The Courage For a Movement | Pastor Wale Adefarasin

Nigeria belongs to the youth and it's time to be courageous when I go through Scripture I see the men who exercised courage Joshua God God told him at least 10 times in the Book of Joshua be of good courage I see Ezra Nehemiah Daniel all these were changemakers and God told them to be of good courage ignite is a movement I'll tell you why I say that the youth of this church have at least another 50% of youth from other churches joining them every time they have a program on the first Saturday of every month

the youth that come for ignite are able to come with the confidence that nobody is going to pressure them to stay in this church and I see amongst them a level of collaboration across churches when they were planning for manifestation 2018 they invited volunteers and they got volunteers from right across so many different churches this is a movement of the youth who are passionate about Jesus Christ that's what brings them together and and you need to attend some of the meetings to see the energy and the passion when they come together what we need as

a nation is a movement of the youth I'm not holding brief for the third force or the coalition for Nigeria but only a movement a mass movement and a movement is not defined by the founder a movement is defined by the ideals but it is pressing for so our former president saw the need for a movement the problem is he wants to own it nobody can own a movement it must be defined by the ideals that it pursues let me talk about it probably the most powerful movement in the 20th and 21st centuries the most

powerful woman in the world it's called LGBT where the world has reached today did not happen by accident it was the deliberate plan and strategy of a few people when I was in school abroad homosexuals were known as squares or they said they were bent but the LGBT movement introduced the word gay the word gay meant to be happy to be joyful but they introduced the word gay to define homosexuals that word has changed our our perception of homosexuality this wasn't an accident this was the work of a few people who planned to change things

they moved on from there and said a man or woman has a right to choose their sexuality it is a human right they say and so it became a human right accepted by the United Nations organization can you see how powerful movements can be and then the T part of it transgender in Canada at schools children are being taught that doesn't matter about your body you are the sex you feel and this the story goes of a young girl who went to school and as she played with toys she tended towards what were the more

masculine toys so her teacher told her that have you ever thought that you might actually be a boy in a girl's body of course the teaching she got from her Christian home conflicted with what she was being told as a young girl she went home and reported to her parents Anna parents were in school the next day to complain but they the parents were vilified by the school authorities are you see in Canada the rights of children are superior to the rights of parents therefore if parents are perceived to be at conflict with the interests

of their children the states can take their children away and today transgenderism is one of the issues that is plaguing countries like Canada so movements can be very powerful ignite it's time for ignite Nigeria when you can use the power of collaboration that you have already built across different churches to begin to build and extend your reach and this time to define the ideals of the Nigeria of your dreams that young lady I I don't know if she's a Christian she probably is but it doesn't matter what she said was truth it was true I

know that some of the things that she said she talked about septuagenarian leaders and I have said from this pulpit that I pray that in my lifetime I will see a president of this nation in his fifties or or his or her 50s or 60s 40s she quoted in Cassano Moyo when he said invention imagination and innovation belong to the young but she said as far as the older are what holds them back accumulated self interests promises long made you see sometimes you grew up because you grew up in a generation that had different needs

in your 60s and 70s and 80s those needs no longer exist the way they did when when you were young but you still want to bring them to pass because that is your understanding and and she said strength strength but as you get older you lose strength I liked what CS Lewis said when he said that we think of courage as a single virtue but indeed courage is every virtue at its point of testing and I remember that we have a group from this church that will be going to ma Coco on Valentine's Day I

think that's Wednesday on Valentine's Day too to give to spend time with the children of macoco and to give them gifts now I could say that takes courage and it does take an amount of courage but the real test of the love that takes them there is not when they go the first time it's if they go a second time and the third time because the trauma of the first visit they frightened them from going a second third fourth time etc so ver love is tested at the point of further visits this is why we

start things and don't finish them I don't plan to spend long because I believe the clip I said speaks for itself it's time for the youth to stop whinging and whining and complaining but to take your destiny into your own hands to build systems new systems that will make the old systems obsolete let me throw another challenge at you anak have registered 74 million Nigerians to vote only 24 million in southern Nigeria 74 million 24 in the South some people were saying there they're registering cows and goats once you register cows and goats only after

