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The Practice of the Spirit part VI · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here. Make sure to stay with us till the end,
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  where we will share some great resources to deepen your faith. Now, let's dive into this
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  week's sermon.
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  So James chapter 1 now, verse 22, but be ye doers of the word, and not hear us only deceiving
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  your own selves. For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto
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  a man beholding his natural face in a glass. The words that we've been dropping, most especially
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  the one Christy dropped, because one of the things I just perceive more in my heart, right,
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  is direction. People are receiving direction. People are receiving direction. People are
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  receiving direction, direction on what to do, on what to do. I perceive that strongly
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  in my heart right now, that people are receiving direction. You are not confused. Oh my, God
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  is mindful of you. God is mindful of you. Even the step that you're taking, don't be
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  afraid to take it. God is mindful of you. The direction is within you. You see, I will
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  teach you in the way you should go. The leading of the Lord is in the believer. Hallelujah.
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  The leading of the Lord is in the believer. He's not outside the believer. The leading
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  of the Holy Ghost is within you. Just pay attention. Pay attention. Do not allow fear.
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  Do not allow worry. Do not allow anxiety to overwhelm you. For you will see and hear a
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  quiet still voice saying, this is the way you should walk daring. God is bringing and
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  has brought direction to us. Hallelujah. His leading is with us. 24, for he beholden himself
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  and going his way and straight away forgetten what manner of man he was. 25. But whosoever
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  looks at him, he shall looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continue daring. He being
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  not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. Hallelujah.
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  Praise God. And on Sunday, we started by saying the word of God is God breathed. It's inspired
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  by his spirit. And when we say the word on Sunday, we now accept that that word is logos.
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  It's the utterances, the sayings of God, inspired by his spirit. The teachings, the doctrines,
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  the message, not general message but a particular message. And that particular message is about
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  Christ. His debt, his barrier, and his resurrection. Hallelujah. He said all that is written according
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  to the scriptures. We read 2 Timothy chapter 3 from verse 14 to 16, Romans chapter 16,
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  verse 24 to 26, Luke 24, verse 25 to 26. We read Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1 to 2, right?
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  We read 1 Peter, 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 20 to 21, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse
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  3 to 5. But before we continue, let's read 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians chapter
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  15. Be a hearer and doer of the word. 1 Corinthians chapter 15 from verse 3. He said, for I deliver
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  unto you first. Can we just go from verse 1, please? Can we just go verse 1? Moreover,
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  brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received
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  and wherein you are, you stand. Hallelujah. So the gospel that you have heard, that got
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  you saved, that gospel that you have received, is that gospel that you shall stand in, verse
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  2, by which also ye are saved. Can you see? The gospel you hear is the gospel that saved
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  you. Hallelujah. He says something here. He said, but if ye keep in memory what I preach
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  unto you, unless you believe in what? Unless you believe in vain. For some versions, that
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  place keep in memory, he said, hold fast to the gospel. Hallelujah. He said, hold fast
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  to the gospel and continue in it, except you have believed in vain. So the hearing of the
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  message of the gospel that you have received is not only for you to hear it, but it's for
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  you to do what? To hold fast unto it and continue in it. So I deliver unto you first of all,
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  he wants to now go in detail to them, which I also received. How that Christ, you see,
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  Paul will say that this same gospel that he's saying that I preach to you that you have
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  received, I also have done what? I also received it. I also was taught. I also heard about
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  it and I also have held fast unto it. And also I'm standing in the same gospel because
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  I have not believed in vain. Likewise, you also hold fast unto it, except you have what?
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  Believed in vain. He said, which also I have what we see how that Christ died for our sins
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  according to what? According to the scriptures, and that he was buried and that he rose in
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  again the third day according to what? According to the scriptures and that he was seen of
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  separs, 10 of the 12th, and that he was seen of both 500 of brethren and ones of whom the
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  greater part remained unto this present for some hour are falling asleep. How Christ died,
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  how Christ was buried, how Christ was raised from the dead according to the scriptures.
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  And we see another evidence of such a statement from Luke 24 about that. Luke 24 verse 25.
