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Apostle Joshua Selman - Impact 2025 Conference (Day 5 Morning Session) | 04·12·2025 · Selah Media House

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  An incontestable. I would always give this
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  example. If a room has been dark for 10
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  years, then another room has been dark for two years, left in
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  darkness. Then we have a third room dark
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  for one year. And we have a fourth room dark
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  for two weeks, and we have a 5th room dark for one day.
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  How many rooms now? 5 rooms, 10 years dark, five
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  years dark, two years dark, one year dark, and maybe, you know,
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  one day dark. If you switch on the light bulb,
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  which of the rooms will on 1st? Talk to me, intelligent people.
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  All that means the longevity of darkness does not affect the
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  dominion of light. As soon as light comes, it does
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  not factor in that darkness has been there for 10 years, or five
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  years or two years or one year or one day.
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  That that is unimportant as far as the dominion of light is
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  concerned. So it doesn't matter how long
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  you have been stunted, you have been stagnated provided.
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  It is the true light. The Bible says that was the true
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  light that lighted every man. There are false lights, they
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  carry a semblance of dominion, but they are not able to
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  deliver. I pray for you, in the name of
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  Jesus, that through the sessions will be running this morning.
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  May you find the missing key. May you find the missing step.
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  May you? Close the gaps.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, one more time, let me encourage you
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  to say a prayer on to the Lord. My heart is open.
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  Show me the answer. My heart is open.
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  Lead me from where I am now to where I need to be.
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  Thank God for what I've seen so far in business, in ministry, in
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  leadership. Thank God for the strides, the
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  accomplishments so far, but my heart is open.
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  My heart is open, I know there is more.
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  My heart is open, I know there is more.
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  I've seen the sick healed, but I know there is more.
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  I have prophesied before, but I know there is more.
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  I've seen you prosper me, but I know there is more.
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  I've tasted of Kingdom influence, but I know there is
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  more. In Jesus name we pray.
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  There are two ways to be transformed in the Kingdom.
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  Transformation is the name given to the process that makes you
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  become like Jesus in experience. Transformation is not just a
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  shift in mental state. It's not just a shift in
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  spiritual state. Moving from one state to the to
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  another is not transformation. Moving from where you are to
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  become more like Jesus is what we call transformation.
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  So transformation is the name given to the process that makes
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  you become like the Christ. Inexperience.
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  And there are two ways to experience transformation as a
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  believer #1 it is called looking on to Jesus.
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  When you look on to Jesus, particularly through the
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  Scripture, you are transformed, the Bible says.
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  He. That looks onto the perfect law
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  of liberty that you look onto Jesus as you gaze upon Scripture
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  and through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  Now the Lord is that Spirit it says, and where the Spirit of
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  the Lord is, there is liberty says what we all with unveiled
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  face beholding us in the mirror, the glory of God, it says we are
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  changed. Is someone learning already?
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  We are changed from glory to glory.
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  So when you want to transform a people, the first thing you have
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  to do is to fix before them the reference Jesus.
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  Transformation is difficult without a reference.
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  You can't change into nothing. There has to be a pictorial
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  representation of what you are becoming.
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  The first way we are transformed, and the first way
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  we transform people as leaders is to guide them so that they
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  look on to Jesus #2 the second way people are transformed is to
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  be followers of them. The power of structured
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  mentorship, the Bible says, And be ye followers of them who
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  through faith and patience have obtained the promise.
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  There are some them, men and women, who have paid the price.
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  In every generation. There are always some them.
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  They may not be many, but they are.
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  You will always find these them in every generation, in every
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  territory. They represent men and women who
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  have made mistakes and are willing to show you their pain.
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  Men and women who have fished out their way out of pain, out
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  of obscurity. They have found light.
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  They have found power. They found the way it works.
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  Some of them paid a huge price to get to that place.
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  And in honor to their sacrifice, God anoints them and causes them
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  to be portraits. They represent his
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  possibilities. They become living epistles, so
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  that as you learn their life, as you follow them, as you study
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  their materials, you also experience transformation.
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  Looking onto Jesus, the first way we are transformed #2
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  followers of them who through faith and patience have
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  obtained, not are obtaining. Those who are on their way
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  Obtaining can inspire you, but you follow them who have
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  obtained the promise. Not those who are talking about
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  the promise. Not those who wish the promise.
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  Someone who is yet to hold on to the healing anointing can guide
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  you. There's no knowledge that is a
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  waste. But if you really want to carry
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  the healing anointing, then you have to follow and receive from
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  one who has proven that the grace has come.
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  You don't use faith that is coming.
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  You don't use grace that is coming.
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  You use what has arrived. Hallelujah.
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  You can learn from anyone to prosper.
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  A poor man can teach you something, a failure can teach
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  you something. But if you really want to
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  prosper in a structured way financially, you will have to
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  follow someone who has seen, who has conquered, not by mistake,
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  not just by inheriting it. You see that now?
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  Let me tell you this. Every kind of result that you
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  cannot transfer to someone was not gotten by mastery.
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  Any dimension in the spirit you are not able to explain and
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  bring others into the same experience.
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  It means you did not get there by light.
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  If ministry is growing by knowledge, you should be able to
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  bring someone else into that experience.
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  If your finances is growing by knowledge, you should be able to
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  bring someone into that experience.
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  That's why a professor in college can gather young, you
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  know? Admitted students and tell them
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  in six years I will turn you into doctors.
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  It looks like he's arrogant, but he's not arrogant.
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  One, he's a professor 2 There's a manual.
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  He knows what they will become. Are we together?
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  My prayer for you this morning is that you leave the realm of
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  guessing. And hoping and journey with me
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  into the realm of mastery where you can lay hold on eternal
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  life, where you can know that your future is secured.
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  Not by guessing, not just shouting in church and say, oh,
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  I will make it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  You have mustered the mysteries of the Kingdom.
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  You know you can't fail again. This is beyond just confession.
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  You have surrounded yourself with revelations like Chariots.
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  You know, you cannot fail. Hallelujah.
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  Oh, there is such a realm. There is such a realm of
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  persuasion. There is such a realm of
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  conviction. There is such a realm of
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  intention. There is such a realm of
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  mastery. And the Bible says he that
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  strives for mastery is not crown, except he strives
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  lawfully, lawfully. Hallelujah.
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  There are three things I want to talk about.
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  This is a ministers and leadership session and there are
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  three things that I want to talk about and I will capture my
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  discussion. I'm just going to share my heart
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  with us across three areas. Number one, I want us to
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  reexamine the mission. That we have.
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  As ministers of the gospel and leaders, I like us to look
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  closely to the mission. What exactly is your mission as
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  a preacher? What is your mission as a
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  leader? Whether business, whether
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  political #2 The second area that I want us to look at this
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  morning is the vessel. What kind of person can achieve
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  that mission? Because not everyone can achieve
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  that mission. There is a kind of person who
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  can become a leader globally. There is a kind of person who
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  can become a preacher and birth the purposes of God as he's
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  tended. And then #3 we'll look at the
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  strategy. We'll be examining why in many
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  regards the people we seek to raise are they seem to come out
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  as poor products. I want us to reason together
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  what is wrong? Why is it that in spite of the
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  fact that we have many churches in Nigeria, many churches in
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  Africa, many churches in Ghana, many churches in Kenya, many
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  churches in South Africa, it looks like the the nation, the
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  territory is not feeling the weight and the impact of the
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  church. So what exactly is wrong?
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  Something must be wrong when terrorists come into a nation,
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  Give them two years. The nation begins to feel the
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  impact of the terrorists. They don't have any organized
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  institution. They hide, and yet their impact
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  cannot be hidden. You find kidnappings, you find
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  burnings, you find bombings, and even though we do not believe in
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  them, we are forced to respect their presence, that they are
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  around within a territory. How come we have so many pastors
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  and churches? We fall, we stand, we prophecy
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  over one another, we preach, we hold conferences, and literally
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  there are territories that are not even aware that God is
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  moving. By God's grace this morning,
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  we'll solve that problem in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Thank you, Jesus. So let's examine our mission and
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  I'd like you to forgive my bias. Even though I'm speaking to
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  leaders, business leaders, I will not leave you behind, but
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  allow my bias because most of it will be tilted towards leaders
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  in ministry. Men and women of God, pastors
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  and you know, imagine leaders within the church.
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  Hallelujah. Now, the Bible did not leave us
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  in the dark as to God's expectation for us as far as the
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  mission of the church is concerned.
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  The church as an institution, the church as a collection of
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  God's people, the church as God's strategy for frontiering
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  His program, manifesting the grace and the glory of Jesus,
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  was not left in the dark as to the full scope of our mission.
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  But I submit to you, and that without sounding arrogant, that
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  many Bible schools, many schools of ministry, many theological
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  training institutes have not done well in helping the church
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  and in helping emerging leaders, pastors understand the mission
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  of the church. The average believer, the
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  average pastor, cannot articulate with intelligence the
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  full scope of the mission of the church.
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  We know it theologically to be the Great Commission, but even
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  that has not been complete. So people pick pieces of the
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  Great Commission. And when your understanding of
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  the mission is faulty, your delivery will also be faulty.
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  Accurate delivery starts from an accurate, holistic understanding
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  of the mission. So if I give a mic and tell any
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  pastor or leader here without embarrassing you, tell us what
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  exactly when you stand on Sunday?
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  Or any other day, or when you are invited to speak at a
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  conference, what exactly do you seek to achieve, regardless what
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  topic of discussion? When you sit before people as
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  their pastor, as their prophet, as their apostle, what are you
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  communicating? What kind of products?
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  I came into this beautiful nation yesterday and I've taken
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  a few drinks, I've taken your bottles of water and I, the
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  manufacturers already had the end product in mind.
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  Am I right on that? No one begins to work out
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  products, maybe juicing fruits, and without a knowledge of what
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  the end should. Be so I want to very quickly,
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  without wasting your time, I want to give you what I believe
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  is the most concise presentation of the Great Commission.
