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THE SPIRITUAL MAN (REFLECTING THE CHRIST) · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Turn that song into a prayer. Sincere prayer from your heart.
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  Speaker 1: That everything that I have is yours. I give you
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  Speaker 1: my heart. Give you my mind. Give you my body.
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  Speaker 1: Give you my soul. Someone is praying. When it belongs
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  Speaker 1: to him. Then he can bring glory out of it.
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  Speaker 1: When it belongs to him. He can manifest his power
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  Speaker 1: through it. When all of you becomes surrendered, totally surrendered,
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  Speaker 1: totally surrendered, then you can be a manifestation of his
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  Speaker 1: glory and experience. Someone take a minute to pray. Pray
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  Speaker 1: this song from your heart. Any part of the song
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  Speaker 1: you still found locked up in your spirit, turn it
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  Speaker 1: into prayer. Turn it into prayer.
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  Speaker 2: My light. My light.
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  Speaker 3: In the cup behind and some be one more time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: One more time. It is in your light that we
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  Speaker 1: see light.
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  Speaker 4: Father tonight we pray.
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  Speaker 1: That we will see light in your light. You are
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  Speaker 1: the light of the world and you have also called
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  Speaker 1: us light. We pray that your word will come with
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  Speaker 1: power tonight. Transit us to higher dimensions in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ, we submit ourselves, our
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  Speaker 1: minds to your word and we contend for transformation tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And to Jesus be all the glory.
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Please be seated. Good evening everyone. to
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  Speaker 1: those here and to those connected across the globe. You
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  Speaker 1: will keep going from strength to strength because you appear
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord even in Zion. One scripture very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: this scripture was quickened in my heart as I prayed
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  Speaker 1: for tonight's meeting, Philippians chapter 1 and verse 6. When
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  Speaker 1: God speaks like this, I believe that it is a
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  Speaker 1: prophetic word for someone. It says, being confident of this
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  Speaker 1: very thing, that he which hath begun a good work
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  Speaker 1: in you will perform it until the.
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  Speaker 4: Day of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that this comes as a prophetic word to
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  Speaker 1: encourage someone to plant in you that seed to stay
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  Speaker 1: and remain, to remain resilient, to remain consistent. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: let us not be weary in well-doing. He says, for
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  Speaker 1: we will reap not any day, not every day in
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  Speaker 1: due season if we fail not. Hallelujah. May that be
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  Speaker 1: a prophetic word for you. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: It matters that we submit ourselves to the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: In Matthew chapter 4 and verse 4. Jesus speaking to
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  Speaker 1: Satan said, man. shall not live by bread alone. There
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  Speaker 1: is a bread component to man's living, man's survival, man's excelling.
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  Speaker 1: But it says, but by every word that proceeded out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 4: By every word.
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  Speaker 1: That means every word that comes out of the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of God is a survival strategy. Every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: out of the mouth of God is a survival strategy.
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  Speaker 1: Do not forget this. Every word that comes out of
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of God is a survival strategy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking through the things that I'll be sharing tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And I had to take a deep breath and just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cry out my heart in prayer that God
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  Speaker 1: will help the Koinonia Global Family first and then the
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ first. To really understand the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the times that we are living in right now. The
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  Speaker 1: times that we are living in will test everything you know.
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  Speaker 1: And we will reveal how much you do not know.
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  Speaker 1: The times that we live in right now will test
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  Speaker 1: everything you know. And will go further to reveal how
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  Speaker 1: many things you do not know.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Everything.
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  Speaker 1: Everything. The world that we live in today is not
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  Speaker 1: the world that we had 10 years ago or 20
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  Speaker 1: years ago. The Bible tells us the things that characterize
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  Speaker 1: the end times, that knowledge will increase. With that knowledge
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  Speaker 1: would come wickedness, every fabrication of evil.
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  Speaker 4: That the heart of man can conceive.
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  Speaker 1: And for you to survive these days, not the days coming,
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  Speaker 1: the days we are now in, you need bread for
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  Speaker 1: the journey today. But you need the proceeding word of God.
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  Speaker 1: And God speaks to men by his spirit. But he
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  Speaker 1: speaks to men through men.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: He told Moses, he said, I have seen the affliction
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  Speaker 1: of my people by reason of their taskmasters. And I
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  Speaker 1: am calmed down. And yet we never saw him physically.
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  Speaker 1: But we saw the man, the sent man, Moses. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: And so every time you are in church, don't have
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  Speaker 1: the mentality that you're just coming for service to honor
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  Speaker 1: a religious program or sign a psychological register. See that
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  Speaker 1: God is about to hand you another key that becomes
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  Speaker 1: the basis of your fortification, the basis of your walking
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  Speaker 1: and living in victory. Hallelujah. That demands not only your attendance,
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  Speaker 1: It demands your rapt attention, your undivided attention. It is
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  Speaker 1: in His light that we see light. But believe me
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  Speaker 1: when I tell you that for every believer, the things
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  Speaker 1: that you know will be tested.
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  Speaker 4: In light of the days and the times that we're
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  Speaker 4: in now.
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  Speaker 1: If you claim you have found the key to living
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  Speaker 1: and working in health, it will be tested. If you
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  Speaker 1: claim you have found the key that puts a man
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  Speaker 1: in victory in spite of the vicissitudes of life, life
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  Speaker 1: will test it. Some of you are already going through
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  Speaker 1: that school, testing everything. If you claim you know God,
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  Speaker 1: life will test it. You claim you love God, life
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  Speaker 1: will test it. You claim you want to serve God
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  Speaker 1: all the days of your life, life will test it.
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  Speaker 4: You claim you love.
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  Speaker 1: Him in spite of abundance or otherwise, life will test it.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: That means that everything you receive in a house like this,
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  Speaker 1: you don't just let it pass through this ear and
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  Speaker 1: fly out through the other ear. The Bible says, ever
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  Speaker 1: learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: There are such people as so. They are ever learning.
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  Speaker 4: Yes sir.
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  Speaker 1: Preach preacher. Tell them. And all this. And at the
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  Speaker 1: end of it. They go back with absolutely nothing. What
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  Speaker 1: did you learn today? I was a powerful service my God.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly did you learn? Just believe me. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: one who knows what I learned. Hallelujah. So it is
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  Speaker 1: very important. That. We understand that every proceeding word from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord to you is meant to equip you. To
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  Speaker 1: transform you. To transit you. I told you that revelation
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  Speaker 1: creates transitions. That every time the word of God comes
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  Speaker 1: to you as a rima, as revelation. It stops you
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  Speaker 1: from remaining at that point. Stops you from remaining in
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  Speaker 1: that position. Or stops you from remaining in that condition.
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  Speaker 1: Because the proceeding word is also the sent word. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says he sent forth his word and his
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  Speaker 1: word healed them. He never said he healed all. He
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  Speaker 1: healed them and delivered them from evil.
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  Speaker 4: All their destructions.
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  Speaker 1: So I pray for you tonight already may tonight's teaching
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  Speaker 1: profit you greatly shout it believers amen hallelujah what we
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  Speaker 1: teach in this place is the wisdom of God It's
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  Speaker 1: important for you to appreciate this. What you hear in
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  Speaker 1: Koinonia is not mere information. It's not just mere Bible
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  Speaker 1: discussion or intellectual discussion. What you hear is called the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of God. And 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 7
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  Speaker 1: I believe says it is the wisdom of God that
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  Speaker 1: has been ordained.
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  Speaker 4: For our glory.
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  Speaker 1: There is a kind of wisdom that was ordained for
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  Speaker 1: the glory of the saints. There is useless information. Even
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  Speaker 1: if spiritual. Because it does not sustain the power to
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  Speaker 1: profit the saints. In light of real life circumstances. But
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  Speaker 1: there is the wisdom that has been hidden. Reserved for
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  Speaker 1: the saints. Revealed by the spirit. And the bible says
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  Speaker 1: there is an ordination upon that wisdom. That God has
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  Speaker 1: through that wisdom ordained that when we find access to
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  Speaker 1: that wisdom. Our lives will be an expression of his glory.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I should teach you very quickly that there is
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  Speaker 1: a difference between knowledge, understanding and wisdom. I think we
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  Speaker 1: should start from there tonight. There is a difference between knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: between wisdom. Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. And I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: the difference. Knowledge is simply a coordinated gathering of information.
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  Speaker 1: Access to information is called knowledge. Knowledge is very important
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  Speaker 1: because that is the foundation of wisdom. There cannot be
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  Speaker 1: wisdom without knowledge. There cannot be understanding without knowledge. Understanding
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  Speaker 1: only finds its value when you have knowledge. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: The assignment of wisdom is to bring within your, the
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  Speaker 1: assignment of knowledge is to bring within your space information
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  Speaker 1: that can be profitable. Please listen. God is building us already.
