FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN – PART 57 -RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE – PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE

TOPIC: FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN – PART 57 (THE POWER OF CHOICE)

MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

DATE: 27TH OCTOBER 2024

BIBLE TEXT: JOSHUA 24: 14-15

Let Us Pray!

SONG

You are the Mighty God
The Great I am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You are the Mighty God
The Great I am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

OPENING PRAYER

Father Almighty, we give You all Glory and Honour.

We bless Your Holy Name because You are the Almighty – You can never fail, You have never failed before and you will never, never fail.

Father, we are glad that we are Your Children – And we know that with You on our side, Oh God we are More Than Conqueror.

Accept our Worship in Jesus Name.

Today, once again in all our lives, Please Prove Your Almightiness, Solve all our Problems and let all be well.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

Well, greet one (1) or two (2) of your Neighbour and say: It is going to be well with you in Jesus Name.

And then you may Please be seated!

We are about to begin to bring to a Close our Study of the Life of Joshua – The one we have selected as a Case Study of a Person: “For Whom, the Heavens Opened” as we reach Part 57.

And our Bible Text this time will be Joshua 24: 14-15,

Like I said, you might wonder why are we jumping? Why don’t we take every Chapter one by one?

Well, because there are other things to Study – And if you have been Studying a Particular Book for more that 50 Weeks, I think that we may have to move on.

In Joshua 24: 14-15 – Joshua had gathered together all the children of Israel.

Now, he was very old and he knew that the end was near and he has spoken to the Children of Israel.

You can read the whole Chapter 24 – A very beautiful reading.

But then in Verse 14 and 15, he now says:

Joshua 24: 14-15:

14. Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in Sincerity and in Truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 
15. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Two (2) important Points are what we will dwell on in this Particular Bible Text.

I. Oh, we could have said: Why don’t we talk on: “Fear the Lord” – That will be a very Good Topic.

☆ Afterall, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.

☆ Aftterall, there are tremendous benefits that are available only to those who fear the Lord.

II. Or we could look at: “Serve Him in Sincerity and in Truth”.

III. Or we can look at: “Put away the gods which your father served” – Get rid of the idols your Parents served.

But we just want to look into two (2) important things:

1. CHOOSE – Choose you this Day whom you will Serve.

And we want to talk about the Power of Choice.

Why? Life is all about Choices and the corresponding Reparcautions of Choices.

Whatever you are today, is Primarily the result of what you Choose yesterday!

For Example: If a Student us very Good in Secondary School in Physics, Chemistry and Biology; depending on the Choice of that Pupil, he could end up a Medical Doctor or an Engineer – Determine which type: Mechanical, Civil etc.

Oh, he could end up bring a very Good Teacher – He can even become a Professor: A Professor of Physics, Chemistry or Biology.

And even if he Choose to do Medicine, he could still end up a Dentist or another Section of Medicine.

For Example, in Genesis 25: 29-34; Esau was asked to make a Choice between food and his Inheritance based on him being the first born – He Choose food.

When the time of Blessings came in Genesis 27: 1-37; because he has already sold his Birthright, the One to who, he sold the Birthright was the one that got the Blessings.

So many atimes, we heard People say that Jacob stole the Blessings of Esau – No! He didn’t steal; Esau sold the Blessings years before.

It is important for us to know:

☆ What we Choose yesterday is what made us what we are today.

☆ And whatever we Choose today, will determine what we will become tomorrow.

2. Now, it will interest you to know that Biologically you have only two (2) Options in Life – Every Choices is only between two (2) Options: Light and Darkness.

As a matter of fact, if you see a Big Computer working, you see the whole thing blinking – And what is happening is that the Computer is just Choosing between two (2) Things – “Light On” and “Light Off”.

Life is only made up of two (2) Options:

☆ Up or Down.

☆ Forward or Backward.

☆ Right or Wrong.

☆ Blessing or Curse.

But what if you decide to Stand Still?

The moment you Choose to Stand Still, it means that you have Chosen to go backwards.

How can that be?

If a Child is in Form 2 this Year and he is in Form 2 again Next Year; he has already gone backwards.

