IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE: PASTOR J.F ODESOLA – RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING

RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING

MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

TOPIC: IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE

DATE: 1ST DECEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: LUKE 15:11-23

Praise the Name of the Lord! We appreciate God for the rendition by the Choir. We Thank God for what they have done today; God has laid His hand upon them again.

The Lord will bless you Choir – Amen. The King of Glory will continue to Anoint you from Glory to Glory; from Honour to Honour – Amen!

And I want to appreciate my father in Lord for another Privilege – Daddy, I love you! Thank you for giving me this Privilege. And God of Heaven shall continually Anoint you, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

Shall we just Pray?

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We give You all the Glory
We give You Honour
We give You all the Glory
We give You Honour

Praise God – Hallelujah
Praise God – Amen;
Praise God – Hallelujah
Praise God – Amen!

OPENING PRAYER

Eternal Father, we want to give You Glory, we want to give You Honour, we want to give You Praise!

You are the One that is Worthy to be Praised, You are Worthy to be Adored. What a Mighty and Glorious God we serve!

We want to appreciate You for the Privilege to come and connect to Digging Deep again today.

Thank You for the Miracles and Wonders You have done over the few weeks and Months – We want to say THANK YOU.

Thank You for Healing, Thank You for Encouragement, Thank You for Correction, Thank You for Comfort, Thank You for Reprove. We just want to say THANK YOU!

… Lord, accept our Thanks in the Name of Jesus!

Everyone who has written for Prayer – for Healing, for Breakthrough, for You to make ways where none exists; I Pray You will answer all of them today. There would be Testimonies that will replace their requests in the Name of Jesus.

Father, I commit myself to You today again; I don’t know anything but Privilege has been given to me by my Father in the Lord.

I Pray that I will not do Violence to Your Word; that everything I will say today would bring Glory to Your Name.

Thank You my Father, we Worship and Adore You. Blessed be Your Holy and Lofty Name.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Praise the Name of the Lord – Hallelujah!

Today we are going to be looking at: IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE.

…Or you can call it: In MY Father’s House; in YOUR Father’s House.

And I am going to read from Luke 15:11-23.

And it says:

11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

The Lord bless the Reading and Hearing of His Word, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

In YOUR Father’s House, in MY Father’s House, in the HOUSE of the Father.

The Bible talks about a man who had two (2) sons – One of them went to his Daddy and said: “The way I’m looking at you daddy, you will stay long before you die! I want my portion now.”

… And the Bible says, he divided unto them.

In this Particular story, there are so many things that jump on us:

• You see the Story of Self-Righteousness of the no Prodigal son.
• You see the story of the Prodigal son, the brother of the prodigal son.

But I will be looking at that Particular Passage from: “MY FATHER’S HOUSE” Perspective.

And I have a Father – The King of Glory is His Name;The King of Kings; The Lord of Lords.

Because the Story is referring to God the Father; the Father of Mankind – That is my Father!

The Creator of the Heaven and Earth. The One Who orders the heart of Kings and President. The Commander of the Kings of the Earth, He is the Eternal King – That is my Father!

The Only Creator Who was not created; the One Who spoke Light into existence. The Sovereign; the One Who sits at the Apex Court of Heaven and does justice according to His righteousness.

He said the hair on my head is numbered – Not counted!

So, when a strain falls, they are numbered.

He counts the grains of sand on the Seashore – That is my Father!

And I can speak of Him Proudly.

Heaven and Earth cannot contain my Father – The entire world is His footstool.

In Psalms 24:1; the Bible says: “The Earth is the Lord’s, and the Fullness.”

So the Gold, the Silver, the Oil that People are contending with belongs to my Father!

My Father is the Great I AM, the Unchangeable Changer, the One that cannot lie.

And Jesus also allurded to that, when He was talking in John 14:2.

He said: “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”

… We are not talking about that today!

