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Trust is the fulcrum on which the import of the faith of Christ is built, so it
becomes a major anchor of the practice and devotion of the Christian faith. A
critical look at the teachings of the Bible will compel anyone to accept the
intrinsic veracity of trust as an indispensable article of the faith and creed; and
the inherency of obedience in its teachings is another way to define its required
contrition.
That is all the faith of Christ teaches us as followers. That is what is bequeathed
to us by the frontrunners of the faith. Even the article of faith with which God is
pleased with anyone requires the umbrage of absolute trust. Trust can be said to
be our “indoctrination”.
I remember a hymnal song from Ancient and Modern Hymn in my secondary
school days that goes “trust and obey, for there is no other way, to be happy in
Jesus, but to trust and obey …” The emphasis on that song identifies to whom
our trust should be built – Christ; however since the pietistic devotion of
Christianity also accommodates trust within the fold of followership it then
becomes indissociable not to trust brethren especially those that have profound
influence in our Christian experience. Again, the pedagogical strategy or
mannerism by which the Christian faith is being taught by certain chosen vessels
imposes a specter of respect and regards to such people. This is clearly stated
in the book of Ephesians in chapter four from verse eleven, where certain men
were ordained of God by His Spirit to equip, edify and mature the church of
Christ. Such persons were to be accorded double honor because of the peculiar
task divinely imposed on them. I believe this as a core element of my faith.
The problem I have, and which is the direction of this article, is the acerbity with
which the honor is being demanded and the obsequiousness of the servile
followers both of which exhibit distortive understanding of God’s word excessively.
Trust is an assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of
someone or something according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The word
“assured” is the pivot holding trust, but it is also the item lacking in our
commitment to trust people. We blithely entrust our confidence in the arms of
flesh and then get feasted on like a Cheese hamburger by men who lack self-
control and moderation. Trust is NOT synonymous to stupidity or folly. Trust
should be earned after a moment of internal quietness and several questions
asked with satisfying answers within and without. Walter Anderson said “We are
never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we
cannot trust, neither can we find love and joy” We must learn how and who to
trust after being fully assured, but we must also learn to know when our trust is
abused on the cloak of disparate interest. We must be overtly sensitive to the
laceration of our mind with gashes so deep that spiritual and physical emergency
care becomes inevitable as a result of the violation of the allegiance of our
confidence.
Treachery is perfidy, falsidy, treason, faithlessness, and willful betrayal of our
trust by people who acquired it. When our trust is violated, it should not be seen
as a mistake, but an opportunity to re-evaluate our assurance and prioritize our
submission. Treachery is deception with a grand roguish agenda to it. Treachery
is a contagion spreading faster than the faith of contrition. Treachery is
venomous with a traitorous motive to obfuscate the truth and present falsity as
facts. The flagrant evil and the perfidious subterfuge of treachery as documented
in the Bible make it one of the oldest sin of man to his neighbor. The portentous
effect of treachery is grave. Treachery is evil and never a virtue.
What I see in most churches today is so much noise being made about Christ
and less of His life, so much choruses are raised but less emphasis on the
lyrics, so much dancing and jumping around but little of inner recess and beauty
of the Spirit, so much words are spoken and preached but only with exhibitionist
emptiness. We have big houses called church buildings but small hearts of men.
Big cars but very little move of the Spirit of God because of the evil on the pulpit.
It is all treachery and more treachery each day. Prophet Isaiah spoke about it in
chapter twenty-four verse sixteen;
“From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: "Glory to the righteous!" But I
said, "I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt
treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously”
Men that are to be respected and honored have sold their birthright for a swallow
of bread. The cost of honor had become so expensive to them that it is cheaper
to ride on lies and deceit all to get to where their bellies direct them. We now
have deliberate lies told so boldly that conscience too had been bought with the
price of lusts and greed.
A lot of people in the church today simply grovel in servitude of the Pastor or
overseer or Daddy or Spiritual father, which is a personal decision based on
ignorance; but even if the sheep is stupid should the “shepherd” be desperate to
plunder him/her more in subjection to unholy but sweet messages of enticement
and inducement? That is what is going on in so many places designated as
church. The trust of the pew on the pulpit is long exploited on the platform of
belly desire and throat lust. Not only financially, but a lot of spiritual and
intelligent abuse goes with it.
I got to a point in my meditation on this writing where issue of who really should
be blamed for the whole charade comes up. I am short of breath in saying it is
entirely on the pulpit. I know some people will disagree with my exempting the
pews. Questions like, couldn’t they read their Bible? Or can’t they reason with
their head? The problem is we should not forget the import of our tutelage and
pedagogy of our spiritual teachings that lays emphasis on TRUST. As long as
we are followers of Christ, we will continually trust because severing that
essentiality from our doctrine of brotherhood will automatically distort the
fundamental meaning of the greatest article of our faith called LOVE.
