YOUR EXPECTATIONS CAN BE EXCEEDED - Rev Joseph Aliyu (NOVEMBER 26, 2023)

“In the old days, men condemned murder; and truly murder is forever wrong. But I tell you that not only are man’s outward actions under judgment; his [innermost] thoughts are also under the scrutiny and the judgement of God. Long-lasting anger is bad; contemptuous speaking is worse, and the careless or the malicious talk which destroys a man’s good name is worst of all. The man who is a slave of anger, the man who speaks in the [tone] of contempt, the man who destroys another’s good name, may have never committed murder in action, but he is a murderer at heart.” To rephrase what I stated earlier, “The one who exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees is not the person who is satisfied in knowing he hasn’t committed murder; it is the person who is satisfied only when every inch of his heart is right with God.”