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Our Union in Christ pt. 3 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Here's today's sermon.
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  Alright, so the title is still Our Union with Christ, right? The title is Our Union with
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  Christ. We are continuing and that is why John chapter 14 has been read again, right?
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  And it's been read so that we can carry on from where we stopped the other day, right?
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  Alright, so John chapter 14 has been read for us. And from the last time we picked out
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  two things, right? We picked out two words that reflect manifestation, something related
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  to manifestation. And we said that the theme of the year, first of all, to reiterate is
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  manifesting the kingdom of God, right? In NACM, our theme for this year is manifesting
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  the kingdom of God. And all the teachings that are coming are aligning with that so that
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  as believers, we can manifest the kingdom of God, right? Paul would tell the church
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  in the current year and said, I don't want you to be ignorant of the things of the spirits.
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  So one of the things that it tries to kill in the church in current is ignorance, which
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  does not necessarily mean not knowing, but deliberately doing the wrong thing, right?
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  So ignorance of things of the scriptures. So we try as much as possible to clear our
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  minds so that we can comprehend the scripture. So the two words continuing from the last
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  time, the two words who can remind us, there are two words that we were treating. The last
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  teaching was on a Wednesday and we talk about two Greek words that we try to explain. Who
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  remembers what are the Greek words? All right, John chapter 14 verse eight, John chapter
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  14 verse eight, it says, Philip said to him, Lord, show us the father and it is what? Enough
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  for us, right? And it's enough for us. And that's word show, right? Is Dick and Noel,
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  right? That word show is Dick and Noel, Dick and Noel, D-I-K-E-N-U-O, show us the father.
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  So that's the first word, which is Dick and Noel. And the second word, which is similar,
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  is found in the second question or the third question of that chapter, verse 22. I said,
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  Judas, not Iscarius said to him, Lord, why is it that you will manifest yourself to us
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  and not to the world? And the word there was using my brother's reading as unveil, right?
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  Unveil here used manifest and that word is emphanizal, E-M-P-H, E-M-P-H-A-N-I-Z-O. And
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  just to reiterate, to understand what was going here, Philip said to him, Lord, show
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  us the father. Now this is after Christ had explained to them that I am the way, the truth
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  and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. If you had known me, you would
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  have known the father also. And we emphasize that Christ is showing them an identity, is
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  manifesting himself to them. This is what we see John writing. So Christ is manifesting
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  an identity to the disciples, revealing himself, I am in the father and the father is in me.
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  What Christ is doing there is what we can say, emphanizal, is explaining to them his
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  identity, who he is. And that is why in verse 22, Judas Iscarius asks the question, why
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  is he manifesting himself to us? So Jesus was really telling them about their identity.
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  So emphanizal is mostly identity based, reflecting a people that have been brought forth, right?
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  We saw that in previous scriptures about those who were resurrected after Christ rose, showing
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  themselves, manifesting themselves to people, right? So we see that that emphanizal is something
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  that is linked to the salvation work of God and is linked to the identity. Now, why did
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  Philip ask this question, which is show us the father, right? That word show, like we
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  said, is there now. And it simply means after we have heard of an identity, right? It simply
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  means to prove something. So Philip was saying, now that you have told us the father and we
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  have heard that you are in the father and the father is in us, now show us a thing,
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  right? Show us a thing that will show us the father. So he was looking for works, he was
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  looking for maybe I would say more teachings, okay, teach us more about the father, show
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  us signs actually. It's like showing us signs of the father. That is why the answer Jesus
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  gave was quite, was quite different from the way he answered the first tomers and the way
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  he answered Judas. He said, have I not been with you? He said, how have I been with you
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  so long and you do not still know me, Philip? Just like I'm revealing an identity to you,
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  you are asking for works, you are asking for teachings, you are asking for proofs, yet
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  I'm revealing myself to you, I've made myself manifest, yes, you want to see something.
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  Nevertheless, Jesus said, verse 11, believe me that I am in the father, again reiterating
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  the same thing, that's about the identity, right? Or else, okay, believe on the account
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  of the works that you see. So, diaconal goes with works most of the time, reflected in
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  works. So this is where we stopped the last time and now we need to build on it today.
