THE SPRT OF METHUSELAH t-!-ttre word of God teches, rebukes, corrects nd trins in righteousness This timely nd highly nointed messge fulfills ll these purposes t enjoins us to jettison the spirit of Methuselh, be on fire for God nd leve gret legcy s Enoch did Red nd pply the timeless truths it offers; you will mke heven! First, pry the following pryer points with unwvering fith nd divine expecttion: o This month, her the word of the Lord, fvour me by fire, in thenmeofjesus This month, her the word of the Lord, bring me success, in the nme ofjesus Every gthering of ffliction ginst my life this month, die, in thenme ofjesus Genesis 5:21: "And Enoch lived sixty nd five yers nd begt Methuselh nd Enoch wlked with God nd he begt Methuselh three hundred yers nd begt sons nd dughters And ll the dys of Enoch were three hundred nd sixty nd live yedrs" And Enoch wlked with God nd he ws not for God took him Enoch ws the first mn who did not die He wlked into heven with his legs He did not tste deth, but he hd qulifiction He wlked with God, only one qulifiction There ws white missionry who ws verypowerfulmn of God He hd mde up his mind tht he ws not going to
v % @rt,trr/9ffi/*/"1r/, mrry He believed tht mrrige would not enble him to serve God very well nd he continued with the ws the simple explntionthe work of God Howeve r, t the ge of thirty nine, one dy, he begn to red Genesis chpter five nd he got to Enoch He red tht Enoch begt children, yet he wlked with God nd moved so close to Him tht He took Enoch wy He now sw tht mrrige would not be his problem nd he chnged his hundred eighty seven yers nd begt Lmech And Methuselh lived fter he mind My you wlk with God, in the nr4e of Jesus One techer in children Sundy school got sermon from smll boy He ws teching on Enoch nd he just threw question t the children He sid, "Children, Enoch wlked with God nd ws not, for God took him Wht do you understnd?" This smll boy sid, "Techer, think understnd t mens tht God nd Enoch were friends So, they would tlk nd tlk n the night God would escort Enoch to his house Enoch too would sometimes escort God bck to His house think one dy, 'Enoch escorted God bck to His house nd refused to come bck to his own house" Tht boygve e 25 sys,, ttand Methuselh lived n Vers begt Lmech seven hundred eighty nd two yers nd begt sons nd dughters And ll the dys of Methuselh were nine hundred sixty nd ninc yers nd he died" The oldest mn in -the Bible ws Methuselh Who ws the fther of Methuselh? The fther of Methuselh ws Enoch, the mn who wlked with God nd God took him wy The only one who did not experience deth tre wlked with God nd God ws so plesed with him tht he went wy f you sk Bible scholrs who the first prophet in the Bible ws nd consider it crefully, Enoch could be the nswer This is becuse he foretold the second coming of Jesus Christ even t tht erly time when God took him wy WALK WTH GOD AND LEAVEALEGACY Who you wlk with decides your destintion Who you follow decides wht follows you Enoch now hd child clled Methuselh Tody, we hve first nme, middle nme, lst nme n the Bible dys, you just hve one nme People didn't begin to hve mny nmes until ll00 AD due to popultion explosion, nd it strted in Europe Methu, mens deth or one dying Selh mens shll come So, his nme is "when it he dies it shll come" Methuselh ws old but the only thing he could present to this our world is his old ge No chievement whtsoever prt from his ge His fther wlked with God; we did not red tht Methuselh wlked with God His fther ws friend of the Almighty His fore-fthers built ltrs to serve god We did not red tht Methuselh built ny ltr Methuselh hd qulified for wht we cll big for nothing There re plenty of people in the house ofgod with the spirit of Methuselh in them Those with Methuselh spirit cn't show nything they hve done for God Some people would sy, " ws crrying the bg of erly missionry who strted work in Nigeri" Some would sy, "ws the one supplying dried met to Ajyi Crowther when he ws round Apostle Bblol ws stying in our house ws opening the door
