RCCG FESTIVAL OF LIFE IN THE MIDDLE EAST REGION (INTERNATIONAL MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE) DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATE (UAE)
THEME: LET THE FIRE FALL
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
DATE: 12TH SEPTEMBER, 2019
BIBLE TEXT: ISAIAH 6:1-8
While you are opening your Bibles, I want to thank God for bringing us back to Dubai.
ISAIAH 6:1-8
- In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
- Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
- And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
- And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
- Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts ( pray that your eyes will see Him).
- Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
- And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
- Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
The first time I read this Passage after I became a Christian, I was a bit embarrassed because here is a man, Isaiah, who have been Prophesying.
He is the one who said in Isaiah 1:19, for example: ‘If you are Willing and Obedient, you will eat the Good of the Land’.
And then in verse 20, he said: ‘If you are disobedient, you are set for destruction’.
This is a man who said in Isaiah 3:10-11: ‘Say ye to the Righteous, it shall be well with him; woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him’.
Here, I find him having an encounter with The Consuming Fire. The kind of encounter I believe you will have today.
And at the end of that Fire coming from Heaven to touch his lips, he heard God saying: ‘Who shall I send, who will go for me?’
What have I been doing all along, am I not your Minister? Have you not been sending me?
When you said I should tell the Righteous, ‘It shall be well with him’, did I hear somebody else other than God?
So, many of us are here today not because we not Ministers of God but because I believe He wants to move us to the Next Level.
So, this is not a regular Ministers’ Conference. This is not an expert coming to teach those who don’t know as much as himself – far from it.
Many of you know much more than I do.
There are people here who are conversant with Greek and Hebrew. The only Greek I know is Mathematical Greek.
It has nothing to do with The Bible. So don’t see me as someone who has come to teach.
That is one of the reasons why am seating down; this is a Family Gathering.
And if you are not ready for some Dramatic Changes in your life, may I kindly ask that you just go home now and enjoy yourself.
Because when God gave the topic for this Gathering: ‘Let the Fire fall’, I had a rough idea, He is about to do something.
Are you ready to be shaken because what Isaiah said here when he saw the One he has been serving all this Years in all His splendor; he said ‘Woe is me, for I am undone’.
The word UNDONE there, according to those who know the big Theology, is that I have been taken to pieces.
You know when your engine needs a thorough repairing,the mechanics will take it to pieces.
That is the word he used there: ‘I am undone’.
God is showing me how rotten I am. I couldn’t understand how God would have been using a man that God knew had unclean lips to Prophecy all these Years.
And then, at the end of the whole story when the Fire fell, then He puts him together again.
He now said: ‘Okay sir, are you ready for Ministry?’ – ‘Who can I send now; who will go for me?’
He said: ‘I thought I have been your servant since all these days but if you are still willing to send anyone, I am still here’.
You see cold water is very useful.
If one has a kettle of cold water, one can use it basically for two things: for washing and for drinking.
In Genesis 18:1-4; when God paid Abraham a Visit, the first thing he offered God is water to wash His feet.
And it comes to water for drinking, the Principal thing you need to know about cold water is that ‘thirst can kill’.
In Judges 15:15-19, Samson has had a Great Victory. Those who came to kill him, he has killed a thousand of them and then, he became thirsty.
And then, he said: ‘Lord, you have given me a Great Victory but there is an inner enemy now about to reduce that Victory to nothing’.
Water is very, very crucial – Cold Water.
That is why you will find that the Scientists keep searching the whole Universe, looking for somewhere, where there is water in case they need to relocate.
Because we already have enough weapon to wipe out the current world – A thousand times over.
And those who have the New Power, they realised this and say can we find a Place we can all run to when we are destroying this world and the Place must have water – Water!
So we find that water is so crucial because according to Exodus 30:19-21; The Almighty God made it clear to Aaron and his sons – Ministers; that if they try to approach Him without being washed, hands and feet, they will die.
So if you dare go to the Presence of The Almighty God without taking your bath, you are a dead man – It is God who said so.
When we are talking about thirsty and drinking water; when you read John 19:28. There, it will amaze you that when the Lord hung on the cross, nails on His hands; nails on His feet; crown of thorn on His head, the only cry he cried was not I am in pain, not I am hungry. What did he say? – I thirst.