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  And Christ spoke this, he said, O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets
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  have spoken. Hallelujah. Where did the prophets spoke? They spoke from the scriptures. 26
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  he said, what were their speakings? This now Christ is talking about the speakings of the
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  prophets according to the scriptures. He said, ought not Christ to have what? To have suffered
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  these things and to enter into his what? Into his glory. And then now we see it also in
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  verse 44. And he said unto them, these are the words which I speak unto you while I was
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  speaking to you. Yet with you that all things must be fulfilled. What are the all things?
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  All that the prophets have spoken according to the scriptures. The sufferings of Christ.
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  That Christ will die. That Christ will be buried. And Christ will be raised from the
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  dead. He will enter into his glory. Hallelujah. But Christ will not only enter into his glory,
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  but we also are in the glory. Praise God. And then now he said that they must be fulfilled
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  and they are fulfilled now. Which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and
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  in the Psalms concerning concerning who? Concerning me. He was speaking about himself. Then he
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  opened their understanding that they might understand how the scriptures. Hallelujah.
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  That they might understand the speakings of the prophets. And why will he do that? He
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  will do that because of what they were already having in their minds. Because already these
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  people were expecting Jesus to be the one that will come to restore the kingdom back
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  to Israel. To restore them into the place of dominion on the earth over the other nations.
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  And Christ had to open their understanding to the scriptures. And then correct their
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  mindsets. Bring to their mindsets a new knowledge and understanding. That is not a kingdom that
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  is natural. But a kingdom that is what? That is supernatural. And he said on today verse
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  forty-six. First it is written. And first it behooves Christ to what? To suffer. Hallelujah.
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  And to rise from the dead how? The third day. Just like we read in first Corinthians fifty.
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  And that repentance. So in the midst of all this fulfillment of the scriptures is that
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  at the end of it when Christ is raised from the dead verse forty-seven now that repentance
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  and remission of sins will be what? Will be preached. In whose name? In his name. Among
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  how many nations? Among all nations beginning at where? Jerusalem. And he said something
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  that is profound now that will be a pivot to our teaching. He said and you are witnesses
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  of these things. Hallelujah. You are witnesses of these things. Forty-nine. And behold I
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  send the promise of my father upon you. But he said but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem
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  until ye be endured with what? With power from on high. So what is Jesus saying here?
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  He said I promise. I promise of the father. I send the promise. I send the promise. He is talking
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  about the spirit of God. He's talking about the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is going to come to
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  them. But you see before them he has already brought an understanding to them. Before them
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  you are witnesses. Hallelujah. You are witnesses. Every man that comes into Christ is a witness.
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  Every man that comes into Christ that is saved today is what? Is a witness unto Jesus.
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  How did the man become witness? The man has become witness as oh by the partaking of the
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  spirit of God. The indwelling of the spirit of God. And we see him now. Said to them in Acts
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  chapter one. Everybody Acts chapter one. Acts chapter nine verse eight. He said but you shall
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  receive power after the Holy Ghost is upon you. And you shall be what? You shall be witnesses
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  unto who? Unto me. Hallelujah. Unto me but in where? In Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria
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  and unto the autumn part of where? Unto the autumn part of the earth. Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  Hallelujah. So we can say this. God's word is inspired by his spirit. And what is the promise
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  God has promised the believer? He said he promised him his spirit. So how do we know that Christ was
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  talking about his spirit is coming to indwell the believer? How do we know? John chapter fourteen.
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  See John chapter fourteen now. And then let's connect from there and then we we see how the
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  Holy Spirit now is helping us to continue. John chapter fourteen. John chapter fourteen. Please
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  ensure your your your Bible is still on your opening. John chapter fourteen. Still from verse sixteen.
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  John chapter fourteen. You see I will pray the father and he shall give you what? He shall give you
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  another comforter that he may abide with you for two weeks. Is it for two weeks? No sir. Okay.
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  From verse sixteen. And I will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may
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  abide with you forever. See seventeen now everybody. Even the spirit of what? The spirit of truth.
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  Who the world cannot receive because it feared him how? It feared him not. Neither knoweth him
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  but you what? But you know him. Hallelujah. So the Holy Spirit is not a stranger to the believer.
