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Discipleship: Building the Men That Transform Nations by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Your hands to heaven bless his name.
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  Give him thanks for tonight. With hands lifted high above
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  your head, Let's give him praise.
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  Thank him because he's a good God.
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  For your faithfulness, we thank you.
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  For the abundance of your mercies, we thank you.
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  It's a grateful person thanking the Lord tonight for compassion.
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  We thank you for wisdom, for favor, for your hand, for your
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  help, or we give thanks to the King of Kings and the Lord of
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  Lords, Shapratina Caparando Sabriga de Belleca Parando
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  Siata. We give you thanks, O God, and
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  we give you praise. One minute you are giving Him.
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  Thanks, Lavish thanks coming from a grateful heart.
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  Lavish thanks coming from a thoughtful heart in Jesus mighty
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  name. We pray now as always.
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  Would you lift your hands and ask the Lord to give you an
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  encounter tonight? He brought you here to encounter
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  His light, His presence, His wisdom, His power.
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  Go ahead and pray. My heart is open, my ears are
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  attentive, my eyes are washed with eyes out that I may see
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  Shanene ke palaso bragati a capran de Gabele de ke paras.
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  We give you praise. O God, appear unto me by your
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  word. Tonight change me.
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  Do an inner walk of transformation, for in Jesus,
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  much less name, we have prayed, Father, we bless your name.
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  For tonight you have gathered us again to lift us, to grow us, to
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  bless us, to anoint us, to enlighten us, to give us
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  understanding. We yield ourselves, O God, as
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  desperate people in need of your touch, desperate people in need
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  of your wisdom. We desire your presence.
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  We desire the wisdom that comes from that presence, the power
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  that emanates from that presence.
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  Lord, we thank you tonight because we will change.
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  We thank you because we will see you, Clara.
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  We will hear you like never before.
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  And as we are focused on you, we are transformed.
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  We are changed in the name of Jesus.
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  And as your word comes tonight, let the sick be healed.
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  Let the oppressed be delivered. Let the hopeless find hope.
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  May we be mightily imparted and to Jesus be all the glory for
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  this in Jesus, much less name. We have prayed.
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  Give Jesus a big hand clap. Good evening everybody.
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  Hallelujah. Please be seated.
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  It's good to see everyone in church.
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  It's always a blessing to be in the presence of God.
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  Always a blessing. You never lose being in His
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  presence. You never lose investing time to
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  know Him and to grow in the knowledge of our God.
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  I want to challenge you tonight to ensure that your passion for
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  Jesus, your passion for His presence, your passion for His
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  Word, that it never goes down. It's the secret to your victory.
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  When Satan wants to destroy you, he does not start by attacking
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  you. He attacks your passion, your
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  passion for His presence, and it can be with legitimate reasons
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  like your work, the business of the day, and before you know it,
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  you get busy. You get preoccupied doing good
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  things, good things that steal away your time with Him, good
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  things that steal away your passion.
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  You must guard His presence in your life jealously.
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  You must guard your passion for His Word, your passion for
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  prayer, your passion for wisdom #2 never allow coming to church
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  become a ritual in your life. You can get into the motions of
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  coming to church every Sunday, every Tuesday, every Wednesday,
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  every other day for the church service or any conference and
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  literally lose that favour. That desire is no longer there.
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  You are just fulfilling the ritual of answering a
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  psychological register that I came to the House of the Lord
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  today so that no one would look at me and say, where have you
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  been? And you'll be surprised that you
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  can be here from start to finish and never receive anything.
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  You must approach His presence. You must approach every moment
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  in His presence as though that were your first time.
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  You must approach every moment in His presence as though you
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  never have a chance again. So you look at it as though it's
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  your first time, and you look at it as though it's your last
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  time. That's the attitude you need if
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  you want to excel in His presence.
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  Meaning that you approach him like a baby who's never really
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  experienced his wisdom and power, that malleability of
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  heart ready to receive from him. And then you approach him as
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  though you want to get everything you can get.
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  Imagine someone who appeared in your life just once and you
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  never had a chance to see that person.
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  But with that one encounter, every possibility could be yours
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  upon demand. It is that mentality you need
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  when you come to church. So don't drag yourself and sit
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  down and guess the motions of the worship.
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  Oh I know it's time for opening prayer.
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  After that. I'm sure someone is going to
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  come up. Now you watch and see,
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  especially if you come with visitors.
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  They come with hunger and you kill their hunger through
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  familiarity. I know that this man is coming
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  up now. It's time for offering.
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  Just start counting your money even before he talks.
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  And then once you are done, Apostle is going to come up now
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  and while he's preaching, just watch and see.
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  Someone will start shouting on that.
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  The anointing. And you know, as as you are, as
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  you are going through the motions, distracting yourself
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  and perhaps those who came with you, you'll be surprised that
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  the Spirit of God is moving mercifully but seriously across
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  the hearts that are willing, that came desperate.
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  There's no time I come to church that I come with the rituals of
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  familiarity, even though I'm about to speak.
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  I know what I'm about to teach you now, but I approach it
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  myself like a steward, by grace and by mercy.
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  I look forward to finishing the teaching so that I won't listen
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  to it myself. I don't have the privilege of
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  being a member when I'm in front of you.
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  But now when I'm done preaching, then I go back home as a
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  faithful member of Koinonia and listen to what the man of God
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  has taught, so that I will receive it for my own self too.
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  So that I don't excite you. And it flows.
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  You see, it doesn't come from me.
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  I'm not the source, I'm the channel.
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  It flows from the throne through a vessel to willing hearts.
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  Did you hear that? From the throne through a vessel
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  to willing hearts. That means it is not Joshua
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  Selman speaking to you, it is God speaking to you through this
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  frail lips of clay, running his program through my mind to
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  access your destiny. So when I am done, I have to go
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  back to and listen to what God said to us using my lips.
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  Maybe this is already a word for a preacher and you feel just
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  because you understand what you are teaching the.
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  People. Even if it is something you know
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  mechanically, the grace that comes with it must enter your
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  life by submission. If not, it will pass through
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  your life without entering your life is someone learning.
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  So make sure every time included now and that includes those who
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  are following online. Don't just say I'm a faithful.
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  Member connected in Diaspora I'm watching from maybe US or Canada
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  or some African nation or some state within Nigeria and you are
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  happy to hear what God has today, but you are not trembling
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  at His word. Pay attention, don't be
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  distracted. The minutes and hours you are
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  going to invest will be life defining.
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  It is my assignment under the leadership of the Holy Spirit to
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  make sure I never waste your time.
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  I have a covenant with God that you will never invest your time
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  here in any service whatsoever and have us play games.
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  We are serious people and we take your destiny seriously.
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  And so everything you see that happens on this altar,
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  particularly the ministry of the world, it's come from hours of
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  Labor, study, prayer. Are we together and then served
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  with grace? You can trust the things that
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  you hear in as much as we are men and we are frail, but the
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  Spirit of God rides through our limitations to make sure that
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  you get that which is a defying for your spiritual life and I
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  pray. For you, in the name of Jesus,
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  that tonight will be a service that you can say it was made for
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  me, that someone will leave church tonight knowing that God
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  came to me. He visited everybody, but he
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  zoomed his light on me. And he came to me.
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  That is you say Amen, Hallelujah.
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  All right, just one or two functions very quickly and then
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  we get to the word. This concerns a conference
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  coming up in November. We're happy to see what God is
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  already doing. And so I want to just put a few
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  words. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord, the General Assembly it is called.
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  And 19th to 23rd is the date but just a few logistics were
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  beginning to put things on ground.
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  There are so many people coming from this nation and around the
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  world. You can imagine Abuja alone.
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  And so it behoves us as leaders to make sure we plan and to make
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  sure that it's it is a convenient and seamless
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  spiritual events that edifies people with minimal
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  inconveniences whatsoever. And so we're up and doing.
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  I mean, we're sitting on the drawing board, making sure that
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  we put everything that needs to be done well to dot the IS cross
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  the TS and make sure that both for us who are here home and for
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  those who are coming from across the globe abroad, that we have a
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  seamless stay here. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  And the first of that step we're taking is that we created a
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  registration portal. Now the registration will help
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  us to be able to make several arrangements like seating, like,
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  you know, transportation and a few other things.
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  Whether you register or not, the conference is for you.
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  So the purpose of the registration is to be able to
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  help us have an idea. You can imagine how saddening it
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  will be for me having only about 20 to 30% of the people who
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  attend that have access to comfortable seats and all of
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  that simply because we probably underestimated the people.
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  So please work with us. We're going to request that
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  everyone, everyone at all, both Nigerians, Africans, Europeans,
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  the registration is not for those in diaspora and we don't
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  do too well with registration in Nigeria.
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  We're not used to it. We just come but so no problem,
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  you're invited, come that way but less.
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  God will grant us grace in Jesus name.
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  You would notice there that there are some who don't really
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  like the QR thing. For you who are not interested
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  in using the QR code, there is a text only.
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  There is a text there. You can simply register by text
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  only. Just send us the details.
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  Let's just know you are coming. There are so many people
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  already. The demands has been
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  overwhelming and we're trying to make sure that we're able to
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  manage. Dealing with a crowd of certain
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  magnitudes require many levels of preparation.
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  We've hosted meetings across the globe.
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  And so we're not, it's not new to us.
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  But then we don't take for granted the things we don't want
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  stampedes, we don't want people dying, Anything happen in the
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  name of Jesus that would not happen.
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  But then we need to take responsibility in terms of
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  planning. So please, all of you will scan
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  the QR code and for those who are travelling from across the
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  36 states of the federation, pastors, our family in diaspora,
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  those of you who are coming from across Africa, I mean, there are
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  so many people already from Ghana, Western Africa, Kenya,
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  Malawi, and you know, you name it.
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  And those who are coming down from Australia and all of that.
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  So please make sure, do us a favor, help us, everyone is
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  invited at all but everyone whether from Abuja here, you who
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  are seated here, please do us a favor of the registration so
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  that it can guide us. Already we're trying to do a lot
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  of logistics around venue, transportation, security and all
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  of that. So we just want to make sure
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  that we have a seamless day and God will help us in Jesus name.
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  So the registration links there, those of you abroad, please go
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  ahead and register, particularly for those who will be coming.
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  If you're coming with your family, if it's a whole church
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  coming with the leaders, you can do well to let us know.
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  And by the grace of God, you will help us with the planning.
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  The QR code is there. We'll just pick a blessing over
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  it and then open it up. And for those of you who are
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  here, give it a liberty to pick your phones if you need to, and
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  do the registration just for 30 minutes or a minute.
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  If it doesn't go. The text.
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  If your eyes cannot see it, be prepared to be healed while I
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  pray for you. But I mean, you can work with
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  your QR because it looks small. I'm OK.
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  I'm not sure it's that small on the other screen.
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  So you can go ahead. Go ahead.
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  You need to do the registration. I'll give you a minute and a
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  family following online. For everyone who is coming for
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  the General Assembly, a global convention, Koinonia Global,
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  please do well to register. Sons and daughters connected to
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  the ministry who are coming. Please make sure you're
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  connected, friends, family, just let us know.
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  It doesn't interrupt your participation whether you
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  register or not. But this is to help us plan so
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  that we ensure that already. You know how saddening it is for
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  me when we come to church, even though it's not a major program,
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  having most of the people outside instead of inside.
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  So we're really working to see that God will help us to be able
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  to serve people with comfort where people of excellence and
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  we want to maintain that standard even as we do the
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  things that we do Praise God. So there it is in the name of
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  Jesus, we declare it. Bless the e-mail, the phone and
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  the QR code. Your one minute will soon be up.
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  If for any reason you are not able to just be patient after
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  service, you can go ahead. There's no jamming of anything
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  that we're not limiting it as we do abroad because of a global
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  demand. We're open for as many people
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  and praise the name of the Lord by next week.
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  I'll take the time to introduce a few people who'll be playing
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  key roles so that our global family can see them with respect
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  to whatever roles they have to play.
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  Particularly that which involves guest management,
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  correspondences and so on and so forth.
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  So that we have a very structured way of attending to
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  whatever concerns for us who are here and for those who are
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  outside of this place. I'm hoping probably should the
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  need arise, we can create a dedicated website for it so that
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  it just gives people room. It will also save our PR
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  department the burden of everybody calling and say what's
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  it about. So probably we'll work.
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  We have people who are bright minds.
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  In a day or two, they are able to put together a beautiful
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  website, justforitthegeneralassembly.com
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  or something of that sort. I'm sure they already have the
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  domain page saved. So we'll just work on that so
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  that media so that's to you and whoever is involved.
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  Let's try to put it together excellently so that we can
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  people can have access to it and know what this is about.
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  It saves the burden of having to attend to people 1 by 1.
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  The Lord will bless us in Jesus name or not before the miracle
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  service would also roll out some of the ministers who will be
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  serving alongside myself in the ministry of the world and in
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  prayer. And by the end of the month,
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  we'll begin our publicity officially across the city.
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  And then, of course, generally like we do.
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  So just to let us know, preparation is in Top Gear.
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  It's our first global convention as a ministry.
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  And I you can be sure that you are not the one I'm inviting.
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  I'm not inviting you. It will be an embarrassment to
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  your understanding of mentorship if you feel I'm inviting you.
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  Every Walker, every faithful person who is connected to this
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  ministry, you are the one who should invite others.
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  You are not invited. You are already Kolonia is you.
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  You are not. You are not a stranger coming to
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  hear the man of God. So make sure that you are the
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  one who does the work of letting people know that it's a great
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  convention and we trust God for a mighty, mighty outpouring.
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  It's going to be quite an experience.
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  And we pray that in the name of Jesus, it will bless us as a
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  global family and it will serve as a great blessing and a shift
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  within the body of Christ. You believe that?
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  Say Amen. Hallelujah.
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  Father, we thank you for this opportunity.
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  We pray as always that you will be glorified.
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  You'll be lifted in Jesus matchless name.
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  We pray Amen and Amen. All right, so that being said,
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  let's go to the business of tonight.
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  I'm excited about the things that you'll be learning tonight
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  because contained within the teaching tonight are precious
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  keys that sustain the power to transform lives, to transform
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  territories, churches, and even nations.
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  I consider all my teachings to be quite interesting and
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  edifying, but sometimes I just get very personal and emotional
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  with the teachings because of the power that is contained
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  within the truths that I communicate.
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  This is one of such teachings where at whatever spiritual
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  level you will find it most edifying.
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  And this is also one of those teachings where you don't have
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  to be a Christian to be blessed by it.
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  There are teachings that require a certain foundation and require
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  certain depth and understanding of the Word of God for it to
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  bless you, but this is a kind of teaching where a politician will
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  sit and listen and will bless you.
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  A government, presidents, individuals, pastors,
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  businessmen, whoever you are, Christian, Muslim, free thinker,
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  traditionalist, I mean you're welcome participate in the
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  teaching tonight and I pray that you bless our hearts in Jesus
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  name. I've studied the concept of
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  nation building. I've studied the concept of
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  transformation, both personal, territorial.
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  I've studied the concept of growth and maturity and stature.
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  This is something I've studied for myself, but it's been my
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  intent to gain mastery in understanding how people change.
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  I'm a systems person. I like to learn how systems
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  work. I am pro productivity.
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  I like results. I like things that work.
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  Hallelujah. And so that has has propelled me
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  to study the word of God and also to study leadership, to
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  study systems, to study governments, to study the, the,
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  the the technicalities behind results.
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  And I've come up with a lot of interesting findings that I
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  think will profit our global family and will profit the body
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  of Christ. And I'm hoping that tonight's
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  teaching will be 1 of such. My emphasis tonight will be to
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  deliver to us and to the many who are following the key to
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  transforming nations. I want to show you how
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  individuals, how families, how nations become transformed
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  through the power of God's Word. And tonight our emphasis is
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  going to be on how to build the men that transform nations.
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  The topic for tonight, as we teach, is called discipleship
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  Building the Men that transform nations.
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  Discipleship we're going to consider and learn how to build
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  the men that build societies, how to build the men that build
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  businesses, how to build the men that build the program of God
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  churches, how to build the men that build society.
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  Acts Chapter 11 we read from verse 19 to 26.
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  Blessed be the name of the Lord. Acts Chapter 11.
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  Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that
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  rose up about Stephen, travelled as far as Fineca, and Cyprus,
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  and Antioch, preaching the word to none, but unto the Jews only.
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  Next verse. And some of them were men of
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  Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch, they
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  speak unto the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number
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  believed and turned on to the Lord.
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  Next verse please. The tidings of these things came
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  to the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem, And they sent
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  forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
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  Now follow carefully who, when he came, he had seen the grace
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  of God. Barnabas now.
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  He was glad, and he exhorted them all with that purpose of
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  heart, that with purpose of heart they would cleave.
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  Unto the Lord. Notice what Barnabas is doing
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  here now. Next verse.
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  For he was a good man. What a testimony.
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  It was not just enough that he was encouraging the people.
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  The Bible says Barnabas was a good man.
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  He was full of the Holy Ghost. And of faith and much people was
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  added unto the Lord. Two more verses. 25 the Bible
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  says then departed Barnabas to Tasos to seek for Saul.
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  And when Saul came, he had found him.
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  He brought him on to Antioch. And it came to pass that the
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  whole year they assembled themselves together.
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  Notice when Barnabas did his work, he assessed the progress
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  of the church that had now been born in Antioch.
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  He looked at it, he was very impressed.
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  He encouraged them to remain steadfast.
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  The Bible says he travelled and went to look for Paul, Saul now
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  and said come, come, come, come. Your ministry is needed here.
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  The Bible says when he found him, verse 26 found him from
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  Tasos. He brought him, and then they
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  came to Antioch and it came to pass.
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  The whole year they assembled themselves with the church and
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  taught much people, the Bible says, and the disciples were
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  called Christians. First in Antioch.
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  May the Lord bless the reading of His Word in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Second Scripture, Matthew
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  chapter 28. We're going to read from verse
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  18 to 20. Matthew 2818 to 20.
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  Let's look at it from NKJV, New King James Version, please.
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  And Jesus came and speak unto them, saying, all power is given
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  unto me in heaven and in the earth.
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  Let's go to verse 19 now. And Jesus came and spoke unto
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  them. OK, just keep from verse 19 and
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  NKJV 19. Let's go to 19.
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  Go therefore and make disciples. KJV will say.
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  Go and teach all nations. It says Go and make disciples of
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  all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father.
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  And of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, verse 20.
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  Teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you
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  and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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  Can we shout aloud? Amen.
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  So as a background and a reminder, the Great Commission,
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  as I have taught you in this house, has three components or
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  three dimensions to it. Number one is the world
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  evangelization or soul winning as you call it.
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  The Great Commission, the mandates that Jesus gave us to
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  the nations is threefold. We call it in the the church,
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  the church language, the Great Commission.
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  There's no word or expression written Great Commission in the
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  Bible, but it's just a word or an expression that was coined
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  out to capture the mandate that the believer has been given to
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  the nations. And so the Great Commission has
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  three dimensions or three components to it.
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  Component #1 is our ministry to unbelievers, our ministry to the
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  world of unbelievers. That is world evangelization or
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  soul winning as is generally understood us.
