Beware Of Your Lifestyle!
Be wise and moderate
In every engagement.
By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze
Wasted Years
Chike entered seminary and spent over twenty (20) years in training. Eventually, he was ordained a catholic priest. He went about wearing white flowing garment. Both church and public respected and honored him.
With time, Chike rose to the position of a bishop and then a cardinal. He became very popular and influential, touring the world and teaching the world of God.
When he died, the general belief of people was that he would surely be in heaven. Even, he was made a saint on earth, with many shrines and churches named after him.
But when he got to the gate of heaven, he was told that his name was not in the register. And the Angel he met led him to his mansion, which was an old and wretched house in a waste land full of darkness and emptiness.
So it is with so many reverend ministers of God, irrespective of their religions and churches. It does not matter how many years the reverend has already spent in the work of God. The same fate awaits them because they have chosen to obey their religious leaders and headquarters, contrary to the true teachings of God, which teachings and commandments they have replaced with man-made doctrines made at their meetings, councils, synods and conferences.
The solution is that every minister of God should study spiritual science. Nobody can teach about God and life, which are spirit, without good knowledge of spiritual science. It is a pity that many religious leaders are deceiving themselves and as well misleading ignorant masses.
Heed the end time warnings of those who have visited heaven or hell, who are now making their findings known to the world through publications and recordings. As the man who saw God face to face, I confirm their messages as true and timely, indicating the abundant love and mercies of the Lord. Those already inside the hell fire knows what "It is too late" means.
Likewise, Adaobi.
Before she entered convent, she was clairvoyant (could see visions), clairaudient (could hear spirit) and was giving prophetic messages to people. But the convent turned out to be a centre of spiritual bondage, where the children of God are made to loose all their spiritual talents.
Due to opposition, persecution and frustration she suffered inside the convent, she neglected all her spiritual abilities and exercises. By the time she was ordained a reverend sister, she had become dead in spirit. Not only that she no longer receives visions and dreams, she even believes visions and dreams are not real. “Nobody is righteous enough to communicate with the heavens,” her seniors in the convent often told her.
And so it happened that in many churches, the religious leaders are more interested in increasing membership, in holding people captives and in making people ordinary members, than in developing the spiritual abilities of the people.
This is really bad, quite disappointing and it is the work of the anti-Christ.
Introduction To The Four Broad Categories
According to lifestyle, four broad categories of people are:
- Those live the extreme negative lifestyle.
- Those live the extreme positive lifestyle.
- Those live the lukewarm lifestyle.
- Those live the moderate lifestyle, which is the best path of life.
The Extreme Negative Lifestyle
The Path Of Negative Extreme Lifestyle
When Ebubedike was still alive on earth, he did not believe that there is heaven or hell. He scorned the ministers of God and joked about those were religious. All he appreciated was money, money and money. To him, wealth was a goddess, and he lived any form of worldly life he wanted.
Like many of the carnally minded fellows, his morning prayer was a daily routine of taking shorts of hot drinks, and his night prayer was washing video films of world celebrities, who he emulated as his role models.
Now that he is dead, he has realized what Jesus said of the rich and worldly people, “Woe to you rich… Like the rich man in hell fire begging Lazarus for a drop of water, he is now yearning for salvation, but it is too late. “It is too late,” is the only consolation he hears from the merciless and relentless demons tormenting sinners inside the pits of hell fire.
The Extreme Positive Lifestyle
Chidike was a young man, who was very much committed to his religion. He visited either the church or a holy place on a daily basis. He has so much fasted that fasting has become his daily meal. Whenever a religious worship was over, he would spend extra time praying or just having a free time inside the church premises.
He was very much in search for the Truth about life. If hears of any way of worshipping God, even if it was not his religion teaching it, he would practice what he heard. From practicing yoga, he went on and engaged in various types of medication.
As a stage in his life, he became a hermit, withdrawing from the everyday noisy and boisterous life. As if all these were not enough, he built a small one room house for himself. The room had an opening for ventilation, an opening through which a human of his size could not pass through. The only relationship he had with the world was a small opening through which one of his devotees served him a small measure of food every two days. The food was only enough to keep the body alive while he stayed on earth.
For the benefit of humanity, he delivered messages to people who came to his ‘monastery’ seeking for solutions to their individual or collective problems. He lived an extreme positive lifestyle. He was better than Ebubedike, because he believed in God and so lived a righteous life, that when he died, out of mercy the Lord sent Angels to bring him into the everlasting kingdom.
However, neither his life nor that of Ebubedike was the model intended by God for His children on earth, which model is the Path of Moderation.
The Lukewarm lifestyle
Majority are following this path of life to their own deceit and detriment. That is why majority are not entering heaven, despite the numerous religions and churches. Jesus explained it clearly, saying,
15 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say,'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing' — and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked — 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
Revelation 3:15-19
Truly, humanity are not taking God's words serious enough. This is both misleading and dangerous.
The Path Of Moderate Lifestyle - The Ancient Path Of Truth
Mike was a well-to-do young man. He was rich, but not excessively rich. Besides, he was not like one of those money- bags, who are intoxicated with their riches and honours. Though he was widely known and respected, he does not behave like the bulldozers and caterpillars, who feel that they are the lords of the world and must be praised and worshipped.
Mike belongs to a religion, but as a wise and honest man, he does not allow his religious beliefs and practices to prevent him from knowing the Truth. And unlike the people of his time, who discriminate against members of other religions, Mike treats all with love and peace, and even so without discrimination. On several occasions, his religious leaders have tried to win him over to their side, to join them in their foolish and irrelevant religious politics, but mike would not agree. Instead, he would conclude his response with “Truth is greater than all religion, and the brotherhood of humanity is the best principle of association.’’
He built himself a moderate but fine house. In the house, he has a room reserved for prayers and meditation. Also, he provides a garden of flowers and fruit trees behind the house. On a daily basis, he spends time to pray, study and meditate. He encourages quiet times in his house and environment. According to him, “Noise is destructive to spiritual growth as an earthquake shatters a very fine house.”
After many years of persistent spiritual science and practice, he became spiritually awake, enlightened and experienced. Angels started visiting him, and he started visiting the heavens and other worlds in existence.
His lifestyle is so good that people consult him on the issues, challenges and problems of their lives. He provides both physical and spiritual solutions to problems and answers to questions. Even the honest ministers of God, irrespective of their religions, visited him for explanations and guidance. Mike became a living saint, worthy of emulation.