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  Praise God. He said but you know him for he dwelleth in the air in your room. Is that what the
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  scripture says? For he dwelleth in your neighborhood. Is that what your Bible says? Where is the spirit
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  of God dwelling? In the believer. Hallelujah. He dwelleth with you and shall be in your room.
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  He shall be in you. So where is the spirit of truth going to walk? He is going to find
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  expression from within you. Where is the spirit of God going to quicken the believer from the heart
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  of the believer? From within the believer. And twenty now. He said at that day ye shall know
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  that I am in my father and ye in me and I in you. Which day? At the day when I will be raised and
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  the promise of the father is going to come to you. He will be in you. So every believer that gets
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  saved or every man sorry that gets saved the spirit of God does not live in his air or in his room
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  or in his neighborhood or somewhere. The spirit of God dwells the man. Please stay with this
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  with this context. So you see now. God cannot do anything in the life of a believer without his
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  spirit. Do you hear what I said? God cannot do anything in your life without what? Without his
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  spirit. In fact the spirit of God imputes, puts in us, imparts in us, has given us the perfect image
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  of God. The spirit of God is the spirit of God that's that what that brings us into the perfect
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  image of God. So when you carry when I say I have the image of God what I'm saying is that I am
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  carrying the spirit of God as it were and every walk that God will do on the earth if he was here
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  physically today I am the one that will do it. So when we say the spirit of God is in dwelling the
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  believer what we are saying is that God is in dwelling the believer. He said on that day
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  and the father in me and where and I in you. 23 everybody please go to 23 everybody and see
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  something now. John 14 23. Jesus answered and said unto him if a man loves me he will keep my words
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  and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our abode where in him. So God dwells
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  in me. Jesus is in me. Hallelujah. How by the spirit of God. So when we say Christ in me we
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  mean God in me. When we say the Holy Ghost in me we mean Jesus in me. So how did God's word come to
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  us? God's word came to us by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. God's word came to us
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  how? By the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. So you see we cannot separate God's word from his spirit
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  because God's word carries the inspiration. So we will say God's word. Amen. We will say God's word
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  God's word right carries the things of God. Hallelujah. So when we say God's word we are
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  talking about what? The things of God. So when we are saying the inspiration of God's word is by the
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  Holy Ghost we are saying that the Holy Ghost has brought the things of God to the believer. So now
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  all that God has done all that God has fulfilled right in the believer is by his spirit. That
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  resides where? That resides in us. So the complete Christian life, the complete Christian conduct,
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  the complete Christian activity is inspired by the spirit of God. Do you hear what I said?
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  That's the complete Christian life. You see I'm saying complete because when we read James
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  when we read James chapter 1 now let's go to James chapter 1 now. Now you now know why I'm
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  using the word complete. In James chapter 1 you see verse 25 he said but whosoever looketh into
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  the what? The law of perfect liberty. If you check the original rendition it's not perfect law of
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  liberty. It's the law of perfect liberty. Completely. Is it completeness? Is it completeness?
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  Oh complete please English people help me. It's completed. It's perfected. It's the law that has
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  set the man free and that salvation is not partial. That salvation is not 50 percent. That salvation
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  is not 99.9. That salvation is complete. The work of salvation in the believer is perfect.
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  So the complete Christian life is an inspired life. It is a spirit work. The believer is already
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  complete in Christ and that is why oh my listen now that the believer should walk daily in the
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  Holy Ghost. Amen. Do you know what I said? That the believer should walk what? Daily where? In the
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  Holy Ghost. Galatians 5 16. Galatians 5 16. Galatians 5 16 now. Galatians chapter 5 verse 16.
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  He said this I say then. Walk in the spirit. Do you think he will be writing to somebody that is
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  unsafe this kind of sentence? If I say David walk in the spirit what am I saying? I'm talking about
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  you know something that I'm saying. Is it not? That for me to say walk in the spirit you must
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  know that there is something about your reality in the spirit. He said and yes shall not fulfill
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  the loss of what? Of the flesh. So the message of the spirit to David will not be strange.
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  Hallelujah. And if I'm saying David should walk in the spirit I know of surety that David has an
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  ability and he knows what I'm talking about. And verse 25 he said if we live in the spirit let us
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  also walk where? In the spirit. You see so the believer's life the complete life of a believer
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  must be an inspired life by the Holy Ghost. It must be a life powered by the spirit of God.
