Why Apostasy Matters To Every Christian by Apostle Arome Osayi: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Apostasy or the great falling away is an end time theme. It is an attempt to make the people of God defect from the premise of truth

There are two recipes against it. The external recipe is the ability to discern what apostasy is and to track it to the individuals Satan has saddled with bringing the departure. This message is the internal response

Discernment is built by interacting with a good measure of the word of God. God is migrating his church in Nigeria, just like there was an exodus

Check the logic: "revelation is progressive"

When a preacher presents the logic that revelation is progressive as a reason to throw away everything we have known, you are dealing with the spirit of apostasy

The value of two does not change from elementary school to engineering mathematics. We only make more meaning out of it

Ephesians 2:8

Grace is the resource that made salvation possible. Faith is the means by which we appropriate it. That will never change in 2,000 years. You can understand salvation more, but it stands on grace through faith

Jeremiah 30:7

This is the hour of Jacob's trouble. We do not need a fine preacher now. We need a truthful one who believes what he preaches enough to qualify to speak to the church

The spirit of apostasy is a major driver of the new philosophies Satan wants to smuggle into the body of Christ. If the church does not get it right, this nation will never be delivered

The church must be fixed before the nation

In the case study called Nigeria, the church will have to be fixed first before the nation will be fixed

The most noble assignment is to receive technology from God on how the church can be fixed, because by so doing the nation will be fixed

The Nigeria that became the giant of Africa was powered by Christians broken under the cross. Righteousness was the secret of our greatness. In the 1970s there was the SU revival, a holiness movement.

They did not preach prosperity, but people prospered

The story of Nigeria is the story of revival. The only thing that can cure us is revival

What was missing was not money. What was missing were people the cross had dealt with and brought to a point of selflessness. That is the only basis on which patriotism can be restored

Any time there is a spiritual awakening, an economic boom follows. Economy travels around spiritual happenings. When Jesus was born, wise men brought gold, frankincense and myrrh

Matthew 2:11

God knows what his Spirit births will need to be transported and exported into other regions. So he creates the economy needed to push it out. The SU revival was responsible for the oil boom

When the oil boom came, we brought in the gods of West Africa, from an altar in Benin Republic that has existed since the 17th century. We brought darkness and celebrated it.

That was where the virus entered that impoverished us and sent us through the wilderness for 40 years

That darkness hacked into the destiny of the nation. It manifested as the power of the occult and the spirit of corruption

You cannot defeat this with a pep talk from a leadership seminar. God will first conquer the heart of a man.

If the heart is not conquered, take him to study abroad and he comes back an intelligent tool in the hand of Satan

A nation gets the leaders it deserves. The leaders of the last 40 years reflect our true spiritual state

We have not diagnosed the problem properly, so we cannot see what Satan is doing and how darkness has encroached. You need a fine preacher to make you happy?

That is the coffee they give you to hypnotize you. The day you wake up from it, you will be in chains

This church of fun, of dancing, of let us feel good, of elitist arrangement to show we are the cream of the cream.

These are multiple ways Satan wants to preoccupy us so we never cry for our destiny

Satan labored to remove us from the ground of our conviction and give us a new ground, so that when he plunders us we thank him for it. We have a new lens, new glasses, new eyes

• I pray that our generation will speak a new language
• I pray that we will dance to the beat of a different drummer
• I pray that we will pledge allegiance to a different flag

The church has failed Jesus until now, and we need to make up our minds how we want the future to look.

You can get your mansion but your heart is broken because you lost fellowship with Jesus. You have a heavy pocket and a heavy heart

Illustration: Noah

Genesis 7:1, 2 Peter 2:5

Noah was found righteous in his generation. His effort did not save the generation. The testimony about him was that he was not contaminated by the darkness of his time, and he was a preacher of righteousness

Someday somebody will hear this voice and arise from the wilderness. He will decide not to retreat and not to surrender. That person will look at sin and say, I stay no longer with you

Isaiah's lamentation

Isaiah 1:21 to Isaiah 1:24

How did the faithful city become a harlot? That is the story of Nigeria

The prophet asks how this transition took place. Where there is a question there should be an answer

Look at your own life. You were a fire brand. How did you migrate? How can you be comfortable with the level of defeat your life is speaking?

