ECCLESIASTES 9:3
A sister rushed here one day when we were doing counselling. She was so upset and was crying.
She just got a job, and she was happy. The first day she arrived at the office, they said the managing director would like to see her.
And so, happily, she went to see him in his office. She said that when she got there, she found that the man had already removed his trousers with his male organ out.
She wanted to run away, but he said “No, do not run back; it is because of you that I took them off.”
She said, At work? This man has a PhD in Economics, and is a deacon in his church? He must be a mad man.
He is just heading a company. Economic brain is different from what we are talking about. You could be economically wise or business wise but you are spiritually insane.
So, she ran from the office here. The instruction we gave her was “go and resign.
So, she went there and threw in her resignation. Many mad people and crazy individuals are walking on the streets.
Many big men are on our streets who cannot do without taking drugs in the morning so they can be normal.
Unfortunately, for our generation, our generation has become the generation of valium, lexotherm, paracetamol, aspirin, codeine, and all kinds of things, and some consume such things every day
When a person is used to disorder and crisis has become his culture, then orderliness becomes his enemy.
There is plenty of environmental insanity. This is where we need Christ, prayer, purging, and deliverance of the mind.
One of the hard facts of Christian life is to discover that sooner or later, simply receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord does not lead to the wholeness or complete deliverance of your life.
You must now work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
When you do not work it out like that, it is part of the spiritual insanity we are talking about.
The Bible says that”the heart of man is desperately evil, and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and after that, they go to the dead.
The heart of an un-regenerated man is like a zoo where all kinds of animals are there, like serpents, scorpions, antelope, and so on.
It is when the fire of God, the purging fire of the Holy Ghost, and the blood of Jesus move into that heart that all those things run away.
*But some never allow God to do that deep work in them. You are here; can you mention one spiritual contribution that you have made for God?
The reward of a preacher is that one day the people will know that a prophet has passed among them.
They did not value the prophet at the moment, but when they realised he was gone, their eyes opened.
There is one thing worse than not coming to church, and that is to come to church and do nothing about the message.
You come there, hear the message, and do not do anything. Any man who gambles with the devil will eventually find that his defeat is sure.
That is why the enemy has stolen the wings of many eagles among the children of God. They can no longer fly.
Many churchgoers have become so worthless that the devil does not even waste time on them anymore. Let me tell you one truth today: when your spiritual temperature is high enough, it will kill every arrow fired against you.
But if it is not hot enough, the arrows not only come in, they begin to work in the person’s life.
And sometimes, when you say,* _”What has happened here?”The person says “Our group held a vigil, and we prayed.”
The truth is that 1,000 blind men cannot see better than one blind man. Where two or three sinners are gathered in His name, there is no strength in their numbers.
Their heavens cannot open, no matter how they shout. How can you make heaven beloveth when TV watching is the Lord of all your evenings?
Many have become spiritually sick. There is one characteristic of the sick: things are always very quiet around them. Things are always quiet around the dead and in the graveyard.
So if your spiritual life is dead, your environment and life will not experience signs and wonders.
Your backsliding and re-repenting are sure signs that you are spiritually insane.
Many of us who are supposed to be battling lions are fighting mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes are not even dying.
I am praying for somebody here that every power that wants your life to disgrace heaven, no matter how close you are to that power, I break you loose! in the name of Jesus.
Madness of the brain, madness of the heart. What does the Bible call madness of the heart, which it says has filled the hearts of men?
It means you are not able to know that your problem started at the root of sin. You just thought you could do what you liked, and the problem would just go away.
Jesus told the man who was healed from blindness “Go and sin no more.
Jesus told the man who was healed at the pool of Bethesda, Go and sin no more.”
He had been there for 38 years. Sin locked him up for 38 years. Sin is bad.
When you are suffering from madness of the heart:
When you do not realise the badness and wickedness of sin, there is madness in your heart.
When you despise correction and wisdom, and hate learning, there is madness in your heart.
When your own opinion is always right and everyone else’s is wrong, then you are suffering from the madness of the heart.
When you think your own way is right in your own heart.
When you are mocking sin and taking it lightly.
When you, as a young person, are despising your parents’ instructions, you are a first-class insane person, because the Bible says* _”Honour your father and mother that your days may be long and that it shall be well.
There are two curses attached to children who do not honour their parents.
Their days will be short.
It shall not be well with them.
I did not write it, it is in the Bible.
When you keep backsliding and keep repenting;
When anger is ruling your life;
When anger is controlling your emotions, you are mad. Because anger is spiritual insanity;
When you are not planning for heaven at all.
I remember one big and prosperous king who had a full-time joker in his palace. The duty of the joker was to make people laugh in the palace.
That was what he was paid to do. All of a sudden, the king became sick, and everybody became sad because he was getting weaker and weaker.
He could not discuss it with people again. People were going to pay him condolence visits.
One day, the joker came to the king and asked him how he was. He said, “very bad. I am dying.”
Then the joker asked the king, “King, you know you are dying now. But where are you going when you die? Do you know the place?
The king said, I have no idea.”Then the joker took off his cap and looked at the King and said, “If you ever find a bigger fool than yourself, I will congratulate you.
King, you are a big fool for not knowing where you are going. The king eventually died.
Then he discovered that he was not king any longer. He could not take his crown and kingdom with him.
He came into the world naked and left it naked. He came into the world as an ignorant man and died as a fool.
So is everyone who lives and dies like that. It is better never to have been born than to have been born; then you fail to be sure of eternity and are unprepared for heaven.
The fact that you were given birth to is a man’s opportunity. It is a journey from which there is no return.
Death, too, is a commitment from which there is no escape. At birth, we all begin the journey from this world to the next.
You cannot turn back from this journey or press a pause button.
Listen, beloveth: it is only bodily that man is a creature of this earth.
Spiritually, he is a creature of eternity. So, it is utter insanity for any man to presume that he can find his way to God on his death bed.
God does not guarantee that kind of foolishness. It is a very risky thing not to be sure of heaven, and an unexpected accident can throw a person into hellfire or eternity suddenly.
Nobody is born into the way of Christianity. It has to be sought and found. So, when you neglect the opportunity that God is giving you now, it will lead to a rejection of grace.
And if you persist in unbelief, the person will be prevented from entering life.
So refusing to respond to God is spiritual insanity. Are you spiritually insane? I hope not. But if you are, repent.
PRAYER POINTS
- O God that troubleth Pharaoh, trouble my enemies now! in the name of Jesus.
Say, Father, remove any form of spiritual insanity from me. *Make me the kind of person you want me to be. Educate my spirit by your fire, in the name of Jesus.
God bless you and your family, in Jesus name, amen. Shalom Aleichem
