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Why do we draw the lines?
Rev. Emmanuel Boachie quests for clarification!
A minister of the Gospel’s sermon must be devoid of ambiguity, controversy, and sophistry. His words must reflect the oracles of God; clear, sound, and pure; leading souls toward truth and not into confusion.
But if the circulating video of Pastor Obed indeed bears truth; wherein he audaciously declares libation acceptable unto God; then a grievous abomination has arisen: priconcealing the stench of ancient apostasy.
It is as though the ghost of idolatry, long buried beneath the triumph of the Cross, has risen again within the sanctuary, seeking fellowship with the altar of Christ.
Like Aaron at Sinai, who yielded to Israel’s impatience and forged a golden calf, so now a voice once entrusted with the mysteries of grace dares to mingle the chalice of the Lord with the cup of devils.
Is this not the very trespass that summoned the fire of God upon Israel in the wilderness; the attempt to worship the Holy One through polluted means? Shall mortal lips now sanctify what the Eternal has condemned, pouring drink offerings to ancestral spirits while invoking the name of the Living God?
Has the blood of the everlasting covenant lost its sufficiency, that men must seek favour through the rites of the dead?
This, beloved, is no harmless cultural nostalgia; it is the resurrection of rebellion. Beneath its intellectual polish lies the same idolatrous impulse that led Israel to dance around the golden image, crying, “These be thy gods, O Israel!”
The danger is not merely theological but spiritual: when the Church romanticizes the altars God commanded her to destroy, she ceases to be a temple of light and becomes a shrine of confusion.
The Re-Paganization of the Church
What we witness is a deliberate attempt to re-paganize the Ghanaian Church under the guise of cultural reclamation. The libation bowl, once buried by the Gospel, is being unearthed and polished with academic gloss.
Pastor Obed’s strange amalgam of mysticism, Jewish Kabbalism, and pseudo-Christian science leads souls into a labyrinth of superstition; where Christ is dethroned and ancestral spirits are re-enthroned in His sanctuary.
When a man claiming to be a shepherd of Christ’s flock sanctions libation—a rite historically dedicated to ancestral and territorial deities; as acceptable worship, he repeats Aaron’s folly: merging Yahweh with the gods of the nations. Scripture thunders against such syncretism:
“You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor bow down to them nor serve them” (Exodus 20:3–5).
The God of Israel never commanded His people to pour wine or blood to the spirits of the dead. He forbade the mingling of His worship with pagan customs.
The prophets denounced those who “swear by the LORD and also by Milcom” (Zephaniah 1:5), exposing the peril of divided devotion. Deuteronomy 32:17 unmasks the essence of such acts: “They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known.”
The Verdict of the Fathers and the Reformers
The Church Fathers were unanimous. Tertullian called all idolatrous rites “commerce with demons.” Augustine declared in City of God that libations offered to any being apart from the Creator are homage to evil spirits masquerading as divine. The Reformers echoed this verdict.
Calvin warned that the human heart is a “perpetual factory of idols,” and the mingling of superstition with worship the death of pure religion. The Puritans insisted that every generation must tear down its own golden calves lest it perish as Israel did.
History records the missionaries who came to the Gold Coast, aflame with holy zeal to deliver souls from bondage. They contended against the very practices now being reintroduced under theological disguise; libation, polygamy, ancestral festivals, and idol veneration.
They proclaimed Christ as the sole Mediator between God and man, teaching converts to pray directly to the Father through Jesus Christ. For in Him alone, we have access to the throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16).
The Decay of a Prosperous Church
Yet as the Church in Ghana prospers materially, it decays spiritually. Pagan philosophies creep into sanctuaries clothed in Hebrew mysticism, Kabbalistic jargon, and pseudo-Christian rhetoric.
These are serpents coiled around the altar, whispering the same ancient lie: “You shall be as gods.” Pastor Obed’s teachings; if indeed the video is genuine; represent this rebellion revived, seducing the gullible and confusing the newborn in faith, turning the Gospel into a cocktail of mysticism and ancestral veneration.
The Apostle Paul foresaw this: “In the last days perilous times shall come… men will heap up teachers to satisfy their itching ears” (2 Timothy 4:3). John beheld spiritual Babylon, drunk with the wine of her fornication; the religion that mingles truth with idolatry (Revelation 17). We are living in those days.
A Call to Purity and Reformation
Let the Church be warned: idolatry is not cultural pride; it is spiritual treason. The libation cup offered to the spirits is a cup of demons (1 Corinthians 10:21). The name of Christ can not be invoked over ancestral altars. There is one God and one Mediator between God and men; the Man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5).
A Final Evangelistic Appeal
O Church of the Living God, return to your first love! The Bridegroom calls His bride to purity. The Gospel of Christ does not blend with ancestral smoke; it quenches it. The blood of Jesus is not one libation among many; it is the eternal offering, poured out once for all for the salvation of the world.
Let every believer cast down the idols of culture, superstition, and false doctrine. Let pastors renounce the doctrines of demons and preach Christ crucified, risen, and soon returning. Let the pulpits of Ghana thunder once more with the cry of the Reformers:
Sola Scriptura! Sola Fide! Solus Christus!
To those deceived by such teachings, the mercy of God still beckons. Christ calls; not in condemnation but in compassion:
“Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:17).
Bow your heart before Him. Forsake the spirits of the dead and cling to the Lord of life. Pray directly to the Father through His Son Jesus Christ, for He alone opens the way to heaven. The idols will crumble, the false prophets will fall, but Christ shall reign forevermore.
Let Ghana hear again the Word of the Lord:
“You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.”
Rev. Emmanuel Boachie, COUNTRY DIRECTOR, Awesome Bible College, PRESIDENT, Centre for Biblical-Historical Christianity Defence and HEADPASTOR, Souls’ Pasture Church: +233240375959/[email protected].