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  So we can say, am for needs or identity based proof of salvation to show that one is safe
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  and this is what diaconal is to show a proof of something, right? So you have to do something
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  external to present that, oh, I am the Christ, right? That was literally what he was saying,
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  using that word to show things, to show works. So today we would pick and finis of first
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  and talk about it much more and what we want to talk about much more is the identity in
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  union with Christ, right? Our identity in union with Christ. So like a subheading of
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  this is like our identity in union with Christ. So what identity do you have? Now that you
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  are in the father, the father is in me and we are with Christ. What is our identity?
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  We need to understand the identity of the believer. So last week when Pastor Victor
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  was teaching, he made a prophecy on something and he talked about something in his introduction
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  and he said, it is not gender based. Who remembers? He said, it is not ethnic based. The identity
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  and the message is not gender based, is not ethnic based, is not culture based. So therefore,
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  right, you don't need to struggle, you know, with your outward looking, you're struggling
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  with it, right? You don't need to struggle with that. You know, he even mentioned something.
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  He said, because of the way the mind has been structured, the emphasis has been on the physical.
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  But when it comes to the believer, the first identity of the believer, you can write it
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  down, is that the believer is spiritual. The believer is a spirit, is spiritual. This is
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  the first identity that we must understand so that we don't struggle with how you look,
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  right? Nobody can talk you down on how you look because you are spiritual. This is important.
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  This is also important because when you understand that you are spiritual, you will be bold to
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  manifest the kingdom of God. When you understand that you are spiritual, that you are a spirit,
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  you will be bold to do it, to manifest the kingdom of God. Because I will not, we're
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  going to explain today how that spirit comes to be, right? So what I'm going to explain
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  here is to make you become bold to manifest the kingdom of God, knowing that you are a
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  spirit and you're spiritual, right? So some people when they tell them, you have to manifest
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  the kingdom of God, they just think that something has to come upon them before they can manifest,
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  right? Not from within them. When you talk about people manifesting the kingdom of God,
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  they believe that they have to be pushed. They have to, oh no, manifesting the kingdom
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  of God is something spooky. It's not, right? Manifesting the kingdom of God is not something
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  spooky. It's not something that cannot be explained. But where it begins is to first
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  understand our identity, right? That we are spiritual and how the spiritual came to be
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  is what we will see today. All right, so the believer's identity is spiritual first because
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  the kingdom itself is spiritual. The believer's identity is spiritual because the kingdom itself
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  is spiritual. So we have been teaching about this kingdom and we say that the kingdom of
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  God is not a location, right? It's not a location. It's not a place where we go and we sit and
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  gather. But it is spiritual, talking about the dominion and the influence of all that
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  Christ has done. So it is not physical but spiritual, talking about the dominion and
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  the influence of all that Christ has done. So it will mean that the death, the burial
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  and resurrection of Christ brought dominion, right, and influence and this is spiritual.
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  All right, let's start with the first scripture. Let's go to Genesis 1 verse 1. Genesis 1 verse
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  1. Genesis 1 verse 1. Now I said, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Next.
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  The earth was without form and void and darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit
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  of God was hovering over the face of the waters. I think I'm going to use my Bible so media
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  team you can present that to the church. I'm just going to use my Bible so we can move
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  fast. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form
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  and void and darkness was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering
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  over the face of the waters. Right? So what we are seeing here is God's intention, right,
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  we've taught this before, God's intention to unite with man, okay? God's intention to
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  do it, to unite with man. It says the heaven and the earth, right? And Perseus also had
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  taught us that actually if you read the verse 2 you would understand what the earth is because
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  verse 2 says the earth was without form and darkness was on the face of the deep. Right?
