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MANAGING THE GIFT OF ZEAL (TAMING EXTREMISM) ROMANS 12-11 WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN __02__11__2025 · Selah Media House

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  Let's lift our hands to heaven and thank Him.
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  Let's thank Him for the abundant supply of His Spirit in our
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  midst, making all the difference.
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  Lift your voice in gratitude and thank the King of Kings, mighty
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  God, the one who stands behind us as a mighty, terrible 1 Lord,
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  we give you thanks. We are a grateful people.
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  We acknowledge your goodness. We acknowledge your hand upon
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  our lives. It is by your wisdom we do the
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  things that we do, and every good thing that has come from
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  our life is a product of your mercy and your grace is someone
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  grateful enough to acknowledge him.
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  Thank you Jesus, we have come tonight because we are desperate
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  for more. We have come tonight because we
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  are thirsty. We are hungry, never settling,
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  knowing that there is more in You, greater wisdom, greater
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  press, greater fire. There's always more you intend
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  to do in and through our lives, and we calm as students.
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  We come with all humility and meekness, prepared to receive
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  from you, to feast on your table.
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  Declare your expectation tonight.
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  Father, visit me. I'll never get satisfied with
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  your presence. Visit me again, increase me in
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  grace, increase me in wisdom, increase me in power.
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  Thank you Jesus for it's in Jesus mighty name.
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  We pray, shout a believe in Amen.
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  You never lose with Jesus. You can lose with your mind
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  alone. You can lose with your
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  certificate alone. You can lose with your
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  background alone. But once Jesus comes into the
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  equation, it's game over for the devil.
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  I tell you that for sure. You will never lose with Jesus.
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  Let me repeat that again. This is a prophetic word for
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  someone. Your destiny at the mercy of
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  your mindset alone has no guarantee to produce success.
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  Your destiny at the mercy of your certificate alone has no
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  guarantee to produce success. Your destiny and men unassisted
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  by God has no guarantee to produce success.
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  But when he comes, when he locks hands with you, he will not
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  suffer by full to be. I carry your presence
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  everywhere. Who am I?
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  Your mind is so full of He will not suffer my full to
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  people carry your presence everywhere.
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  Who am I? Your mind is so full of
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  There are things only God can do.
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  There are things man can do. There are things the devil can
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  do, but there are things only God can do.
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  Only God can do that. One is beyond the realm of
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  science, beyond the realm of human calculation.
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  God brought you here tonight to do what only he can do, and he
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  will surprise you. I'm telling you, I'm
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  prophesying. I had already.
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  Your life will be an unending wonder.
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  An unending wonder. Your life will be like the pages
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  in a book that never finish. Pages in a book that never
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  finish. It will keep adding in glory.
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  It will keep adding in splendor. Just when men think they have
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  exhausted a dimension, a new one will open up.
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  More and more. I'm speaking into a receiver in
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  the name of Jesus Christ for the path of the just is as a shining
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  light, even if that just is Yoruba, even if that just is
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  house are evil, even if that just came from a background full
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  of all kinds of things. Provided he's in Christ and he's
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  the just, his path is as a shining light.
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  My assignment is to work with you as a midwife while the Holy
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  Spirit leads the way to an enviable destiny.
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  Hear me, I have bad news. Shame on the devil.
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  Shame on the devil over your life.
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  Shame on disappointment. I'm telling you, it is game over
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  for defeat as far as your destiny is concerned.
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  Satan will weary himself for nothing.
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  As for you, you are a shining light, shining ever brighter.
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  You are a shining light. I speak into your spirit beyond
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  your ears. You are a shining light.
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  Your life will become and remain an unending wonder.
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  An unending wonder. Your life will be a summoning
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  series in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  When men says God still alive, God will refer them to you.
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  When men say does God still lived, he will refer them to
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  you. When men say Does God still
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  restore you will refer them to you.
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  When men say Does God still bring laughter, you will refer
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  them to you. I speak it to you in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. The Bible says they go from
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  strength to strength, not strength to weakness, not
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  weakness to weakness. No, don't receive that.
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  They go from strength to strength.
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  As many as appear before the Lord in Zion.
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  Again I speak to you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  You have come tonight to close the door yesterday.
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  That door will never open again. You have come to close the door
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  to yesterday, the door of yesterday.
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  It will never open in the name of Jesus.
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  The door that opens is a greater door, a door of opportunity, a
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  door of greater power, greater influence.
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  I speak it to you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  A door of laughter, an open door that the hand of the Lord
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  himself would have opened. And no power in existence will
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  shut that door. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  Amen. Give Jesus a big hand clap, big
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  hand clap. Glory to God, please.
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  You may be seated. If I say welcome to church, I'm
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  right. If I say welcome to your next
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  level, I'm right. If I say welcome to a new
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  season, I'm right. If I say welcome to laughter,
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  I'm right. Whichever one your faith can
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  receive, I speak it over you in Jesus mighty name.
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  We pray, please be seated, give our worship team a big God bless
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  you. Incredible people, incredible
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  people in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  How many of you are happy about what God is making out of your
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  life? How many of you are sensing the
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  discomfort from the pit of hell over your rising Hallelujah?
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  I mean the devil is biting his finger and saying, why did this
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  light come to this brother? Why did this light come to this
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  sister? I thought you would be like her
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  mother. I thought you would be like her
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  dad. I thought you would be like the
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  siblings. Someone shout.
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  Too late shout, he said. Too late.
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  Too late for failure. No.
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  Too late for defeat. Too late for negative prophecy
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  coming to pass. I'm telling you too late.
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  Too late. No, the plan was too late.
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  Too late, too late. I'm not entertaining you.
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  I'm programming your spirit. Too late to fail, too late to be
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  called a victim. Too late to be defeated.
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  Not with the Word of God, not with the Holy Spirit, Not with
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  the wisdom of God. Too late.
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  In the name of Jesus, Hallelujah, please be seated.
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  The House of God is a place where your faith is built.
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  Faith is not built on cunningly devised fables.
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  No, it is built on the integrity of the Word of God.
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  Hallelujah. Welcome to a new experience
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  tonight in Jesus name. As always, let me request that
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  you pay attention. When we come to church, we
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  laugh, we jump, we cry, but as the Word of God begins to be
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  served, we pay very rapt attention, expecting many
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  things. Among them a transference of
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  light, among them a transference of grace, among them a
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  recalibration of your understanding.
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  These are more happen when the Word of God is being taught a
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  transference of light, light that comes translating to
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  superior victory, producing thoughts, a transference of
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  grace, enablement, the wherewithal capacity to do more,
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  to be more, to reach for more. The building of your faith from
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  no faith to little faith to great faith, to exceeding great
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  faith. The Lord will bless you tonight
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  in Jesus name. As always, let me put a few
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  announcements. Let me get it out of the way so
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  that we get to the business of the world.
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  Like many of you may have seen us display our new venue for the
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  convention. So I during the miracle service,
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  I told us that we've had to move the venue from the old to the
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  new. And like we, our media helped us
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  to see and know by God's grace, we're using the National
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  Stadium. Amen.
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  Praise the Lord. So I'm announcing official even
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  though many or most of you already know will be using the
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  stadium all through. It's large enough to one contain
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  the people and give us the flexibility to be able to do the
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  things that we want to do and then the liberty of expression
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  without being a nuisance to anyone.
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  It was designed for such and so we're honoured to be granted use
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  of the stadium. So please for those who probably
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  we've updated our billboards all around town to reflect the new
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  address. So make sure you pray, you plan.
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  It's going to be at the national stadium here in Abuja and we
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  give God glory for that in Jesus name.
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  Are you excited about it? Next, very quickly, I'll we're
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  going to be releasing the official video montage for the
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  convention. Just put together a media team,
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  put together a video montage. And once you have that, please
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  media make it available. You can just spread the word.
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  Just have it just as an added publicity to create expectation
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  and to just strengthen your hand.
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  So I'll just do I need to step out of the way.
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  I can stay here. OK, so I'll allow the media
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  everyone, your face on your, your eyes on the, your screens,
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  LED or the screen here. And for one or two minutes,
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  maybe less than that, you'll just watch the video montage.
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  Once we're done, then I'll put a word over the publicity and then
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  a few more things and then we're set to go media over to you.
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  Thank you. When God calls you, he does not
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  send you. He calls you.
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  He makes you, then he sends you. But I know a God who can turn
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  the jungle to a city. I know a God who can pick
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  somebody from an unknown village.
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  I know a God who can raise the day, who can make the clave to
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  walk. I know a God which would nothing
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  shall be impossible. I know a God who is almighty.
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  Faith doesn't find out how things work.
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  Don't move everything around you.
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  Most well find out from everybody making impact and
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  advancement in life. They don't know everything
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  before they started moving, but as they are moving, everything
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  starts following them. A lot of people don't know if it
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  is God's will to heal them. And faith cannot be exercised
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  where the will of God is known. The faith begins where the will
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  of God is known. What pleases the Father is to
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  see you. Well, there is a word God has
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  put in this word regarding your life.
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  The only way to come out of where you are, you have to go
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  back to the source and ask Him, What did you put me here for?
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  Now I know that I have the faith to do what I need to do and to
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  go where I need to go. Everything you need to succeed
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  is in the Bible. You must be careful what you
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  hear. You cannot rise above the words
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  you speak. How far you will go in life is
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  determined by the words that come out of your beats.
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  The end time move of the Spirit will not just be by young
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  people. You will see all people.
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  You will think they should retire.
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  But there will be such fire. Women who will emerge as though
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  from nowhere, men who will emerge as though from nowhere.
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  In the name of Jesus, fire will burn before them.
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  They will speak his counsel to nations.
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  They will come with theft. They will come with stamina.
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  They will twist the bars of iron.
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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  Amen. Praise Jesus, please.
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  You may be seated. And so we bless the montage.
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  We release it in the name of Jesus.
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  It will not just be for the viewing pleasure of people, but
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  it will draw the many who need to be there to encounter Jesus.
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  You believe that? Shout out loud, Amen.
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  Hallelujah. Now, just a moment, let me say a
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  word concerning the publicity. Like I said, and I'm speaking to
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  the body of Christ. Please listen.
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  God is going to do something very generational.
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  This is this for me right now has gone beyond a colonial
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  convention. I know when the Spirit of God is
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  moving, is doing something very definite, very definite.
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  I can't give you all the information here, but it's
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  important for you to know we are literally at the edge of
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  history. And we thank God that he's
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  granted us the privilege to do the things that we're doing.
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  When God, you know, impressed upon us and we finally moved to
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  the stadium, I knew that something very supernatural was
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  going to happen. And so we have a few more days
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  left and our publicity has begun.
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  Everybody under the sound of my voice, whether you are here on
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  site or across, particularly in the city of Abuja and Nigeria,
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  publicity is your business. We will have to do it together
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  to win together. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  The scripture. Every time I prayed concerning
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  what God was going to do at the stadium, the scripture that came
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  to my spirit was my car. Chapter 4.
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  Micah, Chapter 4. That Scripture has refused to
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  leave me. Please give it to us.
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  But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain
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  of the House of the Lord shall be established in the top of the
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  mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and
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  people shall flow to it. The key verse is verse 2.
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  And many nations shall come and say, come, let us go up to the
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  mount of the Lord, to the House of the God of Jacob, for he will
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  teach us his ways and we will walk in his paths.
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  This right here is no longer a scripture for us.
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  It's a living experience. We are watching the pages of
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  scripture, multitudes, nations coming together.
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  Several people have been humbled at the level of preparation that
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  people are making all over this country, coming in from
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  everywhere, literally the whole 36 states.
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  I mean, people have taken it as a burden to do publicity across
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  their regions. For this, we are grateful.
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  Listen, let me tell you this, by the message of God and at our
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  level, every point to be proven has been proven.
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  God has shown us mercy. God has shown us grace.
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  Everything that drives us at this point is glorifying Jesus,
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  not making a statement. Again, God has made every
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  statement that this level of life can capture.
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  Are we together? So when we push for these
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  things, it is beyond just a ministry trying to make a name
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  for itself. I mean, the things God has done
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  alone will be edged in history as a move of the Spirit like
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  this. But once you see you're still
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  driving and pushing, it is because God is going to do
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  something greater and mightier. And so I'm speaking to everyone.
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  The publicity is not for Joshua Salman alone, is not for the
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  leaders alone. Every single one.
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  Koinonia Global is an army of millions of people in this
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  nation and across the nations of the earth.
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  And this is the point where everyone has to take that
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  Apostolic responsibility. Are we together by God's grace?
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  We're doing our publicity, you know, soon would do the radio
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  publicity and a number of other things as God has granted grace.
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  We've put the billboards and so on and so forth.
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  Why are we doing this in spite of, you know, our size and what
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  God has done? Because there's still somebody
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  who should come in to experience to receive this and that becomes
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  your business. So I want you, I'm making this
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  charge to all of us. Publicity is our business.
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  I want us to make sure we take personal the issue of publicity
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  and do it in mass from Lagos. And, and I'm not just talking
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  about putting billboards, I'm talking about encouraging
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  people. If you need to support someone's
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  transportation, accommodation, families and all of that, all of
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  you who are watching, there are 10s of thousands of people from
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  across the globe. Not all of you will be able to
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  make it, but everyone, particularly those who are
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  domiciled in Nigeria, as much as it is within your power, you
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  should be here, not just following online.
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  Leave following online for those who are abroad who may not be
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  able to make it. Those days we used to travel
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  from Zarya down to Lagos to go for conferences.
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  I mean, would go 12 hours, 14 hours.
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  And sometimes once you arrive, there's little time to even take
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  your bath or do whatever. We're on our way to go and sit
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  down. If you if you sit with a smelly
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  body and receive something for your destiny and bath later.
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  For us, we considered it a great bargain.
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  Are we together now? So I'm charging everyone in
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  righteousness. By God's grace, we have the
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  whole, you know, everywhere across the FCT and, you know,
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  we're inviting everybody and we're trusting God that it is
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  going to be a glorious experience.
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  We're doing our best to make sure that at least we, we, we
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  exhaust everywhere in the stadium.
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  We've asked them to give us access and gratefully they've
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  given us access to use the chairs and also the field should
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  the need arise and all of that. And so we're trusting God that
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  you'll be an exceptional time. We've invested lots of money,
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  lots of prayer is going in. And so I'm charging us.
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  This is first to the Koinonia Global family and then the body
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  of Christ. Pastors join in the publicity,
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  business people join in the publicity, Whatever you are able
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  to do in righteousness for the name of the Lord, that would
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  draw people, multitudes, according to Micah, for one, and
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  two, let it be a generational convergence, not a colonial
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  convergence alone while trusting God for a great time,
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  particularly because God has given.
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  I consider it a great privilege to be able to host our father in
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  the Lord that the Geo one of the greatest honor.
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  Listen carefully. One of the greatest honor that
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  we can accord that man for making.
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  I I don't want to tell you his schedules and the sacrifice that
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  he's had to make to be with us. I can tell you first hand, it's
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  a, it's a sacrifice that he can, I can almost call a miracle.
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  And so it's important I'm speaking to my generation and
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  then every other generation. It's important.
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  Let us rally round and receive. Let us honor this father of
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  faith and everyone who has come. The greatest honor is not your
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  seed. The greatest honor is not even
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  your prayers alone. The greatest honor that we can
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  give to these fathers, particularly our Father of
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  faith, is the gift of your presence, Your presence to
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  receive. I don't know what he's going to
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  do and how he's going to do it, but I sense in my spirit that
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  something is going to come out of that man and he's going to
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  release it upon a generation. And even though I have the
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  privilege of hosting this convention, my hunger level is
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  rising. I have encountered him by the
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  message of God across various meetings as I've had the honor
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  of preaching through the RCCG platform.
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  But it's a different thing that you are hosting him and we're
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  not only bringing him to Abuja, to the colonial global family.
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  I believe that we're doing this for a generation.
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  So pastors, these are the kinds of meetings where you look
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  beyond denominational barriers. This is the body of Christ.
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  God is doing something prophetic.
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  He's doing something generational.
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  I don't know how this convention is going to go.
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  All I know is that the Lord will be glorified.
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  I've handed it over to him and I've said, Lord, I will just be
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  a caretaker while you surprise everyone of us.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. So let me encourage everyone,
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  publicity everywhere, your city, your place, your neighborhood,
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  where by next week, hopefully the bills, we have handbills,
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  they'll be made available. Everyone is invited.
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  We have letters that have been sent.
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  But let me say this officially to every denomination, Orthodox,
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  the Catholic, the Anglican, you know, Presbyterian and
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  Pentecostal charismatics, every denomination, you are warmly and
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  officially invited. Where people of love who are
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  very all inclusive and all embracing professionals, you are
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  invited. Politicians you are invited.
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  You know all kinds of people, you are invited.
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  Unbelievers you are invited. Muslims you are invited.
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  Free thinkers, you are invited. Let everything that has breath,
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  provided you are human, you are invited.
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  Come join us at the National Stadium from the 19th to the
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  23rd and it's going to be a great one.
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  And then like I told us last week, media, please make that
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  ready. We are converting the final
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  night. The grand finale will be Sunday
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  night and we're going to use the Sunday night.
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  The Lord impressed it in my heart.
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  We're going to use the Sunday night to officially have the
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  first sound of revival Nigeria. Hallelujah.
