*SPECIAL FEATURE FROM THE RCCG OCTOBER 2019 YOUTH CONVENTION.*
*SUB TITLE: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE ANALOGY ON HIS MATHEMATICIAN FRIEND*
Now, since this is a Youth Convention; I feel that I should use the opportunity to introduce you to a friend of mine.
This friend of mine is a Mathematician. And because most of you are in the University and Secondary Schools but some of you like to run away from Mathematics.
But this friend of mine is a Mathematician as well as a Christian too and so quote Bible.
And he thinks that every situation in Life can be reduced into Mathematics Formula.
So, when he was talking to me not too long ago and he said some very interesting things – he is a very funny man. If you know him, you might think that he is a Genius but you might not be too sure.
He was saying something like this: He said that when you put your money in the bank, the bank is supposed to pay you Interest – Is that correct?
He said if you put your money in the bank and the bank does not give you Interest; the bank is a “Thief”.
He said that if you now put your money in the bank and the bank does not give you Interest but charges you; He said that the bank is a “Thief Squared” – Do you agree?
He said, if you now go back to the bank and said haha, what is the Problem; I brought in my money, you didn’t give me Interest instead you took part of my money therefore I want to take all my money away. And again, the bank take part of your money.
Ah, he said the bank is now a “Thief Cubed”.
… That is the kind of person that I am talking about so that you can know that he is very funny.
But he was talking to me about something very serious. And he said: *”Jesus Christ was a Mathematician”* and that He is very, very Good in Calculus.
How many of you know a little bit of Mathematics?
Alright, I know many of you will do because we are talking to Youths and Young Adults.
So, I said is that so?
*He said, oh He (Jesus Christ) is very good in Calculus. He said that He gave one of the biggest formula in INTEGRAL CALCULUS”*
And I was wondering where that is in the Bible.
He said that it is in Matthew 10:40.
*That is where Jesus Christ said: He who receives you, receives Me and he who receives Me receives He that sent Me.*
He said that he who receives you receives me is “Single Integration”.
He who receives Me receives Him that sent Me then becomes a “Double Integration”.
… I said I see!
Now, when he begins to talk like that; it is not long before you begin to hear him talk about “Corollary”.
*Those of you who are students you know what Corollary is? – Something that follows from what I have just said.*
He said that if he who receives you receives Me and he who receives Me receives Him that sent Me. Then Corollary is that: He that rejects you reject Me and he that rejects Me, rejects Him that sent Me.
… Do you agree? I think that is a Simple Logic.
*And then he went on to Corollary 2: He says that he who attacks you, attacks Me and he who attacks Me, attacks Him that sent Me.*
Do you agree with that?
*So he went on to Corollary 3: And he said that since Jesus Christ was talking about the One who sent Him (God The Father) and the Bible says in Hebrews 12:29 that God is a ‘Consuming Fire’. He said that Jesus Christ is saying therefore: He who messes with you, messes with Me and he who messes with Me messes with ‘The Consuming Fire’.*
Ah, I said I see!
Then he quoted again in Hebrews 10:31 that: *’It is a FEARFUL thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God’.*
*He said that the reason why it is a ‘Fearful Thing’ to fall into the Hands of God is because God is a ‘Consuming Fire’. And that the Fire of God burns quietly.*
He said that anytime you hear Fire burning somewhere – if you hear any noise at all; it is not the Fire that is burning, it is the things that the Fire is burning that will be making the noise.
*He said that the reason why it is a “Fearful Thing” to fall into the Hands of the Living God is that God fights quietly.*
That many at times when God is fighting somebody; the Person will not even know until it is too late.
*And he said that one thing about Fire is that it burns irreversibly.* And that there is no Science that can change ashes back to wood.
*That when God fights, whatever He destroys can NEVER be Restored.*
… Tell your neighbour: Don’t mess with me.
This is my friend and I will tell you many other things he says in the Future if I have the opportunity.
This my friend loves some Big English. Anybody who agrees with him he will say that Person is Concentric. Anybody who disagrees with him, he will say that the fellow is Eccentric.
So, next time that I see him; if he ask me what kind of People do you talk to? I will want to know.
… Now those of you who agree with him; those of you who are Concentric – I want you to say Hi.
Those of you who disagrees with him, who are Eccentric – I want you to say Nay.
… Ah the Hi have it!
Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Happy Convention. Glory be to God forevermore – Amen!!!