The Family House: LOYALTY SERIES II: THE STAGES OF DISLOYALTY

The essence of this teaching is to kill the spirit of disloyalty or rebellion in our lives, so that we understand that loyalty is more of a spiritual thing than as physical as we have made it.

Praise God!

I am going to be examining eight stages of disloyalty. Disloyalty does not start in a day, it happens in process, disloyalty is not a day’s journey it is a process; you can’t just wake up and become disloyal entirely, it will be coming into you gradually, you keep developing it from one stage to another and we’re going to be considering the eight stages.

The essence of this teaching is for you to watch your life and watch your environment, be vigilant about the people around you: your employees, colleagues, bosses, watch your children, watch the church folks.

So we’re going to examine the eight of it, the first is all is called

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT: one of the first sign of disloyalty is Independent spirit, once a man begins to develop independent spirit, in the mist of his colleagues, in the mist of the church, in the midst of an organization, disloyalty is creeping into the life of the person or rebellion is setting into the life of the person. When a man comes into an environment, and wants to be autonomous.

If you remember, during this democracy, from 1999 up until now, one of the things that were popular is that many states and villages started splitting into two, into three, and they began to have autonomous village, they began to have two kings in one village. A set of people want to be autonomous, the others want to be autonomous, let me say this it is a sign of disloyalty, and a sign of rebellion. they felt the king has so much power to himself, what stops ‘me’ from being a king in our own side, then they go to the government in power, who says to them to carve out themselves, then a territory will be given to them, and then become an autonomous village which will bare a different name, by having a king in that side. Being a king you start parading, government will give you a car, and you have a special plate number, and then you’re working in autonomy; let me tell you it is a sign of rebellion.

So, independent spirit is one of the spirit that you must check out in your workers, in your family and in the church.

In the church it is seen in many formats; a pastor can declare from the pulpit one thing and the members with independent spirit will do another. When such a thought or motive comes to your mind, as Minuit or as casual as it may think it is, it is rebellion that is setting in. Independent spirit is the spirit that tells you to do things the way you want to do it and not the way they tell you to do it. Pastor says’ fast from six to six, independent sprit says fast from six to twelve- for it’s not pastor’s business, it’s between you and God’

God has orchestrated leadership to give you guidelines and direction in life, so once you come under any leadership, your opinion doesn’t really matter, especially when it’s spiritual leadership.

So what you respect in leadership is not the age of the person occupying it, but the age of the position.

Pastoral position is older than your great grandfather, and that is what am occupying, I was not appointed by age, I came in to sit- let me set a pictorial example with our present nation Nigeria which got her independence in 1960; now 1960 independent was bought, now in the next fifty years, we’ll be around a hundred and few years independent, and then suddenly a young man gets into the office at the age of thirty, as the president of Nigeria, and then the senators who are seventy, sixty begins to rebel against the thirty years old man, and they say ‘ why should this small boy…?’ let me tell you , you’re not rebelling against the thirty year old man, but against 1960. The office started existing from 1960, so in one thousand years to come if Jesus tarries; there will be consistently presidents after presidents, so whoever that is rebelling against the president based on his age is rebelling against the sit he is sitting on that is ageless.

So whenever a man appears to be your boss in the office, please in order to avoid being a rebellious person, stop looking at the man’s age, stop looking at the man’s qualification, stop looking at the way he speaks, stop looking at the way he looks, he might be ugly, he might be a chimpanzee from the zoo, but if he is above you, he is above you so! Obey him!

This is what is killing us in the Christendom especially, because if there is any place in the world where we don’t have respect for authority, it is in the Christendom. In church, that is where people come to read their profiles; Church should not be about that, the fact should be and must be if you are placed under an authority, no matter who the person is , you must obey.

Leadership is not about the individual, the leadership is about the office the individual is occupying; so when you see someone in your mist, who is beginning to manifest an independent spirit, by wanting to do a thing the way he wants to do it, that person is exhibiting the spirit of rebellion and the person should be watched out for.