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  So it's going to be Sound of Revival Nigeria.
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  We're using that as a springboard also as God has put
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  in my heart. So those of you who are not able
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  to make Glasgow or Scotland, you know, Manchester, NY, Toronto
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  and any other place here, you have it.
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  It's going to be an incredible time.
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  Myself, dear friend and brother Pasanat among a lot of other
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  ministers, pastors are coming from all across the globe
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  literally and we trust God for a great time.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. So I'm encouraging everyone, God
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  bless you. Thank you media, this is
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  blessed. We release it in Jesus name.
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  Please make sure you join me and join this vision in massive
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  publicity. Publicity, whether online,
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  whether offline, your neighborhood, your place of
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  work. Some of you may want to donate
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  buses to those in your neighborhood to bring in
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  someone. 5 people, two people, 10 people were making all that
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  we can do. But this assignment, you see, is
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  bigger than one man. There are certain Kingdom
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  projects that one man, no matter how great, cannot do it alone.
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  And so I'm calling on the body of Christ and I'm calling on
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  believers. Let's bring great glory to the
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  name of the Lord, that he will use this platform to redefine
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  many things about the church. Hallelujah.
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  I believe that God will, through this, bring great reconciliation
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  between the sons and the fathers.
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  There is something generational that God wants to do and we give
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  Him praise. Please put your hands together
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  for Jesus. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. Now let me officially launch.
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  We're going to begin our prayer and fasting.
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  Like I told us a program and a convention of this magnitude
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  requires a deep time of consecration, spiritual
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  preparation. You stretch yourself while
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  clearing the airwaves were decreeing that the ground is,
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  you know, safe for our our work. And then of course, we're
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  preparing our spirits. And so we're beginning our fast
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  officially tomorrow on the third the third.
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  It will end at the 17th. So two weeks we have 14 days
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  nonstop. We're fasting and praying,
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  preparing ourselves. So everyone Koinonia global.
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  It is not. It is by God's grace in
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  righteousness and within the limit of this Apostolic
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  covering. It is mandatory for everyone who
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  is part of this vision. The only exception are those who
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  are pregnant. Pregnant mothers, don't worry,
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  you don't have to fast. We will fast for you in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. You just pray.
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  And then of course, those who have medical, you're on drugs or
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  whatever, please don't bother fasting.
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  We will do it for you and yours is just to pray.
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  But for every other person, please make sure you
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  participate. And then every day beginning
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  from tomorrow, 8:00 to 9:00 PM, for one hour, we're going to be
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  having daily prayers. And it's going to be online.
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  You'll be on our page. Are you celebrating Jesus for
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  that? 8:00 to 9:00 every day from the
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  third tomorrow now until 17th, we're going to be using our
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  other venue, DOA, and we'll fix it up and from there we'll be
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  able to aid. So everyone, I'm speaking to
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  you, those who are following now across the globe, please join
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  us. 8 to 9 W African time. That will be 7 to 8 UK time.
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  I don't know what time that will be for many parts of US, Canada.
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  Please find the time equivalent and make sure you join us.
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  We'll be, you'll be live on all our social media platforms,
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  YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and so on and so forth.
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  Just one hour, 8 to 9, we're going to be praying.
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  I'm going to be there myself alongside the ministers within
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  the house. We're going to be praying.
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  We'll wrap up every day by speaking prophetic blessings.
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  I'm going to be prophesying over your life.
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  So make sure you invite everyone to call every other person, join
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  us from tomorrow, the 3rd, 8:00 PM.
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  Now for those who are here, unfortunately, because of the
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  size, everybody cannot be ADOA. So I'm giving an instruction now
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  so that we don't have a crowd that we cannot contain.
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  We can only take a few people. Don't worry, wherever you are,
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  even when you're in Abuja, here you can connect by faith.
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  Are we together? Connect by faith?
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  We'll just get a few people, maybe not more than 5 to 600
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  people just to be a studio audience.
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  And that's fine. But most people connect by faith
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  because I know some of you tomorrow now by 2:00 three, you
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  are already there and you create a lot of traffic for us.
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  So I love you with the love of Jesus.
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  Don't worry, the stadium will contain all of us, but this
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  venue cannot contain all of us. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So I'm sure we'll pick a few people and just just have.
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  Of course, you can try your luck.
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  Come around. If there's an extra seat, you
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  stand. If there's no seat, pray outside
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  the gate. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  But please take the prayers serious.
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  Don't just laugh. Take the prayers.
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  I'm taking a few minutes like this to drum it because it's
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  very serious. Take the prayers serious.
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  We're fasting. If you fast and don't pray, you
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  really did not fast, so make sure you study the word engaged
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  by God's grace. The 8:00 to 9:00 will be an
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  active time of prayer by the grace of God and I pray for me
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  as I'm saying, God help me. We plan to make sure we don't
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  exceed 8 on the dot, not missing anything and media.
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  They're working to make sure this is in place. 8 on the dot,
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  we start 9 on the dot, we're done.
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  If we ever exceed maybe just with a few minutes and that's
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  it. So that we respect our time.
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  So make sure you connect, connect with friends, family.
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  It's going to be a time of fire. We're literally just adding
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  coals to that burning altar and to set that fire in the spirit.
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  We're going to be speaking over the climate.
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  You'll be preparing your heart and your spirit.
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  If you're excited one more time, give Jesus praise.
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  The final announcement for now as touching the convention.
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  We've had so many reports across the globe, people pleading to be
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  granted permission to set up viewing centers.
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  I'm not going to say so much now, but what will happen is
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  hopefully maybe by next week, we'll create, will create a link
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  for all those across the globe who officially want to create
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  viewing centers in your region, wherever it is.
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  We'll just give you a few rules, just a few dos and don'ts and
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  we'll give you the liberty. Some of you are want to use your
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  homes. You have large homes with
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  spaces. Some of you have chapels.
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  There are pastors who want to use their church auditoriums
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  will not stop you from granting people grace because not
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  everybody can come. There's only so much and there
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  are millions of people who need to connect.
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  So but I'm promising you by Sunday by the grace of God, you
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  can go ahead and start preparing your various viewing centers.
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  But what we will need you to do is we'll give you a link
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  hopefully by next week so that you just do an official
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  registration. Let us know that I'm so, so and
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  so from this region or this place.
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  I would love to put up the viewing center just to be a
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  blessing to people. And then just a few guides to
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  help you and we'll give you our blessings, some even within
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  Nigeria and then many across Africa, Europe, you know, down
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  Australia and all of that. So we don't want to rob people.
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  And pastors, we have many pastors across the globe, some
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  of them sons and daughters who just take it as a Kingdom
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  responsibility. They want to make sure that they
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  create the viewing centre with all pleasure.
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  But please allow us guide you. You go ahead with your
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  preparation since the time is short, but we just demand that
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  you do a little registration so that we know the Lord bless us
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  in the name of Jesus Christ. Are you ready for tonight?
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  Please pray in the Spirit for one minute and ask the Lord to
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  speak to your heart. Ask the Lord to speak to your
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  heart. By the power of His Word.
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  It will change us. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. Now there are three levels of
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  ignorance. There are three levels of
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  ignorance that you must deal with.
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  You must fight on your journey to becoming a victorious
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  believer. There are three levels of
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  ignorance. I just needed to state this.
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  Number one, the ignorance of not knowing that you do not know.
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  That's the first level of ignorance that you have to deal
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  with. The ignorance of not knowing
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  that you do not know. That means you are not even
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  aware that you are ignorant. A man, even a sincere man, can
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  be in such a state. You are not yet conscious of the
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  fact that you are ignorant. There are many people who are in
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  ignorance. They are living in ignorance,
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  but they are not even aware that they are in ignorance.
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  So these people do not just need information.
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  It's a consciousness problem. Matthew 4 and verse 16 But the
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  people that sat in darkness, you see that now how does someone
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  sit in darkness and is comfortable in darkness?
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  Because he's not even aware that it is darkness.
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  The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them
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  that sat in the regions of the shadow of death.
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  No right thinking person should be sitting in such a place.
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  But then our world has people who are not even aware they are
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  in so much ignorance. But the greater part of the
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  ignorance is that they are not aware that they are in ignorance
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  #2 The second level of ignorance that you have to deal with is
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  those who know that they are in ignorance.
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  They have come to a realization that they are in ignorance, but
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  they do not know how and where to get useful knowledge.
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  They are already aware of their state of ignorance.
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  They have come into the realization that they do not
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  know, but the challenge now is they do not know how, and they
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  do not know where to find useful knowledge.
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  In Ecclesiastes 10 and verse 15, please take note of this
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  preamble. 1015 Ecclesiastes. It says the labor of the
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  foolish. I've taught you in this house
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  the word foolish. There's not an insult.
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  It's a description of someone who is bankrupt of light,
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  bankrupt of direction. The labor of the foolish, weary
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  at every one of them. Why?
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  Because he knows he needs to go to the city.
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  He's already aware of the need, but he knoweth not how.
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  So for that person he already knows where, but he does not
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  know how to get to the where. The labour of the foolish
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  wearied every one of them. Because he knoweth not how to go
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  into the city. The second level of ignorance
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  you must deal with. The third level of ignorance is
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  he represents a group of people or a state where you know but
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  you do not know enough to bring you sustainable results So this
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  one deals with the ignorance of incomplete, limited or
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  incomplete knowledge. First Corinthians 8 and verse 2
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  ignorance of limited or incomplete knowledge the other
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  side of knowledge you need to have to bring you sustainable
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  result. It says if any man think that
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  you know it anything, he know it nothing yet.
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  It's not like the man is in complete ignorance, but he know
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  it nothing yet as he ought to know in first.
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  Second Timothy I believe 3 and verse 7 give it to us.
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  Let's try that scripture. Second Timothy 3:00 and 7:00.
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  The Bible says ever learning. You see that?
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  So the person is not lazy. The Jason is a student, but he's
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  ever learning, but never able to use knowledge to come into a
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  comprehension of the truth. 3 levels of ignorance you must
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  fight again. Let me repeat it #1 not even
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  knowing that you do not know, not knowing that you do not know
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  you are not aware, you are not conscious of your state of
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  ignorance. My, my goodness, our world is
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  full of very sincere people. They don't even know they're in
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  ignorance. They don't know some of them are
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  good people, some of them are arrogant people.
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  They don't even know that they don't know that number 2.
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  They are those who with humility or through pain or by watching
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  the lives of others, they have come to an honest conclusion
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  that I don't have everything added yet.
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  The variables are still missing in my life, but their issue is
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  they do not know how and where to access useful knowledge that
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  liberates and brings victory. And then the third group are
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  people who have been able to access a little knowledge here
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  and there, but it's not aggregated like I thought.
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  You make reference to my teaching line up online, The
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  Power of Structured Knowledge. Many people have knowledge a
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  little on prayer, a little on fasting, a little on giving, a
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  little on demons, a little on victory, a little on defeat, a
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  little on pain. Are we together?
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  A little on relationships, a little on finances.
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  But the knowledge is not aggregated to produce victory,
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  either as a result of poor mentorship or as a result of
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  pride to not open up themselves to receive the more.
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  When the Word of God comes, it comes to address these 3 levels
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  of ignorance. That's why I brought this.
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  The ministry of the world, particularly the teaching
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  ministry, addresses these three groups of people.
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  Number one, it brings you into a consciousness of what you do not
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  know even before providing you solutions.
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  It brings you to the awareness that there are dimensions.
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  There's something you do not know.
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  Now it is up to you to graduate to the next level through
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  humility of heart. If you admit that truly, upon
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  hearing the word discuss I, I can see the gaps in my life,
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  that is a miracle. Coming to a point where you
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  agree that you need growth, where you agree that you need
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  change, where you agree that you need help, that state itself is
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  already a miracle, and now the Word of God now shows you how.
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  This is where the wisdom of the world comes.
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  It does not just tell you that you should be victorious.
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  It begins to carve out for you intelligently so, a pathway that
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  leads you to victory, a pathway that leads you to greatness, a
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  pathway that leads you to ever increasing glory.
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  And then of course, for those who have attained a level of
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  maturity in the spirit, you have wins here, you have losses here.
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  Are we together? You have gains here, but you are
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  still experiencing defeat here and there.
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  The Word of God comes to bring completion to your life while
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  celebrating you for the victories that you have had
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  through the world. It exposes you to the other
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  dimensions. Usually the first and the last
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  are the hardest people to be changed by the world.
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  The first said they will argue with the world to break that
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  spiritual inertia, the second group of people who are mostly
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  malleable to receive, and then the third group of people,
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  because they are not complete failures, they already have
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  results in an area. Having a result in an area can
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  stop you from opening up to receive results in the area
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  where you do not yet have results.
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  I pray for you. It doesn't matter which of the
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  three groups you belong to. In the name of Jesus, may the
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  word bring you prophet shout Amen.
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  May the word bring you prophet in Jesus name.
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  We pray. It was strong in my spirit and I
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  just wanted to bring this as a preamble because most people
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  don't know who or what the Word of God addresses.
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  The Word of God should be for everyone, but the teaching
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  ministry is not for everyone. If you do not belong to any of
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  these three categories, the Word of God would not make any profit
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  to you. You must be one person who is
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  desiring to learn that you submit your consciousness to the
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  influence of the world. It brings you to a point of
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  awareness, then number two, direction, information, wisdom,
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  and then it begins to add to what you already know until you
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  become entire, until you become complete.
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  May the Lord bless you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Tonight's teaching is going to make you wiser.
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  Tonight's teaching is going to guide you.
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  They will give you a lot of wisdom as you navigate through
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  life. We are a people who should not
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  just reflect Christ in terms of character, but we must also
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  access wisdom. I taught you that the fullness
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  of Christ revealed in a man captures three areas #1 the
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  nature of Christ, the character of Christ #2 the wisdom of
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  Christ, and then #3 the power of Christ.
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  You do not have the fullness of the Christ manifesting in you if
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  you lack any of these 3 dimensions.
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  Still remember #1 again, the nature of Christ, the character
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  of Christ #2 the wisdom of Christ #3 the power of Christ.
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  If you have the power of Christ, without the wisdom of Christ,
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  you are in trouble. You will mismanage the
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  anointing. If you have the wisdom of Christ
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  and you do not have the nature of Christ, you will become like
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  the serpent. You will produce guile and
• 45:33
  craftiness. Are we together the character of
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  Christ? Without the wisdom of Christ and
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  the power of Christ, you will be a very good person, but you will
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  not produce any exploits in the Kingdom.
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  So the fullness of Christ manifesting in a man is the
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  tripartite manifestation, Don't forget this, of the nature of
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  Christ, the character of Christ, the wisdom of Christ doing much
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  for the Kingdom, the power of Christ.
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  Are we together subduing all kinds of forces and then
• 46:04
  establishing His purposes on earth.
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  I'm teaching you tonight on what I title, Managing the gift of
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  zeal. Managing the gift of zeal
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  tonight we want to create a dichotomy between passion and
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  extremism I want to show you how to tame extremism and excessism
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  while exploring the passion that God has put in every man.
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  Managing the gift of zeal 2 scriptures very quickly.
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  Romans chapter 12 and verse 11. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  Romans 12/11. The Bible says not slothful in
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  business. Then it uses a very important
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  expression. It says fervent in spirit.
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  That right, there's a description of zeal, fervent in
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  spirit, but that that fervency must be directed towards serving
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  the Lord. Not slothful in business,
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  fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
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  Look at that verse again very carefully.
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  Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the
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  Lord. The next scripture, let's go to
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  1st Kings chapter 19. I'll begin my reading from let's
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  start from verse 9, forsake of time.
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  The full text is 1 to 18. But let's start from verse one
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  and he came Kita that he been Elijah now and Lords there and
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  behold the word of the Lord came to him and said unto him, what
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  doest thou here next verse media and he said I have been very
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  jealous the word jealous. There's the word zealous other
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  modern translations who say I've been very zealous for the Lord
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  God of hosts Elijah. Now we speaking to the Lord, For
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  the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, they've
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  thrown down your altars, they have slain the prophets with the
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  sword. And I even I only take note of
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  that statement. I am left, and they seek my life
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  to take it away. Next verse.
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  And he said, Go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord,
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  and behold, the Lord pass by, follow carefully, and a great
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  and strong wind rent the mountains, and break in pieces
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  the rocks before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind
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  an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the
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  earthquake. Verse 12.
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  And after the earthquake came fire.
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  Take note, wind came, earthquake came, fire came, but the Lord
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  was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still
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  small voice. Verse 13 And it was so when
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  Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out
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  and stood in the entering of The Cave.
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  And behold, there came a voice unto him and said, What doest
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  thou here, Elijah? Here Elijah repeating what he
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  said again in I think verse 10. He said, I have been very
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  zealous or jealous for the Lord God of hosts, because the
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  children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, they've thrown
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  down your altar, slain your prophet with a sword, and I even
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  I only I'm left, and they seek my life to take it away.
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  God's response the Lord said to him, go return on thy way to the
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  wilderness of Damascus, and when thou has gotten there, anoint
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  Hazel to be king over Israel. 16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi,
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  shall thou anoint to be king over Israel.
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  And Elijah the son of Shabbat shalt thou anoint to be prophet
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  in thy room. Verse 17 And it shall come to
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  pass, Him that escapes the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay.
