Monday, 10 March 2014
ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] Vol.29. 02-03-14. SOCIAL INJUSTICE, BOKO HARAM TERRORRISM, JONATHAN’S ROLE AND DIVINE SOLUTION! If at a tender age, a child lost the parental obligation to be instructed to comprehend the benefits of good morals and also uneducated to appreciate the necessity for human societies and institutions to develop, progress and dwell in unity, peace and harmony, that child is deemed to have been robbed of the basic foundation of godly living. The divine instruction is for parents to train or dedicate children to proper and acceptable societal norms, so that when they mature in age, would not turn from such vital basic education.[ Read, Proverbs. 22: 6]. In addition, it is also mandatory for good governments, to provide at least free, qualitative and compulsory primary and secondary education for the up-coming generation of youths in order to avoid restiveness and ensure stability and success in administration. The World Day for Social Injustice was marked on Thursday 20 February, 2014 in Nigeria, to remind leaders and all people in position of authority of the urgent need to ensure social justice in all facets of life. We find this acknowledgement by Civil Society Groups,[CSG], Non Governmental Organisations[NGO] and governments of the federation as a welcome development in view of the escalating brutality of the Boko Haram insurgency, which has taken a very frightening dimension in the incessant cold blooded murder of innocent school children in the North Eastern Geo-Political Zone. This terrorist group, embarked on a new strategy of killing school children in June 2013 and have continued to date as a way of saying, “….if we hadn’t the opportunity of education, they should not!” Twice in June last year, these insurgents invaded boarding schools in Bornu State, murdered several school children in their sleep and on Tuesday 25 February 2014, besieged, yet, another boarding school in Yobe State and killed about 50 innocent secondary school students…. in all, over 100 souls have met untimely deaths! What do we, make of this development vis-à-vis the issue of social injustice in NIGERIA? First, we must agree that social injustices like, lack of the basic necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter, good basic education, the unacceptable situations of poverty, human degradation in all forms, tribalism, nepotism, marginalisation, exploitation and insecurity are all MAN MADE! World leaders, especially the politicians, have over the years mortgaged their consciences for the ‘spoils of office’ and to the detriment of the welfare of their citizens, have looted the commonwealth and have impoverished the masses of their various nations through defective and masses unfriendly policies! Nigeria’s record of bad governance stinks to high heavens. From 1960 to date, it has been the same story of corruption in high and low places of government with the unbeatable record of maintaining the1st (negative) position in the annual Transparency International analysis and indices in respect of probity and equity, especially now that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC], has raised the STAKES with more of unremitted BILLIONS of United States Dollars into the Federation Account! Fresh revelations as at Wednesday, 26 February,2014, at the investigative hearing probing the allegation that Nigeria lost N98.3Billion to NNPC in exchange rates, compared to Central Bank of Nigeria, [CBN], official exchange rate between, 2009-2011, by the House of Representatives Joint Committees on Petroleum Resources, Upstream Petroleum Resources, Downstream and Justice, also shows that apart from the outstanding, Malam Sanusi’s allegation of the ‘unremitted or missing’ $20Billion, the Corporation also connived with Swiss Firms to defraud Nigeria of another $6.8Billion US Dollars! It was also disclosed at the hearing that the sum of $22.8Billion was not disclosed by NNPC in its audited financial statements through alternative funding arrangement with its joint venture partners, between 2009 and 2011! PLEASE, DON’T GET CONFUSED WITH ALL THESE FIGURES, GOD WILL RECOVER ALL STOLEN MONIES BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO HIM AND NOT THE ROGUES! Majority of the Northern Nigeria youths, from time immemorial, were tutored in Arabic and Islamic religious education, customs and tradition before the advent of British Colonization and Western Education; an antecedent that grossly limited their interest and scope for the pursuit of advanced education and knowledge of world affairs in international norms and best practices. Boko Haram is therefore opposed to Western education which it believes would CORRUPT their Muslim and Islamic ideals but the question is, “Does the demand for an Islamic State warrant the wanton and summary execution of innocent citizens?” This attitude of destruction of lives and properties are contradictory to their ideology of a Jihad for a just and egalitarian society and MUST change now because it is ungodly! The emerging Northern Nigeria politicians have not helped matters in that instead of massively educating their youths, they capitalised on religious antecedents to lure them into employment as body guards to perpetrate political crimes of ballot box snatching, thuggery and all manner of intimidation of opponents, during political campaigns and elections only to dump them when they were no longer useful! Between 1999 and 