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Our Message is clear and simple. Improving Your World, Making Heaven Your Home!
(Matthew 6:19-21) V19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

V20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

V20 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21

God has given us a gift of life and hence we are still here with abundant life and as we improve daily, let us work hard to make heaven our home so that when it is all over, he will ushers us into his presence.

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Our Message is clear and simple. Improving Your World, Making Heaven Your Home! (Matthew 6:19-21) V19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

V20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

V20 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21

God has given us a gift of life and hence we are still here with abundant life and as we improve daily, let us work hard to make heaven our home so that when it is all over, he will ushers us into his presence.

Am I lost in the crowd?

Is there anyone, up there?

Awakening the God Spirit in you

The Beginning of a kingdom

The quality of a woman in the house

No achievement without oppositions

Consider opposition a temporary detour

The sick pitying the healer

Becoming a kingdom citizen

Open Air Outreach

0. Refresh
1. Where Will You Spend Eternity?
2. Don't be deceived, Heaven and Hell are real
3. Improving Your World, Making Heaven Your Home
4. The Sick Pitying The Healer
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From The Pastor's Desk

#01 Where Will You Spend Eternity?
Improving Your World, Making Heaven Your Home!

Our target is to go out beyond the "Christian camp" and improve the world according to the revelation that God gave us. "Go into the world and improve for me the world and the bad being." Says the Lord.

Where Will You Spend Eternity?
"Well," you ask, "how would I know?"

Thank God, according to the Bible, not only can you know, but you can choose where you will spend eternity.
Now we all believe—or at least most claim to believe—in the Bible as God’s Word. We believe in eternity and know that life is short. The Bible itself asks, “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes” (James 4:14).

Many claim to believe in heaven and in hell, yet, unfortunately, show little concern over their eternal destiny. We are far more concerned about this life than the next, yet we know that eternity is endless. The Word of God describes eternity as being “for ever and ever” (Revelation 22:5).

Just think...an eternity to be spent forever, either in the perfect paradise called heaven or in the terrible torments of hell.

Surely we’ll agree that it is just good sense to prepare for eternity now, before it is forever too late. God says, “man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

“Well,” you say, “I believe in God, go to church, and live the best I can. What else can I do?”

Now believing in God, attending church, and doing one’s best are all admirable; yet, according to the Word of God, the Holy Bible, these cannot get us to heaven. Neither, according to God, can our church membership, baptism, confirmation, nor our good deeds attain for us eternal life.

But God has provided an answer to the matter of life and death, heaven and hell. It is an answer so simple it is frequently overlooked.

A religious leader named Nicodemus came to Jesus one night for help. Jesus told him, “You must be born again,” and expanded this to include all of us by stating quite emphatically, “I tell you the truth, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Pretty dogmatic perhaps, but these are the words of Christ Himself.

Some today, like Nicodemus, will ask, “How can a man be born when he is old? Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb to be born!” (John 3:4). But Jesus answers, “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit” (John 3:6), stating again that one must experience a spiritual rebirth in order to enter heaven—“You must be born again” (John 3:7).

Now, have you been born again? Have you experienced this spiritual rebirth? This is the one thing, according to the Bible, that will determine your eternal destiny.

So, for those who really want to know how to be born again, here is the answer from God’s Word.

We must recognize that we are sinners, that we’ve all violated God’s laws. The Bible says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God....There is no one righteous, not even one....There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins....If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us....If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives” (Romans 3:23,10; Ecclesiastes 7:20; 1 John 1:8,10).

We must repent of our sins. The Bible says that God “commands all people everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). Jesus said, “unless you repent, you too will all perish” (Luke 13:3). And it is not so difficult to repent as we pause to think of what our sins have cost God. It was for our sins that God, the Creator and King of this universe, left His home in heaven and came to earth in the Person of Jesus to suffer and bleed and die—that we might be forgiven. “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us” (1 John 3:16). Then Jesus rose from the dead, proving His victory over sin and death.

We must receive Christ into our hearts and lives as our Savior. We read in the first chapter of John, speaking of the Lord Jesus, “He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:10–12).

The moment we open our hearts to the Lord Jesus and place our complete trust in Him—and Him alone—as our Savior, God promises to forgive our sins, save our soul, and reserve for us a home in heaven. Then, on the authority of the Word of God, we can know where we’ll spend eternity. God says, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). And Jesus promises, “whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life” (John 5:24).

