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Strategies of Church Growth 13 : How To Achieve Comprehensive Church Growth | Rev. COS Fawenu

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  1. Don't be left in the dark. Get proper understanding of life

  2. through the Word of God. My people perish for lack of

  3. knowledge. The Word of God is an

  4. illumination which gives direction.

  5. Remain placed as Reverend was far and illuminates your mind

  6. with the Word of God with all simplicity and clarity.

  7. Strategies of church growth and last week we focused on

  8. dimensions of church groups. From the background of the

  9. understanding that church group is a multi dimensional concepts

  10. and that there are different dimensions to church groups, we

  11. itemized 4 dimensions. The numerical growth that is

  12. achievable by evangelization strictly by soul winning and

  13. trench planting. And the second dimension is

  14. spiritual growth. And we mention that that is

  15. achievable by effective discipleship.

  16. Effective discipleship. Thirdly, we also mentioned that

  17. the gospel, if it we advance and fulfill the global mandate that

  18. it was intended and designed to be.

  19. Financial groups can also not be overemphasized.

  20. I will mention that that is achievable by stewardship there

  21. infrastructural growth also very important and what we bring that

  22. to be is visionary leadership. So numerical growth comes by

  23. evangelization, strictly souvenir and judge planting.

  24. Spiritual growth comes by effective discipleship,

  25. financial growth by teaching the delivers to embrace still

  26. worship of their resources such that God that has provided

  27. whenever he makes a demand for the use of the resources he has

  28. provided for his war, we are willing to release it for God's

  29. use. And then infrastructural growth

  30. can come by reason of visionary leadership because even if the

  31. financial resources is there, it may not be properly applied.

  32. So it takes visionary leadership to also go into infrastructural

  33. development. And I did mention that the kind

  34. of infrastructure development that is required is one that can

  35. further help discipleship, OK, like schools, mission schools,

  36. where you have mission school is not for the financial benefit of

  37. it, but for the purpose of educating the younger generation

  38. in the right direction with the right curriculum.

  39. Praise the name of the law. And so today we're going to move

  40. on to now itemize about 10 specific strategies on how to

  41. achieve all sided church growth. So since we mentioned that

  42. church growth is multidimensional, so if we will

  43. not just be growing in one area and be slacking in the other

  44. areas, OK, certainly we must have a good knowledge of how to

  45. achieve comprehensive church growth such that the kind of

  46. growth we're going to be experiencing will be all sided.

  47. Now number one is effective by effective puppet ministry,

  48. effective puppet ministry of preaching and teaching the Son

  49. doctrine of Christ. So if church growth will be all

  50. sided, it's not going to be 1 sided if it's not going to be

  51. acromegaly. Acromegaly in the biological or

  52. medical balance is the type of roots that happen to just one

  53. organ and it grew out of proportion to other parts of the

  54. body. For instance, if your harm is is

  55. 1 yard length OK, your right hand is 1 yard length and then

  56. your left hand is 2 yard length, you know that one is already

  57. disproportionate to the pair that should that should be

  58. balanced. So it's going to be a kind of a

  59. disfigure type of growth. So if church growth will not be

  60. accommodally, if it's going to be all sided and balanced.

  61. So this 10 areas must be looked into.

  62. And the first one we're examining of the 10 is effective

  63. pulpit ministry, using the ministry to do what?

  64. To preach and to teach the holistic gospel, to preach and

  65. to teach the sound doctrine of Christ.

  66. In Acts chapter 6, OK, which has been our scriptural bearing to

    Acts 6 chapter mention

  67. drive the message of church groups, OK, you discover that

  68. the apostles there, the reason they decided to have separation

  69. of libel. OK was because they discovered

  70. that the pulpit ministry was already being negatively

  71. impacted and they have been distracted to attend to mania

  72. issues as against giving their full attention to the crucial

  73. issue of the ministry of the world and prayer.