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  There are three scriptures in the Bible that must be combined
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  together to give us a whole picture of the mission of the
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  church and the mission of every man of God.
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  So let's examine them very quickly.
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  Scripture number one is found in Mark chapter 16, and we'll begin
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  our reading from verse 15. Let's hurry up so that we can
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  see what progress we make. Are we learning something
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  already this morning? And he said unto them, the He
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  been Jesus, go ye into all the world.
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  What was the command? Go ye, someone shall go ye.
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  That's an action word. I'm happy I'm talking to action
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  people. Go ye into all the world and
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  preach. Someone say preach.
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  So the first command is to go and preach.
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  And it says to preach the gospel to every creature, go ye into
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  all the world. It didn't say wait for them to
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  come, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every
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  creature. Now most preachers stop here.
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  Most discipleship platforms stop here.
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  As powerful as this is, if this is your only understanding of
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  the mission of the church, then you only have 1 / 3 of the
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  mission of the church. Go ye and preach the gospel,
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  someone say preach the gospel like you're following me.
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  Say preach the gospel. So you were told what to preach.
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  The word preach means to declare.
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  The word preach means to proclaim.
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  So the first mission is to proclaim the Gospel.
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  And if you want to understand what the gospel is, I may not
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  have the time to run it down for you.
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  But the gospel here is the gospel of salvation.
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  The gospel of salvation is not the only gospel.
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  There are 7 gospels, 1 of it, and the foundational gospel is
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  called the Gospel of Salvation, that is the declaration of the
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  love of God revealed in and through the substitutionary
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  sacrifice of Jesus to the end that all who believe might have
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  won the forgiveness of sin #2 the gift of righteousness #3 the
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  life of God, what you call eternal life.
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  That is a gospel. You find that in First
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  Corinthians 15, one to four. First Corinthians 15 one to
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  four. John 316.
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  All these together give you a collection of the Gospel of
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  salvation. But very quickly, for the sake
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  of time, let me give you the second piece of the Great
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  Commission. So the first piece has to do
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  with going to preach the gospel. Second Commission, Matthew
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  chapter 28. Let's begin our reading from
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  verse 18, Matthew 28, and verse 18.
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  And Jesus came and speak unto them, saying all power, the word
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  power. There's the word authority.
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  I told us yesterday that God, as God cannot have authority, but
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  when He became a man He was given power and authority.
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  Are we together now? All authorities given unto me in
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  heaven and in the earth? Verse 19 Read again, Go ye are
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  you seeing another? Go ye there now how many go ye?
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  Have we seen 2? The first go ye is to go.
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  Ye and preach. The second go ye now is to go ye
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  and teach. Everybody say go ye and teach.
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  So he says to teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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  the Father, Son, Holy Ghost 20. And teaching them this one is
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  not preaching, this one is teaching, this one is
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  discipline. Nations, It says, teach them to
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  observe all things. Are you saying that you don't
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  teach the gospel? You preach the gospel.
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  But there are other all things. It says teach them the things I
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  have commanded you, living by faith, walking in love.
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  These are the elements of discipleship.
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  It says teach them. And while you are at that, be
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  assured that I am with you all way to the ends of the earth.
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  So if we preach alone and we do not teach, I'll tell you what
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  we're doing. It's like going to the sea to
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  fish. When you catch the fish, you
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  leave it there. You know what happens.
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  It will rot, it will smell and you begin to cause trouble for
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  you in the boat. Is why the evangelist will go
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  and preach and bring in the souls, but when the teaching
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  ministry fails to take over, you have many people in church.
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  They stay long in church, They are born again, but they are not
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  transformed, they are not renewed.
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  The flesh is still alive. And overtime we give them
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  positions of leadership without transformation, without growth,
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  and they keep causing trouble in church.
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  And we are wondering truly, you saw the man say, but there's
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  nothing in him that looks like Jesus Christ.
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  The lost is still there. The tendency for stealing is
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  still there. That is the assignment of the
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  teaching ministry. The teaching ministry now begins
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  to work in partnership with the Holy Spirit and the Word of God
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  to transform His thinking. Salvation does not transform the
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  mind of a man. No, it's a spirit affair is a
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  teaching ministry that begins to introduce that person to the
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  culture of the Kingdom. So you find someone who is safe,
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  but he does not know how to lead by faith.
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  He does not know how to walk by love, walk in love.
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  He does not know the value of prayer.
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  He does not know the value of fasting.
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  He does not know how to use his God-given authority to rot
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  victory. It is not the problem of the
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  evangelist. The discipleship of that person
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  is poor. And can I tell you, discipleship
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  is how you raise reformers who transform society.
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  Without discipleship, you cannot have the human resources that
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  transform society. Is someone learning now?
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  So the second element of the Great Commission.
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  Is the teaching ministry the third?
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  Let's go there quickly. I'm explaining for you the
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  mission of the church, and that should be the assignment of
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  every pastor. Acts chapter 1 and verse 8.
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  But ye shall receive power. After that the Holy Ghost is
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  come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses.
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  Notice the third Commission does not depend on going, it depends
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  on becoming, even though there are jurisdictions with.
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  But the idea is not to go and do something.
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  The idea is to become a witness. Ye shall be witnesses unto me in
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  Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the
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  earth. So here we have 3 scriptures
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  that give us a complete balanced picture of the mission of the
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  church #1 to preach the gospel #2 to disciple nations through
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  the teaching of the world, a communication of doctrine, and
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  the mysteries of the Kingdom #3. To become witnesses, My God,
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  this is powerful. That means no pastor has
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  finished his assignment until the people who are saved become
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  witnesses. The final product is not
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  membership. The final product is witnesses.
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  Watch this. Ghana is very good in farming
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  cocoa. Am I right on that?
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  How many of you know that you do not get the maximum yield from
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  your cocoa as a raw material? You can farm it and if you don't
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  process it, others will buy it, process it and sell it back to
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  you, am I right? So when you have a believer, a
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  believer is like a a newly born believer is like a product.
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  You have to pass that believer through a system and never stop
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  until the believer's name changes.
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  From a believer to a witness. Listen to me.
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  Please listen carefully. The only group of believers who
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  can represent the purposes of God to his satisfaction are
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  called witnesses, not church attendance.
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  No. A believer, just being a
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  believer, does not have the weight, the intelligence, the
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  training and the understanding to bet the program of God and to
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  transform society. No.
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  When you give a medical student his admission letter, do you
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  call him a doctor? Talk to me please.
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  The admission letter is not the same as a certificate.
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  The admission letter is an invitation to a journey.
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  Am I right on that? Do you call a 500 level medical
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  student a doctor even though he's gone so far?
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  If he decides to leave, will you give him the MB or MBBS?
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  No, he came that close, but missing one exam can be killing
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  hundred people in the hospital, so he has to stay.
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  Have you seen the problem with the church now?
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  So the problem with the church is either an evangelism problem
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  or a discipleship problem or an empowerment problem.
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  This is where the problems are. If you find the church
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  ineffective in any society, we need to investigate whether the
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  evangelists are doing their work, is there in gathering, Are
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  we together? Because as fathers are dying,
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  transiting, joining the cloud of witnesses, they are leaving
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  gaps. There is a shift and when there
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  is a shift and there are no ones coming from you know the wall
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  into that system of training, eventually you will find a gap.
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  The church is like a factory turning sinners into witnesses,
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  turning sinners into witnesses, and there is a three-step
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  process that turns any. Sinner into a witness.
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  The first step is called salvation.
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  Whoever does not encounter salvation cannot become a
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  witness. Short attendance does not
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  automatically translate. A person to a witness.
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  You can be around the church for a long time.
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  Learn the church language, learn the church music.
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  There are many unbelievers who sing wonderful short songs.
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  It doesn't make them Christians. Salvation, and I'm sorry to tell
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  you this, there are many of our pulpits today that have
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  downplayed and de emphasized the subject of salvation sometimes.
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  In in a pursuit to teach the deeper things of the Kingdom, we
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  forget the fact that even the postgraduate student must start
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  by receiving an admission letter.
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  He has to be an undergraduate fest.
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  Then you become a postgraduate student.
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  You cannot pick a student from secondary school and because you
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  feel is exceptionally intelligent, you take him
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  immediately to postgraduate studies.
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  It doesn't work that way. Is the same way you pick someone
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  who is not born again. And then you give him
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  responsibilities in church simply because he was a popular
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  musician before he got born again.
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  You don't inherit growth in the Kingdom.
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  It doesn't matter your achievements, once you are saved
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  you. Start as a child.
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  Are we together now? Let me say this pastors, this is
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  the pastors meeting or not. People who have done well before
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  they got born again. But never commit to them
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  spiritual responsibilities simply because they excelled in
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  the secular. The business of the Kingdom is
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  different from academics and intellect while dealing with the
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  powers of darkness and the destinies of men.
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  Hallelujah. So if you were a secular
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  musician, for instance, and then you get born again under me, you
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  are not. Holding the mic?
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  No, no. I will appreciate you for your
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  investment and your gift, but you will sit down and be
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  mentored. You have no idea what you just
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  came into. The celebrity mentality is still
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  in you. And if it is not dealt with, the
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  pulpit will still become the spotlight to have been itching
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  to have. And sooner or later, rebellion
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  will come. The flesh will come.
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  Are we together? And sometimes as ministers of
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  the gospel, we make that mistake.
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  So a very successful businessman just comes in and in three
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  months with no knowledge of the Kingdom.
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  But he's a good man and he gives with all due respect, and please
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  don't find it as an offense. Suddenly we give them all kinds
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  of ordination without knowledge, and they handle expensive
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  positions and destroy the destinies of people not knowing
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  what to do. Are we together?
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  The Bible says US newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the
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  world by which you grow. You can know a person is
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  discipled because discipleship cultures you.
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  It cultures the way you speak when you see a young man who has
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  been mentored. I'm not talking of one who is
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  coming to church. There are things you look out
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  for, living by faith, walking in love, the dignity of respect,
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  death to the flesh. These are the things that
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  produce powerful people. And can I tell you this over?