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  The second component has to do with the equipping and the
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  maturing of the Saints. So you see, the ministry is
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  threefold. There is the ministry to the
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  world, there is the ministry of the church to the church, and
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  then there is the ministry of the church to society.
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  I'm being elementary in this background so that everyone
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  who's not connected with our thoughts on this wise will at
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  least connect before we proceed. So the Great Commission, the
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  mandates that Jesus gave the church is threefold #1 is our
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  ministry to the world. That is world evangelization and
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  soul winning. To see to it that we bring many
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  to the saving knowledge of Jesus #2 represents our ministry to
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  the church. That is the equipping and the
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  maturing of believers, transitioning believers from
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  infants until they become witnesses, transitioning
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  believers from infants, baby Christians, as we call them,
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  transitioning them through the various protocol of growth until
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  they become witnesses. And then the third part of the
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  Great Commission is impacting and transforming societies using
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  the value system of the Kingdom. We call it territorial
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  transformation, impacting and transforming society using the
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  value system of the Kingdom. That's where we talk about
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  giving, charity, productivity, technological advancement,
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  economic emancipation, etcetera. The impact of the church as
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  light and salt to society, transforming society, you know,
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  heightening the moral fabric of society and so on and so forth.
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  So generally this is at the core of the believers work.
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  When you understand who you are in Christ, when you come into
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  the knowledge of the riches that you have received through the
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  grace of God, among the many other things that precede that
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  knowledge that proceed as far as your learning is concerned is
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  the Great Commission. And it's important that we get
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  that background. Hallelujah.
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  Now, all three components are very important.
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  All three world evangelization slash soul winning very
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  important. The maturity of the Saints by
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  teaching them doctrine and the principles of the Kingdom until
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  they attain maturity and stature.
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  Inexperience very important. Impacting upon the fabric of
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  society through the value system of the Kingdom.
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  Important but but the second component.
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  The maturity of the Saints, what you call discipleship, is
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  uniquely important because it translates to the health of the
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  first component and the third component, even though it is the
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  second component in order of priority.
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  That means to the degree to which the Saints become matured
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  and attend unto sonship, it will cause for the efficiency of soul
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  winning, because it is still the matured Saints who will do the
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  work of the evangelist, and it is still the.
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  A short Saints who will translate transform society.
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  Are we together now? So it makes the concept of
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  discipleship and the maturity of the Saints uniquely important.
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  I wrote here and I'll read. All three components of the
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  Great Commission, as aforementioned, are important,
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  but the second component, which is discipleship or the maturity
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  of the Saints, is uniquely important because it is the key
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  to being effective in every other aspect of the Great
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  Commission. Failure in equipping, failure in
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  training believers will result in a decline in soul winning.
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  Failure in equipping and training believers will result
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  in a decline in the availability of change agents.
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  That transforms society. Have you understood me so far?
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  So I'm saying that all the three components of the Great
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  Commission, as aforementioned, are important, but the subject
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  of discipleship. Attaining maturity and sonship
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  is uniquely important because to the degree to which the training
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  of believers happens, it will cause for the efficiency of
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  soul. Winning and the efficiency of
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  territorial transformation. Hallelujah.
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  The cure, let me tell you this, the cure to many of the evil and
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  the backwardness in society alongside the poor quality of
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  believers is due to lack of discipleship.
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  That means when you look around a society like Abuja, Nigeria,
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  Africa and the globe, there is an explanation as to the
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  decadence, whether economically, whether morally and so on and so
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  forth. The cure to the many evils that
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  plague society. Do you know, governments across
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  the globe are meeting like never before and trying to decide what
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  to do with men. The more men across the globe,
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  the more trouble everywhere. Are you saying that everybody's
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  tired? I mean, people are tired in
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  church. People are tired around.
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  Teachers are tired because of the kinds of students.
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  Now look at the testimony of the gentleman, a young boy in
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  college, and now he's been introduced to adult content.
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  And this boy, now his mind begins to be polluted and
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  corrupt. Imagine if that man is the
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  chairman of your local government.
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  You see what happens to the people there.
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  Imagine when he becomes a senator.
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  Are we together? Imagine if that man now is the
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  one responsible for recruiting young men.
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  You see that there's already trouble in society.
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  I have told you here that every national problem is first a
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  regional problem that was not dealt with.
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  Nigeria listen to me, or Africa listen to me.
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  Every regional problem is a community problem that was not
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  dealt with. Every community problem is a
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  family problem that was not dealt with.
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  A thief never becomes a national thief.
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  From the first day he steals meat, he steals what you know,
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  whatever it is and goes caught free.
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  He steals cleaners, he raises virus in school, goes caught
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  free. And every time you succeed in
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  evil you are, you are propelled to continue until he becomes a
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  global terrorist, until he becomes a nuisance to people.
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  Is someone learning now? So I'm saying that the evils
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  that have plagued our world today, I mean, that's just like
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  never before. Almost tired of people.
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  I mean, you can find a church with 200 members and the pastor
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  cannot sleep because of trouble from this one beating his wife
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  to this one beating the husband to the children beating their
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  parents. Parents do all kinds of things.
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  This one stealing government money and is in trouble.
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  And they say which church you attend, they now call the pastor
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  and say your member is in prison, You better come and
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  comfort the person. And while you are at that,
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  someone who does not listen and does not understand the secret
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  of victory is now being, I mean you, you can see if we do not
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  solve this problem, eventually government will break down,
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  preachers will break down. Are we together?
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  Law and order will break down and all of that.
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  You ask legal practitioners, well, it's even truly speaking,
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  it's even milder in Africa, Abroad, everything is to the
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  court. Everything is to the court.
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  You smile at someone, they say, why did you smile this way?
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  You're headed to court and say you violated the appearance and
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  all kinds of things. Hallelujah.
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  The cure to many evil, the backwardness.
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  How about someone who siphons the resources that should build
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  a school, the resources that should build the school, the
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  next generation of children. And one man can steal that money
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  without conscience past the school he was supposed to build
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  because his brother was the person in charge of giving the
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  contract. And that person may be a tongue
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  talking Christian. That person may even be a pastor
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  himself and he collects the money and he's give giving tide
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  from it. Isn't that now?
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  And before you know it, you watch the children who should go
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  to school because there's nothing for them to do and their
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  minds are active. That psychological dopamine is
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  there. Then comes terrorist
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  organizations and they say, you know what, you are the kinds of
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  people we are looking for and we next to nothing.
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  They recruit an army of young people and radicalize them who
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  become a nuisance to society. And so it's not enough to just
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  pray and fast. There must be intelligence in
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  analyzing the subject of national transformation.
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  Are we together And human capital development.
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  Listen very carefully. Discipleship.
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  I want to teach something that will be beneficial to us.
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  Every parent, every leader. Please lend me your attention.
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  If you're learning so far, say Amen.
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  Hallelujah. How many of you know that there
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  are many corrupt people who are directly members of churches?
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  Do you agree with me? There are many, most marriages
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  that have all kinds of crises. I hope you know that most of
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  them. Now, please don't feel bad.
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  I'm not just trying to Pierce into your personal affairs, but
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  I'm I'm dealing with a broad subject here, so give me the
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  liberty to be very detailed. You find a man praying in
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  tongues beat his wife and he won't lock himself praying in
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  tongues and he's hurrying going for Bible study and he beat the
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  woman and now others women beat men too.
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  The surprising thing, you know, you would think that meant, Oh
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  yes, this work of ministries like the work of a doctor.
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  I've I've seen there are surprises that I've I've
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  managed. They beat the living daylight
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  out of their husbands. Absolutely not you not you may,
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  God forbid, May God forbid. I'm just saying it.
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  It is on record that it happens. Hallelujah, policies after
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  policies. You go to the Senate, you go to
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  the House. People are trying to deliberate
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  on how to solve the Nigerian problem, the problem of the
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  state. Across Africa you find people
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  trying to solve the problem of crime, the problem of poverty,
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  the problem of education, the problem of of poor and ill
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  prepared people on the pulpit, destroying people's lives in the
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  name of ministry. I mean, you turn left and right
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  and there are all kinds of problems, but I can tell you
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  there is a solution. Say there is a solution, say
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  there is a way out. All right.
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  Now, very quickly, what is discipleship?
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  Many of us have heard the word discipleship, and unfortunately,
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  the model that you saw was so irritating you run away and
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  hated both the process and the word.
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  Let me redefine for you discipleship.
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  We read Matthew 2819 and 20 already, so I will not go back
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  into that. I'm going to give you a series
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  of definitions. And please listen to, learn, and
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  listen to write #1 discipleship. Listen.
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  And then you write. If you're writing while I'm
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  saying it, it will enter your spirit.
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  Just listen to me. And then I teach in a way that
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  is very intentional. Don't worry, you will write.
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  This is a school. Discipleship is the ongoing
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  process, my first definition, the ongoing process of
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  progressively becoming like Christ in thought, in Word, and
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  in actions through the transforming power of the Holy
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  Spirit. The first definition of
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  discipleship again and then you will write discipleship is the
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  ongoing process of progressively becoming like Jesus Christ in
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  thoughts, your thinking, in words, your speaking and in
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  actions through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Now you write, I'll dictate for you and you write.
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  So we said discipleship is the ongoing process.
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  It's not one off, it's not one time, it's not after one week,
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  it's not after one year. Discipleship is the ongoing
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  process of progressively becoming like Jesus Christ in
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  thoughts, becoming like Jesus Christ in words, becoming like
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  Jesus Christ in actions, and that through the transforming
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  power of Jesus Christ. So when you submit to the
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  ongoing process of progressively becoming like Christ, in your
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  thoughts, in your words, and in your actions.
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  Depending on the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, we
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  call that discipleship. You have that down definition #2
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  discipleship, I wrote here, is a lifelong journey.
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  A lifelong journey of spiritual growth, transformation, and
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  conformity to the character of Christ in experience.
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  It is a lifelong journey of spiritual growth, of
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  transformation and conformity to the character of Christ in
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  experience. Second definition.
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  It is a lifelong journey of spiritual growth,
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  transformation, and conformity to the character of the Christ
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  in experience. Definition #3 Discipleship I
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  wrote here, is also the intentional and structured
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  mentoring of believers so that they progressively attain onto
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  maturity and stature. Inexperience, a long one, but
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  I'll take it slowly that discipleship by my third
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  definition is also the intentional and structured
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  mentoring. Take note if you're writing with
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  a pen on the line, intentional and on the line structure.
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  It is also the intentional and structured mentoring of
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  believers so that they progressively attain onto
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  spiritual maturity and stature. Inexperience.
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  Intentional and structured mentoring of believers so that
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  they progressively attain onto spiritual maturity and
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  experience. Do you understand my definition
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  so far #4 I'll give you the 4th definition.
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  Discipleship is building the culture of the Kingdom in
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  believers. Building the culture of the
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  Kingdom in believers titles Chapter 3 from verse one.
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  Building the culture of the Kingdom in believers.
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  It says, put them in mind to be subject to principalities and
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  powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work.
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  Verse 2. To speak evil of no man.
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  Listen now to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness
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  unto all men. Next verse, Let's work together
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  Media. For we ourselves also were
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  sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts
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  and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one
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  another. Reading to 8 verse 4.
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  But after that the kindness and the love of God our Savior
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  towards man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we
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  have done, but according to His mercy.
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  He saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of
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  the Holy Ghost number six, which is shared on us abundantly
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  through Jesus our Savior. 7 It says that being justified by His
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  grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal
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  life. Final read It says, This is a
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  faithful saying. And these things I will that
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  thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God
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  might be careful to maintain good works.
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  These things are good and profitable unto men.
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  Ephesians chapter 5 from verse one and two.
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  Ephesians 5 one and two it says be ye therefore followers of
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  God. NKJV and other modern
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  translators will say be imitators of God as their
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  children. Verse 2 Yes he says be imitators
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  of God, dear children. Then he says, and walk in love.
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  Coronia, are we still here as Christ also loved us and given
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  himself for us and offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet
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  smelling aroma. So I gave you 4 definitions of
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  discipleship. Let me run through them then.
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  We'll now look at a broader picture of discipleship #1 I
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  said discipleship is the ongoing process of progressively
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  becoming like Christ in your thoughts, your words, your
• 44:45
  actions, and that through the transforming power of the Holy
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  Spirit #2 that it is a lifelong journey of spiritual growth,
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  transformation, and conformity to the character of the Christ.
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  In experience #3 we said that discipleship is also the
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  intentional and structured mentoring of believers so that
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  they progressively attain onto spiritual maturity and to
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  stature inexperience #4 We said discipleship is building the
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  culture of the Kingdom in believers now on a broader
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  scale, we're looking at a broader picture now.
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  Discipleship also involves strategically transforming those
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  who will transform territories and nations.
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  When you look at the broader picture of discipleship now, it
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  has to do with transforming those who will eventually
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  transform their territories and transform nations, building
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  those who will be builders, transforming those who will be
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  national transformation agents. It involves strategically
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  transforming those who will transform territories and
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  nations. In other words, building men.
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  So on a broader scale, discipleship is simply about
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  building men. The technical word for it, as we
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  use from a national scale, is human capital development.
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  Human capital development to the degree to which the human
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  capital of every church, every business, every territory, every
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  nation are developed, that is the degree to which they have
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  sufficient manpower to drive anything at all that moves that
• 46:38
  nation, that organization, that territory forward.
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  Some of the finest and the brightest organizations across
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  the globe. Their real edge is not their
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  technology. Their real edge is not all these
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  other things. We celebrate that.
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  They have the gift of good people who have been trained.
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  Are we together what you call the apps?
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  The the the the IT tech giants who build great conglomerates,
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  The tech giants and all their their products.
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  They did not manufacture themselves from the air.
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  They came as a brainchild of faithful people, a nation, a
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  church, a family, a territory that ignores its human capital
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  resource will be a nation, a territory that remains beggarly
• 47:25
  forever. And if the body of Christ
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  ignores the vast army, the potential army, men and women
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  who if trained and when trained, when structurally mentored, can
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  be the tools for soul winning, can be the tools for national
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  transformation. If you, understanding me so far,
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  say Amen. Now, I like you to listen to
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  this very carefully. The church I wrote here is the
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  most reliable institution on earth with the divinely
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  accredited strategy for reforming and transforming men.
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  Let me repeat that. The church is the most reliable
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  institution. It's not the only, but it's the
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  most reliable institution on earth with the divinely
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  accredited strategy for reforming and transforming men.
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  That means there are other institutions, the legal
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  institution, the educational institution.
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  Are we together? We have a lot of other
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  institutions, rehab centers, all kinds of things, therapy
• 48:34
  centers. They are all helping to put
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  people back in place, mentally and otherwise.
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  Schools, universities and all of that.
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  The police, law enforcement, agents, all together.
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  But I'm saying where the court fails, the church has a
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  solution. Where the police and the
• 48:54
  military fail, the church has a solution.
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  Are we together where therapy and all kinds of mental work
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  fail, The church is the most reliable institution on earth
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  with a divinely accredited strategy for reforming and
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  transforming men. All this is powerful.
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  This is powerful Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We are not ordinary. It is beyond just falling down
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  and getting up is beyond just nice salmons.
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  We are truly a solution no matter what fails anywhere else.
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  It is only in the church you will hear of the dead being
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  raised. It's only in the church you will
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  hear of growth disappearing. It's only in the church you will
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  hear that someone was a drunkard overnight without withdrawing
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  self withdrawal symptoms. By the next day that person has
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  loved the Lord with all his heart.
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  It's only in the Bible you hear of Saul becoming Paul.
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  It's only in the Bible you will hear a vast array of mighty
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  manifestations that a woman can lock herself with oil and jars
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  and by the time she comes out, she's ready to be free from
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  death. The church is no ordinary
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  institution. It is the most accredited
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  institution on earth by heaven. As far as providing the solution
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  for reforming and transforming men.
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  I'll tell you this, the secular world, and they are right on
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  that as per what they believe and with respect to their
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  convictions, they believe that educating the human brain and
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  mind, it is the noblest thing you can do in helping anyone to
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  live a meaningful life. And from a secular standpoint,
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  that is right, that is correct because ignorance is a cancer
• 50:40
  that destroys your potential to be intuitive, to be creative and
• 50:44
  so on and so forth. But I wrote something here that
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  educating the human mind alone cannot produce a reformed and a
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  transformed people. Now, I do not downplay education
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  at any level, formally or informally.
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  Now we together, now we invest heavily in helping people to get
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  educated. But I will tell you this,
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  educating the human mind alone may produce an intelligent
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  person as far as quantitative and qualitative reasoning is
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  concerned, but it is not enough to produce a reformed and a
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  transformed people. There are professors in prison,
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  with all due respect, there are lawyers in prison, there are
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  politicians in prison. These people are not uneducated.
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  I hope you know that organized terrorism is based on high level
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  intelligence. You ask the military, they will
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  tell you no dull person can be a terrorist transcontinentally.
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  You must understand diplomatics, You must understand
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  administration, leadership. Are we together?
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  You must understand the rules of engagement.
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  So it is not for lazy and ignorant people at all.
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  Corruption at an institutional level.
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  You can't do it if you are dull. You will need to be in the
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  system, understand the ropes, then manipulate it, whether it's
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  in banking, whether it's in politics.
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  Who is learning tonight? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So I'm saying educating the human mind alone cannot produce
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  a transformed and a reformed people.
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  Except of course, if the curriculum where the school or
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  the institution is using is founded upon the Word of God.
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  Is the reason why I'm praying without any bias or sentiments,
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  that in the name of Jesus God will raise people who will build
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  academic curricula. Are we together that is hinged
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  on the Word of God that does not produce fanatics, but that it
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  produces reformed, transformed people who transform societies.
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  Now I tell you this and and I don't have any statistics to
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  prove it. I'm just using my instincts and
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  I think I'm right. Find out people who had the
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  privilege of going to mission schools early, real mission
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  school especially. With all due respect, I
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  apologize not to offend anybody, but with respect to core
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  Orthodox mission schools, Catholic schools, Anglican
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  schools, evangelical schools, are we together?
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  Most people who had that background, I tell you, even
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  when they get stubborn in the future, there's still a seed of
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  the world that was planted in them.
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  They will be prodigal people for years, but eventually they will
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  return back. Even if they do not acknowledge
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  the law, they still have conscience.
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  Now I'm not saying public schools are bad, don't get me
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  wrong. I'm saying there is a real
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  advantage. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Yes, I have seen children even till now who had the privilege
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  of going to schools that are exceptional, are excellent, and
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  then founded upon Christian principles.
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  There are universities across the globe today.
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  I don't want to begin to mention names.
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  The the the basis of their success was that the core value
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  system, the modus operandi that guided them and still guides
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  them today is founded upon the word of God.
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  You may not see a chapter and a verse, but it is an extract of
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  the principles that are consistent with the word of God.
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  There are organizations today that may not acknowledge them.
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  You will not see anything vast this chapter this but that there
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  is a down a download the leaders translated the wisdom from
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  Scripture and turned them into policies that drive the
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  operation of that society. Are we together?
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  Let me tell you this their parents.
