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It's really sad that Nigeria's educational culture is fading.Growing up, we had Encarta, Scrabble, chess, spelling games, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, math competitions, quality edutainment. Much of it has been replaced by content that erodes the little knowledge people have.
"Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." - Acts 19:19
As early as evangelism!
People repent, turn to God and burned everything about their traditions that opposes God.
One observation has continued to stand out to me as I've read the Gospels.
If Jesus intended to teach that God had eternally determined that only certain individuals could ever believe while the rest had no real possibility of coming to Him, we would expect that emphasis to appear repeatedly in His own preaching, not merely in later theological explanations of His preaching.
Instead, the emphasis is remarkably different.
Jesus consistently places the responsibility for condemnation on man's response to God's gracious revelation, not on the absence of a secret decree or on some predetermined, hidden counsel of God.
He says:
"Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matt. 11:28)
At the very least, every sinner labors under the crushing weight of sin. Or are there some who are exempt from both the burden and this invitation?
"If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink." (John 7:37)
Doesn't every human soul thirst? If every man stands in need of the life that only Christ can give, then "any man" surely means exactly what it says. Or are we now expected to believe that "any" secretly excludes those whom God supposedly never intended to save?
"Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
"Whosoever" cannot naturally mean, "except those whom God has eternally excluded from salvation."
Then Jesus says:
"The one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out." (John 6:37)
To me, this is the nail in the coffin. Jesus does not say, "The one who comes, provided he first belongs to a hidden list." He says, "I will certainly not cast out the one who comes."
Certainly not. No qualifications. No secret exceptions.
If someone truly comes to Christ in faith, Christ Himself promises to receive them.
Notice the repeated pattern.
The invitations are genuine.
The calls are universal to those hearing Him.
The responsibility lies with the hearer.
It almost seems that one must first be persuaded by theologians, not by Christ Himself, to conclude otherwise. Ironically, these are often the very philosophical reinterpretations Paul warned us about when he cautioned against "another gospel," even if preached by "an angel from heaven." Their arguments frequently come wrapped in impressive scholarship, sophisticated terminology, and elegant grammar, yet they often resemble the serpent's ancient question:
"Has God indeed said...?"
Instead of allowing Scripture to speak plainly, they persuade us to question what is already crystal clear.
Now notice how Jesus consistently explains why people remain lost.
"You are unwilling to come to Me that you may have life." (John 5:40)
"This is the judgment: Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light." (John 3:19)
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem... How often I wanted to gather your children together... but you were not willing!" (Matt. 23:37)
Again and again, Jesus locates the problem, not in God's unwillingness to save, but in man's unwillingness to come.
Not because someone was never elected.
Not because God secretly withheld the ability to respond.
Not because certain sinners belonged to a special category of people whom God had already determined could never come, regardless of how sincerely they desired Him.
The same pattern appears throughout His parables.
The sower does not withhold seed from certain soils.
The invitation to the wedding feast is genuinely extended, yet many refuse to come.
The servants are judged according to what they do with what they have received.
The wise and foolish virgins are distinguished by their preparedness.
The sheep and the goats are separated by their response to the King.
Even when Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, He does not lament because the Father withheld from them the possibility of coming.
He laments because they would not come.
The apostles preach the very same way.
Hebrews says of the wilderness generation: "They could not enter because of unbelief." (Heb. 3:19). "The word preached did not profit them, because it was not united by faith." (Heb. 4:2).
Paul describes that same generation as enjoying astonishing covenant privileges. They all passed through the sea, were under the cloud, ate spiritual food, and drank spiritual drink. Yet most of them perished because their lives revealed persistent unbelief through rebellion, idolatry, sexual immorality, testing God, and continual grumbling (1 Cor. 10:1–10).
The biblical diagnosis is strikingly consistent.
Not a lack of revelation. Not a lack of divine invitation. Not a lack of God's goodness. But unbelief.
How did we arrive at a place where it requires elaborate philosophical systems and highly sophisticated scholarship to convince us that Scripture teaches something its original audience would never have inferred from reading it?
How did we move from the beautiful simplicity of Christ's Gospel to theological systems that often seem to explain away His plain words?
This is precisely why I struggle with explanations suggesting that God extends something resembling salvation while never truly intending to save many of those who receive the invitation.
The consistent portrait of Scripture is of a God who genuinely calls, sincerely invites, faithfully warns, patiently endures, and justly holds people accountable for their response to His Son.