2007, a period of eight years, the two-term Governor of Bornu State, despoiled the youths in this manner and thus birthed the nucleus of the hydra-headed insurgency that is presently troubling not only that region, but the entire nation! While playing out the script of the PIPER, during the Dinner Party, in commemoration of the Centennial celebrations at the weekend, Federal Minister of Finance, reeled out success story of the Transformation Agenda of her principal between 2011-2013 and claimed economic buoyancy for the country whose 70per cent population dwell in abject poverty and penury and also launched a book of the figments of their imagination through Mr. President to prove quack mathematics! Under the ‘watchful eyes’ of the Finance Minister, NNPC, is destroying Nigeria and Nigerians through massive robbery and looting of crude oil sales that have no accounts or any legitimate financial records. Millions of US Dollars and Nigerian Naira collected daily as proceeds from crude oil sales, disappear into private pockets, with no ‘eye brow’ raised! We are very certain that the JIHADIST tendency of the Boko Haram insurgents, is premised on equity and prudent management of the commonwealth and accountability in government, and they believe that this noble ideal can only be achieved through the establishment of an Islamic Government in Nigeria or a portion of Nigeria where they are domiciled and in majority. Though, myopic in outlook, it is necessary to look at the ideology from a neutral and honest perspective. Let us take SAUDI ARABIA, where there is zero tolerance for corruption in any form, as a case-study. In Saudi Arabia, stealing is totally forbidden because penalties are very stiff. For petty stealing, the offender is publicly flogged and for aggravated stealing, one of a first offender’s arm is amputated on conviction by a SHARIA COURT of competent jurisdiction and if the convict progressed to steal again, the second hand is chopped off! Nigeria is not Saudi Arabia, and because Zamfara and some very few Northern States practice the Sharia law side-by-side with our conventional laws, does not give vent to a holistic demand for a Sharia nation! When an amnesty channel for dialogue with the Boko Haram was initiated by the Federal Government between 2012- 2013, the insurgents bluntly refused financial inducements as bases for cessation of atrocities unlike the case with the Niger Delta militants, which was initiated by the Late President, Umaru Yar’Adua in 2008. To every problem, there is always a godly SOLUTION and having prayed and fasted over this persistent issue of Boko Haram insurgency, we are divinely favoured to prophesy the following solutions: (1).A national day of prayer and fasting for repentance, to be spiritually chosen by Mr. President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, who must have the holy conviction that only righteousness will exalt NIGERIA and that sin will constitute an albatross and a disgrace to the citizens![ Read Proverbs.14-34; and 2Chronicles.7:14-15]. (2.) Authentic declaration of financial and immovable assets by all civil servants, from Mr. President to the Clerks at the Local Government Areas, be carried out without delay and all excess funds not commensurate with salaries and or allowances, be voluntarily relinquished to government without legal action against the righteous new Nigerians. (2a.) A consensus People’s Account to be christened, THE ZACCHAEUS REHABILITATION ACCOUNT, and backed by an Act of Parliament, be opened with immediate effect to accommodate the voluntary monetary returns and supervised by a committee of nominees from the six geo-political zones.[ Please read, Luke 19:1-10]. (2b.) Another committee of trustees from the zones should be put in charge of all immovable assets to be turned over, to commercialize, manage and turn them into viable ventures that would continue to boost the new account. (2c.) All monies that will accrue to the Zacchaeus Rehabilitation Account, including huge sums to be recovered from NNPC after the FORENSIC AUDITING, will be permanently dedicated to succour, rehabilitate, re-orientate and heal all indigenes, re-build and re-construct the homes and institutions, of our NORTHERN STATES brethren who have been devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency since 2009! (3.) All illegal Federal Government accounts, namely (a) Excess Crude Oil Sales Account and (b) Sovereign Wealth Fund, must be collapsed into the Federation Account, according to constitutional provisions, a LUMP SUM OF FIFTY BILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS be transferred into the Zacchaeus Rehabilitation Account and all legitimate withdrawals be subjected to due process at all times! IT IS TIME WE BECAME OUR BROTHERS’ KEEPER! Peter once asked the Lord Jesus Christ, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered,” I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times!”[Read Matthew 18:21-22]. Thus saith the LORD,” Gird your loin my son, Goodluck Jonathan, and obey these instructions set before you this day according to their sequence and entirety, through my Prophet in ZION and it shall be well with you all the days of your life. And for you, my children, Abubakar Shekau and Mohammed Yusuf. It’s time to sheath your swords, I am willing to forgive, if you obey me. Nigeria is MINE! She shall remain united! I the LORD have spoken! AMEN. If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access,to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch & Zfbbc1.blogspot.com]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] Vol.28. 