From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. John 6:66NIV

If this man was among the early converts of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is no reason to doubt that he was baptised.

The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. John 4:1-2NIV

There was nothing like baptismal classes then and the bible was clear about that.

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day Acts 2:41NIV

Since he met all the requirements for baptism,

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. Rom 10:9-10NIV

In conclusion, it is safer to follow bible evidence and doctrine than the opinion of men whose only interest is to destabilize the Body of Christ. Like I mentioned earlier, the Lord had the absolute power to take whomever He wished directly to heaven, but all the indicators from scripture show that, before their meeting on the cross of Calvary,  this brother was already a believer in Jesus Christ who fell away from faith. 

We have a similar instance in the case of Peter; before they met in Luke Chapter 5:1-5, they had met in John1:41.

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DISINFECT YOUR SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE WITH PRAYER

 Disinfect your spiritual atmosphere with prayer

They swarmed around me like bees, but they died out as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off Ps 118:12NIV

As a small boy, I used to hear accounts of people who died because fish bone caught them in the throat while eating. I asked my wife, Joy, why we do not hear such stories anymore these days. Her response was straightforward, those people died by spiritual enchantment from witches and wizards. The natural person will think that it was the bone but it was through satanic attacks.

Then I wondered why do they not happen anymore these? The Lord answered me, “Prayers of believers floating in the atmosphere. When believers pray they disinfect the atmosphere, and agents of darkness and demons are restricted in their movements”. A woman in my neighborhood tried her best to force me out of the present location of Door of Hope Christian Centre. When her husband confronted her in my presence on why she was antagonizing me, she replied, “Every time prayer, prayer. They won’t allow someone to rest”. She tried many other things but by the mercies of God, she failed. She was later exposed to be a wicked person and her husband sent her away,

Witches, wizards and all the agents of satan hate prayers because prayed-over-atmospheres obstruct and inhibit their activities. Merely repeating, “The Blood Jesus Christ” several times is a great hindrance to their operations. Beware of any person who is always complaining about praying people. He maybe an agent of the devil.

While in Bamenda in Cameroon in 2016, in the midnight, I noticed some weird noise in the neighborhood I stayed. They sounded like a crowd of birds and made noise like swarming bees but I knew these were not birds or bees but witches and wizards conglomerating. Nobody in that neighborhood knew my true identity; even my landlord believed me when I told him that I was just another Igbo businessman. But that night I could not keep my identity secret anymore. I went into warfare prayers confronting those spiritual elements. I sent the Holy Ghost fire to scatter them. I bound the demons working with them and clipped their wings so they cannot fly away. My first intention was to punish them for venturing into that territory before I released them. By daybreak, my neighbors were coming around to take a closer look at my face. I learned from them that they had been under the oppression of those spiritual wicked forces. Till the day I left that place, those wicked spiritual invaders never returned again.

In the name of the Lord I cut them off.

2006 while yet new in Port Harcourt city, my family moved into a new house and we were very happy that our landlady was a believer who hosted House Fellowship for a popular deliverance ministry in her house. In our first night there we noticed movements in the atmosphere at about 1am in the night. Joy and I stood up in prayer to take charge of the spiritual traffic of that neighborhood. We declared a “No-Fly-Zone” over the area and we sent the Holy Ghost fire to torture all those spiritual elements. The next day my “prayer warrior landlady” went to enquire from the woman who brought me the manner of pastor that I was. The godly woman replied, “I told you that he is a pastor”.  I had to learn that my landlady was a witch operating under cover in that deliverance ministry. She returned the money I paid her and gave me time to leave. 

Don’t be fooled by outward appearances.

Sometime in 1998, I was living in a suburban neighborhood and often noticed that witches and wizards were having free movement in that area. The Lord showed me that a woman and her daughter were witches and they moved in and out every night. My neighbors were complaining about all manner of witchcraft attacks raging from lacerations on their skins and other attacks. I marched around my neighborhood announcing loudly that I was going to lock the spiritual atmosphere and that I would not be responsible for any harm that befalls anyone who ventured out for witchcraft meetings, because the person will not be able to return. I noticed this woman making face at me, implying that I was talking nonsense. People around avoided her and her daughter because if you challenged them by day, they will punish you at night. About one week after, it was reported that her daughter had died in her sleep. They did not want me to know and they buried her quietly. Unfortunately, the mother did not show any sign of remorse and soon died too.

As a person of prayer, it is your responsibility to provide spiritual cover to your family and neighbors.

