RICHIE

Lawyer by day, Dealmaker by passion. Contracts, Corporate, Entertainment Lawyer. 📧 [email protected]

[RICHIE @richyritchie]

Hi Creatives, I have something for you.

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[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

We literally witnessed corruption in broad daylight and there’s nothing we can do about it

[RICHIE @richyritchie]

And the next thing was to bring out your phone to record him. What if he was pressed? What if he has a condition that doesn’t allow him hold urine for longer periods? Would you prefer he urinated on his body so the whole bus can smell it?

[Henry @Uzuakoliii]

Entered BRT this evening and I couldn’t get a seat so I had to stand, I was already angry because the rain messed the day up, few minutes into the journey and this man brought out his penis and started urinating inside a plastic bottle inside the bus.

Can you imagine ? 😡😡

[LIVELY @mc_lively_]

Are you complaining to us?

[Benjamin Dada @DadaBen_]

In 2018, I blessed @ajebutter22 😂 to go forth and excel in fintech.

(Kmt, not me looking like a regulator)

Three years later he launched Muva and last year his bootstrapped company processed $200M 👏🏽

Today, @thecondia announced that he’s secured an IMTO licence from the CBN

[Sheni Coker @sheni_coker]

Yes, the government is useless, but those of you throwing plastics and trash out of your car windows are part of the problem too

[HER❤️ @Chiziterem_x]

I mistakenly opened STEM part of TikTok today
Una know book oo

[Oloyede Olayinka @YinKysmileS]

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

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Edward Norton talking to himself at the USA-Türkiye game 😅

[RICHIE @richyritchie]

Olodo culture .

[𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 @AsakyGRN]

The moment Jarvis stepped on stage at University of Lagos, she asked if the students would be nice to her and they all said “No” and she angrily left the stage afterwards 😭😭

[Kirubakaran Rajendran @kirubaakaran]

This is one of the most underrated advice. 👏
Being bored is a boon. Many don’t embrace that, in today’s world it has become so competitive, if you don’t work on anything for few hours or few days you tend to feel you aren’t productive.

[TOBOH🪖 @Tobzzy212]

You fit budget 50k for a week , make you spend 45k on Monday .

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Kevin James dropped a powerful reminder about prayer and God.

He said if you look back at all the things you once prayed desperately about, they all got taken care of, maybe not exactly how you wanted, but in a better way. The things that once kept you up at night aren’t even worries anymore.

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God… will guard your hearts and your minds.” - Philippians 4:6-7

[Amir ✝️👑⛪️📖✨️ @AAmirKh50764293]

Today we are Preaching the gospel in Pakistan 🇵🇰 please remember me in your prayers 🙏

[Chief Njoku @NemeremNjoku]

Dear son, do not go there

[RICHIE @richyritchie]

Generation of people who are so ashamed to face themselves in the mirror and tell themselves the truth, they also force others to play along in their delusion so they don’t get offended so they use the word “ politically correct”

[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

I'd say, "You can take your fat ass and get to stepping." we don't play the words hurt game over here. Fat is fat

[RICHIE @richyritchie]

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