Preacher: Pastor Tunde Jenrola

Hallelujah! Let’s appreciate the choir, let’s appreciate the grace of God upon their lives; we are going to pray based on the last song; we are going to pray and say Father, whatever it takes, please let me make it, let me make it Lord in the name of Jesus. No matter what comes my way, please let me make it; let me make it here on earth and let me make it even onto eternity with You in heaven.

Lord, please let me make it; no matter what comes my way, no matter what obstacles, no matter what situations I face, Father, please let me make it oh Lord in the mighty name of Jesus. Father please let me make it in the mighty name of Jesus; in Jesus marvelous name we’ve prayed.

And the previous song says, ‘don’t give up on God, because God is not going to give up on you’; there are so many people here who have given up on God by reason of you stopped believing, you stopped expecting, you stopped thinking that God still answers prayers; if there are people like that here, I just want you to pray and say Father, Father, I’m sorry; in any way that I’ve given up on You, Father please, help me, help my unbelief; Father please help my unbelief; Father, help me O Lord, in any way Lord that I might have given up on You Father, please help me, help my unbelief in the mighty name of Jesus. Help my unbelief O Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus; thank You heavenly Father, for in Jesus marvelous name we prayed.

And now we are going to pray and say Father, Father, please meet me at the points of my needs and exceed my expectations in the mighty name of Jesus. Meet me oh Lord at the points of my needs; meet me O Lord; Father Lord, every vacuum in my life, fill it up in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, fill up every vacuum in my life, exceed my expectation oh Lord; Father, meet me at the points of my needs and exceed my expectations in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank You heavenly Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Father in heaven, we thank You; King of glory, we bless Your holy name; we thank You Lord, You are the Lord God of all flesh and with You, nothing is impossible. Lord God of heaven, we have come to You this morning knowing that You would be here and You are here; Lord God of heaven, speak to us in the name of Jesus; touch our circumstances and situations, let Your name be glorified in us and through us, in Jesus mighty name.

This month has been declared in our assembly as the month of our celebration, Lord, cause us all to celebrate in Jesus mighty name; and in the cause of these celebrations, Father, do not let us forget You; don’t let any celebration that will take us out of Your hand, don’t give it unto us in the mighty name of Jesus.

Lord we bless Your holy name; thank You once again Lord for the success of the annual convention; thank You for the miracles, thank You for the testimonies, thank You for the powerful word, thank You for the revelations; Father thank You because You’ve taken us all to another level, to You be all the glory, honor and adoration, in Jesus mighty name we prayed. Praise the Lord! Praise the living Jesus!    

You are welcome brethren, to the presence of the Most High God; I want to thank God for the privilege of life, I’m standing here because God gives me life and I believe it’s the same with each and every one of us, we are here because we have the breath of God in us, Father, thank You; and I’d like to on behalf of the pastor in charge of province, Pastor Tunde Netufo, welcome you all once again back from the annual convention.

You will notice our daddy is not here this morning, there is still a service – a final service at the Redemption Camp to close the annual convention camp, so he’s at the Redemption camp with mommy, but their prayers are with us; and in the same breath I want to appreciate him for the privilege to stand here before you this morning, the name of God will be glorified in the mighty name of Jesus.

I want to encourage as many of us who did not in any way join the annual convention; in any way you didn’t join it, you didn’t even hear or you didn’t know what they were talking about, please take time, go on to the YouTube or to the website of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and just go through the messages and prayer points, and I’m trusting God that the same impact you would have received if you were part of it, you will get it in the mighty name of Jesus.

There will be no prayer chain tomorrow, still as part of the spillover from the annual convention, so tomorrow we’ll take a break from prayer chain, but that does not mean prayer will stop; so brethren, in your respective homes, light up your prayer altar and let’s take our prayers – let’s tarry before the Lord Almighty.

By the grace of God our mid-week services will start on Tuesday with the digging deep, and then we’ll have the faith clinic/ the Holy Communion service on Thursday, by the grace of God, praise the living Jesus!

Please turn with me to the Book of Matthew 24: 37-39; “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ³⁸For us in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be”. Praise the living Jesus!