The demon called Mammon can turn a righteous nation into a den of thieves. Society is a mirror image of the church. Anything the church allows is allowed in the territory

They do not judge the fatherless, and the cause of the widow does not come to them. Many have never visited an IDP camp. You have not seen a hopeless person cry.

It is not pain, it is lack of hope

Illustration: the pregnant women

Pregnant women run away to safety, and the moment they arrive, the bed pans come on them. Our hospital doctors have pursued some of those women so they could have a bed to deliver.

And we are busy displaying our buildings, saying we are big and large. It is an abomination

Prosperity is a consequence. It is not a goal or a pursuit. If you pursue it and get it, you are most unfortunate, because mammon has possessed your soul

Prosperity is not preached in the mosque, yet it produced the richest man in Africa. What is the evidence of the prosperity we preached?

It could not even produce the richest man in Nigeria, because that has never been the goal

If you focus on the kingdom and seek to expand the influence of Christ in the earth, the things the Gentiles seek will navigate in your direction

When God put pressure on the rich in the Acts of the Apostles, poverty was conquered. The only time the Bible allows us to be partial is in doing good.

What have you done in the spirit of Jesus, expecting no human reward?

The problem is traced to the princes, the leaders who shape the philosophy of the church. They shifted emphasis, painted a utopian picture and made people forget sacrifice.

Sacrifice is now mentioned only in relation to giving. How many are willing to go all the way for missions now?

Illustration: the widows

A conference was held for widows in this country. Once there were 5,000 widows. When the unrest began in the north, two years later there were 25,000. Who takes care of them?

All of them have children. Across the Niger there is prosperity, and beyond the Niger there is wretchedness. There is a cry

God heals the land by judgment. That is what follows

Sacred things trivialized

Ezekiel 22:23 to Ezekiel 22:26

Whenever people joke with sacred things and speak carelessly, their utterances do not sanctify the Lord. The reason for the defeats we have ignored is a shift of emphasis

It means we have been victims of a shift in ground.

It is needful for every believer to understand how to stand in the day when the price tag is changed, when the tokens of God are stolen, when the testimony of God has been quietened

Ezekiel 44:23

This is the solution, a new generation. I wanted to show you the old one. The old one has all the colorations of how we are as a body now.

The ground shifted to accommodate the ideals that created the problem

Prayer meetings are substituted with strategy sessions. Holiness is wiped out. The cross is archaic. Sin is Old Testament. If any man is in Christ he is a new creation, and so a new creation fornicates

God is sending the Puritans in this hour. The birth pangs of this nation will be midwived by them. They will be hated, but they will love hatred because their love for Jesus is more than the opposition

No retreat, no surrender. This is the last lap of the journey and the baton is being handed out. A new race will begin

1 Kings 18:46

Elijah ran ahead of Ahab's chariots when the hand of the Lord came upon him. It does not matter how much ground sin, corruption and reproach have covered

3 internal responses to apostasy

Jude shows us what to anticipate at the end of time. The golden theme of the end time is a falling away.

That mystery is at work in churches and in nations, stealing governments and every tool God would have used to advance his influence

Jude 17 to Jude 21

We were warned in advance of the things to expect. If you are an end time minister allergic to criticism, mockery and attack, you came at the wrong time

Mockery is a subtle intimidation designed to haunt anyone who does not find security in Christ, in his calling and in his conviction. If you cannot survive rejection you are not a prophet

John 1:11

The proof that you are really sent is that you can stand when no one in the realm accepts that you were sent from God. Develop crocodile skin against mockery and rejection

The sensual are people whose consciousness is still in the realm of the senses. Everywhere is rigged to transmit and make men lascivious

1. Build up yourself in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost

   Jude 20, Ephesians 5:18

   This is the season to pray in tongues more than every season. Be filled with the Spirit. You need to be high on something, not wine, to survive the time of apostasy

   To be different and satisfied with being different, to swim against the tide, you need to go high

