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LIFE OR DEATH

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  “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live – Deuteronomy 30:19.”   Since the beginning, this world has been in twos – heaven and earth, light and darkness, day and night, land and sea, male and female etc. This is how the world is fashioned. This possibility of options has made choice available to man. And he has been in the business of choosing one thing or the other.   The matter of choice is such that one is to be taken while the others are left. However, once the choice is made, the person is left to face the consequences of their actions. The same is applicable to the word of God sent to us today. Here we see God speaking to His people by the mouth of His servant that there is life and death set before them. He, therefore, admonished them to choose one and leave off the other. The one to be chosen is the will of God for ...

ADVOCATE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS

ADVOCATE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS From the ink of my pen through to the ball point tip, I write this with every sense of urgency within. The Apostle Paul of the church cried out with a loud voice filled with indignation, "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do - Romans:7:19". Oh what a state of helplessness! Yet he thought he was fighting for the good course. WHERE ARE THE ADVOCATES? Where are the way faring men? To which path are those who fought the good fight trod? And again I ask, where are the advocates for righteousness? Without controversy, on every side, it seems we already have them around us. The people within our cycles, neighbours and relatives. Almost every time, every now and then, you hear them speak, and preach righteousness. This got me thinking that truly, "... for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh - Matthew:12:34" Troubled still in my heart, I asked, then if we have such people preaching ...