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  Darkness was on the face of the deep and when we read 2 Corinthians you can put it down
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  across Genesis 1.1, right? You can even write it in your Bible, just put that Genesis 1.1
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  and 2 together and put this scripture 2 Corinthians 4.4. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. It says, was
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  this mind the God of this age as blinded who do not believe lest the light of the gospel
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  of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. Right? We need to
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  read some more context to that so that we can understand it. So verse 5 of it says,
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  for what we proclaim is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as the Lord with ourselves as
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  servants for Jesus sake. Verse 6, for God who said, let light shine out of darkness
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  as shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
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  of Jesus Christ. Again, let light shine out of darkness as shown in our hearts to give
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  the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. So it means that
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  the heart of man is where the darkness is, right? The heart of man is where the darkness
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  is. When they're talking about the heart of man, they're not talking about this heart
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  that is physical. They are talking about the frame mind of man that aligns with unbelief.
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  So the heart of man is darkened, right? The heart of man is darkened and therefore we
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  see that it's nothing physical. It's not talking about physical. It's talking about people
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  who have not believed. The verse 4 of that 2 Corinthians chapter 4 reveals it that in
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  their case, the God of this world blinded their minds of the unbelievers to keep them
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  from seeing the light of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. So anyone who has
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  not seen the gospel, who has not understood Christ, is blind and is in darkness. Do we
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  say that? Does that mean that they are in a place where there is no electricity? Okay,
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  so it means it's not physical, right? Does that mean that if you remove their hearts
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  and you check it, it will be dark? Does it what it means? It doesn't mean that, right?
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  So if you check them and you go for an X-ray, you will see red, right? I mean, if I'm right,
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  you know. So it means that it's nothing physical. We need to pay attention to that. It also
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  means that what is darkened is their understanding. It means that when a message is presented
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  to them, right, they will say, no, this message is a lie. That's what they do to the gospel.
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  When they say Jesus is Lord, they say, no, that's a lie. That's what an unbeliever does.
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  He's as plain as saying, it's a lie. Like, I don't believe this gospel. If you don't
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  believe something, it means you don't believe it because it's a lie. That's what you have
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  positioned yourself to be. So therefore, the matter that was being dealt with in Genesis
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  1 and Genesis 2 is the matter of the darkness in the heart of man. So from there, we already
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  saw that this matter is spiritual, right? It's spiritual. Now let me show you something
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  else in verse 3 to add up to it. Or same in verse 2. He said, and the spirit of God was
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  hovering over the face of the water. And the spirit of God, that word is ruach heluhim.
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  It's not spirit of God as to mean God is on the throne. Then the spirit of God is now
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  walking around and checking how, no, no, that's not what it means. It means God himself. There's
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  no off in the Hebrew version where it is written. There's no off. There's no spirit of God.
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  It is the spirit who is God. Let me not use who is God because that will mean another
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  T-S-K-S thing for those of you that know. But I'm not going to use that. It means the spirit
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  God, right? It means spirit God, ruach heluhim himself. So that is God. And that means it's
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  about a spiritual matter because the person who wants to unite the heart of man to himself
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  is spirit. The heart of man itself cannot be same. So it's a spiritual matter. So from
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  the beginning we can see that what God intends to do is not to make you to be yellow, is
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  not to make you to be dark, is not to make you to have jerrycoys like I said last week,
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  but to make you a spirit that is in union with the spirit of God. That is the first
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  thing. Spirit that is in union with ruach heluhim himself. From this point you should
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  begin to have boldness because the goal of this teaching is to make you bold, to manifest
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  the kingdom. I say it again. So when you understand that what God planned from Genesis is that
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  he wants you to be in union with him, it means you are a spirit, right? And that should give
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  you boldness. Okay, let's see further. Let's go to John, no Ezekiel 36, 22-32. These are
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  scriptures we've touched very well. Ezekiel 36. Can we read from verse 19? Let us just
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  pay some little bit of context to these. It says, verse 19 says, I scattered them among
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  the nations and they were dispersed through the countries in accordance with their ways
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  and their deeds. I judged them, but when they came to the nations, where they came, they
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  profaned my name in that people said of them, these people are the Lord's, yet they go out
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  of his land. But I had concern for my holy name, which is the house of Israel, which
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  the house of Israel had profaned and among the nations to which they came. Now the context
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  of this is the Israel's unbelief, right? The Israel's unbelief. And what we see there,
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  right? What we see there, can we observe? It said, they profaned my holy name. Why?
