THEOLOGICAL REVIEW OF SEVEN DOORS BY FEMI ADEBAYO.
The film script is spiritually rich and theologically deep revealing that truly there are ancestral curses, covenants and consequences for every actions. Curses are real and they do not just happen without reasons. There are school of thoughts that draw their beliefs from the Scripture . The first school of thoughts believe that curses do not have a hold on Christians. Why? Jesus have been made a curse for them. As it is written in Galatians 3:13. Cursed is anyone that dies on tree, by dying on the cross, Jesus put an end to all ancestral curses or inherited curses. Just believe, curse have no way. They also base their belief on what Ezekiel said in ( Ezekiel 18:2) that every one shall bear the consequences of their sins and never shall the proverb be said again in Israel that the fathers have eaten sour grapes and teeth of the children have been set on edge. second school of thought believe curses can affect a Christian and all he needs to do is to pray his way out by standing on the works of Christ on the cross and God in his mercies will take it away.
Both school of thoughts are theologically correct but to discard that curses or negative covenants do not affect a Christian may be wrong because there are several testimonies from Christians who are living witnesses of how curses and negative covenants limit them till God in his mercies give them victories over them. Knowledge is very important, many people have perished because of knowledge. Seven doors shows that being good is not enough, the king have a good heart with wealth of exposure to change the lot of the town but the evils of his father’s house spoke against him. His real enemies were not the beaded chiefs who were corrupt but the evil of his household. Household demons are always waiting at the peak of a man’s achievement to challenge a man and if the man is not strong enough he may loose his life. There are sacrifices strong man will not ask from you until you reach certain heights. The reason why you have to intensify your spirituality as you climb the ladder of success in life. King Adedunjoye was prepared for the battles that lied ahead of him, he was fortified and initiated . Trouble began when he was asked to knock seven doors but he refused. The king didn’t know that thrones are preserved by mysteries . His ignorance cost him a son before he was told the reason behind the seven doors. He didn’t ask why he need to knock seven doors . He simply felt it was wrong and discarded it. This is similar to a Christian who didn’t believe there are curses or evil covenant. So many young lives have been wasted and cut short at prime because they do not know that they needed to fight over the curse of untimely death. Nothing just happened. A story was told of a warlord in Ibadan that do ripped babies in foetus of pregnant wives with sword as sacrifices to the gods for victory in battles. Do you think those innocent blood will not cry for vengeance over the children that come from the loins of that man. There was a man in city of Lagos in 70s that raped five daughters of his neighbours and the father of the children laid a curse on him that all his daughters shall experience all he did for his daughter. The man got married , he had five female daughters and they were all raped and impregnated by men that did not marry them.
The king asked the ifa priest a question. “ why did the gods choose to take vengeance during his own time? The king has forgotten that whatever his great grandfather did, he also did it in his loins. His great grandfather had a great share of the evil seed he sowed, to be bed ridden for over fifty years in pain was a great price for the evil he committed. He could not complete the payment of his satanic debt till death eventually came. The repayment was transferred to his unborn children. If you enjoy the good deeds of your fathers, it is not out of place if you have a share of their evil deeds too.Abraham paid a tithe to Mechizedech and the Scripture recorded that while he was paying the tithe, Levi a grand son was in his loin while he was paying the tithe. Abraham paid tithe, by virtue of that all his seed also paid tithe. Abraham made a mistake , he forgot to cut bird for sacrifice into halves and slept off in the process . On waking up, God told him that his generations will spend 400 years as slaves in a foreign land. Before you do evil remember your children will eat out of it and if you do good likewise, every seed that comes out of you will eat out of it. For every action there are consequences. Just like Sunny Ade sang in one of his songs, before you do evil think twice.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, the crown that the king was tired of is what another Prince wanted. A replica of what happened in the era of his great grandfather, where one engaged the other in a duel and killed the other. That is evil pattern , had the staff carrier successful in his quest the king would have died just like that. The good the king did years back saved his life. It takes death of another man to save a man’s life when his death has been perfected by evil people.Spiritual battles are multi facet just like onion layers. After knocking of seven doors , there was another hurdle to cross, that was Esusu, the man standing on the negative covenants his great father had with him to afflict his family and his kingdom. God is a respecter of covenants. Covenant is blood binding, in as much you carries the blood of the person that makes the Covenant, it is also binding on you. It takes the blood of Jesus and his mercies to take away evil covenants . During the duel between the king and Esusu spirit, he could not prevail until he called his ancestor, it is only a spirit that can defeat a spirit. You cannot defeat a spirit with flesh and blood. When the ancestral spirit of his father appeared, he didn’t engage Esusu in a fight, he only gave him what he needed to kill him and he utilised it well. Victory does not come without a fight. No peace without war. The path to peace in ilara was rough but the end was great.
A Christian had to wage spiritual warfare to overcome satanic curses and evil covenants. They are real, you cannot do the fighting of alone, invite Jesus to do the fighting for you by standing on what he completed on the cross to possess your freedom from the oppression of the devil. Knowledge is powerful, pray to know the mysteries surrounding your birth, lineage and town . Do a comprehensive spiritual mapping of your lineage and it will give you background information that will help you to wage spiritual warfare effectively. The film is secular but full of lessons for believers and unbelievers. The producer of the film has done greatly and have conveyed deep spiritual truths that are able to transform lives.
©️ Abolanle Oladipupo
17/12/2024
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