24-02-14. SANUSI’S DEBACLE VERSUS BODY LANGUAGE! Man is created in God’s image and likeness, in a tripartite form, that is, body soul and spirit. Man’s body is the earthly tabernacle which houses the others. At conversion, when a man decides to abandon all carnal activities like, sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, (extensive indulgence in sex, alcohol and drug); idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, egotism, inordinate ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, etc., only his Spirit, which communicates with God, gets converted, not his Body! The body is not converted because it still has to deal with our senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch by which it perceives things. The fall of Adam and Eve in Genesis Chapter 3, reminds one of the roles played by their senses when confronted by Satan, the crafty deceiver. Mrs. Eve Adam agreed that the forbidden fruit was good for food, pleasing to the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom. She ate and convinced her husband who equally ate and thereby disobeyed God’s command in Gen. 2:15-17! The behaviour of the first couple was an attitude of speaking with the body language instead of the spirit’s and also portrayed the body as vulnerable. However, all children of God are enjoined to subdue their bodies and subject them to the authority of the Holy Spirit in order to overcome in the evil days of temptation.[Ephesians. 6:10-18]. It is written that the spiritual foundation of the Believer, should and must be, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the epitome of holiness and righteousness, which are the great attributes of the God Head. We must always present our bodies (temple of God), as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, because this attitude is our spiritual act of worship. Body language is always instigated through satanic or demonic whims and caprices, which are suggestions that are always contrary to God’s commandments and rational decisions! We must no longer conform with the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind in other to fit into God’s perfect will. To the Romans of his time and by extension to us of this Dispensation of Grace, is the following Apostle Paul’s spiritual injunction addressed; “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s Temple, and that God‘s Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy him; for God’ Temple is sacred and you are that Temple.”[1Corinthians.3:16; compare, with verses 10-15]. For the Church, members of the body of Christ, to be regarded as Temple of God, is both, a great honour and spiritual challenge, for the greater works, predicted by our Lord, Jesus Christ in the Gospel according to St. John.14:12. But in spite of the divine punishment to be visited on all who desecrate the Temple of God, the present generation of the descendants of Adam and Eve, like their progenitors, have become more insensitive, deaf and dumb to all godly entreaties! All social vices of the body language which are abominable, have become order of the day, because, practitioners are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity! The apostles of body language are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice; they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents, they are senseless, faithless, heartless, and ruthless! Although, they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, yet, they not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them with relish and impunity! Whistle and trumpet blowers in Nigeria will now blow at the risk to their lives, freedom or source of income, because the Commandant-General of the Body Language Association[BLA], has declared war on all activities of self-appointed ombudsmen/women and do-gooders in the polity! Once upon a time, there was a very patriotic Chairman of the Committee on Power, saddled with the onerous oversight duty of unravelling all the malpractices that bedevilled that sensitive and strategic sector of the economy whose overzealousness, nearly landed him in prison! As he and his committee busied themselves, making shocking discoveries of unexecuted contracts across Nigeria, running into billions of naira and dollars, members of the BLA had perfected a devious plan to discredit all unpalatable findings against the administration of the incumbent by accusing Mr. Chairman of having benefitted from several Power Project contracts in the past! He was promptly arrested and arraigned before the law courts with trumped up charges! That Power Project Report, like some others after it, have been destroyed and buried and the patriotic chairman, having had his integrity maligned, was eventually set free by a court of competent jurisdiction and had since been minding his own business! Another ombudsman and whistle-blower, in the person of the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has suffered suspension and may likely face prosecution for poke-nosing into the affairs of the BLA! Though in government and the chief custodian of the Federation Account, this fire-brand social critic, never stopped to expose all the financial malpractices that have bedevilled the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation[NNPC], and, but for him, $49.8 Billion US Dollars, would have been