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  And he that escapes the sword of Jehu shall Elijah slay.
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  The final verse Yet I have left me 7000 in Israel all the knees
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  which have not bowed unto bell, and every mouth which had not
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  kissed him. The Lord bless the reading of
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  His word and bless our hearts as we listen in Jesus name.
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  Hallelujah. Now the goal of this.
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  Teaching tonight is. To see zeal and enthusiasm as a
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  divine gift from God that must be managed responsibly.
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  Tonight I want to show you zeal as a vehicle that can convey its
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  possessor to any place, the place of victory or the place of
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  destruction. Let's define the word zeal very
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  quickly. The word zeal means dedication.
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  The word zeal means enthusiasm. The word zeal means energy.
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  The word zeal means passion, dedication, enthusiasm, energy,
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  passion, fervency that is invested in the pursuit of A
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  cause or an objective. I'll take that again, defining
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  zeal for you in a very simple time so that all of us are on
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  the same page. Zeal is defined as dedication,
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  enthusiasm, energy, passion, fervency that is invested in the
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  pursuit of A cause or the pursuit of an objective.
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  Titus 2. Give us 13 and 14 please.
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  Titus chapter 213 and verse 14. It says, looking for that
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  blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and
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  of our Savior Lord Jesus. Verse 14 Who gave himself for
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  us, that he might redeem us from iniquity, and purify unto
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  himself a peculiar people who are zealous of good work.
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  So God in birthing the new man, also designed that man to be a
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  man who carries the gift of zeal, not just eternal life.
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  The Bible says in the construction of the new man, God
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  injected that gift, that possibility.
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  He expects us to not only be a purified people, a peculiar
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  people, but to be a people who are zealous of good works.
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  They were together, say Amen, Hallelujah.
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  Now let me just digress for a moment and teach you something
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  about the nature of the human spirit and progress.
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  I have taught you in this House that one of the indices that
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  measures happiness and fulfillment is advancement and
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  progress. Are we together?
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  That means to the degree to which you find yourself
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  advancing, the degree to which you find yourself making
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  constructive progress, it sustains an ability to cause you
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  to be happy, to cause you to be joyful, and then to cause you to
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  be fulfilled. Often times when you find people
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  who are sad, depressed, gloomy, at the back of their frustration
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  is the feeling of stagnation or actual stagnation.
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  So progress is one of the indices that controls happiness
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  and fulfillment is the reason why.
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  Like I've taught you in this House, we celebrate strides like
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  anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, promotions.
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  All those things give us a message that we are making
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  progress, and it is God's desire for us to make progress.
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  But there's something about the design of the human spirit.
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  No human spirit indefinitely makes progress.
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  Now please look up. No human spirit is able to make
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  progress in life and destiny until you sustain A requisite
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  level of energy and fire and passion.
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  Are we together in physics? Now again I make reference to my
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  science based people. Remember 1 of Sir Isaac Newton's
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  law says that a body remains in a state of rest or uniform
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  motion except compelled by an external force to act otherwise.
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  The meaning of that is that anybody, including you, as a
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  body, you will remain in one place until a force pushes you
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  that is beyond the inertia that is keeping you right where you
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  are. Are we together?
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  This pulpit will remain where it is.
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  But if you apply a force greater than the force keeping it, it
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  will move. That's how your destiny is.
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  So when you find someone making progress in life, it means there
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  is an energy, there is a force. Are we together driving that
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  person that is greater than the force of safe criticism, that is
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  greater than the force of discouragement?
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  How do you explain to me, ladies and gentlemen, say a young guy
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  or a young lady who's lost his father, who's lost the mother,
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  maybe when they were small. And yet that young girl will
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  make up her mind that I will still go to school.
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  She may be selling something by the wayside.
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  That drive there is called zeal. Are we together now?
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  And with that zeal, that energy, it will overcome any bottleneck
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  she has to, you know, until one day she will tell you I'm a
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  professor. She now tells you her story.
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  Same thing with someone who may have come from a family of
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  poverty, deprivation. And he makes up his mind that
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  I'm going to push through by grace and that gentleman can
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  start maybe selling water, maybe selling whatever, maybe serving
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  as an apprentice and a few years down the line he becomes a multi
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  millionaire. And you look at the gentleman,
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  you say how did you become this? He will tell you zeal.
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  So zeal is a very powerful gift. There is no motion, no forward
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  motion if you do not have a request beside dimension of zeal
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  and energy. Do you understand me so far?
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  Zeal is very important one of. The definitions of.
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  Hopelessness is lack of zeal. The moment people have lost
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  their fire, their zeal because they cannot see a future before
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  them, what happens is that the zeal dies.
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  And with the dying of zeal hopelessness comes.
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  You can define hopelessness safely by saying lack of energy,
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  lack of enthusiasm, lack of vision and lack of zeal.
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  So the human spirit makes progress, not just.
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  By vision, you can have a vision cast before you, but if you do
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  not have the energy and the drive, look at me.
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  How many of you have seen people and and now, not to mock them,
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  but you've seen people who are very low energy, very prone to
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  procrastination. Are we together?
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  Very less affair over life. It doesn't matter what you say,
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  you tell them someone just died, they say and they are watching.
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  No energy, no drive, no attitude, no nothing.
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  Stand up and let's go. There's an opportunity.
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  Say no, I don't know, I will. That low energy.
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  The person has lack of zeal. But show me another person who
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  is always They don't have time to regret failure.
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  They don't have time. If a door closes, the time
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  orders are using to cry, they are investing that energy in
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  opening another door. We have all kinds of names and
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  some of the names a believer should not use, like hustlers.
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  But did you know that as bad as it is, usually one day a door
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  will open for them because of zeal.
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  They open one, they knock, one it doesn't open, they leave.
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  They don't have time to be embarrassed, they don't have
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  time to be ashamed. They move immediately or someone
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  is dead. They mourn for a few days, they
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  redesign themselves and they are ready for the next journey.
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  Zeal is very powerful. The human spirit does not
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  achieve goals just by vision alone.
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  It will take the energy, the fire, the drive to push you
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  beyond the limitations. Now, what is the foundation for
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  zeal? Please look up what we call
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  zeal. Enthusiasm, The passion, the
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  fervency is founded upon something.
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  And I want to teach you now, every kind of zeal you find on
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  earth today, genuine zeal is founded upon convictions, and
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  convictions are founded upon ideologies.
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  Please write that down. Genuine zeal is founded upon
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  convictions, and convictions are founded upon ideologies.
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  Now, whether the ideologies are good or bad is a separate
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  discussion, but I'm saying anywhere you see energy driving
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  a man, there is conviction there.
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  And anywhere you see conviction, there is a belief system.
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  There is an ideology that powers that conviction.
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  So here's how it works. There is usually an ideology, A
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  mindset, A belief system. It graduates into conviction,
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  deep seated persuasion over a cause, over a matter, and then
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  it moves to zeal. Once it gets to zeal, it is a is
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  a kinetic dimension of that energy.
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  It pushes you, propels you. It's like fire in your bones
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  that will not allow you relax. You know, people have come to me
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  to pray for them over businesses.
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  And sometimes I am surprised the kind of business they put
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  together because personally I have no passion whatsoever for
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  such kind of businesses either because it is too hard, it is
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  too cumbersome. And yet you see the people come
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  with joy and gladness and they say also this what I've done.
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  I'm almost tempted to say you mean you don't want to do
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  something easier or better. But I mean the a zeal does not
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  even have time to tolerate your objection.
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  I just quietly pray and say, May God, who?
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  Started with you. As alpha, may he be Omega to
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  your tent, to ye Israel. Are we together now?
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  Very, very powerful. So.
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  Zeal is founded upon conviction and is founded upon ideologies.
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  Anytime, for instance, you look at extremist views, sadly across
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  the globe, whether it's terrorists or great visionary
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  builders, when you meet anybody who has a level of fire and
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  energy that will not die, people who are willing to live for A
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  cause or die for A cause, probe them.
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  The first thing you find. Their zeal will lead you to
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  strong conviction. Because you see, the stronger
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  the conviction, the stronger the drive, the energy that pushes
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  you are we together? And behind the conviction will
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  usually be an ideology, A belief system.
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  So when you meet, sadly, I've had the opportunity to talk with
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  people who were once involved, whether I'm stealing or killing
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  or, you know, acts of terrorism. In my whole journey, ministry as
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  a man of God, you will encounter these kinds of people,
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  particularly the days when we're in Zaria and you engage these
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  people and you tell them, OK, what happened?
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  They will tell you that they were engineered by an ideology.
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  Something was said, are we together?
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  And it came as a seed. I hope you know that words are
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  seeds and they receive of that seed and they get up and begin
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  to execute with respect to that mindset.
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  So you meet a young boy and say you are very hard working boy,
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  you are stealing. Why are you stealing?
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  The same energy it takes to steal.
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  In fact, it takes twice the energy to steal, you know, to be
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  the energy, to be productive, to be a thief, you have to
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  calculate the same wisdom or creativity that is needed.
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  Why don't you convert it to power?
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  And the gentleman will tell you, well, nobody believed in me.
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  And somebody said, look, if you must make it in this life, your
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  destiny is in your and so on and so forth.
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  There was an ideology. He believed the ideology, and it
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  became zeal. And that zeal became a driving
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  force. Are we together now?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. This is very powerful, the
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  foundation. For zeal are.
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  Convictions that are products of ideologies.
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  So zeal, therefore, is a product of the strength of conviction,
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  good or bad. Zeal, therefore, is a product of
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  the strength of conviction, good or bad.
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  Hallelujah. Some of you have been here for
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  hours even. Before church started, you were
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  here for hours. You sat patiently.
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  To someone it looks like a waste of time, but to you, because you
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  have the zeal for the Lord, which is a product of your
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  conviction, are we together? You're believing in Jesus and
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  you're loving him, which is a product of something you were
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  told about Jesus. It's given you the staying power
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  to endure, to make sacrifices. Look, the things that are done
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  for Jesus. Across the globe, there are
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  people who have died. For Jesus, there are.
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  People who live for him. There are people who have given
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  off their resources. Why?
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  They give in honor. That was propelled.
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  The giving, the preaching, the sacrifice, the matador.
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  It was propelled by zeal and you, Baghdad zeal, it's
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  conviction, and conviction is ideology.
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  That means when you want to recalibrate a man's zeal, you
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  have to dig back into his or her ideology.
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  What frames his or her belief system.
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  Are we together now? And Armed Robber believes that
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  he's able. To Rob, that's why he can take
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  that risk in the night. Other people are sleeping and
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  that guy wakes up and believes he will jump a fence and has
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  already calculated. Can you imagine that, That no
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  matter what it is, I will come back?
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  That it takes a lot of faith. That's zeal there.
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  Now I will tell you. This zeal.
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  Is a double edged. Sword zeal is like energy that
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  can be used for good or for bad. On the one hand, it is the
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  energy that drives creativity. On the one hand, it's the energy
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  that drives vision. It's the energy that drives
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  advancement and achievement. Zeal as a double edged sword, as
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  energy that works in multiple ways.
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  It is a force or. Energy that drives.
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  Creativity, vision, advancement, achievement.
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  But zeal also is an energy that can produce extremism and
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  anarchy. Zeal.
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  The same energy, ladies and gentlemen, that can drive a man
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  to be creative, to be great, to be enthusiastic, to be on
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  bending, to be resilient until you emerge, is the same energy
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  that can lead a man towards extremism, lead a man to be an
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  initiator. Are we together or a mastermind
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  of anarchy? Whether spiritually or
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  otherwise? This is very powerful.
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  Please pay attention. So zeal works 2.
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  Ways. I liken zeal to a vehicle, a
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  high turbo engine vehicle. It can drive you anywhere at
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  all. If you drive a car, watch this
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  now. If you drive a car into a river
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  and it kills you there, the car did not kill you.
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  It was the driver that took the car there.
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  Are we together. If you drive a car to a crusade
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  ground and you find Jesus there, the car did not take you there.
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  No, the driver controls the direction.
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  That's how zeal is. There are people today who have
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  used zeal responsibly and it's produced giant things for the
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  Kingdom in business, in ministry.
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  They have used this as an energy, propelling their
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  spiritual life, propelling their prayer life, propelling their
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  love for Jesus, propelling their reading books, propelling their
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  attending seminars, propelling their loving and serving in the
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  House of God, propelling their soul winning adventures.
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  Are we together propelling their acquiring knowledge, ultimately
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  propelling they are? Becoming victorious.
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  But there are people who have mismanaged zeal and it's LED
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  them to disaster and catastrophe of all sorts.
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  I'm praying for you that as you learn tonight, God will grant
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  grace that zeal will not become A cause in your life.
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  Shout Amen like you believe that zeal will not become A cause in
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  your life. Now let's look at the positive
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  power of zeal very quickly, and I want to draw a few lessons
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  from scripture. The positive power of zeal.
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  I hope you're learning now the power that makes.
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  Or breaks the. Power that propels to profit or
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  propels to loss. The power that propels to
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  increase or propels to depletion.
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  The power that propels to relevance.
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  Are we together or propels to all kinds of things?
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  Oblivion. You come out of relevance
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  completely. The positive power of zeal.
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  Let's look at numbers. Chapter 13 A lesson from Caleb
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  Numbers. 13 I begin my reading from verse 25.
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  Lend me your attention as we consider a few Scriptures.
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  And they returned from searching the land.
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  These were the 12th spies now, who was sent by Moses after 40
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  days reading to 30. And they went and came to Moses
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  and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of
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  Israel, onto the wilderness of Paran.
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  And then they brought back word unto them and onto the
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  congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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  Verse 27 And they told them, and said, We came unto the land, we
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  that thou sent us us, and surely it flowed with milk and honey,
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  and this is the fruit of it. Verse 28 Nevertheless the people
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  be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled
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  and very great. And moreover we saw the children
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  of Anak there. Verse 29 The Amalekites dwell in
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  the land to the South, the Hittites, the Jebusites, the
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  Amorites, and so on the Canaanites and so on and so
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  forth at the coast of Jordan. Vastati and Caleb, I like him.
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  The Bible says what zeal? Now Caleb steal the people
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  before Moses and said, let us go up at once and possess it.
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  What was responsible for that zeal?
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  A mentality. We are able to overcome it.
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  The guys, 10 of them came back and they said, you know what,
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  truly we saw the place. These are the fruits.
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  The giants did not stop them from getting the fruits and yet
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  they did not believe they could enter the land.
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  Can you imagine that? They came back with the fruits
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  and they said this is the fruit which truly is flowing with milk
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  and honey. But we are not able to go there.
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  We are like grasshoppers. In their eyes we saw the
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  Anakins, the sons of Anak, and while they were talking
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  something was bonding within Caleb and Caleb now said, you
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  know what, let us go up. In other words, why are we
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  wasting time? We can get up right now and go
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  and possess it Conviction. We are well able.
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  This was the information that sponsored that drive.
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  Someone shout I am well able. Say it like you believe.
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  Say I'm well able. Oh yes, Oh yes.
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  For someone you came to be inspired to get up at once
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  because you are well able. That lie the devil has brought
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  to you that you are not able to make it.
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  You are not able to rise. Borrow from Caleb.
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  Caleb says what you saw, I saw too, but I'm seeing something
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  else. You are not seeing.
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  The poverty you saw, I saw too. The limitations you saw, I saw
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  too. But we are well able.
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  There is an energy in me that is greater than my background.
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  There is an energy in me that is greater than the limitations, or
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  should I say like we say in church, greater is he that is in
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  me that everything, every circumstance, he that is in the
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  world. I am propelled by an energy from
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  my inside that makes the things that I see to look custodia
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  unreal because truly they are unreal.
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  The Bible says, while we look not at the things that are
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  unreal, unseen, for the things that are unseen are temporal,
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  but the things that are seen are eternal.
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  It says for our light affliction, which is but for the
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  moment it worked in us a far exceeding an eternal weight of
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  glory. Say I am well able, like Caleb.
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  Say I am well able. Amen.
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  Now go very. Quickly to Joshua.
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  Chapter 14 please Joshua chapter 14 from verse 6, let's see what
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  the zeal of Caleb finally led him to achieve.
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  Then the children of Judah came to Joshua and Gilgal, and Caleb
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  the son of Japaneth. He said unto him, Thou nowhere
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  is the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God
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  concerning me when we are Kadesh Baniya, verse 740 years old.
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  I like this man. At the time he made that
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  statement, he was 40 years old there.
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  About 40 years later, he says I was.
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  When he sent me to Kaneshpania to spy the land, I brought word
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  again. Come on, say zeal.
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  This is a man who has 40 years added to him and he's not
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  changed his confession, He's not changed his conviction.
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  I can tell you this after 20 years from now, if Christ
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  tarries, you will still be speaking victory.
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  You will not change your mind because of things not working.
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  Give us that scripture please. I brought word.
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  Again, as it was in my. Heart verse 8 Nevertheless, my
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  brethren that were with me, they made the heart of the people to
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  melt, but I wholly followed the Lord.
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  I zealously followed the Lord by God.
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  Verse 9 And Moses swear on that day, saying, Surely the land
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  where upon your feet trodden, who have strodden, I will give
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  you as an inheritance to your children, because you have
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  wholly followed the Lord the benefits of zeal.