The Gospel never presents Christ as saying,
"You wanted to come, but you were excluded."
Rather, the repeated tragedy is this:
"You were not willing."
May we never elevate the words of uninspired men above the only inspired Word of God.
It is easy to criticize Eve for listening to the serpent, yet have we considered how persuasive error can appear when it is clothed in intellectual sophistication? The serpent did not begin with an outright denial of God's Word. He simply caused Eve to question it.
Many theological systems can do the same today. They are often beautifully argued, intellectually satisfying, and rhetorically polished, yet they subtly move us away from the plain reading of Christ's own words.
May we never exchange the simplicity of the Gospel for the wisdom and sophistry of men.
And may we never harden our hearts, but respond in faith to the gracious, sincere, and honest invitation of Christ.
@ProudlyRonu You can't pick and choose it is the same thing. Christianity was not invented by the Romans, it is God's answer to humanity's cry for help. Christ came to save mankind and reconcile us back to God, He has granted us freedom the choice is yours to accept it.
There is no historical evidence that any popular portrait is the actual face of Jesus. He walked the earth as a Jewish man from Judea in the Middle East. Claims that he was definitively white, black, or any modern racial category go beyond the evidence
@_omoh_ Jesus is white.
I don't understand why many of you are uncomfortable with this reality.
Even in your churches, the pics of Jesus show he's white.
But you come online and lie to your audience just because you wanna sound cool.
Without the Romans Christianity won't exist.
If you ever watched the nun, conjuring etc, you would see that the battle was won when a Priest came and carried out exorcism on the possessed and most of the possessed got it through dreams, idols, weird demonic games. The west also potrays that true freedom is in Christ
This movie is the answer to those saying there are no films about terrorism against Christians.
Here's one example, and it's still available on YouTube.
@ProudlyRonu In the same way, Romans embracing Christianity centuries after it began is not evidence that they invented it. Preserving, spreading, or renaming something is not the same as creating it. I hope this helps
@ProudlyRonu That's like saying the Hausa invented the Yoruba because they were among the first to use the name "Yoruba" broadly. Nobody would accept that argument because the Yoruba people existed before the name became widespread.
Mr Fedola,You can disagree with me without resorting to insults and foul language. You are right that we do not share the same biological ancestors. However, as a Christian, my identity is first in Christ. I am made in the image and likeness of God, a Son of God, and a joint heir
This animal is not Yoruba.
We don't even practice the same type of Christianity with you animals, neither do we have the same ancestors, tradition and culture.
You and your people must be mad. Animal
with Christ. Do you know Christianity also teaches proper conduct and speech? We are instructed to speak with grace, wisdom, and respect, even when we strongly disagree. Abusive language does not strengthen an argument it only weakens it.
@Adeboye_matador That's the point. Ethnicity isn't determined solely by skin colour Africans, Arabs, Europeans, Asians, Australians etc all have diverse appearances. Whether Jesus fits the modern racial category or not, he walked the earth as a Jewish man from 1st-century Judea in the Middle East
Get your tickets!!! October 1st we storm the cinemas. Christians and unbelievers you are all invited. Don't let anyone gaslight you.
Jesus is real, very very real and christianity is not some whiteman religion.
#mikebamiloye#mountzionmovies#joshuamikebamiloye#christianmovies
Here we go again with the same stupid, tired propaganda.
Mount Zion and others need to understand that the era of demonizing Yoruba culture and spirituality is over. People are educating themselves now, and these old narratives will no longer go unchallenged.
Respect your faith, but stop turning Yoruba culture into the villain of every story.
For over three decades, films like this have profited from portraying Yoruba spirituality as evil while presenting foreign religious worldviews as inherently good. Yet many of the social problems facing society today clearly weren’t solved by that propaganda.
Mike Bamiloye built a successful career from this formula, moved his family abroad, and now returns to sell the same story again. The difference is that people are now asking questions, and many are no longer willing to accept these portrayals without scrutiny.
@cxjbug I always hope for the truth. Every believer should always conduct a lithuim test to check what is of God and what is not of God whether it sits well with them or not.
AGO said this during the just concluded IEC. This "the Holy Spirit told me" that contracdicts scriptures and God's character should be rebuked and corrected in love, for the sake of the body.
I am glad every believer is against it.
“The Holy Spirit told me” has become a useful tool in the hands of Satan to promote self delusion.
Once you say, The Holy Spirit said, how can anyone talk you out of your insanity?