  74. And so when issues of distractions came up, the

  75. disciple decided in Acts chapter 6, verse four, that but we will

    Acts 6 chapter mention

  76. give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of

  77. the world. We will give ourselves

  78. continually to prayer and to the ministry of the world.

  79. In other words, they prioritize their puppet ministry for the

  80. teaching of the Son doctrine of Christ.

  81. So when we talk about the ministry of the world, the

  82. ministry of the world is carried out through, or basically

  83. through preaching and teaching. They look alike, but they are

  84. not the same. So preaching and teaching

  85. complements, praise the name of the Lord.

  86. So by preaching we tell the people what to know and what to

  87. do. So when a preacher comes home to

  88. use the puppy, his mission, his purpose, his objective is to

  89. tell the people what they need to know and what to do.

  90. OK, But many at times you tell people what they need to know,

  91. what to do, but they don't know how to do it.

  92. So now teaching them how to do it or training people how to do

  93. it, that is teaching. Praise the name of the Lord.

  94. So it's like a marathon race. Preaching start the race and

  95. teaching complete the race. Am I talking to somebody?

  96. So in the ministry of the world, two basically are essential

  97. preaching and teaching. And by preaching we'll tell the

  98. people what to know and what to do.

  99. And by preaching the people are further instructed, OK and

  100. trained how to do what they have been told.

  101. So in teaching the people are further instructed and trained

  102. on how to do what they have been told.

  103. By preaching you are told by teaching you are trained.

  104. Hello, hello. So what preaching does is to

  105. introduce people to the faith. It is teaching that establish

  106. the believer in the faith. So preaching welcomes welcome

  107. you OK, and teaching establishes you.

  108. So by teaching the people are further instructed and trained

  109. to do what they have been told. So by preaching the people are

  110. introduced to the faith and so they become believers.

  111. And then the believers are established in the faith by the

  112. teaching ministry, by the teaching ministry.

  113. And I said it can be likely to hear lyrics whereby the

  114. preachers start the race, OK, and hand over to the teacher.

  115. But the same person who preached can also teach.

  116. I went together, I went together.

  117. So the apostles in Acts chapter 6, as was today, we will give

    Acts 6 chapter mention

  118. ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the

  119. world. And this is essential because

  120. the lifestyle of the believers also matter if the church will

  121. grow and the kind of teaching that a believer is receiving OK.

  122. We also inform how the believer will conduct himself or serve in

  123. the larger society. Are we following him?

  124. So to a larger extent, the individual, private and public

  125. life of the members of the Church, the believers of the

  126. church, will reflect the kind of spiritual diet the Church is

  127. serving for them to eat in an ideal sense.

  128. OK, except you are recalcitrant. Except you are an hypocrite.

  129. Am I talking to somebody now? The kind of life you live

  130. outside there. OK, Suze, give a signal to the

  131. people the kind of spiritual diet you are receiving in the

  132. church. So, but the big question is how

  133. many of you, OK are living what you are being taught?

  134. Are you not living contrary to the things you are being you are

  135. being taught? So let it sink down to you that

  136. to a larger extent, OK, your individual private and public

  137. life will reflect the kind of spiritual diet that you are

  138. receiving or that has been served to you from the pulpit

  139. ministry of your pastor. The second strategy that is

  140. required to make church groups well-rounded all sided effective

  141. is fathend and effective prayer. Fathend and what effective

  142. prayer still act Chapter 6, verse 4.

  143. In fact, we are going to follow this sequence.

  144. You will discord that giving prayer comes before the ministry

  145. of the world. The apostle said we will no

  146. relieve ourselves of this distraction and give ourselves

  147. to prayer and the ministry of the world.

  148. And of course it is said, and I buy into it, that a praise

  149. church is a growing church. A praying church is what a

  150. growing church, A church that cannot pray with taglets.

  151. And we saw the results in Acts chapter 6, verse 7, that when

    Acts 6:7

  152. the apostle decided to give themselves to the ministry of

  153. prayer and the world, the church grew exponentially, grew

  154. exponentially. So lending credence to the fact

  155. that a pray church is a growing church.