A church that is in a neighboring town to Owerri City, was interrupted in the middle of a hot prayer session by a loud sound on their roof. When they rushed out, they saw a half-naked man falling from the roof. He confessed that he was a wizard on a journey and he tried to fly over the church building against the advice of the others that were flying with him. When our bible believing churches begin to pray, we can take charge of the atmosphere.

Prayer is a spiritual disinfectant. Learn to disinfect your home and neighborhood with warfare prayers once in a while. If you notice that the emotional atmosphere in your home is inexplicably tense, for the benefit of doubt, bind demons that maybe floating in the atmosphere. If your child screams from her sleep, for the benefit of doubt, bind all witches and wizards oppressing your child. If there is inexplicable financial difficulty in your family or business, for the benefit of doubt, go into warfare prayers and release your finances from every satanic altar. If you notice that you are inexplicably depressed or sick, do the same. If you just begin to feel uncomfortable at the mention of fasting and prayers, bind the demons trying to separate you from the power of God.

Finally, if you have anyone around you that always talks against praying people or churches, the person is a suspect. Address him as an agent of the devil in your prayer until he proves otherwise.

You can download powerful prayer collections from our website. 

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DON'T DARE THE ANOINTING

 The Life and Ministry of Prophet Elisha 6

DON’T DARE THE ANOINTING

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths. 2 Kings 2:23-24NIV

Elisha was returning from a place of supernatural encounter. It is possible that these young people knew Elisha before now but the person walking past today is not the person they used to mess around. He was carrying the anointing; he was carrying the spirit that was upon Elijah and they ought not to treat him the same way anymore. Perhaps he was your son or younger brother; you ought to recognize the change. If he is your husband, you need to understand that this man is the Lord’s anointed. Some theologians are still wondering if the punishment on these youths was not to the extreme but they died all the same. We have another record how some soldiers had addressed Elijah irreverently and he called down fire from heaven to destroy them.

At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, "Man of God, this is what the king says, 'Come down at once!'" "If I am a man of God," Elijah replied, "may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!" Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men. 2 Kings 1:11-12NIV

Another captain who had the same assignment, rank and authority had better manners than the first two and his life was spared.

So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. "Man of God," he begged, "please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants! See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!" 2 Kings 1:13-14NIV

You can debate all you want but those who died by the fire of judgment are gone and the best thing for us is to watch our behaviour when we are around or before anointed servants of God. 

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? 2 Cor 2:15-16NIV

The same anointing that brings salvation, healing, deliverance and revelation can harm those who treat the anointed irreverently. It does not matter whether the anointed is poor or rich; the hand of God is upon him. It does not matter whether he is educated or ignorant, I advise you to be careful what you do with him. God did not consult you before He anointed him and it will be to your interest not to draw the anger of the Lord’s anointed. I warn my children never to lie to me while looking at my face. It does not matter if I am their father or not; I carry the anointing. Peter was so anointed that his shadow drove out demons and healed the sick, but some church folks felt they could still play around him.

Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?  Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God." When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. Acts 5:3-5NIV

You may not like the way and manner Peter passed judgment on them but they were dead and buried. You may even argue that Peter was in the flesh when he passed the judgment, my advice is that you do not try what they did, or you may end up the same way. I am not saying this in defence of anointed servants of God but as a personal witness of how the anointing on a man can harm those who treat him with disrespect.

In my early days in the ministry, I organized a crusade in Avu Market Square. Avu is in Owerri West Local Government Area in Imo State, Nigeria; I think it was a four days crusade and it fell within the Christmas festive period. The young people in the community would not let me be. They kept disrupting my message with their fireworks, what we call “knock-Out”. They would throw it into the air and in the midst of people. They were disrupting my program. I did not like that and I believe God did not like it too. My plea with them to leave the venue of the crusade if they were not interested in the gospel fell on deaf ears. Then I said something like, “If the person throwing those things thinks that he is fearless let him try and throw that Knock-Out again”.

I heard some jeering sound that suggested that they meant that I couldn’t do anything. Afterward, there was a sharp scream and an accompanying reaction from the crowd, and everywhere became quiet. Since they were not close to me, I did not know what happened. I finished my crusade and went home. It was after a long time I learnt what actually caused the young men to leave the crusade venue. One of the young men still ventured to throw a “knock-out” into the air and in the view of those standing nearby, fire came down from heaven, following the direction of the “knock-out” and damaged his hand. He screamed home. Yes, you read me right; fire fell from heaven to punish the young man that was disrupting the crusade.

On my first assignment as an in-house evangelist, the president of the organization who was a medical doctor gave me an assignment. The organization had a hospital and a ministry centre. He told me to pray and loose an eighteen-seater bus in the ministry premises because he believed it was under witchcraft monitoring. He said that anytime they tried to put it out for business, it would breakdown and they ended up incurring more expenses to repair it.

