Dearly Beloved,
UNMARKED GRAVES
"How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves which people walk on without
knowing it" (Luke 11:44 TEV).
Gravesite is a place that most people would not want to move close to not to
talk of walking through or walking on it. Therefore, gravesite is marked with
designs and marks that will distinguish it from any other structure or place. It
is interesting to discover that Jesus Christ compared the religious leaders of
His days on earth to graves that were not marked that made people to move closer
to them unsuspectingly. People would have maintained a distance from them if
they knew their real identity. The main reason for the comparison of the
religious leaders and unmasked graves is the hypocrisy of the leaders. They
pretended to be religious while they were neither spiritual nor godly. People
were looking at them as exemplary while they were misleading those people.
Many people today are also like those religious leaders. They are indeed
religious, but they are far from being godly or Christlike. Outwardly, they
claim to be Christians, but they are different inwardly. This causes the
increased number of churches, especially in this part of the world, but the
people that attend these churches almost everyday are not different from the
people outside the church. At times they are worst than the people outside. They
have the form of godliness, but their conduct contradicts the genuineness of
their profession (see 2 Timothy 3:5). They are indeed unmarked graves! 
Are you an unmarked grave? Are you really what you claim to be? Will people like
to move closer to you if they know your real identity? You can deceive people
with your acts of religiosity, but you cannot deceive the all-knowing God. He
will reward you accordingly (see Matthew 7:21-23; Galatians 6:7). 
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor).

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I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will

have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted

in my body, whether by life or by death. FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST

AND TO DIE IS GAIN (Philippians 1:20-21, NIV).




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