67TH RCCG ANNUAL CONVENTION (FAREWELL AND THANKSGIVING SERVICE) – MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FUNSO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER, ADMINISTRATIONS AND PERSONNEL)

THEME: “AND GOD SAID”

PLENARY SESSION 10 TOPIC: MANY MANSIONS

DATE: 11TH AUGUST, 2019

BIBLE TEXT: JOHN 14:1-13

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Please just kindly lift your hands to Him, for there is a Home prepared. Am dreaming of that Heavenly Jerusalem that is coming – when it will no longer be a dream. It will be a reality. Just give Him Glory; give Him Honour; that He has called us into this way – we may have Inheritance with the Saints in Glory. Let’s give Him Glory.

Thank You Father! We Worship You. In Jesus Mighty Name we have worshipped – Amen.

SONG:

Blessed be the Name of the Lord
He is worthy to be Praised and Adored,
So we lift up Holy hands in one accord,
Singing Blessed be the Name,
Singing Blessed be the Name,
Blessed be the Name of the Lord (Blessed be the Name).

OPENING PRAYER

IEternal Father, we Thank You. The King of all Glory, the Lord of lords; we Magnify Your Name! Ever Loving, Ever Faithful, Ever Dependable, Ever Forgiving; The God Who is More Than ENOUGH. We say Thank You to You.

We appreciate You oh Lord, for this particular week that You determined to release Blessings into our lives.

Thank You our Maker; we just want to say THANK YOU! Oh Lord we appreciate You, for all the Blessings in various ways; to You be Glory. Accept our Thanks in the Name of JESUS!

Thank You Lord, for Your choice son and Your choice Prophet. Thank You Lord for the things that You have released through him. And we Thank You Lord, for this GRAND FINALE – just to say ‘THANK YOU”. Accept our Thanks in the Name of Jesus.

As we look at the Word of Liberty; we ask that you will quicken our hearts. The Bible says: “The entrance of thy Words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”

We pray that this particular morning, (within the time we have) Lord, You will do Great and Mighty Things in our lives and in the lives of everyone; in the NAME OF JESUS!

Lord Almighty we ask; that at the end of the day, You alone will take the Glory, You will take the Honour! Spirit of the Lord, You Own the Word: just take over, and Glorify your Name.

Thank You Eternal Father; we will continually bless You forever. In Jesus Most Wonderful Name we Pray – Amen!)

… And let someone say Amen – AMEN!

Just tell your neighbour – You are blessed of the Lord, that made Heaven and Earth.

Let me take time to appreciate my Father in the Lord, for the privilege to bring the Word, and to serve. And I want to Congratulate my Daddy and my Mummy for this Wonderful, Wonderful; Wonderful Convention that is rounding up. May the Lord Increase you: from Glory to Glory; from Honour to Honour; from Anointing to Anointing; from Favour to Favour – Amen!

… And everyone that said Amen! Get greater blessings.

“MANY MANSIONS!”

Many Mansions is what we are going to be looking at.

BIBLE TEXT: JOHN 14:1-3

1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

May the Lord bless the reading and hearing of His Word, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

God the Son is the One that said to the Disciples: “In my Father’s House are many Mansions.”

Towards the end of Jesus’ Ministry, He engaged His Disciples, to tell them that their hopes does not end in this world – just to encourage them to be able to push on!

Because the time will not be long, when they will inherit the things the Father has provided for them. So that they can have more Strength to be able to run, so that they can be able to do the work.

From the Bible Reading, there are things that jump at us, but before I go into the few points that I want us to discuss;

God is concerned about our WELL-BEING.

He said: “Let not your heart be troubled” John 14:1.

Not only is He concerned about our Well-Being; He is concerned about our future and tomorrow.

Because He said in John 14:2; He said they should not be troubled because their future is guaranteed.

And He told them in John 14:3 that they have Glorious Destiny.

Now, when we talk about “Many Mansions”; it is talking about Heavenly Home.

He is talking about Jerusalem that the Choir just sang about – where we are going to be Permanently forever in the immediate Presence of our Maker, where we will never depart!

There are Mansions in the world (with many rooms). But there is no Mansion on Earth that could be compared with what our Saviour has gone to Prepare.

And because Heaven is a Place of Many Mansions; there is a enough space for everyone.

In this particular realm, I will look at five (5) Major Things: Heavenly Home with Many Mansions, there are five (5) Major Things that I want to look at, about our Heavenly Home:

1. It is a WELL SET-UP HOME because God is the Builder!

Jesus Christ was telling His Disciples: He will leave them for a while, and then He will come again to take them.