But we are looking at it from the Perspective of this Story in our Bible Text – Luke 15:11-23.

In verse 12 (Luke 15:12); the Father divided for them – The young man took his Portion, and off he went!

It is okay to ask for your Portion; but the bad thing the young man did was the fact that he moved Away from the Father!

And when you MOVE AWAY from your Father, you are OUTSIDE His Control; you are OUTSIDE His Protection; you are OUTSIDE His Guidance.

… So, he departed from the Presence of his father!

You can also listen to the audio here: In The Father’s House – Pastor J.F Odesola

Let’s mention SEVEN (7) THINGS – the EXPERIENCES of the Prodigal Son OUTSIDE of his Father’s House.

And I’m going to tell you SEVEN (7) THINGS that you will EXPERIENCE when you STAY in your Father’s House.

No! Christianity is LIFE!

And that is why you need to put your life in it. That is why everything about you should be woven together and used to the Glory of God.

THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PRODIGAL SON OUTSIDE HIS FATHER’S HOUSE

1. His first (1st) Experience is found in Luke 15:13 – “And there wasted his substance with riotous living.”

Anyone who leaves his Father’s Presence would SPEND EVERYTHING.

… This man spent everything!

All those who leave the Presence of God, all those who depart from their Father’s House would always waste their Lives; waste their Time, waste their Potential, waste their Resources.

All those who depart from their Father’s House live “Wasteful Lives” – They waste Time, they waste Money, they waste Talent, they waste Destiny!

And at the end of the day, they never make headway in life.

What is the essence of the wealth you are gathering, when you are not Planning to make it to Eternal Life?

What is the essence of the wealth you are gathering, when you are not Planning on using it to Impact Lives?

… He WASTED everything!

Maybe you are reading this Message now on the Label of DMC, you believed you are in the Presence of your Father, but you are no longer there! You have veered away like the Prodigal son – God loves you – it’s time to come back home.

People who are OUTSIDE their Father’s House WASTE EVERYTHING.

God of Restoration is calling you to return home today.

Remember He says in Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.”

Anyone who leaves his Father’s House will live a wasted life.

That is why it is not ideal to remain a sinner.

And if you are Born Again, stay in the Presence of your Father.

2. The second (2nd) Experience of that Boy is found in Luke 15:14 – “And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in WANT.”

When you are OUTSIDE of your Fathers’s Control, you are WITHOUT RESTRAINT.

It is only when you are outside your Father’s House that you spend ALL because outside your Father’s House, you are OUT OF CONTROL.

You know People go into sin today – They steal at will without any feeling of guilt.

Some others commit adultery and fornication without any remorse whatsoever.

And still go to Church, they say they are lifting up Holy hands: with adultery and fornication, stealing, cheating and defrauding others.

… Because there is no RESTRAIN.

This young man, the Bible said, went outside his Father’s House and he lost everything because his Wise Father would have advised him.

3. In that same Luke 15:14; ‘he began to be in WANT.”

Those who are OUTSIDE their Father’s House are NEVER SATISFIED – They are always in the “Wanting State”.

He began to be in Want of WISDOM, he began to be in want of PEACE, he began to be in want of JOY, he began to be in want of HEALING, he began to be in want of CONNECTION, he began to be in want of SOCIAL LIIFE.

Because he had Left his Father’s House, he began to be in want of ORDER – His Life was without order.

All those who are outside their Father’s House, are in the “Wanting State” – The State of LACK;

But God is our sufficiency – According to -2 Corinthians 3:5.

That is why you must remain in your Father’s House.

Psalms Chapter 36:8-9 says: “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of THY HOUSE; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy Pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.”

It’s only in the Father’s House you can be abundantly satisfied!

Outside your Father’s House, OH – LACK – Lack of Protection, Lack of Joy, Lack of Satisfaction and the likes!

… Void, emptiness. He began to be in WANT.

