THE CHURCH AT PERGAMOS

• 2: AND TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH IN PERGAMOS WRITE; THESE THINGS SAITH HE WHICH HATH THE SHARP SWORD WITH TWO EDGES;RE:2:13: I KNOW THY WORKS, AND WHERE THOU DWELLEST, EVEN WHERE SATAN’S SEAT IS: AND THOU HOLDEST FAST MY NAME, AND HAST NOT DENIED MY FAITH, EVEN IN THOSE DAYS WHEREIN ANTIPAS WAS MY FAITHFUL MARTYR, WHO WAS SLAIN AMONG YOU, WHERE SATAN DWELLETH.RE:2:14: BUT I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST THEE, BECAUSE THOU HAST THERE THEM THAT HOLD THE DOCTRINE OF BALAAM, WHO TAUGHT BALAC TO CAST A STUMBLINGBLOCK BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TO EAT THINGS SACRIFICED UNTO IDOLS, AND TO COMMIT FORNICATION.RE:2:15: SO HAST THOU ALSO THEM THAT HOLD THE DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLAITANS, WHICH THING I HATE.RE:2:16: REPENT; OR ELSE I WILL COME UNTO THEE QUICKLY, AND WILL FIGHT AGAINST THEM WITH THE SWORD OF MY MOUTH.RE:2:17: 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 HIDDEN MANNA, AND WILL GIVE HIM A WHITE STONE, AND IN THE STONE A NEW NAME WRITTEN, WHICH NO MAN KNOWETH SAVING HE THAT RECEIVETH IT.
• THE LETTERS TO THE 1ST THREE CHURCHES,BEGIN WITH A COMMENDATION “I KNOW THY WORKS”  GOD SEES WHAT WE DO FOR HIM
• HOW SAD,WHEN WE ALLOW BACKSLIDING TO DESTROY THE MANY GOOD DEEDS PERFORMED IN HIS NAME
•  THE WORD PERGAMOS SIGNIFIES A MIXED MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE    WORLD.
• THE FIRST PROBLEM THE LORD HAD WITH PERGAMOS WAS THE FACT THAT  THEY HAD EMBRACED THE PLEASURE OF MATERIALISM, SELF-INDULGENCE WORLDLINESS,AND IDOLATORY. 1 COR.10:21
• NOT ONLY WERE THEY COMPROMISING WITH THE WORLD, THEY PRACTISED THE DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLAITANS .
•  THE NICOLAITAN DOCTRINE EXALTED CHURCH LEADERS TO THE POSITION  OF GODS AND PUT DOWN THE MEMBERS.
•  THIS CHURCH IS IN DANGER BECAUSE IT IS LOCATED WHERE SATAN HAS HIS SEAT
• WE ARE ALL SURROUNDED BY SATANISTS AND MANY AGENTS OF SATAN AND WE MUST BE PRAYERFUL AND WATCHFUL
• EMMANUEL AMOS ENI AN EX SATANIST WROTE A BOOK TITLED DELIVERED FROM THE POWERS OF DARKNESS
• IN THE FOURTH CHAPTER  HE EXPOSES HOW SATAN FIGHTS CHRISTIANS
•  HE STARTS BY QOUTING EPH 6:10-12 “FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD,
• BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES”
•  FIGHTING CHRISTIANS HE SAYS
• AFTER THE COMMAND BY LUCIFER TO FIGHT THE CHRISTIANS, WE THEN SAT AND MAPPED OUT WAYS OF  FIGHTING THEM AS FOLLOWS :
• CAUSING SICKNESSES.
•   CAUSING BARRENNESS.
•  CASING SLUMBER IN THE CHURCH.
•  CAUSING CONFUSION IN THE CHURCH.
• CAUSING LUKEWARMNESS IN THE CHURCH.
• MAKING THEM IGNORANT OF THE WORD OF GOD.
• BY FASHION AND EMULATION.
• FIGHTING THEM PHYSICALLY.
• AMONGST THE ABOVE I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN TWO :