By the grace of God we’ll go through a message that I titled “As the days of Noah’, praise the living Jesus!This month has been declared prophetically for us (in this assembly) as our month of celebration,and our reference text is Isaiah 1: 19; and I trust God thatindeed, in the life of every one of us, there will be reasons to celebrate, there will be reasons to rejoice, therewill be something remarkable that we’ll say yes, this is what the Lord has done.In the same way, the theme of the convention has been ‘beyond expectations’; I believesome people are already dancing, some people are already rejoicing and celebrating, and some will still do.

But brethren, our message this morning is a kind of caution, a kind of warning and even for some people maybe a reminder that even in the midst of celebrations, we need to take care so that we do not lose what is more important to us as we do celebrate the things that we see.

So very briefly, we’ll go through the message this morning; there are many reasons why people celebrate: it can be celebration of retirement after 30 years of meritorious service and people will call their friends, their family members and say come and rejoice with me; it can be birthday celebration: oh I’m 50, I’m 70, I’m 90, come and thank the Lord on my behalf; so it’s good to rejoice, as a matter of fact, the annual convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God is a form of celebration because we are saying to God ‘thank You for 71 years of faithfulness’, so celebration is not a bad thing, it’s a good thing. In the midst of celebration however, we must not put our eyes away from the goal of our lives, from the objective of our lives.

So we’ll take a few key lessons quickly and then look at certain potential pitfalls that may come out of celebrations so that we can avoid them and so that our celebration shall be real indeed. If you turn with me to the Book of 1^st Chronicles 4: 9; there was a man called Jabez, and he went before the Lord and said bless me, do this do that, enlarge my coast, and God answered him, (verse 10), but then he prayed a prayer and said, ‘God please, in the midst of all these, don’t let this happiness, don’t let this rejoicing, don’t let this celebration grieve me’; he’s saying don’t let this celebration bring something that I will not be able to deal with unto me, and I pray that prayer for each and every one of us, because I trust God that indeed we’ll celebrate, but the celebration will not take you away from God in the mighty name of Jesus; the celebration will not take away your salvation in the mighty name of Jesus.

So the first lesson we are going to look at is that celebration is meant to be an integral part of the life of a Christian. You know the way many of us take celebration, it’s as if it’s an occasional thing, something happens, oh I just got promoted and we need to celebrate, but in the life of a child of God, celebration should be a regular and concerned thing.

3^rd John 2 tells us, “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”; this passage is not talking about one incident, it’s talking about something that happens consistently in the life of a Christian. 1^st Thessalonians 5: 16 tells us “Rejoice evermore”; how many times is evermore? All the time, praise God!

Philippians 4: 4 says, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, rejoice”; so in the life of a child of God, in the life of a Christian, celebration is a regular and continuous event; it’s not a one-time thing, it’s not something that just happens and you’ll say oh, let’s go and paint the town red; it should be every minute, every second, every day, every week; in the mighty name of Jesus, so it shall be in your life in Jesus name.

The second key lesson here is that many of us have limited celebration to only material things of this world. You know somehow, our minds have been conditioned to the definition of celebration being the hype when those big things happen; I’m moving from Gbagada to Ikoyi, come and rejoice with me; but even while you were in Gbagada, you had reasons to celebrate.

Many people only consider the physical and material things as the need for them to celebrate, what about good health, do we celebrate good health? What about celebrating breaking new grounds? Anytime you hear that a new mission field has happened or people in a mission field begin to give their lives to Jesus, what about celebrating those? There are many more things to celebrate brethren, don’t let us limit celebrations to those.

Please don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong in you buying a new car and say I want to celebrate, all well and good, praise the Lord! There’s nothing wrong, and that will happen to someone here in the name of Jesus.

There is nothing wrong in saying I just completed my house in Banana Island, pastor please come and rejoice with me, wonderful! But we are saying even in the midst of all of that, don’t forget, don’t wait until that one time event, there are always things in the life of a child of God that calls for celebration, praise the living Jesus!   

There’s a story in Luke 15: 16 -32, we’ll not be able to take all of it but it was about this young man called The Prodigal Son; he was living with his father, he had everything but he didn’t value what he had, so he didn’t see any need to celebrate; but he saw people out there celebrating, going to nightclub, heaven and earth; he said father, I want that type of life, I also want to celebrate, this place is too boring, this life is too boring, so he manipulated his father and got what he needed to be and left; the Bible says he had a brief period of what he called ‘celebration’ but that period soon ended and he started a long period of suffering.   

