ir,l.{N. THE IN4AGEAND LIKENESSOF @D : KADAZAN.....

SAKAG
DO KINOINGAN

PRO 23:7 .. for as he thirrksin hisheart.so is he.

One <1a1,,li{atabir u,as asking God in his heart why He called him
-{-adazanand what that means. God answered him in visions and
dreams.It took him sometirneto understandbut as he reads and
meditateson the Bibie. rvhichcontainsa lot of secretsfrom Him to
mankind, he becamemore enliglrtened.God explainsto him that it
wes not a coincidencethat we are known as Kadazan,which means
"childrenof God" becausethe Lord our God whom we worship in
Jesusnameis the Jehovah God or Kinoingan Minamangun ( Creator
God). He knew us even before we came into existence.He has a
specialpurposefor us as an irrdividualand as a community.

Deprived of the abiiitl, to read and write. our ancestorshad been

referredto by many narnes.If we turn back the pagesof our encestral
history,there.isno common nameunder rvhich we were called. This
had presented a problern for the early European explorers and
his{oreanswho aftempted to record something they have observed of
the indigeneous peopleof North Borneo (Sabah). Unknown to them at
that time, becausethey dirl not speak or understandthe Kadazan
languageor dialects,until the Christianmissionarieswho cameto live
as one of thenl started translating the Bible, that since time
immemorial they iiave identily themselvesas Kadazan (Kadayan)
meaning"childrenof God" that the colonial administratorsreferredto
them as "Dusuns",perhapsindicatingthe tlpe of trade their ancestors
rvere occupied at that point of time or the whereabout of their
settlement,
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\\/ith the enlightenmentfrom Scripturesbrought about by their abiliry

to read and write, through the initial effort of the Christiar
rnissionaries,a spirit of nationalismbeganto emergeamong leaden of
the more educatedtribes e.g. thg Tangga (Tanggara), Tindals, :eic.
They began to resent and took it as a "durse" the names thar tire
t-'olonialmasterhad given thenl e.g. Orcirard,River,,Moutil Interior-
Knee,etc. Thosenamesare completelyin conflict with what God had
for them and we can only take it that they came fron4 or are inspirei
by, the Evil Oneswhoseonly intentionis to llsteal,'roband destroy"bt.l
God cameto give them abundantlife '

'lThethief doesnot come exceptto steaf and to kill, and to destrot.'i

(Jesus)have iome that tliey ma1'havelife, and that they may have ii
more abundantlv."1
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The Lorcl our God, our FleavenlyFather,has made us for a specif;c

purposeand this is beautiftlly recordedin the Bible. Then God saic-
"Let Us make man (Kadazan)in Our image,according to Our iikeness:
let them havedominionover the fish of the qpa,overthe birds of the ab.
and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creepingthing tbar
creepson the earth."2

The Bible also recordedhow man was macle,and horv God breathed
into his nostrils. The "breathing in" synbolized God giving His Spirit
into the man. " And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathedinto iris nostrils the breath of life; and man
becamea iiving being."3

THE GOOD.SPIRITED HLIN4ANBEING

The late Datuk Peter lvlojuntir\ one of the more vocal of leadersfron
the Tangga tribe, wrote an article which was publishedin the Sabal

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stood out is his definitionof Karlazanas " the good-spirited " human
being.We have no record that he is a bible scholar,and comingfrom a
non-evangelical religiousbackground,there is a remotepossibilitl'that
he had ever fully understood the book of Nehemiah in the Old
Testament.If this was so, we can only concludethat it was the Spirit of
God *'ho inspiredhim to arrive at a conclusion.

