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Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Going Deeper: The Bible and Theology Hour

By Anthony:

Our radio program is called Going Deeper: The Bible and Theology Hour. It is going really well. It is one of the most fulfilling parts of my ministry right now. I work with a great team of people who love the Lord, are great at what they do, and are passionate evangelists. We all go to the same local church here in Soroti. I trained Simon over the past few months on how to create a website and edit audio files. Through his hard work, we now have our radio program website up! You can download previous radio show recordings there. Check it out - Going Deeper. We are working on raising up other teachers as well. We might also translate the recordings into other languages to be downloaded.

In this post, I'd like to share some more testimonies from this year. The first section is written by Moses Adoput, one of our translators on the program. I changed the names in the testimonies he shared.

"Praise be to God the Almighty for the gift of his Son Jesus Christ and all that He has done especially for the Going Deeper programme. Through it many souls have been reached and changed especially during the time of the covid-19 lockdown when most people had no access to public worship places. From the time the programme began, I have interacted with a lot of listeners who could not hide their joy because of the powerful and inspirational messages taught in it. Here are a few encounters:

In the month of August, after the programme on one Saturday evening, a young lady, Margaret, beeped my phone [number] which we had given to the listeners on the radio. I called back and she was deeply sorrowful about how her family (mother and father) were leading their lives. She was from Katakwi - east of Soroti District. Her father was a drunkard and her mother was just religious who did not know or mind about salvation. Even Margaret herself was just religious and did not know what salvation was. I asked her if she could receive Jesus as her personal savior. She accepted and so I led her to Christ. I further talked to her mother who also accepted Jesus and they asked for the Ateso Bible. I got for them a new Bible and the whole family was joyous for all that had happened. They thanked Rev. Anthony too for his endeavors in teaching the Word of God.

Later in that very month of August, a certain soldier from Soroti town called just after the radio program. He was burdened with problems of persecution, feeling like he had bad luck, and he asked for spiritual help. That month Rev. Anthony was handling a series of teachings on prayer. The soldier requested to be prayed for but he had not received Jesus yet. I led him to salvation and kept on encouraging him to strive more and more in his prayer life. He appreciated God for the good work through Rev. Anthony and the team.

In the month of September, an elderly woman called from Bukedia district. She had listened to the series on prayer. She wanted us to pray for her son Alex who had challenges in his family. Alex was always tormented by evil spirits. So the mother asked that I call him and gave me his number. I later called him and led him to Christ and I was overwhelmed by how God had connected us to him. Alex promised to come and meet the team personally when he gets some time off of his work as he is a policeman in Karamoja region.

There are more great testimonies I always receive from listeners in various places and they always thank the Lord for the powerful and inspirational topics that Rev. Anthony and the team handle on the Radio. Thanks to God for the Going Deeper Radio Program."


Here are some other miscellaneous testimonies. For confidentiality, I've removed the names.

One listener talked to Simon on our radio team over the phone after my teaching. He was from the cult called Isa Masiya, (‘Isa the Messiah’). This is a common cult in Uganda. They believe that salvation is found in Isa, and not in the name of Jesus. Isa is the Arabic translation of Jesus but these people are not Muslims. Simon talked through what we had been teaching on the radio and then answered this man’s questions related to the cult’s beliefs versus what the Bible teaches. In the end, the man was convinced that what the Bible says about Jesus is true, and he prayed over the phone with Simon to believe in Jesus as his savior.

From a pastor I taught at Pentecostal Theological College in 2009 – “Hi Rev. Praise be to God. Thank you for your program at Etop radio. Your teaching has helped me and some Christians that listen. One day you preached about suffering and one of my church members, a teacher who lost his job in this period of covid-19, he told me that he was about to backslide (backsliding means falling away from Christ and leaving the Church) because of the storms (suffering in his life), but when you explained the causes of suffering and that sometimes God allows suffering in our lives, from that day he keeps time for your messages. Please keep it up and we build God’s kingdom. May God bless you 1cor.15:58.”

From a pastor – 
The teaching on God’s providence has encouraged me to have hope of life during this pandemic. Since God knew about it and is in control over it. The teaching on prayer, I learnt to have my secret times of prayer as Christ our Lord did. It was his lifestyle.”

From a woman - 
Praise God Rev. May God bless you. Your teachings have uplifted me a lot. I can’t wait for the next series on “Prayer.” Today’s summary teaching (on God’s providence) was wonderful. I know what it means to wait for the morning wishing I could rush the time for it to come.”

From a young man - 
He said he has learned so much about suffering in the Christian life and about prayer. He learned from our teachings about what lament prayers are, and he has started to also pray that way. It has really helped him. This also gave him the motivation to make an action plan of reading through the whole book of Psalms which he has now done.

From a pastor - 
Hello Rev! I praise God so much for you. I love your teachings because its scripture based, of meat and bones that have marrow.” 

From a Christian –
Thank you so much dear pastors. May God bless you all. The word has really inspired my life. We give him all the glory for what happens. Continue to build us spiritually.”

A retired bishop –
He called and said he really appreciated learning about God’s providence. It was the first time he heard good teaching about it and he plans to go out and preach about it to others in his churches.

From a woman –
She called and said our program has changed her family already. Her husband was an alcoholic, and now he has stopped drinking. He continues to listen to our program and she is waiting for him to get saved.