Brethren, that is to say sometimes, the things that we call celebrations are indeed not celebrations. Then he got up to himself one day and came back to his father, and came back home to what is called the real celebration; what happened to that young man was that he had salvation, he had good health, he had peace, he had joy, he had cover over his head; is somebody here who has cover over his or her head? Somebody here who has peace, and you are still thinking, God give me a reason to celebrate, don’t look for celebration out there, God has already given it to you, find reasons in the things that God has done and celebrate the grace of God upon your life.

The young man eventually realized that he was wrong; he came back home, and the ‘father’ there is our heavenly Father, every time as we come back to Him, His arms are open to receive us, praise the Lord!

The third one, (I’d like to single this out) is if there is nothing else that you want to celebrate brethren, you have salvation, celebrate your salvation. Why should I celebrate salvation? You know the meaning of salvation? You were once in darkness, you were once doomed, you were once going to hell, you were once condemned, and then Jesus Christ says I find you, brings you out of darkness into His marvelous life.

1^st Peter 2: 9 &10, He brought us out from condemnation into a new life, isn’t that worthy of celebration? Imagine somebody who has been condemned to death by fire, continuous and eternal fire, now transits to eternal life, isn’t it worthy of celebration? If you are a child of God indeed, brethren, if there is nothing else, celebrate your salvation, praise the living Jesus! Celebrate your salvation even if there’s nothing else.

The Bible tells us that there is rejoicing in heaven by the angels over every soul that is saved. If the angels celebrate salvation, why would you not? Do not take celebration for granted, somebody paid with it even though it appears to be cheap; we have been bought with a price, and the Bible tells us that that price is the blood of Jesus. The priceless blood of Jesus paid for us, redeemed us, let us celebrate our salvation; at the end of today, if there’s anyone here who has no reason to celebrate should only be someone who is not saved, and I want to believe God that today, if there are people who are not saved, you have a lot more to celebrate, but first come, accept the Lord Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you’ll begin to celebrate salvation and many other things in the mighty name of Jesus.

The devil understands this, that we only look for milestone events to celebrate and tends to warp the meaning of celebration, and tends to hide away from us the need to celebrate salvation, to celebrate good health, to celebrate peace, to celebrate joy, to celebrate our marriage, to celebrate the children God has given unto us; he says wait until you complete that house, and in the presence of waiting until you complete that house, God is looking at you as an ingrate.

The devil tells you, what is there to celebrate, your mates are buying brand new Lexus Jeep, you have only bought tokunbo, what is it to celebrate there? Wait until your own time comes, when you have your G-wagon; but we do as though we own our lives and time, and in the process, God is saying I have given you this one thing, celebrate it first; the devil will not rob you of the joy of celebration in the mighty name of Jesus.

So very briefly we’ll look at some possible pitfalls, certain ways that the devil has turned around situations or circumstances that are supposed to be celebration, but the devil used it to steal the life or the joy out of the people, these are all biblical;

The first one says, please don’t take away your spiritual antenna in the cause of celebration; the example we are going to use here is in Numbers 25:1; the Bible tells us that the children of Israel abode in Shittim, and they began to commit whoredom; I’ll give you a background to this.

In Numbers 23: 19 – 23, the Bible says God even made a boast about the children of Israel that these ones are my children; the king and the prophet (Balaam and Balak) attempted to curse them, but every time they wanted to curse, God caused them to bless them; so the children of Israel were so full of themselves and said oh, God is our own, and they were celebrating that, and in the midst of celebration (verse 2) they began to party with the people that God has warned them against, they lost the consciousness of who they are, they forgot that they were children of the Most High God, they forgot they were Christians and before you know it, they started going into illicit affairs with them; before you know it, they began to commit adultery; before you know it, the anger of God came down upon them and in one day (the Bible tells us), God killed 24, 000 of them; celebration led to death; may your celebration never lead to death in the mighty name of Jesus.       