completely swallowed by BLA, and the impoverished masses continue to wallow in abject poverty! As at the time of printing this Newsletter, both of the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly [NASS], are probing all manners of financial impropriety against NNPC, as all parties have agreed that only $20Billion US Dollars, was actually unremitted or missing and from the Lower House came another startling revelation, that $700m US Dollars was being paid daily as KEROSINE SUBSIDY to ‘contractors’, in spite of the Presidential directives against payment of subsidy on Kerosine! Sanusi who has been suspended by Mr. President, has sworn to go to court, to challenge that action which is ‘ultra vires’ to the letters of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s[CBN’S] Act through which he was employed. Section 11(1)(d) and 11(1)(f), of the CBN Act, clearly spell out the limitations of Mr. President as follows: Section 11. Disqualification and cessation of appointment. A person shall not remain a Governor, Deputy Governor or Director of the Bank if he is- ( a) a member of any Federal or State legislative house; or (b) a Director, officer or employee of any bank licensed under the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act. (2) The Governor, Deputy Governor or Director shall cease to hold office in the Bank if he- (a) becomes of unsound mind or, owning to ill-health, is incapable of carrying out his duties; (b) is convicted of any criminal offence by a court of competent jurisdiction, except for traffic offences or contempt proceedings arising in connection with the execution or intended execution of any power or duty conferred under this Act or the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act; (c) is guilty of a serious misconduct in relation to his duties under this Act; (d) is disqualified or suspended from practising his profession in Nigeria by order of a competent authority made in respect of him personally; (e) becomes bankrupt; (f) is removed by the President: Provided that the removal of the Governor shall be supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate praying that he so be removed. We are not aware of any official communication of gross misconduct or dereliction of duty to Mallam Sanusi before the 20 February, 2014 sack letter, which listed financial infractions and acts of financial recklessness committed by the Central Bank, as reflected in the bank’s audited financial statements of 2012 by the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, to include but not limited to the following; *Gross breaches of the Public Procurement Act, *Reckless use of funds in executing of about 63 intervention projects across Nigeria with over N163billion, Naira, without authorization and, *Questionable write-off of N40billion loans of a bank. In a ‘bloodless coup’, Sanusi, was eased out of office in absentia while on an official assignment in the Niger Republic, and was also disgraced by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS), who briefly detained but later released him having seized his passport. It must be put on record that Sanusi remains a key witness in the ongoing probes of NNPC by both Chambers of NASS and must be given the latitude to expose all financial mismanagement deeds of the organisation because we know that his own travail is an after- thought of government to muzzle the whistle blower! An African adage says that, a Witch cried at night and a child gave up the ghost in the morning; the assumption is that the former killed the latter! Sanusi stepped into the witness box and shouted to high heavens in respect of missing billions of government’s United States Dollars in NNPC’S custody and the big MAFIA ROD fell heavily to silence him as it has taken 14 months to discover that Sanusi also has some skeleton in his cupboard! The incumbent government’s opposition to the TRUTH should not discourage other whistle blowers, instead, they should be encouraged with the SANUSI’S DEBACLE and ’HALLA’, shout the more, at the roof top and all the market places of the world! The BLA Boss who was accused of a kind of thick skin that does not feel or see corruption, has hit back at his traducers that they are the ones in the GLASS HOUSE, and throwing stones! Has he shot himself in the foot or has he scored a point? As the Big Brother Africa inmates play out their tasks like ‘strange bed fellows’, we are certain that Nigerians will vote for the authentic candidate on LOVE DAY FEBRUARY 14,2014, in Jesus’ Christ’s mighty name! Amen If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounces every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access,to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch & Zfbbc1.blogspot.com]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com . th
Monday, 10 February 2014
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
The story of Righteous Noah , who dwelt in the midst of a sinful, riotous and evil generation, and had favour with the Almighty God, should bring consolation and fresh hope to all good and law-abiding people of this great country. We have the authority of the Living God to prophecy, that Nigeria will neither split not disintegrate, not in 2015, 2019, 2023, 2027, nor forever, because the plan of God for this nation is divine and certain and has no place for surrogate and confused leaders, who found themselves in office unprepared!! They will all pass away like the chaff in the wind!
ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] Vol.25. 02-01-14. LET THERE BE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF OUR GOD-GIVEN COMMONWEALTH! The generation, transmission and equitable distribution of God-given resources to all citizens, must not be bedevilled with myopic politicking but, treated as the most important priority policy of serious government administrations. The genesis of such policy should be premised on honest party manifestoes of electioneering campaigns that are later transmuted to the operative agenda, when victory is achieved. The Nigerian ruling party’s seven – point political agenda on assumption of office was hinged on Education, Food security or Agriculture, Power and Energy, Transport sector, Wealth creation, Land reforms, and Security: Niger Delta/Boko Haram; which the Opposition and Civil Society Organizations [CSOs] are closely monitoring. The verb, ‘generate’, means, to cause something to happen or exist, to produce capacities in some particular forms, to articulate or create a new development and in this context, something positive and beneficial, to all and sundry. Because the Nigerian Project needs capable and dedicated managers who can generate and deliver sound and workable, basic opportunities of life for the citizens, Mr. President has wasted no time in reshuffling his cabinet for better deliverance of the dividends of democracy. The next eleven months will be very crucial for Mr President who is still nursing the inordinate ambition of another (third?) term in office! Let us scrutinize his deft moves and permutations on the ‘Chess Board’ of the, ’Transformation Agenda’: *Shortly before the close of 2013, ‘massive funds’ were injected into the tertiary Education sector, in order to douse ASUU’s [Academic Staff Union of Universities’], hardened posture to dent his political credentials for 2015! However, he still has a deficit in respect of the Polytechnic Lecturers Strike, now in its sixth month, because the PDP [Peoples Democratic Party], has reneged its agenda which specifically states that government would ensure that the minimum acceptable international standards in tutoring and learning skills in science and technology, would be achieved to launch Nigerian students as future innovators and industrialists! What was GOD’s agenda on Education? After creation, man was given incisive lectures on the nature of his new environment and also divine instructions in respect of his moral and spiritual obligations. At a point in time God set an examination to test Adam’s intellectual capacity by asking him to name all beasts of the field and all birds of the air.[Genesis. 2:19-23]. Adam passed with distinction and also identified the woman as, “….bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of woman.” How intelligent are Nigerian students of the 21 Century technologically-advanced universe? *On Food Security or Agriculture, we share the testimonies of both Mr. President and his Minister, which confirm credible successes in that sector within the past three years of this administration. We have it on good authority that this agrarian reform which places emphasis on modern technology, research, production and development of agricultural inputs, would revolutionize the sector. In fact, it is projected that in no distant future, Nigeria will not only be self-sufficient in massive domestic and commercial outputs but, will also export agricultural products to earn the revenue, needed to boost our depleting foreign reserves! We do pray that unlike Adam, who derailed after much successes in the Garden of Eden, (Gen.3:1-24), Jonathan’s administration, would remain on course and salvage this nation from the very dicey, ‘crude-oil mono-product’ monopoly! *Mr. President who is also very passionate to deliver on his electioneering campaign promise to ensure Nigeria’s ability to develop as a modern economy and an industrial, nation by the year 2015, is working very hard to fulfil the target. We are convinced, like Mr President, that as long as the SUN rotates in its orbit, and government’s infrastructural reforms are in place, solar Power and Energy, will not by-pass or elude this great nation! * The Transport Sector is not side-lined, though, Mr President hardly travels by road. His energetic and very efficient Minister of Works, has revolutionized the poor road networks to allow for smooth mass transit of people, goods and services across the length and breadth of this vast nation. The perennial gridlock, regularly experienced by transporters at the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Benin-Ore Road, Onitsha Head Bridge, Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road, have all disappeared, due to presidential interest that also embraced the rehabilitation and modernization of the Railways and the opening of the inland waterways. *The need for diversification from total reliance on non-renewable crude oil