Diaspora Hope Radio

06/09/2025

29/08/2025

*Take the yoke that binds unto life*
With Dr Jason Musyoka -ETReM

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls (Math 11:29).

In this text, Jesus uses a mix of vocabularies, drawn from agricultural, teaching and pastoral sectors. Therefore Jesus owns a yoke, He is a teacher and a shepherd. Unlike fallen men, none of these roles of the God-man are intended at self service.

His yoke is a yoke of life. The great teacher and shepherd does not employ military strategies, or wring his sheep’s necks demanding obedience, for these are acts of death. The Lord of life places His yoke gently on our wayward souls. He is a teacher whose instruction aims to guide the soul from spiritual bo***ge to a shepherd’s eternal stalls of felicity. What then is Christ’s yoke?

His yoke is His teachings. ‘learn from me’ He says. This invitation demands that we recognise that the teachings invented by men and demons (Cf math 15:9; 1 Tim 4:1), no matter how well intended they may seem, are yokes of death. They are cruel to the soul, because in reality they seek to guide the unsuspecting soul to hell.

The pathways advanced by the yokes of death are tethered on human wisdom and appeal to the human mind and senses. They are in opposition to the gospel of Christ,whether directly or indirectly. They present flowery and amusing gospel to already chained souls. Their voices and offers imitate the great good shepherd.

Thus they have a version of salvation in life death and the after life, which broadly follows the teachings of Christ, but when examined closely, they fall short of the eternal wisdom of God.

To the willful slaves of the gospel, false teachers are empty and hollow. Their warehouse is full of counterfeit goods.

While the yokes men and demons lead men to the gallows, the yoke of Christ leads the soul to eternal rest,-a place where all tears are wiped, death is banished, sorrow and crying are exterminated, forever (Rev 21:4).

Men are to choose which yoke they want for themselves. Those awakened to life, understand that in God’s wisdom, taking the yoke of Christ is where true freedom is found.

28/08/2025

C𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿...✍🏽
Today’s Devotion: Luke 20:34-36
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Sons of the resurrection.
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𝒞ℴ𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓊ℯ𝒹...

The angels enjoy God in His Holiness. They delight in His worship. They are never in dilemma on the worship of God or idols. They do not struggle with sin and its corruption-sleep, or pain, or sickness, or lusts of the flesh or fear of death. Their knowledge is lesser than God’s but far superior to human. They are all together spiritual.

Those who are redeemed, though they have the seed of the resurrection in them, are yet trapped in the body sin, -and all its decay. They are subject to the corruption of sin. But the glorious promise of being like angels is theirs. And it is as sure to come because He who created them lesser than angels is the same one from whom the promise to make them equal to angels come.

Though many may desire to be like angels, and even promise themselves that death is the only obstacle between them and angels, Jesus has not left that delusion unanswered.

The door to equality with angels is Christ Himself. And those who are redeemed, though they may carry the weight of their corruption here below, are marked as sons of the resurrection, they will become like angels to forever shine in the presence of their Father.

• 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 Dr.Jason Musyoka
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…𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻
𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 10:3

27/08/2025

C𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿...✍🏽
Today’s Devotion: Luke 20:34-36
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Sons of the resurrection.

Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. Luke 20:34-36

Jesus here addresses the Sadducees who like modern day atheists, did not believe in the resurrection, or angels, or spirits. The Sadducees were a little more closer to the truth of God than modern day Atheists and a little more further than modern day liberals. For unlike modern day atheists, the Sadducees believed in God, and in divine law. Like liberals they were pragmatic-placing a lot of value in the here and now. Except that liberals do believe in after life, although in terms different from Christ.

In a short period Jesus confronts two omissions of the doctrine of the Sadducees , -the resurrection of the dead, and existence of angels.

The promise of true followers of Christ is this: they will be raised again, and they will be made equal to angels.

It has pleased the creator to make man a little lower than the angels, in His creation order (Psalm 8:5).

But God has also determined that in His wisdom, the world will not remain corrupted forever. Humans will not remain rebellious forever. Decay and death will not remain masters of His creation forever. And the righteous will not remain lesser than the angels forever.

• 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 Dr.Jason Musyoka
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…𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻
𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 10:3

25/08/2025

C𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿...✍🏽
Today’s Devotion: 2 Cor 5:15
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Here then is the mission, the purpose, the objective of every person who has been redeemed by Christ: to live for Christ.

The true believer is first of all a former fugitive who has surrendered all manner of rebellion and opposition to Christ. Christ’s people are now his people. Christ’s commands are willingly obeyed. Christ’s mission to make disciples of all peoples, are also his mission.

The true believer does not live for selfish ambition-to make as much money as they could or accumulate as much power as is available. In the real sense -as we learn from the temptations of Jesus (Matth 4)- these pursuits of wealth and power are the devil’s mission. Those who are tempted with these external trappings plunge themselves into the opposition government of Christ.

They may have so much capital, but they are eternally bankrupt. They may seem rich and clothed in royalty but in a spiritual sense they are empty handed and naked.

Jesus warns us to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness-to have our permanent gaze outside of ourselves. Paul reminds us that if we have any evidence of being redeemed, we must live daily for somebody else. Our thoughts, words and actions are not random and meaningless, neither are they for our lives to become comfortable externally. They are received as orders from the one who died for us.

We are to obey His commands inwardly, and outwardly. To obey is to do what He tells us to do daily in terms of our conduct, and in terms of turning other rebellious minds and hearts to obedience of Christ our Lord.

• 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 Dr.Jason Musyoka
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…𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻
𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 10:3

22/08/2025

C𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿...✍🏽
Today’s Devotion: Math 28:18-20
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“Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.””

𝒞ℴ𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝓊ℯ𝒹...

In terms of the limit of our message (the content of our preaching) we are to preach only what Jesus has commanded. Nothing more, nothing less.

‘Everything He has commanded’ must be delivered to our audience. His teachings about salvation -that men must be born again, His teachings about sanctification/the inner life, His teachings about the final judgement and hell, about the love of God -all these we have been commanded to teach. A command is not a request or suggestion. It doesn’t take into account the opinion of the person who has been sent, or their timidity, or fears.

Then finally, we are to teach the things commanded by Christ, so they may be obeyed. They are not matters of entertainment or of debate. So we are not permitted or empowered to change the content or the method, because we want to please those who listen.

We are certainly not called to entertain those who hear us. They must be called to obedience of the gospel. That’s where our delegated authority starts and ends - to teach for the single purpose of obedience.

• 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 Dr.Jason Musyoka
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…𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻
𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 10:3