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  In that the people said to them, these people are of the Lord, and yet they had gone out
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  of his land, but I had concern for my name. So it means that, there's something I want
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  to pick it. It means that the profaning on the Lord's name, right? Is simply working
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  in unbelief, against, working in unbelief, which is against the word of God. Actually,
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  that is the profaning of the name of the Lord. When you do things, right? When the word of
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  God is presented to you and you work against it, that is profaning the name of the Lord.
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  That is what we see here. It said, they profaned my name among the nations because the nation
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  has, they said these are people of God, but they don't look like one, right? Because they're
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  not even where God says they should be. So we see that this is the problem in this context.
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  What I had concerned for my name, it said, talking about he honors his own name, right?
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  He honors his own name. Now, that word concern is not about God is worried about his reputation.
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  No, God is not worried about his reputation. Because he had said something, Israel rejected,
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  then the people of the world was, these people, they look like people that God has really
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  called them, but they are not in alignment with the word of God. That is profaning. And
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  God said, I have concerned for my, is not I'm worried about my reputation. No, I respect
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  my name. I honor my name. And that name is the word of God. Hallelujah. The name that
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  God had concerned for is not the name that is pronounced, the word Yahweh. No, that's
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  not, it's really talking about what he will do. So he said, what I will do, I will do,
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  right? What I will do, I will do. I have concerned for my name, which the house of Israel had
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  made to Israel. Israel is making it look like God has abandoned his people who remember
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  Romans. He said, has God abandoned his people? Say no, right? There are people who are believing
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  even from the house of Israel. So God says, I have concerned for my name, right? Which
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  is for the word I've spoken, I have respect for it and I'll bring it to pass. It means
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  that people will believe, right? People will believe. See, don't be concerned when you
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  go for evangelism, you are preaching, they're like, ah, people are not believing. Oh, you
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  are doing percentages. Let me tell you, God has made it that many people will believe,
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  many would come to the knowledge of Christ because God would fulfill his word. Now let's
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  see what happened after. I actually have a scripture that I actually wanted to, I will
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  talk about in line with these because I was sharing it with a post-custin yesterday night
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  when we were discussing about the scriptures. I think that scripture is Psalms 138, if I'm
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  correct. Let's go to Psalm 138. Let's go to Psalms 138 or verse, Psalm 138. I just show
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  you something there that actually would help us to understand. You know, when we teach,
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  one of the things that we do, right, is to correct, is to set straight the word of God,
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  right? Is to set straight the word of God. Let's go to verse two. Let's go to verse
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  two. I bow down towards your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast
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  love and your faithfulness for you have exalted above all things your name in some scriptures
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  it says more than your word. If your scripture say that, can you raise your hand? Okay. Did
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  you hear what I said? If your scripture says he has exalted his name, this is a good version,
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  right? More than your word. So some scriptures rather than use and they put more than. Can
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  I see that? Above all your words, yes, you have exalted, you have magnified your words
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  above all your name. Now these, you know, we always know the name is that name that
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  you pronounce, maybe Jesus, maybe Halloween, right? That name is very powerful. The name
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  of God and the word of God are not different things. The name carries what he will do.
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  So there is nothing like he has exalted his name more than. He has exalted his name, his
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  word. That's actually what is there. Just the same we saw Ruach Elohim, right? So the
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  authors and the translators put these things there for readability also sometimes based
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  on their understanding. So God's word is his name and that's word he will do. He is not
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  concerned about his reposition. His respect is for what he has said and he will do. Now
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  let's continue in that Ezekiel 36. So if you now go to verse 22, now watch. So we are said
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  that what God would do, right, is his name, right? His name is what he will do and is
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  the word, right? And is to bring Israel to the fulfillment of what he will do. So from
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  verse 22, he began to explain what God would do, right? He said, therefore to the house
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  of Israel, to seize the Lord, it is not for your sake, it is not for what you have done
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  it, O Israel, that I am about to act, but for my name's sake, my holy name, what can
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  we replace that holy name with? His word, right? We can replace that word because of what God
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  has spoken. Which are profaned among the nations to which you came, right? And I will vindicate
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  the holiness of my great name. Which you are profaned among the nations, which you are
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  profaned among them and the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord. When
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  I come through you, I will vindicate my holiness before their eyes. Next. I will take you from
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  among the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own
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  land. I will sprinkle clean water on you. Can you see the vindication of God? Right?