He said: Do not let your hearts be troubled; I want to go and Prepare a Place for you.

That Place is a WELL SET-UP Place.

The Home we are going is a Well Set-Up Home; in the immediate Presence of God.

And you know, in John 14:6; this Master (Jesus) that told them He wants to go and a Place; is then One the Bible calls the Way, the Truth and the Life. For it is not possible for the Truth to lie.

… It’s a WELL Set-Up Home.

I pray, that everyone of us; we will get there in the Name of Jesus.

It is a Place for people who have confessed their sins; people who have Salvation and they are aiming high, into walking in the Way.

1. It is a “SPOTLESS HOME”.

… Not only that it is Well Set-Up Home; It is a Spotless Home.

Heavenly Home with Many Mansions, is a SPOTLESS HOME!

In Titus 2:14; the Bible says: “Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of Good Works.”

In Revelation 21:7-8; “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

I pray; none of us will have part in that Lake of Fire, in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

We know there is a pressure on the Earth, to Please people. But to Please God is the most crucial in life.

The Bible said in 1 John 3:3: “And every man that hath this hope in him Purifieth himself, even as He is pure.”

Because it is a Spotless Home; everyone that must get there – PURITY is none negotiable.

We don’t have any excuse; by the backing of the Holy Spirit, by the Promise of Jesus Himself not to be able to move on (in spite of all challenges).

… It is a Well Set-Up Home. It is a Spotless Home!

1. This Heavenly Home with Many Mansions, It’s a SETTLED HOME (2ce).

In Hebrews 11:16: “But now they desire a better country, that is, an Heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a City.”

When you go down a little bit in Hebrews 13:14, it says: “For here have we no continuing City, but we seek one to come.”

Some time as a Christian, you feel alone; you feel alone, because of events and things happening around you.

But remember: there is a Home that is set for you – It is a SETTLED HOME!

There is a story that I read many years ago; about a man (he is dumb, he is deaf); but he will be the first one to be in Church, and he will be the last to leave.

So somebody queried him, and said: you can’t hear, you can’t speak, why is it that you come regularly? You will be the first to be here and you will be the last.

He said, give me a paper. He wrote there – I want my neighbours to know, that attending Church and serving God is a Priority; And I want them to know the side I belong – that I belong to the side of God and I belong to Jesus Christ who has gone to prepare a Home for me.

… And that is very Instructive.

You must identify with what Jesus has gone to prepare for us!

In Revelation 7:9, the Bible said: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a Great Multitude, which no man could number, of all Nations, and Kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the Throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;”

So Heaven is a populated place.

In Heaven we have many Saints like Noah, Saints like Jonah, Abraham, David, Esther, Lydia, John, Paul, John Wesley.
Brethren from various Continents of the world. I mean, yellow, red, black and everyone in Christ.

A little rejection here and there must not matter because it is just temporal.

Heaven is a populated place – a Well Set-Up Home, a Spotless Home, a Settled Home.

… Second to the last point I want to make;

1. Heaven is a SECURED HOME – The Heavenly Home with Many Mansions is a Secured Home!

In Revelation 21:22: “And I saw no Temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it.”

So many of us have locks – you lock your car, you lock your home. But Heaven is a Secured Place.

The Lamb of God is the One that is the Centre of the Throne. The Place of the devil will not be known.

Well, He said something in Revelation 22:15: “For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”

… He Said: the children will be inside; but outside are dogs.

I Pray for everyone that has gone through this Convention; that none of us will be cast out of that well Secured Home, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

… A Well Set-Up Home, a Spotless Home, a Settled Home, a Secured Home, and the last point here:

1. A SWEET HOME.

Heavenly Home with Many Mansions is a Sweet Home!

We are not Home yet, we are on Transitional Period – We are not Home yet!

I mean, as they say (from where I come from), they say: this Place is a Market! We are not Home yet; our permanent Home is in Heaven.

Now, in 1 Corinthians 2:9, the Bible said: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

… A place that is SWEET!

In Revelation 21:4, look at what the Lamb Himself said. Look at what the One who Promised to go and prepare a Place for us said. He SAID: “And God shall wipe away ALL tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more DEATH, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more PAIN: for the former things are passed away.”

It will be more beautiful, more pleasant, more enjoyable than you can ever imagine.

… None of us will miss it, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

… A Well Set-Up Home, a Spotless Home, a Settled Home, a Secured Home, and a Sweet Home!