Since we must love then we must trust!
I will therefore blame the pulpit just like God blamed the shepherds for the
insolence in Israel in the days of Ezekiel saying “And the word of the Lord came
to me, saying, "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy
and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds: "Woe to the
shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the
flocks? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the
fatlings, but you do not feed the flock” Ez.34: 1-3.
Why should anybody blame the children of bad conduct when they are still under
the tutelage of their parents?
The trust placed on the pulpit by the pews have long been abused and trampled
on the ground by mere men who were mostly chosen by grace but now have a
penchant to abuse the same grace for gluttony. What a sacred trust so
endowed, full of nobility and empowered by grace, made strong enough in His
words to pull the chords of love together against the arrows and darts of
selfishness, against the fortress of vanity and aggrandizement, and prodigiously
great to enthrone accountability, but wasted on threshold of despicable theology
of extrinsic materialism. What a shame! What a disgust that those who are
honored and knows it not are perishing like the vegetable! Atrocious!!!
Playing with figures here, I can tell that in about a congregation of 5000 church
attendants, 3000 are still babes even in the tenth year of their faith experience,
1500 are caught up in the euphoria of excitement and are not ready to learn
anything new. 300 are struggling with certain errors not acceptable to them but
never strong enough to publicly denounce it, and then you have this other 150
people who are protesting silently but never reneging on the truth. Finally you
have the last 50 people who are thorns in the flesh of the Plunderer because they
speak out and are very vocal about it. They are not so loved but then cannot be
excommunicated; they are the remnants of the truth of God. God will sustain
them in the struggle for the cause of raising the church from the ruins of
apostasy.
Finally, Malachi 2: 10-12; “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created
us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another By profaning the covenant of
the fathers? Judah has dealt treacherously, And an abomination has been
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned The Lord's holy
institution which He loves: He has married the daughter of a foreign god. May the
Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this, being awake and
aware, Yet who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!” NKJV.
My confidence is God is able, and will, raise the church from the ruins of
perversion soon. We shall not be prevailed upon.
Olumide Goodness Adeyinka can be reached at nigardgroup@yahoo.com
becomes a major anchor of the practice and devotion of the Christian faith. A
critical look at the teachings of the Bible will compel anyone to accept the
intrinsic veracity of trust as an indispensable article of the faith and creed; and
the inherency of obedience in its teachings is another way to define its required
contrition.
That is all the faith of Christ teaches us as followers. That is what is bequeathed
to us by the frontrunners of the faith. Even the article of faith with which God is
pleased with anyone requires the umbrage of absolute trust. Trust can be said to
be our “indoctrination”.
I remember a hymnal song from Ancient and Modern Hymn in my secondary
school days that goes “trust and obey, for there is no other way, to be happy in
Jesus, but to trust and obey …” The emphasis on that song identifies to whom
our trust should be built – Christ; however since the pietistic devotion of
Christianity also accommodates trust within the fold of followership it then
becomes indissociable not to trust brethren especially those that have profound
influence in our Christian experience. Again, the pedagogical strategy or
mannerism by which the Christian faith is being taught by certain chosen vessels
imposes a specter of respect and regards to such people. This is clearly stated
in the book of Ephesians in chapter four from verse eleven, where certain men
were ordained of God by His Spirit to equip, edify and mature the church of
Christ. Such persons were to be accorded double honor because of the peculiar
task divinely imposed on them. I believe this as a core element of my faith.
The problem I have, and which is the direction of this article, is the acerbity with
which the honor is being demanded and the obsequiousness of the servile
followers both of which exhibit distortive understanding of God’s word excessively.
Trust is an assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of
someone or something according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The word
“assured” is the pivot holding trust, but it is also the item lacking in our
commitment to trust people. We blithely entrust our confidence in the arms of
flesh and then get feasted on like a Cheese hamburger by men who lack self-
control and moderation. Trust is NOT synonymous to stupidity or folly. Trust
should be earned after a moment of internal quietness and several questions
asked with satisfying answers within and without. Walter Anderson said “We are
never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we
cannot trust, neither can we find love and joy” We must learn how and who to
trust after being fully assured, but we must also learn to know when our trust is
abused on the cloak of disparate interest. We must be overtly sensitive to the
laceration of our mind with gashes so deep that spiritual and physical emergency
care becomes inevitable as a result of the violation of the allegiance of our
confidence.