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  It's salvation, it's cleaning, it's bringing people to a position where they are supposed
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  to be. And you shall be cleaned from all your uncleanness and all your idols. I will cleanse
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  you. And I will give you a new heart, a new spirit, and I will put within you. And I will
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  take the heart of stone from your flesh. I will give you the heart of flesh. And I will
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  put my words, my spirit within you and cross you to walk in my status and be careful to
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  what to obey my rules. Did you see? He said he will do what? I will put my spirit within
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  you. Right? He's talking about our spirit and our spirit in union with Christ, in union
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  with God. He will clean us. I will save you. I will bring you to a place where we will
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  be together. All this stated here, a heart of stone, a heart of flesh, and all of that
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  are figurative to explain a spiritual reality that happens in the believer. So the believer
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  is spiritual. Hallelujah. See, I am spiritual. I have a spirit within me. And I am in union
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  with the spirit of God. Amen. Well, let's go to, let's progress. First John 4.13. First
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  John 4.13. It's about this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has done
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  what? He has given us a spirit. Right? This is now later on after the spirit has been
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  given. He has given us what? His spirit. So every believer has a spirit of God. And it's
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  not about like, you know, sometimes with the way we picture it is that God is inside his
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  jacket. Right? It is just, it is, right? It's technically true. But the right explanation
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  is that you are in union. Your spirit and God's spirit are in union together. That's
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  what his spirit is. Right? It's within your spirit and you in him. Don't forget 14. I
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  will be in you, you will be in me. We will be together with the father. So spiritual
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  matters here. John 4 verse 23. John 4 verse 23 and 24. Quickly. John 4 verse 23 and 24.
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  So buddy, hour is coming and is now. When the true worshipers will worship the father
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  in spirit and truth for the father is seeking such people, right? Such people to worship
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  him. So God is spirit and those who worship him in spirit must, sorry, those who worship
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  him must worship in spirit and truth. So God is spirit and it will give bread towards spirits.
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  God is spirit and it will give bread towards, he's not spooky. Don't look at it like something.
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  No, no, no. God is spirit and it will give bread to spirits. That is why you are less,
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  I mean, I'm not saying you should take care of yourself. We don't discourage that. But
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  your concern and your worry is not this jacket. How does jacket use? No, your concern, your
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  worries, not how this jacket works. So when you want to go and manifest the kingdom of
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  God, say, ah, I have to put on white suit like Pastor Imau for the anointing to flow.
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  And then I need to speak like Pastor Custin, then walk like Pastor. You know, these things
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  come with the movements. Or you want to preach to someone, I'm not well dressed, ah, you
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  know, you are covered already, right? You are modest, right? I need to look good. You
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  know, the gospel must be packaged. You know, you need to put on some shining, looking,
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  spray yourself. So when you come and say, have you believed? The person will smell your
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  arouse. Okay, because who came with something? No. As you wake up in the morning, you brush
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  it, it will go out. You just walk in, you find someone, you can preach the gospel because
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  it's about your spirit that is ready to teach the world to explain the world to people.
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  You are not limited by your physical appearance. You are not. So it's a God of spirit. And
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  we that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Another scripture, John 3, 6.
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  Let's go to John 3, 6. John 3 verse 6. Or let's see. Okay, good. So now this is now
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  the explanation, right? The statement I made, the explanation is that, that which is born
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  of the flesh is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit is what? Spirit. That which
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  is born of the spirit is spirit. You are spirits, right? You are a spirit. Can you take verse
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  37 of the same John? Let me see if I play something there. John 3 verse 37. Okay, it's
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  not up to, okay, not up to 37. 36. John 3, 34. Let's go to 34. 34. Yes, thank you. For
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  he, whom God has sent, utters the word of God, for he gives the spirit without measure.
