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FISHERS-OF-MEN · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: He's working.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Let's lift our hands to heaven and thank him.
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  Speaker 1: For his power that is at working us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank him for his ability at work in our spirits.
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  Thank him for partnership, Thank him for coin onia. Shaback apple, sabranda, barato, sabrates.
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  Are you giving him all the praise for his power
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  at working us? That the excellency of power may be
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  of God. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. In Jesus'
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  muchless name we have prayed. It is true that God
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  can help men. It is true that the Spirit of God,
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  when he holds.
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  Speaker 1: A man, he can do wonders through that man.
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  Speaker 2: It is also true that the power of the Highest
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  can reside upon a mortal man and cause you to
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  do extraordinary things.
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  Speaker 1: May all this be your passion tonight in the name
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  of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere you see the wonder working manifestation of.
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  Speaker 1: God in the midst of his people. The Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Represents the omenly presence of God, the Lord, walking with them,
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  and that by his spirit Allelujah, he is the God
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  factor in the midst of people. He answers to the
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  ministry of Jesus Us, turning ordinary men to be extraordinary.
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  This is what He's made out of our lives, and
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  this is what he's making out of you tonight. A
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  sign and a wonder and ambassador, a weakness, a battle
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  acts that is efficient. You believe that cry in one
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  minute and asks a lot for an encounter.
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  Speaker 1: I am here again. I am here again. Go ahead
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  and pray.
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  Speaker 2: Pray without distraction, pray with absolute focus.
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  Speaker 1: I am here again. I am here again. I am
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  here again. Someone cry to your maker, don't look around. Pray.
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  I am here again. Visit me.
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  Speaker 2: Turn my morning to dancing, my sorrow to joy.
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  Speaker 1: Give me illumination. Let me encounter your wish. Stop. Continue
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  the making process, continue the building process, continue my becoming.
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  Might imagine.
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  Speaker 2: For in Jesus' mighty name, we pray.
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  Speaker 1: In jesus mighty name, we pray.
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  Speaker 2: Give us mighty visitations and encounter tonight of God. Change
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  our lives by your wisdom and power us by your spirit.
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  For in Jesus' name we pray. Please be seated, God,
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  bless you. Welcome everyone again. It's good to be in
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  the house of God. This is where you are transformed,
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  this is where you are changed. Beholding Him as in
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  a mirror. The Bible says we are changed from glory
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  to glory, even as by the spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: We are changed on the strength of what we know, on.
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  Speaker 2: The strength of what we understand, and then the wisdom
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  that comes out of that understanding as we act upon
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  the world.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, thank you very much for appreciating me on this
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  Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to everyone, every man. By
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  the way, I think I should do a tribute to
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  the Father. So all men, once you are from eighteen
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  years and above, stand up eighteen years and above. If
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  you're not sure how old you are sitting down, Allelujah,
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  eighteen years and above, stand up you have any adults
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  sitting down, except if he's sick. If not asks a person.
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  Obedience is how people become men and women of stature.
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  I have taught extensively on fatherhood particularly, but let me
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  say this. A father is beyond a man with a wife.
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  A father is beyond a man who can have children
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  or has had children.
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  Speaker 1: No, there are many married men who are not fathers.
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  Speaker 2: There are many pro creators of children who are not fathers.
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  The Hebrew word for father is the word abbah. The
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  Greek is the word pat and both of them mean
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  a source, sustainer, protector, defender. In the very definition of
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  fatherhood are the qualities of.
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  Speaker 1: A true father. Lend me your attention for one minute.
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  Speaker 2: There are four major assignments of fathers according to Scripture.
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  Number one is the ability to provide first for your household.
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  Please listen first for your household. It matters the order
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  of priority. The ability to provide first for your household,
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  and then it extends to as many who are under
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  your care. Number two the ability to protect. The ability
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  to protect is the second definition of fatherhood.
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  Speaker 1: Number three the ability to mentor and create growth.
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  Speaker 2: There is no true father without mentorship and growth. Fathers
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  have the mandate under God to mentor and to allow
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  for growth. Number four, the fourth assignment of fatherhood is
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  to create structures for continuity and succession continuity. Anything that
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  dies with the father has stopped the man from being
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  a true father. The proof that you are a father
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  is that those who come after you must become extensions
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  of your legacy.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it should never start and end with you, except
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  if it is evil, But if it is good, a
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  good man, the Bible says, lays.
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  Speaker 1: Up an inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: You may want to listen to my message redefining inheritance.
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  So my tribute to every father, I want to start
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  by appreciating every man, every father who has done all this,
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  or at least most of this, responsible man who has
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  provided for his household, protected his household, methodically, mentored all
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  within his care, and is about creating a system of godliness, responsibility,
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  wealth that makes for succession even when you are not here.
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  Speaker 1: If Christ Star is.
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  Speaker 2: My salutations and my commendations to such because they are
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  fathers indeed, but let me also encourage some one by
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  my definition. Now you may find out that you've fallen
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  shot of God's definition of fatherhood.
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  Speaker 1: I still salute.
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  Speaker 2: Your courage, the willingness to retrace your step and to
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  start afresh. The beautiful thing about the gift of time
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  is that it gives you opportunity to start again. Perhaps
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  there's some father standing here, and whilst you are standing,
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  you are really feeling guilty because you have not done
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  justice in providing for your home.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you've prayed.
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  Speaker 2: In tongues, you've not done justice in protecting your wife
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  and children, protecting them emotionally, spiritually. You have created a
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  tense atmosphere, and your children dread growing in that atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: You can change, Men can change.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing embarrassing about the need for change. We all
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  have had to change to become this way, and we
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  will have to change to become the higher versions of ourselves.
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  So while commending those who have done well, indeed fathers
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  by this definition, let me propose to many who have
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  fallen shot of this definition, to protect, to provide, to mentor,
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  and to create a system for succession. You have the
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  gift of life, You have the gift of a sound mind.
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  Use it and begin to retrace your step within the
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  time you have. But it's my prayer, particularly for the
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  men in this house, that we will be noble men, indeed,
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  that God will help us to redefine fatherhood.
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  Speaker 1: If you believe that, say amen.
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  Speaker 2: Father, we thank you for every father, every man in
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  this place. And extending this prayer to the body of Christ,
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  to as many who are connecting in the name of Jesus,
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  cause us all to be noble men. By every definition
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  of nobility, we obtain the grace to be able to provide,
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  We obtain the grace to be able to protect. We
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  obtain the grace to be able to grow and and
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  taught those you have put within our care, And we
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  obtain grace to be secured enough to raise other people
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  who become extensions of our legacy. We obtain this grace
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  as we make commitments to remain fathers and men with
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  nobility and excellence. For in Jesus' name we pray a man, God,
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  bless you and please be seated. Are you ready for tonight?
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  Never forget that nobody comes to God's presence who intends
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  to encounter him and then.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves without an evident change. God is still as.
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  Speaker 2: He always is, in the business of redeeming, transforming and empowering,
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  redeeming the lost, transforming the believers, empowering those who will
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  be witnessing. It takes redemntion salvation to convert an unsaved
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  person to become a believer. It takes transformation through discipleship
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  and that through the world to now grow and give
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  the new believer and orientation that makes that person a
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  matured believer. But it takes the empowerment of the spirit
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  to transform a believer to a weakness. That transition does
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  not just happen by knowledge alone. It takes power and
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  for everyone in this place, one or more of this
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  is happening to you right now as you listen. If
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  you're an unsaved person, here's your opportunity to come into
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  the fold, this family of faith, and that happens through
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  the power of redemption. It happens through the substitutionary sacrifice
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  of Jesus Christ. If you're a believer here at any level,
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  there is room for growth until you attain onto a
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  state of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: And that happens by the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: When the Word of God is accurately taught, communicated in
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  love and power, line upon line, precept upon precept, that
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  word transits you by giving you a superior understanding.
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  Speaker 1: And then for some who are.
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  Speaker 2: Attained onto a commendable level of maturity, it is important
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  that you press for empowerment. Empowerment turns a believer to
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  a weakness. Now you are ready to serve the purposes
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  of a kingdom with efficiency. May this be your portion
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  tonight in Jesus' name, fishers of men, Tonight, I want
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  to teach something that I believe will bless your heart profoundly.
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  I want to redefine for you the concept of soul winning.
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  We're exploring the dynamics of winning the lost fishers of Men.
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  Two scriptures very quickly. The first is found in Luke
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  chapter nineteen. We're reading from verse nine and ten. Jesus
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  came to the house of a tax collector called Zachios.
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  And when he was at the house, a few people
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  who became sad why Jesus would go to the house
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  of such.
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  Speaker 1: A corrupt and a wicked man.
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  Speaker 2: They wondered why he would leave every other place he
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  needed to go to be with Zachios. And he said,
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  this this day is salvation. Come to this house for
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  as much as he also is a son of Abraham
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  the Steed. For the son of Man is come to
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  seek and to save that.
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  Speaker 1: Which was lost.
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  Speaker 2: Take note, the son of Man is come first to
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  seek and then to save that which was lost. Second
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  scripture Matthew Chapter four from the eighteen and nineteen Matthew
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  Chapter four eighteen and nineteen. Matthew Chapter four from verse
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  eighteen and nineteen, and Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee.
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  The Bible says, he's so true, brethren, this was Jesus
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  now about to select disciples. Simon called Peter and Andrew
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  his brother, casting a net into the sea. The Bible says,
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  for they were fishers, that was their profession. Let's read
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  verse nineteen together nineteen when you see projected one to read,
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  and he said, onto them, follow me, and I will
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  make you fishers of men. One more time, and he said,
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  onto them, follow me, and I will make you fishers
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  of men. Father, we thank you for your word in
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  Jesus' might name.
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  Speaker 1: We pray.
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  Speaker 2: So the Bible tells us that God desires that every sinner.
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  Speaker 1: Be saved, the lost be saved.
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  Speaker 2: And then that the ones who are announce saved will
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  come onto the knowledge of the truth. And whilst he
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  walked upon the earth, he made his manifest to very
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  clear that his purpose of coming, Jesus now was to
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  reconcile men to God. His purpose of coming was not
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  just to perform miracles. His purpose of coming was not
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  just to deliver the oppressed. As we know, his purpose
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  was not just to bring increase and bring abundance. All
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  of those were expressions, but primarily Jesus made it very clear,
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  as we have in Luke chapter nineteen, that his purpose,
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  the son of Man came to seek and then to
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  save that which was lost. Many expressions in the Bible
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  points to the fact that the concept of sole winning
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  is not just one that is reserved for evangelists or
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  reserved for serious Christians, but that it is a mandate
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  upon everyone believer, and that without sole winning, many aspects
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  of God's program will not happen as intended, because based
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  on the sequence of God's program for the nations, the
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  first is sole winning. It is only the one who
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  is saved that can become a believer, then the one
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  who is a believer that can become transformed and matured,
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  and the one who is matured becoming empowered. Then the
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  one who becomes empowered becomes a witness.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole journey to being.
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  Speaker 2: A witness starts with the person being an unbeliever. And
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  if soul winning becomes a missing part of that whole equation,
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  we will not have believers, we will not have matured believers,
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  and we will not have witnesses who can be able
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  to carry out the purposes of God and the program
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  of the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus is about selecting disciples. And I think it's
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  very important to just stress a point here talking about
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  the move of God, talking about awakenings.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about revivals.
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  Speaker 2: It is important for us to know that revival is
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  as powerful as the vessels that can be found and.
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  Speaker 1: Are ready to be used.
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  Speaker 2: Revival is not as powerful as the revival programs that happened.
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  In order of spiritual priority. The first port of call
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  in birthing revivals, awakenings, the move of God across any
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  territory is that God must find men, men who are available,
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  men who are faithful, men who are refined, men who
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  are empowered.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: The revivalist is the one who can cause revival. The
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  one who is already awakened is the one who can
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  sponsor awakenings.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus is about to carry out this.
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  Speaker 2: Sole winning campaign that will start from his death is
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  burial and resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: But he needed people.
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  Speaker 2: They would later be witnesses, but at this point they
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  were ordinary men up with their professions, fishing for most
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  of them. And the Bible says that he went to Galilee.
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  You can imagine that he went to Galilee and just
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  watched the people there, and he saw two brethren Simon
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  called Peter and Andrew, his brother.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says they were casting a net.
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  Speaker 2: I can imagine Jesus just standing by the sea shore
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  and watching these guys, and he saw with the kind
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  of skill.
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  Speaker 1: That they used to catch fish.
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  Speaker 2: And once they were done, the Bible says they were fishers,
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  that was their profession. The next verse, he allowed them
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  to finish everything they had to do, and then he said,
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  follow me. I want to make you fishes, but this
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  time around, not of fish, but of men.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, give us an iv I like the way
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  NIV puts it verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: At once, no, no, no, go back to nineteen NIV
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  THNK you come, follow me, it says Jesus said, and
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  I will make you fishes of men. Come first, then
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  follow me, and I will make you fishes of men. Allelujah.
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  There are a few things I want us to observe
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  as we build an understanding for this discussion tonight. Number one,
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  Jesus told the men in advance what they would become
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  when he met them. He did not leave them in
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  the dark as to his intention for them. He proposed
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  this idea to them that they could become fishes of men. Now,
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  it's interesting that there were certain things Jesus did not
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  take away from them, the ability to remain fishers, the
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  Bible says they were fishers, or fishermen as we call it.
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  When he called them, he made something a profound statement.
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  He said, you will still be fishers. In other words,
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  there are many skills you now have. You have made
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  the job easier for me. I'm not going to remove
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  some things from you. I will only redirect your mission.
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  You will still be fishers.
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  Speaker 1: You thought on seeing them he would say, I want
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  to make you witnesses. He never said so I want
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  to make you apostles. He never said so I want
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  to make you men of God, or I want you
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  to be my disciples. He said, you are still going
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  to be fishers, but of men.
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  Speaker 2: Verse eighteen of that scripture tells us they were already fishers.
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  Speaker 1: That was their profession. They were fishers, and now he
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  was changing their mission. Watch this.
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  Speaker 2: Now he was changing their mission, changing their assignment. But
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  he still left certain things that he found with them.
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  He already found certain skills that they had that would
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  make them to be useful in this new mission he
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  was calling them into. So the first thing we have
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  to understand is that Jesus Christ told them in advance
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  that he wanted to make them fishers. But this time around,
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  not of fish in the sea of men, fishers of men.
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  Speaker 1: He still retained the word.
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  Speaker 2: Fishers, meaning the skill was still important. The zeal he
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  found in them was still important. The discipline he found
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  in them was still important. The skill that made them
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  fishers would still be needed when.
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  Speaker 1: They became fishers of men.
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  Speaker 2: The zeal the discipline, it was just the mission that
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  would change.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That the skill the zeal i wrote here the discipline
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  that makes you a fisher, or in any profession. When
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  God calls you, most times it is the missions that
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  would change. But those disciplines you have built will be
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  used even in that mission. Now, most people are waiting
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  until the day they understand the call of God before
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  they begin to build all the disciplines. Here were people
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  who did not know that it was in their prophetic
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  destiny to be apostles, their prophetic destiny to.
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  Speaker 1: Be weaknesses and to be men of God.
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  Speaker 2: There were young people who found their father fishing, and
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  they got into that action.
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  Speaker 1: You will be learning shortly.
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  Speaker 2: That there are many components that make a fisher man
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  a skillful one and an effective one. Jesus was not
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  in a hurry to call them. He stood by the
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  sea and observed. He saw something in them that would
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  be needed in effective soul winning. He saw the skill,
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  he saw zeal, he saw the discipline, and he said, gentlemen, come,
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  I want to change your mission.
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  Speaker 1: But don't throw away the skill.
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  Speaker 2: Don't throw away the zeal, don't throw away the discipline.
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  Speaker 1: This discipline I have seen in.
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  Speaker 2: You that has made you good fishers will still be
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  needed when you become fishers of men.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first thing we observe when God comes
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  to men.
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  Speaker 2: Most times it is the mission that he changes the discipline.
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  That means you do not have to wait until you
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  understand your assignment to begin to invest in skill, invest
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  in discipline, invest.
