BEING SPIRITUALLY MINDED (PART 1)
(Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD)
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 LIFE IS SPIRITUAL 2.0 EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAS BECOME THEIR RELIGION 3.0 SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM 4.0 WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY 5.0 GOD HAS COME TO KNOW THEM 6.0 DON’T BE FAMILIAR WITH GOD 7.0 AN EVIL SPIRIT IS TROUBLING YOU 8.0 THIS HAS DESTROYED MARRIAGES 9.0 YOU NEED A WORD SEMINAR- NOT A MARRIAGE SEMINAR
1.0 LIFE IS SPIRITUAL
Life is spiritual, you’ve got to control life from the realm of the spirit otherwise you will be a victim. Spiritually minded people spend time on things that enhance the growth of their spirit. Fleshly minded people spend time on things that enhance the growth of their senses. But you are not in the flesh. He says, you are in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God lives in you {Romans 8:9}. 2.0 EXAMPLE- HAS BECOME BECOME THEIR RELIGION
Let me give you a simple example: There are people who will not miss a day of work- they can’t think of missing a day of workwork - they can’t afford
it; not even sickness will stop them from going to work. They must go to; if they had a headache, they will rebuke it and go to work. They can’t afford to be late to work- they must go to work. But they don’t knowthat has become their religion. But then, in church, first of all they are not consistent in church; a little headache will stop them from coming. Oh I feel tired, I woke up late. You don’t dare to wake up late on Monday morning; you have an alarm inside you. You are carnal, but you haven’t called yourself the real name. 3.0 SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteous and other things shall be added unto you , halleluiah! (Pastor and whole congregation singing) 4.0 WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
See, you may be known to be spiritual, but study the bible to know what spirituality is. Spirituality is not that you speak in tongues; spirituality is not hat you win other people to Jesus. No, somebody said to me: “all that matters is winning souls.” You are wrong. If all that matters were winning souls, that’s all would have been in this book. That’s not all that matters, you are wrong. The idea of Jesus’ coming was not to take us to heaven otherwise you should have checked out of here. Did you win Saul of Tarsus to Jesus? You think he doesn’t know what to do? He knocked him out on his way to Damascus, and won him by himself. You think he doesn’t know what to do? Are you the Holy Ghost? That’s not all that matters, there is a life to be lived. 5.0 GOD HAS COME TO KNOW THEM
{Hebrews 10:25} Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is: As the manner of some is. Hey! God has come to know them: He knows their way of life and he tells us “don’t act like them” Are they non-
Christians? No, he is talking about his own children. Like a father talking to some of his own children telling them “don’t behave like that one.”
6.0 DON’T BE FAMILIAR WITH GOD
You are so familiar with God that you think he will understand. Don’t be familiar with God. You think he will understand. You think you have a special relationship with God that is different from the rest of us. Yea, but you cannot and will never have a special relationship with God that is so special that is different from this book. Understand it. He cannot and will not accept a relationship which is contrary to this book. 7.0 AN EVIL SPIRIT IS TROUBLING YOU
If you have a relationship with God which you think you have which is inconsistent with the bible, you have a relationship not with God the father but something is worrying you; an evil spirit is worrying you. The bible says “An evil spirit troubled Saul (1 Samuel 16:14).” He wasn’t possessed. An evil spirit came to his own from time to time and troubled Saul. And whenever David played the flute (1 Samuel 16:23 David took an flute and played with his hand) the demon went out of Saul, That demon came to his mind and troubled him. And gave him thoughts to thinkand then he would behave differently. Have you seen people who behave with certain extremes? They are the nicest people in the world until they get angry. When they are angry it’s like hell. They take extreme actions before they know what has happened.
8.0 THIS HAS DESTROYED MARRIAGES
This thing has destroyed marriages, has destroyed families. Now a family being destroyed it doesn’t mean that a man being separated from
his wife that’s when the problem is. No, you people can be in hell together at home. 9.0 YOU NEED A WORD SEMINAR- NOT A MARRIAGE SEMINAR
I can’t imagine quarreling with my wife; listen, that’s why I tell many of you; you don’t need a marriage seminar- you need a word seminar. A lot of marriage seminars are just wasting your time. What you need is a seminar on the word, not how to handle your marriage but how to handle your life. I cannot quarrel with my wife. Why? Not because I love her so oh< if I quarrel with her something will<.No! Because Jesus will not let me do that. I can’t do that I love Jesus: I have got to live according to his word. You have got to learn to be spiritually minded.
The End