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  I hope I'm right. I don't know how it works in
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  Ghana, but over 60 to 70% of those who eventually get to
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  government come from the church. That means if there's something
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  wrong there, we need to examine what we're doing here.
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  Are we together? There are very specific elements
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  of discipleship. 1 of it is walking in love, one of it is
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  living by faith. 1 of it is death to the flesh. 1 of it is
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  victory over Mammon. Are we together now?
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  One of it is selflessness. Now when you mentor a person
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  that way and you release that kind of product, it is true that
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  we're human, but you have created a benchmark.
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  That person becomes a blessing to society.
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  You imagine ordaining a group of pastors, not just pastors that
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  you taught where to go and pastor for you, but you help
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  them understand the sacrifice of Jesus, how to tame the flesh,
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  how to walk in love, how to not be competitive, the value of
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  productivity, the balance of the world, teaching doctrine.
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  They understand the fundamental doctrines of the Christian
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  faith. When that person holds the mic,
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  blessed are the ears that hear such a person.
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  So as complicated as the problems around the church are,
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  they can be reduced to two or three major problems.
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  And if you solve it, that's the end of it.
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  Most of the troubles that we have in church, in business, in
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  government, I can tell you products don't create problems.
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  It is people that create a problem.
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  Is largely a people problem if somebody is corrupt.
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  Corruption is the name given to a process that was sustained by
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  a person. If I pick up 100 Ghana CD right
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  now, that money is neutral, but I can make it do many things.
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  I can pick up that 100 Ghana CD. And I can give someone to go and
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  grab a meal. I have made that money to serve
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  the purpose of God and the purpose of love.
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  I can pick the same Ghana CD and buy something and take that
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  would destroy me. Or I can pick the same 100 Ghana
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  CD. Are we together and then
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  encourage someone to go and kill someone and take it or do
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  something else. You see the money is not the
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  problem. It assume the state of his
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  possessor. This is the major place.
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  So we have many, many people graduating from seminaries, from
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  schools of ministry, from Bible colleges, and getting into
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  ministry, handling the pulpit and sometimes because of the way
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  the power of God, you see, the power of God is very magnetic.
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  It can draw people in a moment, but when they come?
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  Then you find out they are ill fed not because the person
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  feeding them is wicked. He can only teach what he knows.
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  You want to change society? Minimize your shouting around
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  government. Come to the Church when we can
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  correct many things in the Church, because in most
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  territories in Africa, the governments respect the Church
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  at least in some way. That means transformation at a
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  national level is very easy. Well, bless us and as the
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  African continent to have, you know, government and leaders in
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  various ways, at least they are sympathetic to the things of
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  God. It's an advantage.
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  The idea is not to roam around them trying to collect money
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  from them. The idea is to go and tell them,
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  listen, I have something I can teach you.
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  I can help you. Imagine a discipled business
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  strategist or a discipled leader going to do a 2 day.
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  Seminar for Members in Parliament.
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  You don't need to be a fanatic, but you would transport the
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  intelligence of your discipleship and weave it
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  through the secular program and produce a people with a strong
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  sense of nationhood. Are we learning now?
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  Pastors, please listen to me. Be humble enough to go back to
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  the drawing board and ask yourself this question.
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  What kind of products? Am I producing from my sermons?
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  What kind of products? Because you will be judged.
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  There are three kinds of men of God fake.
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  Ignorant, efficient and accurate.
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  Most people think they are just two, a fake man of God and a
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  real man of God. No, there are many real men of
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  God destroying others. You can be genuine, but if you
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  are not equipped you will still destroy what's done.
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  A fake person. So the idea is not just to be a
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  genuine man of God. The idea is to be an effective
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  man of God, effective man of God.
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  I made a covenant with myself that all the people God has
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  brought to me apostolically and across the globe, I see it as a
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  trust and I owe them building their destinies, building their
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  lives with every sermon. Doesn't matter what I say, I
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  know that I owe an explanation on to God.
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  I can't wake up and stand on the pulpit and teach them nonsense
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  and jest and joke around and share the grace and leave.
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  No, someones efficiency depends on my sermons and if God has
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  given me that honor then I should not betray that honor.
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  Is someone learning now? So, preachers, you see that we
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  have a lot of repentance to do because, sincerely speaking,
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  some of us have converted the puppet to a place of jesting and
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  merchandise and all kinds of drama that goes on.
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  We waste the time of God's people.
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  They give us two hours of your time, 3 hours of your time.
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  A man will carry his wife and children, come to church and
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  leave a more foolish version of himself.
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  He was better off. He remained at home because for
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  two hours he kept hearing things that were not laced with wisdom.
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  No, intelligence is not pragmatic, not life applicable.
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  I'll tell you this, I have studied church growth.
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  One of the elements of church growth is the pragmatism and the
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  applicability of your sermons. Not everybody.
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  Is looking for. Bread.
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  There are people who are already blessed.
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  They are coming to learn at their level there.
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  There are certain kinds of people you can never have in
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  your congregation if you do not upgrade your understanding laced
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  with a life of discipline and diligence.
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  There's a way you jump around and misbehave.
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  As a man of God, you have placed an embargo on yourself and your
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  church. Serious, responsible people will
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  not come and sit down that way. No, they are too serious to joke
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  their lives around. I hope you are not offended.
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  I'm sorry. It's a leadership session.
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  Hallelujah. Worst off you see.
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  And those who have the finances to support you are not jokers.
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  They examine you. They are not intelligent people.
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  Some of them are doctors, professors, learned people.
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  They have stretched their intellect from border to border.
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  The fact that they are listening to you patiently does not mean
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  they are impressed. They assess you, your character,
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  your manner, your doctrine, the purity of what you are
• 38:55
  communicating. It is from those lens they
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  decide whether they want to support you or not.
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  There are people who said no, my $1.00 will not go to this man.
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  I'd rather give it to a charity organization.
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  They have concluded you are not. Serious and pastors, let me give
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  you an advice. Don't be beguiled by every clap
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  that happens after your statements.
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  Sometimes it's just ignorant people enjoying themselves.
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  I'm not. I'm not.
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  I'm not insulting you. Please don't.
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  Don't find I'm telling you that sometimes pastors say a lot of
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  unwise things and people just shout and they.
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  Really believe they are making sense.
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  I will say this in the evening. It's all talking to ourselves.
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  Hallelujah. Now please allow me allow me to
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  say what to younger ministers, those who are on campus, and
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  other ministries. Let me give you a quick advice.
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  Beware of who mentors you. Beware of what you learn so you
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  don't shred your destiny into pieces.
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  I don't know how it works around the campuses here, but my
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  goodness. There are campuses you go to.
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  You see a young boy yet to get his left and right in place.
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  He has APA, he has secretaries, he has all kinds of things.
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  Now, I'm not downplaying all those things, but someone sold
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  that idea. They saw somebody, they had
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  somebody, they submitted to somebody's mentorship who
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  poisoned their. Mind.
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  And made them believe that this is the description of ministry.
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  A young boy in school wants to buy a Jeep as proof that he has
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  faith. You see some of these poisonous
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  indoctrinations. Please pastors, hear me.
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  If God has helped you to go find ministry a bit, I want you to
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  know you will be judged for how you raise the people under you.
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  Don't destroy them. These are the troubles we are
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  having in society. By the time that young boy now,
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  if he's been taught that faith, is buying a Jeep as a young boy,
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  he's compromised on the law process.
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  If he tries and tries and tries and cannot buy it, what do you
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  think the boy is going to do? He will go and ask another
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  person. How were you able to get this?
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  And he said there's a way we do it.
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  That's the beginning of trouble for that gentleman.
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  Now, I'm not condemning you. I'm telling you there's a more
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  excellent way. Are we together now?
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  It's a more excellent way. Remember, I asked us to pray
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  together and ask God for grace. Remember our prayer.
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  So the mission of the church. The church was never supposed to
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  be separated from the matters that that happen around society.
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  No, we are the light of the world.
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  We are the salt of the earth. But if the church is ignorant of
• 41:59
  its mission, we will continue to pray for crowds to come.
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  They will fall, they will shout, we will cry with them.
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  We may be well-intentioned, but nothing will change eventually.
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  And this is the problem we're having now.
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  You see this Genesis, let me tell you this or anything from,
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  you know, what is happening with the younger people.
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  It's a generation of people who are asking questions nobody's
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  answering. The generation of our parents
• 42:26
  was a generation of loyalty. Even if they don't believe you,
• 42:29
  they said let's just go is how we met it.
• 42:31
  But now the younger people are vocal, they ask questions, they
• 42:35
  understand their right. That means every society is in
• 42:39
  trouble. Preachers have a lot of
• 42:41
  questions to answer and we better start answering it now
• 42:44
  before they come to the door of our houses and say you asked me
• 42:48
  to be your member. I'm your member.
• 42:50
  Ask answer why? I've been two years in your
• 42:53
  church and I'm not productive now.
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  I don't. You told me God blesses me.
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  I'm married, I have a wife, I have a child.
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  You've told me to not be corrupt.
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  Show me the superior alternative.
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  Show me the superior alternative.
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  So my call to pastors, well done for what we have done so far.
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  It would be a lie to say we've not done well.
• 43:25
  Honestly, we've done the best we know to do.
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  But I, I submit to you and I suggest to you respectfully,
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  let's go back to the drawing board and begin to examine the
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  content. The content.
• 43:43
  One time the delegates from a particular nation invited me to
• 43:47
  their embassy to make some submissions, just to ask a few
• 43:51
  questions. And one of the things they asked
• 43:54
  me was they said a lot of people listen to you and you advise
• 44:01
  leaders, politicians, what do you think is wrong with
• 44:07
  Christianity in Africa? I said no, there's nothing wrong
• 44:09
  with Christianity in Africa. It is the content.