  156. A church that prays will grow. And of course, prayer is ghost

  157. number one instrument for every aspect of church work.

  158. For every aspect of church war, the number one instrument is

  159. prayer. Are you working on the pulpit?

  160. Are you working in the choir? Are you working in the technical

  161. room? OK, every aspect of church war,

  162. the number one instrument to carry it out effectively is to

  163. involve God. And how do you involve God?

  164. By prayer without him, Jesus said we can do nothing.

  165. So I do not have him with you always in all that you do.

  166. By prayer, by what? By prayer, by recognizing his

  167. sovereignty. So, and as far as God is

  168. concerned, we also also need to also know, OK, the balance and

  169. the balance is that prayer is not a stand alone spiritual

  170. exercise. So the fact that we have said

  171. that prayer is paramount, prayer is important, prayer is

  172. fundamental. And now all you do is just to

  173. pray and do nothing more. Reflect on some of the things we

  174. learned last week that is going to be wrong for us to want to

  175. hold a meeting, OK. And all we do is to lock

  176. ourselves off in prayer and fasting and releasing angels to

  177. go and bring the people we will. We don't do advance.

  178. We don't go from street to St. evangelism.

  179. We don't bring Flyers to invite people.

  180. And all we do is lock ourselves off in prayer and fasting as

  181. ordering angels to go and bring people from the east, from the

  182. West, from the north. It's good if you pray that

  183. prayer, but you must back that prayer up with action.

  184. Am I talking to somebody? So why we engage and embrace

  185. prayer? OK for effective ministry, we

  186. should understand that prayer is not a stand alone spiritual

  187. exercise. Prayer is an act of faith.

  188. But faith without war, the scripture says, is.

  189. What is that? It's dead, It's immobile.

  190. So. And when you study even the

  191. teachings and sayings of Jesus about prayer, OK, you will

  192. discover that Jesus also recognized the fact that prayer

  193. is essential, prayer is important, but that we must not

  194. take it as a stand alone instrument for spiritual and

  195. practical engagement. So watch and pray what the

  196. direct words of Jesus watch and do what and pray you may if you

  197. don't watch and you just jump into prayer, you may pray and

  198. miss Hello. If you don't watch and you just

  199. jump into prayer, you may do what?

  200. Pray and miss. Because in the way Jesus

  201. presented that saying he didn't say pray and watch, but he said

  202. what? Watch and pray.

  203. So prayer and work is a fundamental teaching of Apostle

  204. Paul, too. So we cannot do any Kingdom work

  205. without prayer. We can't do any Kingdom work

  206. successfully without prayer, however, and at the same time,

  207. we must not leave all Kingdom works for prayer.

  208. That is the balance. We can't do any Kingdom work

  209. without prayer. However, at the same time, we

  210. must not leave all Kingdom words to prayer.

  211. Can we move on church? Can we move on to #3?

  212. We must create conducive atmosphere for the Holy Spirit

  213. to govern the church, a church that will grow OK.

  214. Man must not be the CEO. The Holy Spirit must be the CEO,

  215. so conducive atmosphere must be created for the Holy Spirit to

  216. govern the Church, not only in the area of governance, but also

  217. for the manifestation of the diverse gift of the Holy Spring

  218. through His vessels to a church that we grew must not be

  219. monopolized. Maybe just by the senior pastor.

  220. We'll study in vision. Chapter 4, that the apostles,

  221. the teacher, the prophets, the pastor, I watch the evangelist,

  222. OK. They are the leadership offices

  223. in the church ministry, but their purpose is not to take the

  224. work upon themselves, but to train, to keep the general

  225. believers to do the work of ministry.

  226. So we are called labourers together with God.

  227. So the demonstration of the gift of the Holy Spirit must not be

  228. monopolized by just the pastorates.

