BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS: OLD TESTAMENT

TMC211
Dayo Odukoya
dayoodukoya@gmail.com
Friday, November 29, 2019, by 8.00am at the University Chapel.
 PREAMBLE
Information
• It is applied knowledge that
wields great power, not mere Understanding
knowledge.
• Knowing is not enough, it is Knowledge
[accumulation of theories, principles

what you do with what you and laws]

know that makes all the Deeper

Understanding
difference.
• See the pathway of learning Wisdom
[Application of Knowledge to
create solutions]

Source: Odukoya (2014) – Pathway of Learning

WHAT IS SUCCESS?
ATTAINMENT OF SET
GOAL
THERE IS NO SUCCESS
WITHOUT A GOAL
WORKING TO SUCCEED
WITHOUT A GOAL IS LIKE
PLAYING FOOTBALL
WITHOUT A GOAL POST
 LIVING WITHOUT A
GOAL IS LIVING LIKE A
GOAT
Dr. David Oyedepo
 ‘SMART’ GOAL-
SETTING IS INTEGRAL
TO SUCCESS
 ALSO NOTE THAT THE
GREATER THE NUMBER OF
PEOPLE YOUR GOAL CAN
POSITIVELY IMPACT THE
GREATER THE WORTH OF
YOUR SUCCESS
CLASSICAL BIBLICAL
EXAMPLES
 ENOCH
FIRST MAN THAT NEVER DIED

HIS LIFE GOAL WAS TO PLEASE

GOD

‘By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found,
because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony,
that he pleased God’ - Heb 11:5
 NOAH
ARK

“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved
with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he
condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith” – Heb. 11:7
 ISAAC
IRRIGATED FARMIING

And there was a famine in the land … And the LORD appeared unto him [Isaac], and
said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: … Then Isaac
sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed
him. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and
the Philistines envied him – Genesis 26:1a, 2, 12-14
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water – Gen.
26:19
 JACOB
CREATIVE HUSBANDRY
And he [Laban] said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing
for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:32. I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the
speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and
of such shall be my hire.33. So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire
before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be
counted stolen with me.34. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word – Genesis 30:31-34;
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to
drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.39. And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen 30:38-39
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses –
Gen 30:43
 JOSEPH
CREATIVE FOOD PRESERVATION
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of
Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.47. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.48. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in
the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.49. And Joseph gathered corn as
the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number – Genesis 41:46-49
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which
they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.15. And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in
the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence?
for the money faileth.16. And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. – Genesis
47:14-16
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you,
and ye shall sow the land.24. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and
four parts shall be your own – Gen 47:23-24
 MOSES
LED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE TO
THE PRPMISED LAND
JOSHUA
TOOK THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
INTO THE PROMISED LAND
 DAVID
DEFEATED GOLIATH
INSTITUTED JERUSALEM
KING & PROPHET
RECEIVED THE DIVINE PLAN FOR THE TEMPLE
INSTITUTED PRAISE PROGRAM FOR GOD
 ESTHER
DELIVERED THE JEWISH NATION

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and
fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I
also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the
king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish –
Esther 4:16
 NEHEMIAH
REBUILT THE BROKEN WALL OF
JERUSALEM IN 52 DAYS

Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.5. And I
said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest
send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. – Nehemiah 2:4-5

And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.3. But the
fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof,
the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.4. And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son
of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next
unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana - Nehemiah 3:2-4
WHAT IS COMMON TO
THESE SUCCESS
STORIES?
Fear of God, Ruled or guided by God’s Words, Faith, Tenacity
 SUCCESS WITHOUT
SUCCESSION IS
SUCCESS IN FUTILITY
SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS IS KEY
 GOING BY THIS LAST
STATEMENT, WHO WOULD YOU
SAY HAS THE GREATEST
SUCCESS STORY IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT? WHY?
I THINK IT’S
KING DAVID
GOD GAVE HIM AN EVERLASTING THRONE

THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, SON OF DAVID

 GREATEST SUCCESS SECRETS

THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART

OUT OF THY MOUTH*; BUT THOU SHALT
MEDITATE* THEREIN DAY AND NIGHT, THAT
THOU MAYEST OBSERVE TO DO* ACCORDING
TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN THEREIN: FOR THEN
THOU SHALT MAKE THY WAY PROSPEROUS,
AND THEN THOU SHALT HAVE GOOD SUCCESS
– JOSHUA 1:8
THINK THE WORD; TALK THE WORD; DO THE WORD