of the cr for dhos" All those words re mere stories They re "once upon time" nd m foundtionl member" stories or " ws there in the beginning" stories Telling stories does not move people forwrd The fther of Methuselh left legcy for him; legcy of righteousness nd holiness He did not continue where his fther stopped m sure Enoch " probbly kept prying, pleding with God to help Methuselh, to prolong his life He is not doing well God my sy, "Oky, give him hundred yers more" n spite of the hundred yers they give Methuselh, he hd not done nything So, God kept prolonging his life, perdventure he would chnge, but Methuselh did not wlk with God nd he did not chnge There re plenty Methuselh even inside Mountin of Fire nd Mircles Ministries They re in MFM Ministries but MFM Ministries is not in them f God now puts them in importnt positions, when they get there they would be the firstperson to brek ll the lws of the Bible When they get there, ll the things they didn't use to do when they were prying for brekthrough, they would strt doing them becuse it is the spirit ofmethuselh Noh ws CHARACTERSTCS OF THE SPRT OF METHUSETA You hve been here for long grndson of time; yef your children re Methuselh Methuselh gve polluting the youth church birth to somebody who gve You hve been here for birth to Noh Noh begn to time nd your children buildthe rk All the time Noh long re one leg outside in dressing one leg ws building n rk, inside t is the spirit of Methuselh ws still live He must hve come to look t him nd sy, "Smll boy, wht re you doing here?" He must hve seen when the rk ws being built Possibly, Methuselh ws mong those who built the rk But Methuselh did not enter tht rk Most probbly, it ws the flood of Noh tht crried Methuselh Most likely, he died in the flood Why could he not enter the rk? Why did he live such time without nything recorded in his nme prt for the fct tht he gve birth to children There is his nme nothing recorded in Perhps you re reding this messge nd ttend Mountin offire nd Mircles Ministries, but nothing to show for it You re not in the choir, neither re you n usher mmeditely the servic-e ends, you crry your bg nd leve You hve been here for long time, yet your dughters dress like hrlots outside Methuselh, nd it is spirit you shouldbind The spirit ofmethuselh is the spirit tht is big for nothing t is the spirit of stgnncy, life nd constnt hrssment in the fireless spiritul drem The enemies just hrss them nyhow t is the spirit of lck of hevenly vision SincE'you hve been coming to church, you hve never seen the rpfure You hve never seen n ngel t is the spirit ofmethuselh Since you hve been coming to church, they hvc been telling you to repent but you refused to repent You re coming to the house of God nd you re still qurrelling with people You need to chnge You hve been mrried for ten to forty yers now, yet you nd your wife you still slp ech other The spirit of Methuselh hs enveloped your mrrige You needtowkeup When person is incubted in the shell of drkness it is the
spirit of Methuselh When person is comes to church, but is living life purpose (imless without life), itisthe spirit of Methuselh' When you re less thn the height God wnts you to be, it is the spirit of Methuselh When you re slumbering (in the spirit you hve slept off), You just come to church, it is the spirit of Methuselh When you re climing uthority, it is the spirit of Methuselh When your spiritul eyes re blind, others re growing from strength to strength, from glory to glory nd You kept coming down, it is the spirit of Methuselh' You brought one wife 'to -tht church now nd You hvel number two, it is the spirit of Methuselh The time You ought to be tedcher, now they hve to sit You down gin nd begin to tech You the fundmentl PrinciPles of fith, it is the spirit of Methuselh How cn you be comfortble in church like this, when you don't hve the bptism of the Holy Spiqit? Others re speking in tongues; You cnnot spek nything nd you re comfortble Others re sying, "l sw the Lord' One womn drigged her six yers' old dughter to me The girl woke up crying, sying, " sw Jesus; sw rpture; wnt to go with Jesus" f You re coming to church ndthere is no vision or reveltion of heven, it is the spirit of Methuselh You hve to bind it nd cst it out The reson Methuselh spirit hs cptured mny people in the church is tht we re strong in the wrong things The Bible sys be strong in the Lord BE STRONG N THE LOR) Mny Christins re very totlity of their life to money mking, by the time they died, you wonder whether the money ws relly worth it Tht is when You look t their lives, fter their deth Some re very strong in dressing nd mking their hir, especilly the ldies Ldies spend long time in dressing nd looking so beutiful Look t us