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A WISE MASTERBUILDER · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Recognition of something. Let's welcome Apostle Joshua.
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  Speaker 2: Slo Allelujah, blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Please walk up to one or two people and tell them,
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  Speaker 3: God bless you. God bless you, God bless you. Speak
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  Speaker 3: over their lives. God bless you. Are you blessing someone?
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  Speaker 3: God bless you in the name of Jesus. I suppose you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much, sir, and a big
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  Speaker 3: congratulations for thirty years of impact. I think we should
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  Speaker 3: celebrate the Lord for his good health and upon past
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  Speaker 3: support you and the Covenant nation. I sincerely celebrate with
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  Speaker 3: this ministry, and I honor the grace of God upon
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  Speaker 3: his life and upon this vision. And it's a great
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  Speaker 3: honor to be sharing God's word like I'll be doing now.
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  Speaker 3: And so thank you so much for you and your
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  Speaker 3: dear wife. The Lord bless you and honor you in
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  Speaker 3: Jesus' name. Please be seated, everyone, Please be seated everyone.
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  Speaker 3: I have a few things that I'll be sharing very briefly,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm happy to know that this is a session
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  Speaker 3: for past us and leaders, and so we rob minds
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  Speaker 3: together for a few minutes and trust God to give
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  Speaker 3: us wisdom. I'm hoping in the name of Jesus that
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  Speaker 3: what will be hearing, in addition to that which we
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  Speaker 3: have heard, will further equip us and prepare us to
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  Speaker 3: be very efficient, first in the ministry and then in
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  Speaker 3: every end devil where we have been called. So, Father,
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  Speaker 3: we pray that you'll grant us wisdom. We look up
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  Speaker 3: to you, we obtain grace. Let your word come with power,
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  Speaker 3: Let it transform us.
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  Speaker 1: Our hearts are.
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  Speaker 3: Open, we are willing to learn, We're willing to unlearn,
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  Speaker 3: We're willing to relearn. Grant us wisdom, wisdom that works.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So we'll be discussing a few things. I'll be
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  Speaker 3: teaching on the wise or a wise master builder, a
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  Speaker 3: wise master builder, in honor to these thirty years of
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  Speaker 3: God's hand upon his servant and this ministry. I just
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  Speaker 3: thought to share a few things that will really challenge
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  Speaker 3: our hearts, and I pray that God will help us
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  Speaker 3: in Jesus' name. First Corinthians, chapter three and verse ten.
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  Speaker 3: A wise master builder Paul speaking, and he said, according
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  Speaker 3: to the grace of God which is given onto me
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  Speaker 3: as a wise master builder, He says, I have laid
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  Speaker 3: the foundation and another builder thereon. But let every man
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  Speaker 3: take heed how he builded thereupon.
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  Speaker 1: You believe that, say loud amen. The first thing I
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  Speaker 1: want us to know.
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  Speaker 3: In charging our hearts this morning is that, as believe us,
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  Speaker 3: please lend me your attention now as believe us, and
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  Speaker 3: more importantly, ministers of the Gospel, the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 3: that we are co labor us with God. First Corinthians
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  Speaker 3: three and verse nine. We are cole labor us with God.
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  Speaker 3: Very simple ess, but it's very profound. My life changed
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  Speaker 3: when I came into this recognition that a man can
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  Speaker 3: be a co laborer First Corinthians three and verse nine.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible says, we are co labor us, labor us
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  Speaker 3: together with God, not labor us together with angels, labor
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  Speaker 3: us together with God. Isn't this amazing that God can
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  Speaker 3: do without us? Yet in his wisdom He's left out
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  Speaker 3: a space.
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  Speaker 1: As though limited.
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  Speaker 3: It then means that if you have this revelation, you
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  Speaker 3: know that you count as far as God's prophetic program
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  Speaker 3: is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: You count.
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  Speaker 3: You are not just a number. You are a co
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  Speaker 3: laborer with God. In Matthew sixteen and verse eighteen. Jesus
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  Speaker 3: was speaking, and he said, I will build my church.
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  Speaker 3: And on hearing that statement, you will think it was
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  Speaker 3: a statement that absolutely meant I don't need any man.
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  Speaker 3: I can do it alone. But now is bringing perspective.
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  Speaker 3: He's saying, although Jesus said he would build his church,
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  Speaker 3: but that pragmatically speaking in that business of building men,
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  Speaker 3: we are co laborers with God, are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 3: It's the first thought that I want to bring this
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  Speaker 3: morning that as believers generally, when it has to do
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  Speaker 3: with kingdom advance, we are co laborers. But as ministers
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  Speaker 3: of the Gospel, the Bible says we are co laborers
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  Speaker 3: with God. Number two, the second thought that I want
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  Speaker 3: to bring this morning is found in Efficient chapter three.
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  Speaker 3: We read from verse fourteen to nineteen profound statement Efficient
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  Speaker 3: chapter three. For this cause, I bow my knees to
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  Speaker 3: the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, reading to nineteen
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  Speaker 3: next verse Please, of whom the whole family in heaven
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  Speaker 3: and Earth is named, uh huh, that he would grant
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  Speaker 3: onto you poly spraying now according to the riches of
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  Speaker 3: His glory, to be strengthened with might by His spirit
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  Speaker 3: in the inner man. He says that Christ, pay attention now, please,
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  Speaker 3: that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith, and
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  Speaker 3: that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ahah, may
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  Speaker 3: be able to comprehend with all the saints. What is
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  Speaker 3: the breath, the length, the depth, and the height. Let's
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  Speaker 3: read verse nineteen together, Ready one to go and to
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  Speaker 3: know the love of Christ which surpathed all knowledge, and
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  Speaker 3: that ye might be filled with all the fullness of
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  Speaker 3: poly Spraying now, and he reveals to us through his
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  Speaker 3: prayer that in as much as we are co labor
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  Speaker 3: us with God, we are not giving the liberty to
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  Speaker 3: decide how to build men.
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  Speaker 1: There is his sandard are we together now? And that
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  Speaker 1: there is.
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  Speaker 3: Already a standard that God desires that all men become
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  Speaker 3: a reflection of what Paul calls the fullness of God.
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  Speaker 3: Very ambitious statement, very generous description. How can a man
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  Speaker 3: become an expression a reflection of the fullness of God?
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  Speaker 1: Paul is praying, now.
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  Speaker 3: In as much as we are co laborers with God,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't give us the liberty to build anyhow or
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  Speaker 3: decide or free lance our method.
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  Speaker 1: There is a standard.
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  Speaker 3: So he goes further to let us know that there
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  Speaker 3: is an expectation in the mind of God. He brotresses
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  Speaker 3: on that when we get to efficient chapter four, please
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  Speaker 3: pay attention and I'll tie everything together Efficient chapter four
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  Speaker 3: from verse seven.
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  Speaker 1: Now reading from seven to thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: So there is a standard, it says, But onto every
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  Speaker 3: one of us is given grace, grace, grace according to
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  Speaker 3: the measure of the gift of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Aha, he says.
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  Speaker 3: Wherefore he said, when he has sended upon high, he
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  Speaker 3: led captivity captives, and he gave gifts on to men.
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  Speaker 3: The word gift there does not just mean talent or
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  Speaker 3: spiritual gift. He gave men to men. He gave men
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  Speaker 3: as gift to men. A we together he gave men
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  Speaker 3: to men. Next verse please, he says, Now he that ascended,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is the same that descended to the lower
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  Speaker 3: parts of the earth. And then verse ten, he says
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  Speaker 3: that he might feel all things. Let's go to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're reading to thirteen. He gave some, not all,
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  Speaker 3: some as gifts to men. He gave some apostles, some prophets,
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  Speaker 3: some evangelists, some pastors and teachers.
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  Speaker 1: Aha, he says.
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  Speaker 3: For the per affecting the word perfecting there means the
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  Speaker 3: maturing of the saints. Are we together for the work
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  Speaker 3: of the ministry?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have it still? All right?
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful, for the work of the ministry, for the defying
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  Speaker 3: of the body of Christ. If you believer, let's shout,
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  Speaker 3: starting together, ready, want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Till we all come? Aha, aha, and onto the measure.
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  Speaker 3: There it is again of the stature of the fullness.
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  Speaker 3: That means God is so intentional about raising this bar.
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  Speaker 3: There is a kind of believer he seeks to see.
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  Speaker 3: There is a kind of believer who can serve his
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  Speaker 3: purposes to his satisfaction. And the Bible begins to tell
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  Speaker 3: us all the resources and the machineries that God put
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  Speaker 3: together to help make this goally reality. We together that
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  Speaker 3: He did not just stop at giving us that standard.
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  Speaker 3: He went as far as by a divine election of grace,
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  Speaker 3: selecting a few people and dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: Them in such a unique manner so as.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to labor to present this special this
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  Speaker 3: kind of believer that will be a reflection of what
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  Speaker 3: the Bible calls the fullness of God in chapter three,
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  Speaker 3: and in chapter four Paul calls it the measure of
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  Speaker 3: the stature of the fullness of Christ. So the first
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  Speaker 3: thing I told us. A quick recap is that we
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  Speaker 3: are co labor us with God. Still remember but that
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  Speaker 3: there is a standard.