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  Speaker 1: The assignment of knowledge is to bring to your space.
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  Speaker 1: Or to bring to your consciousness. Knowledge that can profit you.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean it will profit you. But it is knowledge
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  Speaker 1: that can profit you. You have that now? Now the
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  Speaker 1: next step after knowledge is understanding.
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  Speaker 4: What is understanding? Comprehension.
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  Speaker 1: Comprehension.
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  Speaker 4: The working dynamics.
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  Speaker 1: The working dynamics that release the profit. Captured in that knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Is called understanding. So if all you have is the gathering.
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  Speaker 1: Or the consciousness of an information. You may have knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: But you have the same destiny as an ignorant person.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what a lot of believers. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of believers keep priding.
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  Speaker 4: And bragging.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know.
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  Speaker 4: And yet the results clearly show.
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  Speaker 1: That we do not know. So knowledge. Knowledge.
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  Speaker 4: Gives room for understanding, comprehension. What do you comprehend?
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  Speaker 1: The working dynamics, deriving the principle that connects the dots,
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  Speaker 1: the information you have now gathered, the principles that release
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  Speaker 1: the profit factor in that knowledge. So knowledge has to
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  Speaker 1: do with the gathering, coordinated gathering of information, useful information,
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  Speaker 1: Understanding has to do with comprehension. Understanding the principles connected
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  Speaker 1: to or the principles that activate that body of truth
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  Speaker 1: you have now found.
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  Speaker 4: But wisdom is very different.
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  Speaker 1: Because wisdom has to do with engaging. The practical aspect
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  Speaker 1: of engaging what you understand.
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  Speaker 4: The correct application.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? Wisdom has to do with applying
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  Speaker 1: what you have understood. The knowledge you have now understood.
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  Speaker 1: If you have the grace and intelligence to engage it
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  Speaker 1: for your profiting, it is called wisdom. So when there
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  Speaker 1: is no action, it is not wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: You see that now? I know that this is what
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  Speaker 4: God wants me to do.
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  Speaker 1: Alright? I move past the realm of knowledge to understanding wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: And then I understand the dynamics of how to engage
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  Speaker 1: it for my profiting. But I can have knowledge and understanding.
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  Speaker 1: And still be barren of results. It is when I
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  Speaker 1: apply wisdom. Engaging it. They heard the word just like
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  Speaker 1: we did. The Bible says. But the word did not
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  Speaker 1: profit them. That means the word had profit in it.
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  Speaker 1: But the word did not profit them. Why? Not being
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  Speaker 1: mixed with faith. Engaging the word for your profiting is
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  Speaker 1: where wisdom comes.
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  Speaker 4: So most people say I have wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: What they just mean is I have a better information
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  Speaker 1: than what you have.
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  Speaker 4: That is still not wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit of wisdom is seen in its ability to
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  Speaker 1: impart grace upon you to engage the word until it
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  Speaker 1: works for you. That is the reason why wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: connected to mighty works.
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  Speaker 4: You see that now?
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  Speaker 1: When you have wisdom, it is connected to mighty works.
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  Speaker 1: Because the proof that you have wisdom is that you
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  Speaker 1: know what to do and you do it. It says,
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  Speaker 1: now that ye know these things, blessed are you if
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  Speaker 1: you do them. You are not blessed when you know.
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  Speaker 1: What scripture is that? Now that you know these things, blessed, happy.
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  Speaker 4: And you, if you do them. Very, very important.
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  Speaker 1: There are many believers that know what to do. But
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  Speaker 1: they don't pay attention. Now that you know these things.
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  Speaker 1: John 13, yeah, 17, thank you. If you know these things, happy.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, give us NIV. I think it presents it
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  Speaker 1: in a way that it says, now that you know
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  Speaker 1: these things, you will be blessed. If you do them.
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  Speaker 1: Not if you know them. Now that you know them.
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  Speaker 1: Your problem is not a knowledge problem. In fact, it
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  Speaker 1: may not even be an understanding problem. A wisdom problem
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  Speaker 1: is that you have not sustained the grace to engage
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  Speaker 1: consistently until it delivers. Are we together? So when Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I will build my church, immediately you know that that
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  Speaker 1: is wisdom personified speaking. Because it is through wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: Anything is built.
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  Speaker 1: When he says, I will build my church, it means
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  Speaker 1: you cannot take away the wisdom component.
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  Speaker 4: From the believer's experience. There is no.
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  Speaker 1: Other way the believer is built if you take wisdom
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  Speaker 1: out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Are we learning? So have this at the back of
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  Speaker 1: your mind. That the teachings you are receiving. Particularly this year.
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  Speaker 1: Are survival strategies. They help you to thrive. They help
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  Speaker 1: you to survive. And to excel. Even in this bedeviled world.
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  Speaker 1: That we live in right now. And I'm praying for
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  Speaker 1: you in the name of Jesus. That tonight's teaching will
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  Speaker 1: be no different. You believe that shout a louder amen.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight I'm teaching you. On a topic that seeks to
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  Speaker 1: help us become better reflections of the Christ. Jesus Christ himself.
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  Speaker 1: A very powerful mystery I want to show you. It
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  Speaker 1: will help you if you desire God. If you desire
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  Speaker 1: to be a person of stature spiritually. If you want
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  Speaker 1: your becoming like Christ to be very methodical. Then tonight's
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  Speaker 1: teaching is for you. I'm teaching on the spiritual man.
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  Speaker 1: The spiritual man. Romans chapter 8 and verse 6.
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  Speaker 4: The spiritual man.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says for to be carnally minded is death.
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  Speaker 1: To be carnally minded is death. But to be spiritually
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  Speaker 1: minded is life and peace. That means the only way
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  Speaker 1: to truly find life and with it peace is to
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  Speaker 1: be spiritually minded. Second scripture, 1 Corinthians chapter 2. We'll
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  Speaker 1: read verse 14 to 16. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 3: You are the King. There is none other.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: You are the key.
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  Speaker 4: There is none other. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Very powerful song.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 4: You are the key. There is none other.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It was in the place of meditation many years ago
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  Speaker 1: that this song came. I remember, still remember like yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Rested my head meditating late into the night. And this
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  Speaker 1: song just came like a stream from heaven into my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It's a song that acknowledges his lordship. That it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what happens in the world of men. He is
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  Speaker 1: still king. He is still lord. And there is none other. Many,
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  Speaker 1: many people can rise and claim to be kings and gods.
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  Speaker 1: But there is only one king. You believe that?
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  Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 7: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You are God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: You are God. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 3: You are the King.
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  Speaker 5: There is none other.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Lord. You are the King.
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  Speaker 2: There is none other. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. Not every believer can be
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of the glory of the Christ in experience.
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  Speaker 1: God intends for everyone, it's in our prophetic destiny, corporately
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  Speaker 1: as believers, to step into the This realm and this
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  Speaker 1: dimension in the spirit where our lives become a worthy capture.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that the life we have received
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  Speaker 1: is abundant life.
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  Speaker 4: Life to its fullest.
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  Speaker 1: But you and I will never be able to come
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  Speaker 1: into the experience of being reflections of the Christ. Experientially.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason is because not every believer is able
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  Speaker 1: to capture and host the fullness of Christ in experience.
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  Speaker 1: Being a believer is profitable. But just because you have
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  Speaker 1: become a believer does not mean, please listen carefully. That
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  Speaker 1: your Christian experience will be a perfect representation.
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  Speaker 4: Of God's intention.
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  Speaker 1: The same way a student gets admission into college or
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  Speaker 1: any school at all.
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  Speaker 4: Any institution.
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  Speaker 1: Just because the student has his admission letter. Bonafide admission letter.
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  Speaker 4: Does not make the person a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Or an engineer. Or an architect.
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  Speaker 4: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Now the person is in school. The admission letter is there.
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  Speaker 1: Valid in fact. But the moment the person is admitted,
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  Speaker 1: are we together? The transition in knowledge from one department,
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  Speaker 1: one faculty, one school of thought to the other, until
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  Speaker 1: the curriculum allotted to award that degree is exhausted by
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  Speaker 1: that person. This is how it is spiritually. So there
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  Speaker 1: are many believers who are saved. And the only reason
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  Speaker 1: why you believe they are saved was because you saw
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  Speaker 1: them when they were making the altar call. Else there
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  Speaker 1: is nothing captured in their faith walk that justifies that
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  Speaker 1: they actually encountered Christ.