But u,hat a pleasant surprise it was, when through the aid of

computerized"version of the bible, the Holy Spirit enlightenedthe
author of the following quotation.
"You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not
withhold Your,mannafrom their mouth. and qave them water for their
thirst."4

Here, Your good Spirit, refersto the seven-foldSpirit of God as

providedfor in i{is Holy words:
" The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom
and understanding,the Spirit of counsel and nright, the Spirit of
knorvledgeand of the fear of the LORD."5

This also refersto the Holy Spirit,the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of
Revelation andthe Soiritof God.

n.f"?"n.", to much earlier rvriiings on the Kadazansalso recorded

some positivequalitieslike honesty,peace-loving,hardworking, etc,
found among our ancestors.l'his could only be attributed to people
who wordshipa loving God.

indeedin the book of St.John,chapterone and verse12 saysthat: l

as many as receivedHim (Jesus),to them He gave the right to become
childrenof Goci.evento thoservhobelievein Hii hame;"
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T h e Ka d a za nversionof Creation

This reflectsthe revelation-though not as complete,that our anceslo:s

had receivedand believedin a loling God. who created.redeemeda;l:
u,orked miraclesfor His children (Kadazan.1.The relationship.'i
"Kinoingan(Kinorohingan).Hurrunodunand Suminundu"is a paralie.
of the Holy Trinitl,:God. the Father.God. the Word (Son; and Goc
the Holy Spirit

Every month of May', the Kadazan ceiebratesKaamatan(Han'es:r

Festivalto remindthem of the great sacrificethat Huminodundid fo:
themin that Kinoinganw'asw'illingto sacrificeHuminodunso that tir.
Kadazanwill havefood. Suchlove cannotbe expressedin merehurna:
terms but the Bible asks us to. " Behold what manner of love ihe
Fatherhasbestowedon us. that *'e shouldbe calledchildrenof Goc ' '

IDENTIry CRISIS

For centuries,the Kadazanas a colrlmuniry'had sufferedan iden:iir

cnsis.Somesaythat they are Chinese,but thev are not; other say.tirs\
are Malays, but they are not all muslim ....and yet *ithin the
community, the younger generation are not sure who they aie
... Kadus, Duska, Totud, Tuhau, Kabang, Bavang, Tana" Bundu.
Tombozungus, Ka'a, Kouvaan,w,zzzzi?

This confusionhasresultedin the KadazanCommur-itvlosingout a lo:

of the opportunitiescreatedfor them b1'the loving HeavenlyFather
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Reiection: broken relationshin: sabotage br the real enemies: lack

of or rvrong spiritual emoo*erment : curses
Man is a spirit, soul and body - a triniry - createdin the patternof his
Heavenll'Father u'ho is the HOLY TRINITY. Of all the things that
God had given to rnan"out of His love, is the gift of "free *ill". This
simplymeansthe freedomto choosebetweengood and evil, including
the freedomto love and obey or rejectGod'

The fall of man at the hand of the deceiver.satan,at the garden of

Eden wa,sindeedthe fall of manlcindbecausein Adam was the seedof
the future human race.

God has createdus as His children to have a Father-chilclrelationship'

This is revealedin His word to us:

"You shalllove the LORD your God with all your heart,with all your
soul,and with atl your might."7

And beforethe fall, we can I'isualizehow this relationshipworked.

" The LORD God planteda gardeneastwardin Eden, ..'..' Then the
LORD God took the man and put him in the gardenof Eden to tend
andkeepit." 8

"out of the ground the LoRD God formed every beastof the field and
ever.i bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to seewhat he would
call them. And w'hateverAdam calledeachliving creature,that rvas its
name".9

the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the

morning,..."10

Man was hauiog an intimate fellowship with God. Every morning, He

paysman a r,"isitand sharesHis heart out. He impartedunto him a part
of His creative power and advisedhim of the secretof sustaininghis
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immortalityand perfection. Thuswe learnt from Scripturethat,l' .. the

LORD God commandedthe marqsaylng "Of every tree of the gardea
you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and eril
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surell'
d i e . " ll ,l

