Yesterday @soughtoutnation ... I was alone in church for the 1st hour of the service.. So I was reading the Bible as the Bluetooth battery won't last more than 10 minutes if not charged so I couldn't play a message to minister to myself.
After an hour exactly a man walked in
@jon_d_doee I swear one nearly killed me with constant insistent on attention , she was even sending my numbers to guys that ask her out , I never knew she was keeping the one she likes till we had issue 😂 na two months I take recover.
A young man who was known around our community, but wasn’t part of our church, had been killed in a motorbike accident. It was sudden and awful. He had come off his bike and died after hitting the road.
Our pastor stood up in church and told the congregation what had happened. Then, almost as an aside, he added something that has stayed with me ever since.
“Unfortunately, this young man was not saved. We can only hope in the split-second before his head hit the concrete that he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour.”
I remember sitting there thinking about that split second.
According to the theology I had grown up with, everything now depended on what had happened inside this young man’s head during those final terrifying moments. Somewhere between losing control of the motorbike and hitting the concrete, he needed to realise he was about to die, think about Jesus, repent of his sins and accept him as Lord and Saviour.
And if he didn’t?
That was it.
There were no second chances. No further opportunity to encounter God. No possibility that death might reveal something we couldn’t see from this side of it. His few seconds had run out, and an eternity of punishment had begun.
So I asked, What if he was saved. What if he gave his life to Jesus before getting involved in that accident?
The pastor replied, "Then it is now between him and God because he might be thinking a lustful thought, or maybe he was riding his motorcycle in an angry mood or perhaps he had lost his temper or maybe he had dishonoured his parents or abandoned his wife or impregnated a lady and not accepted responsibility or even coming from a meeting with a lady who is not his wife.
So many things could be in the way of his making heaven, even though he gave his life to Jesus.
Only God can decide his fate now.
This was very perplexing to me.
If he died without giving his life to Jesus, we were sure he was eternally damned
If he died as a believer, we were unsure whether he would reign with Jesus due to some behavioural issues he might have...
I refused to believe the No or Maybe answer.
There has to be a YES somewhere, and it must come with an assurance that I can bank on at any time of the day and not only after I had died and gone to wherever the case would be judged.
Then I read the books of John, Romans, and Colossians with some emphasis on (John 3, Romans 8, Colossians chapters 1-4, Ephesians 2, Hebrews 5, Hebrews 9, 1 Corinthians 15, Romans 10, John 10, John 5)
The Holy Spirit taught me that once I got saved, it was eternal. Even I cannot take back the life I so willingly surrendered when I accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Lord and saviour.
I am once saved, I am always saved
I went to a church for child dedication today. They were celebrating some number of girls who are virgins, offered them certificates as demanded by the church after going through tests.
I stepped out to buy water and heard one girl hissing and said "nonsense church".
He is not wrong, just foolish.
He made that statement when he was being consistently foolish, rather than being quietly ashamed.
The ultimate form of love is to sacrifice your life. You should be willing to die for your partner, for your country, for your faith. So yes, he was right, but he was foolish.
I remember when I was working at Cosa Nostra (Obafemi Martins’ club) as a waiter.
That fateful morning, around 3–4 AM, CDQ came in with Skales and some of his guys. They bought drinks and mixers and started chilling and vibing.
At some point, the guys started spraying money 1k and 500 notes everywhere. I was just standing there watching because at Cosa, you dare not pick money. 😂 Cameras are everywhere and there are so many people monitoring you. If you’ve worked there before, you’ll understand me.
So I was just standing there while money was everywhere, until CDQ called me.
CDQ: “Iwo o sha owo ni? Abi your papa get bullion van for house?”
Me: “No Baba, them go sack me if I pick.”
CDQ: “Hiaaa, why?”
Then he called two girls he came in with and told them:
“Ba werey yen shaa wo yen.” 😂
Bro, those babes picked more than 150k for me that night.
As a waiter, I’ll never forget that day. And any day I get the opportunity to meet or speak to CDQ, I’ll tell him about this story.
That single act meant a lot to me. ❤️
CDQ ❤️🔥
I witnessed something several years ago.
Four students of a Polytechnic, played a fast one on an Alhaja and duped her of five million naira.
They told her they would supply her with computers for an extra-mural school she was running
One of them was her lover, a student whom she was sleeping with outside of her marriage
She trusted him and handed over the money to him
The young man ghosted with her money
She had no receipt or evidence of the crime, and she couldn't arrest this young man without exposing the fact that she had been cheating on her husband.
She didn't know how to recover her money, so she confided in an old friend who was a Police DPO.
The DPO listened to her case, got the description and address of the main culprit and placed him under observation.
The guy and his friends believed they had gotten away with the crime
They bought a car for four hundred thousand Naira, clothes, and other pleasures also followed
A few weeks later, at a checkpoint at Sango, police officers stopped their car for a stop and search and as soon as the one driving popped open the boot, a police officer threw a pistol in it.
It was so swiftly done that nobody noticed.
The driver came down to lift up the boot, and the first thing he and the officer saw was the gun.
He was so shocked that he just stood there, transfixed.
The officers held him by the belt and started shouting, "Thief, thief, armed robber, what are you doing with a gun"
The boys were arrested and thrown in jail.
They all denied ever having a gun or owning one
Their fingerprints were not on the gun, and neither did they have any form of gunpowder or ammunition on their bodies.
They were searched, their flat was searched and about four million Naira was found
They were told to explain the money. They said it was from a business transaction with the woman. The woman was invited. She told the police that she paid them five million naira, and they ghosted with her money. They said they didn't ghost; they were working on the contract and didn't want to bother her with the details.
She said she was no longer interested in the deal
They invited the boys' parents
The parents paid the extra one million, paid the bail for the boys, and the car was forfeited, plus other valuables.
The case never got to court, and the boys spent almost a month in Sango jail.
This is my point.
If you offend people and they decide to go all out to get you, even if they don't have any evidence, they will joyfully fabricate one and take delight in using it to rope you into trouble.
Look at Daniel in the Bible; look at Joseph.
Offending people is not a crime on its own, but it can push people to do you great harm.
-GSW-