• 44:14
  If the laptop has an antivirus, it doesn't mean the laptop is
• 44:17
  bad. Or if laptop has a virus, it
• 44:19
  doesn't mean that you don't throw away the laptop because
• 44:22
  there's a virus. You introduce an antivirus and
• 44:25
  sometimes. You may need to wipe the whole
• 44:27
  thing and reset it again, but you don't blame the laptop.
• 44:31
  Are we together? So the challenge, I told them,
• 44:34
  is that there is a software problem and the software
• 44:37
  problem, we need to go to the factory where the leaders are
• 44:42
  made. We examine everything, how they
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  are taught. But I know something new is
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  happening in Ghana. There will be an emergence of
• 44:54
  vibrant leaders, vibrant pastors, vibrant apostles and
• 44:59
  prophets with integrity, with character, soundness of
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  doctrine, who love Jesus, who love their members more than
• 45:08
  themselves, and will preach Jesus and do it with integrity.
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  If I just described you, shout aloud, Amen.
• 45:18
  There will also be an emergence of businessmen who think
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  posterity and transformation more than profit.
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  More than profit. You can make profit and die the
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  next day because the cause of the Lord is in the House of the
• 45:34
  wicked. You can oppress people and make
• 45:37
  profit and know you are sleeping on another man's pain.
• 45:40
  You won't have peace that way. Better little with integrity
• 45:46
  than plenty when there's compromise.
• 45:49
  Let me tell you this. Don't say it does not matter.
• 45:53
  Don't say it does not matter. It does not matter is what has
• 45:56
  destroyed Africa. We say it doesn't matter.
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  It does matter. Pay the people their salary.
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  It does matter if they labor. Pay them.
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  The Lord of Sabelt is watching. Pay them, promote them.
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  If they are deserving. Are we together don't enjoy the
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  prophet and go alone as a businessman and say God is good
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  and you are testifying in church and some of the members are
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  there. Let's go to our homes husband.
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  Never do for anybody anything you have not.
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  Done for your wife? Start with your home.
• 46:38
  Hallelujah. Don't, don't, don't buy a car
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  and bring for me and build me a house.
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  And you've not paid your children school fees?
• 46:47
  No, that's been foolish. I will send you back.
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  With all due respect, show that you have listened to my sermons
• 46:53
  by how effective your home becomes.
• 47:00
  Are we together? Listen, I was mentored by Doctor
• 47:06
  Miles Monroe, and I'll tell you this.
• 47:09
  He mentioned one story one time that really blessed me.
• 47:13
  I hope I'm not wasting your time.
• 47:17
  So there was this woman who was his member, according to his
• 47:23
  story, and she would always come to church and she was sad
• 47:27
  because she was having problems with her husband.
• 47:30
  And the husband is saying, look, this church thing, you're not
• 47:33
  doing your duties at home, you're always going to church
• 47:35
  and all of those kinds of things.
• 47:37
  And it was a serious issue. One time she came and reported
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  to Miles Monroe and said, look, my husband is frustrating me.
• 47:44
  He's frustrating my Christian experience.
• 47:46
  The man does not want me to know the Lord.
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  And then Miles Monroe looked at her and said, he's right.
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  You have faced his wife before, My member, go home and practice
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  everything I've taught you. Now listen.
• 47:59
  It was a shock to her, a paradigm shift.
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  She goes back home. And the husband knows he should
• 48:07
  be in charge by that time. And he says, what are you doing
• 48:09
  here in anger? You know, man, he goes tongue
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  anger. And the man said the woman told
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  him. He said, well, my pastor sent me
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  back home. He said, you are right and that
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  I should come home and practice the things that he's been
• 48:23
  teaching. You know, the man would loosen
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  up and feel like a victor, not show it immediately is too
• 48:30
  early. And then eventually, you know
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  how men process things. After a few days, he called.
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  I said, come, this your pastor you spoke about, what did you
• 48:40
  say his name is? Oh, Doctor Miles Monroe.
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  He actually told you to come back home?
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  Yes. During service.
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  Yes. You must be a good man.
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  Then when you hear men talk like that, they're already processing
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  it. Eventually, she was going to go
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  to church. In fact, it was said he started
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  reminding her, are you not going to church again?
• 49:01
  You have stopped praying. I will report it to your pastor.
• 49:03
  You see? So the idea was not the hatred
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  for the pastor is that she was inefficient in an area and the
• 49:12
  pastor demonstrated honor to family and honor to the man.
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  Is someone learning already? Do you know?
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  Caught the Long story short, the man would later become a leader
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  in the same church. Every pastor has a
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  responsibility to go back and rework your understanding of the
• 49:45
  mission. Preach the gospel, teach the
• 49:51
  Word and the word here means #1 Doctrine comes from the Greek
• 49:57
  word didascalia, the Hebrews doctrina or the Latin is
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  doctrina. It means a set of beliefs that
• 50:04
  turns a student to reflect the competence of his master
• 50:09
  doctrine, and then the mistress of the Kingdom, and then #3 to
• 50:17
  be witnesses. That means you don't have to
• 50:21
  pray in tongues before I verify that you're a Christian.
• 50:25
  If you have to pray in tongues in my presence to verify you're
• 50:29
  a Christian, something is wrong with you.
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  I should immediately as you open up your mouth, you reveal the
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  dexterity of your training. A young man who has been
• 50:40
  discipled. I watch your approach when
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  elderly people are passing. Hi, I know you are not
• 50:48
  discipled. To someone who is your
• 50:51
  grandmother. No, you are not discipled.
• 50:56
  You see her carrying something heavy and you can just show
• 50:59
  assistance. And you don't say it's not my
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  you pocket your hand while she's talking.
• 51:03
  You are not discipled. You've not understood the value
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  of honor because that person may have what it takes to open your
• 51:10
  door. The woman can look at you and
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  say, young man, please come. You behaved yourself very well.
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  What do you do? Well, I'm a graduate.
• 51:18
  I don't have any job yet. What did you study?
• 51:21
  This and that, who train you so, so and so come not knowing by
• 51:25
  the next day you can become a secretary immediately.
• 51:30
  You see, let me tell you this prayer can draw your answers,
• 51:35
  but discipleship positions? You to receive the answers well,
• 51:40
  prayer and prophecy can bring your destiny helper and poor
• 51:44
  character or bad habits can make the person to leave.
• 51:48
  You in anger, you're going for a job interview.
• 51:54
  You step in there and you go and sit.
• 51:55
  No one asked you to sit. You sit.
• 51:56
  You ballot and say you don't know that it's part of the test.
• 52:01
  They say make yourself comfortable.
• 52:02
  There's their bananas, their oranges, and you start eating
• 52:04
  and they crack a joke and you joke with them.
• 52:07
  You say, I'm amazed. I've been doing all kinds of
• 52:09
  interviews. This is the first interview.
• 52:11
  And and everybody's watching you.
• 52:13
  That's the interview. What is going on?
• 52:15
  There is the interview. I'm surprised no one is asking
• 52:19
  me a question. They say you can go, that's the
• 52:22
  end of it. You have they have tested
• 52:25
  vulnerability because it's a billion dollar company and they
• 52:29
  kept food in front of you to test your ability to tame your.
• 52:32
  Appetite you fell like a pack of card and they leaked.
• 52:36
  Now your pastors prophecy walked, but your lack of
• 52:40
  discipleship made you to destroy everything.
• 52:43
  So when the Bible says war with prophecy, it doesn't just mean
• 52:47
  to pray alone, it also means to carry the traits that help you
• 52:51
  receive Hallelujah. I think we've we've, we've
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  delved into the second discussion, the vessel.
• 53:04
  Not everybody can host the glory of God.
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  No, it will take salvation, transformation and empowerment.
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  Please say that after me salvation, transformation,
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  empowerment. Now please look up.
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  Salvation is instant. Empowerment is instant.
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  A major part of the journey is transformation.
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  Look at Jesus. The empowerment came on the Day
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  of Pentecost in one moment, but it took 3 1/2 years.
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  To prepare them for that one encounter.
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  Pastors, with all due respect, let's not be in a hurry to lay
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  hands and impact on people. The ratio of transformation to
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  empowerment based on Jesus strategy was 3 1/2 years to one
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  day. Don't be in a hurry to lay hands
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  on people. Lay hand on a mind that is
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  transformed. Then you will produce a
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  victorious believer. And just because someone came,
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  you know, I understand as man of God when when I've hardly seen
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  people who say man of God, I want your mindset usually is I
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  want to anoint him. And there's nothing wrong.
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  They have been sincere. So they kneel down and drop
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  their seed. And sometimes we just lay hands
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  on them so they don't disturb us.
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  But between US and God, we know nothing really came.
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  Maybe an impartation of hunger so that you can go to the secret
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  place. There are laws for impartation.
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  1 of it is preparedness. The preparedness of the heart.
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  My son, give me your heart and let your ears incline to my
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  waist. Then you will be ready to
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  receive the anointing. Hallelujah.
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  Is someone learning now? So I said, there are three
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  steps. Transiting a man from a Sinner
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  to a witness. One is salvation #2
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  transformation #3 empowerment. Salvation is instant.
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  The moment you believe in Jesus, the Son of the living God, you
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  receive salvation. Empowerment can come on you in
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  one day, one moment, one impartation.
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  The real journey is transformation, the process that
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  makes you become like Christ. Now let me tell you how it
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  works. Please watch this.
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  I want to run for you, to dramatize for you, if you will,
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  just in the next one or two minutes how that journey works.
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  So here is an unbeliever. I don't like to call them
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  sinners. The word Sinner sounds very
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  insulting for me. I just like to say, unbelievers,
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  are we together? So here's an unbeliever.
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  Through the preaching of the gospel and the preaching of the
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  gospel alone, that unbeliever, upon declaring the lordship of
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  Jesus according to Scripture, becomes saved, not transformed.
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  He's not a witness. He's now a believer in Jesus
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  Christ, but he's called an infant.
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  Another word is a babe. The Bible calls such a person.
