SUNDAY SERMON: TOPIC: THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOUR PURIFIER

 DATE: 8 NOVEMBER, 2026

TOPIC: THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOUR PURIFIER

WHAT GOD IS TO YOU AND THE LOVE OF GOD

- “I am to you what you think I am to you” God showed us what He is through the scripture. You cannot know who he is without looking at his Word.

- What people think God is in Nigeria is not God, but Satan.

- God is love. Love is not a feeling; telling someone to bathe in winter or take medicine is not a pleasant feeling, but does that mean that you do not love them?

- Jesus, Holy Spirit and God are the same in the same way you have Spirit, Soul (Mind) and Body.

- Everything in life reflects the nature of God. Just the same way that water can be a solid in ice, a liquid at room temperature, and a gas as water vapour.

MARRIAGE TIPS AND RAISING CHILDREN

- Do not marry for any other reason than that they love the Word. If you marry someone that doesn’t love God, you will regret it. You will feel punished for loving God, because as Christians we rarely divorce, and there isn’t anything as bad as living with someone you do not like.

- Respect is a commandment from God. People respect each other because God commands them to.

- Men don’t play with respect. A man’s life is very noisy, so when they come home, they want to come home to enjoy silence. And who will give it? The wife, not a daughter or mother.

Psa 119:165  Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. 

- A peaceful marriage will only occur with someone who loves the Word of God. 

- If you don’t know God’s word, you will not know how to talk. You will be saying the right thing, but not the right way.

- The word Husband is prophetic, as a wife. The word husband means HOUSE BAND, He who keeps the family together. A wife should address her husband as such as much as possible.

Psa 141:3  Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 

Psa 141:4  Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. 

- This means ‘God please control my mouth.’ Every marriage that has failed has failed at this test. The power of life and death is in the tongue. Let the poor say I am rich. Replace saying it is finished with it is in abundance.

- Marriage is about playing complementary roles. The two shall be one flesh. It is a we and not a you situation, so making your spouse feel like a loser or failure just means that you will also be one.

1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God

- Anyone that loves is born of God. So how do we know you are born again? You are caring; you love. This is very important; you do not marry a person because they are a christian, because a great many christians will not make heaven.

- The happiness and peace in your home is dependent on the level of God’s word that is in the house. 

2Ti 3:14  But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 

2Ti 3:15  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 

- From childhood, the father and mother (Timothy was a 17yr old child and his mother taught him from a child) must teach their children to be wise through the word.

- If your parents or mentor do not teach, change them. God has not called us to be rich or successful, but to be faithful, and the just shall LIVE by faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

1Pe 1:2  Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 

- God became the Father through sanctification. 

- When you accept the Holy Spirit you will have that purification. 

THE REASON FOR THE TITHE

Act 6:1  And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 

Act 6:2  Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 

Act 6:3  Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

- There was a resource problem; a tribal imbalance made it so that some people from the other tribes were not given resources. 

- Full of the Holy Ghost means you are drunk on Him. You’ll be behaving like Mama P, or this pastor, or VDM. You can see that some drunk people talk boldly, so that is how you will become when under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Just the same way you can drink and get drunk, or drink and not get drunk, that is how you can be filled with the Holy Spirit.

- “From their fruits you shall know them” 2 Timothy says that the one that labors must be the first partaker of the fruit. Gal 2:6 shows that the fruit is your offerings and tithe.

- So tithes are the way put by God to find out corrupt people in your church. 

- God wants to put resources in your hand, which includes human resources? People who can be trusted.

- Elections are coming and people need councilors.

- Don’t put in a person saying that they are your church member. 

- There is no easy money anywhere. The only way to get that WILL BE CORRUPTION.

Deu 14:23  And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. 

– This is why you give tithes, to learn how to fear God. Those that do not have that fear of God, will toss their spouse out the moment you gain a financial windfall.