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Exploit in Ministry by Apostle Joshua Selman (Rock of Ages Christian Assembly, Benin, Nigeria) · Selah Media House

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Praise God, thank you, thank you so very much.
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It is Amen. Thank you.
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It is my joy to be in your city and to be in this wonderful
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church, wonderful church. And whilst we're still standing
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alike us to sincerely, truthfully celebrate the Angel
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over this Commission and his dear wife, Apostle Charles
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Osazua. God bless you, Sir.
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It's a joy to be here. And to your dear wife and the
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entire leadership of this great ministry.
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It is always a privilege to be a blessing to as many.
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And I'm happy because I think I'm trying to think of the last
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time I came to Benin. It's been a very, very long
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time. Very long time.
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So I really am happy. Let's lift our hands to heaven
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and ask the Lord to visit us again.
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Lift your hands with your eyes on Jesus.
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Father, give me an encounter by your word.
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Take me higher by your word. Bring me to new realms, new
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dimensions by your word. Someone is praying.
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I saw so many people at the overflow and I understand there
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are many connecting. Go ahead and pray.
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Let it be a desperate cry. Few more seconds.
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A desperate cry. Hallelujah.
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Father, we ask you, in the name of Jesus to bless us.
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We pray in the name of Jesus that your presence will be
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mighty in this place and that your word will come with power.
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Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing in this city.
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Thank you for the mighty things you are doing in this church and
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through this ministry we declare be glorified.
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Thank you for all the speakers who have come until now.
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Thank you for the various dimensions of truth they have
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brought. Lord, we pray that even tonight
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grace will be added upon. Grace for in Jesus name we pray.
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God bless you. You may be gloriously seated.
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Hallelujah. Now your pastor said a few words
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before I came up and they are very profound words that I hope
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we would take to heart. 1 of it being to be prepared to apply
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the things that you learn. Knowledge is not power.
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Knowledge is potential power. It is knowledge that is applied,
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understood and engaged consistently that produces
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profit. Just because you have access to
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truth does not mean it will profit you.
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It is when truth is engaged with understanding, then it produces
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profit for you. And within the time that I have,
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we'll be looking at a few things.
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This, I'm telling you, is a very profound Apostolic investment in
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this city. When you train pastors, when you
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train ministers of the Gospel, then you provide the template
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for a robust and a vibrant spiritual atmosphere within a
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territory. Because you see, what the
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average believer becomes is largely a product of the kind
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and the quality of the priesthood that raises and
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trains that person. Are we together?
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What any believer in your territory will become is not
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just dependent on the will of God, is dependent on the kind
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and the quality of priesthood. So when you look around beneath
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and you find out there is a widespread deficiency either in
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an area of spiritual understanding or in an area of
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the performance of the world, or in an area of leadership or in
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an area of character, it will largely be traced to a
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deficiency in content from the pulpit.
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So a pastors conference like this is very, very important
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because that's one of the ways you heal the land every time you
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read the Bible. When societies and territories
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were in trouble, it was not the government God went to.
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He did not even blame the government.
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He went to the church. Remember what the Bible says if
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my people. And he tied it to the healing of
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the land. He never mentioned the
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government. If my people, once the land is
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not healed, the problem is with my people.
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My people, Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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So I'll be talking about a few things under the theme exploits
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in ministry, exploits in ministry, and I have four major
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things that I want to talk about quickly.
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And I pray in the name of Jesus that God will help us.
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And I believe with all my heart that whilst you are under this
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cloud, there will be an emotion in the Spirit.
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You see, the ministry of the Spirit goes beyond the
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communication of words. It defies beyond the realm of
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intelligence. This is the difference between
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the ministry of the Spirit and a lecture.
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So while it appeals to your mind, it sells you superior
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ideas. You must know that behind the
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frailty of the man's words, the Holy Ghost is doing something to
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your spirit man too. Hallelujah.
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That means you will live with more than what you heard because
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there is a transaction that happens between you and the Holy
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Spirit that is beyond the realm of words.
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And so I'm praying for you that as these words come, they will
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not just appeal to your intellect, but that they will
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strengthen you. Ezekiel chapter 2, one and two,
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the Bible says, Son of Man, stand upon your feet and I will
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speak unto you. He asked him to stand, but the
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man did not have the strength to stand.
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But two says under spirit entered into me and set me upon
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my feet. It takes more than desire to
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stand. There is the business of the
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Spirit that can lift men to stand.
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And I pray for you in the name of Jesus, that beyond the words
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that will come from this pulpit, that the Holy Spirit will
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empower you afresh, empower your ministry, empower your church,
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empower you in the area of service.
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That as a result of this conference, not just this
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church, not just this region, but everyone who has come as a
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member and as a participant will return back and begin to do
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exploits for the Kingdom. If you're in agreement, shout
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Amen. So very quickly, we'll look at 3
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scriptures for a foundation. Colossians chapter 4 and verse
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17. Colossians chapter 4 and verse
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17 say unto Akipus, take heed to the ministry which thou has
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received in the Lord. I'm not teaching on this
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scripture, but if you are an observant person, you would
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notice the structure of that statement.
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It didn't say take heed to the ministry that you received from
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the Lord. He said in the Lord to receive
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from a man does not demand a relationship is just proximity,
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but to receive in the Lord it goes beyond just proximity.
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You will need a depth of relationship.
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So it says that thou fulfill it. Take heed to the ministry which
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you have received in the Lord that you will fulfill it.
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Second Scripture. Second Peter 1 and verse 10.
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Second Peter chapter 1 and verse 10.
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Wherefore the rather brethren, it says, give diligence to make
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your calling and your election show, for if you do these
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things, ye shall never fall. Say Amen.
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Ready for the final Scripture. Second Timothy chapter 4 and
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verse 5. Second Timothy chapter 4 and
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verse 5. Blessed be the name of the Lord,
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it says, But watch thou in all things and your afflictions, do
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the work of an evangelist. Let's read the last sentence
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together. Ready 1 To go make full proof of
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your ministry. That means it is your
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responsibility to stop men from doubting you.
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Hallelujah. They have a right to doubt your
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calling until you do business with God to change that
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narrative. He says to make full proof of
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your ministry. So I've divided my teaching in
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four parts very quickly so that we can take the last, say, 10
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minutes to pray. The first thing I want to start
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with tonight is redefinitions. I have found out as I teach the
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Word of God and as I help people experience the ministry of the
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Spirit, that it matters that we have a unified understanding of
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terminologies. Sometimes we take for granted as
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preachers that when you mention a word, a thought, or a concept
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that while everybody is nodding, they really understand what you
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are saying. It may not be so.
