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Pastor Toks Oshokoya
*THE FALLEN CHURCH*
*(The devil’s playground)*
It amazes me today to see so many Church buildings been built, so many Pastors been called, so many sermons been preached, so many prayers been prayed and yet, people cannot seem to overcome sin and their problems keep increasing every single day,  especially people who profess to be Christians…  After series of prayers, I asked God, why are all these happening? And that was when He began with me on the journey to _*”THE FALLEN CHURCH”*_
He said to me………
I see my children gathered in churches to pray against the devil “Lucifer” and all they do is to scream *”Holy Ghost Fire, Fire Fire”* as many times as they can, they go home *tired* and *exhausted* and yet nothing happens… You see, _*Its because they dont really know who this devil is, let alone how to overcome him.*_ My Son, do you remember what Lucifer did in heaven some time ago? “I couldn’t answer”
You see, *the devil is not scared because you scream Fire Fire Fire*, this is someone who was able to persuade and pervert 1/3 of my angels who were with me, do you know what angels are made of?
*Psalm 104:4* _”Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire”_
My angels are made spirits and were covered in flames of fire and yet Lucifer was able to corrupt their Divine nature and convert them into demons, and my children on earth think they can overcome him by just screaming fire? Even those who were made with fire fell to his schemes, how much more you who are flesh and blood?
My Son, I will show you how to overcome the enemy so you can save my *CHURCH* and other *Souls* hungry for my salvation….
You see, the strategy of the enemy will never change, in the garden of Eden, _*he used what was around man to destroy what was in man*_. When the devil attacks your *finances*, _Its not because he needs your money_, because Lucifer doesn’t spend money in the dark world, he doesn’t attack your *marriage* because he wants to marry your spouse, he doesn’t attack your *car* because he wants a new ride… *You see, when the devil attacks any of these things*, _*its because he has realised your heart is connected to them*_ so *if he can touch them, then he can touch your heart  and destroy you*. The devil will _*always uses what is around you to get what is in you.*_
But *Christians today are more mindful of what is around them, more than what is in them*, _*we are more scared of loosing money than loosing our soul*_ and that is why we can never overcome the devil, _*instead of setting your heart on fire through purity and righteousness*_, you are rather praying to set fire around your business, money, cars, future… I pity the Church, _*if the devil is able to capture your heart by making you live in sin, he has power over your physical materials…*_
*Proverbs 4:23* says _*”Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life”*_
Keeping something diligently is more like guarding it from any external influence but unfortunately, the *Church today is seriously guarding physical materials and we have sold our soul so cheap to the devil*, and that’s why *we don’t care living in sin and immorality but we are scared of not getting a marriage partner, or not making a lot of money*… We scream fire fire fire, whiles our heart is as cold as winter… *We have neglected the messages that prepares people for the second coming Jesus Christ and all we talk about is how to make money and be prosperous on earth*, and _*the more the messages of Repentance, Holiness, Fear of God, Heaven and Hell are neglected the more Sin increases,  and the more sin increases, the more the Churches fall before Satan…*_
The fallen Church will only be mindful of building an _*extravagant building with broken souls living in it*_ and that is why there are _*Christians speaking in tongues in Church and yet addicted to all kinds of secret sins*_, and they will tell you *”We are living under grace”* as if _*grace is a license to sin.*_
Its a pity seeing my *Church walk in deception…*
They have believed in this deception that there was *God the father who was always angry at sin, and there is Jesus the Son who also smiling at sin* and says…  As long as you have your church’s membership record intact, you have a fat wallet to keep your pastor always smiling, you have a few bible verses you can memorise, a nice Voice to sing about me and a deep Voice to preach about me, you can do anything you want and live anyhow… My Church is in trouble.
But I will still save those who want to be saved. So go and spread this message to all men,  delivering them from the venom of Sin… Tell them _*to be more mindful of the sins that corrupt the soul, than the witch that stole their money*_, because _*if a witch can steal your money, its because it first corrupted  your soul through sin.*_
*A WORD TO THE CHURCH*
*1 Samuel 12:20-25*
_*And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty. For the Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself. Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way. Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.*_
*Without Repentance, there will be no Revival and all you will be left with will be Noise making.*
Please spread this message to all and save _*”THE FALLEN CHURCH”*_ God is counting on you.

 

 

The First Frontier – Sarah’s Chance

“Are There Two Jesus?”

The text is from Acts 10:24

“Now Cornelius was waiting for them, and had called together his relatives and close friends”

The Story Of Sarah And David

Read this story and understand why you must ARISE AND SHINE!

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Are there two Jesus?

“David your food is getting cold”, Sarah called as her six years old son seemed to be glued to his Bible.

