GOING HIGHER [PART 33]: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE – SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE, 10TH OCTOBER 2021
SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE
TOPIC: GOING HIGHER – PART 33
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 10TH OCTOBER 2021
BIBLE TEXT: 1 KINGS 18:41
Let Us Pray!
SONG
Immortal God
Invincible God
Immortal God
How Great thou Art
… Repeat!
OPENING PRAYER
King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Ancient of Days, the Unchangeable Changer; we worship You.
Thank You for Your Faithfulness, Thank You for Standing by us all through all these Years; Thank You Almighty God because You will continue to be with us – Please, accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.
Our Lord and our Saviour, as Your Children gather together again to hear Your Words today; we Pray that the Power that is in the Word will go out to them, bring Salvation, bring Healings, bring Deliverance and bring Joy.
I Pray Lord that as a result of today’s Service, there will be many Testimonies.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
We are now at: “GOING HIGHER – PART 33”.
And our Bible Text will be 1 Kings 18:41.
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a Sound of Abundance of Rain.
When you are a Younger Christian and you read a Passage in the Bible; you just simply enjoy the Story and move on.
Like in 1 Kings Chapter 18; we enjoyed the Story of Elijah calling down Fire from Heaven.
We may even get a Song to go along with it:
The God that answereth by Fire
Let Him be my God
The God that answereth by Fire
Let Him be my God
But as you go Higher in the Lord, you begin to look at each Story to see: Are there Lessons here for myself.
I mean for example: As you begin to grow Higher; you look at 1 Kings Chapter 18 and you begin to say: Oh, there are Lessons here.
Lessons like: One with God is a Majority et cetera et cetera.
But as you go Higher still, you begin to look at every Verse in the Bible with the intention of gaining something there for yourself.
Now, if you had been with us since we started this Series several weeks ago by now; you can see already how much can I gain from a Single Verse.
DMC NOTE: The Series on “Going Higher” by Pastor E.A Adeboye actually started on Sunday, 13th of December 2020.
And to fully understand Verse 41; which we will be looking out for in a couple of weeks to come; you will need to go back to Verse 37 and read it all the way to Verse 40 because these are Verses that gave birth to Verse 41.
DMC NOTES: The Full Text of the Teachings that Covered 1 Kings 18: 37-40 are in the Parts 31 and 32 of the Going Higher Series. You may get to read the Full Text on these Links:
In Verse 37 for Example – Elijah was Praying and he said: Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this People may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
… That is important: You have turned back their hearts again.
It means that their hearts has gone astray; now you brought the heart back.
Then in Verse 38-39 of 1 Kings Chapter 18: Then the Fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt Sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the People saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, He is the God; the LORD, He is the God.
… And you see here that: When all the People saw Miracles, when they saw Signs and Wonders; they surrendered.
Just like Jesus Christ was going to say later on: Without Signs and Wonders, this People will not believe.
As a “Grown Christian”; you then begin to say: Maybe the reason why I’m not gaining too many Converts for God is because they are not seeing Signs, they are not seeing Wonders.
And so all of a sudden, you begin to hunger for Gifts – The Gift for the Working of Miracles. You want God to use you to do Signs, to do Wonders so that People will begin to surrender to God.
I mean that if you have grown up to the level of a Pastor, then you begin to say that: Maybe the reason why my Church is not growing the way it should grow is because there had been No Signs, No Wonders.
And suddenly, you begin to feel: Hey wait a minute; “Ordinary Preaching” might not do this job; maybe I need to cry to God to support my Preaching with Signs and Wonders.
And then of course, we come to Verse 40 which we have treated in the Past in some details: And Elijah said unto them, Take the Prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
And like we have learnt in some details in the Past on that; it means that everything that has to do with the devil (Big or Small); not a Single one must be allowed to stay in your Life.
Now, these are the Verses Preceding Verse 41.
Because Verse 41 started by saying: “And” – “And” is a Conjunction.
