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01/09/2014

THROW OUT THE LIFELINE

A man once sailed off the pacific coast in company with his son and a friend of his son when a fast approaching storm blocked any attempt to get back to the shore. The waves were so high that even though the father was an experienced sailor, he could not keep the boat upright and the three were swept into the ocean as the boat capsized. Grabbing a rescue line, the father had to make the most excruciating decision of his life: to which boy he would throw the other end of the life-line. He only had seconds to make the decision. The father knew that his son was a Christian and that his son’s friend was not. The agony of his decision could not be matched by the torrent of rolling waves. As the father yelled out, ‘I love you, son!’, he threw out the life-line to his son’s friend. By the time the father had pulled the friend back to the boat, his son had disappeared beneath the raging swells into the black of night. His body was never recovered. Though it was a painful parting with emotional toll, he knew his son would step into eternity with Jesus. But he could not bear the thought of his son’s friend stepping into an eternity without Jesus, in unquenchable fire.
The sinner is pictured in Scriptures as drowning in the ocean of iniquity. And he has no power to rescue himself. The best he can do is make resolutions which are hardly kept. The thought of a sinner stepping into endless eternity of torments without Jesus should spur every believer to throw out the lifeline to souls drowning in the ocean of sin. The message of the gospel is the lifeline every creature needs to grab hold of to be pulled out of the ruin of sin. It is the power of the gospel that can truly liberate and restore him to fellowship with his Maker.
The need to rescue the perishing should fill us with holy zeal to be faithful and diligent to perform our calling. Because of the urgency of this task, we ought to be ready to exert ourselves to the very utmost. No sacrifice should be considered too great to make for the sole reason of saving a lost soul. Therefore, we must be ready to commit our talents, skills, monies, energies and other resources to the progress of God’s work.
Our Lord Himself stresses the great urgency of the work of the great commission when He said: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matthew 28:19,20).

05/08/2014

D. L. Moody was known as "Crazy Moody" because of his zealous approach to evangelism. He resolved to speak with at least one person each day regarding his or her relationship to Jesus Christ. Most Christians recall at least something about this evangelist who dominated the last four decades of the nineteenth century. When a fellow minister told him, "The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him," Moody resolved, "By the grace of God, I will be that man." He and Ira Sankey shook two continents for God. But what if Edward Kimball had not been obedient to God on April 21, 1855 to lead Moody to Christ? He was Sunday school teacher at a Congregational church where Moody's uncle forced him to attend. Mr. Kimball determined in his heart that he would go speak to his student at the shoe store in which Moody worked. With tears in his eyes, Kimball approached the seventeen-year-old shoe clerk. "I asked him to come to Christ, who loved him and who wanted his love and should have it", said Kimball. The surprised Moody opened his heart to Christ, became converted and thousands of lives were transformed by his forty years of ministry.
God can save the vilest of sinners through our obedience in sharing the gospel. The above illustration paints a picture of believers who knew the purpose of their existence on earth. They realised that life is only lived to the fullest when it is lived to fulfill the purpose of God. Unfortunately, today, many believers live without discovering the purpose for which God created and brought them into the Kingdom. They do not show appreciation for being rescued from sin and eternal death by telling others about the grace of God they received. But the worth of a soul, the shortness of time and the eternal destiny of multitudes of people who would forever be lost without salvation should compel us to be committed to the task of preaching the gospel.
It is good to know your calling. T. L. Osborn is an example of a man who knew his calling. He was a man who stuck to preaching the gospel that even at an advanced age he was still in the field preaching. At 58, he was heard pledging to continue preaching the gospel till old age. And truly at 84, he was still involved in worldwide evangelism: preaching and developing others and sending them forth to preach the gospel.

05/08/2014

A wise orator once asked his listeners the best way to preserve seeds. Many of them, in chorus, suggested that the seeds should be kept in a safe place, from rodents and other pests. The wise man was not satisfied with the responses. He asked for other answers. When no one came forth with the right answer, he calmly said, “To preserve seeds, they must be sown.” Whether it is accepted or not, the biblical law of sowing and reaping still holds.

