THE RELEVANT VITAL ISSUES ABOUT LOVE IN THE MARITAL CIRCLE

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+THE RELEVANT VITAL ISSUES ABOUT LOVE  IN THE MARITAL CIRCLE+

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Our interesting, exciting & thrilling Moral Discourse today is on "The Relevant Vital Issues About Love In The Martial Circle".

Previously, we had a revelation of some of my observations along with the facts & information, which I obtained from my carefully organized but informal Interview conducted on a vital aspect of Morality. Mind, therefore, as I unfold few necessary things about the powerful four letter word called LOVE - Love in the martial circle. Of course, this Lecture is exclusively designed for morally disciplined adults, not immature immoral youths without the Grace of Christ De Messiah. So, let the morally weak youths excuse us until they grow to adulthood. So Be It!

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No doubt, the age @ which a woman first finds herself in Love has a major influence on her behaviour. We know, certainly, that falling in Love can occur @ any age. Admittedly, youthful infatuation is likely to become confused with genuine Love. Young girls are so often in Love with the idea of falling in Love. Although some of the greatest literature recognize & treat such as "young Love"; in real life it is relegated to romantic fantasy. Certainly, young Love is rash. Its bewildering & lack of emotional maturity makes it difficult for the girl to cope with the strength of feeling involved.

Of course, Love provides a reason for Sex, where before there has been no other reason apart from curiosity & the fact that "every one else is doing it". But is everyone really doing it? Some interviewees spoke of sexual experience as being without desire.

The physical excitement was there & for some that was sufficient, but the more sensitive the girl, the less likely she was to be satisfied with physical sensations alone.

Mrs. Chinyere was twenty-seven when she got married. When interviewed she had this to say: "The fact that I desired him for his own sake was important to me. I actually wanted to get to the bed with him before he made any move towards me. In fact, I was overwhelmed by this marvelous sensation because I had never known what it was to desire someone. Eventually we made Love. I had never had an orgasm & I didn't experience it @ first time with him yet I was satisfied. By this time I was aware of the fact that women did have a climax, but I had no idea what it might be like. The first time that it happened I was shocked because I never thought that one sensation could so take over one's entire being. For the first time I was lost in someone else. I felt as if my mind & my body, which had always seemed completely separate entities, suddenly fused & become as one. Then it was as if this whole abstract thing which was me turned into a sort of liquid, something pure like liquid gold, flowing into this person until he too brimmed over with my Love. Apparently, I wanted to eat him alive. I adorned him & I am sure that this fact strengthened the intensity of the orgasm".

Love provoked an entirely new experience for these women, Sex became a celebration rather than an act unto itself; & their sensitive accounts show them to have been granted a further maturity, rather than having been struct with what their elders are so fond of calling "fanciful notions".

Another lucid quotation further illustrates the connection between first Love & emotional growth.

• Now with a comfortable home & equally comfortable marriage, Agnes, a fourty-five year old woman, relates her own experience: "Talking to a friend the other day I was reminded of how lucky I have been. My friend was saying that she had never been in Love. She is married & feels affectionate towards her husband who she usually call a pet name: "huzzy", yet she freely admits that she had never been in Love with him nor any one else. I, myself, love my "huzzy" very much. It is requited & therefore a happy Love. Yet, my thoughts often wander to the first time that I fell in Love. I know that what I have now is not quite the same nor can I expect it to be. I suspect that every woman remembers her first Love as being particularly special. Like most women, I was fond of reading Romance Literature. I would indulge myself in dreams of handsome strangers sweeping me off to some far away utopia. In reality, I would assess each new friend & wait to fall in Love with him. In fact, it wasn't until I had outgrown this stage & become involved with activities which sublimated these young amorous desires that it actually happened to me. I literarilly "fell" in Love. To all those writers of romantic novels whose heroines suddenly become mad in Love, I say rubbish! Falling in Love is a gradual process. As it takes time for a flower to unfold, so it takes time to fall in Love. The realization that I was in Love was certainly sudden, but I was aware that this realization was the result of a relationship which had been growing towards this point for some time. Being in Love for the first time is a period of my life which will always remain clear & complete in my memory. My naivety was indescribable. No one could have been less subtle. Once it really hit me that I was in Love with someone who was in Love with me, I just hit an all-time ecstacy of happiness. Looking back, I can see that I must have been a source of amusement to my partner. I think that the mistake one makes with one's first Love is that one suffocates Love in its wonder". 