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Defining terminologies is very important.
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If I say apple, nobody is thinking orange.
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All of us are thinking the same thing.
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Am I right? If I say a baby, nobody is
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thinking a grandfather. Because there is a definition,
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there is clarity. But the, the the first reason
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why people fail in learning spiritual things is that there's
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a lot of assumption as far as definitions are concerned.
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So we're going to take 4 definitions.
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I want to redefine them very quickly.
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Number one is the word ministry. Ministry, blessed be the name of
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the Lord. When we talk about ministry for
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the average believer, what exactly are we talking about?
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It's important we understand what ministry is.
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Here's the average believer, including the average pastors
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understanding of ministry. So he thinks of a pulpit, he
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thinks of a Bible in front of it, a mic in his hand and a
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congregation listening to him while he's teaching or
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ministering or doing whatever it is.
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And that's what he calls ministry.
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That's a sincere understanding or is a very wrong
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understanding. Ministry has nothing to do with
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the congregation necessarily, has nothing to do with the
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pulpit necessarily, has nothing to do with holding a mic.
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In fact, it has nothing to do with speaking necessarily.
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You see that now. What makes anything?
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Ministry is first the motif and then the goal.
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Ministry is any activity, please listen, that is motivated by
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your love for Jesus and is intended to reveal Him.
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Bring Him glory and bless believers, or bless the body or
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bless your environment or bless society.
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I'll take that. Again, any activity that is
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motivated by your love for Jesus.
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If you're writing, please underline that statement.
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Motivated by your love for Jesus, not your love for
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increase, not your love for exploits, motivated by your love
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for Jesus. And it is intended to glorify
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him directly and then to bless humanity is called ministry by
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this definition. You see immediately that there
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are many preachers but few ministers.
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There are many singers but few ministers.
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Are we together? That means ministry goes beyond
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the pulpit. Watch this if my cleaning, this
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pulpit is motivated by my love for Jesus and it is intended to
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be a contribution to make the pulpit conducive for the man of
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God to the end that Jesus be revealed and that lives be
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blessed. That act of cleaning is called
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ministry. Are we together now?
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Listen, if Mary's getting pregnant, we'll allow for the
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arrival of Jesus in the flesh and he will be revealed and
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saved. Men, that act of getting
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pregnant is called in history. I can stand here and preach.
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Nothing is wrong with the activity, but what makes it
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ministries? Not the spirituality or the
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religiosity of the activity, but it is the fact that I must be
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motivated by my love for Jesus and the desire must not be.
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Anything. Other than seeking to see Him
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revealed and then being a blessing to men.
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Now, if preaching is motivated by your love for Jesus and it's
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the goal is to reveal Jesus and to bless people, that act of
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preaching is now called ministry.
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If your singing is motivated by your love for Jesus and it is
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intended to reveal him and to bless men, that act of singing
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is called ministry. So when I say where are the
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ministers, stand up. Don't stand up just because you
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were ordained. Don't stand up just because you
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have a building that you had. No Sir, don't stand up.
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Just. Because you read a Greek and a
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Hebrew lexicon. No, no, no, that's not what I'm
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asking. Don't stand up.
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Stand up only if your activities are motivated by your love for
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Jesus and that the goal is not competition.
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The goal is not to make a name. The goal is not to prove you are
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not a failure. If the goal is to glorify Jesus
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and to bless man, then you are in ministry.
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So some of you by this teaching today will be your official
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commencement of ministry. Because quite honestly, what you
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have been doing before now is spiritual activity, but perhaps
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not ministry. So the Bible speaks about a man
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called a Messiah. He says a Messiah walked.
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He said that he walked. He did everything that was good,
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but not with a perfect heart. The problem was not the
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correctness of the activity, it was the heart condition.
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Someone learning now praise the name of the Lord.
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So next time we talk about ministry, don't think in terms
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of the religiosity of the activity.
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Think in terms of the motivation or the motif and then the goal.
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I tell you how Jesus called Peter into ministry.
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He did not just say come follow me.
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He said love us down me more than this.
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And Peter said he didn't say can you fish?
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He didn't say, Can you? Speak.
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He said, Lovest thou me more than this?
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He said, prove that you love me by letting that be the
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motivation to feed my sheep and to feed my land.
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Is someone learning we're just doing redefinition?
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If this is all we do, no problem can stop.
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At least this has helped someone.
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Let's go to #2 what's the second redefinition?
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The Great Commission? Goodness.
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I'm talking to Pastor, so I have the liberty to share a few
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things. If I ask the average man of God
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now, without feeling embarrassed, I say, stand up.
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Tell me exactly what you are doing.
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Many of us will say, well, God told me, go and raise me a
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people. And you are right.
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Others will say God said go and disciple people.
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Others will say God said, go and win souls.
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You see, but most ministers of the gospel are not effective as
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far as the work of ministry is concerned because there is still
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a hazy understanding of what we call theologically the Great
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Commission. Now the word Great Commission is
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not found in the Bible is just a theological term to capture our
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corporate mandate. As believers, are we together
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now that Jesus gave us a corporate mandate?
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And in many, many, unfortunately many Bible schools and schools
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of ministry, we have not done justice in defining the full
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scope of the Great Commission. Hallelujah.
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If I ask others what is the Great Commission, you will say
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soul winning, You are right. If I ask others what is the
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Great Commission, you say, well, casting out devils, you are
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right. But these are only pieces of the
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truth. And if you do not understand the
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mandate, it will affect your efficiency.
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You need to know exactly what Jesus told you to do.
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There are three scriptures and there are three dimensions to
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the Great Commission. I'll give it to you very
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quickly. In fact, let me define it for
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you. The Great Commission is a
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mandate that Jesus gave his 10 disciples and now, by extension,
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the entire body of believers. He gave that mandate first to
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his disciples and now to the entire body of believers, not
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just ministers, the entire body of believers that captures
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within it #1 the salvation of sinners or the salvation of men
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#2 helping believers attain maturity and stature through
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discipleship, and then #3 transforming societies through
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the wisdom and the power of God. If you omit any one of these
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aspects, it is not the Great Commission as God intended.
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You hear You write it in a way, you understand that it is a
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mandate that Jesus first gave the disciples, and now it's a
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mandate that's been extended to all of us, every believer, and
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that the mandate captures the salvation of sinners, helping
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the body of Christ attain unto maturity and stature, and then
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#3 transforming territories and transforming societies.
