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Nothing in
recent memory seems to have affected the bank-balances of Nigerian pastors as
Daddy Freeze’s exposure of the deception of tithing in the churches.
Nigerian
tithe-collecting pastors are up in arms, throwing every possible missile at
him, including death threats. Daddy Freeze Jesus says: “Whoever desires to save
his life will lose it.” (Matthew 16:25).
Since
Freeze’s exposure, tithe-collecting pastors have been spouting fire and
brimstone, hopelessly trying to save their lives.
Death
threats
The assault
on Freeze brings to mind the assault of Jewish pastors on Jesus when he also
exposed their deception and hypocrisy. The upshot of this was the decision to
have Jesus killed with extreme prejudice. Similarly, Daddy Freeze says a
pastor, whose church he attended for 11 good tithe-paying years, has placed a
death sentence on him for preaching against tithing.
The pastor
“prophesied” that Freeze would die within 2 years. Jesus says: “An evil man out
of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance
of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45). You can easily tell that this
so-called pastor is a charlatan masquerading as a child of God. Not only does
he curse his enemies contrary to the way of Christ, even his curses are fake.
Otherwise, why wait for two years for Freeze to die? Why not kill him right
now?
Apostle
Suleiman
Perhaps that
anonymous pastor learnt a lesson from another endangered tithe-collector:
self-styled Apostle Suleiman. The “apostle” exposed himself by foolishly
prophesying that Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State, would die within
two weeks. Unfortunately for him, the Governor obstinately refused to die.
“Apostle” Suleiman is so riled up over Daddy Freeze’s preachments against
tithing, he announced the decision to raise his tithe from 10% to 30% in
retaliation. Clearly, the “apostle” needs to go back to bible school. So doing,
he would learn that a tithe is 10% and can never be 30%. Rather than boast
publicly about fictitious increases in his tithes, his eminence the “apostle”
should endeavour to listen to Jesus: “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of
righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no
reward from your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1). “When you give to the needy,
do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your
giving may be in secret.
Then your
Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:3-4).
Paul
Adefarasin
On his part,
tithe-collecting Paul Adefarasin took the whole debate to stratospheric levels,
the better to make tithing unassailable to fastidious bible scholars. He said:
“God created the universe, he took a tithe: the Milky Way. God created the
Milky Way, he took a tithe: the Galaxy. God created the Galaxy, he took a
tithe: our Solar System. God created the Solar System, he took a tithe: Planet
Earth. God created the Planet Earth, he took a tithe: Israel. God created
Israel, he took a tithe: Jerusalem.” At this juncture, I began to wonder if it
could equally be postulated that God created Lagos, he took a tithe:
Adefarasin’s House on the Rock! Whoever heard of God paying tithes? By the time
the erudite pastor waxed lyrical and refashioned Jesus as: “a tithe, holding a
tithe, going into a tithe,” his congregation could not bear it any longer. They
burst into wild applause which I took to mean: “This pastor of ours is just too
much!”
Matthew
Ashimolowo
But the
response to Freeze that took the cake came from Matthew Ashimolowo of Kingsway
International Christian Centre. He felt so threatened by Daddy Freeze, he
dropped his mask of holiness and became abusive. He told Daddy Freeze to “Shut
up!” Said Ashimolowo “ex-cathedra:” “Some bunch of yo-yosomewhere
should not determine what we believe. Some guy who beats his wife, throws her
out, throws his children out of the house should not determine what we believe.
Not only that, he broke his own son’s knees while trying to defend his wife.
Not only that, he drinks alcohol, sleeps with women and he is trying to preach
to preacher?” But, while we are on the subject, should Ashimolowo himself be
telling anybody what to believe? Not according to Jesus. Jesus says: “Why do
you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to
the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the
speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You
hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see
clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:3-5).
Ashimolowo”s hypocrisy is mind-boggling. Those who live in glass houses should
not throw stones.
Wealth
transfer
Some years
back, Ashimolowo advertised a crusade in Port Harcourt, captioned “The Coming
Wealth Transfer.” This was based on the spurious pie-in-the-sky notion that God
is soon going to transfer the wealth of non-Christians to Christians. However,
officials of the Charity Commission in England, an organisation which routinely
polices the affairs of nominally non-profit organisations including churches,
detected a more genuine wealth transfer taking place in Ashimolowo’s KICC. That
wealth transfer was not from God to the members of Ashimolowo’s church: it was
from members of the church to Ashimolowo.
The
Commission discovered “serious misconduct and mismanagement” in the finances of
KICC. It alleged that hundreds of thousands of pounds were dubiously
transferred overseas. A £120,000 birthday party was given for Ashimolowo, out
of which £80,000 was used to buy him a spanking Mercedes Benz. It was also
reported that Ashimolowo used the church’s visa card to buy a timeshare
apartment in Florida. Should a man with this questionable CV tell Christians
what they should believe and give? You be the judge.
The
Commission maintained Ashimolowo acted as both trustee and paid employee of
KICC, in contravention of British charity law. He allegedly approved suspicious
payments and benefits to himself and his wife made to his private companies
operated illegally from church premises. As a result of these irregularities,
KICC was placed in the hands of receivers, new trustee managers were appointed
and Ashimolowo was asked to repay £200,000 to the church. The upshot of this
was that Ashimolowo relocated temporarily to Nigeria, where he started
preaching about “Sweat-less Wealth,” and “Twenty-Four Hour Miracles.”
The latter
required the gullible to give their monies, cars, televisions, stereos,
cell-phones and even the Certificates of Occupancy of their houses to preachers
in order to receive fictitious financial windfalls from heaven within 24 hours.
A few of my acquaintances were scammed at these 419 “crusades.”
Deceived-deceivers
God says:
“Among my people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as one who sets snares;
they set a trap; they catch men.” (Jeremiah 5:26). Daddy Freeze has put these
tithe-collecting fraudsters on the warpath, fighting to defend their
bank-balances. Surely, he did not expect them to surrender their meal-tickets
without a fight. Who is afraid of Daddy Freeze? Thief- and-robber pastors. The
fear of Daddy Freeze is the beginning of mischief in Nigerian churches.
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