2Sam 3vs 20-21, 26-27

we’ll read that as a basis for this teaching-

….. now this man called Abner, happens to be one of the generals in the army of Israel, but he was in charge of a particular camp and David was the king, and then we have another general in the army who was on the side of David, by the named Johab; these two generals had no problems amongst them, but David had problems with Abner, David had issues with Abner,. David as the king decided to go and make up with Abner, and he called Abner for a feast and two of them stayed together, ate together, enjoyed their lives and Abner said to David, I am going to gather all the people of Israel and tell them that we have made peace and that all of them should submit to you and you will rule over the affairs of the Israelites. And David was happy, then he said okay, and they bid themselves good-bye; but as he was going, a general in David’s army ran after him, called him (Abner) back, then said, there is something I want to tell you. The man came innocently. Joab took him by the side and killed him immediately, because the man had quarrel with the king; even though the man (Abner) had made up with the king.

This is a Joab that had an independent spirit- that decided ‘even though my master had made peace, I’ll not make peace’.

Independent spirit!

So he went to kill the man that the master forgave. This is how you take note of an independent spirit, when the master says one, independent spirit is saying another. So check it out inside you, when pastor say do this, independent spirit suggest another, and start rebelling against authority.

When a person wants or does things in the way he or she wants outside the way the leadership wants it, the person is manifesting independent spirit. Joab, who happens to be king David’s right hand man, killed king David’s enemy that he had made up with, without consulting the master, he did not even ask the master for permission, but went ahead to kill him, if you want to read up more about this story , you can in

2Sam18vs12-14, 2Sam 12vs27-28, 1Kg1vs5-7.

In the reign of David, a man named Adonijah, got up one day and decided that he was also fit to be a king, and immediately he desired it, he went to Joab. The right hand man of the king, and told him what he want to do and Joab, without consulting his master, gave him assistance.

Independent spirit!

OFFENCE:

Math24vs 10

This is the second stage of disloyalty. What is Offence? It is when a person suddenly begins to feel offended by the leadership, the person is manifesting rebellion. When the thing the leadership is doing , somehow you’re no longer please with it, you’re take offence Jesus said in

Math 24vs 10,

And in

Mathew 24 vs. 1 to the end is where Jesus predicted the second coming and the end of the world; His second coming and the closure of the entire globe. That is where he said this, that in the last days, many will start getting offended, there are some people here that are not in good terms with their parents. You’re offended in your mother, you’re offended in your father, you’re offended in your uncle, with everybody around you… what is your problem?

So when a man begins to manifest this in him, check yourself. If you see the man around you as a subordinate, be very careful; every small thing you do the person is offended. Rebellious spirit. That is the spirit of offence. Everything you do the person takes offence. Watch out for the people that manifest this kind of things.

As a leader, always look out for the member, or workers who are always offended with everything that you do.

Absalom was offended by the half-brother, Absalom was offended by the half brother who raped his sister and he was also offended with the father David, who did not do anything to the guy, because at the time this thing happened, the law says that if you commit incest, you should be cast out of the congregation and be stoned to death. But David whose son slept with the sister was angry but didn’t do anything; and then Absalom, whose sister was raped by the half brother, was offended by the half brother, offended by the father who did nothing, and he (Absalom) kept quiet.

Two years after Absalom, killed the half brother.

Be careful with people that take offence easily, that keeps pilling it up, even though they do not say a word, the day they will target you, you will be disappointed; haven’t you seen a friend that you thought was your friend and then suddenly something happens and you expected him to help you but the guy just lashed you and reminded you of something you did way back? Have you witnessed a thing like that? Watch out for men around you, for women like that around you, who takes offence in everything you do and in everything you say, they are dangerous and they should be detected.

3. THE STAGE OF BEING PASSIVE

This is the third stage of disloyalty. What do I mean by that? This things move from one stage to another, it’s in process. In here when the person starts feeling offended with you or with the leadership, sometimes depending on the individual, what the person will do is that the person will start keeping quite(passive).

In 2Sam, 13vs 22, Absalom manifested it.

Be careful of people when you call for a staff meeting they gather together and everybody is contributing but they are not saying a word.