After my personal prayer, the Lord told me that my president was not faithful to Him. He had asked God to give him a bus for the purpose of evangelism. When the vehicle came, he put it out as a commercial bus. The Lord sent another vehicle and he diverted it again as hospital ambulance. The Lord told me that, it was not witches that held the vehicle but He the giver had locked it up.

This response did not go down well with my president and one thing led to the other. I was young and crude with my approach to spiritual matters. I am sorry to say that, but I am among those that the anointing on them makes to appear arrogant. Once I am sure of my position with God, I cared little how others felt about my position. One day he told me that he will deal with me and I felt that was going too far. I immediately responded, “If you try it, my God will deal with you.”

He pointed to my face and said, “Look at the person calling God.”

I was mad. I said, “Did you point at my face and say that? How dare you?”

He was a witness when the dead came back to life when I prayed over them. He had profited from women whose womb the Lord unlocked when they could not deliver safely in his clinic. He was witness to the miracles that happened in his ministry through my ministration. How can he now say I was not qualified to mention God’s name. He could only say so if I betrayed a trust but I did not. I walked away. The next day, that ambulance had an accident and was damaged beyond repair and while he was talking about that, robbers went and stole his private vehicle that was parked in his garage. In the space of one week, my president saw his world going down. Someone heard him screaming, “Evangelist Emma Nwosu has finished me!”

If you are God’s anointed, do not let folks make you forget whom you are because of one circumstance or the other. I do not take that from anyone. They were calling Elisha bald-headed fellow; why must they? 

Under some unpleasant circumstances, my family was forced to move from where I lived at central Port Harcourt City that we call Main Town to an area called Rukpoku also within Port Harcourt metropolis. I had a church in both locations and had to preach first message at Rukpoku and then move over to the church in Town for the second message. They were about ten kilometres apart. It was not easy and I did not have a car and with very little available funds. The distance was such that I needed to take three to four different vehicles before I could walk to the location of our church in Town.

One of the Sundays, one of the taxis I took had a breakdown after I had paid him. He handed me over to another taxi since the distance was not much. When I alighted, the driver asked me for another payment and I tried to explain to him that I had paid the driver that handed me over to him. He insisted that I must at least give him extra money, to which I refused. This man took hold of my shirt in the view of many watchers. He grabbed me in the open there and time was running out on me. My church location was not far from that place and even my enemies bore witness to the great manifestation of the power of God in my ministry. I really pity preachers who are not carrying the anointing.

A man shouted at the driver, “Are you Ok? You are holding Pastor Emma’s cloth?” The man was adamant until someone gave him the money he requested. I hurried to my service. Three Sundays after a driver drove his car very fast, to where I was standing and asked me to enter. The same driver who molested me the other time. He was begging me to forgive him for the manner he behaved last time. He said he had suffered greatly since then and never made any extra money since then. He was out this Sunday morning pleading with God to make him to meet me. When he dropped me this time, he did not want money from me but just my prayers.

There could be some people reading this today who had corrupted their life because of the way they treated the Lord’s anointed. In some cases, the anointed could be wrong, just like Noah who got drunk and lay naked. You dare not treat him without respect. Learn a lesson from David,

Who can lay a hand on the Lord's anointed and be guiltless? As surely as the Lord lives," he said, "the Lord himself will strike him; either his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish. But the Lord forbid that I should lay a hand on the Lord's anointed. 1 Sam 26:9-11NIV

Avoid the temptation of mocking his weaknesses and daring to prove that he is not holy enough to serve God. This is the root cause of many troubles some are suffering from today. 

Having read thus far, if you think you once drew a curse into your life because of the way you treated a servant of God, I suggest you contact me for special prayers.

TO BE CONTINUED

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The Mantle and the Responsibility

 _The Life and Ministry of Prophet Elisha 4_ 

 *The Mantle and the Responsibility.* 

The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, "The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha." And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him 2 Kings 2:15NIV

The mantle of Elijah falling into the hands of Elisha implied the power and authority of Elijah passed over to Elisha. That was what the sons of the prophets recognized and went to pay respect to Elisha. At this point, it is necessary that we correct an interpretation to a scripture that has often been presented out of context.

When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?"Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit," Elisha replied 2 Kings 2:9NIV

This discussion does not mean that Elisha wanted to be twice as anointed as Elijah was. Instead, it meant that he was asking for the right of the firstborn among the sons of the prophet that were under Elijah.