   Ye beloved, he was not speaking to everybody. He was speaking to those still in a love relationship with Jesus. When you are drunk with God, you look at iniquity and say, I will not serve you

   The days of quiet people have gone. These are the days of radicals and zealots, unashamed of the gospel Romans 1:16

   The framework of faith you need in a time when darkness is active is higher than the normal believer's level. You will need a spirit inspired faith

   No one is coming to rescue you. Build your own soul. Stop weeping and looking for a pity party. Help is not coming for you, help will come from you

   When will you fill your tank? You are running low on charge. That is why demons can still press you in the night

   Your miracle has taken so much time and mind bending demons have been whispering to you. The way to survive it is to build yourself.

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   Do not be exposed to this wave without energy on the inside, or you will be thrown aside

   When you build, you go up. No one builds and remains down. You come up out of the circumstance, the stronghold and the chains. The scorpion and the serpent are on the ground.

   Build so you can mount beyond their reach

   Acts 1:8

   You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. The Spirit is the raw material, the spiritual capital, the potential received as a gift.

   When you subject that potential to speaking in tongues, you manufacture power

   Your life as a witness runs on power. If there is no evidence you are capable of power, no one will believe Jesus rose from the dead. This matter has gone beyond your personal success.

   It is about the claims of Jesus

   Mark 16:17

   In the eyes of Jesus we need power to live in this natural world. The man that has power is unduly advantaged. That is why in an election season people look for demonic power

   The Greek word for power is dunamis. It has two meanings

   Dunamis means inherent energy

   When you download an application on your phone, you do not go back to the store for permission to use it. It is now inherent in the phone. The responsibility of usage is transferred to you

   Speaking in tongues is the only gift of the Holy Spirit you can operate at will. What your life is like today is a measure of the usage you have put that resource to.

   Where you are is your fault, not your father's or your mother's

   Dunamis means potential energy

   In the oil industry, as temperature rises the lightest products come out first, aviation fuel, then petrol, then diesel, then heavier products, until you get bitumen. That is how the Holy Ghost is in your spirit.

   As you keep building, the product becomes heavier

   The first level is gas. That is where you tell a demon to go and it says it will not. Jesus ensured we were not naked before devils. He provided an outlet for power

   Illustration: the professor and the niece

   A professor who waited 12 years for a child brought a distant niece to care for the baby girl. She was a trained witch. When he slapped her, she struck him and he died.

   Her mentor told her to go back and raise him, but she could not pass through the gases to do so.

   The pastors brought to pray were only at gas level and could not raise him either. May you not remain at the gaseous level

   The more you use the refinery, the heavier the products.

   A time comes when the voice of God is so clear you cannot doubt it, even if you see no crippled person, and you say "rise and walk" because you trust that voice more than your eyes

   When the product becomes solid, you say to a body dead for three days, arise. There is no need to shout.

   That voice is heard in the place of departed spirits, and everyone in that procession is commanded to stand still

   I speak in tongues at Target and at Walmart and on the walkway. I am building something. You need focus to build

   Do not underestimate a man who knows there is potential in the Holy Ghost and stays on it

   Isaiah 10:27

   Curses limiting his tribe and clan will let him go because he is built. You can place chains on men, but when they build muscle the chains will not fit

   I was born naked, but I am not empty. There is spiritual capital deposited in my spirit, an investment of God, and I will build. In this time of trouble we must generate eternal capacity

2. Keep yourself in the love of God

   Jude 21, 1 Corinthians 6:17

   This is the initiative of intimacy. Intimacy with God is founded on being one spirit with him

   Mix Coca-Cola and Fanta and the mixture is neither. It is a new thing. When the Holy Ghost came into your spirit in regeneration, the result is the mingled spirit.

   In Romans, wherever you find spirit, reading it as your human spirit will be correct

   Because of the mingled spirit, when God moves in your spirit it feels like your own spirit moving. God can speak through your thought. It comes like a thought, but it is not a thought

   Philippians 2:13

   Do not trivialize what God is doing in you. Do not despise it and say "something told me." Meanwhile it is God

   He still uses natural frequencies like your thought and your knowing, pictures and dreams. The fact that you saw it does not mean you know it. Go into his presence to find out what he was saying

   The proof of life is consciousness. As you speak in tongues with your mouth, you are searching for God in your consciousness. What you do with your mouth will register on your heart.

