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Obindah Gershon
Aug 14, 2013, 6:59:24 AM8/14/13
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Greater Works Brethren,
It is a glorious new day - Hallelujah!
Please do join me in wishing our brother - IreTomiwa Oluwole - Happy Birthday.
He has been a very active and supportive member of the SOD Mgt Team.
Kindly share God's love with him and pray for more of God's grace upon him and his family.
Thank you.
Greater Works than these
Obindah
It is a glorious new day - Hallelujah!
Please do join me in wishing our brother - IreTomiwa Oluwole - Happy Birthday.
He has been a very active and supportive member of the SOD Mgt Team.
Kindly share God's love with him and pray for more of God's grace upon him and his family.
Thank you.
Greater Works than these
Obindah
RICHARD ESEGINE
Aug 14, 2013, 8:47:40 AM8/14/13
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Hi Tom,
Happy birthday Tom. We shared with you this glorious moment of your birthday. We pray the Almighty God will take you to a new heights in Glory,honour and blessings in thy name of Jesus Christ.Amen!I thank God with you as you take sometime to reflect of his goodness towards you & family for all the years and this very past year.
God bless you.
Richard.
From: Obindah Gershon <obi...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 1:59 PM
Subject: With Love
RICHARD ESEGINE
Aug 14, 2013, 8:53:14 AM8/14/13
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Ifeanyi Ugwuja
Aug 14, 2013, 3:18:07 PM8/14/13
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Tom,
Happy birthday to you and to every other SOD member that may
be celebrating his or her birthday with you this month.
I wish you all many more fruitful, glorious and fulfilled
years in Christ Jesus.
Greater works than
these...
Remain bless and with love from
Ifeanyi.
From: RICHARD ESEGINE <rese...@yahoo.com>
To: Tom Oluwole <iolu...@gmail.com>
Cc: Obindah Gershon <obi...@gmail.com>; sod-20...@googlegroups.com; SOD201...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: With Love
ade Ajayi
Aug 14, 2013, 11:07:13 PM8/14/13
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Happy
Birthday,
Bro Tommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Our great
God shall lift you up this new year, and bless you family greatly, all your
heart desire shall be granted by God and you will live long life and prosper in
the might name of Jesus
Thank you for your great time, with
us in the administration and organization of SOD 2013
Best Regards
Victor Ade Ajasco 2013
Emmanuel Emeka
Nov 11, 2013, 10:40:00 AM11/11/13
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Brethren,
Please, join me to ponder on the article below by Charles H. Spurgeon.
I am sure you will be blessed and challenged by the salient points.
Remain blessed.
Emma.
No. 1
“It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master.” Matthew 10:25
No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth, what was the treatment he received? Were his claims acknowledged, his instructions followed, his perfections worshipped, by those whom he came to bless? No; “He was despised and rejected of men.” Outside the camp was his place: cross-bearing was his occupation. Did the world yield him solace and rest? “Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” This inhospitable country afforded him no shelter: it cast him out and crucified him.
So if you are a follower of Jesus, and maintain a consistent, Christ-like walk and conversation — you must expect to be the lot of that part of your spiritual life which, in its outward development, comes under the observation of men. They will treat it as they treated the Saviour — they will despise it. Dream not that worldly will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough? “If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?”
If we were more like Christ, we should be more hated by his enemies. It a sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world's favourite. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout “Well done” to the Christian man. He may begin to look to his character, and wonder whether he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous give him their approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no friendship with a blind and base world which scorns and rejects him. Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorn.
No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth, what was the treatment he received? Were his claims acknowledged, his instructions followed, his perfections worshipped, by those whom he came to bless? No; “He was despised and rejected of men.” Outside the camp was his place: cross-bearing was his occupation. Did the world yield him solace and rest? “Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” This inhospitable country afforded him no shelter: it cast him out and crucified him.
So if you are a follower of Jesus, and maintain a consistent, Christ-like walk and conversation — you must expect to be the lot of that part of your spiritual life which, in its outward development, comes under the observation of men. They will treat it as they treated the Saviour — they will despise it. Dream not that worldly will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough? “If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?”
If we were more like Christ, we should be more hated by his enemies. It a sad dishonour to a child of God to be the world's favourite. It is a very ill omen to hear a wicked world clap its hands and shout “Well done” to the Christian man. He may begin to look to his character, and wonder whether he has not been doing wrong, when the unrighteous give him their approbation. Let us be true to our Master, and have no friendship with a blind and base world which scorns and rejects him. Far be it from us to seek a crown of honour where our Lord found a coronet of thorn.
No. 2
Underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33:27
God — the eternal God — is himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless. Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet “underneath” thee “are everlasting arms.”
Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all. You may have descended into the deeps, but you cannot have fallen so low as “the uttermost”; and to the uttermost he saves. Again, the Christian sometimes sinks very deeply in sore trial from without. Every earthly prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath him are “the everlasting arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but what the covenant grace of an ever-faithful God will still encircle him. The Christian may be sinking under trouble from within through fierce conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be beyond the reach of the “everlasting arms” — they are underneath him; and, while thus sustained, all Satan's efforts to harm him avail nothing.
This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker in the service of God. It implies a promise of strength for each day, grace for each need, and power for each duty. And, further, when death comes, the promise shall still hold good. When we stand in the midst of Jordan, we shall be able to say with David, “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.” We shall descend into the grave, but we shall go no lower, for the eternal arms prevent our further fall. All through life, and at its close, we shall be upheld by the “everlasting arms”—arms that neither flag nor lose their strength, for “the everlasting God fainteth not, neither is weary.”
God — the eternal God — is himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless. Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet “underneath” thee “are everlasting arms.”
Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all. You may have descended into the deeps, but you cannot have fallen so low as “the uttermost”; and to the uttermost he saves. Again, the Christian sometimes sinks very deeply in sore trial from without. Every earthly prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath him are “the everlasting arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but what the covenant grace of an ever-faithful God will still encircle him. The Christian may be sinking under trouble from within through fierce conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be beyond the reach of the “everlasting arms” — they are underneath him; and, while thus sustained, all Satan's efforts to harm him avail nothing.
This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker in the service of God. It implies a promise of strength for each day, grace for each need, and power for each duty. And, further, when death comes, the promise shall still hold good. When we stand in the midst of Jordan, we shall be able to say with David, “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.” We shall descend into the grave, but we shall go no lower, for the eternal arms prevent our further fall. All through life, and at its close, we shall be upheld by the “everlasting arms”—arms that neither flag nor lose their strength, for “the everlasting God fainteth not, neither is weary.”
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