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  Now he's making a demand to Joshua, Behold, the Lord has
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  kept me alive as he said this. 40 and five years even since the
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  Lord spake the word unto Moses, while the children of Israel
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  wander it in the wilderness. Verse 11 it says as.
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  Yet I am. Strong this day.
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  This will be someone's testimony as yet.
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  I am strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me, and
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  my strength as my strength was then, Even so is my strength
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  now. For war both to go out.
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  Come on now, He's not just talking of biological strength
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  alone. That there is a fire, that zeal
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  that kept me optimistic is still there after 40 and five years to
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  go to war and even to come in with victory.
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  Verse 12 It says Now therefore, on account of that zeal, give me
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  this mountain. Many years ago I preached a
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  message called Give me this mountain.
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  Give me this mountain. Where of the Lord?
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  Speak in that day, for you heard in that day that they were
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  Anakins. My goodness, this guy was
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  speaking as if they were. I hope you know no mountain is
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  empty. There are giants on every
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  mountain and there is a man who is full of zeal, zeal that has
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  been propelled, engineered by a strong conquerors mentality.
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  He said I am 80 or five years, 85, but I am still strong
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  physically and full of zeal. He says give me this mountain I
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  can take the giants, don't mind them.
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  I don't consider them. I'm praying for someone in the
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  name of Jesus Christ. May you not fear the gift that
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  God gives you, because the mountain you are.
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  Praying for has. Giants there.
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  There is no mountain without giants, but those who have the
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  zeal of the Lord you will talk as if the the giants don't
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  exist. Are we together now?
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  Yes. In spite of all the accidents
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  that happened on the. Road When you left home today,
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  you did not think accident, you thought church.
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  Imagine the person who stays back and says, well you know
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  what? I'm I'm sure from January till
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  now, in spite of the plane crashes, there are people flying
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  right now. There are thousands and
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  probably, I don't know, maybe thousands or millions perhaps,
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  of aircrafts across the globe going to and fro.
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  Can I tell you the truth? The presence of darkness should
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  never threaten light. Never.
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  Don't wait. Until darkness leaves to be.
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  Confident. You can be confident in the
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  midst of darkness and drive it away.
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  Waiting for darkness to go before you become confident is
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  still fear, even if the darkness is not there.
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  The righteous as bold as a lion is someone learning Now Caleb
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  got the mountain. Because he was strong.
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  Another lesson of positive zeal very quickly.
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  The Four Lepers Second Kings Chapter 7 when you read from
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  verse 3. For context.
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  So the prophet Elijah speaks that by this time tomorrow there
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  will be abundance in the land of Samaria.
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  And then when you go to verse 3, very quickly the Bible says
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  there were 4 lepers. They entered the gates and they
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  sat there and that energy began to drive them.
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  Please listen. They said, why sit we here until
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  we die? Zeal, that energy.
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  It says if we say we'll enter the city, there's farming in the
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  city. If we sit here, we will die.
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  Let us get up and fall before the Syrians.
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  Perhaps they may see us and pity us.
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  If we perish, we perish. The language of zeal verse 5.
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  The Bible says they rose up. My God.
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  And as they went to the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was
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  no man there. What happened?
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  Verse 6? The Lord.
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  Can you imagine that the Lord was listening to what they were
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  doing? He was seeing their zeal, their
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  passion that if we perish, we perish.
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  The prophetic word that came from the prophet was zeal
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  dependent. If those 4 lepers did not get
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  up, it will look like that prophecy failed.
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  They were the ones who returned back to Samaria and said listen,
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  listen, we have got to the camp of the Syrians and we saw that
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  there's plenty enough to feed the nation.
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  The Bible says the Lord made the Syrians to hear the noise of
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  Chariots and of horses, and they said the king of Israel has gone
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  into alliance with Hittites and Egyptians to come upon us. 7 The
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  Bible says they are rose and they fled and left their tents,
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  their horses are we together and everything that they had by the
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  time the lepers got there, verse 8, the Bible says they saw that
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  everything was there. They ate and they drank.
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  I like the lepers, they ate 1st and.
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  Because they've been. Driving a lot.
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  You have to reward yourself for believing God.
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  What I said. I like them, I really.
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  Like the lepers they rewarded themselves for.
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  Believing because the. Husband man shall be there
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  first. Since everybody ran away, we
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  took the risk. This well deserved banquet, they
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  enjoyed it first as lepers. I hope you know that as lepers
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  they would not even entertain them because it will be kept in
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  the city. They had a few day, they ate and
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  ate and ate and then they now told themselves, they say, ah,
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  we, we do wrong. We're not going there.
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  Well, where you read verse 9, They now said no, no, no, no,
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  no, we, we have not, we have not said this is a day of good
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  tidings. And they went and said, listen,
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  you call us lepers, but we still have zeal and our zeal has
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  produced God has amplified upon our zeal and we have plenty for
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  the land. Hallelujah, the four lepers, the
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  positive power of zeal. I hope you know that most of the
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  things you think will destroy you if you actually take the
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  step of faith, you will find out He had no power to kill you.
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  It's true. One of the ways God delivers you
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  from fear is not to take you away from it, is to put you in
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  the midst of it. And finally you'll find out that
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  the fear did not have power. Most problems come in their
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  magnified form when you stand and stare at it and stare at it
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  and stare at it. Eventually, you'll find out.
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  Hallelujah. I was told the story of someone
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  I don't know. If it's true but that one of
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  these wild animals, a dog, maybe a dog or something, or wild dog
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  or cat was chasing people and they were running away and they
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  ran and just left him. He wanted to climb the fence but
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  it was too high. And eventually he knew that it
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  was over. And he said, you know what, let
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  me at least turn and fight. He turned and stood.
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  True story I was told. That he was looking at the, I
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  think he's a dog who was looking at the dog.
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  The dog was trying, you know, making motions to back or
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  something. And he stood there and based on
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  the story now that the person said, all of a sudden the fear
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  died. What is the worst this dog can
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  do? Bite me, fight will he eats me
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  up? Is he that hungry?
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  And he stood there, do you know, as the dog started motioning,
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  motioning and saw that the person did not move.
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  The dog who started moving back eventually just went away.
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  Could it be that? What you are afraid of is really
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  afraid of you. Really afraid of you, including
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  the devil. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Another positive example, we may
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  not read it but just write for reference Nehemiah.
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  Nehemiah chapter 2 when you read 1 to 16 is an example of the cop
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  bearer of the king. The Bible says he was so zealous
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  about the the the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.
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  The king saw his zeal expressed in his sadness and his
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  countenance, and he said, Nehemiah, what is wrong?
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  You are your heart is very sorrowful.
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  And then he replies, he told the king verse three.
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  He said, well, you know, let your king live forever.
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  Why should my countenance not be sad when the place of my
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  father's sepulchre lies in waste and the gates have been consumed
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  with fire? When you read on, the king
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  eventually said, what do you want me to do for you, Nehemiah?
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  And he said, grant permission, that I'll go and rebuild that
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  city. The king gave him permission.
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  But there were two people called Sambalat and Tobias.
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  The Bible says when they heard that the king had favored him,
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  they were angry already. They were angry but in the
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  night. That's what the Bible says in
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  the night he took out the time and smuggled himself out of the
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  land. Can you imagine that?
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  He smuggled himself out of the land and now went to view
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  everywhere and returned back. And the Bible says nobody knew
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  that he had gone out and returned that same night.
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  Zeal. Eventually Nehemiah rebuilds the
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  wall. He said we know that our God
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  will help us, therefore will arise and build and pray for
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  someone in the name of Jesus. The zeal, the gift of zeal that
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  God has placed in your life, it would be the reason for the many
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  testimonies in your life. Next example Acts chapter 3
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  just. 2 verses 1 and 2 The man who carried the man at gates
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  beautiful. Our focus now is not the man
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  himself, but the man who carried him.
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  The Bible says Peter and John went to gather into the temple
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  at the hour of prayer being the 9th hour.
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  Verse 2 The Bible says a certain man he was lame from his
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  mother's womb, who was carried daily the real.
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  Warriors in this story for. Me honestly, is not just Peter
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  and John, nor the man who was healed himself, The real
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  victors, the real winners in this story where this nameless,
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  faceless but zealous man. I hope you know that the only
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  reason people went to the temple largely was for prayer and
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  spiritual activities. But every time they were on
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  their way going to the temple, they would carry that man.
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  It is hard to carry anybody, even if he's a baby.
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  Are we together to carry? A grown man.
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  Take him for to the place of prayer, Return him back only God
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  knows how many weeks or months or even years.
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  And they never stopped. It was because they carried him
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  there that Peter and John eventually saw him.
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  Zeal. Can I give you one more, John?
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  Chapter 2 this. One has to do with Jesus
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  himself. Verse 13 Jesus Jesus, Jesus and
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  the Jews Passover. Was at hand.
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  And Jesus went up to Jerusalem 14 he found in a temple those
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  who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money
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  sitting verse 15. And when he had made a scourge
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  of small chords. If this story.
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  Is the way it is you would think Jesus.
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  Was going back home, but the Bible says he went to find a
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  scourge. Please leave it for me Media a
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  scourge. And then of course, and he came
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  and drove all that were in the temple and the sheep and the
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  oxen. He poured out the exchangers
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  money. He overthrew the tables.
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  Verse 16. And he said unto them that sold
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  the doves, take these things, then make not my father's house
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  and House of merchandise. Verse 17 And the disciples
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  remember that it was written, the zeal of that house had eaten
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  me up or had consumed me. What was responsible?
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  The zeal. The zeal that there was zeal.
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  When he saw all kinds of atrocities that were happening
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  in the temple, he was driven by that zeal.
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  That was a prophetic. What I think that should be.
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  Psalm 69. It was Psalm 69.
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  The zeal of thy house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of
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  them that reproach me have fallen upon me.
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  This what happened to Jesus? So these are some of the
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  positive. Expressions of zeal.
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  Zeal can be a tool for creativity, for advancement and
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  growth. Very quickly.
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  Let's look at the danger of mismanaged zeal.
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  The danger of mismanaged zeal, blessed.
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  Be the name of the Lord, the 1st.
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  Lesson is from the man Moses, Exodus chapter 2, please.
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  And verse 10. The danger of mismanaged zeal.
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  And the child Moses now grew and she brought him on to Pharaoh's
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  daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses.
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  And she said, because I drew him out of the water.
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  Verse 11. And it came to pass in those
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  days, watch this now when Moses was grown, that he went out onto
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  his brethren and looked on their burdens.
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  And he spied the Egyptians smiting a Hebrew one of his
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  brethren. Verse 12 And he looked this way
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  and that way, And when he saw that there was no man, he slew
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  the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
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  You know Egypt in a desert place.
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  He slew him and hid the dead body in the sand.
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  And when he went out the second day, watch this, he did it
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  quietly, unknown to him that some people saw it.
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  When he went out the second day, behold, 2 men of the Hebrew
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  strove together, and he said to them, That did the wrong.
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  Wherefore smiters doubt your fellow?
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  He was trying to tell them, You are all brethren.
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  And they now turn and made a sarcastic statement, Who made
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  you a king, a Prince, and a judge over us?
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  Do you intend to kill me like you kill the Egyptian?
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  And Moses feared and said, surely The thing is known.
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  Verse 15. The final verse.
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  Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses,
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  but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of
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  Midian, and he sat down by the Well, look up, please.
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  Do you know what this meant? I hope you know that it was in
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  Moses's destiny to be a deliverer.
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  It was in his destiny so that zeal was an implantation in his
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  heart by God. But the challenge, as you'll be
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  learning shortly, is that the zeal was mismanaged.
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  He did not stay until the right time, nor did he receive the
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  right strategy. He took laws in his hands and
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  mismanaged that zeal. The motivation was.
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  Correct, but the approach. Was wrong and he ended up
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  killing an Egyptian. He thought he did it in hiding,
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  but his own people saw it, and for that Pharaoh sought his
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  life. He had to run away for escape.
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  Eventually, when he met the God of the Bible, he was now sent
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  back to Egypt. He did not have to kill anybody,
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  but there was still death. Are you seeing that zeal can be
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  mismanaged? There are many people today who
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  do so many things that they believe it is in the name of the
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  Lord. It's ended up destroying lives,
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  causing a lot of trouble. The motivation may be right, for
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  the approach is usually wrong case number 2.
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  The second lesson that we learned is from the.
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  Israelites themselves in the wilderness, Exodus 32 and verse
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  one. May you not be like this.
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  Oh let me say before we read 32 and verse one media in the name
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  of Jesus. May you not be like these people
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  when the people saw that. Moses delayed to.
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  Calm down. Out of the mountain question.
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  Why did Moses go up the mountain?
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  Was it not to receive commands for them, for their sake?
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  He had a healthy relationship with God.
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  The Bible says when they saw that Moses delayed to come.
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  Down the people gathered themselves together to Aaron,
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  and they said, make us gods, which shall go up before us for
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  us for this Moses. You see people, this leadership
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  one O 1 for us, for this Moses. He has become this Moses now,
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  the man who they sang and rejoiced over, the man that
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  brought. Us out of the land of Egypt.
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  We do not know what has become of him.
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  Maybe he has died. God has killed him somewhere
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  there on the mountain. And Aaron told them, break off
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  the golden earrings which are in your ears and that of your wives
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  and your sons and your daughters, and bring them before
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  me. Verse 3 And all the people broke
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  the golden earrings, and so on and so forth.
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  Verse 4. Verse Four.
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  And he received them watch this at their hand, and fashion with
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  it a graving tool. After that, he made a.
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  Molten calf. And they said the same people,
• 1:31:07
  these were the guys that joined Miriam to sing, I will sing unto
• 1:31:10
  the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horses and his
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  rider. The same people now are saying
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  this be the gods O Israel, which brought the OP out of the land
• 1:31:21
  of Egypt. Verse 5 How about God sees
• 1:31:24
  things. So Can you imagine people who
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  just. Sang Hosanna.
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  Hosanna. Now saying crucify Him, you see
• 1:31:31
  that that spirit has been there right from the Old Testament.
• 1:31:37
  And before you laugh at them, think about.
• 1:31:39
  Your own life too, how you said glory to God, you are the best
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  thing that has happened to me, Lord.
• 1:31:44
  And the next time you said Lord, if not because I was a Christian
• 1:31:47
  when I was small, I would have left you now.
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  When Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it and Aaron made a
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  proclamation. He said tomorrow is a great
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  feast. To the Lord, verse 6.
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  And they rose up early on the Morrow and offered burnt
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  offerings, peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and
• 1:32:07
  drink, and they rose up to play. And the Lord said to.
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  Moses, go. Get thee down, for thy people,
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  which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted
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  themselves. Question what corrupted them?
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  Zeal. The same zeal, the same zeal,
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  the energy that should have led them to the promised land now
• 1:32:29
  became an instrument of corruption.
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  They were willing to mobilize themselves together to get the
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  same earrings and all of those things.
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  And we did. They made a golden calf.
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  Verse 8 They have turned. Aside quickly out of the way
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  which? I commanded them, and they have
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  made a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have
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  sacrificed their unto, and said, This be thy God, O Israel, which
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  have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
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  Verse 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen these people,
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  and behold, it is his stiff necked people.
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  Verse 10 Now therefore let me alone watch this.
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  Now let me alone. That my wrath may.
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  Work hot against them switch to NIV from 10 switch to NIV for me
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  media very quickly. Now leave me alone so that my
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  anger may born against them and that I may destroy them for I
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  will make you into a great nation.
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  Verse 11 And Moses sought the favor of his Lord, the Lord his
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  God, said, Lord, Why should your anger born against your people,
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  whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and with a
• 1:33:44
  mighty hand? Verse 12 Why should the
• 1:33:47
  Egyptians say it was with evil intent that he brought them out
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  to kill them at the mountains and to wipe them off the face of
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  the earth? He says, turn from your fierce
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  anger, relent and do not bring disaster on your people.
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  Verse 13 Remember your servant Abraham, Isaac, Israel, whom you
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  swore by your own self. I will make your descendants as
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  numerous as the stars of the sky.
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  I will give your descendants this land, and it shall be their
• 1:34:17
  inheritance forever. 14 Then the Lord relented.
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  The Lord relented. And did not bring on his people
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  the disaster he had threatened. So when the Bible says the fruit
• 1:34:35
  of the Spirit is self-control, believe it God had the power to.
• 1:34:41
  Move them but. Moses, I like Moses.
• 1:34:45
  He spoke to the Lord and said, why will you do this?
• 1:34:49
  Let the heathen not say you brought them and did not have
• 1:34:51
  the power to take them back. We're not done.
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  Two more verses go to verse. The Lord relented.
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  Verse. 1415 Now we're ending at 16.
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  The Bible says Moses turned down to the mountain with the
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  tablets, and then he inscribed it and so on and so forth.
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  In fact, we can just stop there. The point is that these people
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  that God brought out because Moses went up to get
• 1:35:19
  commandments for them, their zeal was boiling and because
• 1:35:23
  they were stagnated in one place waiting.
• 1:35:26
  Be careful what you do during your.
• 1:35:28
  Waiting period. Because there's a lot of energy
• 1:35:31
  that wants to go forward, but most times God marks you down
• 1:35:35
  and if you are not careful, Satan will engage you into doing
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  something that is inconsistent with God's blueprint for your
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  life. It becomes the basis of your
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  destruction, the ability to have.
