“And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him” (Mark 11:4).
TEXT — Mark 11:1-11
Message
The London slave trade abolition act of 25th March, 1807, was spearheaded by William Wilberforce; after which the British Royal Navy, established in 1808, began to patrol the West African coasts, intercepting slaves from the slave masters’ ships, setting the slaves free and resettling them in either Liberia or Sierra Leone. The freed slaves were later educated, trained with some of them recruited to join the British naval squadron in the fight against the slave trade.
In today’s text, Jesus Christ was near Jerusalem unto Bethphage and Bethany at the mount of Olives. He sent forth two of His disciples to go and set loose an unridden colt, upon which He would ride into Jerusalem. He instructed them that if anyone challenged them as to why they were untying the colt, they were to tell the person that the Lord wanted to make use of it. The two disciples were obedient to the Lord’s command and they brought the colt upon which the Lord had His triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
Just as the two disciples obeyed the Lord without procrastination, believers of this end-time Church need to arise promptly to obey the great commission of our Lord, to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, making disciples of them. The disciples made out of the converts must be trained, matured and enlisted in Christ’s end-time army to glorify the name of the Lord.
Like freed slaves of old, Christ has set the believer free so that he can be used for His glory. We have been saved to serve. Therefore, how wonderful will it be, if all Christians will arise and obey the great commission like the two disciples in the text of today! There are still many colts that are tied and that need to be loosed and set free for God’s use.
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
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IT TAKES COURAGE TO OBEY SO I DEMAND FROM THE LORD AN UNQUESTIONABLE OBIDENCE ON ALL WHO ARE FIGHTING THE ‘END TIME BATTLE’ TO LUNCH INTO THE GOSPEL FIELD AND SAVE SOULS FROM DROWNING!
IT TAKES COURAGE TO OBEY SO I DEMAND FROM THE LORD AN UNQUESTIONABLE OBIDENCE ON ALL WHO ARE FIGHTING THE ‘END TIME BATTLE’ TO LUNCH INTO THE GOSPEL FIELD AND SAVE SOULS FROM DROWNING!
God give the grace to be obedient to your
and command.
Delightful and Godly.