What you really need now

It makes me think sometimes what we think about what you now say; God......... No matter how much you over flog this concept, it can't be overemphasized...... When you look at what you are talking about now, You would know when your heart lies.... Lies, when you look at them, they are all but lies...................................... Seriously speaking, when you take into cognizance what you want now, Do you want what you Need now Be smart! You need Christ now.

How to impact your world?

How can you impact your world? With what do you do it? Money, fame, good name....? It's a serious issue with this world we live in, where several people are more concerned with more ''better things'' than what is listed above. This is how to know the validity of what I am saying, ask anybody within the active stage of growth the question; what would you want me to give you now, or what are your goals? In it's real sense, you should ask yourself the same question, its important because; nobody would not be remembered for the good or bad they have done. The only way you can impact your world is like Jesus did it. How did he do it? He saved people forever. Do the same.

Why your perception of people is important?

While several people like me would conclude that what I appear to be like would not be important, but, does it really in the very sense of the word of this concept? Someone who really knows how important branding is know that if I thought I was buying soda instead of rum would know how important branding is, or someone thought I bought coke instead of actually buying pepsi would know how this things work. Your perception of people or people's view about you really goes on to determine what people would even think about you. While would I choose to be perceived to be an unbeliever when in the real sense I am? It does shows a conflicting phenomena and personality because if you knew or even thought your food was getting close to putrefied, you definitely would think twice about it. Really why did Jesus ask what the disciples think he was when he had to finally told them the bedrock of His Ministry; which is the fact that He was the Son of God.If it didn't really matter He would not have done it to precede the Bedrock of Christian faith. Imagine that the president of America appeared in Scottish skirts. What would you say, no comments right? Pawn intended. So I leave it to you to decide, but, the bible is plain clear that you are citizens of heaven.

The Ministry of all things according to Paul and John the beloved

My little children I know that you know ''all things'' and ''......all things are yours''; are two concepts I want to categorically address this day, because, several people do not want to accept what the bible says literarily, it and brings about certain discrepancies that also come from an inadequate study of scriptures and unbelief. But the bible is so emphatic about the two concepts that are found in two different verses of scriptures.

The first one implies ''all things'' to mean that anything outside the belief that Jesus is the son of God or denies this concept as found in the context of preceding and later verses! (1 John 4,5,) while the other is very profound, found in 1 Corinthians 3: 21, it means directly all things, as in generally, and not just what is present within the list of the verse.

While the first concept ''all things'' means to a reasonable context not to include things such as knowledge of every sort or kind; but the knowledge of Christ, the other surprisingly leaves us with no boundaries.

What is the meat and milk of the word?

The book of Hebrews is of debatable wright and authority because some people, the scholarship,tend to be divided on their insight when it comes to this instructive, all-time relevant scholastic articles written throughout the biblios or more commonly the bible. The academic prowess and comprehensive and equally generally and specifically addressed content has varying amounts of diversity; when it comes to the body of Christ there is actually no schism even though it may seem like that sometimes, and without a Christos-centric overview one might assume due to one's definite wisdom conclude; although this was not spiritually motivated. My point of call really is the point that there is really no difference whether it is a ''matured'' , ''baby'' Christianity to use the word with whether varied or specific, ''cumbersome or ''brief'', ''skillful'' or ''mediocre''; but the closest to explain whether a word is milk or meat is, whether it is the most love laden word or not. What should motivate whatsoever you do would be Love if you truly want to show true faith and religion.

Why some hate Christianity and denominationalism thinking its the same thing?

As much as possible with you, to be on the Christian denominational-ism side is to kick against what is the true essence of our faith; which is its all-inclusiveness and non-separatism. We are one in Christ no Greek or Jew, Scythian or Barbarian(Col.3:11), what, and only matters is Christ and him crucified. There is no rich or poor, Baptist or Anglican but faith that works by love. It is this basic concept that makes most people who don't believe in His name name doubt our creed because even Christ said that ''they may be one as we are one(John 17 : 21) King James 2000 Bible That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me. That we do not say the same things however is not as important as What Christ has sent us to preach which is ''Jesus only saves'' with nothing else.

Why a Muslim by 2075 could be doomed........really serious issue!