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  A lot of energy and. Fire and passion and tame it is
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  proof of growth and maturity. Are we together?
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  Let me tell you the truth, even in life, even in ministry, most
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  times you know young ministers and immature ministers by their
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  inability to tame their passion. So you can give a young minister
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  2 minutes and say quickly help us raise an offering and there's
• 1:36:12
  fire, there's prophecy. He just received an impartation,
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  A prophetic anointing is walking.
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  He comes up and says before I quickly take the offering,
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  there's something the Lord is saying, who is Joseph?
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  I'm the one and he start and he can spend one hour there and
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  everybody, the old people are just watching him and then when
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  he's done. He now takes the offering.
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  And then he goes back and say was zeal, he's right, but the
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  zeal was mismanaged. The ability to have so much and
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  yet to keep quiet. Are you seeing the reason why
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  Jesus is a worthy model? He stands before Pontius Pilate,
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  the word himself, do you not? Speak and he keeps quiet.
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  When you have something to say and you learn to keep yourself
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  until the right time, you are powerful.
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  Very powerful. When someone who has political
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  might, financial might, and can use it, but you decide to tame
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  your appetite, I'm telling you, you are powerful.
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  One definition of power I want to give you is the ability to
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  restrain, not just execute. The ability to execute is.
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  Power, but the. Ability to not execute when you
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  have the wherewithal to is also strength.
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  In fact it is greater strength, greater strength.
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  Next example of mismanaged zeal, the Pharisees themselves.
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  Matthew chapter 23. Remember these guys, verse one,
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  they bullied people in their days, and the basis for the
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  bully was that they were preservers of the Law.
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  Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to the disciples and he told
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  them the scribes and the Pharisees sit at Moses, Sit all.
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  Therefore, whosoever they bid you to observe that and to do,
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  they do not do it after their walks.
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  It says what they say and they do not do.
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  Verse 4 For they bind men with. Heavy burdens.
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  And grievous to be born. And laid them on men's
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  shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of
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  their fingers. Next verse.
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  Verse 5 But all their works they do.
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  Is to be seen by men and they make, you know, broad all of
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  that and enlarge the borders of their garments.
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  Verse 6, They love the uppermost rooms and feasts and the chief
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  seats in the synagogue. Final scripture.
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  They greet in the marketplaces so that they can be called
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  teacher, teacher, rabbi. Rabbi.
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  Jesus is speaking about the scribes and the Pharisees and
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  he's saying these guys are so zealous to preserve the law,
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  they will hurt. They will.
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  Wound. They will cause pain, they will
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  bully ladies and gentlemen, as it was with the scribes and the
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  Pharisees. It's a sad reality.
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  But even in our world today, that act still continues.
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  From politicians to even we preachers to businessmen.
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  Are we together people who do not have the power to keep the
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  burdens that they bring on others, zealous to preserve the
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  law, and they do not care what fails, what dies, what is
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  wounded in the process? Next example, Luke Chapter 9
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  from verse 51. This is a lesson from the
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  disciples. Please lend me your attention.
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  I'm about to introduce something that is very, very important
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  right now and it came to pass. When the time was come that he
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  should be received of Jesus now, he steadfastly set his face to
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  go up to Jerusalem. Verse 52.
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  He sent messengers before his face, and they went, Watch this,
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  please, Kanania, listen. And they entered into a village
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  of the Samaritans to make the place ready for him.
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  But there was disappointment and they did not receive him because
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  his face was. As though he would go to.
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  Jerusalem in anger his disciples James and John, when they saw
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  that their Jesus seemed to have been embarrassed, they said,
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  Lord will doubt that we should command fire.
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  You know why two of them are called Sons of Thunder now?
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  Will doubt that we should command fire from.
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  Heaven and consume this ones. Why would you disappoint Jesus?
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  You don't know that he's a great man.
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  No no, no, no. These guys for doing this, they
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  deserve to be punished. Jesus give us permission and
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  let's call down fire to consume them like Elijah watch Jesus I
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  like Jesus. Jesus turned and rebuked them
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  and said ye know not what manner of spirit you are of.
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  In other words, I see your zeal, but you are allowing your zeal
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  to be manipulated by another spirit and it's not birthing the
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  glory of God. I am the one they embarrassed.
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  Allow me defend myself. If I'm the one who D
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  embarrassed, I'm not angry at you on my behalf.
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  You even want to call down fire to kill the people.
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  It means something is wrong not with your zeal but the spirit
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  that drives that zeal. Can I give you one last one?
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  Let's go to our man. Saul of Tassus.
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  Mark chapter 8, one to three, Paul, but at this time he was
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  Saul. We'll read 1 to 8, one to three,
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  then we'll go to Chapter 9 and Saul.
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  This. You know, every time I read the
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  scripture it pains me so much. Stephen was a good man in the
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  Bible. Very.
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  Precious Man, one of the seven that were caught to walk the
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  welfare. Of the early church.
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  And the Bible says when they were.
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  Stoning that man. There was a Pharisee who was
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  happy they kept the clothes of the man who would be my tired at
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  the feet of the man who will become the greatest apostle.
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  This what happens when zeal is mismanaged follow through and
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  Saul was consenting to his death and at that time there was a
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  great. Persecution.
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  Against the church which was at Jerusalem, believers hear me.
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  And they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of
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  Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
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  Verse 2. And devote men carried Stephen
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  to his burial, and made great lamentations over him.
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  Can you see what mismanaged zeal caused?
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  It caused the death of a precious soul in the body, and
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  the person who supervised that death was a man who believed he
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  was doing God service, managing the gift of zeal.
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  Verse 3. As for Saul, he made havoc of
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  the church, entering into every house.
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  Look at look at what Saul did, entering into every house and
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  hauling men and women and he committed them to prison.
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  That means you'll be sitting quietly at home and a man just
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  knocks your door. And this is not a hidden man.
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  This is someone who then was a practitioner of Judaism.
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  So the context is that the Christian faith actually came
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  out of Judaism. Are we together?
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  And for the the moment of infancy of the church, they
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  persecuted the church because they saw them as a pseudo Judaic
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  sect that were led by this this mastermind called Jesus.
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  And Paul being a zealous Pharisee, they believed that the
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  God of the Bible had no hand in this entire business of Jesus.
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  And so Paul was around killing and destroying and imprisoning
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  people. Look, the level of zeal when
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  they were stoning Steven, how can a man believe he was doing
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  God, the God of the Bible, good and they are throwing stones at
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  someone. Stones don't kill you
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  immediately. It tortures you until you die.
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  And while they were he was dying, the man was probably
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  shouting. Saul was smiling and saying God
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  must be pleased with me. Before you laugh at Saul, think
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  about your life. There are many of us who are
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  supervising the pain of others in the name of serving the God
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  of heaven. Go to Chapter 9 and verse 1,
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  Chapter 9 and verse one, this same soul again.
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  Can you imagine after killing, look at me, look at me, look at
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  me. How many of you know that even
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  if you are not saved and you're a person of conscience to watch
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  the way Stephen died, you should be traumatized by that
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  experience. But zeal can't cover everything.
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  You forgive yourself and you are ready for the next havoc.
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  After the death of Stephen. It did not even bother us all.
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  He was thinking how can I do more of this disaster and soul,
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  yet breathing out threatenings the Bible says and slaughter
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  against the disciples of the Lord.
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  He now took it to the next level.
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  He went to the house high priest, notice what he did house
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  to house, caught women, caught children, jailed them.
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  He now said let me take this into the next level.
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  God must be pleased with me. The fact that I'm killing people
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  successfully, it means God is with me.
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  The fact that your agenda succeeds does not mean God is
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  with you. No.
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  Are we together? Verse 2.
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  He went to the high priest. What was his desire?
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  Give me letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, that if I find
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  anyone, whether man, whether woman, I might bring them bow.
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  That means if I enter the synagogue and I see anyone who
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  says I am a follower of Jesus, please give me letter from the
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  high priest. What a man.
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  Verse 3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly
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  lights shine round about. Him from heaven.
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  God said. You know what I planted?
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  A zeal in you because you'll be the greatest apostle, but
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  because you did not know another spirit hijacked the zeal.
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  Let's say one week before Paul's conversion, imagine that you had
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  the time to sit with Paul and say, Paul, please, can I, can I
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  point something to you? He was too hateful to even
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  consider it. That's another thing with zeal.
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  Sometimes we become so resentful, so hateful, so
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  passionate about executing the things we believe is doing God
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  good, that we do not even have the time to let God speak to us.
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  It would be impossible that among the.
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  Prisoners, Paul caught that nobody had the courage to say
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  Paul, but this thing you are doing is not the will of God.
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  He would say no, in fact, for this one.
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  Die now. And God was watching.
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  But when God had. Enough, let's finish that
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  scripture as the light shine from heaven, verse 4, please
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  lend me your attention. He fell to the earth and he had
• 1:48:10
  a voice saying soul, soul, why persecutest thou Stephen?
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  Why persecutest thou the church? He says, why persecutest thou?
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  Do you know that many, many people who believe they are
• 1:48:23
  doing God good are in fact bleeding the heart of God
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  because of mismanaged zeal in business, in ministry?
• 1:48:32
  There are many people today who rejoice over the pain of others
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  and they believe they are doing God good.
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  They believe they are doing God good.
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  It is not the way the Bible teaches.
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  There are many people who rejoice when they see the poor
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  and the hungry. They are happy.
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  They believe they are doing God good.
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  It is amazing the kind of evil that comes from the heart of men
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  and it is credited to men's passion for God.
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  Beware when your passion for God leads you to partner with Satan,
• 1:49:02
  When your part your when your part, your passion for God makes
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  you to invite Satan in your life, then you are no longer
• 1:49:10
  serving God everything that comes.
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  From God must be by. The influence of his spirit.
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  There are many people who believe they want to help God.
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  They don't mind going to Satan. I give an instance a man who
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  goes to get that power from the from Satan, and you ask him why
• 1:49:29
  I want to heal people. Are you that passionate about
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  healing people and blessing their lives that you have to go
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  and collect charm from Satan? Is it really God?
• 1:49:38
  You want to glorify yourself the passion for.
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  God cannot lead you to fraternize.
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  With Satan, so that you bet the purposes of God, there are many
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  people using. Satan's tools.
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  But they said the assignment is of God.
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  No, no, If it is God's assignment, let him provide the
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  tools. When you use Satan's weapons,
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  you will not bet the glory of God.
• 1:50:04
  Is someone hearing me now? Yes.
• 1:50:07
  Don't just give David the tools of Saul.
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  There is already a weapon. There is a strategy that's been
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  given to him. Goliath will not come down by
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  using an Armory that was not approved of God.
• 1:50:20
  Please pay attention. I'm about to show you something
• 1:50:22
  very powerful. Now let's finish up that
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  scripture. Very sad scripture.
• 1:50:27
  He. Fell to the earth.
• 1:50:28
  And he said, why do you persecute me?
• 1:50:30
  Verse 5 he said, who are thou? Lord question now that he's
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  asking, who are you? Who was we on his way to
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  Damascus to go and kill for if you are told so before this
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  encounter. Are you sure you know God you
• 1:50:46
  would have you would have become part of the prisoners, but now
• 1:50:50
  he's having an encounter and he's hearing the voice of the
• 1:50:53
  God he believed he was serving this a very, very passionate
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  message. I am Jesus whom thou persecuted.
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  It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.
• 1:51:05
  He says verse 6 and he trembling.
• 1:51:10
  Do you know what trembling and astonishment?
• 1:51:15
  I'm acting for you. What happened to him?
• 1:51:17
  Now I'm blind. What did you say?
• 1:51:21
  I am the God of heaven. All that zeal causing people
• 1:51:25
  pain, thinking you are serving me.
• 1:51:28
  I am introducing myself to you right now.
• 1:51:31
  It is me you are persecuting. The Bible says he trembled and
• 1:51:35
  was astonished and said, Lord, what would you have me do?
• 1:51:38
  His letter was still in his hand, he said.
• 1:51:43
  Arise, go to the city. I will tell you what you must do
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  is the reason why when the church saw Saul and he said I'm
• 1:51:50
  part of you, they remembered Stephen.
• 1:51:53
  They say you don't blame Peter for not extending the hand of
• 1:51:56
  fellowship. You know what it means.
• 1:51:58
  It's like somebody with a kingpin terrorist.
• 1:52:02
  Suddenly you see him in Colonia and he comes wearing a white
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  garment and he said, can I sit near you?
• 1:52:07
  I am. I love the Lord.
• 1:52:08
  Right now, close your eyes and let's worship together.
• 1:52:11
  What do you think is going to happen?
• 1:52:14
  Are we together now? That's some devil there who is
• 1:52:17
  sitting down. You are aware especially that he
• 1:52:20
  killed somebody, you know, and he says I met Jesus Christ.
• 1:52:24
  Just last week. I met him.
• 1:52:26
  You met Jesus Christ last week and you think it's enough for me
• 1:52:28
  to believe you? You killed for 20 years.
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  Is someone learning what I'm what I'm teaching you tonight?
• 1:52:40
  Mismanage zeal question. Did his conversion.
• 1:52:45
  Bring Stephen back to life. Question.
• 1:52:49
  Did his conversion bring to life the women who died, the children
• 1:52:55
  who died? I'm telling you it was a miracle
• 1:52:58
  for Saul that he did not die of trauma because as an apostle of
• 1:53:03
  the Lord, a chief advocate, I could imagine Paul in prison.
• 1:53:08
  No wonder in prison he didn't mind because he just said I
• 1:53:11
  deserve it. The same prison I put people
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  there and while you are laughing at.
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  Paul, I want you to. Think about your life carefully
• 1:53:20
  and you will find out that in many ways we have manifested
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  soul, in many ways we have rejoiced over the pain of
• 1:53:28
  others, motivated by zeal but engineered by a demonic spirit.
• 1:53:34
  Are we together? Oh.
• 1:53:37
  Someone is in pain. I told them I saw it in my
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  vision so. We.
• 1:53:45
  Believe it is amazing, particularly in the body of
• 1:53:48
  Christ, the level of spiritual, emotional atrocities that happen
• 1:53:54
  daily. And sometimes we believe that we
• 1:53:58
  are doing God's service. The church is in a wonderful
• 1:54:04
  state and God is helping us. But there are many things to
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  address. 1 of it is the mismanagement of zeal, The
• 1:54:12
  things that people do in the name of the Lord, the things
• 1:54:15
  that people do for the Lord. And sometimes I can imagine
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  like. God did with.
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  Paul, he's on his throne wondering for me.
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  Are you saying I sent you to do this?
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  Do you watch it birth my glory are.
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  We together now this is very. Powerful.
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  Now there are two major factors. This is the zenith of my
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  teaching tonight. There are two major factors that
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  affect the outcome of zeal. There are two major factors that
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  means if the zeal that you have within you produces evil.
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  This is why. If the zeal that you have
• 1:54:56
  produces good. This is why there are only two
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  major factors in my study of Scripture as to why zeal can
• 1:55:05
  become a weapon of mass destruction and as to why zeal
• 1:55:09
  can become a tool to birth the purposes of God factor #1.
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  The mentality that powers. Zeal, the mentality or the
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  belief system that powers the zeal.
• 1:55:27
  The mentality or the belief system that powers the zeal is
• 1:55:31
  the first factor that can affect the outcome you're engaging.
• 1:55:37
  Your zeal can cause you to destroy yourself and others or
• 1:55:43
  lift yourself and lift others, advance the program of God or
• 1:55:47
  find yourself fighting God knowingly or unknowingly.
• 1:55:51
  And I'm saying there are two factors when you find a man
• 1:55:54
  causing disaster, particularly in the name of the Lord or
• 1:55:58
  mayhem in society like the extremist and it cost across
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  religion or whatever it is. This is it.
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  The belief system and the mentality that power zeal can
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  make it become a weapon of mass destruction or a weapon of
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  victory, advancement, blessing and liberation.
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  Don't forget this, the mentality that powers your zeal, the
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  mindset. First Kings chapter 19, let's
• 1:56:29
  read verse 10, verse 14 and verse 18, First Kings chapter
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  19, We read that earlier on. Now look at the mentality.
• 1:56:38
  This mentality affected Elijah until God himself corrected it
• 1:56:44
  when God came to Elijah. And said why?
• 1:56:47
  Are you in this state? He said.
• 1:56:48
  I have been jealous or zealous for the House of God.
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  Look at his conclusion. He didn't verify for the
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  children of Israel have forsaken your covenant.
• 1:57:00
  He's telling God they have thrown down your altars, they
• 1:57:03
  have slain the prophets with the sword, and I, I am the only one
• 1:57:08
  left and they are now seeking my life.
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  Look at the mentality that powered his zeal. 2 verse 14.
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  Now he repeated the same thing again.
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  I have been very zealous. Are you saying that it was a
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  stronghold in Elijah's mind? He believed that there were no
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  other prophets in Elijah's mind. He believed.
• 1:57:31
  That no other person could rise to bet the purposes of God.
• 1:57:35
  In Elijah's mind, he believed that he was the only one left
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  who would support the program of God, and God began to correct
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  him. He said no, something is wrong
• 1:57:46
  with your belief system, your anger, your annoyance, even
• 1:57:50
  though you think you are doing me good, your annoyance is
• 1:57:54
  coming from a corrupted understanding.