How does this apply to us? Many of us, sometimes they’d say oh we’re having a party, come; you’d say I don’t … they’d say, just come, you don’t have to take anything, but before you know it, they’d say take a little, this water is too simple now; just something a little; before you know it, they’d add something to the water; before you know it, they’d say oh meet my friend, they introduce to you a lady; before you know it, they leave you with the lady and leave you alone; set up, isn’t it? And then celebration turns to something else, and then salvation is taken away; may that not be our portion in the name of Jesus.

Brethren, whenever you have anything to celebrate, don’t forget who you are, you are a child of God first and foremost; you’re a Christian, let your spiritual antenna remain sharp and focused, and you will never lose it in the name of Jesus.

The second possible instance where celebration may go wrong is desecration of the Lord’s temple in the name of celebration can lead to death, praise the Lord!

There’s a story in Daniel 5; a king named Belshazzar; he was happy, he called out a feast and his people were drinking, all of a sudden he said my father locked up a room, and (he said) there were some things there – antiques that they brought from Jerusalem, sacred items of the God of heaven that they said nobody should touch it, what is the meaning of that? My father is dead, grandfather is dead, please open it, those are the things we are going to use to drink wine today.

So they took all the vessels that were taken from the house of God, sacred vessels of God, they were using them to drink wine and all sorts; not only that, the Bible says they used it to pour libation unto their gods – their god of silver, their god of gold, their god of wood and all that, desecrating the temple of the Most High God. Before the end of that day, he saw a hand writing ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel’; he didn’t know what it was, he was confused, eventually he got the meaning ‘your time is up, we have measured you, you have no stand; today, life will be taken out of you’, and before the end of that day, he lost his throne and he died, what happened? Desecrating the temple of the Most High God.

How does this apply to us? In 1^st Corinthians 6: 15 – 20, the Bible says, know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the Most High God? Ye are members of Christ, you are not members of harlot, God forbid. Then another passage, 1^st Corinthians 3: 16 – 17 says the same thing; ‘know ye not that your body is the temple of the Most High God’; verse 17 is strong here, ‘if any man defies that temple, him shall God destroy’.

Brethren, you are a child of God; this your body, this your person, is the temple of the Most High God; anything that you do to desecrate this temple will incur the wrath of God just like Belshazzar incurred the wrath of God because he desecrated the temple of the Most High God.

Fornication is a desecration of the temple of God; lies, stealing, killing, backbiting and the likes; desist from it, even in the midst of your celebration, do not forget who you are; if you desecrate the temple of the Most High God, the Lord Almighty will destroy whoever does that because that temple, that body, is the temple of the Most High God.

Number three: even as you do your celebrations, brethren, do not forget to acknowledge God as your source. I’ve often said it here, there is nobody that is a self-made man; if there’s anyone that says I worked hard and because of my hard work I made it, welcome; there are many people who work harder than you do.

Somebody says, it’s because I’m careful, I don’t eat this I don’t eat that, that’s why my health is good, indeed; there are many people who do more and they are battling with different health challenges. The Bible says ‘it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, it is the Lord that sheweth mercy’.

I read sometime back (about two years ago or three) the account of a young man somewhere in Asia, who was very conscious of health; he will not eat this, he will not do that, he will do exercise, he will do everything, he was trim he was that, one day he dropped dead at 42; meanwhile there are people who eat anything – amala, everything poured together, and they are 80 and still enjoying their lives; is it about what we do?

I’m not saying don’t take care of your body, but I’m saying it is all about God; you do what you need to do, but it’s not about you, praise the Lord!

Now let’s look at the scripture; so there was this man in Luke 12: 16 – 21, the Bible tells us that the man has just gotten a bountiful harvest and he began to say hey, the harvest has come, my hard work has yielded results, now it is time for me to enjoy; and God questioned him, is it truly your effort? Is it truly your harvest? Today, the life shall be taken out of him, and indeed the life was taken out of him; celebration turned to something else because he failed to acknowledge God.

Brethren, in the midst of your celebration, whatever it is you are celebrating, remember to acknowledge God as your source, remember to acknowledge God as the all in all, praise the Lord!

Number four: whenever you have cause to celebrate, don’t ignore the less privileged, don’t ignore those who do not have any, don’t even flaunt it, don’t even use it to toin, don’t do that.