4. In Luke 15:15 – “And he went and joined himself to a Citizen of that Country;”

*All those who are OUTSIDE their Father’s House will always be JOINED TO STRANGERS – Strange People would always be their companion.

How can you, a Believer because you have waited so long before marriage; you now pick a spouse among the daughters of Jezebel, among the sons of Belial? – Joining yourself with strangers!

Those who leave their Father’s House asocciate with strangers!

And because of that, they begin to have “Strange Experiences”; demons find expressions in their lives.

Outside your Father’s Hous, outside your Father’s umbrella – strangers will torment and afflict you.

There are some of you, because you are outside the counsel of God; you have joined yourself together with strangers.

Please, take Note: There is nothing Good that will come out of Unholy Association;

Just one stranger can destroy your life; and one Good Fellow can turn your life around.

• Just like Elijah turned around the life of Elisha.
• Moses turned around the life of Joshua.

The meeting of Joseph with Pharaoh took him from Prison to the Palace.

When you are outside your father’s house abuse is inevitable.

Strangers will use you abuse you and dump you.

The Prodigal son used to be very rich but when he joined strangers he became Poor – The strangers trained him and finished everything he had, and left him empty. And he started feeding pigs.

You are out there reading this message from the Label of DMC and you are feeding swine; because you have departed from your father’s Presence.

It is not the Will of God for you to feed swine. You are feeding swine; relating with People that had no Value to your life.

5. In Luke 15:15 – “And he sent him into his fields to feed swine.”

Anyone OUTSIDE his Father’s House will be living in SERVITUDE.

He became a servant!

All those living outside their Father’s house will always be servants – Servant to the devil, servant to all those who ought to be their servants.

… Servant to those who are less than them!

They will be doing “Odd jobs” – Jobs that don’t bring dignity to their life.

And he was feeding swine in order to feed himself.

No man gave him food, because all those living outside their father’s house will do jobs that are not clean; make sure doing jobs that doesn’t bring Glory and Dignity to God;

Jobs that demean them into the lowest state of their lives.

And they will always be servant to the Devil.

6. Luke 15:16 – “And no man gave unto him.”

Anyone OUTSIDE his Fathers’s House will always live in LACK.

In other words; he lacked favour because he wasn’t in the Presence of God.

It is only when you are in the Presence of God that you can have favour.

And favour is what adds flavour to life; favour is the mother of Destiny.

When favour speaks over your labour, destiny is certain.

But outside your father’s house there is nothing; he began to be in lack!

So outside the Presence of God there is no favour.

… Let me mention just one (1) more.

7. Luke 15:24 – “For this my son was dead, and is alive again;”

OUTSIDE the Father’s House is a place of DEATH.

That is why the Bible says: The wages of sin is death!

All those who are not in the Presence of God are dead even though they seems to be living.

But they are dead and they are lost, until they are found.

That is why it is very important as you are reading this message now on the Label of DMC you must arise like the Prodigal son – He said I will arise and go to my father!

Maybe you need to do that today because in your father’s house are Plenty of buddies. Please come to yourself as the Prodigal son did.

He reasoned within himself I said I will arise and go back to my father and he arose and went.

I Pray today the hand of God will reach out to you – Amen!

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES YOU WILL HAVE IN YOUR FATHERS’ HOUSE?

1. You will experience VALUE.

I wonder how my life would have been without God – Outside the Kingdom; living with an Herbalist as a young boy. Learning the art of making charms as a young boy.

But thank God who took me out from that Place and singled me out; because in your father’s house you have VALUE, you have DIGNITY and you are respected by the devil.

When the father saw him coming, the father saw him as a “Valuable Person” – And the father ran to meet him.

You have value in your father’s house!

Come to God, stay with Him. You have value at home!

The Grass is always Greener out there, but look well because the more you look the less you see.

No wonder the Bible says we are Precious to God.

Isaiah 43:1-3 talks about you being Valuable and Precious.

.,. In your father’s house you are Valued.