As there are physical laws like the law of gravity, the law of action and reaction, there are spiritual laws as well. These laws are unalterable, unfailing and unchangeable. “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22). Inasmuch as these pairs still exist, the law of sowing and reaping remains valid.

Sowing is an investment. And wise investors try to avoid investment options that have high risk potentials. This explains the reason farmers are very careful in their choice of seeds. They are aware that they will reap in accordance with the nature of their crops. Just as you sow maize and reap maize, if you sow love, you will reap love. If you sow hatred, you will reap hatred. And if you sow compassion, mercy, and peace, you are going to reap same...

22/10/2011

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26/05/2011

January Edition of the Life magazine looks at :

1. How to effectively manage hypertension

2. What you must watch against in the New Year

3. Rationale behind believers' fearlessness

4. What to remember in the new year

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26/05/2011

SURVIVING SATANIC ONSLAUGHT IN THE LAST DAYS
BY
W. F. KUMUYI
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY

I am grateful to God again that we have seen the end of one year and the beginning of another. I am confident that the God who brought you through the last can lead you through this year. But beyond that, I would like you to bear in mind that your being alive comes with a responsibility of watchfulness.

Spiritual Condition In The Last Days

The times we are in do not give rooms for carelessness, frivolities or reveling. Rather, it calls for sober reflection seeing we are in the last days. The Lord predicted that the spiritual condition of the last days will be characterized by wanton living and sensual pursuits. It will be a time many so-called Christians will be so pre-occupied with physical and material things that they will forget about heaven. It will be time people will give their time and talents to care for everything else except prepare their souls for eternity through prayer and consecration. It will be a time people will centre their lives on money, marriage and material pursuits. Other characteristics of the time will include backsliding, apostasy, pervasive spread of false doctrines, false prophets, lawlessness, absence of parental authority, selfishness, revelry and ingratitude. There will be so much confusion that those who once upheld the standard of God’s Word will depart from the foundation and way of truth in support of false doctrines and unfaithfulness.

Strategies for Survival

From Christ’s description and the Spirit’s revelations, surviving the last days will require grace, faith, conviction, resolute determination, vision and purpose of heart. Family survival will demand uncommon love and unusual commitment while the Church, with all the in-roads, pressures of false doctrines and false prophets will need to be deeply rooted in the truth. Those who will survive the last days will need real determination, purpose of heart and steadfast conviction. They will need to continue in prayer in spite of opposition, temptations and trials if they are to survive to the very last moment, if they are to be among the people that will go with the Lord in the Rapture.

Such people must also have their hearts fixed on God’s Word and their conviction on it must remain as strong as ever. They must have nothing to do with the moral laxity that characterizes many Christians today as they consciously “abstain from all appearance of evil” knowing that they are to be ready and willing to “work out their salvation with fear and trembling.” They must be well equipped with the weapon of Christian warfare: the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, etc. They must stand in full awareness of both the heat of the battle and the victory that awaits them at the end of the battle.

In spite of what may be happening around you, God’s grace can uphold you firmly on the unchanging truth of God’s Word until the very end. My prayer for you is that God’s grace will be so tremendously multiplied in your life in the New Year that holiness, uprightness and watchfulness will be your watchwords and people will have reasons to praise God on your behalf.

24/05/2011

TRUE HOLINESS
BY
W. F. KUMUYI
THE GENERAL SUPERINITENDENT
DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY

When Paul, the apostle wrote to inform the Ephesian Christians to “put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Ephesians 4:22-24), they understood that their greatest need was true holiness. Till now, the greatest need of man is heart purity. Purity is the nature of God. It is the one indispensable and most significant qualification for admission into a blissful eternity with the Almighty. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).

Initial work

Since no man was born with a pure heart, there is the tendency to parade fake holiness. The Scripture says every man “was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalms 51:5). They are all estranged from God from the womb; they have corrupted their ways; all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But there is a way back to this all-essential purity, and it is the way of salvation. When a sinner acknowledges his sins and repents from them, he is forgiven. God does not turn any penitent away: the repentant sinner receives pardon for all the sins he ever committed. The pardoned sinner afterwards enjoys grace to resist temptations to commit sin. His new life is a distinct departure from his past: he is a new creature in Christ. “Therefore 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).
Salvation comes with so many benefits. Among others, it empowers the believer to become a child of God; it makes him to detest whatever God dislikes; it frees him from divine wrath; it liberates him from the oppression of the devil; it also affords him access to all the promises and provisions of God for His own. It also gives the believer the opportunity of restoration to man’s original spiritual condition at creation. He is made holy and perfect, in the likeness of God.

