11/08/2024
SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE WITH DR.D.D.K. OLUKOYA
SERMON: THE FOOLISH TRADERS
TEXT: Luke 19: 12-27
Bible Reading: Acts 1: 1-26
Notes
This parable is loaded with messages. God has given people talents. As you are sitting now, heaven has deposited in you a talent another have not, and it’s for you to trade with it and not leave it to lie dormant. From the parables when you don't use the talent
God has given you, two things happens:
1. That one you have will be taken away and given to another who have
2. You go to hell.
This Parable is telling us:
1. You don't really have anything.
2. Faith is a risk and it has great potentiality.
3. When talents, gifts, are buried it's a tragedy. When you stop working for God because a pastor offended you, you are a foolish trader.
Very soon the owner of that Gifts and Talents will come requiring for the profits you made with the gifts and talents He gave you. Hard men bring results. What a tragedy if you go to hell and the reason is that your talents was unused.
4. God did not create anybody without a vacancy in His program. You are here today is an opportunity. God's best gifts to us are in opportunities.
5. What we do with what we have reveals our view of God: When you don't use what He has given you, it shows you are unruly, proud, and disobedient, and God hates pride. It's who you follow that determines what follows you.
That gifts you are given, has the potentials to change your life. You must invest in what God has given you; you must not be a deficit to heaven. If you don’t use what you have, you will lose it.
6. This passage tells us there is no risk-free life, if you fail to take the risk, you risk everything. What is written in the bible is for our learning and so anyone who does not learn from history will repeat the error in history.
7. Every man is a trader one way or the other, and so we must use our opportunities to bake the best in life. You don't control the parent you have, the family you are born into, the experiences you have as you journey in life, the city or nation you are born in, the issue is what can you do to change what you have to what you want? God can give you what I call Divine acceleration. In life you run as fast as what is running after you.
In life you do not control where you start, but you can control where you end. You can’t control the value you are given, but you can control the value you give them. When you trade, you do two things; you give up what you have and take up what you don’t have.
Example of traders in the bible:
Joseph traded prison for ruler ship
Esau traded birthright for meal
Esther traded her beauty for deliverer
Samson traded his anointing and strength for s*x
As a matter of fact you can trade your sickness for healing. Whatever age you are decide you must trade what God has given you. Give value to what is in your hands. Don’t say it’s too late, it’s never too late.
The worst trader of all in the bible is Judas Iscariot who traded ministry and apostolic mandate for 30 shekels of silver. He lost everything on earth and sadly his place on heaven too. If you don’t trade with what you have, it makes you poorer.
Why will someone who have money, having more and someone who doesn’t have lose even the little he has? Well Jesus has said, you have to work with what you have.
There is something in you, you must trade with, and else it will be taken away.
1. Total surrender to Jesus.
2. Decide to be close to God: you are as close to God as you wish to.
3. You must know your identity.
4. You must identify your current position, though you are comfortable, but is it your final bus stop?
5. Hate that position you are in with perfect hatred, you must be divinely dissatisfied.
6. You need to develop rugged determination to reposition your life.
7. You need to practice aggressive and unashamed holiness.
8. Pray yourself to your divine position.
9. Work hard.
10. Complete your deliverance.
PRAYERS TO PRAY WITH HOLY ANGER IN YOUR SPIRIT
21 Amen to this degree, “Any power saying “this is how far you can go, you cannot any go further”, I command that power to die, in the name of Jesus.
1. (To be prayed 3 hot times) Powers assigned to return me to square one, die, in the name of Jesus.
2. Where is the Lord God of Elijah? Arise, show the world that you are my God, in the name of Jesus.
3. Powers, offering sacrifices against, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus.
4. Wicked alters, attacking my sweat, die, in the name of Jesus.
5. Yoke of slow motion, yoke of stand still, assigned against me, die, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every power, working hard to keep me small, expire, in the name of Jesus.
7. (Work around as you pray this prayer) by the power in the Blood of Jesus, I walk out of sickness, you sickness walk out of me now in the name of Jesus.