The Burning Ones (November vigil) - Bro Olaopa Olajide — Bro Olaopa Olajide

I understand the fact that our body can be tired. It's I think it's past midnight already. And you have not slept, but I would like to beseech you that if you have deemed it fit to leave your hostels, your villa, wherever you have came come from tonight, to be here tonight, then you should go to the end by not allowing your body to dictate for you right now. Because it will be very, very unwise for a man to leave his bed at home and then comes to a gathering like this and still come back to sleep. It would have been better if he slept at home because you know, it will be more comfortable. The Lord is helping us in Jesus name. Amen. Can I ask you a question before we proceed? Have you been blessed tonight? Yes. Since we have started this program, have you been blessed at all? Yes. Can you give God a beautiful Hallelujah? Amen. Amen. Now, in tonight's sermon, we are going to work together, praise God. When I ask you a question, you respond. When I ask us to sing, you sing. Amen. Amen. I believe it's simple enough. Yes or no? Yes. That's the question. Yes or no? Yes. I think failure led you. Yes or no? Yes. I want to continue down. Yes or no? Yes. Amen. Amen. Ah, permits me tonight. I'm I'm I'm very, very sorry because I was because I can't move closer to us because of this wired microphone. My intention was to teach and to be very, very interactive with us tonight. But I pray that the Holy Spirit will help us. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now, we are going to sing together. Choir, can you help us? Hallelujah. Amen. You know, the song that my brother told the other time, we are going to take that song one more time. And we are going to start by appreciating God even for tonight once again. Hold on. Hold on. I don't want you to be It is good to be emotional, but I don't want you to just be emotional. I want you to be intentional with what you are singing. I want you to be intentional about praising God tonight with that song. I want you to sing that song more than the person beside you and express your worship before God. Choir, help me. Can you sing that song from the bottom of your heart? As we are singing these songs, we are inviting the presence of God into our midst tonight. Can you take this song with me? You may not get that song, but that song says, I want you to sing that song like a seraph. He says, seraphs rejoice, cherubims rejoice because we have been laid upon the foundation of truth. The Bible says that the foundation of Christ, standeth sure. It standeth sure. Can you pray to God? We are here tonight, coming to our midst, oh God. Lord, coming to our midst, oh God. Let our hearts be open to receive from you. Let our hearts be open to receive from you. Can you pray? Can you pray and be more intentional with your prayer? Let our hearts be open to receive from you. Let our hearts be open to receive from you. Let our hearts be open to receive from you. Can you let your presence fill this house right now? Let your presence fill this house right now. Let your presence fill this house right now. Tell God, Lord, I don't want to miss out of what you are going to do in this session. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Lord, encounter me. Tell God, Holy Ghost, quicken me tonight. My body may be weak, but I pray for grace for an empowerment. Quicken me tonight. By your spirit, quicken me tonight. By your spirit, quicken me tonight. By your spirit, quicken me tonight. By your spirit, quicken me tonight. By your spirit, quicken me tonight. Let my body receive life. Let my soul receive life. Let my spirit receive life. Let me receive life from your throne. Let me receive life from your throne. Let there be illumination from above. Let there be understanding from above. Let my eyes of understanding be enlightened by your power tonight. Let my eyes of understanding be enlightened by your power tonight. Let my eyes of understanding be enlightened by your power tonight. Let my eyes of understanding be enlightened by your power tonight. Can you pray to God? Pray to God. Pray to God. Pray to God. Pray to God. Pray to God right now. Pray to God right now. Pray to God right now. Pray to God right now. Pray to God right now. Pray to God right now. Pray to God right now. Let him know the desires of your heart right now. The Bible says that if you being evil, know how to give good gifts to your son, how much more God will give you the Holy Spirit when he asks for it. When you ask your father in heaven, he is always ready to give. Can we sing together? I want to give you a brief glimpse of where we are going with this topic. Hebrews 1:7. What does it say? Hebrews chapter 1 verse 7. It says something very important that we can overlook, but if we Now, hear this. He said, of the angels Okay, ma. Okay. Now, concerning angels, he makes his angels like God designs his angels to be spirits. Okay, ma. Now, his ministers, he makes them what? A flame of fire. Hallelujah. Which means when a man wants to be a minister for God, and when I talk about being a minister, I'm not talking about holding a microphone to teach just like I'm doing right now. Amen. The fact that you don't have the opportunity to climb this podium to teach does not make you less as a minister. No. The word