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  Speaker 1: Please listen.
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  Speaker 3: There is an expectation that God has and desires for
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  Speaker 3: every believer to attain in terms of our spiritual growth.
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  Speaker 3: And then for every man of God there is an
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  Speaker 3: expectation in terms of those we raise. We are not
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  Speaker 3: given liberty to just raise people as we think.
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  Speaker 1: There is a.
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  Speaker 3: Standard, and you are not really ministry until you know
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  Speaker 3: that standard. Just because you have a sincere hat, a
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  Speaker 3: good salmon, and the propensity for integrity does not qualify you,
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  Speaker 3: in truth to be a minister. A necessary requirement is
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  Speaker 3: that you must have that picture. How many of you
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  Speaker 3: know that a lecturer does not wonder what your students
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  Speaker 3: will become. Right from the first lecture. He already has
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  Speaker 3: an idea of the kind of doctor. And sometimes they
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  Speaker 3: use images to paint the picture, so that as naive
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  Speaker 3: and confused as that doctor in training is, he has
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  Speaker 3: an idea. Transformation is difficult without a reference. There has
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  Speaker 3: to be a reference. You cannot become like no thing.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now? So the Bible says there is
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  Speaker 3: a standard every man of God in training, in building
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  Speaker 3: in teaching, in pastoring, in discipling. It's important beyond learning
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  Speaker 3: the salmon, to preach the series. To take you must
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  Speaker 3: understand by the spirit that as a whole laborer with Christ,
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  Speaker 3: I have a standard.
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  Speaker 1: There is a bar a we together.
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  Speaker 3: Now this becomes the basis for gaging your success in ministry,
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  Speaker 3: because if you do not understand God's expectations, you will
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  Speaker 3: be tempted to use mundane parameters, mundane parameters, mundane parameters.
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  Speaker 3: There is a standard, and the standard is called the
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  Speaker 3: fullness of God. Please say after me, the fullness of God.
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  Speaker 3: That is the standard. That means no pastor is given
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  Speaker 3: the liberty to rest nor or necessarily clap for yourself
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  Speaker 3: until we find in pre ten upon the people you
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  Speaker 3: are building, until they cannot attain in experience what the
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  Speaker 3: Bible calls the fullness of the stature of the measure
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  Speaker 3: of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 3: Galician, Chapter four and verse nineteen Paul cried, speaking over
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  Speaker 3: the Galician short He said, my little children, of whom
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  Speaker 3: I travail in birth. He was speaking to people already saved.
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  Speaker 3: It says again, until Christ be formed, the formation of Christ,
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  Speaker 3: Until Christ I travail I label are we together regard,
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  Speaker 3: I will come and visit you again.
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  Speaker 1: You would see the passion of Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Even in prison, he was not bothered about his coming out.
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  Speaker 3: He was still writing letters to warn them that while
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  Speaker 3: in prison, I'm hearing that there are deviations here. Shortly
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  Speaker 3: I'll be out of this place, and you believe me,
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  Speaker 3: I'm coming back to you to correct certain things.
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  Speaker 1: It's to me like this was the.
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  Speaker 3: True North, the focal point of Paul's ministry. He was
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  Speaker 3: not as interested in fame, he was not as interested
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  Speaker 3: in visiting many churches.
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  Speaker 1: His desire this bar.
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  Speaker 3: Was what was before him, to produce in ordinary men
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  Speaker 3: the fullness of God. And he deployed every and all creativity,
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  Speaker 3: whether it was letter, whether it was a conference to
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  Speaker 3: settle their understanding, whether he was training and mentorship of others.
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  Speaker 3: The goal was to be able to produce in all
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  Speaker 3: believers the fullness of God. Who is understanding so far
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  Speaker 3: so that number one, we are who laborers with God.
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  Speaker 1: Many know that.
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  Speaker 3: But the challenge, especially for ministers of the Gospel, is
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  Speaker 3: that we do not even understand the reference the bar.
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  Speaker 3: So everyone is sincerely doing what he hopes to do.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you ask an average person. What exactly
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  Speaker 3: are you trying to produce? He tells you, I'm preaching
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  Speaker 3: the gospel and it's been sincere or he says, I'm
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  Speaker 3: raising people, and so for a long time you would
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  Speaker 3: find members loyal but not becoming anything. They do not
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  Speaker 3: even have an idea of what they should become, depending
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  Speaker 3: on who preaches, depending on who comes with the altar,
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  Speaker 3: or depending on the spiritual thoughts that are a trend.
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  Speaker 3: The people are like an amiba, you know, you know
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  Speaker 3: that creature called a amiba. They become anything. There is
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  Speaker 3: no form, there's no fashion, there is no intention in
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  Speaker 3: building the people. The programs that constitute the salmons are
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  Speaker 3: largely freelanced as a result of what is in vogue,
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  Speaker 3: part time, per season. Very dangerous, unfortunately. You see, the
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  Speaker 3: kind and the quality of believers that are produced in
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  Speaker 3: any territory are a reflection of the spiritual intelligence of
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  Speaker 3: the leaders that build them. You literally can sample a
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  Speaker 3: people and use them as a report card to assess
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  Speaker 3: the level of understanding and the level of intelligence of
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  Speaker 3: the leaders that have molded them away together. So we're
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  Speaker 3: exploring a few things, and I'm saying that there is
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  Speaker 3: a standard.
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  Speaker 1: Please say there is a standard.
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  Speaker 3: Say it again, there is a standard, and that the
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  Speaker 3: standard is called the fullness of God, the fullness of God,
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  Speaker 3: the fullness of God. The third thing I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: know is found in First Corinthians, now, chapter three, where
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  Speaker 3: we got our text. It's a long red and please
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  Speaker 3: be patient. I'll start from verse one, verse one, so
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  Speaker 3: that we'll put everything in context. First Corinthians, chapter three
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  Speaker 3: and verse one. And I, brethren, I could not speak
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  Speaker 3: to you as onto spiritual, he says, but as onto kernel,
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  Speaker 3: even as babes in Christ. I have fed you with
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  Speaker 3: milk and not with meat. For hither or you are
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  Speaker 3: not able to bed? Neither yet can ye? Are you
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  Speaker 3: now able to be?
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  Speaker 1: Eight? Who was saying? For ye are yet canal?
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  Speaker 3: For whereas there is among you envyings and strife? Listen carefully, now, divisions,
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  Speaker 3: he says, are you not cannal and workers men?
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  Speaker 1: Verse four?
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  Speaker 3: For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another
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  Speaker 3: I am of Apollos, are you not canal?
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  Speaker 1: Follow the discussion? Now, who then is Paul? He says?
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  Speaker 1: And who is Apollos?
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  Speaker 3: But ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord
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  Speaker 3: gave to every man verse six. Now I have planted,
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  Speaker 3: he says, Apollos watered.
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  Speaker 1: But God gave the increase. Let's stop here for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Who gives increase.
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  Speaker 3: There is no technology invented by the wisdom of man
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  Speaker 3: that sustains the ability to bring increase in ministry. If
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  Speaker 3: God does not help men. I can't tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: And we need to be careful because in deploying all
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  Speaker 3: kinds of ways, weather for church growth and the rest,
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  Speaker 3: and I respect all of those things. Some of them
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  Speaker 3: have been tested scientifically. Unfortunately, men are not animals. God
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  Speaker 3: gave them a will. And if God does not touch
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  Speaker 3: the heart of a man, there are times you can
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  Speaker 3: go to the sea like Peter. Your boat is correct,
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  Speaker 3: your net is correct. The sea is where you will fish,
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  Speaker 3: and yet you will not catch fish. And there is
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  Speaker 3: no explanation at all. It's not incompetence. There is a
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  Speaker 3: God factor in this business of ministry, only the size
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  Speaker 3: of God. You can't use brain work. There is a
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  Speaker 3: place for principles and diligence. What I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: there is a signature that only the hand of God
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  Speaker 3: can write. And it's important we put this at the
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  Speaker 3: back of our minds. Paul planted. Please, let's go back
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  Speaker 3: to the scripture Apollos water. But God gave the increase.
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  Speaker 3: God is giving someone increase, increase in life, increase in
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  Speaker 3: ministry in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Next verse place very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: So neither then is he that planted anything, neither he
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  Speaker 3: that water ed, but God that given.
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  Speaker 1: The increase Verse eight. Verse eight.
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  Speaker 3: Now okay, now here that planted and here that water
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  Speaker 3: red are one, and every man shall receive his own reward.
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  Speaker 3: Listen according to his own labor verse nine.
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  Speaker 1: For we are laborers together with God.
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  Speaker 3: I established that already ye are God's hustboundry.
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  Speaker 1: Ye are God's building.
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  Speaker 3: Verse ten, it says, according to the grace of God
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  Speaker 3: which is given to me, as say wise, master builder,
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  Speaker 3: I have laid the foundation, and another builded their own.
