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A cleric, Emmanuel Jonathan, a pastor with the Evangelical Life Gospel Church, Agburuike Nsulu in Abia, has charged Christians to use the period of the Christmas celebration to seek greater tie with their creator.

Jonathan gave the charge in his sermon on Sunday, adding that the only way to enjoy close relationship with God was for Christians to strictly obey His word.
He said, “Without knowing and working in the knowledge of God’s word, it will be impossible for Christians to go to heaven or attain the height of glory God had set for them on earth.”
He said that God so highly elevated His word over and above His name “because Jesus Christ is the manifestation of the living word of God.”
“God is inseparable from his word and if Christians must live the life worthy of their calling and fulfill God’s plan for them, they must give heed to His word,” the cleric said.
He admonished Christians to fortify themselves with the word to be able to overcome the enormous challenges of life.
Jonathan said that Christians who used the church to defraud others and commit sundry crimes against the land “do so because they lacked the word.”
He said that the word of God is so powerful that Christians had no justification jostling from one one church denomination to another in search of miracles.
He said: “Indeed, devoted Christians who love and live in the word of God have no business running from one denomination to another looking for signs and miracles.
“God wants his children to manifest His glory but they cannot do so without knowing and living in the word.
“Christians should return fully to the word in order to reap the blessings of riches, divine protection, holiness, deliverance from evil powers and enemies and answers to prayers,” the clergyman said.