She walked straight towards him and snatched the Bible from him angrily.

“I told you I am already late for work, moreover, what are you looking for? for the past one week you seems to be inseparable from your Bible” Sarah asked as she helped David to adjust his school uniform.

“Mom, I can’t seem to find my answer, perhaps you may help me” David said.

“Okay sweety but eat your food first and then you can ask your question in the car”, she replied.

David was so excited, he was finally going to get an answer to the question that has been bothering him for long. Within a twinkle of an eye, he had finished up with his food.

They entered into the car and as his mother drove on he asked “Mum, may I ask my question now? ”

“Of course”, Sarah replied.

“Mum, are there two Jesus?”

“Hmn, what did you say?”, Sarah asked to be sure she heard her son well.

“Mom, are there two Jesus?”, he repeated the same words.

“Will you shut up! what sort of blasphemy is that? who has been teaching this heresy?”, Sarah asked angrily.

David was now shaky “Our new teacher taught us that…”

“Oh oh, your new teacher has been feeding you with such heresies, no problem I will go and see him before going to my office, better I go late than leave you like this” Sarah interrupted her son.

When they got to the school, the morning devotion had already started. Sarah walked straight to the teacher not minding if she was going to disturb the other children.

“What have you been teaching my son? if you aren’t capable to be a teacher then resign, okay?”.

Before the teacher could say anything, Sarah had slapped her. The school proprietress’ attention was promptly called to this matter, and they were all ordered into her office.

Both parties narrated their own part of the story.

The proprietress brought David closer to herself who was now shedding tears. She calmed him down and asked “why did you think there are two Jesus?”

Still crying he said

“Our teacher told us that Jesus is our father and his children behave exactly like him.

She said Jesus does not steal, lie, fight or stay away from church and that his children are the same”, David answered and sobbed.

“Okay, that’s true but that is not enough reason for you to believe that there are two Jesus”, the proprietress said as she wiped off David’s tears.

“Is there any other thing we need to know. Do not be afraid. Tell me what your teacher said. She won’t flog you?”

“My mum told me she is Jesus’ daughter. She regularly sings the song “I am a Jesus baby…”. But my mum still fights. I saw her take daddy’s money last month and when daddy asked, she denied it. This morning, she even fought with my daddy. So I thought probably mummy’s Jesus was different from my teacher’s Jesus. That was why I was searching my Bible to see if I will find my mummy’s Jesus”

By this time, a mist of tears had gathered in Sarah’s eyes, she was so ashamed, she could not look into her son’s eyes….

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THE MESSAGE

We are called by the Lord, the Light of The World.

Matthew 5: 15

“Ye are the LIGHT of the world. A CITY that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven”

I am thinking…that “ye” is meant for me as a person…the agent of change empowered by God.

My charge is to radiate the knowledge of God’s glory. To dispense the light of His Presence!

I see from this declaration that the first frontier of the discharge of my divine responsibilities is to make a CITY that cannot be obscured from visibility.

We are expected to transit from illuminating ourselves to our families and friends to making a City of believers!

How? What are the chances? What is available to create that first frontier – The City!

I see the city as the first set of people around me – my family and my friend!

[TREE OF LIFE example:

Gen 2: 9, 10

And the Lord God planted a GARDEN eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the TREE OF LIFE also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Rev 2: 7

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the TREE OF LIFE, which is in the midst of the PARADISE OF GOD.

Rev 22: 14

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the TREE OF LIFE and may enter in through the gates into the CITY]

The Cornelius Way:

In all our zeal to spread the gospel around the globe, we sometimes miss the most obvious and useful field of evangelism that is open to any of us – our own family and friends.

If we are to be a light in this dark world, who better to see that light shine than those who are closest to us? If we are to be salt to the earth, who better to taste the savor of the Savior in our lives than those with whom we interact on a daily basis? On the other hand, if we hide the open flame of our Christian witness under a basket when our dearest loved ones are with us, how can we ever hope to bring the good news to the heathen in another hemisphere?

Cornelius, a centurion of authority and influence, was also described as a man “of good report among all the nation of the Jews.” And yet when Peter came to preach the gospel, Cornelius did not call together the soldiers under him, nor did he reach out first to the many Jews who respected him in the community. He began with his own family and near friends.

It can sometimes be daunting to witness to loved ones with whom we interact on a regular basis. Sharing the gospel with them will necessarily mean having to live the gospel in front of them. Yet the clear emphasis of Scripture is that “going into all the world” and “preaching the gospel to the whole creation” begins by sharing the good news in our own living room, cul-de-sac, or cubicle.

The Challenge

What happens when this same people, our immediate nuclear family or close friends, are already damaged by ourselves? It happens my friend.