now in the church, our women re beutifully dressed, looking so elegnt, but let me tell You one secret, if You follow some of them home to the room where they dress up to come to strong in politics' TheY hve studied everything in Politics nd know it very well MnY church, the plce is in Christins re strong in footbll they know who is plying nd who is not down So, the dressing she hd dressed to church is opposite ofthe condition ofherroom f plying TheY know the nme of ll the EuroPen PlYers They know the nme of ll the Nigerin plyers TheY know the one from SouthAfric nd other Africn cotintries but they don't know the nmes of it is lie, let us follow the twelve disciples of Jesus, it is Methuselh spirit MnY re very strong foi business TheY devote the tcflity oftheirtime to business nd making money t is not 'bd to be strong in those things, but You must be stronger in the Lord When you look t history those who hve committed the mess The pnts re under the bed nd everything is upside You home MnY re strong in sexul ctivities t is like they hve red ll sexul mnuls They know how to do ll kinds of tenible things' Tht is wht they hve mstered' Some re strong in PProching ldies (seduction) MnY re strong stinginess; they hord money nd other usble things, insted ofbeing strong in in the Lord When You re strong in wrong thing like this, you become modern dymethuselh
CHANGE AND BE A GOODEXAMPLE Exmine your life beloved Perhps, this messge is for you The xe is on the tree, the Lord sys, "Let me cut this mn down He just comes to church, church is not in him" Jesus intervened nd sid, "Leve him lone Let us give him one more yer So, if he doesn'tbring fruit, thenwe cn cut him down" Are you reding this messge nd the spirit Methuselh hs your life? You need enveloped to pry t is not good for you to be coming to dynmic church like Mountin of Fire nd Mircles Ministries nd you re spiritul dwrf Every member ofmountin of Fire Mircles Ministries is supposed to be terror to the kingdom ofdrkness You re supposed to be contributors not consumers You contribute on how the work would go Wht re you contributing to this plce? of Every contribution is not money You cn contribute dvice; you cn contribute your tlent You cn lso contribute the people you know But when you contribute nothing nd you sy you hve been there long You were there from beginning, it is the Methuselh sprit Heven will not listen to us just becuse we hve been in plce from the beginning By the clcultion of heven, the word of God sys tht the first shll be the lst God's word sys tht mny shll rise in the kingdom of God nd they sw prostitutes s the first people on the queue You will sy, "Howdidthis one get here?" Yes, while they were repenting nd running you were busy sying, "We hve been there long" When you were told sid, "Repent; chnge yourwys" nsted of you to chnge, you sid, ool m not lone; tht problem is generl; everybody is doing it So, too must do it" t's very terriblething hve crried out some sttistics here tht some who hve been here long re not tking the steps they re supposed to tke They cn't tke them Their children re even rebelling ginst them They cn't control'their home Why? t is becuse you re contributing nothing There is no urge to grow There is no urge to bring fire There is no urge to be n instrument of chnge You re just prching up nd pretending nd God htes pretence You know there re prents here who would tell their children in the youth church, "This Christinity of yours is becoming too serious Where re your errings? The child would sy, "Mummy, m not using them gin" The mother would further sk, "Where re the trousers you used to wer?" Mummy, we were told tht it is not good for femle Christins to wer trousers" The mother would reply, 'No, lthough sked you to go don't wnt you to be too serious" There is problem nd the spirit of Methuselh hs cptured them They re big for nothing ndthere is no contribution f heven hs rendered your position vcnt, then there is problem sih ws here nd he ws clling himself prophet, but in heven they were sying, "Who shll we send Who shll go for us?" Although sih ws here, s fr s heven ws concerned his position hd been rendered vcnt They hd dvertised his position on the notice bord of heven, but he ws here PryerPoints l Powers ssigned to render me spiritully impotent, die, inthe nme ofjesus 2 Where is the Lord God of Elijh?Arise, revive me, in the nme ofjesus