Isaiah 53:1-5
53 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
REV ONESIMUS ASIIMWE
The suffering of Jesus Christ and ultimate death. The Good Friday is the most important date in Christianity. On the cross, Jesus declared amnesty to all enemies of God.
Hebrews 2:14
14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
The devil cannot bring forth the spirit of one who died in Christ. Those who were in Omoro saw what happened. That was not the spirit of Oulanyah. Oulanyah got born again and went to be with the LORD. That was evil spirit.
We thank God for the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. The work is finished and cannot be reversed. It is better stated in Greek. Jesus is alive and will never go back to death again.
How comes Jesus died in a day like this and they call it a Good Friday? The preacher will tell us.
On Sunday, we shall have all the services: 7 O'clock, 9 O'clock, 11 O'clock, 1 O'clock, and 4 O'clock.
In 2020, after the 40 days of Lent, the LORD instructed me to go for another 100 days of fasting. And I did not pray for myself. The LORD instructed me to pray for St Francis Chapel. Out of sympathy, my wife could join me 10 days, goes back eat, joins me again.
So, if you can manage food, if you can have control over your stomach, you can have control over anything.
It is always important to make your stand in the LORD known.
Philippians 3:10
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,
And whatever the enemy had killed, may it resurrect in Jesus' name.
It is a time of reconciliation. Send a message to your enemy you have not spoken to in a year.
And remember the price. The price was heavy. If we sin on a day like this, we would be crucifying Jesus all over again.
REV CAN LUSANIA KASAMBA
I want to praise God very much. I want to remind those who gave their lives to Christ that coming to Jesus means no going back. You must be serious. There must be a change. St Paul puts it that, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come." Jesus paid it all. That is the thing. That is why we are here. Healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, raising the dead. All those things Jesus did. Some people thought that Jesus came to heal.
I was born in 1954 at the age of 14. The world had sinned. Even me Kasamba sinned though I was young. As far as sin is concerned, no one needs to be taught: It just comes. Anger, pride,.... And anyone can become a slave to sin.
There used to be ransom whereby someone is caught/captured for money.
Ezekiel 18:20 says
20 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
Romans 6:23 says
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I am speaking here by God's grace. In 1954, He saved me by grace. He took me to ministry here by grace. I served Him by grace. He took care of me by grace. I speak as a beneficiary of the suffering of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was not able to carry the cross. He tried to carry it but could not manage. So, they had to get an African man to carry.
The other thing is Jesus paid all wages. You don't need to pay anything to get to heaven. For sin, it is only Christ who pays it all. No other person. Christ paid it all.
People justify committing sin. You know, we are living in a crisis where moral values have been eroded. To me, you either have a wife and sleep with her or you don't a wife and don't sleep with anybody.
As far as sin is concerned, Christ paid it all. But you must accept Him. There are people who have been baptized, confirmed, wedded in church even by the Archbishop but they have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. We must accept Him. There are people who are living a life of sin. No. We must be children of God. Sin captures. There are those whom sin has captured and sin finished them fast. They just continue in sin despite the fact that they were baptized and confirmed. May the LORD help us to be prepared. Anytime, we may go. I know some people, including professors, who gave their lives to Christ. Giving your life to Christ makes a whole difference. It is important to know that being in Christ makes a difference. We got married at the age of 22 and we lived together for 59 years. We did not have bitter disagreements. We had a blissful marriage. It is possible to stay in a home without any fight.
I am a teacher by the way. Some teachers beat pupils who don't perform well especially in maths not knowing that the problem is not the pupils but the teachers.
Jesus Christ did not come to judge the world but to save it.