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[Oladayo @ODAYO5]

“There is little success where there is little laughter.” – Andrew Carnegie

Wear a smile... It looks good on you

[JP @jpshrodinger]

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[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Written by Dr Derwin L. Gray.

A discipleship crisis beneath the surface. //

The issue isn't that churches lack discipleship. It's that many people are being discipled by the wrong influences. Social media, political ideologies, and cultural narratives are shaping beliefs and behaviors, often more powerfully than Scripture. This creates a "wrong discipleship" problem, where people identify as Christians but reflect values that are inconsistent with the teachings of Jesus. The challenge for leaders is to re-center discipleship around Christ, ensuring that people are being formed by the gospel rather than the surrounding culture.

[RCN Lagos @RCNLagos]

Plot Twist!!!!

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[Oladayo @ODAYO5]

@elijah_olx @MobilePunch And your name is Elijah?...

[Elvis Okhifo @ElvisOkhifo]

Never forget the art of deleting social media and going on a retreat,

Especially if/when lust and covetousness has pierced your soul.

Run away from all potential triggers and run towards God.

Bury yourself in the word, prayer and worship.

That’s how to deal with it!

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

Attempt things that will stretch you.

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

Open Matthew 9 & start screaming Youuu. Youuu. Youuu. Then go mute on vs 14 & 15 as if Matthew didn't write those to clarify vs 12.

Unrelated Question:
That vacuous, banal egregiousness of invoking 'Olodo uprising,' na clownery be dat, abi na irony?

Make una de fear God o!

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

FEAR GOD o!

There really is no context where it is biblically accurate to say "Jesus is not better than the believer."

Jesus as the head of the church, for instance, is not an exact parallel to husband as head of the wife. Both the husband and the wife are creatures. But both Jesus and the church are not creatures. Jesus exists by the necessity of His own being. The parallel therefore, though incredibly illuminating, has colossal limitations.
No matter how you situate our relationship with Jesus, one critical difference is that whatever (attribute) Jesus gives or even shares with us, He has such attribute necessarily, but we have it contingently. Read it again.

Secondly, Jesus may give me His righteousness, yet I cannot transmit it to others, but He continues to be the only one who can transmit it. So, you see, righteousness in me is not an exact mirror of righteousness in Jesus. Also, righteousness in Jesus is not merely a status. It is exhaustive. Jesus' righteousness means that He can not do (I don't mean He will not do, but I mean He can not do) anything wrong, because His righteousness is not just a legal status. It is not imputed. Righteousness is grounded in His beign. I hope you know what that means. The believer however CAN do things that are unrighteous, even though she is legally righteous. So, while righteousness exists in both cases, they are not identical in every sense. More, Jesus is the explanation of the believer's righteousness, and yet the same Jesus is the explanation of His own righteousness.

Thirdly, I need Jesus to sustain whatever I receive from Him. I continue to need Him to keep me in His righteousness, in His grace, in eternal life, etc. If Jesus were to leave me at any point (blessed assurance, He will not), I will lose everything He has imputed to me. He upholds all things. I don't. I stand because He is able to keep and continues to keep me. He has no keeper. No one sustains Him in eternal life, or in righteousness. His righteousness does not need any support to stay intact. Mine needs to be sustained. It is wrong therefore to say His righteousness is NOT better than mine. More, I think it is meaningless to say so.

Besides, according to scripture, the root and the branches are not the same simply because they both share in a common life (sap). As Paul said in his Roman correspondence, "remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you." If you are being upheld by another – one who is self-sufficient and needs no upholding – it is both inaccurate and irresponsible to say your Supporter is not better than you, particularly with reference to the very attribute by which he holds you up.

It is also sloppy to say because Jesus is our righteousness, and our sanctification, He is therefore not better than us. That same passage says He is our Wisdom. Is Jesus better than us in wisdom or not? If you say 'Jesus is not more righteous than me,' can you say 'Jesus is not more wise than me'?