She continued: "But it is almost inevitable because it is so wonderful, or @ least I found it so. There was no need for food, or drink or money or anything except him & talking into the small hours, making Love & talking some more & falling asleep all entwined. He provided my senses with their fill. Not being with him was a constant wish to be with him. Being with him was a constant wish for him not to go away. Walking along the street knowing it showed; this Love which danced in front of us, & touched passers-by so that they smiled & remembered what it had been with them & how it ended abruptly. Because we were young we would do some crazy things since Love makes you disregard convention. Love isolates & protects so that the approval of others becomes a joke. We would laugh together because people thought us crazy. We were terribly conceited but that didn't matter so much to us. But first Love is ephemeral & has to end, unless it springs from religious background".

Really, such Love that never ends nor fades because it springs from religious background we call "True Christian Love".

 Alleluia! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

"Sometimes", she concluded, "I imagine that I am a girl from a certain remote sacred town where morality is very strong, and that I have just married & have been released from this strict code". Funny, isn't it?

In fact, observation shows that if a couple makes marital Love successfully, that is to the physical & emotional satisfaction of both; they have created a bond which facilitates communication @ all levels. Of course, one can always dispute whether one is putting the cart before the horse. It is far too black & white to state that a good sexual relationship means that other aspects of the relationship will necessarily follow suit. From a different standpoint the reverse should as well be true.

For Almighty God, The Maker of Heavens & Earth & Creator of Mankind Who directs, remotes & governs the Universe that He wonderfully & beautifully created is awesome, wonderful, ineffable, impeccable, impalpable, impassible, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent & immortal: The LORD Who by His invisible Hand & mighty Power controls the entire Universe & for His glorious purpose fixed the Heavens & founded the Earth above the waters. He alone is GOD, alone LORD, alone Almighty, alone Father, alone The Most High, alone Creator & alone bestows existence on them, being The Master & Demi-urge of all things. He created man to His Glory & woman to man's glory, offering unto them natural gift of Sex, to His Glory, by His Grace & whilst He blessed them He instituted the marital union for a cordial & fulfilled life, increase & development. Man, himself, owe it to Almighty God to honour Him & faithfully serve Him while giving Him the Glory & Honour in all things. 

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THE MORAL BURDEN OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY

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Certainly, the contemporary Holy Christianity, like @ the ancient times, is horribly beset with some natural & artificial MORAL BURDEN @ higher order. There is a horrible level of ignorance or @ least an apparent manifestation of ignorance exhibited by the majority of people, even those who profess to be Children of God. Evidently, the majority of the people are living in the bondage of SIN & enjoying the life of pleasure in SIN - probably out of ignorance. Many so-called Ministers of God have forsaken the purpose of their Calling to Service & have diverted to the use of fake powers in order to make quick money & earthly riches. Obviously, Satan's most diabolically effective weapons have continued to be the same old reliable ones he had ever used since the days of Judas Iscariot - destroy from within, cause dissension & doubt, stir one another, destroy one another, destroy the credibility of the leadership, accuse the Brethren, divide & conquer.

Right from the beginning of human existence, Satan has ever applied the worst weapons of destruction of the Spiritual Life of man through SIN. Ever since man has been in the horrible bondage of this spiritual slavery. Worst of all, man has been in total ignorance of the knowledge of the operations of SIN in his life & he does virtually nothing to arrest the ugly disposition or attempt to conquer SIN - his masterful enemy! Therefore, I feel it is high time we began reading the hand-writing on the wall. It is high time we realized the need to awake from sleep & challenge the masterful enemy with an awful lot, lest our unholy display of attitudes of indifference spell calamity for us. God forbid!

DILAPIDATION IN THE MODERN ETHICAL STANDARD:

 It is absolutely sad & disappointing to observe that stories of bad news revealing all sorts of wickedness or evil practices such as robberies of a higher order, bribery & corruption, etc. are no longer news in our modern societies & in the world @ large. The reason is that the nations have sunk into untold gravity of evil & such that our National Dailies & TV Broadcasts are full of such unwelcome & appalling news. No doubt, our National Ethical Standard has dilapidated @ its worst capacity & virtually all nations, say, Nigeria is frowning & crying because of this horrible eyesore: mass killing of innocent souls, kidnapping, armed robbery & stealing by tricks, otherwise called "419" in Nigeria - to mention but a few. The average businessman in the Nigeria Society, for example, no longer pays any regard to Professional Ethics guiding business practice.

In fact, our National Ethics which primarily deals with the generality of the people's behavioural patterns towards their fellow citizens, the Government & the Constitution of the land has equally sunk into unimaginable jeopardy. In Nigeria, for instance, The Sections 22 & 23 of the 1979 & 1999 Constitution of Nigeria respectively provided the nation's National Ethics, which essentially embodies Discipline, Integrity, Dignity of Labour & Social Justice as well as Patriotism, Religious Tolerance, Self-discipline & Self-reliance.

 "Ethics is a Branch of the Study which investigated the Laws of Morality & formulates RULES of CONDUCT. It deals with the rightness or wrongness of man's conduct & the ideals towards which man is working" (Appadorai, 1975).

