WHAT WILL GOD SAY ABOUT YOU ON THE LAST DAY? ARE YOU GOD’S OWN?
ON THE LAST DAY ONLY THOSE WHO ARE GOD’S OWN WILL BE HIS HEIRS
IF YOU ARE NOT GOD’S OWN, GENUINELY SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO JESUS CHRIST BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
IF YOU COME TO CHURCH AND USE THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WITHOUT BELONGING TO HIM, YOU MIGHT BE ASKING FOR TROUBLE
THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST IS VERY POWERFUL BUT IT BELONGS ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE TRUE CHILDREN OF GOD
GOD KNOWS THOSE WHO ARE HIS OWN CHILDREN AND EVEN THE devil KNOWS TOO
BEING AN HEIR OF GOD ENTITLES YOU TO THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WITH WHICH YOU CAN DO MARVELLOUS THINGS
IF YOU ASK GOD FOR ANYTHING HE CAN GIVE YOU MORE THAN SUFFICIENT
WHATEVER CHRIST HAS, YOU TOO AS A HEIR OF GOD CAN HAVE THE SAME INCLUDING UNLIMITED MATERIAL WEALTH
ANYTIME YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST ANYTHING FROM YOUR SPIRITUAL FATHER, ASK HIM TO BLESS YOU
WHEN YOUR SPIRITUAL FATHER BLESSES YOU, THE ALMIGHTY GOD WILL BACK IT UP FULLY
EVERY THING THAT YOU SEE IN ME THAT YOU WANT FOR YOURSELF, YOU RECEIVE IN JESUS’ NAME!
MY APPEAL TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PARENTS: TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR PARENTS SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO PRONOUNCE BLESSINGS ON YOU
I AM WHAT I AM TODAY BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE BLESSINGS OF MY MUM
ISAAC BLESSED JACOB AND THE FINAL RESULT WAS THAT JACOB BECAME EXCEEDINGLY GREAT
YOUNG PEOPLE, MAKE SURE YOU TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR PARENTS
IF YOUR PARENTS BLESS YOU, YOU WILL BE BLESSED AND THEIR BLESSINGS WILL LAST
INHERITANCE CAN COME FROM GOD HIMSELF, A SPIRITUAL FATHER OR A BIOLOGICAL FATHER
- Pastor E. A. Adeboye on “THE HEIR OF GOD” || RCCG July 2024 Thanksgiving Service || 7th July 2024 || Part A
Today as we reach out to you from Mount Carmel in Ifewara, we want you to prophesy to your neighbour and tell him or her, “God will answer your prayers by fire today.” Church Gist. Today we’ve been asked to speak on, “Heirs of God” in other words, inheritors of God. We will be taking our text from Romans 8:14-17. Inheritance can come from God himself, can come from a spiritual father, can come from a biological father.
Let us start with the biological father. In Deuteronomy 21:15-17, the Bible tells us that when a man is about to share his material blessings among his children, then he should give double portion to the first born. Church Gist. In other words, children are to get inheritance from their biological parents and the first born is to get double. In addition to material blessings or material things, the biological father can also give something to his son in the spiritual realm. For example: in Genesis 27:1-33, Isaac blessed Jacob and he told Esau, when Esau came back from hunting and discovered that Jacob was already blessed, Isaac said, “I have blessed him and he will surely be blessed.” Church Gist. Those of you who have had the opportunity of being blessed by your biological parents, I congratulate you because their blessings will last. Which is why you should make sure particularly you young ones, make sure you take good care of your parents because if they bless you, you will be blessed.
I’ve said it before that what I am today, I am by the grace of God and the blessings of my mum. Anytime I please her when I was a little kid, anytime I did something special for her, she had this prayer she always prayed for me. She will say, “you this boy, you will call one person and 200 will answer.” Church Gist. Of course I didn’t know the meaning of that. How could I call one person and 200 people will answer? But today if we have a ministers’ conference and I say, “eh pastor come” and I didn’t mention the name of the pastor, by the grace of God more than 200 pastors will come running. Church Gist. If you have been blessed by your parents, congratulations! I will appeal to you, all of you who have parents, continue to take good care of them so that they can continue to pronounce blessings on you.
When Isaac blessed Jacob, the final result of it as you will discover in Genesis 30:31-43, was that Jacob became exceedingly great.
- My prayer for all of you listening to me today is that by the special grace of the Almighty God, you will all become exceedingly great!
Then we move to spiritual dad. When we talk about spiritual dad, we are talking about someone that for one reason or the other, God has placed over you to guide you in spiritual matters and when you serve such a person, anytime you have the opportunity to request anything from him, ask him to bless you. Church Gist. Because when your spiritual father blesses you, the Almighty God will back it up fully.
May I just give you one example: 2 Kings 2:9-15. When Elijah was about to depart to Heaven, he asked Elisha, “what can I do for you before I be taken away from you?” Elisha did not ask for money, didn’t ask for anything material. Church Gist. He knew that Elijah is his spiritual father so he asked for something spiritual, something that money cannot buy. He said, “ah! My father, what I want is a double portion of your spirit. That anointing that you carry. That anointing that can bring down fire from Heaven anytime you command, I want a double portion.” Now when he said I want a double portion, he was asking for that blessing that can be given to the first born. You know Elijah never got married and so, Elisha was saying, “I’m your first born; I want a double portion.” You know the end of the story: Elijah told him, “what you have asked for is beyond any human being to give. Church Gist. However, I will commit God on your behalf that if you see me when I am being taken away from you, you will get what you ask for.” Elisha saw him and he got a double portion of the Spirit.
