POINTS: 1. He Needs You 2. Don’t Be Proud 3. Home As Church

The Bible Calendar for  13th September 2024.

1 Kings    6

Jeremiah  13

Ephesians   5: 22–6: 9

POINTS:

1. He Needs You

2. Don’t Be Proud

3. Home As Church

1. HE NEEDS YOU

God cannot be bribed and whatever we do for him cannot change His will for us, He knows what He wants. To human beings, God is supposed to appreciate the building of the temple yet He told Solomon His desire which is keeping the relationship with Him. He cherishes living in our hearts more than the physical building we are building, He wants our life more than anything given to Him, and that is why Paul says that we should give our hearts to Him as a living sacrifice. He told Solomon if you will keep my law and Judgement, I will dwell in your midst, this means no matter the things we may do, if our mind is not allying with His will no sacrifice will be acceptable. He does not need to appreciate us because anything done comes from Him, whatever we use is given to us by Him; let us humble ourselves. Many will be bragging about the gifts they have but they forget that all things were given to them by God. Your gifts cannot be acceptable unless you live a holy life, your money is nothing to Him if you do not live your life in Him. He needs you, He wants you and He cherishes you more than the gifts given to Him; you are irreplaceable unless you deny God His right. Therefore, walk and be perfect in His presence He cannot negotiate His will with anyone.

2. DON’T BE PROUD

God accused the Israelites of being proud of Him, He called them but they did not yield, and He showed to them through Jeremiah that after being buried they will decay and be good for nothing. This is what we should be thinking about anything we are doing because we can only do something when we are alive and when we die there is nothing we can do again only for our work to follow us. Remember your Creator now don’t be proud or prove stubborn, He wants to embrace and make you closer to Him, so give your heart to Him. Know that He has many people that he can use because calling you to do something for Him, even if there are no resources to do what He asked you to do, just say I will, He gives strength to the weak and He will help you to do what He assigned you to through you and you will still collect the reward here on earth and the world to come. Pride is the destroyer of glory humble yourself before God.

3. HOME AS CHURCH

If everyone can behave at home as in the church God would be happy with us, meanwhile the home is the symbol of the church, husband as Jesus, wife like the church, the children as the church members, and servants as the workers. Many husbands or fathers are gentle in the church but wicked at home, and many wives kneel to their pastor and greet ministers with respect but their husbands are nobody to them. Apostle Paul said the wife should submit, the husband should love, the children should obey with honor, the father should not make the children angry, and servants should listen to their bosses with fear. All these are demonstrated in the church: submission, love, respect, and obedience are well kept in the church, especially in the time of service. Why can’t we observe them one to another in our homes yet we call our home the house of God? Jesus said if you don’t love the person you see, how can you love the person you did not see? The husband is the physical Jesus at home, he is the pastor, shepherd, and teacher of the family and anyone who is disobedient to Him has contravened God’s Law and his wife should be kept jealously in Love to make sure she is presentable to Christ. All the members of our household shall be accounted for, especially about their salvation when Christ comes. This is to also tell the ministers that they will give an account of their homes even before accounting for their church members, those that are good pastors on the pulpit and wolves at home should repent now. If the pastors should take care of their home as they care for the church members, they would have rest of mind than what they have. Let’s keep ourselves well-equipped for the coming of the Lord Jesus. Treat your home as you treat the church.

Pastor M. O. Shodipe.

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