Godliness With Contentment - Pst Gbenga Aina - 12th November 2026.

This is Pastor Bengaino from the Conciliation and Restoration Chapel. 25 Isolaru Jojoye Street, Sunny Villa Power line bus stop, Ado Aja Lagos. You can reach Pastor Gwengaino for prayers and counselling on 08066440151. You can kindly sow seeds of offeringsites to. 306-098-1546306-0981546. 1st Bank PLC Ainoulubenga Olaliko. As you give towards the forgers of the gospel, may you be mightily blessed and prosperous in Jesus' name. As you listen to today's service, may you be blessed in Jesus' name. Amen. Father in heaven, we want to thank you for this wonderful and glorious morning again. This another day you have set aside that we should worship you in truth and in spirit. We appreciate you for your grace upon our lives in the past one week. We thank you for the great and mighty things that you have done in our lives, in our homes, in our family,

in the lives of those who are listening to this message via online. We appreciate you for your grace upon our life without exalted Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you for not hiding your word from us, oh God. You are always speaking to us in this church. You're always revealing your mind unto us. We are always preparing us for your coming and we are. Appreciate you for this word of life you are sending to Lord. We say, Lord, be exalted in the mighty name of Jesus. Continue to be our God. We shall remain your people forever. Lord, speak to our hearts again today. We are willing to hear your voice. We want you to give us direction. We want you to speak expressly to our heart, the word of life, the Word of power, the Word that is able to save to the uttermost, the word that is able to keep us, give us among them that are. In the mighty name of Jesus. Lord,

bless the hearer and the speakers of your word. May this word change our lives and transform us. On the last day, may this world never stand against us in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Father Lord. Let your name be glorified. In Jesus' mighty name we are praying. Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. Our God is a good God. Glory be to Jesus. We thank God for guiding us again in His presence. We appreciate Him for what He's been doing each time we gather. We thank God for one thing, that God is always speaking to us in this sanctuary. We're always hearing His voice. He's always speaking to us to give us direction, and today will not be an exemption. The Lord will speak to us. As I was waiting upon the Lord this week, the Lord gave me a word that He wants to share with us today, and we thank God for as long as I listening to this message via online.

We appreciate God for your life, for your home, for your family, from all the nations of the earth that this message is reaching out to, to reach out to every one of you there, and we sincerely appreciate God for the, for the, for the encouragement. For the prayers and the wishes and the support that we are receiving from you. We pray that we will not labour in vain. The Lord will continue to strengthen us and will continue to establish us in His will in the mighty name of Jesus. Praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. The message the Lord put in my heart this week is titled Godliness with contentment is great gain. Godliness with contentment is great gain. Hallelujah to Jesus. That there is, there is gain in, in living a godly life and being content. Uh, let me be sincere with you. That is one of the things, the hallmark of Christian faith. How do you know a believer?

You know a believer by this attribute of godliness and being contented. A believer is expected to be godly. And be contented with whatsoever he has, with whatsoever God has given to him, he should be contented with it. That is the will of God for every one of us. That is the only way we can live life with joy, with peace, with hope and with courage and with satisfaction. That is the only way we can live a fulfilled life on the face of this earth. The Lord will speak more to us in this message and on this particular subject in the mighty name of Jesus. Let's turn our Bible to 1 Timothy chapter 6, that is where the text is taken from. 1 Timothy chapter 6 from verse 6 to 10. 1 Timothy chapter 6 from verse 6 to 10, I read, but godliness With contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain. We can carry nothing out and having food and raiment,

let us be there with content. But they that would be rich fall into temptation and they snare and into many foolish and hurtful lust which drown men in destruction and perdition for The love of money is the root of all evil, which why some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Praise the name of the Lord. That is, we are stopping there this morning. Paul was writing to Timothy. Timothy, we should realise that Timothy is a bona fide son, a spiritual son. Of Paul the Apostle. He was a bona fide son, a reliable, trusted, dependable ally in the work of the ministry to, to Paul. Very reliable, very focused, very faithful, very compassionate, very loving, uh, to Paul. And he started the work of the ministry. And as at the time, Paul was about to round up his earthly ministry,

he had to write a message to him to encourage him, to guide him, to strengthen his faith in God by letting him know that, look, my son, you need to understand this truth about life, about ministry, that godliness with contentment. It's a great game. He was writing to Paul, to Timothy. Paul was writing. He said, you need to be godly, beloved son and be, be godliness and contentment, which is key to fulfilling the purpose of God for your life, which is a great game. He therefore, we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that we can carry nothing our beloved. Let me be sincere with you. If you are going to live your life as a believer on heart here, and you will fulfil your purpose, you will live a life of honour, you live a life of fulfilment, you will achieve purpose on the face of the earth. You need to strive towards godliness. You need to strive towards being contented

with whatsoever you have, be contented. Contentment and godliness. They are very key. They are very important. They are very useful in our journey of life if we're going to, to be fulfilled, because if we are not contented and we are godly, it's likely that we will make a shipwreck of our faith on the face of this earth. We will make a shipwreck of it. We will not finish well. We will not end well. We will not finish strong. And it's not the will of God that we don't finish strong. It's not the will of God that we don't finish well. God wants us to finish well. He wants us to finish strong. One of the key that will make us to finish well and strong is that we keep our, we keep maintaining our godliness and being contented with whatsoever God has given to us. Paul was writing to Timothy. He says, because they did not bring any, we didn't bring anything to this world.

