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Kingdom Service (Part 1) · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Femi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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  Speaker 2: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church.
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  Speaker 1: And God told him years ago that a time will
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  Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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  Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Then I will.
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  Speaker 1: Cause your voice to be heard and all who pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to my word on your lips will not lack
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  Speaker 1: light and direction. He is a man sent from God,
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  Speaker 1: sent to raise God's end time always. With Apostle Fermi Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, let's go ahead. And bless the name.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: The one who alone is worthy of all praise. Who
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  Speaker 2: alone is worthy of all adoration. We give you praise, Jesus. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we bless your holy name. Oh, thank you, Father. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we bless you, Father. Oh, thank you. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Oh, thank you. In Jesus' mighty name we're praying.
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  Speaker 2: So Father, we want to bless you tonight. And I
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  Speaker 2: ask that you will silence the voice of the flesh
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  Speaker 2: and we will hear you alone. Let the words that
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  Speaker 2: flow from my lips be exactly yours. Let them be
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  Speaker 2: such that can purify.
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  Speaker 3: And set men in their rightful position in destiny. Father, tonight,
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  Speaker 3: help us.
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  Speaker 2: Show us the missing link. We give you praise, dear Lord.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' mighty name. Amen, amen. Let's give the Lord
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  Speaker 2: a big hand. God bless you. You may please be seated.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. Amen. Thank you so much, Streams of Life.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I consider it very important. This is a family.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that you were blessed on Sunday. For the
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  Speaker 2: sake of other centers that are just joining us today,
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  Speaker 2: I'm still going to be staying around the foundation level
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  Speaker 2: For this conversation. Amen. I'm still going to be standing
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  Speaker 2: around where? The foundation level. Praise God. Alright. So that.
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  Speaker 2: You will. You will be rooted. In it. Amen. So
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  Speaker 2: that you will be what? Be rooted in it. The power. Of. Being.
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  Speaker 2: The secret. Of being rooted. Is in repetition. Are you
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  Speaker 2: with me?
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  Speaker 3: The secret of being rooted is in what? Now many
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  Speaker 3: believers know many things. But they are not rooted in one.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: Now to be rooted is to be established. Are you
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  Speaker 2: with me? Now for that to happen. You will have
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  Speaker 2: to learn the same thing in many ways.
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  Speaker 3: Such that even in the face of death. You know
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  Speaker 3: this is the truth nobody can take from me. it's
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  Speaker 3: called conviction. Being persuaded with the word. Are you with
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  Speaker 3: me now? So you don't need what is sweet. You
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  Speaker 3: need what is sound. The word doesn't have to be sweet.
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  Speaker 3: It just has to be the pure doctrine of scriptures.
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  Speaker 3: And we must master that discipline.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me now? Because if that discipline is
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  Speaker 2: not mastered, the next generation of minister's will be interested
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  Speaker 2: in what the people want to hear. Not what God
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  Speaker 2: is saying. That's the mistake of Saul. Are you with me? Alright,
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  Speaker 2: very important. So I'm still going to be staying around
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  Speaker 2: the foundation level. Still teaching on the subject of what?
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom service. Amen. So I still hang around that foundation
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  Speaker 2: and I want to plead that tonight much more Please
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  Speaker 2: stay with me. What did I say? What did I say?
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  Speaker 2: Stay with me. So I don't leave you behind. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: And now on Sunday I gave you, I used the
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  Speaker 2: illustration of Elijah and Elisha to demonstrate kingdom service. Alright?
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  Speaker 3: A very important teaching on Sunday. If you missed that teaching,
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  Speaker 3: please get back to it. Now I give you the illustration.
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  Speaker 3: Elijah had just been instrumental to bring revival to the land.
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  Speaker 3: And he was weary. He was tired.
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  Speaker 2: He was depressed. And that's an aspect we need to understand. Understand.
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  Speaker 3: That God is using you doesn't mean you cannot, doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean you are now superhuman.
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  Speaker 2: Most people who crash, crash after powerful activities. Are you
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  Speaker 2: with me? Follow me. Alright? So God said, Elijah said,
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  Speaker 2: I want to die.
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  Speaker 3: There was that difference between me and my fathers.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just die. God said, hold on, eat.
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  Speaker 4: Eat.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, the journey is far. Sometimes you are not depressed,
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  Speaker 3: you just need to be fine. You need to be pampered.
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  Speaker 2: True? That's the truth.
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  Speaker 3: Alright, the depression that will go when the ice cream comes,
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  Speaker 3: is that depression? Now that was on a lighter note.
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  Speaker 3: People are really going through depression.
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  Speaker 2: And it's demonic. But that doesn't mean there are no triggers.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 3: Alright, so God said, before you go, as you have decided,
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  Speaker 3: there is an anointing upon your life.
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  Speaker 2: Go and anoint Azahel. Alright? Anoint Jew. And anoint Elisha
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  Speaker 2: as a prophet in your stead. Alright? And as far
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  Speaker 2: as Elijah was concerned, the definition of anoint Elisha is
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  Speaker 2: to see him and cast his mantles around him. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm teaching on kingdom service. Please follow me. To cast
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  Speaker 2: his mantles around him. And leave him.
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  Speaker 3: That I have done what. I have been asked to do.
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  Speaker 3: And that can be sufficient also for Elisha.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? You can. Alright.
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  Speaker 3: But the moment he did that. Elisha made a request.
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  Speaker 3: Let me burn the instrument of my oxen.
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  Speaker 2: So I can follow you. Elijah asked him, did I
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  Speaker 2: do anything to you? He said, no, no. So he
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  Speaker 2: burnt it and he followed him. And the Bible said
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  Speaker 2: he ministered to him. He began to minister to him.
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  Speaker 2: He began to serve him. That's the word.
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  Speaker 3: Now, please understand what I'm saying. Spiritual things are foolishness
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  Speaker 3: to a man who is not spiritual.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why spiritual things are only discussed amongst them
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  Speaker 2: that are spiritual. Because a carnal man cannot understand the
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  Speaker 2: things of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 3: The same way if I speak French or Chinese to you,
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  Speaker 3: if you have not learnt it before, though what I'm
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  Speaker 3: saying is correct, but to you it is gibberish. Anything
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  Speaker 3: you don't understand is not necessarily wrong. You are the
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  Speaker 3: one who is not at the level of assimilation of
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  Speaker 3: that thing. Because one of the most controversial subjects in
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  Speaker 3: scriptures is the subject of service.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's been abused. So what we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: attempting to do is to lay it.
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  Speaker 2: Plain from God's word. Are you with me? Uh-huh. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So we can lay it plain and see. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Are there stories of people, almost everything that's taught in
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  Speaker 3: scriptures have been abused though.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Uh-huh. People die... Alright...
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  Speaker 2: Of expired drugs... Every now and then... True... Uh-huh... But
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  Speaker 2: does that make those drugs... Does that make... Using drugs...
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  Speaker 2: Or let me put it... This way... The fact that.
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  Speaker 3: someone has died of expired drug does it mean you
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  Speaker 3: will not another person will not use drugs does it
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  Speaker 3: mean so so one of the reasons why the devil
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  Speaker 3: wants to contaminate certain things is so that you can
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  Speaker 3: leave it it's called desecration desecration It's called desecration.
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  Speaker 2: Ayutme now. Alright, let me show you a scripture for that. Ecclesiastes.
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  Speaker 2: Let me show you Ecclesiastes. Alright, so I can. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And to that I'm going to give you a wisdom
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  Speaker 2: that should help you. Alright. Yeah. Ecclesiastes 10 verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: Ecclesiastes 10 verse 1. says, dead flies.
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  Speaker 4: Cause the ointment of apothecary to send forth stinking several,
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  Speaker 4: so that a little folly, so that a little folly
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  Speaker 4: him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read this in another translation so that I
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  Speaker 2: will not be bugging you with big English. It's not
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  Speaker 2: my English. It's King James. And we are all in
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  Speaker 2: this together. Amen? Okay, let me read from here. Ecclesiastes 10.1
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  Speaker 2: Now let me read.
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  Speaker 3: Possibly from message. Let me read good news first. It says,
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  Speaker 3: dead flies can make a whole bottle of perfume stink.
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  Speaker 3: And a little stupidity can cancel out the greatest wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, look at what God's word says.
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  Speaker 3: God's word translation says, dead fly will make a bottle
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  Speaker 3: of perfume stink and then it is spoiled.
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  Speaker 2: A little foolishness outweighs wisdom and honor. Please, look up.
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  Speaker 3: If you are going to live a spiritually intelligent life,
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  Speaker 3: you must master this thing. The devil, when he knows
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  Speaker 3: you have the weakness of giving up, he will begin.
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  Speaker 2: To spoil certain things so you can abandon it. He
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  Speaker 2: can attack the issue of marriage and say it's not
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  Speaker 2: for me. He can attack the issue of honor. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why you must be careful. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: You must be very careful. A few times I've seen
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  Speaker 2: people come on social media.
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  Speaker 3: And they are genuinely, maybe somebody, a man of God,
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  Speaker 3: in court now, has defiled a girl. The matter needs
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  Speaker 3: to be addressed. I personally am not a party to
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  Speaker 3: sweeping matters under the carpet. We give the devil food. Now,
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  Speaker 3: in doing so, most times the mistake is that it
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  Speaker 3: is addressed in such a way that everyone who comes
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  Speaker 3: in contact with that correction can't trust any pastor.
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  Speaker 2: That there are fakes doesn't mean there are no original.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 3: So that the subject matter in scriptures has been abused
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  Speaker 3: does not make the entire subject foolishness. Kingdom service is
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  Speaker 3: a core subject. It needs to be understood. Are you
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  Speaker 3: following what I'm saying here? It needs to be what?
