MONEY AND HELL: the connection

People view money as a necessary element in one’s life. We all need money for us to survive and get all the basic necessities of life.

But who invented money and why he / she did (because it may have been a woman that influenced her husband cause then women voices were irrelevant) think that there was a great need for a medium of exchange.

I personally think that it was greed that led to the invention of money.  My research led me to believe that trade by barter was what was in vogue before money came around, now why I said greed is because, consider my theory…

The man that plants yam and has to carry large lads to the market to exchange goods with a man that sells walnuts, so the yam seller would feel cheated despite all the hard work he has done, he now needs walnuts and he has to go to the walnut man’s farm with large tubers for small pieces of walnut.

So let’s assume my theory is right or wrong, that doesn’t matter, because a musician once said…”too much money ain’t enough money” the rich never get enough money and the poor never get enough either, so there is the great rush for the money.

Someone was said ‘money isn’t everything’ another answered by saying ‘make some first before you start saying crap’. I noticed something, a lot of people are not content with what they have physically and forget the spiritual, while some don’t have enough physically they turn to the spiritual to look for blessings. Here they are exploited too by some spiritualists who are in the business looking for money, and are ready to swindle people who will believe their lies.

The politicians kill themselves for the power and the money, because when you have money you have power. Some people would kill just for enough money to eat, girls prostitute for money, people lie for money, and people cheat for money. Most of the crimes in the world today can be linked with money. Sin is the ultimate route to hell.

The love of money is the root of evil I believe that ‘lack of contentment is the root of all evil’. We humans not only have to be content but we have to be able to love each other enough to share what we have.

The question to ask is what happens to all the money when we are in the grave?

WOMEN AND HELL: the connection

Some people believe in heaven and hell, others don’t, so for those who believe…this is a grave warning to all the guys…

For a woman to send a man to hell all she needs do is to wear clothes…or should I say lack of clothes.

I wonder, sometimes, what God was thinking when he created woman. They have these alluring sights that make a man lust after her body. Lust is a sin.

I think one problem was that God gave man a penis and a brain but not enough blood to use both of them at once.

So in a world where bikini wearing women are used on toothpaste ads, and exposing of breasts an wearing figure hugging clothes are the order of the day, how can a decent man salvage himself from the jaws of hell.

I read on facebook once that women who cover their bodies are beautiful, the ones that don’t are hot, heaven is beautiful and hell is hot.

What I fail to understand is what women, who are not prostitutes or pornstars, enjoy in over exposing what needs to be kept hidden. What kind of crazy trend is the world evolving to.

Some women actually begin to adjust their tops to try to cover their breasts or their asses when they notice a man is staring, then the question comes to my mind, why did you wear the crap in the first place, does she not have a mirror on the wall that showed her that she had exposed too much skin or didn’t she know the size of clothes she wears before going to the market.

The world is a really funny place, with men controlling the world and women controlling the men, it wouldn’t be shocking if by judgment day there are very few people in heaven.

I wonder if heaven has got a ghetto….

Maybe all the bad people would go there instead of hell…

PHILANTROPY

We exist in Nigeria as a part of one body filled with many cultures. Nigeria, though we have a lot of resources, we are still one of the poorest countries in the world.

But in as much as poverty is much in Nigeria, there are also extra-ordinarily rich people in the country, so we should expect to have a lot of philanthropists in Nigeria as we have in other counties in the world…Psyche

As the rich are getting richer, they are inflicting harder punishments on the poor people, scholarships from individuals are rare and the people that private universities are putting exorbitant prices on the schools; making it impossible for the children if the poor to go to school.

Even the government owned schools are now as expensive as the private schools. Even when there are scholarship programs it is targeted at the people who have the right connections.

Some people now believe that corruption is not an option it is the only way, should we continue in this way?

I do not know about the Muslims, but the early Christians sold their properties so that others could eat and be satisfied; now it is hard to find people who are caring enough to even ask about your welfare not to talk of feeding.