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So there are three scriptures that come that must be put
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together to define the Great Commission.
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Number one is Acts chapter 16. From verse 15 Jesus said go ye
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into all the world. I mean, sorry.
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Mark, Mark not act. Mark please.
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Mark 1615 He spoke unto them. He said go ye.
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What did he say? Go ye is an action word.
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Go ye into the wall and preach the gospel.
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Notice what he told you to do. Preach someone.
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Say preach again. Say preach.
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I told you what to preach the gospel to every creature.
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Hallelujah. Number 2 is found in Matthew 28
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from verse 18 to 20. This is the second aspect of the
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Great Commission. Jesus came and said unto them,
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all power. The word power.
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There is an inaccurate rendition by KJV is the word exusia.
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All authority has been given unto me that is in heaven and
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the earth. And then it says verse 19
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another Monday, Go ye, how many go ye are we see now two there
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is go ye and preach. Now we have go ye and teach.
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Is someone learning now? You are not supposed to choose
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the one you want. There is go ye and preach.
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There is also go ye and teach. Teach all nations, baptizing
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them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
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teaching them, verse 20, to observe all things whatsoever I
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have commanded you. And while you are about this,
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know that I am with you all way, even to the end of the world.
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Second Scripture. The third scripture that makes
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the Great Commission is found in Acts chapter 1 and verse 8.
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He says but you shall receive power.
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So for context, Jesus is having his final session with them
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before the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and they asked him a
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question. They said, will you at this time
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restore the king of the nation of Jerusalem?
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He said it is not for you to know the times and the seasons
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that the Father has kept in his care.
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Verse 8 he said, But you shall receive power after that.
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The Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be now
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notice. This one he didn't say you will
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go and say, he say you will become.
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There is going to preach, there is going to teach, but there is
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becoming the evidence yourself. Please listen.
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If you omit any of these three scriptures, you do not
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understand the Great Commission. Go ye and preach.
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Go ye and teach disciple nations.
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Go ye, and then be a witness for you.
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To understand Acts one verse 8, you have to understand Matthew
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chapter 5 from verse 13 to 16. It says you are the salt of the
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earth. But if the salt has lost his
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several or its saltiness, wherewith shall it be salted
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again? It is tense good for nothing
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except to be thrown on the foot and trampled on the foot of men.
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Verse 14 says You are the light of the world, you are a city.
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Notice that all of these descriptions go beyond a
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building, a city that is set on a hill that cannot be hid.
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Neither do men light a lamp, put it under a bushel, but that they
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put it on a Candlestick and it gives light to everyone in the
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building. Verse 16 says, let your light so
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shine before men that they may see, not that they may hear that
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they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven
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who understands me so far. So the Great Commission is a
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threefold mandate, and that mandate captures three things.
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By now you would have deduced them.
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Number one, world evangelization, the salvation of
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souls. That's the first aspect.
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Of the Great Commission, Please, every pastor must know this
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world. Evangelization is the first
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aspect of the Great Commission #2 discipleship as the pathway
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to bring believers into maturity and stature.
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Discipleship as the pathway that brings believers into maturity
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and stature, and then #3 societal or territorial
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transformation. Let me take that again.
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So there is the Great Commission, and under it there
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are three. There's a threefold mandate.
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If you don't understand this man of God, it means you are not
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doing what Jesus said #1 is world evangelization.
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This one is God's program for the world of.
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Sinners. Then there is discipleship,
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God's program for the church. Then there is territorial
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transformation, God's program for society.
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Are you saying that God has a program for the unbelieving
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world? The name of the program is world
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evangelization. The Holy Ghost, in partnership
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with the angels as reapers, and in partnership with yielded
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vessels, are the ones who do that business.
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Then there is a program exclusively for the church that
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we attend on to maturity and stature, and I'm coming there.
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And then there is a program for society.
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It's called territorial transformation if your concept
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of Kingdom advance or Kingdom come or Great Commission does
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not capture these. Three areas.
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It will affect the product you are making out of people.
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So you are not given the liberty to choose world evangelization
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and then say for me, I chose this.
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No, you may be uniquely called into one or two of these areas,
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but you must have that broad understanding.
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Is someone learning already? Can't believe we are just
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defining terminologies. How many have we defined now?
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Just two. Great Commission.
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Let's define Kingdom advancement.
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Is that a word that you want to know what it really means?
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We mention that word every time, especially when we collect
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offerings in our churches. We say, Father, let this
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offering be used for the advancement of your Kingdom.
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But what exactly are we saying? What is Kingdom advance?
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I'll give you that definition quickly.
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Kingdom advancement refers to every and any scriptural
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strategy that is deployed to enthrone Christ in the hearts of
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men and across every strata of human activity is called
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Kingdom. Advance any and every scriptural
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strategy deployed. Are we together to enthrone
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Christ in the hearts of men? And then across any every strata
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of human activity is called Kingdom advancement.
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Any and every scriptural strategy that is deployed,
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whether it is business, whether it is ministry, whether it is
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singing, whether it is Kingdom financing, any and every
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scriptural strategy deployed with the goal of enthroning
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Christ and advancing. I mean enthroning Christ in the
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hearts of men and across every strata of human activities is
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called Kingdom advancement. If you're following so far, say
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Maybe I will spare the last definition for another time.
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My final definition was going to be the church.
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But we have other things to talk about, so I will give you that
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one as the assignment. Go and find out what the church
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is. But I can assure you that
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already most of you suspect your understanding might be wrong.
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And you are right. Hallelujah.
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Because the church is 3 things. The church is 3 things #1 the
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church is God's strategy. God's strategy for birthing and
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fulfilling His program. The church is beyond just a
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gathering of people. It is first a strategy.
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It is God's strategy. In.
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Fact, the only strategy that sustains the formula for
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refining and developing men birthing God's program #2 it
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talks about the corporate gathering of God's people.
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And then #3 it talks about the institution that preserves the
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knowledge. Are we together?
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Morality, excellence, godliness within society.
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So let's leave all of that, but I hope you have this
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understanding. So now if I talk about
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ministers, we all have an understanding of what we're
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talking about. If I talk about Kingdom come or
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the Great Commission as we know it, we have an idea of what
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we're talking about. Pray in the Spirit for one
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minute and then let's see what else we're able to cover.
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Thank you Jesus, someone is praying in Jesus name.
