HOW TO AVOID LOSING YOUR GIFT

SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER JOHNSON
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH

What is your gift?
Salvation is your gift
Finding yourself in the university is a gift. People you applied with, had better marks than you, yet you were admitted.

Everything you have today, wherever you are today, someone was supposed to be there, but then you were grafted and put there. It's a gift (favour)

Read Romans 11:17-24

The same way God can remove you from the tree and graft the original there.

Verse 24
So if God was willing to do something contrary to nature by grafting you unto His cultivated tree, He will be far more eager to graft the original branches back into the tree where they belong.

So if you find yourself using your gift,
* Don't consider people's reactions
* Do it from your heart to please God not man
Lest you lose it.

The gift is not for fun.
The gift isn't for titles.
The gift is for work..
Work to show the glory of God unto man.

TIME TO USE YOUR TALENT

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER JOHNSON

To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability.
                    Matthew 25:15

With your five bags of silver, two or one bag of silver (talent ), God expects you to utilize it. Lest you lose it. Whatever gift you have, it's good for you.

Vs 15b  according to his ability.  According to your ability God gave you your one talent, two talents, or five talents.  So why struggle and compare your one talent to someone's five talent,  when you will all be rewarded the same, provided your talent is utilized.

"As many as I have entrusted into your hands, keep them "

You don't want to lose your talent? Use it or use  them. At the end of the day, when the Lord God Almighty is rewarding you, He will say to you.... 
Vs 21
His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

THE LAST 4 STAGES OF DISLOYALTY

Sunday, October 9th 2016.
Sermon by Chief Elder Johnson

5- Political stage.

At this stage the individual wants to show that he is more caring than his leader. Here, he wants to win the heart of the members towards himself. After service he meets a group of people to "analyse" what ever went on in church.

6- Deception

Here the person accepts facts which may not be true. He believes a lot of things about the church or leaders which may not be tried.
The individual tries to make other people believe lies about leaders or members of the church.

7- Open Rebellion

The person in this stage challenges everything the leader says in public.
    Rev.12:7                          1Sam.15:23

8- Execution

Here, if the individual is given an instruction not to do something and he does it,he is in execution stage.  He finally leaves.  the church

FAULTS AND MISTAKES

Saying , Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm
                        1 chronicles 6:22

As a Christian we are not to be quick to judge.

A mature person is not judgmental but tries to understand the mistakes of his neighbor.

In the book of Galatians chapter 6 vrs 1 it says,

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.

Also in Matthew 7:3 the Bible says,

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Look at things with the spiritual eye and ye shall not judge thy neighbor

"Who Is A Saint?
                         There Is None Without Sin."

LEAVE YOUR GIFT......

And forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us..

In Mathew chapter 5 v21,the Bible addresses anger, holding grudges and the need to forgive.
The verse number 23 says why it is important to forgive our brothers before we even try to make peace with God.

*five reasons why you must leave your gift at the alter
- having a good relationship means you are not a liar

- having a good relationship proves that you are not a murderer
.                  1 John 3:15

- having a good relationship proves that you are not abiding in death
                   1 John 3:14

- having a good relationship is a proof that you are no longer in darkness
.
-having a good relationship is a proof that you have forgiven those who have wronged you

ProTon

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things shall be added.
                                           Math 6:33

January,  our month of proton, our month of first. First in putting God above all things, hence, Mathew 6:33
First thing to seek when you find yourself in a new environment:  purpose

*why it is necessary to put that which is first first......
1. Any thing that is not done first loses it's significance.

2. That which is supposed to be first when not done, may never be done.
It is an insult to give the second place to that which is first.

3. Problems abound when that which is first becomes second.

THE LORD'S PRAYER EXPLAINED

Sermon by BISHOP FRANCIS SARPONG

The Lord's prayer is one of the most powerful prayer every Christian can pray.

When the disciples went to Jesus to ask him to teach them how to pray, Jesus taught them the Lords prayer.
But as a Christian do you know what the Lords prayer fully entails?

Jesus gave the outline for the the Lords prayer which touches on:

Facet one: Worship and Reverence to God
Our father who art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name

Facet two: Establishment of Gods kingdom on earth
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done on earth
As it is in Heaven

Facet three: Supply of our daily needs
Give us this day our daily bread

Facet four:A call to forgive our neighbors
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who
Tresspass against us

Facet five:Spiritual protection from the evil one
And lead us not into temptation
But Deliver us from the evil one

Nothing Jesus taught should be taken for granted.
Especially the aspect that deals with the evil one.

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BE A SOUL WINNER....part II

SERMON BY ELDER REXFORD

"and Jesus concluded, 'so those who are last will be first and those who are first will be last' "

You must be a soul winner because :

#we are all called to the great work of soul wining
                              Mathew 22:14

#soul winning prevents church split and that pastors and shepherds are supposed to notice lost souls
                                Mathew 9:36

#soul wining fulfills the principle of gaining by training
                                    Luke 19:15,16

#wining souls makes you have a beautiful feet
                                    Romans 10:15

#soul wining helps us to overcome the sin of procrastination
.   .                                Exodus 8:9,10

"awake, awake, put on thy strength oh Zion !!

                                          There is minsheee.....

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BE A SOUL WINNER.... part I

SERMON BY ELDER THEOPHILUS

"but when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will be filled with power and you will be witnesses for me"

You must be a soul winner because:

#that is the greatest commission, mandate, given to us by Jesus Christ
                            Mathew 28:18

#you were created to carry out the good work of soul wining
                              Ephesians 2:10

#soul wining is the heart beat of Jesus

#soul wining generates divine support and protection
                              Psalm 91:14

#soul wining prevents us from polishing the same coin over and over again
                               Luke 15:8

"for what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul"

THE FIRST TEN SIGNS OF DISLOYALTY

"children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. Honour your father and your mother"

>when a person disappoints you in times of crises
            Acts 15:38

>when a leader/member has moral weakness
            1Tim 5:2

>when members/leaders have financial weakness
           John 12:6

>when a member/leader is worldly
              2 Tim 4:10

>people who think they can do what the leader is doing and even do it better
            2 Sam 15:4

>people who have never recovered from hurt

>anyone who is prepared to attack the leader
         2 Sam 16:11

>people who are not ready to be trained or retrained

>members who are not prepared to do menial work for God
          Luke 22:27

>members with persistent stormy relationships

PROOF OF YOUR LOVE TO GOD

"but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit" 1 Cor 6:17

The proofs that you love God
1. Obeying the command
John 14:21
2. If you love the Lord, you love his word
                           Psalms 119: 97
3.If you love God you will love His House
                       Psalms 112:1
4. ...You will serve him

5... Praise him all the time

6....You will give
Categories of people to give to
#giving to God
#giving to the man of God
#giving in the dorm of seed sowing
#goving to strangers

Most importantly....
#giving to yourse

Oh, how I love your law!I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me

and make me wiser than my enemies. I have more insight than all my teachers,"
  
There is indeed minsheeeee........

LOVING THE LORD

"behold i send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves"
Mathew 10:16

   All the great men that ever lived, whose names are mentioned in the Bible, (David, Solomon, Job, Abraham ) all had one thing  in common : their love for God.

"if you don't do things out of love for God, it profits you nothing"

Jesus in the Bible, asked us to love not only God, but our neighbors as well
Mathew 22:36 

   What Does It Mean To Love God...

1. The love of God is our access to the deep things of God
1 Corinthians 2:9

2.Faith works only when accompanied by love
Galatians 5:6

3.Love enhances our divine companionship
1 John 4:6

4.Loving God gives access to partake in divine nature
2 Peter 1:4
 
    "love the lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind...."