Thursday 21 December 2017

MY CHRISTMAS CHICKEN//BY: Olukunle oluwatobi & Ogunsuyi Opeyemi

Vol. 17.12.33
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I have watched closely the life of a chicken, especially the one but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy (John 10:10 KJV)

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I rear and fed intensively for Christmas. Such chicken’s lifestyle is mainly composed of daily feeding at my expense. However, we are both at parallel mindset: the chicken eats with delight daily, fattening and rejoicing at its owner’s benevolence while I patiently feed it intensively waiting for the day of Christmas for it to go to the slaughter. This interesting but paradoxical illustration reminds me of those who live outside Jesus Christ, who live a riotous lifestyle, enjoying the sinful pleasures of this world offered by the Prince of this world-Satan, thinking such pleasures will be forever, not knowing the Devil has nothing to offer
 Proverbs 16:25 KJV ‘There is a way that seemth right unto men but the end thereof are the ways of death
Furthermore, although there is a way that may seems right to a man, it might seem as if he is making the best decisions, It might look as if he is surrounded with the right set of people, but the truth is if he is not in alignment with God’s word and will, no matter how his life looks right to the world, the end is destructive.
It is well said that a man can never eat his cake and have it. Satan is the Prince of this world and he is an expert in deceiving man because he has been on earth before we were created. The only leverage a man can have over the devil is to give his life to Christ and thereafter, become the son of God; having the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth. Undoubtedly, a man without Jesus Christ is vulnerable and can easily be deceived, swindled and blindfolded by the devil. Therefore, never should a man think that he can eat with a long spoon with the devil, for he will only be deceiving himself.  Guess what! Those who are being deceived by Satan are not always aware that they are in error; that’s Satan for you! For the day such a man knows, is his day of deliverance.  Like the popular saying goes, ‘a man’s madness begins to get cured the day he realizes that he is no longer in a normal state of mind.
                Beloved, let us search our hearts to really know its state. Let us be sure that we are really on the right way and that we are not being deceived by the devil. For we cannot love the pleasures of this world and claim to love God.


Matthew 6:24 KJV No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon

1 Corinthians 5: 7 KJV Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us

John 3:16 KJV For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:10 KJV)


This is another sincere call to all who are presently enjoying the pleasures of this sinful word, it is more like a chicken being fed for the day of slaughter. A Yoruba adage says the love the owner has towards his chicken does not go beyond to feed it well to be big enough to give him enough meat when slaughtered. In order words, the end goal of much intensive chicken rearing is to kill for food.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10: 10 KJV)

If God has touch our heart through this write-up and wish to give your life to Jesus Christ, please pray thus:

God, I thank you for your love for me,
Thank you for sending your son-Jesus Christ to die for my sins
I believe with my heart today that Jesus died for my sins and by His blood I am washed clean,
And I confess today that Jesus Christ is Lord over my life and all things
Jesus Christ, come into my life and reign forever more and
Give me the grace to love and follow you till the end
Thank you Jesus
Amen

If you have taken this prayer, you are blessed because;

I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance (Luke 15:7 KJV)

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 KJV).


Kindly find a bible believing church near you to attend

Shalom

Authors

Olukunle Oluwatobi
olatobii.john2016@gmail.com

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Ogunsuyi Opeyemi
opeyemiogunsuyi@gmail.com


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