Romans 5:8 says: “But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

2. You will experience LOVE and COMPASSION in your Father’s House.

In Luke 15:20, his father kissed him and had compassion on him.

… Which is a Sign of Love.

And Jeremiah 31:3 says: “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

3. In your father’s house you experience the BEST.

You experience the best of Life, best of favour best of Material things.

Luke 15:22 says: “But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:”

It is your father’s house that can get you the BEST.

A man that has been feeding with pigs – Oh Thank You Jesus!

The Bible says in Jeremiah 29:11 – I know the thoughts that I think towards you the thought of Peace not of evil to give you a Hope and an expected End”

In your father’s house you experience the BEST.

No wonder as you read the Pages of the Bible, it talks about: I will supply all your Needs. That is in Philippians 4:19.

3 John 1:2 says: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest Prosper and be in Health, even as thy Soul Prospereth.”

Deuteronomy 28:1and 13 says: “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:”

THE BEST because your father has the Best.

4. In My Father’s House you will experience PEACE and FULLNESS of JOY.

In the world we are living today People run here and there because they lack Peace.

There are People when you meet them on the street all you have to do is make them roll up of their shirts you will see all kinds of charms.

Why do they do that?

It is because they lack Peace. They are living in terrible fear and fear has torment.

And God has not given us the spirit of fear – 2 Timothy 1:7.

I have asked myself – The People stealing the money meant for the masses; why are they doing that?

Some of them have enough money even if they are cooking money as food; their Generations to come cannot finish it. Yet they are still stealing.

Because they feel there is no security for them which is caused by lack of Peace.

So, they are living in fear – Maybe the money will finish.

… Why will it not finish? – Whatever you steal will finish!

Any wealth gathered will suddenly depart. It will become Poison and bite the fellow.

*In my father’s house you experience Peace: You travel in Peace, return in Peace and Joy, you sleep in Peace.

Why some People cannot travel until they have made some marks and incantation.

Psalms 16:11 says: “Thou wilt shew me the Path of life: in thy Presence is Fullness of Joy; at thy right hand there are Pleasures for evermore.”

Psalms 29:11 says: “The LORD will give Strength unto his People; the LORD will bless His People with Peace.”

if you are not experiencing Peace Please take time to return to your father’s house.

Psalms 119:165 says: “Great Peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”

Isaiah 26:3 says: “Thou wilt keep him in Perfect Peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”

Peace Tranquillity in your father’s house!

5. In my father’s house you enjoy the REST.

Rest from all kinds of trouble: Rest from labour, rest from struggles.

Jesus is the Word from the beginning.

John 1:1 says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

And in John 1:14; the Bible says: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his Glory, the Glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father,) full of Grace and Truth.”

In John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”

Here is what Jesus said in Matthew 11:28:30 – “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

*In your father’s house you have rest of mind – Although many are complaining about lack of Properties; they are complaining about lack of this, lack of that! But you have Peace!

There are People who have waterbed but cannot sleep.

Thank God for those of us who have Peace in God. We have made our abode with Him.

Psalms 91:1 says: “He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Many are passing through real problems, but because of God – Even in the midst of the Problems they have Peace.

Some People when their phones ring they are afraid, when there is a knock on their door they are afraid – They are not sure of what happens.

Jesus says in John 14:1 – Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me…

I Pray today everyone that last Peace God will give you Peace in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

6. There is celebration and Merry Making in my Father’s House.

Luke 15:23-24 – “And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.”

… So in your father’s house there is Merry Making.

What are we saying?

God is not the God of sorrow – No!

Psalms 16:11 says: “Thou wilt shew me the Path of life: in thy Presence is Fullness of Joy; at thy right hand there are Pleasures for evermore.”

You know I have talked about Mentality in one of our Studies – In Life; there is a Mentality called “Loneliness Mentality”.

Everybody has it – Pastors, name it! Even Jesus had it.

