ICLC GLOBAL SUNDAY SERVICERev. Chris Oyakhilome DSC DSC. DD.June 15, 2025

God calls us "Adopted".
The adopted son is the one that reigns.
After you are born of him, by training, you become Adopted. 
So, both the one that's born and the one that's adopted must be trained to get the throne. 

This was stated in comparing the gentiles with the Jews. By adoption, which he relates to grafting, He brought the gentiles into adoption. 

So, when you read your Bible, you don't think any less about the adoption of the Gentiles.
Because of the ignorance of this doctrine, the Jews think they are more important to God than Christians. Even some Christians think so because they have not studied the scriptures. 
But they are absolutely wrong. 
God gives us priority over the Jews. 
This is the new creation that God prioritizes. We are joint heirs with Christ. The Jews are not. 

God's word to us is simple but powerful. 
Remember in Dec 31st, I told you that we will complete the preaching of the gospel to all nations this year, 2025.

The first half of the year has had significant accomplishments. There are lots of things that happened that many didn't think would happen that soon. Don't let anyone deceive you with vain words or questions the possibility of what we have stated. Or those who in their misguided minds have said we should state such goals. They are ignorant of the scriptures and of the ministry of the holy Spirit.

Our determination is unquenchable. 
If we accomplished the things that we did in the first half of the year, there is no doubt that the remaining part of the year will be with even far more significant accomplishments.

Genesis 11:6
Men who were daring with God. This was God said about them. He said they can't be stopped. He said there is no way to restrain them. Why? Because they were made in the image of God. 
It was they could not be restrained that God has to do something to stop them. Because their plan was evil.

If such people could not be restrained think about us; with the power of God, doing it in the will, power and timing of God. Everything is to our advantage. How can we lose? It's impossible.
We are going to make it happen. And God is with us. 
(Maybe if the Pope said it, or a Christian president, or a well known preacher from the united states said it, that the world would be evanglelized in one year, many would have believed)
But none of these have reached as many people as we have. 
Make no mistakes about it; we are believed because it is true
God is with us and has given us a mouth and word that is irresistible throughout the world. 
We will do it with all the resources available to us. There is no lack among us. God has designated special angels to support us. In the invisible realm, we are massively supported. 
All we have to do is to take advantage of God's word given to us. We will do it and we will win. 

At the end of 2025, we will be celebrating this gospel having gone throughout the world.
We are leaving none out. We will go to the highways and hedges, compelling everyone. We are about to see the manifestation of God's kingdom like thevw never known.

We've got to be prayerful as well. 
Without praying , it will be unwise to take any of these steps. The more responsibilities you have, the more you pray. 

Learn to pray more often than not. 
Consider most of us do have times when we are not with any body else. There are very few people who have to be with someone else throughout the day. 
But if they will not leave you, go to the toilet. 
You will discover something different about his ministry in your life that will amaze you. 

The follow up times of prayer are good. We even have personal follow up times of prayer..but I'm talking about the informal times that you have and learning to make those times become more fruitful by investing them in your communication with God; praying and listening. 
You don't always do all the talking. 
Learn meditation. It aids in listening to God. You will be stunned at the direct guidance you get from listening to him.

God is far more desirous to talk to you and guide you in things of life and things you are concerned about that you are willing and desirous to hear from him.

I get quick responses from the Lord. Many times, before I pray or ask. 
And that is in fulfilment of his word because he actually said so.
So, most of my praying is not about getting something or anything even asking questions
 I suggest the same to you. Give him a chance, let him surprise you. You will be amazed at how quickly he wants to fellowship with you and respond to you. 

(One of the characteristics of a sound Christian pilgrim is "He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not". 
Even if God has answered his own part before you carried out your fast, still fast and pray in thanksgiving as you had planned to do).

Make your Christian experience real to the word. Practice the word. Always study the word of God on any subject so that you can understand it. 
You are not necessarily gifted to preach the word on every subject. You will get confused. The one that you have the instruction from the Lord to preach to others is the gospel . There are matters you can't explain. Leave them alone
 What with the wisdom God has given you and don't try to explain what you cannot explain. It takes certain spiritual gifts to have insights into certain subjects and communicate same to others. 
This explains why certain people are given certain messages. They are gifted and traced to teach those subjects. It doesn't mean they are ignorant of other things
E.g. Our faith levels depend on our growth. Depending on how we each develop the measure of faith he gave us .

God can give two people the same gift with different operations.  
God calls you and creates the opportunities. Yours is to recognize the opportunities and fulfill what God wants you to do. 
Your membership in a church is a part of that calling. No one is meant to be a member of a church and just do nothing. 

When God puts a desire in your heart of something to do and it keeps coming, ask the Lord how to go about it. He will open the opportunities, he will guide the direction. 
*One thing is certain, He never gives a calling to create confusion*.
Your calling should not cause Chaos or cause you to be ungovernable. Those are people who are led by their flesh, not God. 
Temporary victories May deceive. 

Observe Paul's counsel to Timothy. 
He talked to him about those who think that gain is godliness. 
That means GAIN IS NOT GODLINESS.
Just because you had good results in something is not the proof that you were doing things God's way. 

Walking in love, humility and the spirit of Christ. He tells us about the mind of Christ and the spirit of Christ.

Romans 8:9
The ministry given to us is spiritual.
Primarily you should have the consciousness of the spiritual.
Know your actual location. 
Though you walk in the flesh, you don't live in the flesh. Maintain that consciousness and the attitude of the spirit.
How can you have the ways and thinking's of Christ without the holy Spirit?
How would Christ talk?
What would he say?
How would he act?
It's all about the Christ consciousness. You can't have that without the holy Spirit. 

Ephesians 5:18
Be filled with the spirit. Make it your daily life to be filled with the spirit. It is too important. 
Every now and then, foolish words come out of those who are not filled with the spirit. If you are consciously filled with the spirit, there will be no such thing as speaking off-guard. 
Even when you are joking...
The holy Spirit lives in you, and he doesn't come and go.
He came to live in you permanently. He was sent to be in this great fellowship with you forever and He wants to lead you in this journey of life and successfully being you into the everlasting presence of the Father at the rapture of the church . He wants to conduct you through life's journey until he takes you away from here to present you before the Father. That will be his joy.

So, remember him in your life always and do not grieve him. He is the best friend you have. I'm telling you. He is the only one you can really trust and rely on for everything in life. He is the one who will help you anything and everything
He knows you completely. There is nothing about you that 
He designed you. He is actually the one who made you. 
When God said "Let us make man". The Father spoke. The actual making was the Holy Spirit. Jesus wasn't there. Words from God was what became Jesus. Jesus had no physical body on earth or heaven. God's words formed Jesus in Bethlehem and he was born. He was always the eternal word of God. 

Imagine if all the words from you were used to form a person; that person would be the Character, vision and opinion of your words..
Jesus was the Character of God.
He was the logos of God. All things were made by him
He was the thoughts opinions, expressions and speeches of God. The Logos of God became flesh and dwelt among us. 

The Holy Spirit is the one you need and the one you have. If everything was taken away from you and you had only him, you can consider that you have no loss..

IF God gives you more grace, you will accomplish FAR MORE than you have done already. 
It will take his ability and wisdom to help you. 
He will bring people to you to help you which you haven't met as yet and there is no human way that you could meet them. Only he can bring them to you. 
He can also give those currently with you extra blessings which no man can give you them except God.