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  It must be a life that completely is a spirit walk not a walk by guessing. Not a walk by calculation.
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  Not a walk. Yes you have the mind to calculate. You have the mind to analyze. You have the mind
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  to plan. You have the mind to strategize. Oh my I have this word for somebody now. Your greatest
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  strategy cannot be compared to the strategy of the Holy Ghost in your life. These are words to
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  suffer someone now. Your greatest plan. See stretch forth your mind. Take it to the east.
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  Take it to the north. Bring it to the west. Take it to the south. Oh your greatest plan and your
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  greatest strategy cannot be compared to the plan of God for your life. We just read this.
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  Hallelujah. Acknowledge him and he will do what? And he shall direct your path. Not God's path but
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  your path. So my life is a spirit walk. Your life must be a spirit walk. Romans chapter 8.
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  Let's have another evidence again. He said if we live in the spirit then walk in the spirit.
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  If we live in the spirit then walk in the spirit. Why? Because all the the the promise that God
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  gave the believer is the promise of the Holy Ghost. He didn't give us the promise of money.
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  He didn't give us the promise of fame. He didn't give us the promise of popularity. He gave us
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  the spirit of God. The very nature of God. The very life of God is what we have as believers.
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  Romans chapter 8 now. We'll read it. 1 to 11. Let's just read it. He said there is therefore now
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  no condemnation. Please, if it's your Bible I would want you to underline everywhere that shows the
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  Holy Ghost in the believer. The spirit of Christ in you. Oh the spirit in you. Oh God in you. Oh
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  you have the spirit of God in you. Oh the life of God in you. I want you to underline those places
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  if it's your Bible. There is now therefore no condemnation to them who are in where? In Christ.
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  Amen. Number one. In Christ Jesus. Who walk not after the flesh but afterwards after the spirit.
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  Praise God. You see they are in Christ. They don't walk in the flesh. They walk afterwards.
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  The spirit. So they live in the spirit and walk in the spirit. Just like we read in Galatians. Amen.
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  That is what is supposed to be the life of the believer. Two now. For the law of the spirit
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  of life in Christ Jesus has made heart past. Has made me free from the law of what? Sin and death.
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  For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own son in the
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  likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condensing where? In the flesh. That the righteousness of
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  the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh. Can you see? But where? But after
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  the spirit. Praise God. Five now. For day that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh.
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  For day that are after the spirit the things of where? The things of the spirit. Praise God.
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  Six now. For to be cannerly minded is what? Is death. But to be spiritually minded is what?
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  Is life and peace. Praise God. That is where God has called us. Where would be? Sir can I be
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  spiritually minded twenty four hours thirty days? Yes ma. You can be spiritually minded all the
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  days of your life. See now. Seven. Because the cannerly mind is enmity against God. For it is not
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  subject to the law of God. Neither indeed can it be. Eight. So then. So then day that are in the
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  flesh cannot what? Cannot please God. So every time I follow after the flesh I cannot please God.
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  Nine. What you are not in the flesh but you are inside the water. Is that what your Bible says?
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  But you are not in the flesh. Say I am not in the flesh. Say I am not in the flesh. He said but in
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  the spirit. You see why you can be spiritually minded till eternity? Because you are not in the
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  flesh. You are in the spirit. It so be that the spirit of God. You see that is why if we call
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  you I don't know whether it's Pastor Vito or Pastor Chidi or Pastor Fred. One of the pastors
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  preach. You know you cannot just wake up or say something someday. I'm trying to remember it.
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  You can we cannot call you and say we are inviting you to go and pray for somebody say ah sir I need
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  to fast. Sir you know I'm not. Sir I need to just take like three hours and charge up. You want to
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  charge what? Are you a battery? You want to charge what? You don't need to charge up. You are in where?
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  You are in the spirit. The man that is in the spirit is already charged up. I don't know what
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  you want to charge for two weeks. Let me tell you every time you have an opportunity to pray for the
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  sick to manifest the things of the spirit and you feel you need to do something before the things of
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  the spirit happen. You need to apply some works. Some fastings. Some prayers. Some some some some
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  locks in two hours. You just left the spirit. You want to you want to court the thing with some
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  works so that you can give yourself some sense of feeling that I did something to see something.