GEN 3:6-7 " So when the womansaw that the tree was good for foo<L
that it was pleasantto the eyes,and a tree desirableto make one *ise-
shetook of its fruit and ate. Shealsogave to her husbandwith her, aad
he ate . Then the eyesof both of them were opene4 and they knen
that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and mad;
themselves coverings."12 :
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Adam idolized his wife *d b."u*. an idolater. He could noi resist the
thoughtand take the chanceof losingEve. In short, he loved Eve more
than he loved God. So he rejectedGod and went along with his rrife
even knowing that she was transgressing the "will" of God and
committing a sin. He was willing to sacrifice everything- including their
immortality and the right to rule the world for this woman. He *'as a
selfishcoward... and likewise,in one way or another,all of us became
one." For all havesinnedand fall short of the glory of God," i3

The Righteous.Lovine And SavineGod.

The Omnipotent, Omnipresentand Omniscient God (Almighty, AII-

presentand All-kno*ing) is a righteousGod. He is the Creatorof the
Universe and in its creation and functioning, He has instituted la*.s,
regulations and rules for the functioning of His creations. These are
called spiritual and natural laws. He will not change these laws to suit -l
His whim and fancies but will also take into consideration the
"authority" He has given to man in managingthe world in formulaticg
"statutory" laws even though in the "short termn it may causelfi;Ii
painsand anguishin the heart.So man'sfall at the garden of Edenmust
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yet a rightcousCod.

" For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternallife in
ChristJesusour Lord." l4

Here in the gardenof Eden. we are given a picture of God's righteous

and gracious nature. Though lle loves man more than any of His
creation,yet He must excercisejudgement as the Master and Ruler of
the Universe..

Then to Adam He said, "Becauseyou have heededthe voice of your

wife. and haveeatenfrorn the tree of which T commandedyou, saying,
'You shallnot eirtof it': "cursed is trreground for your sake;in toiiyou
shalleat of it all the daysof your life.I j

To the woman He said: "I will greatrymurtiply your sorrow and your
conception;in pain you shall bring forth children;your desireshallbe
for your husband,and he shallrule over you.',16

But FIe steppedout to do all to saveman from total clestruction alrd

eternaldeathlike the one pronouncedover satan anrl his lallen angeis.
First, IIe instituteda saving device for mankind : He cursedthe devil
and elevatedthe woman by pronrisingher a Seedthat will bruisethe
devilb head.

"And I will put enmirybetweenyou and the woman, and berweenyour

seedand her Seed;He shall bruiseyour head,and you shallbruiseHis
heel." 17

GOD'S PLAN OF SALVATTON FOR TEE TIUMAN RACE

Except for this Promise,man cameunder the rulershipor domainof the
Devil and his kingdom of darkness.The world became the devil's
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playgroundanCsin aboundin heapsand bounds.This had angereEGod
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so much that He decidedto destroyit and martkind except for Noab
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who had won gracein the His eyes.

Then the LORD saw that the wickednessof man was great in the eanh
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only eril
continually.And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on frc
eartll and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, "I uil
Fi destroyman whom I have createdfrorn the face of the eartb both ma-:r
t and beast,creepingthing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have
madethem but Noah found gracein the eyesof the LORD."l8

The devil also camedown to Eartlu "raped"and took the daughtersof

man as wives producing giants and wicked generation of men and
woman. We have up to this days tales of half-man and half-beav.
1 dracula,babalarltompuvan,etc.

That the sons of God (fallen angels)saw the daughtersof men. rhat
they were beautiful;and they took wives for themselvesof all *'hon
they chose. There were giants on the earth in those days,and also
alterward, when the sons of God (fallen angels) came in to the
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spirit. So heworked againin the heart,mind and flesh of Ham, one of
Noah's son, who saw his father nalied,drunk and aslept. He must hale
"sodomised"him for when Noah cameto know when he came around
he cursedthe generationof Ham.

