BEYOND EXPECTATION (DAY 2: EVENING SESSION): PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE – RCCG MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE, 4TH AUGUST, 2023.
RCCG 2023 MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE (DAY: 2 EVENING SESSION)
THEME: BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 4TH AUGUST 2023
BIBLE TEXT: PSALMS 24:3-5
Let somebody shout hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Convention Hymn!
Don’t murmur, shout a really big hallelujah – Hallelujah.
Let’s sing some more to the Almighty God: Sing your own Song to Him again.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Worshipped – Amen.
Open your mouth and shout another Hallelujah – Hallelujah.
Father, let the Heavens hear our Hallelujah!
Father, let Hell tremble at our Hallelujah!
Father, let Fire Fall at our Hallelujah!
And let every Person door open at our Hallelujah!
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have worshipped – Amen.
Let somebody shout just one more Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
… And you may Please, be seated.
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT
- Tomorrow we will gather by 7am. That is if Jesus has not returned. If He returns then, there will be no need for Minister’s Conference because we will hold it with Him.
By 7am we’ll gather: come with your walking shoes.
You’ll Worship God from 7am to 8am. By His Grace and Permission we will join you by 8am. And if you don’t see me just go ahead.
- There is no Holy Ghost Service tonight, it will hold next Friday during the 71st Annual Convention.
Clean Hands!
Several years ago God spoke to me and said; one day Presidents will come here. That was at the time when we had one Military Head of State after another!
So He said we should build a house where they will stay when they come. I said, Yes Lord! And so we built what today is called the Presidential Lodge.
Several years past, no President showed up. Then my children said to me Daddy, your house is too small, we want you to move to a bigger house. Some said, the Presidential Lodge is there, you are a President yourself – Just move in!
… You see, your father is not a Prophet (I am a Pastor) but he hears from God once in a while!
Very soon Presidents arrived! From Former President Obasanjo, President Goodluck Jonathan, among others.
Why am I telling you this? Two (2) years ago I told the Pastors in Charge of Regions; I said let every Region begin to Farm. “Don’t ask for small Land, ask for big Land and begin to Farm!”
- There will be employments for Youths in your Farm;
- You will have food for your People;
- During the Convention, you will be able to bring something from your farm.
My children heard me, but very few of them obeyed! Today I say, how I wish my children would hear and obey.
I am just a Pastor, and I am not a Prophet. But I hear from God once in a while. I am going to ask you to Pray a Prayer for yourself;
Say Father, Please don’t let me lose what I have, in Jesus’ Name.
… Go ahead and Pray that Prayer!
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
I am telling you all these because God said this is a Solemn Assembly and not the usual Minister’s Conference.
I am not trying to draw attention to myself. I am sure you remembered the Testimony of one time I was visiting the East; an Elder made me visit his house. He said to me Sir, all I want you to do is come to my bedroom and lie on my bed.
It’s a strange request, but I agreed – I was already in his house, anyway! So I laid on his bed. He said, Thank You Sir. He had daughters of marriageable age who were not yet married.
So he said to them, come! The General Overseer has laid on my bed, each one of you jump on that bed. Months later, they were all married – Hallelujah!
A daughter of mine heard the Testimony and she wept! Why was she weeping? Because she remembered the years when I used to visit a Particular Place and I would stay in her house, sleep in the Guest room for days from Months to Month, years to years!
She said, Oh God, Daddy GO slept in my house but I never made good use of the opportunity. So you don’t know the Value of a thing until you have lost it.
Pray that Prayer one more time – Father, don’t let me lose what I have, in Jesus’ Name!
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Don’t worry, I am not going yet – Hallelujah!
But I am eighty one (81) years already. And like I said last Night (You can Request to read the full Text of that Message on the Label of DMC Only) – “Nobody knows the Minister’s Conference that would be the last.”
Learn to treat opportunity as something Special. I am an Ordinary man, but I serve an Extraordinary God. And whether you believe it or not, He made me a Promise when He called me into Full-Time Ministry – That He will always be with me.
I was afraid, how will I take care of my family? I was poor and when I became a Lecturer I thought I was finally out of Poverty. And He said to me Son, I will be with you!
He is with me, and I want to give you one assurance – It is where I stop that you will begin – Amen.
So don’t be anxious that I will go soon. Because I want God to take me higher so when you serve Him, you’ll go higher. I am not going yet, but I will go higher in Him.
I will want to beg you, from now one, when I give Instructions obey – Obey Completely and Instantly. It will be for your own Good.
Okay! Let’s say Amen tonight – Amen!
I want you to Pray – Daddy, don’t let this man hide anything from us!
