Sunday Celebration Service - 21/07/2019 - Sermon Summary

Ministering: Pastor David Odumade
Title: Mathematics of failure - Part 3
Text: 1 Corinthians 9:16-26

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
Proverbs 11:12
Proverbs 29:23

A man may want to offer help, but the recipient may not be available, and there is nothing that, that person can do about it . However if it is God, God still has the Power to enforce His Help at some point.

If God is holding your hand, when the journey is too fast for you, He will carry you. If He can carry the burden of the world upon His Shoulders, He is more than able to carry you.

Everything in life follows a principle. Nothing happens by accident. Even accidents follow a principal.

Apostle Paul experienced Freedom. He was also a disciplined man - 1 Corinthians 9:19.

Freedom is the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants. It is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. It is also the quality or state of being free, such as: the absence of necessity, cohesion or constrained in choice or action.

Freedom is what a lot of people crave for. Freedom is good, but it can also be dangerous for the people that are not mature or disciplined. If it is not handled well, it becomes a problem. There is nothing that destroys easily, like freedom.

Anyone that cannot manage freedom, should not go for it, because freedom means you have to take responsibilities for your actions.

Any committee without commitment will commit crime, due to the freedom and power that they may have.

You cannot go on a mission without a vision. Any mission without vision will become television. It doesn't matter where you start, but where you are going.

Apostle Paul did not enjoy what the other Apostles enjoyed. He was under the priests, but when God set him free, he had a great vision. He knew what God had called him for and stood by it. He probably did a lot more than all the people that sat at the feet of Jesus, because he embarked on a mission with a great vision.

A vision will encourage you to prepare for the future.

Apostle Paul was free from the doctrine of men - Ephesians 4:14.

He was also free from the instructions of the chief priests and allegiance to man - Acts 9:1-2. If you are free from the allegiance of people, you will be compelled to do the right thing at the right time. Even if you are working in an organisation, and you are not a parasite, you will not be afraid to tell them the truth and what they are meant to do. Nowadays, many people cannot tell the truth, because of what they are going to lose.

You can't preach well to someone, that you are a burden to - 1 Thessalonians 2:9.

Apostle Paul was also free from major Apostolic authority - Galatians 2:11.

What makes anyone great, is not just in their hands, but in their heads.

When you are free mentally, you have a sense of ownership of things. You know that your decisions can make you or un-make you. You know your areas of weakness and you want to work with people that don't have the same weaknesses as you.

When you are truly free, pride will go on its own. You cannot be free and be proud, because pride is bondage.

Apostle Paul used to be a very cocky man (2 Corinthians 11:5), but his pride was coming down - 1 Corinthians 15:9, Ephesians 3:8, 1 Timothy 1:15.

When you are truly free, fear and anxiety will go. Whatever you are worried about, takes your attention. God has no problem in you planning for or thinking about the future, but He does not want you to be worried about it - Matthew 6:30-34. You cannot be worried about something and make the right decision about it. Confusion is a form of worry.

Every human being is meant to be afraid of something. If you are going to be fearful, fear God. You cannot be afraid of God, and be afraid of man. Those that know how to beg God, will not know how to beg man.

If you cannot be lead, you cannot lead. Apostle Paul made himself a servant, after he had been made free - 1 Corinthians 9:19. It is only when you are free, that you can discipline yourself.

There is nothing that you're good at, that you have not been taught.

You need to be disciplined to serve God, people and to manage your resources.

No matter how much income you have, you need savings. If you can't save, you will miss out on certain opportunities.

You can't get everything you want. Until you get everything you want, you will not realise that you don't need everything you've gotten.