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  Speaker 3: It needs to be well taught. It needs to be
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  Speaker 3: well understood. Now, follow me, alright, as we Move on.
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  Speaker 3: Discussing this subject.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that what I gave to you on Sunday
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  Speaker 3: was me teaching a subject from the.
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  Speaker 2: Alright? I rarely do that. I rarely do that. Amen?
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  Speaker 3: So, the question is, what is kingdom service? Or, what
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  Speaker 3: is service? What does it mean to serve? I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to give you different words that I can feel for
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  Speaker 3: this piece, right? Number one, it means to fill in
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  Speaker 3: the gap of duties, of kingdom duties. It means to
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  Speaker 3: fill in the gap of kingdom duties. Number two, To
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  Speaker 3: serve means to take order.
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  Speaker 2: Please note that. It means to what? To take order.
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  Speaker 2: That is to take instructions. Amen. To take instructions. Now,
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  Speaker 2: follow me. What was the first one I gave you? Good.
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  Speaker 2: The second one. To take order. To take order. To
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  Speaker 2: take instruction. And listen, and that's why service requires humility. Alright?
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  Speaker 2: You cannot serve. Your esteem will be punctured if you
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  Speaker 2: don't understand this balance. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 3: Your esteem will be punctured. Service itself is humility. To
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  Speaker 3: serve is to Give your quota... In fulfillment.
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  Speaker 2: Of an assignment... That does not concern you... And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it does... Are you with me now? Please follow me...
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to bring it in the simplest way possible...
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean to serve? To serve is to...
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  Speaker 2: Make a difference... And hard value. In line of a
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  Speaker 2: given task. To make a difference. And hard value. In
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  Speaker 2: the direction of a given task. To serve also. Is
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  Speaker 2: to perform the required duties. To perform the required duties.
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  Speaker 2: Or kingdom service is. Performing the required duties. In line
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  Speaker 2: with fulfillment of God's agenda. Performing the required duties. In
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  Speaker 2: line with fulfillment of God's agenda. So let me draw
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  Speaker 2: the line. Ultimately. Ultimately. Every service in the kingdom is
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  Speaker 2: unto God. Ultimately. You must note that. Alright? That's not
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  Speaker 2: a simple language. I'm going to break it down. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: every service in the kingdom is unto God. Now hear me.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, Every man seeks the things of himself,
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  Speaker 2: but the faithful man who can find. Alright? I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to read the parable of the talents. Young men
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  Speaker 2: that were given talents. One was given five, to another
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  Speaker 2: was given three, to another was given two, another was
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  Speaker 2: given one, and they went and they did their due
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  Speaker 2: diligence with those things.
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  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying now? Now, there are
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  Speaker 3: certain things that God has placed on your life. Now,
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  Speaker 3: God doesn't make demand where he has not created supplies.
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  Speaker 2: He supplies first. So, listen to what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: There is no dimension or direction of service God will
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  Speaker 3: require from you that he has not graced you to perform.
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  Speaker 3: Service is an opportunity to enter into God's reward system.
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  Speaker 3: So there is no searching as I'm doing this and
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  Speaker 3: nobody is recognizing me. You are not doing it for
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  Speaker 3: them to see.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me?
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  Speaker 3: In your organizations where you work, imagine if the cleaner
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  Speaker 3: is saying to another cleaner.
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  Speaker 2: That you are not recognizing me. We are both on
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  Speaker 2: payroll here for God's sake. We both have our job description, true? No.
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  Speaker 2: That is not a way to excuse ingratitude. Are you
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  Speaker 2: with me now?
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  Speaker 3: But you must understand that the believer sitting next to
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  Speaker 3: you is also in his own service lane.
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  Speaker 2: And the one ultimately that we are serving is who? God.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately the one we are serving is who? God. Please
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  Speaker 2: get what I'm saying. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: The day it occurs to you it is God you
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  Speaker 3: are serving. You will never do it your way. You
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  Speaker 3: will listen to what I'm saying. You will never let
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  Speaker 3: your emotions put you out. Anytime you feel down and
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  Speaker 3: you can shut God's work down, you don't know what
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  Speaker 3: you are doing. And that's what Jesus was telling the
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  Speaker 3: woman at the well of Samaria in John 4. He said,
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  Speaker 3: you worship, no doubt, but you know not what. But
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  Speaker 3: we know what we worship.
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  Speaker 2: Alright?
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  Speaker 3: And that is the truth. Many believers, their case is
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  Speaker 3: ye serve, but ye know who not. You don't know
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  Speaker 3: who you are serving. But you don't know who you
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  Speaker 3: are serving. Listen to what I'm saying. Service, when you
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  Speaker 3: are serving, you are not doing it your way. To
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  Speaker 3: every activity in the kingdom, there are basic requirements. That
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  Speaker 3: it is unto God, does he mean it must be shabby?
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  Speaker 3: And hear what I'm saying. I have never seen anybody
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  Speaker 3: who serves God all-outedly that God did not reward.
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  Speaker 2: God will never owe any man anything. He rewards all.
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  Speaker 3: You see, I have seen quite a number of things around.
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  Speaker 3: Ask me the best department I've ever served in church.
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  Speaker 3: Sanitation department.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've been in redemption camp, sanitation department together. Yes. Alright.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see me. That's where I will sleep. That's where
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  Speaker 3: you wake up. That's where you eat. That's where you
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  Speaker 3: do everything. Inside the toilet.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me?
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  Speaker 3: The day you ever discover that God is your father,
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  Speaker 3: your hands will never be too big to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: I've shared this story before. Please be seated.
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  Speaker 3: I shared this story. Now, I won't mention church. It's
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  Speaker 3: left to you and your imaginations. But between me and God,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't mention any church.
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  Speaker 2: Is that okay? Okay. Aha. Years back, I was privileged
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  Speaker 2: to serve somewhere in a church.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, we do have pastor's rotation, devoted pastor.
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  Speaker 3: And the man I met on ground just placed me
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  Speaker 3: in charge. So I served for a while. Then he
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  Speaker 3: went to the mission field.
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  Speaker 2: You know him.
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  Speaker 3: And then was there. And he brought a new person.
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  Speaker 3: As the pastor in charge, I had to take him
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  Speaker 3: around and say, this is where There were no chairs.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to demarcate where ministers were seated. So I
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  Speaker 3: had to show him that this is where ministers used
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  Speaker 3: to sit, sir. And then this is, I took stock
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  Speaker 3: of everything. You do hand over note. So I prepared
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  Speaker 3: that note on behalf of mine. I prepared that note
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  Speaker 3: for two pastors before that man came. So it was
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  Speaker 3: my duty to take stock of everything. When this pastor came,
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  Speaker 3: we have 450 something chairs. When he's leaving, we have
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  Speaker 3: 360 something.
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  Speaker 2: The rest is broken under anointing. They didn't pay. It's
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  Speaker 2: break and pay. Alright?
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  Speaker 3: So I did all that. But I did not know
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  Speaker 3: that the man I was doing that to doesn't like it.
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  Speaker 3: So he felt that, who is he to be showing
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  Speaker 3: me where I'll be seated? So they found a way
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  Speaker 3: to arrange me. And I was, I received a report
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  Speaker 3: that I've been posted to the toilet. And I stand
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  Speaker 3: before God and man.
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  Speaker 2: I served. You see, this culture of Nobody's recognizing me
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  Speaker 2: or they can't treat me like this.
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  Speaker 3: You've not met God. See, in the same organization, there
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  Speaker 3: are different departments and you can be rotated.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get too familiar with holding the mic. If the
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  Speaker 3: next line of duty is to wash toilets, do it graciously.
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  Speaker 3: Because the moment you consider some work as more prestigious
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  Speaker 3: than others, you are not serving, you are just showing off.
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  Speaker 3: So the way we are trained, where should we post you?
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  Speaker 3: We are workers in church. You see that you don't
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  Speaker 3: determine your department.
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  Speaker 2: We do. So where should we post you?
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  Speaker 3: When we ask you during interview, where should we post you?
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  Speaker 3: Your answer, sorry I'm giving them extra. Your answer is
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  Speaker 3: wherever God will have me serve. You follow what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Where should we pursue?
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  Speaker 2: Say, we'll be asking the pastor, you want to finish
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  Speaker 2: training pastor? Say, we're about to train pastors. We have Enugu,
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  Speaker 2: then we have Britain, we have UK, then we have Kano,
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  Speaker 2: then we have Medjugorje. Say, you know, I've been perceiving
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  Speaker 2: for a while that God has been showing me United Kingdom, sir. Amen, amen, amen.
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  Speaker 2: Now hear me.
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  Speaker 3: There are no prestigious works in the kingdom. Whatsoever your
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  Speaker 3: hands find to do, dwell. Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: After that time, another thing happened.
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  Speaker 3: I told my wife, I found out very early that
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  Speaker 3: I'm not as wise as many other people.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truth. I found out that I have the
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  Speaker 2: capacity for stupidity.
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  Speaker 3: I found out that sometimes I've replied to situations and
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  Speaker 3: I went to wait with scriptures and they were not accurate.
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  Speaker 3: So it showed me my limitations. And my limitations showed
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  Speaker 3: me how to depend on God.
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  Speaker 2: Ayudme. So, I found that out very early.
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  Speaker 3: Because the story I want to share with you is
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  Speaker 3: one of the testimonies of my stupidity. We were in
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  Speaker 3: a Bible study like this and I was serving in
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  Speaker 3: a church too. And, um, Somebody asked a question about
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  Speaker 3: the wife of Job. And pastor's wife stood up and
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  Speaker 3: gave exegesis to defend.
