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“BREAK AWAY FROM TRADITION”.
Being Extract of Pastor Sola Owoeye (NYAYA, National Youth Pastor, RCCG) Message during Plenary Session 1 of the Day 2 Morning of The RCCG International Youth Convention 2023 – Under the Topic: “EMBRACING GOD’S PROMISE FOR ENLARGEMENT”.
Don’t allow your Tradition to Capture your Mind and Rupture your Future!
1. Peter could have done Greater Exploits for God but he never embraced Enlargement – He maintained the status quo.
He was driven by Tradition and low and behold, all he could write in the Bible was 1st Peter, 2nd Peter and 3rd Peter.
In Acts 10: 9-16; Peter went to Pray in the sixth hour, he was hungry and would have eaten but while they made ready he fell into a trance.
Heaven was opened upon Peter and a certain vessel with a great sheet knit came from Heaven containing all manners of fourfooted beasts of the Earth and wild beasts and creeping things and fouls of the air (Repiles and Forbidden Animals).
And there came a voice from Heaven saying: Peter, rise, kill and eat.
By every Standards, God needed not to Specifically mentioned his name but God knew that if he was not Specific enough, Peter may mistake the instruction for another Person.
And in Verse 14, Peter said: “Not so Lord” – This is a Polite insult on God.
When God was talking from the Book of the New Testament, Peter was still operating from the Old Testament.
He said: “Not so Lord”. I have never eaten any thing that is Common or Unclean.
And the Word came to him the second time – What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common or Unclean.
The Word also came the third time.
And the Vessel was received up again into Heaven – And the Heavens closed upon Peter.
Open Heaven to a Man given to Tradition is a Waste.
If you don’t Upgrade your Mindset, you will be Outdated and Downgraded in Life.
Some People have a Global Calliny but operate with a Local Mentality because of Tradition.
I. The Books of the Bible written by Paul could have been written by Peter; but Tradition limited him to Jerusalem.
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II. The Ministry of Paul could not have been necessary if Peter had obeyed Heavenly Instructions but he disobeyed based on Tradition.
Note that Tradition can truncate the Plan of God for your Enlargement!
If you are given to “Status Quo” – As it was done yesterday, so it is today; you will never make any Difference in Life.
You must not be a Traditionalist but a Transformationalist-Inclined.
For you to Enlarge, you must not be living with Hope Mentality but you must Upgrade and Update your Mind.
You must be Current or else your Destiny can never be Correct.
You must see what Heaven is seeing and say what Heaven is saying,
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2. In Genesis 49: 2-4 says:
Genesis 49: 2-4
2. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my Might, and the beginning of my Strength, the Excellency of Dignity, and the Excellency of Power:
4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
According to the Plan of God, Ruben was the first born and supposed to be the first in the Making – Excellency, Power and Dignity.
Meaning that out of his loins are to come Kings and Priests in addition to the Glory of the first born.
But Tradition truncated his Destiny – The Bible says this God’s Plan was removed.
In Verse 4 – Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
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You ask me – Who was the Person he committed Adultery with?
It was with his father’s Concubine.
The Yoruba People will say – The Path the father took, that is where he is taking also.
Culture is a way of Life – It moves from one Generation to another and thus become a Tradition.
And the Glory of the first born was given to Joseph.
The Glory of Kingship was given to Judah.
The Glory of Priesthood was given to Levi.
In his Lifetime, he was reduced from Hero to Zero.
Why? Because of the Cukture and Tradition of sin.
I. Many of you nowadays are going in the way your father went and so you will never be Greater than your father.
Hear me – If you are not Better and Greater than your father, then you are a Failure.
Daddy GO used to Pray for all of us that we should b3 Greater than him – It is because he knew that if you go less than the Level he was, then you are a Failure.
The Bible says that the Glory of the Latter shall be Greater than the Former.
If you are not Greater than your Parents, then you are a Failure in Life.