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  Speaker 1: It says, But let every.
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  Speaker 3: Man take heed how he builded their own verse eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Or other foundation.
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  Speaker 3: Can no man lay than that which is laid, which
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  Speaker 3: is Jesus Christ. Verse twelve will stop at thirteen. Now listen, please,
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  Speaker 3: if any man built upon this foundation gold, so whatever
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  Speaker 3: you build upon, it is what determines the basis of
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  Speaker 3: your reward.
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  Speaker 1: Christ is the cornerstone.
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  Speaker 3: But It says there are all kinds of things that
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  Speaker 3: can be built on that foundation. Please leave it for us, gold, silver,
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  Speaker 3: precious stones, wood, hey, and then stubble, let me do thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Now it says every man's work.
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  Speaker 3: Shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it,
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  Speaker 3: because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire
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  Speaker 3: shall try every man's walk what sort it is? We
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  Speaker 3: is understanding so far that a time is going to
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  Speaker 3: come in ministry where your work will be tried by fire,
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  Speaker 3: and it will reveal. It's not something you can hide.
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  Speaker 3: It will tell us the quality of the investments who
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  Speaker 3: have been making Christ is the foundation of everything.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 3: But that the quality of what your ministry becomes, Please listen,
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  Speaker 3: is whatever you add to that corner stone. That some
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  Speaker 3: can add gold, some can add silver, some can add wood,
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  Speaker 3: some can add hay, and that eventually fire will come
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  Speaker 3: and try the quality of what.
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  Speaker 1: You have built. Are we together? Now?
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  Speaker 3: So when you find out that there are people who
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  Speaker 3: don't seem to have longevity of impact, it's not always
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  Speaker 3: a demonic attack.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that there are.
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  Speaker 3: Times and seasons within the span of their work ministry
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  Speaker 3: where their works are tried and they would have been
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  Speaker 3: found wanting. And let me tell you the truth. It
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  Speaker 3: is not only setan that takes according to the parable
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  Speaker 3: of the talent. God also collects from inefficiency and adds
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  Speaker 3: to efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: It is how the economy of heaven works.
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  Speaker 3: So verify who took what you lost, so that you
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  Speaker 3: don't bind and cast in ignorance. There are times that
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  Speaker 3: it is God himself for his namesake. Is it not
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  Speaker 3: in your bible? He gave on to one, five, he
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  Speaker 3: gave two, he gave one, He gave to all of them.
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  Speaker 3: But what they added on what he gave was what
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  Speaker 3: he judged them based on. This is what Paul said
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  Speaker 3: that Christ is that corner's told. But whatever you add
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  Speaker 3: on that building, they will come, fire will come to
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  Speaker 3: test it. The kind of people you have raised? Are
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  Speaker 3: we together now? And I can tell you sincerely, this
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  Speaker 3: is a person's conference. I'm at liberty to say if
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  Speaker 3: you think many of us need to go back and
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  Speaker 3: re examine whether the kind of work we are doing
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  Speaker 3: will have longevity. We're celebrating thirty years. I hope you
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  Speaker 3: know that thirty years old anything is old enough. A
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  Speaker 3: toirty years of fool needs a miracle. It doesn't need prayer.
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  Speaker 3: It needs a miracle, a complete miracle. If you are
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  Speaker 3: thirty years and you are working in wisdom, you have
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  Speaker 3: gained some experience.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right on that? Yes, longevity.
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  Speaker 3: There is a way I wrote here, God design that
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  Speaker 3: men be built. Please listen, Please listen, Please listen their
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  Speaker 3: laborers in the Gospel. There is a way that God
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  Speaker 3: designed that men be built. There is a way that
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  Speaker 3: men need to be built in order to be matured
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  Speaker 3: and useful vessels. This must be every minister's approach in
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  Speaker 3: raising men.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen.
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  Speaker 3: The degree of compliance to that model is what makes
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  Speaker 3: a man of God a wise master builder, or otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: when you are called a wise master builder, it is
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  Speaker 3: with reference to the degree of compliance to that model.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Now?
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  Speaker 3: There are many estates in legos, and how many of
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  Speaker 3: you know?
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are in real estate.
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  Speaker 3: I believe when you carve out an acre of land
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  Speaker 3: or some acres of land, you a make them to
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  Speaker 3: be built. And many times some estates insist on uniformity
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  Speaker 3: of buildings. Am I right? You buy the land, but
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  Speaker 3: you are not given the liberty to build what you want.
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  Speaker 3: The condition is that you can buy your land, use
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  Speaker 3: whatever engineer, but you have to receive the architecture from
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  Speaker 3: the owners of the estate. So you can find five
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  Speaker 3: buildings looking the same but built by different engineers. What
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  Speaker 3: brought the consistency of results is not the engineer, is
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  Speaker 3: compliance to the architecture. That means I should see a
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  Speaker 3: believer in Legos, in Kaduna in Ghana and the difference
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  Speaker 3: should not be too wide. The variety species of believers
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  Speaker 3: were raising tell the degree of compliance or deviation to
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  Speaker 3: that pattern.
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  Speaker 1: This is what God is helping us understand.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together that the same way you can see
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  Speaker 3: a professor of medicine from saying my degree meeting with
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  Speaker 3: a professor of medicine in Legos, meeting with a professor
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  Speaker 3: of medicine in Johannesburg. They can meet for the first
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  Speaker 3: time and nobody would doubt one another because there was
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  Speaker 3: a system that standardizes their practice. They literally can meet
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  Speaker 3: for the first time in the theater and nobody is doubting.
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  Speaker 1: Another person's proficiency.
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  Speaker 3: How come when you see a believer a believer b
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  Speaker 3: still not sure, it tells you that I'm not That
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  Speaker 3: kind of architecture that may not be part of the
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  Speaker 3: blueprint is what is being deployed. Do you understand this.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about being good or bad. It's about compliance
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  Speaker 3: to the standard. No wonder. We have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: activities that happen weekday, week in, but we do not
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  Speaker 3: find that conformity to that standard called the fullness of
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  Speaker 3: the measure of the stature of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Who is understanding this is true? This is true?
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  Speaker 3: This is true if I see a believer who is
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  Speaker 3: part of the Covenant nation, faithfully, genuinely connected, whether here
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  Speaker 3: or in the island, or any other expression. Even from
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  Speaker 3: an organizational standpoint, I expect similarity in belief systems.
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  Speaker 1: Some things should not shock you. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 3: If it does, it becomes an embarrassment to the investment
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  Speaker 3: of your perston on you either are We call it
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  Speaker 3: in civil service ghost walker.
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  Speaker 1: So they are there, but they're not really there.
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  Speaker 3: You understand. You know what I'm talking about. There are
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  Speaker 3: people who are in the perro, but they never show up.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody knows who they are. This has been a bother
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  Speaker 3: for me for a very long time. The kind and
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  Speaker 3: the quality of believers, and sometimes we spiritualize our architecture.
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  Speaker 3: It is still wrong. There is a standard and intelligent
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  Speaker 3: God will not design a program and leave it to
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  Speaker 3: the personal creativity of people. Know there is a place
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  Speaker 3: for creativity, but you see, when you work with God,
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  Speaker 3: creativity is not needed. It's when you are manifesting as
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  Speaker 3: a king that creativity becomes required. Are we together? There
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  Speaker 3: is a standard, there is a reference. Your call is
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  Speaker 3: alignment and obedience. There is there is a pathway that
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  Speaker 3: if you pass any believer from a non believer to
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  Speaker 3: a believer, there is a guarantee that that believer will
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  Speaker 3: have a minimum standard of excellence as far as reflecting
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  Speaker 3: the crisis concern.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not just going to live in limbo.
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  Speaker 3: I want to show you the coordinates that the Bible
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  Speaker 3: calls the fullness of Christ, the fullness of God, so
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  Speaker 3: that you use this to benchmark the kinds of salmons
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  Speaker 3: you know, Sir, as God helps me in ministry and
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  Speaker 3: as I grow, I'm learning again that if we do
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  Speaker 3: not become intentional about raising people and sometimes spiritualized. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when someone spiritualizes an idea, no matter how wrong it is,
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  Speaker 3: there's no accept your spiritual mone. It becomes difficult to
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  Speaker 3: job to say, look this thing. The person himself can
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  Speaker 3: be in delusion because the error came from the rem
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  Speaker 3: of the spirit does not make it correct.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is a way God designed that men be built.
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  Speaker 3: You become a wise master builder to the degree to
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  Speaker 3: which you understand that blueprint, that architecture, and you submit
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  Speaker 3: yourself to it as you build God's people.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, the goal is that.
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  Speaker 3: The fullness of God, as revealed in Christ, be expressing
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  Speaker 3: the people.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a theological expression. In theology, we call it the
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  Speaker 3: reflection principle. The reflection principle is a principle by which
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  Speaker 3: you find a parallel and an image reflects an object altogether.
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  Speaker 3: You find that even in geography, the sun and the moon.
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  Speaker 3: How many of you know that, depending on the level
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  Speaker 3: of the alignment of the moon, the shape is gives
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  Speaker 3: from the sky, it's not the same.