He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him. Deut 21:17NIV

In the other of precedence among the other sons of the prophet, Elisha was not the first, hence Elijah said that he asked for a difficult thing as that decision made publicly could stir problem among his disciples.

Having cleared that, it is important we understand that assuming the place of leadership ought not to be about the material gains and privileges attached to the high office. Christian leaders should be concerned instead about how they can effectively help their followers to achieve the divine purpose for the organization. Unfortunately, most of the conflicts we see in our midst are driven by selfishness and not because of the desire to serve God. Most church break-ups are as the result of people who want to hold to or draw followers after themselves. 

I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them Acts 20:29-30NIV

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Eph 4:14NIV

A lot of, so-called higher revelation teachings we hear today are driven by ungodly ambition of bible teachers to outdo other Christian leaders and that is why these teachings rather than build up the Body of Christ, are causing confusion among followers of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Believers often forget or neglect one of the reasons the Holy Spirit compiled the accounts of bible stories and characters for us,

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 1 Cor 10:11-12NIV

Some believers are surprised when we mention what we consider some errors in the life of men like Elijah, Elisha. Paul and Peter. That is why the bible is the word of God. God wants to present us with good examples to imitate and warn us of the consequences of following bad examples. Also we are offered encouragement through the accounts of the tenacity of some of the bible characters.

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Rom 15:4NIV

So, we are not having these meditations for the pleasure of it but we are yielding ourselves to the teachings of the Holy Spirit through the holy scriptures.

In our text scripture we find something that is vital in the matter of leadership succession in this holy faith; "The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha." Once we observe this anywhere, our opinion ceases to matter. We must do what those sons of the prophet did; “they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him”

There are other sides to this; the leader, who is handing over his leadership mantle or office, should be careful that he does not yield to sentiments or be prejudiced by emotions and then hand over the mantle to a person upon whom his spirit has not rested. We have this kind of thing when Moses had to handover to Joshua as his successor. 

Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the Lord had commanded Moses. Deut 34:9NIV

We are not told but there could have been a temptation for Moses to follow the old pattern where he was the senior prophet, his brother Aaron was the chief priest and his sister was the prophetess. The children of Aaron succeeded him and the leadership mantle has always been within their family line, but now the Lord is asking him to transfer leadership to someone that was not even from his tribe. Many of the conflicts in our denominational circles has resulted because senior prophet Moses refused to do that. In some cases, as we have many in Nigeria, the leader died with instructions to transfer to Joshua, but members of his family gang together and subverted his instructions. We then have a man occupying an office for which the spirit that is behind that office does not support him.

Another temptation is for Elisha to think that since Elijah was the pioneer of the work, things must go on exactly as he found them. In some cases, the sons of the prophets or, as in Moses’ case, the elders of Israel would bound together to insist that the new leader must continue in the order that he met things. Moses was prophet but Joshua was a warrior; Paul was an Apostle but Timothy was a Pastor whom Paul asked to add evangelistic flavour to his ministry. There is no way things could continue to follow the same order with these new leaders. The Spirit was the same but the manner He used them would be different.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men 1 Cor 12:4-6NIV

When the aged high priest Zechariah eventually had a son, the people felt that he should be named after his father, “Zechariah Junior”, but that was not God’s plan. Every instrument of God is unique.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said, "No! He is to be called John."  Luke 1:59-60NIV

It appears to me that Elisha did not understand this. He seemed to want to continue to do things the way Elijah did. A time came the sons of the prophet urged him that there is need for improvement.

The company of the prophets said to Elisha, "Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to live." And he said, "Go." Then one of them said, "Won't you please come with your servants?" "I will," Elisha replied. 2 Kings 6:1-3NIV

What Elisha must not lose or alter are the charismatic signs in the ministry of Elijah, because these are the proof of the Spirit of the God of Elijah. Elisha raised the dead as Elijah did; Elisha pathed the river like Elijah did; he multiplied food and prophesied to kings and kingdoms; but if this ministry will move forward, Elisha must bring another dimension of leadership. He must bring in new effective methods to make the school of prophets work better.

 Successors must not do everything like their predecessors; children must not continue the family business in the same order. Some Christian organizations refused to embrace technology because their founder did not use it. Some organizations refused to embrace some operations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit because their church founders did not experience it. These has resulted in stifling the influence of the Holy Spirit in some Christian circles. Once we are sure that it is the Spirit of the God of the leader that is resting on his successor, it will be his responsibility to chart new paths for them to attain greater heights. This should not be done by resorting to secular methods, but he must necessarily seek God afresh through prayers and meditation, to find out how He would lead him.

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