In the next half century or so, Christianity’s long reign as the world’s largest religion may come to an end, according to a just-released report that builds on Pew Research Center’s original population growth projections for religious groups. Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2015 and 2060 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group. While the world’s population is projected to grow 32% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 70% – from 1.8 billion in 2015 to nearly 3 billion in 2060. In 2015, Muslims made up 24.1% of the global population. Forty-five years later, they are expected to make up more than three-in-ten of the world’s people (31.1%). The main reasons for Islam’s growth ultimately involve simple demographics. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study. Muslim women have an average of 2.9 children, significantly above the next-highest group (Christians at 2.6) and the average of all non-Muslims (2.2). In all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility. The growth of the Muslim population also is helped by the fact that Muslims have the youngest median age (24 in 2015) of all major religious groups, more than seven years younger than the median age of non-Muslims (32).

 A larger share of Muslims will soon be at the point in their lives when people begin having children. This, combined with high fertility rates, will accelerate Muslim population growth.More than a third of Muslims are concentrated in Africa and the Middle East, regions that are projected to have the biggest population increases. But even within these high-growth regions – as well as others – Muslims are projected to grow faster than members of other groups. For example, Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa, on average, are younger and have higher fertility than the overall population of the region. In fact, Muslims are expected to grow as a percentage of every region except Latin America and the Caribbean, where relatively few Muslims live. The same dynamics hold true in many countries where Muslims live in large numbers alongside other religious groups. For example, India’s number of Muslims is growing at a faster rate than the country’s majority Hindu population, and is projected to rise from 14.9% of India’s 2015 population to 19.4% (or 333 million people) in 2060. And while there were similar numbers of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria as of 2015, Muslims have higher fertility there and are expected to grow to a solid majority of Nigeria’s population (60.5%) in 2060. Meanwhile, religious switching – which is expected to hinder the growth of Christians by an estimated 72 million between 2015 and 2060 – is not expected to have a negative net impact on Muslim population growth. It is often assumed that the God of Islam is a fierce war-like deity, in contrast to the God of Christianity and Judaism, who is one of love and mercy. The founder of Islam, Muhammad, saw himself as the last in a line of prophets that reached back through Jesus to Moses, beyond him to Abraham and as far back as Noah.

 According to the Quran, God (known as Allah) revealed to Muhammad: the Book with the truth [the Quran], confirming what was before it, and [before He sent down the Quran] He sent down the Torah of Moses and the Gospel of Jesus… as a guidance for the people. Thus, since Muhammad inherited the Jewish and Christian understandings of God, it is not surprising that the God of Muhammad, Jesus and Moses has a similarly complex and ambivalent character – a blend of benevolence and compassion, combined with wrath and anger. If you were obedient to his commands, he could be all sweetness and light. But you didn’t want to get on his wrong side. To those who turned to him in repentance, this God was (above all else) merciful and all-forgiving. But those who failed to find the path or, having found it failed to follow it, would know his judgment and wrath. Mohammed receiving his first revelation from the angel Gabriel. Miniature illustration on vellum from the book Jami’ al-Tawarikh by Rashid al-Din, published in Tabriz, Persia, 1307 CE. Wikimedia images For Jews, God was fully revealed in the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament). The God of the Old Testament was both good and evil. He went way beyond the good when he told Abraham to offer his son to God as a burnt sacrifice. He was a warrior God who murdered the firstborn of Egypt and drowned the army of Pharaoh. He approved Elijah’s slaughter of the 450 prophets of the ancient Canaanite God Baal. Yet he was also a compassionate and loving God, one who in the well-known words of Psalm 23 in the Book of Psalms was a shepherd whose goodness and mercy supported his followers all the days of their lives. He loved Israel like a father loves his son.

