FINDING WHAT YOU ARE
LOOKING FOR
What
are you really looking for, or what are the things that you lost and in search of?
These are the questions that we need to ask before we can proceed into the
teaching of this sermon.
There
are many times that we are in search of a thing or the other and that we need
to get because time is running out. (These are the thought of the flesh and not
of God because in the book of Ecc.3:1 the scripture says “There is time for
every purpose”).
Many
Christians had not yet come into realization that what they are looking for is
right just by their side and its only God that can make them discover such
things.
Are
you in darkness, David said in the book of psalms that “Your word is like a
lamp unto my feet”. I need to say that the WORD
of
GOD is
the key to all things in our life.
What
are you looking for or what is so disturbing in your heart that you need to get
solution into? It’s not a thing that is happening to you alone, it does happen
to all in the sense that we get down to a point that our Human wisdom fails.
Remember this “with strength will no man prevail” 1 Sam.2:9 “ ……………….; for by strength shall no man prevail.”
Now,
let us look into the text of the day
Acts.8:26-31
AMP
26 But an angel of the
Lord said to Philip, Rise and proceed southward or at midday on the road
that runs from Jerusalem down to Gaza. This is the desert [route].
27 So
he got up and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch of great authority under
Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure, had
come to Jerusalem to worship.
28 And
he was [now] returning, and sitting in his chariot he was reading the book of
the prophet Isaiah.
29 Then
the [Holy] Spirit said to Philip, Go forward and join yourself to this chariot.
30 Accordingly
Philip, running up to him, heard [the man] reading the prophet Isaiah and
asked, Do you really understand what you are reading?
31 And
he said, how is it possible for me to do so unless someone explains it to me and
guides me [in the right way]? And he earnestly requested Philip to come up and
sit beside him.
Here in this text, you will found out the story of a
Eunuch.
WHO IS EUNUCH?
They are referred to an official or a commander. Now, let us take this
message from this point. A commander, a man of influence and power, whom with
all his knowledge still found out that he has something in his life that was
missing, reading the book of Isaiah, but could not understand.
How many times have we gotten ourselves into a
situation like this that we run out of Knowledge, and whom do we go to?
Ethiopian Eunuch we were told was in his chariot
wondering on what the “WORD” means.
God saw the heart of this commander and that was why
Phillip was sent unto him. He was having a heart that was ready to receive the
WORD OF GOD…….Is your own heart ready for God?
In
the book of Romans.10:8-15 AMP “But what does it say? The Word (God’s message in
Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the
message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach,
9
Because if you acknowledge and
confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to,
trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be
saved.
10
For with the heart a person believes
(adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared
righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly
and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.
11
The Scripture says, No man who
believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be
put to shame or be disappointed.
12
[No one] for there is no distinction
between Jew and Greek. The same Lord is Lord over all [of us] and He generously
bestows His riches upon all who call upon Him [in faith].
13
For everyone who calls upon the name
of the Lord [invoking Him as Lord] will be saved.
14
But how are people to call upon Him
Whom they have not believed [in Whom they have no faith, on Whom they have no
reliance]? And how are they to believe in Him [adhere to, trust in, and rely
upon Him] of Whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a
preacher?
15
And how can men [be expected to]
preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of
those who bring glad tidings! [How welcome is the coming of those who preach
the good news of His good things!]
What we need is verses 13-15.
Our cry or thirst makes God to send a
helper in other to teach us His WORD. Verse 13 says “Everyone who calls”……
while in verse 15, Preacher was sent just like Phillip was sent unto the Eunuch.
When you thirst, God Fills………. He
loves filling up empty spaces……are your vessel empty?
You need to purge yourself of all
the doctrines and teachings which I call “LIE”
from the pit of hell that you had been indoctrinated with.
Are you empty today so as to be able
to get the new life from Jesus Christ?
When you are purged and Christ impute
into you a new life (New way of living), there are certain things that you need
to do
This takes us into the book of Colossian
chapter 2.
Colossians.2
AMP “6 As you have
therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your
lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.
7 Have the
roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and
founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more
confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and
abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
8 See to it
that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by
his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle
fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the
material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the
rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding
[the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).
1.
You need to walk (Regulate your lives and
conduct yourselves)…….look it says in union and conformity to Him (God).
Roman.12:1 AMP “I appeal
to you therefore, brethren, and beg of you in view of [all] the mercies
of God, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies [presenting all your
members and faculties] as a living sacrifice, holy (devoted, consecrated) and
well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable (rational, intelligent) service and
spiritual worship.
2
Do not be conformed to this world
(this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs],
but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new
ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is
the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is
good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].”
2. You and I need to separate from the “WORLDY
SYSTEM”.
The way that they dress, talk walk,
dance…..just to name a few……. How do you pattern your life? Is it the world
ways………………..Psalm.1:1-2 “Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable)
is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly
[following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and
inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest]
where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.
2
But his delight and desire
are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the
teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by
night.
Let us go back to Colossians.2 and
deal with the 7th verse
“Have the roots [of your
being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him],
being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and
established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and
overflowing in it with thanksgiving.”
3. You and I need to get our roots firmly and deeply planted in HIM (God).
Let me ask: - Are you rooted in Him, or just on the sandy soil (the World) that
when wind blows, you are being carried away?
See what verse 8 says “See to it
that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by
his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle
fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the
material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the
rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding
[the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).”
Are you out of His presence through the so called new doctrines that is
in the world where men whom are called teacher of the new era dishes out false
teaching unto people?.
1Timothy.4:1-2 MSG “The Spirit makes it clear that as time
goes on, some are going to give up on the faith and chase after demonic
illusions put forth by professional liars. These liars have lied so well and
for so long that they’ve lost their capacity for truth.
Beware of the place where you seek
for truth today…….
Way out is to seek God………….
Read this story:-
A man is stumbling through the woods totally drunk when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river.
He proceeds to walk into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher. The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, whereupon he asks the drunk, "Are YOU ready to find Jesus?"
The drunk answers, "Uh, what?... yeah!." So the preacher grabs him and dunks him in the water. He pulls him up and asks the drunk, "Brother have you found Jesus?" The drunk replies, "No, I haven’t found Jesus."
The preacher shocked at the answer, dunks him into the water again for a little longer this time. He again pulls him out of the water and asks again, "Have you found Jesus my brother?" The drunk again answers, "No, I haven’t found Jesus."
By this time the preacher is at his wits end and dunks the drunk in the water again---but this time holds him down for about 30 seconds and when he begins kicking his arms and legs he pulls him up. The preacher again asks the drunk, "Tell me.. tell me.. tell me- have you found Jesus!?"
The drunk wipes his eyes and catches his breath and says to the preacher, "Are you sure this is where he fell in?"
Listen- that’s fabricated… and we don’t force baptize people! But it is funny!
Lesson I want you to grab
is that NO ONE WILL FORCE YOU IN ACCEPTING JESUS HE IS THE ONLY WAY RIGHT INTO
HEAVEN……..
IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF CHOICE.