Topic: Awake Unto Righteousness
Text: Luke 19:1-10

In 1975, there was a Bible study on restitution in one of our churches in the western part of Nigeria. After the study, a lady came to the altar and kept praying until the Church was to be locked up at night. She went home reluctantly, praying and weeping. At home, around 3.00am, she remembered that she had offended her mother and decided to make things right immediately. She woke up her mother and did this. The next morning she traveled to Ife where her husband lived, for they had been separated after a quarrel. She reunited and settled with her husband. On her way back home, she stood at the bus stop to take a bus when, together with the little son she had taken with her, a trailer came ramming into the two, separating mother and child, and dragging the lady some distance away from the spot. She died immediately. The lady never knew she was going to die but, thank God, she had been prepared for eternity. Will our thanksgiving be acceptable to God if our lives are not in accordance with His will? Not every gift is acceptable to God.

You know the story of Cain and Abel. They both brought offerings to the Lord. One was accepted while the other was rejected. If you are not born again, do not spend for God. It is true that the Bible says we should lay our treasures in Heaven but why lay treasures where you are not going? You should settle the matter of making heaven before any other thing. Awake to righteousness.

Prepare for eternity. We don’t know when the Lord will come. What will you say if He meets you unawares?

Memory Verse: Matthew 5:20 - “For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven.”