“And” is saying: As a result of what has gone before now – Elijah said to Ahab: Get thee up; eat and drink for there is a Sound of Abundance of Rain.
If you are approaching Verse 41 therefore as a “Grown Christian” who has gone Higher; then at least when we started you begin to say: What Lessons can I learnt from this Verse?
The First Lesson that I want to Point out to you there and there are quite a few of them is that: “GOD IS MERCIFUL”.
You say how do you see that in this?
Well, according to James 5:17: Elias was a Man subject to like Passions as we are, and he Prayed earnestly that it might not Rain: and it rained not on the Earth by the space of three Years and six Months.
There had been no Rain in the Land for three and half Years – Three and half Years without Rain.
And yet this People has been Preserved for three and half Years with No Rain? –
And you know what that means?
No Rain means – No Planting and if there was Planting, then no Harvest. And yet this People were Preserved.
Three and half Years when God was angry and yet in His Anger, something was there that kept the People alive.
Lamentations 3:22 says: It is of the LORD’S Mercies that we are not consumed, because his Compassions fail not.
… God is Merciful!
I mean that you can look at yourself straightaway and say: I am alive today because of the Mercies of the Lord!
It is not three and half Years yet, but consider almost two (2) Years of Coronavirus and you are still here!
… It is of the Mercies of the Lord!
If anybody had died through this Pandemic – It is not because you are better than they; it is because of the Mercies of the Lord.
And the Bible is Full of References to show that God is Merciful:
I. Exodus 34:6 says: The Lord God is Merciful and Gracious, Long-suffering and Abundant in Goodness and Truth.
Because inspite of everything that is happening – I mean some Nations of the world (Your own in Particular). Inspite of the sins, inspite of the bloodshed, inspite of all manners of atrocities, inspite of every Actions that seems to be saying: God if you are there, show your Anger and let us see?
Yet, out of His Mercies, because of His Long-suffering, we have been Preserved.
II. In Deuteronomy 4:31 – The Bible says: For the Lord God is Merciful; that is why He will not forsake thee nor destroy thee.
… His Mercy is still keeping Him Close Particularly to those who are His Children.
It is saying that:
A. We have done several things that could cause Him to say: I don’t want to have anything to do with you anymore but His Mercy will not allow Him to forsake us.
B. We have done so many things that could have caused Him to destroy us but His Mercy will say: Hey, don’t destroy them.
III. Psalms 103:8 says: Because He is Merciful, that is why He is Slow to Anger.
… Because He is Plentious in Mercy!
IV. Ephesians 2:4 says: God is Rich in Mercy.
That when God wants to talk about His Wealth; He doesn’t talk about Silver or Gold, even though His Street in Heaven is Paved with Gold – He talks about His Mercy.
… God who is Rich in Mercy!
V. Now in Romans 9: 15-16; we see that God still reserves His Sovereignty when it comes to dispensing Mercy.
He says: I will be Merciful to whom I will be Merciful.
… He has the Freedom to decide that.
Infact the Bible went further in that Romans 9 by the time you get to Verse 16 – He says: It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that showeth Mercy.
Meaning what? – Whatever you have ever achieved is not because you want to achieve it; it is not because you have the Ability to achieve it; it is because of the Mercy of God.
A. I mean consider Students in the same Class – You go to the University.
You go to the University because you are Above Average as a Student.
And yet some People won’t finish at the University; some People will spend Years in a Class until the University will say: Go!
Now, those who manage to get through in Record Times; according to this Passage, it is not because of their brilliancy but of the Mercy of God.
B. Consider the Traders – You go to the Market in the Morning (let say you sell fruits).
Your fruit is as good as the fruit of the next Fellow to you. And you found out that some People will sell within hours and some People will keep on bringing the same fruit again and again until they are rotten.
What is the difference? – It is the Mercy of God!
… Not of him that willeth, not of him that runneth but of God that showeth Mercy.
Now, He says that I will show Mercy unto whom I will show Mercy – It is my Freedom, my Sovereignty!
