PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE- SPEND TIME WITH THEM(PART 3) SPECIAL BIBLE STUDIES DALLAS.

SPECIAL BIBLE STUDIES ON THE REVIEW OF THE OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE 2024

VENUE: RCCG THE AMERICAS CONTINENT 1 @ THE RCCG REDEMPTION CAMP DALLAS USA

REVIEWER: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

TOPIC FOR THE DAY: SPEND TIME WITH THEM – PART 3

DATE: WEDNESDAY, 19TH JUNE 2024

BIBLE TEXT: 1 TIMOTHY 3: 1-5

DMC NOTES: Are you a Pastor or Minister of the Gospel or even a Parent now or To-be – Then this is a Sure Bet for you not only to read but ruminate over!

1 Timothy 3:1-5:

1. This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work.
2. A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3. Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

Let me start by appreciating all your Contributions and quickly make one or two Comments on them before adding my own.

In Africa, they have a saying: When you cane a child with the right hand, you embrace him with the left.

In other words, you will let the child knows that I’m doing what I’m doing because I love you!

You don’t cane a child with the Intention of destroying him.

You cane with the Intention of making sure that in the Future, this must not be repeated.

We discipline our children so that they will not go through the horrors that we went through.

A child considers even the flame of fire as a “Beautiful Occasion”.

Occasionally, you will need to let the child touch the fire to know that there are certain “Beautiful Things” that can hurt him.

I have heard some People say that: Let the children sell their wild oats.

My answer is: Then they will reap wild oats.

And by the time they are reaping the wild oats, many atimes it is beyond repairs.

DMC NOTES: The Phrase: “Let the children sell their wild oats” literally means: “Let the children have many Sexual Relationships Particular when Young” – Engage in Youthful Indiscretions before settling down.

Let that Fellow sow wild oats:

☆ Let her get Pregnant in High School.

☆ Let her visit the Abortion Clinic and have her Womb taken out.

Then that child will Curse you for not holding firm to say: “This is the way that you must walk in it”.

No matter how expensive a car may be, no matter how beautiful and Powerful the Engine may be; if it has no brakes, that car won’t reach home.

So, Thank God for Africa!

And God bless America!

The Bible Passage that we read (1 Timothy 3: 1-5) is clear – “You want to be a Bishop, the Conditions are clear:

You sit yourself down – The Word of God is a Mirror. Then you ask yourself Questions – I wrote down about 14 Qualifications.

Let’s take a look at some of them:

1. Blameless – That is a serious one.
2. Monogamous – That could means different things in different Places.

Some People are Monogamous – They marry today and 6 Months after they are divorced. Then 7 Months after, they are married to another Person.

They say that as long as there is only one woman in the house – So, they considered themselves Monogamous.

3. Vigilant – I hope you know what it means.
4. Sober – Very Interesting! Is it Possible to be Sober and yet shouting Hallelujah?
5. Good Behaviour
6. Hospitable – Some of us don’t know that sometimes in being Hospitable, we end up in Entertaining Angels.
7. Apt to Teach – This doesn’t mean that he should know how to teach but he must be eager to teach.

That is where many of us failed!

If you ask my children, they will tell you that I use every available opportunity to teach them a Lesson.

My son (DMC NOTES: Pastor Leke Adeboye – Alufa Lima) was Preaching during The RCCG June 2024 HGS and he was telling the Story of when we were travelling and we got to a Police Check Point and the Police stopped us.

And while they were finding out from us what was going on, and we were trying to give them tracts and they were saying to us that is it tracts that we are going to eat? This is Chriatmas Period o.

Suddenly, a Trailer was coming on Full Speed and one of the Police went and stood in his way – “With the Authority of the Federal Government, I say: Stop”.

And the Trailer Driver – Either he didn’t see the Policeman or the brake didn’t catch; just kept on coming.

When the Policeman saw that this Man is going to crush him, he jumped into the bush and the Trailer just flow Past.

And everybody started Laughing.

And immediately, I saw an opportunity to teach my children the difference between Power and Authority – He has the Authority to stop that Fellow, but when Authority fails you need Power.

You are a Policeman, you have the Authority to stop Robbers but then if your Equipment is a Revolver and his own is an AK-47, if you are a wise Police Officer, you will call for Back Up.

You have the Authority, he has the Power – Somebody will win or you end up a “Dead Hero”.

That’s why Today Topic is: “Spend Time With Them”.

When they are little ones, when they didn’t know too much; I began to teach them African Proverbs – The meaning of this, the meaning of that et cetera.

When they now get to Secondary School and they are far away from home; whenever I visited them, I ask them to come along with me – Let’s take a walk.