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  It is wonderful to educate your child, but it's important to
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  verify what they are learning. Especially in the days that we
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  live in now. There are children, young
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  children under 10, because of sometimes the poisonous, subtle
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  subliminal indoctrinations they get, whether from cartoons,
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  whether from online content. And then, you know, sometimes
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  unfortunately from schools, there are young children whose
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  destruction started from the model their teachers gave them.
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  Are we together by the time? With all due respect to your
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  convictions, a teacher stands in front of a school and is smoking
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  and doing all of that. The young people look on to them
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  and before you know a teenagers, young people with all their
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  hormones running up and down, they are looking for how to
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  experiment and that's how they start and become a disaster to
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  society. Do you know why it is so if you
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  are not interested in it? A child who becomes bad will
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  hurt your child who is good because your child who is good
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  is not interested in fighting. But when he lives in a world
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  together with a stubborn child who likes fighting, one day you
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  will hear that your child is dead because you taught him to
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  be a peacemaker versus somebody who was taught that you fight
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  and kill. So tonight's message, don't say
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  it does not concern me. Eventually it will find its way
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  to your corridor. You can be a righteous man like
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  what's his name who followed Abraham Lot and be in Sodom and
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  Gomorrah. You may lose your wife and you
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  may lose your daughters. Not for anything you committed,
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  but because the territory is so depraved.
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  It's not enough to be saved. As an individual, you must be
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  interested in territorial transformation.
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  Is someone learning now? Elohim Madonnai, your Kingdom
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  come, your will be done. Elohim Madonnai, your will be
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  done. Hallelujah.
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  Most of the problems in homes, most of the problems in
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  marriages, most of the problems in the political space, most of
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  the problems in the workplace, most of the problems on the
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  pulpit, the headache we are going through.
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  US men of God mostly are connected to discipleship or the
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  absence of it. I tell you this with all due
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  respect, by the time a young man just gets up and believes, not
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  trained, not disciple, does not love the Lord, he just had that.
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  Pastors have a way of getting money.
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  For instance, are we together? And the young guy tries, he
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  submits his CV to NMPC, he doesn't get a job.
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  He submits his CV to Civil Defense, he doesn't get a job,
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  he tries around. Someone just advises him and say
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  you will sit and rot here. You can sing, you can preach.
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  And the gentleman just gets up and starts a church and
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  everybody he's looking for equals to an offering based on
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  his orientation. Are we together now?
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  And you find out that all kinds of things happen on the pulpit
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  that and the the danger is that when it happens, it rubs off on
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  everybody, both the good and the bad.
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  Or with all due respect, again, when I say this, I love my
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  nation, but certain truths have to be admitted.
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  There are passports around the world.
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  When you carry today, no matter how good you are, as soon as you
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  stand on the line, you are a suspect already.
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  Hallelujah. You watch somebody looking like
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  a criminal, but because of the passport he's holding, he will
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  pass and go free. But simply, no matter, even if
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  you are praying in tongues as you are holding the passport,
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  they will say, wait, where are you coming from?
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  Join this line and they'll say where are you coming from?
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  What do you want to come and do here?
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  I mean, it's like they've interpreted.
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  I'm not saying it for myself, but then when you are helping
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  the body of Christ, you see what is the percentage of those who
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  have the leverage of relationships to help them scale
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  these bottlenecks. A.
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  Reformed people, a transformed people, will not only produce a
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  healthy Kingdom, healthy witnesses, but it will translate
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  to a Great Society. Look at me, I'll give you an
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  example. How many of you know that if a
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  man who is born again and was trained by a good pastor and
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  taught to respect the word of God, now he gets married, that
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  man is going to live out is not beauty and looks that run a
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  home. It is the mindset of the people
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  there. Most likely, most likely that
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  man will not hurt his wife if he's discipled.
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  Most likely are we together? That man will not watch his
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  children and say go to your neighbor's house and go and eat
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  because a scripture will judge his heart that if you fail to
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  take care of your own, you have denied the faith.
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  But a man who has not been discipled, even if he was barely
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  saved, what do you think he'll do when his wife annoys him?
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  Are we together now? What do you think will happen
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  when his children are changing? He just wants them around.
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  What are you doing in this church thing?
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  I hear you inquire choir for what?
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  Stay at home. And the child remains at home.
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  And he says, what do I do now? And the devil tells him you have
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  Internet, you can watch pornography.
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  And the child begins this or starts learning Yahoo, what?
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  I call it fraud Yahoo Plus because he's idle.
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  And now because a man does not understand the value of
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  transformation, for instance, and that boy right in his room
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  in one year, Do you know there are many parents?
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  And I've spoken to those who are involved in children ministry.
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  A woman was talking to me about a shocking statistics.
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  Young children whose parents have no idea what they have
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  become. While the parents, they come
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  home and they greet, they wear a long cloth that reaches the
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  ground and they are nice people. And the parents, while they are
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  thinking these are wonderful children, you have no idea what
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  they have become. Some of them have become
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  cultists. Some of them at young ages,
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  they've already been exposed to things that they should not be
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  exposed to. If the church keeps quiet, we're
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  going to produce a disaster. A man who does not fear God will
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  become a governor who does not fear God.
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  A man who does not fear God will become a pastor who does not
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  fear God. A man who does not fear God will
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  become a senator who does not fear God.
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  Are we together? A man that did not take care of
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  his father and his mother? Is it his local government he
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  will take care of? Please talk to me, believers,
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  when your father and your mother, you did not take care of
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  the person you're talking of a local government.
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  I said no, I'm I'm here to eat. I'm like a hand that has put my
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  head on the ground until I'm satisfied, I will not lift it
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  up. Believers, are we learning a man
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  of God who has not been taught that ministry is not all about
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  titles and money and cars and houses, with all due respect,
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  may not have the time to raise and build these people.
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  What is your business with the people?
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  You are using them as ladders. You are interested in fame, You
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  are interested in whatever it is.
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  I came in from Lagos this afternoon and I was talking with
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  someone and the person said appos, you are coming to preach
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  this night, are you going to have the energy to preach?
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  I said me, I'm like a child that has taken sugar.
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  You know what children do when when they take sugar and run
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  around and not let you sleep? No, until my work is done.
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  I've trained myself even if you put a bed for me now, I will not
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  sleep the the scriptures that will come out and I will give
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  you pastors after my heart. Peter, lovest thou me more than
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  this? Feed my lamb.
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  He won't let me sleep. I'm being sincere with you.
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  Talk less of manipulating members to say, give me more.
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  You see what I've been doing? I prophesied to you.
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  I hear you are now a senator. You've not come to greet me, you
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  know, and all of that. And then?
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  No, no, no, no, no, not at all. Listen, Conscience does not come
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  from the sky. It is engineered based on a
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  standard. Is somebody learning this now?
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  Every problem has a root and every man is guided by
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  something. If you are not guided by the
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  Word of God, you will become a disaster to yourself and to
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  others. A man who does not pay his
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  chance school fees and is a pastor or a Deacon in church.
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  With all due respect now, I speak from a standpoint of love.
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  You know me when I speak. I don't speak to be sarcastic.
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  No, we are solving problems here, not revealing flaws for a
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  man who does not take care of his child.
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  I've told you with all due respect, and I I say that with a
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  heavy heart. There are many of our children
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  by the mercies of God, some of these children, we took care of
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  them right from primary school or secondary school, primary
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  school to university. Their fathers are alive and they
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  have never found out who raised my child is when it's time to
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  collect dowry. You see it now, the man will say
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  you better come and see your father before.
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  Your father is not just the one who gave birth to you, the one
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  who revealed God to you and disciplined you and raised you.
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  That is your father who is learning.
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  So most of the problems there are very painful things I don't
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  want to go into right now because they are torchy matters,
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  but they are connected directly. The misbehavior.
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  Every time you see a widespread bad behavior in homes, on the
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  pulpit, there are ill trained people.
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  They've not learned the law of honor.
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  Have you seen young men like that?
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  They woke up to elders, serious discussions.
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  Maybe their parents are wealthy people, with all due respect.
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  And you find a young boy coming, tapping the shoulders of elderly
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  people. I want to talk to you.
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  You just see lack of training. You know that this boy has not
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  been cultured. Charity does not begin at home.
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  Oh, because many bad things begin at home.
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  Charity begins when you open the world and find out what is there
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  and begin to build your life on the world.
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  Is someone learning? Now listen to this discipleship.
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  I said. Most of the problems in homes,
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  most of the problems in the workspace, most of the problems
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  in the political space, in marriages, even on the pulpit
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  can be corrected. Or this is a word of hope.
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  It's a word of hope for the church.
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  It's a word of hope for society. No matter what you think is
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  happening on the pulpit, no matter what you think is
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  happening across society, I'm telling you, there is a way out.
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  It can be corrected through the power of discipleship.
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  Now listen to this. Discipleship can benefit anyone,
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  whether you are saved or unsaved.
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  But Bible discipleship is only most profitable to believers,
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  those who have received salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  I'll read that again. It's a very important point.
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  I hope you are learning tonight. I said discipleship can benefit
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  anyone because the Bible said disciple nations, not just the
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  church alone. So there is an element of
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  discipleship that can benefit anyone, saved or unsaved.
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  Teaching people moral values, teaching people honor.
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  You see that now, only that they don't have the empowerment to
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  leave it out, but they can be aware of it.
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  Discipleship can benefit anyone, whether saved or unsaved.
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  However, Bible discipleship is only most profitable to
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  believers. That means those who have
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  received salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  Anyone can benefit from the general idea of discipleship.
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  Companies train people. That's discipleship.
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  Are we together? There are programs that
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  governments across the nation put in place to train people.
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  Corporations train people. Government parastatals train
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  people. That's an aspect of
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  discipleship. But Bible discipleship is only
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  most profitable to believe us, those who have received the gift
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  of salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  Now listen to this. An unbeliever needs salvation
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  first before discipleship. Remember, we've agreed in this
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  house that the greatest need of an unbeliever is salvation.
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  The greatest need of a believer is enlightenment,
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  transformation. The greatest need of a
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  transformed believer is empowerment.
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  An unbeliever needs salvation before transformation.
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  Now, I liken salvation to the operating system in a computer.
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  Hallelujah. Before you begin to talk of
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  whatever it is, a laptop, a computer, a device that does not
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  have an operating system that runs its program is as good as
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  dead. That's how salvation is.
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  Are we together now trying to put in programs in that computer
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  without first verifying whether there's an operating system?
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  That's how salvation is. You need to get God in the
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  people first before you talk of transformation.
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  Because without the Spirit of God, the capacity to truly be
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  transformed, Bible's way is not there.
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  Because transformation is by the Spirit and it is through the
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  world. Again, transformation is by the
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  Spirit and through the world. It's not just the the receiving
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  of most superior ideas through transformation.
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  Reformation is by the Spirit and through the world.
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  Now there are two major aspects of discipleship.
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  Who is learning so far? Discipleship, as defined now has
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  two major aspects. And I want you to pay attention
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  right now. There are two major aspects of
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  discipleship #1 in many books and references you will see some
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  of you who may care to study various materials is generally
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  agreed that there's what we call knowledge based discipleship.
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  Knowledge dash based discipleship.
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  What does that mean? This is the first aspect of
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  discipleship, or the first dimension of discipleship,
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  knowledge based discipleship. This is becoming like Christ by
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  contending for a sound superior knowledge of scripture, becoming
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  like Christ by contending for a sound superior knowledge of
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  Scripture, becoming like Christ by contending for a sound
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  superior knowledge of scripture. This talks about the journey of
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  enlightenment that comes through structured knowledge of God's
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  Word. So you get to know about God.
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  You get to know what the Bible says is called knowledge based
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  discipleship. There is no true disciple of
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  Jesus who is a disciple in ignorance.
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  Your journey to discipleship starts by knowing what the Bible
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  says. The Bible says ye search the
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  scripture for in them you think you will find life.
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  It says the scripture testify of me in as much as you will meet
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  Jesus eventually, but you have to understand what the Bible
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  says. I'll tell you this ladies and
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  gentlemen, this is my Bible. There are many believers and
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  this is a very shocking fact. Church goers, the only time they
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  interact with the Bible is when a someone has been preached and
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  they said turn to the book of this aside that from Sunday to
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  Sunday, some have there are preachers with all due respect,
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  they have never read by their Bible cover to cover.
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  It's funny. It's like someone who wants to
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  be called a professor of medicine and he's never read any
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  medical textbook or has just browse pages and then he tells
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  you lie down for a delicate brain surgery.
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  Is that how you hate your destiny?
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  Are we together or someone who believes or purports to be a
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  consultant gynecologist or you know, a nurse, a midwife and
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  comes to say wants to help your wife deliver.
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  And he said, So what is the basis of this confidence?
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  And the person tells you, well you know what I browse online
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  how to help a woman give birth, You say, not my wife.
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  One try to someone else first. Are we together knowledge based
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  discipleships? So the Word of God alongside
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  ward compliant materials, the Word of God alongside word
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  compliant materials are used to acquire or transfer spiritual
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  knowledge about God and his ways.
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  This is the first aspect of discipleship that has to do with
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  acquiring knowledge, learning the Bible.
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  So you will find someone who is very enlightened.
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  He knows what the Bible says when you are mentioning
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  salvation and the plan of salvation.
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  He has that orientation when you are mentioning walking in love,
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  living by faith. That person has so understood
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  the word of God now. But I'll tell you this,
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  knowledge based discipleship is profitable, but if you stop
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  there, you will never truly reflect the character of the
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  Christ because there are many people who have the knowledge
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  they have Bible, an example, the scribes and the Pharisees.
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  Did you know that among the many requirements, stringent
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  requirements to be called a Pharisee was that you had to
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  know the entire Torah, the five books of Moses of heart.
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  Can you imagine that that you literally.
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  So those guys were landed colleagues.
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  They were people who were intelligent at a level that was
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  superior. Paul was one of such people.
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  You can see because he already had a memory Bank of scripture.
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  It was easy for the Holy Ghost to use that content, rearrange
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  it, and turn him into a cotton edge Apostle.
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  Knowledge is important. The Word of God alongside Word
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  compliant materials I used to acquire or transfer spiritual
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  knowledge and the understanding of God and His ways.
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  The second aspect of discipleship, and this is the
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  one that is grossly lacking in the church today.
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  This aspect of discipleship is grossly lacking in the body of
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  Christ is called lifestyle based discipleship.
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  Lifestyle based discipleship, What does that mean?
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  Deciding to adopt the culture and the lifestyle of the Kingdom
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  as demonstrated by Jesus. Deciding to adopt.
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  I use the word decide because it is an act of your will.
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  You are empowered by grace, but your will has to cooperate with
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  that grace. Deciding to adopt the culture
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  and the lifestyle of the Kingdom as demonstrated by Jesus and
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  then replicating that lifestyle through the enablement of the
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  Spirit. Lifestyle based discipleship.
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  Deciding as an act of your will to adopt the culture, the value
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  system if you care, and the lifestyle of the Kingdom as
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  demonstrated by Jesus, and then replicating that lifestyle
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  through the enablement of the Spirit is someone learning What
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  is lifestyle based Discipleship? Growing into a lifestyle of
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  obedience. Write that down.
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  Growing into a lifestyle of obedience and surrender that
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  reflects the life of Christ. Growing into a lifestyle.
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  It doesn't happen in one day, but you are growing
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  progressively into a lifestyle of obedience and surrender.
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  Underline those two words. You are never a true disciple of
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  Jesus Christ if you do not understand obedience and
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  surrender. What else is the is lifestyle
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  based discipleship? Living out the fruit of the
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  spirit inexperience Living out the fruit of the spirit
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  inexperience. 2 Aspects of discipleship Knowledge based
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  discipleship Acquiring relevant knowledge of scripture so that
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  you are enlightened. You understand the doctrine of
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  Scripture, but that is not enough to change your character.
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  Are we together? There are many, many
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  knowledgeable people in the body of Christ who are wicked.
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  There are many knowledgeable people in the body of Christ who
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  have no manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit whatsoever,
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  whether in business, whether as pastors, are we together?
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  So knowledge is important, but it's not enough to transform you
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  by itself. I'll tell you this, lifestyle,
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  today's discipleship is beyond character modification.
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  We're not talking of lifestyle modification.
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  So you tell someone, you know what?
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  Don't drink again, don't steal her.
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  Don't don't look at women or don't look at men.
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  No, that is, you are not. We're not talking about
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  lifestyle modification. Once you are not in Christ, once
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  you are not transformed, that life itself is called the flesh.
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  Are we together now? What you need is not a lifestyle
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  modification. What you need is an overhauling
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  of the whole, the old man, and to put on the new man, which is
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  renewed in the spirit of your mind.
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  It is a complete change of lifestyle and behavior to
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  reflect the values of Christ. It is a complete change of
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  lifestyle and behavior to reflect the value of Christ.
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  I'll tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, and I say this with
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  every humility, when it has to do with lifestyle, discipleship,
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  ah, there are no masters there yet.
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  Everybody's progressively growing in it.
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  It is in this area that you don't make mouth too much
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  because someone will know you and before you know it, you've
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  carried your hand like that and you just remember that.
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  Listen, I shouldn't be doing this.
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  It's a journey. It's a journey especially when
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  you become a leader. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  When you become a leader, you will almost run yourself mad
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  with the headache of the bad behavior of people.
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  Satan, just use these people to test your patience, to test
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  whatever it is. Hallelujah.
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  There's a man of God. History has it that when he
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  died, he lived for Jesus. He loved the Lord and did his
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  best. But when he died, they found out
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  that he was involved in drugs, not drugs.
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  I think because of the stress of ministry, he had to use a lot of
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  drugs. You see that?
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  And nobody knew until he died and they investigated and they
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  found out that this was what was happening behind the scenes.
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  Let me tell you this, becoming like Christ, even with the
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  enablement of the Spirit, you would die daily.
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  You would die daily. Many people are not honest in
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  church. And men of God, the more honest
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  we become, the freer we become. Because when we lie to people
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  and give them some kind of God like impression, the day they
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  catch you angry they say, but the fruit of the Spirit is and
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  on that day you have no explanation.
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  So it's not to claim weakness, but it's better to be honest, to
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  let the people know that this is a progressive journey.
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  Some have already gone farther than others, but we are all
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  together looking onto Jesus Christ.
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  Are we together now? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So the second aspect, the lifestyle based discipleship.
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  This really, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the
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  greatest challenges in the church today.
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  I wrote here and I want you to listen.
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  The church is full of many believers with deep and
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  sometimes high sounding spiritual knowledge, but our
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  lifestyle is in many regards hardly a reflection of a true
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  Christian. It's true.
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  It's an honest admission you say, I say we.
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  This is not something to point hands at people.
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  Hallelujah, someone said one day, I love you so much opposed
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  to Joshua, Sam and I Look at the gentleman.
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  I said you love what you see on stage.
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  Have you seen me when I'm hungry?
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  Have you seen me when I'm hungry?
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  Have you seen me when network is not working?
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  Have you have are we together and it's easy for men of God to
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  wear this this garment of lies and sometimes come and deceive
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  people and then they can look through you and they can see
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  that the anger is still there. Then we find a scripture to say
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  no, it's the Holy Ghost that it's just it's not the zeal of
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  the Lord. Sir lifestyle best discipleship.
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  You can be a preacher and still remain a student.
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  You are not supposed to graduate yourself in the school of the
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  Spirit simply because you are now holding a mic.