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  Speaker 4: It ought not to be so.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible that you can be genuinely saved. But
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  Speaker 1: everything around your life speaks otherwise. To a point that
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  Speaker 1: people doubt your salvation and say, I'm not sure you
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  Speaker 1: have encountered the Christ. And the reason is because most
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  Speaker 1: believers sadly have been taught that all there is to
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  Speaker 1: the believer's experience is to get saved. And I've taught
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  Speaker 1: you here that that is only the initial step. That
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  Speaker 1: just because you have received the life of God. Does
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  Speaker 1: not mean you are manifesting the Christ. Or reflecting that life.
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  Speaker 1: In Galatians chapter 4 and verse 19. Paul the apostle
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  Speaker 1: was speaking to believers. Who were already saved. These were
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  Speaker 1: believers he was mentoring. And guess what he told them.
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  Speaker 1: My little children he said. Of whom I travel in
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  Speaker 1: birth again. Until Christ be formed in you. He's speaking
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  Speaker 1: to people who already received eternal life. And now he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about another reality. The formation of Christ. He's saying
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  Speaker 1: I'm like a woman in labor. A woman who is
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  Speaker 1: about to give birth. And all the constraints. He's saying
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  Speaker 1: this is how much I constrain myself. With one desire.
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  Speaker 1: To see the Christ. Formed in you. That means something
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  Speaker 1: happens to. A believer. Who is not led through the path.
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  Speaker 1: That leads to the formation of Christ. As you'll be
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  Speaker 1: learning tonight. The quality of. Of the believer. Eventually in
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  Speaker 1: his faith walk. Is not just dependent. On the truthfulness.
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  Speaker 1: Of his new birth experience. But the degree to which Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Is formed in that person. And the Bible identifies. Three
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  Speaker 1: kinds of believers. I want you to walk carefully now
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  Speaker 1: with me. Three kinds of believers.
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  Speaker 4: Number one. The Bible lets us know. That there is
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  Speaker 4: what we call.
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  Speaker 1: A natural man, first and foremost. That one is not
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  Speaker 1: even a believer. In fact, let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: There are three kinds of men from a spiritual standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: So men are categorized in three. There is number one,
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  Speaker 1: the natural man. Say after me, the natural man. Don't
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  Speaker 1: assume you understand what I'm saying. Say after me, the
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  Speaker 1: natural man. Right?
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  Speaker 4: So the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Tells us that there is such a man as the
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  Speaker 1: natural man. In Romans chapter 8, please give it to
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  Speaker 1: us from....
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  Speaker 4: There is the carnal man.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just list all three and then I begin
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  Speaker 1: to deal with them and get them out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a natural man and there is a
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  Speaker 1: carnal man.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone say the carnal man. One more time, say the
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  Speaker 4: carnal man.
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  Speaker 1: And then the third kind of man is called the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man. Now you give us Romans chapter 8 please.
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  Speaker 1: 6 to 8. We read verse 6. Now we'll read
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  Speaker 1: down to 8. For to be carnally minded he says
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  Speaker 1: is death. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
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  Speaker 4: Verse 7.
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  Speaker 1: It says, because the carnal mind is enmity against God.
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  Speaker 1: You see that now? For it is not subject. It
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  Speaker 1: tells you why that mind is carnal. We're coming there.
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  Speaker 1: That it is not subject to the law of God.
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  Speaker 1: Neither indeed can it be. Verse 8. It says, so
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  Speaker 1: that they that are in the flesh. And not that
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  Speaker 1: description for being carnally minded. Cannot. Not that they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to. That they cannot please God in that state.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14. We
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  Speaker 1: read that scripture earlier on. But the natural man. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: say the natural man. So there is such a man
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  Speaker 1: as the natural man. And the Bible says what makes
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  Speaker 1: that man natural is that he is not regenerate. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? Is an unsaved person. It's a spiritual language
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  Speaker 1: to mean the man that has not encountered Christ. He
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  Speaker 1: has not gone through what we call the new birth experience.
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  Speaker 1: That man may be a nice man. He may be
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  Speaker 1: someone who is societally accepted as a good man. But
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  Speaker 1: the moment you have not come into Christ, by receiving
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  Speaker 1: the life of Christ, the Bible calls you a natural man.
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  Speaker 1: And it says no matter how good such a man is,
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  Speaker 1: there is a deficiency.
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  Speaker 4: That he does.
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  Speaker 1: Not have the faculty of receiving the things of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of God. You know why?
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  Speaker 4: For they are foolishness to him.
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  Speaker 1: Neither can he know them because spiritual things must be
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  Speaker 1: spiritually discerned. So there are many good people for instance
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  Speaker 1: who will listen to a good sermon. Perhaps such as
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  Speaker 1: I'm preaching now. And as much as they appreciate the teaching.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 4: You know why?
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  Speaker 1: Because when it has to do with the business of
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  Speaker 1: spirit living. It is not just something that is hinged
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  Speaker 1: and stops at the realm of intellect. There is an
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  Speaker 1: engineering that the Holy Spirit. The life of God does
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  Speaker 1: to an individual. That gives you the faculty to both
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  Speaker 1: perceive things. appreciate and believe spiritual things and if you
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  Speaker 1: are a natural man you are not saved i can
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  Speaker 1: tell you you can sit down and wonder why are
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  Speaker 1: people crying why are people rolling in worship for instance
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  Speaker 1: why are people quoting scripture and speaking them it does
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  Speaker 1: not make sense the end point for a natural man
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  Speaker 1: is you become critical you become angry you become offended
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  Speaker 1: because spiritual things don't make sense to such a man.
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  Speaker 1: You will find problems with almost everything in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason is because you are only looking at
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  Speaker 1: it as a piece of literature or an archaeological material
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  Speaker 1: like you have been taught or a historic material. The life,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit component within it cannot profit you. You will
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  Speaker 1: read scriptures like there is he that scattereth and yet
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  Speaker 1: increase it. There is he that withholdeth and it tends
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  Speaker 1: to penury. It won't make any sense to you. You
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  Speaker 1: would read scriptures like, you know, anyone who calls upon
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord shall be saved. And it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. How do you call upon the name
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  Speaker 1: of a God you do not see and then you
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  Speaker 1: are saved? The natural man. Our world is full of
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  Speaker 1: many natural men. Some of them are good men quite honestly.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they are natural men. The destiny of the
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  Speaker 1: natural man. The man without Christ. Is eternal doom. Let
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  Speaker 1: me press that again. The destiny of the natural man.
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  Speaker 1: The man without Christ. Based on the authority of scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Is eternal damnation. In spite of the good works. In
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  Speaker 1: spite of the sincere heart. It is the reason why Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Watch this now. Jesus came and made a way.
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  Speaker 1: Through his death journey. His burial.
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  Speaker 4: His resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: His ascension. He opened up that way. That everyone who
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  Speaker 1: is not in Christ. Can now find his way. Through
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  Speaker 1: what we call the new birth experience. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And you believe that God raised him from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter 10 from verse 8 to 10.
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  Speaker 4: It says thou shall be saved.
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  Speaker 1: For with the mouth the Bible says that confession is
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  Speaker 1: made unto salvation. With the heart man believes and with
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  Speaker 1: the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Let me pause
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  Speaker 1: here for a minute and announce again to our world. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: a day is going to come upon the earth where
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  Speaker 1: those who are not in Christ will be doomed for
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  Speaker 1: eternal damnation.
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  Speaker 4: We can argue this. We can create a lot of philosophies.
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  Speaker 1: There are many intelligent dissertations, debates that have spanned through
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  Speaker 1: centuries debunking this reality. But let God be true and
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  Speaker 1: every man a liar. It is going to happen one
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  Speaker 1: day upon the earth. That all those who had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to hear the gospel. It is the reason why
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  Speaker 1: we continue to frontier the cause of the kingdom. Helping
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  Speaker 1: people understand that Jesus has come as savior. As an
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  Speaker 1: expression of the love of God to them.
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  Speaker 4: The only solution to.
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  Speaker 1: Man's state that he is not even aware of. It
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  Speaker 1: says for all have seen. How many? All. Aware or otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus has come as a mediator. He didn't just
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  Speaker 1: come to inform us.
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  Speaker 4: He actually died. The Bible says so.
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  Speaker 1: He died.
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  Speaker 4: This is the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: I just felt burdened to just press it so that
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  Speaker 1: we don't just brush through the idea of a natural man.
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  Speaker 1: Something is wrong with such a man, spiritually speaking. Something
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  Speaker 1: may not be wrong with such a man, financially speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Something may not be wrong with such a man, intellectually speaking.
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  Speaker 1: When you look at the natural man... Just from the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of a natural man too. You can see an
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  Speaker 1: excellent man. Maybe an excellent father. Maybe a well-intentioned mother.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe an intellectually vast individual.
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  Speaker 4: But we are.