1. FIGHTING PHYSICALLY

• WITH THE T.V. GIVEN TO ME, I WOULD THROUGH IT SEE THE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS.
• WE DO NOT FIGHT HYPOCRITES BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO US ALREADY.
• WE WOULD THEN SEND OUR GIRLS FIRST TO THE BIG CHURCHES.
• INSIDE THE CHURCH THEY WOULD BE CHEWING GUM OR MAKE A CHILD CRY OR DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD DISTRACT THE PEOPLE FROM HEARING THE WORD OF GOD.
•  THEY MAY DECIDE TO COME SPIRITUALLY AND CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO SLEEP WHILE THE PREACHING IS GOING ON.
• THE MOMENT THEY SEE YOU HAVE A SOBER REFLECTION BECAUSE OF THE PREACHING, THEY WOULD WAIT ON YOU OUTSIDE THE CHURCH
• AND AS SOON AS YOU COME OUT, ONE OF THEM WOULD GREET YOU AND EVEN PRESENT YOU A GIFT (AND IT’S ALWAYS WHAT YOU LOVE) AND WOULD APPEAR VERY FRIENDLY.
• SHE WOULD DO EVERYTHING AND BEFORE YOU KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING YOU HAD FORGOTTEN ALL YOU LEARNT IN THE CHURCH.
• BUT FOR A REAL CHRISTIAN, ONE OF THESE GIRLS, AFTER THE SERVICE, WOULD JUMP OUT TO GREET YOU AND WOULD DESIRE TO KNOW YOUR HOUSE WITH THE PRETEXT THAT SHE WAS NEW IN TOWN AND DID NOT KNOW MANY CHRISTIANS AROUND.
• ON TAKING HER HOME, SHE WOULD QUICKLY BUY BANANAS AND THE CHRISTIAN WOULD TAKE THIS AS A GESTURE OF LOVE.
• SHE WOULD CONTINUE HER VISITS UNTIL SHE FINALLY PUTS OFF THE LIGHT OF CHRIST IN YOU AND THEN STOPS COMING.
• THE  MAJOR OPERATIONS IN THE LIVING CHURCHES AND FELLOWSHIPS ARE :
• DISCOURAGING THE  CHRISTIANS FROM READING AND STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD, AND THEREBY MAKING THEM IGNORANT OF THEIR AUTHORITY AND OF THE PROMISES OF GOD.
• IN CRUSADE GROUNDS THESE GIRLS WOULD BE SENT TO CAUSE DISAGREEMENTS AND QUARRELS.

HOW CHRISTIANS ARE KNOWN

• THE BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS ARE NOT KNOWN BY THE BIBLE THEY CARRY ALWAYS OR THE MANY FELLOWSHIPS THEY ATTEND.
• THEY ARE KNOWN IN THE SPIRIT WORLD BY THE LIGHT THAT SHINES CONTINUOUSLY LIKE A VERY BRIGHT CANDLE IN THE HEART OR A CIRCLE OF LIGHT AROUND THE HEAD OR A WALL OF FIRE AROUND THEM.
•  WHEN A CHRISTIAN IS WALKING ALONG, WE SEE ANGELS WALKING ALONG WITH HIM/HER, ONE BY THE RIGHT, ONE BY THE LEFT, AND ONE BEHIND.
•  THIS MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO COME NEAR HIM/HER.
•  THE ONLY WAY WE SUCCEED IS BY MAKING THE CHRISTIAN SIN, THEREBY GIVING US A LOOPHOLE TO COME IN.
•  WHEN A CHRISTIAN IS DRIVING A CAR AND WE WANT TO HARM HIM/HER, WE FIND THAT HE/SHE IS NEVER ALONE IN THE CAR.
• THERE IS ALWAYS AN ANGEL BY HIM/HER. OH IF THE CHRISTIAN ONLY KNOWS ALL THAT GOD HAS FOR HIM, HE WILL NOT MEDDLE WITH SIN OR LIVE CARELESSLY !

THE MAKING OF BACKSLIDDEN CHRISTIANS

• AS A CHAIRMAN APPOINTED BY LUCIFER, I WOULD SEND THESE GIRLS TO LIVING CHURCHES AND FELLOWSHIPS.
• THESE GIRLS WOULD BE WELL DRESSED AND AFTER THE PREACHING WOULD COME OUT FOR THE ALTAR CALL, PRETENDING TO HAVE RECEIVED CHRIST AND WOULD BE PRAYED FOR.
• AT THE END OF THE FELLOWSHIP OR SERVICE THEY WOULD HANG AROUND WAITING FOR THE PREACHER WHO NATURALLY WOULD BE VERY HAPPY FOR THESE NEW CONVERTS.
• THE SAID CONVERT MAY EVEN FOLLOW THE PREACHER TO HIS HOUSE.
•  IF THE PREACHER DOES NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF DISCERNMENT SHE WOULD LURE HIM INTO THE SIN OF FORNICATION OR ADULTERY.
• THIS TAKES PLACE THE MOMENT HE ADMIRES HER LUSTFULLY.
•  SHE WOULD MAKE SURE HE CONTINUED IN THIS SIN UNTIL SHE FINALLY QUENCHES THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN HIM AND THEN LEAVE HIM, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
• AT THIS JUNCTURE, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE A TESTIMONY OF A MINISTER.
•  IN THE EVIL SPIRIT WORLD HE IS KNOWN AS A MAN OF GOD.
• WHEN HE WENT ON HIS KNEES THERE WOULD BE CONFUSION AMONG US. WE THEREFORE SENT THESE GIRLS TO HIM.
• THIS MAN WOULDEVEN FEED THEM BUT WOULD REFUSE TO BE ENTICED.
•  THEY DID ALL THEY COULD BUT NEVER SUCCEEDED.
• AS A RESULT, THESE GIRLS WERE KILLED FOR THEIR FAILURE
•  I THEN CHANGED TO A WOMAN AND WENT TO HIM, AND BY WORDS AND ACTIONS TRIED TO ENTICE HIM, BUT HE WAS ADAMANT.
•  THIS WAS TOO MUCH FOR ME, SO I DECIDED TO KILL HIM PHYSICALLY.
•  ONE DAY, THIS MINISTER WENT TO ODUEKPE ROAD MARKET TOWN.
•  I WATCHED HIM AND AS HE BENT DOWN TO PRICE SOME COMMODITIES I WHEELED AN ON COMING TRAILER LOADED WITH DRUMS OF OIL INTO THE MARKET WHERE HE WAS.
• THE TRAILER STRUCK THE ELECTRIC HIGH TENSION POLE AND FELL RIGHT INTO THE MARKET, LEAVING MANY PEOPLE DEAD  BUT THIS MINISTER ESCAPED.
• HOW HE ESCAPED WAS A MIRACLE. ANOTHER DAY, I SAW HIM TRAVELLING TO A TOWN ON FOOT.
•  I AGAIN WHEELED AN ONCOMING ARMY LORRY LOADED WITH YAMS TO KILL HIM.
• THE LORRY WENT STRAIGHT INTO THE NEW CEMETERY ROAD, KILLED MANY PEOPLE,
• BUT THIS MINISTER AGAIN ESCAPED. AFTER THIS SECOND ATTEMPT WE GAVE UP. HE IS STILL ALIVE !
•  BECAUSE OF A SINGLE CHRISTIAN, THE DEVIL MAY DECIDE TO DESTROY MANY SOULS, THINKING HE COULD KILL HIM, BUT HE ALWAYS FAILS.
•  THESE INCIDENTS HAD HAPPENED TO MANY CHRISTIANS UNKNOWN TO THEM, BUT THEIR GOD ALWAYS DELIVERED THEM.
• THE TROUBLE IS, THE DEVIL DOES NOT GIVE UP. HIS  THOUGHTS ARE ALWAYS : “I MAY SUCCEED.”
• BUT HE NEVER DOES. AS LONG AS THE CHRISTIAN WALKS WITH GOD’S LOVE AND REMAINS IN HIM AND DOES NOT GET ENTANGLED WITH THE AFFAIRS OF THIS LIFE, THE DEVIL CAN NEVER SUCCEED, NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIES.ONLY THE UNBELIEVER IS AT HIS DISPOSAL.

 THE OPPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN

• THIS MOSTLY HAPPENS IN DREAMS. A CHRISTIAN MAY SEE IN HIS/HER DREAMS THE FOLLOWING :

1. A DEAD RELATION VISITING HIM/HER.

 2. MASQUERADES PURSUING HIM/HER.

3. MATES SWIMMING IN THE RIVER.

 4. MATES BRINGING FOOD AND ASKING HIM/HER TO EAT.

 5. A SINGLE FEMALE HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

• OR EVEN A MARRIED ONE HAVING SEX WITH A MAN.
• THIS, IF NOT DEALT WITH, SOMETIMES LEADS TO BARRENNESS.
• OR A PREGNANT WOMAN SEES HERSELF HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A MAN.
•   THIS, IF NOT IMMEDIATELY DEALT WITH, COULD LEAD TO A MISCARRIAGE.
• IF A CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCES THE ABOVE IN HIS/HER DREAMS, HE/SHE SHOULD NOT PUT IT ASIDE BY THE WAVE OF THE HAND,
• BUT ON GETTING OUT OF SLEEP HE/SHE SHOULD EXAMINE HIMSELF/HERSELF AND CONFESS ANY KNOWN SIN UNTO GOD, BIND ALL THOSE DEMONS AND CAST THEM BACK TO HELL
• AND ASK GOD TO RESTORE WHATEVER HAD BEEN TAMPERED WITH.
• THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. THE PERSON SHOULD ALSO SEEK THE HELP AND COUNSEL OF A MATURE SPIRIT-FILLED CHRISTIAN, OLDER IN THE FAITH.