Ultimate

Apart from being the Saviour, Christ is also the Sanctifier. This is the second work of grace that Christ has made available through His death and it is a divine requirement from every believer regardless of generation or dispensation. The price Christ paid at Calvary was not only for individual sins committed, but also for “specie sins” transferred to every individual from Adam. This is why believers should not get carried away with their acceptance by God’s household and the witness of the Holy Spirit that they are sons of God. Salvation is the preliminary – not the final level of God’s grace. The ultimate aim of Christ’s death was to sanctify the church – the already born again people (Ephesians 5:25,26). By this experience, the inner heart is purged from in**ed nature of sin and man is restored to the original state of innocence before the Fall. Sanctification makes a believer fruitful in his Christian life. Now is the time to seek the Lord for this beautiful experience.

24/05/2011

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12/05/2011

MARKS OF CHRIST'S DISCIPLES

It is a major concern to me that many believers who sit on church pews today are yet to understand Christ’s teaching on discipleship. The word, disciple, is one of the most misunderstood among believers. But the scripture teaches that discipleship actually starts with the salvation experience. “As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed” (John 8: 30,31). Or, put it differently, a disciple is a follower of Christ in theory and practice. After a believer has received Christ as personal Saviour and Lord, he needs to press on to becoming a disciple. Even at that, there are nominal and true disciples.

Nominal commitment

Nominal disciples usually manifest casual commitment and fake zeal which always fizzle out whenever their claims to discipleship are put to test. During Christ’s earthly ministry, many people claimed to be His followers. Everything went normally until the Lord preached a sermon on discipleship and made the terms of discipleship plain. After the sermon, “Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” (John 6:60). And as a result, many of them withdrew their enlistment. “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him” (John 6:66). They were not willing to go all the way – through thick and thin – with Christ. They were willing to follow Him only if the terms were in their favour. They were interested in butter-and-bread, lollipop Christianity. The way of the cross was too rough for their liking. They forsook the will of the Lord in order to do their own will. They wanted to follow the Lord but the standard seemed too high for them. They were not willing to lay all on the altar of sacrifice. Put it straight, they were not true disciples.

True Disciple

On the other hand, a true disciple is one who follows the Lord Jesus Christ and abides by His teaching, no matter how rugged the pathway of the cross may be. He recognizes that the way of the cross leads home and pledges his allegiance to His Lord and does not look back. “Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God” (John 6:67-69). A true disciple is one who remains with the Lord when the going is rough, when the standard of the gospel is high and tough, when the teachings of the Bible are hard on the flesh and when the principles of discipleship demand that he bears a “heavy” cross.

A true disciple follows the Lord through thick and thin. Having laid his hand on the plough, he refuses to go back from his decision even if all the forces of hell try to persuade him to do so. True disciples of Jesus Christ make a decision to get to heaven and inherit the mansions prepared for them, no matter how tough and seemingly insurmountable the problems of life appear to be. When they are confronted with the choice of going back or abiding in Christ, they generally answer like Peter saying, “Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life”. These are some of the marks of true disciples of Christ.

PASTOR W. F. KUMUYI
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY

11/05/2011

NEEDED: VOLUNTEERS FOR JESUS

When the church began on the day of Pentecost, the northern part of Africa – Egypt, Libya, etc. were the earliest parts of the world to be reached. In fact, the church there was very strong and well established. Soon, the church became institutionalized. All that the leaders and members of the church showed interest in was administrative routines of the church, not winning of souls. It abandoned Christ’s Great Commission to “go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” for a so-called ministry of maintenance.
As the older generation of Christians passed on, a vacuum was created. This was because the younger generation of Christians knew nothing about soulwinning, about evangelism, nor were they passionate about reaching out to sinners outside the church. Thus, the preaching of the gospel to “the whole world” was left in the hands of a handful of individuals. Soon, the fire of evangelism fizzled out completely. This gave impetus to enemies of the gospel to almost stamp out Christianity from North Africa. It can be reasoned therefore, that the lethargy and indifference of the church and its members are largely responsible for the difficulty in reaching most of Northern Africa and the Middle East with the gospel today.