Some people call themselves philanthropists because they paid three or four children school fees in the university.

A lot of religious leaders collect money from a lot of rich men in the name of God’s blessing, but they would use it to grow their churches and build schools that the average Nigerian cannot enjoy; then they would preach heaven and earth, how you cannot be an ordinary human being if you can just pay your tithe. Most of them were products of missionary schools that paid next to nothing for school fees.

How long will Nigerians live in a loveless economy…this is food for thought.

Nigerian Christianity…

Woke up this morning with this great emptiness inside; its December again and every one is going to one camp or the other, making resolutions, going to night vigils, just to make sure they get to see the New Year.

But what is the purpose of all this; I honestly do not think the bible wanted us to practice religion, but have Christianity as a way of life. It honestly freaks me out that Nigeria is one of the most religious countries in the world yet we have bountiful problems.

We pray hard, worship hard, go to church regularly, pay tithes…hold on; does that sound familiar, a little Pharisee and Sadducee ring to it.

Honestly, even though our great vice president, Sambo, shared laptops and LCD TVs as souvenirs on his daughters wedding, I think the church is a major part of this problem. You may ask why I didn’t say mosque; I am not a Muslim so I would not be able to write from their perspective, even though they too are part of the problem.

I was reading a paper on how much covenant university pay for school fees and I honestly was shocked; N 640,000, WHAT! I got angry in my spirit, Winners Chapel has a congregation of way over 1,000,000 members, how many can go to a school that pay that much with the current poverty status of Nigeria? Bishop, himself, went to a missionary school and missionary schools then didn’t pay feess or they were heavily subsidized. How come his schools are one of the most expensive in the country? Is Covenant University not a missionary school?

Every Sunday, they will listen to preaching on sowing seed as a divine upliftment to enjoy ‘Abrahamic’ blessings, but even though I am not against sowing seeds, how many of the people are living like Abraham.

Bishop Oyedepo is the richest pastor in Nigeria, a british mag dubbed him a Pastorpreneur. He owns four private jets, a rolls Royce, two private universities, an airline company, to mention but a few and he is worth $150,000,000; do not forget that it is in dollars.

For God’s sake, if he could have that much, how come people around in Nigeria still suffer, the early apostles sold things to give to the poor, Judas got angry with Mary when she poured oil on Jesus leg because they could have sold such an expensive oil to give to the poor.

Bishop is not the only one guilty of these things, a lot of other pastors as well. Pastor Tunde Bakare said maybe if the could lock up all the pastors, including him; in prison for a while maybe they would understand what the people are going through.

Pastors now acquire so much wealth from the tithes and the offerings people pay,yet with so much riches they claim to be humble. It would have been a lot better if they were always giving to the community. At least with so much worth, every town that there is winners, redeem or any other church should feel the impact of that church in their surroundings. People complain that they pay tax and see no dividends; shouldn’t you see some changes when you pay tithes and give sacrificially?

You see government officials in their long convoys and we shake our heads; saying they are corrupt. But our pastors also have long convoys and fierce looking body guards, what are they afraid of. Jesus walked through crowds; they don’t even want to be touched, maybe except during the service. They drive the best of cars, Jesus trekked, He didn’t even have a horse or a donkey

Our community is dying, people are hungry, there are little or no youth empowerment programs, yet they live rich, advice people to pay tithes and quote Malachi 3:10 every Sunday. Fela Anikulapokuti said ‘Pastors house n aim dey fine pass, ma people never see where to sleep, pastors dress na im dey clean pass, ma people never see money to buy soap…and dem go dey bad bad bad bad things, through Jesus Christ our Lord’

I wasn’t born when Fela sang that song, but isn’t it what is happening now?

I feel the pastors, should engage in youth empowerment programs, they shouldn’t wait for government infrastructure before they do anything, they should collaborate with the government for infrastructure, the church can’t give every body money, but they can help make a change in the society, moving Nigeria up in from being a broke ass third world country.