Be very careful!

I am not saying all of it is rebellion, but I’m saying watch the person very well, for it could be rebellion manifestation.

Absalom kept quiet, am sure his guys were coming around him, trying to jeer him on to do something, even his father called him, ‘Absalom this thing that happened to your sister, by your half brother, it’s so unfortunate but you can’t kill him, you know… , but Absalom kept them all quite; first year passed, the brother thought he had forgotten, second year, he threw a party and invited the half brother who thought everything was forgotten. And Absalom assigned a particular servant to be filling him with liquor, immediately the guy was drunk, he cornered him and killed him.

Passivity!

People, who are usually like that, be careful with them, especially when they used to talk and suddenly stop talking. The married people will understand expressly that when a women or man keeps mute suddenly, there is danger.

Praise God!

When a woman, in the morning is extremely happy in the morning before the man leaves for work; and only for him to come back and meet a strong angry face… no, no, you have to understand that something had gone wrong…!

When you have subordinates that are around you, that are lively, suddenly one of them tends to be quite, its either something is troubling him or rebellion has entered him, he has picked offence and he is beginning to manifest it first by keeping quite. That is how they manifest, first by quietness, just like Absalom. They will just be quite and be watching you.

Praise God!

4. THE STAGE OF CRITICISIM

This is the fourth stage. Once rebellion passes the level of passivity, or level of passiveness, it gets into the level of criticism, where your subordinates, members begin to criticize you and you’re amazed, wondering why they are criticizing you. Where your members come to church with biro, with note books and you’re teaching believing that your people are beginning to believe in what you’re teaching, not knowing that they’re trying to mark you on that day. Checking out your tenses, checking out your mistakes, the grammatical errors, you look at them you think they are writing down the revelation coming out- no! they are just writing down the mistakes you’ve made, that by the time you’re done, they look at it and evaluate on the message and how, pastor spoke wrong English, for twenty-five times! .

That is rebellion. Pure rebellion!

What am I trying to say here? Am not saying it to you because you’re in the pew, am saying it to the pew and the pulpit, because at a point in my life also even as I am today I have men above me. So I am speaking to myself.

It manifests in us once in a while, so the essence of the message is to help you check it when it comes, because rebellion can destroy you.

A disloyal person moves from being passive to being critical, at the point all he does is to find fault with the leadership. In the realm of the spirit, it is assumed that followers are blind. If you want to follow well, when you’re following a spiritual leader, you must be blind.

When I taught on the ‘Ladder Holders’, I told you that leaders are on top of ladders, members are the ones holding the ladder and the possibilities of seeing the nakedness of the one on top is there, but if you see, be careful what you say.

In drunkenness of Noah, his son stumbled into his nakedness and was punished for it. A man that God saved, gave victory, didn’t destroy his family, the first thanksgiving Noah did was to be drunk. In the thanksgiving he got drunk, and was down sleeping with his legs scattered. In that state his son came in, and mocked him; but what the son didn’t know was that he shouldn’t criticize spiritual leadership.

What you don’t know keep shut!

His two other sons walked into their fathers hut with their backs to cover his nakedness, the amazing thing is that the bible said that the father woke up and knew what the other brother did.

How did he know?

It was God setting up the fool (son). So sometimes God will allow you to see the nakedness of the leader who is on the ladder to watch what you’ll do. To see if you will expose him. What you don’t understand is that you’ve deprive yourself the opportunity of climbing the ladder in your life. And if per venture you climb the ladder, all the people holding the ladder will criticize you once, because you can’t sow and reap what you sow, you will reap a hundred fold. So be careful!

Num 12vs 1, 2Sam15vs3, still on Absalom, in Numbers 12…. Miriam was the elder sister to Moses; Aaron was the elder brother to Moses. They have a prophetic lineage, Miriam was a prophetess, Aaron was a priest; but you know what happened, if God bypasses your elder brothers and anoint you, they will have no choice but to serve you.