• 1:57:56
  And God himself began to say, you know what, you are not on
• 1:58:00
  this race alone. There are three people who will
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  have to rise with you. Jehu, are we together?
• 1:58:07
  And so on and so forth. Now go to verse 18, he said to
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  answer and correct your mindset. Elijah, I have 7000 men.
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  I know them. Even though you don't know.
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  Them I know, them they have not bowed to bear.
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  This is very powerful sometimes, particularly in the body of
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  Christ. And with all due respect, we can
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  carry a lot of zeal. When I hear, you know, and it's
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  been an old adage in church, the church is dying.
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  The church is, it's not true. It's not true.
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  This church is a victorious church.
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  Did you hear what I said? To believe the church is
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  plunging into decadence in this our day is an insult on the
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  ministry of the Holy Spirit. There are honest men.
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  There are people who love Jesus. There is a mighty army.
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  Every time you feel you are alone in your family, every time
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  you feel you are alone serving God, man of God, every time you
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  feel you are alone serving God in righteousness, it may be a
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  wrong mentality. It will engineer a zeal that
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  will make you do things that will not give God glory.
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  There is 7000 orders. The correct prayer is not.
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  Show me orders like. Me who are serving the Lord, not
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  to say I am the only one. Elijah made that mistake.
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  There are still many making that mistake today.
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  Are we together? Nigeria is corrupt.
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  I'm the only one who is not corrupt.
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  OK, preachers. Are bad I'm the only one who is.
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  Good, every man you see. Who becomes wealthy?
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  He's wealthy, especially a young man.
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  He's wealthy by fraud. I'm the only one who is in
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  righteousness. It's a terrible mindset.
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  Can I tell you the truth? The moment you feel you are the
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  only one is already a sign of deception.
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  That is an attack. The Holy Spirit is actively
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  walking across his body and let me tell you, there are a
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  plethora of men witnesses, some you have not seen.
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  They are not on TV, they are not on social media.
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  I said that when when I think it was Canada or US, that there
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  will be a generational shift. Soon you will see an emergence
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  of young men. Do not make the mistake of
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  saying we are wasted. Generation is a lie.
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  This is a strong generation. The hand of God is upon us.
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  There might be issues in the church, but let me tell you, the
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  church is alive. It is strong, it is victorious,
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  it is robust. Souls are being saved.
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  Lives are we. Are we together?
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  Now the fresh anointings and mantels are on the church and
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  returning to the church. You believe that shout.
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  Amen your. Mentality can.
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  Govern the way you express or manage zeal.
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  Express or manage zeal when you hear the voice of.
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  Pride, there is a. Mentality behind it.
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  When you hear a voice of discouragement, there is a
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  mentality behind it. When you hear a voice of
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  weakness, there is a mentality behind it.
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  The first thing that needs to be corrected if your zeal is to
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  become a weapon that brings glory to the Lord is correct
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  your understanding about God, correct your understanding about
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  the body of Christ, correct your understanding about priesthood,
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  correct your understanding about the Holy Spirit.
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  Are we together, please? Look up.
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  The age long. Controversy in the church.
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  As to who is right or who is wrong, a zeal that has been
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  mismanaged. So on one hand, for instance,
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  with all due respect, there are people today if you hear someone
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  talk about. The grace of.
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  God, they get angry immediately once they hear grace.
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  They get angry because based on their orientation, the word
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  grace is synonymous to access to for licentiousness.
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  Are we together? So the moment you say I'm a
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  teacher of grace, they are not even patient to listen.
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  And that's the challenge with the body of Christ.
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  I said this passionately. We are so passionate about
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  communicating our own zeal. Sometimes we don't have the
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  maturity and the wisdom to objectively listen to one
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  another. Could it be Paul?
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  Saul. That these letters you have been
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  obtaining and thinking you are doing God's service, Could it be
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  that you are actually on your own?
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  Are we together now? This is very important.
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  I have watched people. Do things and they believe they.
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  Are doing it for God and you are saying God of the Bible do you
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  not test your behavior with the character of the spirit?
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  How do you kill Stephen and watch stones kill Stephen and
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  rejoice while Stephen is dying and believe God is pleased with
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  you how do you. Obtain letters and your.
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  People with bondages and believe no Sir is someone.
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  Learning now. Zeal.
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  That has been mismanaged, and I'm telling you that.
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  The first is the mentality that needs to be corrected.
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  Look at me. There are people today who do.
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  Not believe. They can ever be prosperous
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  without corruption. I hope you know that no matter
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  what you preach in church, they already have a mentality, A
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  stronghold, That somewhere I must bribe, I must cheat, I must
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  do something wrong by righteousness.
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  I cannot rise. They they, if they ever see
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  anybody rise that way, they believe the person is lying
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  somewhere because of your mentality.
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  If you, you always, I hope you know that you interpret life
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  based on what you believe. If you don't believe.
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  Righteousness is. Possible.
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  You will suspect everybody. If you don't believe diligence
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  is possible, you will suspect everybody.
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  You will always view life from the lens of who you really are.
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  Mentality. This is what needs to change.
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  The zeal does not need to change.
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  It is the belief system powering the zeal.
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  Let me tell you what I believe. For instance, I believe in
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  Jesus, but I believe in the body of Christ.
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  I believe in the diversity of gifts in the body of Christ is
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  the reason why I honestly come preaching almost any
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  denomination. I have my reservations, I have
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  my core teachings, but it's too little a factor to create
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  problems. I'm not going to raise those
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  today because someone is talking about, say, for instance,
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  generational causes and yokes and demon spirits.
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  You may have a more excellent way, but be careful so that your
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  communicating zeal does not end up killing Stephen.
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  There are many Stephens that are dying today, and their clothes
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  are being kept at the feet of souls who believe they are doing
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  God's service. Hallelujah.
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  Is someone learning this? Is a very serious communication
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  and I want you to please pay attention.
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  How many times do we rejoice in the body of Christ, for
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  instance? And now I said this with every
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  sense of humility, but with passion in my heart.
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  Imagine that five people are in a boss and the boss has an
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  accident and everybody dies, but the person who lives is a member
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  of Koinonia. Should it be a joy for me to
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  rejoice that five believers died?
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  Everyone of those believers have homes.
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  Are we together? Women just became widows.
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  Men just became widowers. Why will I rejoice and say the
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  rest they died. But my I'm just giving an
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  example. There is a mindset.
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  So what is wrong with the body of Christ is not zeal.
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  It is that we need to go back and examine the belief systems.
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  There are too many things we are doing that we believe we are
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  doing it for God. I am telling you by the
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  authority of Scripture, God has no hand in it at all.
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  It is zeal without knowledge. Are we together?
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  A lot of pain that we have caused for people in the name of
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  the Lord, a lot of wrong approaches to life, to ministry,
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  to business. If it does not, if it must
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  violate the fruit of the Spirit to be executed, then it is not
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  from God. Did you hear what I said?
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  If it must violate the fruit of the Spirit, I'm coming here.
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  Particularly the law of love. If you have to compromise on the
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  law of love to birth an agenda you believe it's of God, then
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  something is wrong. Saul, you may be a Pharisee, but
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  who knows that this you're persecuting the church may not
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  be of God. Same thing with business people,
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  Same thing with politicians. There are many parents today.
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  Look up, please, who have stopped their children from
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  praying in tongues. There are many parents today who
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  have stopped their children from going for Bible studies.
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  There are many parents today who have stopped their children from
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  evangelism. Why?
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  They would tell you, before you got to know this God, I knew
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  him. Are you seeing that now?
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  And you are watching with all due respect, the gaps in their
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  knowledge, but because they have made-up their minds.
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  My dimension of the knowledge of God is all there is, and every
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  other person is wrong. I've counseled families where.
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  The woman gets up. And says I cannot even pray in
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  the night. My husband says don't disturb me
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  or I'm not. I don't want you to pray any.
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  Don't go anywhere. Don't do all of these things.
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  Our zeal is correct. But we need to re.
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  Examine our mentality Is someone learning now?
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  Mentality mentality I know a man true story from the time he.
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  Married his wife. He stopped.
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  Her from walking and he said she would never walk.
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  It was a serious issue because you know, one thing led to the
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  other. And then upon probing the man,
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  this was what he said. He said his father advised him.
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  He said make sure your wife never becomes empowered.
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  The day she becomes empowered, she will not respect you again.
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  Keep her needing you. That's the way I kept your
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  mother. That guy carried that zeal.
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  Have you seen the revelation that powered that zeal?
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  And he would not allow. The wife was more qualified
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  academically than him, but he would never allow the woman
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  rights. And if you ask him, he may not
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  tell you, but that was the motivation in his mind.
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  He was an obedient son, honoring the counsel of his father.
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  And he would tell you things like honor your father and
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  mother in the Lord. What information is he honoring?
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  I pray for you in the name of Jesus, that.
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  From this teaching you will have the humility to go back and say
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  this thing I am doing that I'm saying it is for God.
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  Let me go back and probe it. Ladies and gentlemen, I will
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  tell you again, if it has to violate the fruit of the Spirit
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  to be executed, God is not in it.
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  No, everything that comes out of God has the fragrance of the
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  fruit of the Spirit. Especially love the same Jesus.
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  Who flogged people in? The temple because sometimes
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  believers misunderstand Scripture and they carried that
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  to mean the zeal of the Lord. Consume him, he said.
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  A new commandment I give you, and that's the law of love.
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  From the time. Jesus resurrected you opened a
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  dispensation that is led by love.
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  I cannot be. So zealous for God.
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  That hatred for the brethren becomes a tool that I use.
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  Something is wrong. Are we together now?
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  Hallelujah, a dear man. Of God told me something that
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  really touched me. This was like 2 years ago.
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  Listen to the story he told me. They went for a program
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  somewhere and a particular man of God was going to preach and
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  they didn't know that the man of God was going to preach that
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  day. As soon as the man of God came
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  in, there was a group of gentlemen that just, I think
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  there was some campus boys. They just got up in mass and
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  walked out on the program. All of them, maybe like like a
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  number, he said. They were surprised.
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  You could see the palpable anger on their faces.
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  The man of God had not preached, so they just found out that he
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  was the one. They got up and walked and that
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  one of them tried to probe him and he said the man did not
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  carry fire. They didn't want to waste their
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  time. They got up and walked, truly
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  speaking, got up in mass and walked away.
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  They felt look. We came here thinking.
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  I mean walked away. You see the kind of disaster we
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  are producing because of the zeal.
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  You want to know how bad this is?
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  Go to our campuses and watch the younger people who are rising
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  right now, The level of anger and disdain.
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  The church is becoming an angry place, and you are wondering why
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  people are carrying a burden God did not give them.
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  People take these things to personal evil more than Jesus
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  himself, and yet the Bible says He's there.
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  Making intercession. Are we together now?
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  Praise the name of the. Lord, I've heard all kinds of
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  stories in this my life as a minister, and you hear people do
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  things and they say it is for God, for God, for God got up and
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  walked away and they tried to call their attention.
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  They didn't listen. There are people today.
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  I was saying it earlier, once they hear someone say the title
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  of my message is prayer, they'll get up and walk away because
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  someone has taught them All these prayer prayer things is
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  just nonsense. They are not serious people.
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  The flip side of it, another person who says I want to teach
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  you the way of victory, they say no.
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  So you see that people are becoming victims of zeal that
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  have been programmed with poor information.
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  Are we together now? Very poor information.
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  So you find out that you raise a lopsided people.
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  Pastors right now are going through a lot of stress because
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  their members have had all kinds of things and the members have
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  chosen what to listen to. So when you bring a menu that
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  will bring balance, the young man who does not yet have a job
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  does not yet have, you are teaching him what will help him
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  rise. He will now push it away because
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  he believes he has zeal and that zeal has been powered by the
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  wrong information. Can I tell you something?
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  Your zeal must be powered by a word compliant mentality.
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  If not it will lead you to destruction.
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  Destruction. I can tell you people,
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  yesteryears, they had great zeal, some of them from campus
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  days, orders back then, the days in Zaria.
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  With all due respect, some of those guys, if you saw the zeal
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  they had, I knew those days that the zeal was sincere, but it was
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  not according to knowledge. And for some of them I was able
• 2:13:45
  to draw them to say, would you want to make a no, no, no, no,
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  no, no, no, no. I remember a funny story.
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  I've told you here a number. Of times a gentleman who then I
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  used to counsel people and the guy walks to me and he says well
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  he just came he wanted us to agree in prayer as soon as he
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  entered I saw a spirit behind him true story and I wanted to
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  tell him I said well my brother I think these challenges you are
• 2:14:08
  sharing I I just want to explain some things do you know this guy
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  shot me down true story no no I can't have this as OK OK it's OK
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  I respect what you believe let me pray this guy woke up after
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  one hour after I prayed true story after casting out the.
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  Spirit now thereabout. And for this he kept sending me
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  texts. He says that you have rattled my
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  understanding. This is not what I was taught.
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  I said don't hate the person who taught you, just know that light
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  is in levels only God. Knows what you have rejected.
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  Because you respected the person who said it.
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  Are we together? There are people today who
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  should not be. Poor, but Gazeel was founded on
• 2:14:52
  knowledge that was wrong. There are people today who
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  should be prayerful and vibrant, but they they they pegged their
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  zeal on an information that is wrong.
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  If they were truly prayerful five years down the line, they
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  would have risen in levels of power and grace.
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  But they're still weak. You stand near them.
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  You sense the weakness in their spirit because somehow they've
• 2:15:15
  been subliminally programmed to not value some things in the
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  Kingdom. My call for you tonight, before
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  I give you the next one, is that you must make up your mind.
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  Keep your zeal, but go and probe the belief systems that are
• 2:15:28
  powering your zeal. Are we together?
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  When you watch a man like our Father in the Lord.
• 2:15:40
  That the Geo in his 80s still traveling around the nations of
• 2:15:45
  the Earth preaching the Gospel, that zeal you see that has
• 2:15:49
  defined age. Are we together is based on
• 2:15:52
  something. The value for souls is what has
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  driven him that far by the message of God.
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  There is nothing a man can look for in his lifetime that God has
• 2:16:04
  not given that Father of faith. Nothing.
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  I'm telling you, let your mind grow wild.
• 2:16:08
  And in the midst of it, I hear that you can ask him what do you
• 2:16:12
  want to receive? Maybe as a birthday gift.
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  All his concern is souls. Souls.
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  Souls. How many cars?
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  How many houses? Souls Every.
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  Zeal, hear me. Again, is powered by a
• 2:16:28
  mentality, and your zeal can produce a failure out of you,
• 2:16:34
  and your zeal can produce a blockade to God's program, even
• 2:16:38
  if sincerely, until your mentality is corrected.
• 2:16:41
  Someone say Father shouted. Say Father, I receive grace to
• 2:16:47
  correct the understanding powering my zeal.
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  Say I receive grace to correct the understanding powering my
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  zeal. The power of right believing,
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  not just. Believing, right, believing,
• 2:17:04
  right believing. My zeal towards the body of
• 2:17:08
  Christ is based on my understanding that no single man
• 2:17:13
  can bet the program of God together as the body, hand in
• 2:17:17
  glove, different dimensions, we can bet the glory of God.
• 2:17:22
  I'm a product of many anointings.
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  I've shared this with you. I've gone to many campgrounds in
• 2:17:27
  this nation. I have received the diversity of
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  the investments of the spirit that was placed there.
• 2:17:34
  It doesn't mean you believe everything, but that you have
• 2:17:37
  the maturity. Are we together to be able to
• 2:17:40
  look beyond any excesses and receive that which is profitable
• 2:17:44
  for your life? There is no.
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  Father of faith in this nation. That is beyond my capacity to
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  respect him or her. There is no I have preached in
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  many. Churches and in many ministries.
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  I remember one time a particular denomination was going to invite
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  me and people say, will you go? I said of course, except God
• 2:18:07
  prohibits me, I will go. It was such a glorious
• 2:18:12
  experience. Do you know why?
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  When your mentality teaches you that we are stronger together,
• 2:18:19
  it will govern the way you channel your zeal.
• 2:18:22
  I believe that even if God leaves me higher than other
• 2:18:26
  people, it is simply the election of grace it should not
• 2:18:29
  bring. Pride is the reason why I honor
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  men both vertically and horizontally.
• 2:18:35
  Those ahead of me, contemporaries, and those below
• 2:18:38
  me. They are all deserving of my
• 2:18:39
  honor mentality. Are we together?
• 2:18:52
  I don't say to brag, but there have been.
• 2:18:55
  Times that by the message of God, other ministries and other
• 2:18:59
  visions can be holding programs and I make it a point of duty.
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  I'm only saying it because to put context to what I'm
• 2:19:05
  teaching, I throw in a seed here and throw in a seed here and
• 2:19:10
  say, man of God, this a little. See, sometimes I don't even tell
• 2:19:13
  them anything. OK, this a little seed here for
• 2:19:15
  your program, for your crusade. The Lord bless you, You don't
• 2:19:19
  have to know me. I don't have a relationship with
• 2:19:21
  some of them because I believe that the body of Christ, no
• 2:19:26
  single man as a single entity can bet the program of God
• 2:19:30
  satisfactorily, and no single man is a custodian of all the
• 2:19:35
  dimensions of God. Hallelujah is.
