IF YOU CAME FOR THIS YOUTH CONVENTION WITHOUT A NOTE, GO HOME TOMORROW.
THIS IS NOT THE WAY I GREW UP. GET SERIOUS!
THAT IS HOW THEY WILL TELL YOU TO OPEN MATTHEW AND YOU WILL BE CHECKING OLD TESTAMENT
FROM THE AGE OF 16, GOD HAS BEEN SPEAKING TO ME ON ISSUES REGARDING MY FUTURE. THESE DAYS YOU FIND 25-YEAR-OLDS STILL VERY CASUAL ABOUT LIFE.
ONLY A SERIOUS APPROACH GUARANTEES A GLORIOUS RESULT. YOU CAN NOT WORK YOUR WAY AND EXPERIENCE OUR WAYS. PLEASE GET SERIOUS!
I READ THE WHOLE OF MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN LIKE A HUNGRY, RAVENOUS WOLF THE FIRST THREE MONTHS I GOT SAVED. NOW WHEN THEY CALL MATTHEW YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
-Bishop Oyedepo rebukes casual attendees of Youth Convention.
To all of our very precious, highly privileged youths, let me drop this word for you. Only a serious approach guarantees a glorious result. I will like you to comport yourself here. I saw an array of people coming into this service, nothing in their hands, hands in their pockets. That is not the way to build a future.
I didn’t work that way, my wife didn’t work that way, our first Vice President who just spoke to you right now didn’t work that way. Church Gist. You cannot work your way and experience our ways. Please get serious. To sit down somewhere and just be looking at me is a sign of unseriousness. Grabbing nothing, noting nothing, what did you come for? 2 Timothy 3:15. And from a child, you are becoming too old my friend.
There was a time in this commission, I asked them to go round and those who don’t have notes, ask them to stand up. It shouldn’t be so, it is time to reflect on your roots. From the age of 16, God has been speaking to me on issues regarding my future. I saw I was a king not that anybody preached it to me, nobody knew royalty in Christianity.
I found it is good for a young man to take responsibility in his youth so he does not become a liability tomorrow. I found it at 16 and I knelt down under a tree and asked God for grace. Now, you find a 25-year-old just putting his hand in his pocket very casual about life. Please go back home tomorrow if you came here and you are not serious.
Go back home tomorrow. Doing what here? We will be gasping for the next statement. Salivating for the next statement. Someone came here and if they ask him “what did they say tonight?” “I don’t even know, they spent so much time”. Did they beg you to come? Get serious my friend.
Somebody met me seven years before we got married and was asking for counsel about marriage. He said what about your experience and I said I am not married, he said no no! No, you are married. Can I be married and not know? Seven years before I got married, married folks came to me for counselling. Get serious.
By divine help, I read the whole of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John like a hungry, ravenous wolf the first three months I got saved. Now when they call Matthew you are looking for it in the old testament. Get serious my friend. Are you ashamed to hold the Bible in your hand?
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