Treachery is perfidy, falsidy, treason, faithlessness, and willful betrayal of our
trust by people who acquired it. When our trust is violated, it should not be seen
as a mistake, but an opportunity to re-evaluate our assurance and prioritize our
submission. Treachery is deception with a grand roguish agenda to it. Treachery
is a contagion spreading faster than the faith of contrition. Treachery is
venomous with a traitorous motive to obfuscate the truth and present falsity as
facts. The flagrant evil and the perfidious subterfuge of treachery as documented
in the Bible make it one of the oldest sin of man to his neighbor. The portentous
effect of treachery is grave. Treachery is evil and never a virtue.
What I see in most churches today is so much noise being made about Christ
and less of His life, so much choruses are raised but less emphasis on the
lyrics, so much dancing and jumping around but little of inner recess and beauty
of the Spirit, so much words are spoken and preached but only with exhibitionist
emptiness. We have big houses called church buildings but small hearts of men.
Big cars but very little move of the Spirit of God because of the evil on the pulpit.
It is all treachery and more treachery each day. Prophet Isaiah spoke about it in
chapter twenty-four verse sixteen;
“From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: "Glory to the righteous!" But I
said, "I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me! The treacherous dealers have dealt
treacherously, Indeed, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously”
Men that are to be respected and honored have sold their birthright for a swallow
of bread. The cost of honor had become so expensive to them that it is cheaper
to ride on lies and deceit all to get to where their bellies direct them. We now
have deliberate lies told so boldly that conscience too had been bought with the
price of lusts and greed.
A lot of people in the church today simply grovel in servitude of the Pastor or
overseer or Daddy or Spiritual father, which is a personal decision based on
ignorance; but even if the sheep is stupid should the “shepherd” be desperate to
plunder him/her more in subjection to unholy but sweet messages of enticement
and inducement? That is what is going on in so many places designated as
church. The trust of the pew on the pulpit is long exploited on the platform of
belly desire and throat lust. Not only financially, but a lot of spiritual and
intelligent abuse goes with it.
I got to a point in my meditation on this writing where issue of who really should
be blamed for the whole charade comes up. I am short of breath in saying it is
entirely on the pulpit. I know some people will disagree with my exempting the
pews. Questions like, couldn’t they read their Bible? Or can’t they reason with
their head? The problem is we should not forget the import of our tutelage and
pedagogy of our spiritual teachings that lays emphasis on TRUST. As long as
we are followers of Christ, we will continually trust because severing that
essentiality from our doctrine of brotherhood will automatically distort the
fundamental meaning of the greatest article of our faith called LOVE.
Since we must love then we must trust!
I will therefore blame the pulpit just like God blamed the shepherds for the
insolence in Israel in the days of Ezekiel saying “And the word of the Lord came
to me, saying, "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy
and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds: "Woe to the
shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the
flocks? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the
fatlings, but you do not feed the flock” Ez.34: 1-3.
Why should anybody blame the children of bad conduct when they are still under
the tutelage of their parents?
The trust placed on the pulpit by the pews have long been abused and trampled
on the ground by mere men who were mostly chosen by grace but now have a
penchant to abuse the same grace for gluttony. What a sacred trust so
endowed, full of nobility and empowered by grace, made strong enough in His
words to pull the chords of love together against the arrows and darts of
selfishness, against the fortress of vanity and aggrandizement, and prodigiously
great to enthrone accountability, but wasted on threshold of despicable theology
of extrinsic materialism. What a shame! What a disgust that those who are
honored and knows it not are perishing like the vegetable! Atrocious!!!
Playing with figures here, I can tell that in about a congregation of 5000 church
attendants, 3000 are still babes even in the tenth year of their faith experience,
1500 are caught up in the euphoria of excitement and are not ready to learn
anything new. 300 are struggling with certain errors not acceptable to them but
never strong enough to publicly denounce it, and then you have this other 150
people who are protesting silently but never reneging on the truth. Finally you
have the last 50 people who are thorns in the flesh of the Plunderer because they
speak out and are very vocal about it. They are not so loved but then cannot be
excommunicated; they are the remnants of the truth of God. God will sustain
them in the struggle for the cause of raising the church from the ruins of
apostasy.
Finally, Malachi 2: 10-12; “Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created
us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another By profaning the covenant of
the fathers? Judah has dealt treacherously, And an abomination has been
committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned The Lord's holy
institution which He loves: He has married the daughter of a foreign god. May the
Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this, being awake and
aware, Yet who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!” NKJV.
My confidence is God is able, and will, raise the church from the ruins of
perversion soon. We shall not be prevailed upon.
Olumide Goodness Adeyinka can be reached at nigardgroup@yahoo.com
By Olumide Goodness Adeyinka
African Examiner , Thursday October 06, 2011
African Examiner , Thursday October 06, 2011
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