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We pray Hallelujah. Now.
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Why do we have so many churches in Nigeria, in Africa, most
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likely in Benin? I presume a major part of us
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here are pastors and we run various churches.
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But it looks like the effect of the Midwick prayers, the night
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vigils, Please listen. The prophetic programs, the
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impartations is not telling on society whether it's the moral
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fabric of society, whether it's advancement.
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It looks like the more there are churches, the more society seems
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to be in decline. Why is that so?
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I want to answer that question now.
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Why is that so? There is an explanation now.
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The problem is not the presence of the church, the problem is
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our architecture. There is something we need to
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investigate and correct. Hallelujah.
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It is very clear that the current model of ministry for
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many churches is not producing quality spiritual products.
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So we can have a large congregation of people, five
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years with you as a man of God, four years with you, 10 years.
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By the time you random pick the members in your church and test
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their spiritual understanding and test their level of
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maturity, you will find out that largely many of them have not
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grown. Now there is a study that is
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currently ongoing about the decline of the church in the
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West. You see that most churches right
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now about not no less than 5000 churches have closed.
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Mega cathedrals spread across many denominations are companies
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are selling them now and using them.
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I mean buying them up and using them as warehouses.
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In America, they say about 40% of the people still believe in
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Jesus, but they don't go to church again because they've
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been frustrated by the formula that was used to raise them.
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It's not producing results. Why is that so in First
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Corinthians chapter 3, First Corinthians chapter 3.
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Let's go to Paul's teaching from verse one.
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My emphasis is 9 and 10. And I, brethren, could not speak
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unto you as spiritual, but unto carnal, even as unto babes in
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Christ, right? Let's continue media.
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We're running down to verse 10. I have fed you with milk and not
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with meat. For he that told you were not
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able to bear it neither yet are ye now able.
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Verse 3 For ye are yet carnal. For whereas there is among you
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envying and strife, notice what exists among them.
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Envying and strife divisions are ye not?
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Carnal and work as men, verse 4. For while one said I am of Paul,
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another I am of Apollos, are ye not Canal 5, please?
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It says, who then is Paul, and who then is Apollos?
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But ministers now does that word we can take for granted that we
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understand what the Bible just said, Isn't it ministers by whom
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he believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
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Verse 6 I have planted. Take note, Apollo's watered, but
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God gave the increase. Verse 7.
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So neither is he that planted anything, neither he that
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watered but God that giveth the increase.
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Now take note. Guess where our discussion
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starts? Now he that planted and he that
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watered are one, and every man shall receive his own reward
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according to his own label. Verse 9 please it says for we
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are laborers together with God. Take note of that statement is a
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profound statement that we are laborers or Co laborers together
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with God. Ye are God's husbandry, ye are
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God's building. Verse 10 Paul now borrows A
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terminology that is found in architecture.
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Listen carefully now, he says, according to the grace.
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Of God which is given unto me as a what wise master builder.
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Please say that after me wise master builder, according to the
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grace of God which is given unto me as a wise master builder,
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that there is such a description that can be used for a man of
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God as a wise master builder. Someone learning it says I have
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laid the foundation and another builder.
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God let every man take heed upon how he build it.
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When you read more, the Bible says that every man's work will
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be tried and if it stands you'll be rewarded.
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But this is the word I want us to pick out, Wise master
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builder. That means there is.
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Remember he was speaking with respect to men of God and how
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they raise men. That there is a way a man of God
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can go about the business of ministry that makes him to be
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called a wise master builder. Are we together?
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And there is a way a man of God can approach ministry that does
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not allow such a person to be called a wise master builder.
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The difference is the compliance to the formula.
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Now let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, Jesus left the
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church and men of God. He left priesthood.
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A formula by which if you deploy in raising men, you will raise
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men of stature and you will raise men of power.
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Every time a pastor, a minister of the gospel, fails to raise a
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certain texture of spiritual quality, it is because he
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deviated from that architecture. So what makes you a wise master
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builder is not just oratory, it is your compliance to the
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architecture Jesus left. There was a formula that was
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used to produce those we call the apostles, the first fruit.
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There was a formula that was used to produce the men and
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women who frontier the program of God in the Bible such that
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those who are serving tables. Can you imagine in Acts chapter
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6 that the condition to serve tables is that you have to be
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full of wisdom and of the Holy Ghost?
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This is the condition in our world to be a general overseer,
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and yet that was what was required to be in the welfare
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department. That means there is something
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wrong with our architecture. That's what is affecting the
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quality. Of products is someone learning?
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This is a very important subject I must emphasize.
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So when you find widespread ignorance or imbalance or
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lopsidedness, are we together? Or the prevalence of certain
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traits that are not of God widespread among believers.
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Those to be blamed are the priests and they may not
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necessarily be evil people. Is that there has been a
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deviation. I'm going to show you the
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architecture. Paul uses the word a wise master
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builder. That means there is a way a man
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of God can raise men. You know that there was a
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compliance system. There was a quality control
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system that the least among the men can be as great as David.
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Hallelujah. Now you imagine if everyone is
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in this place as a pastor representing 10-50 hundred 1000
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members and all of us get back to deploy that architecture in
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building men. It will not take long and you
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will have men who are like the foxes of Samson.
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They can go around and cause half hope for the enemy.
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The imbalances in the church, the lack of understanding.
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It was an idea that was sold from the pulpit.
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Someone invented or tampered with the architecture, and the
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result of that tampering, whether it was caused by
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ignorance or pride or lopsidedness in understanding
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the members are the mirror that showed the excellence of our
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mastery or our lack of understanding is someone
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learning. Every member God gave you is a
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mirror is revealing to you the Excellency of your work or the
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fact that you need to go back to the table.
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And if we are to be very honest, based on the mirror that we are
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seeing is not reflecting an excellent job.
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There is widespread lopsidedness.
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There's a lot of gaps in our spiritual understanding, a
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strong doctrinal deficiency. You see that now?
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A wise master builder, who is Lenny wise master builder,
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right? Let me use what time I have and
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just show you something very quickly.
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Everybody please look at me. How many of you know that?
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Let me use one gentleman. Can you come?
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That gentleman wearing white. Come.
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Let me use you for an example. God bless you.
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We're passed away. God bless you.
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Now watch this. Listen, everybody, watch this.
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Please listen to this. Now this, this man.
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Everybody listen to this. Let's assume this man is.
