IGNITE 2019 – SPEAKER: PASTOR REMMY HASSAN

TOPIC: TAKING CHARGE OF THE POLITICS OF THE FUTURE

VENUE: PORT-HARCOURT CENTRE, RCCG CHAPEL OF BLESSING, REGION 5 HEADQUARTERS PARISH, GRA EXTENSION, MARINE BASE, PORT HARCOURT, RIVER STATE.

DATE: 20TH JULY, 2019

SHORT PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER:

PASTOR REMMY HAZZAN, FCIArb, ANIVS, ESV, RSV; holds a National Diploma in Estate Management from the Federal Polytechnic, Nassarawa in 1991 and a Higher National Diploma from the great Yabatech.

Pastor Hassan proceeded to the University of Nigeria Enugu campus between 1999 and 2001 for a Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Science in Construction Management where he emerged as the overall Best Student Nationwide in the Direct Final Examinations of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors And Valuers in the Year 2000.

He is elected as the Associate Member of NIESV in 2012 and a Registered Valuer in 2013.

He is elected as the State Secretary of the Association of the Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria of Bayelsa State Branch in 2003.

He contested and won the Odogbolu Constituency Seat of the Ogun state House of Assembly in 2007 and later went on to become the Deputy Speaker in 2008.

He was re-elected into the same Assembly in 2011 and emerged the Chairman of Parliamentary Caucus.

He was awarded the Martin Luther King Medal of Emerging Black Democrats by Martin Luther King Foundation in Atlanta Georgia USA in November 2012.

He obtained yet another Msc and this time in Housing Development and Management from the University of Ibadan in 2012 and a PhD in the same discipline in 2016.

He passed a requisite exam of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London England at Associate, Membership and Fellowshipevels.

Hence he became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2012.

He was appointed as a Senior Legislative Aide on Consultancy basis on Federal Housing, House of Representatives from 2015 to June 2019.

He has spoken in many Conferences home and abroad and is still Speaking.

He has been a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God from year 2000 to date, but he currently serves as a Pastor In Charge of Zone, Divine Favour Zone RCCG Bayelsa Province 4.

He is a Lover of Core Christian Values. He is happily married to Pastor (Mrs) Irene Ojuogo Remmy Hassan and they are blessed with children.

All over the Nation, let us celebrate the Almighty God as we make welcome Pastor Remmy Hassan to take us on: Taking Charge of The Politics of the Future.

Please lets welcome Pastor Remmy Hassan.

Thank you!

May we be seated please.

PRAYERS: Father we want to bless Your Name for this awesome moment. We just ask that you take absolute control in Jesus Name. Every reason for putting this Program together even beyond shall be achieved in Jesus Name.

Thank you Father in Jesus Awesome Name we have Prayed – Amen.

I bless the Name of the Most High God for this wonderful opportunity to talk to us on: Taking Charge of The Politics of the Future in the next twenty (20) to twenty five (25) minutes).

I pray that God will open the eyes of someone to understand the essence of putting this together.

I will like to appreciate my father in the Lord, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God; for allowing a Platform like this to be created that men and women will be enlightened on doing the needful. And every members of the Young Adults and Youth Affairs who are also facilitators of ensuring that this happens – God Bless you all – Amen.

Isaiah 9: 7 will be the anchor for our discuss.

The Bible says: “Of the increase of His Government and Peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon His Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with Judgement and with Justice from henceforth even forever, the zeal of the Lord of Host will Perform this. Of the increase of His Government”.

Which Government, verse 6 of that Scripture says: “A child is born and unto us a Child is given and that passage continues by saying and the Government shall be upon His shoulders.”

Now Governance is what has brought about Politics.

Governance itself is a Structured Administration of all Aggregate of Resources: Human Resources, Natural Resources, Economic Resources.

A Structured Pattern of Administering those Resources is what Governance is.

However, there are intrigues going on in how this Administration plays out and that is where Politics comes in.

Now the Bible says the umbrella Government of every aspect of Governance rests on the shoulders of Jesus Christ.

If this is so and Christ left us thousands of years ago. He didn’t just leave, he left us with a mandate in Luke 19 :13. That Mandate says: “Occupy till I come”.

God abhors vacuum and when Christ left the stage it was for men to take charge and He said whatever it is that I have done, Greater Things shall you do.

The onus is on us to take charge and that takes me to wanting to attempt to define Politics.

Politics itself is very vast and different Authors will come up with different definitions.

But for the Purpose of this meeting let us simply define Politics as a Concentric Cycle of Constant Constructive or Destructive Conspiracies.

The Conspiracy never ends:

1. It begins with who becomes what.
2. It continues with how the one that has emerged succeeds or fails.
3. It ends again with who succeeds the incumbent another chapter continues.