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  Speaker 1: In strategic knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: It will not be a waste even when you eventually
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  find your place. Learning obedience will be useful whether you
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  are found your assignment or not. Learning diligence will be
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  useful whether you are found your assignment or not.
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  Speaker 1: Learning time management.
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  Speaker 2: All of these things that make men efficient will not
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  be thrown away just because God called you.
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  Speaker 1: This is very important.
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  Speaker 2: That means here upfront, I will teach you that even
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  if you have not found your place in life and destiny,
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  in terms of purpose. You can begin to build the
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  skills of aficial man, because when Jesus calls you, you
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  will still be a fisher. It's only that you will
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  now become of men. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if he came and met these guys folding their
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  arms and he said, why are you people sitting idle?
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  And he said, well, we're not doing anything. We're waiting
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  for the day will be called. There are some prophetic
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  world that one day will be apostles.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would not have appointed them.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing they did not have was the mission.
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  But the discipline was already. There are we together? They
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  began to build that culture of discipline already, that skill
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  of efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Already.
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  Speaker 2: It was easy for him to call them and switch
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  them to their mission. Because whether you are a fisher
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  of fish or a fisher.
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  Speaker 1: Of men, one thing will remain.
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  Speaker 2: You will be a fisher. Are we together? This is
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  very powerful. Number Two, Jesus said, come follow me. The
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  first instruction to becoming a fisher of men. He was
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  speaking to people who were already skilled, and yet he
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  said come. Then he said follow me. You would think
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  he would call them and say leave being fishers of
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  fish and become immediately the fisher of men. There are
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  consequences if you skip this step in your becoming a
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  fisher of men. No matter how professional you are, no
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  matter how successful you are, one thing is for sure.
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  When God calls you, you start afresh. This is for
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  sure your skill remains. But he will not just switch
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  you immediately from your life or whatever you were doing.
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  The business of men is very delicate, and it needs training.
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  He called these people, and he said, follow me. You
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  will need a season of following. In other words, there
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  are patents you will need to learn.
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  Speaker 1: You will need to watch me do it. Watch my
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  approach to the lost, Watch my approach.
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  Speaker 2: They followed him to the house of Zakios. They came
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  and met him at the well with the woman, Remember
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  the woman at the well. They saw different templates. He
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  was training them to be fishers of men. For every
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  believer who desires to answer that mandate of being official,
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  the first assignment is not to go to the field.
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  The first assignment is to follow, to follow and learn.
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  Learn what makes for efficiency. As far as winning the
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  losses concern. Now listen very carefully. I wrote something here
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  that the first requirement in becoming an effective fisher of
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  men is your training, not the fishing, not evangelism. The
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  first requirement in becoming a fisher of men is your training,
• 27:16
  not the fishing itself, or in our case now, not
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  the evangelism. It's amazing how many people want to evangelize.
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  They want to be part of the programs that lead
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  to winning the lost, but they will not allow themselves
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  to be trained. You are going to be learning that
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  your life will be laid with a lot of inefficiency
• 27:38
  and paid and defeat and regret, even though your intention
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  is sincere. If you do not follow, and you suddenly
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  image yourself into a fisher of men, you will cause
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  a lot of casualty at the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Jesus train them.
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  Speaker 2: He allows them to watch his approach in dealing with men.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Being a fisher of men is being called into the
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  business of men. These guys were business people. They were
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  not just calling into the business of products and services.
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  They were called into the business of men, and they
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  needed hands on training. By following Jesus, by making observations.
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  Speaker 1: This is very important. I took out time to make
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  a little study, and in that study I tried to find.
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  Speaker 2: Out the training of a fisherman. What does it take
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  for a man to be a fisherman? And I'm going
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  to be drawing for lessons from that training because Jesus
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  said that we will still be fishers, it's only that
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  will be fishers of men. And I took time to
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  observe how a fisherman is trained.
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  Speaker 1: What are the factors.
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  Speaker 2: That fishermen need to understand to be effective at fishing,
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  because they would be the same principles that will be
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  used for effective weakness, especially soul winning. You'll be learning
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  why our evangelism and our soul winning campaigns and pursuits
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  within the body of Christ is largely ineffective.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've told you this.
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  Speaker 2: Now, as we know statistically speaking, above eight billion people
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  upon the earth, and we have just a little shy
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  of say two point six to two point eight professing
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  Christians across the globe. It's a very uncomfortable truth, but
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  we have to understand and agree that something is wrong
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  with the inefficiency of our weakness, especially our soul winning.
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  We have programs and conferences organized globally every year, every week,
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  every day. There are many mission agencies across the globe
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  doing you know you know great things that levels, But
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  why is it that in spite of many churches, many conferences.
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  Speaker 1: Many men and women.
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  Speaker 2: Of God, many church programs, it looks to me and
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  statistically proven that there does not seem to be constructive
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  advancement in terms of the lost who come to the fold.
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  Something is wrong, and we will use today's teaching to
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  examine what is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The training of a fisherman.
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  Speaker 2: The training of a fisherman is also the training of
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  a soul winner. There are many things that soul win us,
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  believe us who desire to be part of winning the lost,
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  regardless your zeal, there are things we can learn from
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  the training of a fisherman. And I want to run
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  through a list with you, hoping and praying that as
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  you listen, God will sharpen you, reposition you to become
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  a very effective soul winner.
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  Speaker 1: You believe that, shout aloud? Amen, So I wrote something
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  here before.
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  Speaker 2: We discuss that there are fishing principles that can help
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  the believer become an effective soul winner.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be learning what makes.
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  Speaker 2: A fisherman an effective fisherman, and from the mandate of
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  Jesus draw forth lessons from there that can make us
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  become effective weaknesses effective fishers of men?
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready now? Number one?
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  Speaker 2: The first thing we have to learn in the training
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  of a fisherman is that you need to understand the sea.
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  You need to understand the sea. That is where you
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  find fish. You don't find fish in the air. You
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  don't find fish just on the ground. You don't find
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  fish on a tree. If you want to be a fisherman,
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  the first thing you have to understand is the sea
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  where you find fish.
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  Speaker 1: Are we learning now?
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  Speaker 2: Every fisherman knows that until you are trained to understand
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  the dynamics of navigating the sea, you will never be
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  able to catch fish. I do not know any professional
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  fisherman who does not understand the dynamics of the sea.
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  Speaker 1: And the sea is a.
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  Speaker 2: Very complicated place because there is a skill to walking
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  or living in the sea, walking wa or rking.
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  Speaker 1: Walking in the sea. There is a skill.
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  Speaker 2: If you do not know it, you can die at sea.
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  How many of you know that many people have died
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  at the sea because there are times that the sea
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  can become almost noiseless, but there are times that the
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  sea can be boisterous. Many fishermen, like many believers do
• 32:59
  not know that the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Is where you find fish.
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  Speaker 2: But if you do not understand the sea and how
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  to navigate your way, that mission can become a mission
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  impossible that kills you.
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  Speaker 1: Right at sea.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, many many believers in the name of evangelism
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  have died at the very place where they are supposed
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  to save sinners. The sea for a believer represents the
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  entire globe, anywhere men can be found. It is likened
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  to anywhere fish can be found. When you talk about
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  the sea in our context as believers, we're talking about
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  the entire globe. Now listen very carefully. We are fishers
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  of men, and this is a training course. There's no
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  fisherman watch this that finds himself rolling around, jumping and
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  shouting around the sea. No, the fishermen observe the web
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  that are we together. They observe so many things. And
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  even when the sea becomes boisterous, like you be learning
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  the skill that you deploy when the fish the sea
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  is come, it is not the same skill you deploy
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  when the skill the sea is boisterous.
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  Speaker 1: Are you following me? Now? Very important?
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  Speaker 2: The first lesson in the training of a fisherman that
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  can be brought to the training of a soul winner
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  is you must.
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  Speaker 1: Understand the sea. Please look at me, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: This world you see is the world of men, and
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  like the sea, it is a very complicated space.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: If you want to save sinners and you do not
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  understand the world you have found yourself in, you will
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  get into the middle of things that you may never
• 34:51
  come out of. Every soul winner must be trained to
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  understand the world wherein you will be going to save souls.
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  There are places across the earth that are harsh and messless,
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  like the boisterous nature.
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  Speaker 1: There are places.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you know that the fish in the sea
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  don't stay at the same place. There are some of them.
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  You can find them, in fact, just looking at the
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  sea you can see them popping up. But there are
• 35:19
  others who are deep down the sea. Many believers who
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  want to be effective soul winners have never taken time
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  to They're not even interested in studying the cosmos the
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  world of men, and so we carry a lot of
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  blind zeal in the name of evangelism, especially as touching
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  our modern day world. There are many many fishermen who
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  have gone to sea and never returned back home like
• 35:47
  many people who went and suffered several casualties because they.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Were not trained to.
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  Speaker 2: Understand that being a fisherman like a soul winner. Lesson
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  number one is you or study the sea. The world
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  that we live in is not a world of compassion.
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  The world that we live in is not a world
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  of fairness. The world that we live in is not
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  a world with men alone. There are spirits cohabiting with men.
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  You need to understand the world wherein. That's where sinners are.
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  The world that you are living in that you are
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  going to evangelize and win sould is under the influence
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  of this spirit called Satan. He has manipulated that sea
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  with a way of thinking, a way of behavior. He
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  is called the God of this world, and that he's
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  blinded the minds of the people. If the believer does
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  not understand the cosmos, your witness will be very ineffective.
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  Speaker 1: If you're following me, shout Amen. So like the sea,
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  the sea.
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  Speaker 2: For the believer, for the soul winner, represents everywhere men
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  can be found, Abuja, Legos, the city center, your village,
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  everywhere men can be found qualifies to be called the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Number two.
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  Speaker 2: The second training for a fisherman that is applicable for
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  a soul winner.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you are learning already.
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  Speaker 2: If you do not know this, you will not truly
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  be a fisher of men. You need to know the
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  various kinds of fish there are at sea.
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  Speaker 1: Aha, this is.
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  Speaker 2: A very important one. You need to have this at
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  the back of your mind. That there are various kinds
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  of fish in the sea. All fish are not the same.
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  That tells you immediately that your strategy will not.
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  Speaker 1: Be the same.
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  Speaker 2: All fish are not the same. Every fisherman knows that
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  there are a multitude of fish or fishes, as we say,
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  in the sea. According to National Geographic I did a
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  little study. It says they are about totty two thousand
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  living species of fish on the earth. Let me repeat
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  that again for your knowledge. There are about totty two
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  thousand living species aside from the ones that are extinct.
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  These are the various kinds of fish that I found
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  across various seas on it. You see why you need
• 38:30
  training because there are many sore winners. The first fish
• 38:34
  you were trying to catch was a whale, and it
• 38:37
  swallowed you. Because just because it's a sea does not
• 38:43
  mean you won't catch everything.
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  Speaker 1: There are we letting? Now? I receive, I'm manifest your palm,
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  and you alwaysdom till the nations. Cigsus lifted exalt, I
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  receive i' malifan your pa and yoursdom to the.
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  Speaker 3: Nations Cigeesus lifted.
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  Speaker 1: Glorifer. Every fisherman, like every soul.
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  Speaker 2: Winner, must know that biologically all men are the same,
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  but spiritually just like the variety of fish we have,
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  I'm not an agriculturist, but I know there are very
• 39:44
  many kinds of fish.
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  Speaker 1: Even that sea you see is.
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  Speaker 2: Divided into fresh water salt water. If they are not
• 39:51
  the same. The way you catch some salmon or tuna
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  is not the same way.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: You catch a shack.
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  Speaker 2: There are vicious sea creatures you must be aware of
• 40:04
  so that you don't stand there with a small boat
• 40:07
  and the net.
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  Speaker 1: As a fisherman and not return again.
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  Speaker 2: Are you learning tonight, fishers of men, that the two
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  thousands living species of fish?
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: That means different.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Species of fish require different techniques. The way Jesus approached
• 40:30
  the woman at the well was not the same way
• 40:33
  he approached zachios. Are you seeing that now there is
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  wisdom that must be understood and deployed by every soul winner.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: There are many soul winners.
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  Speaker 2: That have gotten into trouble because they did not know
• 40:48
  that this sea you are seeing called the earth, has
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  various kinds of fish. There are people who blindly when
• 40:54
  to preach with fanatism without help.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: They are in prisons today. And it's not you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking of persecution or mattiredom. I'm talking of
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  standing in the sea and not knowing the kind of
• 41:06
  fish that would come out. Every fisherman in training knows
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  that you must know the various kinds of fish. Look on,
• 41:17
  let me tell you the various kinds of fish. That
• 41:20
  talk about the variety of unsafe people. There are people,
• 41:23
  Jesus said, are already close to the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: That means only takes. They are. They are over right
• 41:30
  for a harvest. Are we together already.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: By their personality and their disposition, they are.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: They are just one step.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Into the kingdom morally right, nice people, very thoughtful, very philosophical.
• 41:44
  By reason of their philosophical stretch, they have already gleaned
• 41:48
  attributes that make them responsible people. It's easy to receive
• 41:52
  the gospel, no argument you bring, Jesus. They embrace it.
• 41:56
  Another kind of fish. There are fish that you have
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  to dig the seed ground to bring them out because
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  of how deep they have gone.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Are we together? There are people.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: As soon as you see them and say look, I
• 42:09
  want to tell you about.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Jesus, they say, sit down, where was Jesus born?
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: I will tell you the date. At the end of it,
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  you end up with debates and arguments, and you see
• 42:19
  how much of scripture.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: You don't know. They'll leave you feeling bad and they.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Say, go and do your homework before you come and
• 42:25
  talk to me the next time. The problem is not
• 42:28
  the sea. The problem is not the fish. The problem
• 42:32
  is that the fisherman was not trained. There are various
• 42:37
  kinds of fish. There are fishes that bite and kill.
• 42:42
  Did you hear what I said? They bite anything, including
• 42:46
  other fish. You will meet them eating other fish before
• 42:49
  you arrival.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Are we learning?
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: When you are dealing with a fish that eats other fishes,
• 42:59
  you have to be kid as any fisherman that you
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  came and met the fish before your arrival.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: You met it eating.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: Have you seen most of your watch National Geographic? These
• 43:11
  great whales, they just open their mouth and allow these
• 43:14
  tiny fishes to just swim inside and they close it.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: And you want to use.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: A hook to get that kind of fish, a fish
• 43:23
  that is used to killing, a fish that does not
• 43:26
  mind speeling blood. No, there is an intelligence you need.
• 43:30
  Is someone learning now?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: The way you win a naive even no same person,
• 43:37
  is not the way you win a cultist who can
• 43:39
  kill at every point in his life.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: There are weapons with him. You need to be careful.
• 43:44
  There is a skill fishes of men.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Are we learning?
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: There are people who out of zeal they entered one chance,
• 43:57
  not by mistake, by themselves, because they felt they wanted
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  to talk to a group of six people by themselves
• 44:06
  with wisdom. And while they were speaking, they noticed nobody
• 44:09
  was responding, but the car was moving until they got
• 44:15
  to a point where they said, come out, and they
• 44:18
  found themselves in the forest somewhere. That I'm not being sarcastic.
• 44:22
  We blame everything on the mission God gave us, not
• 44:25
  knowing that there is a training for fishermen. If the
• 44:29
  fish swallows you, most likely you are Jonah. If the
• 44:33
  fish swallows you, most likely you are not a fisherman.
• 44:38
  If he tells you to work on the sea, even
• 44:41
  if you are sinking, you hold you, because it's His
• 44:44
  word that made you come. So sometimes we need to
• 44:47
  stop blaming God for the inefficiencies that have been experienced
• 44:52
  at the mission field. It was a product of zeal
• 44:55
  without training. There are people who have died as genuine Mattie, Oh,
• 45:00
  not to them, but there are people who have died
• 45:03
  the death.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Of fools and the death of amateurs.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: God is teaching your fingers, your hands to war, and
• 45:10
  your fingers to fight. That at the sea, just like
• 45:14
  the earth, the mission is, the field is white, is plentiful,
• 45:20
  and there are a variety of fish.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Are we together? If you're following, say amen.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: The second thing every fisherman knows, and every weakness and
• 45:34
  every soul winner must know, is that there a variety
• 45:39
  of fishes in every sea. Number three, The third thing
• 45:49
  we learn from the training of a fisherman that applies
• 45:53
  to a soul winner in training is that there are
• 45:57
  various techniques for catching fish. When it has to do
• 46:02
  with the business of fishing, like it has to do
• 46:05
  with the business of soul winning, the mission is the same,
• 46:10
  the message is the same, but there are various techniques.
