This week, you most probably have come across a number of stories in media criticizing popular artistes that have given their lives to Christ in the recent past.
Most of these stories, as reported by the Tabloids, claim that the artists are not genuinely confessing Christ, but rather seeking fame and sympathy from the Christian community.
Lady Titie, Captain Dollar, Qute Kaye, Papa Cidy, Bad black, and comedian Kapere are among many that have begun a new salvation journey following the 77 Days of Glory, now in season 3.
Qute Kaye, chief victim of the media attacks told Miracle Center Cathedral this week that he is well aware of what is happening.
“I know some of you are saying and waiting that very soon am going to backslide – sorry – honestly no body walks away from life and chooses death when they can see it, not any child. I’m busy doing what I should have been doing from the beginning.” Kaye said.
The Church is often taught that the grace of Christ is sufficient, because many have changed, and watched others change.
Unknown to tabloids willing to demolish one’s reputation at the expense of greater viewership, Christians come not in their own righteousness but in the righteousness of Christ; and they come not with their own sins, but with those sins having been forgiven by Jesus Christ.
The most obnoxious, corrupt and consistent sinner can find at the cross of Jesus Christ a sacrifice sufficient to wash away all their sins and a righteousness sufficient to replace all their unrighteousness.
That aside, one of the greatest things about Scripture is that it is so honest about who is saved and who can be saved.
The apostle Paul used his own life to say, “Because of me being saved, you know that God means to be patient with the chief of sinners, because I am the chief of sinners.”
Jesus’ work on the cross targets our hearts—our core desires and motivations—when our hearts change, everything we do changes too. It’s amazing to watch people who seemed stuck in a pattern of words, choices, and behavior begin to live in a new way as Christ changes their hearts.
God showed patience to me in order that those who were to come to faith might take heart that God will show patience with them, the apostle wrote.
Additionally, When the Bible talks about the gift of a new heart, it doesn’t mean a heart that is immediately perfected, but a heart that is capable of being changed. Our heart of stone, which cannot be molded, becomes a heart of flesh, which is now malleable.
Time helps reveal evidence of this supernatural work, and as we wait, we can trust these words from Paul: “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase” (1 Corinthians 3:6).
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