  229. Hello, are we together? Not just a segment of the church

  230. member. In fact, in our age, OK, it is

  231. the age of prophecy fulfillment. Way back in history, the prophet

  232. Joel said in the last days God will pour out His Spirit upon

  233. all flesh, so and that spirit is being poured out.

  234. OK. Therefore, we must create the

  235. atmosphere, the conducive environment for believers to

  236. exercise the diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit.

  237. In Acts 13, verse one to two, that was where we first found

  238. serious. Transnational movement of the

  239. gospel. You know when Jesus gave the

  240. mandates in Acts chapter one verse 8, he said I will pour out

  241. my spirit upon all flesh. You will be my witnesses.

  242. Trust Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria to the uttermost part of the

  243. earth. OK, but in a way it didn't

  244. happen very quickly. Praise the name of the Lord.

  245. It didn't happen very quickly, but when it will start to happen

  246. in a very mega and the drastic proactive way was under the

  247. ministry of Apostle apostle Paul and Acts of Apostle chapter 13.

  248. OK signals that praise the name of the Lord, but that again you

  249. will discover it upon under a conducive atmosphere for the

  250. manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit, not just by one

  251. person, but by different people. That's one at 13.

  252. Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain

  253. prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was

  254. called Niggal and Lucius of serene and mana end, which had

  255. been brought up with error the tetrarch and shore.

  256. Then verse 2 as the minister to the law and fasted the only go

  257. said Praise the name of the Lord.

  258. So that phenomenal advancement of the Gospel, phenomenal growth

  259. of the church happen when the holy breeds said something and

  260. the Holy Ghost said separately Barnabas and so on for the work

  261. we are on to. I have called them and you know

  262. what happened without church in their vessels, church in

  263. Galicia, church in mentioned them.

  264. Blood So genuine power OK, and the growth will be well-rounded.

  265. So general power, ministry and manifestation of the

  266. supernatural must be encouraged. Why without science and wonders,

  267. there are categories of people who will never take the church

  268. seriously. Without science and wonders,

  269. some will not believe. And of course, our world is

  270. filled with countless situations that require supernatural

  271. interventions. So many things are happening in

  272. the world that require supernatural intervention, and

  273. only the Church qualify to manifest that dimension of

  274. supernatural manifestation. Don't let the Church OK is

  275. qualified to introduce that dimension of supernatural

  276. intervention. Say, Father, make me the

  277. instrument of supernatural intervention in every area of

  278. confusion that the world is going through.

  279. In the name of Jesus, receive power, receive grace, receive

  280. power, receive grace to work in the supernatural.

  281. In the name of Jesus in John 448 Then said Jesus unto him, Except

  282. you see signs and wonder, you will not believe.

  283. Praise the name of the Lord, you see your your evangelism will

  284. bring some people, your good conduct will bring some people,

  285. your charity will bring some people.

  286. But there are some people. The only thing that can bring

  287. them to Christ is signs and wonders.

  288. AM I talking to somebody? So let nobody castigate signs

  289. and wonder are you believe? Hello.

  290. Let nobody castigate science and wonder are you?

  291. Just follow them. The man that is teaching, thank

  292. God for his teaching. Are we together?

  293. The man that is doing charity, thank God for his charity.

  294. The man that is doing St. to St. evangelism and witnessing to

  295. people and they are turning to cry, Thank God.

  296. But the man that has been greased to also manifest the

  297. supernatural, OK, he has his own category of people that only

  298. science and wonder can compare to believe the gospel.

  299. Am I talking to somebody? So the growth of the church, if

  300. it will be well-rounded, conducive environment, conducive

  301. atmosphere, must be created for the full manifestation of the

  302. diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Himself.

  303. Affirming that there are categories of people who will

  304. never come to the faith except the see.

  305. Signs are wonders. But the unfortunate thing about

  306. our generation is that some of the things we call signs are

  307. wonder. Today they are nothing but

  308. shames and blunders. Hello.

