Friday, January 24, 2025

What if God Makes An Igbo Pastor the Next G.O of the Redeemed Christian Church of God?


Is it true that millions of Yorubas in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) will leave if God makes the next General Overseer an Igbo man?

I can even hear many Yorubas saying, "Ọlọrun  Májẹ!" meaning "God forbid!".

Why would they leave and migrate to the other popular "Yoruba"  churches, "Winners Chapel" of Bishop David Oyedepo, General Overseer of the Living Faith Ministries and Mountain of Fire and Miracles (MFM) of Pastor Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya? Because they believe that the RCCG is  their Yoruba Pentecostal church.
I know what I am talking about, because I was working in the office of the G. O  with the Redemption Light magazine, the  official publication of the RCCG in 1998 as a  counselor. I know that the Yorubas see the church as tneir own.


Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye.

Even if the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye tells them, "My Daddy said the next GO is an Igbo man."
They will say, "Haba! Daddy Adeboye should have told Almighty Daddy of all daddies, pe kole werk! That we no go gree. We will not accept an Igbo pastor to be the new G.O of our church.

Majority of the Yorubas believe that RCCG is a Yoruba church. But they are wrong. 
It was a white garment Yoruba church until God changed the name to the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Since then, it stopped being a white garment Yoruba church and has become a universal Pentecostal church belonging to God until the day of Rapture.

Remember what happened in January, 2017?
Ask Daddy Adeboye.
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The fact is the Yoruba Assistant General Overseer is already rehearsing to succeed Pastor Adeboye and take over the leadership of the RCCG. 
Many of the Yorubas are even calling for his voluntary retirement since he is an old man of 82 years.
But they don't know that there is no retirement for him until God decides that or when he tells God that he is tired and wants to rest. 

I have heard and read in his biography, Stories of Pastor E. A. Adeboye: The Power of Testimony, that he was even poisoned to kill him, but the poisoned food did not kill him and in fact, to their amazement, he requested for more of the food to eat. 

He was ordained by the Almighty God and only God can decide the next G. O of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
Case closed.

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Monday, January 13, 2025

Open Letter To Churches on the Idolatry of Worshipping the Dead


Open Letter To Churches on the Idolatry of Worshipping the Dead 

Churches, especially the majority of the Pentecostal denominations in Nigeria must stop their idolatry of worshipping the dead by delaying burials of churchgoers who passed away for weeks, months and even years, because of ungodly reasons such as not having enough money for the burial ceremony.

It is ungodly and wrong to have fund raising to hire buses for burial ceremony with eating and drinking and sewing uniforms when your church has failed to raise money for evangelism and charity which our Lord JESUS Christ commanded us in the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations as He said in 
Matthew 28:19 ►
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,"
OBEY THE COMMANDMENT OF JESUS CHRIST as He said in 1 John 2:4: "If anyone says, "I know Him," but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

Having public ceremony for the burial of the dead is ungodly and abomination in true Christianity.
This is the idolatry of worshipping the dead by useless ceremony that is against the commandments of Almighty God.
Stop all the abominations against the Word of God.

I have seen a church having more fund raising of money for burials than evangelism and charity.
And the ministers lie that they are led by the Holy Spirit.
Which holy spirit?

A church will raise more than one million naira for a burial ceremony of a churchgoer that they failed to support financially when he was alive and struggling to make ends meet.
Then you spend hundreds of thousands of naira for his burial.
Is this true Christianity or false religion in the camouflage of Christianity.

The worst is the church that prays for the dead.
Stop the charade of the parade of fake Christianity in the idolatry of burial ceremonies.
The dead don't need your ceremonies, prayers and tears.

Mark 12:27-
 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Solemnly mourn with the bereaved and comfort them as much as you can with love.

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