I don’t understand why Christians or in the Christendom why we must always ascribe respect with age. The God we’re dealing with does not have respect with age, he is ageless. That’s why he doesn’t anoint people based on age, so when he leaves a set in your family and anoints the younger one, or better still if God decides to anoint my first daughter who is still five years old, I’ll have no choice but to follow.

It is very hard in the Christendom for us to see respect and loyalty, we see it more with the people we call ‘unbelievers.’

Rebellion!

In 2Sam15vs3, Absalom did something very amazing, we’re in the critical stage, after the third stage which is passiveness we enter into the critical stage. Absalom went to the gate of the entrance of the palace and sat therein, people coming to report to his father of their issues, he will stop them, and act as king to them, by running his father down. He sat at the gate of the father, and say to the people that the king is not ready to hear them.

Take away your pride and submit to the Lord.

Most of us have not had an encounter with this king, which is why where we’re placed we look at the head of the man with disdain. If we know who we are serving, whoever he presents before us, we will serve him.

A king ruled over Israel from the age of eight, (King Hosiah) the whole Israel listened to him; but in our time of Christianity, the leader will be talking, people will be analyzing, why? They don’t know what they are doing. That is the highest form of rebellion, disloyalty not just to man, but to God Himself.

Critical stage when a person rises to criticize everything that the leadership does; if you have them in the office , they are criticizing the manager, they are criticizing the marketing manager, sales manager, etc, everybody around them is not doing it right, they are the only one that is seeing what is not done right.

5. THE STATE OF POLITICAL STAGE.

This is a stage where the person begins to liaise or lure people into seeing his own view. That’s where the person makes others to believe that he has discovered a serious problem in the church. Absalom sat at the gate of the king’s house and was telling people that ‘I have discovered that my father doesn’t have time for you people, so talk to me’.

Political stage!

In church, it’s like that. Political stage. After criticism, they will now start forming alliance against the leadership. I am not just talking about church; I am talking about life in general.

Anywhere you are, no matter the office, please submit to the leadership of the office. Submit.

Praise God!

HOW TO RECOGNISE THEM WHEN THEY ARE IN POLITICAL STAGE:

They ask such questions as:

a. How did you see today’s service? And they will go ahead by elaborating how they felt it was dry. - their motive is for you to see what you’ve never seen and suddenly the picture they want comes to your mind’s eye; as such you suddenly agree with them, and once you admit by agreeing with them, they mark you as supporter, and so they keep coming back to you for such discussions.

Political stage!

The second question they will approach you with is:

b. Do you think pastor is as anointed as he used to be? He frames it as if he is praising the pastor, but in his craftiness he is running down the pastor.

The third question goes like this:

c. Have you notice that a lot of people are beginning to leave the church?

Political stage!

It not only occurs like this in church but also in the secular world such as: they tend to sell their opinions to the listening colleagues, ‘madam do you know that people don’t come to our office again? Our product is beginning to stay longer than before. You know before we bring this things and we sell it quickly, but now it takes a little while…’ they refused to understand , or reason why the products do not sell faster than it normally does, properly due to a problem in the country, and the particular set of people that buy the products have issues in their area. This people come as if they are sympathizing with the organization, or with the church; but the aim is to run down the leadership.

The last but not the list they say:

d. In fact the why things are going, I think pastor travels a lot this days; the manager I don’t understand him, he travels a lot this days, any way I just hope it’s not church money , or the organization’s money that he is using.

Political stage!

And the listener suddenly agrees with him. The truth is that we have few people that have independent reasoning. We are programmed to reason along.

Hallelujah!

So most times also when they’ve finished politicizing and gathering their own members, they’ll formulate a particular venue for their meeting point. They coin an attitude of care ‘let’s meet in my house, it’s time we start talking to God about what is happening in church’ they will gather together and pray for less than an hour and discuss for more than two hours.

Hallelujah!