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  Speaker 1: There are times we call it full moon.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true? There are times it looks like it's
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  Speaker 3: almost there. In fact, many religions use that those alignments
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  Speaker 3: even decide seasons. That's how many believers are. You can
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  Speaker 3: see a believer barely there. And the problem is not
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  Speaker 3: the soun. The problem is how you found yourself. There
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? The reflection principle.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many believers who, when you look at
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  Speaker 3: their lives, they do not sell the idea of God
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  Speaker 3: in a way that the nations should desire.
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  Speaker 1: They are such a.
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  Speaker 3: Destoping misrepresentation of God. And sometimes it has nothing to
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  Speaker 3: do with being good or bad. It is largely a
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  Speaker 3: product of the kind and the quality of mentorship. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to thank God if you are truly
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  Speaker 3: a member of this church. And I'm saying it not
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  Speaker 3: because I'm on stage here. When God really wants to
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  Speaker 3: show you messy, he shortens the distance between you and
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  Speaker 3: a teaching priest. So we have two believers here saved
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  Speaker 3: on the same day. But for the one he had
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to be planted in a church under a
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  Speaker 3: teaching priest, and for the other it was so unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: If free lance this way and you draw those people
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  Speaker 3: after five years, you will see the difference. The difference
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  Speaker 3: is not the Holy Spirit. No, are we together now?
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  Speaker 3: The difference. I hope you know that the moment you
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  Speaker 3: get saved, maybe I should run this progression with you.
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  Speaker 3: I hope I'm not boring you that when an unbeliever
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  Speaker 3: becomes a believer. So this is the pathway when an
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  Speaker 3: own believer becomes a believer.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope you know how that happens.
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  Speaker 3: There are many persons who don't know how owned believers
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  Speaker 3: become believers. It's not an importation mm hmm. And it
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  Speaker 3: is not everything about Jesus that translates to salvation of
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  Speaker 3: your soul. I hope you know there is an exact
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  Speaker 3: body of truth about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You must believe to be saved.
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  Speaker 3: There are things demons believe about Jesus, but they are
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  Speaker 3: not saved. So if you say you believe in Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: I'm still concerned.
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  Speaker 1: What about him do you believe?
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  Speaker 3: Because there is an exact information about Jesus that translates
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  Speaker 3: to salvation, don't tell me you believe in Jesus. Idol
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  Speaker 3: worshipers believe in Jesus. They believe in an idea called Jesus.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: There are many, many people who have Bibles, Qurans, other books,
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  Speaker 3: and they are quite sympathetic to all of them.
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  Speaker 1: They don't mind opening anyone.
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  Speaker 3: They're very comfortable with any idea that comes from them.
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  Speaker 3: This is a person's conference. Forgive me, but just allow
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  Speaker 3: me drameda in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Christ.
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  Speaker 3: There is an exact information about Jesus. You must believe.
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  Speaker 3: If not, you are not saved. There are three things
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  Speaker 3: in Paul's salmon. Who am not dealing with that, But
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  Speaker 3: there are three information about Jesus that Paul gave, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Peter gave in the first salmon that brought three thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: If you miss that information that, let it be known
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  Speaker 3: to you, O Israel, that the same Jesus whom you
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  Speaker 3: have crucified has today been exalted as Lord and Christ.
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  Speaker 3: It matters what idea about Jesus you present away together anyway,
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  Speaker 3: So believing in Jesus as Savior, Lord and Christ brings
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  Speaker 3: you to a point where you are a believer. But
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  Speaker 3: the Bible tells us that being a believer is in levels.
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  Speaker 3: There are those that the Bible calls babes.
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  Speaker 1: In Christ? Are we together?
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  Speaker 3: That maturity is not a gift in the spirit. You will
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  Speaker 3: never find a gift of maturity. So you are in Christ,
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  Speaker 3: but you are still a babe. And the Bible defines
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  Speaker 3: a ba as one who is bankrupt of knowledge, bankrupt
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  Speaker 3: of spiritual intelligence. Now, from that point where you become
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  Speaker 3: a believer, there are three forces that must come into
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  Speaker 3: your life to help your growth. Number one is the
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  Speaker 3: ministry of the Holy Spirit. Number two is the ministry
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  Speaker 3: of the world. Number three the ministry of a teaching priest.
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  Speaker 3: If you lack any of these three already you are disadvantage.
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  Speaker 3: The ministry of the Holy Spirit guiding you in all truth.
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  Speaker 3: The ministry of the world, helping you to understand the
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  Speaker 3: models operandi of the Kingdom. The ministry of a teaching
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  Speaker 3: priest like a lecturer, serving you grace, filtering sense from nonsense,
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  Speaker 3: and helping you to grow. When you find a believer
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  Speaker 3: who becomes efficient, you check that person's life, you will
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  Speaker 3: see that he was exposed to destripartite forces. Even if
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  Speaker 3: you don't know anything about the Holy Spirit, even if
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  Speaker 3: you don't know anything about the world.
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  Speaker 1: You just be exp to a teaching priest.
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  Speaker 3: You see the reason why ministers will be judged because
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  Speaker 3: this is the gravity of influence. You literally will that
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  Speaker 3: level of influence over any man's destiny. There are people
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  Speaker 3: whose prayer for churge growth, God himself will not allow
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  Speaker 3: to be answered. You know why, because it is a
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  Speaker 3: risk to be trusted with more people. He does not
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  Speaker 3: hate them, but he needs to verify your understanding of
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  Speaker 3: his project. Do you understand what He's building? You can't
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  Speaker 3: keep saying, God, give me more members, Why you say,
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  Speaker 3: I love souls?
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  Speaker 1: No? No.
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  Speaker 3: The degree to which you understand his project is the
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  Speaker 3: degree to which you will trust you with the people
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  Speaker 3: who should attain onto that.
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  Speaker 1: So you will find sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Very unlikely people, and God seems to honor them with
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  Speaker 3: his presence and honor them with visibility.
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  Speaker 1: Is not anything of themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Is the degree to which they've paid the price with
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  Speaker 3: childlike faith to understand this project. I can tell you
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  Speaker 3: that anybody who understands this maturity project, that God's goal
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  Speaker 3: is not just to have more members.
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  Speaker 1: God's goal.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just to have more salmons. God's goal. It's
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  Speaker 3: not just to have a big church, as important as
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  Speaker 3: that is.
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  Speaker 1: God's goal is to.
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  Speaker 3: Be able to raise a people, to bring them to
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  Speaker 3: a point of maturity where the least among them is
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  Speaker 3: able to reflect through their growth through their lives, the
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  Speaker 3: fullness of Christ. The Bible calls it the fullness of
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  Speaker 3: the stature of the measure of Christ. Are we together
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  Speaker 3: now very quickly, let's delve into this issue of the
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  Speaker 3: fullness of Christ. What exactly is the fullness of Christ
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: or the fullness of God. It sounds like a very
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  Speaker 3: disturbing statement. And I understand that a man can reflect
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  Speaker 3: the fullness of God. In Isa, chapter forty Popular Scripture,
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  Speaker 3: and verse twenty eight, the Bible there clearly tells us
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  Speaker 3: that God is in finite. It already says there is
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  Speaker 3: no suching of his understanding. Are we together an extent
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  Speaker 3: of the vasteness of His understanding? So how do you
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  Speaker 3: now say that Arend not really believer, can reflect the
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  Speaker 3: fullness of Christ? Now, probably let me digress for a
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  Speaker 3: minute and help you, you know, just understand something so
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  Speaker 3: that it makes sense what I'm about to say. Now,
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  Speaker 3: when the Bible calls us partakers of God's divine nature,
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  Speaker 3: please lend me your attention. I hope you know it
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  Speaker 3: is not every part of God's nature he gave man.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it is not every part of God's nature.
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  Speaker 3: There are dimensions to God and in God that are
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  Speaker 3: exclusive to him.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, he says, I am the vine. You are
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  Speaker 1: the branches.
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  Speaker 3: You will see it three dere but it differentiates it
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  Speaker 3: without make no mistakes. Don't confuse it because they look
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  Speaker 3: the same. I am the one who is the vine,
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  Speaker 3: You are the branches.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Now?
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  Speaker 3: There are three attributes of God just for your knowledge
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  Speaker 3: that God did not share with man. And this, among others,
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  Speaker 3: are the major attributes that brand him as God in
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  Speaker 3: a class by himself. Number one is called omnipresence. God
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  Speaker 3: did not share that with man. Man is not omnipresent.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot be everywhere at the same time, no matter
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  Speaker 3: how yielded, no matter how anointed. You are finite. Even
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  Speaker 3: when Jesus became a man, he could not be everywhere
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  Speaker 3: at the same time. And that was our pattern. Man,
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  Speaker 3: who is learning, So man even do a particre of
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  Speaker 3: God's divine nature is not omnipresent. Number two, Man is
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  Speaker 3: not omni shared. We are not all knowing. We see
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  Speaker 3: in part we prophesy impart. Are we together now? That
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  Speaker 3: means the most yielded, the most aligned. We cannot know everything.
