GOD’S TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL

By Akin Ojumu

If you’ve ever wondered why the tone of my commentaries are so intense, this video clip of Korede Komaiya should give an idea. I have listened to hundreds of false and dangerous teachings, I can tell you that the things that Komaiya says in this clip made me want to throw up. They are so egregious and irreverent, I could feel the bitter taste of revulsion in my mouth.

For the sake of those of you who will not click the link to watch the actual video, here are some excerpts from the less than 2-minute clip. If what you are about to read doesn’t make you mad, you’ve got a much bigger problem than you care to admit. 

In a blatant display of hubris and narcissism, Korede Komaiya claims he is one of the select few spiritual elites called by God and given the mantle to make people prosper.

“It’s not every man of God that can make you prosper. There are those of us called by God with the mantle for wealth, riches, and money.”

To demonstrate his flagrant insolence and disdain for God, Korede Komaiya blasphemously claims that it was money problem that led the Lord Jesus to the Cross. 

“For thirty pieces of silver, Judas sold Jesus. So, money problem led Christ to the Cross. Poverty in the life of one of His disciples is the reason why they nailed him.”

By claiming that poor people are poor because of their sins, Korede Komaiya reveals that he is a worshipper of Mammon and not the LORD God Almighty.

“Poverty is a sign of ungodliness. To be poor means there is sin in your life. Unfortunately, people think it is those that are rich that have sin in their lives. Never trust the holiness of a poor man. Anybody that has money and serve God is truly holy.”

And those are just a few of the horrendously outrageous things that poured out Korede Komaiya’s mouth in the more than 90-minute-long sermon – if you can even call it a sermon – given at COZA on the 9th of January of 2025. All he did the entire time he was on the pulpit was to fill the excited audience with ear-scratching gobbledygook that stirred up the greedy desires of their flesh. It was just an empty ear-tickling psychobabble with zero eternal value.

In an 1850s sermon, the English preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon said: 

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old Proverb, ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’”

Charles Spurgeon was spot on. As the avalanche of falsehoods cascades all over the world, including and especially in the Church, truth has scarcely put one step forward to counter the overwhelming force of duplicity. While lies travel across social media at the speed of light, truth crawls along at the pace of a snail. 

At this rate, one is tempted to throw in the towel in surrender and allow oneself to be swept along in the torrent of dissembling. But to give up now on pushing out the truth of God to counter the deception of Satan would amount to a great disservice to the multitudes who are being led astray on the broad road that will end in eternal damnation.

It’s only through a consistent and relentless focus on truth over the long term that we are going to make a difference in this war against the deception, false teachings, and erroneous doctrines proliferating in the Church. 

We need people to make the argument for the truth of God as contained in Scripture again and again both on the big doctrinal issues and on the small ones because that’s how we are going to build a culture of truth. No one message is going to make the difference. Only a consistent telling of the truth will break through the cacophony of lies.

We are in a long-term battle for the soul of the Christian Church and for the conscience of the people of God. Every argument that’s based in truth counts and every pushback against lies goes a long way.

Looking at it from the human perspectives, the false teachers and charlatans appear to be winning. Of course, they are the influential God’s generals pastoring megachurches. With hundreds of thousands of church members and massive following on social media, they are regarded as spiritual giants who have God’s favor.

Nevertheless, those on the side of truth should not despair. The day of reckoning is coming. God will ultimately judge the unjust and the unrighteous. Charlatans and impostors will someday be held accountable for their evil deeds.

Proverbs 19:9 

“A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.”

Proverbs 24:1-2

“Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.”

2 Timothy 3:13

“While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

The truth of God will ultimately prevail. Those who pervert the truth of God violate the His name, for they take His name into vanity. God shall not hold him guiltless who takes His name into vanity.