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  The moment you get into Christ as a newborn babe, you are an
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  infant. No matter how old you are, no
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  matter how successful you were, your spiritual name is an
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  infant. Now, as an infant, there are
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  three ministries that must be introduced to your life to
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  journey you through the process of transformation #1.
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  The ministry of the Holy Spirit connected to the ministry of
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  prayer #2 the ministry of the world #3 the ministry of a
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  pastor or a teaching priest. If you are saved and you are not
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  fortunate to encounter these three ministries, that's where
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  the problem of your stuntedness spiritually begins.
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  Again, to anyone who gets saved and born again by an evangelist,
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  by a tract, a TV program, a broadcast, doesn't matter how
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  you came into Christ, now that you are in Christ, you are
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  welcome. The next port of call is that
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  you must trust God for grace to encounter the ministry of the
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  Holy Spirit #2 the ministry of the world #3 the ministry of a
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  teaching priest, not just a good priest, a teaching priest.
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  So we can have two believers in Ghana.
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  Let's call one brother A. Let's call one brother B.
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  Say, for instance, they came for impact. 2025 or let's say impact
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  2021 and two of them responded to the altar call the same day.
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  The same place. Let's assume they are not
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  members of this ministry. They just came and they heard
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  the word. They were blessed, they received
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  the gospel. Two of them, one brother A, the
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  other brother B. What's my illustration?
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  So both of them got born again the same.
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  Day, but for brother A. He was fortunate that after
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  getting born again, he was introduced to the ministry of
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  the Holy Spirit. He was introduced to the
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  ministry of the world for structured mentorship and
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  learning. He was introduced to the
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  ministry of a teaching priest. Whereas Brother be on getting
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  born again just began to freelance his way.
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  If he saw a book, that was nice. He will reach after one and drop
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  it. If he meandered into a
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  conference that was ongoing, he would listen for 30 minutes, nod
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  his head, write something on a piece of paper, leave it behind
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  and move out. After five years, you look at
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  their spiritual lives. Same salvation, but one because
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  he found structure to his growth will become a more dexterous and
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  effective believer, whereas the other person you would not see
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  any sign except a video that captured the day he came out for
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  salvation. That would be the only thing
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  that will make you believe you say.
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  Those of you here who are into crusades missions, let me
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  counsel you once you are preparing the grounds.
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  To have a mixed multitude come, please create a strategy and a
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  structure for the growth of those who are saved, because
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  those people will later become the man of God who will help you
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  or continue from where you live off and how you train them
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  matters. This is true for pastors and
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  it's true for every believer. So you are introduced to the
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  ministry of the Holy Spirit. The ministry of the Word and the
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  teaching priest. What happens to you?
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  The Word of God begins to recalibrate your spiritual
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  understanding gradually. It's not an instant process.
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  You learn how to die to the flesh.
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  You learn how to live by faith. You learn how to walk in love.
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  You learn the honor of dignity, productivity, value.
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  Are we together? You learn human relation
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  principles. You learn how to speak the word,
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  how to culture your mind. You learn the power of a
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  superior belief system. As you are mentored, you are
• 1:00:35
  growing. Then you get to a phase where
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  you have sufficient knowledge. Then you receive an impartation.
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  When that empowerment comes upon you, your name changes from
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  being a believer to a witness. At that point, God can trust
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  you. He can send you to the
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  government. He can send you to the banking
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  sector. He can send you with trust
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  knowing you have been trained. Are you seeing how it's supposed
• 1:01:03
  to be? The Church should not only raise
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  men of God, it should raise witnesses, so that when we go to
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  the bank. In Ghana, there are witnesses
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  there. When we go to the tech world,
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  there are witnesses there. When we go to arts and
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  entertainment, there are witnesses there.
• 1:01:24
  Are we together when we go? To the schools, there are
• 1:01:26
  witnesses there the professor is an intelligent person, but do
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  not make a mistake of downplaying him he's also a
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  prophet he has an eye that. Sees and when there is trouble
• 1:01:39
  in the institution, he will take off his professorial gun and
• 1:01:43
  lock the door and begin to pray in the spirit and say, Satan,
• 1:01:46
  you left church and came to my school here there is still a
• 1:01:49
  witness. I bind you by the power of the
• 1:01:52
  Holy Spirit. He will wear back his role and
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  go to the faculty board meeting and begin to speak
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  intelligently. That was the Daniel strategy.
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  Daniel was a prophet, but Daniel also knew he knew how to
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  function in government. I made a.
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  Covenant as a man of God that I will raise passionate people who
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  love Jesus, but I will never raise fanatics.
• 1:02:17
  I don't believe in fanatism. I believe in passion that is
• 1:02:21
  directed towards a curse with purpose and balance.
• 1:02:25
  Hallelujah. I receive, I manifest your power
• 1:02:37
  and your wisdom, till the nations see Jesus.
• 1:02:45
  Lifted up, Exalted I receive, I manifest your power and your
• 1:02:58
  wisdom, till the nations see Jesus.
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  Lifted up. Let me tell you what I see from
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  this teaching this morning. I see leaders who have a resolve
• 1:03:18
  to go back and begin to correct things and begin to make changes
• 1:03:23
  in their churches, in their organizations.
• 1:03:26
  And I release grace upon you. I release grace upon you.
• 1:03:31
  I release grace. Upon you in the name of Jesus.
• 1:03:38
  Let me challenge you, pastor. Go back and reorder your church
• 1:03:43
  and watch the quality of people who begin to come.
• 1:03:47
  Your basket will begin to fetch all kinds of fishes.
• 1:03:51
  You will begin to attract not. Only.
• 1:03:54
  Now I don't say that to downplay the church is not a business
• 1:03:57
  organization, but I'm saying that what you are, you are
• 1:04:01
  selling Jesus. The idea selling them is not
• 1:04:04
  transactional. Are we together?
• 1:04:05
  You are announcing you are communicating Jesus.
• 1:04:09
  Impact cannot be sustainable until it is branded.
• 1:04:13
  And one of the ways you brand impact is with excellent
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  sincerity and clarity. Clarity, clarity.
• 1:04:25
  Hallelujah. Some of you as pastors, you have
• 1:04:30
  done well carrying the anointing.
• 1:04:34
  You may need to submit yourself to a season of training to clean
• 1:04:38
  up other things you could not get.
• 1:04:40
  You see, let me tell you this. If you are a doctor, you don't
• 1:04:43
  need to learn carpentry. It's not your business.
• 1:04:46
  You don't even need to learn architecture.
• 1:04:48
  In fact, as a doctor, you can be a consultant.
• 1:04:52
  Give me one area consultant pediatrician for instance, and
• 1:04:58
  you stay there. But as a man of God, you don't
• 1:05:01
  have the liberty to choose an area because you are dealing
• 1:05:04
  with a diverse group of people. You must be vast and broad in
• 1:05:08
  your understanding. I made-up my mind as a man of
• 1:05:12
  God that my relevance will not end on the pulpit.
• 1:05:16
  That means if I drop the mic, I'm useless to every other thing
• 1:05:20
  in society. No Sir, no Sir, no Sir.
• 1:05:24
  What do you do with the business leaders God brings to you?
• 1:05:27
  What do you do with the diplomats God brings to you?
• 1:05:30
  What do you do with some of the people?
• 1:05:32
  Do you understand the language of the palace?
• 1:05:35
  Do you know how to raise? Kings Genesis 17 and verse 6.
• 1:05:41
  Great leaders and great preachers don't go looking for
• 1:05:45
  men of God or looking for people who are wealthy.
• 1:05:47
  You raise them. It says, I will make do
• 1:05:50
  exceedingly fruitful. I will make nations of thee, and
• 1:05:54
  kings shall come out. Come out that someone will say I
• 1:06:04
  came to Action Chapel and in one year I came confused, full of
• 1:06:09
  yokes of darkness, curses. The prayer department cleaned me
• 1:06:13
  up and the teaching ministry began to build and culture me.
• 1:06:17
  Today I'm advising presidents. Now that's a testimony.
• 1:06:21
  That's a witness there. Let me tell you this, and at the
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  risk of sounding arrogant, I'll tell you this.
• 1:06:31
  My greatest testimony as a man of God, from an impact
• 1:06:35
  standpoint, sincerely speaking, 2nd to soul winning.
• 1:06:41
  My greatest testimony as a man of God is not the working of
• 1:06:45
  miracles. It's not the healings, it's not
• 1:06:48
  the deliverances, it's not the global recognitions.
• 1:06:51
  I bless God for that. But my greatest testimony as a
• 1:06:55
  man of God are testimonies or testaments of transformed lives,
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  testament of transformed lives that an irresponsible man who
• 1:07:09
  could not take care of his family meandered his way to your
• 1:07:13
  program and that became his salvation.
• 1:07:16
  That's a real testimony. That someone who would have
• 1:07:19
  destroyed society came into your program.
• 1:07:23
  You don't need 5 meetings. One meeting was enough to begin
• 1:07:26
  to initiate the process to his transformation.
• 1:07:31
  Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have underestimated the power
• 1:07:35
  that's been invested in US and the power that's been invested
• 1:07:39
  in priesthood because we have ignored our passion for
• 1:07:43
  transformation. Transformation is a process that
• 1:07:48
  raises reformers. And when you have reformers in
• 1:07:52
  Mass, I submit to you, I've studied the political process of
• 1:07:57
  many African nations. With the current political
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  structure, not much can be done because one good person in the
• 1:08:06
  midst of many people having a diverse mentality, It will be.
• 1:08:10
  It will overwhelm. This any sincere passion you
• 1:08:13
  need to have a strong momentum of like minded people, like
• 1:08:20
  minded people. It can start as one person, but
• 1:08:23
  by the time the top CE OS in Ghana all agree that integrity
• 1:08:29
  pays, the top CE OS all agree that we pay workers when should
• 1:08:34
  be we all agree. Are we together now?
• 1:08:37
  Certain values in Mass? Then you will change society.