And as we are walking, I will be Traching them.

I remembered one occasion that I showed them from the Bible that the father of Moses was a Levi and the mother of Moses, was a daughter of Levi.

When a father is a Priest, and married the daughter of a Priest; then the Product is bound to be Acceptable to God!

I’m just giving you the illustrations of the kind of Teachings that I gave to these children when they are little, little kids.

Because you will look into the Future and you will see where Christianity is going:

There are Preachers today who are Preaching that there is Nothing wrong with you having more than one wife. And they are trying to quote one Passage or the other from the Bible.

Spend Time with them – Teach them because a time will come when they won’t listen.

Train a Child in the way he should go, when he is Old, he won’t be able to depart (DMC NOTES: Proverbs 22:6).

Now, let me give my own Contributions:

There is a Popular saying that if you Pay Peanuts, then you hire Monkeys!

If your Salary is small, then the People you can hire are likely to be “Not Highly Qualified”.

God Pays Highly – You can’t find a “Better Employer” than God!

God Pays Tremendously for Serving Him!

1. Exodus 15:26 – You are under my Employment and you are Obeying me; I will make sure that you will never fall sick.
2. Deuteronomy 28: 1-13 will tell you that the Salaries that God will Pay – He will Pay you very Good Salaries and Beautiful Bonuses.

☆ It talks about Blessings Pursuing you and Overtaking you.

☆ It talks about you being the Head and not the Tail.

☆ It talks about you never Borrowing – He Pays so much that you will be Lending to Nations.

☆ He says that you are on my Employment, Enemies that tries to come against you; by the time I finished with them, they will come in one way and flee seven ways.

So Somebody who Pays that Highly, does not employ “Wishy Washy” (DMC NOTES: “Wishy Washy” is Someone who is Indecisive or not taking Firm Standing on something).

He insists that you want to work for me, you have to be Highly Qualified.

That’s why you see so many things – You must be Blameless, you must be this, you must be that.

I mean: It is just like an Advertisement – There is a Vacancy for a Bishop/Deacon; then if you think that you qualifies, then apply.

And He tells you the Qualification – You see because like Employee so will be the Employee.

You tell me where you work, I can have a rough idea how Qualified you are.

You can’t tell me that you are a Professor at University of Harvard and I will compare you to a Professor in one of the Mushroom Universities.

Before you can become a Professor in the University of Harvard, they would have checked you upside down.

I think it’s Princeton University or Yale University (DMC NOTES: Both situated in USA) that they have a saying that – We don’t Produce Sub Standard Graduates.

Meaning: If you are Passing through this College, by the time you come out; everybody will know that this is an Harvardian.

If the Product is going to be Someone that the world will respect, then the Professor must be over there – Top, Top.

In 1 Peter 1: 14-16; the Bible made it abundantly clear: As He that has called you is Holy; so be ye Holy in all manner of your Conversation.

Why? It is written: Be Holy for I am Holy (DMC NOTES: 1 Peter 1:16).

In Matthew 5:48; it is written: Be ye therefore Perfect even as Your Father in Heaven is Perfecf.

So, don’t just look at the Qualifications, look at the one who is employing you.

So if God says that you must be Patient; it is because He is Patient – If He is not Patient, how many of you will be alive today?

What God is saying is that if you go out and you say that you are my Employee; then everybody will say: You are Welcome – No further Questions and no Query.

But the beauty of all that I see here is that – Whatever God expects from you He Supplies the Ability:

1. He says that I want you to be Clean and Blameless.

And He Supplies the Blood of Jesus Christ to wash you Clean.

1 John 1:7 says: The Blood of Jesus Christ Cleanses from all sins.

You want to be Clean? Hey, come; I have made the Provision!

2. In Mark 2: 1-12; you will see something very interesting there.

There waa a Man carried by 6 People and completely helpless. They laid him at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ and He said to him: Son, I say unto you, “Rise Up and carry your bed and go”.

In other words, He said – “I want you to be Whole”.

This Man was Completely Helpless but as soon as He spoke, as soon as the Fellow tries to see if he could get up; he got up.

Who Supplied the Strength? – The One who spoke!

3. When you read Exodus 14: 15-28; when He said to Moses: Hey, why are you crying unto me? Tell the children of Israel to move forward.

Lord, there is an Ocean there?

All I just want you to do is just to Stretch your hands across the Sea and I will make a Way for them.

What happened? God sent the East Wind.

Is it the hand of Moses that Splitted the Sea?

No! The One who says: Stretch your hands knew what He will do to make sure that what He expected will happen.

