The Teju Faith

Daily Resolve Do each day better than the last. Do better in words, deeds and actions. Shine Day by day

@DeOluofficial__ I'm hearing this o. Me wey get 3 different accounts

E jor, which number are you people using cause it keeps rejecting mine

@nmolamide Yen yen yen

I’m too nice sometimes

David and the Kingdom: The Throne That Never Ends. We have traced the promise from Abraham through Egypt, through the wilderness, through the Law. A promise made to one man. Expanded into a people. Shaped into a nation. Now that promise narrows again. Not to a people alone, but to a king. Not to a structure, but to a throne. And not to a throne that might endure for a season, but to one that God Himself declares will stand forever. This is the covenant with David. And it will become the hinge on which the expectation of Scripture turns. The Problem: A People Without a King. Israel has been delivered. They have seen the power of God in Egypt. They have passed through the sea. They have received the Law. They have been given the Tabernacle, where God dwells among them. And yet, something is unstable. The book of Judges gives us the diagnosis: "Everyone did what was right in his own eyes." This is not merely political disorder. This is theological disorder. It is Genesis 3 repeating itself at the level of a nation. Human beings determining good and evil for themselves. Rejecting God's rule in subtle, but real ways. Without a king, the people fragment. Without a center, they drift. So they ask for a king. "Give us a king like all the nations." Even in this request, there is tension. They are not simply seeking order. They are seeking resemblance. And yet, God grants their request. Saul and the Failure of Kingship. Saul is the first king. He looks the part. He carries the presence of authority. But he does not carry obedience. He disobeys God. He acts independently. He substitutes his judgment for God's word. And God rejects him. His kingship is removed. This is important. It shows that not every throne is secure. Not every king stands. Authority without submission to God collapses. Saul becomes the negative pattern. David: The Shepherd King. Then comes David. Not the obvious choice. Not the eldest. Not the strongest in appearance. A shepherd. And yet, chosen. "The Lord looks at the heart." David's defining feature is not perfection, but orientation. He trusts God. When he stands before Goliath, he does not rely on armor, but on the name of the Lord. "The battle is the Lord's." David is formed in dependence before he is placed in authority. He becomes king. He unifies the tribes. He establishes Jerusalem. And then something deeply significant happens. He brings the Ark of the Covenant into the city. Now, for the first time, the presence of God and the throne of the king are brought together in one place. Worship and rule are no longer scattered. They are centered. This is not the end. It is preparation. The Covenant with David. In 2 Samuel 7, David desires to build a house for God. A permanent dwelling. A temple. But God responds in a way David does not expect. "You will not build me a house. I will build you a house." Not a structure. A lineage. A dynasty. "I will raise up your offspring… I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever… your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me." This is decisive. God is not merely blessing David. He is binding Himself to David's line. The Structure of the Promise. The covenant unfolds with clarity. A son will follow David. A throne will be established. A kingdom will endure. And then comes a tension. "If he does wrong, I will discipline him… but my steadfast love will not depart." Discipline is real. Failure is expected. But abandonment is removed. This is the difference from Saul. Saul's line ends. David's line continues. A Covenant Secured by God. Here we must be precise. This covenant is not fragile. It does not rise and fall with the moral success of each king. It is secured by God. And yet, it is not abstract. Kings will sin. Kings will fail. Kings will lead the people into ruin. And still, the promise will stand. This creates tension in the narrative. Because history will seem to contradict the promise. But God's word will outlast history's appearances. David's Failure: The Covenant Tested. David himself becomes the test case. He sins. Not lightly. Adultery. Murder. Deception. This is covenant-breaking at the highest level. He is confronted. He repents. God disciplines him. The consequences are severe. And yet, the covenant is not revoked. This is critical. If the covenant depended on David's perfection, it would have ended here. But it does not. Because it never depended on David. The Narrowing of the Promise. Now the pattern becomes unmistakable. From Abraham, God promises a people. From Moses, God forms that people under His Law. From David, God identifies a line. A throne. A direction. The promise is narrowing. It is moving from the broad to the specific. From many to one. The question now presses forward: Who will sit on this throne forever? Jesus: The Son of David. The New Testament answers without hesitation. "Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham." The lines converge. The promise to Abraham. The throne of David. Both find their fulfillment in Christ. He is called "Son of David." And He does not reject the title. Because it belongs to Him. The Kingdom: Present and Future. Jesus announces: "The kingdom of God has come near." This is not metaphor. It is reality. The king has come. The kingdom is present. And yet, it is not complete. The fullness of what was promised has not yet been fully seen. So we hold both truths together: Christ reigns now. Christ will reign fully. The throne is occupied. The kingdom is advancing. The end is coming. David as Type, Christ as Fulfillment. David points forward. A shepherd who leads. A king who rules. A warrior who fights. A worshipper who knows God. But David is not the end. He is a shadow. The Psalms he writes stretch beyond his own experience. They speak of suffering he did not fully endure. Of glory he did not fully attain. They point to a greater King. The Covenant Fulfilled. The promise to David does not collapse in exile. It does not disappear when the throne is empty. It waits. It intensifies. And in Christ, it is fulfilled. "He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end." This is not poetic language. This is covenant fulfillment. The Messianic Hope. After David, the story becomes expectation. Kings fail. The kingdom fractures. Exile comes. And yet, the prophets speak. A king is coming. Not merely another son of David. But the Son. A righteous ruler. An eternal king. The hope sharpens. Where We Stand. We have moved from creation to fall to judgment to promise to law to kingdom. And now the structure is clear. God is not reacting. He is unfolding a plan. The promise has narrowed. The need has intensified. The expectation has been defined. A king is coming. And He must not fail. What Comes Next. Now we turn to the prophets. Because they speak into the tension. They speak when the throne looks empty. They speak when the promise seems distant. And they declare with clarity: The king will come. The throne will stand. The promise will be fulfilled. In Christ. See you tomorrow.

