FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN – PART 26: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE – SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE, 15TH OCTOBER, 2023.

SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE

TOPIC: FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN – PART 26 (CASE STUDY OF JOSHUA (PART 13) – “SILENCE PRECEEDS A SHOUT”)

MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

DATE: 15TH OCTOBER 2023

BIBLE TEXT: JOSHUA 6:10

Let Us Pray!

SONG

We give Glory to the Lord He reigns
We give Glory to the Lord He reigns
He reigns, He reigns, He reigns
We give Glory to the Lord He reigns

OPENING PRAYER

Father Almighty, we Worship You.

We are saying Thank You very, very much for giving us yet another New Week.

We Thank You for all You have done for us in the Past; we Thank You for what You are doing right now and we Thank You for what You will do in Future – Please, accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.

Thank You for Yesterday, Thank You for Today, Thank You for Tomorrow and Thank You because we have a God who is always Constant; a God who is always “I Am” – Please, accept our Worship in Jesus Name.

Today, in a very, very Special Way; speak to us, encourage us and Lord God Almighty, give us Peace.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

We are now moving on to Part 26 in our Series: “For Whom The Heavens Open” using Joshua as our Case Study.

And our Bible Text is Joshua 6:10:

And Joshua had commanded the People, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word Proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

We had already looked at:

I. The Instructions given to Joshua by the Representative of the Lord of Host; how the battle is to go.

II. We have been told that the People are to go round the Wall of Jericho once a Day for six (6) days and then on the seventh (7th) Day, they were to shout.

And God had Prophesised that “The Wall” will come down that Day.

III. We had discussed a little bit about the Theology of Numbers: 1, 2, 3 on and on up to 7.

IV. And now, we have Joshua taking over from where we are now.

And in Joshua 6:10; Joshua had Commanded the People saying – Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word Proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

The Angel had come and had done his own job – Now, the Captain of the People (Joshua himself) now took over.

He told the People – You are to go round the Wall once a Day for six (6) Days and on the 7th Day, you are going to shout.

But those Days when you are going round once a Day; “Shut your mouth” – When it is time to shout, I will tell you.

Again, we have a Section of the Scriptures that is loaded with meaning.

But today, we will just take one aspect of this Passage to bring a word of Encouragement to Someone.

I believed that the Sermon of today is for Someone in Particular – I believed that God wants me to tell Someone: “SILENCE PRECEEDS A SHOUT”.

Whoever that Fellow may be – God wants you to know that:

1. Darkness come before Light!

In Genesis 1: 1-3; in the very Beginning when God created the Heavens and the Earth; there waa Darkness before God said: Let there be Light and then there was Light.

In John 9: 1-7; there was a Man who was born blind and he was blind for forty (40) years before Jesus Christ came on the scene and Changed his Darkness to Light.

In the same John 9: 24-25; when some People were arguing about whether or not Jesus Christ was actually a Sinner or not; the blind Man said, whether He is a Sinner or not I don’t know but I know one thing: Whereas I was blind but now I see.

Whoever you are Struggling with the Present situation you have found yourself; my Daddy wants me to encourage you – After Darkness, there will be Light (Amen).

2. At the very Beginning when God created the Heavens and the Earth, the Bible says that first, there was Confusion.

It says that the Earth was without Form (Confused) before God said: Let there be Light and then Order came.

There is Confusion before Order!

In Mark 5: 2-20, in the Story of the Mad Man of Gadara.

Because of Demonic Activities in the Life of that Man, he was in Confusion – He was cutting himself with stones and doing things that will normally destroy him.

But after Jesus Christ came on the scene, the Bible reports that when the crowd came; they found him in his “Right Mind”.

That means he was in his “Wrong Mind” before – He was confused. But he is now seated, dressed and calm.

The Man ended up becoming an Evangelist for the Almighty God.

Are you in a Confused State right now? Then this Message is for you from the Almighty God that “Order is on the way!” – Amen!