Now, are you willing to settle the matter of your eternal destiny? Will you do it? You can, right this moment. I sincerely hope that you will.

This article was written by Arthur DeMoss

I am concerned about eternity and am willing now to repent of my sins and receive Jesus Christ as my Savior. I hereby do so, committing unto Him my salvation and eternal destiny.

By Prophet Folorunsho Balogun

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From The Pastor's Desk

#02 Don't be deceived,
Heaven and Hell
are Real!
Improving Your World, Making Heaven Your Home!

My Friend, the ETERNAL home of your soul is in YOUR hands.

Where Will You Spend Eternity?

Treasures in Heaven
Matthew 6:19-21
V19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
V20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
V21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
V22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
V23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
V24 No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

Do Not Worry
Matthew 6:25-34
V25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
V26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
V27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[a]?
V28 And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
V29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
V30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
V31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
V32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
V33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
V24 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Ask, Seek, Knock
Matthew 7:7-12
V7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
V8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
V9 Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
V10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
V11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
V12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

The Narrow and Wide Gates
Matthew 7:13-14
V13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
V14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

The Ten Commandments
Exodus Chapter 20

You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol.
You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God.
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Honour your father and your mother.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour.
You shall not covet.

The 9 Fruits Of The Spirit!
Galatians 5:22-23
V22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. V13 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

By Prophet Folorunsho Balogun

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From The Pastor's Desk

El Hakkadosh Church

#03 Improving Your World, Making Heaven Your Home!

Look at the word “Your” there, your world your home. God has given us a freedom of choice. “Your world, your home” You see, only you can make your world the way you want it to be! Only you can make heaven your home. That is why it is often said the ETERNAL home of your soul is in YOUR hands. Let me repeat this again, the ETERNAL home of your soul is in YOUR hands. That it is to say, making heaven your home! Only you can make heaven your home and only you can improve your world in order to attract heaven and not hell. My friend this is tough and is difficult.

I want to talk to you about where will you spend eternity?

Where Will You Spend Eternity?

YOU SEE!
Where will you spend eternity is a question we don’t often ask people or even ourselves. May be because we believe that God is merciful and therefore He will surely grant us a place in heaven, regardless the knowingly and the unknowingly sins we commit daily.

My friend, that it is not true. The word of God clearly tells us in Matthew 6:33 to seek first His heavenly Kingdom and His righteousness, and everything we are labouring for on this earth will be given to us as well.

I believe this scripture applies to your lacks, such as perhaps, you have no children of your own, no husband of your own, no wife of your own, no car of your on own, no house of your own, you don’t have good education, you are an illegitimate child, you can’t afford three square meals a day and you are barely making it through etc.

If anyone is patient with endurance and not being consumed by sin as a result of lacks in your life, for God who created you knows how to feel every gap in your life. If you seek God always, you will never feel it much that you lack anything.

I think that is the more reason the word of God says in Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. That does not mean you have to be poor, so that you can go to heaven. It’s simply means that in all your problems you still find it in your heart to love God by keeping his Ten Commandments such as in Exodus Chapter 20.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself an idol.

You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Honour your father and your mother.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour.

You shall not covet.

And it is obvious, that whoever keeps the Ten Commandments will naturally produce the 9 fruits of the spirit, which the Bible mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law”.

Therefore friend, I urge you to look into this matter and ask yourself, where will I spend eternity?

You see, it is easier for everyone to stand right by the casket of a loved one at the funeral service, whose journey is over, here on earth, and naturally feel for this person with a strong believe that is going to make heaven. But deep down in our hearts we may be wrong, because this person lived a very reckless and sinful life style while he was here on earth.

Friend, God does not welcome sinners into his dwelling home. “If you were to be God which you are not anyway, will you welcome such an evil person to live with you for Eternity?” Even despite of all your concerns and worries for him, for you told him and gave him enough life to know and do what he must do before coming to put up with you. But yet he wouldn’t be bothered because he thinks you are such a nice person. Friend we are talking about Heaven where God dwells.

God has made it possible for us to come and dwell with him in heaven and that is while He sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ in John 3:16, For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Think again and think well friend, where will you spend Eternity? God bless. Thank you for visiting our website and for listening to our pod cast. Please stay tune and don’t go away, we will back shortly.