He said can’t you Watch with Me for one (1) hour?

He was lonely!

At a Point, He said: “Father, I wish this cup will Pass over Me. But not my Will.

You see this loneliness of a thing, it is not because you are not married that you are lonely – No!

It is an experience of life which we must dealt with.

And to deal with it you must be accountable to somebody.

What I really want to talk about in today’s teaching is the fact that Jesus is also a Social Person- He has a Social Mentality.

You cannot see – You believe in Christ and you are not social.

He was invited into a Marriage in Cana of Galilee in John 2 and he went with his twelve (12) Disciples and his mother.

Jesus attended a Marriage ceremony but there are some People who don’t attend events – You don’t attend the death of elderly People, they don’t go to Housewarming, they don’t attend Naming ceremony.

No merry making!

And we have been told by Researchers that those who have the Social Mentality live happier, they live longer they live healthier. And they enjoy life more than others.

… So there must be Merry Making!

7. In my father’s house there is ABUNDANCE.

In Psalms 36: 8-9 – “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy Pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.”

There is an ABUNDANCE; God is called Almighty –
Genesis 17:1.

Many men are mighty God is the ALMIGHTY – El Shaddai more than enough.

God said to Moses in Exodus 3:14, I AM what you declare I AM – the God of Breakthrough, God of Healing.

No wonder that Jesus said in John 10:10 – “I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.”

My question to you as I round up: Are you in your Father’s House?

Anyone who leaves his father’s Presence will be in wants and will be tormented, take a less dignified Position; will lack Wisdom; no one will come to his Help; he will be joined to strange People.

But when you are in your father’s house – You enjoy Liberty, Love, Joy, Peace, Rest, Abundance. You will enjoy Healing, the company of people, Fellowship.

And that is why I want encourage you; if you are backsliding come back home and if you are playing Church it doesn’t Pay you.

Enjoy Christianity, enjoy Life!

… And you can only enjoy it in God!

What is the essence of having money without Peacs? Having money without Good Health? Having money and your children are on drugs and you yourself you are on drugs?

What is the essence of the Popularity when in the secret you are living in pain – Crying all through the night?

But God can handle it for you today!

Matthew 11:28 says: “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

If you are already having the rest of the Lord, don’t let Him leave your Presence.

… Let’s bow our heads as we Pray!

ALTAR CALL

If you want to give your life to Christ I want to Pray with you – Just bow your head and say: Lord Come into my Life; wash me with Your Blood. I am willing to serve You, give me the Strength to serve You.

And if you are already Born Again tell the Lord: Increase my Peace let me stay Permanently Perpetually in Your Presence.

… I will Pray with you!

CLOSING PRAYER

Father Thank You for this Word.

I ask you before I came to this Podium and You gave me the Word.

I have said a few things that you want me to say and I asked that everyone giving their lives to you today you save them.

And anywhere they are across the Globe or reading now on the Label of DMC; let the Word work in their lives in the Name of Jesus!

And for ALL the People who are already Yours; we Pray that they will stay glued to Your Presence; they will never leave their father’s house.

And for those who have left their father’s house: Heal them today, bring them back and Restore them Permanently – Never to go out again away from you.

And let all of us serve You and make it to Heaven.

Thank you Father. Blessed be Your Name.

In Jesus’ Most Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

God bless you!

It is very important and it is key if God has done anything for you please let us know!

OFFERING AND PRAYER OVER OFFERING.

Let’s give our offering – Your Service is incomplete without giving an offering.

So, I will Pray on your offering and you drop it.

Father Eternal we Thank You for this offering.

Bless everyone giving, may they never lack Good things of life.

Let them have money in major currencies of the world, and let the Name of the Lord be Mightily Praised.

Thank you because you have done it!
Glory, Honour be to Your Name.

In the kingdom of the Righteous; count us worthy to reign with You.

In Jesus Name we Pray – Amen!

God Bless!

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