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  Now this was a discussion about Jesus, right? Some people saw Jesus baptizing and all of
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  that. We can read from verse 31. Verse 31. It says, he who comes from above is from above.
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  Again, reiterating this thing, spiritual. He who is on the earth belongs to the earth
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  and speaks in an earthly way, he who does, he who comes from heaven is from above. He
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  bears witness so that, he bears witness to that which he has seen and heard, yet no receives
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  and heard, yet no one receives his testimony. Whosoever receives his testimony sets his
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  seal to this, that God is true. Verse 34. For he who God has sent, speaks the word of
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  God, utters the word of God, for he gives his spirit without measure. The father loves
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  the son and he has given all things into his hands. Whosoever believes in the son has eternal
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  life. Whosoever does not obey the son shall not see life, but the word of God remains
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  on him. The emphasis is that he's talking about Christ and he says he gives his spirit
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  without measure. It means without restriction. It means first, in the context of Christ,
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  Christ is fully God and fully man. Are we together? Right? He's fully God and fully
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  man. It's not like, oh, it's 50% in measure. Right? It's like, I don't know, there's what
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  they call maybe graduated cylinder. I think I've heard that word somewhere. I can use
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  that. Yes. Like a portion measured of God, granted to Jesus to carry. Right? So that
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  the remaining part will be topped up by human. That is not what it's saying. He's fully God
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  and he's fully man. Right? So the extent of God's spirit is in him. And therefore, when
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  you are being given birth to, you are not half spirits. You are not half spirits. Like
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  I'm spirit half and I have other parts. You are fully spirit as well. You know, the mathematics
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  does not work. Right? The mathematics of half plus half has to be one. I think I was talking
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  to someone. They want it to be one. Right? That's why they are making it 50-50. But they
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  can explain 100-100. Right? So the point is you are fully spirit. The spirit of God is
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  granted onto you, not in a measure because you are given birth to by Christ. So some
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  people say, oh, that is, you know, some people, they can manifest speaking in tongues. Some
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  people, they cannot speak in tongues. You know, it is given in measure. No, no, no,
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  no. They even bring that there. You know, that is what it will mean. And that is why
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  when we teach, we teach you very well to know that you can manifest all that is found in
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  the spirit of God. Hallelujah. Say I can manifest all that is found in God. Hallelujah. So not
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  with a measure. Right? It's not an extent, but fully spirit. So because we are coming
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  from that and we are fully spirit. Now let me go to Hebrews 7 verse 9. You are from God.
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  You are spirit. Your spirit is given birth to by the spirit of God. Sorry, Hebrews 12
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  7 to 9. Hebrews 12 7 to 9. Hebrews 12 verse 7 to 9. It is for discipline that you have
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  to endure. For God is treating you as sons. For one son is there whom the father does
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  not discipline. If you are left without discipline in which all have participated. Oh, stop.
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  Let me finish reading. Then I'll come to this. In which all have participated. Then you are
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  illegitimate children and not sons. Next. Besides this, we have earthly fathers who
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  disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the father
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  of spirits and words and leave? Now go back to 7. Let's start picking it one one. It is
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  for discipline that you have to endure. It means that the reason why we endure is for
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  training. The word discipline there is not punishment. Okay. So put it in your mind is
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  not punishment. It is training. People endure training. You suffer punishment. Let me put
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  it that way. You endure training. It is training. God is treating you as sons. Right? For one
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  son is there whom the father does not discipline. So he is bringing in the concept of family
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  here. Okay. The father disciplines a son. The next. If you are left without discipline in
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  which all have participated. It means everybody that is found in God is being trained. Everybody
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  found in God is being trained and you have to be trained and you have to endure. So here
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  again it shows it is not punishment because all have participated in this discipline,
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  in this training. Now it says then you are electing me children. It means how would you
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  come into a place where you have not been trained? So the next verse. Besides this we
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  have earthly fathers. Now this earthly fathers is very important because it will help us
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  to understand the father of spirits. Right? It will help us to understand the father of
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  spirits. Now we have earthly fathers who have disciplined us and we respected them. Right?