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  Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, listen.
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  Let's not deceive ourselves as we minister to God's people.
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  We must remain students too. When you focus on ministry more
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  than your growth, you will keep embarrassing yourself on the
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  pulpit because your lack of transformation will become
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  obvious to all. Some of this anger, this
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  jealousy, that we spiritualize it and make it look like it's
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  the Holy Ghost causing it. It's a lie.
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  Oh, it's lack of transformation. Are we together?
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  Somebody was telling me that a man of God was holding a program
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  and he stood and said, why are people not transported?
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  He said they should, you know, they should get free transport.
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  I don't know if it was a joke. I was a, you know, and then the
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  committee said, all right, they now brought the budget and
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  showed the man the budget to transport the people.
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  He said, we need to be like Christ transport these people,
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  don't let them walk around like this.
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  So the people said, truly, thank God, you're a Good Shepherd as
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  they brought the budget and the man looked at it, he said, what
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  is this? He said, no, no, no.
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  A committee of intelligent people came with this.
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  So don't think somebody's taking anyone mirror when the man
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  started insulting, using words you cannot imagine.
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  You think I am this and that and this and that.
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  And I was yelling at the leaders and they were saying yes Sir,
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  sorry Sir. And you know God is so merciful
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  because you can finish that nonsense from your office.
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  And as soon as you stand here, people are shouting under the
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  anointing and you will make a mistake of thinking that
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  performance under the anointing is proof that you have graduated
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  in the school of the Spirit. I can tell you there is
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  something I've learnt about God. You can be God can be dealing
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  with your issues and then suspended for you to go and
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  preach once he will back you up with power miracles.
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  Once he's done, he's OK. Let's go back this anger.
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  You know you are you are there's jealousy working.
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  But because you have a conference tomorrow morning,
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  let's suspend the training. Go and minister in that
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  conference. And sometimes once you are
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  ministering with old Jesus Christ, look at this man, look
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  at this. And God is watching what he's
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  saying is finished and come and meet me.
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  But you know what happens to many of us because of quoting
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  Scripture. Once we finish, rather than
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  returning back, we go and climb where the spotlight is and we
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  raise our hands and God keeps warning you and says, if I don't
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  prune you, a day will come. You will fall before the whole
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  world and he's saying before you embarrass yourself, let me deal
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  with you now before you expand and go global.
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  This anger, this lost, this greed.
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  You can kill for money. I will not disgrace you because
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  you are my shepherd. You see, the thing about God is
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  that he's the Father. He will rebuke and yet cover.
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  It's only you and him that will know.
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  What's that Doctor Paul and Anchor song?
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  Sing it for me. Powerful song with you, Lord.
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  Far afoul that is why. Sing it one more time.
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  Listen and I love the body of Christ.
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  Please listen to me. I tell you why many people get
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  into all kinds of troubles when they are up there.
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  Something happens in their aside from demonic attacks, most of
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  them what is destroying their lives and with all due respect,
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  their ministries is a school of the spirit, a class in the
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  school of the spirit that they jumped.
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  You know, in the secular you can jump a class and read it up and
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  write the exam and even get a in the school of the spirit, the
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  class you jump, even if it's after 30 years, it will haunt
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  you. When Satan comes to your life,
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  he verifies what class you jumped in the spirit through
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  pride, through an arrival mentality.
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  Listen, this thing about God, there's no big man there in his
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  presence. We are all children.
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  We roll before him and said, Lord, show me mercy.
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  If you have made my life a model enough, help me.
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  There is no man who is too big to fall.
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  There is no man who is too big to fail.
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  Even Jesus almost missed out on redemption.
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  Jesus, the pain of the cross. He said, Father, if it be your
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  will, let's renegotiate this. Sing that song for me one more
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  time with you, Lord. I can be naked and not a shame.
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  Look at me. Your liberty in the Spirit
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  begins the day you realize that if God does not help you, help
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  cannot arise for you anywhere. And in doing that you have to
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  remove the regalia of apostle, of prophet or preacher.
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  Are we together now? There's something I know about
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  God. He will never raise you to drop
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  you down, except you come. You jump out of His hand because
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  men are clapping for you, and then one day you will crash like
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  a pack of card. The church is full of many
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  believers with deep spiritual knowledge.
• 1:28:30
  They can preach until you bring the issue of money.
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  This is not a pastor's conference and there are some
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  things I should not tell you here.
• 1:28:40
  There are some things you cannot say in the open because when you
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  study ministry, ethics, he says, little children, I write to you.
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  Little children, I write to you, young men, I write to you
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  fathers. Maybe a man of God should listen
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  to me. Now let me do ministry one O 1.
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  There are letters that are for fathers, There are letters that
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  are for young men. There are letters that are for
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  children. No matter what level in the
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  spirit, there is a letter for you.
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  The problem is you don't read the letter of fathers to
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  children. There are some things they
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  should not see. Are we together now?
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  If you are a leader, it is not every matter in your
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  organization that you discuss with everybody.
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  I write these things to you children.
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  But there is a one I write to you, young man, but there is a
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  one I write to you the way God deals with a child.
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  A child come back naked. There's no shame because it's a
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  child. It's not even a way of what to
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  cover are we together? But when he gets to a young man,
• 1:29:43
  he has energy, but he's self-conscious.
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  He now says I can't bath with my sister again.
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  And you understand but there is a father.
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  When you see an adult walking naked, you call the person a mad
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  person, but you can't call a child walking naked a mad child.
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  Are we together now? So I'm teaching you this is
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  ministry or we're not doing ministry now, but maybe this is
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  a word for a man of God. It is not every issue in the
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  body of Christ. You say in the open and you tell
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  everybody you are not covering. It is wisdom.
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  I write to you young man, and this is some of these young guys
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  in ministry who are ill trained. They don't understand that there
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  is a protocol, everything to be said.
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  They just said you bring this honor to the body of Christ.
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  There are issues that should be dealt as the church.
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  It preserves the honor and the sanctity of the church.
• 1:30:38
  Are we together now? When he said to Peter, get deep
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  behind me, he did not tell him. I'm not sure.
• 1:30:48
  I've not read it again. Well, but I don't think he said
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  it to everybody when he was meeting with Nicodemus.
• 1:30:53
  Nicodemus came by night. He would have said, you're a
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  stupid man, come to my crusade, let everybody see you.
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  No, he dealt with him when he was going to the House of
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  Zacchaeus. He says, Zacchaeus, you are a
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  great man. Let's go to your house.
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  There are things I want to tell you.
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  What it cannot be in public is someone learning.
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  This is wisdom for the body of Christ.
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  Noah drank wine and he became naked and slept.
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  When his sons came and saw their father's nakedness, 2 of them
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  were laughing and they called the other brothers.
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  They said come and see the nakedness of your father.
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  And one saw it and said what is this?
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  He took a garment and went behind and covered.
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  When Noah got up even though he drank he crossed the sons.
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  He said his servant of servant shall you be.
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  I can tell you this. The thing you are thinking you
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  have seen in the life of fathers and men of God.
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  You are not the only one seeing it.
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  Every other person has seen it too.
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  But you see, there are people only God can talk to.
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  We'll leave it for pastors conference.
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  This is this is this is discipleship is someone
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  learning? Now I'll go around showing
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  ignorance. No, I write.
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  Listen, I write these things to you little children.
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  There is a letter for children. Fathers can read the letter of
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  children. They are the ones who even
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  deliver it. I write these things to you
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  young men. You've been in ministry for 1020
• 1:32:34
  years. Let me tell you this, I've not
• 1:32:36
  been in ministry for too long. But when you see the fathers,
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  keep quiet, wait till you get to certain levels.
• 1:32:43
  It's easy to be a commentator when you are not doing anything.
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  I don't know why I digress like this.
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  Oh, this man is greedy. This man is wicked.
• 1:32:50
  This man likes money. Don't worry, the day 1000 people
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  tell you, please pay the school fees of our children, you will
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  know the value of wealth. Are we together?
• 1:33:02
  Having traveled around the world a bit, holding global
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  conferences, doing a lot of things.
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  My brother, my sister, let me tell you, there are many
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  sermons, many people are preaching.
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  Now let them grow a little more. They will repent 1000 times,
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  1000 times. Sing that song one more time
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  with you, Lord. Don't get me wrong, I'm not
• 1:33:51
  endorsing licentiousness, never will I, but I'm just telling you
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  until you get to certain levels bar just keep your mouth shut.
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  The day somebody gives you 10 billion, are we together 100
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  billion? And he says all I want you to do
• 1:34:10
  is sign this, sign that and you will change your destiny
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  forever. That's the first time you ask
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  you only oh God, I would give up everything.
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  How much is in your bank account?
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  Don't worry. The day someone kidnaps your
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  child and say change this policy or we'll kill your child
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  tomorrow. That's the day you know whether
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  you are really a Christian or not for money, you can resist
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  it. But the day you hear the voice
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  of your child on phone, Daddy, help me and I say manipulate
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  this result or we will slaughter your child.
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  That's the day you are standing before justice as the word of
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  God demands, and you are standing before your child.
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  It's easy to resist money. You don't even need to be born
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  again. But when it is your child, your
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  wife, Look, let me tell you ladies and gentlemen here what
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  I'm telling you. There are letters that are for
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  fathers. This is not my teaching.
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  If you see me do this thing, it's the Holy Spirit.
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  There are letters that are for young men.
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  Let me speak to the young men, especially of my generation.
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  I will say it again. You don't know what it means to
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  enter the shoes of these fathers.
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  Some of us, if we were to drive that car, will not reach one
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  year. Our pride will kill us.
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  You know what it means to have presidents as sons, ministers of
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  economy as sons, and still maintain your integrity.
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  No Sir, No Sir. You told lies because of house
• 1:35:37
  rent and you want to be trusted with access to the program of
• 1:35:42
  God. No.
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  Are we together? That's why the older people get
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  the most silence. They are these young people that
• 1:35:53
  shout anyhow and just talk. What is them parenting?
• 1:35:57
  You can raise good children and you see a woman who has been
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  married for 40 years, my son, take it easy.
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  No, I I mean, I have an app that teaches you whatever continue
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  someone gets married for five, just five months and is advising
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  everybody. So what is hard in the thing
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  now? Why is all this and someone say
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  hey, be careful, be careful, let's get back to our teaching,
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  let's get back to our teaching. It is easy to be a commentator
• 1:36:40
  when you are not doing anything serious.
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  Hallelujah. Where did we stop bad and unruly
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  behaviors among pastors, leaders, A largely a direct
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  absence of discipleship. Let me come home now a bit.
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  And when I speak, I don't speak with a sense of self
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  righteousness. I say all of us.
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  I'm not ashamed though as a man of God, I'm not ashamed to grow.
• 1:37:16
  I threw away that pride long time ago, long time ago.
• 1:37:21
  I rather be right with Jesus than be right before men and
• 1:37:25
  fail with him. He knows my heart.
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  Stealing and corruption among Christians largely a product of
• 1:37:39
  lack of discipleship. How about hatred?
• 1:37:43
  How about envy? Hi, do you know ladies and
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  gentlemen, I I spoke with someone I think so a few weeks
• 1:37:49
  ago and he was lamenting over an issue when I got to hear the
• 1:37:54
  schemings that happened in his office.
• 1:37:57
  Do you know over 7 people out of the eight that skimmed that
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  thing against him? They were serious Christians.
• 1:38:06
  About three were his church members.
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  It is it is something that will Pierce your heart if I tell you
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  and you wander and see these things happen in church.
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  Yes Sir, it was not a stranger that kissed Jesus, it was Judas.
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  It was not a stranger that killed the first person in the
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  Bible, it was a brother. I'm not teaching you to be
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  judgmental. I'm just telling you that God
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  needs to help us. The real secret of societal and
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  national transformation is not just in electing leaders, as
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  wonderful as that is, I wrote here.
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  It is a massive emergence of reformed and transformed people.
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  Let me tell you this, I believe in the power of leadership, but
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  I do not believe that any single entity alone sustains the power
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  to transform any organizational society.
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  No, you can create the environment, that is correct.
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  Are we together? You can protect the policies,
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  that is correct, but it will take transformed people in mass,
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  not rebels, to transform society.
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  Now discipleship, I wrote here, must capture certain teachings
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  or elements or else it can become a religious ritual and
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  even put believers in in danger, in bondage.
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  Now I'm balancing something very quickly.
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  I hope we're learning so far. If you're learning, say Amen.
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  I need to know you are receiving.
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  If you're learning, shout Amen. So I wrote here that
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  discipleship must capture certain teachings or elements or
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  else it can become a religious ritual and even put believers in
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  bondage. I'm sorry to say this, but there
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  are many things we call discipleship in the body of
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  Christ that is not Bible discipleship, it's bondage.
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  People have been tied down with religious ropes and kept in
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  bondage, putting pressure on believers to adopt the behavior
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  of a pastor. Putting pressure on believers to
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  adopt the behavior of a church, putting pressure on believers to
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  try to attain holiness and righteousness through human
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  efforts does not translate to Bible discipleship, it is true.
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  Are we together now? Yes.
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  Discipleship is beyond looking like a man of God.
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  With all due respect, the discipleship is beyond just
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  conforming to the tenants of a church, as much as that is
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  important. It is rather becoming like
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  Christ in experience. I wrote here that discipleship
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  is also not about making slaves out of people in an attempt to
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  appease the standards that are set by men.
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  I need to balance this. Sometimes our pride in the body
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  of Christ makes us to stand as references and standards.
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  Are we together and then we create a template.
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  If you don't look like me, you are not like Christ.
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  We need to be careful now. It should be so that a man can
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  walk with God and attend onto a standard where your life is such
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  a model that should be and truly there are people whose lives are
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  like that. Quite an impressive model.
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  There are fathers whose lives are quite an impressive model
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  worthy of emulation. In as much as they are men.
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  They have attained on to a standard of Christ like
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  character that is worth emulating.
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  But the goal is to be like Christ and if at all we follow
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  men it is so that eventually we will become like Christ and not
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  like the men. If you become like Jesus Christ
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  and you are not like Joshua Selman, I am satisfied.
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  If you become like me and not like Jesus Christ, I destroy
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  your destiny. Elements of discipleship, write
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  it down, please. That's the next thing we want to
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  deal with tonight is a Bible school.
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  Elements of discipleship. What does this mean?
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  For your discipleship to be effective, it must capture the
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  following. This is not all of it, but I
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  just want to give you a few things that must be part of the
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  cost content in producing disciples.
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  No matter what else you teach, if it does not capture some of
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  these things, you cannot produce true disciples #1 the first
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  element of discipleship. In no particular order.
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  I'm just giving you a few. There are many more.
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  Anyone seeking to be a true disciple of Jesus must
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  understand salvation through the finished work of Christ.
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  You cannot become like Christ if you do not understand salvation
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  through the finished work, not salvation through rituals and
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  self righteousness. Ephesians chapter 28 and 9 Let's
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  work together so we can pray. Ephesians 28 and 9 For by grace
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  are you saved. It is true faith and not of
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  yourselves. It is the gift of God.
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  The Bible says in verse 9 not of works.
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  What kind of works? Not the word works there.
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  Replace it with rituals not doings.
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  You see the Bible in especially the King James and other
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  versions. Sometimes they don't do justice
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  to the language. Don't forget the Bible was not
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  written in English. Anytime you see walks there,
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  he's talking about rituals, not doings.
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  He's not talking about action, because even salvation is
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  received through the action of faith.
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  So when the Bible talks of walks as contrasting it to grace, he's
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  talking about rituals akin to the rituals under the law.
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  He's not talking about doings, he's talking about rituals.
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  Are we together? Because the idea we get of walks
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  is inertia, not doing anything. Calling upon the name of the
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  Lord is doing something. Stepping up from your seat to
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  come up to the puppet is an action of faith.
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  Are we learning now? So when you see the Word works,
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  he's talking about rituals, customs that were done in all
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  times as against accepting the finished work of Christ and
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  receiving by faith #2 what should be captured in a proper
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  discipleship structure that raises witnesses, indeed the
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  responsibility of obedience and alignment in becoming like
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  Christ. Write that down.
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  One of the second elements that must be captured in producing
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  disciples is that they must be taught the responsibility of
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  obedience and alignment in becoming like Christ.
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  You cannot become like Christ outside of surrender, alignment
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  and obedience in as much as the grace of God.
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  You see, the word grace is a wonderful word and there's many
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  that there's a depth of riches of the grace of God.
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  But there are many dimensions of grace.
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  There's what we call the saving grace, the finished work of
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  Christ you only receive and appropriated by faith.
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  But there is what we call the enabling grace.
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  So you take the action of obedience, but the strength to
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  do it comes from God. Are we together the
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  responsibility of obedience and alignment in becoming like
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  Christ? If you are going to become like
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  Christ, you are going to have to pray.
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  There is no gift of prayer. It will take your time.
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  There is no gift of sitting to open your Bible and read for
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  hours. Believers must understand the
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  responsibility component of becoming like Christ, and it is
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  discipleship that teaches that. If not, you are going to produce
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  a lazy, entitled people who abuse the grace of God and turn
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  it into an instrument of licentiousness #3 the third
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  element of discipleship. People must be taught to walk in
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  love. WALKIWALK to walk in love.
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  You cannot produce true disciples if you don't teach men
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  how to walk in love. Love for God and love for
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  people. Ephesians 5 one and two, love
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  for God and love for people. If you love God alone and hate
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  people, you are not a true disciple of Jesus.
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  Be therefore followers of God as their children verse 2 and walk
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  in love as Christ also had loved us and given Himself.
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  The law of love is one of the fundamental laws of every true
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  disciple. Discipline is part of love.
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  Rebuking in love is part of love.
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  Are we together? Giving is part of love.
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  Forgiving is the highest demonstration of love.
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  There are many believers who do not work in love.
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  You hear people make careless statements like over my dead
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  body. Then they told her I'm listening
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  to you be talking walking in love.
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  Walking in love does not mean being foolish.
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  No, walking in love does not mean being unwise.
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  It does not mean allowing evil things to just prevail around
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  you. No, the law of love, the
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  greatest way you know, a true disciple of Jesus is not power,
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  is not wisdom, is love. By this shall all men know that
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  ye are my disciples. Not when you pray in tongues,
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  not when you preach well, not when you attend Koinonia.
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  Not when you host programs around the world, when you have
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  love one for another. Next element who is learning?
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  People must be taught the value of living by the Word, the value
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  of living by the Word, the value of living by the Word.
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  There is no true disciple of Jesus Christ who does not
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  culture himself herself to develop an unquenchable passion
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  for the Word of God. The modus operandi in the
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  Kingdom is found in Matthew 4 and verse four.
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  Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  proceeded out of the mouth of God.
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  You are not a true disciple of Jesus if you are careless about
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  the Word of God. You must love it more than your
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  necessary food. Hallelujah.
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  I love the word of God. I don't just preach it.
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  Oh how I love your laws. It says they are my meditation
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  all day. I truly love the word of God.
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  I can stay on one vase for days. Not because I'm looking for a
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  sermon. I just find a well through that
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  vase and I'm just using all kinds of fetchers to draw it
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  out. If you do not love the word of
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  God, it's an attack is corrupting your potential for
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  being like Christ. At age 12, Jesus was at the
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  temple studying scripture even though he was the Word.
