Pastor Mensah Otabil, the Founder and General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), said Jesus Christ has redeemed man from the curse of sin and not even pastors can bring back those curses.
“Christ’s death is sufficient to deliver mankind of every disputable sin and all one needs is to ask for forgiveness,” he said.
Pastor Otabil was delivering the Good Friday Message at the Calvary Temple branch of the ICGC at Sakumono, under the theme: “The Power of the Cross”.
He said the Cross, a symbol of Christianity, was designed as a tool of punishment by the Romans to silence their enemies, “that is to kill them.”
However, God transformed it from an “instrument of death” to the “instrument of life” by putting man’s sin on Christ when He died on the Cross, Rev. Otabil said.
“The instrument of his death has wiped away every curse and redeemed man from the curse of the law of sin,” he said.
“Don’t let ignorance take you from what you have been redeemed from because there is no sin that God cannot forgive. Your ancestral sins as well as yours have been taken care of.”
Rev. Dr Otabil said Christ’s death on the Cross symbolised sacrifice, shame, suffering and salvation, as He brought redemption to mankind.
“The redemption is complete, absolute and total that no one can do anything about,” he said.
He appealed to all not to let the message of Christ be a stumbling block but see it as God’s wisdom and power to guide them in all endeavours.
Some believe the message of the Church was invented to attract people, he said, but noted that though dying on the Cross was shameful to others who did not want to be associated with it, God turned it round for the good of mankind.
Source: GNA
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WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THE CROSS OF JESUS, YOU JUDGE AND/OR CRITICIZE IN IGNORANCE. THE PASTOR'S MESSAGE IS THE TRUTH...THAT IS WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. KNOW THE TRUTH (THE WORD) AND THE TRUTH YOU KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WILL SET YOU FREE. THOSE WHO ARE EXPLOITED BY FAKE PASTORS ARE ***barred word*** OF THEIR RIGHTS AS CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE PLACE OF FAITH IN A CHRISTIAN'S LIFE. EVERY CURSE RESULTING FROM THE FALL OF MAN IS FOREVER NAILED TO THE CROSS AND THE BELIEVING CHRISTIAN CAN WALK IN THE LIBERTY OF THIS TRUTH.
For once, Just for once, i agree with Mr. Otabil.
In act, I don't want to watch this man on TV anymore. I rather watch Animals on TV. Hypocrites....
even ghanaian pastors also benefit from the ***barred word*** MACHINE so they will all turn into stones . All these prophesies are fake. Only in ghana do people believe these fake ideologies. When every one finds a day job and do not worry about prophecies everything will be fine. God will have peace of mind because these fake pastors are disturbing God too much.
Of cause, God is not an assassin. The devil came to steel, kill, and destroy but Jesus came that we may have life and have it abundantly. Some men of God have turned what they received freely into instruments, they use to cajole and threaten they subjects into submission. Beside, they have so disgraced themselves with multiple testimonies that their words no longer carry power. Sad
the cross was design to kill thiefs,murderers,not the roman enemies,its disgraceful to place jesus on the cross for no sin done,the ***barred word*** who commended jesus was a muderer,not a believer who was to silenced. The cross is an instrument of disgrace.God will not glorify it because jesus was placed on it,it was the romans who used it to kill thiefs and murderers,God will never glorify it,in doing so legitimise all those who went through death through the cross at the hands of the romans and satan can even accuse God.there is no where in the spiritworld where the cross is displayed.