THE DEVIL’S SOUL WINNING

• WHEN JESUS CHRIST WAS LEAVING THIS EARTH, HE GAVE HIS DISCIPLES A COMMAND : “GO YE INTO ALL WORLD AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS.”
• WHILE SOME CHRISTIANS ARE STILL WAITING FOR A MORE SUITABLE AND CONVENIENT TIME TO OBEY THIS COMMAND, THE DEVIL HAS ALSO GIVEN THIS COMMAND TO HIS AGENTS.
•  THE DIFFERENCE IS, THE DEVIL’S AGENTS ARE MORE SERIOUS IN WINNING SOULS THAN  THE CHRISTIANS !
• ONE OF THE AREAS OF THE DEVIL’S SOUL WINNING IS THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS,ESPECIALLY GIRLS SCHOOLS.
• SOME OF OUR GIRLS ARE SENT INTO THE SCHOOLS AS STUDENTS.
• WE SUPPLY THEM WITH ALL THE LATEST AND EXPENSIVE UNDERWEAR.
• THIS IS FIRST PRIORITY, BECAUSE IN GIRLS’ HOSTELS, THEY LIKE USING UNDERWEAR ONLY.
• OUR AGENT WOULD NEVER LACK ANYTHING,COSMETICS, DRESSES, UNDERWEAR, BOOKS, PROVISIONS AND MONEY.
•  A PARTICULAR BATHING SOAP WOULD BE GIVEN TO HER TO LEND TO ANY STUDENT WHO REQUESTS FOR SOAP FROM HER.
•  A GIRL DESIRING TO BE LIKE HER WOULD BE ATTRACTED AND WOULD BEFRIEND HER.
• GRADUALLY OUR AGENT WOULD INTRODUCE US TO HER.
• AT THIS POINT WE WOULD VISIT HER PHYSICALLY AND  WOULD START GIVING HER GIFTS AND MEETING HER NEEDS.
• WITH THIS, SHE WOULD JOIN US WILLINGLY. SHE IN TURN WOULD WIN ANOTHER AND SO ON. 
• THIS IS TAKEN AS A MISSION AND IT IS CARRIED OUT WITH A DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED.
•   ONE THING SHOULD BE MADE CLEAR : SATAN DOES NOT FORCE ANYONE TO COME TO HIM
• YOU MUST COME WILLINGLY. THAT IS WHY THE BIBLE SAYS : “RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU” (JAMES 4 : 7).
• ANOTHER AREA OF SOUL WINNING FOR THE DEVIL IS GIVING LIFTS.
• WE WOULD SEND OUR GIRLS TO STAND ON THE ROAD, AND USUALLY THEY ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL AND ATTRACTIVELY DRESSED.
• YOU WILL ALSO FIND THEM IN HOTELS AND THROUGH THESE AVENUES WE GET MEN AND WOMEN.
•  MANY PEOPLE WE SEE ADVERTISED IN THE PAPERS AS MISSING, GOT LOST THROUGH GIVING LIFTS TO GIRLS THEY DID NOT KNOW.
• YOU SHOULD THEREFORE BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LIFT IN YOUR CAR.
• PLEASE GIVE THIS MATTER YOUR MOST SERIOUS ATTENTION. 
• WILL YOU BE A BELIEVER OR A NON-BELIEVER?  YOUR ETERNAL DESTINY DEPENDS ON YOUR DECISION TODAY:
• HEB:3:7-13 “TO DAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE,: HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION, IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS. WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME, PROVED ME, AND SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS.: WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION, AND SAID, THEY DO ALWAY ERR IN THEIR HEART; AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN MY WAYS SO I SWARE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO MY REST.) TAKE HEED, BRETHREN, LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF, IN DEPARTING FROM THE LIVING GOD.BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TO DAY; LEST ANY OF YOU BE HARDENED THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN.
• HEB:4:1-2 LET US THEREFORE FEAR, LEST, A PROMISE BEING LEFT US OF ENTERING INTO HIS REST, ANY OF YOU SHOULD SEEM TO COME SHORT OF IT. FOR UNTO US WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED, AS WELL AS UNTO THEM: BUT THE WORD PREACHED DID NOT PROFIT THEM, NOT BEING MIXED WITH FAITH IN THEM THAT HEARD IT.