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  I pray for you my beloved people, in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Any attack on your passion for
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  the Word. You open your Bible but never
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  read it. Your house is full of all kinds
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  of word compliant books, but you never read 1.
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  You cannot open your Bible. You can read books twice the
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  size of your Bible, but even to finish a Gideon International
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  New Testament, you are not able to because it's an attack.
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  Don't feel condemned. I'm praying for you.
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  Let fresh grace rest upon you right now.
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  Let fresh grace rest upon you right now.
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  Please be seated. I'm listening for you some of
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  the elements that must be captured in any structure, any
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  program that turns men into Christ.
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  Salvation through the finished work of Christ.
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  Then the responsibility of obedience and alignment in your
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  journey to becoming like Christ. Then how to walk in love, Then
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  the value of the Word of God. How to live by faith is the next
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  element. Write it down.
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  A believer who must be like Christ must be taught, must be
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  mentored on how to live by faith.
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  There are no guarantees in life the Bible says to hold for the
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  shield of faith wherein you will be able to quench all the fiery
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  darts of the enemy. Vision 616.
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  How to live by faith The Bible says 4 times in scripture the
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  just shall live by faith. Believers must be taught how to
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  live by faith, how to act upon the world so that you commit God
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  to perform in your life. If you don't know how to live by
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  faith, you will not live a victorious life because the
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  Bible says this is a victory that overcomes the world, even
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  our faith. Who is learning now?
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  What else should you learn that makes you like Christ under the
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  subject of discipleship? Productivity as a key to impact
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  an economic emancipation. Write that down.
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  Productivity as a key to impact an economic emancipation.
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  Don't just teach people to live a holy life, as wonderful as
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  that is. Don't just teach people to be
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  prayerful. Don't just teach people to walk
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  in love. You must teach people the
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  principles of productivity. And this is where it now
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  benefits the larger society as a key to impact an economic
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  emancipation. If you don't teach people
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  productivity, they will steal. They will become thieves because
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  they have bills to pay. If you don't teach people
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  productivity as the way of dignity to be emancipated
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  economically, they will be beggarly.
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  Homes will break because of financial issues.
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  Men will continue to be lazy and not care.
• 1:52:51
  A man will not take care of his family and say it's because I'm
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  an OSHA in church. No, it's not because you're an
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  OSHA in church. Oshring does not make you a lazy
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  husband. Hallelujah.
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  Mass Monroe of blessed memory said.
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  There was a time, and I think I've said the story here, where
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  a man was mad with his wife. I mean, he was almost breaking
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  their home and he was because of church.
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  He hated the fact that the woman was going to church.
• 1:53:19
  And one day the woman came and told Doctor Miles Monroe,
• 1:53:23
  According to him. He said, look, I'm sorry, I may
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  not be able to come to church again.
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  He said, why is that so? He said my husband is angry and
• 1:53:29
  he hates the fact that I come to church.
• 1:53:31
  He said I don't have time to take care of, you know, him and
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  the children and all of that, and he's angry.
• 1:53:36
  He was asking who is really your husband, me or your pastor, you
• 1:53:39
  know, and all of those kind of things.
• 1:53:40
  And the man was threatening that you lose the marriage.
• 1:53:42
  You know what Doctor Miles said? He said, you know what, go back
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  home. She said no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:53:48
  I mean I my heart. He said go back home.
• 1:53:50
  He said, your husband is right, go back home, take care of your
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  home. And the woman said no, no, I
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  know. He said go back home.
• 1:53:57
  The woman returned home, true story.
• 1:53:59
  Her husband said why are you home?
• 1:54:01
  You know man and their ego, why are you home?
• 1:54:04
  And she said, my pastor sent me back home and said my
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  responsibilities to take care of you and my home.
• 1:54:10
  The man said, oh really? Then he kept quiet.
• 1:54:13
  Then he thought about it. Then the next time she was going
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  to church he said, OK, let me just you know men, she this is
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  my my smunda of of late now saying the story.
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  And then the man came and hung around that he didn't enter, but
• 1:54:30
  he hung around and said that your pastor is it or can I have
• 1:54:33
  a word with him? And my small role came.
• 1:54:36
  And according to if I get the story right, maybe I may have
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  missed one or two things. But the point is that he came,
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  shook the man and said, look, we are a pro family church and will
• 1:54:45
  not destroy your family because of church.
• 1:54:47
  What we are teaching here is for the good.
• 1:54:49
  We are transforming your wife and your children so that you
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  will even enjoy your marriage. Do you know what happened?
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  The man later became a worker in that church.
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  Productivity. You should never come for
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  Koinonia. And then with all due respect,
• 1:55:10
  on Monday, become a foolish worker at, in, at, at your place
• 1:55:14
  of work. Become a bad wife, Become a bad
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  husband. No.
• 1:55:18
  Then it means what we're teaching is not working.
• 1:55:21
  Are we together now? Our children should not come to
• 1:55:24
  church, come for service, and then eventually they are not
• 1:55:27
  doing well. No.
• 1:55:29
  No, the pride of every man of God is to see the people
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  committed to him becoming like Christ, not just giving him
• 1:55:37
  money, not just attending conferences.
• 1:55:40
  If you attend conferences, I don't care.
• 1:55:42
  If you feel from here to the end of Nigeria and you are not like
• 1:55:46
  Christ, then I'm wasting your time and I'm also wasting my
• 1:55:49
  time is someone learning. You must teach people to be
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  productive. That's why I teach you.
• 1:55:56
  We had a financial seminar for workers.
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  Someone had been, I think someone sent me a text.
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  Let me respond to that person now.
• 1:56:03
  He sent a text some months ago and said, Apostle, it's been
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  long. You preached about finances.
• 1:56:07
  So this thing is really hitting me.
• 1:56:09
  Say something. I said, don't worry, we'll we'll
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  say something one of these days. I told him.
• 1:56:14
  I said what I've said. Have you listened to?
• 1:56:15
  He said, yeah, I've listened. I said, listen again, you, you
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  certainly have not gotten something there.
• 1:56:20
  Listen again. I will teach you everything that
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  will make you become great, no matter how controversial it is,
• 1:56:28
  if it will make you become like Christ.
• 1:56:31
  My name is Joshua Selman. I will teach it.
• 1:56:33
  I will teach it if his finances. I will teach you as if you will
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  never learn anything in your life again.
• 1:56:40
  If it's becoming like Christ, I will teach it.
• 1:56:43
  I will rebuke you. You will cry together or rub
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  your back and then do it again. I won't stop till you look just
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  like Him. It's my commitment.
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  I won't stop. No, I won't stop.
• 1:56:57
  You may hate me for a while. Don't worry.
• 1:56:59
  It's like a child hating the father who says get up and go to
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  school. One day when he becomes a
• 1:57:04
  doctor, he will buy the father a child, a car.
• 1:57:07
  Some of you, you may not buy me a car, but one day when I see
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  your life and I see you speaking before presidents and I hear
• 1:57:14
  that they gave you a bribe of $100 million and your Tony said
• 1:57:18
  no, no, no. I've been trained more than
• 1:57:19
  that. Don't bring money to me.
• 1:57:21
  I've been taught to die to the flesh.
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  These are the kinds of people we are raising that someone will
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  bring you money and say no, this is this is not me.
• 1:57:32
  I've been trained. I've been trained that someone
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  will advise you and say beat your wife, say no, not in
• 1:57:38
  Koinonia. I will tell her I'm sorry.
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  She's right. The Bible says dwell with them
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  according to knowledge. And you go to your wife and say
• 1:57:45
  I'm sorry and your wife say you have changed what happened.
• 1:57:48
  You say this is Koinonia. God is raising mighty man in
• 1:58:02
  this place. Oh, God is raising people of
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  wisdom in this place. He won't stop.
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  He won't stop till we lose, just like him.
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  He won't stop. No, He won't stop till we lose,
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  just like you. He may cry, but he won't stop
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  till you look just like him. You may wait, but he won't stop
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  till you look just like him. Some of the teachings will
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  stretch you. Some of the teachings will annoy
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  you. Sometimes you will feel like
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  stoning me. Don't worry.
• 1:58:48
  It's part of the making. It's part of the making.
• 1:58:52
  Have you seen someone adding pepper to food?
• 1:58:54
  And your own eye is tearing, but you will see added.
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  There are times you watch a woman in the kitchen and she's
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  bleeding. The knife just cuts her.
• 1:59:02
  She doesn't stop cooking. Sometimes she just ties it.
• 1:59:05
  And with joy, she's happy that her children will eat.
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  And she calls the children and sometimes they don't even
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  appreciate Mommy, I'm hungry. And he says thank you and he's
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  looking at the bar. What happened to your hand?
• 1:59:16
  He said, don't worry, my son, your food is ready.
• 1:59:19
  That's leadership. Some of you don't know the
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  injuries. Sometimes we sustain to make
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  sure we stand for truth. You don't know the things we
• 1:59:28
  have said no to. You don't know the things we
• 1:59:31
  would have received in the last one month.
• 1:59:34
  I've not slept generously. I've not.
• 1:59:36
  I'm telling you this is before God.
• 1:59:43
  But it is a sworn covenant that under my watch you must become
• 1:59:48
  like Christ, must become like Christ.
• 1:59:55
  After the sound of revival, I had an encounter with the Lord
• 1:59:59
  and he said, I will give you grace to disciple nations.
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  I will give you the grace to disciple nations, not just
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  regions nations. You have given us a destiny and
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  a purpose to fulfill so we know I am every breath in me.
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  I'll spend my life to see Jesus reveal and Jesus glory fire
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  Jesus reveal Jesus love. Let me minister to you for one
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  minute. Listen everybody, no, I has
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  sinned, no hear has heard what God has prepared for you, so you
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  submit to his work in you till the Christ before in you.
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  No, I has sinned, no hear has heard what God has prepared for
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  you. So you submit to his work in you
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  till Christ before, till his glory be seen in you, till His
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  wisdom rests on you, till His life flows through you.
• 2:01:44
  He has given you a destiny and a purpose to fulfill.
• 2:01:53
  So with all you have, every breath in you, please spend your
• 2:01:59
  life to see Jesus reveal and Jesus glory Jesus reveal.
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  Let me tell you this, I don't mean to brag.
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  We're not the only ones doing what we're doing.
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  But Koinonia, wait for the next 5 years, wait for the next 10
• 2:02:40
  years, you will see what will begin to happen across the
• 2:02:43
  nations. It's a move of the Spirit.
• 2:02:47
  I was in Kenya over the weekend as I stood ministering God's
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  grace to people. I said it is possible to change
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  nations. That statement Can a nation be
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  born in one day? We're getting into that
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  dimension from Glasgow to New York to Calgary to Kenya to
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  Ghana to South Africa. Here in Nigeria, I'm telling
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  you, you don't need to be in power.
• 2:03:11
  To be in power. You need to be with God and you
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  will disciple nations from where we are.
• 2:03:17
  We will teach kings the ways of God.
• 2:03:20
  We will bring My God chapter two, My God chapter 4 to place
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  that all nations will flow and they will say, come, let's go to
• 2:03:30
  the God of Jacob and we will teach them.
• 2:03:34
  We will teach them the ways of God.
• 2:03:39
  I am humbled the kinds of people who are connected right now
• 2:03:44
  across the globe. I'm telling you, Koinonia, I've
• 2:03:48
  been listened to now I'm not exaggerating and I'm not lying.
• 2:03:52
  Homes or presidencies, billionaires.
• 2:03:55
  I meet people around the world and I am amazed those they are
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  possible. I've followed you for five
• 2:04:00
  years. I've done this and that.
• 2:04:03
  I have run my company with the things.
• 2:04:05
  There was a whole company that used one of our series for their
• 2:04:09
  retreat as a corporation. They sat down the board members.
• 2:04:15
  I had a little time. I would.
• 2:04:17
  We're in Kenya and I had it some time with Safaricom.
• 2:04:20
  Many of you will know them. The largest Internet, I mean the
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  largest service provider, 50 million people, 4000
• 2:04:28
  transactions per second. And I had the opportunity to sit
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  with the board and speak to them and hold prayer with them.
• 2:04:37
  We're disciplined nations. It doesn't look like it, but
• 2:04:41
  wait to see what our children will become.
• 2:04:44
  It may not look like it, but be patient to see what you will
• 2:04:47
  become. Oh, let me tell you this.
• 2:04:51
  The nations will not be fixed from government directly.
• 2:04:55
  It will be fixed from the altar. Those who will fix it in
• 2:04:59
  government are here. He won't start from Asshole
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  Rock. He will start from the church.
• 2:05:04
  He won't start from White House. Hear me?
• 2:05:06
  No nation has been changed from the Government House.
• 2:05:09
  It is changed from the pulpit. Can I tell you, no matter how
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  stubborn people are who are now, I'm not a politician, but I'm
• 2:05:22
  just saying anybody who is destroying the program of God,
• 2:05:26
  you know, people who are taking people's scoop, the corruption
• 2:05:29
  that is in Africa, Can I tell you, even if you cannot fight a
• 2:05:33
  man, time can take that man out of the way.
• 2:05:36
  So rather than crying and saying this one, that one Africa, this
• 2:05:40
  senator has been there 20 years, don't worry, be raising the next
• 2:05:44
  ones now. This is what we should be doing.
• 2:05:47
  That's why you see, I don't talk about election.
• 2:05:50
  I don't. There's every political party in
• 2:05:52
  Colonia. I'm for everybody.
• 2:05:55
  I'm I care less about political parties.
• 2:05:58
  I love the current set of leaders across Africa, across
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  Nigeria, but my interest is not them.
• 2:06:04
  I'm taking care of what the next five years, the next 10 years?
• 2:06:09
  We're raising a breed without greed.
• 2:06:11
  People who love the Lord, people of Covenant, that king, priest,
• 2:06:16
  prophet, formation, we will return it to government.
• 2:06:23
  We'll start small. When you lighten matches, it's
• 2:06:26
  small. When you put it on one candle,
• 2:06:28
  then on another, then on another.
• 2:06:31
  I made a prophetic statement years ago.
• 2:06:33
  I said we will all be great and we will know ourselves.
• 2:06:38
  It's true. It is true.
• 2:06:40
  Hallelujah, it is true. The precious lady who flew us
• 2:06:50
  from Kenya and brought us to Nigeria, you know, she was in
• 2:06:53
  the meeting, she was in the conference.
• 2:06:56
  Lovely lady. I'm telling you, the one who
• 2:06:59
  flew us flew that aircraft. You see that Lady, you think she
• 2:07:03
  cannot drive a golf, but she was going to sit on that thing and
• 2:07:06
  carry us there. And I said, this is Kingdom,
• 2:07:10
  Kingdom, Hallelujah. Oh, yes.
• 2:07:14
  Look, there are things I should not tell you.
• 2:07:18
  Hallelujah. Yes, the Kingdom.
• 2:07:24
  A day will come when someone is about to pass a policy and it
• 2:07:28
  says, excuse me for a moment. He gets into a room to refresh
• 2:07:32
  and you think he's taking a tea break.
• 2:07:34
  And while you are passing as a cleaner, you hear him say,
• 2:07:37
  Father, in the name of Jesus, which way should I go?
• 2:07:41
  Spirit of the living God. And you say, so this senator is
• 2:07:45
  also born again, also tongue talking.
• 2:07:48
  Oh, come on, You can't stop it. It's God's program.
• 2:07:51
  This is not about Christianity. It's an emergence of reformers.
• 2:07:55
  It's an emergence of people who will transform nations.
• 2:07:59
  It may look small, but you keep watching.
• 2:08:02
  You keep watching. God has given us the influence,
• 2:08:05
  He's giving us the resources, He's giving us the integrity of
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  heart. There's no stopping again.
• 2:08:13
  We're going to raise a breed of youths in Nigeria.
• 2:08:16
  I tell you a day will come when a young man will tell you I need
• 2:08:20
  my job and I'm not going to bribe.
• 2:08:23
  It will come by meritocracy. I love Jesus Christ.
• 2:08:30
  It does not yet appear what we shall be like, but you keep
• 2:08:34
  listening. It's a software.
• 2:08:36
  When it gets to you, you can't undo it.
• 2:08:38
  Again, you can't undo it. I'm teaching you the hidden
• 2:08:42
  wisdom of God. I'm teaching you the principles
• 2:08:44
  of favor you what way it will take you.
• 2:08:47
  One day you will wake up and find yourself among kings and
• 2:08:50
  say, what am I doing here? The mysteries of the Kingdom.
• 2:08:53
  Listen of an employee, your status based on what you are
• 2:08:59
  hearing is, is a realm of a codion of conglomerates.
• 2:09:04
  What you are learning now is listen.
• 2:09:05
  I'm teaching you beyond tea and bread.
• 2:09:08
  If all I'm I'm raising you to do is just and and I'm, I'm
• 2:09:12
  speaking to a global family right now.
• 2:09:15
  Every time you connect to Koinonia, it's more than meeting
• 2:09:18
  your needs. If it's all about meeting your
• 2:09:21
  needs, don't listen again. You're done.
• 2:09:23
  Favor alone can sort you for life.
• 2:09:26
  Who are teaching you the principles that can make you be
• 2:09:29
  trusted with the program of God over territories that God can
• 2:09:33
  say I want to change Zimbabwe in the next 5 years.
• 2:09:36
  Can I trust you and you say yes Sir, grant me the grace and you
• 2:09:40
  will shift climate from government to government or a
• 2:09:44
  time will come. They will not laugh at the
• 2:09:45
  church again. No, Sir, the church will not be
• 2:09:48
  a news and society. You go to the educational
• 2:09:51
  sector, we are there. You go to the legal system, we
• 2:09:54
  are there. You go to banking and finance,
• 2:09:56
  we are there. I'm telling you, go to the
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  mission field, we are there. Go to sports, we are there.
• 2:10:05
  Prayer warriors, we are there. Policy makers, we are there.
• 2:10:09
  Presidents, we are there. Captains of industry, we are
• 2:10:13
  there. We have the power to shot a
• 2:10:15
  nation against the devil. All you need to do is call the
• 2:10:20
  policy maker who calls the judge, who calls the policeman,
• 2:10:24
  who calls the law enforcement agent who calls the intercessor.
• 2:10:27
  And together, as a team, we drive darkness out of
• 2:10:30
  territories. These are not all realistic
• 2:10:36
  things. No, Stop talking about the days
• 2:10:41
  of so and so when? The greatest days now, greatest
• 2:10:45
  days, I tell you, Oh, being a child of God will be exciting.
• 2:10:49
  It will no longer be that boring thing of coming to sit because
• 2:10:53
  from Monday to Tuesday your life is an unfolding of the wisdom of
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  God. You believe what I'm saying?
• 2:10:59
  It is true. Now listen, sit down, sit down.
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  Please sit down, sit down. Koinonia, I want you to look at
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  me. How many of you know that just
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  missing this element of productivity alone you can
• 2:11:14
  program someone to fail as a person, fail as a father, fail
• 2:11:19
  as a leader simply because he did not know that productivity
• 2:11:23
  should also be captured in your disciplined people.