By Prophet Folorunsho Balogun

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From The Pastor's Desk

#04 The sick pitying the healer

It is a pity that in this day an age where evil is rampant in our society, most people are still allowing the pot to be calling the kettle black, how could that be? For it is apparent that the unbelievers are the one in bondage enjoying the pleasure of sins, which the devil loves giving to them.

Ironically, unbelievers call Christians all sorts of names, saying they are weak people, sick people, dumb people, born again people, miserable people, sad looking people, uncivilised people, funny people, Bible people, lazy people and poor people etc. What a shame!

In one of my Father in-law's quotes, it says, “It is a pity that a pity can not pity a pity”, meaning one can be consoled in an unforeseen circumstance, but when the circumstance becomes too deeply beyond pity, the only word to use in describing the situation is still pity, because is still a pity situation.

It is not an enough excuse in God’s presence to say you stop going to Church, because Pastors are living in a certain way of life that you are not happy about. Or rather because Christians are hopping from one Church to another, for the sake of prosperity and you are different because you know what you want in life. My friend you are wrong, God’s ways are not how we feel. I will strongly advice you to please join the believers who are forcefully advancing in the kingdom of God and making heaven their home.

I will once again commend the believers, for God is using them mightily and without them today, most of our Churches would not have been filled to its capacity. Yes they may be hopping from one Church to another, but at the same time, they are attracting friends and families who may be following them to the next Church they are hopping to or hopping from. And in all, they are overcoming the power of darkness and the sins that use to take them to the devil’s kingdom.

Yes it is a sad situation that we still have friends and families that have not given their lives to Christ as at today. They should pity themselves for their spiritual illness, instead of pitying the Christians who’s their body odour smells badly for the devil. Of course, the devil cannot tolerate Christians because they stink in his presence. What a shame that the unbelievers still smell nicely for the devil.

As for me, I will rather smell unpleasantly for the devil and never to be his friend for the rest of my life. Just like our saviour Jesus Christ, for the Bible says in Isaiah 53:7 “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth”.

I love the songwriter that wrote the song as follows:
I know where I am going I know
I know where I am going I know
Joy bells are ringing,
Happy children are singing
I know where I am going I know

As for Jesus, He knew where he was going even before his crucifixion, so also the Christians know where they will be going after their assignments here on earth, but the unbelievers have no clue of where the are going. For no one goes to a place, he or she does not believe it exists. Sometimes when the unbelievers are pinched by the reality of heaven and hell at the funeral service, they would justified themselves as good people and saying they too would make heaven after all.

Yes you may be a good worker by mouth, sitting at home 24 hours everyday without going to work as to earn wages for your maintenance. Now tell me, which employer would pay you for a work you did not do regardless your being good? Some of us are claiming they know God, but when God demands for just two hours on Sunday morning, "Oooh they are too busy". But when they die tomorrow, they want from God a heavenly wages, which is “I am going to go to heaven” and the devil knows you are not, because he knows his followers. Most people are claiming the heaven they did not work for.

We believers are so blessed, though the unbelievers may laugh at us, but not for long. As our Lord Jesus Christ endured the suffering, during His last hour on the cross, so he will give us the strength to endure the suffering in his name that we would be able to finish the race of own cross by the grace of God.

My prayer especially, always goes to friends and families that have not given their lives to Christ. They were like those witnesses that saw Jesus on the cross, which the Bible talked about in Matthew 27:39-44
“V39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
V40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
V41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
V42 "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
V43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
V44 In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him”.

Hmmm, now, are you still hiding under your shell or ashamed of Christ? Do you still feel sorry for Christ or His followers called Christians who are trying to live like Him? I think it is the healer that should pity the one who is sick and not the sick person who should pity the healer. How sad it is that people who don’t know Christ are sick spiritually and they don’t know it.

However, Jesus has risen and is calling you and I, regardless our busy schedules. The Bible says it in Matthew 11:28 -30 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
V29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
V30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”.

Friend are you going to follow Christ? Don't let the devil deceive YOU! I know you will say, I Am Busy, improving my world. Let me say this, without Christ in your life, you are simply busy "Improving Your World and not Making heaven your Home". Let me reapeat that! Without Christ in your life, you are simply busy "Improving Your World and not Making heaven your Home". Whaoo! As for me with Christ in my life, I am also busy, improving my world and making heaven my home.

Think of this and give your answer not to me but to your conscience. Now the question is, Where Will You Spend Eternity?

By Prophet Folorunsho Balogun

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