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Applied Truths Set you Free

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8Jesus never said you shall know the truth and knowledge of the truth shall make you free. What He said is “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”-John 8:32. It sounds like the same thing but wisdom is the ability to discern differences. For instance, the kingdoms of this world through advertising glamorize cigarette smoking. But in actual fact, smoking cigarettes can kill you. But you never hear an advert advertising death, they advertise pleasure when in fact they are really selling death. So, imagine that you are addicted to cigarettes and then you find out that you were lied to in Ads and in fact cigarettes causes cancer, that knowledge does not automatically cure your addiction. You need to apply the knowledge you know by breaking that addiction before you are set free. If you know the truth about cigarettes but you continue to consume them any way…… Thus, you shall know the truth, but only when you apply the truth will it set you free. Thus Christianity is not in what you know, but in what you practice. Our freedom depends not on what we know of the Words of God and of His Christ but on what we practice.

Forget Philosophy, Only Jesus, Can Save!

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8Colossians 2:8 says “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”. From this verse we understand that though Philosophy is a very important subject, compared with the knowledge of God, it is “vain”. For instance, philosophy says that there is an element of truth in every rumour. But it is not until you have been the victim of a maliciously false rumour that you know that philosophy is vain. Philosophy also says that the voice of the people is the voice of God, but we know from when the people spoke in Babel under Nimrod or in the wilderness when they asked Aaron to fashion a god for them that that philosophy is also vain. So what are we to do? Isaiah 28:16 teaches that “this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic”. Reliance on philosophy will ultimately lead to panic. Socrates, the greatest philosopher that ever lived, faced panic at his trial and execution. But when Jesus was being tried and executed, He was clear minded enough to even pray for His persecutors because He had the assurance that God would deliver Him. Can you have such an assurance with philosophy? Only Jesus can save.

The Devil’s Greatest Trick

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8Probably the devil’s greatest trick is to deceive people that just being born again guarantees that you make it into The Kingdom of God. But Jesus never promised that. He said “except a man be born again he shall not SEE the Kingdom of God”-John 3:3. Do you want to be like Moses who saw the promised land but never entered? It takes more than being born again to enter God’s Kingdom. Jesus said “except a man be born of water and of The Spirit he cannot ENTER The Kingdom of God”-John 3:5. What does Jesus mean? Spiritual maturity that leads a man to God’s Kingdom is a process not an event. You cannot become born again and go to sleep. You must “work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12) by applying the principles Jesus and His disciples taught. This is what The Bible means in Proverbs 4:18 “the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day”. Believers are on a “path”. That path leads to God’s Kingdom referred to as “the perfect day” and every day our character is meant to shine brighter than it did the previous day. Miracles, financial breakthroughs and prosperity are no substitute for character growth in the life of a Christ Follower because we take our character with us when we leave this world.

Shadows Show the Power of God

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8How are shadows made? You need light, then something to stand against the light and a surface for the shadow to fall on. Think deeply about this. Now consider what 1 John 1:5 says “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all”. Just as a dark shadow is produced when you stand against light, darkness results in your life when you stand against God. Just as a shadow is never upright but always on the ground or on a surface, when you stand against God, you can never be upright. Jesus gave us a graphic description of this in Luke 10:18 when He said “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven”. Satan stood against The Light and fell. Jesus did the Will of The Light “therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name,  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth”-Philippians 2:9-10. If you want salvation, enlightenment and promotion in your life, read and believe The Bible. As Immanuel Kant once said, “the bible is the greatest benefit the human race has ever experienced”. And as President Theodore Roosevelt said, “a thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education”.