revenue, actually prompted Mr President’s policy on Wealth Creation through multiple revenue generation from Agriculture and the Solid Mineral Sectors. There is no doubt that government’s efforts are yielding positive results and we hope that the in-coming 2015 Administration, will eventually actualize, Nigeria’s dream in this direction. *Past and present administrations have failed the citizens in respect of policies on Land Reforms, which became obnoxious with military fiat which declared every inch of the Nigerian nation as ‘government’s property! All lands in Nigeria belong to Nigerians, who inherited them as birthrights from their ancestors and it is anti-people for any government, democratic or military, to STEAL these inalienable properties under any guise, because, the people’s representatives, must always form the governments according to divine order![Gen. 1:26-31; Deuteronomy. 17:15;Jeremiah.30:21]. Like its predecessors, this administration has deprived the masses of their rights to land ownership and decent accommodations but consented to insensitive acts of demolition of the masses properties to pave way for the ‘rich and affluent’ in the society to increase their avarice. A people-friendly government should, under normal circumstances, purchase or request for willing land donations for purposes of commercialized farming, industrialization and other such ventures that would improve and boost the masses economic status. *Security challenges have been the bane of all emerging administrations, since the end of Nigeria’s 30-month civil war, which ended in January 1970. Before the advent of the revived democratic dispensation in 1999, Niger Delta militants began demands for resource control/adequate compensation for damages done to their lands through oil exploration and exploitation. Bombs detonated indiscriminately by the militants and which continuously resulted in massive losses of innocent lives, forced government to negotiate amnesty. The persistent Boko Haram security challenge facing Mr. President as he dreams for another term in 2015, was actually ‘inherited’! So far there is a stalemate and it is expected that God will impart wisdom to the new Service Chiefs for a final and lasting solution to the almost five-year of insurgency, which began in 2009. Has the present administration been TRANSMITING, the dividends of democracy to the uncommon masses of Nigeria, through credible execution of all of the items on its articulated 7-Point Agenda? There should be no confusion between TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSMISSION. Transformation is the President’s own formula through which, he strongly believes, he could change the Nigerian State, from the position of a developing nation, to an economically viable State, to be listed among the twenty most-industrialized nations of the world, in the year, 2020! Transmission, is the process of passing something, (in this context, dividends of democracy), from one person or place to another. If the answer to this question is in the affirmative, there is yet another question begging for an answer; “Is Mr President’s administration, DISTRIBUTING, (equitably), to the masses, dividends of democracy according to his 7-point agenda? We would like to inform our readers that, there is an unbreakable bond of unity between, GENERATION, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION. Whatever is generated as the commonwealth , MUST be forwarded without delay to the transmission crew, who in turn MUST, despatch expeditiously to the distribution personnel, who MUST be judicious and prudent in ensuring that everyone got his/her fair share! Transmission is the link between, Generation and Distribution; …… without genuine transmission, nothing positive would happen or achieved! With a kind of sincere arrangement as this, all righteousness would be fulfilled as security challenges (bane of economic development), would disappear and the much-sought-after PEACE, would envelope the land. Our democracy is hinged on the three tier system of government, the EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE AND THE JUDICIARY, which must unite to balance the equation of the Nigerian Project and our advice to Mr. President, if he makes it in 2015, is to introduce a completely new agenda of TRANSMUTATION! Transmutation means, to change something COMPLETELY, especially, into something different and better; like changing LEAD into GOLD, for instance, without exterminating all DROSS AND CORRUPTION!!! Goodluck, Mr. President. ! If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access,to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com . st
ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja.] Vol.22. 12-01-14. RICH PASTORS WORLD-WIDE .ORG We know how they got it all wrong! Rich Pastors read the BIBLE as a book of fables. They interpreted the verse which says that, Jesus Christ lived as a poor person, so that the believer could become rich, to mean, “earthly riches,”- a deliberate plan to propagate the doctrine of prosperity, which encourages apostasy, (the falling away from faith), in the Church! Rich Pastors deceived their flocks into parting with their monies without feeding them with messages of salvation but incorporated the churches into commercial enterprises for the accumulation of wealth and riches from various sources. They have deliberately refused to conform with the Lord’s template, the Word on Marble, ‘……freely you have received, freely give.’[Matthew.10:7-9]. Believers are not forbidden to acquire riches legitimately, but such should be spiritually converted, through philanthropic gestures to the poor, needy, destitute, orphans, and widows, while on earth, in exchange for spending eternity with God. The Lord’s riches are neither in currency denominations nor in financial Shares and Bonds, which are vanities of this world, but of eternal grace borne out of love for humanity. Jesus Christ once borrowed an empty boat for evangelism but returned it overlaid with fishes! At another time, He was besieged by a multitude during His private desert retreat where he fed them with messages of salvation. Later, He borrowed five loaves and two fishes from a little boy, to feed five thousand hungry people and twelve baskets were still left over to feed more people. The divine command is that the believer should study to show himself approved unto GOD, a workman who should not be ashamed to correctly divide the WORD of truth. [2 Timothy. 2:15]. Today’s rich pastor, like his biblical counterpart, found it very difficult to sell all his property, give the proceeds to the poor and enrol as the Lord’s disciple. “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.” [2Cor.8:9]. The divine truth here is that The Eternal Son of God in His incarnation and His atoning death in our place on the Cross, emptied Himself of His riches, laid aside His deity to redeem humanity. He now saves all who believe and they become heirs and joint heirs with Father and Son respectively. The entire Chapter is devoted to the Macedonian Churches, who, through the grace of God, though were in a most severe trial, expressed overflowing joy, and their extreme poverty, welled up in rich generosity of supporting the poor Saints at Jerusalem! Today, the entrepreneurs and their large wares of merchandise have resurfaced at the Temples, thereby erasing the memory of the Lord’s action of overturning the bureau-de-change tables and His stern warning against turning His Father’s House into a den of robbers! Today, Rich Pastors World Wide.Org is listed on the STOCK EXCHANGE, having clinched the TOP TEN positions among the Captain of Industries in the United States of America and Nigeria, in 2014! The richest of the rich pastors hails from Uncle Sam’s country with a total asset of $150million; while, positions five to ten are conveniently occupied by Nigerians, who are no pushovers in the art of money-making, legal and illegal! We are told that these men of God are super rich and possess large choice properties including jet aircrafts which ferry them across the length and breadth of the globe. The Rich Pastors’ aim is to compare favourably with global business icons and moguls; like Billionaires Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, Warren Buffet , Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, David Koch, Li Ka Shing, etc, having lost the realm of their first estate by engaging in the global ‘rat race’ competition for earthly riches. Christians are enjoined not to love the world and its ephemerals, if they would remain in divine fellowship, for the lust of the flesh and eyes, including the pride of life, are not of the Father, but of the world which is gradually perishing. What would it profit any man if he gained the whole world and with such acquisition lose his soul in eternity? Where is the position of the congregation that lays the “golden eggs” in the entire unfolding scenario? Without the congregation, there can be no Church or Churches; no offerings, no tithes, “no Holy Spirit-inspired” expensive gifts of cars and houses for the Pastors, no annual all-expenses-paid overseas holiday trips for pastors and their families, etc. We understand that some of them are not, “actually depending solely” on their congregations, because they write books and print magazines, to support their ministries and we suggest, they lift ‘THE SPELL, let the people go’ and then count, what is left of their dollars! But these men of God are not ignorant of the power of digital numbers in the success of any business enterprise and will therefore guard their ‘flock’ very jealously! It is common knowledge today, that senior staff of big business concerns, have abandoned their cosy offices to woo peasants in the market places of the world in order to make huge profits for their enterprises. The Lord Jesus Christ did not exploit his