   Then a move of God has been sponsored

   1 Kings 18:43

   Elijah prayed and sent his servant to check the sky. Nothing appeared until the seventh unit of prayer. If you are foolish enough to stay seven hours, something will appear. Stay until it appears.

   If what you say is not what God is saying, there is no point preaching. Hear God first

   Stay seven hours and you will know. It will grow beyond what your soul can create, and it will remain even if you doubt it

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   Intimacy is built by a heart and mouth relationship. I have seen people pray long and still be proud. Their character is not changing. They left the heart behind.

   It is just gymnastics, building muscle but not how to stand

   Travel with your heart. Do not lose the virtue of sincerity. He is not amazed that you failed. He is only amazed that when you failed, you did not think you had to go and settle with him

   When the light begins to come, he shows you yourself, your pocket, your short temper, the way you treat your wife. If your character is not changing, you are false. That prayer is an advertisement.

   It is the flesh masquerading as spirituality

   Nobody becomes intimate with God by accident. Take note of what you are becoming conscious of, because that is what he is showing you. If it does not touch your heart it cannot change your life

   For every work of the flesh you lose, a fruit of the Spirit replaces it. He will put you among people who take pride in offending, and self-control is built in place of your short temper

   He takes away your capacity for malice, and the weight you were carrying reduces

   Dry fasting is like admitting yourself to the intensive care unit of the grace of God. You carry lumps and fibroids and you know you need surgery. The surgeon may not come in three days.

   If you can only afford three days, go, and come again when you have more time

   He tests you under pressure, then trusts you with things money cannot buy. There are levels of authority he gives you. If you curse a man he will die.

   He gives you a little and tests you, and people will insult you to see whether you will react. Then he increases it.

   As long as you consider intimacy something to protect, that is his way to regulate and monitor you. If you have nothing to lose, he will give you nothing precious.

   What you think is precious is seasonal. He is the only one who keeps you relevant in all seasons

   If he wants to deal with your pride, he will ask you to tell someone sorry, someone you consider you are better than. Honor the relationship more than your pride.

   Create your own way to survive it, but do it

   Everything will fail you. People's promises will be forgotten. The only one who will not deny you is the beloved one. Invest in intimacy and it will be easy to discern.

   You will hear his inner testimony about a person: run away from here

   When you place your heart before your head, he can use you as a vessel of prophecy. Nothing sets your integrity on the table like prophecy.

   If your word does not come to pass, go back and ask what you did wrong and what fights against your accuracy. Your life will depend on your hearing

3. Look for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life

   Jude 21

   After you have done all, do not claim you are accurate. Go before him and ask for mercy. Do not be too bold

   Have mercy on me is my most frequent prayer. If you know how fallible you are, you know that if God wants to pick on you and find fault, you will not survive it.

   Wise men pray, have mercy

   I am limited. I do not have all knowledge and understanding, and I am trying to relate with a God who has all knowledge, all wisdom and all power. His expectation reaches deeper than my understanding.

   I do the best I can, but sometimes it does not arrive at the mark

   Genesis 18:23 to Genesis 18:33, Genesis 19:29

   Abraham negotiated down to 10. His prayer did not cover one. But God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out. God reached out to Lot on the basis of mercy, not on intercession.