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  Speaker 3: This is what separates us from God, even though we
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  Speaker 3: are one. Number three omnipotence all powerful. I've spoken once
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  Speaker 3: and twice have you heard that power belongs to the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? So? God is all powerful? But
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  Speaker 1: man is not all powerful.
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  Speaker 3: The power that is manifested in the believer is derived
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  Speaker 3: Our dominion in this kingdom is not absolute dominion. It
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  Speaker 3: is derived from our relationship and depends on our relationship
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  Speaker 3: for its function. God does not need you. Are we
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  Speaker 3: together now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I wish I had the time, would have dealt with
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  Speaker 3: the issue of authority, power and jurisdiction, because there are
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  Speaker 3: two things God gave man. And it's very important for
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  Speaker 3: you to understand. God did not just give man power.
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  Speaker 3: God gave man power authority. It is dangerous for a
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  Speaker 3: man to have power alone. The only person who has
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  Speaker 3: power alone is God. Do you know why? Because when
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  Speaker 3: your power is the capacity to influence things, the force
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  Speaker 3: that compels compliance. But authority is the legitimacy to use power.
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  Speaker 3: An umbrother has a gun power and a military man
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  Speaker 3: has a goune power. But a military man has a
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  Speaker 3: license to shoot. That's authority. That's the reason why when
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  Speaker 3: an umbrober shoots is gone. He goes to jail, and
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  Speaker 3: then you commend a military man.
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  Speaker 1: But you see, the rules.
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  Speaker 3: Of authority is that there cannot be true authority except
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  Speaker 3: number one, there is jurisdiction. Number two, there must be
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  Speaker 3: a system of supervision. It's impossible to have authority because authority.
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  Speaker 1: Is conferred by someone higher than you.
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  Speaker 3: The person who confers that authority or tommatically supervisis it's use.
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  Speaker 3: This is the reason why God as God cannot have authority,
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  Speaker 3: because there is no other entity higher than him that
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  Speaker 3: superviss compliance, and there is no jurisdiction that restricts his
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  Speaker 3: power from function. Now you understand what I'm saying, and
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  Speaker 3: don't just go and preach.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The challenge again we have is that when I'm having
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  Speaker 3: the liberty because I'm speaking to preachers sometimes and and
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  Speaker 3: please don't feel insulted, Preachers sometimes get excited over things
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  Speaker 3: they don't really understand the context, they think they do,
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  Speaker 3: and then they carry it like that and just slam
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  Speaker 3: it on believers who are just growing and completely scatter
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  Speaker 3: at the pace of their growth. And at the end
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: the people don't even know what they're talking about. Again,
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  Speaker 3: so the idea is just for our knowledge connecting to
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: what we're saying, not just that we run with something
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  Speaker 3: new from this conference, and then you tell someone something
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  Speaker 3: and the devil uses that shock and starts manipulating his experiences.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you know Satan is an opportunist. Satan uses
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  Speaker 3: both good and evil. Any raw material that can help
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  Speaker 3: him toward the purposes of God, whether it is light
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  Speaker 3: or darkness, he is available to use it. Go and
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  Speaker 3: read your Bible. You see Satan using truths many time
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  Speaker 3: to destroy. Is the reason why when the spirit of
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  Speaker 3: truth comes, even though you have truth, you must be guided.
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  Speaker 3: If you are not guided to use truth like a knife,
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  Speaker 3: you can enjoy yourself with it. How did I get here?
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  Speaker 3: Forgive me, Let's get back. Let's get back to you. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so we're talking about the fullness of Christ. Now, please
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  Speaker 3: pay attention. If you did not get anything that I said,
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  Speaker 3: I beseech you, standing upon the grace of God's servant,
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  Speaker 3: to please listen to this when you want to study God.
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  Speaker 3: Because of how mysterious He is, you do not have
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  Speaker 3: the liberty to study God except through the lens of
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  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the most accurate portrait.
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  Speaker 1: Of the invisible God. Are we together? Now?
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  Speaker 3: The Bible calls him the express image of the invisible God.
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  Speaker 3: That means any others study on God without Jesus as
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  Speaker 3: a reference will land you in various shades of error.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 3: Your most accurate study of God is through the lens of.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as a pattern. Man, are we learning now?
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  Speaker 3: So we have to study Jesus to be able to
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  Speaker 3: filter out the various dimensions that the Bible calls the
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  Speaker 3: fullness of God. And very quickly, I want to show
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  Speaker 3: you three dimensions. These three dimensions must be captured in
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  Speaker 3: every believer you raise, else it cannot be said they
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  Speaker 3: are complying with this pattern called the fullness of God.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, the.
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  Speaker 3: First dimension of God that represents his fullness that he
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  Speaker 3: seeks to see reflected in all believers. And that becomes
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  Speaker 3: a mandate for every man of God is the nature
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  Speaker 3: or the character of God. Please write that quickly the
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  Speaker 3: nature or the character of God. In Exodus chapter thirty three.
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  Speaker 3: Please give us eighteen and nineteen the nature or the
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  Speaker 3: character of God. This is the first dimension of the
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  Speaker 3: fullness of God has revealed in Christ that God seeks
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  Speaker 3: to see in every believer.
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  Speaker 1: Exodus chapter thirty three.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, I besich them, Moses, Now show me
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  Speaker 3: your glory, uh huh. And he said, I will make
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  Speaker 3: all my goodness my goodness. Moses is asking for his
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  Speaker 3: glory and he's saying my goodness. It is an expression
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  Speaker 3: of my glory to pass before you. Hallelujah, I will
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  Speaker 3: make my goodness now when you read Psalms one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and three, I've read my Bible a bit, and this
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  Speaker 3: psalm has the most concise capture of God's character as
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  Speaker 3: revealed in the Bible. You literally can use Psalms one
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  Speaker 3: h three as a lens to study God. Most people
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  Speaker 3: do not understand the character of God. It is dangerous
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  Speaker 3: to depend on men to reveal God to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not very accurate. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 3: The most accurate revelation of God is seen in Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Then from the lens of Jesus you can now find
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  Speaker 3: supporting models that come close to that reference. So the
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  Speaker 3: principle of transformation is number one looking onto Jesus. Then
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  Speaker 3: number two be followers of them in that order, looking
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  Speaker 3: onto Jesus, then followers of them. If you follow the
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  Speaker 3: them who are not following Jesus, you will become something else.
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  Speaker 1: These are the models of transformation.
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  Speaker 3: Number one looking onto Jesus, the author and the finisher.
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  Speaker 3: Then number two following them who are looking onto Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: We're learning now, so I'm saying the character of God.
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  Speaker 3: Psalms one or three. Maybe let's look at two or
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  Speaker 3: three verses very quickly, Please give it to us media.
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  Speaker 1: Psalms one hundred and three, very powerful.
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  Speaker 3: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is
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  Speaker 3: within me, Bless his holy name. Verse two it says,
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  Speaker 3: bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not his benefit.
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  Speaker 3: Then it begins to list five of them who forgives
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  Speaker 3: your sins, who heals your diseases?
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  Speaker 1: You know who redeem it thy life.
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  Speaker 3: This is a description of who God is, so that
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  Speaker 3: if you do not know God, and you've never met him,
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  Speaker 3: you do not know him, you literally can use his
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  Speaker 3: nature to identify him and set pret him from other gods.
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  Speaker 3: It is possible that I want to meet a gentleman
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  Speaker 3: I have never met. You can use that person's nature
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  Speaker 3: and character to help me identify that person. You will say,
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  Speaker 3: enter this room, you will see a gentleman. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really talk loud. He will most likely be a respectful fellow.
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  Speaker 3: When I will use the lens of your description and
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  Speaker 3: with prophetic accuracy, without being a prophet, I can say,
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  Speaker 3: you are most likely the person who I was sent to.
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  Speaker 3: So you can use the nature of God to decipher
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  Speaker 3: between him and every other entity. Most people do not
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  Speaker 3: know God because they do not know his nature. And
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  Speaker 3: in order of priority, the first dimension of God he wants.
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  Speaker 1: To see him believers is his nature, his character.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible says in John chapter four, First John chapter four,
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  Speaker 3: verse seven, just write for a reference seven to twelve.
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  Speaker 3: He says, God is love. This is profound. I can
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  Speaker 3: and all day talking about this. It says, be loved.
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  Speaker 3: Let us love one another. It says, for love is
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  Speaker 3: of God. And everyone that loveth please listen, is born
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  Speaker 3: of God and know where God. Verse eight. He that
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  Speaker 3: loveth not Ah knowd not God, even if he's talking
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  Speaker 3: about him.
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  Speaker 1: God is saying, you do not know me.
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  Speaker 3: It is impossible to love me, and we ought to
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  Speaker 3: claim to know me without loving me and loving your brother.
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  Speaker 3: He says, for God is love. Everybody, please say God
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  Speaker 3: is love. So the Bible tells us in one word
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  Speaker 3: that the very nature of God is love. That means
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  Speaker 3: God uses love as the ultimate index to measure maturity,
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  Speaker 3: not enlightenment.
