As insecurity continues to spread in Nigeria, with the church particularly affected by criminal attacks in recent times, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor EA Adeboye, has said that it is within God’s doctrine for children of God to defend themselves.
He also expressed anger at those blaspheming Jesus Christ, saying the wrath of God will fall upon them unless they repent.
Adeboye said this on Friday night during the church’s Holy Ghost programme.
He said, “I understand that one funny fellow said that some people were calling on Ogun because Jesus didn’t answer them.
“Well, the one who said that there’s a Yoruba proverb, it said, the mouth that the snail uses to blasphemy God, that mouth would kiss the ground. From now on, anybody who dares blaspheme Jesus Christ, they will taste the fire of the Almighty God.
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“I don’t want to say much, because I know whatever I say, some people may want to twist it. But I’ve searched the Bible from cover to cover and there is nowhere in the Bible where God said a child of God cannot defend himself.
“If you find the place, let me know. He said, if they slap you on the right cheek, turn the left. If they now slap the left, what did he say? When God is silent, do you know the meaning of that, it simply means, over to you.
“Every enemy of the church, as long as my Father is still on the throne, as long as Jesus lives, as long as His name is the consuming fire, if they don’t repent, the fire of God will consume them. I’m not talking to everybody o, I’m only talking to my children.”
