The most false and ridiculous statements I ever heard coming out from the mouth of a supposed man that call himself a pastor are statements from Sunday Adeleja or DSA as he is fondly called.
One of the statements was captioned,” Why You Don’t Need God To Be Successful”. Here he was trying to give reasons why you can succeed without God.
The second statement was captioned, “Anti-Religion: You Don’t Need To Believe In God To Be Successful On Earth”. Here he was trying to prove that you don’t need to believe in God to be successful on earth.
While the third statement was captioned, “Only Fools & The Mediocre Believe More in God Than In Themselves”. Here he was trying to prove that we need to believe more in self more than in God to succeed on earth.
I wish first and foremost to say that Sunday Adelaja is a confused man in life. He failed to realize that success is relative and that success is a journey and not a destination.
For instance, the CEO of a manufacturing company and a truck driver of that company all believed in themselves. It is because the truck driver believed in himself that he set out with the very long truck to deliver goods in a far distant location.
The truck driver drove throughout the night in order to meet up with the delivery, while the CEO was sleeping on his water bed throughout the night. By 10.00 am the following day, the CEO called the truck driver and yelled at him on the phone asking why he had not delivered the goods.
Mind you, that if the truck driver did not believe in himself and his ability to drive, he would not have driven all night. The two people mentioned above, what did their belief in themselves translate to?
A said success or to be successful is relative. For instance, in a university, two students were all reading to succeed. One of the students was a born-again Christian who got 2nd class lower division, while the other student got 1st class honors.
The first person believed in God and served God with dedication. The second did not serve God but believed in himself. After their graduation, the second person was employed immediately as an assistant lecturer by the university.
The first person, it was two years after graduation that the grace and favor of God located him that he got employed by an oil company. You will agree with me, the two people were all successful, but in terms of wealth and affluence, the lecturer did not see the back of the first person.
Coming back to the subject of our discussion, I wish to say that the bible is totally opposed to what Sunday Adelaja was saying. Sunday Adelaja did not or totally despise the grace and favor of God, the major virtue that aids any man’s true success.
Moreover, God totally declared in Jeremiah 17:5 saying, thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD”.
Jesus amplified what God said in the above verse by his parable of the rich fool as seen in Luke 12:16-21, which says, ”and he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
David was not left out, going by what he said in Psalms 118:8-9, It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes. Psalms 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
The apostle Paul acknowledged the grace of God by what he said in 1 Corinthians 15:10 saying “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
In conclusion, please, I strongly don’t believe that none of Sunday Adelaja messages are directed to believers. So any believer or Christian that is listening to Sunday Adelaja will have him/herself to blame when the am of flesh had failed him/her woefully. Shalom!