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  Speaker 2: The wife of Job.
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  Speaker 3: That it was okay for her to tell the husband
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  Speaker 3: to cause God to die. Because women are emotional. So
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  Speaker 3: I now said, don't let me tell you what I said.
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  Speaker 3: But I brought it from another angle and I asked
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  Speaker 3: if emotion is the reason why we should begin to
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  Speaker 3: do unwise things.
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  Speaker 2: After saying, you can see too. All right. After saying that,
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  Speaker 2: several people came to meet me after service. I said,
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  Speaker 2: we know you'll soon be leaving. We know it's a
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  Speaker 2: bye-bye case now.
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  Speaker 3: And true to it, in less than a week, I
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  Speaker 3: received my transfer letter that you've been posted to another place.
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  Speaker 3: So I went to the place where he was. And
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  Speaker 3: that place, the first Sunday I entered there, I was shocked.
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  Speaker 3: I was leaving a place of close to 500 people,
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  Speaker 3: and this place On Sunday, if you have.
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  Speaker 2: Six, you thank God. Then those six old women, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we have some students, secondary school students. When they take
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  Speaker 2: praise and worship, you beg God to help you. Because
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  Speaker 2: it's national anthem. If at one time, another pastor came,
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  Speaker 2: and I saw he was flogging he said that's the
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  Speaker 2: way he knows to train them because they can't learn
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  Speaker 2: praise God so I was given a duty there and
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: it was to take Sunday school I took that Sunday
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  Speaker 2: school like my life depends on it you see and
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  Speaker 2: everywhere I've had the privilege to serve I left well
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  Speaker 2: no matter the issue I have come to serve God
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  Speaker 2: not you and I will finish.
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  Speaker 3: Stop being petty and emotional. There's something called spiritual intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: You begin to walk in it when you know unto
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  Speaker 3: whom you are rendering service. And the moment you know
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  Speaker 3: it is unto God, you can't stop his walking between.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? You can't quit on God.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? I didn't like the
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  Speaker 2: way the pastor talked to me. I'm not going to sing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to sink onto who with whose voice.
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  Speaker 2: And whose grace. Anytime you out of offense stop your service,
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  Speaker 2: you hasten up the emergence of your replacement. Write that
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  Speaker 2: down in capital letter. Listen to what I'm saying. Listen to.
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  Speaker 2: The worst case is. If God was not planning to
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  Speaker 2: use that person. He will now. And we must understand that. Alright.
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  Speaker 2: Many people. Do not. Or they are not. Giving the best.
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  Speaker 2: That they should give. Because they do not know. Unto
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  Speaker 2: whom they are rendering the services. Some think they are
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  Speaker 2: serving the pastor. Some think they are serving their head
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: of department. Some think they are serving the church. Amen?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: When it comes to kingdom work, who are we serving? God. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me say this to you.
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  Speaker 3: For the past 14 years of my life, I've been
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  Speaker 3: preaching consistently.
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  Speaker 2: And I will tell you that there are days that
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  Speaker 2: the only thing you want to do is to lock
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  Speaker 2: yourself somewhere and cry. Because there are personal matters that
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  Speaker 2: is so heavy that Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: You are not interested. Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: But the moment you have that revelation.
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  Speaker 4: Of whom.
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  Speaker 2: You are serving. There are decisions you can't make. See
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  Speaker 2: many have not caught that revelation. Whom. Whom. So sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you see people, you give.
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  Speaker 3: Them God's work. They do it in the most shabby
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  Speaker 3: way possible. You see, somebody say, what I do in
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  Speaker 3: church is that I sweep. You want to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that that place is done better than the one who
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  Speaker 3: is cleaning the palace will do it. And when a
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  Speaker 3: man who has not encountered God sees you, he will
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  Speaker 3: call you a fool. See, you will not enter the
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  Speaker 3: merit list until you are called a fool. You will
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  Speaker 3: need to know how to serve God till you enter
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  Speaker 3: into foolishness. In the heart of men who are perishing.
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  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Service. Service is the platform through which God makes men.
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  Speaker 3: Write that down in capital letter. It is the platform
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  Speaker 3: through which God makes men. Now, service is the proof
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  Speaker 3: of submission to God. It is the proof of submission
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  Speaker 3: to God. Now, let me say this. Settle it in
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  Speaker 3: your journey as you go on with life.
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  Speaker 2: It is impossible, and please note what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: It is impossible to truly know God, to have encountered Him,
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  Speaker 3: to have been touched by His grace, to have been
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  Speaker 3: taught by Him.
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  Speaker 2: And you are convenient anywhere without rendering service to God.
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  Speaker 2: If you have met this God, his burden will burn
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  Speaker 2: in your heart like fire. You just want to find
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  Speaker 2: something to do. Are you following what I'm saying? You
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: are not convenient. You just want to do something. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: understand that there's a place of studying environment.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: But even the people whose environment you are studying are
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  Speaker 3: new to the environment.
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  Speaker 2: And we are all pilgrims. So you don't have all the...
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  Speaker 2: May you not be studying the environment, the rapture will
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  Speaker 2: now come. Are you with me now? Say it loud
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  Speaker 2: and clear, kingdom service. So service is the proof of
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  Speaker 2: commitment to.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget I told you that when you are committed
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  Speaker 3: to God, you can be rotated. The idea is that
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  Speaker 3: I'm never in a situation where I'm not filling any gap.
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  Speaker 2: That's the idea. Alright? And see, and that's why, if
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  Speaker 2: for instance what.
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  Speaker 3: I do is the work of the preacher, the day
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  Speaker 3: I see that the church needs cleaning, And I'm the
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  Speaker 3: one who is there. The proof that I understand service
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  Speaker 3: is that this is a gap that needs to be filled.
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  Speaker 2: I feel it. I don't do selective offering. Because I
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  Speaker 2: have presented my body as a living sacrifice. Only unacceptable
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  Speaker 2: to God. And everything that needs to be done must
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  Speaker 2: be done. Are you following what I'm saying here? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Service is not to God. This must be clear. It
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  Speaker 2: must be clear. So I said service is the proof
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  Speaker 2: of submission to God. Service is also the proof of
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  Speaker 2: dedication or commitment.
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  Speaker 3: Service is the proof of dedication or commitment. God is
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  Speaker 3: looking for those who will serve his agenda, not bosses.
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  Speaker 3: And I tell people, you see, and I say this
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  Speaker 3: with all sense of humility in my heart. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what it will mean to different people. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter any of our branches I step into. I have
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  Speaker 3: never felt ownership.
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  Speaker 2: Either to the resources, to the people, or to the properties. Never.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why I can do what I'm doing here
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  Speaker 2: in Abuja.
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  Speaker 3: Because if care is not taken, the higher God takes you,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: the more difficult it becomes to bend. Such that if
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  Speaker 3: care is not taken, you have pastored a church with
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  Speaker 3: certain stuffs. They now put you in the village. No,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: we have outgrown this. No, you don't outgrow anything. If
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  Speaker 3: it is God's work, you don't outgrow it.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: What is dangerous about me is that I'm willing to
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: start anywhere. I'm not, I've not chosen for God.
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  Speaker 2: If he tells me that there's a branch that needs
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: to start in Medjugorje, we'll start the branch in Medjugorje.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: So I personally don't have A map for my life.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: That once I'm done with this place, then this place.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Because they are prestigious. It is wherever you will send
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  Speaker 2: me to.
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  Speaker 3: So while coming to Abuja, I did not know where next.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: It was until we got here that God now said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you have so and so time.
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  Speaker 2: This is the next place. And after that, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where next. I'm a man under authority. You see.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: And it's beautiful that way. So there's no such thing as, ah,
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  Speaker 3: the level that... Be careful of pride. Be careful of pride.
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  Speaker 2: All this yesa, papa, apostle, it can destroy you before
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  Speaker 2: you even start.
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  Speaker 3: Be careful of pride. And so, you see, never allow
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  Speaker 3: people praise you out of the posture of service. Never
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  Speaker 3: allow people.
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  Speaker 2: Inflame your head.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Out of the posture of service.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: God still rewards service. And it must be done by revelation.
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  Speaker 2: With fear of God. And reverence. Listen. Quote me a
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  Speaker 2: new word. What I'm about to say. Are you aware
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  Speaker 2: that if you understand true service, you can never leave
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  Speaker 2: God's work out of offense? Okay. The place where you
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  Speaker 2: are working, I didn't offend you there. When have you resigned?
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: It's because you've not encountered God as the one who is.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: And then the reward of them who seek him. You
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: read that scripture. But you've not encountered him Do you
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: understand what I'm saying?
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: The way we insult God. If I employ you now
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: and I'm paying you $ 250, 000 and somebody disrespects you in
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: that place, you will never say I will not come
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: back here again. But it's church. Church people. Church folks.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done with church. My Christianity is in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: That is the way to die in isolation. It is
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  Speaker 3: God who set the solitary family. The rebellious dwells in
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  Speaker 3: dry land.
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  Speaker 2: The reason people make all these decisions, number one, is
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: because they did not... See, if you have a revelation
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  Speaker 2: of the one who brought you there, the one whom
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: you are serving, you heard. There are certain decisions you
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: will not make.
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  Speaker 3: I watch believers make decisions as though there is no
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  Speaker 3: voice of caution in their spirit.
