Apostle Joel Obuobisa

Tithing Part II

Malachi 3:8
   - stealing is done in secrecy
    - robbery is done with awareness
    -Leviticus 27:30
    -the only power you have over tithing is to give it to the Lord
    -robbing the Lord means not giving the Lord what belongs to Him
1) 10% of your income is property of the Lord
2) Not paying your tithe is stealing God's property
3) The bible admonishes the thieves not to steal anymore
     -Ephesians 4:28
     - contentment is great gain when you add it to godliness
4) There will be no thieves in Heaven
     -Matthew 6:20
5) Stealing brings a curse
    -Zechariah 5:3

When God Builds a House for Tithing Christians

1 Corinthians 2:6-7
   -God has a wisdom path for glory
   -Ordained: this is the chosen path 
    Malachi 3:10-12
How Tithers Make God Build A House For Them
1) Tithing makes provision for the House of God
2) Paying your tithes is your way of investing into God's House
     Nehemiah 10:34-39; 13:10-14
3) You reap whatever you sow
    God will build a house for you as you have helped build His House
4) Unless God helps you, you will not own or build a house
     Psalm 127:1
5) God objects to people living happily in their houses when they have not made provision to the house of God
6) God will be touched by your efforts to build a house for Him

Tithing

How God has intended for people to prosper
   -it's mysterious; His ways are mysterious
1 Corinthians 2:6-7
  -when You want to justify wisdom, you must follow it long enough
How Tithers Make God Build A House For Them
   1) Tithing makes provision for the House of God
        Malachi 3:10
 2) Paying your tithes is your way of investing into God's House
 3) You reap whatever you sow.
     Galatians 6:7
4) Unless God helps you, you will not own or build a house
     Psalm 127:1
5) God objects to people living happily in their houses when they have not made provisions for the House of God
Haggai 1:2-9

3 Reasons Why We Must Support Healing Jesus Part II

Mark 16:15
  1) We have been commanded to go into all the world
  2) To avoid a murder charge one day
      Ezekiel 3:18-21
 3) Preachers need to be sent in order for the Gospel to be preached
      John 3:16-17
     Romans 10:9-15

3 Reasons Why We Must Support Healing Jesus

Mark 16:15
God said don't discriminate about who to bring the gospel/preach to
    1) It is the crusade that God has given to our church
        Galatians 2:7-9
   2) It is our duty to worn the lost
      Ezekiel 3:18-21
  3) People must be sent in or for them to preach
       Romans 10:9-14
       Philippians 4:15-16

The Mission

Matthew 28:18-19
Acts 1:4; 8
 -God has assigned us a multicultural mission
Acts 2:1; 8
-when you receive the Holy Spirit, He will give you the strength, power, and other tongues (other languages)
-God had them wait for the Holy Spirit so that He could prepare them
-The kind of help God sends your way is the kind of mission He is sending you to do.
        -the Holy Spirit wants to reach people
        -we won't be able to reach greatness until we reach the people who are different from us
Acts 15:1-11
-Christianity is not in what people wear and how they appear; we need to be open as Christians and open our hearts to others
-Speaking another language means that you understand the person and you can help lead them to salvation
        -the Holy Spirit is international and ministers to all

Prejudice Will Limit Your Blessing

Acts 10:34-35;1-38; 44
     - God solves many of our needs, by us opening up our lives and hearts to others
     -There are many lessons and benefits that you need that will be caused by reaching out to other people
     -In order to learn new things means that you should cut yourself off, restrain yourself.
     -Embrace more people into your world
           -to keep people in your life, you have to forgo some comforts

Greater Love Part II

What Happens To People When They Die Part II

1) You will either go to heaven or hell
2) If you go to heaven when you die, Angels will escort and carry you into the presence of God
3) If you go to hell when you die, you will be met on arrival by evil spirits and other dead people
Isaiah 14:9
4) When you die, you will go downward if you are going to hell
5) When you die, you will discover that you have a spiritual body (inward man)
6) If you go to hell when you die, you will find yourself in a place where there are endless unimaginable distress and torment
Mark 9:43
7) If you go to hell when you die, you will discover a place where people scream and cry for a drop of water
8) If you go to hell when you die, you will discover a place of unbelievable and indescribable anguish and torment
9) When you die, you will discover that many people that received good things on earth will receive evil things in hell; those who received evil things on earth will receive good things in heaven
10) When you die, you will discover that the first shall be the last and the last shall be the first
11) When you die, your circumstances will change radically
12) When you die, you will remember everything that happened on earth
13) When you die, you will realize that there is a big gap between heaven and hell and people can't cross over.
14) When you die, you will discover the importance of Evangelist that go all over the world to preach the Gospel
15) When you die, you will only care about people not going to hell

Greater Love

Matthew 4:4
John 15:12
    - So first of all if we are going to love, then we must understand the "as I have loved you"                    part of the verse.
    -  Any love shy or short of it is not love or counterfeit love or just a small portion of love.
John 15:13
    -This is the cap of love/the highest kind of love. No man can love higher than this
    -Sometimes your neediness makes you vulnerable