He admonishes Christians to live their lives to serve God.
The revered man of God noted that Christians must know that the properties they have acquired are just ephemeral and not necessarily their eternal properties.
According to him, whatever they acquired on earth will all remain on earth when they die.
“You’re are stewards of everything and possessors of nothing. You don’t have anything. I know some of you don’t like that, but it is the truth. You don’t have anything,” he stated.
Nicholas Duncan-Williams delivered this sermon to his church members monitored on his official Facebook page called “Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams”.
He told his congregants in a sermon that, “If you want to know the truth about what I’ve told you, go the mortuary and you would see people of all sizes, of all statuses and influences and possessions and wealth in life lying down with nothing.”
Duncan-Williams indicated that not a single property follows anyone who dies. “They don’t have their rich watches, rings, anything. They are stripped of everything”.
He continued, “this is why man is a steward of everything but actually possess nothing because at the mortuary all their possession they went to the hospital with is sent home with their loved ones”.
The Archbishop further added even the name of the deceased is replaced with a number tag.”One reality of life is that, dead bodies are distinguished from one another with number tags placed on their hands. Your identity is reduced to a number tag irrespective of your wealth and status while alive.
“This must serve as a caution to all humans to live a life that pleases God and should not be wasting time using all dubious means to acquire wealth. The wealth we struggle through life to acquire are not our eternal properties but we are just stewards of them.”
He continued, “before you think you have everything it is my duty to help Christians appreciate the fact that they have nothing. This is a truism that most of us find it difficult to appreciate, but no rich person has ever died and has been buried with his wealth before. People must learn to hasten slowly and enjoy lovely fellowship with one another.”
He stated that, one should go to the labour ward and witness how children are being born. “They came naked and naked shall everybody return”.
He emphasised that, “If you don’t understand this principle, then you are to be pitied among all men. And whatever life you think you’re living, you’re a disappointment to your creator.”
DC Kwame Kwakye
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