That means the pain of thirst obliterated all other pains.
… Cold water is very, very Useful.
So it is great to be saved.
If you are already washed in the Blood – 1 John 1:7 says: The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sins.
… You have been Washed.
Ephesians 5:25-27 tells us that Jesus Christ gave Himself for the Church that He may wash the Church. So that it will have no spot, no blemish.
It is great to be saved and to be washed.
And if there is anyone among us who is yet to be thoroughly washed in the Blood of the Lamb who is just pretending.
He is christian by name but have never had that encounter. God has not wash him by the Blood of the Lamb, I pray they will be washed before they leave here.
Salvation, the Cleansing Power, opens the door to several things. Once you have been washed clean, you have access to answered Prayers.
Isaiah 59:1-2 made it clear, God is able to save; He is able to hear but if there is sin in your life, He won’t even hear.
But after you have been washed, then your Prayers will be answered.
Once you are saved, you have access to Healing -1 Peter 2:24. After your sins are gone, then you can claim ‘By His strife, I have been Healed’.
When you have been saved, then you have access to DELIVERANCE from curses. You have access to ABRAHAMIC Blessings.
According to Galatians 3:13-14: ‘Christ has redeemed us from the curses of the Law’.
Because by the time they hung Him on the tree, His Blood was flowing for you and now, you can have access to the Blessings of Abraham.
If you have been washed, you have access to VICTORY over Satan himself.
Revelation 12:10-11.
… Oh, I have assumed that everybody will be taking notes; some people think that they will remember all these things off hand. God have Mercy on you.
Revelation 12:10-11 tells us that: We overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb.
… If you are washed, you have access to Victory over the devil.
And probably, one of the Greatest Blessings of Salvation is that you have access to the holiest – Hebrews 10:19-22.
You can go to the very Presence of God, Himself.
As I was sharing with someone – my children, not too long ago, by the Grace of God and the Grace of God alone, I have had opportunities of visiting Heads of state.
And they will invite you to come and give instructions to all his aides. And then, you still have to pass through gates after gates after gates after gates.
On one occasion, I was visiting one Head of state, I won’t mention the Country. After I have passed through about seven (7) gates, I thank God that I can easily go into the Presence of Jesus Christ.
I don’t have to pass through seven (7) gates to reach Him.
By the Blood of the Lamb, the moment I go on my kneels and I say: ‘In the Name of Jesus’; am in the Presence of the Most High.
Access to the holiest. I don’t have to please one Angel or the other before I can get to my Father Himself.
So, cold water, because it washes, has tremendous influence; tremendous impact.
However, hot water is far more useful.
Men’s hearts are hard. As a matter of fact in Ezekiel 36:26, The Bible calls the heart of man ‘stony’: ‘I will take the heart of stones out of You’.
So, you need hot water to deal with hard stuff.
And am sure you must have wondered how it is that you will Preach and Preach and some people will just refuse to repent.
Their hearts are hard.
And you are dealing with hard hearts with cold water?
The water needs to boil for it to deal with hard hearts.
So you have your cold water in your kettle- You have the Word of God, you know all theology, you know all the whatever ‘ogies’ they call them and yet you are not winning souls because your water is cold.
For the kettle of cold water to become a kettle of hot water, what do we need? – Fire!
You are a very good students. You are learning far ahead.
But there is still something more effective than hot water itself.
When we talk about hot water, we say it can boil things but if you apply more heat to hot water, it becomes steam. Am sure you know that the first engine ever, is Steam Engine.
There is something that does more than hot water and that is Fire itself.
Of course you know that Fire can cook – You can boil your meat but you can also roast it. You can boil your yam; you can also roast it.
Fire is a cooker. It tenderizes. It makes thing tender.
For example, you consider John, the beloveth as one of those boys with very hard heart.
When you consider Luke 9:51-56, Jesus Christ was on journey, He got to a Village of the Samaritans and said: ‘Please I want to spend a night in your Village’ and they said ‘No way’.
You know what John said: ‘Let’s burn them up’ – Over their property, it tells you the kind of heart he had.
But when the Fire fell on him, he was the one who said in 1 John 4:7: ‘Beloveth, let’s love one another’.