  309. They are not about what Saints and blunders.

  310. So if you have to arrange the miracle is Saints and blunders,

  311. no science and wonder. So if you have to go out of the

  312. gospel and use mischievous means, demonic means

  313. manipulative means OK, So achieve miracle.

  314. OK, that is not science and wonder, that is shapes and

  315. blunders. Genuine science and wonder comes

  316. from the Holy Spirit and nothing else.

  317. And if the Lord decided not to make it happen, OK, you don't do

  318. anything to help it and make it happen.

  319. Am I talking to somebody? Yours is to pray, OK Yours is to

  320. announce that God can do it, OK? When he does it, the glory goes

  321. to him. If he didn't do it, he has his

  322. reason why he has not done it. You just move on.

  323. Am I talking to somebody? Mark 1617 and these signs shall

  324. follow them that believe not any particular OK senior category of

  325. church population, but them that believe in my name shall they

  326. cast out devils. This I speak with Newtons and

  327. verse 20, what he promised in verse 16 manifested and they

  328. went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord walking

  329. with them and confirming the word with signs following with

  330. signs the word following. So yours is to confess the Word.

  331. This is to confirm it every, every gracious thing you confess

  332. about Jesus, you will be there with you to confirm it in the

  333. name of Jesus. So take note of this.

  334. A powerless church is the caricature of the one purchased

  335. by the precious blood of Jesus. When a church is powerless, no

  336. any slight manifestation of the supernatural.

  337. When a church is operate just like a mere social organization,

  338. such a church where there is no testimony of the mighty works of

  339. God, OK things that God will do in the lives of the people and

  340. can be traced only to the power of God.

  341. Am I talking to somebody? OK, so such a powerless church

  342. is the caricature of the one purchased by the precious blood

  343. of Jesus #4 #4 when the growth of the church is well-rounded.

  344. OK #4 in such a church, there will be active involvement of

  345. the youths. Active involvement of the youth

  346. will be very, very feasible. We saw phenomenal growth of the

  347. church, transnational in the ministry of Apostle Paul.

  348. But one thing you also notice with Apostle Paul is that a work

  349. with many youths, he worked, he kept the company of youths that

  350. assisted in and we're going to find out so, so it is

  351. instructive to notice that Apple Support went around on his

  352. missionary journey with dynamic young men like Titus, like Luke,

  353. this man, I believe them to be young, middle-aged men.

  354. Look, for instance, as a doctor catered for his wound after he

  355. was tuned and left for dead at Lystra.

  356. You know, in the pursuit of his mission, his calling, he got to

  357. Lystra and then they rejected the gospel, rejected him too,

  358. and also wanted him dead. They stood him and left him for

  359. dead, but they dragged him outside the outside the city.

  360. A brief came on him and then he came alive.

  361. It was after that we started to notice that Doctor Luke OK was

  362. part of his mission. So certainly he puts to use to

  363. help him loss the wounds he succeeded.

  364. I mean he sustained from the persecution using his medical

  365. training. So Luke as a middle age young

  366. doctor was on his ministry team who catered for his one after he

  367. was stoned and left for dead at Nystra.

  368. Now this man OK went on to write one of the Gospel, the Gospel

  369. according to Saint Luke. He also wrote Acts of the

  370. Apostles praise the name of the Lord.

  371. And so it was a young man on the ministry team of Apostle Paul

  372. that did all of this. Then when you also track this

  373. ministry journey of Apostle Paul, you will also discover

  374. that whereas there are this, a senior man called Barnabas with

  375. him, but as they were going, they carry with them another

  376. young man called John Mack. An issue came up that made him

  377. to separate from John Mack for some for some time because it

  378. was not proven to be as useful as it ought to to be.

  379. OK, It was not proven to take on challenge of difficult Terry as

  380. expected that they used to be in the front, in the front line.

