Celebrity: A Mask: God Loves You, #3

By Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Naaman is a hardworking loyal general of the royal army of Assyria who rose to prominence and won the admiration and respect of both his subordinates and officers above him. His military prowess and achievements were second to none. Money, fame, honour, and women were at his beck and call.

For the common man, Naaman is an example of all that a person would wish for—having attained the pinnacle of success and possessing all that one could desire. Unfortunately, all this seeming celebrity of Naaman was a mask and no one knows it! What was he covering up?

Celebrity: A Mask is a passionate dissection of the double life of this top-ranking statesman. The book provides the antidote to any and every mask. Through it, you will be unmasked, come to terms with reality, and then get the indispensable help and deliverance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books4revival
• Release date: Dec 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781311873057

Zacharias Tanee Fomum

For FREE books from Zacharias Tanee Fomum: https://books.bookfunnel.com/ztf-free-ebooks. Professor Zacharias Tanee FOMUM was a man of uncommon spirituality, a leading voice for revival, a workaholic, a prophet-teacher, and a world-shaping spiritual genius. He was a bestselling Christian author (with over 350 books, over 10 million copies in circulation in over 100 languages) and a professor of Organic Chemistry (with over 160 published scientific works of high distinction (earning him the award of a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham, Great Britain). His books and the millions of people he influenced in more than 40 years of Christian ministry continue to impact the world with the Gospel today. He founded Christian Missionary Fellowship International (CMFI), a missionary movement that has planted churches in more than 120 nations on all continents. He believed in a life of simplicity and with the support and dedication of his wife and their seven children, his all—time, money, heart, and soul— was dedicated to spreading the Gospel. He carried out exploits for God through the making of disciples for Christ, planting of churches, building spiritual leaders according to the model of the Bible, and serving the body of Christ, especially as a teacher on prayer. Learn more and read exclusive excerpts at: https://ztfomum.org

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Celebrity

CELEBRITY

a Mask

GOD LOVES YOU

BOOK 3

ZACHARIAS TANEE FOMUM

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CONTENTS

Preface

1. General Naaman

(2 Kings 5:1-19)

2. General Naaman The Leper

3. You Too Are a Leper Today!

4. A Closer Look at You as a Sinner

5. A Closer Look at Your Own Heart

6. Own up That You Are What You Are

7. The Mask

8. Pride is a Mask

9. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—1

Celebrity: A Mask

10. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—2

Counterfeit Solutions

11. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—3

Confronting the Choices

12. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—4

13. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—5

The Seven Dips into The Jordan

14. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—6

What The Lord God Does in Those Who Come to The Lord Jesus Christ

15. Naaman and the Way to Health and Life—7

What a Person Does After The Lord God Has Changed Him

Back Matters

PREFACE

This book, Celebrity a Mask, is the last book that Professor Fomum wrote with his own hand, after almost 56 years in the faith and 35 years of ministry both in Cameroon and abroad.

Using the example of General Naaman in the Bible who was hiding his leprosy and covering it up with the mask of military success, money, honour, celebrity and the like, the author lays emphasis on the fact that most people wear a mask. In fact, many people hide their condition by wearing the mask of money, women, celebrity, etc., whereas their hearts are rotten with sin.

A mask is something that a person wears to deceive or to cloud reality.

A mask is something that a person wears for fear that people may know who he or she really is.

As a mature presentation of the Gospel, this book captures the burden for the souls of men that the author had towards the end of his life.

Read it. Not only will you discover which masks you are wearing, but you will meet Jesus-Christ, the Lord and Saviour, who will take away your masks, and give you salvation of the soul and healing of the body.

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GENERAL NAAMAN

(2 Kings 5:1-19)

Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier but he had leprosy. Now bands from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel and she served Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy. Naaman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. By all means, go, the king of Aram replied. I will send a letter to the king of Israel. So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten sets of clothing. The letter that he took to the king of Israel read: With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you so that you may cure him of his leprosy. As soon as the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his robes and said, Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me! When Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his robes, he sent him this message: Why have you torn your robes? Make the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naaman went with his horses and chariots and stopped at the door of Elisha’s house. Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed. But Naaman went away angry and said, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than any of the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed? So he turned and went off in a rage. Naaman’s servant went to him and said, My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed? So he went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, as the man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like that of a young boy. Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God. He stood before him and said, Now I know that there is no God in all the world except in Israel. Please accept now a gift from your servant. The prophet answered, As surely as the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will not accept a thing. And even though he urged him, he refused. If you will not, said Naaman, "please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but to the Lord. But may the Lord forgive your servant for this