• 2:19:39
  Someone learning now? Praise the name of the Lord, the
• 2:19:43
  world with only. Koinonia will be an.
• 2:19:45
  Incomplete expression of the grace of God.
• 2:19:49
  It is colonia in partnership with the graces and the
• 2:19:53
  ministries that God has distributed within His body that
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  produces A wholesome Organism called the ecclesia until we
• 2:20:02
  have that mentality. Our zeal will always be
• 2:20:05
  corrupted. It will bet an aberration.
• 2:20:08
  It will not bet the purity of the program of God.
• 2:20:11
  Why do I teach you across a range of subjects?
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  Because I believe in wholesome growth, I will teach you on
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  prayer and fasting, on character and consecration, on victory and
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  success, on leadership, every dimension that can make you
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  great. You can be sure I will not
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  spare. I will teach it, and I will
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  teach it with that zeal. It's up to you to receive, but I
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  will teach you. I will not withhold anything I
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  know in righteousness that can make you a mighty witness.
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  I will teach you. If I'm teaching you on finances,
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  it will be as if I've never taught you on prayer.
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  If I teach you on prayer, it will be like I've not taught you
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  on finances. If I teach you on influence, you
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  know why It is line upon line, precept upon precept.
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  Someone against their Father. Correct the understanding
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  powering my zeal. Say that again.
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  Say, Father, correct the understanding powering my zeal
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  that's. A very strong prayer.
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  Go and pray that. Prayer this week.
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  The problem is not zeal. The problem is the belief
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  system, the mindset, the mentality, the understanding,
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  the aggregate of spiritual information that is powering
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  your zeal. I've seen.
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  Very good people doing wrong things.
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  Because of a wrong mentality. Remember I taught you in this
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  house, a loser's mentality cannot produce a victor's
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  destiny. It wouldn't work that way.
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  A loser's mentality cannot produce a victor's destiny #2
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  Very quickly let me give you #2 What is the 2nd?
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  Factor that. Affects the outcome of zeal
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  approach the approach the way zeal is exercised can make it
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  better the glory of God or partner with Satan in destroying
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  lives. They approach Romans 10 and
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  verse 2. Let's hurry up.
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  So the first factor that governs the outcomes from being zealous
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  #1 is the belief system that powers the zeal.
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  Not just the belief system, the understanding, the belief system
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  that powers your being zealous and then #2 your approach or the
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  approach the way that zeal is exercised.
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  For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but it is
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  not according to knowledge. It's not according to knowledge,
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  not according to. Knowledge Watch this.
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  If I ask who? Do I ask to come at any?
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  One of you, come, let me use somebody.
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  Come, come. Quickly.
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  Watch this. Everybody look at this
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  gentleman. I want to show you the danger of
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  a wrong approach. This is smart young man here.
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  Let's assume there is a family around his face.
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  If I wind my hand like this and give him a slap and he says what
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  for? I said I'm trying to kill a
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  family from the sincerity. Of my heart I.
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  Mean to kill a family but I've slapped the guy how many Times
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  Now? I didn't kill the fly and the
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  guy has curves on his face by the time.
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  He now says, why don't you consider?
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  No, no, I know the fly I saw and I must kill it.
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  And the way to do it, the way I know to do it, is to give you a
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  slap. This is what happens sometimes.
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  Are you seeing that? So you find people with scars on
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  their faces that are products of good intention but wrong
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  approach. Let me tell you this the
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  approach. Is as important as the motive.
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  Write that down. The approach.
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  The way you exercise your zeal is as important as the motive.
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  Another example if because I feel you are getting sick or I
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  sense that you have fever and you are shivering, I pour
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  boiling water. Boiling what?
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  Boiling water in a cup and. I pick it, I say.
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  Open your mouth. I'm too concerned about this
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  issue of cold and fever. You must drink it and I'm
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  pouring the water. When you ask me, why are you?
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  Burning this person. I tell you I am.
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  You are not looking at my heart. I am more concerned about his
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  recovery and I'm saying is that the best way you see that now?
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  So what is happening, especially in the body of Christ, is that
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  sometimes there's a lot of correct motive, but the approach
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  keeps canceling out what the motive should produce.
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  Are we together? And because we are not patient
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  to learn a more excellent way, we continue repeating the same
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  thing, causing pain. Here it is before they brought
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  things like. Inducing pregnancy you know and
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  and other specialized ways of giving birth.
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  How many of you know that in the village those days when a woman
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  wants to give birth fire and the rest he goes through hell and
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  high water and gives birth. Imagine someone now who has a
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  young lady who is pregnant and wants to give birth and says the
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  only way I know is to put you by fire and force that baby out and
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  you are saying no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  There is a more excellent way. You see, the challenge is that
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  once we are unwilling to change and adopt more superior
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  strategies, we will continue self sabotaging our intentions.
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  I forced this man to drink hot tea.
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  And you say why, but it's burning him.
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  Look at the evidence of the mayhem.
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  And he says no. Can I tell you, ladies and
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  gentlemen, let's be careful. So we don't kill another.
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  Stephen, in the body of Christ there are many Stephens that
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  have died and his souls that are killing them, not the Pharisees.
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  Not Satan. Souls killing them.
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  There are many. Battles Satan does not even have
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  to be involved. Again, because our level of
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  hatred and mismanagement of strategies as you are hearing
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  me. Speak.
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  Take this seriously. It's a Clarion call to the body
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  of Christ. Your approach is as important as
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  your motive. Don't just have the correct
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  motive, you must also have a correct approach.
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  The desire to defeat Jericho must go hand in hand with the
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  strategy to go round seven times.
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  If you carry a knife to fight physically simply because you
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  have a desire to go round or to defeat Jericho, you will be
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  defeated and it will look like God did not send you.
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  Let me tell you what. I learned in my Bible.
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  Love never fails. Let me tell you what I learnt in
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  my Bible. That grace must be with truth.
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  Let me tell you what I learnt in my Bible.
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  Living by faith must go hand in hand with walking in love.
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  There are these three, Faith, hope and love.
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  The greatest is love. The proof that you love Jesus is
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  not working for him is your relationship with Him and then
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  how you treat others is that how can you claim you love the God
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  you do not know when you hate your brother that you know?
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  Are we together? God gave me this message.
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  As a Clarion call to the body of Christ, God bless you.
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  We need to re examine the way we are channeling our zeal.
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  The strategy is largely wrong, that's why it's not working from
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  the way. We try to.
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  Correct to the way we try to admonish, to the way sometimes
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  we try to do ministry, to the way parents try to raise their
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  children to the way children try to raise parents.
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  Are we together? Yes. 1 One man of God met me one
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  time, and he said, apostle, he was talking particularly
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  concerning. Many teachings.
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  Especially around grace. And he said, Apostle, I know
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  that you know you have revelation.
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  What do you have to say about, you know, grace and all of that?
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  And I told him nothing. He said, what do you mean
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  nothing? I know you have something you
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  say I said. The only thing I have to say is
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  that no truth communicated in the body of Christ will stand
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  strong in isolation. Every dimension of Kingdom truth
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  only finds its relevance if it is willing to be connected to
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  other truths. If you teach deliverance alone,
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  not with respect to it, betting the finished work of Christ, you
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  will produce legalism. You are going to produce a
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  people who are ever trying to fight the devil with no victory.
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  And if you teach people on the finished work of Christ and
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  don't teach them the appropriation system of the
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  finished work of Christ, you will produce a people claiming
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  things but are clearly evidences of demonic attacks.
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  If you teach the teaching ministry and ignore prayer, you
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  will produce a lopsided people. If you teach prayer and don't
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  teach the value of the word, you will produce a superstitious
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  people with encounters with familiar spirits who will be
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  keep saying yes Lord, to familiar spirits because their
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  organs have been activated through prayer, but there is no
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  World Bank to help them manage and discern spirits.
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  Let me tell you this. Ladies and gentlemen, please
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  hear me. Particularly if you're a man of
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  God, the kind of people God is raising are people who are
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  flexible, malleable, open hearted, flexible, malleable,
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  open hearted. It is arrogance to believe that
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  you would not need any contribution from any other
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  person within the body. And can I tell you the truth?
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  When it has to do with growth, you don't choose.
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  God has brought the distribution.
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  Is up to you to. Open up your heart with humility
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  to learn there are many people who will never read the books of
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  the Fathers because of an intrinsic disdain for them that
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  has been engineered into you. And something one book that will
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  help your character correct your life.
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  You will continue to recycle pain.
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  One book has the solution, but something about your zeal.
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  My assignment is to be a contributor to.
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  Helping the body and helping our global family to be people of
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  stature and understanding. And one of it that I'm teaching
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  you right now is that the zeal that God gives men is a precious
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  gift, but it must be managed responsibly.
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  And that the way you manage the gift of God, the gift of zeal,
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  is number 1, to examine the ideologies and the belief
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  systems that power and drive your zeal, especially for God.
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  God will never power hatred. God will never power envy.
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  God will never power competitive jealousy.
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  God will never power the desire to outshine.
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  No, when you find your zeal betting those things, the devil
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  has hijacked your zeal. There needs to be a correction
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  of the understanding that powers it.
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  When you find love, God is there.
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  That zeal powered by love, powered by mutual respect for
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  the body, powered by an awareness that you are only a
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  part of the larger program of God, and while celebrating your
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  uniqueness, you must appreciate the diversity of graces across
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  the body. When that zeal is powered by
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  such an information, it will produce victory.
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  You will mentor young people who will become mighty men,
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  embracing their uniqueness but also giving allowance for the
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  diversity in the body, the hatred in the.
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  Body of Christ is solvable. The bug biting and.
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  Jealousy and. I'll desires one to another and
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  the body is solvable. My teaching goes beyond the body
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  of Christ. But because this is my
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  constituency, are we together? The hatred among politicians,
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  the hatred among business people?
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  You see, hatred has never produced the glory of God.
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  Try another approach. Try another approach.
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  Another man's rising is not why you are failing.
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  If you are failing, take responsibility.
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  Don't wish for people to fail to show you a rising.
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  No, there is space in the sky for everyone who wants to fly.
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  Are you getting what? I'm saying now.
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  Koinonia, hear me. Never sit in.
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  Your heart and wish to hear something bad about another man
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  of God, to wish to hear something bad about another
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  business, another ministry. Where you ever find that in your
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  heart, no matter the justification, 'cause that
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  spirit immediately. It is the spirit of the
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  Antichrist. Even when you have reservations,
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  wish people well and keep serving God sincerely.
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  Did you hear what I said? You will never find me at the
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  forefront of tearing down another man, tearing down
• 2:34:49
  another man's ministry. God has been too good.
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  God has been too faithful. It will be seen against God that
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  with what is done in my life today, I ever nurse an iota of
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  desiring another man's downfall. No, I am too grateful to be me
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  and for what he's done. Is someone learning now?
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  How about your fellow colleague in the office?
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  Do you truly desire the growth? Of another person.
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  Or are you happy and comforted when you hear that someone else
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  is in pain? I'm teaching you how to be a
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  true Christian. Listen to my conclusion.
• 2:35:33
  I wrote. Something down here and I wanted
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  to listen. Zeal can be a blessing or a
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  curse depending on how it is used.
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  Whilst the zeal for God. Especially with respect to
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  dealing with believers violates the law of love.
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  It becomes an instrument of destruction.
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  Zeal is a gift from God. Given to everyone.
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  Producing spiritual possibilities, financial
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  possibilities, career possibilities, victories in
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  destiny. But zeal can be hijacked by a
• 2:36:15
  poor destructive mentality and it can be used by the devil even
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  towards a well-intentioned person to produce disaster.
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  Are we together? We need to go back and.
• 2:36:30
  Examine the drive behind some of the secret desires we nurse in
• 2:36:34
  our hearts for jealousy, for hatred, for rejoicing over the
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  pain, the downfall, and so on and so forth of others.
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  It is an unnecessary burden. Like Saul of Tasos, I am calling
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  upon the body of Christ, and particularly to my dear people,
• 2:36:52
  the global family. Please listen to me sometimes as
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  we obtain letters from high priests wanting to keep women
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  and men in prison believing we are doing God's service,
• 2:37:05
  rejoicing whilst Stephen is being stoned and believing we
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  are doing God's service. The God of the Bible we claim to
• 2:37:12
  serve is looking at us with compassion but with pain in his
• 2:37:18
  heart. Do not kill one more Stephen
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  because you think you are doing God's service.
• 2:37:23
  He came to seek and to save the lost.
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  You read what I said to seek and to say the lost.
• 2:37:32
  When you find someone in the body who is wounded, your first
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  approach is not rejoicing over their wound.
• 2:37:39
  Your first approach is praying for them and becoming a midwife
• 2:37:43
  towards their restoration. That is the Bible's way of
• 2:37:47
  responding to people. When you find someone in the
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  body doing well, you don't. You don't answer back with
• 2:37:53
  jealousy. You pray for them that God will
• 2:37:56
  preserve them and then you keep support their growth and their
• 2:38:00
  increase. Hallelujah when you find a
• 2:38:09
  dimension. At work in a person, any
• 2:38:12
  witness, any man of God, anybody, particularly the body
• 2:38:16
  of Christ that is needed. Don't envy.
• 2:38:19
  Knowledge is transferable. Go back and settle down and
• 2:38:24
  receive. Almost everybody I know who is
• 2:38:27
  truly anointed and lifted by God has put together materials that
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  can help and serve grace towards many who need it.
• 2:38:36
  There is no reason for jealousy in the body of Christ.
• 2:38:39
  Knowledge is available. Grace is available.
• 2:38:42
  It just takes humility and an acknowledgement that what you do
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  not have. Today you can have.
• 2:38:50
  Tomorrow. The management.
• 2:38:58
  Of the gift of zeal. Some of you are into a lot of
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  misbehaving. Well, I'm not sure.
• 2:39:12
  Many colonial people, I pray not, don't find yourself ever
• 2:39:17
  going to use your Facebook, Twitter or any social media
• 2:39:22
  device, particularly that you are in this house.
• 2:39:25
  Never use your pages to promote conflict.
• 2:39:31
  Join the heads of men of God. Sell error, sell on verified
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  information and go back rejoicing, hoping it will drive
• 2:39:40
  traffic for you so that YouTube will pay you.
• 2:39:43
  You will bring a course on your life.
• 2:39:45
  Don't do that. Do you hear what I said?
• 2:39:47
  There are people today who cannot eat until they drive
• 2:39:51
  traffic by joining the heads of men of God, People who don't
• 2:39:55
  even know themselves. They just carry stories and put
• 2:39:58
  together and rejoice. And sometimes men of God
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  sometimes can be so foolish. They should know that these are
• 2:40:05
  young people just trying to make a career happen.
• 2:40:07
  You don't see everything and just respond to it.
• 2:40:10
  That's why He trained you before giving you the mandate.
• 2:40:16
  Are we? Together I can't see something.
• 2:40:19
  About another man of God tearing the man of God that and I
• 2:40:22
  rejoice in my heart. Even if it is positive towards
• 2:40:26
  me, it is still a disaster and it's childish.
• 2:40:30
  You will never find any true son and daughter in this house.
• 2:40:35
  Becoming an advocate of selling pain, selling the competitive
• 2:40:40
  spirit in the body of Christ. No, if you want to find where
• 2:40:44
  love for the body resides, I tell you, come to Kunonia
• 2:40:48
  sincerely. Sincerely.
• 2:40:52
  No time for. Envy.
• 2:40:54
  No time for jealousy, no time for competition, no time for
• 2:40:58
  dishonor, no time for pride and arrow.
• 2:41:05
  That's why God keeps lifting us. He has seen the.
• 2:41:08
  Sincerity of the heart is. Someone learning now the good
• 2:41:13
  news is. That change is possible for some
• 2:41:17
  of you. Before you came here, your mind
• 2:41:19
  has already been sorry to use the word raped with wrong,
• 2:41:23
  destructive, pro arrogant pro pro section mindset.
• 2:41:30
  Begin to unclog those things right now and step into a new
• 2:41:35
  life that is filled with honor, dignity, self security.
• 2:41:41
  Don't carry your childhood trauma and convert it into a
• 2:41:44
  mindset. Convert it into a sermon and
• 2:41:48
  begin to sell an idea that destroys the body.
• 2:41:50
  For as long as I am alive, I will remain a promoter of mutual
• 2:41:56
  respect in the body of Christ Among pastors, among members.
• 2:42:02
  We will hear that another ministry.
• 2:42:03
  Is doing a program. Somewhere I may not even know
• 2:42:06
  the leaders. As God grants grace, we will
• 2:42:09
  send seeds. We have been doing it.
• 2:42:11
  But we will send seeds quietly and say don't worry, there's no
• 2:42:14
  point announcing. Just we are happy that the
• 2:42:16
  Kingdom is progressing. Let it continue.
• 2:42:21
  Are we together now? When I pray, I don't pray.
• 2:42:24
  For myself alone. I don't pray for Kolonia alone.
• 2:42:27
  Sincerely, God is my witness. I pray for the body of Christ.
• 2:42:31
  When I see young ministers come to me with all their tantrums
• 2:42:35
  and excesses, I still love them. I will correct what I can
• 2:42:39
  correct if they will listen. If they don't listen, I wish
• 2:42:41
  them well. Life will teach them.