• 2:11:28
  I'm not one of such persons that tell people don't kill, don't
• 2:11:31
  kill. I show you a superior
• 2:11:33
  alternative. There is a way and not an
• 2:11:36
  alternative that befits man of God alone.
• 2:11:42
  This is a move. This is a move.
• 2:11:49
  Believe me, this is a move. This is.
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  We are here for you, commanding what you do.
• 2:12:10
  We are here for you. Come and do what you do.
• 2:12:20
  Set our hearts for you, for you. Do what you do.
• 2:12:29
  This is someone. Please be seated.
• 2:12:36
  Please be seated, be seated. I want you to write what else
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  should be captured in a proper discipleship that raises mighty
• 2:12:49
  men in addition to productivity as a key to impact an economic
• 2:12:54
  emancipation. Responsibility as a lifestyle.
• 2:12:59
  Responsibility as a lifestyle. Every gift, every door that
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  opens, every lifting and every increase, whether in ministry,
• 2:13:10
  whether in family, whether in politics, whether in career,
• 2:13:14
  must be seen as a gift that comes with responsibilities
• 2:13:20
  attached to them. We must raise the people who are
• 2:13:23
  conscious. The word responsibility comes
• 2:13:26
  from towards your ability to response.
• 2:13:29
  Responsibility that when someone stands and is getting married,
• 2:13:35
  as they are asking you, are you going to marry this lady?
• 2:13:38
  You don't just say yes looking at your friends dancing, but you
• 2:13:41
  know that that increase, that gift, that covenant comes with
• 2:13:45
  responsibility. When they promote you to become
• 2:13:48
  ACEO, you don't just hold the party and dance and laugh, but
• 2:13:52
  you recognize the responsibility component as a preacher trusted
• 2:13:57
  with people. Whether it's two members, 5
• 2:14:00
  members, 100 members, 1000 members, you know that it's not
• 2:14:04
  about man of God alone. They celebrate you on your
• 2:14:07
  birthday, on your anniversaries, they buy you cars, they sponsor
• 2:14:11
  you for holidays abroad. You must know that that gift
• 2:14:14
  comes with a responsibility. Let me tell you this, the man in
• 2:14:18
  our society will change if our discipleship capture
• 2:14:22
  responsibility. I'm sorry to say, but some of
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  the most irresponsible men in society are Christians because
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  of things like favor, because of things like grace, because of
• 2:14:35
  things like destiny. Help us.
• 2:14:37
  The average person just wants you.
• 2:14:39
  Ask the average person, how do you want to feed your family?
• 2:14:42
  He say, I know God will do it. While other people are reading
• 2:14:46
  the books and attending the seminars, we just fold our arms
• 2:14:50
  and say, God, I know you, I will overtake everybody.
• 2:14:53
  Now 1 favor is true. We must balance it with the
• 2:14:57
  dignity of responsibility. You never stay around me as an
• 2:15:02
  irresponsible person. No, no.
• 2:15:07
  If you're married, one day I ask you, what are you doing with
• 2:15:09
  your wife and children? Who takes care of them?
• 2:15:12
  Oh, God has been faithful. I know he has been faithful.
• 2:15:14
  What? Who takes care of them?
• 2:15:17
  Now that your child is going to the university, have you
• 2:15:19
  prepared? Your wife got pregnant in
• 2:15:22
  January. You are running around on the
• 2:15:24
  day she will give birth. Please help me.
• 2:15:26
  She gave you nine months notice. Responsibility.
• 2:15:29
  Every gift comes with responsibility.
• 2:15:33
  We must teach our people. We must teach the young people.
• 2:15:36
  We must teach the children. The day you give your child a
• 2:15:39
  phone, tell him this is a gift, but it comes with
• 2:15:42
  responsibility. The day you give him a car, tell
• 2:15:45
  him I'm giving you an SUV. You are now 18.
• 2:15:48
  But there is responsibility to it.
• 2:15:52
  Everything God gives man, there are responsibilities.
• 2:15:56
  Jesus was coronated, sitting at the right hand of the Father,
• 2:15:59
  making intercession for the Saints.
• 2:16:04
  If you accept gifts or you teach people to accept liftings,
• 2:16:08
  accept open doors without the responsibility component, that's
• 2:16:13
  what destroys them. And I'm saying this with all due
• 2:16:15
  respect, and I am one person who loves the nation.
• 2:16:19
  By the message of God, we have become faithful emissaries,
• 2:16:23
  ambassadors even of this nation. And so at least we can say
• 2:16:26
  something. Let me charge the politicians
• 2:16:29
  and those in government in Nigeria for God's sake.
• 2:16:32
  Let's begin to look at the destiny of this nation beyond
• 2:16:35
  ourselves, beyond ourselves, beyond ourselves.
• 2:16:41
  If you are a governor or a senator, you are only there for
• 2:16:45
  a while. A day will come.
• 2:16:48
  If Christ tarries, everybody will go.
• 2:16:51
  It is nobler to spend your life not just in acquiring things but
• 2:16:56
  in making a mark. You travel around the world,
• 2:16:59
  even across Africa and my goodness, sometimes you see
• 2:17:02
  things that challenge you. It is doable.
• 2:17:05
  We have the human resource, we have the intelligence.
• 2:17:08
  Nigerians are some of the brightest minds globally.
• 2:17:12
  We can start becoming putting structures together to aggregate
• 2:17:16
  our human capital resource and change this nation.
• 2:17:25
  As we travel around the world. I thank God for the privilege
• 2:17:28
  he's giving us In our own little way.
• 2:17:31
  He's helping us to rewrite the narrative about the Nigerian
• 2:17:35
  that Nigerians are not all criminals, Nigerians are not all
• 2:17:39
  crooks. Nigerians are not all about
• 2:17:41
  bribery and corruption. By the message of God, we're
• 2:17:45
  exporting the gospel. We're exporting integrity.
• 2:17:49
  We are discipline nations. We are serving His graces,
• 2:17:52
  wisdom and power. And we're from tearing God's
• 2:17:55
  program in raising not only vibrant and spiritual people,
• 2:18:00
  but territorial reformers. It will happen slow by slow, bit
• 2:18:05
  by bit. I'm not a politician, but I will
• 2:18:07
  raise politicians. I will raise businessmen.
• 2:18:11
  Oh yes, one day seated here will be governors of states one day.
• 2:18:15
  This is not some some some primary school open day
• 2:18:20
  encouragement. I'm prophesying over you that
• 2:18:27
  someone will sit down one day. It's already happening.
• 2:18:30
  Really. Ladies and gentlemen, in the
• 2:18:33
  last two years, God opened my eyes to see the kind, the depth,
• 2:18:38
  and the wealth of the human resources.
• 2:18:42
  He's putting this ministry alone, not just the body of
• 2:18:45
  Christ. Responsibility.
• 2:18:54
  Every gentleman in Koinonia, let's start with our own home.
• 2:18:57
  Please make up your mind to be responsible from today.
• 2:19:01
  Make up your mind to be responsible.
• 2:19:03
  Every gift and every position you receive see it as a debt you
• 2:19:08
  owe the people. If I stand before you hear my
• 2:19:11
  joy is the car I'm driving or the cloth I'm wearing or the
• 2:19:16
  kind of food I'm eating. I'm wasting your time.
• 2:19:19
  I value you and I respect you more than that.
• 2:19:22
  I will not come and waste your time with frivolities and
• 2:19:24
  nonsense. People will not leave their
• 2:19:27
  companies. You know, I'll tell you this
• 2:19:29
  back to the story, and I'm sorry that I have to just talk about
• 2:19:32
  it. The precious lady who feel that
• 2:19:35
  Lady as a pilot, a veteran, she's been flying for 30 years,
• 2:19:40
  30. She was in New York at the Sound
• 2:19:43
  of Revival, deeply connected to what we're doing.
• 2:19:46
  And do you know, all through while we came, I kept thinking
• 2:19:50
  about myself as I've met people, especially for this year, all
• 2:19:55
  our series of Sound of Revival and my travels to minister and
• 2:19:59
  personal meetings with people, politicians and all of that.
• 2:20:02
  You know what I told myself? I said Lord help me to respect
• 2:20:06
  the caliber of people. You have brought under my care.
• 2:20:09
  I think men of God need to pray that prayer.
• 2:20:11
  If we really know the kinds of people that God has brought
• 2:20:15
  under us, we will go and do our homework and not come and waste
• 2:20:18
  their time on Sunday. Someone who is a consultant
• 2:20:23
  running conglomerates across the globe, are we together now?
• 2:20:27
  Consulting for conglomerates comes to humble himself as an
• 2:20:31
  OSHA and sits here and hears all kinds of nonsense.
• 2:20:36
  No, no, let me give you the last.
• 2:20:49
  Sorry. Sometimes we just get emotional
• 2:20:51
  with these things we're saying. What is the maybe this will be
• 2:20:57
  the last, but not the only one, but the last element that should
• 2:21:01
  be captured in proper discipleship that produces
• 2:21:04
  Christ. Selflessness.
• 2:21:06
  Oh, this must be taught. There is no true disciple of
• 2:21:11
  Jesus who does not learn selflessness.
• 2:21:15
  That nothing created by God lives for itself and everything
• 2:21:20
  lives when it serves a purpose bigger than itself.
• 2:21:25
  Professor John Kennedy will say those who live for others live
• 2:21:29
  beyond their time. Nobody I know has received the
• 2:21:35
  Nobel Prize for receiving. People receive Nobel Prizes for
• 2:21:39
  giving, for their contributions. Selflessness, corruption will
• 2:21:47
  die in natural death. Greed will die in natural death.
• 2:21:52
  When people beginning from us preachers spreading across the
• 2:21:56
  body of Christ, when they understand the value of
• 2:21:59
  selflessness, that a man's life does not constitute just in the
• 2:22:04
  abundance of the things that he has.
• 2:22:07
  And so that you don't misinterpret me, I will never
• 2:22:09
  raise a poor people. You are not poor.
• 2:22:12
  Are we together now? So when I say that I'm not, I'm
• 2:22:14
  not speaking a mediocre language to endorse poverty.
• 2:22:18
  But selflessness is a detachment.
• 2:22:22
  If you are not selfless, you can't be used by God beyond
• 2:22:25
  certain heights. You need to be able to look at
• 2:22:29
  people and live for people beyond yourself.
• 2:22:36
  Tools for effective discipleship was soon to wrap up.
• 2:22:41
  Tools I just shared with you. The elements or the cost
• 2:22:44
  content, a sample of it that should be captured in every
• 2:22:48
  discipleship program. Salvation through the finished
• 2:22:51
  work of Christ. The responsibility of obedience
• 2:22:55
  and alignment in becoming like Christ.
• 2:22:58
  Learning how to walk in love, the value of the world in the
• 2:23:02
  life of the believer, how to live by faith, how to be
• 2:23:06
  productive as a key to impact an economic emancipation.
• 2:23:11
  Learning responsibility as a lifestyle, seeing every gift as
• 2:23:18
  one that comes with responsibilities attached to it.
• 2:23:21
  And then learning the law of selflessness, that to make
• 2:23:25
  impact you have to live beyond yourself.
• 2:23:28
  The tools for effective, effective discipleship, there
• 2:23:34
  are five of them. And then we'll end up by giving
• 2:23:37
  you the fruits of discipleship very quickly.
• 2:23:40
  I may not do so much teaching, I want to just push it through,
• 2:23:44
  but I hope you are learning. Church is quiet.
• 2:23:47
  I know, I know, Trust me, what is happening to you is happening
• 2:23:49
  to me too. Just just let it work.
• 2:23:52
  It's an inner walk of transformation by the Spirit.
• 2:23:56
  There are five tools that must be available for discipleship to
• 2:24:01
  happen. Number one, I I call them tools
• 2:24:04
  just for forsake of description #1 the ministry of the Holy
• 2:24:09
  Spirit. The first requirement for
• 2:24:12
  discipleship to happen The Bible's way.
• 2:24:15
  Any discipleship that ignores the ministry of the Holy Spirit
• 2:24:20
  cannot be true discipleship. It will just be a burdensome
• 2:24:24
  ritual created by men because only the Holy Spirit can
• 2:24:28
  transform a man from inside out. No amount of ritual.
• 2:24:32
  Rituals will only produce high service like it's happened for
• 2:24:36
  many people. Only the Holy Spirit transforms
• 2:24:38
  people from inside out. The ministry of the Holy Spirit.
• 2:24:44
  The second tool for effective discipleship, The Word of God.
• 2:24:47
  Scripture. Scripture must be the basis for
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  the truths that are communicated, not ideas, not
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  just church policies, except those policies are rooted in
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  scripture #3 What's the third tool for effective discipleship?
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  The presence of teachers, mentors, or role models.
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  The presence of teachers, mentors, or role models.
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  That means men and women who embody knowledge, who embody
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  character, who embody transformation, who embody
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  consistency, and who embody results.
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  I'll take that again, the 3rd tool for effective discipleship
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  in desiring to produce people like Christ.
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  You need the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  You need the ministry of the world.
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  You need the presence of teachers, mentors, role models,
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  men and women who embody knowledge, who embody character,
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  who embody transformation, who embody consistency, and who
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  embody results. Jeremiah 315.
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  I will give you pastors according to my heart.
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  They will feed you with knowledge and they will feed you
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  with understanding #4 very quickly.
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  What do you need for effective discipleship to happen?
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  A spiritual family. Write that down.
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  The 4th tool, if I would use that expression, a spiritual
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  family. What does that mean?
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  A community of like minded believers that allows for
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  fellowship and social interactions.
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  It's impossible to truly be an effective disciple without a
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  spiritual family. I'm I wrote something here.
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  I said community. Give us Hebrews 10/25.
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  Kingdom community living is one of the major ways to sustain
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  Kingdom values. Kingdom community living is one
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  of the major ways to sustain Kingdom values.
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  Look at a broom. A broom like we use in Africa.
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  How many of you know that if you just carry 1 strand of that
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  broom, it can't sweep? Am I right on that?
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  It has potential, but it cannot sweep.
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  How about 20? How about 30?
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  How about 100 pieces? Now, because of that, that that
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  aggregation, you are able to sweep and it sweeps.
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  Well, that's how you are in isolation.
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  It will be difficult for you to work in keeping with the tenants
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  of the Christian faith. But when you have like minded
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  people in the early church, they had what they call their
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  company. When they persecute them, they
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  return to their company. When Peter came out of prison,
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  he went to the company of believers praying.
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  It's important to have and to value the presence of a
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  spiritual family, a community of like minded believers for the
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  purpose of fellowship and social interactions.
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  Let me tell you this, if you come to a good church, most
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  likely, most likely you will marry a Good Wife.
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  Most likely are we together you will have good friends.
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  Most likely are we together? You will have good acquaintances
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  because they will usually be within the system.
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  This is already a warning for someone.
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  It came as an example, but God is using it as a warning.
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  You see what Christian zoo they sit in?
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  Church ladies, my wonderful daughters of Abraham, daughters
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  of Zion, don't come to church and allow us shout here sweating
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  and talking to you. You are clean by the Word, you
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  are reformed, and then you go somewhere and just pick
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  somebody. Are we together?
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  And then beyond equally yoked and wonder why he's beating you.
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  I'm not saying insult people, but I'm telling you the truth.
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  Someone whose value system is not rooted from scripture cannot
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  be a nice person forever. He may be a nice person for 10
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  years till the course in his family strikes.
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  I'm not saying to ignore people. No, we love everyone but a
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  covenant that's serious and expensive.
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  Iron sharpens iron. The Bible says believers can
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  strengthen one another. You need a spiritual family #5
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  What is the 5th tool for effective discipleship?
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  A platform for service. A platform for service.
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  You cannot be a true disciple until you find a way of serving
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  the purposes of God, and it starts by serving, at least in
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  the House of God. One of the ways we grow is
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  through service. One of the ways that God
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  measures greatness, Matthew 2027 and 28, is not in acquisitions,
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  is not in being on top. It is service.
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  Give it to us. Matthew 2027 and 28 And
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  whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
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  Did you see that? So when you say you are a leader
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  in the Kingdom, it means you are a servant, even as the Son of
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  Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to
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  give his life as a ransom for many.
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  The Bible says a Good Shepherd lays down his life.
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  It doesn't mean to allow people to take you for granted, but one
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  of the crosses, you know the Bible says to carry your cross.
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  One of the crosses when you study discipleship is the cross
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  of service that you live for Jesus all the days of your life.
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  Now let me wrap up very quickly by listening out for you the
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  fruits of discipleship. How do you know a true disciple?
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  This will be the last discussion.
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  This one is a cause for you to go and study all through this
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  week. If I were you as I go back home,
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  I will now sit down and listen. The Fruits of Discipleship The
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  following are some of the major fruits of a true disciple.
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  You can test what I'm saying with your life here and now and
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  know whether you are a true disciple of Jesus Christ #1 The
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  greatest fruit of a thoroughly discipled believer write this
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  down is a balanced Christian life that reflects on Well, this
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  is just a preamble. The greatest fruit of a
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  thoroughly discipled believer is a balanced Christian life that
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  reflects the following one. The fruit of the Spirit,
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  especially love, the first fruit of a true disciple of Jesus, is
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  a manifestation of the fruits of the Spirit.
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  Galatians 522. Whether you are a pastor,
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  whether you are an apostle, whether you are a prophet,
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  whether you be one year in ministry or 50 years in
• 2:32:38
  ministry, with all due respect, whether you are a businessman,
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  if we do not find with time a gradual, progressive emergence
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  of the fruit of the Spirit in you, most especially the love
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  nature of Christ, you are not a true disciple of Jesus.
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  You don't have to be fake, but you are not a true imitator of
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  Christ. The fruit of the Spirit more
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  than good preaching, the fruit of the Spirit, more than
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  excellent communication, the fruit of the Spirit more than a
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  large ministry, the fruit of the spirit #2 What is the second
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  fruit of a true disciple? Are you ready?
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  Death to self, Death to self. You are not a true disciple of
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  Jesus when you have an unhealthy attachment to pleasure.
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  Death to self is one of the cardinal elements, cardinal
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  proof fruits of a true disciple, one who has been worked on by
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  the Spirit, one who has been worked on by the world, One who
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  has been transformed. One was transited from an infant
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  to a witness. Death to self, What does that
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  mean? A healthy and unhealthy, or a
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  detachment from an excessive love for pleasure?
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  What does it mean to die to self?
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  To embrace a life of modesty even in the presence of
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  abundance and plenty? To embrace a life of modesty?
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  And it's up to you to define what that means to you.
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  But I can tell you by experience that the best way to live the
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  effective Christian life is to be modest.
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  Enjoy whatever blessing God gives you, but put a cup on
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  meat. There is a level of excessive as
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  far as material things are concerned that if you are not
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  careful it will not give you the liberty.
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  It will corrupt the purity of your followership.
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  You don't have to live in poverty and live a miserable
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  life to prove that you love Jesus.
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  I'm not for that. But there is a level of decent
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  living. Generally speaking, I advise
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  people who are under my care minimize an excessive lifestyle.
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  Are we together over showing off?
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  There are necessary needs and there are things you should
• 2:35:17
  enjoy your life. Don't feel guilty for being
• 2:35:20
  successful, but a life of modesty has been proven from
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  Bible and through modern history as the the best template for
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  being a true disciple. You can be a billionaire and
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  enjoy your billions and still within your realm live a modest
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  life. Are we together?