… The heart of stone had become heart of flesh.
But Fire doesn’t just deal with making your food tender, it kills germs.
In the olden days before the discovery of sanitizers and others when a doctor wants to operate, he passes the operating knives through Fire because, even today when they say we have come with a particular sanitizer, they will say it will kill ninety-nine point something percent of germs. They leave at least something behind – Something that the sanitizer cannot deal with.
There is no germ that Fire cannot take care of – Not one at all.
Even the devil fears Fire because he knows that is where he is going to end.
If Fire is so tough that, that is the punishment the Lord has reserved for an arch- angel, then you should know what Fire does.
So Fire kills germs. Because if you don’t kill germs, germs will kill you.
Acts 5:1-11, first time I read this passage after I became a Christian, again, I was a bit troubled – A man came to Church, he sold his land and brought a percentage to the Church. And then the man of God killed him; killed the wife too for conniving.
Why are you killing a man over his property?
And the explanation I got from my Daddy is that if you don’t kill a germ, the germ will kill you.
Do you know your Church will grow if you have the ability to destroy agents to the devil masquerading in the Church as Member of the Choir – am not talking of our Choir.
Lord, have Mercy.
The Church must be purified. If it is to make Progress and you need Fire.
That is why the Bible says in Malachi 3:2-3, Every son of Levi, every Minister, must be passed through Fire’.
And not ordinary kind of Fire, the kind of Fire that the Purifier of Silver and Gold will use and that is Fire of a different category.
Maybe one of these days, we will come and talk about categories of Fire because all Fire are not the same: There is Red Fire that is hot. But there is Blue Fire; that is hotter.
Because Red Fire comes from firewood; Blue Fire comes from gas.
And then, there is White Fire, that is the one that welders use.
… But that is for another day.
I think you need to Pray that I come back. You might not like it though, when I come back.
Because we are Praying that Fire should fall.
Fire has to start with those of you who are Ministers of God.
Because many of us who we call Ministers of God, we are still jokers.
Please, forgive me – am not being rude. This is a family Meeting.
And there is an African Proverb, it says: ‘If two (2) children of the same mother enter into the room to discuss serious business and they come out smiling, they have not been telling each other the truth’.
In other words, if it is my mother’s child and I, there is no diplomacy, we say it as it is.
You are angry with me, no problem, just let all end up well. And you are all going to finish well.
You are going to finish strong because, of what use is it if you say you are a Minister and you miss Heaven?
What is the difference between you and someone who is not save?
What is the use of saying you are getting some people to Heaven and you are not going, yourself?
And we are living in a time when now, anything goes.
That is not the way it should be.
We are living in an age when people are now saying Grace! Grace!! Grace!!!; as if I don’t know what is Grace.
If you are looking for an example of Grace, look at me. There is nothing in my life that qualifies me to be where I am today – Nothing but Grace.
However, if you think Grace allows you to treat God like Father Christmas, you are dead. He is an Holy God.
In the text I read to you, the Angels could have said ‘Mighty! Mighty!! Mighty!!! Lord God Almighty’.
The angels could have said ‘Loving! Loving!! Loving!!! Lord God Almighty’ because He is love.
What was it they were crying? – Holy!
For you to begin your Ministry at all, you need to KISS Fire.
And if you ask the Scientists, the doctors and those who know Anatomy, they will tell you the most sensitive part of the body are the lips.
That is why people in love kiss.
And it was the lips that was touched by Fire.
God said ‘Okay, you want to be close to me now, how about a little kiss? And since am a Consuming Fire, kiss this Fire’.
The Bible didn’t tell us how Isaiah must have screamed when the Fire touched his lips.
Have you tried to drink tea accidentally not knowing it is that hot? Don’t you remember what the experience was?
So to fulfill your Purpose on Earth. For you to be what God wants you to be; the Fire must fall.
In Luke 5:1-11, The Lord had already told Peter: You will no longer catch fish, you will be catching men’.
He had a call to Ministry when he was still fishing. But he didn’t win a single soul until the Day of Pentecost.
Acts 2:1-41, the Fire fell, landed on the head of Peter, he preached a single sermon and won three thousand (3,000) souls.