You said: How come?

His Classmates had already moved on to Form 3 and his Juniors in Form 1 had caught up with him.

You can’t Stand Still – A Choice to say that I Stand Still is a Choice to say: “I want to go backwards”

☆ It is either Forwards or Backwards!

☆ It is either a Choice between Obedience and Disobedience,

☆ It could be Sickness or Health; Joy or Sorrow; Success or Failure.

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

Compare that to Isaiah 1:20 – If you say that I am not going to be Obedient, the Bible made it clear: The sword will devour you.

Isaiah 3:10 says: Say ye to the Righteous that it shall be well with him.

Compare that to Isaiah 3:11 – Woe to the Wicked, it shall be ill with him.

Now, if you Choose Obedience because you have to Choose today; the Blessings that will follow you are many – Read Deuteronomy 28: 1-13; and you will see all the Blessings lined up there when you are Obedient!

I. He says that you will Succeed in the City and you will Succeeed in the farm.

Do you know what that means?

You will Succeed in the office or in the farm if you choose to be a Farmer.

Genesis 26: 1-14 – God told Isaac: Stay in this Land.

If you use Mordern Language – Don’t “Jappa”. Stay here and do what I have told you to do.

He stayed, he sowed and you know what follows – The Bible said that he became Very Great. While everybody is shouting Famine, he was Growing and Prospering.

II. If you Choose Obedience, Part of the Blessings is that your Children will be Blessed – The Fruit of your Body.

Go through the Scriptures and you will find out that:

☆ Abraham was blessed and he became Great.

☆ And Isaac, the Fruit of his body became Very Great.

☆ Jacob, his Grandchild became Exceedingly Great – Genesis 30: 27-43.

☆ Even Esau, one of his Grandchildren; inspite of the fact that he sold his Birthright. But because he happened to be a Grandchild of Abraham, he became Significant – Genesis 32: 1-6.

Hr became so Great that he has four hundred (400) Bodyguards because of the Blessings that is upon his Grandfather.

III. If you Choose Obedience, Part of the Blessings is that you will be Secured – Security.

I will ask you to Please read Psalms 121: 1-8; and you will noticed that everywhere you go, your Security will be Guaranteed.

IV. You Choose Obedience, Part of the Blessings is that you will have Victory.

Psalms 23:5 says: God even Prepare a Table before you in the Presence of your Enemies.

Proverbs 16:7 says clearly that if a Man’s way Pleases God, He will cause even his Enemies to be at Peace with him.

V. If you Choose Obedience, you will have Abundance.

Read Malachi 3: 10-12 – It tells you that if you obey God, He will bless you so much that even Nations will be afraid of you because they will know that God is behind you.

Proverbs 3: 9-10; God says that you honour Him with your First Fruit of your Increase, He said that He will bless you and you won’t have room to contain it.

VI. Part of the Blessings of Obedience is Divine Promotion.

We all know that Promotion comes from God – Psalms 75: 5-7.

It is God who Promotes and He is the One who decides your Promotion.

When you read 1 Samuel 16: 11-13; you can see that God can go and get a boy from the Bush and make him a King,

On the other hand, if you Choose Disobedience; you will see the trouble that will follow:

I. Genesis 3: 1-7 – Eve disobeyed God, Adam disobeyed God and what was the result?

They found themselves Naked – The Glory of God departed from them.

Those who used to be robed in the Glory of God, began to wear leafs.

You want to see Signs of Disobedience? Maybe you don’t know that in some Nations of the world, some Ladies get arrested for running Naked on the Street.

They want to see how far they can run before the Police will catch up with them.

When you decide to disobey God, you will expose your Nakedness and you will call it Fashion.

II. When you Choose Disobedience, read Deuteronomy 28: 15-end – It is Frightening but Please ensure that you read it all.

If you Choose Disobedience, what God says will follow you is Frightening!

III. In 1 Samuel 15: 1-29; the Bible tells us of what happened when King Saul will not even obey God fully,

He Choose not to obey God fully and he lost his Kingdom

It is better to Choose to be on the Lord’s Side – Because you are either on His Side or you are not on His Side.