Psalms 24:3-5;
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
When you read this Passage for the first time, what comes to your Mind is something you would call “Protocol”.
SONG:
Immortal God, Invincible God
Immortal God
How great Thou art.
So there is something called, Protocol.
When you visit a Governor or a President, and you begin to talk, you get up and say – Your Excellency, and you begin to introduce everybody. “Why don’t this People just let me talk?” They’ll tell you, “that’s the Protocol.”
The Passage says, “… Who hath not lifted up his Soul unto Vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.”
You can’t just go before the Lord, there are Protocols to follow – Something to be observed.
Clean Hands, Pure Heart. Now He went further to say, No Vanity – “Who hath not lifted up his Soul unto Vanity”.
You must not lift your Soul to Vanity.
WHAT IS VANITY?
The word Vanity actually means Vapour.
And you know what a Vapour is?
- Something that appears like Gas. Just for a while and then fades!
- Something that does not Last.
- Something that has no real Substance.
The Bible gives us several Examples of Vanity:
- Beauty is Vain:
Proverbs 31:30 tells us clearly, Beauty is vain.
Beauty is a Vapour – It doesn’t Last.
The Elders have a Proverb, they say: “the mouth of an old woman looks like she did not suck her mother’s breasts”.
In other words, the old woman of today was once a Brand New Child.
Vapour is something that doesn’t Last.
Beauty is vain!
That is why I pity those of you who marry for beauty sake.
- Youthful Strength is Vain:
Isaiah 40:30 made it clear, Even the Youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Human Strength is Vanity!
In 2 Samuel 21: 13-17, the Bible says David waxed faint.
The Giant killer also fainted in battle.
- Wealth is Vanity:
As Vapour, they don’t Last!
Proverbs 23:5-5 says, Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own Wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- Popularity is Vain:
Jeremiah 45:5 says, And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a Prey in all Places whither thou goest.
Those who say Hosanna today, will shout “crucify Him” tomorrow.
Popularity is Vain.
Some People won’t understand this Point; the Bible says in 1 Kings 19:19-21 that Elisha once had opportunity to be Great. And when the opportunity to let go of Wealth came, he released himself.
When you considered Moses, the Bible says he forsook his Wealth in Egypt and said he would rather suffer with his People (Hebrews 11:24-27).
Moses was raised a Prince, he was a Wealthy man. When he forsook all God said, I have made you a god to Pharaoh (Exodus 7:1).
1 John 2:15 days, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the Love of the Father is not in him.
… Everything in the world is Vanity. And the Bible says we should not Love the world!
INTEGRITY:
Integrity simply means, let your Yes be yes; and your No be no!
When you say something, it must be so.
According to Matthew 5:37 – But let your Communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Psalms 119:89 says, For ever, O LORD, thy Word is Settled in Heaven.
It is Yeah and Amen!
That is why He said if you want to walk together with Him, you must agree.
Amos 3:3 says, Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
… Who hath not lifted up his Soul unto Vanity, nor sworn deceitfully – Psalms 23:4
Matthew 6:24-34 says you should seek God first and His Righteousness, and just leave the rest for Him.
It was David that said in Psalms 37:25; I have been Young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the Righteous forsaken, nor his Seed begging bread.
It is not going to happen now!
Some years ago one of my children said Point blank: the Policy of the Redeemed Christian Church of God says Seventy (70) is the Retirement Age. My Daddy is Seventy (70) years and has not retired.
I said son, I have been Preparing for my Retirement since I was sixty (60)! And he said to me Sir, I am not going to retire.
… That my son came to me when he was sixty (60) and said, “Daddy, I want to Retire now”.
You don’t know tomorrow! So don’t always be in a hurry to speak. Only God knows what will happen the next Minute. There is no room for you to come to the Presence of God with Vanity. In His Holy Hills there is no room for lies; and there is no room there for deceit.
Because according to Revelation 22:12-15; it is stated clearly: For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
There is no room at all for Liars – Whether you call it White lie, Black lie, Business lie. No lie of any type can go to the hills of the Lord.
… For without are dogs … and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Psalms 101:7 says, He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
No room for liars there!
And this is not a joking matter – Majority of our so called Men of God still tell lies.
- Exaggeration is a lie.
- Flattering is a lie.
- Knowing the Truth and not telling it is a lie.
A Child of God should never lie.
I have told you the Story before – Pay attention! This is a Special Night.
I told you that I travelled to Ilesha (DMC NOTES: Ilesha is a town in Osun State Nigeria), came back – I was living at Surulere (DMC NOTES: Surulere is a town in Lagos State Nigeria). And I went to visit my father-in-the-Lord, then I remembered,/ that “you must not go to a Man of God empty.”
So on my way to his house, I bought some oranges.