But again, out of the Mercy; He creates an opening for you to say: God You have to be Merciful unto me as if of Right!
How does He crerate the opening?
Matthew 5:7 says: Blessed are the Merciful for they shall obtain Mercy.
He says: If you can just show Mercy to others; then I have no Choice but to show Mercy to you.
He bound Himself through His Words saying: You be Merciful and whether I like it or not; I too must show you Mercy.
Which is why you find a very important Passage in the Bible – The first time that I read that Passage, I was turned.
Proverbs 11:17 says: The Merciful Man doeth Good to his “Own Soul” and the Wicked Man troubleth his “Own Flesh”.
I said: What am I reading?
I thought this Bible will say: The Merciful Man doeth Good for somebody else and the Wicked Man doeth wickedness to somebody else – No, No, No.
It says: If you are Merciful, you are doing Good to your “Own Soul” because by being Merciful, you are opening the door to receiving Mercy from God. But if you are Wicked, you cut off the Mercy of God from you.
… Isn’t that Wonderful!
And it is because of this Mercy of God that this People were Preserved!
That is telling us another thing straightaway: God does not want the death of a sinner.
This People deserved to die, they forsook God who brought them out of Egypt, their hearts turned away from Him, they began to serve idols.
And He warned them when He was bringing them out of bondage – He warned them: I am taking you out to a Land that is not your own; I’m moving the People there out of the way.
He says that when you get there, don’t follow their Examples: Don’t serve the gods that they served, don’t cause your children to Pass through fire, don’t deal with Witchcraft et cetera et cetera.
He said because this is what the People in the Land did that is causing me to drive them out for you – Learn from them. You are not the owner of the Land that I’m making available unto you.
Now when you get there, remember that I created this People the same way I created you; they misbehaved and that is why I’m moving them out – When you get there, don’t misbehave.
They got there:
I. They found houses that they didn’t built and began to dwell there.
II. They found Wells they didn’t dig and they began to drink from there.
III. They get fed and they were full.
And then, the very thing that God said: Don’t do; they started doing it.
That is why God said: Alright, let’s Punish them – For three and half Years, No Rain, No Dew.
But even in His Anger, in His Judgement; He remembered Mercy!
Isn’t that true of many of us!
When we were Nothing, God out of His Mercy brought us up, He Prospered us, He cause us to succeed while others failed.
And as soon as we became comfortable, what do we do? – We forgot Him!
But He says in Ezekiel 33:11 – He said that: I have No Pleasure in the death of the Wicked. All I want you to do is to repent and live.
Because He is Full of Mercy, whenever He sees Repentance, He turns round and say: Alright, No more quarrel – Whether as an Individual or a Nation.
- I mean for Example: In 1 Kings 21: 1-29 – It tells us the Story of a King who got somebody killed because he wanted the Garden of that Fellow.
The Fellow said that I am not selling my Garden, it is my Heritage.
And the King wife said: Don’t worry, I will get the thing for you – They Plotted against this Innocent Man and got him killed.
And of course, God got Angry and sent a Messenger to go and tell that King: You think I didn’t know what you did? You are in trouble.
The King heard that and humbled himself.
And the Bible says God sent the same Man of God to him and said: Alright, I saw what you have done, I saw the way you are now behaving; the Judgement will come but not in your time.
… That is for an Individual!
- In Jonah Chapter 1 – You can read the entire Book of Jonah (A Beautiful Reading with only four (4) Chapters).
God saw a Nation, Nineveh – Oh, a very, very terrible Nation (Probably more terrible than our own).
And said: Alright, before I Judge this People; let me send somebody to go and tell them: What you are doing, I don’t like it and trouble is coming.
Jonah finally got there, Preached to them and they all repented – From the King to the lowest.
And because they repented, God said: Alright, I Change my Mind – I am not going to destroy you anymore.
That tells us something you know: There is Hope for our Nation – If only we will repent, there is Hope for our Nation!
