PART 32
“GHOST RUN!”
©Opeyemi Ojerinde Akintunde
I stood before the people beside the reservoir…..The Priestess after seeing
what God could do ordered Tunde to be released… The king was present…
“Ezekiel 18: 1- the end, I read ….
1The LORD spoke to me 2and said, “What is this proverb people keep
repeating in the land of Israel?
‘The parents ate the sour grapes,
But the children got the sour taste.’
3“As surely as I am the living God,” says the Sovereign LORD, “you will not
repeat this proverb in Israel any more. 4The life of every person belongs to
me, the life of the parent as well as that of the child. The person who sins is
the one who will die.
5“Suppose there is a truly good man, righteous and honest. 6He doesn’t
worship the idols of the Israelites or eat the sacrifices offered at forbidden
shrines. He doesn’t seduce another man’s wife or have intercourse with a
woman during her period. 7He doesn’t cheat or rob anyone. He returns what
a borrower gives him as security; he feeds the hungry and gives clothing to
the naked. 8He doesn’t lend money for profit. He refuses to do evil and gives
an honest decision in any dispute. 9Such a man obeys my commands and
carefully keeps my laws. He is righteous, and he will live,” says the
Sovereign LORD.
10“Then suppose this man has a son who robs and kills, who does any of
these things 11that the father never did. He eats sacrifices offered at
forbidden shrines and seduces other men’s wives. 12He cheats the poor, he
robs, he keeps what a borrower gives him as security. He goes to pagan
shrines, worships disgusting idols, 13and lends money for profit. Will he
live? No, he will not. He has done all these disgusting things, and so he will
die. He will be to blame for his own death.
14“Now suppose this second man has a son. He sees all the sins his father
practised, but does not follow his example. 15He doesn’t worship the idols of the Israelites or eat the sacrifices offered at forbidden shrines. He doesn’t
seduce another man’s wife 16or oppress anyone or rob anyone. He returns
what a borrower gives him as security. He feeds the hungry and gives clothing
to the naked. 17He refuses to do evil and doesn’t lend money for profit. He
keeps my laws and obeys my commands. He will not die because of his father’s sins, but he will certainly live. 18His father, on the other hand, cheated and robbed, and always did evil to everyone. And so he died because
of the sins he himself had committed.
19“But you ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son suffer because of his father’s sins?’
The answer is that the son did what was right and good. He kept my laws and
followed them carefully, and so he will certainly live. 20It is the one who sins
who will die. A son is not to suffer because of his father’s sins, nor a father
because of the sins of his son. A good person will be rewarded for doing good, and an evil person will suffer for the evil he does.
21“If an evil person stops sinning and keeps my laws, if he does what is right
and good, he will not die; he will certainly live. 22All his sins will be forgiven,
and he will live, because he did what is right. 23Do you think I enjoy seeing
an evil person die?” asks the Sovereign LORD. “No, I would rather see him
repent and live.
24“But if a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing all the evil,
disgusting things that evil people do, will he go on living? No! None of the
good he did will be remembered. He will die because of his unfaithfulness
and his sins.
25“But you say, ‘What the Lord does isn’t right.’ Listen to me, you Israelites.
Do you think my way of doing things isn’t right? It is your way that isn’t
right. 26When a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing evil and
then dies, he dies because of the evil he has done. 27When someone evil stops
sinning and does what is right and good, he saves his life. 28He realizes what
he is doing and stops sinning, so he will certainly not die, but go on
living. 29And you Israelites say, ‘What the Lord does isn’t right.’ You think
my way isn’t right, do you? It is your way that isn’t right.
30“Now I, the Sovereign LORD, am telling you Israelites that I will judge
each of you by what you have done. Turn away from all the evil you are doing,
and don’t let your sin destroy you. 31Give up all the evil you have been doing,
and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?32I do not want anyone to die,” says the Sovereign LORD. “Turn away from
your sins and live.”
I read this entire scripture to them, and I didn’t need to preach any other
message. They all understood the scripture. I explain the background story
of the Mororo people to them and the King was surprised I knew the story.
Bunmi was surprised as well. They asked how I knew about the story, I told
them God revealed it to me. One after the other, they pointed out what they
had learnt from the scripture…
“What you read tells us that it doesn’t really matter what our forefathers have
done, what matters is what we choose to do. If we continue to live like them
we will remain in darkness, but I we change OUR WAYS, our lives will be
better than theirs.” said the witch girl I saw the first day Adeyanju and I
stepped into Mororo.
It was a solemn assembly, everyone gave their lives to Christ. Bunmi wept
profusely, and Seun went towards her to hug her.
It was a beautiful one…
To be continued
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