The Word of God had been declared in 2Cor 3:2 by apostle Paul,

“…Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart”

What if we had messed up in the past?

What if whatever we had “manifestly declared” by our day-to-day lifestyle in the past had been contrary to what the epistle of Christ ought to have been?

What if I had disgraced Christ in the past in front of my wife, children, friends and family?

Are there chances remaining for me to still fulfill the original mandate? The Light of The World.

Remember King David, after the moral tumble of Bathsheba.

David had seemingly lost the respect, regard and honor that his family, friends and certain citizens had for him. He had fallen from grace both with God and man! Isn’t it?

He had to bear the consequences of his mis-representation of God’s image.

Yet he did something. He turned to God in repentance…in HOPE of forgiveness, reconciliation and restoration of fellowship with God.

Psalm 51 (KJV – rearranged by me into key bunches)

“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:

according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity;

and in sin did my mother conceive me.

For I acknowledge my transgressions:

and my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,

and done this evil in thy sight:

that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest,

and be clear when thou judgest.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:

thou delightest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:

a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts:

and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Hide thy face from my sins,

and blot out all mine iniquities

Cast me not away from thy presence;

and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation:

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity,

and cleanse me from my sin.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;

and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Make me to hear joy and gladness;

that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

WHAT?!!!

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;

and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

O Lord, open thou my lips;

and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

FUTURE SACRIFICES

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion:

build thou the walls of Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering:

then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

HOW DARE THIS MAN?

After betraying God, defiling his bed and murdering a righteous man?

How dare you, DAVID say, thenafter, “…Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;

and sinners shall be converted unto thee…”. Who do you think God is?

2Samuel 12: 9 – 14

“….Wherefore

(1) hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight?

(2) thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and

(3) hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. …. Howbeit, because by this deed

(4) thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme,…”

These are weighty allegations which have been incontrovertibly proven by the Supreme Judge of The Whole Heavens and The Earth. Can your case own against your family and friends be worse than these?

The final verdict after SACRIFICE OF BROKEN HEART was

“The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His word was in my tongue.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me,

He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,

even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth

by clear shining after rain.

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an EVERLASTING COVENANT ORDERED in all things, and SURE;…”

I believe that there God indicated to us what we can do today in these words:

Cast Down but Unconquered

2Cor 4: 6,7

“For it is the God who commanded LIGHT TO SHINE OUT OF DARKNESS, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us”

We are expected TO BOUNCE BACK in Jesus name!

David still became the GOLD STANDARD for measuring the success of any leader of a people by God today!

The War!

The existence of darkness all around us should not be a surprise nor intimidate us into fear or despondency!

Satan

That is what satan wants to unleash on the nations of the world. Satan hates the human race, and wants to instigate us to do things that will earn us God’s Wrath and the rightful judgement of Hell. So he sends demons and fallen angels to do his work.

God

God, on His side, loves the people that He created in His own image and likeness. He loves the World that He sent His only beloved Son to die in our stead. The grace of God that brings salvation, is thus released on all who receive Him.

God sends you, His people and His angels to give knowledge and understanding to the peoples of this World.

Darkness – Wickedness, Sin, Violence and Idolatory:

These cannot defeat nor be allowed to molest us!

THE COMMAND & CHARGE:

Isaiah 60: 1-4

“Arise, SHINE;

For your LIGHT has come!

And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; BUT the Lord will arise over you,

And His glory will be seen upon you.

The Gentiles shall come to your LIGHT, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you;…”

ARISE AND SHINE!👊🏼

God is asking

♧ “Are there two (2) Jesus’?”

♧ “Whose son or daughter are you?”

Through the Eternal Spirit, Jesus sacrificed Himself unto God for us.

Hebrews 9: 13 – 15

“But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained ETERNAL REDEMPTION. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the ETERNAL SPIRIT offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the ETERNAL INHERITANCE.

Hebrews 10: 12 – 14

But this Man, after He had offered ONE SACRIFICE for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by ONE OFFERING He has perfected forever those who are BEING sanctified.

This sacrifice covers for SALVATION, HEALING, WISDOM and BLESSING!

Ephesians 1: 7, 8

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence”

1 Cor 1:

“But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us WISDOM from God—and RIGHTEOUSNESS and SANCTIFICATION and REDEMPTION – that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.”

When you are ready, He will be there…Ezek 36

And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,” says the Lord God, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.

For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses.

I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations. …. Not for your sake do I do this,” says the Lord God, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!”

Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken it, and I will do it.”

‘Thus says the Lord God: “I will also let the house of Israel INQUIRE OF ME TO DO THIS FOR THEM: I will increase their men like a flock. Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Let us pray….to the Cross.

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