When I got to his house, he asked them to peel some of the oranges for him. While he was licking he said, this orange is sweet, did you buy them on the road? I said Yes Sir!
And the Holy Spirit said to me son, you have lied? Because you know you didn’t buy it on the road from Ilesha.
I said, what does it matter? Road is road – Whether from Ilesha or Surulere. It does not affect the taste of the orange.
And the Holy Spirit won’t let me rest!
I Pray for everyone of you here tonight or reading now on the Label of DMC – Anytime you are doing something wrong, may the Holy Spirit not allow you to rest (Amen).
So I had to say to Papa, excuse me Sir, I bought the orange on my way from Surulere and not from Ilesha.
Papa said, hmmm! Holy Spirit. He was dealing with me!
When was the last time you lied or did something wrong and the Holy Spirit didn’t bother you again?
Do you know what that means? It could mean that He has forsaken you. He says no lie will enter into His Presence.
And it must interest you to note also, that you must Pay your Vows.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 says, When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no Pleasure in fools: Pay that which thou hast vowed.
Pay your Vows! Else you have no business going into the Hills of the Lord.
There is no room for fools in His Presence.
Why? Because, Psalms 14:1, The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth Good.
The fool is not different from the Hypocrite.
*A Hypocrite is someone who says like the world say – “Mo gbe joko”
(DMC NOTES: “Mo gbe joko” literally means “I manipulated his thoughts or views about a Subject matter. Another way to say in a Polish way that: I deceived him or her Successfully or lied successfully).
Job 13:16 says, He also shall be my Salvation: for an Hypocrite shall not come before him.
He went further to say in Job 34:30 That the Hypocrite reign not, lest the People be ensnared.
No Hypocrite is allowed in His Presence – So stop Pretending!
And why is God making coming to His Presence so difficult? – God does not want Unreliable Partners.”
Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in an Unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
“I want to be Your Partner” He will say, I don’t want Unreliable Partners!
You rely on a Pretender, in time of trouble, he will show himself!
Nobody wants to go to War with somebody you don’t trust.
Nobody is forcing you to be in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) – Go let us know how many of you remain.
So before you Pray tonight: God I want to come up higher; you need to know if you are welcomed! Because He is the One Who would say, you are Welcome.
If He does not Welcome you, you cannot force yourself on Him.
I know some of us want to go Higher; but are you Welcome up there?
Say Father, I want to come Higher, Please beckon on me to come!
You know that Story in Matthew 14:28-29; And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
When Jesus was walking on water Peter said, Master, is that You? Jesus said, Yes! Peter said, beckon on me. The Master said, come! Peter just jumped out of the boat.
Some Preachers have rebuked Peter; but in all, he walked on water before he began to sink. And I want you to know that he did what no one else had done.
The Lord has allowed me to share a little bit with you, my children, concerning the Future – You know, like I tell my children things to come and you say, Amen!
I am telling you one more time:
- I see a New Redemption Camp – More beautiful, much, much bigger, absolutely secured.
When I say secured, I mean a Witch would not be able to live here!
- But I also see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
The Older ones here or reading now on the Label of DMC would remembered – We were having a Convention at Ebute Metta (DMC NOTES: The National Headquarters Parish of RCCG).
A woman began to shout, Iya Lagbaja (Meaning the Mother of “So and So”), bring me my bag!
And the woman said, what do you need your bag for? She said, I am going home.
The other woman said, I thought you came for the Convention? Well, if you want to go come and take your bag by yourself. And she said, I can’t come inside, there is Fire there!
I see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) where when Witches fly over our Churches during Vigil, the Witch will fall down and die – Amen.
Not a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) where Hired Killers come to the Altar to kill our Pastors.
I see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG); where every Minister is a Flame of Fire!
I see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG); where every Workers can raise the Dead!
I see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG); where when they introduce you, everybody would want to touch you!
You know, like John the Revelator said – I see a New Heaven and a New Earth.
I see a New Beginning for us (RCCG as a Church) because there will be individual Revivals.
I see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG); where the Ministers would obey Instructions to details.
I see a New Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG); where People will not use Human Wisdom, but would rely on the Holy Spirit.
I see a New Beginning for all of you: but as we will learn on Sunday (Day 4 Evening Session) – Some will see the Fire but they will not see the Rain!
Pray and say: Father You have brought me thus far, I would restitute my ways, put right everything I have done wrong. I will clean up my hands and my heart will be Pure.
But Please Lord, beckon on me to come Higher. Because Father, I want to come higher.
Go ahead and Pray till you are satisfied.
Note: When you are going, do so quietly.
See you tomorrow if the Lord has not come. God Bless You!
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