“We Live In Perilous Times, Believers Should Genuinely Intervene,” Says Nollywood Veteran Charles Okafor

By Frank Oshanugor

Christians and all lovers of God in Nigeria have been challenged to genuinely intervene in the escalating state of moral decadence, insecurity and criminality that currently pervades every nook and cranny of our society.

“We are in perilous times and not even President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration will save our nation from slipping into the destruction that stares the global community in the face as a result of abominable things in contemporary times.”

Speaking on the theme, “A new wave of revival in contemporary times,” on Saturday at the monthly dinner of Yaba Eminent Persons Chapter of Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship, a Nollywood Veteran and film maker, Mr. Charles Izuchukwu Okafor posited that the world has given a more deadly and destructive coloration to all manner of sin never witnessed in recent historical times.

According to him, sin has been given a new context, stressing that abominations of yesteryears have been taken to a higher level.

He added that people are now glamorizing sin and making it look like the new normal, pointing out that “we live in a time people are no longer thinking of the consequences of the evil s, they perpetrate.

We live in a time when a man takes pride to impregnate his own daughter.”

The Nollywood veteran decried the abominations that occur not only in the secular space but in the house of God.

He wondered why people are no longer ashame of deliberately committing sin of different magnitude.

The University of Port Harcourt graduate of Theatre Arts and a distinguished actor for years before he became born again, contended that the world is now in comatose and had therefore implored all lovers of God to assist in changing the narrative.

He declared that “God wants everyone of us in our little demographic space, to intervene genuinely by preaching the gospel of righteousness to everyone around irrespective of ones natural calling.

Giving testimony of how God finally brought him out of what he described as spiritual darkness after five attempts at declaring to serve God and eventual breach of such declarations before God at the sixth time won him over, Okafor revealed how spiritually “rotten” he was, prior to his becoming born again. He stressed that his life is now a testimony that God can change a deadly sinner to a saint if there is genuine intervention.

He gave some insight into the spiritual aberration that exists in Nollywood and expressed with mixed feelings of how some of his former colleagues had died in quick succession, with some of them not being believers in Jesus Christ.

He was however, happy that of recent, some of them invited to a session organized by Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship gave their life to God, just as he expressed hope that more conversion would soon take place.

As he x-rayed the realities of contemporary times, he charged all lovers of God to make themselves good examples for others to emulate. “We must be open scriptures on two legs wherever we go. Our lives should speak about who we are and what preach.

“We must be genuine kingdom influencers in the secular world. Making reference to Mark 15 vs 43-46, Okafor buttressed his position with the Biblical Joseph of Arimathea who used his influence as a rich man to secure the body of Christ from king Herod for proper burial.

Furthermore, he insisted that the new revival he is seeking should be practical in nature. Illustrating this with a Customs officer in Nigeria for instance, he contended that such an officer should not collect excess duties over and above what is statutorily stipulated.

He concluded by encouraging all lovers of God to diligently intervene in the life of people who are sinking deep in sin of any kind and bring back revival in their lives.

The monthly dinner which took place at Sabo area of Yaba Lagos was well attended by a cross section of personalities from different academic and professional background. One of such personalities was Prof. Oluwole Familoni, a former Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Lagos.