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  Death to self? Many people don't like this part
• 2:35:45
  of the teaching in church. Believers must be taught death
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  to self. Once a man dies to self, you
• 2:35:51
  can't bribe such a man again. Once the man dies to self, there
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  are certain appetites that die and go forever #3 What is the
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  third fruit of discipleship? Placing priority on Jesus as the
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  most important relationship in your life.
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  The third fruit of a true disciple of Jesus.
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  Placing priority on Jesus as the most important relationship in
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  your life. Greater than friends, greater
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  than family, greater than spouses, greater than children.
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  I'm not saying to ignore them, but nothing should come close to
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  your relationship. If your wife tampers with your
• 2:36:35
  relationship with Jesus, she has become your idol.
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  If said if your husband or your children or your job.
• 2:36:43
  No relationship on earth should sustain the power to tamper with
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  your love for Jesus. Now if you are not responsible
• 2:36:54
  to other relationships and you claim is because you are loving
• 2:36:58
  Jesus, you are a liar because the Bible says how can you love
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  God that you have not seen so I'm not giving a license.
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  There are many people who have allowed their children cry.
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  They are children cry in hunger and they claim that his church.
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  But I can tell you this, a true disciple of Jesus is one who
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  knows. And when you get married or when
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  you are married, your wife will know, your husband will know.
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  As your children come, you will teach them, I love you with all
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  my heart. I can give my life for you.
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  But my precious children learn this when it has to do with me
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  and Jesus. He was there before you came.
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  My wife I love you, my husband I love you, my parents I love you,
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  siblings, relatives, but nothing should stand your way with
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  Jesus. This is how the patriarchs
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  showed us the way of the cross, not just death to self.
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  I tell you the reason why it's very easy for people to give up
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  on the things of Jesus. He was never a priority.
• 2:38:04
  He was part of the many things in their life.
• 2:38:07
  When God began with us, it was not about money, it was not
• 2:38:11
  about fame, it was about loving. Jesus is the reason why you see
• 2:38:15
  me I I till today as a person. Now you don't have to do it.
• 2:38:19
  When people start to celebrate and over celebrate me, it
• 2:38:22
  affects me. I can shout on the puppy, but
• 2:38:25
  till today I'm still a bad receiver.
• 2:38:28
  I'm still learning because I feel that I should hide behind
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  the cross and all I want is for Jesus to be seen.
• 2:38:35
  That's it. You are not a true disciple of
• 2:38:41
  Jesus. Church of God in Nigeria, Church
• 2:38:45
  of God in Africa. These are the things that
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  produce power. These are the things that shape
• 2:38:50
  society. A man who prioritizes Jesus will
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  prioritize the values of Jesus. And whether you become a
• 2:38:59
  politician, whether you become whoever, you will live by that
• 2:39:02
  code. Let me give it to you quickly.
• 2:39:04
  Let's finish up. So #1 the fruit of the Spirit,
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  especially walking in love. Number two, death to self, a
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  detachment from excessive pleasure, a life of greatness
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  and glory, but with modesty, even in the presence of plenty
• 2:39:26
  and abundance #3 Placing priority on Jesus as your most
• 2:39:33
  important relationship. Greater but not to ignore
• 2:39:38
  friends, family, spouses, children, and every other human
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  relationship #4 What is the fourth fruit of a true disciple
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  of Jesus? Freedom from mammon?
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  Freedom from mammon? What does that mean?
• 2:39:58
  The ungodly, unhealthy attachment to money and other
• 2:40:04
  material things, but particularly money.
• 2:40:08
  Oh, you cannot be a true disciple of Jesus if you are
• 2:40:16
  still attached to mammon. That does not stop you from
• 2:40:20
  being a billionaire. That does not stop you from
• 2:40:23
  running conglomerates. You can be the wealthiest man on
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  earth if possible and still not be attached to Mammon.
• 2:40:29
  And the proof that you are not attached is that you can let it
• 2:40:33
  go. Anything you cannot let go is
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  your God. Anything.
• 2:40:42
  You're my treasure, my priority. Who can compare to you greatest
• 2:40:53
  measure of your OELT or Morning star you truly are.
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  Let me tell you the truth, one of the reasons why God instructs
• 2:41:09
  people to give many times is because occasionally he prunes
• 2:41:15
  you to kill your detachment to Mammon.
• 2:41:19
  So every once in a while he will give you a heavy instruction to
• 2:41:24
  part with something that is valuable and you'll be like no
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  Kai, this is not God who said this is what I wanted to show
• 2:41:30
  you how much it has become an idol and you say God, You mean
• 2:41:35
  you now waited until they gave me a rears of eight years?
• 2:41:39
  You would have told me to pay it last month.
• 2:41:41
  I had only 20,000 in my account. I would have obeyed with one
• 2:41:44
  instruction. You now waited until my uncle
• 2:41:47
  have not seen for 10 years. You gave me $10,000.
• 2:41:50
  You must be a wicked go. And God says no.
• 2:41:54
  Let me tell you something that happened not too long.
• 2:41:55
  We're about to pray. Was it a guy or a lady?
• 2:41:59
  I can't recall now, but somebody came with a seed.
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  And when I saw the person, I saw the person holding an envelope.
• 2:42:04
  And God spoke to my heart that if this person hands over this
• 2:42:08
  seed, I should add to it and give the person that the person
• 2:42:12
  truly was making a sacrifice. But it was a test.
• 2:42:17
  It was a crucifixion of the appetite for mammon.
• 2:42:21
  I think it was a lady. She stands before me and you
• 2:42:23
  could see that releasing this is Isaac and she said apostle God
• 2:42:29
  instructed me and I looked at how it is smile.
• 2:42:31
  I is a lady and I told her I said you know what I receive it.
• 2:42:35
  May God bless you and I did what God asked me to do.
• 2:42:39
  I mean the lady was almost broken.
• 2:42:42
  Why is this? I said, no, you have given me
• 2:42:43
  your own seed, but God said I should bless you.
• 2:42:46
  Take. If you have worked with God for
• 2:42:52
  up to five years and he has never demanded A sacrifice from
• 2:42:56
  you, there's something wrong with your work.
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  I'm telling you, the God I know, keep waiting.
• 2:43:03
  One day He will come to you early in the morning.
• 2:43:05
  He will come after your retreat when your hearing is clear so
• 2:43:09
  that you don't doubt and say this is some kind of Antichrist
• 2:43:12
  spirit. He won't come when the flesh has
• 2:43:14
  deadened. Your hearing, I mean after your
• 2:43:17
  consecration, you've rolled before God.
• 2:43:20
  Your heavens are open and you say, my son, that shoe or that
• 2:43:25
  shit or maybe money, money, three times your salary for the
• 2:43:28
  next three months. And you say God, you are joking,
• 2:43:31
  you are joking. You don't know what is going on
• 2:43:33
  in Nigeria and Africa. And God says no.
• 2:43:37
  I am teaching you that a man's life does not constitute in the
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  abundance of what he has. Something happens to you when
• 2:43:44
  you let go, is caught, God will now say.
• 2:43:46
  Now open your hands. Let me give you when it rests
• 2:43:50
  upon you, no matter how heavy, you'll find out that it cannot
• 2:43:53
  get here again because you have died.
• 2:43:56
  Disciples, ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how.
• 2:44:04
  Many things, opportunities, the things that.
• 2:44:07
  People have wanted to do for me that will redefine the destiny
• 2:44:13
  of my children and children to the 4th generation.
• 2:44:16
  And God said no, no. When you are a true follower of
• 2:44:20
  Jesus, even with tears in your eyes, his voice becomes your
• 2:44:25
  restraint or your system of allowance.
• 2:44:29
  Death to mammon. The church must trust God for
• 2:44:32
  this whole the reason why people don't see true Kingdom
• 2:44:36
  prosperity. The strange thing?
• 2:44:39
  Is that those who really have an?
• 2:44:40
  Appetite for money never have it by God you must die you must die
• 2:44:52
  freedom from mammal church is. Quiet.
• 2:44:56
  He wouldn't tell you. Don't worry.
• 2:44:57
  Leave what is in your account. I mean, I'm not going to ask you
• 2:45:01
  to give anything. Be comfortable.
• 2:45:04
  Sit here. You're part of a responsible
• 2:45:06
  ministry. Are we together?
• 2:45:08
  But let me tell you, if you are happy that Koinonia does not ask
• 2:45:12
  you for money to mean that you are hiding greed, God will find
• 2:45:17
  a way one day. Don't worry.
• 2:45:20
  As you are saying, I love you. I love.
• 2:45:21
  You, O God, with all my. Heart one day he will tell you I
• 2:45:25
  want you to do this and that. That's the day you will bind and
• 2:45:28
  cast his voice until your love for Mammon dies.
• 2:45:31
  Let me tell you this, I stand before the God of heaven and the
• 2:45:36
  person speaking to you by the messes of God.
• 2:45:38
  I'm not speaking in ignorance. There is no amount of money that
• 2:45:43
  will derail my passion from God. May God help me if I'm speaking
• 2:45:46
  nonsense, but as sincere as I know and this man has been
• 2:45:52
  tested. You have no idea.
• 2:45:57
  Remember our letters. There are letters that you.
• 2:45:59
  Don't read, you keep it there, but it's only.
• 2:46:03
  God that knows what some of us have done for the Kingdom.
• 2:46:12
  I'm tempted. To sing that song, you are the
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  first. I don't have the energy in my
• 2:46:15
  voice. If you bring it down, I will
• 2:46:16
  sing it. I mean, it's boiling in my
• 2:46:18
  spirit. Hallelujah.
• 2:46:22
  Sometimes I sing these songs. We're going to go, but I.
• 2:46:25
  Sing it because it ministers to you.
• 2:46:27
  And I sing it for someone. Listen, don't join me, just
• 2:46:30
  listen. You are the 1st.
• 2:47:05
  Everything. That's the language.
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  Of a true. Disciple, it doesn't matter what
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  you. Give me or don't give me.
• 2:47:22
  In spite of the billions and the.
• 2:47:24
  Millions he may give you. No matter how high you rise in.
• 2:47:32
  Life. Freedom from Mammon, the cancer
• 2:47:44
  that has aborted great destinies, has killed.
• 2:47:47
  The destinies of pastors rob men of their integrity.
• 2:47:52
  The cancer of mammon to a young minister.
• 2:47:57
  Here, let me give you an advice, an honest advice in the name of
• 2:48:00
  Jesus. If you find out that you.
• 2:48:02
  Have a an ungodly affinity to money and material things as a
• 2:48:10
  proof that ministry is working. I don't condemn you, but go for
• 2:48:14
  a retreat quick. Go and flog it out with God.
• 2:48:18
  If you must, buy a Jeep before you feel you are doing well.
• 2:48:24
  If you must wear designers from head to toe, never allow
• 2:48:28
  anything around. You define.
• 2:48:30
  Yourself worth dress well, look well, live in the mansions, buy
• 2:48:35
  the cars. That's fine, provided you are
• 2:48:38
  buried the appetite for Mammon. There is a subtle campaign and
• 2:48:45
  we need to be careful. On one hand, there are.
• 2:48:50
  People who hate the issue of wealth.
• 2:48:52
  I don't know why. Maybe because of the abuses that
• 2:48:55
  have. Happened around and the lack of
• 2:48:57
  integrity and the over emphasis on material wealth and that is
• 2:49:01
  justifiable, but it must be done with moderation.
• 2:49:05
  There are those who have tried to be blessed and it did not
• 2:49:08
  work and so they hate everything that reflects finances.
• 2:49:11
  But on the other hand there are those who have built spiritual
• 2:49:15
  monuments around money and it looks like the only definition
• 2:49:20
  of success is money. That must also be balanced, for
• 2:49:24
  a man's life does not constitute in the abundance of the things
• 2:49:28
  that he has. Poverty is not my friend.
• 2:49:31
  I hate it forever for me and for you, but I can tell you one.
• 2:49:35
  Thing. You must die.
• 2:49:37
  To Mammon next very quickly. What is the number?
• 2:49:44
  What now? The fifth fruit of a true
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  disciple. Victory and dominion by engaging
• 2:49:53
  the mysteries of the Kingdom. I know you are a true disciple
• 2:49:56
  of Jesus. When I eventually see a
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  manifestation of victory and dominion in your life, you can
• 2:50:04
  indefinitely be a failure, failing in every area of your
• 2:50:08
  life and call yourself a disciple.
• 2:50:10
  There might be seasons of training, seasons of pruning,
• 2:50:14
  but eventually I should see an emergence of dominion and
• 2:50:18
  victory because he calls us more than conquerors.
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  Victory and dominion is the fifth fruit and that by engaging
• 2:50:28
  the mysteries of the Kingdom. And then number six.
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  And this is where we end. This is by no means all the
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  fruits I'm. Just listing 6 for you.
• 2:50:38
  For the purpose of our discussion tonight,
• 2:50:40
  discipleship. Raising the men that transform
• 2:50:43
  nations raising the man that advanced God's program raising
• 2:50:48
  faithful's keywords of God's end time program that he can trust
• 2:50:54
  that would take advantage of his enabling grace and do mighty
• 2:50:58
  things for the Kingdom the 6th that is the fruit.
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  Are you ready? Freedom from fear of.
• 2:51:07
  Persecution and death. Oh, you are not a true disciple
• 2:51:12
  of Jesus until you get to a point where you.
• 2:51:16
  Become free. From the the fear of persecution
• 2:51:21
  and death. Again, this is where I thank God
• 2:51:24
  and that with every due respect, this is where I honor the
• 2:51:28
  evangelicals and those that we call the Orthodox Assemblies.
• 2:51:33
  When we were trained as little children, among the many
• 2:51:36
  instruments of training was the pride and the dignity of dying
• 2:51:41
  for Jesus. If need be.
• 2:51:43
  Our wonderful people. Now, today, especially in the
• 2:51:47
  modern church era, it's good to live long, but it's better to
• 2:51:53
  live well. Serving the.
• 2:51:55
  Purposes of the Kingdom. We fear death, we fear
• 2:51:59
  persecution. We are overly conscious of our
• 2:52:02
  reputation. What did they say about you?
• 2:52:05
  What did social media say and how do you?
• 2:52:08
  No, no, no, no, no, no. A true disciple of Jesus has
• 2:52:13
  tied to your reputation. You will be misunderstood many
• 2:52:16
  times, no matter how sincere you were.
• 2:52:19
  They call Jesus Beelzebub. They will call you Beelzebub.
• 2:52:27
  Are we together? Persecution is not a strange
• 2:52:32
  thing for the believer. Avoid the.
• 2:52:34
  Avoidables stay away. From trouble.
• 2:52:37
  But when trouble meets you on account of the cross, stand with
• 2:52:41
  honor. Stand with honor.
• 2:52:44
  I tell you, I've gotten to a point in my life where for me, I
• 2:52:46
  mean it is a dead man standing before you.
• 2:52:49
  I'm telling you, for me to live is Christ.
• 2:52:53
  The things of this world, as wonderful as they are, they make
• 2:52:56
  very little sense for me. Little sense.
• 2:53:01
  I've found a nobler anchor of my passion.
• 2:53:07
  So when you say you love Jesus, make sure you understand what
• 2:53:10
  you're saying. A true disciple is not one who
• 2:53:13
  lives for Jesus. Alone is one who, if need be,
• 2:53:17
  can die. This is how the gospel came.
• 2:53:20
  Paul said that I may know him. We stop there usually.
• 2:53:23
  And the power of his resurrection, he says, and the
• 2:53:27
  fellowship of his sufferings. Fellowship partaking of his
• 2:53:34
  sufferings That if they insult you as a.
• 2:53:38
  Pastor, they insult. You, they misunderstand you,
• 2:53:42
  they say all kinds about you. You rejoice in your heart.
• 2:53:46
  That is on account of the cross. This was how the Fathers brought
• 2:53:50
  the gospel. Right now we have an obsession
• 2:53:53
  for a seeker. Friendly.
• 2:53:55
  World, I'm not talking about becoming foolish and being hated
• 2:53:59
  by people. If you are foolish and you are
• 2:54:01
  hated by people, you are receiving the fruits of lack of
• 2:54:05
  wisdom. That's not persecution, I'm
• 2:54:08
  talking about loving Jesus. And then Satan begins to
• 2:54:11
  manipulate men from within and without raising men to towards
• 2:54:17
  your, your, your, your vision and your concentration.
• 2:54:22
  No, this is it, emoji. Thank God you are hearing it
• 2:54:31
  before you open the ministry next week.
• 2:54:34
  That is the implication of being a pastor.
• 2:54:36
  I know the poster is already. You have an online version of
• 2:54:39
  it. I'm not being sarcastic.
• 2:54:42
  Good message for you. You know 7 dimensions of hearing
• 2:54:46
  the voice of God. Also learn how to die for Jesus.
• 2:54:50
  Learn how to die. For Jesus, let me tell you this,
• 2:54:53
  I'm a young man, but I have been privileged to be around a few
• 2:55:00
  crises, including post election violence.
• 2:55:04
  When the violence happened in just, I was there, I was in
• 2:55:07
  town. There were a few uprisings that
• 2:55:11
  have happened in Zaria. I was there.
• 2:55:13
  There was a time at the height of what Boko Haram was doing in
• 2:55:16
  Maiduguri, I went to minister for F for NCCFI, was about to
• 2:55:20
  come and take a flight from Zaria to Abuja, True story.
• 2:55:25
  And then they cancelled the flights.
• 2:55:27
  Then I think it was an airline called, well, I won't mention
• 2:55:30
  the name. They're no longer, they're no
• 2:55:32
  longer in existence now. But then they were there.
• 2:55:34
  I remember the driver. I asked him, I said, can you go
• 2:55:38
  to Maiduguri? Because the believers were
• 2:55:40
  happy. Nobody was going there for
• 2:55:42
  justifiable reason. I mean, you could die.
• 2:55:46
  And I told him, I said I'm coming.
• 2:55:47
  It was the NCC of that time. I said I will come.
• 2:55:51
  I told the man. I said can you?
• 2:55:52
  Can you take me by Rd. He told me how much I will pay.
• 2:55:55
  I said let's go. I passed Kano.
• 2:55:58
  It was less than one hour when there was a bomb blast and I
• 2:56:01
  didn't stop the journey. We went to a place called
• 2:56:04
  Portisco and there they had closed because the military were
• 2:56:09
  protecting those areas. I'm not saying that.
• 2:56:12
  To command sympathy. I'm saying somewhere in the
• 2:56:14
  journey of your life you will be faced with a situation where you
• 2:56:17
  will choose between Jesus and this life.
• 2:56:23
  It is milder for others, some never even experience it, but my
• 2:56:27
  goodness, for some that is the last badge they carry as they
• 2:56:31
  transit. You are not a true Christian if
• 2:56:34
  you are not taught this. Are we together that?
• 2:56:41
  Night I did. Not sleep in Protisco.
• 2:56:45
  Because of poverty, I was not poor.
• 2:56:48
  It was the privilege. Of the Fellowship of.
• 2:56:50
  The cross we got there, it was night.
