All Posts By Tunde Aina

Season’s Greetings

A Happy Christmas season to all our subscribers. As we commemorate and celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus, may we be reminded of the profound things about Him. He who created the world and for whom all things were created was looking for a place for His birth and found none but…

Love: The talent given to every man

“The kingdom of heaven is like a man travelling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them …” Mathew 25: 14 The parable of the talent, one of the many parables given by our Lord Jesus in the gospel of Mathew 25: 14-30 and Luke 19: 11-27 is…

Joseph: A righteous man without the law (The Law and the Grace)

1Timothy 1: 9: “Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners…” Joseph lived generations before Moses and before the writen commandments were given. Yet, he lived a life marked with purity, integrity and fear of God. When tempted by…

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The Invicibility of the new creation believers in Christ Jesus

1 Peter 1: 23: “Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God.” The new creation believers are those in Christ who are born again, not of the flesh or by the will of man but by the Spirit of God through faith…

The futility of justification by the deeds of the law

“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse : for it is written: ” cursed is everyone that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.” Galatians 3: 10. Why is this, because the scripture says in James 2: 10 :…

The Lord’s Prayer: More than a recital, it is our existential essence – Part 2

“Thy will be done on earth as is heaven.” (Mathew 6: 10). The will of God is the ultimate in heaven and which from the tone of the prayer is not so on earth. To understand God’s ultimate will, we have to see it from heavenly perspective because “as in heaven” is set as the…

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The Lord’s Prayer: More than a recital, it is our existential essence – Part 1

Have we ever wondered why in the gospel of Luke chapter 11, one of the disciples asked the Lord, “teach us how to pray?” Was it meant to be for them a prayer that they could recite, or that they saw an existential necessity for this request?. It was not far-fetched that the Apostles gave…

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Glory: Our awaited hope

Romans 8: 18: “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” The glory that shall be revealed in us is the earnest expectation of the believers, with the manifestation of the sons of God. This is the Spirit…

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The Just shall live by Faith

Scriptures in Habakkuk 2: 4; Romans 1: 17; Galatians 3: 11 and Hebrews 10: 38 lay out the centrality of this verse, “the Just shall live by faith.” It is pertinent for us to ask who is the Just and how are the Just to live by faith?. Seeing that this scriptural verse is the…

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Thoughts on Prayer

Prayer has to be intentional, and its purpose well understood. Prayer is a call of the deep to the deep. As the bible says in Psalm 42:7, “deep calls to deep.” This speaks about oneness. It talks about fellowship. We that are praying must understand one purpose; that God created us in the beginning in…

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