Akinsuroju Femi

“For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off” – Prov 23:18 Anyone who says he has faith must have an expectation; faith has substance and though it is not something that we touch, yet faith makes the invisible things visible, faith at work, produces! ‘Change’ in the Nigerian parlance primarily deals with the balance one collects after making payment with higher denominations. Therefore, it is in the light of this context that I bring this message to you. By the leading of the Holy Spirit, I have decided to draw a correlation between the Lagos bus conductor and you, who may have at different times, paid the conductor and you expect your ‘change’. You don’t beg for your change, it’s something you expect and all things being equal, you will leave with what is rightfully yours. Even when the conductor seem not to have change, once you have boarded the bus; you’re to a large extent sure that he will find th...

“ I f any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and detests her, and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin, then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate…” Deuteronomy 22:13-15 I know for now that only a certified gynecologist can adequately prove if a young girl is still a virgin or not, and the gynecologist has laid down procedures to check the innocence of a lady. All other forms of checking, maybe like the disposition or appearance is not adequate scientifically and anyone can be wrong. The gynecologist knows and can tell if the hymen is broken or still intact. Most times, these things are done in the event of sexual abuse. In the Old Testament, it is possible that a man marries a young girl whose hymen is intact yet she is not a novice at...

“Then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there” – Numbers 35:11 If an accident occurs between two vehicles and it results in the death of one of the passengers in one of the vehicles; it is most likely that the driver who caused the accident would not be allowed to go; if the driver isn’t drunk and maybe the accident even occurred as a result of a bad road or some negligence of the government; the person who ‘caused’ the accident (the person driving); would be accused of murder. No one will excuse him or her, they would just say things and before anything whatsoever, the driver has landed in prison and such is the way things have turned out in our days. The city of refuge was God’s bailout to anyone who committed manslaughter or killed as a result of self-defense; the city of refuge was the escape route so as not to die undeservedly due...