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"And Noah began to be a farnter, and he planted a vineyard. Then he
dranli of the wine and was drunk, and becameuncovered in his tent.
And Han\ the father of Canaan,saw the nakednessof his father, and
told his two brothersoutside.So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew
wirat his younger son had done to him. Then he said: "Cursed be
Canaal; a servantof servantshe shallbe to his brethren."20

Once more, man started to rebel against God and continually

conrnritingsin against Him, worshipping idols, conducting satanic
rituals, sacrificing humansto the devils, lusting in their flesh and do all
kinds of evils in the eyesof God. Then cameNimrod, whosewife was
his own mother, who startedto build the tower of Babel. This was a
direct confrontationof God's will and an outright rejectionof God's
iove. So God had to intervene again before man could destroy
themselvespermanentlybecause"..... they said, "Come, let us build
ourselvesa city, arrda tower whosetop is in the heavens;let us make a
name for ourselves,lest we be scatteredabroad over the face of the
whole earth." But the LORD camedown to seethe city and the tower
which'the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, "Indeed the
people are one and they all lrave one language,and this is what they
beginto do; now nothingthat they proposeto do will be withheldfrom
them. "Come, let Us go down and there confusetheir language,that
they may not understandone another's speech." So the LORD
sc4tiered them abroad from tltere over the face of all the eartb and
they ceasedbuildingthe city.21
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But the Lord, our God has not forgotten His promise of a Saviour. I
Though the people before Hirn continued to live in idolatry and all
mannerof sin and violence,Fle took steps to preservea race which
eventualiybecameknown as Israelites(Jews) through Abraharq Isaac ,
and Jacob;and throughthis race,the Saviourwas born into.
 "Behold.a virgin shallbe vith child, and bear a Son and thel' shallcall
His namelmmanuel,"uhich is translated,"God with us " "And sherrill
bring forth a Son. and 1'oushallcall Hls name Jesus.for He will sare
His peoplefrom theirsins"22

u'as announcedby angelsto the shepherds

The birth of the lv{essiah ai

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Bethlehemin Judeathougi it was promisedand foretold through ihe
prophetsthousandofyears beforethe actualeventtook place

I Then the angelsaidto them. "Do not be afraid,for behold,I bring i'o::
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good tidingsof greatjoy u'hichwill be to all people."For thereis born
to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lori
"And this u'ill be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrappedin
swaddlingcloths.lying in a manger.".Andsuddenlytherewas'*'iththe
angela multitudeof the heaven-ly host praisin-qGod and saying."Glon'
to God in the highest,and on earthpeace,good will toward menl'23

THE KADAZAN CRITICAL ANSWER (KCA)

For generations,our leadershad been searchingfor answers.Until

now, judging from the number of political parties and the bpposine
remarks in the press made by so called responsible and respeoed
leadersof the people,it is very clear that the Kadazan,s ? communin.
lacks foresight,wisdom and ability to lead a life of victorY by realizing
their maximum potentialas "Saliagdo Kinoingan".Further more. for
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somereasonsor another,
someare ashamed,hostile,afraid,revengeful,jea-lous,unwilling,etc to
be referredto as Kadazan: Sakagdo Kinoingan. Childrenof God the
People.They would prefer to be cdled suchderaeoton
-eood-Spirited
and negative names, for example, Iil:e Orchard (Dusun). River
(Sungai).lr{onke1'(Ka'a - Tanga'a),}louth (N{urut). Knee flotudl.
lnsect (Rungus - tompozungus).Stone (Tagaas - dandas).Liu'ar
Tindal(Oi'erland.;.Sarayo(Upnver,l
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curseson their oun lives and that of their children"for as he thinks in
so is he."24
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God, our HeavenlyFather,is sayingto each of us the Kadazans,His

good-Spirited People,to-daY,NOW:
ta[ to \{e, and I will answer you; and show you great and mighty
things,*'hich you do not know.'For I know the thoughtsthat I think
toward you, saysthe LORD, thoughts qf peaceand not of evil, to give
you a future and a hope.Then you *'ill call upon Me and go and pray
io Me, and I will listen to you. l\nd you will seek Me and find Me,
when you searchfor Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,
saysthe LORD. and I u,ill bring yqp back from your captivity (bondage
oi imprisonment, failures); I will fu3t er you from all the nations and
aom att the placeswhere I have dffi you, saysthe LORD, and I will
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bring you to the place from whiCh cause you to be carried away
captive.25

