Cut It Down

CUT IT DOWN

Dr. D. K. Olukoya

Beloved, you are not in this world by accident as there is a divine purpose for your

creation. Eventually, we all shall give account of what we have done with our lives. I want

you to read our message for this week prayerfully and as you do so, the Lord will open

your eyes to areas in your life that need urgent surgical operations.

Let us start by reading the gospel according to St. Luke 13: 6- 9:

“He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he

came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his

vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut

it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him Lord, let it alone

this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well and if not, then

after that thou shalt cut it down.” The Bible says, “Buy the truth and sell it not.” The

Bible also says,

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8:32).

I would like you to meditate on these Scriptures.

Truth is very stubborn. You can do whatever you like to it and it will still stand because it

is the truth. It is also very expensive and unfortunately, becoming scarce commodity even

in the house of God. It is gradually becoming a rare commodity even in the lives of born

again Christians. Lies, it is said, may dominate for years but when the truth comes it

breaks them into irreparable pieces. Until you call a particular thing what God calls it, you

are still joking.

Brother Stephen in the Bible was dragged before the Jewish people to defend himself,

being accused of preaching against the temple and wanting to change Moses’ laws. With

boldness he told them the truth by calling them what they really were, “stiff-necked and

uncircumcised in heart whose forefathers specialized in persecuting prophets.” They

became mad.

Acts 7:54: “When they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on

him with their teeth.”

When you come to the house of God and hear the truth, it should yield fruit in your life. It

is possible for you to love the truth but it is only when you do it that it will set you free.

There is nothing like half truth. It is lie as far as the Bible is concerned.

Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers,

and whoremongers and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the

lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

The best insecticide against error is the truth hence the common saying that truth is

always bitter. Right now if you can locate any falsehood in your life you need to talk to the

Lord, ask Him to flush out every falsehood in your life, in Jesus’ name.

A certain woman was rushed to me and said her husband had just thrown out her

belongings and asked her to go and that he had also burnt her passport. She gave a

catalogue of the man’s wickedness and I was moved by the story. I requested that we saw

the man together. Shortly before we got to their home, we saw her husband going out, and

guess what happened. The woman pointed at him and said, “Doctor, that is him crawling

out like a snake.” Then I said, “Sorry, madam, if you can call him a snake in my presence,

I wonder what you will call him at my back.” The truth is that it was not the man that was

the problem, rather it was the woman’s tongue.

All the secret sins that some of us are committing could be likened to a sleeping dog which

will eventually wake up and be seen by everybody. It is difficult to cover a sin for you have

to commit another sin to cover the previous one, and as this progresses the devil drags you

farther and farther. Samson began to joke with his call, then he began to tell lies. He lied

to cover up his former lies until the Spirit of God left him. One man of God said that when

the Spirit of God came upon the apostles on the day of Pentecost, there was a sound of a

great rushing mighty wind, but that when the Holy Spirit decides to depart from

somebody’s life, He would leave quietly. Samson did not know that the Spirit of God had

left him at the time he was captured. He had become what we call an empty barrel. And