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  Speaker 1: Looking from the lens of the spirit. That anyone who
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  Speaker 1: is not in Christ is not saved. He is not
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  Speaker 1: saved because there is damnation that awaits all men. The
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  Speaker 1: only remedy is Jesus Christ. This is not a religious idea.
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  Speaker 4: This is truth.
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  Speaker 1: One day all men will be forced to acknowledge the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of
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  Speaker 1: Lords indeed. It is the reason why we spend ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: our lives and we are spent to help the nations
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  Speaker 1: to see that there is a way out. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a ministry assignment. This is not a religious fanatic assignment.
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  Speaker 1: It is a matter of urgency. I told you the
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  Speaker 1: greatest need of an unbeliever is Is not accommodation. The
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  Speaker 1: greatest need of a non-believer. Is not education.
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  Speaker 4: The greatest need.
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  Speaker 1: Of a non-believer. Is not even solving their hunger problem
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  Speaker 1: at the moment. All those are profitable. But the greatest
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  Speaker 1: need of a non-believer. Is introducing him to Jesus. And
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  Speaker 1: praying that he or she. Out of their will. Will
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  Speaker 1: accept this substitutionary sacrifice.
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  Speaker 3: He who has the son. Has eternal life. He who
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  Speaker 3: has the Son has eternal life. Only he who has
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  Speaker 3: the Son.
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  Speaker 2: Has eternal life.
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  Speaker 3: I have the Son, so I have eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: You see that? So there is such a man called
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  Speaker 1: the natural man. He can be the natural man as
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  Speaker 1: a distinguished professor. The natural man as an intellectual. The
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  Speaker 1: natural man as a successful career person. The natural man
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  Speaker 1: as a mentor to heads of state and heads of government.
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  Speaker 1: A natural man as a millionaire and a billionaire. A
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  Speaker 1: natural man as an inventor. That is true. But from
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual standpoint, any man that is not without... That
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  Speaker 1: is without the Christ. Unregenerate is called the natural man.
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  Speaker 4: It is not an insult.
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  Speaker 1: It is the description of a spiritual state.
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  Speaker 4: That is in need of urgent attention.
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  Speaker 1: Now for those of you who have been involved in
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  Speaker 1: any kind of charity or humanitarian work. When you go
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  Speaker 1: to places that are really impoverished. The health standards really
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  Speaker 1: low below average. Did you know that sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: see the little children running around no shoes, no shirts,
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  Speaker 1: playing football around.
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  Speaker 4: And you see all kinds of sicknesses.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe sores, maybe you know eczema or something on the children.
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  Speaker 4: They are not even aware they are sick.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Because that level of life does not even.
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  Speaker 4: Afford them the privilege of awareness.
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  Speaker 1: It is when the doctors or the medical people, the
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  Speaker 1: missionaries come in. As soon as you look at the children,
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  Speaker 1: some of those children have, they are sick to a
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  Speaker 1: point they are almost dying. They are not even aware.
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  Speaker 1: That is how the natural man is. The natural man
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  Speaker 1: is not even aware of his spiritual state. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So when you who is in Christ and have been
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  Speaker 1: given this mandate of world evangelization. When you meet such
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  Speaker 1: a man, you look at that man from the lens
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  Speaker 1: of this description that I just gave you. Like a
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  Speaker 1: compassionate humanitarian person looking at a small child malnourished. The
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  Speaker 1: child does not know what is the cause of this lack.
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  Speaker 4: Of energy draining even unto death.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they administer medical treatment to the child immediately. Because
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  Speaker 1: the child is not even aware that he's just hours left. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: If you begin to look at the world of unbelievers
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  Speaker 1: that way. My life changed when I found a new
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  Speaker 1: name for unbelievers. I don't call them sinners. I don't
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  Speaker 1: call them unbelievers. Something happens to you when you call sinners, sinners.
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  Speaker 1: It puts you in a state of self-righteousness and you
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  Speaker 1: cannot win them. Jesus calls sinners harvest.
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  Speaker 5: Harvest.
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  Speaker 1: The moment you change that name, it changes your orientation.
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  Speaker 4: Because in the.
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  Speaker 1: Mind of God, every unbelieving person is ripe for harvest.
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  Speaker 4: So he calls them the harvest.
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  Speaker 1: I did a teaching on that you can get, you
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  Speaker 1: can go to Koinonia Global. It was one of the
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  Speaker 1: teachings that we had in UK. The harvest is Is
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  Speaker 1: very important. So when you see a smoker. Provided you
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  Speaker 1: are seeing a smoker. Or a prostitute. Or some. What
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  Speaker 1: they call it. Some occultic person. What will come out
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  Speaker 1: from you to them is resentment.
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  Speaker 4: Not compassion.
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  Speaker 1: But the moment you see them as a harvest. Then
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  Speaker 1: you see them from the lens of Jesus. Like a
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  Speaker 1: sheep without sheep. Everyone say the natural man. In the
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  Speaker 1: midst of the thousands of people gathered here in this
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  Speaker 1: auditorium and all across. And the many who are following.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you by the integrity of scripture. There
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  Speaker 1: are natural men hearing me now. There are natural men
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  Speaker 1: listening to me now. Well intentioned people. They came to church.
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  Speaker 1: Were gladly invited. Knowing that there is something missing in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 4: You are right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a natural man. But the good news is that
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of transition still exists. That a natural man
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  Speaker 1: can leave that state. And I'm praying for you in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. That you will not return back
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  Speaker 1: home as a natural man. That if there is.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody here who is not saved.
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  Speaker 1: When it is time for the altar call. don't let
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  Speaker 1: the devil deceive you distract you and make you feel
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  Speaker 1: i think i'm ashamed i think i'm afraid the natural
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  Speaker 1: man has the eternal destiny of damnation it's true i
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  Speaker 1: saw the great and small stand before the lord the
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  Speaker 1: bible says Books were opened and another book was opened.
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  Speaker 1: And Husserl's name was not found in the book of life,
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  Speaker 1: was cast into the lake of fire that burned with
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  Speaker 1: brimstone and sulfur. The Bible called it the second death.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to know that this whole thing about
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  Speaker 1: the eternal destiny of believers is not a church concept.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a Pentecostal concept. It's not a charismatic concept.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an evangelistic concept. In fact, it is not
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  Speaker 1: even a Christian concept. It is a matter of your
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  Speaker 1: destiny before now. That your destiny, watch this now. You
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  Speaker 1: came from somewhere. I hope you know you did not
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  Speaker 1: just appear. Yes. Yes. And the one who was there
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  Speaker 1: before time begun is the one who is making a
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  Speaker 1: way for you now to sort your eternal destiny. The
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  Speaker 1: destiny of everyone without Christ when our time here on
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  Speaker 1: earth is up is eternal damnation. When he the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of truth comes to the natural man. He will reprove
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  Speaker 1: the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? He will let you know that you don't
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  Speaker 1: need to be this way again. That Jesus Christ has
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  Speaker 1: come as an expression of the love of the Father.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, let's hurry up. The second kind of man
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  Speaker 1: that the Bible identifies is one who is now saved.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this now. Saved, but not transformed.
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  Speaker 4: Transformed.
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  Speaker 1: Saved but not under submission to the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Saved but not under submission to the lordship of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. A man that is driven by his senses.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible calls this man the carnal man. So write
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  Speaker 1: that word down please. The carnal man. This is the
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  Speaker 1: second kind of man that we have. The carnal man
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  Speaker 1: is actually a believer. He is one who is saved already.
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  Speaker 1: But something is still wrong with that person. The administration
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life in the experience has not been furnished
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  Speaker 1: in such a man. Please listen carefully. A carnal man
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  Speaker 1: is not necessarily an unbeliever. He is one who has
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  Speaker 1: answered the altar call truly. From a spirit standpoint, he
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  Speaker 1: has received.
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  Speaker 4: The life of Jesus. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: But the outworkings of that life has not found expression
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  Speaker 1: in his life. And there are a few things that
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  Speaker 1: characterize the life of a carnal man. Number one is
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  Speaker 1: the absence of transformation by the word. The first way
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  Speaker 1: you know a carnal man is the absence of transformation
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  Speaker 1: by the word of God.
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  Speaker 4: Don't forget this.
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  Speaker 1: The absence of transformation by the word of God. He
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  Speaker 1: has not sustained what the Bible calls the mind of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He is not spiritually minded. The carnal man has a mindset.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, what principally defines carnality is mindset. Romans 8, 6,
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  Speaker 1: to be carnally minded, we read that earlier on, is death.
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  Speaker 1: To be carnally minded, a carnal person is one who has.
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  Speaker 4: A carnal mindset.
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  Speaker 1: But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Such
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  Speaker 1: a person is still alive to self and the desires
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh. Write that down. Such a person is
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  Speaker 1: still alive to self. I have taught you that there
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  Speaker 1: are two things that you deal with. As you sojourn
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  Speaker 1: this path of faith. Number one is a sin problem.