CORRUPTION: A CAUSE OF DILAPIDATION IN THE MODERN SOCIETAL MORAL STANDARD.

Permit me to solicit your indulgence to capsulate the components of bastardized Ethics into Corruption. The Chambers Dictionary provides a striking definition of Corruption in the following terms: putrid, depraved, defiled, not genuine, much vitiated or debased, briber, dishonest or venal. Edward Libbon, an English historian, in his book, "The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire", wrote: "Corruption is the most infallible symptom of Constitutional Liberty". Isn't this definition fitting enough? Thus, Corruption can be seen as anything or an act that serves to lower the Moral Standard of a given society.

CORRUPTION AS EVIDENCED IN OUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SETTINGS

 Certainly, our traditional value frowns on Corruption. Both the Holy Christianity & Judaism, as well as the Islamic Religion & the Native Religions, say: African Traditional Religion, all preach & teach against Corruption. Some are quoted as saying during their days in the nineteen sixties, there was nothing called "10 percent", in Nigeria, contrary to the current ugly development. He added that it was the Nigeria Military that brought it & shamefully institutionalized it as an indispensable condition for obtaining Contracts in Nigeria. Surely, this is one of the many evil results of long years of Nigeria Military Misrule. A certain popular Nigerian Commentator, speaking on the issue of Corruption said:

• "The truth is that it is notorious facts that before the advent of the British Rule in Nigeria & until very recently, Crimes & Corruption were very much detested, violence & other wrongs were rare, Codes of Conducts were religiously obeyed. The citizens were hemmed in @ every turn by the established Rules of Conduct & Customs, so much so that the citizens were incapable of departing from their dictates or even contemplate conducts inconsistent with them. The Rule was that whatever was established & whatever that has always been done should be done. What operated effectively as a deterrent against evil-doing was not the prison yard created by the British Systems & Rule but the powerful sanctions of Morality & Public Opinion ". 
• According to one revered Gentleman: " One permanent damage done to our System is the destruction of Moral Sanctions which was one main reason why the Rules of Conduct were not obeyed strictly & religiously".

• Indeed, Corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of our modern Societies. It has become a Cancer on the body. The octopus-like Cankerworm called Corruption has spread its captivating tentacles over the national Societies of the World. It's high time we began battling seriously against this worldwide contemporary scourge. 

It's unfortunate that Corruption walks on four legs in Nigeria. The past index on Corruption compiled by the International Transparency & Accountability Watch-dog, Transparency International (TI), a Non-Governmental Organization based in the United States, has Nigeria in the unenviable position of the most corrupt nation in the World - even under erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo as noted by Dr. Anale, a Philosophy teacher @ the University of Lagos. Frankly speaking, this is a sad & shameful development in a famous country of a one-time acclaimed "giant of Africa", a British political contraption of the Biblical "north country" of northern cabals called Nigeria.

THE FORMS OF OUR NATIONAL CORRUPTION PRACTICES

 Corruption practices take various FORMS, which are identifiable in the World in general & Nigeria, in particular. First & foremost, non-compliance to laid down Rules & Principles guiding performance in various activities in a given society amounts to INDISCIPLINE. Indiscipline manifests as Bribery & Corruption, Get-rich-quick Syndrome, Examination Malpractices & obtaining by False Pretences. Indiscipline, which is the result of the Dilapidation Of Ethical Standard, goes beyond giving & receiving a bribe.

In the words of Dr. Ako Emma (2006) of blessed memory: "It encompasses any use of power by anybody for capricious or arbitrary use or any other purpose foreign to which it is succumbing to induce influence, yielding to intimidation from superior body. It includes corruptly influencing any constituted authority. It includes putting an incompetent person over a competent person or setting up a Mock Interview or Selection Process when the minds of the members of the Selection Panel have been made up. Corruption in a University includes allowing a Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, Registrar, Dean or any other Officers to have discretionary list wherein children or wards of their friends & associates could secure an admission when they have indeed failed the JAMB examination or scored below the cut- off marks fixed for their departments. It includes a Supervisor or an Invigilator taking money from a student to allow another person to write an examination for the student or allowing the student to run away with question papers only to come back & submit their answer sheets....it includes a lot more"!

Similarly, in The Civil Service', it includes deliberately using Decree 17 of 1984 (Nigeria) to witch-hunt people with a view to laying them off when the fact on the ground does not justify such action.

At 'The Customs', it includes allowing importers to pay more or less than the amount stipulated by Law or Regulation as import duties. It includes deliberate & unconscionable delay of papers to induce an offer of money.

At 'The Point Of Entry Into The Country", it includes not conducting proper checks in the luggage of people @ the air @ sea ports.