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A 40 year old man who is an architect or a businessman or
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whatever it is, how many of you know you can explain his process
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of growth to this point? He himself should be able to
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explain the process of his growth.
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He can tell you that he was born.
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He can tell you he went to a secondary school, primary
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school, went to college, you understand, and got a job.
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He did not just arrive there. The question is, can you bring
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another person to where he is? Yes, by understanding what
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formula was used to bring him there.
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Are we together now? Look at this, a medical doctor
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in Uniben. Or from Uniben and a medical
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doctor from Say, Abu and a medical doctor from Say or
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Bafemi at World War University. Three of them can meet together
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and not doubt themselves because they trust the curriculum that
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builds them so. But how come, as men of God,
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when I meet you and I meet you, we have to verify Because you
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see, there is no unified system of training.
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I'm not exactly sure what you believe.
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I can't take that risk to trust you.
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But two doctors as consultants can meet for the first time in
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the surgery room, and nobody doubts one another.
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It is not the individual, it is the formidability of the
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structure that builds them. Something plus something equals
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a balanced Christian. Something plus something equals
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a wise Christian. Something plus something equals
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a powerful Christian. There is a formula to
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excellence. There is a formula to
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consistency. There is a formula to raising
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nation builders. There is a formula to raising
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men of prayer. There is a formula to raising
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consecrated people. It should not be the pastor's
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idea. It is not your creativity.
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It's an architecture. Your assignment is to find it.
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Not invented. Find it.
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Jeremiah 616 talks about the ancient part.
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He says to find it. Are we learning now?
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Now please look at me. Let's assume again in this
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example that this group of people here are medical students
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and this is the professor to raise them.
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How many of you know that by the time the professor comes, he
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knows what they should become? He is not hoping they will
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become doctors. He knows, as naive and confused
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as they are, he knows that if they trust his leadership and
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submit to the medical training because there is a system that
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has accredited it, he knows after six years, seven years,
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they will all be called doctors. Their voices may not change,
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their statue may not change, but there is, there is a process, an
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emotion. How come a man of God cannot
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know that this man will be a mighty man of God?
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There should be predictability in your leadership.
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No, I don't teach to wait and see if you will be blessed.
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It's not my invention. I'm delivering something that is
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an architecture. Many of you are women here and
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you cook. Some of you are chefs, some of
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you are cooks. How many of you have been afraid
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of going to the kitchen to cook? You know the meal will be
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delicious. All you need is time.
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You are not scratching your head wondering.
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Listen, the Bible says he that strives for mastery is not
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crown. Except he strives lawfully.
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Nobody wins the Olympic by mistake, no?
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Are we following so far a wise master builder?
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So the inability to produce believers who are men of
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stature, men who are balanced, capturing all the dimensions of
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God, is because something is wrong.
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Number one. We honestly do not even
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understand how greatness happens in the Kingdom, the process that
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emerges, that transits a man. And I want to walk you through
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that process very quickly. Very quickly.
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Please, pastors, listen, these are not opinions.
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If you follow this formula, you have found the key to raising
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mighty men. Pray in the Spirit in one
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minute. God bless.
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You man, O God. Please pray in the Spirit in one
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minute. Shalamako soprante baraka to
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Sabre de Cade. It's a new season for your
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ministry. It's a new season you will stop
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shadow boxing. It's a new season.
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You are stepping into mastery and exactitude in handling
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spiritual things. Pray in the Spirit.
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Grace is coming on you. Wisdom is coming on you.
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Fear is dying. God is opening a new Vista for
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you. You're making foolproof.
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Shamata balata parasyata. I bring you grace, Bring you
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grace. Grace that.
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Shifts you to another dimension. In Jesus name we pray.
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Please sit down. Let me try to summarize for you
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the journey. Remember I told you that the
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Great Commission is tripartite in its expression.
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Do not forget this. The mandate God gave the church
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as a corporate mandate is tripartite #1 world
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evangelization. That's God's program to the
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world of unbelievers #2 discipleship, the process that
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evolves. Men.
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To maturity and stature, that's God's program for the church.
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And then #3 territorial or societal transformation, that's
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God's program for society. And this must be your idea as a
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man of God. You build ministry so that it
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can affect the unbelieving world, mature the people sense
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to you and bless society. If it does not capture that
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tripartite expression, you are not doing the Great Commission.
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Effectively. Now let me show you the
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architecture. This is God's formula for
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raising men. This is God's formula for
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building men. Watch this from a spiritual
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standpoint. Every man starts as an
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unbeliever. Every man are we together.
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There is nobody who becomes a believer by default.
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Let me run through it very quickly.
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So the starting point of everyone's journey.
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Is as an unbeliever alienated from the life of Christ as a
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result of the sin nature, are we together?
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Now there is a possibility for a transition where an unbeliever
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can become a believer in Christ and the name of that pathway is
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salvation. New birth that comes through
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salvation. Don't think what I'm saying is
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elementary. The only way a non believer
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becomes a believer is not longevity in church, is not
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singing spiritual songs, It's not even just casually believing
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in Jesus. It is not everything you believe
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about Jesus that translates into salvation.
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There is an exact information you must believe about Jesus
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that translates to new birth. Believing he was a good man does
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not save you. Believing he was a prophet is
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true, but it does not save you. Are we together?
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Let it be known to you, O Israel, the first sermon after
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Pentecost, that this same Jesus you have crucified has today
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been exalted as Lord and Christ. It matters what you believe
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about Jesus. So anyway, forsake of time,
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here's an unbeliever alienated from the life of God, and then
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that person now transits, and the only way that transition
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happens, listen, is by hearing and believing the gospel of
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salvation. What is the gospel of salvation?
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The gospel of salvation is a declaration of the Father's love
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that was revealed and demonstrated through the
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substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus.
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Man and creation being the object of that expression of
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love. Are we together?
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The Bible says that. Who so never believe that on him
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there is a law connected to that believing that he should not
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perish, but she should have. Zoe not just life everlasting,
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but God's life, not God's kind of life.
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Every life is God's kind of life.
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We're talking of the highest form of God's life.
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Zoe is someone learning now then he says for God did not send his
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son into the world. John 317 to condemn the world,
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but that the world through him might be saved.
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Now when you hear the gospel, believing in your heart
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according to Romans 10/8 to 10 and confessing with your mouth
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the lordship of Jesus, the Bible says you are saved because it is
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a law that is with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and
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with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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Now when this Sinner gets to hear the word, regardless how
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the word comes, once he hears and believes in the lordship of
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Jesus and confesses the lordship of Jesus, those 3 gifts are
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given to that person immediately.