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  Speaker 1: Number two is a flesh problem. For the sin problem
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  Speaker 1: you deal with it the moment you receive the life
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  Speaker 1: of God. You are declared righteous. You receive an imputation
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  Speaker 1: of the righteousness of God in Christ. And that nature
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  Speaker 1: of sin completely dies and is out of your life.
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  Speaker 1: But as a believer there is still something else to
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  Speaker 1: deal with. It is called the flesh. And for that
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  Speaker 1: one you don't cast it out. With one salvation prayer,
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  Speaker 1: the sin problem is done. But the problem of the
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  Speaker 1: flesh can live with you all the days of your.
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  Speaker 4: Life, even as a Christian. Paul says, as touching the
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  Speaker 4: matters of the.
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  Speaker 1: Flesh, he says, I die daily. I die daily. Two,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I put my flesh under subjection. There is
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  Speaker 1: an active participation on my own part to keep my
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  Speaker 1: flesh at bay. Many believers do not understand this. And
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  Speaker 1: once people are born again. They just believe that because
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  Speaker 1: the sin problem is solved.
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  Speaker 4: It means I'm alright.
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  Speaker 1: No. Listen to what Paul said. Paul the apostle. When
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  Speaker 1: you read Romans chapter 8. I mean chapter 7. Paul
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  Speaker 1: began to vent out his own frustration. He says, listen,
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  Speaker 1: there are two laws that are working in my members.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? One is the law of sin and death.
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  Speaker 1: The other is the law of the spirit of life
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. So that the things I do not
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  Speaker 1: want to do. This is Paul speaking. I find myself
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  Speaker 1: doing them. The things that I want to do. I
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  Speaker 1: do not find myself doing them. He was frustrated. And
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  Speaker 1: he said. Oh wretched man that I am. Who shall
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  Speaker 1: deliver me from this body of death. Paul was frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a statement of encouragement. Oh wretched man
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  Speaker 1: that I am. Why is it that I find myself
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  Speaker 1: is like another software that has possessed me, controlling.
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  Speaker 4: Me to do the.
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  Speaker 1: Things that I do not want to do. And the
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  Speaker 1: things that I want to do, I don't find myself
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  Speaker 1: doing it. And he said, who shall deliver me even
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  Speaker 1: though saved from this body of death? Say the carnal man.
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  Speaker 1: I submit to you by the authority of scripture. That
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  Speaker 1: a large percentage of believers. Are still domiciled in this realm. Unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: For many hopelessly so. Because the education. The enlightenment. The mentorship.
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  Speaker 1: The system of transition that graduates you. To become spiritual
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: in experience. Most people may never have access to it.
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  Speaker 1: So you can be saved for 30 years. And only
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  Speaker 1: transit from a natural man. To become a carnal man.
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  Speaker 1: And remain there. And keep questioning your spiritual life. Keep
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  Speaker 1: questioning your salvation. Because after 10-15 years. You cannot see
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  Speaker 1: the value of growth. Nothing in your life justifies knowing God.
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  Speaker 4: Loving God.
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  Speaker 1: Serving God.
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  Speaker 4: Living for God.
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  Speaker 1: You look at your life and you look at unbelievers.
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  Speaker 1: And everything is the same. The carnal man.
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  Speaker 4: He still speaks like he used to speak. He still acts.
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  Speaker 1: Like he used to act.
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  Speaker 4: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Your impulses are fleshly, sensual. That many times people have
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  Speaker 1: to remind you and say, are you not a man
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  Speaker 1: of God? Are you not a pastor? Are you not
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  Speaker 1: a member of so-and-so?
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  Speaker 4: Don't mind me. These are the kind of people that one.
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  Speaker 1: Day will say, listen, let me tell you, don't think
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  Speaker 1: because I'm saved, I will remove my clothes here and
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  Speaker 1: beat the living daylight out of you. Have you heard
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  Speaker 1: people speak like that? And then others who say this
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  Speaker 1: is my church mind.
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  Speaker 4: This is my what?
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  Speaker 1: That means there is another one. And they are right.
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  Speaker 1: Truly there is another one. What is the danger of carnality?
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you. The danger of carnality is that
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  Speaker 1: your life becomes a consistent misrepresentation of the image of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: your life becomes a consistent misrepresentation of the image of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Because you are carrying a title that cannot be defended
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  Speaker 1: by your life. You are carrying the title believer, the
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  Speaker 1: title Christian, but it cannot be defended. So your life,
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  Speaker 1: if people are going to learn God through the lens
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  Speaker 1: of your life, you become a consistent misrepresentation.
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  Speaker 4: Are we learning?
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  Speaker 1: Number two, what is the consequence of being and remaining carnal?
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  Speaker 1: Your experience in terms of results and that of the
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  Speaker 1: unbeliever will not be different. Your experience in terms of
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  Speaker 1: your journey, your possibilities and your limitations will be almost
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same. The profit of your being saved cannot
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  Speaker 1: be demonstrated in your life as a carnal believer. This
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  Speaker 1: is a very serious thing for many people. This is
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  Speaker 1: the explanation behind the frustration of many Christians. I'm saved now.
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  Speaker 1: Why is my life still like this? I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. Because you have not allowed the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: God to transit you. The potential of this life we
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  Speaker 1: have received is only seen clearest when it is viewed
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  Speaker 1: through the lens of spiritual people. To be carnally minded.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible lets us know that one who is
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  Speaker 1: carnal is still a baby. Are we together? Let me
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  Speaker 1: show you a scripture. I hope God is speaking to someone.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Corinthians chapter.
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  Speaker 4: 3, 1 to 4.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Corinthians 3, 1 to 4. And I, brethren, please
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  Speaker 1: write and let me have your attention. I could not
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  Speaker 1: speak to you as unto spiritual. My God. That means
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  Speaker 1: Paul is teaching us up front. That there is a
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  Speaker 1: way you speak to spiritual people. And there is a
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  Speaker 1: way you speak to carnal people. Are you seeing that now? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It's the reason why there are many believers who cannot
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  Speaker 1: understand many things that are taught. Because they are still
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  Speaker 1: carnally minded. And even though they may laugh and carry
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  Speaker 1: all the gestures of knowledge and assimilation. The truth is
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  Speaker 1: they are not understanding what is being said. Because there
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  Speaker 1: are certain discussions that you really have to.
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  Speaker 4: Be spiritual to understand. Back to the discussion.
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  Speaker 1: And I brethren... I could not speak unto you as
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  Speaker 1: unto spiritual.
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  Speaker 4: But as unto carnal. Now watch carefully. Even as up
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  Speaker 4: to babes.
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  Speaker 1: Help me.
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  Speaker 4: The last two words. In Christ. One more time.
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  Speaker 1: There is such description of a believer as a babe
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. You are a child. Even though you are
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. He's not speaking to people who are outside Christ.
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  Speaker 1: They are in Christ. But he's saying you are still children.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 2. I have fed you with milk. Like a
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  Speaker 1: mother feeds a baby. Milk here is talking about elementary
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  Speaker 1: levels of spiritual knowledge.
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  Speaker 4: And not with meat.
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  Speaker 1: For hitherto ye were not able to bear them. Neither
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  Speaker 1: ye now are able. Paul's expression is frustration. He's saying,
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  Speaker 1: I've come here many times. And there are weightier things
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  Speaker 1: to teach you in the spirit. But every time I
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  Speaker 1: meet you and I examine you. That means there is
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  Speaker 1: a system for examining the.
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  Speaker 4: State of a believer.
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  Speaker 1: You can know that this believer is still a child.
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  Speaker 4: Paul is saying, this is a lesson for men of God.
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  Speaker 1: When you go to minister to people. gauge trying to
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  Speaker 1: gauge the the spiritual state of the people so you
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  Speaker 1: don't waste your time discussing things that will fall on
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  Speaker 1: deaf ears.
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  Speaker 4: Give us that scripture.
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  Speaker 1: I was not able to teach you i just had
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  Speaker 1: to feed you with milk and not meat for hitherto
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  Speaker 1: you were not able to bear it neither can you
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  Speaker 1: bear it now what is the proof of carnality verse
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  Speaker 1: four now okay well let's go to verse three Verse 3.
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  Speaker 1: It says for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there
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  Speaker 1: is among you. Now see all the elements of the flesh.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: He is talking to Christians. Envyings and strife and divisions.
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  Speaker 1: Are you not carnal and walk as men? He's dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the issue of carnal Christians now. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at verse 4, to end this scripture, it says, For
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  Speaker 1: while one said, I am for Paul, another, I am
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  Speaker 1: for Apollos. It means that you are still at the
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  Speaker 1: realm of men. Your mindset, you are not yet kingdom minded.
