READ: 2
TIMOTHY 2:5-7
Those whom God will use must fulfil certain condition. The first one is
that they must be pure and holy. “Depart you, depart you, go you out from
there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean,
that bear the vessels of the LORD.” (Isaiah 52:11).
If you want to go for God, you must first go out of anything that defiles. Before you can preach the Gospel, you must have experienced the power of the Gospel first hand. A testimony was told of a pastor who led a church for at least thirty years. He preached and people got saved. Yet himself was not saved. It was the day a guest minister came to preach in his church under the unction of the Holy Ghost that he was convicted of sin and surrender his life to Christ.
Are you among those who say, ‘Do as I say but not as I do’? Paul said, ‘Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ’. Any leader whose personal life-style is not worth copying is a hireling, not a shepherd. It is not enough to teach others from God’s word. You should be seen practicing the word. Those under you should see your exemplary life and copy it. If you cannot positively affect others whether in your public or private life, your claim to salvation is questionable.
If you have not experienced salvation and you teach others to be saved, you cannot speak authoritatively. In Romans 2:21, Paul says before you teach others, teach yourself. Before you deliver a sermon to the church, first deliver it to yourself. If your sermon can change your life, great are the chances it will change the lives of your listeners. If you sermons cannot change you, do not waste it on the congregation. Are there messages you currently teach which are yet to manifest in your life? I mean things like prosperity, anointing, healing, etc? Call on the Lord to make you a first partaker of such experiences. If He has done it for others, He will do it for you.
If you want to go for God, you must first go out of anything that defiles. Before you can preach the Gospel, you must have experienced the power of the Gospel first hand. A testimony was told of a pastor who led a church for at least thirty years. He preached and people got saved. Yet himself was not saved. It was the day a guest minister came to preach in his church under the unction of the Holy Ghost that he was convicted of sin and surrender his life to Christ.
Are you among those who say, ‘Do as I say but not as I do’? Paul said, ‘Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ’. Any leader whose personal life-style is not worth copying is a hireling, not a shepherd. It is not enough to teach others from God’s word. You should be seen practicing the word. Those under you should see your exemplary life and copy it. If you cannot positively affect others whether in your public or private life, your claim to salvation is questionable.
If you have not experienced salvation and you teach others to be saved, you cannot speak authoritatively. In Romans 2:21, Paul says before you teach others, teach yourself. Before you deliver a sermon to the church, first deliver it to yourself. If your sermon can change your life, great are the chances it will change the lives of your listeners. If you sermons cannot change you, do not waste it on the congregation. Are there messages you currently teach which are yet to manifest in your life? I mean things like prosperity, anointing, healing, etc? Call on the Lord to make you a first partaker of such experiences. If He has done it for others, He will do it for you.
MEMORIZE:
ISAIAH 52:11 –Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean
thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of
the LORD.