LOVE NOT THE WORLD

• CERTAIN  ORGANIZATIONS  THAT  SPECIALIZE  IN RELIGIOUS RESEARCH AND STATISTICS GOT MANY TROUBLIGNG  RESULTS OF THEIR RESEARCH
• ACCORDING TO THEM,,“BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS ARE  JUST AS LIKELY TO DIVORCE AS ARE NON-CHRISTIANS.”
• ONE OF THE RESEARCHERS IS CALLED  RON SIDER
• HE  WROTE  A BOOK TITLED  THE SCANDAL OF THE EVANGELICAL CONSCIENCE: WHY ARE CHRISTIANS LIVING JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD?
• RON SIDER ASSERTS THAT “BY THEIR DAILY ACTIVITY, MOST ‘CHRISTIANS’ REGULARLY COMMIT SIN
•  HE SAYS   THAT  WITH THEIR MOUTHS THEY CLAIM THAT JESUS IS THEIR LORD,
• BUT WITH THEIR ACTIONS THEY DEMONSTRATE THEIR COMMITMENT  TO MONEY, SEX, AND PERSONAL SELF-FULFILLMENT.”
• IN THIS HONEST  AND CHALLENGING BOOK, SIDER ADDRESSES  MANY  EMBARRASSING REALITIES  ABOUT  BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS
• ACCORDING TO HIM  MOST CHRISTIANS’ LIVES ARE NO DIFFERENT FROM THE LIVES OF THEIR UNBELIEVING NEIGHBORS.
• SIDER SAYS THAT  LACK OF SELF-DENIAL, MATERIALISM, RACISM, SELFISHNESS  AND SELF- CENTEREDNESS  AND MANY OTHER UNDESIRABLE TRAITS ARE COMMON PLACE AMONG CHRISTIANS.
• ACCORDING TO SIDER, ALTHOUGH AMERICAN CHRISTIANS   ARE COLLECTIVELY THE WEALTHIEST CHRISTIANS IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, THEY DON’T REALLY   TAKE CARE OF THE POOR
• ,THE SCANDAL OF THE EVANGELICAL CONSCIENCE  IS A GREAT BOOK THAT OFFERS  US SOLUTIONS TO REPAIR THE GAPS BETWEEN WHAT WE BELIEVE AND WHAT WE  PRACTICE.
• WHILE IT’S NOT EASY MEDICINE TO TAKE, THIS BOOK IS A MUCH-NEEDED PROPHETIC CALL   FOR ALL BELIEVERS TO REPENT AND TRULY TURN TO THE LORD FOR A TRANSFORMED LIVING.
• THE BOOK DEMANDS THAT AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD MUST START PRACTICING WHAT THEY PREACH AND WHAT THEY SAY THEY BELIEVE.
• THE NEW TESTAMENT   TEACHES THAT CHRISTIANS CAN’T ACCEPT JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOR WITHOUT ALSO HONORING HIM AS THEIR LORD AND OBEYING HIS TEACHINGS.
• IN THE FINAL CHAPTERS, SIDER  INSISTS THAT CHRISTIANS MUST STRENGTHEN THEIR ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE CHURCH AND “DETHRONE MAMMON” (MONEY) AS THE REAL OBJECT OF WORSHIP.
• HIS CRITICISMS ARE INSIGHTFUL  AND PROPHETIC.  WHY ARE CHRISTIANS LIVING JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD?
• WHY ARE THERE THESE GAPS BETWEEN   CHRISTIANS’ PRACTICES AND WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES?
• EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS SAY THEY BELIEVE IN BIBLICAL MORAL STANDARDS AND THE POWER OF GOD TO TRANSFORM LIVES.
• YET MOST ARE NOT LIVING ANY DIFFERENTLY THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD.
• FROM MONEY TO SEX TO RACISM TO PERSONAL SELF-FULFILLMENT, MANY CHRISTIANS  JUST LIVE LIKE THEIR WORDLY REALTIVES AND FRIENDS ,WITHOUT  ANY CONVICTION OR GUILT FEELINGS.
• RON SIDER PAINFULLY AND  HONESTLY  REVEALS THAT  THIS IS A VERY DEEP  PROBLEM
• HE  SAYS  THAT THE LIFE OF MANY CHRISTIANS  IS JUST THE OPPOSITE OF BIBLICAL TEACHINGS ON HOW  GENUINE FAITH IN THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN  CHANGE LIVES
• HE CHALENGES US TO APPLY  BIBLICAL TEACHINGS TO OUR LIVES,SO THAT WE CAN  CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN WHO WE ARE AS WORLDLY CHRISTIANS  AND WHO GOD CALLS US TO BE.
• EVERY NOW AND THEN, SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STEP ON THE TOES OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND FORCE US INTO THE PAIN OF SELF-EXAMINATION.IT  IS WORTH I
• THESE RESEARCHERS   SUMMON US TO TAKE THE GOSPEL SERIOUSLY.
• THIS IS  FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY   EVEN FOR THE SAKE OF OUR SOULS ,WE HAD BETTER TAKE NOTICE
•  IF YOU’VE EVER WONDERED WHY TODAY’S CHRISTIANS FAIL TO HAVE ANY POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON THE SOCIETY THIS IS THE REASON
• THE CONSCIENCE OF MANY CHRISTIANS  HAS BEEN PROGRAMMED MORE BY SOCIAL PATTERNS THAN BY THE SCRIPTURE.
• THIS IS  WHY  RON SIDER CRIES OUT AGAINST THIS SCANDAL AND CALLS ALL CHRISTIANS TO  GO BACK  TO CHRIST AND HIS WORD
• JESUS SAYS IN   Luk 9:23-26
• And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.: For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.
• RON SIDER’S GREATEST GIFT TO THE CHURCH IS HIS WILLINGNESS TO TELL US THE HARD, OBVIOUS TRUTH ABOUT OURSELVES
• THIS BOOK IS A STRONG MEDICINE. IT IS A DIAGNOSIS THAT WILL SHOCK YOU AND  TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY
• BUT IT IS  ALSO A PRESCRIPTION THAT COULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH ..
• “ACCORDING TO ANOTHER RESEARCH ONLY 9 PERCENT OF BORN AGAINS PAY THEIR  TITHE.
• THEY ALSO  SAY THAT “BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS ARE  JUST AS LIKELY TO DIVORCE AS ARE NON-CHRISTIANS