you have registered the people and you can't find anybody else to register we in the South do not go to register you can prayer as long as you like the outcome of any election is clear from the number of people that are registered to vote and I think that some of you who feel passionate about this should make sure everybody registers to vote do something to ensure III will stop that just encouraging you to register to vote but registering to vote is not enough you have to participate in the process I know that let me

give you an example just Lagos State in Lagos State we have a population of about 20 million okay only I think six or seven million registered to vote at the last election now 20 million may not be entitled to vote because only if you're 18 or above so but the number of people that are that are able to vote should be in my view about ten at least ten of the seven six or seven million people entitled to vote the last election for governor was decided by 1.3 million people the rest of the people that

had actually registered stayed at home how can you complain I am happy with with our governor in Lagos State is doing wonderful things but if he wasn't you can't complain if you didn't go and vote amen so we need to to make ourselves aware the winking and whining must be over protests I mean I I looked up she talked about toy toy and I want what is toy toy it's bell to your yit oii it's a step they make in South Africa when they're protesting something stop doing all these dances and rituals get busy with

creating an alternative it is within there's nothing that is more powerful than a mass movement the Nazis were a movement a movement that was taken over by a dictator I know I myself have blamed the colonialists for our problems today is them they just joined the whole lot of people and were very diverse together the truth is we cannot continue to blame the colonialist forever it's time for us to take our own destiny in our hands if you want to clap god they're clapping for yourself it's time to take our destiny in our hands I

really don't know how things will change but I do know that a mass movement of the youth will have a tremendous impact people fear mass movements I remember the days of child chess school he was president or prime minister of Romania an absolute dictator whatever he said was was carried out immediately he said it but a mass movement arose and they said no we have had enough enough is enough and they took to the streets they stood in the public square in front of his palace he had absolute control of the military and he told

his troops to shoot at the crowd the crowd remained because they were courageous they remained in the square they did not run away and the troops looked at them and turned their guns on Choucha school until the moment he was executed he never thought that one of his own soldiers will pull the trigger mass movements and I'm not inciting treason I'm saying what are your ideals what do you want to see I'm not even interested in who you want to be president start with a movement that is based on ideals these are the things we

want to see this is the the Nigeria of our dreams start there don't worry yourself or concern yourself with political leadership the political leadership will come because God gives people the nation's leaders after his heart he gives them the type of leaders they deserve if you have good ideas you deserve a good leader that can bring those ideas to pass we have one who started of one of the founding members of the SAF Nigeria group the safe Nigeria group received a lot of support because of the fact that people did not like what was being

done to Jonathan good luck or is it good luck Jonathan they're both first names to me so I get it wrong and so people supported the save Nigeria group until the save Nigeria group got involved in partisan politics that was the death of that movement so forget about partisan politics and stand for what you believe is right is godly and is the ideal future for our nation I I sent this video to somebody who asked me a question he said pastor you to what extent are you prepared to go and it was not a question

that I could answer spontaneously because it is a question that requires thought and it is a question that each and every one of us must answer to what extent are we prepared to go for the sake not just of our nation now but of our continent that lady was speaking from a perspective of Zimbabwe but everything she said they did not sound like it is was talking about Nigeria the problem of Africa is the same the length and breadth of Africa youth who need to rise up with courage a point was made that Africa has

the largest proportion of youth in the world we are multiplying in the West there they're becoming extinct because it is proven but once you have both modern less than 1.8 children per family your culture will become extinct in a matter of time we are growing we have the youth now it's time to mobilize what we have amen I'm expecting I'm expecting and I'm speaking specifically to ignite Nigeria I'm expecting an ignite Nigeria to begin with youth who sit together and begin to to brainstorm and decide what they want to see in this land and then

begin to actual is it amen thank you for watching today's sermon subscribe now to get an update on when the latest sermon arrived [Music] you