Redemption of His People. 3.

The Bible Calendar for 16th June 2024.

Deuteronomy  31: 14–32: 14

Hosea  1: 1–2:1

Luke 17: 1–19

1. Write a Memorial Song

2. Redemption of His People.

3. Demand for Appreciation

1  WRITE A MEMORIAL SONG

The song ministry is powerful and durable at all times and spaces, it’s more memorable than speech or any other means that keep a culture and tradition. God gave the last assignment to Moses which is songwriting and teaching Israelites the songs in order to be a memorial song for their generations. Surprisingly, God said that the people will forget all the laws and the statutes but they will not forget the songs because they will be transferred from generation to generation. That tells us the importance of song to the human race, even every tradition has some special songs, and every family has a way they eulogizing their people and whenever this comes up they will be encouraged and enthusiastic. Each religion also has songs, every denomination has the way they sing their songs and that’s the peculiarity of such denomination. Moses who had been working for forty years, wrote many books of law that are still relevant today, and everything was set for him to die and the successor was really prepared and ordained, yet he was not released as God says write a song that will be memorable. Songwriting is a gift that has no age limit, but many who have the gift to sing have left it because for one reason or another, they drop song composition, and some choirs cannot compose songs again they rather look for copyright everywhere. We should know that it is important for us personally, with family, and assembly to have a song that will usher us to the presence of God. Moses taught them the song as God instructed him that even when the people have gone astray that song will continue to remind them of the will of God for them, such songs were the songs that they were demanded to sing in the strange land where they were taken to as captives and they refused to sing but asked how can we sing the song of God in a strange land? They know something must happen when the song of God is been sung, but many are singing today just to entertain people instead of bringing down the glory of God. As the composition of the song was the last assignment given to Moses, so Song Ministry will be the last assignment that we will do in heaven. But if you have stopped singing here on earth,  how would God be happy, He still loves your song ministry, because song ministry evangelizes more than preaching.

2. REDEMPTION OF HIS PEOPLE

No matter how God may be angry, He still has plans for the salvation of His people. Prophet Hosea warned the Israelites as he revealed their sins and condemned them and he named the first daughter Jezreel for he said she would avenge the blood of innocents that have been shed by them and the second daughter was named Lo-ruhamah which means no mercy, Israel must go to exile, and he called the name of the third child Lo- ammi which means you are not my people and I will not be your God, which means He disown them from being His people. But with mercy,  God remembered His covenant considered their great numbers called them His people, and accepted them as His people. What a great spiritual illustration of redemption! He has redeemed us not because we are perfect, for we are from an adulterous woman. I strongly believe that there will be redemption for our nation, mercy of God shall locate her and redeem her from the guilt of the innocent blood. He will remember the saints in the nation and have mercy. If He can promise Abraham that He can get ten people in Sodom and Gomorrah, I perseve the saints in Nigeria are more than ten Lord will have mercy and deliver this nation from destruction and the will of enemies of the nation that are planning evil against the peace of our nation and revive her economy in Jesus name.

3. DEMAND FOR APPRECIATION

People want to be appreciated for anything they do in the house of God but Jesus said when you finish doing these things say, we are unprofitable servants, we have done the potion given to us to do. He asked a question which of you will thank your servant for performing the duty of which he was employed to do? That is, what we are doing is the obligation given to us to do, and the resources we use are from Him. Therefore, anything we do to people in the name of God or work done in the church, we should not expect people to praise or thank us because our reward will be given to us without delay and we will also have our gain in heaven. Nevertheless, many Christians are unthankful to people or God, they believe what they received is their right, and some will take the goodness of God as compensation for their good works; they will not appreciate God. Ten lepers were healed but only one came back to appreciate God, and Jesus asked where are the other nine? Surprisingly, the only one who came was a Samaritan that the Jews regarded as a stranger. Maybe the nine think that Jesus will not know that they have been healed, or maybe the Priest he asked them to report to divert them to somewhere else, that the testimonies will not add to the credibility of Jesus. Today many Christians are not thankful, some will celebrate and entertain their invitees with hundreds of thousands but enclose one thousand naira inside a Thanksgiving letter envelope. In previous years a lot of thanksgiving letters were in the church services but today it’s very scanty, Yesteryear testimony service use to be filled but no more of it. The so called new members are very thankful than the old members, the outsiders appreciate the goodness of God than those in the church. Let us be thankful, that we may not be an unprofitable christian, all things are not money, appreciation is only thing we can give back to God. The grace of appreciation will be given to us in Jesus name.

Pastor M. O. Shodipe.

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