• 2:56:53
  They had closed the place because there were no fightings
• 2:56:56
  and the rest were going on. And I remember sleeping that
• 2:56:59
  mosquitoes and everything, they were piles of cars.
• 2:57:02
  And I remember a joy welled up in my spirit later in the night.
• 2:57:07
  I said, I'm doing this for your glory.
• 2:57:09
  With all honor, with all honor, with all honor.
• 2:57:21
  Is someone learning I have decided to follow.
• 2:57:27
  Jesus. I have.
• 2:57:30
  Decided also. But very powerful.
• 2:57:35
  I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back.
• 2:57:42
  No turning back. I have decided to leave for
• 2:57:49
  Jesus. I have decided to leave.
• 2:57:53
  For Jesus. I have.
• 2:57:56
  Decided to leave for Jesus. No turning back.
• 2:58:04
  No turning back. I have decided to walk with
• 2:58:10
  Jesus. I have decided to work with
• 2:58:16
  Jesus. I have decided to walk with
• 2:58:21
  Jesus. No turning back.
• 2:58:35
  It's not a song go, it's a declaration.
• 2:58:38
  I hear there are many people who sing this song now.
• 2:58:40
  I hope. That the people who sing it are
• 2:58:43
  ready to die for Jesus. If not, don't sing it yet.
• 2:58:47
  Keep it first the day you die, then you can sing it.
• 2:58:51
  You die to your flesh. Many people sing it and it's
• 2:58:56
  just a Jamboree. No, it's a declaration that if I
• 2:59:02
  serve Him in life, glory be to God.
• 2:59:04
  But if? Death meets me as I serve.
• 2:59:06
  Him, let it be my honor, the hymn writer says.
• 2:59:09
  I will be a true soldier. I will die at my post.
• 2:59:13
  Every military man. Go and ask the generals.
• 2:59:16
  Some of them never died in war. The next time you see a general,
• 2:59:20
  that is a testament of a man who fought many battles.
• 2:59:24
  Many battles there are soldiers that started from NDA, some did
• 2:59:29
  not finish, they died on the way.
• 2:59:32
  One time I went to Zarya and some of the soldiers that are
• 2:59:35
  around when we go, I went one time and I didn't see one of
• 2:59:38
  them again. And I was asking the friends, I
• 2:59:40
  said where is this other person? And they all looked at one
• 2:59:42
  another and they said he's gone. They went for an operation and
• 2:59:46
  they did not make it the same way it is in the military.
• 2:59:49
  Some die in battle. Others survive, but they carry
• 2:59:53
  injuries. Others as generous.
• 2:59:55
  You stand with you see no finger.
• 2:59:57
  Again it went. Others leave until they retire.
• 3:00:02
  Others die. That's why they hold them in
• 3:00:05
  honor. There are military men in
• 3:00:07
  hospitals today because they fought for our nation.
• 3:00:10
  That's how it is in the Kingdom. Some will start.
• 3:00:14
  Others have gone, like Doctor Miles Monroe.
• 3:00:17
  All their others have gone. Some finished, some in active
• 3:00:21
  battle. Because those who should support
• 3:00:24
  them were busy wasting their time, showing success and
• 3:00:28
  competing. Others stood alone in battle and
• 3:00:32
  they died. Today's our turn.
• 3:00:35
  I. Wish I can talk.
• 3:00:36
  To young men who are doing ministry, this is ministry.
• 3:00:41
  Not preaching, not Greek, not Hebrew, no turning back, no
• 3:00:52
  turning back. Not conferences, No Sir.
• 3:00:58
  Not suits and designers. Thank God for.
• 3:01:01
  Those not how many members, not just flying private jets, No,
• 3:01:07
  you die. I thank God that he started with
• 3:01:12
  me from the north. I've.
• 3:01:13
  Seen all kinds of things. All kinds of things.
• 3:01:17
  If I tell you I love Jesus, believe me.
• 3:01:23
  Koinonia if you love. Jesus, this is the price for
• 3:01:29
  being a. Disciple.
• 3:01:31
  Rise up on your feet. Rise up on your.
• 3:01:38
  Feet, please hold hands with someone by your left and right
• 3:01:41
  if you can. We're wrapping up.
• 3:01:43
  Sorry for. Stretching you, please.
• 3:01:45
  Let's minimize movement. In 5 minutes or so, we're done.
• 3:01:49
  You can be that patient. Not after a sermon like this.
• 3:01:54
  The fruits of disciples A balanced, thoroughly discipled.
• 3:01:59
  Believer. Must capture both the victories
• 3:02:04
  and the possibilities for the sufferings.
• 3:02:06
  They go together. The fruit of the Spirit, the
• 3:02:11
  inner walk of transformation. Where?
• 3:02:13
  You are Christ like in. Thoughts in conversation in your
• 3:02:17
  life death to self a detachment from excessive pleasure and the.
• 3:02:24
  Cares the desires. Of this life.
• 3:02:26
  Living a life that is excellent but modest enough to keep your
• 3:02:31
  focus intact. Placing priority on Jesus as the
• 3:02:36
  highest and the noblest relationship in this life.
• 3:02:39
  Freedom from Mammon, the God of gold.
• 3:02:44
  An obsession for money and building your confidence and
• 3:02:49
  yourself worth around the presence.
• 3:02:52
  Or the absence of things. Victory and dominion, or you
• 3:02:58
  should experience many triumphs in your life by engaging the
• 3:03:03
  world. And finally, freedom from the
• 3:03:06
  fear of persecution doesn't mean to go and enter trouble.
• 3:03:10
  Many have died thinking they were persecuted, but it was
• 3:03:13
  foolishness. There are times where you do
• 3:03:18
  everything. The horse is prepared for
• 3:03:20
  battle. But if it meets you there, you
• 3:03:23
  fight. You do.
• 3:03:27
  I told you one time I flew, I've not had many of those
• 3:03:29
  incidences. It's just one I remember having
• 3:03:32
  where the aircraft, it was as if it was already gone.
• 3:03:37
  I was in that aircraft. It was, I mean, it was as if
• 3:03:40
  somebody held it. I was bouncing it like a ball.
• 3:03:43
  And I thought to myself, I said, so is this going to be the day?
• 3:03:47
  Let me tell you this If you die without Jesus, you are going to
• 3:03:58
  hell period. If you die without Jesus.
• 3:04:09
  You are going to hell. The meaning of that is that
• 3:04:13
  there is no possibility. For finding.
• 3:04:15
  Salvation in the grave when Lazarus cried.
• 3:04:20
  On the rich man. The rich man begged Lazarus.
• 3:04:23
  He says go to my family members. They've not died.
• 3:04:26
  Warned. Them that I was proud when I was
• 3:04:29
  on earth, I sat on my money and I thought that was everything.
• 3:04:34
  Warned them for me. He said sorry, that cannot
• 3:04:36
  happen again. But they have the law, they have
• 3:04:40
  the prophets in our days who say you have the Bible as a witness
• 3:04:44
  and you have the voice of vessels that God has raised.
• 3:04:49
  Don't wait till you die to land. I'm not scaring you, but I
• 3:04:52
  cannot but tell you the truth. Books were open, ladies and
• 3:04:56
  gentlemen, and another book was opened.
• 3:04:59
  The works of men were written. That is the day the arrogance of
• 3:05:03
  men who failed them. The one who dies without Jesus
• 3:05:07
  Christ does not need any judgment is already judged.
• 3:05:11
  The judgment that will happen the second death is to relocate
• 3:05:15
  men into hell, officially with. Satan.
• 3:05:18
  It is the second death, and then that men will be rewarded
• 3:05:22
  according to their works. The ones who died as
• 3:05:25
  missionaries, their names will be called.
• 3:05:28
  We used to sing a song in the seminary.
• 3:05:31
  When the role is called of Yonder When the role is called
• 3:05:39
  of Yonder. When the role is.
• 3:05:43
  Called. Up Yonder when the road is.
• 3:05:49
  Called up Yonder. I'll be there some.
• 3:05:54
  Of you just. Lied because you would not be
• 3:05:56
  there, not because of what you. Did or didn't do?
• 3:06:00
  No, nobody gets into a relationship with Jesus Christ.
• 3:06:06
  Because of what they did. Or didn't do.
• 3:06:08
  No, you are rewarded in heaven for what you did.
• 3:06:12
  That was for the Kingdom. But your entrance into the
• 3:06:15
  Kingdom is not by what you did or did not do.
• 3:06:18
  Your works will be rewarded after you are saved and you
• 3:06:22
  spend your life for Jesus. I want to make an altar call.
• 3:06:27
  I've made many altar calls. I make altar calls every week
• 3:06:30
  and every. Other time, but tonight's.
• 3:06:32
  Altar call, I want you to be a serious one.
• 3:06:35
  You've heard me speak, and from the start of this discussion
• 3:06:39
  tonight you are online listening to me.
• 3:06:43
  Across the nations of the earth. You are a pastor.
• 3:06:46
  You are you. Know a member you are in this
• 3:06:50
  place and you are saying apostle, I want Jesus not
• 3:06:54
  because of the fear of death. It is because of this death you
• 3:06:58
  see this eternal damnation where you lose both your body and your
• 3:07:02
  soul forever that Jesus came and paid that price to salvage you.
• 3:07:06
  I'm going to count 1 to 5. I'm looking for someone who
• 3:07:10
  understood everything I said tonight and you are saying
• 3:07:13
  Apostle, give me a chance to make it right with this Jesus.
• 3:07:17
  I'm going to ask you to leave your seat and come stand right
• 3:07:20
  in front of me. Or you are saying apostle, I'm
• 3:07:23
  tired of the way I've lived my life.
• 3:07:25
  I want to get it right. Come, let's celebrate them as
• 3:07:28
  they come. When the road is called up,
• 3:07:33
  Yonder come the road. Is called up.
• 3:07:38
  Yonder when the road is all of Yonder.
• 3:07:46
  Keep coming when the road is all of Yonder.
• 3:07:51
  I'll be there one more time. When the road is all of Yonder.
• 3:07:57
  When the road is all of Yonder. When the road.
• 3:08:19
  For those of you who are following online, tonight is a
• 3:08:23
  serious night. We're discussing something.
• 3:08:26
  That is beyond doing well. We're discussing something of
• 3:08:30
  eternal value, something that gives you value here on earth
• 3:08:36
  and then even after this life is done, that arc of safety if you.
• 3:08:41
  Are here and you are saying. Apostle are backsliding.
• 3:08:44
  I remember making it right with Jesus, but as it stands now I
• 3:08:48
  cannot say I have a functional relationship.
• 3:08:51
  Join them very quickly. Join them, join them.
• 3:08:55
  You can leave your seat and come and have the assurance of
• 3:08:58
  salvation once and for all. God bless you.
• 3:09:01
  Come, come quickly. When the road is called up
• 3:09:13
  Yonder, I'll be there. When the names are called up
• 3:09:19
  Yonder, I'll be there. Come.
• 3:09:30
  When the road is called. Up Yonder.
• 3:09:33
  I'll be there. When the names are called up
• 3:09:39
  Yonder. God bless you.
• 3:09:43
  Nothing to be ashamed. Of we're not a family that
• 3:09:45
  condemns. Tonight's message was harsh.
• 3:09:48
  Because that's the way it is. You don't raise disciples in the
• 3:09:51
  presence of comfort. You stretch people until they
• 3:09:54
  love Jesus. You stretch them until they know
• 3:09:57
  him. I'm going to pray for you, my
• 3:10:00
  dear brothers and sisters. Thank you so much for.
• 3:10:03
  Making this noble decision. I salute your courage and I
• 3:10:08
  thank you. Some of you are.
• 3:10:09
  Crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears.
• 3:10:12
  Someday you will stand before Jesus and He will remind you of
• 3:10:16
  this message you heard and say thank you that you did not allow
• 3:10:21
  my sacrifice for you to be in vain.
• 3:10:24
  Please lift your hand above your head and for someone who is
• 3:10:31
  watching online, I may not see you but Jesus Christ sees you,
• 3:10:36
  the one who died for you and I want you this night as.
• 3:10:40
  This one's pray. You may be somewhere in Russia,
• 3:10:43
  Kuwait, some eastern nation, perhaps you may not even be a
• 3:10:49
  child of God as you were born or from a.
• 3:10:51
  Christian Family. You can make it right tonight.
• 3:10:55
  You can make it right tonight. You can make it right tonight.
• 3:11:00
  You can make it. Right tonight.
• 3:11:05
  Say, Lord Jesus, say those of you who are.
• 3:11:08
  In front, say Lord Jesus. I have heard your word.
• 3:11:13
  I love you with all my heart. I believe you are the Son of
• 3:11:20
  God. I believe you died for my sins.
• 3:11:24
  I believe you rose again for my justification.
• 3:11:29
  Right now I receive forgiveness of sin.
• 3:11:34
  I. Receive your life.
• 3:11:36
  I declare that Jesus is my Savior, my Lord, and my King.
• 3:11:44
  I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is
• 3:11:51
  broken over my life from tonight.
• 3:11:54
  I'm a child of God. I go for whatever and back
• 3:11:58
  whatever. Amen.
• 3:12:00
  Keep those beautiful hands lifted.
• 3:12:02
  Father. Thank you for my dear brothers
• 3:12:04
  and sisters, this precious people you died for.
• 3:12:07
  They have come declaring your lordship, and indeed they have
• 3:12:10
  declared. I commend them to the integrity
• 3:12:13
  of your word. You promise that everyone who
• 3:12:15
  comes to you, you will. In no wise castaway, I pray in
• 3:12:19
  the name of Jesus Christ that tonight begins a new walk in
• 3:12:23
  their lives. I declare that the power of sin,
• 3:12:26
  Satan, hell and the grave, let it be broken over your life.
• 3:12:30
  The grace of God becomes yours through Jesus Christ and the
• 3:12:34
  power to live a victorious Christian life evolving in
• 3:12:38
  experience to become a true disciple of Jesus.
• 3:12:41
  May that grace be released upon you and to a family connected
• 3:12:45
  online. In Jesus mighty name we pray,
• 3:12:49
  Amen and Amen. Congratulations.
• 3:12:51
  Please look to my right. You will see the counselors
• 3:12:54
  waiting to receive you and to have a word with you and to pray
• 3:12:58
  with you. Please do cooperate with them.
• 3:13:00
  Let's honor them as they go. God bless you, God bless you,
• 3:13:06
  God bless you, God bless. You.
• 3:13:10
  Keep clapping. Koinonia.
• 3:13:12
  Our time is. Up but keep clapping say what is
• 3:13:15
  sacrifice tonight in. Jesus.
• 3:13:21
  Name 1. Final instruction, I beseech you
• 3:13:25
  by the message of. God, please, I want you to take
• 3:13:29
  the time and listen to this message at least 2 * 2 times.
• 3:13:35
  Media this week and grafted words.
• 3:13:37
  Just make it 2 sermons because people need time to listen to
• 3:13:41
  this one, maybe this one, and we'll find one order.
• 3:13:45
  These are renewal messages. Are we together?
• 3:13:48
  Renewal messages? So just two messages is enough
• 3:13:52
  for this week so that the people can stay with it and camp with
• 3:13:57
  it. Some of you can listen to it
• 3:13:58
  everyday, some of you can listen twice, three times before the
• 3:14:02
  week. Let it sink into your spirit.
• 3:14:05
  Be in the mood of prayers. You are listening in the night.
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  Maybe when you are back from work, when you are done with
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  family and whatever, you can sit as a pastor in your office and
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  listen. And where it heats your spirit,
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  you turn it to prayer with tears coming from your eyes.
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  Are we together? Praise the name of the Lord,
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  listen to it and get it across to someone, and let me speak to
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  the body of Christ. As you listen to these messages,
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  please care less about theological accuracy and
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  whatever. Whatever you find that you don't
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  believe, just shrug it away and settle down and focus on the one
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  that changes your life. You'll be surprised that people
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  listen to a message like this and all they are looking for is
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  what is wrong. You may find it maybe in many
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  instances, but you can't deny its power to change men.
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  Stay there and find the what? The part that changes men's
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  lives in the name of Jesus Christ and so.
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  I'm saying. This in advance so that you sit
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  down undistracted and listen and let it bless you and let it
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  change you. Give any pastor who cares to
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  listen. Give your brothers and your
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  sisters in ministry. Take it to someone who needs to
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  learn. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Pray with it and let it build
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  you to become a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
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  Reminding you for one last time, for those of you who have not
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  registered for the conference coming, we're doing a
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  registration does not affect your attendance, but please help
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  us so that we can have an idea of the numbers I need to help
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  with our planning. This includes Nigeria, every
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  state you're coming from, any state in Nigeria, please do
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  register to. It's not just for the
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  international people and those coming from across police media.
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  Drive this message to all our platforms.
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  Let the people know we're registering so that it can help
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  us. Whether you register or not
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  doesn't affect your attendance, but this will guide us on things
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  like venue security and the rest.
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  There's a lot on the table we're working with, and soon by next
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  week, we'll begin to structure our preparation.
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  And then announcing to you as it matters again, we're looking at
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  the mandate and we're trusting God to guide us to reorder the
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  body of Christ back to the things that matter and to guide
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  us as a ministry and as a global vision.
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  Have you been blessed tonight? In the name of Jesus, I speak
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  the blessing over you. I pray that beginning from this
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  week, you will be a true reflection of a Christian.
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  You will be a true reflection of one who has met Jesus in the
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  mighty name of Jesus, and every victory that comes with knowing
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  Jesus Christ may be manifest. In.
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  Your life this week. Every breakthrough that comes
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  with knowing Jesus Christ may be manifest in your life this week
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  in the name of Jesus Christ and everything Jesus died to abolish
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  may be abolished in your life in the name of Jesus.
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  I call you the head and not the tail.
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  I call you above and not beneath.
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  I declare the lines have fallen for you in pleasant places.
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  Everything that attaches you to the things of this world, I
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  disconnected from you in Jesus name.
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  And yet, in the midst of that detachment, you will enjoy
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  plenty. God will fill your hand with
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  good things. He will fill your home with good
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  things. I speak wisdom over your life.
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  I speak favor over your destiny because you have allowed Him to
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  build you. May He raise you to be a captain
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  over His inheritance. In the name of Jesus.
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  Monday is blessed. Tuesday is blessed.
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  Wednesday is blessed. Thursday is blessed.
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  Friday is blessed. Saturday is blessed, Sunday
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  again is blessed for you and your children, for your
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  business, blessed for your family, blessed for your
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  ministries, blessed for Abuja, blessed for Nigeria, blessed for
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  Africa, blessed. In the name of Jesus, go in
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  peace and I declare your return with testimonies for this.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray together.
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  Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the
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  Holy Spirit. Let it rest and abide with us
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  now and forever. Amen.
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  Surely His goodness and mercies follow us all the days of our
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  lives as we dwell in the House of the Lord forever and ever,
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  Amen. God bless you.
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  See you in church next week. I have decided to follow.
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  Jesus. No turning back, no turning
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  back. I have decided to follow Jesus.
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  No turning back. No turning back I have decided
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  follow G No turning back. Turning back, I have decided no.
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  Turning back No. Turn, I have decided.
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  No turn. No turn in back to follow Jesus.
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  No turn in back. Go down one more time.