• 46:13
  And you know why by now, because there are various
• 46:17
  kinds of fish. The third thing I needed to learn.
• 46:20
  I hope you are learning that. There are various techniques
• 46:24
  for catching fish. For instance, that's what they call the
• 46:28
  bait and the hook, that you tie a bait to
• 46:32
  a hook.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: You've seen fisher men do that.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Usually that goes for a small fish that you can
• 46:37
  even lift by yourself. And so they put worms or
• 46:40
  they put whatever a bit in a hook and then
• 46:43
  they just throw it at sea or at a small
• 46:46
  pond or a river, and they wait patiently, and they
• 46:50
  usually can know when a fish has taken it because
• 46:52
  it bites the bait together with the hook, and then
• 46:56
  they wind it backwards and pull it up and put
• 46:59
  it into a back Many of you have tried that.
• 47:02
  Many of you probably fish that way. Another strategy is
• 47:08
  to cast your net.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: The use of nets is called casting.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: That you can cast nets, and even that, as I study,
• 47:16
  have various skills to do it, but I will save
• 47:19
  that for another day. At least, this too tell you
• 47:24
  that to catch fish does not just require one approach alone.
• 47:29
  This is very powerful. There is the bed and the hook,
• 47:34
  and there is the casting using a net, and even
• 47:39
  that one happens in many ways.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Are we learning write this down on that point three.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody will be saved on a crusade ground. Not
• 47:53
  everybody will be saved by a preacher, but.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Everybody should be saved.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Not everybody will be saved on a crusade ground.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Not everybody will be saved by a preacher.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: There are many skills, many techniques, and many strategies. This
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  is very powerful. It's a very important training that any
• 48:20
  fisher man knows that depending on what kind of fish,
• 48:25
  depending on what location of the sea, there are various
• 48:30
  techniques that you can deploy to catch the fish. Now
• 48:33
  listen carefully still on point three. I wrote something here
• 48:37
  and I wanted to listen. Every God or then ministry
• 48:41
  in the body is sent by.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: God to a particular group of men.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Every God ordained ministry in the Body of Christ is
• 48:53
  sent by God, anointed by God to fish a particular
• 48:58
  group of men. Both hooks and nets are ways of
• 49:08
  catching fish. The hook must never downplay the net, and
• 49:13
  the net must never downplay the hook. They are both
• 49:17
  methods of catching fish.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Are we learning now?
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: You must understand that for this evangelical work, these missions,
• 49:28
  these global missions, this soul winning work, it is not
• 49:32
  the method you know that is the only method. There
• 49:35
  are a variety of methods, God ordained methods.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Please look up. How many of you know a group
• 49:45
  called the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship. Let me see your hands.
• 49:49
  Full Gospel.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: You've heard about them, even if you're not part of them,
• 49:51
  you've heard about them. I've had the honor of preaching there.
• 49:54
  I preach at their world conferences last year. Phenomenal people.
• 49:59
  In telling people, it is a collection of literally, without exaggeration,
• 50:05
  some of the best business minds across the globe. This
• 50:08
  has lasted for a very long time. It was an
• 50:11
  honor that I had to speak to them last year.
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  Phenomenally intelligent people literally across every nation. Now, do you
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  know that there are certain people, on account of your
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  financial status and on account of the things that happen
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  around your life, they will never have the opportunity to
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  hear a preacher on a crusade ground because their lifestyle
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  and where God has lifted them will.
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  Speaker 1: Not even allow them know that there is such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: So God raised the Full Gospel Businessman's Fellowship. For instance,
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  Now if Joshua Sellman, as a man of God, having
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  the privilege to shout on a crusade ground down place
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  the ministry of the Full Gospel businessmen, there is literally
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  a demography of wealthy people that will never be saved.
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  Are we together? Number two? How many of you know
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  about any children ministry? Any children ministry, Christian children ministry.
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  Speaker 1: CEM what they call them, now, anyone at all for children?
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  How many of you know that there are many adults
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  who frustrate that ministry.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you want to children, the children don't need
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  to learn anything.
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  Speaker 1: But how many of you.
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  Speaker 2: Know that every ambroba was once a child, every prostitute
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  was once a child, every destroyer of.
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  Speaker 1: Destiny was once a child.
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  Speaker 2: And God, knowing that it's important to train up a
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  child in the way he should go.
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  Speaker 1: And that not many parents know God.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to do justice to the destinies of the children,
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  he placed a body upon certain people to minister to
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  the children. And yet those ministries in many places are neglected,
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  ig not and looked at as less of a ministry
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  to Apostolic ministries like this, the hook must respect the net.
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  They are all tools designed to catch fish. They are
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  only catching various kinds of fish. There is a net
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  that is too white to catch tiny fish. The fish
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  who swim out of it gladly, the fish who not
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  even recognize that there is a net there because the net.
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  Speaker 1: Is too big for that fish.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together now, so you will find that fish
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  a man in a children's class, teaching and jumping like
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  a child, and you are wondering, what is this foolish
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  adult doing. Remember, there are tiny fish that your big
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  net cannot catch, yet they need to be caught. Are
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  we learning? So the man or the woman we had
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  one of our father's think what year now, school of Ministry?
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  I think he was maybe now the second or third
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  oldest person who have been out of the School of
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  Ministry students.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he's even following now, great man.
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  Speaker 2: He was then in his sixties, approaching seventies or was
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  it up to seventy?
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  Speaker 1: I think. And this man could be so playful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he could just jump and sometimes I remember
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  then wondering, I said, can you imagine as old as
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  this man is, he has remain youthful at heart, because
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  these are the kinds of fishermen that were anointed. How
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  many of you know it takes the anointing to still
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  remain a child at seventy because you are weak and
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  tired and angry at life at seventy it takes the
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  anointing to still make you have the zeal of a child.
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  Speaker 1: Fisher Men, if we.
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  Speaker 2: Dedicate one coin on your service for children, now, some
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  of you will be sleeping even before praise and worship.
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  Speaker 1: What is this children's thing? Now? Yet that may be
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  the meeting that saves your child.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just teaching you in this training that every fisher man,
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  like every soul winner. If you do not understand the strategy, observe,
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  cheerfully and ask God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't condemn.
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  Speaker 2: When you see Jesus with the woman at the well,
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  don't conclude what is Jesus doing at the well? It
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  is a strategy for her salvation. When you see Jesus
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  with a madman in Gadarah, don't conclude what is it
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  doing with demon spirits? Whats to see what happens with
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  that madman when he comes back to his right mind?
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  Are we together now? Our weakness is ineffective because through
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  religion and the traditions of men, we have defined a
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  path based on our religiousity, and we are forcing and
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  blackmailing people to go through that mold.
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  Speaker 1: And that anybody I say with a hook.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm holding a net or anybody I say with
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  a net, If I'm holding a hook, it's not a
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  fisher man.
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  Speaker 1: You may be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: There are various kinds of fishes, and there are various
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  technie for catching them. So when you see God annoying
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  somebody with a unique ability just for prosperous people, don't condemn.
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  There are souls in the business world that God has
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  given that person a mandate to reach. If it is
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  not your assignment, respect it and staying your call, But
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  don't condemn. You are losing fish. We have been losing
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  fish to the religiosity of men. If you see a
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  woman calling to women ministry, don't say what is this
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  women and all their problem? They will soon start gossiping
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  about your husbands.
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  Speaker 1: That is not your concern.
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  Speaker 2: There are women who will never be saved till a
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  woman talks to them. There are women who the nature
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  of their pain will require and not that woman like
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  them to say, I know what we are going through?
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  Are we together now? As annointed as God has made
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  me by his grace?
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  Speaker 1: There are certain elderly people who will only respond to Babad.
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  The boys at call.
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  Speaker 2: I can't preach there and they're impressed hating your children
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  and say be like this man, don't be stubborn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not saved.
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  Speaker 2: They're hearing even if I'm crying on stage. But Babao
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  will come out and speak in thirty minutes and make
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  an other call.
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  Speaker 1: And the woman who stand up and come up.
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  Speaker 2: Because there are various kinds of fish, we are all
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  fisher men.
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  Speaker 1: Let's respect ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: There are many people who have mastered the art of
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  using their hook, who are about to throw away their
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  hook looking for nets. Unfortunately, your mandate does not need
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  a net. If you carry that net, you will find
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  out you don't even have the strength to swing it.
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  You may follow that net into the sea. And there
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  are many people who have been given nets. But the
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  controversy with holding a net and swinging it.
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  Speaker 1: They would rather just hold a hook. But you will
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  only catch one fish. Pa hook Hm. I receipt, I
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  manifest your palm, and you always stop till the nations
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  cigsus lifted up.
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  Speaker 3: Exalted, I receipt, I manifact.
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  Speaker 1: Your pal and you always stand till the.
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  Speaker 3: Nations cigs.
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  Speaker 1: Lifted up.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, many years ago, there used to be this
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  wonderful group. It was a music group, and they went
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  through a lot of stress because they were not believed.
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  Speaker 1: I knew the people were born again.
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  Speaker 2: I knew they loved Jesus with all their hearts, and
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  I told them that time. I said, look, with the
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  resources I had, then I would contribute gladly in helping you. Listen,
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  let me tell you something about the body of Christ.
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  We must be very careful. We're losing a lot of
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  fish because we are destroying the efficiency of fisher men
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  simply because their tools for catching fish is different from
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  what we're using. We need to be careful if on
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  my way going I find someone who is a professional.
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  Speaker 1: How many of you know that there are.
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  Speaker 2: Many fellowships that are around many careers, like, say, for instance,
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  the Immigration Christian Fellowship. I preach there every year, so
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  you have to be a uniform person to even have
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  access to that kind of place. I have the honor
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  of preaching there every year. I preach there for like eight.
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  Speaker 1: Years or so, maybe eight or ten years every year
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  at least. Once I go there. There are people who
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  have been born again there and the way God got
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  them born again was to give them jobs with immigration
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  so that they can.
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  Speaker 2: Attend that fellowship. There are many students. The only way
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  that got saved was by getting admission. Because there are
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  programs their parents will never allow them go. So you
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  will find out that the child jams call was not
• 59:37
  up to it. But God still gave the child admission
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  because it was more than just getting a degree. God
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  needed that child to be released from a hostile home,
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  to be in an utmost fair where he can pray.
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  That child will never be allowed to have a night
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  vigil where he or she is coming from. That's how
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  many of you got saved. The messages respect that adversity
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  of ministries within the body, provided they are genuinely born
• 1:00:05
  again and provide that.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: They love God.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make business people feel less of witnesses. Don't let
• 1:00:11
  drama actors Christian drama ministries.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Feel less of actors.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Don't allow worshipers those called.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Into the worship ministry.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: You may not like the way they jump, or don't
• 1:00:23
  be too quick to george. Go and find out the
• 1:00:25
  investments they make in the secret before they come out
• 1:00:28
  to jump. Don't be too quick to george. Just because
• 1:00:31
  they sing the way you don't want does not mean
• 1:00:34
  they're not singing to the glory of God.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Are we together?
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: Don't judge people called into campos ministry their.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Ministries to young people, they will.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Wear t shirts and jeans and be jumping. Don't laugh
• 1:00:51
  at those who are called into the ministry of fitness
• 1:00:54
  and they are using it for the gospel. Their job
• 1:00:58
  is to tell their story from losing sources of pounds.
• 1:01:01
  Now I am weak and they preach Jesus. We must
• 1:01:05
  respect the fishing tools that every fisherman carries. Now, the
• 1:01:11
  truth and must balanced is that there are.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Tools that are not tools.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: For instance, if we see you standing with a knife
• 1:01:18
  at sea, we are not a fisher man because holding
• 1:01:21
  that knife that way is not a tool. So I'm
• 1:01:24
  not just saying we should just celebrate any tool. No,
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  the tools may be diverse, but when you see a
• 1:01:30
  fishing tool, you know because you can see the assignment
• 1:01:33
  of that tool and you can see the result from
• 1:01:36
  using that tool.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Fishers of men are we learning?
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  Speaker 2: There are many ministries that should not have died. They
• 1:01:53
  die today out of guilt because there was no more
• 1:01:56
  space for them in the body of Christ. We have
• 1:02:00
  fined by our understanding about God, what ministries are of
• 1:02:05
  God and what ministries are not of God, and in
• 1:02:09
  doing that maybe sincerely so, we have closed down many
• 1:02:15
  great ministries and it ought not to be so. How
• 1:02:20
  many women ministries have died today because we are tempting
• 1:02:24
  to manage excessies. How many music ministries have died today
• 1:02:28
  because we are tempting to manage excessies. How many discipleship
• 1:02:33
  platforms have died today simply because we did not understand
• 1:02:37
  the nature of their call. When you see a ministry
• 1:02:41
  not working in alignment, you'll be learning. The key is
• 1:02:44
  not to destroy it. The key is to trust God
• 1:02:47
  for alignment. It's someone learning. If you're learning, say amen.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: So number one, you need to understand the sea the world.
• 1:03:06
  Are we learning?
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Number two? You need to know the various kinds of fish?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Was he learning?
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Number three? You need to understand the various techniques? Are
• 1:03:18
  we sell together the various techniques that there are several ministries.
• 1:03:23
  There are diversities of ministries across the body. When you
• 1:03:28
  see the ministry of the man who was once a
• 1:03:31
  madman in Gadarah, don't be quick to judge it. When
• 1:03:34
  you see the ministry of the woman who was once
• 1:03:37
  a prostitute.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Who left her waterport to run and go and call
• 1:03:41
  other people.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: And you see the woman who was once a prostitute saying,
• 1:03:45
  come see a man.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Don't be too quick to say it's not of God.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: When you see the ministry of the woman breaking her
• 1:03:51
  alabasta box before Jesus. Don't be quick to see the wastage.
• 1:03:55
  When you see the ministry of Joseph of Arimathea, his
• 1:04:00
  ministry was not to follow Jesus for evangelism. When you
• 1:04:03
  see him buying the gravesite, don't say it's a waste.
• 1:04:07
  That's where Jesus will be buried. Number four fishers of men.
• 1:04:15
  The fourth training that every fisherman needs to go through,
• 1:04:19
  which represents the training of a sole winner. Are you ready?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: You must have a functional boat to gather the fish
• 1:04:29
  you have caught. You must have a functional boat to
• 1:04:33
  gather the fish you have caught. This is a very
• 1:04:36
  powerful one. You must have a functional boat to gather
• 1:04:41
  the fish you have caught. Look chapter five. Please give
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  US four and four to six. If your boat is
• 1:04:49
  not strong, you can catch an amount of fish that
• 1:04:53
  would destroy the boat and end up destroying your life.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Look chapter five from US four.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Now when he had left speaking Jesus, now he said
• 1:05:02
  on to Simon, launch out into the deep and let
• 1:05:06
  down your nets for a catch, nets for a catch
• 1:05:11
  verse five. And Simon, answering, said onto him Master, we
• 1:05:18
  have toiled.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: All night and have taken nothing.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: Nevertheless, at that word, I will let down my nets
• 1:05:25
  verse six. And when they had this done, watch this.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: The Bible says, they inclose a great multitude of fish.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: But there was a problem now with that harvest, and
• 1:05:38
  their nets break, their nets break, And I can imagine
• 1:05:44
  that the boat, that boat's there.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: That they now transferred everything to.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: The boat was even going down because of the size
• 1:05:54
  of the fish. Can I tell you there are many
• 1:05:56
  people who God will not give the anointing and the
• 1:05:58
  mantle to a certain kind of harvest because their boat,
• 1:06:03
  their ministerial capacity, cannot manage the kind of in gathering
• 1:06:08
  the you have. With all due respect, there are savants
• 1:06:14
  of God, there are Christian platforms. God cannot give them
• 1:06:18
  one thousand souls in one day. There is no boat
• 1:06:22
  that has been designed to keep that fish. Number one
• 1:06:26
  is that there is nowhere to even take those people
• 1:06:28
  who are saved. Are we together now? We're preparing for
• 1:06:33
  a sound of revival, and we have invested so much
• 1:06:38
  building a prayer, team, building counselors in anticipation of the
• 1:06:44
  kind of havevest we know and believed by faith that
• 1:06:47
  God is bringing. You cannot be holding a crusade, for instance,
• 1:06:51
  and then you train just ten counselors or two counselors.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Something is wrong with your boats, you see.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you this. Every time you catch so
• 1:07:01
  much fish and.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Your boat is too small, something happens both.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: You and the boat and the fish will be lost.
