YOU CAN’T GET ME ON A FLIGHT ON SUNDAY, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE OUR OWN PLANE.
YOUNG PEOPLE, YOU ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO ONLINE WORSHIP. DON’T BE DECEIVED.
-Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
Enough is Enough Service
*Sunday: no way. I must locate a church in that place and worship there.
*Online Service is a trap of the devil to keep you from going from strength to strength.
*The problem of sin is not from without, it is from within. If sin came by thoughts, it can only go by rethinking, not emotions.
*If sin is not aborted, it will result into death.
*Abort the thought, you have aborted the sin.
*If sin has held you, abort that sin through a rethinking process, then you have aborted death.
COST OF UNGODLINESS
Let me show you some of the cost of ungodliness, maybe that will motivate you to go for it.
What is the cost? The reason you don’t take acid as water is because you know the cost. They say, “this is sulphuric acid concentrated.” Even if you didn’t go to school, the moment you see the alphabet, you will say, “this is not water”, so you stay off.
Have you ever noticed that mad people don’t go into electrical installations? They see a picture there: skull. The mad man says, ‘No, that is not where I am going.’ The mad man obeyed the sign without anybody talking to him, “that this is an electrical station, don’t go there.” He sees it: no way. I saw a mad man one day, on my way to Lagos, at Ojuore, he was walking majestically in the middle of the road. Then a trailer was coming, when the trailer revved, the mad man jumped. Mad man knows death and believers claim not to know what kills. Church Gist. That is not fair.
Believers now pretend not to know what will deliver them from heaven. That is not fair!
- UNGODLINESS STIRS SHAME AND REPROACH
Proverbs 14:34
You saw how Samson ended – Judges 16:23-25. He slept on the knees of Delilah, they shaved his hair, he lost his strength and they plucked out his two eyes and asked him to display his strength to them. He began to entertain his enemies, in his blinded state.
It stirs shame and reproach. - IT BLOCKS ACCESS TO DIVINE FAVOUR
Psalm 5:12
It blocks access to favour. Joseph had favour in Potiphar’s house as a slave, without any referees – Genesis 39:3. No address. That he could run away, didn’t even come to their mind, he handed over everything to him by favour. He got to the Prison, which should be a maximum prison, but favour – Genesis 39:21.
Ungodliness blocks access to favour. - IT STIRS FEAR AND DREAD
Proverbs 28:1
“Adam, Adam, where art thou?” I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid
“Have you eaten the fruit?” It is not me, it is Eve
“Okay, both you and Eve, you will explain but not now. Get thee out of my sight, get back to the wilderness. Go and till the ground. Everything is too free for you.”
Fear. And the things you fear, you become a victim of. Everybody is a victim of his fear – Job 3:24-25. Fear always breeds misfortune. You saw the weight of misfortune that visited Job. Fear!
Listen very carefully: I am bringing you some very great news. The reason they run various tests when one is sick is to identify the root cause. Every sin has its roots in your thoughts.
As a man thinks in his heart, not in his brain, so is he – Proverbs 23:7
Proverbs 4:23
Mark 7:18-23
The problem of sin is not from without, it is from within. Understand this. So if it came by thoughts, it can only go by rethinking, not emotions. Thinking brought it, only rethinking can get it out. That is very simple to grab if you look at the story of the prodigal son.
Luke 15:12
He didn’t cry, he didn’t weep, he didn’t hit his head, he came to himself: wait a minute, I brought myself here, it is by stubbornness that brought me here, it is my arrogance that brought me here, nobody pushed me, I came here by myself. My father didn’t look like somebody that would die now, so I said, “give me my inheritance. I can’t wait. I have been waiting, you are looking younger. I can’t wait, give me my own.” I brought myself here.” You are the only one that can bring yourself back. He came to himself and engaged in a rethinking, that is what they call repentance. A rethink. It is not emotion.
You brought yourself there, rethink your way out – 1 Corinthians 10:13
Engage in a rethinking your way out. Rethink your way out of that dungeon.
You know how to do it:
Questions: Is this thing leading to what I am looking for?
Answer: It is not.
Question: Where is the wisdom?
Question: Does this one secure eternity?
Answer: So what am I jumping around for?
Question: Does this act hold a future for me? Am I a dummy? No; Should I stay there? No. I am going back, I am going back to my Father, you have dealt with me enough.
The root cause of every sin after one is saved is the thought. Church Gist.
If sin is not aborted, it will result into death. So abort the thought, you have aborted the sin.
If sin has held you, abort that sin through a rethinking process, then you have aborted death.
It is not 100 years of fasting, satan is not as strong as you are making him look like. Where was satan when that man said, “I am going back.” Was he (satan) on vacation? He never said, “satan, pushed him out.” No I came out. I am now back to myself, I was out of my mind, my mind is back, “O boy, you want to die like this. No. I am going back.”