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  So it is talking about the context of a family again. Are we together? Now shall we not be
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  much more subject? Right? The obedience to the father of spirits and leave. So this spirit
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  here is talking to children. We can replace that spirit as sons. Right? Can we replace
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  the spirit as sons? Yes. Can we say sons of God as spirits? John 1.1. I think I skipped
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  that. I did not read that. For as many as receiving, for as many as believe, again then
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  parts become what? Sons. Sons of God as spirits. And our father is God himself. So when you
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  think of yourself and you understand the fact that you are a spirit, it should be bold.
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  That tells you that you are the child of God. Right? You are the child of God. You are spirit.
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  When you think of yourself as a spirit, you should be thinking of your father who is spirit
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  and that is why I say we is the father of spirits and leave. Leave there is not like
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  you come alive. It means to be trained to be edified, to grow in him. If you read the
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  remaining part of it, you will see that that leave is not like it is talking about daily
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  living. Right? Daily living, progressive living. We will see that. So the father of spirit.
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  Now to quickly disconnect your mind so that you won't say God is not the father of all
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  spirits. First of all. Okay? God is not the father of what? All spirits. Right? All spirits.
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  God is not the father of all spirits. First, from this verse you see that he brought in
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  the concept, the author of Hebrew, brought in the concept of family. Right? In a family,
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  the father would discipline the children. The father would train the children. Therefore,
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  in God's family, he is the father of spirits. Right? And those spirits are sons. That's
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  why I made us to juxtapose so that we can understand. Those spirits are sons. Therefore,
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  he is our father and we are spirits. Good. Now let's read, let's read John 8 verse 44.
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  Let's read John 8. Let's read the book. It says you are of your father the devil and
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  your will is to do your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning and does
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  not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him when he lies he speaks his own
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  character for he is a liar and the father of lies. Did you see here? Now, it definitely
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  means that Jesus, if God is the father of all spirits, he would not be calling devil
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  having his own entity as a father. Right? So he is saying that the devil himself, right,
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  calls his own people and therefore God is not the father of the devil. Some people are
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  saying that, you know, God is not the father of demons. He is not the father of priest
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  of parties, but he is not their father. Because father means they are in the same family and
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  they coexist, but they don't coexist. Right? We will talk about that because progressively
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  in this teaching we will get to authority. Right? That's where you will understand much
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  more. Fatherhood is different from the kind of authority that is expressed over demons
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  and principalities. So we see here that he is not the father of the devil. God is not
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  the father of the devil. Right. Matthew chapter 12 verse 27 and 28 is that if I cast out demons
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  by bells above, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
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  But it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons. If it is by the spirit of God
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  I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come to you. The kingdom of God has come
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  to you because I cast demons out by the spirit of God. So it means that God's spirit, right,
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  and God being the father of all spirits, these demons are not included in it. Okay? They
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  are not included in it. So when we talk about those spirits, it is talking about us. It
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  is talking about us. In the context that we read, it wasn't talking about angels. It didn't
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  talk about angels there. Right? It didn't talk about angels. It is talking about us.
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  Right? It said the father of spirits. Now if we read Hebrews, let's go to Hebrews 1 and
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  see. Hebrews chapter 1. Can we go to verse 13? Let's just go to verse 13. Verse 13.
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  And to which of the angels has he ever said, okay, to which of the angels has he ever said,
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  sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet? Are they not all
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  ministering spirits, right, sent to serve for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
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  This is spirits serving those who will be sons. Okay? It is ministering their ministering
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  spirits serving those who would inherit salvation. It means those who will come into God's family.
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  Right? The concept of family again. Those who will come into God's family. And that
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  is what we see there that the earthly fathers will discipline and train up their children.