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  Speaker 2: No caution.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: The Holy Ghost knows he does not have such jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 3: Once they have determined, they have determined. Don't be such
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  Speaker 3: a Christian.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: That if this person decides now, wake up now, and say,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I will never talk to you again.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Even the Holy Ghost cannot make the person talk to you.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: And they say, I am a man of my word.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: That's the language of the proud. Your word and his word,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: when they stand side by side, you swallow yours. You
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  Speaker 3: swallow yours. So I have said, are you following what
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: I'm saying? Now, people who offend me, even in church, oh,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: And I say, I'm going to deal with you and
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: you will not have access to me.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: The following day, we are chatting. Who am I? What
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: is my world?
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Did the world save you? What's the economic value of it?
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I don't even have to offend you for God to say,
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  Speaker 3: go and beg him. God said, go and beg that
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: person now. So I just know.
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  Speaker 2: What do I do? You now build a wall and say,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: it can't be God.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: You see, you need, many Christians need to detox. That is,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: you need detoxification. Many things, are.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: You following what I'm saying?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Your life has become a complex array of unfinished projects.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Things that God started and it ended. If you will
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: open the life of many believers, what you see is
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: many uncompleted projects. Many of them are now having spiral
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: jira and all that.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Some, if care is not taken with the pattern this
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  Speaker 3: fellow is going with, they may never be touched again.
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  Speaker 3: And it will take God's help for situations to come
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: that will dig the things that may never have been touched.
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  Speaker 2: Because many just live life like that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Many have made certain conclusions and they have certain belief
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: systems that those things may never be confronted. So, it
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  Speaker 3: means that their life will be an offshoot of that weakness.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: The devil will always find those things as a loophole
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: to which he will always enter and do anything he
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: wants to do. Meaning that if this fellow go on
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  Speaker 3: 40 days dry, as long as there's something left there
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: 40 days ago, It can come through those things you
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: did not change your mind upon.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: And it will reach the effect of the 40 days drive.
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  Speaker 3: Never build a life structure where the Holy Ghost cannot
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: interrupt your schedule.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: And your decisions. Never.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 2: Litmus test. Of a mature believer. Let me give you five.
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Litmus test. Litmus test. Litmus. Simple test. To know a
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  Speaker 2: mature believer. Number one. Love work. Loves genuinely. Not emotionally. Genuinely.
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  Speaker 3: That one that you can stop giving. Because you are offended.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Is not agape. I think I'm talking to the wrong people.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Are you with me? Genuinely. Genuinely.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Every machopsy, the louder the tongue is not a sign
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: of the higher the believer.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: There are many arrogant people in capital letter tongues. Once
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: they are done speaking that tongue, they are very proud.
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  Speaker 2: If they talk to you, you want to die. They
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: are rebellious, disobedient. They are And their tongue is louder.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even want to give an example. I don't want.
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  Speaker 3: I resist the temptation. I was ministering somewhere. And as
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  Speaker 3: I held the mic, anybody who knows me knows I
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: love Decorum. But these boys do not know. As I
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: held the mic, I said, let's pray in tongues, everybody.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: I just heard some things. I thought a power bike
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  Speaker 3: had entered.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Zoom! Ah! What is happening?
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: So I look behind my back. I've seen some two boys.
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  Speaker 3: They are bent one time. You know, let me see.
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  Speaker 3: The gate I came through is egging.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I believe so much in Lenten praying in tongues. And
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I respect dimensions. Just that, that was my first time
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  Speaker 3: of encountering that one. That was my first time of
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  Speaker 3: encountering that one. So I said, oh boy, drop the mic.
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  Speaker 3: Go and join the people who are sitting down. They
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: sat down for a while, before they disappeared. If you
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: are not putting us where we can shine, we can't serve.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: So the question is, do you want to shine or
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: do you want to serve? That will be tested when
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: you are posted in different places.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Praise God. That's the issue. I was going to share
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: something but I can't remember again. So I just move on. Huh? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You remember. Number one, love. Love work. Number two, a
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: mature believer is easily entreated. That is, you can tell
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  Speaker 2: them sorry and the answer. That's all. Sorry is easily entreated.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: The wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: peaceable and easily entreated. There is a wisdom that comes
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: from above. It reigns in mature believers. Number three, mature
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  Speaker 3: Christians have joy.
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  Speaker 2: Joy.
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  Speaker 3: Now, joy is not a denial of life situation. It
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: is the presence of the Holy Ghost regardless.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Joy. It's an anointing. It's oil.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Nobody is born sad, sir. Nobody is born sad. It's
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: nothing like this at my faces.
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Something changed that face. But joy can brighten it up.
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Now scientists said when you frown, you use more muscles
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: on your face.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: True? And they said the effect of that, I didn't
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: say so, is that you can age beyond your age. True?
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: So if Mary had do it good, like what? Like medicine.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, when you smile, you'll be easily receivable.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: The issue is not that people are not receiving you,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: but they are not believing. Okay, let's leave it. Let's
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: leave it. Somebody somewhere is telling God it can't be true.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, somebody somewhere is telling God it can't be true, Lord.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I'm saying somebody somewhere is telling God it can't be.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Anywhere there's sorrow, there's sadness, there's instincts, demons move freely.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: One of the ways to really have my problem, to
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: have problem with me is to be frowning.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: It's a serious problem. Smile and rejoice.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Are you smiling because you have met God or because
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: you don't want to have problems?
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Now rejoice one more time. Praise God. How many have
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I given to you? I'm giving you how many? Let
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: me give you four so you're going to find the
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: fifth yourself. Number four.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: One of the marks you will see on believers that
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: God has worked on their heart is humility.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Humility.
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  Speaker 3: There is nothing that we have that we have not received.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: There is nothing. Sir, nothing is as humbling as death.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: You see, you need to see where they are treating
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: dead bodies.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: On the floor. All the wealth, all the accounts, gone.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Alright?
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: There is nothing. Nothing.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: While you are in this life, abase yourself. See, anytime
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: you have to ask, do you know who I am?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: You are falling. And that thing you are asking, do
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: you know who you are? You are not. Because original
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: does not announce itself. If a man has to tell
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: a woman that he is married to that, do you
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: know I am the man? He is not.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: He is now speaking as a woman. You can call
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: him sister John. Are you following what I'm saying?
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: Very, very important.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: See, none of these things I've mentioned is disturbing your
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: neighbor with tongues.
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  Speaker 2: Because this same you will fight over a bucket. Having
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: done all this.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Do you know people, have you lived with people That
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  Speaker 3: when you see them, you don't need to ask, say.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Christian. Shirt, skirt, long. If they are guys, shirt, oversized,
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  Speaker 2: nothing fitted. If it's Afro, it will be very rough.
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  Speaker 2: Let's leave it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to go into that kind of matter.
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  Speaker 3: Because my wife has said my description is not good.
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  Speaker 3: Bible is armpit, that's the location. But if you touch
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  Speaker 3: their bucket, they will run you straight.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: You know what? They've not run you straight before. Straight level.
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  Speaker 3: You now discover, and I don't want to put name
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  Speaker 3: to this thing because it may be actually true. Have
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: you had problem with bro and sis before?
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: You didn't go to NYC camp, family house. Yes. Father,
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  Speaker 2: have mercy on my soul. And let me say this
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  Speaker 2: to you Let me say this to you.
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  Speaker 3: You are not far from many problems It is the
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  Speaker 3: wisdom of the Holy Ghost that is keeping you The
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  Speaker 3: same fellow who is seated here Now, now, now Can
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  Speaker 3: be on death row in another one week In fact,
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: I know that he will be on death row in
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  Speaker 3: another one minute.
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  Speaker 2: I saw something that happened in Lagos.
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  Speaker 3: A woman had a dispute with a neighbor because the
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  Speaker 3: neighbor carried the bench to sit down with her guests.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: They began to fight and hit the neighbor with the
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  Speaker 3: bench on the head. The neighbor died. I saw the
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  Speaker 3: video of the day she was sentenced to death. You
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  Speaker 3: could see the definition of regret. Control your anger.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? It is very difficult to build, but it's easy
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  Speaker 2: to pull down. Are you following what I'm saying?
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: There's a video that was circulating online one time from
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: two men fighting. It was their wives that had a problem.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: When I saw the video, I said off this video,
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: the devil is in their midst. When they were done fighting,
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: one amongst them fell down and died.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: The other one was already gasping for breath.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: As they got to the hospital, he also died. They
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  Speaker 3: were eating each other with everything possible. That thing that
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  Speaker 3: tells you to damn all the consequences, it wants to
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  Speaker 3: destroy you. That once you have built up your mind,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what can happen.
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  Speaker 2: Say, I don't care about consequence. My body is already
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: shaking now. Even this pupit is very close to a prison.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Unless somebody just comes to church and says, it's falling under. Older. Older.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Pastor says, no, no, let her. Allow her. It's the
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  Speaker 2: head on tiles.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: It's the head on tiles. Say, man of God, come
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: and explain. The man of God has around 20 J.
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  Speaker 3: May you have wisdom to do life. May you have
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: wisdom to do life. Five, the fifth litmus test of
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: a mature believer.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: They are peaceful. Peaceful. Peaceful. Peaceful. As gentle as they do.
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  Speaker 2: Meek spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's nothing among these things I've mentioned that you
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  Speaker 3: can find away from Galatians 5, verse 22.
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  Speaker 2: We know mature trees by fruit, not the color of
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  Speaker 2: the flowers.
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  Speaker 4: Fruit.
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  Speaker 3: So, if there's any aspect of life that you have convictions, alright,
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  Speaker 3: you come to church, you believe.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Life will check you out. Are you following what I'm saying?
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: What I want to do tonight is to put side
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  Speaker 3: by side our secular jobs and church.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: How exactly do we see church?