• 1:08:47
  Hallelujah. I made a covenant with God that
• 1:08:53
  nobody serves with me and goes down.
• 1:08:56
  If I cannot afford lifting you, I will release you to a nobler
• 1:08:59
  person, not destroy you #2 The greatest definition of success
• 1:09:09
  for me is not acquisitions, is impact.
• 1:09:14
  Thank God for acquisitions, but I tell you sincerely, you want
• 1:09:18
  to see tears come out of my eyes is beyond a car in front of me
• 1:09:22
  or beyond. I'm not saying enjoy all of
• 1:09:25
  those things, but let me see a transformed life and you have
• 1:09:28
  touched my heart. Leaders, we must redefine our
• 1:09:32
  priorities. We must redefine.
• 1:09:35
  When you study global leadership, one of the indices
• 1:09:39
  of transformational leadership is your passion for.
• 1:09:42
  Selflessness. You desire to see people an
• 1:09:45
  improved version of you. In Africa we pride over
• 1:09:50
  acquisitions and we've spilled this thing sadly to the church.
• 1:09:54
  It must change. Man of God is a wonderful thing
• 1:09:57
  to prosper. I'm not against prosperity, no.
• 1:10:01
  But beyond acquiring things, your greatest gift will be the
• 1:10:06
  gift of men you have raised. Can I tell you this?
• 1:10:12
  I don't. Know any leader who will remain
• 1:10:15
  poor, are non influential in the presence of quality men that you
• 1:10:20
  have raised. They become the ladders that
• 1:10:22
  preserve your testimonial. But you can acquire things at
• 1:10:26
  the detriment of men. They will fight you when they
• 1:10:30
  have the power to Hallelujah. I preached a message many years
• 1:10:37
  ago called the Law of. Seasons taking a reference from
• 1:10:41
  Joseph's dream, I mean Pharaoh's dream, we'll find somewhere and
• 1:10:46
  pray. Pharaoh had a dream son and that
• 1:10:50
  dream was twice. That dream was solving a
• 1:10:55
  national problem. Pharaoh said I went to bed and I
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  saw 7 fat cows and then they were eaten by 7 lean cows.
• 1:11:06
  I saw the same thing with the plants and Joseph said the cows
• 1:11:10
  are not about cows, they are about the years of a man's life.
• 1:11:15
  Life is divided into Four Seasons.
• 1:11:20
  The season where you start, the season where you maximize
• 1:11:25
  moments, the seasons where you consolidate and the season where
• 1:11:29
  you rest whether you like it or not.
• 1:11:32
  I divide it into the 1st 25 years or 25 years circle.
• 1:11:38
  The 1st 25 years of your life represents your morning stage.
• 1:11:41
  That is also when you land, you are permitted to make mistakes
• 1:11:45
  and go Scott free. Life has a system of immunity
• 1:11:49
  for you when you are at that point.
• 1:11:52
  The second phase is from 26 to 50.
• 1:11:55
  It should be the prime of your achievement is like the sun
• 1:11:58
  shining at its greatest strength.
• 1:12:01
  In the afternoon is the season for maximum achievement.
• 1:12:08
  The next is from 51 to 70 or there about 51 to 75.
• 1:12:14
  I think that is the state of legacy and consolidation.
• 1:12:20
  When you get to that state, you should not be thinking of
• 1:12:22
  building things again. You should be thinking of giving
• 1:12:24
  back and from 75 downwards it should be rest.
• 1:12:30
  I'm speaking in parables. You will now know what is wrong
• 1:12:32
  with Africa. Now look at me, please.
• 1:12:50
  Ladies and gentlemen, by the time you don't invest in your
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  seven years of plenty after that, the seven years of drought
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  that comes will eat up everything you have done.
• 1:13:10
  Are we together? Nobody remains on the stage
• 1:13:15
  forever, no, no matter how effective you are.
• 1:13:20
  Life is in seasons. But there is a way you can be
• 1:13:24
  relevant even when you are not on the stage because the person
• 1:13:27
  on the stage will bring you back to stand with him because you
• 1:13:31
  transformed his life. Is someone learning now?
• 1:13:36
  Are you getting what I'm saying now, Doctor Miles Monroe?
• 1:13:42
  Blessed memory has gone to heaven, but some of us by the
• 1:13:46
  grace of God today have become extensions of His legacy.
• 1:13:50
  We will force the generations that were not born when He died
• 1:13:53
  to remember that He lived. Because we are.
• 1:13:56
  We have immortalized His impact. Jesus served for 3 1/2 years and
• 1:14:02
  He was secured enough to leave. But because of our presence on
• 1:14:06
  earth, creation will keep. Calling that name Jesus, it's a
• 1:14:09
  leadership secret. You do not have to be on stage.
• 1:14:14
  To remain relevant forever. The secret is to immortalize
• 1:14:19
  your impact by raising orders so that even when you are outside
• 1:14:23
  of stage, they will keep making reference to you and the
• 1:14:27
  spotlight will remain on you even when you are gone.
• 1:14:37
  Let me tell you this as a personal principle.
• 1:14:41
  If I come to you as a leader and you have been around for a long
• 1:14:44
  time, my respect for you, it is only heightened if you can show
• 1:14:50
  me the people who can replicate you at least two or three.
• 1:14:57
  Do you hear what I just said? So if I come to your, let's say
• 1:15:01
  you are the CEO of XYZ company and I come to you and you've
• 1:15:05
  been there for 1020 years, my respect for you is not the
• 1:15:09
  dexterity of your impact. Show me who you are raising.
• 1:15:13
  It tells me how secure you are. Show me who you are raising.
• 1:15:17
  It tells me how far that organization is going.
• 1:15:20
  If I'm going to invest in that company, it will not be your
• 1:15:23
  ROII Want to see the plan for posterity.
• 1:15:27
  I want to see that that company will remain.
• 1:15:29
  After 50 years. 100 years is why we hardly have 3rd or 4th
• 1:15:35
  generation anything in Africa. God has come to us, so church is
• 1:15:43
  quiet. I hope you are learning
• 1:15:47
  something. I take your silence to mean you
• 1:15:50
  are allowing the Word to speak to your spirit.
• 1:15:56
  You want to see the glory of God.
• 1:15:58
  There are things you must do. You want to see the glory of God
• 1:16:03
  upon your life. You want God to trust you with
• 1:16:06
  membership, with organizations, with resources.
• 1:16:10
  These are the disciplines that attract the glory.
• 1:16:13
  It is not superstition. No, before Christ returns, there
• 1:16:20
  are individuals that God is going to be trusting with
• 1:16:23
  Kingdom influence. God is going to be trusting with
• 1:16:27
  power. God is going to be trusting with
• 1:16:30
  wealth. God is going to be trusting with
• 1:16:32
  access. But so that we don't become a
• 1:16:35
  reproach to his program. He's placed it upon the heart of
• 1:16:39
  the Archbishop. Are you seeing why you should
• 1:16:42
  celebrate our Father the Archbishop for creating a
• 1:16:45
  platform? Like you didn't pay to sit down?
• 1:16:48
  Let me tell you this. And hold on, hold on.
• 1:16:53
  I'll tell you this, I'll tell you this.
• 1:16:56
  Many of the people seated across the high table, I, I presume,
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  are leaders. Some of them are leaders at its
• 1:17:06
  finest. They will tell you some of the
• 1:17:09
  information you are hearing now. As casual as it is, you will not
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  hear it without a price. And I'm not talking finances.
• 1:17:16
  Finance is the least of the price, the discipline to travel.
• 1:17:21
  Most of the preachers have learned what I'm saying now.
• 1:17:24
  They had to leave their. Nations to go, maybe to US to
• 1:17:27
  attend diplomatic programs for a long time.
• 1:17:32
  Now that you have it free, please value it.
• 1:17:35
  And appreciate it. Hallelujah.
• 1:17:51
  What I've taught you is called transformational leadership, The
• 1:17:54
  kind of leadership that changes the leader from inside out and
• 1:17:59
  then empower such a one to raise not just followers, but to
• 1:18:05
  transform followers, to lead us and then lead us to agents of
• 1:18:11
  change, agents of national, territorial, societal
• 1:18:15
  transformation. Some of you on hearing what I'm
• 1:18:19
  saying now the Holy Ghost is going to plan visions in you to
• 1:18:23
  start building a leadership institute, not just a church
• 1:18:27
  institute, to build a leadership institute and start giving
• 1:18:31
  scholarship to young people. Build a leadership institute and
• 1:18:35
  give a scholarship to 100 pastors every year so that in
• 1:18:40
  addition to what they've learned in ministry, they can come and
• 1:18:43
  learn other things to put balance.
• 1:18:49
  And for anyone who is receiving these kinds of visions, May God
• 1:18:52
  send help for you in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:18:58
  I believe in churches if the churches function the way Jesus
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  intended it to be. The church was never supposed to
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  be a boring place with people sleeping and snoring during the
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  sermon. You imagine what you received in
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  one meeting and imagine if everyone listening to this as a
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  pastor, we're a member of your church.
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  Do you think they will come back next week?
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  Oh yes, they will. And they will not come alone.
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  This is a news that is too transformational.
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  Let me tell you something. With people in the presence of
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  results, they become evangelists automatically.
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  When they find real results, they each to draw someone.
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  Come and hear, the woman said come see a man.
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  Jesus did not tell them go and bring people, come see a man.
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  The madman in gatherer when he was impacted.
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  Evangelism was not supposed to be engineered by force.
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  He was supposed to be a response to your own personal
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  transformation. Hallelujah.
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  Now let me wrap up. Give me 5 minutes.
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  The Bible. Paul was speaking to the church
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  in Corinth, and he made a profound statement.
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  He introduced the concept of architecture in building.
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  Please lend me your attention. And Paul began to call his
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  fellow ministers wise master builders.
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  Are we together? So Paul likened building men to
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  building a house. And he said that God's desire
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  for us, I think that should be first.