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@__ajala Ehehehee. I'm here tho

@FaithWatchie Wowwwww.

Bible study question when men are sleeping. Na me dey do myself fr.

@adesojifasanya Thank you my Papa

One important rule that you must never forget: Your experience of the supernatural MAYBE real and your interpretation of the same experience WILL be wrong. The hard work is in interpretation.

@KvngAstalavi Thank you sir

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@yemiclinton @teewhi5 @FavourYusuf1 I already paid for this month. Can we start next month?

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Since last week Friday, here are soms of the things I have done with Claude: 1. Wrote my newsletter from scratch with AI 2. Wrote an article for a client, complete with research 3. Built 3 separate digital products I plan to sell over the next few weeks. Claude literally wrote the whole thing in Notion. 4. Built an automatic task tracker that scans my calendar and email everyday, to find tasks, add it to a Notion database(that Claude also built) so I can easily track my tasks every day 5. Build 2 weeks worth of LinkedIn content, with multiple back and forths (3 chats compacted multiple times) 6. Troubleshoot a dashboard I was building in posthog with multiple screenshots to show the problem 7. Used claude code to edit some designs from stitch for a client I am working with (design in stitch, take screenshots and upload to claude, then ask claude to fix the prompt) And that's just what I can remember right now. And that's only me. Like I said, we are 4 using it. Still at less than 20% used for the week. Pay for Claude Max. It's worth it.

