Changing with the World?

December 2019, a renowned evangelist 
departed this world
A lot of believers started sending goodwill 
messages
This evangelist to them was the greatest 
example of Jesus to the world in our time
He never took an offering during his 
crusades
He shared free Bibles and books
He was a blessing.
Many told the story of how he negotiated 
the release of prisoners with state 
governments and how he ensured that 
some communities without running 
water got water
This man of God had been to many 
nations in Africa preaching the good 
news and many through him had come to 
know Christ
A few days after the evangelist slept in 
the Lord, a TV station's crew cornered 
another man of God in America
They met him at the airport and 
interviewed him
They deliberately asked him questions 
relating to his private jets and wealthy 
lifestyle
The TV station had an agenda
They wanted to embarrass this 
Man of God, who in their opinion was 
too rich
They wanted to put his lifestyle in 
sharp contrast with that of the departed 
evangelist
They wanted to tell the children of light 
what is good and acceptable and what 
is not
They had become the standard-setter
TV news stations all over the world
 believe they have the right to manipulate 
information to set standards and call out 
those who are not conforming to the norm
They have always done it and gullible 
Christians always fell for it
Christians whose shallow realities 
are easily manipulated by the 
agenda-setting reportage of TV stations
I remember when I was working with a 
news station, I was the producer of a 
3-hour early morning show and I am 
responsible for bringing in talking 
heads and preparing the questions 
they will respond to for the presenter
I brought in a guy to talk about the 
Lekki toll gate, he was a Senior Advocate 
of Nigeria and he was determined to 
stop the government from collecting 
toll at the designated post. 
His argument was that the road was 
constructed with the people's money 
and they shouldn't have to pay tolls 
to use the road
He had taken the government to court 
and it generated a bit of uproar
He even got judgments in his favour at 
the time
Ten minutes into his interview, the owner 
of TV station arrived and summoned 
me to his office
"Who is that man on my set?" he 
asked me
I kept quiet
He monitors his own TV station day and 
night and knows who it was
"Why did you put such a man on my set 
without my permission?" He asked
I told him I had the permission of the 
Head of News
The state government had been asked 
to send in their spokesperson to 
argue for the tolling while this man 
would present his position for balance
The state government's representative 
was scheduled to be interviewed for 
the first one hour
This man was scheduled to be interviewed 
for the second hour and then the two of 
them would be in the studio for the third 
hour taking reactions from the general 
public through social media and phone 
calls
The TV station's owner told me to get 
the man off his set immediately
He said "I am the owner of the station 
and there is something called ownership 
influence. 
I decide what I want to see on my screen.
That was what we did
We wrapped up the man's segment quickly 
and ushered him out of the station
We gave the rest of the time to the other 
man whose argument would in favour of 
the government
The people at home didn't know any better
The press is always biased!
ALWAYS! 
The gullible doesn't know this
The one's whose thoughts and imaginations 
the press rely upon to see their donkey's 
ass stories would swallow whatever they 
saw on the news and on the social media 
hook, line, and sinker
This was the idea behind cancel culture
Someone sets a trap of 
right and wrong and springs it to catch a 
victim
They did it for Daniel in the Bible, those 
envying him concocted a law and 
convinced the king to sign it in order to 
entrap him
They succeeded but Daniel survived by 
the power of the Holy Spirit
The difference between Daniel's time 
and now is the mob
The press will feed their target to the 
mob on social media to hound such to 
death'
People with low self-esteem would 
sometimes commit suicide over this 
social media hounding
Some would be forced to resign their 
jobs or to do a public apology for 
something they genuinely find 
ridiculous
We have seen the cancel culture or 
the call-out culture work effectively 
only as a weapon of the ungodly
They use it to clobber authority figures 
until the weak ones among them cave-in
It is a very effective weapon in the 
social reengineering efforts of 
a few rich people who are determined 
to restructure the world in such a 
manner that everybody gets a voice 
in the society
The LGBTQ community were the 
greatest beneficiary of the cancel 
culture, it was primarily created to 
force every society to accept them 
just as they are
Since bible preachers are the main 
authority figures expected to endorse 
and enlighten their flock to adjust to 
the new realities being presented to 
them in society and most of them 
didn't do so, the agenda of the press 
then was to expose them as hypocrites 
whose credibilities ought to 
be called into question
When you see scandals upon scandals 
being attributed to the church leaders 
whose voice had become strong and
 firm in order to dim their lights
You will come to understand why the 
press would overlook the indiscretion 
of some sympathetic supporters and 
sink their teeth into the indiscretions 
of those who they find to be opposed 
to their agenda
We all know that the BIBLE is not the 
standard of living anymore
The world has broken away from God 
and his tyrannical instructions
We are in the age of Pseudoscience, 
where everything is said 
answer to science but none of the 
agenda being set for the world can 
stand up to scientific scrutiny.
How believers cannot see this is 
shocking, to say the least
Like the foolish virgins, the oil in the 
lamp of many had dried up and they 
are factually comatose during their 
watch 
By now believers should have been 
awakened to the agenda and keep 
as far away from news and activities 
that could subtly or blatantly corrupt 
the mind as much as possible
We had been admonished to be as 
wise as serpents and as subtle as doves
This was why I have been asking most 
of us, whose position in many things 
seems to be in agreement with the 
world and their agenda to retrace our 
steps
As the called-out ones, our position is
often at odds with the position of the 
world
Daniel, Esther, Modecai, Jesus, The 
Apostles all proved this point in their 
days 
There is no partnership between God 
and mammon as there can never be 
an alliance between light and darkness
For a while darkness and light might 
seem to be heading in the same 
direction but light is always plain while 
darkness will have many hidden 
agendas
We have seen this play 
out in the last few months
It turned out the man of God being 
set up as materialistic was the key 
sponsor of the late evangelist.
It turned out the evangelist wouldn't 
have been able to hold his crusades 
and be that generous if not for the 
support of the prosperity preacher
Wow! 

PS: Have you ever wondered why
most believers would rather watch
secular television stations rather
than the christian content owned and
operated ones?
It is because we have developed
a taste for the unwholesome
The nude bodies, lurid lyrics and
dirty jokes
We would rather feed the senses than
put our bodies under
We are more like Esau and Cain
than Daniel and Joseph
We are in the book as children
but not acting as the book stated
that the blessed ones would act
We have forsaken nothing but we
have deliberately made the choice
to embrace everything that will 
give our flesh maximum pleasure
rather than feed our spirit
There is a perverse pleasure we
all derive in dragging others down
and dragging them violently on
the social media
We forget that it changes us
We lose ourselves in the things
we find ourselves doing so often
Many of us have changed with the
world rather than change the world.

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