4. Moses was leading the Children of Israel. They got to Marah and they found out that the water was not Sweet and so they couldn’t drink it (DMC NOTES: Read this Story in Exodus 15: 22-25).

What was it that God said to Moses?

Hey, that tree? Take a branch of it, throw it to the water so that the People can drink it.

Ask yourself the Question – Was it the day that Moses got to Marah that the tree grew?

God knew that the Children of Israel will come – They will get to this Place:

☆ They will be Thirsty.

☆ The water will be Bitter.

☆ They will need a Miracle.

And so, He made Provisions even before they got there!

So, when He says: Be Blameless, be a Man of Good Report, be this, be that – Everything that you need to become what He wants you to become He has Prepared!

5. I mean look at Exodus 17: 1-7 – Again the People became thirsty and God said to Moses: Hey, look at that Rock? Go and Strike it.

How come the Rock was there – So Strategically Placed.

And was it the Striking of the Rock that Produced the water? No!

6. When you read Daniel 3: 1-end – When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego said that we are not going to bow. Our God who we serve is able to deliver us.

They knew that God had spoken before in Isaiah 43:2 – You Pass through the Fire, it won’t burn you.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego says: Hey, we will go into the Fire because we serve a God who will not fail us.

Did He failed? No!

7. When you read Philippians 4:13; you find it written there that: I can do All Things. How? Through Christ who will Provide the Strength.
8. David said in Psalms 18:35 – It is His Gentleness that makes me Great!

If God has not been Gentle with you, you won’t even be saved.

9. Jesus Christ said that: No Man can come unto me except my father draws him (DMC NOTES: John 6:44).

You are not saved because you want to be saved – You are saved because Daddy draws you!

Whether you believed it or not – Before you are Born Again; God knew that you are going to be saved!

Read your Bible – He has Chosen you in Him before the Foundation of the world (DMC NOTES: Ephesians 1:4).

So, if He says: Adeboye, I want you to be “Extremely Humble”; I want you to be more Humble than any Humble Person the world had ever known.

And you suddenly see Adeboye being Humble!

Don’t give the Credit to Adeboye – The One who is Producing the Fruit has been there working!

It is not the tree that Produces the Fruit – What Produces the Fruit comes from the Ground!

The tree is just there as an Example of what God can do when He wants to do the Miracles.

The only Point that you need to know in all of these:

Because if you read all the Qualifications and if you read up to Verse 7 (1 Timothy 3: 1-7); you will see more. And you will say for just one Person, all these Qualifications? How is he going to cope?

The only important Point in all is – “If He says I want you to be Perfcect, just say Amen, I am willing!

Don’t argue with Him, don’t tell Him that it is not Possible or don’t tell Him that I am Ordinary Flesh.

If He says: “Be Holy for I am Holy” – Just say: Amen, I will be as you want me to be.

Isaiah 1:19 says: If you are willing and Obedient, you will eat the Good of the Land.

But if He says: “Be Holy” and you say: No, that is not Possible, afterall I’m Ordinary Flesh. Then He will say then you won’t be Holy.

If He says: America can be saved through the few of you here. If you say: Amen Lord, we are willing.

When you read Luke 1: 26-38 – That is where an Angel appeared to Mary and says: You are Favoured of the Lord etc. You are going to have a Son.

And Mary asked: How can these things be since I don’t know a Man?

That is not your Headache – The Almighty God will work the details out.

The Holy Spirit will Overshadow you et cetera, et cetera.

Mary said: I don’t understand what you are saying but “Be it unto me according to Your Words”.

Meaning: I am willing, do the rest – That’s all.

I am sure that I gave you the definition of Holiness years ago – Holiness as far as God is concerned is on a different scale.

Holiness as far as you are concerned is “Simple Obedience”.

That is why People ask me – How can you be talking of Holiness as if it is an easy thing?

That is the easiest thing in the world – No Struggles!

PERSONAL PRAYER POINT

Your Prayer this Morning will be – Lordm let it be unto me according to thy Word!

Go ahead and talk to Him!

FINAL CLOSING PRAYER

Father we just want to Thank You for Your Words.

Thank You for bringing us together even as we are approaching your Ministers’ Conference 2024 (DMC NOTES: The RCCG The Americas Continent 1 Ministers’ and Workers’ Conference 2024) with the Theme: “GLORY AHEAD”.

We believe You Lord God Almighty that Nothing is “Too Hard” for You – You can make our Future Glorious.

We Trust You Lord and so we are Simply saying: Lord, we are willing and by Your Grace, we will be Obedient and our Future will be Glorious.

Thank You Father!

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!!!

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