Do You Understand What You Are Reading - Dr. Mensa Otabil (GHANA) @COZA ABUJA

Special Service with Dr Mensa Otabil
Minister Dr. Mensa Otabil
Message Title: Do You Understand What You Are Reading?
Text: Act 8:26-35

The church of Jesus Christ started in Jerusalem with a commitment to go preach to the world, but for years the church was stuck in Jerusalem with no one going out to preach. God allowed a prosecution to arise to cause them to go out.

If God takes you from a crowd to meet an individual, it presupposes that the individual is more important than the crowd.

Philip was removed from a revival and God expressly speaks to "him" to move to the desert (which did not seem like the right direction in man's understanding), to speak to A man without understanding.

There is a difference between reading and understanding. You can read what you don't understand. Many times, people go through life reading what they don't understand.

The name of man in the scripture was not given, but certain characteristics gives us an idea of His identity.

The first Identity is that
1. He was a man from Ethiopia - meaning he was a black man.
2. He is a eunuch - eunuch are non productive species of human.
3. The man was of great authority. Meaning he was a bureaucrat.
4. He worked under the authority of Candace Queen of the Ethiopians, which means that he was loyal and submissive.
5. He was trusted with the charge of the treasury. He was the caretaker of resources, but not an owner of resources
6. He was reading, which shows that he was learned and not an illiterate
7. He came to Jerusalem, which by implication is that he was a religious man

Putting all this together we can say the Ethiopian eunuch was an educated, religious, black bureaucrat with access to large resources, yet ignorant and with no understanding. He had no understanding, but he had power.

The Ethiopian eunuch depicts a picture of today's Africa - With lots of resources but no understanding whatsoever.