YOU DON’T SURVIVE BECAUSE YOU ARE CAREFUL; YOU SURVIVE BECAUSE THERE IS SOMEBODY TAKING CARE OF YOU.
GOD BROUGHT YOU THUS FAR, DO YOU THINK HE IS ABOUT TO ABANDON YOU?
“DADDY, LET GOD CARRY YOU” WAS THE TEXT I RECEIVED FROM ONE OF MY DAUGHTERS WHEN I WAS IN THE SADDEST PERIOD OF MY LIFE WITH SO MANY QUESTIONS AND THAT PUT AN END TO EVERY PROBLEM AND SORROW.
IF YOU MAKE YOURSELF CARRIABLE, THE LORD WILL CARRY YOU!
-Pastor E A Adeboye at the 70th Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God “Perfect Jubliee”|| Day Two|| Evening Session|| 8th August 2022.
One of the signs of genuine salvation that you will notice in a child is what you can call complete surrender. Children are easy to carry, the reason why many of us cannot be carried is because we are already too big (Mark 10:13-16). When they brought children to Jesus and some people were trying to say, “Hey, don’t being them near.” Immediately, Jesus jumped to their defence.
- I have good news for somebody tonight; because you’re going to surrender completely to Jesus Christ, He will begin to carry you!
Some of us don’t know the meaning of that; the elders have a saying, it is the child that lifts up his hands that can be carried, it is the child that will say, “Hey, I’m ready to be carried and it is the child that God carries that He blesses. Church Gist. When God carries you, He carries all your burden with you. I’m sure you’ve heard the story of somebody who was having a big load on his head and then he saw a car driving by and he asked for a lift and the driver obliged him and he entered into the car and he still carried his load on his head right inside the car. Why are you still carrying your load? The driver asked. The man said, “You’ve done enough carrying me. The driver said, “If I am carrying you, I am also carrying your load.”
- From this hour onward, the Lord will carry you!
If you make yourself carriable. I’ve told you this, some of you have heard it before, when I was in the saddest period of my life with so many questions and I know that even in my deep sorrow, some people were still laughing at me, I got a text from one of my daughters, all she sent was; “Daddy, let God carry you” and that put an end to every problem. Church Gist. It ended my sorrows, it renewed my faith. I am going to ask you a question; How many of you wants God to carry you?
Let me hear you shout hallelujah to Him!
That means, you have to surrender to the One who wants to carry you. If you want to carry a child and the child says no, then leave the child alone.
Another evidence of genuine salvation is complete reliance on God (Matthew 6:25-34). It says, take no thought, don’t worry; take no thought, what am I going to eat? What am I going to drink? How am I going to survive? You don’t survive because you are careful; you survive because there is somebody taking care of you. Church Gist. God brought you thus far and He has not told you He’s tired; He made a promise, He said from your mother’s womb, I have been carrying you. If He wasn’t there when you were in your mother’s womb, you will be stillbirth. He brought you this far, do you think He is about to abandon you?
How many of you believe you are going to end well?
How many of you believe that your tomorrow will be all right?
Let me hear you shout Hallelujah!
“Oh Daddy, maybe you don’t know what is going on outside; there are terrorists here, there are bandits there, some people are planning to come and bomb my state…” Is God on holidays? I think it was yesterday I was asking the workers, are you alive today because you took good care during the pandemic? Is that why you are still alive? I told them and said, throughout the period, I never saw a single fellow wearing a mask in Ifewara, that is my village. I never saw one and I went home several times and you know what? Not a single one of them died. Who took care?
God. If you believe that God is going to take care of you for the rest of your life, wave your hands to Him and shout Hallelujah!
So, that brings me towards the conclusion of the message: when you got born again, you were like a baby, you praised God like a baby, danced like a baby, prayed like a baby and you know what? In those early days, almost before you stop praying, the answer will come. You are having testimony almost every day; almost per second, per second. Why? Because you were a baby, before a baby cries, the mother has come running. Church Gist. But then, you began to grow. So I want to say, what are the signs of backsliding? How do you know you are backsliding? How do we know that your love is no longer like that of the beginning? Jesus wrote to a church, “Oh you are doing great work. You’ve done this, you’ve done that. But I have one thing against you, you have left your first love. Things are no longer as they used to be.” What are some of the signs that you have become lukewarm, that you are no longer a baby in the sight of God?