 Further reading: We don’t know if God exists but we should keep asking


 Hans Meling, Christ Giving His Blessing (1478). Wikimedia images Jesus in the four Gospels in the New Testament had an impecable character. On the one hand, Jesus spoke of a personal God, referring to him as “Father” in the prayer that he gave to his disciples. Yet, behind this God of tenderness and love, there remained a God of justice. Like the prophets of the Old Testament, Jesus preached doom and gloom. He was offering Israel its last chance and God would be merciless to those who failed to heed his message. God would come in judgment at the end of history. All would then be resurrected. The fortunate few would receive eternal happiness, but the wicked majority would be cast into the eternal fires of hell. At the end of the world, God would act as a God of justice. All the dead would be resurrected to receive God’s judgment. God would then reward or punish each person in the gardens of paradise or the fires of hell according to the glorious gospel of Christ.
Further reading: Paris attacks – why Islam and Christianity are twin religions of war and peace

The key to salvation to the muslimwas above all surrender (“islam” in Arabic) to God, obedience to his commands as revealed in the Quran and allegiance to his messenger Muhammad. Like the God of Moses, Allah was a lawmaker. The Quran provided (often varied) guidance to the believing community in matters of marriage and family law, women, inheritance, food and drink, worship and purity, warfare, punishments for adultery and false accusations of adultery, alcohol and theft. In short, it provided the foundation of what was later to be much elaborated in sharia law. Yet, in spite of this, most believe that their religion contains the full and final revelation of the same God,but is this true?. Here is the origin of their unity. Here also lies the cause of their division. For this belief in the truth of one religion and the falsity of the others leads to inevitable conflict between the believer and the unbeliever, the chosen and the rejected, the saved and the damned. Here lie the seeds of intolerance and violence. So the God of Muhammad, the God of Moses, divides as much as he unites, a cause of strife both between and within these religions. Islam is the only religion growing faster than the world's population, and it will be the largest in the world by 2070, research has found. US-based Pew Research Centre analysed demographic change among the world's major religions and found that the world's population of Muslims will grow by 73 per cent between 2010 and 2050, compared to 35 per cent for Christians, the next fastest-growing faith. The world's population will grow by 37 per cent over the same period. If those rates of growth continue past 2050, Muslims will outnumber Christians by 2070, the report found.

 It also says that Muslims will make up 10 per cent of Europe's population. In 2010 there were 1.6bn Muslims in the world, and 2.17bn Christians. By 2050, there will be 2.76bn Muslims and 2.92bn Christians - and if both religions continue at that rate of growth, Islam will have a larger number of followers than Christianity by 2070. Atheists, agnostics and non-religious people will decline from 16.4 per cent of the world's population to 13.2 per cent by 2050, the report added, despite growing in Europe and North America. The changes are partly due to the various fertility rates each religion has. Muslims have the highest, at 3.1 children per woman, followed by Christians, at 2.7. Islam also has a much younger follower-base than other religions, meaning believers still have childbearing years ahead. 34 per cent are aged under 15, compared to a global average of 27 per cent. Christianity is also likely to suffer as more converts leave to become non-religious or to join other faiths, the report predicted. Around 40 million people are projected to switch into Christianity globally, while 106 million are predicted to leave. The report also summarises findings from a survey last year into European attitudes towards Muslims. "Majorities in Hungary, Italy, Poland and Greece say they view Muslims unfavorably, while negative attitudes toward Muslims are much less common in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Northern and Western Europe. "People who place themselves on the Right side of the ideological scale are much more likely than those on the Left to see Muslims negatively," it said. What is my conclusion, you have a choice to preach the gospel to the unsaved millions, knowing that he is able to save to the uttermost, those that come to God by Him.So even if they ''stop'' being Christians they can't stop.

What is the difffference,...... tell me? Faith with or without works

Ever heard of the cliche ''Church mind'' or '' religious people'' being used more regularly these days in various quarters, both laity and clergy use these ever increasingly sacrilegiously and without ''Parrot fashion'', pawn intended. Better by far the most used philological statements turn out to be not understood even by the speaker and I know you would say, what exactly are you trying to do! I must say categorically that,'' most speakers wherever, try to do more than pass a message across, and would wind drive on the steer of sensationalism, other than just say what they want to say straight to the point''. What is my point,....which is to tell you that the more emotionally attached you are to a sayer the lesser you would find facts, which are salient truths you wanted to hear at the onset of the talk. What really was on the mind of Paul when he said We are justified by faith alone and not by works, I really mean, What were you thinking!, like someone told me years ago, Sycharr Adio Opeyemi. If faith alone saves, then why would James say you are foolish to even ask proof of Faith evidenced by works.......