That’s why it is a Cycle.

Whereas, Governance as we defined earlier is a Structured Administration of the Totality of Resources.

Policies that are Specific will come up to address Specific Issues but they will also be influenced by Politics.

Every aspect of Dominion that God left us with in Genesis 1: 28 all of it, notwithstanding the umbrella Dominion that encapsulates every other Dominion, is Political Dominion.

You may be the best in your chosen field of career, one Policy can make a mess of whatever it is you have become in life. So if the Policies are not right then you cannot continually say you are totally in charge.

Let us now look at the Church. How has the Church fared Politically?

If you want to talk about the Future, we must first appraise the Past and juxtapose it side by side with the Present so that we can make Projections that can help the Future.

In the Past how has the Church fared?

Very badly disinformation, misinformation, or no information at all gave rise to a great deal of insignificant involvement in the Political Process and the slogan then was Politics is dirty.

If Politics is dirty as we all acknowledge rightly so, who then cleans it up?

And like those who are trying to speak ahead of me before I came mentioned, you cannot change the System from without. You are better off attempting to effect a Change from within.

That level on non-involvement based on the wrong information or no information at all that we are (cracking) to.

By the Scripture in Hosiah 4: 6; it says: “My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge”.

Now if that was what was obtained in the Past, what is it that obtains in the Present?

In the Present, there has been a Marginal increase in the involvement of the Church in the Political Process – Very Good Improvement.

However it is with a lot of unfortunate Self-Syndrome, Denominational Dichotomy and Parochial Reasoning promoting needless Unstructured Haphazard and Disorderly involvement.

Yet the Bible says: “Let everything be done decently and in order” – 1Corinthians 14:40.

We are involved in the Present moment but we are not Organized and that is why someone will say: .ust it always be RCCG all the time? Why not someone from another Denomination?

And this essentially calls the Umbrella Body of the Christian Association of Nigeria to question, organise a Church now for an Effective Structure that holds the Church in a Prime Position to effect the Change that we want.

Now let’s go into the Future that we actually want to take charge of.

What does the Bible says concerning that Future?

It seems Obadiah the only Chapter of that passage vs 17 says: “Upon Nount Zion there shall be Deliverance and Holiness and the House of Jacob shall process their Possession”.

Dominion belongs to us. We threw it away foolishly and we now want to get it back.

Israel threw away Canaan foolishly, struggled to get it back when they came back from Egypt and they are still struggling till today.

We threw away that Dominion when God asked us to take charge in the Garden of Eden. Now we are struggling to get it back.

We cannot completely discharge of the Politics of the Future without employing some Strategies. Some of the Strategy includes the following:

Number One Strategy is Education.

Many Ministries are involved in Providing Qualitative Education.

But the question is at what cost?

Many Ministries have put together Educational Institutions that have become more or less like the IVY Towers. Yet, even Members of those Denominations cannot afford to pay for them.

If we want to go into the Future and own the Future Politically then we cannot carry with us a Movement that Metamorphoses Mediocrity.

An average number of our Followers must have reasonable level of enlightenment Educationally so that we will not need to repeat the same thing over and over again before they get the message.

And they too can think of solutions to Peculiar Problems.

And what do I mean by this?

We said earlier that the Bible says in Hosea 4 6 that: “My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge”.

Up till this moment, there are people who still believed that Politics is not Good for Christians.

In our various Institutions, if we have Access Promoted through Lessoned Tuition, why can’t we begin to teach Politics in those Schools and making it Mandatory for any category of Profession that you have chosen to pursue. And you begin now to have understanding.

Why can’t CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) for example have in each of the Geopolitical Zones, a University of repute and every Church in Nigeria pays his fair share. And Tuition in those Universities are absolutely free. Even quota will be given to Churches based on their contribution.

Why can’t we as a Christian body decide that all our Schools at Primary and Secondary levels will be free.

Reasonable, if we can work out the Structure that pays for it; If we stand and wants to own the Future and we want to move into that Future, we the Uneducated Generation, we are building a Bridgandage of those who will turn against us simply because they can be easily used.

A simple turn is not the one that is not particularly educated, but the one that is easily deceived because he is not informed.

Point number two: To go into that Future, we need a Structured and Strategic Involvement.

It has to be different from the type that is Presently in operation, where some of us do more of Trying Market Denomination instead of Marketing Christ.

If we Market Christ over and above Denomination, we will have the number we will use to take charge.

One man in South West Nigeria said and i quote: “They are more than us, but they are divided, so we will use them to get what we want”.

He was actually talking about Christians.