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  Corinthians 10 or there about 2nd Corinthians 10 he spoke
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  about being wise master builders.
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  Find the scripture for me. Please Let me tell you what it
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  means to be a wise master builder.
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  To be a wise master builder means to build men.
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  God bless you. 310 According to the grace which is given to me
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  as a wise master builder, he says I have laid the foundation
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  and another build it. But let every man take heed how
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  he builded. He's talking about building men.
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  Leadership is about building men.
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  Building men more than influencing them, influencing
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  them is only a strategy to ultimately build them.
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  When you influence people, I define for you what influence
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  is. Influence, in my definition is
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  the capacity to cause men to buy into your ideologies, to buy
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  into your convictions, to buy into your beliefs without using
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  force or cruelty. Influence when you compel people
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  to buy into your belief systems, to buy into your ideologies, to
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  buy into your disciplines, your value system without using
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  force. Or cruelty.
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  You have influenced them, and the goal of influence is to
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  ultimately build them. Are we together now?
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  So he's talking here about a wise master builder as a
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  preacher, as a CEO, more than building products, build men.
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  When you build men, they will preserve the heritage of the
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  church, the company, are we together, the organization build
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  men. There are three ways to build
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  men. This is where I want to wrap up,
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  and this is particularly to preachers what it applies to
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  leaders. Across every strata in building
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  men, there is an architecture. We were given by God.
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  We were not given the liberty to choose how to build men.
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  This beautiful structure, this cathedral, how many of you know
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  that this cathedral can be reproduced anywhere in Ghana?
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  Am I right on that? Anywhere there's space.
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  Provided I don't need to lift this building, in fact I don't
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  even have to snap it. If I can have a detailed
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  architectural plan and I hand it over to an architect, quite
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  honestly, sometimes even without having a look at this building,
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  he will replicate that building because he has the plan.
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  So building men. Was supposed to produce
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  consistency if we follow the plan.
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  Please look up when you bring a doctor from Ghana.
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  A doctor from Nigeria, a doctor from the USA, doctor from
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  Israel, say a consultant, and all of them are consultants
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  around the same field. How many of you know?
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  That it is possible for them to meet at the surgery room.
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  They have never met themselves and yet there will be no
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  strangers to themselves because it was a similar program that
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  produced them. So when a a Christian in Nigeria
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  is different from a Christian in Ghana is different from a
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  Christian in US, we need to examine what program we are
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  using to build them. Because it means I should come.
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  Come, Sir. Let me use you.
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  Please Sir, God bless you. I should be able to meet this
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  man for the first time. Are you a?
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  Christian, Sir, Oh yes, you are a Christian and we there should
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  be something to talk about because it's the same program
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  building us if I'm a pastor and he's a pastor and we hold.
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  Hands but cannot talk. Something is wrong.
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  Something is wrong. A foreign program was used
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  somewhere. Are we together?
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  I'm interested in souls. He's not interested in souls.
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  He's interested in building men. I'm not interested in building
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  men. Something is wrong.
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  If it's the same program, we should have similar passions.
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  Do you agree with me on that? Thank you, Sir.
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  God bless you, Sir. Thank you.
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  So the quality of Christians, the quality of witnesses allow
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  my bias to talk about the African continent.
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  We need to re examine the program because God gave us His
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  program. He did not leave us to invent a
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  program. It's a risk to invent our own
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  program. In building men, there are three
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  areas to focus on. Please allow me the honor of
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  making these submissions and then we'll pray.
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  You can never build a wholesome, dexterous people if you don't
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  build them around along these three areas.
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  Number one, you want to become a wise master builder as a
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  preacher, as a leader. The first area to build in
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  people is the nature of Christ. The nature of Christ.
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  The end point of that building is that you produce a people who
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  have the fruit of the Spirit and the people who have character.
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  Please listen pastors in building men, before you start
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  teaching them about prosperity, before you start teaching them
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  about liftings, you will teach them, but don't corrupt the
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  curriculum. There is a way you need to start
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  teaching somebody about finances when you've not taught him.
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  Death to the flesh is only promoting lost.
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  There is what he should learn first before someone.
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  I think it is line upon line, precept upon precept.
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  Are we learning the nature of Christ?
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  This is where you teach believers death to the flesh.
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  This is where you teach them the value of the Spirit life.
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  This is where you teach them the Excellency of being dexterous in
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  character. So that when you find a believer
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  who has been taught along that area, it doesn't matter what you
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  name the topics, but they should ultimately build the character
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  of Christ in the person, the character of love, of joy, void
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  of hatred. By the time you are done with
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  that believer the elements of the flesh like unforgiveness,
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  hatred, jealousy, competition, This is where he dies.
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  Now if you jump this section of the teaching and start teaching
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  him other things, you will have a powerful Christian who is
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  still jealous, envious, lossful, hateful.
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  Is someone learning now Wise Master builders.
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  The first port of call is to build a man, the nature and the
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  character of Christ. Where Galatians 5/22.
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  Colossians 3, Colossians 4 becomes they put on Christ when
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  you are done. The next section of the training
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  is the wisdom of Christ. Don't forget the nature of
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  Christ, producing Christ like character, the fruit of the
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  Spirit, love being the greatest #2 the wisdom of Christ.
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  Now I tell you this, as much as it is powerful to teach men on
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  the nature of Christ so that they become people of character,
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  if they are people of character and they lack wisdom, they will
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  not go forward with their lives. They wouldn't build anything.
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  You will be full of good people who are struggling and their
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  struggle will begin to lead them back to compromise.
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  So they need wisdom. Wisdom is responsible for
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  building anything at all. When you begin to communicate
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  the wisdom of Christ, you will raise leaders, you will raise CE
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  OS, you will raise responsible fathers.
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  Wisdom here talks of the Compendium of the Mysteries of
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  the Kingdom. There are many good people in
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  church. They wouldn't steal, they
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  wouldn't kill, they wouldn't do anything bad, they wouldn't
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  sleep around. But they do not have results in
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  their life. And they are frustrated because
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  people can clearly see the nature of Christ in them, but
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  there are no results. When Jesus saw the fig tree, the
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  fig tree was beautiful, likened to character, but Jesus wanted
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  fruit and because it did not have fruits.
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  Even though the gleaves were clean, they were not.
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  With that he still cost it. 0 tolerance from fruitfulness.
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  There are 5 mandates God gave man 1 of it is the mandate to be
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  fruitful. It's called the Dominion
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  mandate. You have not chosen me, John
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  1516, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go
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  and bear fruit, and that your fruit should.
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  Remain longevity of fruitfulness everybody say wisdom past us
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  when. You have not to feel insulted
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  when you have low level living, low quality living people.
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  As congregants, I show you the way to raise them.
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  They will come as the man who came to David in The Cave of
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  Adulam. They will come in debt.
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  They will come sick. They will come dejected.
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  Is the assignment of wisdom to build them through.
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  Wisdom. A house is built by
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  understanding. It is established through
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  knowledge. The rooms are filled with every
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  pleasurable thing. It says wisdom is the principal
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  thing. Therefore get wisdom, and with
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  all your get in, get understanding exalt, and she
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  shall promote you. She shall put an ornament of
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  glory. A crown of glory shall she put
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  on your head when thou dost embrace her.
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  He says, Do not wisdom cry by me.
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  King's reign and Princess rule. With me are riches, wealth and
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  honor, yet durable riches and righteousness.
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  Those that love me. He says those that seek me early
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  wisdom, you show them the way of prayer.
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  You show them the way of discipline.
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  You show them the way of diligence.
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  You show them the creative power of the spoken word.
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  You show them the law of honor. You show them what it means to
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  live by faith wisdom. You raise mighty men.
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  So you start with. Character.
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  But then you don't stop there. Wisdom is a builder.
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  And then I'll give you #3 when you build in them the wisdom of
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  Christ, the next is empowerment. They must experience the power
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  of Christ. It doesn't stop at wisdom alone.
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  Demons don't care whether you are wise or not.
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  They will oppress you and they will destroy anything they can
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  destroy. You can build the company, but
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  one cause from darkness can come and scatter everything.
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  If you doubt it at Job, are we together?
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  They need to be empowered. All these things I'm teaching
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  you. You find it in the prayer of
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  Paul in Ephesians chapter 1 from verse 16 down to 19.
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  Paul prayed over the church in Ephesus, verse 617 now.
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  He says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
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  glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
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  knowledge of him. 18 the eyes of your understanding being
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  enlightened, that he may know the hope of his calling.
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  And what is the richest of the glory of his inheritance in the
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  Saints? Read verse 19.
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  If you are a Christian, one to go.
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  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us?
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  What who believe you don't just stop at teaching them character
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  and then teaching them wisdom. They need power.
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  Psalm 66 verse three say unto God, how terrible are thou in
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  thy walks? It is through the greatness of
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  thy power that the enemies submit themselves to you.
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  Michael chapter 3 and verse 8. Surely I am full of power by the
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  Spirit of the Lord and chapter 4 and verse 33 and with great
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  power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus spent 3 1/2 years selling
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  wisdom for them. But he said, tarry, tarry, don't
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  go. Only with a message tarry until
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  you be, and you be power. A believer who has the nature of
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  Christ plus the wisdom of Christ plus the power of Christ equals
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  to the fullness of Christ. Did you hear what I told you?
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  The nature of Christ plus the wisdom of Christ plus the power
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  of Christ equals to the fullness of Christ.
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  That is the architecture that was given to the believer.
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  That makes you called a wise master builder.
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  Now, if you teach the nature of Christ alone, you will produce a
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  certain kind of Christian. They will steal, but they can't
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  improve society. They can't add value.
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  Value is almost 0. If you produce people by
• 1:35:05
  emphasizing the wisdom of Christ, you will have people who
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  will have the wisdom of the serpent.
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  Because they don't have the heart of Christ, they will start
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  stealing money, right? From your church because they
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  don't have the fear of the Lord. But they are intelligent people.