In 'The Realm Of Awards Of Building Contracts", a deliberate decision by the Site Engineer to allow lower standards or departure from specification amounts to Corruption.

In 'The Banking Sector", refusal or neglect to pay due attention to Banking Laws, Regulations & Directives issued by the Central Bank & other Regulatory Bodies, like allowing unsecured or inappropriately secured Lending, is Indiscipline.
Indiscipline is in every sphere & includes virtually any decision to deviate from agreed & or stimulated standards with or without a demand for pecuniary, proprietary, or filial advantages. It is much in our Politics & Police as it is in our economic & sporting lives & judiciary.

One American Gentleman by name, Prof. Richard Joseph visited Nigeria some years ago to give a Lecture. He spoke on "Prebendalism": that is "bending of rules" would cripple a society - any society for that matter. This Gentleman who once had hope that by the end of the last decade Nigeria would have become a World Power, pointed out that "Prebendalism" was - & - still is - the bane of the Nigeria Society & her development.

No doubt, every Nigerian & every other person in the nations would agree to the assertion that Corruption is pandemic & endemic in every nation of the World & that it needs to be curbed. In Nigeria, for instance, the Government has done the much it could to check this satanic phenomenon that enslaved & bedeviled Nigerians & the Nations. All the varied remedial steps taken by the Government have not yielded the expected results.

I'm optimistic that we can still reverse the negativity of Corruption. Things have not fully fallen apart as Professor Achebe suggests. The "Panacea To The Nigeria Situation On Corruption Is Spiritual Therapy Or Christian Inoculation".

In 2 Chronicles Chapter 7 verse 14 the Holy Bible says:

" If my people, who are called by my Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my Face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their SINS, and will heal their land (AKJV).

• If these words were but the mere opinions of men, we might disregard them; but since they are the Words of The Most High God, they must & will be fulfilled to the very letter (Mark 13: 31). 
• Again in Matthew Chapter 11 verse 28, the Holy Bible says:  "Come unto me, all ye that labour & are heavy laden & I will give you rest" (AKJV). 
• Let us examine briefly those two verses of Scripture in relation to our endeavour to sanitizing ourselves & the nation(s) & finally curb Corruption.

The first thing is for us to humble ourselves before God in the true confession of our SINS as members of "The Royal Family Of Almighty God" or "The Church Of God". God knows that we are heavy laden with Corruption, miss-devotion, lack of Self-control, insincerity, wickedness & so on. When we purge ourselves of these, God promises that He will forgive us, heal our land & He will give us REST (His Holy Sabbath). 

Amen. Alleluia!!

Therefore, let no man ever claim that he could, by himself & human efforts, curb or overcome a national evil of Corruption in any World Society. In fact, that is a mere human boasting or deceitful claim. It's Almighty God alone that will victoriously & perfectly curb Corruption in our contemporary Societies, by our sincere, fervent Prayer. 
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

In Nigeria, for example, "Let every person from the President in the Aso Rock to the peasant farmers (or herdsmen) in one of the native huts anywhere in the Nation embrace the Word of God, eat the Word of God & make it our daily guide". Alleluia!!

And so shall our Heavenly Father, God Almighty, heal our land of Corruption & in all its ramifications & restore our National & Worldwide Ethical Standard.

 Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

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Thé référence that Philosophy is à deeper religion of thé most intelligent people lends à profond meaning to thé business of Philosophy, which essentially consist in thé application of REASON and KNOWLEDGE to provide solution to thé problèms of human life and existence.

Whenever I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I begin to see things visible and invisible with psycho-oculus vision, reading genuine and authentic meaning into thé abstracts and microcosms of thé Universe. This is philosophical in thé highest degree.

But what is it that moves DESIRE? I answer: Happiness and that alone.

 * Happiness in its full extent is thé utmost pleasure we are capable of. Thé nécessity of pursuing true Happiness is thé foundation of all liberty.

* Certainly, thé government of our passion is thé right improvement of liberty. 

*The préférence of vice to virtue is à manifest wrong judgment. 

* Revelation is à source Of KNOWLEDGE. Thé bare testimony of Revelation is the highest certainty - yet Revelation must be judged by REASON. 

* Where there is a multiplicity of such personal Revelations, all inconsistent with each other, Truth or what passes as such becomes purely personal and losses its social character. 

* Love of Truth is a very différent thing from love of a particular doctrine which is proclaimed as the Truth.

* Enthusiasm-laying by REASON, would set up a Revelation without it, whereby in effect it takes away both REASON and REVELATION and substitutes in the room of it the ungrounded fancies of a man's own brain. 

* Men who suffer from melancholy or conceit are likely to have persuasions of immediate intercourse with thé deity. Hence, odd actions and opinions acquire Divine Sanction, which flatters men's laziness, ignorance and vanity. 