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: And because you keep admitting that the things you read
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: on social media is not affecting you. Meanwhile, we are
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: seeing the toxic manifestation.
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  Speaker 2: Of what you see.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: See, I have mentors and mentees that I mentor. And
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: every now and then people talk about people who have
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: rebelled out of church.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: How do we manage them? We have a principle.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: The principle is that we don't discuss matters.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean is that. We don't.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: But what you cannot deny is that you are a
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  Speaker 3: being of influence. There are people that if you must
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  Speaker 3: serve God acceptably, they can't be your friend.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: You don't accept. No, you don't believe me. Are you
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying?
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Because you have discovered that you have separate values. And
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: two can't work together unless they what?
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Agree. Your roommate is.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: The one who sees going to church as foolish activity.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Whatever that roommate is, you will reach equilibrium. Meanwhile, this
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: same roommate will bring guys to the room and you
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: will excuse him. And say they are just talking. You
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: will try to tell yourself that they are only talking.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: But the day you are playing a message, the woman
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: tells you you are a fanatic.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Something begins to tell you that it's time. In fact,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: If people can sit down comfortably in your presence and
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  Speaker 3: discuss what is wrong, they know you are one of them.
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  Speaker 2: They know well. They know that you don't just have
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to do it at their level. But you
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: are one of their kind.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: One time on campus, I came back from church, and
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: I saw my hostel mates sat down, they were waiting
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: for me. And as I came, they said, Pastor, welcome.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: They said, we need to talk. I said, let's get
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: into it. They said to me, we have sat down,
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: we have discussed. Now among those they discussed, there are
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: John and Jude and Matthews. and Peters, whatever name they
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: are there. And we, you are our good friend, no doubt.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: But we have gathered money for you, so you can
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: go and rent another hostel.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Ah, I say me. What did I do?
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: One of them say, pastor, pastor, calm down. It's not
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: like you did anything. Say, but, let me just tell
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: you the truth. The guy talking now is an affair.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: He said, all the girls, and He's the guy, he's
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: still my friend though. He owns a polytechnic and a
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: college of education. He may even be watching. He said,
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: all the girls that we want to bring to this hostel,
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: they said they can't come because you are here. A
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: girl that cannot come to a boy's house because pastor.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Is there, does he fear God? There are so many
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: girls they want to bring. We say, ah, Pastor Femi
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: Lazarus is in your host. I can't come. He says, so, please, Pastor,
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: come and rent another house. I said, keep your money.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: But I will leave.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: Because those girls, it is not my absence that will
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: make them fall. They are already falling.
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  Speaker 2: True? Yeah. Joseph said, how will I do these things
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: and sin against God? How? And sin against who? God.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: I want to put side by side our oppression and
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: the way we see God as believers with the way
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: we see our secular works. Now I've walked by the
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: grace of God in different places and I know the
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: way people take it.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Rules, regulations, do's and don'ts. And sometimes those environments can
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: be toxic, sir. And some bosses are not nice.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: They are not nice.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: I think I was hearing somebody talking online. Talking about
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: working with a boss. And the boss was telling her,
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: when you are talking to me, fold your hand behind
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: your back. Say, then you don't call me.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Say, yes, madam. Yes, sir. For how much? 50k.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: I found something.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: Say, that place, I really don't like that place. But oh,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: that's the place of work I have. But somebody comes
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: to church and say, can you imagine I greeted that statue,
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: he didn't answer me.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Is that what they do here? All these believers say,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: I'm out of here, man. I'm out of here. Out
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: of here. Got to wake up.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: You have to understand the reason, the reason, the reason
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: why you have started what you have started. You've got
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: to understand. And you have to keep placing that conviction
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: in front of you. The devil will fight it. Are
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: you with me now? Until this is understood, you see,
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: you're going to be failing at your place of service.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: You won't be able to serve God well. Understanding That
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: service is unto God.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: Not unto man. So what does that tell us? What
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: does that inform? It informs the quality of preparation you
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: give to delivery. Quality of preparation you give to what?
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Say after me. Quality of what?
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: Preparation that you give to what? Quality of preparation that
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: you give to what? For instance, I believe that Choir
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: ministration is not just ministration. It is also a presentation.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: That is, we don't just enjoy the anointing. There is
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: also a musicality.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Skill, prowess. That must be what? Enjoy it. To abandon
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: your voice by taking anything, drinking anything, whether cold or hot.
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: Whether carbonated drinks. Now, let me go somewhere. I'm not,
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: it's not a job on choir department. I'm not speaking,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: though I'm coming.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Well, let me go somewhere. How many of you have
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: seen these athletes? The likes of Ronaldo and the likes.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: I know you people like that kind of topic.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: There are certain things that those guys can't eat. True?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Because they have to be fit. Now, Ronaldo is 38.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Am I correct? He's two years to clock in 40.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: And he's still running 90 minutes. Somebody's 25. I've lost shape.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Lost form. Sorry for using. I mean form. My God. How?
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: If you say you are a choir person. To not learn.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: Now I am not a musician. If I sing here.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: And I go off key. You find my key. And
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: if it's bunch of key. You better get there and
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: look for it.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: True?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: Now, if you say that's what you do, and every
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: time you come here, I know there are videos online.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: When you say you are, we go and look for
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: farts somewhere else. And Omega, Omega has gone to Kutonu.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: They threw it open in the church, everybody started.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Looking, Omega, ah. By the time you are done with
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: that establishment, angels will be asking, how? How did we
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: get here?
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: There are levels of dedication that shows you are not
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: the one you are serving.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: That's the truth.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: To not mix and master songs and just produce and say,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: Holy Ghost, cover it, is to insult God now. How
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: did we get to the point where we now become
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: masters of mediocrity? Are you following what I'm saying? One time,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: I was at a bus stop years back, and a
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: woman was advertising this CD and said, please buy my song.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: I thought that this song that they had to be
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: begging me at bus stop, she said, I sang it.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: Let's leave the rest but i said how much is
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: this one since i got taken 400 i said i
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: don't feel about 400 say i shall price it let
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: me say help say anything when you get just bam
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: it will bless you they inspiring.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: I bought the song for 250 or 200. So, it
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: says the song of I think about seven tracks.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: When I read the name of the first track, it
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: occurred to me, how come I didn't read it in
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: the boss? I played that song. I stand before God.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: The song was as good as somebody singing here and
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: somebody holding the recorder Yeah.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: I said, what? What? I wanted to say something. Let
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: me say it. Let me give, okay, I will tell
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: you all this. It has helped me. It has helped me.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: One time I went to go and buy a phone
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: for one of my boys.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: And as I entered the store where they are selling
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: the phone, I noticed that ITE, Techno, give me names.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Johnny. There's a phone they call OPPO. Hey, sorry if
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: that's your phone. I'm not, hey, hey, hey. They all
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: rushed towards me. So I observed that iPhone did not
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: rush towards me. Samsung did not rush towards me. So
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: I said, guys, you guys, hold on, hold on. So
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: I went to meet the customer attendant. I said, ah,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: is this how you guys run your business? How you
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: guys can't come and get your customer? They said, no,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: our customer comes to us. I said, iPhone, is it true?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: They said, yes, our customer comes. That's what I'm saying now.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Oppo can look for a customer. But those who know quality,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: go for it. Become premium. You'll be sought for. You'll
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: be sought for. You'll be sought for. Become premium, sir.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: Become premium. Premium quality delivery.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: It is not true that they want to sack you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: because you do money prayer in your place of work.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: You are praying but you are not delivering. That's why.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: See, don't rub Jesus into it. Are you following what
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: I'm saying? Every time they have a dinner, you... let's
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: leave it I think we need to teach on common
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: sense for believers that is going to be very severe
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: but we need.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: To deal with it there are oppo singers and there
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: are is the truth now I was in the choir
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: for a while And I was original opo. Are you
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: with me?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't tell you this part. I now said, I'm
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: going to become a music conductor. I said, I know
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: I love music. And I should fit in somewhere. But
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: when it's not your calling, it's not... See, this idea
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: of trying to.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Do it because you like it, it's an embarrassment.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: You don't have to do it, sir. Preserve your family's name.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: And do what you can do. That's the truth. I'm
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: sorry if I sound harsh.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: But that's the truth.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: After our first ministration, they called me and said that
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: not everybody should wear a mic.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: So I knew. I was the one. Nobody greeted me, sir. Nobody. Nobody. Meanwhile,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: the one that said God said they should wear a mic.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Because I was wearing suits. You think suit is music.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: They disgraced me. But God has forgiven them. Was I
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: not on my own? Praise God. Sometimes you discover that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: you are Opo in choir. But you are iPhone in protocol.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: Are you with me? What I'm telling you is that
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: there is a quality sense. To this thing. Not just inspiration.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: There's a quality quotient. Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Am I being too tough? Are you sure? I'm not
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: altering your feelings. Are you sure? Don't go and stop
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: the song you want to produce because you heard Opo.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: Steve will produce it. When you have the revelation of
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: the one you are serving, you will push yourself.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Because you want to give him quality. Because you want
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: to give him quality. Alright? Yeah.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I get people tag me online that they are
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: doing Christian skit.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: That it is done in Jesus name doesn't mean I
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: will be emotional.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: Is it good, sir? I read that Jesus flogs on people.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: If you should watch this, hope you will not be
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: among those who flog.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Is it good? Is it good? It's not about tagging
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: 100 ministers that you know are influential. If it is good,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: it will fly. That's the fact. You are a Christian
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: content creator.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: You want something that if I watch for the first
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: two seconds, it will keep me watching.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Premium preparation. If people
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: who are running for ethnic crown Can give themselves to
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: those rigor. How much more awesome. How much more awesome.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: And I tell people. I'm saying this. I mentor a
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: lot of ministers. And I tell them. One of the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: things that shows me. That you are really called. And
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: you know you are called. Is that you keep finding
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: many ways to be a blessing. You can't be sleeping sir.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: Many ways. Many ways. Do you have your old boys
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: as friends? I've seen quite a few. Are you feeling
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: If they like to stay together. So that they can grind.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: You can come to their room. And around 2 a.m.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: Because that 2 a.m.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: Will be somebody else's 8 p.m. And you see. An
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: Okechukwu or Adebayo. Speaking. Hello you said what? Now they
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: will tweak the voice. Because they want to collect some $ 1, 000 somewhere.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Grinding at night. Sending mails. Doing all those things. Sweating.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: And somebody said, let's wake up. Let's wake up. Let's
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: wake up. What did I say? If you believe God
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: has called you in that direction, put in the work. Prepare!