Can you imagine what will happen if everyone of you here will Preach one sermon and each time you Preach a sermon, you win a hundred (100) souls? – Am not talking about three thousand (3,000) souls now.
If everybody here would, next Friday, not this one because this one, we are together but after this week, if next Friday, you all Preach a sermon each and each one wins a hundred (100) souls?
… Ha! I will be back within a Year.
Because the noise will spread. The whole world will know something is happening in UAE (United Arab Emirate)
I mean, you know the rest of the story of Peter, he Performed a Miracle; Preached another sermon and won five thousand (5,000) souls and so on.
I don’t want to waste time talking, I believed you already got the point. Am a Mathematician, I don’t know how to speak for long.
And I would rather that you spend some time Praying than we will spend time talking.
I have a big question to ask you and that question is: Do you really want the Fire to fall?
Because if you want it to fall, you will ask for it.
If God knows you mean it from the bottom of your heart, He will answer you because He said in Numbers 14:28: ‘As you speak in My ears, so will I do to you’.
But I will be failing in my duty as a father if I don’t warn you.
Any water that wants to become steam must be ready to reduce – Am sure you know that.
You have applied Fire to the water and the water begins to boil and instead of stopping, you keep on applying the Fire and the water then begins to change to steam. The water that you started with will begin to reduce.
Any wood that wants to become Fire must burn because every wood has the potential of becoming Fire.
That is why wood is called Firewood. Inside every wood, is fire.
That is why when you hear that there is Fire outbreak in some parts of the world and you just see the Fire increasing , increasing and increasing because every wood that they touch whether hot or cold, whether fresh or dry, If you apply fire to any wood, it will become fire.
But the wood that changes to fire will reduce.
And there are many of us who are on horses back now and we don’t want to come down.
We are BIG people and then we want the Fire to fall. We want to burn so you must be ready for reduction.
Am sure many of us here will love to have the experience that Isaiah had: You want to be in the Presence of The Most High God; you want to see Him in all His Glory – Beautiful Experience!
Very humiliating because it will reduce you.
I will tell you two stories. Am sure you must have been wondering no stories yet. I reserved them till the end. And the two stories are from my life, not they said. Some of the old ones probably heard them before.
Story 1: In 1976, we went for a Conference in Kenya. It was a World Conference of Pentecostals – All the big names in Pentecostalism gathered in Kenya.
Somehow, I got the information. I wasn’t invited but I got the information and I went and I was hungry for God like nobody’s business.
So, I was there. And those big boys spoke.
Finally, we had a final closing programme and they called the Programme Meditation. Somebody was playing with a guitar, singing songs and the rest of us were Praying in the spirit.
It was an awesome Period. And I was there with, some of the people you know – Pastor Kumuyi, he was sitting by my side and another fellow was sitting on my side. And all of a sudden, I was transported to Heaven.
I was in an Open vVsion as they would call it because I wasn’t sleeping. I found myself in a very huge room like a dome, very huge.
There was someone far away sitting on the throne. Very far away; very difficult to describe; am trying my best.
On my right were angels; huge things. If anybody tells you an angel is like a child with little wings – you are talking about the devil.
Huge to the extent that each one of them could carry Aircraft 777 on their Palm – That will tell you how huge.
… Millions of them on my right,; millions of them on my left.
And they are not white o. It is just that there are no words to describe them.
The closest I can get to describing them is when you put clear water in crystal glass.
We don’t have the word for describing that type of colour.
I was standing on what looks just like a Spot.
When I turned to the right, the Angels moved back; when I turn to the left, the Angels moved back.
Ah! Ha! And I saw someone on the throne there far away. Nobody said a word and all of a sudden, it occurred to me to take a look at myself.
And I saw myself naked; absolutely naked, covered with all kinds of rubbish as if you have just pushed somebody out of the sewage system.
So, I now saw why the Angels were moving away. I was already a Pastor. Nobody said a word and suddenly the vision vanished.
I now said I see – Pastor, as dirty as anything.
That is when I said to the Almighty God, next time that am coming back to this Throne Room; I won’t come dirty.
So, if you discovered that there is hardly any sermon I Preach without talking about HOLINESS – now you have a rough idea.