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  Speaker 1: You are not heavenly minded. You are still men pleasers.
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  Speaker 1: These are still elements of the flesh finding expression in you.
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  Speaker 1: Are you seeing that now? There are things I want
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  Speaker 1: to teach you, he's saying. But I cannot because I
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  Speaker 1: found out that in teaching you I will waste my time.
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  Speaker 4: Even Jesus himself.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to teach the disciples certain weightier matters of the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: But he said unto them, I hope you know none
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  Speaker 1: of the disciples were saved. No, they were not saved.
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  Speaker 1: They were only being prepared. How could they be saved
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  Speaker 1: without the Holy Spirit? Are we together now? Just because
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  Speaker 1: they were around Jesus did not make them saved. No.
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  Speaker 1: If they were saved by what means? It then means
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  Speaker 1: we have to cancel salvation. There is no other name
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  Speaker 1: under heaven given unto men by which we must be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And salvation is only by the blood. The substitutionary sacrifice.
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  Speaker 4: So how could they have been saved?
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  Speaker 1: No. Everybody Jesus healed was still unsaved. Including the religious people.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? He had to die and become the
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  Speaker 1: firstborn of we the begotten. So he told them, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot
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  Speaker 1: bear them now. Ye cannot hear them.
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  Speaker 4: Ye cannot bear them.
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  Speaker 1: And I've taught you here that some of those things
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to say was what the Spirit inspired Paul
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  Speaker 1: to write. You know how hard some of Paul's writings are?
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: That even the disciples say, this one, this man, this
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  Speaker 1: thing is hard smaller. So imagine if Jesus were talking
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  Speaker 1: to them. They would be saying, preach, preacher. And at
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  Speaker 1: the end of it, they would say, let's go out fishing.
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  Speaker 1: This guy is talking nonsense and wasting our time here.
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  Speaker 1: One of the ways you know you are still carnal
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  Speaker 1: is that you don't have the endurance for sound doctrine.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: The moment sound doctrine is a burden, something in you says,
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  Speaker 1: what is all this one now?
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  Speaker 4: Can't you just go straight forward?
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  Speaker 6: Receive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not being sarcastic, but it's true. If I shout
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  Speaker 1: now and say, what am I seeing? BMW. Coin on here. BMW.
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  Speaker 2: Hey!
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  Speaker 1: Someone already lift his hand and carry the hand of
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  Speaker 1: somebody and say that. I'm not saying that you receive it.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Receive your BMW. Receive your BMW. Are we together? But
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  Speaker 1: you see, if the entire journey of the believer is
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  Speaker 1: only centered around these kinds of things, there will be
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  Speaker 1: a lot of problems. And I tell you the truth,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: respectfully speaking, that we men of God have been given
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  Speaker 1: the mandate by God to transition people from being natural
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  Speaker 1: believers carnal to being spiritual for as long as we
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  Speaker 1: keep maintaining carnal membership the pastor will never rest one
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  Speaker 1: of the proof of carnality is putting your attention on
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: a man and not god is the reason why people
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  Speaker 1: keep going through all kinds of problems even in ministry
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: because if i tie all your attention to me i
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: will be in trouble it means i will never sleep
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  Speaker 1: for the.
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  Speaker 4: So my job is to help you.
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  Speaker 1: And the greatest way to help you is not just
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: to prophesy to you. The greatest way to help you
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  Speaker 1: is not just to pray for you when you are sick.
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  Speaker 1: Or be there for you when you have problems.
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  Speaker 4: That is very important.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very important pastoral duty.
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  Speaker 4: But let me tell you.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: The greatest way to really help believers is to teach them.
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  Speaker 1: bring light bring understanding bring illumination grant them access to
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: wisdom the moment believers start growing and maturing you start
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  Speaker 1: resting as a man of god the same way when
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  Speaker 1: a parent invests in a child are we together as
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  Speaker 1: the child starts growing and is becoming a responsible child.
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  Speaker 4: The parent will start resting there.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Are parents who have children taller than them and yet
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: they will not rest you know why because the child
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  Speaker 1: with all due respect is ill-trained And still a burden
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: to the parent. At 40 still a burden. At 50
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: still a burden. So where the parents would rest. They
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: are not resting. Because they move from one police station
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: after the other. Going to bail that child out. This
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  Speaker 1: is how it can be. This is not a pastor's conference.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: But I'm just digressing to help you. If you are
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: a man of God here. Let me tell you the truth.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Don't feel so insecure. That you have to turn the
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  Speaker 1: attention of everybody on you.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: It is a risk.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: You will never be able to find sleep. Help them
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: and guide them and lead them to Jesus. Teach them truth.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: You are there to supervise, to guide, to coordinate. Are
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: we together?
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Many believers are still carnal. Carnal because of our thinking.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Carnal because we are still alive to self. The fleshly desires...
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  Speaker 1: We are carnal because we are largely unyielded to God.
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: Unyielded to the Holy Spirit.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I'm pressing on this carnality so that we'll be able
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: to understand Jesus. through spirituality so the natural man is
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: the unregenerate man he's not even met christ at all
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: even if he's been around the things of god he
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: does not have to be a bad man by our
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  Speaker 1: definition of being bad doing anything wrong society wrong societally
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: wrong but the fact that that man is not saved
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: something is wrong eternal damnation is the destiny of that
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  Speaker 1: man Without Christ. For the carnal man he is saved.
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  Speaker 1: But that the reality. He cannot be a true reflection
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Are we together? The Bible says to be
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: carnally minded is death. So you watch a carnal man dying.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: As if he is not saved. And you are.
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: Wondering were you really saved?
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Everything you used to do before you were saved, you
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: are still doing now.
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  Speaker 4: No difference. No difference whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Same talk, same behavior, same places, same relationships, same things.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: That is a carnally minded man. Same philosophies, same insults,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: same anger, same manifestations of the flesh. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: around your life. If someone did not see you making
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  Speaker 1: an altar call and someone comes to meet you one year,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: even after you are saved, they wouldn't know the difference.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: You have to tell them, well, just to.
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: Let you know I'm saved now. And they say you
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: are saved?
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: It's a joke.
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  Speaker 4: But it's supposed to be clear.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: The reality of salvation is supposed to have a growing
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: influence within you.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Is God speaking to someone tonight?
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: Ephesians chapter 2 from verse 1 to 3. Ephesians 2,
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  Speaker 1: 1 to 3.
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: It says, Verse 2.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: It says wherein, he's describing something now. Wherein in time
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  Speaker 1: past ye walked according to the cause of this world.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Watch this. According to the prince of the power of
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: the air. The spirit that now walketh in the children
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: of disobedience. Are you seeing that there are people in
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: this life you see. The things that they do is
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: not counseling that will change it.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: They need an altar call.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Are we together? It doesn't matter what kind of counseling.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: With all due respect you can administer superior therapies.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: It will not change.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Because there is a spirit. That walks in the sons
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: of disobedience. I've seen people who you counsel. And at
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: the point of counseling they are even crying. And you
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: say will you do this again? They say me no.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Not at all.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: In fact I can tell you today is the last day.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: That person will get up right where you are. And
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: walk right. Have you seen that kind of thing? Right there.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: You can bail the person out of a police station.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: And they'll say if you return here again. You will
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: not go back. Yes sir. By the next week the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: person is back there. There is a spirit. Please hear me.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: This is spiritual intelligence. Once you see people doing certain things.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: That they cannot stop. Stop wasting your time with counseling.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: You need to administer another kind of therapy.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: It's called the power of God.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Are we together? Yeah.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: The person stole 10 naira.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: You caught the person red-handed with 10 naira there. And
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: the person said, this is the last time. If I
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: do another stealing, may God kill me. God doesn't kill
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: because he knows the man is just talking nonsense. By evening,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: not the next day. Evening. He just sits. And you
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: know these spirits walk. These spirits actually create a prophetic
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: expression in their victims. Because you can hide something and
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: the person just stands in the room. And just goes
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: to lift the mat. The same way you prophesy. You
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: hide the money. Hide it anywhere they will find it.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: The same way somebody for instance not to condemn. All
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: these guys that smoke all kinds of things. As soon
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: as they enter a city. A city they have never
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: gone to in two hours. They know where their company is.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: It's a spirit.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: It's a spirit. I know you are laughing, but listen
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: carefully to what I'm telling you. There is a spirit
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: that walks in people. The same way there is a
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: spirit that brings trouble, negative things to people. Now, but
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: that is supposed to be the experience of the unbeliever.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: But you can be a believer.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: Listen, to believe.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: That just because you are saved, demon spirits cannot have
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: access to your mind and your destiny is a joke.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: Did you hear what I said? Let me repeat it
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: for your learning.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: It is a joke. They should not. But since you
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: are carnal, there is no difference. So you find out
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: that when you are ministering deliverance, you will see both
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: believers and non-believers.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: Under the influence of these spirits.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: The explanation is provided you still have.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: A kernel software.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: There is still a gate for Satan to access your life.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: He may not possess you because the life of God
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: is in your spirit. But he can still find room
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: to manipulate your life even as though you were possessed.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: So there are many believers moving around and saying it
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: Now that I'm saved, I don't need. It's not true.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: It's not true. Listen to my message, complete deliverance. I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: teach there that there are three levels of deliverance. There
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: is the deliverance where by the power of God, you
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: cast out the spirit influence. Ideally, that should be to
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: an unbeliever. But number two, there is deliverance through transformation.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: This is what makes deliverance not needed in your life again.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: That when you sit down and you are transformed. What
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: part of you is being transformed?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: Your mind.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: There is a switch from being carnally minded to being
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: spiritually minded. And now you can partner as an act
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  Speaker 1: of your will. With the word of God and with
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. And when Satan comes to you because
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  Speaker 1: he will come. There is nothing in you that can
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  Speaker 1: connect him to you again. But until then. He would
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  Speaker 1: deceive you into believing that you cannot be manipulated by spirits.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you will find your life, even though you
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  Speaker 1: are saved, you will still find your life helplessly under
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  Speaker 1: the influence of spirits. Helplessly. Helplessly under the influence of spirits.
