How did the House of God become a Den of thieves?
We prioritised religious activities that focused on improving our brands and making profits rather than serving our King with our lives and sacrifices.
We desecrated sacred and holy things because we wanted to have more fun, so we chose to play with demons instead of labouring with God.
We embraced human philosophy and carnal strategies and made it the dominant conversation from the pulpit, so we became a house of men instead of a House of God.
We sought the favor of kings and celebrities to the point that we compromised the message of our God to become more attractive to our customers.
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Saul was moving mad and wanted David dead. God had even already rejected Saul, yet David still honored him as God's anointed.
His reverence for God shaped his response, not Saul's behavior.
In our day, it will die a woeful death!
Have your three minutes of fame but the true word of God will outlast any falsehood.
As Gamaliel inferred, time will judge the truth!
Doctrines that have withstood years of debates won't die because "logic" church and Ayintete are making noise!
If it’s acceptable for a woman to leave a man because he can’t give her the life she wants, then it should be just as acceptable for a man to leave after he builds that life and realizes he wants something different.
Fairness only matters when it applies both ways.
Man to man:
Do not date a girl who cannot admit she’s done anything wrong. This type of girl will drive you insane. Basically, she’ll do something wrong/hurtful and if you bring it up with her, she’ll get upset that you’re upset and it’ll lead to an argument and somehow, she becomes the victim again and you the villain.
I pity pastors who flatter themselves.
Many of the people who claim to be your disciples and apprentices are just waiting for your absence to live out what they really value and desire.
Large following and crowd acceptance don't mean people are imitating the Jesus you are preaching.
Labour your heart out and trust God to give the increase to your plantings and watering, but please don't let the numbers and ratings impress you so much.
Many are following with a click.
Jesus demands we follow with a cross.
Eternal security is found in Christ, not apart from Christ. Our confidence is not in a doctrine detached from a Person; it is in the living Christ, who is able to keep, preserve, and perfect all who abide in Him. "He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him" (Hebrews 7:25). "He is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory" (Jude 24).
However, sonship does not abolish human responsibility. Becoming a child of God does not mean you cease to be a free moral agent. God does not save you by destroying your will. Love cannot be coerced, and covenant cannot exist without response. You still possess the capacity to obey or rebel, to remain or to depart, to persevere or to forsake.
This is precisely why Jesus repeatedly commands, "Abide in Me" (John 15). Such an exhortation would be unnecessary if abiding were automatic. He warns that branches that refuse to remain in the Vine wither and are cut off (John 15:6).
Paul echoes the same truth: "Continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off" (Romans 11:22). The writer of Hebrews warns believers against "departing from the living God" (Hebrews 3:12) and repeatedly calls them to hold fast their confidence to the very end.
The believer's security is therefore the security of abiding union, not independent immunity. Christ has never failed to keep anyone who remains in Him, and He never will. His grip is unbreakable, but Scripture never encourages us to let go of Him.
The New Testament holds two glorious truths together without contradiction: God is mighty to keep, and believers are commanded to continue. We must never magnify one truth by silencing the other.
Eternal security is not a licence to drift from Christ; it is the triumphant assurance that everyone who abides in Christ is eternally secure because Christ Himself is their Keeper.If your goal is to provoke theological reflection, this version strikes a firmer, more compelling tone while staying closely aligned with the biblical exhortations to persevere.
When a woman cheats, she does not feel guilty. She becomes angry at the man she betrayed. And the craziest part is this: she rewrites the entire story until he becomes the villain. Eventually, she believes her own lie.
“I believe in eternal security as long as you stay in Christ. He is able to keep you secure. But just because you are a son of God does not mean you are not a free moral agent. You still have a will of your own, and you can choose to stay in Christ or to forsake Christ altogether.” - Kenneth E. Hagin
@m_eyit If I was not a believer and I come in contact with you and the way you show lack of grace, I’d assume right away that all believers are like that! Sincerely, I think at best you are a NOMINAL believer. I can only pray that Jesus will colonize you & make you whole! So, REST!