• AGAIN  IT IS SAID THAT OUT OF 12,000 TEENAGERS WHO TOOK THE PLEDGE TO WAIT FOR MARRIAGE, 80% HAD SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE IN THE NEXT 7 YEARS.
• TWENTY-SIX PERCENT OF PENTECOSTALS DO NOT THINK PREMARITAL SEX IS WRONG.
• THEY SAY THAT WHITE AND BLACK CHRISTIANS   ARE RACISTS .JUST LOOK AT THE CHURCHES EVEN HERE IN NAMIBIA
•  THE WHITE CHRISTIANS  DON’T LIKE TO GO TO BLACK CHURCHES AND VICE VERSA
• TRIBALISM REIGNS IN MANY CHURCHES TODAY.
• IN OTHER WORDS, THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AS A WHOLE IS APPARENTLY VERY MUCH LIKE THE WORLD.
• MANY GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND HAVE  AN ATTITUDE  OF RELIGION
• BUT THEIR FAITH IN CHRIST  IS, NOT A RADICALLY TRANSFORMING POWER.
• IT IS  BASICALLY AN ADDITION  TO THE SAME WAY OF LIFE THE WORLD LIVES
• ALL THESE WRITERS AND RESEARCHERS ARE SIMPLY  SAYING THAT BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS   SIN AS MUCH AS THE WORLD
• THAT BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS   SACRIFICE FOR OTHERS AS LITTLE AS THE WORLD,
• THAT BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS EMBRACE INJUSTICE AND WICKEDNESS AS READILY AS THE WORLD,
• THAT  BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS   COVET THINGS AS GREEDILY AS THE WORLD,
• THAT BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS ENJOY UNGODLY ENTERTAINMENT AS ENTHUSIASTICALLY  AS THE WORLD
• WHEN THE TERM “BORN AGAIN” IS USED TO DESCRIBE THESE PROFESSING CHRISTIANS, IT LOOKS LIKE  TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
• BECAUSE IT  WOULD BE LIKE  USING THE BIBLICAL TERM “BORN AGAIN” IN A WAY THAT WOULD MAKE IT UNRECOGNIZABLE BY JESUS CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES .
• ACCORDING  TO APOSTLE  PAUL “BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS”  ARE  PEOPLE WHO SAID THEY HAVE MADE “A PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO JESUS CHRIST  AND THAT HE  IS MORE  IMPORTANT IN THEIR LIVES THAN THE  WORLD ”
• THEY BELIEVE THAT WHEN THEY DIE THEY WILL GO TO HEAVEN BECAUSE THEY HAD CONFESSED THEIR SINS AND HAD ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR. Phlip:3:7-21
• But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:P Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
• IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT BEING CLASSIFIED AS “BORN AGAIN” IS NOT DEPENDENT UPON WHICH  CHURCH OR DENOMINATION YOU BELONG TO
• ACCORDING TO THIS RESEARCH THE TERM “BORN AGAIN” REFERS TO PEOPLE WHO SAY THINGS BUT ARE LIARS
• THEY SAY, “I HAVE A PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO JESUS CHRIST. HE IS  IMPORTANT TO ME BUT THEY BEHAVE LIKE THE WORLD.
• THEY SAY, “I BELIEVE THAT I WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. I HAVE CONFESSED MY SINS AND ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS MY LORD AND  SAVIOR.”
• BUT THESE  SO CALLED BORN AGAIN HEARTS HAVE NO MORE VICTORY OVER SIN THAN THE SINFUL  HEARTS OF THOSE IN THE WORLD.
• THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHINGS ABOUT SALVATION AND BEING BORN AGAIN IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT
• IT  GIVES US  THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY THAT THE NEW BIRTH RADICALLY CHANGES PEOPLE 1Cor:6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind. Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by  the Spirit of our God.
• 2 Cor.5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new
• ACCORDING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT IF YOU ARE NOT RADICALLY CHANGED YOU  ARE NOT BORN AGAIN.
• FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN IS TO DRIVE HOME THIS VERY TRUTH:
• 1 JOHN 2:29: “IF YOU KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS, YOU MAY BE SURE THAT EVERYONE WHO PRACTICES RIGHTEOUSNESS HAS BEEN BORN OF HIM.”
• 1 JOHN 3:9: “NO ONE BORN OF GOD MAKES A PRACTICE OF SINNING, FOR GOD’S SEED ABIDES IN HIM, AND HE CANNOT KEEP ON SINNING BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD.”
• 1 JOHN 4:7: “BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, FOR LOVE IS FROM GOD, AND WHOEVER LOVES HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD.”
• 1 JOHN 5:18: “WE KNOW THAT EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD DOES NOT KEEP ON SINNING, BUT HE WHO WAS BORN OF GOD PROTECTS HIM, AND THE EVIL ONE DOES NOT TOUCH HIM.”
• 1 JOHN 5:4: “EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD. AND THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD — OUR FAITH.”
• THE GREATEST ENEMY OF BOR AGAIN CHRISTIANS IS THE WORLD.
• UNTIL WE REALISE THAT WE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD AND THAT OUR FAITH IN CHRIST ACTUALLY GIVES US VICTORY OVER THE WORLD WE CANNOT BE TRULY FREE
• BIBLE TELS US NOT TO LOVE  THE WORLD ;1 JOHN 2:15-17 ; ROMANS 12:1-2;MATHEW 6:24
• WORLDLINESS HINDERS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD  IT HINDERS ANSWERS  TO PRAYERS JAMES 4:4-10