3. The Bible tells us that at the Beginning when God created the Heavens and the Earth, the Earth was not only without Form but it was empty.

But after God said: Let there be Light; suddenly everything that you can think of, that was created later on came in Multitudes – Fish was Multitude in the Sea; Bird was Multitude in the Air; Animal was Multitude on the Land.

Therefore, Emptiness comes before Fullness!

In Luke 5: 1-7; Peter fished All-Night and caught Nothing until Jesus Christ stepped in. And all of a sudden, he caught so much fish that his boat cannot even contain them all.

He (Peter) was Empty before but now Overflowed!

When you read 1 Samuel Chapters 1 and 2; you will found out that Hannah was barren – She was Empty!

But by the time we get to the end of the Story, she had six (6) children – She was empty before but later on become Full.

Are you Empty?

You are listening to this Message or reading now on the Label of DMC – Are you Empty Physically, Materially or Maritally? In the Name that is above every other name, your Emptiness will soon give way to Fullness – Amen!

4. The Evening comes before the Morning!

In Genesis 1:5 and throughout the rest of Genesis Chapter 1; the Bible kept on telling us: “And the Evening and the Morning, first Day, Second Day et cetera et cetera.

God’s Day starts in the Evening!

So, that is Good News for those of you who might be weeping right now – Psalms 30:5 tells us clearly that: Weeping may endure for the Night, Joy Cometh in the Morning.

So, if you are in Sorrow right now, I have Good News for you because “Silence Preceeds a Shout”; your Joy is on the way!

5. The Almighty God made it clear in His Words that Crisis Preceeds Triumph.

In Isaiah 43:2; He says that if you are Passing through a River, it is not going to Overflow you; if you are Passing through Fire, it is not going to burn you.

In 2 Kings 4: 1-7; the Widow of the Son of the Prophet was about to be swallowed by Death – She was about to loose the two (2) sons that she has left but the Almighty God Intervened.

Are you in Crisis? You are coming out – Amen!

In Daniel 3: 1-end – Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were definitely in Crisis. The devil Planned something terrible, knowing fully well that these boys are not going to bow to Compromise to any Idol.

He (Devil) arranged for them to be thrown into the Fire, seven times hotter than before because they refused to Compromise.

But you know what? They came out of the Fire to be Promoted.

Are you in Crisis? Very soon, you will be shouting for Joy – Amen!

6. At times, Death comes before Ressurrection.

In John 11: 1-44; when Lazarus was sick God knows as Jesus Christ was informed. But the Bible says that He waited for four (4) days before he started coming.

When they were reporting the situation to Him – They told Him that “That Man thou loveth is sick”. But He still waited.

Because when finally He called him out of the Grave after four (4) days – Oh, I wasn’t there but I’m sure that there must have been lots of shout Hallelujah that Day.

Are you going through a Period of Sorrow? Very soon, in your family there will be shout of Hallelujah – Amen!

7. Lost always come before Gain.

In John 12:24; the Bible tells us that except a corn of wheat falls into the Ground and die, it abides alone. But if it dies, then Multiplication begins.

God knows what He is doing – He is working out His Purpose out in your Life.

It might be a Period of Silence but a time of shouting will soon come – Amen!

8. But you need to know that “Total Surrender” to the Will of God, must come before you can begin to experience this Promotion.

You need to Study the case of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in Philippians 2: 5-11.

You are admonished to follow His Example – That He went down steadily in Obedience to God till He died on the Cross.

But at the end of it all, He got a Name that is above every other name – That at the Name of Jesus Christ; every knees should bow!

In 1 Kings 19: 19-21; Elisha surrendered all to follow Elijah.

He was the son of a Wealthy Farmer, he was going to inherit a very Wealthy Business but he surrendered all.

And in 2 Kings 2: 1-15; he (Elisha) was given an opportunity to Change his Mind three (3) times but he refused.