  381. So Apostle Paul was not comfortable with that.

  382. And for that reason, OK, he decided not to go with him on

  383. the second missionary journey. But at least for the start of

  384. his ministry, we found this young man John Mark on on team.

  385. And so whatever they were able to achieve in the first journey,

  386. certainly John Mark made some contribution, praise the name of

  387. the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.

  388. And eventually later, at the very advanced age of Paul, he

  389. also made a comment about John Mark that revealed that amplify

  390. OK is weakness above his strength because he eventually

  391. now discovered that he needed this John Mark, this young man

  392. that is separated from. So at advanced age, when Apostle

  393. Paul was about to lay down this world, he demanded for John

  394. Mark, a very vibrant young man whom at that advanced age he

  395. described as a man profitable for ministry.

  396. Hallelujah. So this was in spite of an

  397. earlier period of separation. In Second Timothy 411, he said

  398. only Luke is with me. Can we give it to Luke?

  399. There was no any time of breaking away.

  400. From the moment he joined Paul, even to the point when Paul was

  401. in the prison, he still maintained the relationship.

  402. The name of the Lord. Luke was not a fair weather

  403. disciple. OK, when things are going

  404. smoothly, they are there. What that crisis in the

  405. ministry? They fly around, they fly away.

  406. No, that was not Luke. So in second motion for a level

  407. in what you can term as a some of the paledictory writings of

  408. apostle Paul about to lay down this world.

  409. He has this to say about this young man Luke.

  410. OK, that join him and contributed effectively.

  411. He said only Luke is with me. Will you be that Luke that Luke

  412. that when your pastor look around and everybody has gone

  413. away. OK, you'll be able to say Luke

  414. is with me. I think this by this man Luke

  415. got the spirit of Apostle Peter when men left Jesus OK and Peter

  416. said we are not going anywhere only you have the word of life.

  417. May you be baptized with the spirit of Luke.

  418. You will not you will not break rank in the name of Jesus.

  419. You will not but light as we have this read about Luke.

  420. OK. We also have another young man

  421. called Demas. It was in this same text that

  422. Apostropos said they must left me because he loved this present

  423. word. Ayo ninja Oba le le le your

  424. lauru after Ayo ninja Oba le your lauru.

  425. I never see this way about Luke. He said only Luke is with me.

  426. People were about Fidel Sousile in me.

  427. You know Fidel Sousile. I don't know about you.

  428. I'm saying it about myself and you are still looking at me.

  429. You have a plan to go away is the reason you cannot say it

  430. about yourself. I knew you when he was writing

  431. this. Luke Paul was in prison and he

  432. can still look around and find Luke.

  433. And he said whole name Luke is with me.

  434. He was, he was, he was, he was a man expressing loneliness.

  435. And let me say, let me say this to you.

  436. Nothing destroyed the soul of the soul of a man like its

  437. loneliness. Nothing destroyed the soul, the

  438. soul of a man like what it loneliness.

  439. Our Lord Jesus Christ endured everything on the cross.

  440. The only one he complained about was loneliness.

  441. The disciple. I've deserted.

  442. I've deserted him. Are you with me?

  443. Then God himself turned his back to him momentarily.

  444. It was at that point, just say my father, my father, why art

  445. thou forsaken me? So nothing destroyed the soul of

  446. a man like what it's loneliness. So Apostrophe was going through

  447. loneliness. He was abandoned to himself.

  448. But thank God that he could look around and find Luke.

  449. But there was a test for him that he should still enjoy the

  450. company of this vibrant young man that he will hand over to

  451. who will continue after him. His test in second multiple

  452. level was not for Barnabas. Are we together?

  453. He said. Take Mark and bring him with

  454. thee, for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

  455. And of course you will also find out as you study or you track

  456. his ministry that the men he appointed as Bishop were young

  457. men. So he appointed younger family

  458. men such as Timothy and even titles as Bishop.

  459. OK. If you go to find out from

  460. scholars, it is believed that Timothy was likely in his late

  461. 20s to mid 30s when he was appointed Bishop of Ephesus.