• 1:07:11
  Do you have systems in place to follow up the
• 1:07:15
  sinners that are saved? Or is it one man of
• 1:07:19
  God who would do everything? And you will die of
• 1:07:22
  stress within one month because the problem was not the harvest,
• 1:07:27
  It was that the boat was not efficient.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Are we learning?
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Every fisherman knows that depending on the kind of fish
• 1:07:37
  you want to catch, you must ensure that the boat.
• 1:07:40
  The boat can mean the church, The boat can mean
• 1:07:43
  your follow up strategy. The boat can mean the people
• 1:07:47
  you have raised to be able to make sure and
• 1:07:50
  ensure that the souls the sinners that are saved are
• 1:07:54
  not lost. I land this from Reinald Bunk of Blessed Memory.
• 1:08:01
  He used to have a pamphlet, a book called now
• 1:08:03
  that you are saved, the moment you are saved, So
• 1:08:07
  what happens? His strategy was because he didn't run a
• 1:08:10
  church based ministry, he usually organizes crusades in collaboration with
• 1:08:16
  the local assemblies. So before the crusades he would do
• 1:08:19
  what they call fire conference and he would train the
• 1:08:22
  pastors to make sure that they are efficient enough to
• 1:08:26
  receive the harvest.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: After the crusades, the.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: People who are already in various churches are distributed back
• 1:08:35
  to their churches, and those who do not have churches
• 1:08:39
  are redistributed across local assemblies. To make sure that there
• 1:08:43
  is a follow up system and the strategy worked.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Are we together?
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: The same has been used with many great evangelists. There's
• 1:08:54
  no point winning twenty thousand people, five thousand people, and
• 1:08:59
  as as soon as the people confess Jesus, they go back,
• 1:09:03
  and there.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: Is no system to help them.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: They go back to their lives, and before you know it,
• 1:09:09
  you will never.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Imagine there were once saved.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Training Number four, make sure your boat is efficient.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: There must be.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Structures on ground, a strong follow up system, an establishments
• 1:09:25
  system for the havest that we desire. Your havevest will
• 1:09:32
  always be wasted when your boat is too small. Your
• 1:09:37
  havevest will always be wasted when.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: You have no boat.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: In fact, according to scripture, no evangelist, you see the
• 1:09:48
  patent revealing scripture, no evangelists should go and preach without
• 1:09:54
  a collaboration with local assemblies for the follow up and
• 1:09:59
  the s establishment of believers.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: So it is either you're the man of.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: God who is now the fisher of men already has
• 1:10:08
  a structure where the people can be incorporated in, or
• 1:10:12
  you work in partnership with those who already have structures.
• 1:10:15
  That way, for everyone who is saved, you know that
• 1:10:19
  after one year, two years, you will still find the
• 1:10:22
  person in the fold. We have wasted a lot of
• 1:10:25
  fish after labording to catch them because the boat had
• 1:10:29
  a problem. If you're learning, say amen, you must have
• 1:10:37
  a functional boat that gods your fish.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: You must have a.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: Strong follow up structure, at least a pamphlet.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: I remember those.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: Days when we started a crusades. We used to have
• 1:10:51
  one sheet, you know, we just write out the plan
• 1:10:54
  of salvation and we'll hand it over just a shit.
• 1:10:58
  Couldn't afford a pamphlet, and we just write a shit
• 1:11:01
  that is given to ownbelievers and have a system to
• 1:11:05
  follow them up. You've seen how we do it in Colnonia.
• 1:11:08
  Here that when an altar call is made, they are led.
• 1:11:11
  There is a group of counsel ors trained, and there
• 1:11:13
  is a system to begin to follow them up.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: Number five.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: If you're learning, say amen, fishers of men, are you
• 1:11:26
  ready for the training?
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: Number five?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: That every fisherman needs to know this, and that also
• 1:11:32
  applies to every fisher of men, every soul winner. You
• 1:11:38
  cannot effectively fish in isolation. Write that down, please, You
• 1:11:44
  cannot effectively Every fisherman knows this. Every fisherman is trained
• 1:11:51
  along this line, and every fisher of men must know this.
• 1:11:55
  You cannot effectively fish in isolation. Respect and engage with
• 1:12:02
  other fishermen. You cannot effectively fish. No matter how skilled
• 1:12:09
  you are, no matter how gifted you are, you cannot effectively.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: Fish in isolation.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: Respect and engage with other fishermen. Still, look chapter five.
• 1:12:23
  We read four to six. Now let's read six and seven.
• 1:12:27
  Look chapter five, six and seven. And when they had
• 1:12:32
  this done, they enclose a great multitude of fishes and
• 1:12:37
  their nets break shout.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: For seven place as you see projected. Ready want to read?
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: And they backon onto their partners which were in the
• 1:12:48
  other sheep, that they should come and help them, And
• 1:12:52
  they came and fill both ships so that they began
• 1:12:57
  to sing. This is the implication of praying for harvest.
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  This is the implication of soul winning. Soul winning can
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  sink your boat when you do it alone. It can
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  sink your boat financially, the demands it takes to maintain
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  the souls that are now saved.
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  Speaker 1: It is a reason why.
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  Speaker 2: When we're organizing global conferences like this, we're not afraid
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  to tell people come join join in anyway financially through
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  your prayer, because no matter how great you are as
• 1:13:30
  a fisherman, the kind of harvest God wants to bring
• 1:13:35
  may sink your boat if it's only your boat. So
• 1:13:38
  one financial helper can help your boat stand. One prayer
• 1:13:42
  helper can help your boat stand. Are we together now?
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  There are many people's boats that have sung or are
• 1:13:52
  sinking now, and they are genuine fishermen because of this
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  ministry or this this false approach to ministry of standing alone.
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  Speaker 1: No even Jesus needed help.
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  Speaker 2: He had to carry the cross, but he fell on
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  the way and they called on someone to help him.
• 1:14:15
  Let me tell you the truth as a sole winer,
• 1:14:19
  as a fisher of men, do not be afraid to
• 1:14:23
  join hands with fellow fishermen to produce greater efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Right from the.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: Infancy of this ministry, as we organized crusades, we would
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  always open.
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  Speaker 1: Up doors to groups and other.
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  Speaker 2: Ministries who believe in what we stand for. It's always
• 1:14:44
  been a collaborative effort. You know why because in many
• 1:14:48
  cases the weight of the harvest spiritually. So there are
• 1:14:53
  people who are already praying now for sound of revival.
• 1:14:56
  There is a prayer team. You prayed for it today
• 1:14:59
  and it cont up until that time. Because no matter
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  how anointed I am, no matter how anointed we are,
• 1:15:06
  this is a body ministry. There are people today who
• 1:15:09
  are not even part of the coin on your family,
• 1:15:12
  but have taken it as an intercessory project. They are
• 1:15:15
  the helpers. No matter how anointed you are. This ministry
• 1:15:21
  of soul winning is not for one person. You can
• 1:15:25
  be a professional fisherman. If the fish is too much
• 1:15:29
  in your boat, you will still sink. You will sink financially,
• 1:15:36
  you will sink in terms of your.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: Stretching of yourself.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: With all due respect, when you read the Weld's revival.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: I'm speaking to the globe Evan Roberts.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: According to history, as much as we have read, one
• 1:15:56
  of the reasons why the man died young. He was
• 1:16:00
  one of the youngest of the generals recorded that died.
• 1:16:03
  And what killed him was not a demonic attack. What
• 1:16:07
  killed him was stress because the reviver was breaking out
• 1:16:12
  their awakenings. I mean, fire was all over the place.
• 1:16:16
  He needed to be everywhere at the same time, and
• 1:16:20
  there were no helpers.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: His boat was sinking till he died.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: There are many pastors who have died today because they
• 1:16:28
  would not embrace to say, you know what, I can't
• 1:16:31
  preach in a crusette ground, but I don't have the
• 1:16:33
  grace to follow up on believers.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: I don't have the patience to follow up one.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: Hundred complicated people. But there is a pastor who was
• 1:16:40
  a pastor by ordination. He can follow up the most
• 1:16:44
  top board member. Why don't you lean on the advantage
• 1:16:49
  of their grace for efficiency training number five, You cannot
• 1:16:58
  effectively fish in isolation, respect and engage with other fishermen.
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  Jesus himself told us that the major problem with the
• 1:17:09
  harvest is not the harvest, is the laborers. In Matthew
• 1:17:14
  chapter nine and verse thirty seven, he says, surely the
• 1:17:17
  harvest is wide, but the laborers a few.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: That's the problem. There are few.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Hands relative to the amount of souls to be saved.
• 1:17:28
  And you will think because there are so many preachers,
• 1:17:31
  so many churches, and sending this to you, because if
• 1:17:34
  God has called you particularly uniquely to the ministry of
• 1:17:39
  so willy, don't say there are the Joshua Sealmans, there
• 1:17:42
  are this and that.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: No. The havevest is.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: Why how many countries can you go to in a year?
• 1:17:50
  How many salmons can you preach? There are only fifty
• 1:17:53
  two weeks, ladies and gentlemen in a year. If you
• 1:17:56
  preach one salmon, one evangelical salmon per week, you only have.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Fifty two in a year.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: I was very touched when some gentlemen began to, you know,
• 1:18:13
  find a way of translating a message, particularly to the
• 1:18:16
  Francophone nation. I've visited a few of their nations, and
• 1:18:21
  I've seen the hunger, and sometimes I feel so sad
• 1:18:25
  because of this language barrier, but the hunger to learn.
• 1:18:33
  Do you know that because of the hunger, some of
• 1:18:36
  them had to learn English so that they could understand
• 1:18:40
  these teachings very powerful communication.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: Of zeal.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: Being official of men of men would require a lot
• 1:18:53
  of collaboration, a lot of collaboration, a lot of collaboration. Listen,
• 1:19:00
  many more hands I wrote here and needed for this work.
• 1:19:04
  Let us not discourage and destroy the hands already available.
• 1:19:09
  We are still looking for more hands. Let's not destroy
• 1:19:12
  the hands that are available. If the hands are weak,
• 1:19:16
  what they need is to be.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: Strengthened, not destroyed. Not destroyed, not destroyed.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: What we need is not to destroy the hands that
• 1:19:27
  are available. What we need is to strengthen the hands
• 1:19:31
  that are available. And ineffective fisherman is still a fisherman.
• 1:19:36
  He just needs more training, He just needs more curifying,
• 1:19:39
  he just needs more mentorship. But by the time a
• 1:19:43
  large sea has only six or seven fishermen, when sharks
• 1:19:48
  begin to come out, that's when you will see that
• 1:19:50
  more hands are needed. Because sharks are in the sea too,
• 1:19:55
  Whales are in the sea too, or that that seas
• 1:19:58
  creatures are in the seat, the ones that science has not.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Even seen are in the sea too. We need more hands.
• 1:20:06
  Let me tell you the truth. We need more hands.
• 1:20:10
  We need more hands. On campus. Yes, Ago I used
• 1:20:14
  to do a lot of campus ministry. Now I don't
• 1:20:16
  do so much of that. Again, the time and the
• 1:20:18
  logs is not even there.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: But more hands are needed because for many people who
• 1:20:23
  genuinely started experiencing God, especially in our generation, for most
• 1:20:28
  of them, they are defining season spiritually started on campus.
• 1:20:32
  If campuses a void of real witnesses, there will be
• 1:20:35
  a problem there because Satan has positioned men to there.
• 1:20:39
  How about secondary school ministries. We start at fcs right
• 1:20:43
  from secondary school. Remember there are many secondary schools now.
• 1:20:47
  Where you go there to preach, you will start crying.
• 1:20:50
  The children will ask you questions as an adult that
• 1:20:52
  you want to cry. You know why, because they've left
• 1:20:55
  all of them. The corruption starts from the teachers themselves.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: With all due respect, the kinds of.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Things the teachers say as they teach, behave as they.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: Teach is what begins to destroy the students. Right from
• 1:21:08
  secondary school, primary school and elementary classes.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: There needs to be fishers of men positioned. There are
• 1:21:21
  some of you. God to give you a Monday to
• 1:21:23
  start a school, not just for money. You can make
• 1:21:26
  money through and any other business, but it would be
• 1:21:28
  embodying in your heart. You will not be able to
• 1:21:30
  run away from Do you know why? Because the fish
• 1:21:34
  that your net will be that school that will bring
• 1:21:37
  all kinds of people, the next apostles, the next prophets.
• 1:21:43
  I think about my life today, and I look at
• 1:21:45
  the various stages of my life and the corresponding encounters
• 1:21:50
  that have built me by grace to what I am now.
• 1:21:53
  What if they were not there? What if those fishers
• 1:21:55
  of men were not there? What if they were ignored?
• 1:21:58
  What if they were discouring?
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Pray in one minute, Lord, send labor us, Send labor us,
• 1:22:07
  Send labor us, Please pray in one minute, Lord, we
• 1:22:10
  still need more laborers.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 2: Labor Us as preachers, labor Us as kingdom driven businessmen.
• 1:22:17
  Labor Us as Christian groups serving.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: The purposes of God.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: Labor Us as apostles on fire, labor Us as prophets
• 1:22:26
  on fire, labor Us as teach us on fire, go
• 1:22:30
  ahead and pray. Labor Us as missionaries, labor Us as
• 1:22:34
  mission groups. The harvest is why we need more hands.
• 1:22:46
  We need more hands. Allelujah. Now let me tell you something.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: I'm still on point five as I studied this scripture.
• 1:22:54
  The Lord means that something to me.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: In Matthew Chapter four, twenty one and twenty two.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: Just because you are a fisherman.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: And you are already fishing, does not mean you will
• 1:23:10
  not continue training.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: I need to say this.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: Because there are many fishermen like there are many preachers.
• 1:23:18
  I must say this, there are many fisher men like
• 1:23:22
  there are many, with all due respect, churches and ministries.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: The problem is not the zeal.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: The problem is something is wrong with the fishing strategy.
• 1:23:33
  Let me show you something here, Matthew Chapter four, twenty
• 1:23:36
  one and twenty two, and going on from tens, he
• 1:23:42
  saw all the two brethren haven't called Peter and Andrew.
• 1:23:46
  The Bible says he saw James, the son of Zebedi,
• 1:23:50
  and John in a ship with Zebedi, their father. What
• 1:23:55
  were they doing, please, shouted, mending their nets? What were
• 1:23:59
  they doing? One more time he still called them too,
• 1:24:05
  something was wrong with your nets. And they were not ashamed.
• 1:24:10
  They stopped fishing. They took a break from fishing to
• 1:24:14
  fix your nets. There are many fishers of men in
• 1:24:17
  the Body of Christ that may need to take a
• 1:24:20
  break and mend your nets. Just because you are mending
• 1:24:23
  your nets, your nets can mean your character. Your nets
• 1:24:27
  can mean something wrong, and approach wrong mentorship you received
• 1:24:32
  the ministry.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: Now you have found a light.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: Stop fishing, man your nets, Men, your nets.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: The Bible says.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: Even though he saw that something was wrong with your nets.
• 1:24:44
  I like the last sentence, he still called them. There
• 1:24:49
  are many fishers of men today at their current state.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: Your fishing will.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: Be ineffective because something is wrong with your nets, the
• 1:25:00
  Bible says, And I like this when it has to
• 1:25:04
  do with mending the nets. Both the fathers and sons
• 1:25:08
  sat down to men their nets. It is not only
• 1:25:11
  sons that met their nets, the Bible says John, his
• 1:25:15
  brother was there, and their own father, Zabdi. They all
• 1:25:19
  sat down. Something is wrong with the way we have
• 1:25:21
  been doing church. Let's reorder our steps. Something is wrong
• 1:25:25
  with the way we have been doing ministry. It's not
• 1:25:27
  bringing efficiency to souls. Mend their nets? Are we learning now?