If any pastor would be reading this, ask youself one question… if Jesus was born in our time, do you think he would drive a hummer jeep, have a Rolls Royce, a fleet of planes, wear the most expensive suits and write so many books on prosperity?

Woke up this morning with this great emptiness inside; its December again and every one is going to one camp or the other, making resolutions, going to night vigils, just to make sure they get to see the New Year.

But what is the purpose of all this; I honestly do not think the bible wanted us to practice religion, but have Christianity as a way of life. It honestly freaks me out that Nigeria is one of the most religious countries in the world yet we have bountiful problems.

We pray hard, worship hard, go to church regularly, pay tithes…hold on; does that sound familiar, a little Pharisee and Sadducee ring to it.

Honestly, even though our great vice president, Sambo, shared laptops and LCD TVs as souvenirs on his daughters wedding, I think the church is a major part of this problem. You may ask why I didn’t say mosque; I am not a Muslim so I would not be able to write from their perspective, even though they too are part of the problem.

I was reading a paper on how much covenant university pay for school fees and I honestly was shocked; N 640,000, WHAT! I got angry in my spirit, Winners Chapel has a congregation of way over 1,000,000 members, how many can go to a school that pay that much with the current poverty status of Nigeria? Bishop, himself, went to a missionary school and missionary schools then didn’t pay feess or they were heavily subsidized. How come his schools are one of the most expensive in the country? Is Covenant University not a missionary school?

Every Sunday, they will listen to preaching on sowing seed as a divine upliftment to enjoy ‘Abrahamic’ blessings, but even though I am not against sowing seeds, how many of the people are living like Abraham.

Bishop Oyedepo is the richest pastor in Nigeria, a british mag dubbed him a Pastorpreneur. He owns four private jets, a rolls Royce, two private universities, an airline company, to mention but a few and he is worth $150,000,000; do not forget that it is in dollars.

For God’s sake, if he could have that much, how come people around in Nigeria still suffer, the early apostles sold things to give to the poor, Judas got angry with Mary when she poured oil on Jesus leg because they could have sold such an expensive oil to give to the poor.

Bishop is not the only one guilty of these things, a lot of other pastors as well. Pastor Tunde Bakare said maybe if the could lock up all the pastors, including him; in prison for a while maybe they would understand what the people are going through.

Pastors now acquire so much wealth from the tithes and the offerings people pay,yet with so much riches they claim to be humble. It would have been a lot better if they were always giving to the community. At least with so much worth, every town that there is winners, redeem or any other church should feel the impact of that church in their surroundings. People complain that they pay tax and see no dividends; shouldn’t you see some changes when you pay tithes and give sacrificially?

You see government officials in their long convoys and we shake our heads; saying they are corrupt. But our pastors also have long convoys and fierce looking body guards, what are they afraid of. Jesus walked through crowds; they don’t even want to be touched, maybe except during the service. They drive the best of cars, Jesus trekked, He didn’t even have a horse or a donkey

Our community is dying, people are hungry, there are little or no youth empowerment programs, yet they live rich, advice people to pay tithes and quote Malachi 3:10 every Sunday. Fela Anikulapokuti said ‘Pastors house n aim dey fine pass, ma people never see where to sleep, pastors dress na im dey clean pass, ma people never see money to buy soap…and dem go dey bad bad bad bad things, through Jesus Christ our Lord’

I wasn’t born when Fela sang that song, but isn’t it what is happening now?

I feel the pastors, should engage in youth empowerment programs, they shouldn’t wait for government infrastructure before they do anything, they should collaborate with the government for infrastructure, the church can’t give every body money, but they can help make a change in the society, moving Nigeria up in from being a broke ass third world country.

If any pastor would be reading this, ask youself one question… if Jesus was born in our time, do you think he would drive a hummer jeep, have a Rolls Royce, a fleet of planes, wear the most expensive suits and write so many books on prosperity?