31/03/2024
PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE SENDS A STRONG MESSAGE TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF APOSTLES, PROPHETS, TEACHERS, PASTORS, EVANGELISTS (YOUNGER MINISTERS)
THIS MESSAGE IS FOR ALL IN CONTEXT AS WELL - WE MUST LEARN TO ALWAYS LEARN FROM THE ELDERS NO MATTER OUR LEVELS
— Pastor E.A Adeboye
Pastor Enoch Adeboye has urged the new and modern generation of Pentecostal leaders to humble themselves and learn from the older ministers.
Adeboye gave the advise while speaking to the new generation of Pentecostal leaders from his office on Thursday.
The cleric, who sent his message via a video, said the older ministers have “one or two issues” but have the experiences that will be needed by young ministers.
He said: “I thank you the new generation of Pentecostal leaders for inviting me to share with you at this meeting, I wish I could come but unfortunately, it’s just impossible for me to come. Thank you for honoring me by giving me a topic to discuss with you but you will please permit me to put the topic aside because I feel led by the holy spirit to speak to you straight from my heart, not a sermon. Shall we say as an elder to a younger generation, I want to beg you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I don’t want to embarrass you, honestly speaking, I will have gone on my knees to say what am about to say. There is no doubt about it that the older ministers or older Pentecostal ministers might have one or two issues but so do our parents, our old parents, our mothers, our fathers, they are not modern, am talking of our biological parents but we still value them because they did not go to the university, they don’t know about Greek or Hebrews but they have certain information that you don’t get in any university. The Urim & The Thummim. I remember very well when I was trying to get my mom to be born again, she was telling me, look you boy before I married your father in 1910 I had been a Christian, I wasn’t rude to her, I didn’t tell her, look, mama, things have changed, the Christianity you said you understood in those days is no longer valid, I humbled myself before her, I told her to tell me all little bit about her experience as a Christian and she told me some very wonderful moving stories about how they use to fight idol worshippers who will bring charms to the front of the door and the catechist will come with the Bible and wave it over whatever charms that were placed in front of the church and kick the charm away or at times set it ablaze. I listened with awe at some of the experiences she shared with me but then very humbly I asked, can you remember a particular stage where you said I do to Jesus? because he is the husband to the church and for a woman to be married she has to say I do to the husband, I used wisdom and God help me, finally, she understood what I was talking about and she gave her life to Jesus.
“And very humbly I began to talk to her about baptism in the holy spirit and when I found that things were getting a bit slow, I have to use other people to reach to her, finally she got baptized in the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. beloved am begging you, the older generations of the Pentecostal they have issues, I know one of them but they have experience, there are certain things you don’t learn in any Bible college, there are certain things that can only learn as we travel along this way, there is a lot you can gain from them. Please am begging you in the mighty name of Jesus, don’t let pride rub you of some tremendous things you could gain from these older generations, believe me honestly whether you know it or not, they are going, if the Lord tarries many of us we soon be gone and once we are gone, we are gone. So before we go, now that particularly these older brothers have humbled themselves in reaching out to you, respond please, I beg you, respond, you have a lot to gain.”
Adeboye also spoke about how he humbles himself whenever ministers meet under the umbrella of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN.
Adeboye, who is the oldest in the PFN, said he listens and learns from the young ones because there is a lot to learn for the old but that doesn’t mean the old is not knowledgeable.
The cleric added that: “Whatever you say is wrong with the elder ones, they’ve played their path. God is going to judge them on the fact that they did the best they could based on their limited knowledge but many of them are on the way out, grab them now, and please you will need to respond positively before it’s too late. Please forgive me if I have said anything wrong, may God bless you all.”
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