FESTIVAL OF LIFE (FOL) RUSSIA 2019 – DAY 2: AFTERNOON SESSION – MINISTERING: PASTOR (PROF) PETER DELE OLOWU

(RCCG ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER AND COORDINATOR OF EUROPE MAINLAND AFFAIRS).

@ CONCERT HALL, TSVETNOY BLVD 11, MOSCOW, RUSSIA 127051

THEME: GREATER GLORY

DATE: 28TH AUGUST, 2019

BIBLE TEXT: 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

Tonight, I will like us to go down on our kneels and Pray with a song.

The song goes like this. Unfortunately, I do not know Russian, I would have put it in Russian.

SONG:

Let The Glory of The Lord come down – Amen (2ce)
Let The Glory of The Lord;
From Heaven come down;
Let The Glory of The Lord come down.

(Repeated)

1. I want you to Pray with all your heart and say: Lord I do not want to leave this gathering today without being fed with Your Word.

I want You to help me to experience The Glory that is Greater than that which I have seen before.

We want to Pray for Glory of God in Europe; Glory of God in our Homes; Glory of God in our Churches; Glory of God in all our Nations; the Cities we come from.

I want you to talk to God say: ‘Father, make me a carrier of Your Glory in my Home, in my City, in my Nation’.

… Shall we Pray!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen.

1. Finally, you are going to Pray one more Prayer.

Say: ‘Father, I want to see Your Greater Glory in Russia, in Europe’.

Put the name of the Nation where you come from there.

I will want to see your Greater Glory in my Nation; in Russia, in the Netherlands, in Belgium, in Finland.

We want to see the Greater dimension of Your Glory. That is why we are here Lord.

All over Europe, let Your Glory fill everywhere.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

OPENING PRAYER:

We Pray as we go into Your Words quickly, we ask Holy Spirit that You make us Carriers of Greater Glory.

Thank You for what we have been Carrying before now. For we do not want to leave here without the Manifestation of Your Greater Glory.

Thank You Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Hallelujah!

You can sit down. God bless you.

I like to start by thanking the Organisers of this Great Conference for the focus on ‘The Greater Glory’.

Please, let us clap for the Organisers of this Conference.

They saw something and we believe that we are not leaving here without it.

I thank God for the Bishop that spoke before me because he basically was saying exactly that we can begin to see already.

And I like to follow up on that by speaking to you as the Holy Spirit led me.

We will talk about: ‘Keys to Greater Glory’.

The keys to Greater Glory.

So, please don’t mind, one more time, I want you to give a clap offering to The Lord for the Organisers of this Programme.

Because if there is anything that Europe need at this time, it is the Glory of God.

Indeed, this was the Continent that used to Manifest His Glory.

Through the whole Nations of the world, God used Europe to bring His Glory to all the Nations of the world. But somehow, Europe lost that Glory.

If there is going to be a remake of our world, if our world is going to Prepare for the Second (2nd) Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; we need not only an understanding, we need to work in a way that brings Greater Glory all over the world, especially Europe.

I believe that God is about to use Europe one more time in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

Help me tell the fellow next to you; say: ‘God is going to use Europe one more time’ in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

So, I have the Special opportunity to say thank you to our SATGO – Pastor Oludoyi. Shall we clap for Jesus please. And the Leadership, Provincial Pastors and our brethren from Russia who have made this meeting possible.

Let us clap for Jesus. The Lord will reward you in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

What is Glory? We want to start with that.

Glory is Magnificent or Excelling Greatness or Beauty.

Something that is Excelling in Greatness or Beauty, Power.

And The Bible seems to suggest to us that everything carries Glory: It talks about the Glory of the Celestial and the Glory of the Terrestrial; the Glory of the Sun; the Glory of the Moon; Glory of the Stars.

But the Greatest Glory and the Glory that we are here for is “The Glory of God”.

Why? – Because when God created us, according to the Word of God; we each carried not only His Image, not only His Life, we also carried His Glory.

But somehow, our great, great grand parents sinned and according to scriptures in Romans 3:23; by the virtue of sin, we lost the Glory.

We fell short of the Glory but the Purpose of Jesus Christ coming is to restore that Glory.

And so, when we talk about the original sin; many people think ‘Oh, that is Adam that did the sin not me’.

Actually, think about it. No parent! No parent, no matter how bad the parents might be, will teach their child how to steal; how to lie – No!

You teach them how to walk, how to talk. You have to teach them how to walk; how to talk; how to cook; how to use the toilet.

Praise God! You have to teach them everything but when you don’t teach a child how to commit a sin.

Sin causes us to lose the Glory.