There is no way that you can be Neutral – You are either “For” or you are “Against”.

I will remind you of the Story of a Young Man called Levi:

In Genesis 49: 5-7; the Bible tells us that Levi has offended his father years before; and the father kept quiet, waiting for the Final Day when he was going to die – At the time when there will be no room to maneuver.

As he laid on his deathbed, he called all his children together and said to Levi – Levi, you will become Nothing and you will be scattered in Israel.

But then, a day came in Exodus 32: 25-26; when the Children of Israel were Worshipping an idol – Dancing naked before their Enemies.

Moses came from the Mountain where he had gone to collect the ten Commandments; saw what was happening and said: What?

So, he cried out to the People – He said that I know that there will always be a remnant: Which of you is on the Lord’s Side?

And the Bible says that all the sons of Levi gathered themselves to him.

God looked down from Heaven and said: Levi! You choose to be on my Side?

The Curse your father Pronounced on you, not only will I cancel the Curse, I will reverse it.

So later on, He told Moses in Numbers 3: 5-13 that Levi shall be mine.

The one that his father said will become Nothing, God said that he will be my Favourite and he will be my first born – Bring him near to me.

Because he Choose to be on the Lord’s Side.

Choose today to be on the Lord’s Side and He will reverse every Curse that is upon your Life and replace every Curse with a Blessing.

In 1 John 2: 15-17; the Bible says Clearly: Love not the world neither the things that are in the world.

Because everything that is in the world, if you love them, then it means that you don’t love God.

And the world is going to Pass away – All those things that you are Pursuing that will not let you serve God, they are going to Pass away.

It is only those who love God that will abide forever.

You know: When Jesus Christ was giving an Invitation in Matthew 11: 28-30 – When He said, come unto me all ye that labour and are heavily ladened and I will give you rest.

Do you know what He is asking you to do?

Choose between Rest and Burden – Choose between Rest of Mind and Troubles.

Choose between Light and Darkness.

Choose between Obedience and Disobedience.

The Choice is yours today!

And you have to Choose today – That is what Joshua said to his People: Choose you this day whom you will serve.

The Bible made it Abundantly clear – A Servant cannot serve two (2) Masters. It is either you love one and hate the other.

The moment you say: I don’t Choose Christ, you have already Chosen the devil.

If you don’t Choose Light, then you have Chosen Darkness.

If you don’t Choose Blessings, then you have Chosen Curses.

Why don’t you Choose to serve the Lord and you will see all the Blessings that will come along with it.

ALTAR CALL

So, if you are listening to me and you have not yet decided for Jesus Christ; you better decide today because by saying that I will delay my Decision, it means that you have already made a Choice that you don’t want Him.

And if you don’t want Him, you will continue to carry your burdens and you haven’t seen anything yet.

He says: Say ye to the Righteous, it shall be well with him. But woe to the Wicked, it shall be ill with him

What is your Choice?

If you Choose to be on the Lord’s Side, bow your Head now:

Ask Him to save your Soul and I will join my Prayers with yours and He will save your Soul.

And instead of burden, you will have Peace!

Let us Pray!

Cry to Him and say: Lord, have Mercy on me, save my Soul, I want to be on Your Side and I want to belong to You.

Just have Mercy on me.

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

Lord God Almighty, I just want to Thank You for Your Words.

I Thank You for Destinies that are being determined right now.

I Thank You for the People who are Choosing You now because by Choosing You, they are going to miss Hell.

Father, Please receive them, have Mercy on them, let Your Blood wash away their sins, save their Souls today Lord, write their names in the Book of Life, and receive them into the Family of God.

And from now on, anytime they call on You, Please answer them by Fire.

And all Your Children who are already on Your Side, Please Lord I Pray that they will never Choose to be on the Other Side.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

Well, I rejoice with those of you who have given your Life to Jesus Christ.

Please Contact me as soon as Possible and I Promise you to be Praying for you from now on.

Please go to the nearest Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) – Tell the Pastor there that I sent you and he will tell you what to do Next.

God Bless You!

Congratulations for making a Great Choice!!!

Thank you so much for staying all through to read.

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