Because whenever Backsliders return, God will Heal – Jeremiah 3:22.
The moment this People fell on their faces and said: Jehovah you are God; He said that in that case – Rain fall.
The moment the link between them and the Forces of Darkness were severed; as soon as the Prophets of Baal were killed; God said: Rain is on the Way!
Which gives us a “Big Assignment”; which explains why as soon as you are Born Again; God didn’t take you to Heaven.
Why? – He needs someone who will go and tell the People: REPENT!
According to Ezekiel 33: 1-6 – He said: When you see danger coming, warn the People. If they repent as you have warned them, then they won’t Perish and you are in the Clear.
But if you don’t tell them that danger is coming and then the danger comes and the danger will still take them; then I will require their blood from your hand.
You must Witness – Whether to Individuals or to a Nation!
Ezekiel 33: 8-9 – You must warn an Individual. God says if I say to the Wicked you are going to die, warn the Wicked – If he repents, he will live. If he doesn’t repent and you have warned him, then he dies and it is not your fault.
You are saved so that you can bring Salvation to others.
In John 15:16 – He said: You have not chosen me but I have chosen you that you should go and bear Fruits and your Fruits will abide. Then your Prayers will no longer be hindered.
God has an Assignment for you Brothers/Sisters! – You are not supposed to just sit down there and begin to soak in the Words and do Nothing about it.
You are to cry out to sinners so that they can repent and live.
And you better hurry up beginning from today with every Members of your family that is not yet Born Again!
Why? – Because of something called: “The Law of Substitution”.
Proverbs 11:8 says: The Righteous is delivered from trouble but the Wicked goeth instead.
You are Born Again now, you are Righteous, you are a Child of God; if danger is coming your Way, you will be delivered – That one is settled!
But if any Member of your family is not Righteous, is not Born Again, is not Saved; when you are delivered, that Fellow that is so Precious to you but is not a Child of God will become the Substitute!
Don’t waste time – As soon as I finished Preaching now or after reading this Message on the Label of DMC; Pick your Phone if that Relative of yours is far away and begin to talk to him or her again and tell him or her: This is a serious matter; we are living in dangerous times, I don’t want any danger to come to you – Surrender your Life to Jesus Christ and do so now!
ALTAR CALL
Now, to those of you who are listening to me all over the world or reading now on the Label of DMC; I am crying to you now as a Watchman – Give your Life to Jesus Christ; there is trouble ahead.
But it won’t come near you if you are a Child of God – The Blood of Jesus Christ will make sure that when death is Passing by, it will Pass over you.
But you must surrender your Life to Him now – Even Right now!
Let Us Pray!
You bow your head wherever you are and cry unto the Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him to have Mercy on you and save your Soul right now so that when death is Passing by; it will see the Blood and Pass over it.
Ask Him to Please wash you Clean in His Blood now.
Promise Him that from this moment onwards; you will serve Him and Him alone.
Cry unto Him for your Salvation and I will Pray along with you even now!
PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER
My Father and my God, I want to Thank You for Your Words.
I want to give You all the Glory and Honour because You are a Merciful God – It is of Your Mercy Lord that we are not consumed.
Thank You for renewing that Mercy every Morning.
And Lord God Almighty; Thank You for those who has heard Your Words now and are returning to You for Repentance of their sins.
Please Lord, receive them, save their Souls, let Your Blood wash away their sins, Please Put their names in the Book of Life and when the trouble comes, let it Pass over them.
And I Pray that those of us already in You; we will never backslide.
And all Backsliders, who will return to You today; Father Please receive them back; heal them all.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
Now, I want to Thank God for those of you who has given your Life to Jesus Christ today.
I’m Rejoicing with you now and I want you to contact me as soon as Possible so that I can begin to Pray for you.
And of course, I will advice you to locate the nearest Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) to you and tell the Pastor there that you want to know more and he will guide you how to live your New Life.
God Bless You All – Amen!!!
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