*IMMORTALITY*

FACEBOOK PULPIT... Welcome to my facebook pulpit. For sometime now, I have thought of the idea of having a facebook pulpit. Why would I have it? Because I think it's time for us (those who are followers of my ministry) to "regroup" again, as it were; not that we were "scattered" in the sence of being "devastated" or "sacked;" DEFINITELY NOT. But by reason of the fact that, for various reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I had to "traverse" ministry landscape, we could not feed, and regularly too, from the same "pot," as has been the case now for a few years. And, whereas it is still not yet feasible for us to meet 'physically' together in one place, if that is at all possible, the possibility and opportunity offered by this social networking website, has made me to see it as a rather "perfect" place and opportunity for me to "see" you again, and this time on a wider platform, as well as continue (or, if you like, re-ignite) the fire that never went out anyway (at least, not within me) but to which you have not had access, in a major way, all these years. ... Now, all of the above is putting it across from man's own standpoint, which I think is good enough, as far as that goes. However, from God's own standpoint, I'd like to believe (and I really do) that this facebook pulpit idea is really His! So, here I am, and here we go! ... So, how has it been with you all this while? It's been tough for me, but God has been my strength. Tough in the sense that, when I look around me, all I seem to see is the devil having a field-day devastating the ranks of the Church of Jesus Christ, with the same evil with which he devastated the Garden of Eden to begin with -- and that evil, you know, is THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL! That knowledge continues to be evil, and, just like God said in the beginning, it constitutes DEATH. ... "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt SURELY DIE" (Genesis 2:16 & 17). ... This was God's command and warning to Adam in the Garden at that time. He made it explicitly clear to him that eating from the tree of the KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL, would lead to only one thing -- and that is DEATH -- death in all its ramifications -- death in one's relationship with God (spiritual death), death in one's relationship with himself (personal death); death in one's relationship with others (relationship death); death in one's relationship with his environment (physical death), and so on and so forth. And, because man is as at today already in that fallen state of death, his "dead" mind (arising from having eaten the knowledge of good and evil) does not even understand or know the meaning of this death that has become his predicament. That is, man is dead, now, and without knowing what it means to die. This would suggest that there is no hope for man, since he does not even know or understand the nature of his predicament. That is, he is in a situation whereby, although he is "dead," he still doesn't know what it means "to be so 'dead'," and, therefore, often does the very things that consolidate him in that "death" nature, yet he thinks, while doing those things, that he is walking in divine life. What a tragedy! ... The bane of man, today, is NOT that he has chosen evil rather than good; instead, the bane of man is that he has chosen THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL, rather than choosing LIFE. Christ did not come to redeem us, brethren, from EVIL to GOOD; rather, He came to redeem us from THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD and EVIL, to LIFE. That's the message, my brother; anything short of that is not the gospel.