"Avoid greed and the desire to achieve national development" – Presbyter Moderator

General News on Friday, April 19th, 2019

Source: Ghananewsagency.org

2019-04-19

The very reverend Professor Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, asked Christians and Ghanaians to avoid greed and greed in their entirety. 39, want to achieve national development.

Reverend Mante, who gave advice on Thursday in his Easter Message to Ghanaians, urged members of the public to use the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as a turning point in their lives and to change their negative attitudes to seeking attributes bring progress and prosperity to their respective societies.

He described greed as a deadly spiritual and moral disease, which had been the biggest problem of all generations.

"Exorcise greed wherever we find it, whether in church, government, workplace or palace," he said.

Rt. Reverend Mante said that there were several lessons to be learned from the Easter event and illustrated his message by the way Judas betrayed Jesus in the Bible, claiming that God wanted to teach the world that greed was the main destroyer of lives and communities in the world.

He said people always wanted more money than helping their communities grow, but that money could do good things, that greed was a deadly disease, that could bring about people betraying their good friends and destroying any good community.

"Judas was a disciple, the treasurer of the disciples. Yet he wanted more money than the beloved community. So he betrayed his master for money.

Rt. Reverend Mante stated that it was out of envy of sociopolitical perspectives that Jesus had been killed and even Governor Pilate himself had realized it. "As written in Matthew 27:18, for he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him Jesus."

The moderator said, unfortunately, that there were several people in churches, in the direction of churches and in societies that continued to kill Jesus because of envy.

"If people are in a political party, everything the other party does must be wrong, even if it is excellent. Once a good idea does not come from them, it must be marked as false. "The Rt. Reverend Mante has described the power-down syndrome as a perverse mind that needs to be exorcised wherever it is, stressing that no nation could progress in a climate of jealousy. "Eliminate this evil spirit from our families, churches, communities and country. Easter teaches us that no great thing is accomplished without some sacrifices, "he said. He stated that some nations had developed because of the sacrifices and suffering endured in the past and that for a community, church or nation to progress, a person or persons must be willing to sacrifice and suffer now. It was essential that many church leaders and politicians learn this basic principle of life, which is based on the acceptance of "No Cross No Crown" (not a cross, no crown), explaining that even if their crown is not simply the celestial crown, they must sacrifice themselves for their children or their community share this glory now.

Reverend Mante also emphasized that the Easter period was a very special time for Christians. They remembered the salient event of the story of God's salvation and replayed it. They identified with the sufferings of Christ during the forty days of loan. including the week of pbadion.

He said that it was a solemn moment for Christians, a period of reflection and earnest prayer. That's why every Christian must have a "holy anger" against the marketing of Pbadion Week by Ghanaians or by people all over the world, adding that: "Turning Pbadion Week into festive events is an insult to the Christian faith ".

Reverend Mante advised the Christian community and all other citizens to observe the Easter period as a period of appreciation of the atonement, which took place on Good Friday, and of the conquest of death and the evil forces on Holy Saturday.

He declared that the complete triumph and hope, which took place on Easter Sunday, marked the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ in order to give hope to mankind. .