- I am praying for everyone of you today who truly call me your “Daddy” every thing that you see in me that you know it’s from God that you want for yourself, you receive in Jesus name!
Then we move on to God himself. When it comes to what you can inherit from God, the blessings you can get from God, oh they include unlimited material wealth. Why? Genesis 17:1 – “our God is Jehovah El Shaddai the God who is more than enough.” There’s nothing you can ask from him that he hasn’t got more than you can ever handle. Church Gist. Haggai 2:8; Psalm 50:9-10; Psalm 24:1. Your Father in Heaven controls silver, gold, oil, everything. So if you ask him for anything he can give you more than sufficient. But far far more important than anything material is that the Almighty God can give you a spiritual blessing that is beyond even human comprehension.
For example: one of the inheritance that we get from God is Jesus Christ himself. John 3:16. Church Gist. The Bible now added in Romans 8:32, that because he had given us his son Jesus Christ, there is nothing else that he cannot give us together with him. In other words, because he has given us Jesus Christ anything else you can imagine, ask for it and the Almighty God will make it available to you.
Then we move on to the fact that the Bible says, “we are joint heirs with Christ.” That means, whatever Christ has, you too as a heir of God can have the same. For example: Philippians 2:9-11. Now, you’re a joint heir with Jesus Christ, so you also have access to that name that is above every other name so that when you call the name of Jesus Christ, all knees also will bow to you. Church Gist. Now, that’s why Jesus Christ himself said in Mark 16:17-18, “if you believe, in my name you can cast out demons …” So being an heir of God entitles you to that name that is above every other name and with that name you can do marvellous things. In fact there is hardly anything that you want to achieve that you cannot achieve because of the name of Jesus.
However, we come to one crucial point: who can be the heir of a man? According to John 8:35, it must be someone who is a son, a child. Inheritance is not for servants. Church Gist. People work in a company and they are paid their wages. At the end of the day when the owner of the company dies, it is not the workers who will inherit the company. It is the children of the founder, the children of the owner. Now the problem then is, how are we sure you’re a heir of God? It is simple. It’s not you just saying, “I am a child of God.” It is, does God recognise you as one of his children? 2 Timothy 2:19. Church Gist. So if I ask today, how many of you listening to me are children of God? It’s most likely, every hand will go up. But God knows those who are his own children.
As a matter of fact, even the devil knows those who are God’s children. He knows pretenders, he knows those who will want to use the name of Jesus Christ without being children of the Almighty God. Acts 19:11-17 – the devil himself knows who is a true child of God. Church Gist. So I am going to appeal to you, those of you who come to Church, who shout hallelujah, who sing like we sing and who want to use the name of Jesus Christ without belonging to him, you might be asking for trouble. The name of Jesus Christ is very powerful but it belongs only to those who are true children of God.
I will tell you one or two little stories and it will be time to pray. Several years ago, in a village not too far away from where I am standing now, there was a very wealthy man and well, he had more than one wife. Church Gist. Then, there were some people who were messing around with his wives. Quite a few of those were very very powerful people in the occult. So the rich man didn’t want to die and anyone they said, “this is your child,” he says, “alright alright, after all she was born by my wife.” He paid their school fees, did everything, then he died and it was time to read his will and all the children gathered together to hear what and what he has given unto them. Church Gist. The man started the will by saying, “so and so is not my child. He shall have no part or lot in my inheritance.” One by one those people he mentioned left the room in shame.
I will tell you another story and this is about African Kings in the past – at least I know of those in Nigeria. They too used to have many wives and because the wives are so many, some very powerful chiefs: the head of the army, the chief herbalist, etcetera, they always assist the King to minister to his wives. Church Gist. The King will know and won’t say anything. Anyone born in the palace is a prince or a princess. The King won’t say a thing because he depends on all these people who have been ministering to his wives. He depends on them for the time of war, etcetera. But when one king comes to visit another king, the King will begin to introduce the children in the palace to the King. He knows that the visiting king, they had the same kind of problem he had. So the children will begin to come and one king will say to the other king, “this is Prince Ojo.” The other king will nod his head because if you’re born in the palace, you’re a prince. This is Princess Aina – the other king will nod his head. He understands; he knows that the King is saying, “I don’t know his father but he was born in the palace. I don’t know his father; someone did the job.” Church Gist. Then one of the children will come and the king will say to the other king, “ah! This is my son.” He won’t call him a prince, he won’t call her a princess. He will say, this is my son.
On the last day, when we get to the gate of heaven, the Almighty God is going to say, “oh, this fellow used to go to Church, he calls himself a Christian but he is not my own.” This morning I want you to think very deeply, “what will God say about me on the last day? Will he just call me, “one of those who go to Church,” or will he say, “this is my son and this is my daughter”? Church Gist. Because only those who are his will be his heirs. So before it is too late, if you have not genuinely surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, if you’re not one of his, take a decision this morning.
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