* REASON consists of two parts: first, an inquiry as to what thing we know with certainty; second, an investigation of propositions which is wise to accept in practice, although they have only probability and not certainty in their favour. Thé grounds of probability are two: conformity with our own expérience, or thé testimony of others expérience.

* KNOWLEDGE is thé perception of the agreement or disagreement of two idéas. From this it would seem to follow immediately that we cannot know of the existence of other people, or of the physical world, for thèse thing, as they exist, are not merely idéas in our minds. Each one of  us accordingly, must so far as KNOWLEDGE is concernéd be shut up in himself and cut off from all contact with the outer world. KNOWLEDGE, in its educational frame, is thé acquisition of facts and information. We have three kinds of KNOWLEDGE of real existence. Our KNOWLEDGE of our own existence is intuitive, our KNOWLEDGE of GOD's existence is demonstrative and our KNOWLEDGE of things present to sensé is sensitive. Perception is thé first step and degrée towards KNOWLEDGE, and thé inlet Of all the materials of it.

* Wisdom, I take to be the Knowledge of things Divine and human, and of their causes. It is thought by which all things are steered through all things. It is the right application of Knowledge to solve the problem of life.

 * God has laid down certain moral rules: those who follow them go to Heaven, but by Divine Sanction or His Grace, and those who break them risk going to hell-fire. 

* The prudent Pleasure-seeker will therefore be virtuous. It is very important that 👬 men should be guided, as far as possible, by their long-run interest. That is to say, men 👬 should be prudent. Prudence is the one Virtue which remains to be preached, for every lapse from Virtue is a failure of Prudence. A prudent man will act in such and such ways since otherwise God will punish him. Virtue with a view to Heaven is psychologically very analogous to saving with a view to investment. 

* God's decrees are not arbitrary, but are inspired by His 🏡 Goodness and Wisdom.

* Blessedness, which consists of Love towards God, is not the reward of Virtue but Virtue itself. We do not rejoice in it because we control our lusts; but we control our lusts because we rejoice in it. 

* The wise man, in so far as he is regarded as such is scarcely at all disturbed in spirit, but being conscious of himself, and of God, and of things by a certain eternal necessity, never ceases to be, but always possesses true acquiescence of his spirit. 

* But all excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. 

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* The statement that "Love of God" must hold the chief place in the mind is not a primarily moral exhortation, but an account of what must inevitably happen as we acquire understanding. 

* Sweetness is a pleasure and bitterness a pain, therefore, both are mental. It is also urged that a thing that tastes sweet when I am well may taste bitter when I am ill. 

* Similar argument is found about odours: since they are pleasant or unpleasant, they cannot exist in any but a perceiving substance or mind. What does not inhere in matter must of necessity inhere in a mental substance since nothing can be both mental and material.

 * Sin has its source in freedom: it arose because man turned towards himself instead of towards God. 

* Evil😈 in itself does not have its ground in God, for God is Good & in Him there is no nature of 😈 evil; for evil is a deprivation of Good - though both Good and Evil work together as instruments for His Service. 

* Self-consciousness is the highest form of KNOWLEDGE. But the highest kind of KNOWLEDGE must be that possessed by the Absolute, and as the Absolute is the Whole, there is nothing outside Itself for It to know. 

* The mind's highest good is the 🔑 KNOWLEDGE of GOD, and the mind's highest Virtue is to know God.

* Emotions are called "Passions" when they spring from inadequate ideas. Passions in different 👬 men may conflict, but men who live in obedience to REASON or God will agree together. 

* It is true that obedience to God flows freely from a ♥ heart of 😍 Love. 

* The New Birth takes only a moment: Growth in Holiness takes a life-time.

 

* The best way to know God's Will is to say "I Will" to God. Fear fades as Faith increases in its growth. Keep the Faith but not to yourself. 

* What sin has twisted, God's Grace can strengthen.

* People will not be judged by the way we see them, but by the Way God sees them. 

* God's dawn of deliverance often comes when the hour of trial is darkest. 

* A world without Christ De Messiah would be a world without Hope. No Gift is more needed by dying world than a living Saviour, Who is Christ De Messiah. Unless Christ De Messiah is the center of interest, life will be out of focus. 

* GOD's Judgment may not be immediate, but it is inevitable.

* Pray not for a life free from trouble, but for triumph over trouble. 

* We shape tomorrow's world by what we teach our children today. 

* CHRIST De MESSIAH gave Himself for us that we might give ourselves for others.

 * What we call "adversity" God calls "opportunity". Where we have nothing left but God, we will find that God is enough. 

* Those in power need the Power of Prayer. 

* No one is more secure than those who are in God's Hands. 

* Spiritual Wholeness begins with a broken ♥ heart. 

* An idol is anything that takes the "Place of God" in your ♥ heart. 

* Repentance clears the Way for our🚶walk with God. 