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  And our spiritual father is the father of spirits. And that spirit there is those who
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  will inherit salvation. So it tells you that that context, it wasn't talking about spirits.
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  Otherwise, it will be that spirits, you know, it will be in the context of disciplined spirits.
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  Right? Disciplined angels. But that was not the context of it. It was actually talking
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  about the context of those who have been saved and are in God. So therefore we can say that
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  we are spirits and therefore we can manifest the things of the spirits. We can manifest
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  the spiritual kingdom of God, which is spiritual, right? We can manifest we have boldness. Why
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  should we also manifest the kingdom of God? Because our father is the one who is in charge
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  of the kingdom. Right? So we are from a kingdom where God is the father. And when we think
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  of ourselves as spirits, we should have boldness. Right? We should have boldness. So this identity
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  as spiritual enables us, right? Enables us to know, right? Enables us to know our position.
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  Of course, it talks about identity, but it's also related to position. It helps us to know
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  that there are functions that our father has instructed us that we must carry out. So first
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  we are spiritual, right? We are given birth to by God. We are born of God. Right? In that
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  kingdom there are things to do. Those things to do is what we will come back to in subsequent
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  teachings and is the diaconal. Okay? So coming back to the beginning, right? I said, Philip
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  was asking and saying, Jesus show us, right? That question is not, how can I put it? That
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  question is actually a challenge because Christ has revealed an identity to him, right? And
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  he needed to believe, right? But the works, let's go back to John 14 now. Let's go back
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  to John 14. Let's go back to John 14. We need to open it so that we can see, so that we
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  can connect this very well. So verse eight says, Philip said to him, show us, Lord, show
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  us the father. And I said that he said, prove to us the father with works, prove to us the
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  father with certain proofs, right? Don't tell, I mean, it's not about position and all that.
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  Tell us we are and show us something. And look at Jesus concluded by saying that, believe
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  that I am in the father and the father is in me in verse 11. So can we say that believe
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  that the spirit of God is in the believer and the believer is in the spirit of God?
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  Can we say that? Because Christ has mentioned that here, if you go to verse 20, let us say
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  that verse 20, in that day, you will know that I am in the father and you in me and
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  I in you, our union with God's spirit. Do we agree on that? Now look at verse 11 again,
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  go back to verse 11. Jesus now said, okay, if you don't hold on to this, there is also
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  something you can hold on to that which you requested for. Look at the works, right? Believe
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  on the works that I do. Now in our father in verse 12, truly, truly I say to you, whoever
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  believes in me will also do the works that I do and greater works than these, he will
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  what? He will do. So it means that being spiritual, you would carry out works too. Do we get it?
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  Being a spirit, your identity as a spirit is not to just be existing. Your identity
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  as a spirit is not to just have it and oh, I'm spirit. But you would do works. It's just
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  that the identity precedes the work. That is it. The identity precedes the works. You
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  can't do greater works if you're not a spirit, if your father is not a father of spirits.
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  So we can do greater works, all that we do in Christ, right? In the preaching of the
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  gospel, in the healing of the sick, right? In evangelizing, in singing, in rejoicing,
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  in shouting glory. We are doing that because first we are spirits, the identity of course,
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  then those works they follow. Those works they follow. So I like to conclude to say,
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  don't be in the act. Now that you have learned, right? You have learned that you are spirit.
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  Don't be in the act of people that will say, oh, that guy is spiritual. You, what are you?
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  So that guy is very spiritual. You know, he has a way of coordinating himself or every
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  time they come, if you go to that guy now, he will spiritualize everything. There's nothing
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  like spiritualize everything. Everything is spiritual already, right? So be bold. Don't
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  change your lingua, right? Change the way you talk, change your thinking, right? That's
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  you are spiritual. So that guy is spiritual. What about you? You're spiritual as well.
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  You do the things. It's because they see people coordinating themselves in certain ways. So
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  that guy is spiritual. So we are spirits and we will do the works of our father. Who is
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  the father of all spirits? Who he himself is spirit. Hallelujah. Have we blessed? Have
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  we learned? Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost? Can we just pray in the Holy Ghost?
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