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1 Corinthians 15:57.    But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Oh Friends, welcome to what has become another normal day on planet earth. A day of more job losses and stock markets falling, through worldwide economic uncertainty; of riots in London for the third day; of drought and famine in the Horn of Mother Africa; of ongoing unrest, oppression and confrontation in the Middle East; of natural disasters everywhere; of people living in constant fear, and of the wicked and idolatrous ruling the sinking planet. Ah Lord eh! I know it’s not a pretty picture of God’s wonderful creation, and though most of us can’t do anything about it on a large scale, we certainly can make a godly difference on the small scale. That’s in our own backyards; our families, our workplaces and our communities in general. Those are the places where the changes have to start, if we’re ever going to turn this world around with the LOVE Revolution it so desperately needs. Yes Friends, we believers are the saviours of the world. There’s no one else but believers who can bring an evil, ungodly world back from the brink of destruction, to the forgiveness, LOVE, and overwhelming mercy of Jehovah God. As we saw yesterday, it’s stated right there in our Great Commission. (Matt.28:19-20) But before we can fulfill that, we ourselves need to be convinced of the power of Christ, of His Holy Spirit working in us, to do the job. Then we have to become truly serious and desirous of doing it, putting our whole hearts, souls, bodies and minds into it, otherwise our efforts won’t be successful. Oh my brethren, unfortunately, this is the make or break era of Christianity and of our world. If we don’t step up NOW, and do something constructive to prevent the constant decline, then our world, with its myriad of problems, will certainly go to hell in a hand basket. This is no time for niceties, but for the unvarnished truth to be laid bare, be told as it is. We can all see the declining pattern, where we all have to work harder than ever before just make ends meet, where the evil rich are getting rich while the godly poor are getting poorer, where the confrontations within and between nations are getting more prevalent and violent. Thanks to revolutionary technology and free movement of capital (read greed), our world’s become such a small global village that negative effects are now felt much quicker and over a much wider spectrum than before. And it’s only going to intensify as things get worse. Ah mih people, it’s a mighty task, but as children of the Most High God, heirs with Jesus of God’s kingdom, WE CAN DO IT! We can make this world a much better place to Live and LOVE if we seriously try. However, we have to do it soon, time is of the essence. At the rate we’re spiralling downwards, who knows when some insane person will push that button of mass destruction to start the beginning of the end. But as I said before, believers must truly believe their calling and then earnestly decide to do it. And this reclamation project can only truly begin by all true followers of Christ really coming together and ending the petty squabbles, the selfish, jealous, envious divisions and dissensions that have driven the church apart. Obviously, we’ll never eliminate all of our differences, but unless we have a much more cohesive structure, a much closer alliance of believers than we do now, it won’t work, because Beelzebub and his evil cohorts will just keep dividing and conquering us. But luckily for us Friends, we are all well equipped to handle whatever we need to, for as Bruh Paul assured the Roman church: ‘Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that LOVED us.’ (Rom.8:37) And even more importantly, as he told Timothy: ‘For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of LOVE, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions (share with me in the sufferings) of the gospel according to the power of God.’ (2 Tim.1:7-8) Yes Friends, that applies to all of us. We have all we need, everything it takes to do the job we’re called to do. Victory is assured if we get our act together and step out in unity! And remember, it’s not of our doing, rather, as our Bit truthfully declares: ‘But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.’ Oh my people, what’s it going to take for us to truly get up off our comfortable rear ends and work seriously for Christ eh? Do we have to hit rock bottom first, to be actually drowning before we get serious? I sincerely hope not. Jesus isn’t asking too much of us; just to LOVE our God, LIVE our Faith and SPREAD His Word. That’s not so hard to do if we truly believe. So let’s get serious nuh, cause Lucifer and his boys are already ruling the roost, and we can’t topple them if we’re merely luke warm and wishy-washy. More on this tomorrow, God in favour. Till then, please think seriously about what you can do to help in restoring our godly world, and walk safely in the LOVE and peace of God. Much LOVE!…in the words of the old rock steady song…yuh trying to conquer me…but you never will conquer me…cause Jesus is my Master…my Lord and Saviour…so you not going to conquer me…you never will conquer me… no you not going to conquer I…never, never will conquer I…