We brought nothing to this world, beloved. And having food and raiment, let us be out, be there with content. Is it, but those that will be rich, they will fall into temptation. Is it not true? If you are trying to be rich, there's no way you won't put your hand into things that you don't need to, don't want to put your hand into. It's possible there's no way you, you won't go into vices. You won't join association that you, you shouldn't join that will make a shipwreck of your faith. We have seen the sign of people in order for them to be successful, in order for them to be, to make it in life, they have done things abominable, terrible things in the righteousness. Because they wanted, they wanted to blow, they wanted to be known, they wanted to be celebrated. They, they put themselves into all manners of things, and they destroyed their soul in the course of pursuing greatness,

success, fame on the face of the earth. Hey, we need to understand this truth, beloved. We need to know That if you can, if you have agreement. If you have food, you say, be content with it. Hallelujah. He said those that will be rich will fall into temptation and sneer and into many foolish and hostile laws which drown men into destruction and perdition, for the love of money is the root of all evil, which is why some convicted after, that means some people, they keep on converting after it, they keep on pursuing it. And what happens? They erred from the faith and pierced themselves through which many sorrows. Paul was writing to Timothy in a time when some people thought ministry and faith were means to make money, just like today. Is it not true? That was when Paul had to write to Timothy's son. He was writing to Timothy, when in, at the time, when some people thought

ministry and faith were means to make money. Is that not what is happening in our world today? Many people find themselves in the ministry, in the work of the ministry, either as pastor, either as an evangelist, either as a prophet, either, either as a teacher, either as an apostle. Either as, you know, functioning in one of the five-fold ministry or other ministries in the within the five-fold ministries because they believe so that they can make me and, and they can make money, they can be successful, they can be great, they can be, no, they can be celebrated. Many people today believe that the best and the easiest way to make money is becoming a pastor, becoming the minister of the gospel, coming to the church. Coming to the church, doing the work of the ministry. Yeah, let me be sincere with you, beloved. We are living at a time when many people that are not called by God

found themselves in the pulpit preaching the gospel, and they are preaching the gospel because of Lucca, filled the lucre, what the Bible calls filthy look of money. They want to glow, they want to succeed. They want to exert. Many people that are preaching today, they are never called by God. Hey, but because, because God told me this some year of 1994, God spoke to me in 1994. 1994, God spoke to me. June, I think June 11, I don't know whether it was June 11, I rarely felt sick. I rarely fall sick, but something happened. I just discovered that I became ill that moment and I couldn't go out. And through that, not knowing that God wanted to speak to my heart. I lied on the bed. I was staying in Akut there with one of my uncle. I lied on the bed and God began to speak to me. I wrote those things down in a small paper which I showed my late wife when we were cutting them. I showed her.

I said, these are the things that God spoke to me. What were the things God said? God told me, he said, there are many people at. At that time, that he didn't call into the work of means that they are, they are, they have found themselves in the ministry preaching the gospel, and they are doing it because of money, because of faith. And God said, if they do not repent, he would deal with them because they want to pollute my work as at that time, 1994, I'm being, I'm being precise, I'm being sincere this morning. That is what is happening. Paul had to write to Tiboti. He said, time is coming. Many of these people you found them doing all manners of things, doing the work of the ministry, but I am not the one that sent them. He said, you should be careful, but know the one thing for sure, that godliness with contentment is a great game. Hallelujah. Let me be sincere with you. If you,

how do you know a minister of the gospel, a sincere man of God that got called? You will know him through his lifestyle, through his messages, and through his, his way of life, his character. You will see that a true man of God is not a man that, that want to go all out to get everything by all means, to acquire wealth and prosperity. If you see someone that is driven by all these things, then you need to check and you need to be careful because our God is a faithful God. He's a covenant keeping God. He's a God of mercy. Hallelujah to Jesus. So Paul had to write to Timothy. He said, you need to be careful of all these things. What is it? What is it? I love to define my terms? Godliness. We want to look at what godliness is. What is godliness? Godliness is not just going to church. It is a life that resembles God, a life of holiness, fear of God, prayer, and obedience.

It is God-likeness in character. That is what Godliness is say about Godliness. It's not just going to church. Many people believe that for the fact that they go to church, they're already godly. Many people believe for the fact that they are, they are, they are barely Christian name, that makes them godly. Let me be sincere with you, it's more than that. Godliness is more than that. Godliness is living a life that honours God. He's living a life that glorify God on the face of this earth. He's living a life that depicts that you are a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ on the face of the earth. The Bible says, by their fruits, you shall know them. Hallelujah. By living a godly life, you are living a life that reflects the character and the true nature of God because God is a holy God. He's a, he's a glorious God. He's a God that cannot behold iniquity and evil.

Praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. It's a life that resembles God, a life of holiness. Let me be sincere with you, beloved. You can't tell me you are godly and you are still living in sin. You are still, you are still, you are, you are, you are, you're still sin, you fornicate, you commit adultery, you lie, you cheat. You can, you, you have unforgiveness in your heart. That is not a way of life. That is not a good way of life. That is not godliness. A godly life is a life that is lived in honour and to the glory and to the praise of God. Living a life that pleases God. Living a life that honours God. And the first thing you need to know is that for you to live a godly life, you must identify with the death and the resurrection of the Lord God. You must know Jesus as the Lord, our personal saviour. That is the entry point to a godly life. You must just give your life to Christ.

