𝗪hen not his pastor but he is to blame for his death ⚰

By Sylvester Udemezue

(A). Real Life Questions To Udems on 09 April 2025:

“Good morning, sir. It’s about a case where a person, instead of taking a person to the hospital, he took the person to the church and the person died in the Church after 46 days. The persons that took the deceased to the church are in Custody and the Pastor. The Pastor’s children are willing to pay for compensation while others are not ready to meet up to the demands of the family. My question is, sir, is it possible”_

(B) Reality Answer By Udems:

1. The person (now deceased) who asked (that’s, if he asked) to be taken to a Pastor instead of to a Hospital or to a Medical Doctor, was a FOOLISH, SENSELESS MAN, died a FOOLISH death.
2. The person who took the sick person (now deceased) to a Pastor instead of to a Hospital or to a Medical Doctor, is a FOOLISH, SENSELESS MAN.
3. The Pastor is innocent if all he was doing for the 46 days was praying for the sick man, and nothing more; and provided the Pastor did not force the sick man to submit to the prayer nor did he hold the sick person against his will or against the will of his relatives or the person who brought sick person to the innocent Pastor.
4. When one took ill and one voluntarily proceeded to a Pastor instead of to a Hospital, one couldn’t have expected the Pastor to do more than pray because the Church is a House of prayer but not a medical centre; one submitted oneself for prayers not for medical care, and if one dies in the process, i. e., while being prayed for according to one’s own wish, the Pastor has no blame. The principle of Volenti Non Fit Injuria applies here. Even the Holy Book of the Christians has warned of how a fool would always reap the fruit of his own foolish ways. Meanwhile, the statement “that “a man is legally accountable for the reasonable consequences of his own deliberate actions” is a fundamental principle of legal accountability, meaning individuals are legally responsible for all foreseeable outcomes stemming from their intentional actions.
5. REALITY is that a person who upon taking ill, went to a Pastor for prayers, instead of to a Doctor for medical care, had indeed gone to pray for his own death and not to work or care to live. Let’s therefore be careful to not ignore REALITY because the one who successfully ignores REALITY can’t successfully escape the consequences of ignoring REALITY. ꓄hus as is said in Proverbs 5:23, the deceased was “led astray by [his] own great folly”. Proverbs 14:12, on its part, says “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death”. See finally Proverbs 19:3 which tells us of how “A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD”.
6. FINAL ADVICE: Instead of holding the innocent Pastor captive, let him free while you go and bury and mourn the person who had, while alive, voluntarily chosen his own death instead of to live in that, in illhealth, he went to his pastor instead of to his Doctor or to a Hospital.
7. LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE versus LEARNING BY OBSERVATION: Some deaths, although tragic, can serve as powerful lessons for the living, prompting reflection on life’s values and especially priorities. Hence the saying that “Death is for the living and not for the dead so much”. The maxim, “Ut Est Rerum Omnium Magister Usus” (translated, Self-experience Is The Best Teacher) is often attributed to Julius Caesar in De Bello Civili: the commentaries of the Civil War. The phrase has become a common saying regarding learning and leadership. Many believe that it means you will learn more from things that happen to you in real life (self-experience) than you will from hearing about, reading about or studying about, things that happen to other people (other people’s experience). I respectfully disagree with this! Experience is a good teacher only on very few occasions. Learning by observation is better than learning by harsh (sometimes harrowing) self-experience. Observation is thus a better teacher; we learn more and happily from the experiences of others. One does not have to throw oneself on a highway to be run over by a fast-moving car before one learns that vehicles could kill, because one may not even live to tell the story. Accordingly, man learns better and happier by observation, than by experience. Indeed, nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life. Thus, to acquire true knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Just sit back and observe smartly and you’d learn more in that way. The lesson here is simple: when you are ill, go to your doctor or hospital and let your Pastor come there to pray for you because Doctors/Hospitals care, but only God heals. Prayer is a powerful spiritual force and something that God wants His people to do. Time spent in prayer is never wasted; fervent prayers produce phenomenal results. Prayer delights God’s ear, melts His heart, and opens His hand. God doesn’t deny a praying soul because prayer is the nearest approach to God, the highest enjoyment of Him that we are capable of, and the link that connects us with God. Thus, although prayer positively influences God, yet prayer itself without WORK is dead ab initio because until we work, nothing works in REALITY.
8. May the gentle soul of the deceased person rest in peace. Amen 🙏.
   Respectfully,
   §¢µð𝓮̂𝓶𝓮̂𝔃µ𝓮̂
   Sylvester Udemezue (udems).
   Legal Practitioner, Law Teacher, and the Proctor of The Reality Ministry of Truth, Law and Justice (TRM)
   08021365545
   [email protected].
   (09 April 2025)