* The Compass of GOD's WORD will keep you from spiritual 🚢 shipwreck. 

* Christians and Zionists live in the world, but should not let the world live in them.

* We dishonour God when we despise others. 

* To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings Peace. 

* A thankful person enjoys a blessing twice - when it is received, and when it is remembered. 

* The better we know ourselves, the less we will criticize others. 

* You cannot repent too soon,  for you don't know how soon it may be too late. 

* We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. 

* Spiritual fitness comes from "working out" your Faith. 

* Wealth is a double blessing when it is used for the blessing of others.

* Love increases as we give it away. Beautiful Love is a Love that forms one's inner being for it to reform; evaluating one's self to meet certain norms; checking one's inner self, wanting to be reborn. Beautiful Love is a Love that moulds the brains of 👬 men, their minds unfold, minds that think of Good deeds untold; minds that reflect, turning things like gold. It is Love that constructs the web of life to be worthy and strong. It is a Love that disrupts Society's ills, corruption, greed and graft. LOVE is that velvet smooth feeling that teleports man into the dimension of Peace and Harmony, balanced high over the abyss of hate. Beautiful Love is the Love that fashions the destiny of 👬 men, that today, tomorrow and at the end human beings could mingle with their Maker.

* A concealed Love is a Love that finds itself in an unfavourable climate, and therefore a Love that doesn't manifest itself because it is inhibited to function properly. This Love is no better than a revealed REPROOF.

* A Belief is a lively idea related to or associated with present impression. Through association, if A and B have been constantly conjoined in the past experience, the impression of A produces that lively idea of B which constitutes belief in B.

In the best thinking, I am sensible that of all paradoxes, which I have had or shall hereafter have occasion to advance in the course of my apologetic dimension of the ministerial life and work, the most imminent one is the most violent, and it is merely by dint of solid proof and reasoning I can ever hope it will gain admission, and overcome the inveterate prejudices of mankind.

             So Help Me - God!    

Beloved Blessed BRETHREN & Sparkling Biblical Scholars, Respected Sacred ♥ Philosophers cum Theologians And Favoured 👑 Kingdom Associates @ ZION In Glory Above:

Greetings To YOU All Today!

All Happiness, Blessedness, Divine Favour, Goodness & Mercy, Peace, Prosperity, Progress, Protection, Promotion And LOVE Of Almighty God REST Upon YOU All Now And Forevermore. Shalom!!

REV. PROF. CYPRIAN CHRIS JERUSALEM OKOLIE

Shalom To YOU All, In Love!

THE NATURE & RELEVANCE OF ZION PHILOSOPHICAL DIGEST COURSE

 

  👑 *ZION  PHILOSOPHICAL  DIGEST* 👑

 +THE NATURE & RELEVANCE OF *ZION PHILOSOPHICAL DIGEST* COURSE+*+ 

   In truth & holy simplicity, this Course is an invaluable academic Philosophical Discourse for Certified 🎓 Graduate Diploma & Degree Programs specially compiled with essential background of Philosophy in acclimatized theological dimensions. It is a Theological Work, actually acknowledging the very position of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ De Messiah Yahshua as the Lord of the Universe & Logos (Supreme Reason) of the Supreme God. Alleluia!! Amen.

It asserts the vital necessity to respond to the Call Of Wisdom or Divine Reason for Spiritual & Mental Development within the scope of Philosophy as taught by the Lord & Master in the HOLY SCRIPTURES & subsequent ancient Philosophers.

The Course was born in an interesting Handbook written in a colourful, vivid, purely academic & forceful style; and carefully presented in a somewhat poetic manner balanced in fantastic prosaic style while emerging from a Reverend Gentleman's ♣ fresh & penetrating portrait that makes for a stimulating reading & tutorial conversation. Alleluia!! Hosanna In The Highest! The exposition is concise, the material organization superb, & yet beautifully displayed; & with the essential substance logically presented in a manner that is Christ-oriented & scientifically cum philosophically balanced. Alleluia!! Amen. It is a philosophical literary masterpiece written with restless imagination to academically nourish you, arouse you, educate you, inspire you, entertain you, furnish you, surprise you, please you, shock you, challenge you, thrill you, mesmerise you & make you wonder - but never to bore you!

Herein, your Reverend Gentleman, Apostle Prof. Cyprian Chris Jerusalem Okolie explodes with ancient & modern philosophic insights to which he adds, modifies & then elaborates with absolute care for preservation of Truth repackaged in a sensational, interesting & fascinating manner that makes the Course not only a Treasure to be acquired but a presentable philosophical material for stimulating Reading & Gift, too. Alleluia!! Hosanna In The Highest! Certainly, to declare that the Course Handbook finds qualified enlistment in encyclopaedic compendium of classical Religious Philosophy is just saying the obvious.