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Please listen. These are the three gifts we
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receive at salvation #1 the forgiveness of sin is
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efficiency. 1 and verse 7. I'm doing a summary of this
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journey. Forgive me that I'm just
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summarizing it for you. Ephesians one and verse seven.
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The first gift we receive upon declaring the lordship of Jesus
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at the new birth experience is the forgiveness of sins #2 the
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gift of righteousness. The very nature of God, the
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capacity to stand in the Father's presence without a
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sense of guilt, inferiority, or condemnation #3 Zoway, the life
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of God. So when you are saved, you don't
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just receive eternal life. No, you receive the forgiveness
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of sins, then the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, then the
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life of God is someone learning now.
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So once you receive that Zoe, you are now called a believer.
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However, there is still another name more specifically for you.
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You are called an infant or a babe.
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You are a believer, but you are called an infant.
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Why? Because you just got born and
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there are many things that are similar between you and a
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physical baby. One of it is you are still
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unfruitful in the knowledge of spiritual things.
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Are we together now? Please understand this from an
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unbeliever. A transition has happened and
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the name, the bridge between that transition is called
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salvation. Say, salvation preachers, if
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your people did not become believers by being saved, they
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were not saved. Are we together?
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It has to be by hearing the gospel being saved through the
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channel of salvation, not just good works, not just be nice
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people in church anyway. So now you are in the Kingdom,
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but you are obeyed. Now please listen, right here is
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what will separate efficient believers from inefficient
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believers. There are three ministries that
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must be introduced in your life once you are saved.
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And if it is unfortunate for you and you do not encounter these
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three ministries, the journey of your decline begins even though
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you are in the Kingdom #1 the ministry of the Holy Spirit #2
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the ministry of prayer and the world together #3 the ministry
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of the teaching priest. Let me say that again.
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These are the tripartite ministries that begin to escort
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you through the journey of transformation.
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You can be saved. You are a beneficiary of the
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life of God, but you are still a babe.
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Unfortunately, time is not an element of your growth.
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You can remain a babe for 20 years, promoted as a babe,
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ordained as a babe, given a branch as a babe.
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You see why there are many people who are ordained and they
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don't know what to do with the members because they are
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children. Is someone learning the ministry
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of the Holy Spirit? And the Holy Spirit has a
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plethora of assignments. I don't want to go into them.
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When He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all
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truth. Are we together #2 the ministry
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of prayer and the world? Notice I did not separate them.
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This is the mistake our generation is making.
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There is nowhere in Scripture where we are given the liberty
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of choosing either prayer or the world.
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No Sir, no Sir, no Sir. It's wrong teaching that creates
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that dichotomy every time the Apostolic model in Acts chapter
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2 and verse 42 and they continued steadfastly in the
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apostles doctrine and in fellowship and in breaking of
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bread and in prayer doctrine, prayer Act 6 and verse 4.
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But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the
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ministry of the world. Matthew chapter 4 from verse one
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to four. Jesus went to the wilderness.
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He prayed and prayed and fasted. But when Satan came and tempted
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him, he did not say I pray, he said it is written.
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The moment you choose prayer or the word, you are already
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choosing the path to imbalance. It is always prayer and the
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word, not all the word. 3 ministries.
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Are we still learning the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the
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ministry of prayer and the world, The ministry of the
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teaching priest? Notice of these three
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ministries. The Holy Ghost is responsible
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for his own ministry and he would do it well.
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The teaching priest should be responsible and do his own well.
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Your own contribution is the labor in prayer and the world
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that one nobody would do it for you now anyway.
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Now that these three ministries you know what I'm saying is so
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powerful. 2 believers can be born again on the same day, but
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one was fortunate to go to a good church.
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That was it. It was not that he was 1.
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He was just fortunate to go to a good church with a visionary man
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of God who can expose him to this other ministries.
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Jeremiah 315 and I will give you pastors shepherds according to
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my heart and they will feed you with knowledge and feed you with
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understanding. It says take key to yourselves
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and to the ship that has been committed where his God has made
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you an overseer. For certain believers they are
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unbecoming is that they honestly sat under a wrong spiritual
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leadership. That was it.
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Their zeal is still there, passion is still there.
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But you see, every congregation will reflect their pastors
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limitation. When you find a congregation
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that in spite of the pastor's limitation, they are still
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growing, they found a way by personal responsibility to
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outsource knowledge beyond that place.
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Now watch this. When you begin the process of
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transformation, that's the next step.
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After salvation, the next step is transformation.
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Transformation only begins when these threefold ministries are
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activated in your life. If they are not activated,
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transformation cannot happen. Transformation is the name given
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to the process that makes you. Become like Christ in experience
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and function like Christ in experience.
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Become like Christ in experience.
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And function like crisis and experience.
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And do you know on that transformation there are three
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levels to the first level is enlightenment, the second level
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is renewal. Have you seen that now you
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cannot be renewed until a superior information comes?
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That's the reason why Paul prayed in Ephesians one from
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verse 16 to 20, that the eyes of your understanding will be
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enlightened, amplified says flooded with light that he may
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know. It starts from knowledge.
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In the presence of abundance of light, the editing can begin.
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We call it renewal. Now Watch this.
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The hardest process in the journey of the believers
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becoming is that transformative process.
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Salvation is instant, empowerment is instant.
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But transformation will take a long time depending on your
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level of yieldedness. Someone can be yielded and in
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two years has attained the transformative status of someone
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of 10 years, whereas for another person, you see, that's why Paul
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cried. I said my little children of
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whom I travail in pain until Christ he's talking to believers
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who already that that formation of Christ is what we call
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transformation is someone learning how do you know you are
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transformed. Many things begin to change your
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heart condition, the inner walk, your spiritual understanding,
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your conformity to the image and the character of the Christ in
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experience, the way you use your words, the maturity, spiritual
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maturity. These are indices that test for
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transformation. Then you get to the next level
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called empowerment. Now watch this.
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When a believer gets saved, becomes transformed, it's a
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journey that never ends. You just rise to another level
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and you continue. But that you can exhaust the
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transformative curriculum for every realm and every model, and
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then you receive the empowerment.
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One of the ways you know you have exhausted a realm is that
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you finally collide with the empowerment.
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Connected to that realm. Then you rise to another level
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and start the transformative process again, then receive the
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empowerment, then rise to another level.
