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Daily Fountain 2017 - 2810 - Maintain Your Life With God

Saturday October 28 Bible Reading:     John 1: 17 - 25 Topic:                   Maintain Your Life With God The text shows a conversation between the Jews of Jerusalem sent as emissaries (Priests and Levites) and John the Baptist on who he was. These were Pharisees and they had many reasons to see John the Baptist: 1. John's new teaching; 2. if he had the credentials of a Prophet; 3.  why he had quite a following and it was growing. To all the questions asked (v. 21 - 22) John gave an answer: "I am the voice ....." (v. 23; Isa. 40: 3) He was a voice, a herald or forerunner to some other Greater, Who was coming - Jesus Christ the Son of God and the Messiah of Israel. The question of the Pharisees in v. 25 was about the Gentiles. We learn a great lesson throughout this epistle between John and the Jewish Teachers that we are to be onl...

Daily Fountain 2017 - 0610 - The Grace Of God

Friday October 6 Bible Reading:     Rom. 9: 24 - 33 Topic:                  The Grace Of God The Jews were the chosen people of God who witnessed His mighty acts in Egypt for forty years of their journey in the wilderness. Nonetheless, they rejected God, but it was so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. A small remnant of the Jews will be saved (Isa. 10: 2 - 23) The Jews sought righteousness but did not find it, while the Gentiles who were not searching for it, found it. Israel tried to be saved by works and not by faith. They rejected "Grace Righteousness" and tried to please God with the "law's righteousness" Israel's rejection, means the Gentiles salvation. Their fall made possible the salvation of the Gentiles by the grace of God. All non-biological Jews in today's world are the Gentiles. God's offer of salvation is not to only biol...

Give Up For The Igbos Of The World

I am proudly Igbo, the Land of the Rising Sun from where the 3 Wise Men went out and on to spread the message of Salvation •The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Igbo man named Professor Kenneth Dike. •The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Igbo man named Professor Eni Njoku. •The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Igbo man The first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics was an Igbo man named Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Igbo man named Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differential Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. The first Nigerian professor of history was an Igbo man Professor Kenneth Dike who also became the first black vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan. The first Nigerian Professor of Botany was an Igbo man named Professor Eni Njoku. He went on to become the very first vice ch...