9 comments:

  1. What a blessing to receive feedback that God is using you in practical, important ways in the lives of those who hear your radio program!

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  2. isa masiyah is the original name of our lord i bet you make research because you are in uganda go to the ugandan museam and search for the original first bible to the then king of Buganda Mwanga check and see the name if it is jesus or yesu I will convert to christanity but if it is ISA MASIYA then you have found the right path

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    1. Welcome, and thank you for the question. I have done this research and even taught about it on the radio recently. Let me direct you to the recordings of that program in case you are interested to hear what I said about it. I welcome you to listen and ask me any question or challenge me. Thank you!

      https://gdeeper.blogspot.com/2022/02/recordings.html

      That is the link for the recordings on our radio website. If you download the one under the Church History series, from May 21st, 2022, called False Teaching of Montanism, at the beginning of that recording I take time to teach about the Isa Masiya Bible. Here is a direct link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dy2g9HBTAzcNdZ7Tye-5BuivWCpF1gnm/view?usp=sharing

      It might also help you to know more about how the Bible was put together, thousands of years before the first Bible in Luganda. Please listen to the recordings from the church history series:
      February 19th, 2022 - The Forming of the Old Testament - Anthony
      February 26th, 2022 - The Forming of the New Testament - Anthony
      April 23rd, 2022 - The Inspiration of the Bible - Anthony
      April 30th, 2022 - Bible Translations and Versions - Anthony

      Thank you again for listening. God bless you

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    2. I know of one thing and that is the fact that satan from the existence of our Lord feared the name isa masiya. Now if you say isa means jesus then you are mistaken. Many scriptures in the big prophesize about the coming of our names in order to get rid of the original names. Isa is the true name of the son of God. Don't ne manipulated.

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  3. Hello this is Mutenyi Richard from Bududa but currently in busia. Please help and go deeper about the name Isa masiya , I hear that Jesus Christ is the same as Isa masiya according to Christopher kaswaburi teachings.thx

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    1. Hello Mutenyi, thank you for the comment. Are you a listener on our radio program?

      I am not an expert on Isa Masiya. But the research I have done I have shared in these recordings from our radio website -

      https://gdeeper.blogspot.com/2022/02/recordings.html

      That is the link for the recordings on our radio website. If you download the one under the Church History series, from May 21st, 2022, called False Teaching of Montanism, at the beginning of that recording I take time to teach about the Isa Masiya Bible. Here is a direct link - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dy2g9HBTAzcNdZ7Tye-5BuivWCpF1gnm/view?usp=sharing

      It might also help you to know more about how the Bible was put together, thousands of years before the first Bible in Luganda. Please listen to the recordings from the church history series:
      February 19th, 2022 - The Forming of the Old Testament - Anthony
      February 26th, 2022 - The Forming of the New Testament - Anthony
      April 23rd, 2022 - The Inspiration of the Bible - Anthony
      April 30th, 2022 - Bible Translations and Versions - Anthony

      Thank you again for listening. God bless you

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  4. I came across this false whites teaching. Disagreeing about Isamasiya as the truth name of the son of God. I would definitely refer him to read Philippians chapter 2-18 . Remember that scripture says he gave him a name which is above names. And Every knees, tangue must worship,and confess Even the angles from heavenand people down to the earth and beneath the earth that Isamasiya is the son of God. Yes the interpretation and literation of the gospel is paramount to the study for biblical understanding, However it doesn't give us permission to alterate or change the name of the son of God in different languages. Because the name is aspecial one which was brought by the Angel not an European like him. Who can't even understand that aname is anoun and can't be changed. I heard him lying the world that Yesu christo is ateso name. But to his information the whole continet of Africa uses Yesu Christo while Europe uses Jesus Christ. This gives us apoint of view that, these two names were invented by the Lord's greatest enemies right from reign of the bablonian kingdom in early 30 AD. The issue of a name is very critical in matters regarding Faith or Gods salvation., because that's where the whole point of salvation lies. In the whole world history, i have never seen people's name changed based on tribes or calor. If the whole world is able to mention Mohammed without altering or changing.. How comes the name of th son of God who is more powerful than Mohammed cant be maintained in its original context?Because there is no language or tangue which would have failed to mentioned the name of the son of God in its original form. If it was Iesus, Jesus or Yesu we would still be able to pronounce like the way Moslem do. So by the fact that Christian are confused i can't believe in either Jesus or Yesu because these are two different names. One for the African s and the other for Europeans.. Remember salvation started in Israel not Europe or American .We have more evidence to prove that Isamasiya is the the true name of the son of God. I have seen the copies of the bible in different languages buts still maintain the name isamasiya.. The keshwahili Bible of 1823 Still writen in kiswahilli but maintains the name isamasiya .The English bible of God1883.the luganda version of 1887,1902 and many others so u cant lie that its language differences. most of this Bibles were printed by learnt people like Charles bate. Vivian Riddler among others who had permission to print the first Bible edition in earlier 30sAd .I refer u to Oxford university where these copies are kept.For more research..

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    1. Thank you for your comment. It sounds like you are saying that God's name never changes and it should be pronounced the same way in every culture and language. If that is true, why are you using isamasiya? Why are you not using the name of Jesus at least in the Hebrew language he was born into, or the Greek language that the New Testament was written in? Or do you believe that Isamasiya is the correct Hebrew word of our Savior's name?

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