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That's how we grow. Do you understand what I just
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said? Now watch this.
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The moment you become empowered, your name changes from a
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believer to a witness. The point you are called a
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witness is not when you get born again.
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No, the point you are called a witness is when you go through
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that transformative journey and then you are empowered.
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In addition to being called a believer, you are now given a
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name in experience. You are called a witness.
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A witness is a validator of a claim.
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God can now trust you. He can give you a door state and
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say go ahead and I have a 10 year program to raise mighty men
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and I'm trusting you see, Oh my goodness, I have to work with
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time. My time is up.
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Look at this. There are three levels of
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authority in the Kingdom. The first level of authority is
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authority over things. When God gives you authority
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over things, money, physical things, that's only a test.
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You learn that from the parable of the talent.
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He tested them with things. But the goal was not to give
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them things. When they were done, He
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collected it and gave them a Kingdom.
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The second level of authority is authority over kingdoms.
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The third and the highest level of authority a man can command
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here on earth is the capacity to steward God's program.
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That means God can say I have a mandate for adult state and you
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are the person I'm putting as the face of that mandate.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, watch this.
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Say salvation. Please shout it.
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Say salvation. Say transformation.
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Say empowerment one more time. Say salvation.
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Say transformation. Say empowerment.
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Let me tell you how we reverse the process in church salvation.
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Then we jump straight to anointing.
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So there are many heads of babies carrying oil, oil that is
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dripping around without wisdom, oil that is dripping around
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without character. Are we together?
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The the. And one thing people do not know
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about the anointing is that the anointing amplifies the state of
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your transformation, or it can amplify your limitations too.
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The anointing is an amplifier. So when there is no growth and
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people rush to seek impartation, look at Jesus's model.
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The model of discipleship to impartation is 3 1/2 years to
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one day of Pentecost. But we've reversed the process.
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Preachers, let me counsel you. Don't be in a hurry to just lay
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hands on people. Let them grow.
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Just because they desire the anointing does not mean that's
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what they need. The the dimension of the
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anointing they need is the one that does an inner work in them,
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producing Christ like character. Has someone learned something?
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Now let's let's repeat the process.
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Say salvation. Say transformation.
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Say empowerment. Say salvation again,
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transformation, empowerment. Now the Bible calls the name of
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the architecture. Building men to become the men
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of stature. He calls it the fullness of God.
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This is a profound statement. When he led captivity, captivity
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he gave on to some apostles, and all of that to the end that we
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get into the fullness of the statue of the measure of Christ.
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Not toast to and fro by every wind of doctrine or the sleight
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of men wherein the light to deceive.
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Now watch this. God expects every pastor and
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everyone who serves in the ministry of priesthood to be
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able to build the fullness of God or the fullness of Christ in
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man. Everybody please listen.
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Pastors, this is your cost content in ministry.
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If you fail to use this, you are going to produce something else
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aside from what God designed. What is the fullness of God?
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Everybody listen. The nature and the character of
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God. Plus.
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The wisdom of God plus the power of God equals the fullness of in
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making man, you don't just come carelessly as the Spirit is no.
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This is how your sermon should be designed the nature of Christ
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you see the the fullness of God is as revealed in Christ.
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So your first assignment is to produce a people of character
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who can manifest the nature of Christ in experience see that
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manifesting the. Fruit of the recreated human
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spirit conforming to the image of Christ.
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Death to the flesh. This is where teachings about
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consecration comes in. Unfortunately, our teachings
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about consecration in the body of Christ is still lopsided.
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We are focused on abstinence alone.
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But consecration has 2 dimensions.
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There is abstinence. From there is devotion unto.
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So if the only thing you do is abstain from, you only fulfill
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one side of it. It is abstinence from then
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devotion unto Simon Peter lovers downtown.
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Goodness is someone learning. So in raising man as a pastor,
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as a man of God, every time you see a member, what you should be
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seeing is that the project to build the fullness of Christ in
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that man. That means the nature of Christ
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at the end of one year with you, He should be a man of character
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manifesting the fullness of the the nature of Christ.
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Are we together? That's where you teach them on
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death to the flesh. You see, when you teach
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discipleship, this should be the cost content captured within
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your teachings. You teach him the refining power
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of prayer, how prayer refines man, not just as a tool to
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receive things. You must understand the refining
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dimension of prayer, how you use prayer in partnership with the
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Word of God to mold yourself into superior spiritual
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versions. You can use prayer as a shopping
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cart and just pick things, good things, but you can use prayer.
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Are we together? Akin to a refinery that transits
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you, It drains out the dross in you to the flesh.
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Now when the nature of Christ is fully expressed in men, if you
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leave them that way, they will be very good people.
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Honest, consecrated, but they will be almost useless to
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society. This is where the problem is.
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So you find young people, our Gen.
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ZS and Gen. Alphas.
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You know why they hate church? Because they are parents,
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especially the evangelicals. They focus on building the
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nature of Christ. And they stopped there.
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There was wisdom and there was power.
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They omitted it. So although the man never stole,
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the man never killed. He could not pay the children
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school fees. He did not understand principles
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of influence. And at the end of it, the
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children hated God. Using the lens of your Father's
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experience, the balance to that is the wisdom of Christ.
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By the time you access the wisdom of Christ, you have you
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have attained the builder's dimension.
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You can build things. You can build men.
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You can ascend to a realm of influence.
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You can live a meaningful life. Are we together now?
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Wisdom. But if you stop there, because
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there are pastors that only focus on wisdom and they don't
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teach character, you have great business people, wonderful
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people, but they're crooks. They can steal, they can kill,
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they can destroy like Satan. It doesn't.
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But they are wise. They know how to make things
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happen. They know how to win election,
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but they don't know how to say no.
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And then the prophetic and the Apostolic came with its own
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emphasis, power, power. You find people who can raise
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someone from a wheelchair, but they cannot say no to 1000 naira
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bribe because they have power. But they were not taught the
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nature of Christ. So in building a refined and a
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balanced believer, it is the nature of Christ plus the wisdom
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of Christ plus the power of Christ.
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That's what makes you a wise master builder.
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So you are not just telling people don't kill, don't steal,
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don't follow men, don't follow women.
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A superior alternative by wisdom has been provided for so that
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there is the temptation has no power over them because they are
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reigning from a realm. Are we together now And then the
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power dimension is there because let me tell you, for every
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dimension of anointing there is an attack that follows
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anointings. Not men, Not men.
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If you are Elijah, there is Jezebel.