• 1:35:23
  You will raise gifted rebels when you teach people on the
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  power of Christ. They will see miracles, signs,
• 1:35:32
  wonders, the gift of the Spirit. But the issues you have in
• 1:35:36
  church, almost you want to die of heart attack.
• 1:35:39
  Some of the most anointed people will cause you the greatest
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  problems, character problems, all kinds of problems.
• 1:35:45
  And you'll be wondering how come you are so anointed.
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  Is because you omitted something in the architecture.
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  So my final gift for you this morning is to bring the balance.
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  Every trouble in the church is because an aspect of these three
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  areas was over emphasized or under emphasized.
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  When you emphasize the nature of Christ and downplay the wisdom
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  and the power of Christ, you will produce sincere people for
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  their value and contribution will be next to nothing.
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  When you emphasize on the wisdom of Christ, you will raise
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  leaders. Successful men build us, but in
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  doing so, there will be people will compromise with No Fear.
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  But when you emphasize the power of Christ, you will have a
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  crowd, you will have people come, but you will never know
• 1:36:41
  who to trust or who to not trust.
• 1:36:44
  Are we together now? Because you will draw forth a
• 1:36:46
  mixed multitude. Power is like a magnet.
• 1:36:51
  It draws anybody. Even Satan will be there.
• 1:36:58
  You want to raise reformers, Transformers, nation building
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  witnesses, whether as businessmen or as pastors.
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  I present to you the template, the nature of Christ, the wisdom
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  of Christ, the power of Christ. That is the curriculum that
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  produces a witness rise upon your faith.
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  Please, please hold hands with someone if you can find
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  someone's hand to hold just in one moment.
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  Hold the hands of someone. If you forgot everything I
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  shared this morning, let's say for any reason you were so
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  distracted, just remember the last few words that in raising
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  men and in building men. This is not limited to pastors.
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  As a CEO you want to produce people who are not corrupt, who
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  will not give you headache. Transform the nature of Christ
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  into programs. You don't have to be fanatic
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  about it, but transform the fruit of the Spirit into
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  programs and inject it in the people.
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  You will still get the result of the nature of Christ.
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  It's only that the Holy Ghost is the one who empowers men to
• 1:38:35
  fully manifest the nature of Christ because the flesh is also
• 1:38:39
  empowered by a spirit, the nature of Christ, the wisdom of
• 1:38:47
  Christ. Parents, use this to raise your
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  children the nature of Christ. But don't stop there.
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  Don't just tell them be a good person.
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  They are entering a world that is value driven.
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  You will produce frustrated children who don't steal, they
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  don't kill, they don't sleep around, but they will not grow
• 1:39:06
  to become anything. You teach them the wisdom of
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  Christ, expose them to the strategies that makes for
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  influence and victory, and then in all your doing, invest in
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  helping them encounter the power of the Spirit.
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  We live in a vicious world. It takes force, a level of
• 1:39:24
  spiritual aggression, to command your portion.
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  Your portion does not come to you because you want it.
• 1:39:30
  It comes because you demand for it.
• 1:39:35
  Africa, we have done well with the power part.
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  The third part is usually where the charismatic Pentecostal
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  circles. We've done very well.
• 1:39:44
  You don't need to throw it away, but we need to do a reverse
• 1:39:47
  engineering over our curriculum and add to power wisdom and add
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  to wisdom character that will produce a more effective
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  believer. Pray for your neighbor whose
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  hands you are holding. We have three prayer points have
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  been instructed for us to pray. Please pray for your neighbor,
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  pray for your neighbor, pray for your neighbor.
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  Father, thank you. Blessed are the eyes that have
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  seen, the ears that have heard. Thank God for the gift of your
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  neighbor. It says pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. They shall prosper who love you.
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  In Jesus name we pray. I've stretched you.
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  I will not take more than necessary time, but I want us to
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  pray. And the first prayer is we're
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  going to pray for the church in Ghana, the pastors, apostles,
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  prophets, 3 prayer points in one.
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  We're going to pray that those who have followed the way of
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  compromise, that God by his mercy will bring them back.
• 1:41:05
  We're tired of a lot of nonsense on the pulpit.
• 1:41:08
  There is hope for a tree. For the sake of the name of
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  Christ, we're going to ask him to rise and defend his name.
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  That the pastors who have literally the Bible said, the
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  people who sat in darkness, not that they are running away from
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  me, they sat in it. That God will show them mercy
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  and #2 those who are sincere but ignorant, that God will upgrade
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  their understanding and then those who are cutting edge and
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  effective, that God will give them the staying power to
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  remain. Are you ready to pray for the
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  church in Ghana? Please lift your voice in one
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  minute. Pray, don't criticize, pray,
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  don't insult, pray. Insulting and criticizing does
• 1:41:54
  not produce the result. You pray one minute, we're
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  praying. Mention your various regions.
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  Use Action Chapel as a point of contact.
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  Pray for the church in Ghana. Pray for the pastors.
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  Mention them by name if you know them, whether you like them or
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  not. Show mercy, O God, over your
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  church. Raise people of integrity.
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  Raise people of character. Raise men and women of wisdom.
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  Raise men and women who are empowered, manifest in the
• 1:42:34
  fullness of Christ. Shaprate, salaka pranda
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  gabaratoski Atta. Pray that those who have found
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  themselves in the shadows of compromise, that God by His
• 1:42:52
  mercy will deliver them from all kinds of extra biblical
• 1:42:57
  practices, all kinds of detestable practices, that God
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  will show them the way to light. Pray for those who are sincere
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  but are in ignorance, that God will enlighten them.
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  They will ascend by light. Pray for those who are the
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  cutting edge of Gods program that they will not be carried
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  away with pride. In Jesus name we pray #2 we are
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  going to pray for all business leaders, political leaders,
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  please pray or pray. Pray doesn't matter what
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  political party doesn't matter. I don't even.
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  Know the names of your political party, but pray for your
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  leaders. Father, breathe upon their
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  minds. Let them lead with integrity.
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  Pray for the business community. Pray for the senior executives.
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  Go ahead and pray in the name of Jesus the wisdom to bring
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  greater development. In Ghana, spreading across the
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  West African region, that the integrity of heart, that
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  dexterity of understanding will attract foreign investors.
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  They will come into your nation. They will invest by the power of
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  the holy. Spirit.
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  Bankers institutions that God will empower men and women to
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  build institutions that. Become shape us of convictions
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  in Jesus name we pray. Was he praying?
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  Is it all right if I ask you to pray for your President down to
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  your members of Parliament? Do you believe in prayer?
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  Lift your voice in one minute and pray for him.
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  Pray for the President of Ghana for wisdom.
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  Pray for grace. Pray for your Members of
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  Parliament. Pray for God's sake that leaders
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  will lead with conscience, the fear of the Lord and a sense of
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  posterity across your regions. Pray, Pray that God will empower
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  him. Empower all your leaders.
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  I see them projecting the names of leaders that God will walk
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  upon their hearts. That they will detest a life of
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  corruption, compromise the desire for gain.
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  More than the desire for impact, they will leave with integrity.
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  This is a praying church. This is a prophetic church.
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  We pray for the leaders in Ghana.
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  May God show them mercy that together they will move Ghana to
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  its prophetic destiny. That there will be greater
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  development from the common man to the privileged class.
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  Everyone will feel the impact. In Jesus name we pray
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  Hallelujah. Now let me request respectfully
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  that we pray for His Eminence the Archbishop.
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  Is it alright if we pray for him?
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  Please cry like you are praying for somebody you love.
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  Lift up your voice, clap your hands and pray, Father, in the
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  name of Jesus. Preserve him, preserve him
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  someone who loves him. Pray, increase him, bless him,
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  please pray from your heart. Bless his children, bless his
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  wife, bless his family, prophesied Psalm 112.
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  Blessed is the man that share the Lord, who delights greatly
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  in his commands. His seed shall be mighty upon
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  earth. The generation of the upright
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  shall be blessed. Wealth and riches shall be in
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  his house. Someone 1/2 plus 124 and his
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  righteousness endures forever. Pray for him that in all age he
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  will be fat and flourishing. Pray for him that he will leave
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  to 100 and even beyond. Like another prophetess, he will
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  see the consolation of Israel. He will see the consolation of
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  Ghana in his lifetime, the investments of years of prayer
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  and prophetic intercession that God will give him the honor of
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  watching a new generation arise, of prophets, of apostles, of
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  teachers, of leaders. In Jesus name we pray.
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  In Jesus name we pray. I speak over your life that
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  everything you have heard may not stand against you.
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  It says now that ye know these things, happy are you.
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  If you do them, I release the doing grace on you.
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  The doing grace. The grace that controls
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  performance. Now that you have heard the
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  grace to do, receive it. The grace to make the required
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  adjustments, receive it. The grace to make the required
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  improvements Receive it. In Jesus name we pray
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  Hallelujah. In a few hours we are preparing
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  for the night session. Let me encourage you, let me let
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  my voice with the Archbishop and the pastorate to encourage you.
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  Invite everyone that you can find around Ghana, send them
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  text messages, call them online and tell them look fire is
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  burning and the only thank you gift I want you to give me this
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  morning is to get this message to someone you know needs to
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  hear it but could not make it. Maybe your spouse, maybe ace or
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  don't, don't, don't be rude and send a message and say I found
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  what is wrong with you. Don't speak like that.
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  You will lose your job. Present it as a birthday gift,
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  put it in a flash drive and and then add it with a cake and give
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  someone as a birthday gift. Whatever you need to do get the
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  word out so that it will transform people.
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  Thank you for giving me the honor to bring you this word.
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  The Lord bless you in Jesus name.
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  Put it together. Can you just stretch forth your
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  hands? Let's stretch forth your hands
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  towards apostle. Say the name of Jesus.
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  Oh Lord, empower your manservant.
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  Empower your manservant, Paul, Grace from on high upon his
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  life. Let him be replenished in the
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  name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, said No
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  weapon by the enemy formed of fire.