I saw someone making a money analogy. It fails. If I have ten thousand Naira and I give it to you, it is no longer available to me to give to another person. And if you, the recipient, are generous, you can gift it to your friend. Jesus being our ransom is something infinitely richer and different than the money analogy suggests. The same Jesus is the ransom for us all. He does not diminish through donation. But whereas I can give you the ten thousand I was given, if I chose to, I can not transfer the righteousness I've received. Nevertheless, Jesus can. How then can I be as delusional as to say He is not better than me, even in righteousness!?

Okay, "As He is, so are we in this world." Yes, but it is: AS He is; not WHO He is.

Heb 7:7 (NKJV) says, "beyond all contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better." We are the blessed. We are lesser than our 'Blesser.' And He – Jesus – is better than us.

Again, 1Pet 2:17 says you should FEAR God.

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

REPENTANCE

I think some of you are missing the context of the story, per Luke 15.

The allegation against Jesus was that He received sinners & ate with them. Well, did Jesus think the people making that allegation were righteous & truly didn't need to repent, as they implied? This issue alone should settle the status of the 99 & the possible interpretation. Whoever the 99 were, they were not Angels, since the lost sheep was one of them. And since there are no persons who do not need repentance, the 99 can't be considered to be saved persons. Also, if they were saved, it means, the one sheep was simply a back-slider & not a 'sinner' per se, since it used to be in the flock of 100 sheep, before getting lost. But, the charge was about Jesus receiving SINNERS & eating with them.

Secondly, to insinuate that Jesus did not mean for His interlocutors (The Pharisees & Scribes) to locate themselves somewhere in His response is strained & completely out of pattern, with Jesus. In fact, He would tell a story sometime & the Pharisees would be livid, believing Jesus told the parable "against" them (For instance, see Luke 20:19, but for context read from vs 1).

Thirdly, and this amplifies the second point: Jesus is said to have responded with A Parable. Not 3 parables. (Read the text). Meaning He told a parable containing 3 stories. In fact, you can tell that the lost sheep & the lost coin are clearly the same point being made in two ways. In the KJV, the stories are framed (in vs 4 & 8) like this: "What man of you, having... Either what woman having..." It is in vs 11 that the narrator makes a brief comment to introduce Jesus' telling of the story of the 2 boys.
Since it is one parable, it means each story is supposed to both reinforce & complement the others, & you'd need to consider all three together to get Jesus' overall point.
In the final story, Jesus contrasted the attitude of the Pharisees & Scribes on the one hand with the attitude of the SINNERS, on the other hand. The older brother was so self righteous that one, he said he had NEVER done anything wrong in his dealing with his dad (vs 29), making him the (self)righteous one needing NO repentance. Nobody then, hearing that story, believed he never did wrong. Also, he was ANGRY his brother was home. Wait, was that righteous ANGER?

But more. Fourthly: the allegation was 'this man receives sinners & EATS with them'. The final scene of the 3-stories-1-Parable is the father trying to get the older son to the feast. So, the older son is clearly OUTSIDE the house. This parallels the 99 sheep that were left in the desert, separated from the venue of the celebration. The inference about the 99 is warranted by this last scene.
What is both humbling & indicting is that, just as the father went out to bring the younger boy home, he also went out in the middle of the feast, to bring the older brother to the feast too. The genius of Jesus' story telling here is unmatched. He concluded the parable without resolution. Did the father succeed? Did the older brother make it home? We are not told. We are not told because Jesus is saying the answer to that question would be somewhat "determined" by the older brother (Pharisees/Scribes). Yet, what is clear is the father wants them both at the feast. But, only the younger brother, the obvious sinner, is at the feast when the curtain closes on the parable.
The Pharisees said: "This man receives sinners." Yes. Point however is, all are sinners, & so, if anyone refuses God's diagnosis of their situation, they forfeit God's help. In implying that they were not sinners, these Pharisees forfeited salvation, which those obvious sinners were earger to embrace at the time.
So, there were sinners, there were the self-righteous, & there was The Saviour. But the self-righteous did not accept the one who accepted them & therefore were not at the feast

Jesus' point is: "My feast is on. I want all in, but if you reject me, you exclude yourself"

Could go on...