Indeed, the Course is a much needed 📖 academic material, a total delight for all people; tinting the Heavens with fresh insights, inspiring, simply & fancifully compiled. It affords the kind of academically burning facts & information highly & urgently required in a spiritually dying world such as ours, today. Here is a typical example of a good compassionately written Course Handbook that not only comes as a Voice From Above, which is above all, but the sort that 👚 shines & shatters its Reader, illuminating the mind & reawakening the soul. Alleluia!! Amen. In fact, it is a Course carefully compiled as a modest attempt to nourish your 👪 famished souls. I maintain that it is a must-read to all & sundry. Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest! Furthermore, this essential Course Handbook on "ZION PHILOSOPHICAL DIGEST", by your sparkling darling Reverend Gentleman & Academic Professor, is a material timely borne @ its right place & time as it serves to challenge all complacent professors of Christianity whose lives serve only to ridicule the Faith Of True CHRISTIANITY in our contemporary age.

It's thanks to Almighty God Who granted the beloved Reverend Professor the illumination & inspiration to produce this outstanding Course Material that is a combination of his resources in religious, academic, moral, theological, historical, scientific & philosophical education bound in a unique package for general consumption. Alleluia!! Amen. Of course, you may @ your timely perusal through the pages of this Course Handbook get shocked, aroused, amused, stunned, astonished or even angry with yourself, not me, depending on your spiritual disposition & the Course Unit you are reading @ the particular time. You may, alternatively, find absolute delights & ultimate Bliss with the refreshingly, stimulating compilation which the Reverend Gentleman explores & explodes by His fascinating & thought-provoking snatches of facts & information, carefully chipped in here & there in his moderate-key, sincere, entertaining, never threatening language, smooth enough to mesmerise. You may be highly thrilled & totally impressed by his forceful advocacy of living a total "Religious Life" marked with keeping integrity, goodwill & faithfulness 👫 coupled with the traditional Christian Virtue of Discipline; yet with the exposition somewhat poetically prepared & glamorously presented & the substance really down-to-earth. One of the several aspects that actually shoot the Work out of the ordinary is its inspiring challenge & demand from the Reader to simply calm down & reflect & retrace his steps towards the old-time Religion.

 A careful reading through the pages of this Course Handbook readily affords one a discovery that here we have one of the most refreshingly sane Christian philosophic insights of all ages. Alleluia!! Hosanna In The Highest! One may wonder how the Course @ best triggers his imagination & bothers his intellect. It is, in fact, totally overwhelming, absolutely interesting, especially fantastic, essentially thrilling & radically all-absorbing. Indeed, through this Course Material, your cherished Apostle Professor has vindicated himself a true mahogany of theologically philosophic cum spiritual Knowledge & an erudite University Seminary Professor, theologically, philosophically, ecclesiastically, scientifically & profoundly moral - & that is saying a lot of how the Course Handbook is essentially unique. Simply put, it is a classical Course Material repackaged to meet your reading pleasure & to challenge your complacency in proving your Christian or Religious Faith. In fact, it is worth the 💰 value of its cost. Don't make a mistake about it: it is an interesting Course Material for general consumption you cannot afford to miss. Alleluia!! Amen.

Moreover, you cannot afford to let this nourishing, captivating, informative & sacred ♥ philosophic Course Materials get out of hands until you have gleaned every ounce of inspiring philosophic power from it, having been designed & simply offered for wholesome consumption by all who desire to gain deep insights from the literary sagacity & philosophic oracular truisms, which a lively believing Philosopher can unveil. Finally, the Course affords a saintly philosophical discourse that has actually succeeded in taking us to the depth below the surface of our challenging, militant Christian Life wherein moral foundations are laid for enduring Sainthood. The theme of Christian apologetic obligation all along with its impending confrontations for the defense of Christian Faith are of paramount importance in the thought-life of our contemporary religious world. Certainly, the very basis of our Religious Faith, our moral & spiritual standing are nowadays critically & abusively challenged @ worst capacity. Thanks to Almighty God for this all-important sacred ♥ Handbook that deals profoundly with such matters that afford valiant answers to the awesome, theological, secular, skeptical & infidel questionings of our 👪 modern time. Alleluia!! Amen.

It is my earnest hope that through this sacred ♥ academically philosophic discourse the Almighty God might in His mysterious Ways bring each one of us to a greater & richer relationship with Himself through His immanent Logos, the Supreme Divine REASON, otherwise called "The Word" or "Wisdom". Amen. Alleluia!! Actually, if the Lord CHRIST De MESSIAH tarries in the Rapture Of The Kingdom Saints, we shall have the Grace to academically enjoy the next philosophical DIET on the Course, namely: "A PHILOSOPHICAL MOVE". 