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  Speaker 1: And it does not matter whether you are a preacher.
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  Speaker 1: It does not matter whether you are a businessman. It
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  Speaker 1: does not matter whether you are an elder in church.
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  Speaker 1: Spirits don't have respect for those things. Once you are
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  Speaker 1: carnally minded, you are in the realm of Satan. There
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  Speaker 1: is a way that carnal people walk. It says who
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  Speaker 1: walk according to the cause of this world. There is
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  Speaker 1: a way carnally minded people speak. There is a way
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  Speaker 1: carnally minded people behave.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you have obtained grace from God does not
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  Speaker 1: mean you will utilize it. You can waste the grace,
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  Speaker 1: the enabling grace that was given. It is why every
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  Speaker 1: time Jesus saw people and he had compassion towards them,
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  Speaker 1: the first thing he did was to teach them. That
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: means the real way to show people compassion, the real
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  Speaker 1: way to show people, if you desire to take people
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  Speaker 1: out of their state, Your response is not just a
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  Speaker 1: prophetic word.
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  Speaker 4: Your response is not just healing.
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  Speaker 1: Your real response to dealing with people's state is to
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  Speaker 1: teach them. The teaching ministry is the permanent cure for
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  Speaker 1: people's state. But then, related to the teaching ministry, the content,
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual information that.
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  Speaker 4: You are communicating must be wholesome content.
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  Speaker 1: Doctrinal. Balanced.
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  Speaker 4: Seasoned with power. To produce the effect.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise you'll be creating another kind of error again. Which
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  Speaker 1: is what is happening sadly across the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So we have many teachers. But the content is where
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  Speaker 1: the problem is. So there are believers who are learning
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  Speaker 1: and receiving. But the problem is not their refusal to receive.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Is that there is something wrong with the kind of information.
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  Speaker 1: Either it is imbalanced or completely wrong. Are we together?
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: What do you do with a carnal mind? What do
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: you do with a carnal person? A carnal person needs
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: beyond counseling. Please let me have your attention. A carnal
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  Speaker 1: man needs beyond advice. A carnal man needs beyond just
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: reading a book. What a carnal man needs is to
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  Speaker 1: submit himself. Watch this now. To submit himself to the
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: ministry of the word. Through a teaching priest. And then
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: that process of transition begins. Until he becomes a spiritual man.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Is someone learning now? So you find yourself and you
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  Speaker 1: know as I'm speaking. That truly I'm still in this
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: realm of carnality. My mind is not purified. My thoughts
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: are not purified. So says my speaking. So says my behavior.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Because your mindset is what controls your behavior. Your mindset
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: is what controls your speaking. Your mindset is what controls
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: your appetite. And the moment you find out that you
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  Speaker 1: are not manifesting God-like characteristics.
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  Speaker 4: I am telling you.
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  Speaker 1: The diagnosis is that you are carnal. Even though you
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  Speaker 1: are saved. But there is a way out. In the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus there is a way out. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the spiritual man. Pray in the spirit in one minute.
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  Speaker 1: Pray in the spirit in one minute. Your spirit opens
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  Speaker 1: to me. The treasures of your word.
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  Speaker 3: And I will forever sing your praise. Your spirit opens
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  Speaker 3: to me. The treasures of your word. And I will
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  Speaker 3: forever sing your praise.
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  Speaker 1: Pray. And I will sing. Of the wonders of your work.
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  Speaker 3: I will sing.
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  Speaker 1: Out for joy.
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  Speaker 2: I will sing.
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  Speaker 3: Of the wonders of your word and i will forever
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  Speaker 3: sing your.
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  Speaker 1: Praise hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Now look up please.
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  Speaker 1: A spiritual man is not a man open to the
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  Speaker 1: realm of the spirit.
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  Speaker 4: Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 1: When we talk about a spiritual man.
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  Speaker 4: We don't mean a man.
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  Speaker 1: Who is open to visionary encounters.
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  Speaker 4: Or out of body experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Because an occultic man is not a spiritual man. Even
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  Speaker 1: though he is open to the realm of the spirit.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: So when we are talking about spirituality. We are not
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  Speaker 1: talking about the ease with which you can separate your
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  Speaker 1: body from your spirit. And interact with the realm of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. No. If that is your concept you will
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  Speaker 1: easily be misled to error. I want to define for
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  Speaker 1: you the spiritual man from the lens of scripture. Because
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  Speaker 1: for the average believer, after dealing with the matters of
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  Speaker 1: the natural man and dealing with the carnal man, the
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  Speaker 1: moment we talk about the spiritual man, the first place
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  Speaker 1: your mind goes to is the person who leaves his
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  Speaker 1: body at will. If you can leave your body at will,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: something is wrong with you. Did you hear what I said?
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  Speaker 1: If you can leave your body, levitate and leave your
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: body at will.
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  Speaker 4: And come back.
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  Speaker 1: Go and see a powerful man of God to help you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this. It's an occultic practice. It's not spirituality.
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  Speaker 1: You should have the advantage of the duality of realms.
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  Speaker 1: Of interacting with the realm of the spirit. But let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something. Something always happens to you.
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  Speaker 4: When you are exposed to the.
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  Speaker 1: Atmosphere of the realm of the spirit. The realm of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit is not heaven. I hope you know that.
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  Speaker 1: The realm of the spirit is another face. Another plane
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  Speaker 1: of reality. That has rules of engagement. Accessible to all men.
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  Speaker 1: With or without Christ. The condition to be out. And
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  Speaker 1: interacting with the realm of the spirit. Is that you
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  Speaker 1: must be assisted by another spirit. And it does not
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  Speaker 1: have to be the spirit of God.
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  Speaker 5: I will sing.
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  Speaker 1: Of the wonders of your work.
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  Speaker 2: I will sing.
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  Speaker 1: Out for joy.
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  Speaker 8: I will see of the wonders of your word and
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  Speaker 8: i will forever sing your praise.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of man does the bible define as a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man please write what kind of a man if
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  Speaker 1: we know that there is the natural man If we
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  Speaker 1: know that there is the carnal man. A believer. And
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  Speaker 1: yet a carnal man. And we say that to be
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  Speaker 1: able to reflect Christ in his fullness. The condition is
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  Speaker 1: that beyond salvation. That transition has to happen in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Until you attain a state. A kind of man that
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  Speaker 1: the Bible calls spiritual. Now we are examining such a man.
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  Speaker 1: What does it take? How do I know that I
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  Speaker 1: am becoming or I have become a spiritual man? Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready?
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  Speaker 4: There are a few things.
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  Speaker 2: Features.
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  Speaker 1: Features. That must be captured within the life of a believer.
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  Speaker 1: As proof that that person is a spiritual man.
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  Speaker 4: Let me run through the list for you. Number one.
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  Speaker 4: Any spiritual man you.
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  Speaker 1: Know must have encountered Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Through the new birth experience. Any man.
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  Speaker 1: This is why I said. A spiritual man is not
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  Speaker 1: just one who is open to the realm of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people who are not saved. And they
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  Speaker 1: can see visions. There are many people who are trained
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  Speaker 1: traditionally in the village. And their organs of interaction with
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  Speaker 1: the realm of the spirit. By fraternity with demon spirits.
