ICLC 2021
President's Session
Saturday Afternoon.
*Rev Chris Oyakhilome Dsc DD*
🎶 the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty.
He will save, he will rejoice over thee with Joy.
He will rest in his love
He will rest in his love
He will Joy over thee with singing. (DC)🎶
Zeph 3:17
Doesn't that tell you how God lives singing?
Wonderful.
We are going to look at a few things.
Today is Saturday.
And in a short while, following this, we will be having an awards segment.
We will be looking at 2 years under review.
From the messages you've been. Listening to since Thursday, I'm sure you've gained a lot already. You are going to use the word for your life.
Use it first for yourself then those who hear you.
Use it to encourage, edify, inform yourself. To inspire you. Build your life on it and help others do the same.
Our ministry to others can be far more successful if we recognize our primary ministry to God.
You have to have your ministry to God. That's a priority.
Then your ministry to others will be fruitful and successful.
Without a ministry to God, your ministry to others will have less value and after a while, will be quenched.
So, your ministry to God is a primary importance.
Never put your ministry to others ahead of your ministry to God. Many have done that in their lives and ministries and it didn't work out quite well.
Some even at the end of their ministry didn't know what was the problem because they were not taught.
In our ministry to others, we find 3 important things that we talked about before.
We see how they used 3 things to make the impact that they made.
These 3 elements:
1. The spirit
2. The word
3. The Name.
These Three they used in ministering to others.
The spirit gave the power.
The word gave/was the message.
The Name gave the authority.
That's the way they ministered to their world.
If you had the power, message and authority, you made the impact.
Yes!
But if you want to have sustained impact and not fall by the wayside like some did.
Even in the bible there were names given to us that didn't do so well. Some even went back into the world like Demas.
But you want to be successful, sustain it and to have ever increasing faith, grace, knowledge, love, vision, ministry and glory, then you've got to do this other one that is priority.
THE MINISTRY OF THE SANCTUARY.
Oh how important it is.
Look at the old Tabernacle of Moses and how it was arranged.
If you take a look at this drawing...(vertical representation of the Tabernacle)
He told Moses to have the outer court: the brazen altar of brass where sacrifices were made and the priests washed their hands. , Before they entered the Tabernacle, The Holy place.
When Jesus died, the way into the Most Holy place was torn in two. The operation of the most holy place on earth ceased.
The Aaronic priesthood had moved to Jesus.
Matthew 27:50-51
Hebrews 7:12-16, 22-28
Hebrews 8:1-5
Hebrews 9:24
When the high priest on earth entered into the holy place, it was for the people. So also Jesus did for us.
We are not going to deal with the ministry of the high priest because Jesus is doing that in Heaven
In the Holy Place, you observe
The table of showbread
The candlestick/lampstands/menorah
The Altar of Incense (just before the veil)
These were the three articles of furniture in the holy place.
Let's start with the Menorah.
A candle stick with 6 branches. 3 on either side.
When the priests lit the lamps, you would have 7 lamps.
Exodus 25:31-32
If you go into your Bible in Revelations 4:5.
7 lamps of fire burning, which are the 7 spirits of God.
The presence of the spirit.
These 7 candles burning from one Candle stick.
Immediately distinguish between the candle stick with 7 lamps burning and 7 candlesticks.
Rev 1:12- Here there are 7 golden candlesticks.
V 13- 20 "In the midst of the 7 candlesticks..."
The 7 candlesticks were the seven churches.
In the sanctuary, there was the lampstand/menorah.The next thing in there:.
The Table of Showbread
Exodus 25: 23-30
An interesting term for this Shewbread is "the bread of his presence" or "the bread of the presence".
This bread was supposed to be in the presence of God perpetually.
Every sabbath, it was changed to fresh ones.
Leviticus 8:31, Leviticus 24:8-10
The priests eat the shewbread
Matt 12:3-4.
Every sabbath was bread on the table of Gold.
The Altar of Incense.
Exodus 30:1-3,6-7
This is placed before the veil.
In the evening when Aaron comes to dress the lamps, and in the evening when he comes to light the lamps, He was to offer incense.
In the book of Hebrews, Paul in chapter 9, says ...
Hebrews 9:1-4
He called the Most Holy place the Holiest of all.
In the old testament, Most Holy is used several times and it is from the context that you know what it is referring to.
E.g. It's says the priests should eat the bread in the Holy place, but it didn't mean the Holy of Holies.
The term sometimes means the Holiness of the place above the other places considered in that narrative.
Hebs 9:2 NIV
Some would think that he means the altar.
Some would think, he meant the table of the showbread.
The problem is not referring to the incense.
.the importance of that table by the veil is the incense.
And the incense was inside the Most holy place.
The high priest comes in with a golden censer. It shares the same name in the Greek as just a censer, but it's not so.
In this censer, the high priest puts some of the incense he gets from the altar and then takes it there .
