Who Is afraid of Daddy Freeze? - Femi Aribisala writes
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Nothing in recent memory seems to have affected the bank-balances of
Nigerian pastors as Daddy Freeze’s exposure of the deception of tithing
in the churches. Nigerian tithe-collecting pastors are up in arms,
throwing every possible missile at him, including death threats. Daddy
Freeze Jesus says: “Whoever desires to save his life will lose it.”
(Matthew 16:25).
Since Freeze’s exposure, tithe-collecting pastors have been spouting fire and brimstone, hopelessly trying to save their lives.
Death threats
The assault on Freeze brings to mind the assault of Jewish pastors on
Jesus when he also exposed their deception and hypocrisy. The upshot of
this was the decision to have Jesus killed with extreme prejudice.
Similarly, Daddy Freeze says a pastor, whose church he attended for 11
good tithe-paying years, has placed a death sentence on him for
preaching against tithing.
The pastor “prophesied” that Freeze would die within 2 years. Jesus
says: “An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth
evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke
6:45). You can easily tell that this so-called pastor is a charlatan
masquerading as a child of God. Not only does he curse his enemies
contrary to the way of Christ, even his curses are fake. Otherwise, why
wait for two years for Freeze to die? Why not kill him right now?
Apostle Suleiman
Perhaps that anonymous pastor learnt a lesson from another endangered
tithe-collector: self-styled Apostle Suleiman. The “apostle” exposed
himself by foolishly prophesying that Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of
Kaduna State, would die within two weeks. Unfortunately for him, the
Governor obstinately refused to die. “Apostle” Suleiman is so riled up
over Daddy Freeze’s preachments against tithing, he announced the
decision to raise his tithe from 10% to 30% in retaliation. Clearly, the
“apostle” needs to go back to bible school. So doing, he would learn
that a tithe is 10% and can never be 30%. Rather than boast publicly
about fictitious increases in his tithes, his eminence the “apostle”
should endeavour to listen to Jesus: “Be careful not to do your ‘acts of
righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have
no reward from your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1). “When you give to
the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is
doing, so that your giving may be in secret.
Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:3-4).
Paul Adefarasin
On his part, tithe-collecting Paul Adefarasin took the whole debate
to stratospheric levels, the better to make tithing unassailable to
fastidious bible scholars. He said: “God created the universe, he took a
tithe: the Milky Way. God created the Milky Way, he took a tithe: the
Galaxy. God created the Galaxy, he took a tithe: our Solar System. God
created the Solar System, he took a tithe: Planet Earth. God created the
Planet Earth, he took a tithe: Israel. God created Israel, he took a
tithe: Jerusalem.” At this juncture, I began to wonder if it could
equally be postulated that God created Lagos, he took a tithe:
Adefarasin’s House on the Rock! Whoever heard of God paying tithes? By
the time the erudite pastor waxed lyrical and refashioned Jesus as: “a
tithe, holding a tithe, going into a tithe,” his congregation could not
bear it any longer. They burst into wild applause which I took to mean:
“This pastor of ours is just too much!”
Matthew Ashimolowo
But the response to Freeze that took the cake came from Matthew
Ashimolowo of Kingsway International Christian Centre. He felt so
threatened by Daddy Freeze, he dropped his mask of holiness and became
abusive. He told Daddy Freeze to “Shut up!” Said Ashimolowo “ex-cathedra:” “Some bunch of yo-yosomewhere
should not determine what we believe. Some guy who beats his wife,
throws her out, throws his children out of the house should not
determine what we believe. Not only that, he broke his own son’s knees
while trying to defend his wife. Not only that, he drinks alcohol,
sleeps with women and he is trying to preach to preacher?” But, while we
are on the subject, should Ashimolowo himself be telling anybody what
to believe? Not according to Jesus. Jesus says: “Why do you look at the
speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank
in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the
speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own
eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then
you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
(Matthew 7:3-5). Ashimolowo”s hypocrisy is mind-boggling. Those who live
in glass houses should not throw stones.
Wealth transfer
Some years back, Ashimolowo advertised a crusade in Port Harcourt,
captioned “The Coming Wealth Transfer.” This was based on the spurious
pie-in-the-sky notion that God is soon going to transfer the wealth of
non-Christians to Christians. However, officials of the Charity
Commission in England, an organisation which routinely polices the
affairs of nominally non-profit organisations including churches,
detected a more genuine wealth transfer taking place in Ashimolowo’s
KICC. That wealth transfer was not from God to the members of
Ashimolowo’s church: it was from members of the church to Ashimolowo.
The Commission discovered “serious misconduct and mismanagement” in
the finances of KICC. It alleged that hundreds of thousands of pounds
were dubiously transferred overseas. A £120,000 birthday party was given
for Ashimolowo, out of which £80,000 was used to buy him a spanking
Mercedes Benz. It was also reported that Ashimolowo used the church’s
visa card to buy a timeshare apartment in Florida. Should a man with
this questionable CV tell Christians what they should believe and give?
You be the judge.
The Commission maintained Ashimolowo acted as both trustee and paid
employee of KICC, in contravention of British charity law. He allegedly
approved suspicious payments and benefits to himself and his wife made
to his private companies operated illegally from church premises. As a
result of these irregularities, KICC was placed in the hands of
receivers, new trustee managers were appointed and Ashimolowo was asked
to repay £200,000 to the church. The upshot of this was that Ashimolowo
relocated temporarily to Nigeria, where he started preaching about
“Sweat-less Wealth,” and “Twenty-Four Hour Miracles.”
The latter required the gullible to give their monies, cars,
televisions, stereos, cell-phones and even the Certificates of Occupancy
of their houses to preachers in order to receive fictitious financial
windfalls from heaven within 24 hours. A few of my acquaintances were
scammed at these 419 “crusades.”
Deceived-deceivers
God says: “Among my people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as
one who sets snares; they set a trap; they catch men.” (Jeremiah 5:26).
Daddy Freeze has put these tithe-collecting fraudsters on the warpath,
fighting to defend their bank-balances. Surely, he did not expect them
to surrender their meal-tickets without a fight. Who is afraid of Daddy
Freeze? Thief- and-robber pastors. The fear of Daddy Freeze is the
beginning of mischief in Nigerian churches.
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