It's more than just going to church. Many people are going to church today, but they are, they are, they, they have not found the God of the church. You need to know the God of the church. You need to surrender your life to Jesus. Praying the Lord and the saviour of your life. He's the one that will help you to live that life of godliness. Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. He's a light that resembles God, a life of holiness, a life of holiness. A life of the fear of God, a life that is lived in the fear of God. When nobody is there watching you, you know that there is an eye that is in heaven that is watching your deeds, that is watching your conduct, that is watching your affairs on the face of the earth, and you want to please the eye. That is the eye of God because the Bible, the eyes of God is running to and fro all the nations of the earth.

It's that I that you want to please. You want to please that personality that sits in heaven, God of heaven and earth, you want to please him. So, in your conduct, in your character, before you do anything, you are conscious of the fact that you are always carrying the presence of going anywhere you are going, and how will I do these things and sin against my God. That is the testimony of Joseph in the house of Potiphar. That is how to live a godly life. A life that is living the fear of God, that when you want to do something, you have a check in your spirit. Will Jesus Christ approve of this thing that I want to do if you were to be here with me. Hallelujah. Will Jesus approve of that thing, of that life, of that conduct, of that deed, of that action, of that character I want to exhibit if he were to be present with me right now. If he's not. Going to approve it, then you don't do it.

That is when you start living that godly life. That is when you start watching because you know you are living your life in the fear of God, in the fear of God, not because men are watching you, but you want to please God. You want to love God, you want to appreciate God, you want to serve Him. You want to obey and honour Him. It is a life that is lived in prayer and obedience. A godly life is a life that is lived in prayer. You are, you are always communing with your Maker. Without him, you can do nothing. Without him, whatsoever is that situation that is confronting you, you're always taking it to him because you don't have capacity. You don't have the power to construct and to confront whatsoever challenges that you are, that is confronting you. But you have a God that say you should bring all your bodies onto him because he cares for you. So you always love to. Commune with your God.

You always love to commune with your Maker in the name of Jesus, not in any other name, in the name of Jesus, because there is no other way through which we can commune with God and our prayer will be acceptable except through the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. The Bible says there is a man between, there is a, there is a, there is a person, there's a man. There's a mediator rather between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ is our mediator. It's our go-between, between God and us. He's the one that links us to heaven. So, in, in his name. We can receive answer. We can ask anything in the name of Jesus, and we can receive answer to his name. So, it's a lie that is living. A life of godliness is a life that offers prayersh through the right source, through the right channel, through Jesus Christ to the Father, and you can be rest assured as to commit with God, God

cannot deny you that answer that you are asking from Him. And it is God-likeness in character. That is what godliness is all about. Hallelujah to Jesus. The second point we're looking at is contentment, contentment. What does contentment? It's not complacency. It's not relaxing. It's not complacency. Contentment is not saying, I don't want to grow. Contentment is saying with what God has given me now, I am satisfied and grateful while I trust him for more. Hallelujah. Praise in the name of the Lord. Don't forget, we are looking at the message today, Godliness with contentment is great gain. Con contentment is not just complacency that we are relaxed. Hey, many people think they are relaxed on the face of the earth. Hey, we are not making progress. Let me tell you something. There is nobody that is, that is living on the face of the earth today that is not making progress. Hallelujah.

There is no one that is not making progress. Every day we are moving. You may not see it physical, it may not be physical, you may not see the manifestation of the physical, but let me be sincere with you, you are making progress every day. It's not a life of complacency. Contentment is not saying, I don't want to grow. Contentment is saying with God has given me now, I am satisfied and grateful. Why I trust Him for more. It is an ad that says, God, if you give me more, thank you. If you don't, you are still enough. Hallelujah to Jesus. That is the life that God wants us to live, a life of contentment. As a child of God, as God's people, as beloved of God, a life of contentment, a life that it's not that you are complacent. It's not that you are, you are, you are not making progress, you are not, it's not like that. Yeah, let me, if you are a child of God,

God has a great plan for your life. He has a great purpose for your life. He has a big purpose for your life. He wishes that, he said, I wish above all thing that you prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prosper. That is his will for you. That is the will of God for you. It's not that you don't want to grow, but contentment is saying with what God has given me now, have you appreciated God for what He has done in your life, the level at which you are. That is con that is contentment. Contentment is God for the fact that I'm alive with what you have done for me. I'm satisfied. I'm happy. I'm joyful. I know you are still going to do more because you are a faithful God. You're a companyant keeping God. That is a life. Let me be sincere with you. One of the greatest pressure that is happening to people that makes people to develop high blood pressure today

is because people don't know how to appreciate God for what God has done for them. Hey, they, they, they look at what God has not done and they believe God has never been fear to them in life. Many people, they are, they become an enemy of God today, not because they want to become an enemy of God. Many people that have become an atheist to God, to, to themselves and not to God by not appreciating and acknowledging God in their life is because they have never seen God at any point in time in their life as being good to them. They've never been contented with whatsoever level they found themselves. They've never been happy. They've never been grateful to God. Let me be sincere with you. If you're going to live on the face of this earth and be happy and live long and fulfil purpose, you, you, you need to be godly. You need to be contented

and be appreciative with whatsoever God has done for you. There is no one that God has never been good to on the face of this earth. Let me, let me be sincere with you. There is no one. Hey, you may not, you, you may take that, God does not, but when you look at the, at the level you are, at least you are not sleeping under the bridge. Do you know many people are sleeping under the bridge? Is that not so? Hey, you are, you are, you are still, you are still able, you are fit physically, you are mentally alert, you are mentally sound. Do you know many people today, they are, they are mad people. They are walking on the street as a madman. A lot of things are happening to people. Many people, they, they, they, they won't predictca or the other. Many are between life and death as we are speaking right now. Hallelujah to Jesus. They are still, because why?