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  Let me tell you any man that is spiritually minded we can wake you up from three plates of
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  banku and you will cast out devils. I'm saying this now. We can say now where are you David? He said
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  sir I am on the road. He said we need you now. You will not tell us I want to branch sir you know. I
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  need to branch for two hours. I will catch up with you. No I am in the spirit. See what he says now
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  everybody. He said you are in the spirit. If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Hallelujah.
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  He dwell in us. Now if any man hath not the spirit of Christ he is what? He is none of his and if
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  Christ be in you the body is dead because of what? Because of sin. But the spirit is live because of
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  righteousness. We'll stop at eleven now. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
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  dead dwell in you he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also become your mortal bodies by his
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  spirit that dwell where? That dwell in you. See if we keep reading this chapter you keep hearing
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  spirit spirit Christ Christ spirit spirit Christ. The believer's life is a spirit walk.
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  Hallelujah. The believer's life is what? Is a spirit walk. Oh everything we have as believers
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  is the spirit of God living in us. Amen. Everything we have is the spirit of God living in us.
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  So Christ in us. We in Christ. The spirit in us. We in the spirit. You are not in the flesh.
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  You are in where? You are in is what we call being born again. Hallelujah. Praise God. The indwelling
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  of the spirit is what we call what? Being what? Being born again. So how will Jesus do his walks
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  in the believer by his spirit in us? So do not slip into performance. You know when we talk about
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  the manifestation of the things of the spirit people think performance. You know I'm about
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  to prophesy. It's not it's not a season of performance. No don't slip into performance.
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  Every time aside the spirit of God and his work in the life of the believer every time
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  he's he's lost then the man will apply human effort. Once the spirit of God is not in view
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  in your life there will be an application of human effort. I will say this now. Once you don't depend
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  on the spirit of God when it comes to the things of the spirit you will depend on yourself for the
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  things you see. You will start performing. You will start applying human effort. Even when there
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  is effort it has to be spirit inspired. It has to be spirit inspired.
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  We are building this teaching and we keep moving because we are coming to a place where we are
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  going to talk about the gifts of the Holy Ghost. All the gifts of the spirit of God. The prophetic
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  or prophecy. Gifts of prophecy. Interpretation of tongues. The diverse kinds of tongues. Word of
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  wisdom. Word of knowledge. Why why we take time to pray in tongues before we give a word is not
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  because it's a code. Neither is it a formula. Neither we are trying to apply something. No no no no no no
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  no no. We are we all our attention must be on the spirit of God. It has to be purely the spirit of
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  God. Not our emotions. Not our calculations. Not any mixing of anything anywhere. And you see that
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  is why Pastor Victor. That is why Pastor Victor can give his wife a word of prophecy by the spirit.
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  It has nothing to do with familiarity. It has all to do with the spirit work in the life of the
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  believer. Ephesians chapter two. Ephesians chapter two verse eight to ten. See what the scripture
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  says now. For by grace I is saved through what? Through faith. And not that and that's not of
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  yourselves. It is the gift of God. Nine. Not of works. Hallelujah. Not of works. There is nothing
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  of works. Less any man should work should boast. Every time you sleep into performance when it comes
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  to the things of the spirit that will be bright. That will be boastfulness. Ten says for we are
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  is workmanship created way in Christ. Hallelujah. Jesus unto good work. With God had before
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  day that we should not work. That we should. Sorry. That we should work in them. Hallelujah.
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  So do not sleep into performance. God's word is inspired by the spirit of God. Hallelujah.
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  The believer's life is inspired by the spirit of God. The workings of the Holy Ghost in the
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  life of the believer must be by the spirit of God. The gift of prophecy. The word of wisdom.
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  The word of knowledge. Everything that you see in the believer's life must be what? Must be by the
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  spirit of God. It is not of your works. It is the gift of God. Less you should see yourself or less
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  any man should work should boast. So how will Jesus prophesy through the believer? By his spirit.