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: So when you stand out to give God that service,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: to be a sweet-smelling one, that it is done in
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: Jesus' name, doesn't mean it is acceptable. You must understand that.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: The name of Jesus is not the token for bribe. Believers,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: when you do content, believers don't share it.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: They will not help you. They are believers.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: Sir, is he meeting the minimum requirement? Are you following
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying here? Is he meeting the what? You
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: are the believer that wants to go and preach somewhere.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: You know your phone camera is bad. That's how you
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: use it. And say, hello guys. I'm coming to your
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: city now.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: Who are you? Who are you? Prepare, sir. Don't disgrace Jesus. Prepare. Now,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: when people hear this, they say he's proud because he's
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  Speaker 2: blessed to do things. We are not even there. But
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  Speaker 2: you need to see the energy put into it.
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  Speaker 3: If you truly love Jesus, you will not give him
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  Speaker 3: anything advisedly. You give him your best. You want to
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  Speaker 3: serve him in the best way possible. And let me
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  Speaker 3: say this to you. One of the proof of commitment
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  Speaker 3: is that you fill gaps. One of the proof that
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  Speaker 3: you are committed is that you what? Now, listen to
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. We have gotten leadership wrong. Leadership has
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do with position. It is about the one
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  Speaker 3: who is filling the gap. That once there is a gap,
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  Speaker 3: I feel.
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  Speaker 2: That's service. Are you following what I'm saying here? Once
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  Speaker 2: there is a gap, I do what? I feel. I
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  Speaker 2: take responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: When our ministry started, there used to be, let me
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  Speaker 3: just leave it as it is. Someone, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: way we were, once we are programmed, everybody go and
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  Speaker 3: find a way to, we find a way to sort
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  Speaker 3: what we want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Gather our ATMs Pastor Shaibu Peter is there.
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  Speaker 3: He knows all those things. One of those days, the
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  Speaker 3: lady just got provoked. Nobody can stress me out. Nobody can.
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  Speaker 2: See? See?
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is not a license for ministries to
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  Speaker 3: go unplanned. Because if you are going to run ministry well,
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  Speaker 3: you need to plan. Failure to plan will bring shame.
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  Speaker 3: Plan events. Don't just call people impromptu. A day to
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  Speaker 3: public holiday, say we are going to have retreat. People
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  Speaker 3: also have their plans. Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not giving excuse for mediocrity.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying is that You will see the committed
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  Speaker 3: by the willingness to go extra mile. That willingness must
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  Speaker 3: be there. It is only a product of knowing the
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  Speaker 3: one whom you are serving. I'm more than willing to
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  Speaker 3: go extra mile. I'm more than willing to go extra mile.
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  Speaker 3: Because I know him whom I believed. Let me quickly
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  Speaker 3: give you a few tokens here. What are the requirements
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  Speaker 3: for service? What are the requirements for service? Or requirements
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  Speaker 3: for kingdom service?
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? Let's go to 1 Chronicles 29.
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  Speaker 5: 1 Chronicles 29 1 Chronicles 29.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's start the reading from verse 1.
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  Speaker 3: Nakhali can you please come forward and read from verse 1.
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  Speaker 3: I want us to have a background understanding of that scripture.
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  Speaker 3: So you can understand 14 in context. First Chronicles please.
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  Speaker 3: First Chronicles 29. Please come forward. We'll start the reading
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  Speaker 3: from verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: And you can project that scripture also. Yes, please.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Chronicles 29 verse 1 Furthermore, David the king said
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  Speaker 1: unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God
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  Speaker 1: hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work
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  Speaker 1: is great. For the palace is not for man but
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  Speaker 1: for the Lord God. Now I have prepared with all
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  Speaker 1: my might for the house of my God, the gold
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  Speaker 1: for things to be made of gold, and the silver
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  Speaker 1: for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass,
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  Speaker 1: the iron for things of iron, and wood for things
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  Speaker 1: of wood. Onyx stones and stones to be set.
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  Speaker 3: Now, listen, as we read that, one of the things
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  Speaker 3: that should occur to you is that God is a
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  Speaker 3: God of quality. Let's just understand this now. Do you
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  Speaker 3: understand what I'm saying? I hope I'm not... I want
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  Speaker 3: to make sure I'm teaching you and I'm not creating
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  Speaker 3: room for offense. Because I understand we are all at
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 3: different levels in this work.
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  Speaker 2: God is a God of quality.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need to have lived 10 lives to know
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  Speaker 3: what is quality. When you see what is good, you
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  Speaker 3: know it. Recreate it.
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  Speaker 2: That's simple. Determine in your heart, I will give God
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  Speaker 2: the best. Are you following what I'm saying here? Very important. Alright, continue.
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  Speaker 1: And the iron for things of iron, and wood for
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  Speaker 1: things of wood, onyx stones and stones to be set,
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  Speaker 1: glistening stones and of diverse colors, and all manner of
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  Speaker 1: precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. Moreover, Because I
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  Speaker 1: have set my affection to the house of my God,
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  Speaker 1: I have of mine own proper good of gold and silver,
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  Speaker 1: which I have given to the house of my God,
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  Speaker 1: over and above all that I have.
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  Speaker 2: Prepared for the holy house.
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  Speaker 1: Even three hundred talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir,
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  Speaker 1: and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the
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  Speaker 1: walls of the houses withal. The gold for things of gold,
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  Speaker 1: and the silver for things of silver. And for all
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  Speaker 1: manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers.
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  Speaker 1: And who then is willing to consecrate his service this
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  Speaker 1: day unto the Lord? Then the chief of the fathers
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  Speaker 1: and princes of the tribes of Israel. And the captains
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  Speaker 1: of thousands and of hundreds. With the rulers of the
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  Speaker 1: king's work offered willingly. And gave for the service of
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  Speaker 1: the house of God. Of gold 5,000 talents and 10,000 drums.
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  Speaker 1: And of silver 10,000 talents. and of brass eighteen thousand talents,
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  Speaker 1: and of hundred thousand talents of iron. And they with
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: whom precious stones were found, gave them to the treasure
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  Speaker 1: of the house of the Lord, by the hand of
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  Speaker 1: Jehiel the Gershonite. Then the people rejoiced, for that they
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  Speaker 1: offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly.
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  Speaker 2: To the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And David the king also rejoiced with great joy. Wherefore
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: David blessed the Lord before all the congregation, and David said,
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel, our Father, forever
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  Speaker 1: and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the
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  Speaker 1: power and the glory and the victory and the majesty.
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  Speaker 1: For all that is in the heavens and in the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and
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  Speaker 1: honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all. And
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  Speaker 1: in thine hand is power and might. and in thine
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  Speaker 1: hand it is to make great and to give strength
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  Speaker 1: unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee and
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  Speaker 1: praise thy glorious name. But who am I and what
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  Speaker 1: is my people that we should be able to offer
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  Speaker 1: so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee,
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  Speaker 1: and of thine own have we given thee.
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  Speaker 2: Now hold on.
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  Speaker 3: See did you read what just happened after going that
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: far he said who are we let's look at what
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: david said i'm not sure you heard that look at
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: this he said who am i and what is my
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: people that we should be able to offer so willingly
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  Speaker 3: do you understand what i'm saying having offered he said
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  Speaker 3: who are we That you have empowered us to offer willingly.
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  Speaker 3: We noticed as we were doing it, there was no
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  Speaker 3: grudges in our hearts.
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  Speaker 2: Not that they are distressing me. Do you understand what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Having done much to know that there is a God
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  Speaker 3: who works in us both to will and to do.
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  Speaker 3: That I recognize that the only reason I can do
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  Speaker 3: more than the next person is because someone empowered me
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  Speaker 3: to do so. Not that he just gave me the resources,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: he gave me the heart. What do we have that
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  Speaker 3: we have not received? Do you understand that scripture? That's
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  Speaker 3: one of the qualifications. The heart of humility. Because hear me.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: The moment you begin to do something special, pride can enter.
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  Speaker 3: Check now. Ministries are starting somewhere. Somebody is the only
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 3: key bodies. They are not talking to me well. They
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: are not going to come. Let me share a story
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  Speaker 3: with you.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: There was a man before Riyadmonkey Ministries If Riyad Bonke
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: only preached and called Otakon, there was another man, a
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  Speaker 2: South African, if I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Very correct, who used to pray for the sick. So
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  Speaker 3: all the records of healing was that man. And one
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  Speaker 3: time they had Otakon and Riyad Bonke was ministering.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: The man should leave the hotel and come. And the
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  Speaker 2: man said he's not going to go. That he wants to,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to see how Bonke will survive ministering without him.