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: But the beautiful statement there is that Jesus saw.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: Them mending their nets, and he said, that's it. You
• 1:25:40
  have passed the test to be fishers of men. Indeed, come,
• 1:25:47
  just because he called you does not mean he's released
• 1:25:51
  you to fish. Sometimes the reason why he's calling you
• 1:25:54
  is because he saw repentance. God, you are ready he
• 1:25:58
  saw genuine repent. He so brokenness that you are willing
• 1:26:03
  to do ministry right. Men your nets, This may be
• 1:26:08
  a message for someone. You are called what men your nets?
• 1:26:12
  You are called what men your nets? Men your nets
• 1:26:15
  by mending character. Men your nets by bringing out the draws,
• 1:26:20
  all the impurities that don't allow you do ministry well.
• 1:26:23
  Men your nets by taking away hatred.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Men your nets by going.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: For forther ministerial training and learn the other aspects of
• 1:26:31
  ministry that makes for efficiency. Learn man your net by
• 1:26:36
  adding financial principles to how you are doing ministry. Man
• 1:26:39
  your nets by learning administrative principles so that your witness
• 1:26:44
  is efficient. Man your nets by incorcating prayer in your ministry.
• 1:26:49
  Learn man your nets by incorcreating the Word of God.
• 1:26:53
  Whatever is missing can affect your net. Men your nets.
• 1:26:58
  This is not a message tell them. It's a message
• 1:27:00
  for the body of Christ. I like the fact that
• 1:27:03
  when it has to do with mendy nets, whether you
• 1:27:06
  are a son or you are zebede, sit down, men
• 1:27:10
  your nets, till the nations ciegsus lifted up, exalted, till
• 1:27:26
  the nations cigses lifted up. Please hear this preacher, There
• 1:27:39
  are many, many nets that need to be mended. The
• 1:27:43
  reason why we're not catching fish is not because.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: We are not called. He called us. But there are
• 1:27:49
  many mendings that need to be done.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: It's someone learning, now, business man, men your nets. Worship
• 1:27:58
  minister you are, but this excess is connected to the worship.
• 1:28:03
  Ministry is tearing your net. Men your net, go for
• 1:28:07
  a retreat and men your net. You're a great preacher,
• 1:28:11
  but this anger that comes together with your preaching.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: Men your nets.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: You love Jesus, but you love money to men your nets.
• 1:28:23
  Someone say, man your nets. You're talking to yourself, or
• 1:28:26
  say men your nets. Yes, sir, yes, sir. When I
• 1:28:32
  read this scripture, listen. When I read this scripture, I
• 1:28:36
  took out time. I started praying for myself. First listen,
• 1:28:40
  gone at the days where you allow pride and ego
• 1:28:43
  to destroy you. If you find your net tearing, even
• 1:28:48
  if you are sebody, sit down. If you are, I
• 1:28:51
  hope you know who James and John were. These guys
• 1:28:54
  were not ordinary people. James was a powerful apostle. Eventually
• 1:28:58
  he would become John became the beloved. But for them
• 1:29:02
  to become the beloved and James the powerful, they had
• 1:29:06
  to sit down. I like the fact that the Bible
• 1:29:09
  did not say their father told them, who are men
• 1:29:11
  your nets?
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: I am a father.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: Fathers can mend their nets. Sons can mend your nets.
• 1:29:18
  Experience in ministry does not stop your nets from tearing.
• 1:29:22
  In fact, the older you are, I suspect the nets
• 1:29:25
  can tear. Men your nets when it has to do
• 1:29:31
  with mandy nets.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: There is no pride over experience. I've been in.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: Ministry ten years, twenty years, with all due respect, that
• 1:29:39
  is worthy of not but men your nets, because sometimes
• 1:29:43
  nets here just because of use, they don't hear.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: Because of carelessness.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: By the time you have been prosecuted for ten years
• 1:29:52
  non stop, maybe offense would have crept in men your
• 1:29:56
  nets by the time you have now become a milli
• 1:30:00
  or a billionere Chances are excellent that the values that
• 1:30:04
  you kept when you started may become promised because there's.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: No need for money again, Men your nexts. Can we
• 1:30:12
  pray for the body of Christ in one minute? Before
• 1:30:14
  I continue, Lord, we pray, go ahead and pray.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: We pray for apostles and prophets and evangelists and teachers.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: Come and pray. Now we pray for business men.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: We pray for captains of kingdom, driven, captains of industry,
• 1:30:32
  lord like Zebedee, like gems like John. We are in
• 1:30:37
  a season where God is mendy nets, and this is
• 1:30:42
  everybody's called. Men your nexts apostle, men your nets, you
• 1:30:47
  are called, But men your nexts prophets and your nets.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: Evangelists.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: Men your nets, collinonia, Men your nets.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: Everyone can mend your next.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: Check your net, men your nets, anger, character, failure, inefficiency, ministry.
• 1:31:10
  Man your next you are called, but your witness, being official,
• 1:31:16
  men will be ineffective until you men your next.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, we pray. Let's read that scripture again.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: And then I moved to the six point and going
• 1:31:36
  from Tens, he saw two orther what say, brethren that
• 1:31:42
  seemed to be part of the fold games, the son
• 1:31:47
  of Zebedee and John his brother.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: They were in a sheep.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: When you have this sheep, that is a flourishing ministry,
• 1:32:00
  when you have nets.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: And your father was there.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: With them, but he said mending their nets. And Jesus
• 1:32:07
  was impressed that you have a sheep and you still
• 1:32:11
  have the humility to sit down. Father together with his family,
• 1:32:16
  he called them. He said come. It should be part
• 1:32:19
  of this move Men your netsrand those men your nets.
• 1:32:28
  The mending can be restoring prayer to your prayerlessness. The
• 1:32:33
  mending can be cutting away from certain destructive ministerial associations.
• 1:32:38
  Are we together that have taught you things that were
• 1:32:42
  not part of the foundation of your knowing God? There
• 1:32:45
  is a way we do ministry. There is a way
• 1:32:47
  we make money from ministry. You may need to mend
• 1:32:49
  your nets. Your call is genuine, but in partnership with.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: Some of these wrong associations, it may not work out
• 1:32:56
  well for you. Men.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: Your nets may be to be restored back to that
• 1:33:01
  ministry as a father, as a mother, to do it
• 1:33:04
  the way you should do it. Again, hear this as
• 1:33:09
  a prophetic word. It is true that you are called,
• 1:33:12
  but there is need for mending. Mend your needs. Number
• 1:33:17
  six are we learning? We're discussing the fishers of men?
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: The sixth training.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: That every fisherman must go through to be effective, and
• 1:33:33
  that applies to every fisher of men and every weakness.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: Are you ready for this?
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: Fishing requires great patience, persistence, and discipline. Fishing requires great patience,
• 1:33:53
  persistence and discipline. Fishing require great patience, persistence and discipline.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: Do I say it in another way?
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: Sol winning requires great patience, persistence and discipline. Life phishing,
• 1:34:19
  sol winning requires great patience, persistence, and discipline. Wrap top
• 1:34:28
  with genuine compassion. Oh, you must add that one. Sol
• 1:34:34
  winning is a game without compassion. Compassion is what makes
• 1:34:40
  soul waning authentic, not ministry. Compassion Are we learning efficient?
• 1:34:51
  Chapter two plays from verse one to six. I have
• 1:34:55
  a very strong message here, and I believe this will
• 1:34:59
  help to support the strengthening of the body of Christ.
• 1:35:03
  Soul winning, like fishing, requires great patience, discipline, persistence, wraptop
• 1:35:12
  with compassion.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you this?
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the reason why we don't catch fish is that
• 1:35:19
  we get to the sea with such anger the sea.
• 1:35:23
  We make it so boister us. The fish run away,
• 1:35:26
  and by the time we throw the next there is
• 1:35:28
  nothing to catch.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: There is a skill to catching fish. Sometimes silence is
• 1:35:33
  the skill.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: You drop the next there, and you keep quiet and endear.
• 1:35:39
  Then the fish come and you catch them. Our impatience
• 1:35:44
  with the world of the unsafe it's one of the
• 1:35:47
  reasons why they run away.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: Are we together now? I think that there is a
• 1:35:54
  growing head tread for.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 2: The unbelieving world, and it ought not to be so.
• 1:36:01
  God never called us to hate on people simply because
• 1:36:05
  they are not spiritual. It's a dangerous orientation. You cannot
• 1:36:10
  hate somebody, faberalize and vocalize or hatred then wants the
• 1:36:15
  person to be saved. No, an unsaved person is not
• 1:36:20
  necessarily a failure. An unsaved person is just one whose
• 1:36:24
  eternal destiny is not yet in place. But as far
• 1:36:28
  as I all this concern, an unsaid person can be
• 1:36:31
  a very successful person.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: Don't downplay their results.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: You cannot hate on a people and want them to
• 1:36:41
  be saved.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: No, are we together.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: The level of anger an aggression that we communicate towards
• 1:36:54
  the unbelieving world. In my opinion, and respectfully so, I
• 1:37:00
  think it's.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: Too harsh to bring that fish to our nets.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: Now we're not calling to the ministry of condoning just whatever.
• 1:37:08
  But there's something you need to know about an unsaved person.
• 1:37:12
  An unsaved person is under the influence of the Prince
• 1:37:16
  of the power of the air. Give us efficients two.
• 1:37:19
  Let me show you something efficients to please from verse one,
• 1:37:23
  and you have here quickened, who were dead in trespasses?
• 1:37:28
  Did you see that dead in what trespasses unsin that
• 1:37:33
  is the state of an unsaved person. Verse two, when
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  in time past Paul was reminding the church and ephisods
• 1:37:42
  that once upon.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: A time you were like this too.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: You want according to the cause of this world, according
• 1:37:50
  to the Prince of the power of the air, the
• 1:37:53
  spirit that now now currently works in the children of disobedience,
• 1:38:00
  There is a spirit that makes the unseat behave the
• 1:38:04
  way they behave. Are we together? They are not just
• 1:38:08
  doing it. They have their will, but that will has
• 1:38:11
  been hijacked and manipulated. When you look at an unsaved
• 1:38:15
  person from this lens, it to plants compassion, not hatred.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Verse three.
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  Speaker 2: Among whom we also had our conversation in time past,
• 1:38:27
  watch this fulfilling the lost of our flesh, and fulfilling
• 1:38:32
  the desires of the flesh and of the mind, And
• 1:38:36
  were by nature naturally children of wrath, even among others
• 1:38:42
  vers for Hallelujah.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: But God, who is rich in what not rich in power?
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: When it has to do with the business of the
• 1:38:52
  fishing men, messy must precede power. When you have power
• 1:38:59
  without messy, you will use it to trouble the sea,
• 1:39:02
  and you would drive it.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: Takes power to trouble the sea.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: But it takes your messy to be patient, knowing that
• 1:39:10
  the fish are under in this case the world. I'm
• 1:39:13
  believing world. They are under an influence that is greater
• 1:39:16
  than them. If they could help themselves, Jesus would not
• 1:39:19
  come to die. But God, who is rich and messy
• 1:39:24
  for his great love, wherewith he loved us verse five,
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  even when we were dead in sins. Watch this have
• 1:39:32
  quickened us together with Christ by grace He has saved
• 1:39:36
  verse six, the Bible says, and had raised us up
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  together and made us to sit together in heavenly places.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth, by the privilege of
• 1:39:48
  God's grace, I am a soul winner.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: I've been in this business of soul winning for many,
• 1:39:54
  many years. This is one area I can tell you
• 1:39:57
  by messy that I understand. And some of the greatest
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  harvests that have come came.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: To compassion, not power. Compassion.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: There are people serving in this ministry today. If you
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  at the time they were saved, you will not believe
• 1:40:13
  that God could Turnsaul to Paul. Are we together now
• 1:40:17
  venting out hatred, venting out anger and annoyance against an
• 1:40:22
  unbelieving world? Listen to me you are. Any time you
• 1:40:26
  begin to communicate a sense of self righteousness, you lose
• 1:40:31
  that ability to reach sin us. Everybody was a sinner
• 1:40:36
  in iniquity? Did my mother conceive me? Let us not
• 1:40:39
  forget how God saved us. There are two things I
• 1:40:42
  want to tell you to help you, and I believe
• 1:40:44
  this extends to the body of Christ. If you have
• 1:40:48
  been guilty in an area of sin before, be careful
• 1:40:53
  how you speak about it now that you are saved.
• 1:40:56
  The fact that you were a victim. There were others
• 1:40:59
  who were free while you were a victim. See Messy
• 1:41:02
  saved you. Never forget that you could not help yourself.
• 1:41:06
  It was Messy that saved you. Extend the same. There
• 1:41:10
  is a way a one's victim should not speak. Did
• 1:41:15
  you know what I said? This is spiritual maturity. Once
• 1:41:19
  you have been a victim of any major aspect of
• 1:41:24
  sin or life, even if you repent, there is a way.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: You cannot speak.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: Again, Messy must be before you, because if you could
• 1:41:35
  help yourself while you were in that rot, there were
• 1:41:38
  those who were free.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: But they gave you a chance to discover.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: Give other people a chance to Sometimes we forget how
• 1:41:46
  God helped us, and we stand in self righteousness and
• 1:41:49
  begin to shout and say all kinds of things.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: I repeat this, and let Christ here.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: If you were once in any rot or in any scene,
• 1:42:01
  and God helped you, even though you.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: Are helped now I am saying it.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: There is a way you cannot preach again the fact
• 1:42:10
  that you were one soul now that you have become Paul.
• 1:42:15
  You see you are said by grace, but that inno
• 1:42:19
  sense has gone. There are certain things you cannot say again.
• 1:42:23
  You remain an advocate of compassion for the rest of
• 1:42:26
  your life.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: You are the one that we praise.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: You are the one were at all.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: You give the healing angrace that are heart souls.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: Oh listen, you were a tief before you repented. Be
• 1:42:56
  mindful how you talk to thieves. You were in more
• 1:43:00
  before you repented. Be mindful how you talk to immoral people.
• 1:43:04
  You were in anger before you repented. Be mindful that
• 1:43:08
  you were a victim of it.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: Should plant a greater compassion.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: Because if you could not help yourself, you should be
• 1:43:16
  touched with the feelings of people's infirmity even more than
• 1:43:19
  those who were innocent. An unbrothera was become saved should
• 1:43:23
  not preach you an unbroba say if he never was
• 1:43:25
  once No, if someone becoming mature. Now, you were once
• 1:43:31
  a prostitute, with all due respect, yes, I know that
• 1:43:35
  Raha changed, but once upon a time you were prostitute.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: So when you.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: See a prostitute, don't tell her what a shame you're
• 1:43:43
  in prostitution.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: Don't do that. You were once there.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: It was the intercession of compassionate people that brought it
• 1:43:51
  to a point where the hand of God could reach you.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: Are we learning now?
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, you were once an irresponsible father, clearly irresponsible, but
• 1:44:03
  now God has helped you. The next time you see
• 1:44:05
  an irresponsible father, draw from your pain.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: I know what it feels.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: This is the reason why when Jesus became a man.
• 1:44:13
  You see, when he went up to heaven, he didn't
• 1:44:16
  stop intercession. I know what it means to be on
• 1:44:20
  it and to be persecuted. I know what it means
• 1:44:24
  to be betrayed. So when he sits at the right
• 1:44:27
  hand of the Father, he does not point fingers as saying, ah,
• 1:44:30
  you are supposed to preach as a preacher. Why are
• 1:44:33
  you tired? It's an embarrassment. He will remember when he
• 1:44:37
  fell on the way to gold Gotter. We have not
• 1:44:40
  a high priest who has not been touched. This is
• 1:44:43
  the part of the ministry of the Body we need
• 1:44:47
  to restore. There are many people who have been victims
• 1:44:50
  of yesterday, and this is not a call for condemnation,
• 1:44:54
  but that in your conversion, do not forget the abundance
• 1:44:58
  of messy that helped you. If other's a chance, it's
• 1:45:02
  not only Saul that became Paul. There are others too,
• 1:45:06
  even Demus. If he repents, he can't find life. Someone learning.
