Last Sunday Service at Love Divine Sanctuary (10/05/2020)
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Brother Joses Motto led the brethren in an excellent praise service after which Rev Samuel Bahoya took the floor to introduce the Word
He started by re-emphasizing some key lessons to be drawn from the listening of the previous tape, namely “Works is Faith Expressed”. Paul justifies Abraham by faith just as God sees it and James justifies him by works just as men see it. These two approaches are always present. God first created man spirit(immaterial) before putting in a body of flesh(physical). We live these two realities in our everyday life: the conflict between me (who has the truth) and you (in the wrong). We think we have the truth, we have the revelation, our church is the best, our way of seeing things is right and others are wrong. But who are you to judge someone’s servant? Paul says in Romans 14. ( verse 3 “Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him”). What have you done for your brother you believe to be in error? Have you ever taken a day of fasting and prayer for him? Each person shall appear before God for judgement. God created each person different and the mixture of the different aromas is like a perfume for God. It’s like a rectangular base pyramid. You can only see one face at a time of two if you stand by profile but only he who is at the apex (Holy Spirit) sees all the faces at the same time. The man of God then introduced the sermon of the day “The Unwelcomed Christ” preached in 1955 in Switzerland and translated in French simultaneously with the preaching. Before letting the tape play the man of God drew the attention of the crowd to two fundamental things to take not of during the sermon.
Jesus went to the feast despite the mockeries of the pharisees. He knew He wasn’t welcomed there, He knew He was invited only to be mocked at, yet He went. Because He also knew a sinner would be saved. If God confides in you a mission will opposition, reject, murmurs, hatred, laughter, etc stop you from accomplishing that mission? Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice on the cross for our sins, He who had no sin, bore our iniquities, braved the whips of the Roman soldiers, the insults and the spit for our salvation. He looked not at the present humiliation but at the vision and the goal to accomplish. Sometimes we have to go through laughter, accept to be ridiculed in order to the end of our Divine Mission.
Jesus allowed His feet to be touched and kissed by a prostitute (physical contact) an act which brought about judgement of onlookers. Are we capable of leaving our pedestals to go down to our brother who is in the mud of sin? How many of us are capable to go towards our brethren and bring them back to the Lord?
The sermon which lasted about an hour and a half was then listened after which the pastor led the brethren, who were deeply touched by the sermon, into a word of prayer.
Noela NDOH