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  Speaker 2: Then God spoke to Riyad Bonke Go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: for the sick.
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  Speaker 3: From that moment going forward, their unction for healing left
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: that man and came on donkey. The man died unsung
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: and unknown.
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  Speaker 2: Many missed their place in destiny because they felt when
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: they leave, they will not survive without them. Be careful.
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  Speaker 3: Only God knows tomorrow. Nobody will die because you left them.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: Let's do these things with the fear of God and humility.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: I said, any time you fail to do God's work
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: because you have some emotional altercation, you'll hasten the emergence
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  Speaker 2: of your replacement. You'll hasten it. I said, who am I?
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  Speaker 2: I read it. I said, what?
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  Speaker 3: Having done the image, you begin to boast. I said,
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  Speaker 3: who am I? Look at the privilege you've given to
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  Speaker 3: me that you have the heart to give. And my people,
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  Speaker 3: it's a privilege that we can give and do all this.
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  Speaker 2: Who are we? Ha! Ha! This is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: heart you will have. Say that again loud and clear.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: To everything you are doing, say it loud and clear,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: it is only a privilege. Come on, say it again,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: it is only a privilege. Say it again, it is
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: only a privilege.
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  Speaker 3: It's only a privilege. Sir, the opportunity to serve is
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 3: a privilege, not a right. Nobody is entitled to it.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: It's a privilege. Come and take opening prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Privilege. One time like that, we have a meeting. A
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  Speaker 2: young man used to come around and I felt that
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  Speaker 2: let this guy bless us. Congregational prayer, five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And the way I was trained, congregational prayer is a
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  Speaker 3: prayer of call and response.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: Please, shall we pray? Let's say, Father, this, this, this,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: we pray. Where I sat down, I began to hear,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost, move! Take it now!
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  Speaker 3: Father, what's going on if you saw it as a
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  Speaker 3: privilege you won't abuse it now if you spend above
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: the time given to you to do anything it's because
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 3: you thought it was a right and you actually thought
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: that the meeting was about you and people invite me
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: to preach and they say you have just one or
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: two hours I say no I don't have to use
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: up to that this meeting is not about me but
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: I will deliver my own part you see it's a
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: privilege it's a privilege To be a pastor is a privilege.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: To be anointed to teach you is a privilege. Not
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: to be abused.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Sometimes I come down,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: I want to come up from church, come to church.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: Somebody say, can I help you carry your Bible? It's
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: a privilege. It is because God placed me in that position.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: That's why somebody can say, can I help you carry
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: your Bible? There's nothing we have received that we have
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: that we have not received. There's nothing. If the day
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: ever comes that you look at what God gave you
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: as your own. Say, my church. My sons and daughters.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: Be careful. In stewardship there is no ownership. There is
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: no ownership. It's a privileged commitment. Are you following what
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: I'm saying here? Praise God.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: And from today begin to learn how to separate emotions
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: from revelation. So you stay in active service. Now let
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: me say this to you. Nobody grows in the ranking
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: after entering retirement. The rank you retire in is the
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: rank you remain for life. Retired captain. He does not
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: shift and become retired general. Anywhere you stop and leave
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 3: God's work, that's where you remain. Don't retire from active duty.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: Don't retire. I shared this as a token of encouragement online.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: One of my friends was talking. And he said.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: to one of my spiritual sons. He said, your pastor,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: he said, what makes your pastor different is that after school,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: everyone went to do other things, your pastor never left.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: He kept doing what he was doing. He kept doing
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: what he was doing.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: With hunger, with pain, with the risk of many things,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: he kept doing the same thing. Pursuing, you know, If
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  Speaker 3: you stayed with me, you will not need to be
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: told that this person is going somewhere.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: One time, God, two years. Studying. 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: To 6 p.m. Studying with tears. Your eyes will be bending.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: Let's leave that. Sorry to bring that up. Drawing structures, visions.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: God has said this. Okay, he's going to send me
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: to do this. Be better. It's not about how far,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: but how well. How well. How well. Be careful of
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: retiring from God's duty. Don't retire. Be in active service.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: Stay there. That's the secret. Stay there. Active service. Winning souls.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 3: Commitment. Commitment to God. God has not sent your pastors alone.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: Find your own place. The pastors can do everything. Find
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 3: your place.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: How can there be somebody who can play drums and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: say I'm shy? My God. Shy. Somebody can sing and
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: say I'm shy. I'm just shy.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: Shy.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: Souls are perishing. Give your quota. Give your quota.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: Serve with humility be willing to go all out and
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: don't be afraid of intimidation that some will say that
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: you just go to church now you are everywhere no
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: sir it is your father's house it is not a
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: crime if you are a good child.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: Forget about intimidation for how many.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 3: People do you want to off your light because they
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: are intimidated if everyone should be like them would the
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 3: world go forward if they want to serve let them
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: also do better When there are new people who are
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: doing things, don't stop them. Never be afraid that I'm
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: new here, so they will think my own is too much.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: No, sir. It is unto God. And if you were
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  Speaker 2: not needed, God will not bring you there. Give it.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: Give that work. Put it there.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 3: A few times people have entered our ministries and I
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 3: knew from where these guys came from. Somebody taught them service.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: Made the difference. They sweep in a different way. Wash
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: in a different way. Those who are singing, sing in
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 3: a different way. You see the zeal, the burden, the passion.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: You see the prayer.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: You see the activity put in there.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: The moment you think when you are serving, you are
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: being used, you are on a journey to becoming useless.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: Because the less you are used, the more useless you become.
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  Speaker 2: Let God use you now.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: Many of us did not know initially that we are called.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 3: We are just given an opportunity to serve. And it
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: continued from there. It continued from there. There are people
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: you give up on yourself, they mess it up. They
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 3: mess it up. Manage this department. It reduced from 15
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: to 1. From 15 to 1. Now I have a
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: team of very resourceful individuals who help me to transcribe
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: all my teachings. As I'm teaching, there are people who
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  Speaker 3: are watching me online whose duty to sit down and
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: to transcribe. Now one of them, one of them, I
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: stumbled on her online.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: And I knew. That God will have me lead this person.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: I got to Ibadan. I saw her. I said come here.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: Follow me now. Follow me. Follow me. I knew. I
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: know you. Alright. By the spirit. And I went through
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: the track record. I said.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: It's not been how many weeks I gave them now.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: So you start transcribing this. I watch them quietly every day.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: Work is moving. There are believers who put anything in
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: their hands, it dies. It dies. It dies. You must
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: know how to convert one to ten. That nothing dies
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: in your hands. Put in the work. Refuse to respect limitation.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Nothing dies in
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: my hands. It's a commitment.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: It's not just a statement. If it's just a statement,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: many things will die in your hands. To you yourself,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: you won't die. You stay committed to it. If I'm
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: given anything to do, it will expand. I don't stop halfway.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: I see every vision through. Many believers need to know
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: how to see visions through. They know how to start,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: they don't know how to finish. Like a lazy man
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 3: that makes his game but can't roast it.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: I know, sir.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: No. We must be born in this fire. We must
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: be born in. Somebody said, I have a call to ministry,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: but nobody's giving platform. Start evangelizing. That's a platform. Start evangelizing.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: That's a platform. I said, start evangelizing. That's a platform.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: Many times I get messages from my official line. Somebody said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a musician, but I want to give platform. No,
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  Speaker 2: musicians don't get platform to refer. You start from your
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  Speaker 2: local church. Start from your local church. Who is your pastor?
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  Speaker 2: Start from there. That's the wings on where you should fly.
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  Speaker 3: So all this nonsense we break in the body of
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  Speaker 3: Christ and break all the tenets.
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  Speaker 2: Or fabrics of the gospel. Let's stop it. Let's stop it.
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  Speaker 2: And I stand and back this statement. You are not
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  Speaker 2: in choir to blow. Then become a merchant of music.
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  Speaker 2: Stay serving. Stay serving. Stay serving. Stay serving. Stay serving.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: There are many people who want to blow.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the ways you know them is that
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  Speaker 3: they just keep running after my album, my album, my album.
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  Speaker 3: Never come for me. They say those ones are children.
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  Speaker 3: But it will amaze you how God will use the
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  Speaker 3: foolish things to confound the wise. God used basket to
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  Speaker 3: fetch water to these grace buckets.
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  Speaker 2: We must be humble.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm saying this from my heart. I've served under
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  Speaker 3: different kinds of people. Those who like me and those
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  Speaker 3: who don't. What I recognize is what they have to offer.
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  Speaker 3: Don't care about many of those things. One time I
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  Speaker 3: was under a pastor. I wanted to write a letter
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  Speaker 3: to a zonal pastor. Please come and help me. Please
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  Speaker 3: just change my area.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. You know, which area do you live? Okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: leave that area. Okay. I wanted to change, come and
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  Speaker 2: change my area. Now you know area.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's confusion. Okay. I like it. I've drafted the
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  Speaker 2: letter more than five times.
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  Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit will tell me if the water is
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  Speaker 3: hot and you are still feeling it because you are
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  Speaker 3: not dead.
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  Speaker 2: Let's leave it. And I stayed. I stayed. I'm finished.
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  Speaker 2: I finished my work.
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  Speaker 3: And when the day came to leave, I left celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: I finished. We must wake up, sir.
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  Speaker 3: This idea of just living life, there is no contribution
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  Speaker 3: that your life is giving to us, the kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: How are you surviving?
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  Speaker 3: Everything that is alive is alive through contribution. What are
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  Speaker 3: you contributing to? To the forbearance of God's work. Your
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  Speaker 3: life must contribute something.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? It must. It must.
