RCCG Convention: Adeboye urges Christians to remain pure as light

AT a very colorful welcome ceremony last night,
the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye,
who had resolved to limit his messages during
the ongoing 63rd annual convention to a
maximum of 25 minutes, urged Christians to
strive to remain pure as the light.Speaking at the first plenary of the convention,
Pastor Adeboye said this year’s convention will
be different in all ramifications; in signs and
wonders, miracles and breakthrough.
Drawing inspiration from Bible book of James
1:17, on a topic titled: “Pure as light,” the
general overseer took time to introduce the
theme of the convention, All Sufficient God,
emphasising the need for people to acknowledge
that God is the father.
There are two forces controlling the world and
affairs of men: they are forces of darkness and
forces of light. Forces of darkness have various
names including demons, devils, witches,
wizards, herbalists, liars, fraud,”
he stated.
He said the characteristics of darkness include
shame—anything that can produce shame, you
want to do it in darkness. The bible said human
beings love darkness than light because their
works are evil, pointing out that the
characteristics of darkness include sorrow,
defeat, failure, losses, death, destruction
amongst others.
“On the other hand, characteristics of light
include; glory, joy! You remember how people
used to shout when the electricity authority used
to be called NEPA, when they take off light,
darkness comes and people will shout their
disappointment and when the light comes on the
people shout for joy.
“Victory comes when there is light, the Bible
says they overcame the devil by the word of
their testimony. Sucess is one of the
characteristics of light, progress, abundant life,
breakthrough and so on,” he added, asking the
large crowd of worshippers if they prefer light or
darkness.
And the crowd responded with a loud shout of
“Light!”
The former mathematician explained the
meaning of “As Pure As Light”, saying he wrote
a book about 30 years ago on this same topic
where he explained that every child of God must
be pure as light, stressing that whatever is worth
doing at all is worth doing well.