The Spiritual Governs the Natural.

pic3The folly of trying to reason out faith comes from thinking that the laws of nature are superior to the supernatural instead of vice versa. God is Supernatural and He spoke the natural into creation. Common sense should dictate that God cannot be limited by what He created. Therefore, the natural cannot limit the supernatural. Biology, physics and medicine may tell you that it is impossible. That’s because they are limited to the laws of nature. In the natural, when you approach a High Court for a remedy and they tell you that your remedy is impossible, you have the option of going to the Supreme Court. Any lawyer will tell you that High Court rules don’t apply in the Supreme Court. The natural is a High Court. The Supernatural is the Supreme Court. Every High Court rule that contradicts the Supreme Court rule is ultimately voidable to the extent of its inconsistency. The High Court rules are based on logic. The Supreme Court rules are based on faith.  Don’t go to a High Court Lawyer when your case is before the Supreme Court because “the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”- 1 Corinthians 2:14.

The Definition of Friendship

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8A friend is unconditionally for you. An ally supports what you support. A comrade is against what you are against. A fool confuses one for the other. “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother”-Proverbs 18:24

What’s the Meaning of Life?

Reno 8The Bill of Rights in many a nation’s constitution guarantees citizens a Right to Life, but in truth no government can guarantee such a right. Which government on earth can give you a written guarantee that you will be alive tomorrow? Not one. This makes it self evident that we have a Gift of Life not a Right of Life. Life is a privilege not a right. The fact that life is a gift means that there must be a Giver. Can your government give you life?  No. They can take it away, but they cannot give it to you or anyone. Thus the Giver is not a government or a human institution. The gift of life is given by God. Therefore, don’t look for a human constitution to tell you what you should do with your life. Look to the Basic Instructions Before Living Earth (BIBLE for short) for instructions on what to do with your life. And what does The Holy Bible say about how we should utilize the gift of life given us by God? According to Solomon “here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil”-Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

The Tragedy of Life

Reno 8The tragedy of life is mistaking cynicism for wisdom and getting to the end of your days believing in nothing and therefore achieving nothing. It is even better to believe in the wrong things because they will fail and that failure will let you know what doesn’t work so you can believe in something else. But to live a life without believing in something is to have no life for as the bible says “without faith (belief) it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”-Hebrews 11:6. In fact, belief is the greatest factor the Salvation process-“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”-John 3:16.

Jesus is the Substance, ALL Others are Shadows

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8In John 14:6 Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me”. Yesterday, a beloved Indian friend asked me why I believed that statement by Jesus giving that there are many religions that offer a way to God. I share my response to him with you. I got up and the light from the sun fell in me and multiple shadows appeared around me. I asked him if the fact that there were multiple shadows of me meant that there were multiple versions of me. He responded thus “no”. There is only one me, and one you. But when you come out under the light, there are multiple shadows of yourself. Religions of the world are that way. There are multiple religions in this world, just as there are multiple shadows. But there is only One Way to God. He is original known as Yesh’ua though modern day Christians call Him Jesus and Muslims call Him Prophet Isa while some in the Orient call Him Krishna. Even . Let it offend whoever it will offend, but only Jesus can make the boast that EVERY religion on earth acknowledges Him. That ought to tell you something. Jesus is the Substance, ALL Others are Shadows.

Sensing Beyond Your Physical Senses.

Reno Omokri's Book Launch 8I meet otherwise intelligent people and they tell me they don’t believe in God because the whole ‘God thing’ does not make sense. When they say this, I go and stay behind them and begin to watch them from afar, all of a sudden they turn around. Then I go back to them and say, ‘why did you turn’? And if they are honest they always tell me that ‘I sensed someone watching me’. My question to them to which they are never able to answer is, what logical explanation can they give for sensing that someone is watching them when they don’t have eyes at the back of their heads? They often start to explain and then are at a loss for words because none of the five physical senses can explain a human’s ability to sense when someone outside his line of sight is watching him. The only logical reason is that there are senses that a human possesses which are beyond the five physical senses. Acknowledging that you have those senses is acknowledging that you have a spirit and acknowledging that you have a spirit is acknowledging that God exists. “But it is the spirit in a person, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding”-Job 32:8.

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