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  Speaker 2: Everything thrived by contributing. Giving your quota. This same person
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want people to know you are a Christian. So
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  Speaker 2: they will not. My God. My God. Ask many believers,
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  Speaker 2: how many souls have you won this year? It's like
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  Speaker 2: we have lost that brand of Christians. That no soul,
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  Speaker 2: no sleep. Evangelism now is for boys. I stayed in
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  Speaker 2: Lefebvre for a while. There is no street, no hostel.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere I have not preached with megaphone. Nowhere. Nowhere. Early
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, megaphone. Give your life to Christ. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: loves you. Sometimes you are going in the morning around 5.30.
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  Speaker 2: You miss sacrifice on the road. You forget about it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on a mission. Do you have such track record?
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  Speaker 3: Or your life will just go and just keep moving
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  Speaker 3: like that?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have such track record?
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  Speaker 3: I stayed kind of about many months now I was
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  Speaker 3: in Ghana. Over 3,000 souls. Over 3,000 souls. Over 3,000 souls.
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  Speaker 2: One night.
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  Speaker 3: Massive harvest. We're looking for opportunity for souls. Digging everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Many places that I've gone to do some strange things
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  Speaker 3: were from Togo to Benin Republic to Port Novo. When
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: I traveled with my wife, I said, see all these
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  Speaker 3: places we have Six churches planted here. I went to
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  Speaker 3: plant it with the boys on campus.
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  Speaker 2: Here we have about seven churches we want to plant.
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  Speaker 2: Planting in the name of my mother church, not my
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: own name. Planting and... So, sir, we are not doing
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  Speaker 2: what we are doing here just by the anointing. There's
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  Speaker 2: been years of training. There are many things that even
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  Speaker 2: with a poor gallon of oil on your head, if
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  Speaker 2: you are not trained, and if you have not served
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  Speaker 2: to have learned, those who feel they are using me
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  Speaker 2: when I serve, you better let them use you.
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  Speaker 3: That's how men are born. Go and ask anyone who
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  Speaker 3: is doing anything specially. They will tell you there were
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  Speaker 3: days of service.
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  Speaker 2: And it never ends. It never ends. Let's wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Let's wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Let's wake up to the reality of giving our quota.
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  Speaker 2: Let's wake up. Let's wake up.
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  Speaker 3: If you stand face to face with Jesus today, what
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  Speaker 3: will you tell him? That I live for myself alone.
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  Speaker 3: All my thinking was how to make money, marry, raise children.
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  Speaker 2: Live and die. My God. Such that as God is
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  Speaker 2: increasing us, we are factoring the movement of his agenda
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  Speaker 2: into it.
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  Speaker 3: Anything God brings, we are factoring it. If we are crying,
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  Speaker 3: we are not just crying for greedy motives. No, we
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 3: want to push. God will raise people here.
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  Speaker 2: I said God will raise people here. I said God
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  Speaker 2: will raise people here.
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  Speaker 3: Forget about somebody who doesn't give at the level that
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  Speaker 3: he is saying is a kingdom financer.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lie. I said it's a lie. Anytime it's
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: time for offering, you start to say, I'll transfer. I'll transfer.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: I'll transfer. This cashless policy now. Cashless policy has ended.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: And the fellow has money. I'm not talking about those
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: who doesn't have. Now say, oh, we are apostles in
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: the marketplace. No, you are stingy. Stingy, stingy. Stingy.
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  Speaker 3: Many of the people we are calling apostles in the marketplace,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: they are not. They are there for themselves. Now, now,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 3: first one million, you're already going to club. And they
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: were calling you pastor. Your pictures and videos are already circulating,
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: dancing in club. Dancing with a bottle of champagne.
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  Speaker 2: Ow. People pray for it in church. Celebrate it in Biapalo.
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  Speaker 2: My God. My God.
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  Speaker 3: And many parents are not leaving good example for their children.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: Because the parents know what they come home to discuss
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  Speaker 3: about church.
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  Speaker 2: The children know. They know. They know.
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  Speaker 3: I feel so burdened for the things of God. And
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 3: I feel that you ask us to pray. That God
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 3: will give us a new heart. That we begin to
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  Speaker 3: see this thing as our work.
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  Speaker 2: As our work, sir. Our duty. Our assignment. Please let's pray.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: Please let's pray. Let's pray. Please pray. Please pray. Please pray.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: Please pray.
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  Speaker 3: That if there's anything you are hungry and thirsty for,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's because you want God to use you
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  Speaker 3: for his kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: It's because you want God to use you for his kingdom.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: Please pray. In Jesus' name we are praying. Can I
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: say something to you as I leave? Each time you
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: show yourself profitably, You put yourself.
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  Speaker 3: In a position where you can be effortlessly considered by
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: God for His assignment. We need to have this die-hard
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  Speaker 3: attitude to God's work.
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  Speaker 2: Are you feeling what I'm saying there? Die-hard, sir. Grinding.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: Preparing yourself. Laboring. Not because you want to make a
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  Speaker 2: name for yourself. Because you want Jesus to be known.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: You want to push his agenda. You hate what you
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: see around. You want to give your own quota. It
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: burns in your heart.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be a son of God and you will
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  Speaker 3: not have passion for his assignments. You can't be the
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  Speaker 3: true child of God and you like what you see around.
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  Speaker 3: There's something he has placed in you, all on.
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  Speaker 2: You, that can reduce these things, sir. And people have
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  Speaker 2: successfully made it look like you guys are the pastors.
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  Speaker 2: My God. You guys are the pastors. You are the
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: called one. Me, I'm not. Every believer has been given
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: the ministry of reconciliation. How many believers? Every. Meaning that
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: there is something about our life that must be reconciled
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  Speaker 2: to God. Every day. Every day. Every day. Every day.
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  Speaker 2: Every day. When we all get on this same page
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  Speaker 2: by revelation, the work will move, sir. The work will move.
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  Speaker 2: Every man will know what they should do. And ready
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  Speaker 2: to do it.
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  Speaker 3: There will come a generation, where next are we going to?
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 3: Which city are we taking? I'll speak to some of
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  Speaker 3: my boys. We have a church called LA Church. It's
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: not just Fair of Light Church. A campus apostolic church.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: And I said to them, I said, all these things
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  Speaker 3: you guys are doing, you have not beaten my record
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  Speaker 3: of 2010.
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  Speaker 2: You are 13 years behind.
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  Speaker 3: Just 2010, you've not touched the record.
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  Speaker 2: We started campus fellowship, six people. In fact, three initially.
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  Speaker 2: Before I left campus, we were combining lecture halls. No screens.
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  Speaker 2: Lack of screen is not the reason why church is
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: not growing, sir. It is lack of commitment. No screen.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: Just some yes speakers who patch together.
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  Speaker 3: People who scatter in lecture halls just to be able
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  Speaker 3: to hear.
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  Speaker 2: The windows will be filled. Just men burning. Just men burning.
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  Speaker 2: Creating track record. What is your record at 30? What
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: is your record at 25? What have you done? What
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: is your record? What? What is your record? What is
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: the weight of.
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  Speaker 3: Your presence in the kingdom now? Or just existing? We
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: must repent, sir. We need a new heart and a
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: new spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We need the heart of stone to be taken up.
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  Speaker 3: A heart that burns.
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  Speaker 2: For the zeal of the Lord. The hands to know
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  Speaker 2: Him more. My God, please pray. Some of you have
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: stopped halfway. You gave up on certain things God placed
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: in your hands. You lost interest. Repent, sir. Repent, sir. Repent, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. My
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  Speaker 3: earnest prayer is that we will all carry this out.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: And that nobody will ever have to force you. to
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 3: do your father's work. At 12, Jesus said, you should
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: not worry about my father's work. At 12. At what?
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: 12. At 12. As a teenager, Samuel was already sleeping
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: in the temple. God was called as a child. Paul
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: speaks to Timothy and says, how does from a child
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 2: you have known the Holy Scriptures? From a child. Somebody
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: is about to 40, has never read the entire Bible.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: Somebody cannot remember the last time you read two chapters
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: at a stretch. How? How did you get here? This
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: was not the man God found.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: Somebody cannot remember the last time you prayed two hours.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: Let's say one hour at a stretch. Alone.
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  Speaker 5: How?
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  Speaker 2: How? We must go back to the God we found.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: We must. We must. We must. And I pray that
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Ghost will fasten these things to your heart.
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  Speaker 2: Say that amen again, Lord. And they will help you.
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  Speaker 2: And nobody will ever have to force you to give
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  Speaker 2: your own quota. Praise God.
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  Speaker 3: Bishop Oedipus said in 1976, if I'm correct, they were
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 3: about to pay for church rent. And he said to them,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 3: not that we're all at the same level, give. He said,
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 3: because if I have it, I will have given a loan.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: He said, the time is coming for us to begin
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: to fly. And they will say, we are doing something. See,
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  Speaker 3: this is what we are doing. Seek ye first the
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  Speaker 3: kingdom of God and His righteousness. All other things shall follow.
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  Speaker 3: And today we see what is happening.
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  Speaker 2: We see what is happening. Sir, let me be real.
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying this as a form of gimmicks.
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  Speaker 3: Anytime God knows that you are capable of doing what
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  Speaker 3: He needs and you didn't do it, you have failed Him.
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  Speaker 2: You have betrayed the reason why He blessed you. These
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  Speaker 2: things does not take persuasion. I don't believe in persuading people.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: It takes revelation. That the eyes of your understanding may
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: be what? Enlightened. When you catch the light, you are born.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: And men will gather to watch you born. That's how
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: it works. Praise God. I said praise God. The message you.
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