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She's not a woman. She's a system.
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She follows the anointing. If you are Samson, Samson is not
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just a man. Samson is a description of a
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kind of believer. Once you are Samson, there is
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Delilah. Delilah is not a woman.
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Delilah is a system of attack that follows everyone with
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Samson's destiny. Listen, every name you see in
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the Bible is not just a name of a man, it's a spiritual pathway
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that produces a certain kind of believer.
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Abraham is not just the name of a man, it's the name of a
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certain pathway. Samson a certain pathway.
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One of the ways you know is the Holy Ghost training you is you
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must find your parallel in training in the scripture.
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You must see that you are becoming someone as captured in
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scripture. We're going to.
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Pray I have to respect your time.
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The wise master Builder. Now look at me, ladies and
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gentlemen want you to see the gaps in our knowledge.
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What do you know about prayer and who taught you?
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I'm speaking apostolically. What do you know about fasting?
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Who taught you? What do you know about God?
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What do you know about Satan? What do you know about failure?
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What do you know about victory? What do you know about
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influence? What do you know about finances?
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What do you know about poverty? What do you know about prayer?
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What do you know about the Word of God?
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What do you know about fellowship?
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What do you know about the Holy Spirit?
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What do you know about the anointing?
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What do you know about increase? What do you know about
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endurance? I just listed for you the cost
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curriculum that is called discipleship.
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This is how you raise men. Not gaps in knowledge.
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A little about prayer, a little about fasting, a little
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disjointed knowledge from one book and 115 minutes video about
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the Word of God. When you come out, you look like
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a poor product, both the man of God and the people he's raising.
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The call is to structure your understanding line upon line,
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precept upon precept, here a little, there a little until you
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become a wholesome believer. Look at me.
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How many of you know that? A student who gets admission in
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the university and on Monday he goes to the Department of Arts,
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on Tuesday he goes to anatomy, on Wednesday he goes to
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mathematics, saying no knowledge is a waste.
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At the end of it, what degree will he end?
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But he was in school where the lecture halls he went to wrong,
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but his knowledge was not aggregated enough.
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This is how many of us are spiritually.
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We know little of everything open to the book of them.
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We have the man of God, but there's no result.
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Your light is not bright. Enough the nature of Christ.
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Can I tell you this? Every challenge in the body of
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Christ today can be traced to the deficiency of training in
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this one area. There is the problem in the body
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of Christ now that was caused by lack of training in the fruit of
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the spirit character. There is a problem in the body
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of Christ credited to lack of a sound communication of
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principles that relate to the wisdom of Christ.
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There is a problem in the body of Christ today that is a power
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problem. The.
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Answer is this treat and you know every group believes they
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are right. This is where the problem is and
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they are all right. It's only that there is
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something called the knowing only syndrome.
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You'll find that in Acts chapter 18.
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Knowing only the baptism of John is a dangerous thing to know.
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Only there is what we call the whole council of God.
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So there are believers who have character and they love God, but
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once you want to teach them anything around finances,
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leadership, influence, they reject and no, no, no, no, no,
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no, I'm just a character. And you find out they continue
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to draw the church backward because being good is wonderful
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but not enough. The Bible says let your light so
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shine. You see that?
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But there are those who are wise wisdom.
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They produce professionals. But those professionals, their
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lives do not look like Jesus at all.
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Great businesses, but they don't know the difference between
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being a believer and not being a believer.
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And then there are those who have power.
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They can prophecy, they can see, they can hear, they raise one
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song. And people who rise from
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wheelchairs. But they cannot build great men
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in their ministries. The ministry is full of needy
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people who receive and go away. And they themselves get angry.
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Some of you pastors, God is solving your problem.
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Now you are saying, why is it that people come and receive and
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go away? Because what you are giving is
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power alone. Wisdom is what retains, and
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since you have only power without wisdom, they receive
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power and go to where there is wisdom.
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The fullness of Christ is the nature of Christ plus the wisdom
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of Christ plus this is the believer God is looking for.
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Are we together? And the man of God who produces
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this kind of products according to scripture is called a wise
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master. Hallelujah, rise up on your.
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Feet now. Listen hopefully another time
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God will grant grace, but there's something I wanted you
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to know about the glory of God in ministry, but I pray for you
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sincerely from my heart and you go and do your research would
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have walked Leviticus Chapter 9 and verse. 6.
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That this is what the Lord commanded that you should do,
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and the glory will appear unto you.
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God is a God of patterns. The glory of God is a report
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card. It shows that you have walked in
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keeping with His patterns. When the glory of God shows up
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in your finances, it means you have kept the pattern that
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brings finances. If the glory of God comes to
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your church providing miracles and signs and wonders, there is
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a pattern that forms the glory. Every time the glory is missing
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in any area of your life, don't just cry for the glory.
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Find out what pattern is connected to the glory.
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If what is missing in your church is finances is a
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dimension of God's glory, there is a pattern connected to it.
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If what is missing in your church is healing signs and
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wonders is an expression of God's glory, there is a pattern.
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If what is missing in your church is influence, it's a
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dimension of God's glory. Every dimension of God's glory
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has a pattern. You don't look for the glory by
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looking for the glory. Moses said show me your ways.
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Then he now said show me your glory.
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It's his ways that leads to his glory.
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So it's your assignment to investigate what dimension of
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God's glory is missing in your life and missing in your church
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and begin to, through humility and necklace that the Bible
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recommends, we begin to search for those.
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There are two ways to get everything you are looking for
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#1 looking onto Jesus through the world #2 being a follower of
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them who through faith have obtained the promise.
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Praise the name of the Lord. God bless you.
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Praise the name of the Lord. Let me just say this before I
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speak over you, Praise the name of the Lord.
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I want to thank you for this opportunity and I want us to
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celebrate this man of God. For putting this whole.
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Platform together. Hallelujah.
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Thank you so much Sir. May the Lord increase you.
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May the Lord bless you and I pray for you in addition to this
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that you have heard every other communication of God's word that
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you will be receiving. May it produce a mighty army.
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In Jesus mighty name we pray Amen and Amen Hallelujah.
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Please, please do me one favor straight forth your hands and
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pray for the man of God. Just straight forth your hands
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wherever you are. Just just pray for this grace.
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Just pray, just pray, pray, just pray in Jesus precious name.
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Thank you man of God for being a blessing to this body.
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You will come back next year. I'm I'm many of you agree with
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that. God bless you.
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Amen. It will be back.