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  Speaker 1: In the economy of God.
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  Speaker 3: When he comes to measure your extent of spiritual maturity,
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  Speaker 3: he does not search for revelation.
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  Speaker 1: That is very secondary. He looks for.
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  Speaker 3: How much the love of God has been furnished within
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  Speaker 3: your heart. And the proof is not your love towards him.
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  Speaker 3: The proof is your love towards your brother. That if
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  Speaker 3: you cannot love your brother, who you can see is
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  Speaker 3: impossible to claim who is learning now? So the love
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  Speaker 3: life of a believer is proof that the nature of
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  Speaker 3: God is at working you. These are exact references. They
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  Speaker 3: are not given. You are not giving the liberty for
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  Speaker 3: argument the love of God. When the Bible says the
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  Speaker 3: fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace in truth,
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  Speaker 3: the fruit of the Spirit is love, and then it's
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  Speaker 3: various expressions is what you find as joy, peace, and
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  Speaker 3: so on and so forth. That is the outworkings of
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  Speaker 3: the nature of God within the recreated human spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Are we learning now?
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  Speaker 3: So the first dimension of the fullness of God that
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  Speaker 3: we must see to eat, that reflected in everyone under
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  Speaker 3: our care, is the nature of God, the character of God,
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  Speaker 3: the nature of God, the character of God. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 3: the Lord is gracious and compassionate, He is slow to
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  Speaker 3: anger and rich in love. If you are going to
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  Speaker 3: reflect the Christ like him, you must also be gracious
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  Speaker 3: and compassionate, regardless your background, regardless your temperament.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Holy Goos came.
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  Speaker 3: He came as an equalizer to terrible temperaments. Are we
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  Speaker 3: together now? So once you get born again, your excuse
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  Speaker 3: of foundation is over. You cannot say it's because of
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  Speaker 3: the way I was raised. Now, I understand that, and
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  Speaker 3: I respect it. But the moment you get born again,
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  Speaker 3: you have entered into a system that can wield a
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  Speaker 3: force upon your limitations and still make you christ like.
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  Speaker 3: Who is learning the nature of Christ? Let me hurry
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  Speaker 3: up for the sake of time. Number two, the second
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  Speaker 3: dimension that represents the fullness of God as sein in Christ,
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  Speaker 3: is called the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God
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  Speaker 3: that means imbuilding men. This is the architecture that you
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  Speaker 3: labor to sit with. That Number one, the nature and
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  Speaker 3: the character of God's revealed in Christ is fashioned within them.
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  Speaker 3: Then number two, the wisdom of Christ, what the Bible
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  Speaker 3: calls the ways of God sums one hundred and three
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  Speaker 3: and verse seven. The ways of God. Now this is important,
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  Speaker 3: and the other matters. He made known his ways onto Moses,
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  Speaker 3: his acts to the children of Israel. The Bible says
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  Speaker 3: in Matthew chapter thirteen and verse eleven. Jesus was speaking.
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  Speaker 3: He said, it has been given unto you to know
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  Speaker 3: the mysteries of the Kingdom. The wisdom of God now
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  Speaker 3: as important as the nature of Christ is. If you
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  Speaker 3: stop there, you will produce and lopsided people. You have
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  Speaker 3: to in addition to planting within them the nature of Christ,
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  Speaker 3: they must manifest the wisdom of Christ, because it is
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  Speaker 3: true wisdom. A house is built, not true character. Character
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  Speaker 3: is wonderful, but.
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  Speaker 1: It is true wisdom. There are believers who have the
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  Speaker 1: nature of Christ. But you see the.
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  Speaker 3: Deficiency of the wisdom of Christ, and they do not
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  Speaker 3: attend that stature called the fullness of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Who is learning the wisdom of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Teaching after teaching, submitting yourself to the ministry of the
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  Speaker 3: teaching priests, it does something to your spiritual understanding. It says,
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  Speaker 3: let this mind be in you, which.
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  Speaker 1: Was also in Christ. Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: It is superior belief that brings superior experiences. Your experiences
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  Speaker 3: will be a reflection of your belief systems. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: I say it this way that your belief system is
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  Speaker 3: your contribution to your failure or your success. Your belief
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  Speaker 3: system is your own contribution to your failure or your success.
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  Speaker 3: The nature or the character of Christ. Number two, the
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  Speaker 3: wisdom of Christ. Number three finally is called the power
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  Speaker 3: of God or the works of Christ. You see there
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  Speaker 3: is something called the power of God, the power of
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  Speaker 3: God Matthew twenty two from verse twenty nine, the bee
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  Speaker 3: part the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: Please give it to us, Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Answered and said, unto them, ye do air, not knowing
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  Speaker 3: the scriptures nor the power of God. He wants you
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  Speaker 3: to know both, not knowing the scriptures nor the power
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  Speaker 3: of God. In Efficients chapter one, when you read from
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  Speaker 3: verse eighteen and nineteen, Paul was praying over the.
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  Speaker 1: Church in Ephisos, and he lets us know.
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  Speaker 3: He lets us into the content of his prayers, and
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  Speaker 3: he says, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that
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  Speaker 3: you may know the hope of your calling, the riches
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  Speaker 3: of the glory of the inheritance in the Saints. Let's
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  Speaker 3: read verse nineteen together and the exceeding greatness he wants
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  Speaker 3: you to know. You can know the exceeding greatness of
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  Speaker 3: His power to us. World will believe, and you can
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  Speaker 3: work in that reality. Ladies and gentlemen. The nature of
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  Speaker 3: God as revealed in Christ plus the wisdom of God
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  Speaker 3: as revealed in Christ, plus the power of God as
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  Speaker 3: revealed through the.
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  Speaker 1: Works of Christ. He calls the fullness of Christ. Now
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  Speaker 1: hear me.
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  Speaker 3: Every time you find a lopsided believer, you will trace
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  Speaker 3: it to the deficiency in the patterns yere. So we
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  Speaker 3: have various versions of believers, and you can explain that
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  Speaker 3: variation from the degree of compliance of these patterns or otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: One you can have a believer who has been mentored
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  Speaker 3: well to understand the implication of opening themselves to have
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  Speaker 3: the nature of Christ moral excellence, holiness, righteousness. But that
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  Speaker 3: person can be broke, mediocre, defeated, and you'll be wondering,
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  Speaker 3: why how can somebody who has such integrity and such
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  Speaker 3: character be defeated in life? Usually we blame it on God,
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  Speaker 3: but God is saying it is a deviation. There is
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  Speaker 3: a standard that if this gentleman followed through mentorship so
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  Speaker 3: that he will never bribe, No, he will not be corrupt.
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  Speaker 3: He would rather pay the price. And yet the gentleman
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  Speaker 3: believes that just because he has the nature of Christ,
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  Speaker 3: he has the fullness of Christ. And it desires results
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  Speaker 3: that only wisdom and power can give, and it becomes
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  Speaker 3: dangerous if you are now deceived and beguile to igno
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  Speaker 3: not other dimensions. Then number two we have those who
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  Speaker 3: have ignored this the nature of Christ, and they have
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  Speaker 3: press through sound teachings, communication of doctrine, the principles of
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  Speaker 3: the kingdom, and the laws that govern the universe. They
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  Speaker 3: have access the wisdom of Christ. They are system builders,
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  Speaker 3: They run businesses, they have a lot of things. They
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  Speaker 3: are prosperous, but they do not have character. They will
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  Speaker 3: compromise at every given opportunity. And sometimes you wonder, how
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  Speaker 3: can you be so full of light and darkness at
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  Speaker 3: the same time. It depends on how you were trained.
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  Speaker 3: Are you seeing that now? It doesn't matter. They are smart.
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  Speaker 3: They can get the contract, but they can cut corners
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  Speaker 3: and it does not matter. And then number three you
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  Speaker 3: have those who can profess high, can manifest the gifts
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  Speaker 3: of the spirits. Away together can heal and is sik body.
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  Speaker 3: But oh dear, you sit down under that atmosphere, you
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  Speaker 3: will be lean and hungry till you die, even in
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  Speaker 3: the presence of the annointing, because all you will receive
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  Speaker 3: is you will be healed and yet not be transformed.
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  Speaker 3: You will receive all kinds of prophetic world, until in
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  Speaker 3: all sincerity you become confused because your whole life you
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  Speaker 3: can't work in authority and confidence. The side effect of
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  Speaker 3: gifts a loon is that you will have fear because
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  Speaker 3: they open you up to the realm of the Spirit
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  Speaker 3: beyond your level of transformation, and you live your entire
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  Speaker 3: life I'm going to travel.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me will I die or will I leave?
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  Speaker 3: Authority becomes useless to you because you are becoming a
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  Speaker 3: slave to gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Is someone learning? Now? Now let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: No single man of God as a ministry is given
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  Speaker 3: the liberty to bring any believers to this threefold dimension alone, no.
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  Speaker 1: Matter how yielded. I'm rapping up now.