Leviticus 16:12
I told you that when we pray, our prayers go to God ad incense
Our high priest is in heaven so when we pray, our prayers go to God as incense.
What exactly is all of this?
God told the priests to have the lamps perpetually on. .
Before the dress it and light it morning and evening, they must burn incense.
So we have the Bread, the fire/land of the spirit (the fullness of the spirit)
The Bread is our Meditation of the word.
Sinners don't meditate.
God has .ade us kings and priests.
He has made us kings and priests.
This is the word that YOU STUDY. Giveijf yourself to Meditation.
1 Tim 4: 15-26
Instructions for the church weer just being developed.
Be filled with the spirit always.
The fullness of the spirit-;the seven lamps.
Then you must have that bread: Meditation o the word continually.
Colossians 3:16
If you want to be effective.
1. Have an effective personal life.
I like asking preacher ,'what is hour life like when you are not preaching!?"
If you are going to please God then your ministry to him is paramount.
Our prayer;:
Rev 5:8, 1-6
V6 The seven spirits of God.
Each one of us should have the fullness of the spirit.
Acts 4:8, 31
When you pray inside your closet, use the name of Jesus. Be filled with the spirit indoors so you can have the boldness outside.
Acts 6:1-4
Prayer is incense. Prayer and the fullness of the spirit come together.
Don't perpetually (morning and evening)
If you do this, the ministry of the word will be successful.
1 Cors 13:15
We study and meditate the word.
In our ministry to the Lord, we have: the spirit the word and prayer.
In our ministry to others: the spirit the word and the name.
Ephesians 5:19-20
This is our ministry in the sanctuary.
1. The fellowship and continual infilling of the spirit.
2. The study and meditation of the word .
3. The prayer ministry of the saints.
In prayer, we observe 2 kinds of praying.
1. Private praying. (You alone pray).
2. Corporate prayer. (you are joined with others in prayer)
The two of them are very important.
What are you going to do going forward? Between now and the next ICLC?
Have you observed any change in your life?
Have you had a change in your mind?
Have you made some important decisions since you came?
If you had someone who was always talking to you throughout this meeting, Find somewhere else to go and pray.
Give yourself some privacy. if you don't practice that, it can be very difficult.
Go and meditate on the things you have been learning.
The place to start is here.
Don't wait till you go back home.
Before Revelation is Isolation.
There is something about Solitude.
If you don't understand the value of solitude, there's a lot that you can miss in life.
Just enjoying privacy with God means a lot.
Sometimes you are not saying anything...but at least you are not talking till you sleep. How will you pray.
When You understand that we are in a warfare it changes the dynamics.
If you can start learning the value of solitude, giving time to meditation, you will be amazed at the results you will get.
Things will be happening while you are not making any physical effort.
You made a change within and that change began to impact your world.
Your world is carried inside you.
Lets say the larger church in the zone is pastored by the zonal pastor. Who says your own cannot be larger? That's cannot be the standard.
Tell yourself that you are going to make a change.
By the end of this year, if you use these things we have talked about, Nothing can stop you.
He has set it inside your spirit.
If you don't believe in growth, you can't see it.
Remember that guy who was the king's minister who when the prophet of God said "by this time tomorrow, there would be so much food in Samaria.". He didn't believe. The next day, it happened as the prophet said it and He saw it but he was not a part of it.
It is important to believe. What you believe becomes a part of your life. You endorse it.
If you make this transformation from within, you will be amazed at the results.
Every little thing from you will produce results.
I am very effective
I chose to be very effective for God many years ago.
I said "I'm going to do everything that the word says to do to make me effective".
1. I'm going to be filled with the spirit everyday of my life...not just when I have a program or during prayer time.
It's so simple to be filled with the spirit.
Years ago, I was one of the first to make public how to be filled with the spirit always..
"Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Singing and making Melody in your heart to the Lord". Ephesians 5:19
The only way you have such things is if you desire it.
Not by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord.
Now God is turning the ISM to a global classroom. It wasn't global because we called it global. But because it was.
That was by the holy ghost.
If you want to be effective, first be effective inside. How effective is your personal Christianity. That's what matters.
If the minister of the gospel will burn, people will come to see the fire.
How effective are you going to be?
If you use these three things, you will be effective.
Be filled with the sprit
Make it your desire and mAke it happen .
Eat the word until the word is talking to you every now and then
The incense; your prayer of worship and intercession. Not the prayer of "Give me".
You will be shocked..
You will see the ministry as so easy.
Some pastors labor a lot. They work very hard. It is great...bUT if the results do not far outweigh the input, chances are that these three things are not working out
Check the ministry of the sanctuary.
You are winning and wining.
On the right hand and on the left you are winning.
Every where you turn you are winning.
No evil shall befall you
God's spirit is at work in you.
Success is yours always with increased grace in your life in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus.
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