[RCN Lagos @RCNLagos]

September is going to be massive!!!

Cancel your plans, pick your “Sunday's best”, pray, and plan to attend, as we dedicate The Forge!

Our Father in the LORD Apostle Arome, Reverend Austin Ukporhe will be bringing the counsel of the LORD.

#RCNLagos
#TheForgedication

[Johan @liebert_2026]

Jordan Peterson on how to know if someone is right for you:

1. Living together first doesn't protect you. the evidence points the other way. people who live together are more likely to get divorced, not less.

2. the real test isn't love. it's whether you can negotiate. you should know someone long enough to know you two can tell each other the truth and negotiate. that's the most important part of a relationship.

3. so talk about the boring things. who buys the groceries. who pays the bills. who cooks and when. who does which chores and is it laid out fair. you either sit down like a conscious, articulate couple and negotiate it, or you bring your unconscious assumptions in and clash where they don't match.

4. attraction still matters. if you have that massive erotic attraction, you're unbelievably fortunate and you should do everything you can to maintain it. but that takes real effort and will. and you have to ally it with maturity. what does this look like at the level of detail. money. where you live. careers. children. in-laws.

5. commitment comes first, not after. unless you've made a lifetime commitment, one you're not going to back out of, you won't take the relationship seriously enough to make it high quality. an idea he took from reading carl jung. "shackled together" is a cynical way of putting it. it's more like an unbreakable bond that makes both people better.

6. the hard part is telling the truth. and the truth is generally a horrible thing. it's easy to tell the truth when everyone wants to hear what you have to say. it's very difficult when no one wants to hear it, least of all yourself.

7. you're braiding one rope. you have the strands of your life, your partner has theirs, and you tie them together into something stronger. then you undertake massive adventures. a household. joint careers. each other's mental and physical health. kids. all of it very, very challenging.

8. marriage and child rearing get a bad rap in our culture and he thinks that's a catastrophe. even if you're highly career oriented, that's two thirds of your life. his house has been a sanctuary, and that's part of why he's been effective at work.

9. and it decides your second half. he's 55. both his kids just got engaged in the same month. he might have 40 more years, and now there are grandchildren coming. all that negotiating early is what buys you something to advance into.

[Kurdor Peter @kurdorPeter]

The AGO!

Apostle to the Nations!

An iroko among his contemporaries!

Our teacher, father and example!

Happy birthday, The Apostle Gideon Odoma!🥳🥳🥳

[RCN Lagos @RCNLagos]

Happy Birthday, Apostle Gideon Odoma!

We thank God for your unwavering zeal in defending the Faith and your steadfast labor of love among us over the years.

May your bread be rich, your branch remain fruitful, and the Lord defend you always.

With love, All of us at RCNLAGOS

[Joshua Agunbiade | The Publisher @drjoshagunbiade]

I always tell those close to me that there's nothing special about me. Nothing.

I was treading deep in the waters of classical WOF, ProsGos and on the fringes of Hypergrace when I found him.

I knew that there were issues within the system. I saw the issues in scripture but I didn't know how to resolve them, and daily, there was more ammunition within the system thrown to make it seem like my questions were invalid or something of an unnecessary bug.

I didn't know how to proceed.

Then, I met him.

I bless God forever for the day that Dr Gideon suggested that we invite him for Merismos 2014. It was in that meeting that God told me to follow him.

I didn't know what to expect. I just started following.

By March 2015, just 4 months later, most of my questions were answered. I saw the issues. I saw biblical truth.

Everything I have become in doctrine, ministry, and even in life has been built upon the foundation that he provided.

The other day I said: "I am, because you are" and some started convulsing. Na me know wetin I been de talk.

Thank you for teaching me the bible. Thank you for teaching me to know how to do the bible. Thank you for teaching me to do ministry with integrity Thank you for praying for me. Thank you for stabilizing me when Satan tried to sift me as wheat.

It's another day to publicly celebrate the gift of my Father.

Even if you are not an Apostle to others, you are to me.

Happy birthday, My Daddy, God's Apostle @gideonodoma

[Yanju shine @YanjuShine]

Master, teach me Karate 🥋

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[Rasine Irem @RasineIrem]

Paul spoke about the giving of the Macedonian church.