But the Purpose of Jesus Christ coming is not only to restore life, but to restore the Glory.

That is why the text that God gave to me because Pastor said I can talk about anything I like.

As I Pray upon The Holy Ghost, The Lord called my attention to the next verse to what you just used before I come to this stage.

It says: ‘Where the Spirit of The Lord is, there is liberty’ – 2 Corinthians 3:18.

I will like us to read it together.

What does it say; 2 Corinthians 3:18, let’s read it together.

But we all (How many of us? – All of us) with open face beholding as in the mirror the Glory of the Lord, (am not hearing your voice) are being transformed into the same image from (What?) Glory to glories just as the Spirit of the Lord – Hallelujah!

So, the Lord has a Programme, has a Project in sending Jesus Christ.

That Project is that by His coming, we can see Him because He says He is His Exact Image.

We can see God as He is and as we look unto Him, the more we look unto Him, the more we focus our attention on Him. not on other people’s Ministries, not on the cars, not on the other things that a times we focus on but on Him.

Who should we focus? I can’t hear you. Who should be our focus? – Jesus Christ.

… Everybody say: Jesus Christ.

As we focus on Him, the Lord of Host, by His Spirit, helps us to do the Work of Transformation and my Prayer is that all of us, we will embark on this assignment in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

Because the Bible says: ‘Christ in you, Christ in me is the Hope of (What?)….’ – GLORY!

Look at the person next to you and say Christ in you my brother, is what constitute the Hope of Glory’.

So, our desire and Prayer is that Jesus Christ help us to focus on Him and begin the work of Transformation so that we can become more and more like Him.

When we read about the story of the early Church, we will see that this was the focus of the early Church.

The early Church was so focused on Jesus that when they preached, they knew a lot about David, about Moses, about Joshua but they only talked about them with a focus on Jesus Christ.

Examples, we were told of a young man, my Bishop talked about someone that galvanises him when he thinks about him.

He was only called to distribute food. He became a Deacon and as a Deacon, he goes to the City of Samaria.

One man goes to a whole City and the Bible says through that one man, the whole City of Samaria, not only brought to Jesus Christ, but there was “Great Joy”.

What kind of Joy? I can’t hear you?

Great Joy in that City because of one man.

Brethren, if one man can take the City of Samaria, do you think all of us in this room alone, forget about all the others who are not here (listening or reading); Can we not take the city of Moscow for Jesus Christ? Can we not take the whole of Europe for Jesus Christ?

So, this one man in Act of the Apostles 8:5-8, he goes to the City of Samaria where they hated the Jews. They don’t like the Jews. He went there and he takes that City to Jesus Christ.

What was his Secret – John 5:5.

What did he Preach to them?

I want to hear you. What did he Preach? Did he Preach about Moses?

No, he Preached Jesus Christ.

Help me tell the brother next to you: ‘Please, let us begin to Preach Jesus Christ’.

And then when you go to Verse 35 because one of the lessons I have learnt over the Years in this Church, in the Redeemed Christian Church of God is that every Word of God is important.

There was someone reading the book of Isaiah from Africa, reading the book of Isaiah. He began to ask: ‘Who is this Prophet talking about?’

Is he talking about himself or another Prophet?

No, The Bible says: beginning at the Scripture, what did Philip Preach? – Philip Preached Jesus Christ.

Not only him, all the Apostles – Acts 11: 20-21.

Some group of people went out from different Nations and what were they Preaching?

I cannot hear you?

They were Preaching Jesus Christ.

Then you get to Verse 26 of that same Chapter, you will find that, in fact, they were called Christians because their focus was to become exactly like Jesus Christ.

They were not the ones who called themselves Christians. Other people looked at them, looked at their lives, heard their message and said, ‘They are just like Jesus Christ’.

Help me tell the fellow next to you: ‘God wants you to become just like Jesus Christ’.

Because the more of Jesus Christ in our lives; the more the Word will have the impact of the Power of Jesus Christ in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

That explains why within only only a few years, the whole world was filled with the Gospel.

They killed them, sent them to lions, put them as torchlights but within four (4) Centuries – How many centuries? – Four hundred (400) years, Europe bowed to Jesus Christ. Emperor surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Brothers and sisters, we will make Jesus Christ our focus in our Ministry, in our Teaching, in our Discipleship Programmes.

Let our focus be on Jesus Christ. We will have the same results in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

Now, but then there are some keys to getting this done.

What are those keys?

There are three (3) of them because of time.

The key, because this is just about the Transformation of every child of God, I call it PROGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION from being a child of the devil which is what we are by nature, to becoming fully, a child of God – Amen.

