People change apartments and suburbs, , people overhaul wardrobes, people remove jiggers from their toes, people seek new partnerships and friends, please get me right, all these are done for best reasons and so to get away from unwanted things.
The wise man Solomon writing in the book of Ecclessiastes said :
3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; (Ecclesiastes 3 : 1, 5).
And Jesus said in Matthew :
5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. (Matthew 5 : 29 – 30).
This message is meant for anyone who has the desire to enter eternal life. Infact the time for cutting off and /or bringing close is always there in all times for humanity.
The time for cutting off the undesirable things,
which work against our salvation or progress and replacing them with righteousness is now. Anything that offends our drive to go to heaven, should be taken away from our lives.
Godliness has no reproach, but sin is the driver of the vehicle carrying passengers to hell.
Anything you do, which has the capacity to remove you from the presence of God be it friends, should be cut off from your life.
It is terrible to err, because of what someone will eat, or the company you would want to keep.
Many people, because of the interest to answer big names in money have offended their neighbours and even their close associates and friends.
And very soon these things, which people are dieing to have, will be forgotten in the grave.
It is the will of God that human beings should prosper and multiply and in Genesis :
1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth., (Genesis 1 : 28).
However, in no where, does the word of God tell us that we should gain the whole world at the expense of our soul. Any man can prosper exceedingly through righteous living in God.
And Jesus said:
Mark. 8 Verses 34 to 38 [36] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? [37] Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Let us cut off that juicy profit that will not replace our soul, if we should loose our soul in pursuit of that profit.
All these vain popularity, which men seek after ends in the grave and it is a daily occurrence as people are buried all over the world today.
This is painful as great men and women are passing away to unknown destinations.
There should be nothing any man should have or want to have or eat, which should make such a person, to forget death.
Noting that after death, comes judgement and there is no opportunity to come back here to correct anything.
For some , reincarnation is a time to come back and live again. Unfortunately, there is no reincarnation and who is that man who has come back to narrate how he lived before?
THEREFORE, LET US SERVE GOD WITH A SOBER SPIRIT AND DISSOCIATE OURSELVES FROM ALL ACTS OF SIN. CUT OFF ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT GLORITY GOD. THE TIME FOR THIS CHANGE IS NOW , FOR WHO KNOWS TOMORROW. JESUS IS COMING SOON.
Prayer:
Lord Jesus help me, my family members, all my friends and whosoever wills, to boycott all boycottables in Jesus name Amen.
Sermon, from Miracle Valley@Covenant Bethel, Miracle Valley, Umuehiri, Umuele, Njaba LGA, Imo State.
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