• 1:45:17
  There are many wounded people in the Body of Christ
• 1:45:20
  who have great grace upon their lives.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: We must be very careful.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: There are many younger people rising. They may make mistakes
• 1:45:29
  with your lives. Please do not misunderstand me. We are
• 1:45:33
  never giving the mandate to endorse or condon't sin. No,
• 1:45:37
  but I can't tell you with all due respect, you
• 1:45:40
  see when it has to do with this issue of
• 1:45:43
  sin and righteousness, by just leave it to God. You
• 1:45:47
  only talk about the one you know Ah with all
• 1:45:51
  due respect. You see in our world today, people who
• 1:45:53
  have been many years in ministry, some of them are
• 1:45:56
  sincerely coming out to say, look, I can't live a
• 1:45:58
  false life again. I've been living like this for thirty years.
• 1:46:01
  Say experience, say experience, say it again thirty years and
• 1:46:06
  Ministry's experience. But it does not immune you. It's only
• 1:46:10
  God that knows the true state of everybody. The day
• 1:46:13
  Jesus will come back, there will be surprises. Surprises are
• 1:46:22
  weay together. There are many seas today that don't have
• 1:46:30
  fish around there again, you know why people came with
• 1:46:33
  power and self righteousness.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: A man who was.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: Once an irresponsible man, now, for instance, God has helped you.
• 1:46:44
  You have repented. You are now a responsible man. Husband
• 1:46:47
  to your wife. When you are talking to another irresponsible man,
• 1:46:50
  don't forget.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: You were once there.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: Don't trouble the sea so much that the fish will
• 1:46:56
  run away and you are wondering why the net is
• 1:46:58
  not catching anything.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: Is the reason why sinners.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: Don't come to church again, because it has become an aggressive.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: Place of hostility.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: We will preach against sin, will preach against on righteousness,
• 1:47:10
  but not from a standpoint of self perfection, because by
• 1:47:15
  the righteousness of the law, the righteousness of ourselves, nobody
• 1:47:19
  can stand before God.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: Allelujah. There are many wounded people today in the body
• 1:47:28
  of Christ. They cannot run anywhere to find help.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: Do you know why, because everywhere has become a place
• 1:47:35
  with a sword. One time Peter removed the sword and
• 1:47:37
  Jesus told him put your sword back. Now it's not
• 1:47:40
  the time for swords. We need to be careful. We
• 1:47:43
  need to be careful again. I remind you when it has.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: To do with the business of working on yourself.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: Whether you are Zebedee, you are John, or you are James,
• 1:47:55
  sit down and mend your nets.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: Are we together? We've driven many, many, many fishes. Let
• 1:48:09
  me tell you so when it requires great patience, great patience.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: Have studied many revivals, and sometimes it is amazing how
• 1:48:19
  many people keep interceeding over these lands for years until
• 1:48:23
  fire finally falls. How many of you know that there
• 1:48:26
  are women who have prayed for their children and for ten.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: Fifteen years they kept interceeding.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: You will never think the child will be saved. One
• 1:48:35
  day they just saw the child after twenty years of
• 1:48:39
  not seeing him. He came back with a bible. What
• 1:48:42
  is all this one now? He said, My mom a preacher,
• 1:48:44
  and he says, hallelujah. So I was going to see
• 1:48:47
  a preacher in my lifetime. What if you looked at
• 1:48:49
  the child, What if you told them I like the
• 1:48:52
  story of the prodigal son and the father. Do you
• 1:48:57
  know that even when the son went afar off, the
• 1:49:00
  father had everything to himself, but he could not rest.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: I know my son is somewhere, provided he is alife.
• 1:49:07
  There is hope for him, provided he's alive. One day
• 1:49:11
  he just felt within himself. The man left his house
• 1:49:15
  and said, I will leave the ninety nine. Let me
• 1:49:17
  begin to look for that one.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: And it coincided with when the one prodigal son said,
• 1:49:21
  you know what, I will sit here in pride and shame.
• 1:49:24
  I will arise and go to my father and I
• 1:49:27
  will say, father, I have seen against you. Now, if
• 1:49:30
  you go to your father with your hand in your
• 1:49:32
  pocket and say, after all, it's just a slight glitch
• 1:49:36
  in character, you are you are?
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: You must be.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: Something is wrong with that son. He should return back
• 1:49:40
  to the swine. That is not a glitch in character.
• 1:49:45
  Many years with the swine. You need to come with
• 1:49:48
  a heart broken.
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: But when brokenness is there, compassion must follow. He held
• 1:49:56
  him and kissed him.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: The Bible says, restored his signet ring back home and said,
• 1:50:01
  put music together. But the elder son, who committed the
• 1:50:08
  same crime as the younger son.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: The only difference is that.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 2: One did it in his heart, whereas the other one.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: Acted it out. Two of them were prodigal sons.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: One was prodigal in his heart, nothing.
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: Bitterness and anger. The same way.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: Someone committed adultery fornication in his heart. Another person committed
• 1:50:27
  theft and lost in his heart, whereas another person acted
• 1:50:30
  it out and had physical consequences. Two of them would
• 1:50:33
  stand as the elder son and the younger son. But
• 1:50:36
  I tell you before that Father, all of them need redemption.
• 1:50:40
  The story of the Prodigal Song was not about one child.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: It was about the compassion of the father to his
• 1:50:46
  two sons. Are we learning now? This is very important.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: If we keep destroying our wounded soldiers in the body
• 1:50:55
  of Christ, a time will come will stear up that
• 1:51:00
  that all the fish that should be saved will not
• 1:51:03
  be there again. I pray that the time will never
• 1:51:06
  come when the only people in church are old people,
• 1:51:09
  because all the young people would have run away. We
• 1:51:12
  have driven them with our sense of self righteousness. We
• 1:51:16
  will never tolerate evil, never tolerate licentiousness. But let me
• 1:51:20
  tell you one truth, ladies and gentlemen, we must obtain
• 1:51:23
  grace from God to show compassion. I will repeat it
• 1:51:28
  one last time. If you have ever been a victim
• 1:51:32
  of any lifestyle, anything at ald that is not good,
• 1:51:36
  and God showed you messy, there is a way you.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: Should not preach. No.
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 2: If you are a man of God and you did
• 1:51:43
  ministry wrong, and God help you, I hope you know
• 1:51:47
  that when you are in error, not everybody is in error.
• 1:51:51
  There are people who are already out, but they were
• 1:51:53
  patienting you found grace, Allow others pray intercede. This has
• 1:51:59
  been my philosophy ministry. As you point hands at people,
• 1:52:07
  one day, you find out you're pointing a hand at
• 1:52:10
  your own child. And because you have refused to take
• 1:52:13
  that hand back, when you want to retract, the people
• 1:52:15
  say leave that hand there, because that hand has.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: Always been there. Ah.
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: When you keep pointing hands and say george them, george them.
• 1:52:23
  One day, as you say george them, you find out
• 1:52:25
  the hand you are pointing is your wife, and you
• 1:52:28
  want to bring it down and say no. The same
• 1:52:30
  rule applies to everybody.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: Allelujah. I have met powerful people today.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 2: I have met preachers who have come to me with
• 1:52:41
  charms and seid a personal. I love the Lord sincerely,
• 1:52:46
  but I was serving this and that and that. This
• 1:52:48
  one happened, but I'm genuinely called.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: Now. You don't help those people by saying, okay, that's fine,
• 1:52:54
  you are fine. You are not fine. There is still
• 1:52:57
  a net to be mended.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 2: However, not stop the fact that God called them. There
• 1:53:04
  are many young people, maybe campost people, with all their energy,
• 1:53:08
  doing ministry wrongly.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: But it does not mean they're not called.
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: They just need mentorship and guidance to let them know
• 1:53:15
  you can become.
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: But not this way. Let us not lose both the
• 1:53:19
  harvest and.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 2: The fishes simply because we are troubling the sea. The
• 1:53:27
  ministerial sea Nigeria is too troubled. The ministerial sea in
• 1:53:32
  Africa is too troubled. The ministerial sea world over is
• 1:53:36
  too troubled. You don't catch fish by troubling the sea
• 1:53:40
  too much.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: There is a skill to effective witness. There are times
• 1:53:46
  when you need to be silent. You see the wisdom
• 1:53:49
  of the fathers now that sometimes we see them silent.
• 1:53:53
  They are not silent because they are not seeing what
• 1:53:56
  is going on in the sea. They are silent because
• 1:53:58
  their nets they are put under. They're allowing the fish come.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 2: Then they fold the net, and now they can sort
• 1:54:05
  out everything.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: If you want ministry, especially to the nations, you are
• 1:54:14
  going to have to come with a compassionate heart. There
• 1:54:17
  are things I believe as a man.
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: Of God, there.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: Are things that this ministry believes and stands for. But
• 1:54:26
  in dealing with a global audience, you will have to
• 1:54:30
  create a lot of flexibility for several things.
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: Not compromises, but several things. You will have to keep.
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: Your reservations, but obtain the grace to stretch a bit
• 1:54:43
  to be able to accommodate a large collection of fish.
• 1:54:48
  Not everybody will dress the way you want. Not everybody
• 1:54:51
  would talk the way you want. Not everybody will behave
• 1:54:55
  at the moment you want as the way you want.
• 1:54:58
  Not everybody will come to church or come for that
• 1:55:00
  CU say the way you want. Our advocacy is to
• 1:55:04
  stand for righteousness without compromise, But that in doing so,
• 1:55:09
  there is a skill to fishing where you throw your
• 1:55:12
  net before the fish arrives, so when they are coming
• 1:55:16
  in their variety, you keep quiet.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Your silence is not weakness.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: You are allowing the silence of the sea to bring
• 1:55:24
  the fish so that when you close the net now
• 1:55:27
  they are within your reach and.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: You can safe even to the outermost. Are we learning?
• 1:55:44
  As a man of God. You will go to preach somewhere.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 2: You will see people dress anyhow in very disturbing ways.
• 1:55:50
  That may not be your philosophy, but you will need
• 1:55:53
  to have a bit of accommodation. I preach in all
• 1:55:56
  kinds of places, and sometimes people do all kinds of thing.
• 1:56:00
  Some of those practices will not happen in Coridonia, by
• 1:56:03
  the grace of God, but you will need to have
• 1:56:06
  flexibility enough. That's why God invited you for the program,
• 1:56:10
  because he saw that something was wrong and in your preaching.
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: If in love, light will come and adjustment. You see,
• 1:56:18
  nets I repeat again, can be mended. In facts can
• 1:56:24
  be changed.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: You can literally throw the old net, the old way
• 1:56:30
  of doing ministry, the old way of doing life, and
• 1:56:35
  then carry a new net. Sometimes the nets can be
• 1:56:40
  damaged beyond mending. You may need to throw it, and God,
• 1:56:45
  the real fish out of men, can give you a
• 1:56:48
  new net.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: Are we learning?
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: Let me encourage before we get to the final key.
• 1:57:02
  Soul winning requires great patience, men and women of God,
• 1:57:07
  all who are the cotting edge of fishing men.
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: Let us learn this.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: Messy and compassion must precede power. Messy and compassion must
• 1:57:21
  precede power.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: Go ahead of power.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: There are times that messy and compassion will tame power
• 1:57:30
  and say power. Now is not the time to act.
• 1:57:33
  Be silent and wait first. Let the fish come. When
• 1:57:37
  you are about lifting the net, that's when you need power.
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: But before the.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: Fish arrives, you may need messy and you may need compassion.
• 1:57:46
  Messy and compassion is not in definite tolerance of evil. No,
• 1:57:52
  it's not in definite tolerance of cheerlessness and compromises. No.
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  Speaker 1: But I can tell you study from the life of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time would have gone to
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  look nineteen. You would have seen what happened in the
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  house of Zachios. That's what happened in the house of Zachios.
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  The statement to seek and say the loss came as
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  a result of the anger of the people. The Bible
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  tells us that Jesus was on his way going and
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  Zacchios climbed the tree because he was a short man,
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  and Jesus saw him and said, Zachios, you climbed the
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  tree just to see me.
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  Speaker 1: You know what that means that even though.
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  Speaker 2: The man was a corrupt tax collector, when he was
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  alone in his house, something in him told him, this
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  is not the way. Most of the people you think
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  are stubborn and not stubborn. The Holy Spirit is still walking.
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  You are just not seeing what he's doing. That stubborn child,
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  that stubborn whatever it is, that person.
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  Speaker 1: Doing ministry in a way that is not correct.
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  Speaker 2: There is still the ministry of the Holy Spirit in
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  their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Zachios climbed the tree.
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  Speaker 2: To see Jesus, and Jesus said, because you have shown
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  interest in me, come down. I change where I'm going.
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  I'm going to your house. And when men saw that,
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  he went to his house. Give us verse six ses
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  you've tempted me. There, the Bible says he made haste.
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  He came down and received him joyfully, meaning while you
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  were saying gordrop Zachios, God punish you as short as
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  you are. He was in the room saying, God, I
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  don't like being natief, but I cannot help myself. The
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  Prince of the power of the air and God was
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  looking at his compassion. The day he saw Jesus, he
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  received him with haste. Seven And when they saw it,
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  the oh Lord, is that in your bible, saying that
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  he was gone to be a guest with a man
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  that is a sinner. Verse eight. And Zakio stood and said,
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  watch this by himself, Lord, the half of my goods
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  I give to the poor. And if I have taken
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  anything from any man by false accusation, I restore.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: While all of that was happening in Zacchio's house, you
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  were not seeing it, and so you would conclude outside,
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  what is Jesus still doing two hours in the house
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  of Zachios, whereas salvation had come not just for him,
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  but for everyone he had defrauded. Could it be that
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  the woman you have been talking about. While you were
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  talking about her, she's been fasting and praying, saying, Lord,
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  I know that I don't deserve to be used. It
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  is true that I went to her badlyst has a
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  mother to have a child, but it was ignorance. And
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  while they are praying, you are there saying Jesus would
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  not come. Don't be surprised when you see Jesus in
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  the house of Many Zachios. Many, you will decorate your
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  house with falsehood and self righteousness, and Jesus will pass
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  your house and go to a short person somewhere. A
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  short man means someone that does not meet the standard.
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  And Jesus said, let me come to your house. Let's
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  finish the scripture. I hope someone is learning tonight. Look
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  at the man, meaning that it was already on his hand.
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  He said, half of my goods I'm going to give
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  the poor, and if I have taken anything, I'm going
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  to restore fourfold.
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  Speaker 1: How many of the people who were accusing him could
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  do that Verse nine. And Jesus said, unto him. Because
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  of this state of hunger, openness, brokenness, and repentance, this
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  day salvation is come to your house. For as much
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  as you too, as backward as you are, you.
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  Speaker 2: Are still a son of Abraham. When I promise Abraham
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  that indeed all the heir to be blessed, that covered
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  you too.
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  Speaker 1: Verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: For the son of Man is come even to the
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  house of Zacchios to save and seek the lost. Don't
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  go to a dear parlor or go to a brother
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  and say a person who said go to Zacchio's house,
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  you would die there and you may not come out.
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  Let me balance it because believers hear all.
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  Speaker 1: Kinds of things.
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  Speaker 2: While you are laboring to teach on stage, I'm gonna
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  look for trouble. You stand near Sodom, you'll enter into
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  Sodom away together. But I'm saying, the person who entered
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  the house of Exacchios.
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  Speaker 1: Was Jesus, was who Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Only Jesus can enter the house of Exacchios by himself
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  and come out free. If you are not Jesus, you
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  can knock at the door and say, Zachios, I brought
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  good news. Seven fishers of men the seventh and for
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  this discussion final lesson that every fisherman needs to become
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  professional and every fisher of men, every soul winner needs.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: You must be mindful of your safety as a fisherman
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  while you fish. There are safety practices that must be
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  taught every fisherman if you must survive the business of
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  fishing to return back home safe.
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  Speaker 1: Even with fish.
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  Speaker 2: There is nobody who goes to the sea. I remember
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  years ago, while we're going I was.
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  Speaker 1: Going to preach at Bonny caamp and where I portter
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  card and needed to go by sea.