      Shalom To U All! 

THE ORIENTATION COURSE (2) + THE BURDEN OF SPIRITUAL VIRUS IN THE CHURCH @ CHRISTENDOM: VIRUS OF IMMORALITY

👑 *THEOLOGICAL ROMANCE @ ZION* 👑  
+THE ORIENTATION COURSE (2)+ +THE BURDEN OF SPIRITUAL VIRUS IN THE CHURCH @ CHRISTENDOM: VIRUS OF IMMORALITY+ 

Dearly respected Christian Education Candidates, Biblical Scholars cum Ministerial Theologians & Gospel Ministers - Calvary Greetings To U! Alleluia!! Hosanna In The Highest! 

Happy Sparkling Fresh Academic Session, 2018 To U All With All Favourite ♨ Sparks Of Prospects For Sacred ♥ Realization Of Our Kingdom Hope, Divine Favour, White Love, Blessings, Eternal Salvation, Goodness, Mercy, Peace, Protection, Promotion, Prosperity & Progress By CHRIST De MESSIAH Who Loved Us In Peace With His Heavenly Blessedness, According To His Riches In Glory, To His Glory, By His 🏡 Grace! Alleluia!! Amen. Glory Be To GOD In The Highest; Peace To Daughters Of ZION @ Clean Manifestation Of Heroic Virtues Of Chastity cum Submission & To Blessed 👬Men Of Integrity, Confidence & Goodwill! Peace To Us - God's Kingdom Saints & Christian Theologians @ ZION Of Holy Jerusalem: Our Paradisal Home Of Blessedness, Peace, Bliss & Glory, To His 🏡 Glory, By His 🏡 Grace. 

Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!  

                    

 IMMORALITY IN THE CHURCH 

Holy Christianity, certainly, is a glorious Heavenly conscious Religion that demands purest & most practical display of morality in the lives of adherents. A Christian, therefore, must @ all costs live a sound moral life which portrays Holiness whereby sexual abstinence finds its most clearest expressions. Indeed, morality is the quality of good behaviour. It refers to a particular system of morals. 

For instance, at times we make a reference to the term, "Christian Morality", which implies a standard that measures up to the requirements of Christian moral Code. The Christian morality demands that all men should refrain from acts of Premarital Sex, that is, Sex before marriage, as well as Extramarital Sex, which is Sex outside marriage circle. Without any apology or reservation the Christian Morality labels such acts as "arrant immorality". 

Morality, in fact, is more especially proved in the abstinence from sexual intercourse & other associated carnal sins. Of course, all Children of GOD are called to be pure both in the body & in spirit, too. Alleluia!! Amen. Certainly, one's ability to refrain from sexual sins affords a big score in the spiritual barometer measurement of Holiness, without which, according to the Holy Scriptures, no one shall see God. 

However, the ⛪ Church of GOD, in this age of modernism, regrettably finds herself beset with this "spiritual devourer", otherwise known & called "The Virus Of Immorality". This is, doubtless, the worst kind of a malady that has infected the ⛪ Church of GOD ever since. God save His People! 

Amen. Alleluia!! 

Ladies & Gentleman of the "Academia": Let's now take "A CASE OF IMMORALITY IN THE CHURCH". At this juncture, it might be of big interest & relevance to cite an example of "a case of an Elder of a ⛪ Church @ CHRISTENDOM" caught in his illicit relationship with a girl (a so-called Sister-in-Christ) who, reportedly, was a devout Chorister of her Church. Such a nasty story, funny though it might appear, no doubt, shows a highest level of gross moral indiscipline attacking, like a deadly human disease called VIRUS, the sanity of the ⛪ Christian Church @ Christendom. 

One big evil of Sin is that it operates in association. It acts like a Vector. The Sin of fornication or adultery, therefore, operates along with the Sin of "telling lies" & that of stealing. So, a fornicator can hardly be free from lying & stealing. Thus, the Elder in the story above was discovered to be a thief also, stealing the Church's 💰 money & a liar as well. Hence, his collaboration with the chief Usher of the ⛪ Church, who also was a notorious thief, eager to tell lies to exonerate herself from possible blames, though her sins actually succeeded in finding her out - and eventually, she had to confess openly. 

Alleluia!! Amen. 

Even so, an Evangelist of the Church @ CHRISTENDOM, completely carried away by covetousness, initiated by His scandalous wife, could not escape the sin & eventual penalty through enriching himself with the Church fund. ALL THESE CONSTITUTE A PART OF THE VIRUS THAT MALIGNS THE SANITY OF THE ⛪ CHURCH OF MODERN CHRISTIANITY @ THE BANE OF CHRISTENDOM @ ROMAN CATHOLICISM. God Save His People! 

Amen. Alleluia!!  Hosanna! 

Shalom To U All Today, In Love!