By Pastor William F. Kumuyi

The truth is, the only thing that can wash away your sin is nothing, but the blood of Jesus. It is a shame to hear someone like you sing the famous Robert Lowry hymn Nothing but the blood of Jesus because after all your chiming, you are still decorated in sin.

You sing that song, yet you still car-ry a bottle of olive oil concocted by a religious witch and or wizard dressed in sheep clothing. You are a disgrace for replacing the blood of Jesus with a bottle of oil.

You sing Nothing but the blood of Jesus, but you buy polluted water and you carry them about thinking they will come to your rescue! You sing Nothing but the blood of Jesus, yet you still burn incense sticks.

Salvation can only come through Jesus on the cross. The works of your hands cannot fulfill the demands of God. The money you hand those beggars will amount to nothingness. Your zeal in religious rites and activities together with the tithes and offerings will not atone for the sins you have committed. It is only Jesus that has the unlimited power to save you from sin; and He is ready to do the needful, if only you will recognize your sinful state and avert the anger of God upon your life by accepting Him as your Lord and Saviour.

U- Upholder of the converted. Are you one of those people, who after giving their lives to Jesus Christ, still wonder about their protection and sustainability, as a result of the presence of dark forces operating within the confines of the community in which they reside? When you come to Jesus, He will uphold you and the powers of persecution, powers of darkness, powers of secret society, powers of witchcraft and powers of the tempter cannot hinder Him from keeping you above every challenge, difficulty and or stormy ocean.

Isaiah 43:2 “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”

The scriptures is replete with experiences of people who enjoyed varying degrees of deliverance because they trusted and believed on the LORD. The case of the three Hebrew children Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego is a classical example of the saving grace of God. The king, Nebuchadnezzar, applied the strategy of duress so as to get these young men participate in idol worship. But their response to this great king’s request and the ensuing follow up event has lend credence to the fact that God is a great protector and deliver no one can surpass.

Nebuchadnezzar was not satisfied to go to hell alone and that was why he employed those stringent measures against those lads. Also, in this present time, there are some people who are not happy to go to hell alone. There are thieves whose mind have been made up and are ready to drag others with them to hell fire. There are alcoholics who do not want to go to hell alone and are busy strategizing new ways of taking others down with them to the place of eternal suffering. There are idol worshippers who do not want to go to hell alone. In fact, they are also fine-tuning their acts that will snare others too and get them hooked up forever in hell.

There are Satanic worshippers who do not want to go to hell alone. They are luring as many that are gullible so that they will end up in hell fire with them. There are so many fornicators and occultic people out there who have masterminded plots designed to take people to hell because they cannot afford to spend eternity all alone in hell.

Nebuchadnezzar made iron his god. Some others are making carved woods gotten from trees their god. In fact, presently, as I speak to you, many more are making football clubs, footballers, demonic music and musicians as well as celebrities of this present evil world their god. But thank God that there are still faithful people, my relatives, who happen to be just like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. If you are looking for somebody to go to hell with you, you better count me out because I am not one of them. Are you one of them?

Unfortunately, there are people out there who lack steam and purposefulness to refuse evil invitations that will lead to their untimely death. Those servants of Nebuchadnezzar who fastened and threw the three Hebrew lads into the fire are an insignificant number in a vast army of easily deceived multitude waiting to be spent in an eternal fire in hell. They have made themselves so feeble that they are scared of saying no to highly placed individuals in the community; they are so weak that they cannot say no to the chief and head of secret society; they are so porous that they cannot say no to sin in the work place.

But as many that will say no Satan, sin and society, Jesus will uphold them as He did for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Daniel 3:24-25 “Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.”