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WHAT MADNESS, MISERY AND POVERTY OF MAN! THE DEVIL HAS
HELD THE AFRICANS CAPTIVE IN BEREAVEMENTS AND FUNERAL IN SUCH
A WAY THAT WHEN A PERSON IS SICK, INSTEAD OF HELPING HIM, PEOPLE
PREFER TO WAIT THAT HE SHOULD DIE TO BUY A COFFIN AND DRESSES OF BIG
PRICE FOR HIS FLESH OR LUMP OF SOIL AS WELL AS FOOD AND
WINE TO MAKE A BIG FEAST.
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In truth, it is so sad and touching to see how the devil has rendered the people too miserable and misfortunate; because his fight against man is to make him believe that his flesh and earthly things are more important than his soul, that he is nothing if he does not possess them, or he is insignificant if he is not considered by his relatives. The devil makes believe to families that the day somebody dies, if his lump of soil is not clothed with dresses of big price and put in a coffin of big price, if food and wine are not in big quantity, therefore, his bereavement is a small and poor bereavement.
In truth, the fight of the devil against God on earth was first to kill the soul in the Garden of Eden; and today, no matter the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, this fight consist in maintaining the souls in the death or evil. God took the dust of the ground and formed man’s physical body; next, he breathed the spiritual body in the nostrils of this lump of soil to give it breathing and movement; that is why it is said: “ then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature” (Genesis 2/7).
When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, he commanded them to obey him in order to stay in the life; and that the disobedience will make them leave the life for the death; that is why it is said: “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2/16-17). When the devil came towards Eve and Adam by bringing them to disobey God or to abandon life, it was not to kill their flesh or to take it, but it was to kill their souls. After Eve ate the death, she gave it to Adam who also ate it; the two of them thus became death spiritually (Genesis 3/1-6). Therefore, Adam and Eve being spiritually dead, all those who are born of man’s blood are born spiritually dead. All the men are therefore struck and engulfed by the spiritual death. To deliver, to liberate and save the souls from the disobedience, the sin and the spiritual death, God sent Jesus since heaven who came in a physical body by the stomach of a woman called Mary. Jesus, the Son of God came down carrying the word of Spirit and of Life which the men must listen and obey to abandon the disobedience, the sin, darkness and the death. That is why when John the Baptist saw the one that carried the word aimed to take off the sin in the man who receives, practice and live it (the Lord Jesus), he said: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1/29).
The devil on his side, for fear to lose the souls, not willing that the sin that he had injected to the souls since the Garden of Eden by his cunning should be taken off, he started to seek solutions to knock down the carrier of the word of life, of light, of deliverance and liberation of souls that are held captive. For this reason, he first used Herod to kill Jesus still baby in Bethlehem; that is why it is said: “Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men” (Matthew 2/16). But the Lord in his greatness ordained Joseph in a dream the day before, to take the child and to flee with him in Egypt before Herod was coming to make his criminal killing on children, thinking that Jesus is with them (Matthew 2/13-14).The devil had thus missed his shot. After the baptism of Jesus at the age of 30years, he started his mission of deliverance of souls from the hands of Satan; being determined in his fight, by his great mercy, he wants that the souls that have been killed by the devil since the Garden of Eden should not be lost forever, but should come back to life. During another attempt to counteract or reverse the mission of the Lord Jesus, the devil attacked him by his cunning, proposing him all the richness and glory of the world as well as its kingdoms against bowing down in front of him and adoring him (Luke 4/6-8). Even in this way, it was still a failure of the devil and a victory of Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus has cancelled the orders that were condemning us and has abolished death that was rendering us captive. But let the people not be deceived and fall in the seduction of the devil who make them believe that as Jesus has shed his blood and died on the cross for all the souls, it means that they are saved in their customs, life and tradition of man. That is why the Lord Jesus while abolishing death, brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel as it is said: “and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1/10). The teaching and gospel of man have filled this generation, and it cannot give life and immortality no matter the high level of practice of those who listen to it because this word is of man and cannot bring him to become God. But only the word of God which is God brings the man to become God. Evil has filled the world today because of the gospel of man; another gospel which is taken for the word of God (the only gospel of Christ). The Lord Jesus has abolished the orders that were condemning us since the Garden of Eden; but if we do not live his life, we are condemned. Meanwhile in his life, there is no condemnation; that is even why it is said: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8/1). Therefore, the fight of Satan that remains today is to make the man to ignore the gospel, the word, the force, the life and power of Christ given for his deliverance and liberation from the links of death.