When you see yourself in that state where you are and you appreciate God, let me be sincere with you. You will know that God is so good to be served. He's good to be worshipped. Hallelujah to Jesus. Hallelujah to Jesus. Praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. When you look at Proverbs chapter 30. Proverbs chapter 30, we will just lay a foundation of this message today. Verse 8. And 9 Proverbs 30. Hallelujah If you look at verse one, Proverbs chapter 30 verse 1, he said the words of Ago, the son of Jacka, even the prophecy, the man speak unto Ehiel, even unto Ehiel and Ukah, hallelujah. Look at verse 8 and 9. Look at the, the world. He said, remove far from me vanity and lies. Give me neither poverty. Nourishes. Feed me with, with food convenient for me, lest I be fool and deny thee and say, who is the Lord? Or lest I be poor and steal and take the, the name of my God.

I know many preachers don't want to preach this kind of message because we are in the age where everybody preaches prosperity. Let me, let me be with you. I'm not saying prosperity message is bad. Hallelujah. But let me, we should balance it. Hallelujah. This is a man that was speaking. He was speaking and he was crying to God. He said, God. Take away vanity and lies from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches. He says he should not, God should not give him poverty or riches. He denied, he doesn't want to, to experience poverty in his life. He wants to enjoy this he was president of the law. Hallelujah. He said, feed me with food convenient for me, lest I be fool and deny thee and say, who is the Lord, or lest I be poor and see and take the name of the Lord. What this man was trying to say is, help me to be contented with whatsoever I have and at the level at which I found myself.

And I think every believer needs to live by that principle in these days. Learn to be contented with whatever God has given to you. We need to be contented. We need to be contented. If you look at the same David, David also was establishing this truth in Psalm 62:10. Hallelujah. As I was saying, Lord, don't give me prosperity that will make me forget you. That was the testimony of that man. But look at what David said in David chapter in Psalm 62. But still Psalm 62 Verse 10, hallelujah to Jesus. He said trust not in oppression and become not burning robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. God has spoken. Once, twice have I had this, that power belongeth unto God. Hallelujah. When you read Psalm 30. Verse 6 and 7, Psalm 30. Verse 6 and 7, hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. He said, uh, in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved.

Loved by thy favour, that has made my mindtain to stand strong. That is I thy face, and I was troubled. Hallelujah. I cried. To thee, O Lord, and unto thee unto the Lord, I miss supplication. That was the testimony of David was saying, when I was prosperous, I became too confident and I forgot God until God hid his face from me. So when David became king and had He learned that prosperity without God makes a man proud. That is why in 1 Chronicles 29:14, let's look at 1 Chronicles 29:14. David prayed a humble prayer there. 1 Chronicles 29. Verse 14, Hallelujah. Firstronicus. 29 Verse 14, praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. He said, but to whom? So who am I and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this thought, for all things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee.

David realised that it's only God that gives that, that blessing. He became humble because he knew that it was God that prospers. He knew that it was God that lifts a man from the donkey and places him to rule array with the prince and with the king of the heart. Let's learn to be, to be contented, beloved. There's need for us to be contented. When we live a contented life, you will see that the grace of God will continue to pour more and more upon our life. If you look at the third point I'm emphasising, is great gain, because we are talking of godliness with contentment. It's a great gain, the great gain. The worst things gain is more money, more cars, more houses, but true gain is the art that is at, is at peace with God and at peace with what it has. That is what true gain is all about. Many people in the world today, is that not so? Many people in the world today,

many people that would think they have a lot of things. They have prosperity, they have wealth, they have houses. Have you seen there was a there was a testimony I had about the senator in Nigeria in some years ago that people who went to visit him. Some people counted over 100 cars in his compound over 100 cars. In his compound, state of the art exotica. In this company, not that he's selling cars. Hey, what does he want to do with those cars? But he still wants to have more. That's some people, when you get to their car park, you would think maybe they are car dealers, they are selling cars. No. There are some cars some people have, in the next 6 months, they won't touch it. If they want to even bring out that car, they will need to, to service the battery because the battery would have gone down because they have not run the car for, for months.

And when you don't run the car for months, the battery will get weakened. You won't be able to start the engine. That is the way some people have seen life. Many people are just acquiring. Many people are just getting, many people are just amassing wealth. They are, many people have many houses. Do you know there are some people that have many houses that they cannot count. I'm telling you the truth. Hey, many people have houses that they have lost count of. Many people have landed properties that they have lost count of, hey, because they want to acquire. They want to acquire, they want to amass wealth. Let me be, let me be sincere with you, that is not great gain. It's the blessings of God that make it rich and does not have sorrow. It's only God that can bless us and give us peace. Anything that you have and you don't enjoy with peace, is not. That one, God is no more in it.

