03/31/2024
Excerpt from today’s sermon.
“It’s all in God’s plan for my glory”
Text: 1 Corinthians 2:8-9
Sometimes Satan will inspire your trusted friends and family members to conspire against you, they will betray, blackmail and destroy your reputation.
But their darkened hearts will not allow them to know that it takes more energy to plot evil than to plan a future.
Listen brethren, never join the camp of betrayers, backbiters, envious and ungrateful people. Whatever you do in this life ,never join in the plot against anybody who has a relationship with God.
No matter what you think about them, if they are involved in the business of Jehovah , don’t plot against them because God will fight back against all enemies of his own and God’s method of attack is never the same as the weapons of man.
Whenever God’s hand is upon anyone, the devil will raise up an army against him. Beware when all men speak well about you because the applause of men does not always mean the approval of God.
Any man with a divine assignment is always attacked not by outsiders but by his closest friends and family members.
Joseph was sold by his brothers who later survived famine because of his reputation.
Jephthah was rejected by his brothers who didn’t know that their survival would come from him later, Jabez was cursed by his mom but when God’s hand came upon him, he became more honorable than his brothers. The list is endless
Of all the original 12 apostles ,Judas was the closet to Jesus and he was so close that Jesus made him his finance minister or treasurer who kept the funds for the ministry of Jesus. When God got ready to showcase Jesus Satan chose Judas to be the weapon of betrayal.
The beauty of Easter is that Jesus proved to the Jewish rulers that no amount of conspiracy can destroy what God has predestined for his own.
Be careful how you reduce Easter to the resurrection of Jesus only because before Christ people had been raised from the dead.
Instead, Easter is the retributive power of God to the forces that ganged up against his anointed.
So when next you’re betrayed , just relax and laugh because it’s a divine set for upsetting your enemies.
Never forget that Easter was birthed by betrayal. So, rejoice when people you have helped conspire against you because out of their conspiracies God will work out your own promotion.
My gratitude goes out to the Jewish rulers of the time of Christ who were responsible for his crucifixion and to Judas Iscariot for betraying Jesus.
If they had understood the central place that the death of Jesus Christ occupied in God's plan for me they would not have killed hm.
Thank you Judas because without your plot against Jesus he wouldn’t have died and my purpose would not have been birthed; thank you most excellent Pilate for bowing to the evil voices of the Jews otherwise my voice would have been silenced and finally, thank you JESUS for though you had the power to stop your death , you allowed it so that I might have life in abundance.
Happy Easter y’all !