• 2:42:43
  There's no need been under pressure.
• 2:42:45
  Life is a vicious, unemotional teacher.
• 2:42:47
  One day we'll try again. Are we together?
• 2:42:51
  But let me. Give you a final.
• 2:42:52
  Advice before we pray. Love Jesus passionately but not
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  fanatically. Love Jesus passionately.
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  But when your love for Jesus translates to fanatism and
• 2:43:07
  extremism, you will begin to do unspeakable things in the name
• 2:43:13
  of Jesus. A point will come.
• 2:43:15
  Your conscience will be shared with hot iron.
• 2:43:22
  Hallelujah. Love the Lord with all your
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  heart, serving with all your heart.
• 2:43:28
  Learn as much as you can learn for your growth.
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  But please, if you ever see any man of God who names the name of
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  Christ, he's deserving of your honor.
• 2:43:38
  You see a businessman who has done well, he's deserving of
• 2:43:41
  your honor. You see a professional who has
• 2:43:44
  excelled well in life, he or she's deserving of your honor.
• 2:43:47
  Practice honor. Do not sell the idea of division
• 2:43:52
  or dishonor. That is the effective management
• 2:43:55
  of zeal. I pray for you from the depth of
• 2:43:58
  my heart that this message will add to the arsenals that will
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  make you an exceptional Christian.
• 2:44:04
  It will add to the arsenals that will make you outstanding in
• 2:44:08
  your life, that your life will command such level of victory.
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  You will be a plus to the body. You will never be a reason for
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  the division of the body. God will lift you higher and
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  higher. Your life will be free of
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  jealousy and pain and whatever it is and the burden that comes
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  with the misuse of zeal, I lift it from of your life in Jesus
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  name and any one of you who has mismanaged zeal.
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  And we teach you how to program the cause for yourself, A cause
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  for your children. By mercy I speak over you in the
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  name of Jesus. May that cause be averted over
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  your life that you will love and respect.
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  The body of Christ. In spite of his diversity, in as
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  much as there are higher and lower truths, you will still
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  love people all the same, and that you will not fight people
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  for believing anything different than you.
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  God willpower your zeal with love.
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  God willpower your zeal with love.
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  The foundation for your being zealous will be love.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, rise up on your feet, hold the
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  hands of someone, and begin to pray in the Spirit.
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  Everybody, please rise up on your feet, hold the hands of
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  someone, and begin to pray. Zeal can be a blessing.
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  Zeal can be a curse depending on how it is used.
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  When your zeal is founded upon. A wrong ideology, A wrong belief
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  system. You will kill many Stevens, you
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  will watch them as stones are thrown to them, and you will
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  rejoice because it will mean advancement of your desire.
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  But you will be destroying man in the body of Christ, provided
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  a man. Is in Christ.
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  There is nothing like hopeless. Provided a man is in Christ,
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  there is always room for growth. There is always room for
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  restoration. There is always room for
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  advancement, ever increasing glory.
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  Someone go ahead and pray. Poach my heart, poach my mind.
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  Let my zeal be according to knowledge.
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  Let my zeal not produce destruction in the body of
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  Christ. Let me not kill lives and
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  destinies. Believe in I am doing God good.
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  Go ahead and pray. Now open your mouth and
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  intercede for the body of. Christ in one minute for those.
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  Who have handled the word of God?
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  With dishonesty, pray for them rather than talking about them
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  and rejoicing. It doesn't change them.
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  It is praying for them that those who have handled the Word
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  of God with dishonesty for selfish gain, those who have
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  manipulated and destroyed destinies for selfish gain, some
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  of them have done it and are doing it intentionally.
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  Some of them are products of wrong mentorship.
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  Please pray for them in one minute.
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  Pray for the body of Christ in Nigeria.
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  Pray for the body of Christ in Africa.
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  Pray for the body of Christ in Europe, in America.
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  Don't just rejoice that the Christian faith is declining.
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  Don't just rejoice that men of God are having scandals around.
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  Don't just rejoice that things are going bad with churches.
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  Lift your voice and pray. Raise a standard and say Satan,
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  The Lord rebuke you over the church in Europe.
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  The Lord rebuke you over the church in Australia, over the
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  church in America, over the church in Nigeria, over the
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  church in Ghana, South Africa. We decree and declare those you
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  have called. They will stand strong.
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  Those you have called, they will serve you with purity of heart.
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  Those you have called, they will love you genuinely.
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  They will do ministry genuinely. They will be about winning
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  souls. Pray that the prejudices that
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  have plagued the body of Christ, competitive spirits, secret
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  desires, that one will fall and one will fall, that all those
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  things will go away with maturity and growth.
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  Lift your voice and pray. That.
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  God will recalibrate our understanding, the motivations
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  that are powering our zeal as we do the things that we do that
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  nothing will. Do will end up destroying the?
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  Body that we will see the body as one sincere family, loving
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  Jesus, growing, thriving. Pray for the spirit of
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  forbearance. Pray for the spirit of patience.
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  Now, finally, pray that our. Approach will be less with love
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  that in manifesting zeal. Hatred will be far from it in
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  manifesting zeal. Wickedness will be far from it.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, the zeal of the Lord upon the body
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  of Christ should not become A cause.
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  Pray for the young ministers in campuses that they will learn
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  not learn nonsense. They will learn the way of love.
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  They will learn the way of prayer.
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  They will learn the way of discipline.
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  They will learn the way of character.
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  They will learn the way of honor.
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  They will learn the way of of diligence.
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  Pray for parents and their children.
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  Pray for. Children and their parents.
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  Atlanta Sadaka Kariya, Soprakatiba, La.
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  Cusiata, final prayer. Father let.
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  Your love be established in my heart.
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  Love towards you and love towards the body of Christ.
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  Lift your voice and pray. Let your love be established.
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  Love towards you and love towards the body of Christ.
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  The Church is marching on victorious.
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  The Church is marching on victorious from glory to glory,
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  managing all the issues within her and rising to become a
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  people of power. We will finish well.
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  We will finish strong. The assignment will not fail.
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  The Holy Ghost is the Captain driving the Church to victory,
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  navigating the tides of ignorance, navigating the tides
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  of the flesh, and bringing the Church to a place of power.
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  In Jesus name. We pray in Jesus name.
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  We pray. I want you to take this message
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  very, very seriously. Go back home, give this message
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  to every man of God or any person of notable influence you
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  know in business, politics, to listen to it.
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  Zeal is a gift from God. It can be used as an instrument
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  of destruction, and it can be used as a great treasure to
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  building the program of God. Hallelujah.
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  My charge for you is that the zeal that God has placed upon
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  you, the zeal that God has placed upon us as a ministry
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  that has made us a city on a hill, that it will not become A
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  cause to us, That our zeal for God will be powered by love,
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  love for Jesus and love for his body.
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  And that the strategies we deploy in executing that zeal,
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  whether it's a ministry in corporate life, it will be onto
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  the building of men and not the destruction of men.
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  You are in agreement with me. Shout aloud, Amen.
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  And then give Jesus a big hand of praise.
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  Hallelujah. Please keep standing everybody.
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  Thank you for your. Patience, let me do the altar
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  call quickly before I speak over your life again.
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  The zeal of. Saul drove him into.
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  Doing things with no relationship with Jesus, even
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  though he thought he was with God for someone.
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  Your zeal, something within your heart has been driving you to
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  church. And now that you're in this
• 2:52:45
  place tonight, the Holy Ghost spoke to you very personally
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  through this teaching, and you're saying, apostle, there
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  are many things to repent about. Chiefest among them is that I do
• 2:52:57
  not even have a relationship with Jesus.
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  You are one of such persons. And you're saying, apostle, if
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  you will give me an opportunity tonight, I truly want to make it
• 2:53:07
  right with Jesus. I want a fresh start.
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  You spoke about hope. I want that hope, the blessed
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  hope. You spoke about a new beginning.
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  You spoke about God recalibrating my understanding
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  wherever you are going to count 1 to 5, whether you are making a
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  first time decision or you are saying apostle, I want to
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  rededicate my life with all the love I have in my heart and my
• 2:53:31
  desire to see you become genuinely connected to Jesus.
• 2:53:35
  I'm going to count 1 to 5 very unashamedly like I'm calling you
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  to receive an award. I like you as I begin my
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  accounting to leave your seat. Come.
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  Stand right before me, gallantly and boldly. 1 Come, God bless
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  you, my sister. God bless you my brother.
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  I'm seeing people come keep clapping. 2 Celebrate them as
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  they come. Thank you for the courage.
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  Come, come it's. A new day for you.
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  It's a new. Beginning Kaunani, are you
• 2:54:05
  celebrating a harvest give Jesus praise let's encourage them let
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  them know we love them and we. Rejoice that.
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  They are making a new or renewed decision. 3 Keep coming, don't
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  sit back. When the Holy Ghost says.
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  You should come. It's calling you to give you a
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  new beginning. You can start afresh again 4.
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  If you're coming, please make. His double up quickly, quickly.
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  All the other all the floors. Please make your way to the
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  front outside, make your way to the front.
• 2:54:41
  Those who are. Following online and desire to.
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  Participate in this new birth prayer.
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  You are most welcome. Doesn't matter what you have
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  done or not done. Doesn't matter how your life has
• 2:54:51
  been this. Is the House of love.
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  More than the House of Power, more than the House of
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  Mysteries, more than the House of Revelation, more than the
• 2:55:03
  House of Influence, our greatest signature is love.
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  Come 5. Hallelujah, I want to say thank
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  you to. All of you, my dear brothers and
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  sisters, thank you sincerely. It takes a lot of courage to
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  leave your seat and calm, and I want to thank you.
• 2:55:23
  You have not made the grace of God a waste because you have
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  listened and you have come. If you're joining them, please
• 2:55:29
  join them quickly. My brother, can you lift your
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  right hand? Let it be high above your head.
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  And that includes those in all the overflows outside all our
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  viewing centers across any nation and all the regions.
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  Make sure that you participate also.
• 2:55:44
  And then finally, for those who are following online, please
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  lift your hands. Say this after me as loud and as
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  clear as you can. Say Lord Jesus again.
• 2:55:54
  Say Lord Jesus, I love you with all my heart.
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  I believe you are the Son of God.
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  I believe you died for my sins. I believe you rose again for my
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  justification right now. I receive Jesus into my heart as
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  my Savior, my Lord and my King. I believe that the power of sin,
• 2:56:24
  Satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life from
• 2:56:30
  tonight. I'm a child of God.
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  I go forward ever and back whatever in Jesus name.
• 2:56:38
  I pray for you from my heart. You have made this noble
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  decision. I decree and declare.
• 2:56:43
  By the authority of God's Word, your sins are forgiven and the
• 2:56:47
  Lord God of heaven will give you a new beginning in the name of
• 2:56:50
  Jesus Christ. You will only go from glory to
• 2:56:53
  glory. You will only go from grace to
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  grace. You will know the Lord
• 2:56:57
  progressively and you will know Him correctly, and the zeal that
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  comes from that knowledge will drive you to a life of victory,
• 2:57:05
  ever increasing victory. I bless you from my heart, and I
• 2:57:09
  declare that it is well with you in Jesus, much less name we
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  pray. Amen.
• 2:57:14
  Congratulations. Please look to my right.
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  That will be your left. There are counsellors willing to
• 2:57:19
  have a word with you. They'll be very quick and then
• 2:57:22
  you're back to your seat. God bless you.
• 2:57:23
  Keep clapping for them. Keep clapping.
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  Keep clapping. Keep clapping.
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  Amen. Hallelujah.
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  I'm about to speak over your life, but let me encourage
• 2:57:43
  everyone one last time. Please make sure you take heed
• 2:57:46
  to all the announcements that we brought from the video montage.
• 2:57:51
  Please let it go around. Let it go everywhere.
• 2:57:54
  The publicity don't just inform. Invite people for the convention
• 2:57:59
  coming and OK, I just remembered that the ushering department are
• 2:58:04
  calling for more hands. There's such a crowd of people
• 2:58:06
  come in. As much as we have a lot of the
• 2:58:09
  Oshas, we're still looking for volunteer Oshas.
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  So if you are in this place and you desire to be a volunteer
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  OSHA, please. You can do well to complete scan
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  this QR code and then you'll be directed to the ushering team
• 2:58:24
  and they will help to just do the screening.
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  But we need a lot of more hands. There are literally, I mean, I
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  don't know the thousands right now we have already.
• 2:58:35
  We just pray that even the stadium will be able to contend
• 2:58:38
  the people coming. We're praying that God himself
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  will grant grace. And so we need more hands.
• 2:58:44
  We need more ushers so that they make the work easy.
• 2:58:47
  So please, you want to be part of the ushering team as a
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  volunteer, do well to scan the QR code For more information.
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  You can go to APR desk immediately after service and
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  they'll be glad to assist you in whatever way that is needed in
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  Jesus name. And then of course our prayer
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  again, one last reminder starts tomorrow.
• 2:59:12
  We're fasting all up until 17th and then we're praying 8:00 to
• 2:59:18
  9:00 PM every day and it will be aired live on all our social
• 2:59:24
  media platforms, YouTube, Instagram.
• 2:59:27
  So make sure you participate and God will bless you in Jesus
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  name. To all who have connected, I
• 2:59:35
  think we should honor those who are connecting across the globe.
• 2:59:39
  I really always have that passion for us to just tell them
• 2:59:42
  thank you. They are by far more than those
• 2:59:45
  of us who are here combined. And we appreciate all of you who
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  are connected from across the globe.
• 2:59:51
  It's an honor to bring the word, the wisdom, the power of God.
• 2:59:54
  Week in, week out, the Lord increase you in Jesus name.
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  We pray, lift your hands in one minute and thank God once again
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  for what you've heard tonight. Blessed are your ears for the
• 3:00:04
  things that you have heard. Blessed are your eyes for the
• 3:00:06
  things that you have seen. Blessed is your heart or your
• 3:00:09
  hearts for the things that have been deposited as seeds, that
• 3:00:14
  they will grow and yield. 4th foot, thirtyfold, sixtyfold,
• 3:00:18
  hundredfold. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
• 3:00:22
  Let me speak the blessing over you and then we're done for the
• 3:00:25
  service. The Lord bless you.
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  Shout Amen. The Lord bless you.
• 3:00:31
  The Lord honor you. The Lord opens strange doors for
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  you. In the name of Jesus, let this
• 3:00:40
  week be laughter. Let this week be joy.
• 3:00:44
  Let this week be prosperity. Let this week be increase.
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  Let this week be testimonies. Let this week be recovery.
• 3:00:54
  Let this week be restoration. Let this week be deliverance.
• 3:00:59
  Let this week be ever increasing glory.
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  Let this week be rest round about in the name of Jesus.
• 3:01:08
  If it will destroy you may not come to you if it will cost you
• 3:01:13
  pain. May be far from you.
• 3:01:16
  In the name of Jesus Christ. But if it will make for your
• 3:01:19
  lifting, may come in a hurry. In the name of Jesus, I place a
• 3:01:24
  mark of honor upon you. No man will despise you.
• 3:01:28
  You will only keep going from glory to glory in the name of
• 3:01:32
  Jesus. Death is far from you.
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  Pain is far from you. Limitation is far from you.
• 3:01:39
  This week your life emanates the character of Christ.
• 3:01:43
  In the name of Jesus. This week you manifest the
• 3:01:47
  wisdom of Christ. This week the power of God will
• 3:01:51
  be seen evidently in your life. As you submit yourself to
• 3:01:55
  fasting and prayer, I release grace upon you.
• 3:01:58
  It will be moments of strong encounter.
• 3:02:01
  In the name of Jesus, may the Lord bless you and lift you and
• 3:02:07
  increase you. Let it be well with you.
• 3:02:10
  Let it be well with your children.
• 3:02:12
  Let it be well with your job. Let it be well with your
• 3:02:15
  business. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  decree and declare. Every negative prophecy over
• 3:02:21
  your life is cancelled. Every negative pattern over your
• 3:02:26
  life is cancelled. I call you Beulah.
• 3:02:30
  I call you Hefzibah. You are a well watered garden.
• 3:02:34
  Your prayer life is on fire. Your watch study life is on
• 3:02:38
  fire. Favor is actively at work in
• 3:02:41
  your life in the name of Jesus. Destiny.
• 3:02:45
  Help us arise from everywhere to favor you in the name of Jesus.
• 3:02:50
  Every pending issue that needs answers receive answers this
• 3:02:54
  week may love for the body. Of Christ grow stronger.
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  And stronger in you, in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  And I decree and declare every good thing you desire that is
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  consistent with the will of God this week.
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  May it enter your hands. May it enter your hands.
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  May it enter your hands. The Lord delivers you from every
• 3:03:19
  trouble. In Jesus name we pray.
• 3:03:22
  Please shout three loud amens. Glory be to God, may the Lord
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  bless you together. Let's share the grace, the grace
• 3:03:33
  of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet
• 3:03:36
  fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us now and
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  forever. Amen.
• 3:03:41
  Surely God's goodness and mercies follow us all the days
• 3:03:46
  of our lives as we dwell in the House of the Lord forever and
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  ever, Amen. God bless you and see you next
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  week.