Do you want to have that kind of experience? Are you sure?
And then, the second story because I told you if you want the Fire to fall, you must be ready to reduce.
Story 2: Now, I had become General Overseer and I was approaching the age of forty (40). And on my table, there is this table plate where they write your name so that anybody coming will know who they are visiting.
And on mine was written ‘Reverend Doctor E.A. Adeboye’, Bsc., Msc., PhD’. And I said later on, I wished they would have written ’empty barrel’.
I was approaching the age of forty (40) when God spoke to me and He showed me a Vision.
He drew two (2) graphs because I study mathematics so He knew I will understand.
One of the graphs is what we call ‘The head-up parabola’ – The head is up and that is why we call it ‘head-up’. The other one is what we call ‘The head-down parabola’.
At the Turning Point in each graph is the figure forty (40) because I was going to be forty (40) Years old.
And He said to me: ‘Which one do you want?’
He sent The Holy Spirit to Prepare me for that little Test – And I said I want the head-down Parabola.
Why? – Because if you choose the head-up, it means you have reached your height. At the age of forty (40). The next thing is that you will be going down.
If you choose the head-down, it means, at 40, you are at your lowest. And you can only keep on climbing.
So He said to me ‘Okay, in that case, this table – something with all the Reverend, Dr, Bsc, Msc, PhD will have to go.
Because all those degrees are for the University. You want to serve me, you must become zero.
That is why I am Pastor today. That is why I am not Arch Bishop or Apostle.
The one who is going to burn must say like John, the Baptist said: ‘He must Increase while I Decrease’.
Are you really ready to Decrease that He might Increase?
Because if you call for Fire this evening, Fire will fall. I can assure you of that.
When Fire falls the way I know my Father will cause the Fire to fall, within one (1) week; you won’t recognise yourself.
Almost all the Problems you can have in this Ministry is traceable to Pride.
… It is only when you are Proud that you can be offended.
‘How can you do that to me?’
I have told my Senior Pastors before at least those of them that I have the opportunity of teaching Years ago, the word ‘humility’ has the same root as the word ‘humus’.
Humus means soil, black soil.
To be humble means that you are on the floor for everybody to trample upon.
And you know anything about the soil; whatever you do to the soil, it doesn’t complain.
You dig it, you hammer it, you defecate on it; you urinate on it – Does it fight back?
Now, why not? – Because he knows that sooner or later, he will swallow you.
Are you ready to Pray?
You will spend the first two (2) minutes calling on God to send down Fire. And the rest of the minutes, you just Pray in Spirit and see the Fire fall.
Maybe I will give you at least fifteen (15) minutes to Pray.
It might be a little longer depending on what God decides. But I believe I have already done my job.
So if you want to Pray, it is up to you. You can Pray like a lady or Pray like a gentle man.
It is okay but if you really want to Pray, you Pray like a Warrior; you Pray like lions and lionesses because a day like this comes only once in a life time.
And I believe this is your time. So, it is over to you.
Talk to the Almighty God. Cry out to Him and say; ‘Just let the Fire fall on me’….
Thank You Father. In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Prayed – Amen.
Please shall we just lift our hands to Heaven as I Pray with you.
CLOSING PRAYER:
Father, in the Mighty Name of Jesus. I thank You because I know from the Foundation of the world, You knew we are going to gather here today.
You have heard the cry of Your children and You said in Your Words that if two (2) of us shall agree as touching anything we ask on Earth, it shall be done for us by our Father in Heaven.
My Daddy and my God, I am in Agreement with these Your children. Let the Fire fall.
Whatever it is going to cost, let the Fire fall.
These are Your Ministers; these are Your workers in this Land. The work here cannot be done by Oratory, it requires Your Fire Power. Please Lord, let the Fire fall.
You said in Your Words that You will Baptise us with the Holy Ghost and with Fire. Please Lord, that Baptism of Fire, in the life of everyone of us, do it again today.
Let the Fire fall. And take all the Glory for it.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
God bless you, you may please be seated.
Thank You Father. We all know that we are Ministers of God and you don’t come to His Presence empty handed.
So, I will hand over to whoever is going to take the Offering.
I hope I will be seeing you again maybe during the Ordination Service later tonight.
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