Do you know why I enjoy listening to Pastor Dolapo Lawal?
Simple.
I keep saying it, if I was a Pastor who climbs the Pulpit to Preach:
I would be Preaching what Pastor Dolapo Lawal preaches.
Why?
Simple.
Because Pastor Dolapo Lawal follows Scriptures.
I think we need to be careful as believers, and especially as ministers of the gospel, not to create theological categories that Scripture itself does not create in an attempt to balance the warning passages with the assurance passages.
For example, what does it mean to say, "A Christian can lose his salvation, but he will not because God will keep him"?
That may sound balanced at first hearing, but on closer examination it creates a theological contradiction rather than resolving one.
Either a truly regenerate believer can finally perish, or he cannot. There is no meaningful middle ground. If God has promised to preserve those who are truly His, then the question of whether they can finally be lost has already been answered by God's own saving work.
The true biblical balance is not that a believer can be lost but will not be. The biblical balance is that those who are truly saved are truly kept, while those who finally abandon Christ prove that their faith was never saving faith in the first place.
Jesus said:
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” John 10:27–28
This is not weak assurance. This is the promise of the Shepherd.
Jesus does not say, “My sheep may perish, but I will try to prevent it.” He says, “They shall never perish.” The ground of the believer’s security is not the strength of the sheep but the faithfulness of the Shepherd.
Paul teaches the same truth:
“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation… ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.” Ephesians 1:13–14
A true believer is not merely touched by the Spirit. He is sealed by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of the believer’s inheritance until the final redemption. If the seal can fail, then the guarantee is not truly a guarantee.
This is why salvation must first be understood as Scripture presents it. Salvation is not merely joining a church, praying a prayer, being baptized, having an emotional experience, or making a public profession. Salvation is God’s decisive work of regeneration, justification, adoption, sealing, and union with Christ.
Jesus called it the new birth.
When Nicodemus asked, “Can a man enter the second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus used that very impossibility to teach the necessity of being born of the Spirit. Birth creates life. Birth creates identity. Birth creates relationship. The New Testament never speaks of a person being born of God and then becoming unborn.
John says those who receive Christ are “born… of God” (John 1:12–13). Paul says, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). The old man has been crucified with Christ. A new life has begun. That new life is not the product of human effort, and it cannot be reversed by human weakness. That old life doesn't exist again, so there's nothing to go back to.
This does not mean believers never sin. Scripture never teaches sinless perfection. Believers may stumble, struggle, need correction, and require discipline. But Scripture distinguishes between a believer’s struggle with sin and a life finally characterized by unbelief and departure from Christ.
Peter is a perfect example.
Peter denied Christ three times. His failure was grievous. Yet before he fell, Jesus said:
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.” Luke 22:31–32
Peter fell, but his faith did not finally fail. Why? Because Christ interceded for him. Even in his darkest failure, Peter did not cease to be one of Christ's own. He did not lose his sonship, forfeit the new birth, or need to be born again a second time. Rather, the same Lord who prayed for him also restored him. His restoration was not a second regeneration, but the loving recovery of a wandering son.
This is not unique to Peter. Hebrews says Christ “ever liveth to make intercession” for those who come to God by Him and is therefore “able also to save them to the uttermost” (Hebrews 7:25). The believer’s perseverance is secured by Christ’s ongoing priestly ministry.
Judas is different.
Judas was not a true believer who lost salvation. Jesus said from the beginning that some did not believe, and John explains that Jesus knew “who they were that believed not, and who should betray him” (John 6:64). Jesus later said, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” (John 6:70). Judas walked with Christ outwardly, but he never belonged to Christ savingly.
That distinction is vital. Not everyone who is around Christ is in Christ. Not everyone who serves in religious activity has experienced the new birth. Not everyone who says “Lord, Lord” belongs to the Lord.