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  Speaker 3: I want to show you where the challenge most times
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  Speaker 3: in the Body of Christ is. So if there are
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  Speaker 3: people who, by reason of their alignment and your election,
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  Speaker 3: this is the area of stay to help the Body
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  Speaker 3: of Christ become a people fashioned after God in character, righteousness,
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  Speaker 3: and holiness. And the bias of your training is such
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  Speaker 3: that God trains you in such a way that you
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  Speaker 3: excel where He has called you, and that excelling can
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  Speaker 3: beguile you to imagine that any other dimension outside of
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  Speaker 3: your space is not useful. But you will see the
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  Speaker 3: deficiency of your not embracing other dimensions. So the man
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  Speaker 3: can say, I would dive for let my children eat grass.
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  Speaker 3: I will stand on my what they call it now,
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  Speaker 3: or my integrity. I agree, But that person produces a disaster.
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  Speaker 3: And if someone is to lend God through the lens
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  Speaker 3: of such a life, he will say God must be
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  Speaker 3: a wicked God, because based on that he does not
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  Speaker 3: reward holiness.
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  Speaker 1: And yet it is because he's not wholesome.
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  Speaker 3: In that expression. Then you have someone who is wise.
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  Speaker 3: I mean anything he touches becomes gold. He can tell
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  Speaker 3: you the principles of anything. He knows, the principles of influence,
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  Speaker 3: the principles of leadership, the.
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  Speaker 1: Law of honor.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible says, knows dout the ordinances of heaven, and
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  Speaker 3: canst thou establish the dominion thereof upon the earth. This
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  Speaker 3: is the assignment of wisdom. Wisdom is connected to mighty works,
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  Speaker 3: And because of the excellency of that dimension, you will
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  Speaker 3: find out that sometimes you can ignore the nature of
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  Speaker 3: Christ or ignore the power of Christ. For such people,
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  Speaker 3: the Bible says, ever learning, but never coming onto the
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  Speaker 3: knowledge of the truth, because there is a great dimension
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  Speaker 3: that makes what you have heard become profitable? Are we
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  Speaker 3: together and for most unfortunately, and with all due respect,
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  Speaker 3: especially the apostolic and the pro this is where there's
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  Speaker 3: been a very big mistake. You can be carried away
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  Speaker 3: by the abbondance of the demonstration of the gifts of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit. And because science and wanders are very
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  Speaker 3: compelling in the world of men. If someone rises up
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  Speaker 3: up on you know you're speaking. Now, someone stands up
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  Speaker 3: from a wheelchair, it's too spectacular to ignore. And chances
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  Speaker 3: are excellent that how do you now tell me? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what I'm saying, but it's possible. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. You see that now. So a
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  Speaker 3: lot of miracles have made many bad things to remain,
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  Speaker 3: because when error seems to be endorsed by a miracle,
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  Speaker 3: it's just the messy of God for the sake of
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  Speaker 3: those who have come to receive. It's not necessarily endorsing
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  Speaker 3: that limitation.
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  Speaker 1: Of the vessel.
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  Speaker 3: God will not because of the carelessness or the lack
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  Speaker 3: of growth of one man of God ignore the hunger,
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  Speaker 3: the prayer and the first.
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  Speaker 1: Thing of someone.
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  Speaker 3: There are many miracles that happen in the meeting. I
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  Speaker 3: tell you sincerely, that has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 3: man who is there. It's just that we claim credit
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  Speaker 3: because you were the one holding the mic at that point.
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is that.
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  Speaker 3: That man had been praying and he had gotten to
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  Speaker 3: the fullness of time that coincided with your preaching. So
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  Speaker 3: it may not necessarily be. Now, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 3: There should be a performance to the things that you say,
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  Speaker 3: but it is not always an endorsement. But chances are
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  Speaker 3: excellent that in the presence of such spectacular manifestation we
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  Speaker 3: take credit for it to mean God is endorsing even
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  Speaker 3: our limitations and our ignorance, And so we stop being
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  Speaker 3: students in the school of the Spirit, and people begin
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  Speaker 3: to follow after that error. Their such is for the
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  Speaker 3: miraculous and not for growth. A wise master builder, if
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  Speaker 3: you are to bring the formation of the Christ in
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  Speaker 3: his fullness, it is going to be the nature of
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  Speaker 3: Christ plus the wisdom of Christ plus.
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  Speaker 1: The power of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: This is the portrait of God, the portrait of Jesus
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  Speaker 3: that every church must contend for Now, if you do
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  Speaker 3: not have the grace to make all these three possible,
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  Speaker 3: it is your responsibility to true humility and discernment outsource
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  Speaker 3: other graces that can complement and supplement for that deficiency.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now, we're going to pray. Many of
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  Speaker 3: us are ministers of the gospel. The Lord just answered
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  Speaker 3: your question as to why there are many poor people
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  Speaker 3: in your church even though they are holy. I can
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  Speaker 3: tell you don't feel embarrassed. It is because the wisdom
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  Speaker 3: of Christ is deficient. With the intelligence of a consultant,
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  Speaker 3: you can diagnose the spiritual state of those under your
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  Speaker 3: care and know what dimension of God is deficient and
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  Speaker 3: know how to bring it. Like a doctor says, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you lack vitamin D. You lack vitamin E. Take this
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  Speaker 3: supplement for two months, and you find out that the
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  Speaker 3: pain that came as a result of lack of vitamin
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  Speaker 3: D because you are taking it.
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  Speaker 1: For some of you.
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  Speaker 3: You came for this meeting, and God is telling you
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  Speaker 3: go back and work on your own character and the
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  Speaker 3: character of those under your care.
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  Speaker 1: There is a gross.
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  Speaker 3: Deficiency of the reflection of this dimension of God's glory
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  Speaker 3: for many. I presume, with all due respect, the deficiencies
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  Speaker 3: in the area of wisdom. You see wisdom, wisdom the stuntedness.
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  Speaker 3: The absence of longevity in an impact is the bankruptcy
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  Speaker 3: of wisdom. The ups and downs are a testament that
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  Speaker 3: wisdom is missing. It's an uncomfortable truth, but it's true.
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  Speaker 3: And then for many we still lack the power. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm not just talking of falling down and standing up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about the spiritual investment upon you the way
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  Speaker 3: without to bring performance to your speakings, because the assignment
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  Speaker 3: of the annointing is to bring validation to the speakings
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  Speaker 3: of God. If the word of God does not proceed,
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  Speaker 3: the annointing does not have any assignment. The assignment of
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  Speaker 3: the world of God is to bring validation, to insist
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  Speaker 3: that God did not lie. So if you have the
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  Speaker 3: truth and you do not have the power that backs
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  Speaker 3: the truth, the.
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  Speaker 1: Truth will soon look like a lie. Are we together Jesus?
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  Speaker 3: As the Word said you would die and rise again
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  Speaker 3: after three days. That was the truth. But it took
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  Speaker 3: power to raise him. That same power.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't take truth again.
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  Speaker 3: Truth made the statement. Power defended the statement. So you
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  Speaker 3: can teach the truth, but you need the power that
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  Speaker 3: backs up truth upon your people, so it stops it
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  Speaker 3: from being.
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  Speaker 1: A lectural You tell people.
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  Speaker 3: God is the lifter, and teach them the principles the
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  Speaker 3: love of honor, the love of relationships. But whilst you
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  Speaker 3: are teaching, you are aware that there is an invisible transaction.
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  Speaker 3: There is an importation happening. Someone is saying, Wow, I'm
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  Speaker 3: learning the love of honor. Then the enabling power of
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  Speaker 3: the Spirit is resting upon them. Do you know that
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  Speaker 3: to obey the truth requires grace? There is something called
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  Speaker 3: the doing grace. It says, now that you know these things,
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  Speaker 3: happy are you when you do them? They heard the
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  Speaker 3: word just like we did. They didn't yet a lie,
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  Speaker 3: but they could not perform it. It's a son of man,
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  Speaker 3: stand up upon your feeties. He kills after tw one
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  Speaker 3: verse one. He didn't have the power to stand. He
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  Speaker 3: hurt the truth, but the grace to stand what's not there? Then,
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  Speaker 3: it says, the spirit and tidy, the spirit and toady.
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  Speaker 3: There is an engracing and this is the dimension. And
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  Speaker 3: the dynamics for working in these dimensions are different. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: one day God will give us grace to discuss them.
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  Speaker 3: How you build the nature of Christ is different from
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  Speaker 3: how you build the wisdom of Christ is different from
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  Speaker 3: how you build the power of Christ. So don't tell
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  Speaker 3: me you are doing spiritual exercises for which goal?
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  Speaker 1: Which one are you doing prayer?
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  Speaker 3: And first thing is wonderful and it helps, But it
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  Speaker 3: does not get all of these things at once. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's an uncomfortable truth. But the held, dear, I tell
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  Speaker 3: you it all humility. You believe me on this. There
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  Speaker 3: are people who want the nature of Christ. There are
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  Speaker 3: the spiritual dynamics that builds within you.
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  Speaker 1: The nature of Christ is.