At the end of the Day, the one who became a Servant of a “Homeless Prophet”; became the father of all Prophets in the Land,

… You have to go down before you can go up!

When you read the Story of Esther – You can read the entire Book as it is a very beautiful Book. It will be a Good reading for a Sunday Afternoon.

Situation got to a Stage where Esther had to say in Esther 4:16 – She said: I Surrender; if I Perish, I Perish.

But she didn’t Perish because you can’t have God on your side and still Perish.

At the end of the Day in Esther 8:1; she inherited the house of her Enemy.

The Bible is clear – The Wealth of the Wicked is stored up for the Righteous.

9. Every Child of God must know that before any Testimony, there will be a Test!

There are some People who tried to Play around with the word Testimony.

They say: A Testimony is the result of the Test that I had and now here comes my Victory!

In 1 Kings 17: 8-16; the Widow of Zarephath was given a Tough Test.

You have one Meal left for you and your son to eat and die and the Man of God said: Go and cook but give me a bit of it first.

It was a Tough Test but she Passed the Test.

And for the next three years Plus, she had a Daily Testimony.

It does not matter what you are going through now – Weeping may endure for the Night but Joy is coming in the Morning (Amen).

10. And the Greatest Encouragement that I want to give you from this Passage today is that: It doesn’t matter how terrible your Past had been, it does not Stand in the way of a Glorious tomorrow!

In 1 Timothy 1:15; Paul described himself accurately as Someone who used to be a Chief among Sinners – But that was in the Past,

Later on, he was to write in 2 Corinthians 11:5 – He said that I am a Chief among the Apostles.

He had a “Horrible Past”, but he had a “Glorious Future”.

Don’t let the Devil ever tell you that you have done so many evils that Gid can never make use of you again!

He can use a Murderer, He can a Kidnapper and He can use a “419 Man” for His Glory.

All you have to do is to hand over your Life to the One who Controls tomorrow – And your Weeping may endure for the Night but Joy comes in the Future!

Today might be the Day of Silence in your Life but tomorrow, there will be shout of Hallelujah!

ALTAR CALL

And so, I’m calling on those of you who has not yet surrendered your Life to Jesus Christ – The only thing standing between you and your Present terrible situation and a Glorious Future is a Total Surrender to the One who is both the Alpha and Omega; the One who Controls Times and Seasons; the One who said I am the Alpha, the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending and the One of whom it is written: Christ in you, the Hope of Glory.

You Surrender your Life to Him today, you might even end up becoming a Great Evangelist for God.

But the Choice is yours – You can stay in the Dark or Cross Over to the Light.

If you want to Change your Mind and Cross Over to the Light of God, bow your Head now.

Cry to Jesus Christ for Salvation – Ask Him to save your Soul, ask Him to take over your Life and ask Him to give you a Brand New Beginning.

And I will Pray for you and He will save your Soul.

Let Us Pray!

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

And so my Father and my God, I want to Thank You for Your Words.

I Thank You for that Particular Person that you are encouraging today.

I Thank You for those who has heard this Message and they want to Surrender their lives to You.

Father, Please receive them, save their Souls, have Mercy on them, let Your Blood wash away their sins and give them a Brand New Beginning. Don’t let them ever go back to the world.

And my Father and my God, I’m Praying for all Your Children listening to me today or reading now on the Label of DMC – Those who are Particularly going through a Rough Time; I Pray that though they may be in the Period of Silence now, their shout of Joy will come very soon.

Thank You my Father.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

Now, I want to rejoice with those of you who has given your Life to Jesus Christ:

As usual, I want you to contact me as soon as Possible because I want to be Praying for you – I want your name, your Address and your Prayer Requests and I Promise you that I will be Praying for you.

And then contact the Pastor in any of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Churches near you – Tell him you have given your Life to Jesus Christ and he will tell you what to do next.

God Bless You!

Let Somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!!!

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