The devil in his double game of the cunning gives power, force, the gospel... to the man, making him believe that it is of Christ, his big joker being to bring the man to forget, to neglect, to simplify, to despise and objectify his soul or to sell it because of vanities that make the glory and pleasure to his flesh. He brings the man to believe that his flesh is him and his soul belongs to another one; and since the man love himself more than another person, that is why his flesh is loved and his soul forgotten, hated and despised. He had made the man to understand that his soul is the cloth and his flesh the body; that his soul is the carapace, the shell, the envelope, and his flesh is the product and the content. That is why from the parent to children who came poor and dead spiritually on earth, what gain their hearts, thoughts, feelings is to quickly have the knowledge of earthly things, certificates, a job, getting married, having children, plots, houses and to prepare the retirement or old age, because for them, it is to succeed his future. In truth, this state of ignorance and blindness is too touching and shocking. If God asks someone who is dead in the flesh or physic lying to make a vow, this dead or lump of soil lying will not ask him dresses of big price, nor a coffin, but he will ask him the coming back to life, so that the bosom of the earth should not swallow him. But, in the contrary, if God ask someone who is spiritually dead even though living in the physic to make a vow, you will listen to the recitation of the kind: “I need money, vehicles, plots, houses, a job, travelling and many years and good health on earth...”. This spiritual dead ignore that in his state of dead, he is reserved for the lake of eternal fire. Meanwhile he who does not live Jesus in his soul is dead, even though living in his lump of soil, that is why it is said: “but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives” (1Timothy 5/6).
Today, you will see somebody who is sick like the comedian Marie Louise of the television show “MA FAMILLE” who was asking people to help her because she no longer had financial means for her hospital bills, but those who could help her remained without doing anything. That is how this last died in atrocious suffering by lack of financial means. Once in the mortuary, hundreds of people came in the rendezvous, collecting money to buy much food, making themselves to be seen in big financial contributions. Meanwhile if there was just little money, the disease would have not taken her away. They sometimes go up to keep this lump of soil in the mortuary for weeks or months, buy clothes or a coffin of big price, fat pigs, even cows and goats, cartons of fish, of chicken, bags of rice, cartons of red wine, bananas, plantain... And the burial day of this lump of soil, there is a big feast which is organised where every participant brings his contribution. After burying this lump of soil, the party of the consumption of food and drinks opens up. If this lump of soil was old, it is a moment of dance and rejoicing where the family counts the number of children, daughter-in-law, grandsons, great grandsons of the person who is dead, saying that he has work a lot. Sometimes, people get into depts to make this big feast. Others often face great difficulties to pay back what they had borrowed, thus becoming dishonest because of customs and traditions that have been imposed by the devil.
If in a family, they bury a lump of soil the same day that the soul left it, or the next day without any ceremony, nor food and drinks, people will say that this burial was done like that of a dog; but they should understand that the Lord Jesus, John the Baptist... were buried the same day they died without ceremony nor feast. Today in Africa, the bereavement has become a feast and an occasion for the collection of funds or other material for the family of the person who is dead. That is why certain people today spend their time to swindle their numerous relatives, telling them that they have mourning, meanwhile it is a lie, all this because mourning has become a source of revenue or any other help. The devil brings the people to show the greatness in the material during mourning where families compete among each other; people have as challenge to make a big feast which its importance should be above the one that was done somewhere or next door. And for this, a budget of millions of francs must be voted, and very high amounts of money will be asked to different family members of the person who is dead, to children and others, thus bringing those who do not have money to go and borrow in order to give their own.
That is why in Africa, when you hear people saying that it is a small bereavement, it does not mean that it is a baby who is lying, but rather that the magnitude of the festivities will not be great, because the family of the deceased person does not have enough financial means to flood people with food and drinks during snack (collation), that is after the burial. If by misfortune one of your relatives lose someone in his family and that you do not assist him, it becomes a serious problem, meanwhile they themselves being spiritually dead, it is a misfortune for the Lord or for those in whom the Lord dwells. But who will also assist them so that their dead soul should be cried and brought back to life? Therefore, to everyone his bereavement, everyone should take his bereavement seriously. The living ones or the spiritual men should cry to bring back the dead soul to the life of Christ, and the fleshly men or those who are dead in the soul should cry the lump of soil by eating and drinking in their big feast. One day, after the father of one of the disciples of Jesus died, he asked the permission to go and bury the lump of soil of his father, but the Lord refused telling him to devote his time for those who are dead in the soul and who can still come back to life than the lump of soil (Matthew 8/21-22).
In truth, the flesh is the dust and it consume, touches, wear, possess and gather the dust; and all this dust will be found in only one place as it is said: “All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return” (Ecclesiastes 3/20).
CHAMPI Apostle not behalf of man, nor by a man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. God’s power is the knowledge. To know, avoid sin and to be free from the eternal death. (John 8/32)