minister simply means a servant, a man that serves other people. When you talk about, you know, most times we say we are going for ministration. Many of us don't understand the word ministration. What you are saying is that we are going to serve the people in that place. It's come from the word it's the word deacon. Dagonus or so. That is who a minister is. So he said, he makes his minister as long as you are in service to the body of Christ, you are a minister. And by grace that you were saved by Christ, it has made you a minister. Now, the day the Holy Ghost came upon the apostles in the upper room, what was their experience? Acts chapter 2. Can somebody Now, Suddenly, there came a sound from heaven. as of a rushing mighty wind. Yes, ma'am. Okay, ma'am. Okay, ma'am. Now, Now, what was the first thing they experienced? Can we all open our Bibles? There appeared to them what? Mommy, don't read again. Let's these people. There appeared to what to them what? Only one person is answering me. There appeared to them what? I will not beat you now. Air cover. They appeared to them what? Tongues like as of fire. Okay, ma'am. And it sat upon each of the each of them, yes, ma'am. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Thank you, ma'am. It's okay, ma'am. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now, this story give us a picture of what God will do with every man that he has called to serving. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Every man that he has called to be his son to partake in his kingdom, you cannot escape this baptism of fire. Amen. Amen. Because he makes his ministers a flame of fire. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Lord is helping us in Jesus name. Amen. If anybody is sleeping beside you, wake the person. Just whisper to the person, "Ma, go and do usher." Sir, go and do usher for 5 minutes. Uh-huh. Amen. Amen. Now, we are discussing about the fire of the Holy Spirit. Many of us, most times when we come to church, you know, in our prayer points, maybe I should say to Yoruba. We take some prayer points like uh, Don't je mi, a se bi mi. In no emi mimo. Jo danu. Yes or no? Yes. Yes or no? Yes. Okay, so you know what You know that there is something called in no emi mimo, yes or no? Yes. Now, I would like to just change our orientation a bit. That the fire of the Holy Spirit, the holy it is not only to kill people. Praise God. Hallelujah. What did I say? Yes, it's not only to kill people. I know many of us, you know, we we try to apply the fire of the Holy Spirit on our enemies when the fire of the Holy Spirit has not worked in our own life. Amen. Amen. We have seen the fire of the Holy Spirit as something that we can deploy to destroy our enemy, whereas we don't know that the fire of the Holy Ghost has a function even in our own lives. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, fire, generally, fire is a consuming substance, yes or no? It consumes things. When you set something on fire, fire will consume that thing, yes or no? Even if it cannot consume it, it will leave a mark on it that it went through fire. Yes or no? Yes, sir. If you put gold inside fire, it will not consume it, but it will purify it. Yes or no? Yes, sir. It will purify it by consuming the dross, because something dross, the you know, it's like crude oil. How many of us are science students here? Okay, how many of us are not science students here? So that I will know how to explain. Ah, and also okay, can cover. Ah, okay. Now, when you are extracting crude oil or gold, Sherry, gold, let me say it in Yoruba. All these gold that you buy in the market, I'm not going to If you see it in the original form, you won't buy it. Do you know that? If I give you gold in its original form, it's as useless as anything. You don't know? Raw gold, if I give you raw gold that was just extracted. Let's assume Okay, let me let me let me make an assumption now. Let's assume this is raw gold. Now, let's also assume that this is also refined gold, the one you buy in the market. Sherry, gold to to the besides the unrefined, like raw like like that, does not have as much value as the one that has been refined. Do you get my point? Yes, sir. If you take unrefined gold of this quantity to the market, it does not have much value like this same quantity of refined gold if you take it to the market. Now, what fire does is that when you when you put your unrefined gold through fire, fire will purify it, and the only thing that will be left is your refined gold, the one that is valuable will be the only thing left. Then, gold becomes valuable, then you now run after it in the market. What you are actually buying is the process that it went through. That is what you are paying paying money for. Amen. Amen. Now, why am I taking us through all this? Ah. So that we can understand that Don't be help us, oh. So that we can understand that fire of the Holy Spirit is not just to kill people. Amen. Amen. The Bible says that in the book of Hebrews chapter 12 verse 29, it says our God is a consuming fire. I'm aware. But when it speaks about the fire of God, and I know in the book of Numbers, the Bible says that fire go before the Lord and consume his enemies. Yes, the fire of God can consume his enemies, but that is not the only purpose. Praise God. Hallelujah. There are more valuable things we can do with the fire of the Holy Spirit than deploying it to kill other people. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I hope you are not fighting, yes? No. Because you know many of us, when we try to uh like go against the normal thing we have understood, people tend to be like, "Are you trying to say you are you are you are you are more knowledgeable than people that are teaching us before?" No. So, the fire of the Holy Spirit has a function that is more than that. Amen. Amen. And can somebody remind us of our topic once again? The burning ones. Amen. Amen. We are going we are going deeper into this now. Now, can somebody agree with me that God is looking for people or men that can house his fire within them? Do you agree with us? Do you agree with me? God is not God is not just looking for people that will send the fire of the Holy Spirit around. He's looking for people that will host the fire of the Holy Spirit within them. And wherever they go, they carry that fire within them everywhere. Amen. One thing about fire is this, anywhere you see fire, you will see light there, yes or no? Yes, sir. Yes or no? No matter how dark this place is, once we sight once we set something on fire here, there will be light. Amen. The second thing is this, ah, in your shops. Amen. Amen. The second thing is this, fire brings light, fire also produces heat, yes or no? Yes, sir. Yes or no? Yes, sir. In fact, one of the ways you will know that you are moving close to fire is that you will be feeling the heat. How many of us uh you know, we we still grew up in our with our grandma so in our grandma's house, in my grandma's house still now, they still have you know, I you know uh, Iro. I think that no gear. Steady steady. Thank God. Gas yes, one one. In no gas, only they came on because I want to explain. Because in no gas, they might regulate it, yes or no? Yes, sir. You know that fire, wood fire. When you are even approaching the thing self, you are already feeling the heat in your body. That is one of the characteristics of fire. It produces heat. The environment, the environment will be affected by the presence of fire. Amen. May God deliver this mic, sir. Amen. The environment will be affected with fire with the ah. Should we start the deliverance session? The fire will affect the environment. Even though it may not burn to that place, like it's not consuming things in that in that area, but yes, the heat will still extend to those places. Amen. Amen. Now, it means that when a man hosts the fire of God within him, if you come into his environment, you will be affected. Amen. Praise God. The end of this teaching tonight is for us to cry out that God will baptize us with fire. We are just starting. Because many of us, if let me let me calm us down a little. Since you have been going to church, all of us have been going to church. You have been praying that your enemies will die, yes or no? Yes or no? Don't lie. You have been praying that prayer, yes or no? Yes, sir. You have been praying that some things will change. You are you put in your energy into those prayers, yes or no? Yes, sir. That alone now. But can I tell you the truth? Some things will not change except you yourself, you are changed. Amen. Amen. You don't get me. Some things will not change. Some things will continue like that unless something happens to you. It is when that thing has happened to you, that is when what has happened to you will now affect your environment and your life. Praise God. The same situation you are into that is making you to run around, somebody is in that situation and he's he's laughing conveniently because there's something that has happened to his life. He knows that this situation cannot kill me. It cannot break me. Amen. Amen. You will be wondering that is it possible for a man to host the fire of God? Hallelujah. This topic, we we may not have time. It cuts across many things. For some of you, if your family will be broken from the affliction of the enemy, you must find a way that the fire of God will burn inside you. Most families are in trouble because there's nobody in the family that can host God. They have no priest. They have no altar. It's not because It is not because God is weak. It's because there's nobody in the family that can stand and and and touch something in God to bring about a change in the situation. And that is why it pains me that many people we prefer to come to church to dance and to do to watch comedy than to do what the apostle said is important, which is the studying of the word and prayer. Amen. Amen. That is what is important. If we will see See, there's a pattern we must look at in the scripture. That even before our Lord Jesus will come back to this earth, a set of people must arise within us that Jesus will bear testimony to their lives that these men are burning. Just like in the original the first time he came, there was one that was sent before him, and he bear testimony of John. He said, "John was a shining and a burning light." Amen. John chapter 5. John chapter 5, 33 to 36. John 5, 33 to 36. Okay, ma'am. Now, John has borne witness to the truth. Okay, ma'am. Okay, ma'am. Here this, John, Jesus himself testified that John was a burning and a shining light. Still in his light. Thank you, ma'am. It's okay, ma'am. Amen.…