1. First key, because of my time, is the key of GIFTING – The key of Gifts.

Gift! Everyone has a Gift.

They call it charisma. The Gift that you carry.

The Bible consistently, the New Testament teaches us that everyone has a Gift.

Help me tell the person next to you: ‘Do you know that you have a Gift?’

… You have a Gift – Everyone! According to 1 Corinthians 12:7, everyone has a Gift.

1. 2nd Key because of my time, it is the CAPACITY to develop that Gift.

… So the first (1st) is the Gift, second (2nd) is the Capacity to develop that Gift.

The Lord gives us different Gifts, multiple of Gifts.

Many, many Christians don’t even know what their Gifts are.

They have not discovered their Gifts, they have not developed their Gifts, they have not deployed their Gifts.

… Three (3) things – discover, develop and deploy.

Many, many Christians even leaders. They are envious of someone else’s Gift.

They are saying, ‘Oh, I want to have that kind of Gift he has’. But your Gift is different.

What you have to do is to develop your own Gift and compliment the others.

The Purpose of the Gift is not for competition; it is for compliment – to compliment one another.

Many people don’t even know what they have. Joseph had the Gift of dreaming.

What did his brothers tell him?

No! No!! No!!! – We don’t like your dream. Shut up! We don’t want to hear it.

Did he stop? – No, he developed his Gift.

The Bible says: ‘Stir up the Gift inside of you’.

It is already there but to stir it up.

Our job as Leaders is to help people to stir up their Gifts.

David got to the battle front. David, the namesake of our SATGO, got to the battle front. His brothers were soldiers. He was not qualified to be in the Army.

He sees Goliath. That Goliath goes all over the Place forty (40) days and he says: ‘What is this man saying? If someone kills him, what will they do to him?’

His brothers said, ‘David, keep shut!’ ‘Don’t let him hear’.

… Praise the Name of the Lord – Hallelujah.

Did he keep shut? No, he went to another person. He says: ‘What will they do for the one who kills Goliath?’

Tell the fellow next to you: ‘The Goliaths in this Continent, they are going to die in Jesus’ Name’ – Amen.

They will die because you have already discovered your Gift and you will begin to develop and use them in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

1. 3rd Key because of time, I go to the last key. The key of CHARACTER.

Charisma, no 2 – Capacity to develop what God has given to you.

No 3 is Character.

Character is the ability to be just like Christ.

He was tempted – Hebrews 4:15.

He was tempted with every temptation common to man, He did not sin.

Think about it. Is it Poverty? Was He not poor? – His parents, they could not even afford the Place to give birth to Him.

Was He not Persecuted? Was He not Betrayed? Did people not steal from Him?

He had a Treasurer whose job was to keep the money and he was stealing from Him.

In fact, the Bible says: ‘He emptied the purse’. He emptied the purse regularly.

The Lord Jesus Christ never ask him for money. Every time they needed money, they will ask Andrew: ‘What are we going to do? ‘Philip, what are we going to do?’ ‘Peter, do you still know how to fish?’

So, we see Jesus Christ tempted with every temptations but without sin – That is what Character is.

Character is to withstand Temptation.

Now, what helps us is to ensure that we do not submit to Temptation is whether we have a Vision of Jesus Christ Who is so constantly watching over us.

He said: ‘Know I am with you unto the end of the world’.

He wouldn’t leave us. He is always constantly watching over us.

So, that makes us to be Honest; makes us to be Truthful; makes us to be Consistent; makes us to be the same stuff inside and outside.

The Bible says, for instance: ‘If a man cannot manage his home, cannot conduct himself well in his home, he has no business managing the Church of God’.

What helps us is this: An understanding that the One who created the ears, surely, He can hear – Yes or no?

The One who created the eyes, surely, He can see – Psalm 94:9.

Many, many of us, we have taken that once man cannot see us, it means nobody can see us because man can not see us.

The One who created the eyes, you know, there is no camera that is as good as the human eye – None!

The One who created the eyes, can He not see?

I give you an illustration of this so that you can understand and then we can go and Pray.

When God called Moses; Moses told God, hello Sir: I think you have made a mistake because I cannot talk well’ – ‘I am a stammerer.’ ‘My brother, i think You, must be thinking about my brother, my senior brother, he can talk, he knows how to talk, he is an orator’.

The Bible says: ‘God was angry with him’.

God told him, He says: ‘I have made you a “god to Pharaoh” and since you talked about the fact that your brother can speak well, your brother will be your Prophet’.

And I ask God: ‘Why did you not pick an Aaron?’ He was older, he was a Good Speaker, he could do many things – Why?