-There are many people going back finally today, that is you are getting out of that dungeon finally today by a simple process of rethinking.
“All things are lawful for me but not all things are expedient”: They look right but are they value adding?
Every act in our lives is either adding value or eroding value from it, it never leaves us neutral.
Is this a value adding behaviour? So why am I investing in it.
We all know that sanctification is the will of God and when you pray about the will of God, He hears you. All you have to do is take responsibility and rethink your way back to dignity – 1 Thessalonians 4:3
“This is THE will of God”: it is not a will, it is the will. Sir, sanctification is the will of God for the believer.
There is always what we must do to find our way out of filthiness – Ecclesiastes 10:18
He said, “let him that stole, steal no more. Let him work with his hand”- Ephesians 4:28.
If you are not working, you will end up stealing.
If you are not occupied in right things, wrong things will occupy us. If you don’t occupy with the right thoughts, wrong thoughts will arrest you.
Therefore, He said, “this is my thought pattern for you”: Philippians 4:8
If you check your thoughts and it doesn’t fall into any of those classes, trash it.
Is that lovely? No, it is hatefully.
“….think on these things”: nature abhors vacuum. If you are not thinking right thoughts, wrong thoughts will arrest you, wrong thoughts will capture you.
-In the name of the Lord Jesus, by the Word of the Lord today and the anointing of the Holy Spirit, every yoke of filthiness, everything that disqualifies people from making heaven, whatever stands between you and your God shall be destroyed today.
TO EXPERIENCE LIBERTY FROM SIN AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS:
There are obvious demands for anyone that wants to live a godly life.
- BE NOT UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS
2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be deceived, evil association will wreck your spiritual life – 1 Corinthians 15:33.
Be not deceived.
Psalm 1:1-3
2 Samuel 13:1-5
There was a man by name Amnon, he was an heir to the throne of David, he had a friend called Jonadab. Jonadab helped him to organize how he would go to bed with his sister, Tamar and he ended his life there. Jonadab must have gone somewhere to look for someone else.
Some fellows followed Absalom not knowing where they were going, they were all destroyed Sir.
3 men took 250 men, they called them, Korah, Dathan and Abiram took 250 men who didn’t know the mission, they followed them into destruction. Caution!
One by one we shall appear before the Judgement Throne of God: don’t toil with your life, you don’t have a spare.
-No one here shall be destroyed. - BE COMMITTED AND ADDICTED TO FELLOWSHIPPING WITH THE SAINTS.
You want to live a godly life, be committed and addicted to fellowshipping with the saints.
Hebrews 3:13, Hebrews 10:25
“Forsake not the assembling of one another…”
What is in the day? Because iniquity shall abound and the love of many shall wax cold – Matthew 24:12
My friend, go for the warmth that fellowship offers – Ecclesiastes 4:11-12
Don’t get out of fellowship or your feet will become set like concrete, you won’t be able to come out of it again. I had a young man in our fellowship, they call his name Emmanuel. We didn’t see for about 3 consecutive fellowships. So when he came, I said, “Emmanuel, you are gone.” He said, “No, I was just busy.” I said, “You are gone.” Others were telling me, “leave him, it doesn’t mean he is gone.” I said, “you are gone.” Suddenly his countenance changed, “it is true. I even started on alcohol.” 3 weeks. He started on alcohol, 3 weeks absence. His taste changed. I looked at him and said, you are gone.
There are some who are not in Church today, they say they are doing Online. It is a trap of the devil Sir. You can’t be warm with online (Service). No. you can’t.
James are you the one disturbing this…You don’t want them to hear what I will say?
Response: They must hear Sir.
Be addicted to fellowship, for they go from strength to strength every of them in Zion appears before the Lord – Psalm 84:7
I don’t have much strength but you can’t get me on a flight on Sunday, even though we have our own plane. Sunday: no way. I am somewhere, my God, I must be in Church. Wherever Church is in that place, I must be there. Church Gist. If you don’t want to go from weakness to weakness, down, down, down, out; you better tie your life to fellowship.
“I can’t go to house fellowship. Who are the ones speaking there?” My God. Wherever 2 or 3 are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Young people: you are the most vulnerable to online worship. Don’t be deceived, you are out of fellowship, you go from weakness to weakness. That shall not be your portion.
- BE DELIGHTED IN KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS
Let His commandments suit you on all issues.
Hebrews 12:2 – “Jesus endured the cross, despising the shame” and see where Heaven has lifted Him to. Enjoy it.
Psalm 112:1-3
He is not being pushed, he is not being coerced, he is not being pressurized. It is just his delight. God said it, I believe it and I am going for it.
Adding this to these things we have heard since the moth began will help us enjoy the liberty from the man of sin who has held many captive.
-Today, the devil loses the battle over your spiritual life because you have the God-given right to think your way out of every unwanted dungeon in life and you are coming out of it.
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