1). You worry about many things. A child never worries, it doesn’t matter what is happening; when it is time to sleep, the child is fast asleep (John 14:1). Are you worrying now? You need a jubilee.
2). Another sign is that, some people offended you, you’ve forgiven them only you have not forgotten. At least you pretend that you have forgiven them, until the next time they do something and you say, “Hey, that’s what you did 7 years ago and I forgave you.” Church Gist. You begin to harbor bitterness. You will never find that in a child, you see two children playing and then you hear a cry, you go there and say, “What is the problem?”
Response: he took my toy, I am not going to play with him anymore.
What happens two minutes later? They are already playing again, they’ve forgotten.
As a new baby in Christ, they will be no bitterness in you (Hebrews 12:15).
3). Your faith is now wavering; you are beginning to have doubts. Children never know what is called doubt, their faith in their parents never waver. Like I shared with the pastors during the Minister’s Conference, someone said, when you throw up a child, the child will be laughing, enjoying the throwing up. Why? Church Gist. Because the child is sure you will catch him; “Throw me up, throw me higher…” But then, even though you have read, “Forever Oh Lord, thy Word is settled,” you are beginning to say, well, maybe, perhaps…. That is a sign of backsliding. If He says it, He will do it. He is not a man that He should lie.
“Ehen, but I have been waiting for some time.”
He is the Almighty God, He knows the end from the beginning. When He said, “say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him.” That is settled. It means, it doesn’t matter what is happening, if you are His baby, your tomorrow will be alright.
James 1:57
You want wisdom, ask God. He will give you liberally. But when you are asking, don’t waver; ask Him in faith, believe Him, don’t doubt. “I have come to Convention before and I came trusting God for one thing or the other, up till now, He hasn’t done it.” Are you dead yet? Daddy is on His throne. He made a promise to Abraham, He didn’t fulfill the promise until 25 years later, but He is still God and in this particular Convention, in the name that is above every other name, all your prayers will be answered by fire!
4). Hypocrisy, when you begin to pretend; you are one thing, you pretend to be another. You come to the meeting, it is time to praise God, you are singing the choruses correctly, but you are not even paying attention to the words anymore and as far as God is concerned (Isaiah 29:13-15), God says if you draw near Me with your mouth and your heart is far from Me, then you are asking for trouble.
We know the choruses offhand, we just sing it and it flows out of our mouth, but it doesn’t come from our hearts. Some of us, we’ve already learnt the language of a Christian, but the real Christianity is no longer in us.
5). Lying: children don’t lie, they don’t. I am sure you’ve heard, maybe it’s true story or a joke, that somebody came to collect house rent and the mother saw the Landlord coming, before the Landlord could see her, she told her daughter; “Go and tell him that I am not in” and the daughter went to the Landlord and said, “My mother asked me to tell that she is not in.”
Revelation 22:15 made it clear that all liars will be outside the Kingdom of Heaven; all liars, whether the lies are white or black or what we call business lies. Just check, “Am I where I used to be when I got born again, when I was a baby in Christ? Do I wake up in the morning when I first got born again with a song of praise coming out of my mouth? Church Gist. Joy erupted in me? Did I rely completely on God as I used to do when I got born again? Am I now living in fear? Do I have doubts as to my future? Am I beginning to put in a just little bit of lies here and there?
Then you need a jubilee, you need a restoration, you need a new beginning and that jubilee can begin today. So, I am appealing first and foremost to all those who have not yet surrender their lives to Jesus Christ, come and do so now. When a man is in Christ, he’s a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. You can have your restoration tonight, you can have a new beginning tonight if you come to Him, this time genuinely seeking for salvation.
I am not going to make an altar call for backsliders, if I do that, there won’t be enough space here. But if you check yourself and you find out that things are not the same as when I first gave my life to Jesus Christ; where you are, you will cry unto God for forgiveness, for restoration, for an opportunity to start afresh. But for those of you who want to give your life to Jesus Christ, I am going to court from 1 to 10. You have to hurry up to come because I will be willing to join my faith with yours, that tonight, you will get genuine salvation.
(Altar Call)
PRAYERS:
Jeremiah 29:10
- Father, visit me tonight; let me have my own jubilee tonight.
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