And the answer that I got – Character.

When Moses went to meet with God and left Aaron to take care of the people, you know the rest of the story.

The people said: ‘Make us gods’. And he made them, gods.

Moses asked him in Exodus 32, Moses asked him: ‘Why did you do this?’

What did he say?

Aaron said: ‘You know this people, they wanted gods. They told me you must make us gods at the risk of your life and so I told them bring all your ornaments and I threw it into the fire and out came an idol’.

In other words, Aaron had not learnt to take responsibilities.

God’s Leaders must know how to take responsibility, not only for their own actions but the actions of their own people as well.

When God said he was going to wipe out the children of Israel, what did Moses say?

Moses said: ‘No Sir, You will not do that Sir otherwise, You take out my name too’. I prefer You take out my name and keep theirs.

My brothers and sisters, Europe shall be saved. But it will need that we carry Greater Glory.

Our Primary responsibilities as Leaders is to be able to tell those who follow us what Apostle Paul said.

He said: ‘Follow me as I follow Christ’.

Follow me as I do what? – Follow Christ.

Tell the fellow next to you: ‘Please, follow me as I follow Christ’.

It means don’t follow me, once you notice am no longer following Jesus Christ.

Why is this important?

Very simple, when we carry the Glory, people in Europe, the ones that carry the Glory, there is no problem whatsoever taking; taking missions, will take us.

But how about the example of the mad man of Gardara.

If we are talking about others, lets talk at home. Can’t we learn about the lives of our Leader, the General Overseer – from nothing, God has made him something.

What is the difference? – trust in God.

There are four (4) categories of Leaders as far as the Glory is concerned:

1. Those who are not even aware that they need the Glory. That they are even carrying the Glory already.
2. Those who have the Glory but who are okay with the Glory they are carrying.

… I think I will just stop at the third (3rd) one because of my time.

1. There is a third (3rd) category.

That third (3rd) category are people who are not satisfied with the Glory they are carrying.

They make demand on God, say: ‘Show me More of your Glory’.

Can we stand up and ask God.

1. Say: ‘Father, I need More of Your Glory’. ‘I would have nothing without More of Your Glory Lord’.

‘Lord, whatever changes You need to make in my life to bring More of Your Glory in my life, please help me to do it.’

‘Help me to make the changes in Jesus’ Name. Help me to make the changes in Jesus’ Name.’

Whatever You need to do to become the Carrier of your Glory.

Shall we pray. I want you to begin to talk to God.

Say: ‘Father, whatever You need to do to make me a Carrier of Your Glory’.

God touched the heap of Jacob so that he can be a Carrier of His Glory. Whatever You need to do to make me become a Carrier of Your Glory, please do in my life in Jesus’ Name.

Shall we Pray. Please, open your mouth and Pray. I like you to Pray. Pray with all your heart.

Pray as if you meant it.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Pray that God in Heaven, release More of Your Glory in my life.

I need More Glory. The Grace to make the changes, release to me Lord in the Name of Jesus Christ.

Changes to my Character, changes to my life in the Name of Jesus Christ.

Any area of my life which is not in accordance with your Way, Father uproot it in Jesus’ Name.

… Thank You my Father. In Jesus Mighty name we Pray – Amen.

1. Hold the two (2) hands of the person next to you. Hold the hands of only one (1) person. Don’t hold the hands of two (2) people. Only the two (2) hands of one (1) person. Praise the Name of the Lord.

I want you to cry to the Lord from the top of your heart as Moses cried to God. Moses asked God. He said: ‘Lord, show me More of Your Glory I want you to cry to God – ‘My brother or my sister that I am holding, show us More of Your Glory’.

Keep praying….

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen.

1. Third Prayer, you going to say ‘Father, whatever changes we need to make in our lives to have More of Your Glory, so that Greater Glory More than what we brought here, Father release in Jesus’ Name’.

Give us Divine Enablement to do whatever things that we need to do so that we will Carry Greater Glory in the Name of Jesus Christ.

We shall not go with the same Glory we came with. In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen.

CLOSING PRAYER:

Father, in the Name of Jesus. We thank You because You are eager to release Greater Glory to us. That is why You sent Your Son. You said ‘Christ in us, the Hope of Glory’.

Please, release More of Your Glory to everyone that is here today in the Name of Jesus.

The Grace to make the changes in our Character, in our Capacity, in our Gifting that we could ask for the Greatest Gifts and the Best Gifts; Father release to us in Jesus’ Name.

Thank You our Father. Thank You Holy Spirit because we know that if You give us More of Your Glory, the Nations of Europe will bow to You in Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen.

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