WHAT does it take, to be on that HEAVENLY HOME WITH MANY MANSIONS?

1. From John 14:1, it says BELIEVE in God and Believe in Me. Believe the Promises of God.

Believe Him because the Word of God is Settled.

In Psalms 119:89: “For ever, O LORD, thy Word is Settled in Heaven.”

Whatever has gone out of the mouth of God, cannot return unto Him void. That’s what Isaiah 55:11-12 said.

So BELIEVE that in spite of the challenges you are having, that His strength is sufficient for you.

1. Set your MIND on the THINGS ABOVE.

Every other things we see physically are perishable things. But the Home we are Set to go is Permanent.

In Colossians 3:2-3; He said we should set our mind on the things ABOVE!

1. ENDURING for the Joy that is set before us.

We have to Endure – for the Joy that is set before us.

Jesus Himself said: This world is full of tribulations, be of good cheers (John 16:33).

In Matthew 24:13; the Bible says: “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved” – SHALL be a part of that Kingdom!

1. KNOW HIM.

Know the Truth, walk in the Truth. You must not let go; your focus on Him must not be shifted.

The Bible said in Psalms 34:35: “They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

In Hebrews 12:2, the Bible says: “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

In Philippians 3:10-12; Paul said: One thing I do – I remain Focused.

… And the Last Point:

1. You need to Accept the responsibility of OBEDIENCE.

Isaiah 1;19; He said: If you are Willing and Obedient: the Land, the Home of Many Mansions is where we are going to be.

And What was His Instructions; and what are the things we need to follow on in Obedience?

Matthew 28:18-20; the last statement of a person who is about to die is of importance. And Jesus said: You go into the world and Preach the Gospel.

Go into the world and Preach!

And He said in Mark 16.15; He said to us “GO!”

In Acts 1:8; He released the Holy Spirit to us, Purposely that we might be “a Soul Winner”.

The Home – Heavenly Home of Many Mansions, belongs to people who remained focused!

Let’s say this: in the Scripture that we read, He said: those who are abominable, those who are not Born Again, those who have not been washed, they will not be THERE!

But those who have being Born Again, I mean just keep Moving on.

This morning, as I draw the curtain on this Word; If you are here and you are not Born Again – Give God a chance, so that you can be a part of that House – Heavenly Home with Many Mansions.

And those of us who have being Born Again; I like us to ask the Lord: GIVE ME STAYING ABILITY. I want to Finish Well; I want to Finish STRONG!

Challenges are in the world; trials and tribulations: but comparing them with what God has Prepared – there is no comparison.

So we will ask the Lord; “GIVE ME STAYING ABILITY.”

Please, I want us to stand up, just within one (1) minute and just Pray.

Anyone who is here, you want to surrender your life to Jesus please, come to the Altar, let us have a Word of Prayer over you.

Please wherever you are, please I want you to reach out to the Altar now and surrender your life to Jesus Christ.

Now, today is the Grand Finale of this particular Program and what a what a Wonderful day to surrender you life.

Please just come to the Altar.

The rest of us, let us Pray to the Lord and say: Please “GIVE ME STAYING ABILITY.”

Please, if you are coming now, please come quickly so that we can Pray with you.

God bless you – Please come.

Thank you!

Even as I Pray, please keep coming. You are assured of my Father in the Lord’s Prayer.

He will be Praying for Your Sustaining Ability.

Thank You Jesus! Let’s make them welcome. Please if you want to clap, do so.

God bless you, You are the Final Harvest of this Convention. And you can be sure that God will put the ability to finish well for you – Just come!

Thank You Father

PRAYER FOR SALVATION

Father in Heaven we Thank You for Your Word. Lord we Pray; what You say is the Truth. Lord we abide by this Truth. So this people of God have come to the Altar, I ask oh God: that You would save them, You would cleanse their sins, You would write their names in the “Book of Life. And the Power to serve You till the end; may You oh God, Who has Promised to give us Power – may You give them that Power in the Name of Jesus.

And we ask, everyone saying Amen with them, let them get “Double Power”.

All of us, who have given our lives, we are walking in You please, the Power to finish strong, to finish well and to finish in time and make it Home at last – Lord Give unto us in the Name of JESUS.

When the Roll is called up in Heaven; may our ear not be blocked. May we reign with the Lord forever.

Thank You Eternal Father. We bless and Praise Your Name.

In Jesus Most Wonderful Name we Pray – Amen!

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