This is also why the warning passages must be read carefully.
Hebrews does not teach that Christ loses His sheep. Hebrews repeatedly warns against unbelief. The wilderness generation saw God’s power, experienced covenant privileges, ate manna, drank from the rock, and witnessed divine glory. Yet Hebrews says:
“So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” Hebrews 3:19
Again:
“The word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” Hebrews 4:2
Their problem was not lack of privilege. It was unbelief.
That same framework helps us understand Hebrews 6. The people described experienced profound spiritual privileges. They were enlightened. They tasted the heavenly gift. They were made partakers of the Holy Spirit. These descriptions should not be minimized.
But the author immediately gives an illustration:
Land that drinks in the rain and bears useful fruit receives blessing. Land that bears thorns and briers is rejected and near to being cursed. Hebrews 6:7–8
The rain is real. The privilege is real. The experience is real. But the fruit reveals the land. It shows they were never saved.
Then the author says:
“But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation.” Hebrews 6:9
That phrase matters. The author distinguishes profound spiritual privilege from “things that accompany salvation.” Hebrews 6 is not describing a sealed believer becoming unsealed, a born-again person becoming unborn, or Christ losing one of His sheep. It warns against receiving great light and still remaining barren in unbelief.
The same is true in the epistles. The Corinthians had serious sins: division, carnality, lawsuits, drunkenness, and even sexual immorality. Yet Paul still addressed them as “sanctified in Christ Jesus” and “called to be saints” (1 Corinthians 1:2). He rebuked them because their conduct contradicted their identity.
The Galatians were drifting into legalism. Paul corrected them sharply, but he still labored over them as those who needed Christ formed in them. The Ephesians were told to put off the old man and put on the new, not because they needed to become children of God again, but because they were to live consistently with what God had already made them in Christ.
This is important because some speak as though sexual sin alone can make a believer lose salvation. But sin is sin. Lying is sin. Pride is sin. Bitterness is sin. Gluttony is sin. Laziness can be sin. Covetousness is sin. If salvation could be lost by any sin, no believer would stand.
Our hope is not that we never stumble. Our hope is that we have an Advocate.
“If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” 1 John 2:1
A true believer does not make peace with sin. He may struggle, but he comes to the Father. He confesses. He is corrected. He is disciplined. He grows. He works out in conduct the salvation God has already worked in him by grace.
That is why assurance is not presumption.
Presumption says, “I can live in sin because I once made a profession.”
Assurance says, “Christ has saved me, sealed me, and is sanctifying me; therefore I will follow Him.”
The Bible gives no comfort to the hypocrite who claims Christ while loving darkness. But it gives strong comfort to the believer who belongs to Christ and struggles in dependence upon Him.
Romans 8 gives the believer one of the strongest assurances in Scripture: “Whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Romans 8:30
Paul speaks of glorification as so certain that he writes it as already done. Then he asks, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” His answer is not “many things can.” His answer is that nothing in all creation can separate the believer from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
So the issue is not whether God’s children are warned. They are.
The issue is what those warnings mean.
Warnings are real means God uses to keep His people watchful, humble, and persevering. They also expose those who are merely near the covenant community but never truly united to Christ by faith.
The Bible’s message is not that salvation can be gained, lost, regained, and lost again. The Bible’s message is that Christ saves completely those who come to God through Him.
A true Christian may fall, but Christ restores.
A true Christian may struggle, but Christ intercedes.
A true Christian may be disciplined, but God does not abandon His child.
A true Christian may be weak, but the Shepherd does not lose His sheep.
That is not careless security.
That is biblical assurance.
Christ is not merely the author of our faith. He is the finisher of it.
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6
"My wife is waiting for me at home, at the home I built for us and our 4 kids. I don't mean to be rude but I've got no use for your phone number."
The smile on my face after hearing that? Priceless. Even the woman smiled, respected his response, and walked away.
To Yasir’s wife: you chose well. 🧢