Don’t kill your enemies-Bishop Festo Kivengere advises

By Peter Sabiiti

In his preaching sessions that were largely on the theme of love and forgiveness, the late Bishop Festo Kivengere used to say, “Never seek to kill your perceived enemy. Because the day you kill him, four other enemies are born. When you kill the four, sixteen are born. And so on … So will you kill the whole world? And the law of Moses says, Thou shall not kill!”.

No one knows their day. Not even doctors can make a perfect prediction! Who remembers the other Libyan man who was accused of masterminding the Lockerbie bombing and was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the UK? He got cancer after many years in prison and it advanced to the last stage.

The best British doctors predicted that he was going to die in two weeks and UK government used their “prerogative of mercy” to fool the world that they were good people and released him hoping he was going to die soon. He came back to Libya but did not die in two weeks.

A month, two months, three months, he was still alive and UK planned to arrest him again and take to jail in UK. He died many months later to the chagrin of the UK.

Today, we celebrate the death of Jesus Christ. It’s the only death that deserves to be celebrated because it’s about someone who was betrayed, arrested, tried in a kangaroo court and convicted to death. He was convicted of what I did, not what he did. He is the only one who died on my behalf. No other human being will die on my behalf; neither will I die on anybody’s.

You shoot or poison someone to death today when he was to die tomorrow of natural causes. U’ve added the sin of murder on your life’s CV. The only difference between his death and your death is time.

A week, or a month or years later, you die and find him waiting for you with the full video of how you masterminded his murder. The video will have captured what you said, did and where you went as well as what was at the back of your mind.

This person is now the usher to the dining room where the Lord is dining with the saints and has been given powers to either let you in or hand you over to the devils henchmen. What will you tell him? That “Forgive me!”? But forgiveness can only be asked for when you are still on earth! You people!…