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LET LOVE LEAD

Let us meditate on this foundational teaching on love, preached on Sunday 31st July 2011, by T.B. Joshua in The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, HQ, Lagos, Nigeria. 

1 Corinthians 13:13 – “There are only three things on this earth that will last: faith, hope and love. The greatest is love.”

1 John 4:16 – “God is love and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”

Let Love Lead

• Love looks around to see who is in need.
• We begin to succeed with our lives when the problems and hurts of others matter to us.
• The wound of one is the wound of all; the pain of others is the pain of all.
• Love frees me in the present. It is the present that presents problems.
• It is only through love that we are able to respond to God and to others at present.
• To respond to God, first you must forgive yourself and your neighbours, and free them in the present.
• What a danger is a religion of words if there is no corresponding action; you have nothing but mental assent without action.
• If you give everything you own to the poor but you do not love, no matter what you say, no matter what you believe, no matter what you do, you are bankrupt without love.
• If you abide in love and love abides in you, you abide in God.
• Love never gives up. Love is always there to act, no matter what happens, no matter what comes.
• Love is always there to act in the face of persecution, intimidation, trial and temptation.
• Open your lips and say this prayer: “Lord, give me love enough to overlook the mistakes of others. Lord, let me rejoice when others do well.”
• Love cares more for others than for self.
• Love does not want what it does not have.
• Love is positive; it does not want anything negative.
• Love is good; it does not want anything bad.
• Love does not want hatred because love is love.
• Love does not strut. Love does not have a swollen head.
• Love stoops. Love does not belittle anyone. Love does not look down on others.
• Love does not force itself on others.
• Love puts up with anything. Love is tolerant. Love is determined.
• Love perseveres for the best, which is yet to come.
• Love looks for the best.
• Love keeps going to the end, no matter the obstacle, no matter the difficulty.
• Above all, if I speak in the tongues of angels but I do not love others, I am simply making a noise, talking to the air.
• If I can prophesy the future and understand your mysteries, or if I know everything or have faith to move mountains, but I do not love others, I have accomplished nothing in life.
• A person who does not love others cannot be entrusted with the power of God. He will misappropriate it and misuse it to hurt himself and others.
• When you have the love of God, you will look around you to see who is in need.
• The best investment is help; help is the best investment.

Synagogue: Court hears engineers’ case against coroner

A Federal High Court in Lagos has further adjourned till October 19, 2015 to hear two separate suits seeking to quash the coroner’s verdict on the September 12, 2014 Synagogue Church Of All Nations building collapse.

The suits were filed by the two structural engineers contracted by SCOAN to build the collapsed six-storey building, Messrs Oladele Ogundeji and Akinbela Fatiregun.

Ogundeji and Fatiregun had been indicted of criminal negligence by a coroner who conducted an inquest into the deaths of the 116 persons who lost their lives in the tragic incident.

The coroner, Mr. Oyetade Komolafe, had recommended that the state should investigate and prosecute them.

The state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, had disclosed that his administration would implement the coroner’s recommendations.

But the engineers, through their lawyer, Mr. Olalekan Ojo, rejected the coroner’s verdict and described it as “unreasonable, one-sided and biased.”

They subsequently approached the court asking that the coroner’s verdict and recommendations be invalidated and pronounced null and void.

They urged the court to bar the Attorney General of the state or any officer acting under his authority from initiating or commencing criminal proceedings against the applicants on the basis of the findings and recommendations of the coroner.

They also urged the court to declare that the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State lacked the power to act on the coroner’s verdict to investigate or prosecute them.

Justice Mohammed Idris, who entertained separate ex parte applications by the engineers during the court’s vacation, had on July 22, 2015 ordered that parties should maintain the status quo pending the determination of the main suit.

The case however came up on Wednesday before Justice Ibrahim Buba to whom it has now been transferred.

At the resumed proceedings, Ojo informed the court that though he had received a counter-affidavit filed in opposition by theCouncil for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, his reply was filed out of time.

His said his clients intended to pay the penalty sum, adding that he needed a short stand-down to process the payment.

But Buba said rather than stand the case down for a few minutes; he would be adjourning till a further date to take all pending applications.

He subsequently adjourned further proceedings till October 19, 2015.

The pending applications include the preliminary objection filed by the state challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the case.

The Solicitor General of the state, Mr. Lawal Pedro (SAN), is contending that since the engineers were not agents of the Federal Government, the Federal High Court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain their case.

SCOAN Collapse Building Tragedy Court to rule on July 8

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THE coroner court conducting investigation into the collapse of a building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has fixed July 8, 2015 to deliver judgment in the inquest.

The presiding Chief Magistrate, Oyetade Komolafe, fixed the date yesterday after parties made their final submission on the matter before the court. It would be recalled that on September 12, 2014, a six-storey building within the premises of the church collapsed.
Lagos State government therefore set up an inquest to ascertain the cause of the building collapse, identify the victims and how they died.

Founder and Senior Pastor of the church, Prophet Temitope Joshua, had initially linked the incident to a strange aircraft hovering above the building shortly before the structure collapsed. The CCTV video was subsequently released by the church on social media platforms showing the plane allegedly hovering over the building before it crumbled.

Various organisations testified as witnesses during the proceedings, which lasted about eight months, giving various reasons why the building collapsed.
T.B Joshua refused to appear before the inquest insisting that he was not under any obligation to testify before the coroner. Although an appeal he filed before a Lagos High Court was overruled, he still did not appear before the panel.

At yesterday’s proceedings, counsel to SCOAN, Mr. Olalekan Ojo in his final address insisted that external forces remain the cause of the tragedy.

He referred to the testimony of a 37 year-old graduate of Chemistry from the University of Maiduguri, Mr. Biedomo Iguniewe, who suggested that the building might have collapsed due to infrasonic radiation.
Ojo further argued on the testimony of another witness that the non-existence of a building plan as stated by the Lagos State Government has nothing to do with the structure of the building, which he
maintained was constructed according to standard.

Ojo submitted that the contract for the collapsed building was awarded to competent engineers
and if anyone must be questioned for the tragedy, it should be the engineers and not
the Synagogue Church.

He, therefore, admonished the Lagos State Government to take appropriate steps to regularise the building construction and approval applications shown to be pending with the relevant state agencies.
After listening to all the counsel, Magistrate Komolafe thanked everyone who helped the inquest to arrive at a just judgment.

He thereafter adjourned judgment till July 8, 2015.

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