There’s a story in Luke 16 that we all know, the rich man and Lazarus; the Bible tells us in verse 19, it says, “There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day”. ‘Fared sumptuously every day’ to me means every day to him was celebration, but there was also at his gate a beggar, and this man cared not at all for this beggar even though he was celebrating every day. Then the Bible says a time came, Lazarus died, he was taken away by the angels, the poor man died and he was buried; and then they have occasion to let us see what happened in the beyond: the only sin of that man, why he could not go to where Lazarus was because he ignored Lazarus in the cause of his celebration.

There are many people around us brethren, ₦1,000 will do a lot to a lot of people, but here we are, we do not remember them, we ignore them, we do not think about them; even when they come to us, we chase them away. Whenever you are in the mood of celebration, take thoughts for those who are less privileged; it can be being less privileged in money, it can be in idea, it can be in knowledge, in counsel, in whatever; anyone that needs support, assistance, in things that we have in excess, why would you not share? The Bible tells us anyway that whatsoever any man has, is given unto him from above, praise the living Jesus!

But I’d also like to balance it quickly, because some people will say pastor has said this, so as soon as we finish service today, they’ll be standing by the door looking at people who came with beautiful cars and they’ll say think about us. Proverbs 6: 6 – 10, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: ⁷Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, ⁸provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. ⁹How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

If there’s anyone who is given to ‘Pastor has said it, please give me’, it will turn or amount to indulgence. The Bible is talking to us, go and work, go out there and make a living. This morning I was coming and I saw two different people, not fully abled body; one was carrying certain things to sell so that he can make money, the other one stood by the car and said please give me money, is it not possible to also go and do something and get money? Make an effort; in the process, God sees our heart, God sees your heart, He will send the help that is needed to you, but don’t let us indulge and begin to say oh, it’s been said, you must take care of us; it is not always like that, praise the living Jesus!

Number five: in the midst of celebration, don’t cover up your sins and when you need to backtrack, please do, because before God we are nothing.

I’m referring here to the story of Herod, Herodias and John the Baptist, Mark 14: 1 – 12; the Bible tells us that there was a celebration and Herod the King was in an excited state, and had said to the daughter of Herodias; by the way, Herodias was the wife of Philip, the brother of Herod, and John the Baptist had cautioned him.

So when Philip died, Herod took over the wife, and John the Baptist cautioned him that what you are doing is not right, so they locked John the Baptist.

I can imagine that the woman was not happy; every now and then she’d say how dare you talk to us like that? So the king said, I like the way you are dancing, daughter of my mistress, is there anything you want? On this day of celebration, ask me and I will give to you; and the mother taught her, go and ask for the head of John the Baptist. It was a difficult one; the king was celebrating, and then the lady came and said I want the head of John the Baptist; the King was taken aback, what should he have done? Backtrack, say I cannot do that, but you still went ahead and gave the head of John the Baptist.

In the midst of celebration before God, we are nobody. I believe the king was saying how can I, the king, I have said yes and I’ll now say no? Brethren, if you had said yes and you realize that the circumstances under which you said yes was not correct and the answer should have been no, please by all means, come back and say ‘I’m sorry’; it’s not too difficult, it’s not too big for anybody to say I’m sorry; do not let the fact that you have made a commitment and then you realize that you shouldn’t have done that, go back and say I am sorry, I thought it was this, but I realized now that this is what it is; but many of us will continue to do the wrong things even though we know it’s wrong, please backtrack, do not let celebration lead you to hell.

Number six: while we are celebrating, do not let us forget the most important celebration – the ultimate celebration; and here I will share the account of the ten virgins in Luke 25: 1- 13; the Bible tells us that there were 10 virgins, (you all know the story), five of them had extra oil, five did not have, they were waiting just as we are waiting for the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the process, like I said every day is celebration, but they got carried away by the  transient celebration and forgot that there is an ultimate celebration, so they ran out of oil.

Please give me, I cannot be like you, I won’t give you, go and buy yours; before they came back, the bridegroom had come, the door had shut on them, what happened to them? They didn’t give it adequate thought; what if the Master comes late?