Moses and the Law: God's Word Written in Stone Abraham received a promise. A people. A land. A blessing that would reach the nations. Now, generations later, that promise begins to take visible form. Genesis ends with Jacob's family in Egypt. Exodus begins with their multiplication. Then oppression. Four hundred years pass. The promise does not fail. It goes quiet. But God has not forgotten. God Remembers, God Acts Exodus 2 tells us: "God remembered His covenant with Abraham." This is not memory as recall. This is memory as action. God moves. In Exodus 3, He calls Moses: "I have seen… I have heard… I have come down to deliver." The God of promise becomes the God of history. What was spoken to Abraham now begins to unfold in real time. The Exodus as Covenant Fulfillment The plagues fall on Egypt. Not random acts, but targeted judgments. God dismantles Egypt's gods and exposes their powerlessness. Then comes the Passover. A lamb is slain. Blood is applied. Death passes over those covered by sacrifice. This is substitution. Life preserved through the death of another. This is not only Israel's story. It is a pattern. Christ will stand in this place as the true Lamb. Then comes the Red Sea. Israel passes through. Egypt is destroyed. The same waters save and judge. We have seen this before in the Flood. We will see it again in baptism. God delivers His people not by removing them from danger, but by bringing them through it. A People Formed At Sinai, something new happens. God does not only deliver a people. He forms them. Exodus 19: "If you obey me fully… you will be my treasured possession." This is covenant language. But notice the shift. With Abraham, God said: "I will." At Sinai, God says: "If you obey." This is not a contradiction. It is a development. Promise and Law The Abrahamic covenant is grounded in promise. God binds Himself. The Mosaic covenant introduces law. God reveals His will. The promise establishes the relationship. The Law governs the relationship. This is crucial. The Law is not given so Israel can become God's people. It is given because they already are His people. Grace precedes command. Redemption comes before requirement. The Law Reveals God The Ten Commandments are not arbitrary rules. They are revelation. They show us what God is like. A God who values truth. A God who protects life. A God who is faithful in covenant. The Law is not external to God. It is an expression of His character. The Law is Good, But We Are Not This is where tension enters. The Law is holy. But it exposes something unholy. Romans says: through the Law comes knowledge of sin. The Law does not create sin. It reveals it. It takes what is hidden and makes it visible. And once seen, it cannot be ignored. The Crisis of the Law The Law demands perfection. Not partial obedience. Total obedience. And this creates a crisis. Because the Law reveals what we are not. We do not merely fail occasionally. We fail fundamentally. The Law shows that righteousness cannot be produced by effort. It exposes the gap between who we are and who we were made to be. The Sacrificial System Within the Law, God provides something else. Sacrifice. Blood is shed. A substitute dies. This acknowledges a truth: Sin leads to death. But death can fall on another. The system is repetitive. Year after year, sacrifice continues. Because the problem is not yet solved. The sacrifices are not the solution. They are signs pointing beyond themselves. The Law as a Guide, Not a Savior Here is the paradox. The Law is good. But it cannot save. It reveals righteousness, but cannot produce it. It exposes sin, but cannot remove it. It directs, but does not empower. This is why Paul calls it a guardian. It leads somewhere. It leads to Christ. The Presence of God: The Tabernacle God commands the building of the Tabernacle. "I will dwell among them." This is astonishing. The holy God chooses to dwell with a sinful people. But not without structure. There are boundaries. Layers. Mediation. Access is real, but not casual. This teaches both truths: God is near. God is holy. The Danger of Misreading the Law The danger is subtle. To take the Law and turn it into a ladder. To believe that obedience earns acceptance. This is what Israel will struggle with. This is what the prophets will confront. God desires not mere compliance, but transformed hearts. The Law was never meant to replace faith. It was meant to expose the need for it. Where We Stand Now we can see clearly. The promise to Abraham has not been abandoned. It is unfolding. A people has been delivered. A Law has been given. God has spoken. And yet, something is unresolved. The Law reveals the problem. But it does not resolve it. What Comes Next Now we move to David. A king. A throne. A promise that the line will not end. The covenant narrows again. From humanity To Abraham To Israel To a king And from that king will come the One who fulfills everything: The promise to Abraham The demands of the Law The need for sacrifice Christ.

My (former) friend, @elnathan_john has been conducting a battle over a trend where people brand the sweat of writers as AI-written. In this piece, I take his side completely. chxta.medium.com/the-battle-for…

@__ajala Toes in tips

Not sure this is faithful interpretation of scripture sha. I’ll pick someone’s brain when the day breaks.

As AI-generated text floods the internet, people are getting falsely accused of using LLMs to write. Clean and precise prose has become a liability, and non-native English speakers and autistic writers are often paying the price. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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@FaithWatchie Thank you

So you people are saying Claude over ChatGPT? 😐

@Aideresponse @Literatus_V Same

@Literatus_V I can eat rice all year!!! Love that for me

Tell me something that is not my business at all🙏. I'm bored.

@iamhalimat_ Shey ko si?

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@Adesewa_Adesewa Preach?!!!!

You speak of reclaiming "mercy and reason," but on what scriptural basis are you defining these terms? If your version of Islam rejects established rulings found in the Qur’an and the Sunnah, are you practicing the religion as revealed, or a personal philosophy?

@Lawal_oluwadami @Holamiwepo You can't. I've given up

@Holamiwepo see this thing, 😂 sebi I tell you say AI checkers dey whine us. How can we beat these things. Ps: it's not only Zero gpt that misbehaves.

Remember that for anyone to check that your work was written by AI using AI, they will have to feed your original text into AI, and that text entered into AI models can become part of the training data. So these weird vigilantes are in fact only part of the problem. I think writers need to start pushing pack by clearly demanding that their work not be fed into AI checkers without their permission. If you make a submission to a publisher or organisation you can say: I do not give permission for my work, in part or in full to be fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking or AI-use detection. Because if you want to become a virtue signalling anti-AI vigilante you do not get to use AI as your cudgel.