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  How will Jesus heal people? By his spirit. So what should the believer do? The believer must
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  be spiritually minded always. Hallelujah. Do you hear what I said now? That the believer must be
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  what? Must be spiritually what? Minded. Why? Because the believer is in the spirit. So we are
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  God's workmanship. So how is God working? How is God performing? How is God using every man that
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  we see on the earth that we celebrate plus you plus Pastor Vito, Pastor Frederick, Pastor
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  Chidi, Pastor Emmanuel, Pastor Kingsley, David, Miracle, the Amanda, Judy, Chastia, Takunda,
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  Malaika, the Christy, Chris Bull by his spirit because his spirit is the only promise that has
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  been given to the believer. So when we say do the word of God, what we mean is that give expression
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  to the things of the spirit. So when we say practice the word of God, we are saying practice
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  the things of God, practice the things of the spirit because God's word carries the things of God
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  and the things of God has been inspired by the spirit of God or God's word has been inspired
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  by his spirit. The things of God inspired by his spirit. So we are not on this platform to receive
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  power. Hallelujah. We have already received what? We have already received power. The day the Holy
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  Ghost indwelled us, power indwelled us. Praise God. Oh, I'm about to say something now that is
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  profound. The day the spirit of God indwelled you, all the things of God indwelled you. You are not
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  the one searching for prophecy. You are not the one searching to heal. You are not the one searching
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  to cast out devils. You are not the one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The day the spirit of God
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  indwelled you, all the things of God indwelled you. The authority of Jesus is in you. The power
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  of Jesus is in you. Why? Because where Jesus is seated above principalities, above powers,
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  above rulers, that is where we are also what is seated with him. So I carry in my heart
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  all the things of God. You know, he told them, yes, I receive power. Hallelujah. But we now know
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  through the epistles that we have power. Praise God. We have power. Say I have power. So don't be
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  caught. Please, I beg you. Don't be caught praying for power. Power, power, power, power, power.
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  You know, you say, say, say, fast for me. Oh, my Jesus. You know, I need to say this now, but I
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  want to say some churches in where I'm coming from, from Nigeria, you will see that, you know,
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  I encountered the power of God. Have you ever had that kind of statement? I encountered the power of
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  God after a 16-hour closed-door prayers. Have you had that kind of statement from people? He said,
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  why you don't have power is because you have not taken time to lock yourself for 16 hours.
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  Don't, you don't need to lock yourself. The power of God is locked in in your spirit, man.
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  Hallelujah. The new bad came with the power. Praise God. The new bad came with all of God's
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  for their off field where in the believer. Praise God. Hallelujah. And I will say this now,
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  and then we close. Because when we come, I need to keep saying it. I want to keep saying it
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  until we come to the end of these things that I'm teaching. The things that will stop you
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  from practicing the things of the spirit, you have written it already, but when we come,
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  I'll come to it. The things that will stop you from practicing the things of the spirit.
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  Pastor, Imam talked about one from Thessalonians about quench not the spirit.
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  When you despise, when you despise, when you treat with content the things of the spirit,
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  you will never see yourself. You will never see the manifestation of the things of the spirit.
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  When you treat them with content, when you despise them, when you stifle them,
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  when you treat them with no account, when you treat them as valueless things.
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  That is number one. Number two, the company that you keep, please, I beg you,
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  stay among people that love the things of the spirit. Stay among people that talk about
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  the supernatural things of the Holy Ghost. Stay among people that desire to see more of the things
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  of the spirit. If not, if you stay in a company of people that are not following the Holy Spirit,
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  if you stay in a company of people that are not on fire for it, you will never see them happen.
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  Wrong doctoring. The things you listen to, the things you see, stay with the doctoring,
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  stay with the teachings, stay with the training you are receiving from this platform,
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  from this local church, NECF. Stay with it. And lastly, prayerlessness. Prayerlessness.
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  Prayerlessness. The man that does not stay, ah, if you want to see more of the things of the Holy
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  Ghost at work in your life, give yourself to a life of prayer. And please, I will give this as a
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  prescription. Pray more in tongues. Pray more in what? In tongues. Hallelujah. Pray more in tongues.
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  Pray more in tongues. The next time we have another opportunity as we continue, we will pray
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  more in tongues and we will see more of the manifestation of the gifts and the things of
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  the Holy Ghost. Amen. Praise God. We're thankful you joined us today.
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