“ASSOCIATION” (THE DEMARCATION BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED)

LUKE 12:15-21

Association is the opposite of isolation, if you have been isolated from others by one thing or the other, or when you were small your parents isolated your from your pear group, you will understand the pain of Isolation. The point is that human crave for companionship because nobody is an Island and a tree cannot make a forest. This is the basic need for association. People join groups like Churches, Village meetings, Political parties for this purpose. But before we associate we need to understand what we are dabbling into, because at the end of the day if we did not meet up with the expectations of the Group. We will start having trouble. So consider what it will cost you to belong to an association. This association is not limited to friends and relative, it includes external relationship outside Home and environment. Now the question is who I need to associate with so that at the end of the day we make progress? Because the aim of every association is to make progress:

PSALM 1:1-END

(1)               “Blessed is the man who does not walk according

To advice of the wicked, and does not stand on

the path of sinner. And does not sit in the sit

of scoffers”

Now, using the above passage, who advise you? And who is your friend? Answering this two questions tell me who you are because they are greatest influence to your destiny. This two people can bring calamity or peace to your destiny.

PROVERB 13:20

(17)       “The one walking with the wise, shall become wise

But the who has dealing with the stupid will fare badly

The King’s James version puts it like this:

(20)“He that walketh with the wise shall be wise

But the companion of a fool shall be destroyed”

Please learn not to give room to some calibers of association that will constitute nuisance to your destiny, curb them today. Look! your destiny is one of the primary and precious Diamond you need to guard with jealousy. Don’t sell it like Esau for porridge of yam. And end up regretting. Tell yourself that from today I will hearken to Holy Ghost for solutions. Ignorant of this simple fact is what constitutes problem to the church and confusion to the world. The children of the Kingdom don’t use what they have which is the Holy ghost in sorting out solutions to their problems.

PSALM 1:2

(2)               “But his delight is in the law of the lord

And he reads his law in an undertone day

And night

The meditation on the word of God helps to strengthen the Holy Ghost to perform His duty because a man of knowledge increases in strength. When the spirit is strong, you are strong indeed, but when it is weak, it is as a result of lack of water which is the word of God.

PROVERB 24:5

(1)               “A wise man is powerful, and with knowledge

A man increases his power

ISAIAH 40:31

(31)     “But those hoping in the lord will regain power

            They will soar on wings like eagles.

They will run and not grow weary

They will walk and not tire”

We renew our strength as eagle does through the word of God and Prayer. And this man that does these things deserves a reward and His reward for keeping disciplining is stated as follows:

PSALM 1:3

(3)       “He will be like a tree planted by the

streams of water. A tree that produces

fruit in its season. The fruitage of which

does not wither. And everything he does

will succeed”

This man produces good fruit, when it is expected to produce good fruit. A lot of us are under a curse because we don’t produce good fruit when we are expected to do that. Remember how Jesus cursed the fig tree for not producing fruit at the right time.

MARK 11:12-25

(12)     “The next day when they were leaving Bethany,

he felt hungry. (13) From a distance he caught sight

of a fig tree that had leaves, and he went to see

weather he could find something on it. But on coming

to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the

season for fig

(14)     So he said to it: “ let no one eat fruit ever from you again

            And his disciple were listening”

 Upon it was not the season for the fig tree to bear fruit, Jesus still cursed it that means we are expected to bear fruit in season and out of season. Even when you are not expected to produce fruit, you must produce it. So as a child of God you are expected to produce fruit not only in season but out of season. Just as you should preach the gospel in season and out of season, we should not play with this, what are these fruit like? The fruit of the spirit.

GALATIANS 5:22

(22)     “On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit

is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness faith, (23) mildness, self control

against such things, there is no law”

As the spirit produces it’s kind of fruit in your life, it attracts those things that will make life easy for you.  Your labour in life is rewarded according. So that you don’t lack what you need to accomplish His mission for you on earth. Your plans must succeed because of the fruit of the spirit is in progress in its season.

What about the wicked? Their destiny is in shamble because they lack the Holy Ghost. They reap trouble as a result of wickedness.

PSALM 1:4

(4)       “The wicked are not like that’ they are like the

            Chaff the wind blows away

(5)       That is why the wicked will not remain standing

            In Judgement, Nor will sinners remain standing

in the assembly of the righteous

(6)       For the lord is aware of the way of the righteous

            But the way of the wicked will perish”

The wicked cannot stand the presence of the righteous ones, because their presence intimidates them.