When you look at Psalm 60, let's look at Psalm 62:10. Hallelujah to Jesus. Psalm 62. Busted. Praise the Lord. Psalm 62:10. He says, Trust not in oppression and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. That was the testimony of David. David said, Trust, not in oppression. And become not very robbery. If riches increases. If riches increase, set not your heart because let me be sincere with you, if riches increases and you put your heart in it, hey, the Bible says riches has wings, it can fly away. It can fly away like a bird. If you are the type that put your heart on the riches, on the wealth, on the affluence, on your possession, let me be sincere with you, that riches can fly away. How many people that were wealthy yesterday, today they have become proper? Hey, how many people that are celebrated yesterday,

today, they are no more, they are not known. There are some people in the 80s, when you mention their name, they are synonymous with wealth and prosperity. Those are big boys in town. Those are socialites, men of influence and affluence, men of substance, the big boys that when they get to a party and the musician sees them coming, he will, he will change his tune automatically because he has seen them, because he knows that money has come. Hey, that person will, even if he's invited to the party or not, I know some of those men like that, I don't want to mention names. That some of the so-called musicians, when they see them, they are here, they, they, their fans. When they, when they see them coming to the, even if they are invited for the, for the fact that that musician is playing that party. Because they are the fan of that musician,

they will go to the party because they are going to spend money. But let me be sincere with you, some of those people today, they have become paupers. They are nobody. Hey, they are nobody. They are, they are broke. They have been wrecked. Life has torn them to another thing. Let me be sincere with you. If you are a child of God, the only way we can live a prosperous, a glorifying, a dignifying life, a life of honour on the face of this earth is that we don't put our heart in whatsoever we possess. No wonder the Bible says, is it the life of a man does not, does not consist in the abundance of things that he or she possesses. If you are a woman that has gold, you have diamonds, you have wealth, you have instruments, you have this, don't put your mind there. If you are a man that is so blessed, you are so prosperous, let me be sincere with you, beloved, don't put your heart there.

The Lord will grant us understanding in the mighty name of Jesus. Why are many Not content. Why are many not content? That is another topic we're looking at under this message. The first reason why people are not content is because of comparison, comparison. We look at others on social media, our classmates, friends, co-equals, junior ones, neighbours, etc. We look at the, we look at the achievements and we become restless. Why not me? Why not me? That is one of the reasons why many people are not, they are not contented today, because they compare themselves. They want to compare themselves. Hey, they look at their mates succeeding, excelling, making waves, moving up in life, and they are doing well, and they begin to compare themselves with their mate, with their junior, with their colleagues, with people that are not up to them. And they say, uh, uh, why is he, is he the only one?

Why is he succeeding, and I'm, let me tell you something, beloved, you do need to compare yourself. As a child of God, don't compare yourself with anybody. Because you, you are, you are a unique entity. You are a unique personality. The Bible says you are fearfully, you are wonderfully made. Let me be sincere with you, beloved. Even if you came from your mother's loins as a twist, as a triplet, you came to put the world together on the same day as a twin, you are not the same. You carry different destiny. Hallelujah to Jesus. You carry different purpose on the face of the earth. So, let me be sincere with you, live your life the way you should live your life. Don't compare yourself with any other person. Hey, you are, you are made different. You are made unique. You are made special. You are not an ordinary being. You are a unique person. The day God is creating you in the room,

it took him time to create you in your own, to make you the way you are. It took him time. And that is why if you want to know, there is nobody whose arm, armprint, when you put your armprint on the soil, unless someone puts his handprint on the soil, your armprint can never be the same. And as many billions of people that are on the face of the earth, our handprints are not the same. Hallelujah. How many of us have washed clothes and want to squeeze it? How many of us have done it? When you wash clothes and you want to squeeze it, you try where you get to, squeeze it and give to another person beside you to tell him to follow that squeezing, that pattern you are squeezing. You will see that he won't be able to squeeze along that pattern. He will, or he will squeeze. When he wants to squeeze that water out of his clothes, it will be different. Go and try it.

To show you how unique you are as a personality on the face of the earth. You are very unique, beloved. And that's why you do compare yourself with another person. Hallelujah. When you look at 2 Corinthians chapter 10, 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 12, praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. 2 Corinthians chapter 10. Verse 12. He says, for we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves, but they're measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise. You see, Paul was right. He said, we do not make ourselves of the number that there are some people that are in the number of comparing themselves with some that commend themselves. He said, but they mentioning themselves by themselves and comparing themselves. Among themselves are not wise. Hallelujah. What does that imply?

You don't need to compare yourself with another person. We are all running this race at different rates, at different levels. A different speed limit. You don't need to compare yourself. Let me be sincere with you. If you are a true child of God, your destiny is secured in God. Your future is assured in God. The Bible says chapter 7, verse I said, he said Mark you the perfect man. Behold the upright in heart. He said the end of that man is going to be peace. If you're a child of God, your destiny is not in any man. Your destiny is in the hands of God. Uh, it doesn't matter the season you find yourself, continue to follow after God. Continue to hold on to it. If you are here, you are not giving your life to cry, or you are listening to Him and you are not giving your life to cry. The first way to enter into the reality of what we are saying is that you need to be born again.

Hand your life over to God. Let him be your Lord. Let him be your saviour. Let him be your master. When you start with God on that note, on that platform, on that pedestrian, you can be rest assured that God will take you and will begin to guide you, will begin to order you and will begin to help you, and His grace will abandon to you. The second point is covetousness. Why many people are not content? is as a result of covetousness. The love of money, when you look at verse 10 of 1 Timothy chapter 6, let's look at 1 Timothy chapter 6, verse 10, Hallelujah. Fotimoti Chapter 6 verse 10. Praise the name of the Lord. First Timothy chapter 6 verse 10, it says, for the love of money is the root of all evil, which why some covected after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. That is the root of all evil, the love of money. Not money itself,

but the love of it. God didn't say money is bad. Hallelujah. What God is saying to us in this scripture, from this scripture is that the love of money, let me be sincere with you, all the atrocities we see happening all over the nations of the heart, of, of the world today is as a result of the love, the crave, the appetite, people have put on money. People are ready to do anything because of money on these days, on, on, on the face of the earth today. Is it not true? Everything you see happening on the face of the earth is because of the law people have for money. The desire, the craving in the heart of men to succeed at all costs. Do you know, is, is, is the love of money that makes people to go and join court, to do yahoo, to do loo, is it not true? Is it not true? Because you want to make quick money, quick money. That makes people to join courts. That makes people to do

fetish things in order to make money. A lot of atrocities and evil we see happening today is happening because people want to prosper, they want to exert, they want to explore within the twinkling of an eye. And let me be sincere with you, what you don't work for can never last in your hand. What you don't work for can never last. It's what you work for that lasts. That is why you see people, they make money through illi illicit way, they end up losing it. Is it not true? They make money. Hey, they do their, they make money, they buy a car. What, what normally happens most of the time, they have accidents, is it not true? Amen. They die on timely. The dial timing. Many people, they have even got to the extent of making comb in order to make money, they will go and enter into a comb now with the devil that give me money, let me enjoy it for 56 years.

And you will see that within that 56 years, they will explode. There's nothing they can't do. There's nothing they wouldn't be able to do. But you just see all of a sudden this person just died and you begin to wonder. You wouldn't know that it's as a result of the conventor that he has got to do. Because you wanted to make it. It happens even in the church. We, we see many people. Because maybe God gave them a gift. They can't, they don't want to wait for God's timing to explode, for God to explode them. They quickly want to do things in order to make money. Let me tell you something. You can't, there's no way you can do that and succeed. There's nothing the devil gives you that will not take back in a million fold. When the devil gives you 1 naira, he will take it back in the 1 million. That is why you better wait for God. The Lord will grant us understanding. So,

it's conventually that leads to the love of money. The C part is forgetfulness. We forget. Look at verse 7. Verse 7, what does verse say? See, for we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out of it. Many people forget that when they are coming to this world, they did not bring anything. They did not bring anything. We forget that we didn't bring anything. Into the world we brought nothing. We will take nothing. The coffin has no pocket. The coffin has no pocket. Hallelujah. This is an adage which simply means when a man dies, he cannot take anything with him. You can sew a suit, make a complete abada buba Sokoto for the dead with pockets, but he will not put money inside. Is it not true? Hey, he, you can, it doesn't matter. Go and buy the best. Clothes. Abada ashoki, the most expensive clothes for that dead man, for that dead woman. Sew it. Let the best

designer in the world sew it and put pocket. Hey, put, he will put money there. That money is going nowhere with him. If you are not careful, if you bet him with that money. If you don't secure that burial ground, in the midnight, hoodlums will come there and they will dig that particular corpse, and they will open the, the, the, the coffin and they will take that. Let me be sincere with you, that cough, that cop, that man, that dead man or woman is taking that money with him to nowhere. Because naked we came into the world and naked, we are going back. Hallelujah to Jesus. Naked, we are going back. You cannot put a check in his coffin. He cannot cash it. Put a billion-dollar check in his coffin with him. You say, Oga, Teo, when you get to where you are going there, you can smell it. They don't spend naira, they don't spend dollar at the other side. Mm mm. When you die,

everything ends with you. Hey, you, that hand is going open like this. Hallelujah. Have you ever seen a dead man with a, a, with a closed-fisted hand? No, his hands will be open. The law, naked I came into the world, naked, I'm coming. I'm going back. So what in the world are we running for? What in the world are we pursuing? I want to be this, I want to be that. I want to be this, I want to be the richest man. I want to be the most celebrated, celebrated man. Hey, it's only on the face of this heart, it, it, it ceases. The day we die, everything we have acquired, and that's why I look at some people, the way they take life, even some politicians, even some business people, even some career people, even people in the church, the way they see life, they see life as if they're not going to, let me tell you, let me tell you something, beloved. There's no one that has come to this world

that will not leave this world. We are living. The Bible calls us pilgrims and sojourner on this earth. We are going to live. Hallelujah to Jesus. Hallelujah Jesus. Hallelujah to Jesus. You can bury a rich man with his car keys. He will not drive it again. He will not drive that car. I saw one on my phone some, some time ago. This man was very wealthy and maybe as you saw that, that when he dies, they should bury him with his car. And you know, the foolish people went and dug where they are going to bury him, and they buried the man with his car. That cow will get rotting in the, in the, in, in, in the soil there. He's not going with the man. He's not going with it. He won't go with it. This is what Paul is is trying to say in First Timothy chapter 6. Verse, he therefore we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing, beloved. Let us understand this truth.

Let it sink into our spirit, man. As we are hearing this message right now in church, and as many as are listening to this message, we are online, beloved, have you thought about your end? When you die, everything that you think you have will not go with you. Think about those things that you think you have, that you cherish now. Those investments, those assets. Those wealth, those influence, those money, those blessings that God has given to you, they will end with this world. Why don't you think about your eternity with God? Why don't you think about how you will make your way right with Him so that when he, you leave the shore of this world, you will be acceptable before God. Let me be sincere with you. Your husband, your children, your wife, we will leave them here. Everything you think about. You will leave them. Hallelujah. We came naked. We will go naked. No house, no money,

no title. Whether you are a chief, whether you're a pastor, whether you're an nalai, whether you're a professor, whether you're a governor, whether you're a senator, whether you're a president, whether you're a billionaire, whether you're a millionaire, whether you're a trillionaire, whether you are a native that do not know God, etc. Or we stay here. Why Paul said it? To warn us not to kill ourselves because of money. Many have lost their souls, their health, their family name, chasing money they will never carry to heaven. Is it not true? Let's look at Ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 15. I will end up soon. We'll continue from where we stop. Ecclesiastes. Chapter 5. Verse 15, Hallelujah to Jesus. Praise God. Ecclesiasis chapter 5. Verse 15, he says, as he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away

in his hand. He said, as he came forth of his mother's womb, uh, the writer was trying to encourage people that are living at this age. That as he came out of his mother's womb naked, shall you, let me be sincere with you, to the glory of God, we are dedicating the child in church this morning. One of our sisters is bringing one brought a, a, a, a beautiful baby. Hallelujah. A wonderful handsome young man. I'm, I can say a handsome young man. Hallelujah. Amen. The day that child was being born, he was born naked. Is it not true? My sister, Is it true? Is it true? He was born, he was born naked. He came empty from the womb of his mother. Hey, he came to this world just like that. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He said, he came and the way he came with all his achievement, with all the struggle, with all his aspiration, with all this journey on the face of this earth, let me be sincere with you,

by the time the Lord will preserve the life of this my wonderful baby, and he will live long on the, on the face of that, he will achieve purpose, by the time he will live long and fulfil his age, the day he is going to die if the Lord hasries in coming. If he's going to die, he will not take anything on the day of his going. The way he came is the way he will go. Then what, what, why are we struggling on the face of this earth? What are, what are we struggling, labouring for then? Hey, I look at people. I would either say Awae my law. They would be able to say they don't want to leave the shore and the face of this earth for what? For what? Many people are entrusted with with responsibilities as politicians, as leaders. As someone in the place of honour, they take what they should have done, used to, to better the lives of people,

they corner and they begin to enjoy with themselves and their family, as if they're not going to leave this world. That's the one that will not leave. Everybody will live with this particular one. The Lord will help us in Jesus' name. We care with empty hands. We will live with empty hands. Only what we did for God and for others that will follow us. That is why the elders in Yoruba say, Aye aye orunile. The world is just a marketplace. Heaven is the hope. You don't carry market load home forever, is it not true? The market law, you keep it And you carry it forever? No. You don't. Beloved, the wisdom there is work hard, but hold money with an open hand. Use it, don't worship it. Don't worship money. Don't worship it. Many people are worshipping money today. Many people can do anything because of money. The ritualists, the kidnappers, the high assassin. They are doing it because of money.

Yeah, is it not true? They give them, and how much, how much would they give them to, to compare with the lives that they would take, with the destiny that will call shot on the face of this earth. Don't love. Money is good. It's a means of exchange. I have to explain here. Someone called money coloured paper. Is it not coloured paper? coloured paper, is it not coloured? I'm holding 500 naira. It's painted in lemon green colour, is it not with white? That is 500 Nigerian money. I'm holding it now. I got it out of my pocket. Is it not true? It's a means of exchange. If I want to buy coke in Nigeria now, I give it to the woman that is selling coke. Mama, I need Coke, a bottle of Coke, Chi, sell it for me. He says it's 500, I will sell it for 500. That is the purpose of money. Why, why do you want to kill yourself because of it? Many people now take it as if it's a do or die. Hey,

I must make it at all costs. Uh, uh, oh God, why now? People that have made it before, people that are known to have made it, where are they today? Hey, where are they today? We are the people that have made it before, that have struggled. They have done everything. Many people today, they don't go to church because they want to blow, they want to explore. Some people will tell you, when I blow, when I succeed, hey, I will now come and serve God if God needs their money. Let me be sincere with you. God needs you before your money. He wants you to serve in first. When you serve God, He will bless you. It's God that blesses. He's God that promotes. He's God that honour. He's God that lifts up. He, he's only God that can lift you up. You don't have the power and the ability to lift up yourself, beloved. Wait for God to lift you. Whatsoever level you are now, be contented, be godly,

seek God, desire to serve God. It's a great gain to know God and to serve God. You are not poor. Don't see yourself as a poor and as a wretched. You are not poor, beloved. You are, you are a man of means. You are a man of substance. The greatest prosperity is the prosperity of the soul. If your soul prosper, if your spirit is alive with God, you are the greatest man that is prosperous on earth. I'm being, I'm, I'm telling you the truth, beloved. If your soul is, is in tune, if you have good relationship with God, you are known as a child of God, let me, let me tell you something. You are the most prosperous man on earth. I'm telling you. You may not have the world good, you may not have the good work. You look at the life of Lazarus as a rich man. The rich man was known all over the world as the greatest man. He was the wealth, one of the wealthiest men on earth there.

His name was in the 4 books of records of their time, 4 books of records where Billonnas and Billonia's name were mentioned. You will find the name of the rich man there as at that time, but nobody knew Lazarus. To, to, to compound this. The Bible says he will have sore in one part of his leg, that dogs come to lick that particular soul. He was that poor, he doesn't have money. He didn't have money like that to treat himself. But the, the rich man died and the Bible says Lazarus died, but you know what distinguished them? Lazarus was rich towards God. His spirit man was rich towards God. He knew God. We are, when he was here or not. He was serving God. He feared God, he honoured God, beloved. The rich man did not know God. Hey, he didn't know God. He didn't know God. He didn't know him. And he died without knowing God, and he ended up. In hell. Lazarus ended up in heaven. Beloved,

let's cry to God today that I don't want to end up, I don't want to end my life in hell. Father, help me to end where? Money will not take me to hell. Money will not take me to hell. Money will not take you to hell. As long as I'm listening to this message, whether you are in church, whether you are listening via online, money will not take you at night to work in the name of Jesus. What is the bottom line? The bottom line is this. Beloved, The wisdom there is work hard. But hold money with an open hand. Use it. Don't worship it. That is the bottom line. Work hard. Be faithful Open, hold money with an open hand, use it. Don't worship money. We'll continue from where we stopped the last week. We'll look at the dangers of lack of contentment. And the blessings of godliness with contentment. That is what we'll be looking at next week. The Lord will grant us ourselves an understanding

and how to live it. That is what we'll be looking at next week. Let's pray. Let's talk to God. Let's talk to God. Let's talk to him. Let's cry unto him this morning. Let's tell him the Father. Thank you for life. Thank you for my family. Thank you for keep watching over me this far. Let's begin to pray, beloved. Thank you for this message. Lord, I thank you for life. Thank you for what you know about me. Let's talk to God. Let's cry unto him, beloved. As soon as I listen to this way, I cry out to God that forgive me, my father, for murmuring and complaining. In any way I've murmured, in any way I've complained, Father, forgive me. Father, forgive me, forgive me. If I have complained because of what I've been going through. Let me be sincere with you. You need to cry unto God that God have mercy on me. You don't need to complain if you're a child of God. You don't need to murmur.

The people that murmur in the past, they were perished by God. God destroyed them. God hates people that murmur, cry unto Him today, that Father, have mercy. Father, have mercy on me. Cleanse my heart. I renew my spirit. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Create in me a heart that sucks, that tasked after righteousness, that longs for your, for, for righteousness as the heart passed after the water brooks. Create that heart in me, in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, teach me to be content. To be free from the love of money. Teach me, oh God, to be content. Let me be sincere with you. Contentment is a spirit. It's a gift that God gives its own. Ask God to give you the spirit of contentment. Be content with whatsoever you have, with whatsoever level you are. This is not the end of your story. This is not the end of your journey in life. Better days are still ahead of you. Cry out to God,

the grace to live a contented life. Father, I received from you today in the name of Jesus. The grace that make me, I will not be envious. I will not be I, I, I, I, I, I will not be envious. I will not compare myself with other people. I will not be Envious, Lord, I will not be convious. Father, I received that grace from you today in the name of Jesus. Talk to him. Talk to him. The grace to live a godly life. The place to live a contented life. Father, I received from you today. Help me, Lord. Help me, my father. Cry unto him, beloved. God is in this house. As soon as I listen to this message, cry unto God. Tell him, tell him, let's tell Him. He will hear us and His glory shall be revealed in our lives in the name of Jesus. Let's commit our new work into the hands of God. Holy Spirit, take over, have your way, order my steps, perfect everything that concerns me.

Help me to live in the light of this world that I've had today. May I reflect on this message. May this message revolutionise, revolutionise my life throughout this week, and may your grace continue to abandon to me. Help me, Lord, to please you. Help me love to love. Whatever I lay my eyes upon this, we shall prosper. Let your glory be revealed in my life. Go before me and make every crooked was and make every rough places plain. In the mighty name of Jesus, thank you, faithful Father. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the word of life. That we are sending again to us today. The Bible says the entrance of your work gives light and understanding unto the simple. The Bible says, wherewith all shall a young man look, cleanse his ways by looking into your world. Father, you have spoken to us in clear terms today. You have poured your hearts onto us.

You have caused us to know what you want us to know in order for us to live a life of purpose, a life of fulfilment of the face of the earth. We received grace to live according to the precept of this world that you have shared with us today. To live a godly And a life of contentment, which is a great gain on the face of this earth. We receive that grace from you today in the name of Jesus. Strengthen our hearts, oh God, in many areas of our life, we have been trying to go ahead of you. Father, have mercy upon us. Purge us and purify us. The grace to walk according to the precept of this world we receive from You, God. This world will not stand against us on the day of judgement. It will prune and purge us. It will prepare us for your coming, and may your grace abandon to us in the mighty name of Jesus. Bless us and bless us when as I listen to this message via online.

May this world be profitable unto us in the mighty name of Jesus. Bless our new week. Prosper us in this new week. Our, we commit our lives into your hand, Lord, as we open you, don't let us be put to shame. Let your grace abandon to us. Let your name be glorified in our lives. Our expectation is you shall not be cut short. Do something amazing in our life this week. Let your name be glorified. We cover ourselves and our household with the blood of Jesus. It shall be well with our going out. It shall be well with our coming in. In your kingdom, we shall not be found wanting. Bless your, as soon as I listen to this message they are online. Whatsoever may be their heart desire, meet them at the point of their needs. As soon as those that are here in top, meet us at the point of our needs. Do something amazing in our lives. Let your name be glorified. Thank you, faithful Father.

In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. I want to pray for those who have not given their life to Christ. Maybe you are online, you want to surrender your life to Jesus. Say this after me. Say, Heavenly Father. Lord Jesus, I come before you today. I recognise the fact That I am a sinner That needs a saviour, and I know you came to save me. I confess my sin today, and I accept you as my Lord and saviour. Have mercy on me. The grace to serve you. The grace will love you, the grace to do your will. I received from you today, write my name in the book of life. I've become your son and daughters today. I am born again. In the name of Jesus, thank you, faithful Father. In Jesus' mighty name we have prayed. Lord, I pray for as long as I've confessed this, even in church today, and as long as I confess this online, that I've given their life or dedicated their life unto you. Accept them

and accept them, forgive them their sins. Write their names in the book of life, establish them in your will. May they be your sons and daughters forever, and may your grace continue to abandon to them. Make them ready and prepare them for your coming and let your name be glorified in their lives. Thank you, faithful Father. Blessed be your name forevermore. In Jesus' mighty name, we are praying. In Jesus' mighty name, we are praying. Amen. Praise the Lord.