Brethren, every now and then they say Jesus Christ is coming; brethren, the coming may be only God knows how many more years, don’t kill yourself before He comes, don’t throw away your salvation before He comes, continue to ask the Lord Almighty for grace to sustain you until the coming of the Lord. If He comes while we’re alive, fine; if we go and transit position before He comes, all well and good; but brethren, do not forget, far and beyond all the celebrations here on earth, there is a celebration that is greater than all celebrations, it’s the ultimate celebration, you cannot afford to miss on that, praise the living Jesus!

So these five virgins, they missed out; even though they were Christians, tongue talking, spirit –filled, because they took their eyes off the ball for a moment, and before they came back, it was late. Do not say I will sin only this one time, I will come back to God and ask for mercy; do not say is it not only this  weekend? Who knows which weekend will be the last weekend? The Lord Almighty will have mercy on us in the mighty name of Jesus; we will not miss that ultimate celebration for anything in the mighty name of Jesus.

In conclusion brethren, as our text today tells us, in the days of Noah there was celebration, people were eating, people were drinking, they were giving in marriage, they were opening new houses, they were buying new cars, they were japa-ing everywhere all over the world, gallivanting; in the cause of all of these, only a handful continued to remember that there was an ultimate celebration, and only those, made it to the ark.

Do not let us forget that we are on a journey; do not let us forget that we are pilgrims; do not let us be too busy to miss out on that ultimate celebration, the Lord Almighty will help us in the mighty name of Jesus.    

So how would we do this to ensure we do not get too busy or we don’t miss it? In 2^nd Timothy 2: 2-6, the Bible tells us that we should not be entangled with the affairs of this world; we are in this world but we are not of this world; whatever we are doing, the moment we realize that this is getting out of who I am, my nationality, we belong to the commonwealth of heaven, say oh, I am not part of this; don’t get entangled with the affairs of this world because you may not have come out of that entanglement by the time the Master comes back.   

Number two: 1^st  Corinthians 9: 24 – 27, the Bible says we should strive lawfully to obtain the incorruptible crown. We should strive ‘lawfully’, which law are we referring to? The law of God; everything we do, let us measure ourselves by the laws of God, not the law of man. Strive lawfully; every day, work hard towards it; every day, make sure that you fulfill the law.    

Number three: James 4: 7 – 10, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you”. The devil is on the prowl brethren, these are the last days, the devil also needs people, at the end of time, he would also want to count, how many do you have? May we never be one of those that he will count in the mighty name of Jesus.

But you must submit yourself to God completely, then you’ll be able to resist him and he will flee and say this one, no go area. In the book of Acts, the Bible tells us the devil says ‘Jesus I know, Paul I know, who are you’? The devil is saying I know Paul, he’s a no-go area; resist the devil.

And number final: do not forget who you are and whose we are; do not forget who you are, you have been bought with a price and you belong to God; live your life as one under the authority of God. We have been bought with a price, all earthly materials, all earthly celebrations, they will end here.

In the last couple of weeks, I have been part of a few funerals and all that, and I’ve not seen any of them that took their car with them, I didn’t see anyone that went with the house; all earthly possessions we will leave here, so we should invest in the one that will not be corrupted here. The Lord Almighty will help us in the mighty name of Jesus; surely, celebrations will come; surely, the Lord will exceed our expectations; surely, we will have reasons to dance and rejoice and come out and give testimonies; but why all these go on, brethren, do not let us forget that there is an ultimate celebration, you cannot afford to miss out on that.

If you are here this morning while the song goes on, you know all that we have been talking about, you are like that Prodigal Son, you used to be with God and you’ve backslidden, or you’ve never given your life to Jesus Christ, please, the most important celebration is that of the salvation of your soul; if you are not saved or you’ve lost your salvation, please raise your hand, we would like to pray quickly but we want you to be part of that.

Let us begin to give thanks to the Lord Almighty; I’m believing God and trusting God that every one of us here are saved, so we have things to celebrate; let’s celebrate our salvation, let us thank God for the salvation of our souls, let us celebrate our salvation, let us celebrate good health, let us celebrate the joy of the Lord, let us celebrate peace, let us celebrate His love, let us celebrate provision and protection, let us celebrate the roof that we have over us.