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  Speaker 3: There are variations when you want to contend for the
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  Speaker 3: wisdom of Christ. You see, you can build the nature
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  Speaker 3: of Christ alone through consecration, through prayer, through repentance. You
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  Speaker 3: can't build wisdom alone. You need to be taught. It says,
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  Speaker 3: how can I understand except some man teach me?
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 3: You can stay alone and cry repentance, pour out your heart.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need anybody when it has to do with
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  Speaker 3: building the nature of Christ. Your secret place is your
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  Speaker 3: real secret. But when it has to do with building wisdom,
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  Speaker 3: the house of God. When I came to the House
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  Speaker 3: of God, then understood I the ministry of the teaching priests,
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  Speaker 3: methodically helping you, line upon line, precept upon precept. I
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  Speaker 3: have to wrap up words lands something why master builders.
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  Speaker 1: The one who number one realizes that I am a
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  Speaker 1: co laborer with God.
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  Speaker 3: In any dimension at all. Ministry business leadership Number two.
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  Speaker 3: A wise master builder understands that there is a standard.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible calls it the fullness of God, the fullness
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  Speaker 3: of the measure of the stature of Christ. So that
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  Speaker 3: when you go back to your various churches, as you
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  Speaker 3: stand on the pulpit, you are not looking at congregants.
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  Speaker 3: You are looking at people who have been trusted. God
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  Speaker 3: gave them to you as a trust, and you must
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  Speaker 3: account for them. John seventeen. All that you have given
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  Speaker 3: me I have kept, and none is lost except the
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  Speaker 3: son of Perdition, and that scripture might be fulfilled. Do
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  Speaker 3: you know Jesus had to account for Judas. He had
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  Speaker 3: to explain why Judas fell, and he said, look, it's
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  Speaker 3: a son of Perdition. There is a prophecy that will
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  Speaker 3: be betrayed. Unfortunately he partnered with that word. That's how
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  Speaker 3: he landed there. God, how to how to explain that?
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  Speaker 3: For many of us here, listen to me. I'm rapping up.
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  Speaker 1: Now. You see that you will be careful where you
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  Speaker 1: are crying.
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  Speaker 3: For increase, Lord, what you gave for support you in
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  Speaker 3: most common disconference, and God is saying, hold on, I
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  Speaker 3: don't have a problem bringing increase. But it becomes a
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  Speaker 3: risk you become and not that kind of error that
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  Speaker 3: will be sold.
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  Speaker 1: And you see, the.
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  Speaker 3: Thing about error is that it travels almost at the
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  Speaker 3: same rate as truth. So until it that makes this
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people because it takes a lot of
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  Speaker 3: courage to stop error. The person who becomes the one
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  Speaker 3: annointed to stop error must be prepared to be.
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  Speaker 1: Wounded with many blows. You have to be wound dead. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: It is once you are wound.
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  Speaker 3: Dead, then people eventually see that, oh this is true,
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  Speaker 3: but for the time being, and not many people who
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  Speaker 3: have that courage to stand the way of error until
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  Speaker 3: it stops. So it continues sometimes transgenerationally. I wish we
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  Speaker 3: had the time would have spoken about a man in
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  Speaker 3: the Bible called Balam, would have followed the progression of
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  Speaker 3: how that guy got into a disaster away together. He
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  Speaker 3: started from the error of Balam. It was an error,
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  Speaker 3: then eventually it became a way of baalam. By the
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  Speaker 3: time we get to revelation, it had become the doctrine
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  Speaker 3: of Balam. God told you by only three cars that
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  Speaker 3: his unique dealing your obedience produced great results. And you
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  Speaker 3: mentored people after that, and he started becoming a way
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  Speaker 3: all the people who come from you. And for someone
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  Speaker 3: his assigment demands tenkers, because you'll be giving a lot
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  Speaker 3: of them. You now meet his assignment stunted in honor
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  Speaker 3: to what you call revelation, until eventually, because of the
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  Speaker 3: excellency of your obedience, it now becomes a doctrine. Are
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  Speaker 3: we together, we're going to be praying. We're celebrating a
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  Speaker 3: man today. And I say this in all sincerity. Thirty
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  Speaker 3: years of consistency, thirty years of grace. Only God knows
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  Speaker 3: the giants that have been brought down, the worlds that
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  Speaker 3: have been pushed the troops that have been pushed through.
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  Speaker 3: And we're not just here to celebrate, but we're here
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  Speaker 3: to learn and to inspire ourselves. If you see the
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  Speaker 3: Covenant Nation standing, then I believe that it is because
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  Speaker 3: God has brought longevity to this ministry in honor to
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  Speaker 3: its degree of compliance to Satan. The lesson is that
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  Speaker 3: all of us must examine ourselves first in light of this,
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  Speaker 3: To what degree can you say the character of the
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  Speaker 3: Christ has been formed in you. And when it has
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  Speaker 3: to do with this thing of character, but there are
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  Speaker 3: no generals there. Let me tell you upfront. There are
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  Speaker 3: generals in revelation. There are signs and wonders, generals. But
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  Speaker 3: when it has to do with the nature of Christ,
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  Speaker 3: it must become our consistent pursuit per day to become
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  Speaker 3: more like Him, to become more like him, Paul said,
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  Speaker 3: that I may know him. Paul cried, desiring his conformity
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  Speaker 3: as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. At the
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  Speaker 3: zenith of his apostolic ministry, Paul opened up his frustration
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  Speaker 3: battling the flesh and the spirit, and he said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you a true confession. I serve the
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  Speaker 3: Lord with my spirit. But it says within my body,
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  Speaker 3: I find another law walking within my members, such that
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  Speaker 3: the things I want to do I do find myself
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  Speaker 3: doing them. And the things that I do not want
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  Speaker 3: to do, I find myself doing them. Paul said, old
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  Speaker 3: wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from
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  Speaker 3: this body of death. The one who casted out demons
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  Speaker 3: is crying for help and messy. So when it has
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  Speaker 3: to do with this issue, of character, godliness, moral excellence.
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  Speaker 3: I can't if we give past supporach to the mic
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  Speaker 3: to come and help us.
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  Speaker 1: I am sure you will tell us stories.
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  Speaker 3: There are people who scattered their testimony at their.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine year so you can be too old to fall.
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  Speaker 3: When it has to do with the issue of character,
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  Speaker 3: we must learn to hold onto the forehunds of the altar,
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  Speaker 3: obtaining messy by God. And out of the abundance of
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  Speaker 3: that messy we have received, we communicate same to those
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  Speaker 3: who are under a care who's understood me so far?
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  Speaker 1: It's true? And then the wisdom of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Don't come here and just be admired and add admire
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  Speaker 3: all the things that God has done through the Man
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  Speaker 3: of God. Learn everything you see that makes this ministry
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  Speaker 3: work is a product of wisdom. Wisdom is connected to
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  Speaker 3: mighty works. Learn what do I need to add to
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  Speaker 3: my church or my organization. I don't understand people's skills.
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  Speaker 3: I need to go and get a book. Don't say
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  Speaker 3: it's all necessary because you are praying the Bible. Say
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  Speaker 3: add to this, this, add to this, this, add to this, this.
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  Speaker 3: It's say if you do that, you will be entire
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  Speaker 3: lacking nothing and then for the power of God, we
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  Speaker 3: have other sessions, and I trust that within the course
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  Speaker 3: of this conference, God will expose us to the truths
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  Speaker 3: that will build afresh and everyone again this threefold dimension.
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  Speaker 3: Is it all right to say, word of prayer, let's
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  Speaker 3: rise upon our feet.
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  Speaker 1: You are the one that we pray.
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  Speaker 3: You are the one we here at all. You give
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  Speaker 3: the healing, angrace, the heart.
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  Speaker 1: Always hunger, oh heart, so.
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  Speaker 3: Always, just one prayer point, Father, you obtain grace, I
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  Speaker 3: obtain messy. Someone cry celebrating thirty years of your faithfulness
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  Speaker 3: over this church, over this ministry, over God's servant in ministry.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead and obtain grace, the doing, grace, the keeping.
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  Speaker 1: Grace.
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  Speaker 3: Someone, go ahead and pray that by the ministry of
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit, that God will walk upon you to
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  Speaker 3: deepen your consecration, walk upon you to cry like never before,
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  Speaker 3: to have the nature of Christ manifested in you, inexperience
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  Speaker 3: the love life, the character of the Christ, messy, compassion,
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  Speaker 3: love for God and for one another, and for the
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  Speaker 3: people that you lead, for someone you are crying for wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: It's time to step up to a level of wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: Wisdom that walks, wisdom that walks, not ignorance laced with pride,
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  Speaker 3: wisdom that walks. And then for someone you are crying
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  Speaker 3: for the power of God, because you are entering a
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  Speaker 3: season of performance. Mary said, how shall these things be?
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  Speaker 3: Seeing that I know not a man. There are many
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  Speaker 3: projects that some of us have. It needs the power
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  Speaker 3: of God. Take a minute to pray and let it
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  Speaker 3: be from the depth of your heart.