God is in heaven and He is seeing all this. Let me say this to you

‘a pastor and a friend of mine, something happened in his ministry, he had an assistant pastor who was running him down and he did not know. He trusted the young man, met him within the first year of the ministry, and made him an assistant which was not normal. He trusted him so much and made him an assistant and leaves the pulpit and everything and the man (assistant) was running him down and he didn’t know. The man (assistant) was having extra meeting in his house for one year; but the pastor never knew, even with his own team. The pastor trusted him so much that he didn’t check anything about him, as we speak today, by the time the church was about two years plus going to three years the guy(assistant) left with all the people he had being gathering and started his own ministry, the shock made the pastor sick and the pastor had stroke. As we speak today, we met last time and I saw him walking in a deformed way, a man in his early forty’s’ because an assistant pastor, a ladder holder, one who is called to help him stabbed in the back; and do you think in future what the assistant is building will stand? Certainly not! He is making a ‘mountain out of a mole hill ‘for it will collapse. Let me tell you, you cannot climb higher in life, by running anybody down. Don’t run your leadership down, if your manager is stupid, be praying until God gives you the privilege to be a manager.

You know, most times, our mothers to our female sisters don’t make sense. I saw a friend on B.B carrying a baby, and I asked if she had delivered, she said yes, I then asked how to tell me the level of respect she has for her mother now. She explained to me that from the day she took in to the day she delivered her respect for her mother kept increased. there are things you’re criticizing about your mother, but let me tell you for the fact that you’ve never being a mother you can never know what she sees, you have never being in that position before, wait until you get there before you assume to be in the vintage point to be able to criticize . For when a woman enters the labour room, the heat of the room makes you to appreciate the effort of your mother. You can easily criticize the pastor because you do not know what it takes to be in his position. You refuse to appreciate your father because you feel he denies you each time you ask for something, as such you tend to weigh his love with that of your friend’s father who tends to always give his son everything when he asked for it, you refused to know or understand what your friends father does for a living and instead you feel insult your own father for that reason. But you forget that ten to fifteen years later you will become a father as well, by then you will understand.

We have to kill rebellion in our family, we have to kill it in our organization, and we have to kill it in the church.

Rebellion!

6. THE STAGE OF DECEPTION

This is the sixth stage

John chapter 14vs13, John 13vs 16.

One thing you must understand about rebellion is that rebellion is a deceit. Disloyalty is a deceit. There is a particular spirit in charge of deceiving people and making them to be disloyal. So it is a deceit. May you not fall a victim to that spirit.

In the book of Mark, He said greater work shall you do. And Jesus was speaking and addressing the disciple, He was telling them while He was with them, that you will do greater work than I had done and let me tell you most of us have done greater work than Jesus has done, in fact in some areas of my life I have done greater works, you know why? Jesus never drove a car, Jesus never travelled far, and in fact statistics said that Jesus never travelled more than two hundred kilometers for the gospel; so He travelled between where he was born to the other side. I have travelled outside Nigeria to preach the gospel, ‘greater works’ Jesus never lived in a room, and for any where he sees he lays his head, but He said something

‘ greater works shall ye do, but a servant is not greater’.

So in the midst of ‘greater work’, remember that you’re sent. I am standing like the Jesus now, preaching the gospel to you, you and some people are getting results, getting revived, favour, some people are getting healed. Greater works shall you do, but remember that your blessing came from pulpit; so don’t be too blessed that you begin to neglect the pulpit, by that I mean you begin to look down on the pulpit. Greater works shall you do!

In Mathew, Mark, Luke and John; He said the same thing , he said

“ do this in remembrance of me”,

When He was teaching about Holy Communion, it wasn’t just about Holy Communion He was talking about, for everything you do, do having me in mind. So when you begin to act without having your leadership in mind, you’re rebelling, you’re a rebellious child.

Jesus had to sacrifice to be poor that you might be rich, He had to die that you might live, so don’t neglect the leadership, there are some certain aspect of the leadership that is giving you the privilege of what you’re enjoying, so let it not get into your head.

Deception is what gets into your head. Ezekiel 28vs 14, says it very clearly, do try to understand what the passage says; you see devil had deception, because for every time he appears, music appears orchestral appears, complete sound appears, something started telling him ‘are you sure that you’re not better than this man?’ and God said ‘I know who you are, why? I made you so’. The man who made you can un-make you.