They were very poor, he described their poverty as ‘deep’ (it’s the same word he used when he said the Spirit searches the deep things of God, it’s a word that describes an extreme) yet their poverty did not affect their liberality. And he tells us why.

Let me tell you a story.

Over 10 years ago now, about 2013, I went on a missionary trip with some brothers, our job was to visit some churches in different towns and villages and strengthen the young people there.

There was this particular church in Abakpa, a village in Ogoja out of all the churches we visited that thought it wise to contribute to our trip. We didn’t even visit them but they heard we were visiting churches in their vicinity. They gathered a huge sum of ₦1000 and sent to us. They were the only church who thought it wise to send us on our way with money and of all the churches we visited none did for us what these ones did and they were the ones we didn’t think would do anything.

Paul said the reason the Macedonian church gave so liberally even though they lived in extreme poverty was because they had first given themselves to the Lord.

It is very difficult to collect from these kind of people because you’re often torn between telling them to keep the little they have for themselves as it’ll serve lots of purposes and giving them the impression that you’re not accepting their gift because you think it’s too small and hence beneath you.

A believer who has given themselves to the Lord first would not have a problem keeping aside at least a tenth of their wage monthly regardless of the currency of the wage for the purpose of the Kingdom.

If you moved to the UK and you’re struggling to give your tithe then it’s a sign to you that you have not truly given yourself to the Lord.

And like Watchman Nee said, if we have not given God ourselves, God does not want our money.

[Gideon Odoma @gideonodoma]

BIRTHDAY THINGS...

Finally, I get to start something of an explication of the doctrine of salvation, and something of a response to some of the contortions being peddled against those of us who push back at hypergrace.

To be clear: the problem with hypergrace is not simply the belief in OSAS. Properly qualified, Calvinists believe in OSAS. So the issue is deeper than that. OSAS is just a convenient pretense, a cunning smokescreen with which hypergracers seek to arm-twist the church into ceding them a seat at the table, and thereby bully the bride of Christ into investing hypergrace, even if unwittingly, with legitimacy.

It is in the text that Jesus is the author of "eternal salvation." No Christian should deny that. So, believing in eternal salvation is not the contention. The contention is something as sly as it is sinister. It is the sleight of hand, the sophistry by which hypergrace smuggles aberration into the faith. It is the hermeneutical move that flattens the nuanced landscape of biblical doctrine into a strangulated and sterilized wasteland. The land is lush-green, but hypergrace makes it anemic. At its best, hypergrace would plant a full stop where God, in scripture, ordains a comma or a (semi)colon. These are the issues.

It is a matter of doctrinal responsibility to unpack and clarify them. It is incumbent on those of us burdened with the sacred privilege of teaching to hold up the banner of true witness in this day of Marcion-like maneuvers and empty novelties.

There are easily a dozen critical points of departure in hypergrace – points of departure from the historic apostolic faith we inherited, as it came to us through the godly, faithful testimonies and labours of Prophets, Sages, and Martyrs. The vacated and limp novelties peddled by hypergrace must be identified for what they are. Another gospel! Yes, hypergrace is another gospel – one that is (for instance) reluctant to accept God's unambiguous, personal self-identification as both the God of Love and the God of Justice.

All I intend to do for now is not to lay a finger on every one of the myriad errors at the heart of hypergrace. I want to look at the doctrine of salvation, and use the exercise to refute the faulty soteriology of hypergrace.

You are welcome to join us.

[Oladayo @ODAYO5]

@Iranse0lorun @MojisayoD 😂😂😂

[Oladayo @ODAYO5]

@DeGreat87414050 @Haryordeji2312 https://t.co/Pt0SYxdJdj

Listen from 1:34:24.. They were saying Michael not my God

[Oladayo @ODAYO5]

@ItepuStefan https://t.co/Pt0SYxdJdj

See full link here... Great prince Great Michael Great high priest... What kind of nonsense be that? This people will just pick 3 verse of the scripture and equate it to each other. Kai