"Thereforeknow that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful

God who keeps covenantand mercy for d thousandgenerationsu'ith
those who love Him and keep l{is commandments;"and He repays
those *'ho hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack
with'him who hatesHim; He will repay him to his face. "Therefore you -'
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shall keep the commandment,the statutes, and the judgments w'hich I
commandyou today; to obsen'e them. "Then it shall come to pass.
becauseyou listen to'thesejudgments,and keep and do thenr,that the "'
LORD your God will keep with you the covenantand the mercy *'hich
He swore to your fathers.!'And He wili love you and blessyou and
multiply you; He *-ill also blessthe fruit of your womb and the fruit of
your land, your grain and your new u'ine and your oil, the increaseof
your cattle and the offspring of your floch in the land of which He
swore to your fathersto give you. "You shall be blessedabove all

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aale or lemale;
peoples; there shall not b,e'a rynle fernale
"': DaITFnamong you
barrpn y or
among your livestock. "Ard the LORD will take away from you ail
sickness,bnd will afflict youlryithnoneof the terrible diseaseso{Eg1pt
which'you have knoun, but,*ill lay them;ipnqfl thoSe wrhohate you-
"And you shall destroy all the peoples(representing'theKingdom of
Darknessand Wordly systemand its traditions,,culture,practicesani
vaiue sysiemsopposedand contradictolYr,,to God's Will and Truth)
rvhom the LORD your God deiivers over,to:you;,your eye shall hai'e
' no pitl' on them; nor shallyou servetheir gods,:for that will be alsnare
to you. "And you shall rememberthe LORD your:God, for it is He
who gives you power to get weaith, that He may establishF[-t
covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. I'Then h
shall be, if you by any meansforget the LORD your God, and follorr'
other gods, anil serveth6m andworship thenl I testi$ againstyou this
day that you shallsurelyperish.26

Let us be honestwith ourselvesand sincerelyask this question.Have I

love the Lord, my God with all my heart, with all my soul and with all
my strength (including my possessicn)or have I still got that First Love
for God . Am I willing to forgo my positio4 probabiy as "Chief
Minister", or possessiorq probably"my nice'houseand MercedezBenz
or fat bank account, or my own life, as and when the Lord wants me
to: have I yielded myself totally to my Lord aad Saviour in spirit, mind
and body.

If our answeris NO io the abovelquestion....thenobviously,we have

forgotten the Lord our God, and and are following other gods, and
servingthem and worshippingthem. '
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Unlesswe takg stepsto repentimmediately,then the Word of God sa1's
that we will surelyperish.

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the above questionand act to irnplementour decisionright away. It is
humanly impossibieto do all tirat but God, through His love, has
providedus the Way: Jesusis the Way: He is our ANSWER. He is the
I KadazanCritical Answer.

"For God so loved the world that He gaveHis only begottenSon, that
whoever believesin Him should not perish but have everlastinglife.
And as many as receivedHinr, to them He gave the right to become
childrenof God, evento thosewho believein His nune.21

WILA.T JESUS DID FOR US AT TIIE CROSS

At the Cross, Jesustransactedour business:He offeredHimself as a

"price" or "ransonr" {br our releasefrom the bondageof Satan and,
through His obedienceto the Father'swill, He reconciledus with Him.
He took upon Himself all our sins, diseases,curses, anxieties, fear,
poverty,iniquities,transgressionsand nailedthem to the cross.