Father we thank You; let us celebrate the time that we have before Him this morning; Father we thank You, glory be Your name forevermore in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

We are going to pray and say Father, that ultimate celebration, please help me to be part of it; whatever I need to do, Father, help me, I will not miss it for any reason, I will not miss heaven for anything, help me to be part of that ultimate celebration, in the mighty name of Jesus. Father please help me, help me oh Lord to be part of that ultimate celebration in the name of Jesus. Thank You heavenly Father, in Jesus marvelous name we prayed.

We are going to pray; many of us, some of these possible pitfalls, we see them and we’ve fallen from them before, but going forward, we will not fall again in the name of Jesus. We are going to pray and say Father, please enable me, give me grace in the midst of celebration never to forget my identity, never to forget who I am in the almighty name of Jesus. Never to lose focus of the end goal, in the mighty name of Jesus; please help me, help me O Lord, enable me, give me the grace oh Lord to do it right in the mighty name of Jesus; thank You heavenly Father, glory be to Your name forevermore, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Father in heaven we thank You; King of glory we bless Your holy name; all glory, honor and adoration Lord we give to You; Father, we’ve heard Your word, let Your word find root in us in the mighty name of Jesus.

Please don’t let these words stand against any of us in the Day of Judgment, in Jesus mighty name we prayed.

SALIENT POINTS:

Warning of Judgment

1. Matthew 24:37-39 (As in the days of Noah)

2. Luke 17:26-27 (Days of Noah and Lot)

3. Genesis 6:5-8 (God’s judgment on wickedness)

4. 2 Peter 2:5 (Noah’s obedience)

5. Jude 1:14-15 (Enoch’s prophecy)

Characteristics of the Days of Noah

1. Genesis 6:11-12 (Violence and corruption)

2. Matthew 24:38-39 (Eating, drinking, marrying)

3. Luke 17:28-29 (Business as usual)

4. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (Perilous times)

5. Romans 1:28-32 (Depravity and wickedness)

Noah’s Obedience and Salvation

1. Genesis 6:13-22 (Noah’s instructions)

2. Hebrews 11:7 (Noah’s faith)

3. 1 Peter 3:20 (Eight souls saved)

4. Genesis 7:1-10 (Entering the ark)

5. Isaiah 54:9-10 (God’s covenant with Noah)

Parallel to End Times

1. Matthew 24:40-41 (Taken and left behind)

2. Luke 17:34-35 (One taken, one left)

3. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (Rapture of believers)

4. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (Day of the Lord)

5. Revelation 3:10 (Keeping faithful)

Lessons and Warnings

1. Luke 21:34-36 (Be alert and prepared)

2. 1 Corinthians 10:11 (Examples for us)

3. 2 Peter 3:3-7 (Scoffers and judgment)

4. Jude 1:17-23 (Contend for the faith)

5. Revelation 22:20 (Come, Lord Jesus)

Biblical References to the Days of Noah

1. “The Return to Wickedness”

2. “Days of Deception”

3. “Noah’s Warning Revisited”

4. “The Last Days Parallel”

5. “Before the Flood, After the Warning”

End-Time Focus

1. “Signs of the Times”

2. “The End of Days”

3. “Judgment Looms”

4. “The Final Hour”

5. “Prepare for His Coming”

Spiritual Awakening

1. “Wake-Up Call”

2. “Return to Righteousness”

3. “The Need for Revival”

4. “From Darkness to Light”

5. “The Call to Repentance”

Cultural Commentary

1. “Parallels of Decay”

2. “A World in Crisis”

3. “Morality in Decline”

4. “The Slippery Slope”

5. “When Right Becomes Wrong”

Prophetic Insights

1. “Unveiling the End Times”

2. “Revelations from Noah’s Time”

3. “Lessons from the Past”

4. “Prophetic Echoes”

5. “Unlocking Biblical Prophecy”

Other Options

1. “Noah’s Legacy”

2. “Floodgates of Judgment”

3. “The Days of Reckoning”

4. “God’s Patience Wearies”

5. “The Time of Reckoning”

May this daily devotional guide you in understanding the parallels between the days of Noah and the end times.

May God continue to inspire and guide you.

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