Fire

In our case, evangelism fire was literally burning in believers’ hearts and lives way back in the 1970s. As a matter of fact, everyone who lived in Lagos between early 1970s and early 1980s cannot forget in a hurry how they could not enter any public bus without hearing a preacher talk about Jesus and the salvation His death brought, about repentance and new birth, and about living the new life and eternity. The effects of evangelism and soulwinning were felt in homes and offices, in lives and neighbourhood, in businesses and interactions. The fear of God permeated the hearts of those who were saved and those who were yet to be saved.

Lukewarmness

But with the passage of time, a pall of indifference fell on the land and preachers became silent. Evangelism programmes stopped. Distribution of tracts ceased. Like the old Northern Africa church, today’s church has got herself distracted from her God-ordained business of reaching the world with the gospel with non-essentials. Rather than preach, she is so busy with so many other good, religious activities that the fire of evangelism is dying out fast.

It is now becoming increasingly difficult to have people take the gospel out of urban cities to rural areas. All that many Christians are interested in these days are activities that keep them seated on church pews rather than get them involved in mission fields, harvesting souls. They have lost the fire of evangelism and are not keen on regaining it. But the Great commission cannot be fulfilled nor the world evangelized if Christian ministry is left to a dedicated few. All Christians, including those in secular employments, must be involved in the sacred, spiritual ministry.

God needs an army of believers who will willingly offer to join the whole church in taking the whole gospel to the whole world. You and I must join this chariot if the preaching of the gospel must continue beyond our time.

PASTOR W. F. KUMUYI
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY

10/05/2011

GRACE AND TRUE SALVATION

The much profession of religion without corresponding righteousness and practical Christian living in our society is a cause for concern. It is common these days to see religious people substituting righteousness for religion because they lack the supernatural experience of salvation. In spite of the much claim they lay to salvation, it is evident that they are nominal, superficial and counterfeit because they lack change that salvation brings.

This group of people misconstrues belief in miracles, healing, deliverance, fasting and prayer, and in the power of God for salvation. They are ignorant of the fact that regular church attendance, being a member of a good church, a good knowledge of the Bible, water baptism, taking part in the Holy Communion, philanthropy, self-improvement, involvement in social works and other religious activities and outward manifestation of righteousness are not enough to grant entrance into the kingdom of God.

Though many of these religious people have never been born again, they engage themselves in prayer, preaching, prophesying, healing the sick, casting out devils, and other “wonderful works” not knowing that being born again and doing the will of God wholeheartedly are what matter before God. Sadly, their Christianity begins and ends with calling Jesus, Lord, Lord; but they never obey His words. While appearing righteous outwardly, they carry on with sins secretly. Sometimes, their continuity in evil deeds and dependence on satanic power is known to people. Yet, they think they can gain entry into the kingdom of God. They’ll have the sad end. “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” (Matthew 7:21-23).

In fact, no good work is good enough to make a way for anyone into the Kingdom of God; only the New Birth will. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). There are two kinds of births: the birth after the flesh and the birth after the Spirit. The birth after the flesh gives us entry into this world; but the birth of the Spirit gives us entry into the kingdom of God. This happens as the sinner turn away from sins, self-pleasing and Satan, and turns to God in genuine repentance and confession of his sins. Salvation, an experience that happens in the heart as the sinner repents and believes in Christ brings a radical change of life. The grace that brings salvation enables true believers to be obedient and to live in a peculiar way.

The saving grace teaches us to both deny “ungodliness and worldly lusts” and “live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” (Titus 2:12). This true salvation is what grants us entry into the kingdom. Why don’t you take advantage of it today because “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

PASTOR W. F. KUMUYI
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY

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