multitude, instead, He gave His unflinching love, even unto death, on the Cross at Calvary. He was the Rich-Poor Vessel of God who preached without price, wrought miracles without money, He never possessed the value of one kobo, He was so poor that He had no roof over His head, though ‘foxes have holes, birds have nests’; He neither had a wardrobe nor change of clothing and sandals, He had neither wealth nor influence, neither training nor education, He never wrote a book, yet all the libraries of the world could not hold the books that could be written about Him! “He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.” The Rich Pastors have not emulated the sterling virtues of holiness, righteousness, faithfulness contentment and integrity for which the Lord was and is still highly regarded and respected. They have not copied the template of the Early Church congregation who unanimously agreed that the word POVERTY should be permanently expunged from their religious vocabulary. “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold. And laid them at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.”[Acts.4:32-35; compare v36-37 with, 5:1-12]. Today’s super rich pastors can be likened to the Ananias’ and Sapphiras’ of the 3 Century Church; greedy, selfish, carnal, lovers of their own self, covetous boasters, blasphemers, unthankful, unholy, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of GOD while the lot of their congregation is worse than that of the proverbial, ‘church rat’! A man of God is expected to earn salaries and allowances for his labour at the ALTAR through tithes and offerings collected from the congregation and from his earnings, pay tithe of tithes to his Melchizedek, Aaron or Mentor in the Ministry of God. With this divine arrangement, there is no way any pastor would become super rich except he belonged to the Ananias’ and Sapphiras’ of this end-time world who reneged on the agreement of a common purse and kept some monies back for the ‘rainy day’! Take a glimpse of the life style of today’s church congregation and if you are God-fearing, you will weep like Jesus Christ wept over Jerusalem! The congregation, except for some who are in league with these end-time pastors, dwell in penury, abject poverty and squalor; because, from their ‘little drops’, the mighty ocean of dollars, are gathered for the pastors who are foxes in sheep clothing! As the congregation’s monies are laid at the rich pastors feet, they smile to the banks with the millions of dollars, with much relish and protect themselves with a retinue of armed body guards twenty-four hours daily, even during church services! THIS IS UNCHARITABLE, UNCHRISTLIKE, UNGODLY AND THEREFORE CONDEMNABLE! Many Christians (especially in Nigeria), have expressed shock that in spite of a conglomerate of churches, crime statistics of insurgency, arson, terrorism, armed robbery, kidnapping, oil bunkering, money laundering, still escalate instead of abating and the most disturbing aspect is that, frustrated members of the congregation, who are victims of ‘prosperity doctrine and messages’ of the rich pastors are in large numbers among the terror gangs, in Nigeria! They are in Police and Prison ‘awaiting trial cells’, across the length and breath of Nigeria and overseas. We are reliably informed that some Nigerian convicts, (including a former Christian, South-South Governor), would soon be repatriated, under a bilateral agreement, to complete their terms, ‘at home!’ God-fearing Christians are angry and are commenting negatively, but we will proffer two immediate solutions; first, that the FIVE listed super-rich pastors and their unlisted colleagues, be reminded that God’s judgment begins with the CHURCH and should therefore, on their volition make compulsory RESTITUTIONS; ie, by transferring all looted funds in their local and domiciliary accounts to their Churches Accounts; movable and immovable properties, aircrafts, vehicles, commercial and educational institutions, should be included in the assets transfer to be biblically distributed according to NEEDS and like the prodigal, apologize and pledge to their various congregations, home and abroad, never to covet, steal nor sin any more! Second, they should as a matter of urgency, embark on a compulsory 100-day fasting and prayer activities to which they have consistently subjected their poor, ‘over used and spiritually abused’ congregation, ask for forgiveness from the Lord, who would require the account of their stewardship and also accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. We are very certain that Jehovah, who loves sinners, will forgive and save them from damnation to eternal Hell fire! Amen. If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access, to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch]. I am, Yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail-dvdolufon@gmail.com. rd
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