One man in this country came out, and at the verge of winning the presidency said ‘I can do without the Ibo’s’ and a few Ibo men, I remember one of them, Senator Arthur Nzeribe, said to the man at the time “let us see how you will do without the Ibos, we’re not interested in the sit of power but the Ibo’s will remain in the corridor of power, when you’re entering into power you’ll see them , when you’re coming out you’ll see them; let’s see how it goes’. That was the end of his presidential ambition,

Because something entered him, (deception), and he began to fill ‘I have conquered’ and he never conquered.

It entered in them, it enters members, it enters followers and they begin to think ‘when I preach people begin to respond more than when pastor preaches’ now you begin to think deception that ‘you are, you are’. You’re no body!

And the bible says, one day he came and did what he did, God had to tell Michael, ‘let us do away with him and see if heaven will stop existing’. You know some of you think without you church will stop existing, and you didn’t remember that you’ve not always been there; it didn’t occur to you that you’ve not always been there. You just got employed in Shell and you’re doing fine, you just got employed in a bank you put in one point something billion in three months, and you think it’s because of that one point something billion that the bank has been existing on; before you came the bank has been existing, your father worked in the same bank and then you pulled a big money and you’re thinking managers will come and bow. That’s stupidity. Rebellion.

Praise God!

The seventh stage, before we get to the last stage is called:

7. OPEN REBELLION:

This is the stage where the person comes openly to fight against the authority.

Revelation 12vs 7, 2 Sam 16vs 11, 2Sm 16vs22, Mathew 26vs47&48.

When a man gets to the last stage which is the seventh stage, the other stage is the stage of treatment. And when a man gets to this stage, its open rebellion. That guy who was offended and suddenly started criticizing pastor and suddenly starts politicizing with the members, starts fraternizing against the leadership and then the next stage is that they will gang up to come openly.

A pastor friend of my in Enugu state was having challenges with the wife and of course this is the church where the wife is in charge of the ‘rebellious team’ and then while the pastor is busy preaching to the church, the wife is busy making disciples of all men. And then the people the wife was disciplining began to leave the church. One day the pastor had issues with the wife in the house, the wife was raising her voice, abnormally and the man was so crazy about that, and asked her what was wrong ; the wife picked up her phone and dialed a number, the man did not know the person she was calling. Few minutes later,all the rebellious people that left the church, elders and deacons, they were the ones that came to the house that night saying “pastor enough is enough, enough is enough…’Accusing him of different things before you knew what was happening they started beating pastor- open confrontation.

The rebellion has gotten to its peak, where you now talk; a member shuts down the pastor. Open rebellion! The manager is talking, suddenly you become the ‘voice of the people’ that’s a rebellious spirit. If you’re the voice of the people in your office, you have a rebellious spirit. No man is created to be the voice of the people.

Open confrontation, that’s the peak of rebellion.

When a child gets up to speak to the face of the father. May God deliver the earth from rebellion, our families from rebellion, and our offices from rebellion.

Rebellion is the reason why we have plurifirating of everything on earth, it’s not just church. The way church is plurifirating, clubs is plurifirating. Why? Because the guy was working in a club somewhere and suddenly the boss got him angry and he calls one commissioner and ask if he has money to invest in club, that one responds positively, because he knows the advantage of it, because if he owns a club he can go out at night and his wife cannot question him, for he will give excuse that he owns a night club. That’s why he invests in club.

Praise God!

You’ll still see another person who is working for someone in one fast food joint, simply because he gets praises for his excellent cooking, he then gets enticed by someone who goes behind to offer him a chance to own his own, he quickly accepts and leaves the company he works for. Let me tell you, there is hardly any business on earth that comes with a fresh idea all of them are duplicated industries called ‘rebellion’.

Rebellious spirit!

May God deliver us from it in the name of Jesus Christ.

Open confrontation, the devil confronted God when he said I’ll arise, I’ll ascend, the hall mark of rebellion is the language of ‘I’ when you use one I then you use ‘we’ then you’re a rebellious entity.