   Abraham did not know that aspect of God was available

   There is a latitude of mercy I cannot quantify. When my effort does not reach his mark, he can accommodate me in mercy. I stay there

   I do not stand before him on the strength of works. If anything is missing, broken or lacking, that latitude can accommodate me

   Psalm 130:7

   I will be granted entrance, not on the strength of my performance, but because I realized that in him there is mercy and plenteous redemption

Always remember to rest in his mercy, to pursue his love and to build yourself in your most holy faith

Prayer for mercy

• Have mercy on me. Maybe the 20 years of my ministry has not met the mark. I come with humility, not boastfully
• Do not look on my shortcomings. Many times I did not know how much confidence you placed on my life
• Accommodate me in the latitude you made possible because you are a God of mercy. Where there is a shortfall, a limitation, grant me access

Today is the day of salvation

2 Corinthians 6:2

Do not allow the devil to win the argument over your soul. Come to Jesus. God wants to straighten you out

Prayer of salvation

• Lord Jesus, I accept that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. Have mercy on me
• Wash me in your blood. Write my name in the book of life
• Every covenant I entered into knowingly or unknowingly, I renounce it in your presence. Let its power over my soul be broken
• Give me the grace to live for you all the days of my life

Mark 8:38

A day will come when men will be ashamed. In that day Jesus will confess those who have settled accounts with him before his Father

Prayer for the next level

• We want to migrate from our current guaranteed level into the next guaranteed level
• I cannot go back to do ministry the way I have been doing it. I trust you for another dimension and measure that will draw my heart into your presence and make me discern your voice and counsel
• There is a horn of grace you hid in my spirit. I trust you to deploy the glory of that horn in the fullest measure
• Yes, I have done so much, but there is still much left for me to do
• The anointing we have had is not enough in a season where the ground is polluted. Give us additional dimensions of grace such that there is no doubt that God sent this man and this woman
• You promised a new generation after the order of righteousness that will heal this land. Take us beyond the little measures into the abundant dimensions
• It is a time of trouble. Make your glory shine on my vessel, through my life, through my hands
• Look on us with mercy. The time has come when you will make great from among us, for your name. Make strong from among us. Make mighty from among us
• Do not do what you want to do without us. Place demands on what you hid inside our spirit many years ago and make it manifest. Let it come with boldness and conviction

Healing and deliverance

I bind every blinding spirit, come out of the eyes. I bind every deafening spirit, come out of the ears. I bind every paralysis, every stiffness, every crippling condition

Cancer, dry up from your roots. Fibroid, dry up from your roots. Every utterance weaponized against your destiny, we cut it off.

Every curse that fought your productivity, your children and your marriage, we break that power

We come against pain and afflictions that are spiritually motivated by spells, curses, witches, weaponized words and enchantment.

We break the yoke completely in the name of Jesus Christ

Every form of reproach, every shame ordained for you to carry, we break that hold. You will not be a partaker of shame.

What you were brought into by covenant and received by inheritance is a liability fighting your destiny. I cut it off

The mark of death upon you, let it be broken. You do not come to the house of God to die. Our covenant is with life.

You will live to testify of the works and goodness of God

You are not going back the same way you came. Another measure will be added to your life.

We cannot afford to burn low in this season. Your flame must be on the high side. You must be building something, building capacity, building faith

Sometimes you do not need to command. Carry the presence and bring it closer to the individual. The presence knows how to do the work

Even when the spirit is cast out, the padlocks of a covenant that gave Satan authority remain. Remove the padlock on marital life and on progress

A demon can masquerade in someone and become more active when the person reaches 21.

It can be silent for a long time and the person is not even aware of it, yet that spirit is regulating the person's life. It is not God's will for her to remain bound

Your delay is not a proof that God is impotent. He was waiting for the appointed time. The delay is cut off

2 Peter 3:9

I see a flame coming into the room for an evangelist. A fire will come upon you and you will not be able to hold your peace. You will carry this flame in your belly.

Anytime the volcano begins to erupt, you will know someone close to you needs to hear the message of salvation

You transit from the level of blessing to greatness. Your name will open doors, create opportunities and become a currency. It is no longer just blessings. It is influence

A new season requires no compromise. You may find men who are not too refined by the definition of refinement we have come to understand. God will make many mighty in various corridors.

In politics we will find brethren who are still brethren in the seat of power. A great network of kingdom minded individuals will rise in the economic front and in politics.

The real shape of the body of Christ will start to show. The relic of unrighteousness and corruption will fade.

The judgment of the Lord will do the rest, and everyone that shed blood in this nation, it shall be required out of his hand. Every ground secured will be fought for through intercession.

That is why the Lord recommends, build yourself