  462. So a church that we grow in a well-rounded manner, he must

  463. prioritize the usefulness of the youth.

  464. So it is believed that Timothy was likely in his late 20s to

  465. mid 30s when he was appointed Bishop of Ephesus.

  466. Titles was also there. Titles served as Paul secretary.

  467. He also served as Paul interpreter when Paul had risen

  468. to send people to visit the different churches where he

  469. administer. You will find titles on on the

  470. team. So titles was also sent on

  471. crucial mission to churches and tradition gave us clue that he

  472. served eventually as the Archbishop of Crete after

  473. Apostle Paul dead. He was a young man on the team.

  474. So as we were providing these men, now give me one around Paul

  475. that was not a young man. So what is the lesson here?

  476. The lesson here is that to achieve effective church groups

  477. we must involve well discipled youths and we are not to despise

  478. them. We must involve well discipled

  479. youths and we are not to this despite their Apostle Paul used

  480. that approach and we saw the kind of phenomenal growth that

  481. the church experienced because he prioritized the involvement

  482. of well discipled youth. First Timothy Fort will let no

  483. man despise their youth. He was talking to Timothy

  484. because Timothy himself was a young man.

  485. For be thou an example of the believers in Word, in

  486. conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity,

  487. their writing to titles. OK.

  488. He gave the same admonition. Distance, speak and exhaust and

  489. rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

  490. However, today's youth must realize that this youth that we

  491. are talking about you Mark Timothy titles mentioned there

  492. were accorded so much honor and not despise.

  493. They were trusted with responsibility because they

  494. themselves so highly commitment to their feet.

  495. They showed what highly commitment to their feet and

  496. they display spiritual maturity. It's not just using youth for

  497. youth's sake. Hello it's not just using youth

  498. for the capacity to jump up and jump down.

  499. Praise the name of the Lord. You must so early commitment to

  500. your faith and demonstrate spiritual maturity here this

  501. about Timothy second Timothy chapter 3 verse 14 and 15 but

    2 Timothy 3:14

  502. continue down in the things without as lay and has been

  503. assured of knowing of whom thou has lent them.

  504. Verse 15 and that from a child thou has known the Holy

  505. Scripture and a commitment to faith is the reason there can be

  506. so much honor and highly trusted.

  507. What is your attitude to the Scriptures?

  508. What's your attitude to the Word of God?

  509. What is your attitude to godly instruction?

  510. Wake up, Ally. OK to the seriousness of your

  511. spiritual life, don't push it to the background.

  512. A lot of you today are being deceived.

  513. OK that this serious with God. OK, It's not what matter at a

  514. younger age. They postpone it till maybe when

  515. they grow older. Hello.

  516. OK, so we pay. AM I talking to somebody so, and

  517. that from a child thou has known the only creatures which are

  518. able to make the wise unto salvation through faith which is

  519. in Christ Jesus. So, Halle, commitment to faith,

  520. delayed gratification, display of maturity.

  521. Okay, we make you useful to yourself, useful to your family,

  522. useful to God, useful to your nation.

  523. Am I talking to somebody right from what MOTU was being taught

  524. by the mother and grandmother, she embraces Apple support came

  525. into the state and pick it up from there.

  526. He glued to Apple to Apple support.

  527. He eventually became the great man that he became.

  528. Luke that we mentioned that that that that that we talked about

  529. OK, highly educated in language and medicine.

  530. AM I talking to somebody in language and medicine?

  531. #5 We said #1 Effective pulpit ministry #2 Partment and

  532. effective prayer #3 For this adventure for the manifestation

  533. of the Holy Spirit #4 active government of the youth and #5

  534. strategic engagement of the women.

  535. The choice that we grew in a well-rounded manner must also

  536. embrace strategic engagement of the women.

  537. Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself involved women.