Every one of us need to get to understand that if we are not Structured, our number will not be a benefit – it will be a disadvantage.

In Esther Chapter 4, the entire passage. Yes Esther and Mordecai were part of the Political Process, but in what category, at what level, can they effect any change?

Until they Structured the entire Involvement, change didn’t come.

And when they Structured it and everybody understood the essence of that Structure being in Place, it worked. And not only did Israel got restored, even individuals who have been short changed, got their fair share of the entire Process.

Point number three: Welfarism.

This may be funny, but it’s true.

The Church is leaving the Foundation that Christ indeed Provided. Our brethren on the other-side, the strongest Instrument of Promoting their Faith is Welfarism.

And they do this in a manner that is sustained and it is always there.

You have banks that gives loan without Interest. But they say you must be Members of their Faith.

You have Avenues to get free food just because you are hungry is there.

If the Church does not Structure it’s Welfarism, we may be in a big mess because when a man is hungry, the only language he understands is food.

Therefore, i take you to what Christ did, in John Chapter 6:5-15.

After He fed the five thousand (5,000) people, the Bible says something happened, Jesus had to run, because He sensed, He perceived they wanted to make Him King.

Why? – Because the people suddenly have found a means of being fed.

Therefore the man who feeds them must be the King, so that they will never be hungry again.

If we don’t Promote Welfarism in the Church, we would lose the people that we are meant to take into that Future because they will look for the food where it is available.

The Church, especially the RCCG today is trying with her CSR initiative but more need to be done.

What it is doing at best in this stage is like a drop in a mighty ocean, but in Jesus Name we will get there – Amen.

Point number 4: Enhanced Health Care Delivery System.

The advantage we have as believers in Christ, is that beyond Medicare, we have the privilege of being used of God to provoke Divine Healing.

When God was asking the question: Is there no longer balm in Gilead? – in Jeremiah 8:22.

It simply means there is a Structure that recognizes a Hospital and Doctors.

What have we done in terms of Promoting Medicare?

Again, i go back the question can we at least have in one Veopolitical Zone each in this Country, a Health Centre of Excellence, that is absolutely free, where people can go and get Medicare and at the same time Pastors are visiting at all time to pray for those that are sick and provoke Divine Healing thereby?

If we do this, don’t be surprised that more than half of those that will use the Facility will be from the other Faith and that is a Platform created for conversion.

Finally, the Church that will take charge of the Politics for the Future, must also take charge of the Digital or Technological Revolution.

A lot is happening in the Technological world, a lot is happening in the ICT world. And before you know it, we will get to the point that you can not do anything without IT.

Cryptocurrency is gaining ground everyday.

Social Media is taking charge of most of our affair.

How knowledgeable are we?

Can the Church put together a Silicon Valley driven by Christians, where those who are enabled in terms of the IQs for this IT would go and further, spread the knowledge?

Can we have such a Platform that take men away from the Yahoo Yahoo Syndrome and direct that energy and intellect into a Productive Venture that Glorifies Christ?

Daniel 12:4, prepares us for this. The Bible says in the end: In the later days, knowledge shall increase.

What is going on now is not an accident, the Future is already seen even before we are there.

If we don’t align with what will take us into that Future and take charge in the real sense of it, we might be left behind, struggling to pick crumbs, and not getting the main meat.

I will conclude, by saying that: We will be deemed ready, if we have truly done the needful.

Ephessian 6:12 says: “Having done all to stand”.

If you do nothing, there is no reason to stand because there is nothing to stand for.

Having done all, there may be many other things that i have not captured. But let us be aware of the things that sway our people away from the Follower-ship that they should offer concerning the Leadership that we offer.

And i leave you with this last statement, that says: “We will never Christianized this world unless and until we get it right with Politics.”

We will never Christianized this world that we are in; this Nation (Nigeria) that we are in, unless and until we get it right with Politics.

I thank you very much for your attention!!!

Thank you so much for staying all through to read.

To read other Messages on the Coverage of DMC MediaCrew so far this Year, kindly visit our Website: http://discoverymediacrew.com; follow us on Twitter: @discoverymediac and/or send a Friend Request on Facebook to DMC MediaCrew.

And I can assure you that you will be glad you did as it will avail your first hand access to comprehensive reports of the various Messages of Pastor E.A Adeboye!

It is outrightly wrong and a sin for anyone that wants to swim in God’s Glory to consciously remove the original source of the work that does not emanate for him or her!

Discovery Media Crew … Reaching out to the world through the Power of the Gospel!!!

COMPILATIONS BY

MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI, TOPE BABALOLA, OLUSOLA OLAYINKA AND FEMI AFUWAPE

© DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW (DMC) 2019