Femi Fadugba

This didn’t just happen for the Jews either. Pretty much every society that we have surviving documents of from the time, from the Romans to the Chinese, mention their spiritual rituals either no longer working or being seriously weakened around the time of Christs crucifixion.

I went back to read the resurrection accounts of Matthew and John this morning and noticed something interesting. The first words out of Jesus’ mouth after the resurrection were “go tell my brothers.” And it brought me to tears. Matthew 28:10. Read it slowly. The stone has just rolled back. Death has just been defeated for the first time in human history. The most consequential moment in the cosmos has just occurred. And the risen King opens his mouth and calls us brothers. But Matthew alone might not stop you. So go to John 20:17, where he tells Mary what to tell them: “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” He does not say “the Father.” He does not say “God.” He says MY Father is now YOUR Father. MY God is now YOUR God. He rises and the first thing he does is redistribute the inheritance. This is where most people misread the resurrection. They treat it as a power demonstration. Jesus proved he was God. Jesus showed death who was boss. And those things are true but they are not the point. The point is what he did with the power once he had it. Because what I have learned in my few years on earth is that when men have power, the immediate instinct is to reclassify. The people who were their peers become subordinates. The people who called you brother now call you sir. We have seen it in offices, in governments, in churches. Elevation changes vocabulary. The higher a man rises the lonelier the pronoun “we” becomes. Jesus rose to the highest position in the universe and his vocabulary did not change. He came back and said brothers. He said your Father. He said our God. He reclassified upward. He used his exaltation not to press us into subjects but to pull us into sons. This is the actual consequence of the resurrection: ADOPTION. A dead savior cannot make you a son. A dead elder brother cannot bring you into the family. He had to conquer death because brothers share in each other’s life and he could not give us what he had not first secured himself. Romans 8:29 calls him the firstborn among many brothers. Firstborn means there are others coming. You are not a spectator of his resurrection. You are its intended outcome. The crowned King looked across the infinite chasm between his holiness and your humanity and the word he chose was not “subject.” It was not “servant.” It was not even “beloved.” He said brother. On the other side of death, with all authority in heaven and earth, he said brother. So celebrate today for everything it is. Celebrate the empty tomb, celebrate the vindication of a man the world tried, condemned, and buried, and whom heaven refused to leave in the ground. Celebrate the sins that are gone and the immeasurable, uncontainable, universe-rearranging power of God on full display. But do not miss the most beautiful thing. He did not just cancel your debt. He gave you a name. He did not just acquit you. He adopted you. Forgiveness would have been everything. Sonship is more than everything. And he gave us both. The risen King called us brothers. That means the Father he returned to is the Father we are returning to. That means the glory he walked into is the glory we are walking toward. That means Easter is not just the day Jesus won. It is the day you inherited everything he won it for. Hallelujah! He is risen.

@SensibleFascist Can you provide sources? This sounds really interesting.

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Here is how @seyi_vibez became Nigeria’s biggest streaming giant; 2021 — 65.6M 2022 — 76.8M 2023 — 532.97M 2024 — 642.2M 2025 — 724.4M Read full editorial here bit.ly/4bM9Jp8

.@seyi_vibez sets a new record for the biggest streaming tally by any artiste in a single year— becoming the first artiste in history to surpass the 700M streams mark in a year Seyi Vibez tallied 724M on-demand streams across all platforms in Nigeria in 2025 See full Year-End Charts here bit.ly/465EIZy

Most-streamed artistes of 2025 in Nigeria; 1. @seyi_vibez 724M 2. @wizkidayo 661M 3. @asakemusik 613M 4. @burnaboy 505M 5. @Folapondis 470M 6. @BNXN 408M 7. @Odumodublvck_ 392M 8. @davido 368M 9. @heisrema 321M 10. @Olamide 269M See full Year-End Charts here bit.ly/465EIZy

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Always Go To The Funeral “Always go to the funeral” means that I have to do the right thing when I really, really don’t feel like it. I have to remind myself of it when I could make some small gesture, but I don’t really have to and I definitely don’t want to. I’m talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the world to the other guy. You know, the painfully under-attended birthday party. The hospital visit during happy hour. The Shiva call for one of my ex’s uncles. In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.”

When I was younger, my father gave me similar advice: “The only thing people will remember about you is whether you were there for them in their moment of need.” Pound for pound probably the best advice I’ve ever received

10/10 recommend learning how to shamelessly ask for all that you want because you’ll be surprised at how many people are willing to simply give it to you, and more.

I wasted my entire life because nobody told me this as a kid

@Mr_Cazia @Switch_Nig I still used mine yesterday. Is yours working now?

@Switch_Nig what’s wrong with your virtual cards.

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