  538. He accepted the administration of money, material and other

  539. welfare. Luke chapter 8 Let's go through

    Luke 8 chapter mention

  540. the first the first 3 verses and it came to pass afterward that

  541. it went throughout every city and village because some people

  542. are paying the bills can. As we read further, we

  543. discovered that the prominent amount of people that are paying

  544. the bills were we made preaching and seeing the glad tidings of

  545. the Kingdom of God, and the twers were with Him, and there

  546. was no record of any time that they ever went hungry.

  547. Am I talking to somebody? Verse 2.

  548. Uncertain women which had been healed of evil spirit and

  549. infirmity. Mary Magdalene out of whom went

  550. seven Devils verse 3 and Joanna the wife of Husha.

  551. Errol Stewart a very senior man in government, the wife of that

  552. person was on Jesus ministry team for work purpose.

  553. And Susanna and many others and all those others we are talking

  554. about our women with minister unto him of their substance.

  555. What kind of a woman are you? Oh, Nemotier.

  556. OK, Well, that's a reaction if we were compared to Netany

  557. Church by anyone. Am I talking to somebody just to

  558. prevent him OK, from putting his resources, his substance into

  559. supporting the work of the ministry?

  560. But this were women, wives of nobility OK and some that OK the

  561. hard problem. And in response to the fact that

  562. Jesus ministry touched the ally, they committed themselves to

  563. supporting Jesus ministry. Jesus ate the food of matter.

  564. If you were matter, you will never cook for Jesus again.

  565. You remember that story when Jesus was visiting what it was

  566. their village now Bethany and Mata was going up and down

  567. killing about jail and so on and then marry the sister sat by

  568. Jesus and Mata felt like at least I mean maybe she also

  569. learned a helping hand and then said why are you there?

  570. Come on, come on, join me in the kitchen.

  571. I just said no, praise the name of the Lord.

  572. There are many times we want to hold, we want to hold program

  573. here and our women, we want to cook, OK.

  574. And I'll be telling them we arrange a call, you know,

  575. disturb, you know, some of them are not comfortable when I say

  576. it, am I talking to somebody? Why?

  577. Because so you must strike a balance.

  578. You must do what? Strike a balance.

  579. Ensure that you don't because you are jumping up and down now.

  580. Miss out of the spiritual blessing.

  581. The funny thing was that after cooking the food that the rebuke

  582. matter for it went on to eat the food.

  583. If it were you, you will mumble, you will grumble.

  584. When Jesus is visiting, you will not cook, but anytime Jesus is

  585. visiting Bethany, OK, forget it. You will always be accommodated

  586. in that house and the hospitality will be top notch

  587. because that's a matter that we always cook.

  588. May you rub Jesus with expensive alabaster oil so I won't Benny

  589. two years to car. I want to walk back with Seneca

  590. Co. I won't even know that's it if

  591. you know, so do save me. But when we have multitude of

  592. women in our program today, what are they contributing?

  593. Some noise and media? How about the charity The

  594. Christmas? Am I talking to somebody when

  595. Jesus met that Samaritan woman by the website and all that that

  596. woman could do was to go back to the village and evangelize the

  597. village. Jesus just say you are a woman.

  598. Evangelization is for men. So you find women play very

  599. prominent role in the ministry of Jesus.

  600. When he rose from the dead, he told Mary Magdalene to go and

  601. break the news of his resurrection, news of his

  602. resurrection Father. Well, thank you for this is how

  603. far you have helped us again today we ask alone that in our

  604. own way, in our own way, we will contribute optimally to the

  605. advancement of the gospel and the growth of your church.

  606. In the name of Jesus, thank you Jehovah God.

  607. Jesus name we pray. We believe you'll be blessed by

  608. the ministry of this message. You will do well to be the doer

  609. of all you've heard. For further inquiry and

  610. spiritual help, contact this number is 08035685882 or worship

  611. with us at Oasis of Wisdom Bible Church or Justin's University of

  612. Ellorin Teaching Hospital. OK OC Ellorin, God bless you.