In 2Sam 16vs11, if you read it very well, from one to the end , you’ll notice that Absalom fought against the father, 2Sam 16vs22 Absalom went into the father’s bed and slept with his father’s wives in the land of Israel; the father was cold. Absalom said; let him enjoy what his father has been enjoying. He took his father’s wife, and was raping them one after the other and Israel was watching.

Rebellion will make you desirer what belongs to another. Wrong spirit, killer spirit.

Math 26vs47-48,

Judas had a rebellious spirit, he was stylishly doing it. He argued when the alabaster was broken, and attempted to suggest they should have sold the oil and given to the poor. But when his time came his rebellion came to the peak that he had to walk straight to Jesus and told the soldiers that the one that I will kiss -. Open rebellion!

And when he came to Christ, Christ said ‘have you come?’ at that point a reasonable person would have shown remorse of his actions but instead he just kissed Jesus and walked away.

Open confrontation!

Immediately he kissed him, Jesus relaxed, because let me tell you, death is not the end; death is just a gate way to eternity. Jesus knew that what he was doing would bring about promotion not demotion. You see the leaders you’re fighting in your offices, the further you‘re fighting them, you’re just helping them to rise. Every man you fight , you help to rise and everything you get on the plat form of rebellion that is called promotion will not be sustained

The last stage is the stage that belongs to the leadership it is called

8. THE STAGE OF EXECUTION:

1SAM 15VS23, EX 22V18, Rev12vs 192Sam 18vs15, 2Sam 23v3, 1Kgs2vs25, Math 27vs28.

Now for every time you notice rebellion in any man kill it. Whenever you sense rebellion amongst your subordinate kill it, if you allow it grow, you will not handle it well when it gets to that fruit it wants to get. Whenever you sense rebellion, kill it. Niche it on the bud, don’t waste time, it’s a wrong spirit. The bible says that rebellion is regarded as witch craft-

1Sam15vs23, Ex22vs16,

when you see rebellion kill it, because it’s a witch, you know some of us are busy binding a normal bird that is praising God at night when the man dealing with you is with you ‘a man’s enemy is a member is a member of his own house hold’ whenever there is a bank robbery, there is always an insider. The devil cannot attack you, outside you; he must use somebody around you to attack you. Rebellion is one of the instruments. So when you see rebellion, kill it.

Immediately God saw rebellion in Lucifer, Rev12vs 19He cast him away immediately. When Abnor in 2Sam18vs 19, Abnor’s rebellion came to the open, he was taken aside and stoned and. same thing with Ahitophel, who was hanged and he died. That hanging was done by himself. Rebellion will frustrate you, to the point that if you are not killed, it will make you commit suicide.

That’s rebellion.

Adonijah, fell down and died, 1Kgs 2vs 25. Judas Iscariot, he rebelled against the king of glory, the maker of the universe, the author and finisher of our faith, the beginning and he end, the one who has no beginning and has no ending, the one who is and who was and who is to come, the ancient of days, the maker of life, the one who understands your intention before you execute the action, he went to rebel against him. Jesus did not say ‘I forgive you’ Jesus knew the only treatment for rebellion is what? - Kill it! He allowed him.

Peter denied Christ, Judas deceived Christ. Peter realized his ways came back and asked for forgiveness, he was forgiven, but deception that resulted from rebellion, Jesus did not tolerate, immediately Judas went to the tree and hung himself; same tree Jesus was gloriously hanged, Judas was shamefully hanged and died.

Let me tell you this , before the entrance of Judas into the apostolic order, it has been written from the foundation of the world that there will be twelve pillars in heaven, which the names of the twelve disciples will be written on it. Judas deprived himself that privilege and went to die by hanging and he is in hell as we speak now.

Every man who has an opportunity to be a servant today, there is a plan God has for you. God has something in store for you. Serve and serve well, there is a pillar your name is written on, if you’ll be patient enough despite the weakness of the pulpit you will get there, but if you decide to criticize the pulpit, that is when your name will be wiped, but may it not be so with you, may it not be so with us . In the mighty name of Jesus.

Amen!

Rev. Cosfinney Udoka N.

Senior Pastor

House on the Rock, Asaba