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Right word

Right Word By Rev. Ramson Asante Darteh Saturday, 17th November 2018 *IT IS NOT POSSIBLE* Reference: *Acts 2:24* *Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it* Right from Adam to John the Baptist, death dominated humanity and held him in perpetual bondage and pain. The greatest fear then was the fear of death. Many including nobles, the high, mighty and the low went to any length, paid any price to avert, postpone , ‘re-schedule’ or simply be freed from their appointment with death. Yet they all capitulated. ‘Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.’   Heb. 2:14-15 The reason why Divinity (Jesus Christ) took on humanity (flesh and blood) was to use the oc

Right word

Right Word By Rev. Ramson Asante Darteh RAISING A NEW FOUNDATION. Reference: Psalm 11:3 ‘If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?’ David, who as a shepherd, had risked his life to fight off lions and bears; over lambs; now blessed and lifted as a King, had murdered a faithful soldier of his, for the sake of his wife. ‘And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.’ 1 SAM, 17:34-25 Reminiscing over his action, he acknowledged that though he was a righteous man, his foundations were his undoing. Right from Abraham, his patriarch father, through Isaac and Jacob, they had always had a weakness for fair and beautiful women. No wonder, his righteousness could not deliver him from the ‘clutches’ of Beersheba,