WHAT IS WORLDLINESS?

• 1 JOHN 2:16  EXPLAINS IT TO US
•  IT IS  THE LUST OF THE FLESH,  LUST OF THE EYES,  PRIDE OF LIFE
•  THE  TEMPTATION OF EVE EXPLAINS WORLDLINESS VERY WELL
•  SATAN ATTACKED EVE WITH THE  LUST OF THE FLESH,  THE  LUST OF THE EYES AND THE  PRIDE OF LIFE GEN. 3:1-7
•  ECCLESIATES 5:11 ASKS IF YOU ACQUIRE ALL THE GOODS  IN THE WORLD, WHAT WILL YOU ACHIEVE EXCEPT TO ENJOY LOOKING AT THEM ?
• JESUS ASKS WHAT SHALL IT PROFIT YOU IF YOU GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOOSE YOUR SOUL IN HELL MARK 8:36
• ONCE ADAM AND EVE HAD EATEN TO SATISFY THEMSELVES THEIR EYES WERE OPEN TO SEE THEIR NAKEDNESS
• SATAN LEFT THEM IN THE HANDS OF GOD TO STRUGGLE WITH THE CURSE
•  THEY WERE NAKED AND COULD NOT STAND IN GOD’S PRESENCE
•  FEAR, SHAME AND GUILT KICKED IN GENESIS 3 : 9-18
• WHAT DID THEY GAIN? PROBLEMS
• ESAU SATISFIED HIS FLESH AND LOST HIS HERITAGE FOREVER  HEBREWS 12:15-17
• THE WORLD, THE LUST OF THE EYES, THE  LUST OF THE FLESH AND THE  PRIDE OF LIFE IS JUST THE ENEMY OF YOUR SOUL
• YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN JESUS GIVES VICTORY OVER THE WORLD  1 JOHN 5:4
•  HE WILL TAKE AWAY ALL GUILT AND CONDEMNATION  ROMANS 8
• SATAN TRIED THE SAME TRICKS WITH JESUS BUT HE FAILED
• KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS AND CALL ON HIM TONIGHT
• WHY SHOULD THE WORLD DICTATE WHAT YOU DO OR WEAR TO YOU?
• THE WORLD IS NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT JESUS SAYS  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. JOHN 14:17
• DON’T LET THE WORLD SEDUCE AND TEACH YOU WRONG THINGS,THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN ONLY TEACH YOU THE TRUTH: 1Jo:2:26-27:
• These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
• THE WORLD CANNOT TELL YOU THE TRUTH BECAUSE THE WORLD DOES CANNOT RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
• THE WORLD CANNOT EVEN SEE HIM SO STOP CONFUSING HIM WITH THE WORLD. Joh:15:18-19:
•  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you
• DON’T WORRY IF THE WORLD HATES YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COMFORT YOU: JOHN 15 :26  But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
• IN CONCLUSION 1 JOHN 5:4: “EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN BORN OF GOD OVERCOMES THE WORLD. AND THIS IS THE VICTORY THAT HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD — OUR FAITH.”
• THIS IMPLIES THAT THERE ARE MILLIONS OF CHURCH GOERS WHO ARE NOT BORN AGAIN,BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE VICTORY OVER THE WORLD.
• HERE IS THE REAL PROBLEM THE WORLD AND ITS SYSTEM.1 JOHN 2:15-17
• Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• IN JOHN 17 JESUS PRAYED TO THE FATHER AND ASKED HIM TO GIVE THE CHURCH POWER  TO HAVE VICTORY OVER THE WORLD Joh:17:11-18
• And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
• IF YOU ALLOW THE WORLD TO CONTROL THEN YOU ARE NOT SAVED

•             1 JOHN 5: 4 SAYS OUR FAITH IN CHRIST GIVES US VICTORY OVER THE WORLD

•            YOU MUST BE BORN OF GOD AND OVERCOME THE WORLD

•             THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST NEEDS TO BE PRAYED FOR

•             JESUS PRAYED FOR THE CHURCH AS HE LEFT THE EARTH TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE WORLD IN JOHN 17

•             MOSES,ESTHER  DANIEL ALL PRAYED FOR GOD’S PEOPLE

•             LIKE JESUS WE  ALSO ARE GOING TO PRAY HIS PRAYERS TONIGHT  FOR THE CHURCH

•             LET US ALL STAND TO READ  JOHN 17

•             LET US NOW START TO PRAY

1.            FATHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,THE HOUR HAS REALLY COME THAT YOU GLORIFY YOUR SON ON EARTH , IN NAMIBIA AND IN CLMI  AT THIS PRECIOUS TIME

2.            .NO MAN ,NO FLESH IS MORE POWERFUL THAN JESUS CHRIST.HE MUST ALWAYS HAVE THE FINAL SAY IN JESUS NAME THANK YOU FATHER FOR GIVING HIM POWER OVER ALL FLESH IN THIS NATION AND ON THE EARTH

3.            AS IT IS WRITTEN ALL FLESH SHALL SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD,THAT WHOSEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED, WE PROPHESY THEREFORE THAT AS MANY AS HAVE CALLED ON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST  IN THIS NATION AND ALL OVER THE EARTH , THROUGH CLMI ,HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

4.            WE ALSO DECREE AND PROPHESY THAT  AS THEY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE ,THEY  ALL  KNOW YOU FATHER AND THE ONLY TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST WHOM YOU HAVE SENT

5.            THANK YOU ABBA FATHER THAT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST DID GLORIFY YOU ON EARTH, AND THAT HE DID FINISH THE WORK YOU GAVE HIM TO DO

6.    AND NOW FATHER  FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHURCH, WE ASK  THAT  YOU  GLORIFY HIM WITH YOUR OWN SELF,EVEN WITH THAT SAME GLORY WHICH HE HAD WITH YOU BEFORE THE WORLD WAS

7.   LET AS MANY AS BELIEVE IN HIS NAME RECEIVE YOUR OWN VERY DIVINE VISITATION ,REVELATION AND GLORY IN JESUS NAME.(15 MINUTES TONGUES)

8.    FATHER LET  ALL THE PEOPLE THAT YOU GAVE TO JESUS FROM THE WORLD,KEEP  YOUR WORD IN JESUS NAME

9.    LET THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST ALL KNOW   FOR SURE THAT EVERYTHING  THE LORD JESUS GAVE THEM WAS FROM YOU .

10.    MAY WE  ALL  RECEIVE YOUR WORD FROM HIM AND MAY  WE ALL  TRULY  BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT HIM TO US  IN JESUS NAME.

11.   NOW HEAVENLY FATHER ANSWER THE PRAYERS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR HIS CHURCH,YOUR PEOPLE THAT HE REDEEMED BACK TO YOU WITH HIS BLOOD  OWN BLOOD (TONGUES)

12.   WHILE THE LORD WAS HERE ON EARTH HE KEPT ALL HIS DISCIPLES IN YOUR NAME AND NONE WAS LOST EXCEPT JUDAS, THAT THE SCRPTURE MIGHT BE FUFILLED, HOLY FATHER AS LONG AS WE ARE IN THIS WORLD LET NONE OF US BE LOST IN JESUS NAME

13.   KEEP US THROUGH YOUR OWN NAME THAT WE MIGHT BE ONE WITH YOU AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

14.    HOLY FATHER THE LORD JESUS  GAVE US YOUR WORD ,THAT WE MIGHT HAVE HIS JOY FUFILLED IN US,FATHER FILL US ALL WITH THE JOY OF JESUS CHRIST IN JESUS NAME

15.    EVEN THOUGH THE WORLD HATES AND KEEPS CONFUSING AND DIVIDING  US .FATHER DEFEND YOUR NAME ,YOUR WORD AND GLORY IN YOUR CHURCH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

16.    ABBA FATHER ACCORDING TO THE LORD’S PRAYER DO NOT TAKE US FROM THE WORLD, BUT KEEP US FROM THE EVIL IN THE WORLD.FATHER DELIVER US FROM ALL EVILS IN JESUS MIGHTY  NAME

17.    FATHER WE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD EVEN AS JESUS CHRIST IS NOT OF THE WORLD,SANCTIFY US THROUGH YOUR TRUTH YOUR WORD IS TRUTH

18.    JOHN 8:30-32  LET  THE TRUTH OF YOUR WORD WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED SPEAK LOUDER IN OUR HEARTS AND EARS THAN ALL THE WICKED VOICES IN THE WORLD IN JESUS NAME .

19.   AS YOU HAVE SENT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST INTO THE WORLD SO HAS HE SENT US THERE, THAT WE MIGHT CHANGE THE WORLD NOT THAT THE WORLD  SHOULD  POLLUTE AND CHANGE US BUT THAT WE MIGHT CHANGE IT BECAUSE WE ARE SANCTIFIED.FATHER ENABLE US BY YOUR GRACE TO BE STRONGER THAN THE WORLD IN JESUS NAME

20.  FATHER HE  SANCTIFIED HIMSELF FOR OUR SAKES,GRANT THAT WE ALL BE COMPLETELY SANCTIFIED BY THE TRUTH OF YOUR WORD  FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE YOU WANT US TO WIN INTO YOUR KINGDOM IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME.( TONGUES)

21.  WE PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS ON THE WORD OF GOD IN OUR HEARTS IN JESUS NAME

22.    HEAVENLY FATHER ,THE LORD PRAYED A GENERATIONAL PRAYER FOR ALL WHO WILL BELIEVE THE GOSPEL THROUGH US  LET HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD SPEAK FOR US   AND SANCTIFY US ALL IN THE COURTS OF HEAVEN RIGHT NOW IN JESUS NAME

23.   FATHER DEFEND YOUR CHURCH THIS DAY AGAINST ALL FORMS OF SABOTAGE,CONFUSION AND ALL SATANIC ANTI-SANCTIFICATION DEVICES IN JESUS NAME.

24.   LET  CLMI CHURCHES,FATHER LET THE BLOOD OF JESUS DO THIS FOR US NOW IN JESUS NAME

26. WE CONCLUDE AND SEAL THESE PRAYERS IN THE LORD’S OWN BLOOD AND WORDS IN JOHN 17:21-26

27. “ That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me: Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

28.  ABBA FATHER ANSWER ALL THESE PRAYERS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST  AND BY HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD

YOUR GLORY WHICH YOU GAVE THE LORD AND WHICH HE TRANSFERRED TO US HIS CHURCH SHINE FORTH POWERFULLY FROM NOW ON IN JESUS NAME

25. THAT WE MAY ALL BE ONE   BY THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE ALL SPEAK THE SAME THING, AND THAT THERE BE NO MORE  DIVISIONS AMONG US; BUT THAT WE BE PERFECTLY JOINED TOGETHER IN THE SAME MIND AND IN THE SAME JUDGMENT,ESPECIALLY IN ALL