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  Speaker 2: And so the army came and they dressed me the
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  life vest and all those things, and I looked at myself,
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  flattered and proud of myself, first for being a preacher,
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  but then at least for being a sea person. For
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  the next minutes that would take us there, and I
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  learned all kinds of things from that journey. You could
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  see me with my vest looking happy, and that thing
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  was a bit heavier, and I was wondering did I
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  have to wear this? But that was what was required
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  for my safety should anything go wrong. I remember one
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  time we were returning and then one of the boats
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  something happened and he was there, not moving, just under
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  the waves. I said, no, Lord, I have served you
• 2:04:42
  all my life. Come on, where is the God that
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  come the sea?
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? How many careless fishermen have died not
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  been because of demonic attacks? They were not taught that
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  the business of fishing is a risk. Did you hear
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  what I said?
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  Speaker 2: The business of fishing, whether a fisher of fish or
• 2:05:12
  a fisher of men. Once you are a fisher, it
• 2:05:16
  is a risky business. And there are life vests, there
• 2:05:22
  are safety mechanisms that you must put in place. For instance,
• 2:05:28
  if you are a fisherman, you must know how to
• 2:05:31
  manage the cold that will be at sea. Sometimes what
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  can kill you is the sheer cold.
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: That is at sea.
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 2: Sometimes when I travel to regions of the world and
• 2:05:43
  is so cold, and you find the people there, they
• 2:05:45
  are not even they're already used to it. And I'm
• 2:05:47
  thinking to this, we want to die. I'm wondering what
• 2:05:50
  to do with myself with all that annoying in the
• 2:05:52
  cold did not spare me. There are times you can
• 2:05:58
  die of cold. So if it is the sea you
• 2:06:01
  are going to be for a long time. When God
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  gives you a jacket, don't throw it away because it
• 2:06:06
  is heavy carried. When you are leaving your house, you
• 2:06:10
  will not need that jacket. But once the night comes
• 2:06:13
  at sea, while you are patiently waiting for the fish
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  to come, sometimes you are doing nothing, and that cold
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  will blow left, right and center.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: You will need that jacket.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you now begin to sail and you
• 2:06:28
  don't have your life vest, sometimes you will need you
• 2:06:31
  or what they call that thing.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: That puddle, to be able to row your boat.
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  Speaker 2: If you throw it away and you said, the rivers
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  respect me.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: Now there are skills to remaining.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that you need to understand the jurisdiction
• 2:06:54
  of fishing. How many of you know that even waters
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  have jurisdiction. There are laws now I'm speaking intellectually, there
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  are laws that govern fishing. There are fishing laws in
• 2:07:06
  certain nations.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: You can see a fish jump.
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  Speaker 2: If you jump inside that river and catch that fish
• 2:07:12
  from that river, you are going to jail.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, you just watch it whatever it is.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 2: If you want to eat fish, there are restaurants usually
• 2:07:22
  close to it, but you don't just go and catch
• 2:07:24
  the one there. So it does not mean that just
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  because the fish is there, you jump at it. No,
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  especially in the world that we live now, you must
• 2:07:35
  understand the jurisdictional component of soul winning a particular state.
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  In this nation, I would mention the name years ago.
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  I remember we went to push there and when I
• 2:07:47
  got there, we're talking with a few of the pastors,
• 2:07:50
  the leaders, and they told me, they said, in this
• 2:07:52
  nation they don't have a problem with church, but the
• 2:07:55
  moment you are caught trying to save someone directly reach
• 2:08:00
  into someone, you're going to get into trouble.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: You can have church, old church.
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 2: Whoever believes in you before they arrive the city can
• 2:08:06
  come and join you. But that they find you actively
• 2:08:09
  trying to win someone you're in trouble.
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: There are jurisdictions.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 2: Now, it does not mean I told you that fishing,
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  whether a fisher of fish or a fisher of men,
• 2:08:21
  is a risk. Sometimes it will cost you your life.
• 2:08:24
  This is why you are mandated to love Jesus Christ
• 2:08:27
  before you start fishing, because there are times you may
• 2:08:30
  go to that sea and sadly, no matter how careful,
• 2:08:33
  you may not return.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: But the joy is that even when you are no longer.
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 2: There the net was full of fish, someone else can
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  catch that fish, and there is a crown that is
• 2:08:44
  waiting for you.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: The Bible says, are we together?
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  Speaker 2: What are the safety nets that every fisherman must put?
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  Number one the intercessory prayer ministry.
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: That is the first safety net.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go to catch fish without a strong backing of intercessors.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: In about a month now when in US and when Canada,
• 2:09:13
  and like you were told, prayers have begun.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 2: If you've not joined, make sure you join in your
• 2:09:18
  home personally, sow that seed of prayer when you are going,
• 2:09:23
  especially to deep waters transcontinental waters. Your first safety is
• 2:09:30
  not the life vest you wear, because storms are products
• 2:09:35
  of the boisterous nature of the sea and the wind
• 2:09:38
  you cannot see. There is a spiritual side to this.
• 2:09:43
  Are we together? Every fisher of men must understand that
• 2:09:48
  you must you must have a strong prayer backing a
• 2:09:53
  strong prayer backing men and women who are praying Lord.
• 2:09:57
  As the world of God comes, let there be a
• 2:10:00
  harvest of soul. I studied Reinhard Bonker's model of evangelism
• 2:10:05
  as to find out why his evangelistic approach was so
• 2:10:10
  effective across Africa in spite of the language barrier, and
• 2:10:15
  one of it was that months before they launched out
• 2:10:19
  their campaign Christ for All Nations, they would invest in
• 2:10:23
  in tense moments of prayer and fasting clear that air
• 2:10:28
  is a brethren. Pray for us as annointed as we are,
• 2:10:32
  pray for us. Can I tell you it takes more
• 2:10:35
  than English an understanding Bible to win the lost. There
• 2:10:39
  are ancient spirits that will not allow territories to be
• 2:10:43
  open and you just dive in there with intellectual.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: Sense, no prayer. Are we together? Number two?
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  Speaker 2: The second safety future that you need when you are
• 2:11:04
  a sole winner is to practice periodic retreats. Periodic retreats.
• 2:11:11
  Now it may be difficult for you to believe this,
• 2:11:14
  But a time can come in your life where soul
• 2:11:17
  winning can become a ritual that produces distraction. You can
• 2:11:22
  be distracted literally doing soul winning that your spiritual life
• 2:11:27
  dies while you are at sea. Nobody lives indefinitely in
• 2:11:32
  the sea.
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: Once you are done, you must retreat back. Are we together? Now?
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 2: There are many people It was not evil that destroyed them,
• 2:11:41
  They just became so they became so into the ritual
• 2:11:46
  of charge, the ritual of preaching, the ritual of evangelism,
• 2:11:52
  that they forgot their personal work with God. So personally,
• 2:11:56
  their prayer life has gone down, personally word study has
• 2:12:00
  gone down. But because they're in the mission field aside
• 2:12:05
  from intercession, there are.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: Times you need to draw back, not just to mend
• 2:12:09
  your net, but to have a time of.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 2: Retreat, fresh fire, fresh revelation, fresh and gracing, restrategizing again,
• 2:12:19
  and then you can go back to the sea. That
• 2:12:22
  happens whether you catch fish or not, because sometimes when
• 2:12:26
  you catch fish, you can be busy with the business
• 2:12:30
  of fish that you may not given know when you
• 2:12:32
  are hungry yourself. How many of you know that the
• 2:12:35
  tanker that carries foil is also foiled.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: Is that true?
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: The tanker that carries gas gasoline diesel it has to
• 2:12:45
  it can stop full of gas, but stops because the
• 2:12:49
  diesel that power seat has finished. There are many people
• 2:12:53
  holding nets full of souls, but.
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: They are and they don't have the energy.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 2: Eventually they will fall out of exhaustion, and the nets
• 2:13:04
  will open, and the fish will run back to the sea.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: It says.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: Even the young men will be wary. Are we together?
• 2:13:16
  The youth will utterly fall. The young men shall utterly fall,
• 2:13:22
  and the youth will fade as at forty thirty, it says.
• 2:13:25
  But they that wait, the fishes of men that wait,
• 2:13:33
  the witnesses that wait upon the Lord in prayer, in
• 2:13:39
  periodic retreats, they shall renew.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: Everybody say renew one more time.
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 2: The word remans again like before, as before, restored to
• 2:13:49
  the original and even better state. Renew their strength, because
• 2:13:54
  that's the first thing that has failed. Their strength. They
• 2:13:57
  shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run
• 2:14:01
  and not be wary. They shall walk and not fainth
• 2:14:05
  Every soul winner needs to retreat. You don't retreat just
• 2:14:10
  because you are failing or winning. Is a principle of survivor.
• 2:14:18
  I believe in mission walk, but there are many missionaries
• 2:14:21
  right now who need to take a break and leave
• 2:14:24
  the mission fields for one or two months. There will
• 2:14:28
  never be an end to the souls that need to
• 2:14:31
  be saved. They need to return for one or two months,
• 2:14:34
  connect back to their families, find strength, because how many
• 2:14:39
  of you know that work in the mission field can
• 2:14:42
  be psychologically exhausting, not just spiritually exhausting, psychologically exhausting. There
• 2:14:51
  are times that I go to preach, especially when I travel,
• 2:14:54
  once we are done counseling seeing people. Now I'm still anointed,
• 2:14:59
  but that FeAs exhaustion. Sometimes I can feel it. My
• 2:15:02
  body literally can start shaking. Where you are debating whether
• 2:15:06
  to eat or to sleep, you are choosing which one
• 2:15:10
  is more profitable at that time. And while you are thinking,
• 2:15:14
  your body chooses for you because he doesn't have time
• 2:15:16
  to waste. You find out that you've slept is when
• 2:15:20
  you wake up, and by the time you wake up,
• 2:15:22
  the morning session is already getting.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 1: You have to pray and prepare. Let me tell you
• 2:15:26
  the truth.
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: This business of fishing, especially when the people you are
• 2:15:30
  catching are men, it can exhaust you and Jesus wept.
• 2:15:37
  Jesus cried before Lazarus's tomb.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: He was emotionally moved.
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 2: Jesus wept at God gotter to the point that his sweat, believe,
• 2:15:47
  mixed with tears, became like blood.
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. There are times when.
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 2: You have to be very sincere and admit to yourself.
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: Let me have your attention. Please. Some of you right
• 2:16:02
  now are serving God.
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 2: But what you need is just some time to go
• 2:16:07
  and sit down let someone else preach to you. You
• 2:16:12
  have been the one shouting at everybody, but you need
• 2:16:16
  to be fed yourself. You need to just sit down
• 2:16:20
  and let someone comfort you. You see that now, That's
• 2:16:25
  why I was blessed so much last week when I
• 2:16:27
  just sat down and allowed my wonderful school of ministry students.
• 2:16:31
  They were doing all their things and doing all their preaching,
• 2:16:33
  and I just sat quietly. How good it is they
• 2:16:41
  just sit down and watch them do what they're doing.
• 2:16:46
  There are many reasons why people die in the mission field.
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: Some die because of ignorance, Some die because of demonic attack.
• 2:16:56
  Some die because they were not trained well. They dabbled
• 2:16:59
  into deep waters without training. Some died because they were alone.
• 2:17:04
  They did not see the value of the contribution of
• 2:17:07
  other ships and other fishers.
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 2: Some died because after laboring to gather the fish, exhaustion
• 2:17:16
  made them to fall back into the boat, and the
• 2:17:19
  fish peeled out, and everything went so that all their
• 2:17:23
  nights and weeks of waiting became wasted.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: Listen to me.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 2: He calls us to be witnesses. But the first assignment
• 2:17:34
  of a witness is not to be a revelation communicator.
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: It's not to be a power manifesto, is to be
• 2:17:41
  a fisher of men. And tonight we have borrowed from
• 2:17:46
  the training of.
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 2: A fisher or a fisherman, the scriptural principles that help
• 2:17:53
  men to be effective.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: Most of you have seen where you have gotten it
• 2:17:57
  wrong in you're attempting to fish men. That may be
• 2:18:03
  the reason why your relatives have refused to be saved.
• 2:18:06
  You have been throwing.
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 2: Nets for years and it has not brought any harvest.
• 2:18:11
  God is teaching you right now so that the next
• 2:18:14
  net you catch, among the many fish that will come,
• 2:18:19
  you will see your father in that net, your mother
• 2:18:22
  in that net, your siblings in that net, even the
• 2:18:25
  ones who are afar of maybe some of your classmates.
• 2:18:29
  You have so trained your net that when you threw
• 2:18:33
  that net, it could go back into your ten years
• 2:18:36
  before now and draw people. And when you look at it,
• 2:18:40
  you have to call other people. Finally, my father is saved.
• 2:18:45
  Finally my mother is saved. Finally this I don't washap
• 2:18:49
  in our family. The net can reach anyone if you
• 2:18:53
  are trained to know how to throw it.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: Let me recap one last time, and then we'll.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: Pray the principles that help people to be effective fishers
• 2:19:05
  of men. Number one, you need to understand the sea
• 2:19:10
  where the fishes are found, the sea here all winner
• 2:19:14
  is the entire eth. You must understand the spiritual, the
• 2:19:19
  sociological composition, and the implication of living in a world
• 2:19:24
  and an age like ours. Number two, you need to
• 2:19:29
  know that there are various kinds of fish. All fish
• 2:19:32
  are not the same. All men are not the same.
• 2:19:35
  There are levels of resistance, so the gospel is not
• 2:19:37
  the same. There are levels of aggression, Their personalities are
• 2:19:41
  not the same. This means that you must know how
• 2:19:44
  to deploy the right strategy for the right fish. Number three,
• 2:19:49
  you must understand that there are various techniques for catching fish,
• 2:19:53
  like there are various methods, various approaches given to men
• 2:19:58
  to win souls.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: That everybody will.
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 2: Not be saved using the strategy you were given. But
• 2:20:06
  the most important thing is to respect the diversity of
• 2:20:10
  fishing strategies, the diversity of God or dead ministries within
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  the body, and respect their various skills and their various.
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  Speaker 1: Contribution to this fishing.
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  Speaker 2: Number four that you must have a functional boat to
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  gather your fish, to gather your harvest, to avoid waste away.
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  Speaker 1: Together. That means you must.
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  Speaker 2: Have a functional structure, platform, follow up system, establishment system.
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  Speaker 1: If you cannot have.
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  Speaker 2: One, you must be connected to one that preserves the harvest. So,
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  whether it is a hook you use to save one sinner,
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  you have somewhere the person can go to for his
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  spiritual nourishment and his build up.
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  Speaker 1: From that point, Number five, you must.
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  Speaker 2: Know that you cannot effectively fish in isolation. You cannot
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  effectively be a fisher of men a sole winner in isolation.
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  No matter how effective you are as a person, effective
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  you are as a ministry, it will take the collaboration
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  of other fishers of men for efficiency to happen. The
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  meaning of that is that we must not discourage the
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  laborers that we already have and that it is not
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  unusual for fishers of men, both young and old, both fathers,
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  sons and children. It says, I write on to you fathers,
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  I write on to you young men, I write on
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  to your children. When it has to do with correction
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  and adjustment, regardless the ministerial experience, there is something to learn.
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  There is somewhere to mend your boat. As we said
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  to mend your net. Number six that fishing requires great patience, persistence,
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  and discipline. So soul winning, just like fishing, will require patience.
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  You can follow up one soul sometimes for years it
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  will look like you are failing till you see the
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  power that is released.
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  Speaker 1: At the point that person gets saved. I do not
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  believe that.
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  Speaker 2: The day soul met Jesus, that that was the day
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  his process started. I want to believe that there had
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  been a build up.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? We need patience.
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  Speaker 2: Never forget how God saved you, Never forget the various
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  things you were saved from. And I taught you in
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  discussing that point, that we need to allow messy and
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  compassion to go before power. Power is important, but not
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  before messy. When messy goes before power, when compassion goes
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  before power.
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  Speaker 1: It TEMs power, so that power is.
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  Speaker 2: Used in a way that benefits but does not destroy,
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  so that we do not make the sea excessively boisterous,
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  and then to drive every other fish.
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  Speaker 1: Seven that in fishing.
