“Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you in regard to our common salvation. [But] I found it necessary and was impelled to write you and urgently appeal to and exhort [you] to contend for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints…

For certain men (and women) have crept in stealthily, gaining entrance secretly by a side door. Their doom was predicted long ago, ungodly (impious, profane) persons who pervert the grace of God…

Nevertheless in like manner, these (filthy) dreamers also corrupt the body, scorn and reject authority and government, and revile and libel and scoff at [heavenly] glories (the glorious ones)…

These are hidden reefs (elements of danger) in your love feasts…

Woe to them!” (Jude, AMP)

Recently, it was brought to my attention that there are some CDs circulating in Warri that have become ‘viral’. In them there are three women who claim to have dreamed and that they have gone to heaven and back. They each have their own stories about meeting a person called ‘jesus christ’, angels and past saints. These women came back saying that ‘jesus’ said we should change our dress code, if not we shall go to hell. In particular they said that the most dangerous items on their ‘holy list’ are these: make up, lipstick, wigs and attachments (weave-ons) and trousers. They said other things but basically they imply that salvation depends on ‘works’, on the wardrobe or other outward things. That alone is an error, a sin and a blasphemy from hell.

My concern is with the believers, especially with the young ones who may fall from their secure position of faith in Christ alone.

This is the Gospel! This is the Truth!

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, came to earth, became man, lived and died on the Cross to give glory to God the Father and to atone for our sins. He was buried in a tomb in Jerusalem. He rose from the dead on the third day. He revealed Himself to His disciples in His glorified body. After some days, He bodily rose to heaven. Forty days after He died, according to His promise, He sent the Holy Spirit from Heaven. The Holy Spirit was sent to form and seal the Body of Christ on earth.

If you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and if you freely confess it with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, then you are born again, you are saved.

Salvation is of God’s work alone. Christ alone takes the glory for your going to heaven! No man, no angel, not any material item of fashion has a say in this glorious and great salvation!

Read the Book of Jude! The danger of false brethren has always been there. If you are truly born again, you have no excuse to be deceived by silly and gullible men and women who masquerade as servants of God! The Holy Spirit leads into all truth and His influence in you is greater than the foolishness and the deception outside.

These false teachers are called ‘filthy dreamers’. Because they do not have another Bible to preach from, they deceive people with other fake sources of revelation: their dreams of heaven and hell. Dreams are chaff (nonsense, useless stories) compared with the preaching of the Word of God (Jer 23:25-29). Their dreams are called filthy because these are the product of their filthy, unsanctified, unholy, unclean, unspiritual minds, imaginations and emotions.

Wrong doctrines always end in immorality! Only truth leads to purity in behavior, motives and speech.

These false teachers are spiritual terrorists. They are deceitful, dangerous and deadly! They hide and come deceitfully that you should not know their true purpose. But this is the danger: they are deadly. Like suicide bombers, they do not mind to blow themselves off and take along as many souls to hell. That is why we are warned to be watchful and actively resist and expose them.

We are told that they are ‘spots’ in our love feasts (KJ). The word ‘spot’ in Greek means that they are hidden reefs, planted dangers below the sea, set to cause shipwreck to your faith. These are pirates and robbers. In the ancient warfare, the enemy was creating artificial blockage under the sea so that the propeller of the ship will be entangled and the ship taken.

That is the danger, my brethren! I blow my trumpet! Let him that ears, let him hear!

Do not pilot your ship in the murky waters, close to the coast of men, without the compass of the Holy Ghost! Be sober! Be vigilant!

These are agents of the devil, of the accuser of the brethren! They are agents of the wicked spirit of jezebel, the fake ‘queen of heaven’ (Jer 44:25). They are sent to destroy you, or at least to slow you down, to hinder your progress as a believer and to make you backslide from the holy faith entrusted once and for all to the saints!

The Word of God condemns them: ‘Woe to them!’

I condemn them too! Their so called ministries will fall and end in disgrace! They shall be exposed as charlatans and thieves of souls! Their so called ‘charisma’ that attracts many to listen to their lies shall fail completely! The money they make from donations and from selling their CDs will not be beneficial to them. Their magic will fail! Their end shall be sorrow, pain, troubles and torment, except they openly and publicly repent of their wickedness!

These people who want to wound your conscience and to shipwreck your faith, I hand them over to Satan, their master, to be thought a lesson not to blaspheme again (1Tim 1:18-20)

Do not be sorry for the devil! He is a loser without pardon!

May the Holy Spirit open your eyes to see the truth that sets you free from bondage to sin, to religion and to legalism!

May the Blood of Jesus cover you and your family!

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen!