A SERMON titled - Let The Dead Bury Their Own Dead: Series 001

 

A SERMON titled - Let The Dead Bury Their Own Dead: Series 001

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 19/09/2025

FRIDAY - 19TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

DIP AND BE CLEAN! - Beyond The Common Series 009

II Kings 5:13, KJV

"And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?"

What's complicated in a simple instruction, "go and bathe in River Jordan and you shall be clean." I thought Naaman would glorify God for that but that's not how many proud or big people see things. They rather wanted to be billed. They want to pay. They would want the man of God to make demands on them. This effort is to prove themselves and it shows how carnal and fleshly they are. 

Only God knows how many days the instruction of Elisha tarried before Naaman went to carry it out. He was expecting something out of this world. He was expecting to hear a request that'll correspond with the seriousness of the healing he was looking for. If the prophets had said, give a hundred camels, goats, sheep, horses, yards of cloth, he would have had immediate regard for Elisha. 

This is the corruption in the human soul that false prophets who preach another gospel - of prosperity leveraged on to cheat people out of their resources.. They'll tell them to sow a seed that corresponds with their problems. So, the people have been accustomed to paying for something, buying something, giving something and yielding something up. It has come to be etched in their memory that something isn't for nothing. So, when it concerns salvation and the gospel of Christ, people generally do have the same perspective of it. 

There are people that the gospel of Christ has been preached to - poor and wealthy who said it was too simple. They were themselves asking what else they should do even after receiving Christ. They were willing to pay even with their possessions. That's not what the gospel demands of anyone. It is rather, "believe and be saved." The instruction of Elisha to Naaman is summarized in the words that his servants speak to him, "how much more when he says, wash and be clean."

The Bible says in Romans 10:9-10, "9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

Did you see? With the heart you're to believe unto righteousness (or justification) and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation (being born again)! Jesus died for you as I've overemphasized in the course of this series. Confess your belief now!

Say, "I believe you died for me Jesus and rose again also! I believe! I believe! Come and live in my heart and cause everything to be new."

PRAYER: Thank God for your salvation and the rights of sons given to you.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

I Thess. 3, Isaiah 1-3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 18/09/2025

THURSDAY - 18TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

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THOSE WHO FIGHT TO BE WASHED IN ABANA AND PHARPAR - Beyond The Common Series 008

II Kings 5:12, KJV

"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage."

You need to be humble to receive the will of God. The will of God is not always the will of man. As a matter of fact, there's an intersection or collision of wills - where will struggles and fights will. 

However, if you'll prosper, you'll let go of your will like Jesus role modelled to us to embrace His Father's will (Matthew 26:39). 

Here's Naaman. He's a great man but a poor man also. He has a great resume but it's dotted by a problem. By Him, God has given victory to Syria but he's a leper. What a problem! Though it may not look conscupious once his dress or military regalia covers his leprosy but he's still a leper. 

As if God was setting him up for healing, they brought with them a young Israelite when they went on a raid. She attends to Naaman's wife. Out of her generosity and responsibility to share 'the gospel', she declares, "only if my master would be with the prophet in Israel, he would recover him of his leprosy." This was heard and recounted. Long story cut short, here's Naaman, the captain of the Syrian army at the gate of Elisha, the prophet. Elisha didn't send him any heavy to do instructions. He only said, "go and wash in Jordan seven times and you shall be clean."

Simple instruction! I thought Naaman would rush at it. However, his pride wouldn't allow. He's not different from many big and influential people who will get angry at you and think it diminutive when you tell them salvation is free - only believe and be saved. That's the problem of Naaman. He said it out. 

II Kings 5:11, KJV

"But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper."

You see, he wanted the man of God to come and weave his power - to come and look powerful before him. Why is it that the human senses always looks for things to satisfy themselves with? Why is it that when you're simple, people reject you and would want and desire sermons that'll complicate their lives. If Elisha had told Naaman to give him 500 bulls, he would have done so without having gotten angry. How much more, "bathe and be clean?" How much more, "believe and be saved?"

And why should anyone have any problem with the choice of God on how to meet their needs or solve their problems? God chose River Jordan as the cleansing or purifying water for Naaman, why did Naaman fill himself with the thoughts of Abana and pharpar and would have had that recommended for him? Is he God? 

When did those who should receive instructions and abide by it begin to dictate to God what He should have done? Is this how to be perfected or made whole? Some of you are telling God, you should have chosen for me that other fellow? "Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus better than all the waters in Israel?" Some are saying, "God, you should have chosen for me from my tribe? Are my tribe's men not better than others?"

Even if they are, the problem is they aren't the choice of God. In like manner, Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius and a host of them that people follow or have come to put their faith in are not the choice of God. The choice of God - the River Jordan of God is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. To cement this, John detected Him so while He was baptizing in River Jordan. When John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River (the same in which the salvation of Naaman is), the spirit descended, rested and stayed on Him. This immediately confirms for John what God has said to him about who the Messiah is (John 1:32-33).

So, when Elisha told Naaman to go and bathe in River Jordan, he was sending Him to Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith. He was sending Him to the One that has been identified through baptism as the Saviour and salvation of the whole world. 

Eventually, after his ego was appealed, he went and was cleansed. Stop saying, "are not Abana and Pharpar better rivers than all the waters of Israel? Muhammad or Buddha may look pretty to you because of the rituals attached to them but Jesus is the real deal. In Him, you'll bathe and be cleansed of all sins. When you take a dip, your sins will no longer remain or be remembered. Rather, you'll be as new as a clean slate (II Corinthians 5:17). 

PRAYER: Lord, choose me amidst many. Thank You for the plan for salvation that came through Jesus alone. Pray for family members to come and be washed in Jesus - the River Jordan and be clean.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

I Thess. 2, Songs 7-8

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 17/09/2025

WEDNESDAY - 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

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WHAT GOD HAS CLEANSED! - Beyond The Common Series 007

Acts 10:15, KJV

"And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."

One time, I was under the ministration of Venerable Johnson Oyebode of Ijebu Anglican Diocese, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion. This man has an unusual ministry and anointing though in an orthodox church. His insights into the Bible and the prophetic operation of God on him are convicting. Often, God testifies to all these even with signs and wonders. 

On that occasion, he was teaching on a topic I couldn't recall for now but I do remember one of the real live stories he shared. He talked of a particular sister who was a friend to his wife. At the time when this event happened, he was not married to his wife. They were still courting. His wife was still in a higher institution then. 

His wife's friend (then) had received a proposal from one unnamed brother. That was while the sister was in a college of education. However, she wouldn't budge. She wouldn't agree to it. Often, the brother would return to the sister asking if she had considered his proposal. All met with a no. 

The brother was convinced and met God on many occasions to confirm this to the sister. After many attempts with no positive response, the brother on one occasion he was praying bluntly told God, "I cannot go on like this. This is the last time I'm praying to You to turn the heart of this sister. This is the last time God!"

Don't take your words for granted. When you pray, God actually hears. It was as if that brother had spoken into a different microphone other than the one he had been speaking into. Though God had severally convicted this sister of that brother, she just wouldn't budge. She wanted someone who in her definition and standards would be better. For short, she was rating the brother after the flesh. She refused to see him in the light of what God has shown her (which she now lives in its denial). 

After that blunt prayer, the brother went away and refused to attune his heart to matters concerning that sister again. He stopped sending letters to ask, "if she had changed her mind or visiting to ascertain the same." He just cut off like a broken line. Then, the sister had a vision or a dream (either of the two). She saw a telephone that was ringing and ringing continuously. The telephone rang to the point of disturbance or weariness but the sister (though hearing the rings) didn't pick it. She was conscious of the ringing but she just didn't pick it up. Then suddenly, the ringing stopped and no call came in again. 

How seared and foolish the heart of this sister has become? It's not different from Balaam's whose heart has been so drawn to greed and seared in conscience so much more that it took the voice of a miraculous donkey to stop him in his tracks. 

II Peter 2:16, KJV

"But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet."

Even at that, he still shows disposition to go and wouldn't recognize God's permissive will but go. Don't be dead at heart like this. If you struggle with God over a matter like this and you don't let Him win, you can have this same experience. 

You'll have thought this sister would be able to relate the vision to that brother. She just couldn't. She thought it was God saying something else to her. She shared this with Mummy Oyebode who at that time was simply called Sis. Bose. She was the one who assured her she would share it with Bro. Johnson (now Venerable Johnson Oyebode). 

Don't forget, I had said earlier, Venerable Oyebode was still courting Mummy Oyebode at that time. So, when Bro. Johnson came around, Sis Bose told the story. I can't recall whether the said sister was there. But Bro. Johnson's response was, "who has been patronizing you with something that you wouldn't give an answer to? You'd better go and give an answer. You'd better pick the call lest the incoming call stops coming in. You'd be grinded!"

It was at this point this sister whose heart has been fatigued could then relate. Eventually, she gave the brother the long awaited opportunity only to discover that the brother had decided he would not look towards her again. This way, her vision corresponds with the decision of the brother. 

That vision God gave her was her last lifeline. Thrice God speaks to Peter saying, "rise, kill and eat." But after that, the sheet was taken back. Some opportunities can only stay for a while. They'll eventually go. Some of you are in the shoes of this sister. You're already running on extra time. You're at the edge of the cliff. If I may, I would say, you're already running late and I pray, may it not be too late for you. 

In Christ, we don't see or regard men after the flesh. Any divide, bias or prejudice fall. We see them according to the recommendation of God to us. He knows what we don't know about them and knows what they'll become after a while. Don't forget, He is a God who can declare the end from the beginning. Please, stop calling common and unclean what God has cleansed and have sure proofs for. 

PRAYER: Lord, teach and reveal to me who men really are. I see and believe Your report and testimony about men. Grant me the humility of Your heart to receive what you have prepared for me.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

I Thess. 1, Songs 4-6

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 16/09/2025

TUESDAY - 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

DO NOT CALL COMMON! - Beyond The Common Series 006

Acts 10:14, KJV

"But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean."

Surprisingly, some will still not let the sleeping dog lie. They rather are debating God. They are still full of jangling and will do anything to resist - even unto the shedding of blood. 

Continuing from Peter's trance that was deeply examined yesterday; God still has some people in mind. They must not escape the sword of God's Word. It must divide right into their hearts and thoughts - discerning all that is hidden. 

As the Holy Spirit is persuading me, I'm still hearing, "there are those who still say, I have never eaten anything unclean or common."

God is saying, "stop that!" Let that go. A change has come now. A new era! What I'm bringing to you is my will. I'm the initiator and I want you to receive it. I want you to accept it, love it and live with it. Many of you, God has brought you someone to marry or speak to about love but your response has been, "Lord, that one is not my size! We can't fit!" What you must know is that if it was the Lord who truly recommended the fellow, he or she would fit. You may not like it now but if you'll agree with it and go on this journey with the choice fellow, you'll see all the reasons and the joys that'll lace your journey. 

While you're busy arguing, opening book after book, raising one argument after the other, God keeps saying also, "what I have made clean, call not common."

Let this rebuke, correction and God's insistence suffice. Don't push things further or else, you might miss God somewhere, join the wrong bus and be driven to a wrong destination that God never had in mind for you in particular. For anyone still arguing and saying, "I can't have to do with that person/people or place", your big time reply is, "what God has cleansed or where God has prepared, don't regard in the flesh." You can marry a Middle-Easterner (An Arab, Palestine or even a Jewish). You can marry any of the five races or the tribes that are on earth. You can live in a place that till now looks like a forbidden kingdom. As long as it's the Lord saying, go there or turn thee eastward, how can it be strange. 

Stop seeing it as ordinary. Stop seeing that sister as all that appears. Stop believing that's how that brother will be economically and in other ramifications. Doing that is regarding men after the flesh. It's not knowing them in the correct picture that God would like you to see them - which He has given you of course. God might have told you to settle somewhere that doesn't fit your plan or fancy, I'll advise you to do just that whether a city or a town. Only Him knows the reasons and in the years to come, you'll uncover the same as you walk with Him.

Has God even called you to submit to someone as your discipler or mentor? Don't rate him as not being big enough. If it was God's mouth that said it, do so. If the sheet that came down came from heaven and not any other place, it's a reason for your Peter not to doubt. This is the Lord's doing if you're a Muslim or one of other belief/religion but God is saying, "come out of that now and put your faith in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son who died and rose for your sake." You'd better do so. Let go of the traditions and belief system that has ruled you till now. Let go of the fear of death and contrariness from persecutors from your [former] religion. There's no temptation that has taken you that's not common to men. Peter faced the same things for checking in with the Gentiles but everything was well later on (Acts 11:1-18). He who gave the vision will defend Himself before men when you're challenged. Summarily, what God has cleansed, don't call common. Stop regarding or knowing people in the flesh when God sees them differently, even as befitting people for you.

PRAYER: Lord, I submit to Your will. What you have cleansed (by way of preparation), I will not call common or regard as impossible.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Colossians 4, Songs 1-3

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 15/09/2025

MONDAY - 15TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

COME OUT OF THAT VIEW! - Beyond The Common Series 005

Acts 10:15, KJV

"15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."

God is calling some out of their prejudiced and biased view. It would have been okay and not sinful before God to hold that kind of view for some time - especially when it's your time of ignorance and you don't know any better. Now however that God is commanding a new thing and is asking you to come out of that view, you'd better heed Him. 

One day, just one afternoon like that while they were making lunch for Peter, God came to him in a trance. How subtle and simple our God can announce Himself at times? In a trance, Peter sees all sorts of animals dropped by a sheet held on its four sides from heaven. What a sight! It would have been okay if the trance ended there but the 'temptation' of Peter continued. He heard a voice calling unto Him, "Rise Peter, kill and eat."

The voice called repeatedly but to no avail. All Peter could reply with was, "14 ...not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." Yet, the Lord would not stop pressing it to him that there's therefore no more difference, separation or segregation - "15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common."

You would think Peter would eventually heed God's voice having known and proven that it was God calling out to him but all was just to no avail. He's just too entrenched to act! Peter has conclusively refused to allow his old dietary laws to be broken. 

Some of us are as stubborn as Peter. You're as glued to your tradition, beliefs, prejudices, biases, sentiments as him. Even when God is offering assurance that "it is a cleansed meat", headily you'll still refuse to taste. Or what should we make of Peter? He's like one being piped to who still refuses to dance. What baffles me is that God told him to keep shut and to stop insisting that the meat He has cleansed was still unclean or common. God in His right senses came to Peter to call him out to plough the Gentile world. For that, He had to give him a corresponding conviction and a basis for doing something as absurd as evangelizing them (since the Jews were separated and don't fellowship with the Gentiles). To have proper conceptualization of this trance therefore, we'll need to examine a few symbols as this trance marks a turning point in the Gospel’s reach.

The sheet coming down from heaven symbolizes divine initiative. God is revealing something new, not man’s idea.

The sheet’s four corners may symbolize the four directions of the earth - universality of the Gospel. It means what was once restricted to Israel is now meant for all nations.

The variety of animals included clean and unclean animals (per Jewish law in Leviticus 11). For Peter, this is shocking. It breaks centuries of dietary distinctions that separated Jews from Gentiles. Symbolically, the animals represent all peoples: Jews (clean) and Gentiles (unclean), now united in Christ.

The command to “Kill and eat” equals fellowship, acceptance and communion. God is asking Peter to break through his old boundaries of ritual separation. The command pushes Peter beyond tradition into a new covenantal reality.

Peter’s resistance , “By no means, Lord…” reveals the tension: even apostles struggled with letting go of old categories or ways of doing things. His objection echoes Israel’s long history of faithfulness to the Law, yet God is moving them forward.

God’s response: “What God has made clean…” is the heart of the vision. Through Christ’s death and resurrection, purity and holiness are redefined. The cross breaks the old boundary lines of Jew versus Gentile, clean versus unclean. God Himself is the one who redefines what is “clean” - not human tradition.

The repetition (three times) equals emphasis and certainty. Consider the dreams doubled to Pharaoh which Joseph interpreted also (Gen.41:32). It mirrors Peter’s earlier threefold denial and threefold restoration (John 18 and 21). It underscores that this is God’s fixed will; Peter must accept it.

All in all, the symbolic and theological meanings would mean the inclusion of the Gentiles. The vision only came to prepare Peter to accept Cornelius (a Gentile) and his household into the faith (Acts 10:34–48). Let's answer for ourselves, Do we still categorize people into “clean” and “unclean,” “worthy” and “unworthy”? God’s voice rather speaks, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” The trance calls us to radical hospitality, unity and openness to God’s surprising work in people we might not expect. God has therefore redefined holiness, broken human barriers and opened the gospel to all nations. You cannot reverse that? Can a clay speak to the Potter saying, "what makes you" (Rom. 9:20)?

PRAYER: Lord, thank You for Your salvation plan that extends to the Gentile world. It is this that saved and brought me in. Teach me to steward what I've received and to truly see men in the newness of the new birth.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Colossians 3, Eccl. 10-12

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MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 14/09/2025

SUNDAY - 14TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO 

THE TURNING POINT: HITHERTO HAVE I COME - Beyond The Common Series 004

II Corinthians 5:16, ESV

"From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer."

Paul says in I Corinthians 13:11, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

May you grow in the revelational knowledge of Christ. When you do, you'll yield up some earthly and natural beliefs you've held of Christ. Where you've only esteemed Him as "a carpenter's son", you'll let go and esteem Him as Christ Jesus (Saviour). Even for a time, the apostles saw him in that light. Meanwhile, they reached a definitive moment - a turning point where their voice could culminate in Paul's and be voiced out saying, "from now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh..." even though they had once regarded Christ so. They rather swallowed and yielded it up. They let their old views give way to the new. Seeing people by worldly standards (wealth, appearance, race, gender - either male or female, intellect, heritage) isn't their true definition. That's your human judgement. By measuring through those, you will miss who they have become in Christ or in destiny. 

For the born again man, old things have passed away. Rather, the new has come. As long as He is in Christ, any man or woman ought not to be regarded after the flesh any longer. Is there a brother or sister there that you once regarded and treated as a fornicator, thief, liar or whatsoever? The Bible is speaking to you concerning them. Their new reality is that they are none of those again because they are now born again. You shouldn't therefore reckon or regard them as such. Don't hold them down to their past lives or mistakes. The Bible is saying, "old things have passed away, behold, the new has come."

Look at their new spiritual side. Look at their new identity in Christ. Look at their new heritages and new creation realities. Those are their traits, their measures, inheritances and heritages. 

Paul marked a turning point. After understanding the new creation in Christ (v.17), everything is now conceptualized and seen differently. The old indeed has passed away! Do you know the verse I just heard?

Romans 4:8, KJV

"Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."

When any one tastes the experience this Psalm is describing, He's free of guilt, condemnation and any transgression that might have been afore credited into his account. He's rather clean and whole like a new born baby. If you trace his body, you'll therefore metaphorically not find any spot or mark once tainted by leprosy. Such had taken a bath in (River Jordan - a symbol of the rejected Christ that becomes the cornerstone for our salvation) and are now whole and healthy (II Kings 5:10-12). 

No trace of sin or hold of sin on them any longer. They are free because God made them so. He released them. He forgave them. He bathed them with His own blood!

Now, nothing else reshapes how we see ourselves or other believers in Christ but faith. This includes how you see Christ Himself. If you don't have faith that your salvation is just as it has been described and testified of in the Bible, you cannot see it that way. Therefore, you'll experience what is called a reality distortion field. Instead of seeing people for who they are, you'll rather see them wrongly. Instead of hailing Christ in the lives of the brethren, you can still hold the prejudices of their former selves, backgrounds, mischiefs and humanness against them. This is short of the turning point you're called to in Christ. You must stop seeing men as trees! See them who God calls them in the completion of Chris's finished work. 

PRAYER: Lord, whom you have forgiven is forgiven. May I see the new man you have created in any Christian around me. May I not tie them to their old lives.

BIBLE IN A YEAR

Colossians 1-2, Eccl. 7-9

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