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  Speaker 2: Like soul winning, your safety is also God's concern, and
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  that you must know that there are safety systems that
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  you must put because God wants you, as a fisher
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  of men, to last. God does not want you to
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  do ministry for ten years and go down two years,
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  and go down five years, and go down. And people say,
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  this man was once a powerful man, this woman was
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  once a great woman, this churche.
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  Speaker 1: This ministry was once powerful.
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  Speaker 2: That language eat cobboard should not be heard in your destiny,
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  and that whiles.
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  Speaker 1: You fish, it is a risk.
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  Speaker 2: There are spirit tryings that happen at sea. There are
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  sociological transactions that.
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  Speaker 1: Happen at sea.
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  Speaker 2: There are emotional transactions that happen at sea. And you
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  must garrison yourself with the right safety systems. Number one
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  is that you need the prayer and intercessory ministry back
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  in you. Number two, you must know how to practice retreats.
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  There are many more. I just gave you two. In fact,
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  if you wish me to add one more, I can't
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  tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. You must know how to.
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  Speaker 2: Learn from those who have been fishing for a long time,
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  the power of mentorship. You must submit yourself to other
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  skilled fishermen with proof, because sometimes it may be that
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  your fishing is ineffective, and you may not have died yet,
• 2:24:50
  but you almost died at sea. The next time you go,
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  you may die there. So whilst you've had your opportunity
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  to retreat now, let somebody who has gain mastery over
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  are fishing teach you correct certain things. Then you can
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  go back now with greater efficiency. Let me conclude by
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  saying this, your love for Jesus, alongside your desire to
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  please him, must be greater than your desire for ministry, fame, power, money,
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  and even evangelism. Let me take it again that your
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  love for Jesus Christ the greatest addition to all of
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  these seven points that I would give you, or one
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  final addition to become an effective fisher of men. Haven't
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  taught you everything around the sea, fishing men is.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond going to the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Your love for Jesus, alongside your desire to please him,
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  must be greater than and your desire for ministry must
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  be greater than your desire for fame, must be greater
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  than your desire for power, must be greater than your
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  desire for money, must even be greater than your desire
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  for evangelism. Evangelism can become an idol. The quest for
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  money can become an idol, the quest for doing ministry
• 2:26:26
  can become an idol. Just because you are standing on
• 2:26:29
  the pulpit and holding a mic does not mean you
• 2:26:32
  love Jesus. I cannot end this very important discussion without
• 2:26:37
  challenging you that, when all is said and done, beyond fishing,
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  no matter how effective, your love for Jesus is what.
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  Speaker 1: Is most important.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus himself said, in that day, some will say we
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  healed in your name, good fishing.
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  Speaker 1: In that day.
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  Speaker 2: Some will say we can't set out devils in your name.
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  But you will say, depart from me, ye, workers of iniquity.
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  The problem is not the fishing. The problem is the fisherman,
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  the fisher of men. Allelujah. Beyond the ability to fish,
• 2:27:15
  beyond your ability to win souls, you must be sure,
• 2:27:20
  I hope you are not.
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  Speaker 1: A fish yourself who needs to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: It becomes a tragedy when the unsaved person is the
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  one who is trying to save others. Paul said, let
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  it not be that after I have preached, I myself
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  will be a castaway.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to pray? Please rise up on your
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  feet as we pray. Come follow me, and I will
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  make you fishers of men.
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  Speaker 2: I will make you soul winners. I will make you witnesses.
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  We have two prayers to pray tonight, and I want
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  you to pray this prayer with all your heart. Prayer
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  point number one, I obtain grace to be a fisher
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  of men. Go ahead and pray I obtain grace to
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  be a fisher of men. Someone is praying that I
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  will not just watch the lost. I will not roam
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  around the sea and not catch men. For Jesus that
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  every time I see an unsafe person, that body is
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  not just left to missionaries and mission agencies.
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  Speaker 1: You are not a believer.
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  Speaker 2: With maturity and stature if the passion for souls is
• 2:28:45
  not in your heart. This is not until It's not
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  only when you are an apostle or a prophet, or
• 2:28:50
  an evangelist or a teacher mounting the pulpit.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: The passion for soul winning.
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  Speaker 2: The work of an evangelist is every believer us business. Therefore,
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  open your mouth and cry. Obtain grace from God. Obtain
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  grace from God. Obtain grace from God. Obtain grace from
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  God in the name of Jesus. Obtain grace from God.
• 2:29:15
  Shut break up a rakatskadi branda gabalados. Great harvest through
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  my life, great harvest through my life, Great harvest through
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  my life.
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  Speaker 1: I bring you.
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  Speaker 2: Great havevest through my life. I bring you great harvest
• 2:29:35
  through my life. I bring you great harvest through my life.
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  Speaker 1: Alle Lujah.
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  Speaker 2: Final prayer point. You are going to pray for efficiency.
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  You can be efficient man like you have been taught
• 2:29:59
  or a of men, and yet your weakness is so ineffective.
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: You are barely able to do anything.
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 2: As a pastor, as an apostle, as a prophet, as
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  a teacher, as a kingdom businessman, in whatever ministerial dimension
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  you find yourself.
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 1: We're going to pray.
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  Speaker 2: All of these keys are the training manual for your efficiency.
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: You know the area where you have found wanting.
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 2: Maybe you are part of those who have made the
• 2:30:29
  sea boys teros. Maybe you have lacked the patience and
• 2:30:33
  the discipline to allow the fish come. Maybe you have forgotten,
• 2:30:37
  sincerely so where He saved you from. Maybe you have
• 2:30:40
  not even studied the sea where you are going to
• 2:30:43
  be fishing. Maybe you lack a boat, maybe you lack
• 2:30:46
  a net, or your net is tone.
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  Speaker 1: In any case, raise a.
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  Speaker 2: Voice, your voice and praying one minute that God should
• 2:30:53
  help you to be efficient.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and pray that much souls will come through
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  my life. Much souls will come through my waitness. Someone
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  who loves Jesus is prayed much souls.
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  Speaker 2: Schalie gebar rakat tosca, pray daabarracos, much.
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  Speaker 1: Souls through my life, much souls through my waitness. Are
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  you crying.
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name? Now give me one minute. I want
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  you to mention the name of anyone you know in
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  and around your life or your.
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: Space who is unsaved.
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  Speaker 2: Let's intercede for those persons in the next one or
• 2:31:37
  two minutes.
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: Lord, they will not die. Go ahead and pray. Whether
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  you like the person or not is not the issue.
• 2:31:43
  I like you to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Pray like a believer that you are. It may be
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  your husband who is not saved. Pray that you will
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  not go to hell, not with what you have learned.
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  You are not just a believer. You are a fisher
• 2:31:56
  of men.
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: It may be your brother, your sibling, maybe an uncle,
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  maybe an auntie, maybe a colleague in the office. Someone pray.
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  I intercede.
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  Speaker 2: Shut the patos, calibrashtos yata. Save to the Automosto God,
• 2:32:21
  Save to the autumost So God, Save to the autumost
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  So God.
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  Speaker 1: Let every unsaved person in our lives come to the
• 2:32:30
  saving knowledge of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Let backsliders return home. Let those who have deviated from
• 2:32:36
  the path of righteousness the part of salvation, that they
• 2:32:40
  will come home.
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: They will come home, They will come home in the
• 2:32:45
  name of Jesus. In Jesus name, we pray, allelujah. Every
• 2:32:58
  coin on your service is like a fisherman throwing a net,
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  regardless the salmon. In that salmon, there is a net
• 2:33:09
  that is thrown, and the Bible says that the net
• 2:33:13
  catches multitude of fish. In this place right now, there
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  are many kinds of people.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 2: There are believers, serious Christians on, serious Christians on save people,
• 2:33:28
  those like zac Chios who.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: Are already close to the kingdom. I want to make
• 2:33:33
  a call right now.
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 2: You cannot hear a salmon like this and sear your
• 2:33:38
  conscience and say it does not matter and walk away.
• 2:33:42
  I know that someone who was sent by God on
• 2:33:45
  hearing me teach, even though I was talking about the
• 2:33:48
  fish of men, you were thinking of that fish, because
• 2:33:52
  like that fish, you are that soul that needs to
• 2:33:55
  find Jesus. Tonight, two calls in one. You are in
• 2:33:59
  displace and you are apostle. I have to be honest
• 2:34:02
  with myself and my destiny. I have never truly made
• 2:34:05
  Jesus lord of my life. I've been around church. I
• 2:34:09
  conduct myself to be a good person, but I cannot
• 2:34:12
  say for sure that I've made Jesus lord of my life.
• 2:34:16
  Or you are saying, Apostle, I've been part of church,
• 2:34:19
  but right now I cannot say my ways are rite
• 2:34:23
  with God.
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: I need to rededicate my life. I'm going to make
• 2:34:27
  this call, counting one to five.
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 2: Wherever you are, I will require that you pick your
• 2:34:32
  bags and your bibles as I begin to count, and
• 2:34:34
  whatever you came to church with, please very quickly outside, inside, everywhere,
• 2:34:41
  make your way to the front right here, or make
• 2:34:44
  your way to any of the ledis in front of you.
• 2:34:48
  I begin my accounting now please stand, my sister. God
• 2:34:50
  bless you for everyone who needs to come, I begin
• 2:34:54
  my accounting. Now, roush, leave your seat and come. One
• 2:34:58
  coin on you a less celebrate them. Come to Jesus.
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  Come to Jesus. He is the Way, the truth, and life.
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: He says.
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  Speaker 2: No man come back to the Father except by me.
• 2:35:13
  Speaker 1: Ye must be born again.
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 2: You can make your ways right like the prodigal's son.
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: You can return back to your father.
• 2:35:22
  Speaker 2: Let's keep clapping as they come, too, apostle. I want
• 2:35:28
  to come, but I'm ashamed. Will God accept me? Make
• 2:35:31
  your way to the front absolutely for as many who
• 2:35:36
  will come to him.
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 1: The Bible declares that he will in no wise cast away.
• 2:35:41
  Three more counts. Three.
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 2: Let's celebrate them as they come. You're coming from outside.
• 2:35:46
  Please hurry up. Once I count five, will have to pray.
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: Four. I'm not sure if I'm saved.
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 2: I'm a good person, but I'm not sure if I'm
• 2:35:59
  say go ahead and join them. You can have the
• 2:36:02
  assurance of salvation. Today's that day of salvation for you.
• 2:36:09
  I see people coming from the eurs. Let's celebrate them
• 2:36:12
  as they come. I see men and women coming from
• 2:36:15
  the else.
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: God bless you. Bless you for your courage to make
• 2:36:19
  it right with Jesus. Bless you for loving Jesus enough
• 2:36:23
  to leave your seat and come, young and old, male
• 2:36:27
  and female. That includes those who are following from across
• 2:36:30
  the nations. You must be born Againe in Jesus' much
• 2:36:37
  less name, we pray. In Jesus' glorious name, we pray.
• 2:36:42
  I want to thank every one of you for this
• 2:36:44
  great decision. You have someone that courage to come and
• 2:36:49
  stand before Jesus, young and old, male and female. The
• 2:36:54
  Bible declares that as many who will come to him,
• 2:36:56
  he will in no wise cast away. I want to
• 2:36:59
  lead you to make a p that includes those at
• 2:37:01
  the overflows and those who are falling online. Please do
• 2:37:05
  not lose this opportunity to make it right with Jesus.
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 2: For those in front, my brothers and my sisters, may
• 2:37:11
  I request that you lift your right hand high above
• 2:37:14
  your head as a sign of surrender, and say this convincingly.
• 2:37:18
  Let it be loud, and let it be clear, Say
• 2:37:20
  Lord Jesus. Say it again, Lord Jesus, tonight I have
• 2:37:27
  heard your word. I love you with all my heart.
• 2:37:33
  I believe that you are the son of God. I
• 2:37:38
  believe that you died for my sin. I declare that
• 2:37:44
  from today you are my savior. You are my Lord,
• 2:37:50
  and you are my king. I declare that the power
• 2:37:56
  of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over
• 2:38:03
  my life. I am a child of God. I go
• 2:38:06
  for whatever and backward never. Amen, keep your beautiful hends lifted. Father,
• 2:38:13
  Thank you for this wonderful people.
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 1: They have made their declarations of faith, and the Bible
• 2:38:19
  says that if we confess your lordship and believe that
• 2:38:22
  you were raised from the dead, we are saved. I declare,
• 2:38:25
  by the authority of Scripture that your sins are forgiven.
• 2:38:28
  And I declare that from today and for the rest
• 2:38:31
  of your life, you are bona fide recipients of the
• 2:38:33
  life of God. We call you believers. You are part
• 2:38:36
  of the fold of this kingdom in the name of
• 2:38:39
  Jesus Christ. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus,
• 2:38:43
  and you go forwardever and backward.
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 2: Never in Jesus' name. We pray, Amen and Amen, Please
• 2:38:51
  do me a favor. By looking to my right that
• 2:38:53
  will be your left. You will see a group of counselors.
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 1: They're waving their plaque, their placards please do well to
• 2:38:59
  follow them. They will have a word with you very quickly,
• 2:39:03
  and then you are back to your seat.
• 2:39:05
  Speaker 2: Cornonia. Let's give them a big, big God bless you, allelujah.
• 2:39:18
  What is your assignment for this week?
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: Number one?
• 2:39:21
  Speaker 2: Listen to this message again. Number two become a fisher
• 2:39:25
  of men. Let me repeat it again.
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 1: Number one, listen to this teaching Number two become a
• 2:39:32
  fisher of men. That means between now and Sunday, it's
• 2:39:36
  impossible to say you did not find anybody to save.
• 2:39:39
  It's a lie. And if that is what is in
• 2:39:42
  your heart in Jesus' name, may God bring see us
• 2:39:46
  your way that you will save.
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 2: In Jesus' might. Te name I but I've prayed it already.
• 2:39:52
  God has outside it. You can say from Monday till
• 2:39:56
  coin Onias Sunday, you did not collide with someone who
• 2:40:00
  needs Jesus or needs to rededicate his life.
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: You need to be active.
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 2: It's important that you are active as far as this
• 2:40:08
  soul winning business is concerned.
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: And the Lord will bless you and honor you in
• 2:40:12
  the name of Jesus.
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 2: The Bible says they that be wise, they shall shine
• 2:40:16
  like the stars and day the firmament day that turn
• 2:40:21
  many to righteousness. They will be as the stars even
• 2:40:25
  forever more. That should be Daniel twelve three or so.
• 2:40:27
  It's a blessing that follows soul winners. Allelujah. Can I
• 2:40:32
  speak the blessing over your life. In the name of
• 2:40:34
  Jesus Christ. I call you fishers of men. I call
• 2:40:39
  you fishers of men, massive soul winners. You are bringing
• 2:40:44
  many to the kingdom. You are restoring the fallen and
• 2:40:47
  bringing them to Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ,
• 2:40:52
  I decree and declare that, whilst you are at the
• 2:40:55
  business of winning souls, may God sort everything that needs
• 2:40:59
  to be sorted in your life. For many of you,
• 2:41:02
  at the point of soul winning, you will find your
• 2:41:05
  destiny help us. At the point of soul winning. You
• 2:41:08
  will find those God has ordained to lift you. At
• 2:41:11
  the point of soul winning. You will find your spouse
• 2:41:14
  at the point of soul winning. You will find a
• 2:41:16
  good job. At the point of soul winning, you will
• 2:41:19
  stumble into prepare blessings. In the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:41:24
  Let honor not depart from your house. Let favor not
• 2:41:29
  depart from your house. Let goodness and mercy follow you.
• 2:41:33
  In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I call you
• 2:41:36
  the blessed of the Lord. I call you the lift
• 2:41:39
  of the Lord. I call you the anointed of the Lord.
• 2:41:42
  In the mighty name of Jesus, the sounds of joy
• 2:41:46
  and rejoicing will never depart from your tent.
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: It will be good news all through this week. In
• 2:41:52
  Jesus' mighty name, we pray together. Let's share the grace
• 2:41:57
  and fellowship.
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 2: The grace of our Lord is thus Christ, the love
• 2:42:01
  of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest
• 2:42:06
  and a Bible Us nouns forever.
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: Amen. Surely God's goodness and messes follow us all the
• 2:42:12
  days of our lives, as we dwell in the House
• 2:42:15
  of the Lord, forever and ever and ever. Amen, God
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  bless you