But the most important singlefact that we must know in order to be

assuredof victory in our spiritualwarfareis this: Christ has already
defentedSatan and all his evil porversand euthoritics totally and
fo4ever. IIe did that through tlis death on the cross,through tlis
shedblood,and through IIis triumphant resurrection.c

And so it is written, "The {lrst man Adam becamea living being."The

last Adam becamea life-givingspirit.28The last Adarn is the Lord
JesusChrist-who is the Seedof the woman.who had bruisedthe head
of the devil.

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HO}Y }YE COULD BE }iESTORED AJYD EIIfPOWERED

SPUUTUALLY [q ORDER TO LED A YICTORTOUS,
TROGRESSIYEA}:D SI'III.TT-LEDLIF'tr.

The first phaseis the regenerationof the spirit man (born again);the
secondphaseis the renewalof the mind and the final phase,which is a
continucusprocess,is the "crucificationof the flesh" or dying.tc "seif'.

In short, we should continue to seek God's perfect rvil, plans and

purposesfor our individualand corporatelives, mafuringprogressively
in our daily lvalk with God until we assumethe Christlikenafurein us
because"...we know that when He is revealed,we shall be like Him,
for we shall seeHim as He is. " For we are membersof Fiis bodv. of
His fleshand of I{is bones."29

Footnoies:

a Oneof the ellectiveargumenlsthat rvasusedb-v&e cnemicsof the pcopleof Goci

*people" in Lotud
and put fonvard for rcjectrngthe term lSdazan (Kadayan)- -
was that t}re term was too generaland could also refer to the other raccs e.g.
Chinese.Mala;-s,Europeans. As a strateg,vto split the rnity of the Kadaza-ns.
leadersfrom the Lotud and K*'rjau tribes *'ere ncon'!"inc€d" that the late Donald
Stephens (fun Mohd FuadStcphens) *as tr;ing to shortchangethem. A coupleof
decadeslater,the issuerr'as againcapitalisedby groupof 1'oungpoliticiars out to
makea iast buckandasa political milestoneresultingin a compromiseoi the ruth-
No doubl the real cnemiesbehindtbe scenerverethos€tiat vas mentionerlb.vPauJ
irr Ephesians5: 12but the kno* lcdgeof the truth wjll setus free.

b Cod is alsoa Spiritbut He is a lloli'Spirit.

c DerckPrince."SpiritualWarfare"pp 39."10

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rcctingsin thc name of Jcsus.bl *hom \!e arc all conncclcdto

Heavcnand our Crcator God the Fathcr. 81.His Gracc- nfuch is
llis Lorc. Po*er and Wisdom. ue havc sharcd*ith t'ou *hat thc
l{carenlr Falhcr lras in His hcart for 1ou and famtlr. as a ntcmbcr of thc
Conrmunitv of Bclicrcrs. and this Bclorcd Nation of ours Malarsra in
gencraland Sabahin particular.

'fhc tinrc has conrc lor us 1o rcvic* the blundersof thc past. and rrc harc
for thc Blblc sars that '' .all havc sinncd. and come short of thc
r"r.rarrr
g lor r of G od. " ( R o n ra n sj :2 3 ). a n d p ra l c rfu l l r and l ol i ngl r put thcm nght
arrd rnovc on to claim rvhat arc rightlr our inheritanccas thc 'sakag do
Kilroingan' llcavcn is oncc again opcncxlbccauscsomc 'faithfuls' havc
corrtinucdto c[ to God for His ntcrc\. Lct us thcrcforc bc rcvircd b1'thc
Spirrt ol God. nourishcd bl His Word and cnabled b1 }{is Lovc and
tlrrouglrlrcqucnt fcllorlship anlong bclierers.let us take thc Nation for our
Lor d J c s usChr i s t.

I hc Hcavcnlr Fathcr is sarrngto all of us to-da1. cspccialh to our polittcal.

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