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  Speaker 1: Are opened in a heightened way. They can see you
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  Speaker 1: coming from a distance and call your name. The lady,
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  Speaker 1: the damsel who had the spirit of divination. Her prophecy
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  Speaker 1: was accurate. And yet she was not saved. Are we learning?
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  Speaker 4: So for you to be a spiritual man.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. You must have encountered Jesus Christ. Through the
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  Speaker 1: new birth experience. Please write that down. You must have
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  Speaker 1: encountered Christ. Jesus Christ. Through the new birth experience.
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  Speaker 4: Number two. A spiritual man is one who.
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  Speaker 1: Has had an experience with the person and the.
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  Speaker 4: Ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot be a spiritual man if you have not
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  Speaker 1: encountered the person and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 4: The person and the ministry of.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit. These are the factors that produce true
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  Speaker 1: spirituality in believers. Number one, an experience with Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: son of the living God.
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  Speaker 4: The new birth experience.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, an encounter with the person and the ministry
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Can I give you number three?
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  Speaker 1: The factors that define a spiritual man. A spiritual man
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  Speaker 1: is one who has a thorough comprehension of Of the
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  Speaker 1: principles of the kingdom. As revealed in scripture. A thorough comprehension.
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  Speaker 1: Of the principles of the kingdom. The ways of God.
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  Speaker 1: As revealed in scripture. Don't forget this third point. A
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man. Is not just a bible study giant. Is
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  Speaker 1: one who through the lens of scripture. Primarily. Has come
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  Speaker 1: into a thorough comprehension. Of the ways of God. The
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  Speaker 1: principles of the kingdom. As revealed in scripture. You have
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  Speaker 1: that down? So number one, an encounter with Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: through the new birth experience. Number two, an encounter with
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  Speaker 1: the person.
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  Speaker 4: And the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, a thorough comprehension of the principles of the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: the ways of God as revealed in scripture. Number four,
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  Speaker 1: who is a spiritual man according to scripture. Number four,
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  Speaker 1: The man who has willingly chosen to submit to the
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  Speaker 1: leadership of.
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  Speaker 4: The Holy Spirit. Ah, this is an important one.
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  Speaker 1: The man who has willingly chosen to submit to the
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  Speaker 1: leadership of the Holy Spirit. Just because you have an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with God by His Spirit does not mean you
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  Speaker 1: have chosen to submit. A spiritual man is one who
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  Speaker 1: has willingly, underline that word will. Your will has an
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  Speaker 1: active role to play in your becoming spiritual. Willingly submitted
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  Speaker 1: to the Lordship, the leadership of the Spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. Do you know how
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  Speaker 1: difficult it is to truly submit to the leadership of
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit? When you submit to the leadership of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, the first thing that happens is a
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  Speaker 1: thorough disruption of life as you have defined it your way.
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  Speaker 4: Did you hear what I said?
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  Speaker 1: A thorough disruption of life as you have defined or
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: arranged it your way. When God comes into your life,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: He does not continue with your life the way you
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: designed it. There is a disruption of that plan. It's
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  Speaker 1: the reason why many people cannot submit to the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. Because you have pledged loyalty to God by
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: His Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I will go. I will go.
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  Speaker 1: I will go.
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  Speaker 4: Wherever you lead me.
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  Speaker 1: I will go.
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  Speaker 2: I will go. I will go.
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  Speaker 9: Wherever you lead me, I will go.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reason why God likes songs of surrender.
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  Speaker 1: Because he will answer them quickly. In all these songs
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  Speaker 1: we sing, God take everything.
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  Speaker 4: This is what.
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  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for. But you see, because the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God is not a demon spirit. At every point
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  Speaker 1: in his leadership journey with you. He will have to
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: verify that you are still willing to trust him. Did
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: you hear what I said? He will not usurp it
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: over you.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: I'm willing to guide you.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah 29 11. I know the thoughts that I think
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  Speaker 1: towards you. Sayeth the Lord they are thoughts of peace
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  Speaker 1: and not of evil to give you.
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  Speaker 4: An expected end.
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  Speaker 1: Submitting to the leadership of the Holy Spirit is based
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  Speaker 1: on the understanding that God's ways are not your ways.
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  Speaker 1: Neither his thoughts your thoughts. Are we together? That you
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: can want life your way. But if you can trust
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: God Let me tell you the truth. The initial point
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  Speaker 1: of your journey with the Holy Spirit will be rough.
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  Speaker 4: And it is not.
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  Speaker 1: Rough because that's how he leads. It is rough because
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  Speaker 1: of the bad plans you have made for yourself. That
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  Speaker 1: in your own wisdom you believe you have designed an
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  Speaker 1: excellent life. Here he comes. Spirit of the living God.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: I love the Holy Spirit. When he steps into your life.
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  Speaker 1: You who is thinking politics, politics. Me, I know I
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: win the election. He just comes upon you. And gently
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: he starts doing a U-turn. And for some people it's
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: 180 degrees.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: Are we together?
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what it means to submit to
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. To submit your will. To submit your plans.
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  Speaker 1: To submit your ways. And to be.
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  Speaker 4: Willing to receive from him.
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  Speaker 1: Even if it is inconveniencing you. You trust the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he represents. He is the spirit of the father.
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  Speaker 4: And that he.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: Has your best interest. It may not make sense. But
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  Speaker 1: somewhere along the journey after 10 years. You will see
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of his leadership. Someone please listen to me.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Because one of the ways carnal people get into trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Is judging 10 years using the myopic lens of today.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: God can look at you and tell you, join this chariot.
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  Speaker 1: It may not make sense till after 11 years. You
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: will see why he brought you to that relationship. You
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: will see why he brought you to Koinonia. The version
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: of you that came may not make sense. God, what
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: are you doing with me? And he says, you just
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: be consistent. When he calls you to enter the ark,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: it's because the rain is coming. And just because the
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  Speaker 1: rain did not come for 120 years, be patient. When
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  Speaker 1: the rain comes, you will see the value of that wisdom.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Are we together? It's the reason why the greatest way
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  Speaker 1: Satan deceives believers.
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  Speaker 4: Is to act as the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Because he knows that believers have opened up themselves to
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  Speaker 1: be yielded.
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  Speaker 4: That is another discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Satan hardly attacks believers as Satan. He comes with the
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: disguise of the Holy Spirit. Because he knows if he
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  Speaker 1: comes as Satan he will cast him. So he will
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: come as an angel of light. And suggest things using scripture.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: But you need a level of maturity to say no.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: Even though this sounds good. This is not the Holy Spirit.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: God does not lead this way. This is why you
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: have to know the Holy Spirit before you submit to him.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: If you submit to any voice and any entity that is.
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  Speaker 4: Not just human.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: You will find out you have been submitting to many entities.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: And many believers. They think it's the Holy Spirit leading them.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: They would die believing it's.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: The Holy Spirit leading them.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: But upon the lens of a spiritually matured person, you
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  Speaker 1: will see the gaps that this level of submission is
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: to a demon spirit, not the Holy Spirit. Listen carefully.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: This is a deliverance service for someone now. There are
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: people who have done stupid things in the name of
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: being led by the Spirit. I will be showing you
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: another element of being spiritual. Because if the only thing
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  Speaker 1: you do to be spiritual is submission to spirits, you
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: are in trouble. I told you if Satan uses evil
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: to destroy you and you resist it, you will use good.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: The most important thing is he wants you to be destroyed.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: So we have, respectfully speaking, we have an army of
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: sincere people in the body of Christ. Doing all kinds
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: of things. And the basis of their confidence. They will
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: tell you, see my notebook. See it. God told me.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: I know what I saw.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 4: You are right.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: But we need to judge the kind of influence. And
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: there is a way to judge spirits. This is why
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: the Bible says strong meat.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: Let me leave that one.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: We are coming there. You see. That you can judge spirits.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: If you are open hearted tonight. For someone it can
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: be a deliverance service now. To ask yourself. This journey
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: I'm taking. I don't see the light.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: And I'm not.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: I'm seeing everything around it. Is taking me backward. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going into a pit. Is this really the voice of God?
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: And when you check. You will find out. That you
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  Speaker 1: are being led by a demon spirit. And you do
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  Speaker 1: not know. If Jesus had to pray for Peter. And
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: say Satan desired. Did he come like a beast with horns?
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: You think Peter would not have resisted him? He slipped
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: into Peter. And used Peter's compassion. There are people who
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: have left their place of glory and their place of
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  Speaker 1: assignment because they had a voice and the voice spoke beautifully.
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  Speaker 1: The voice came through a dream and said, go to
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  Speaker 1: this place. The voice came and turned their destiny helpers
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  Speaker 1: to look like demons. And they got off from that dream,
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  Speaker 1: hating the people who will bless them. Listen carefully oh.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: This message is to bless you. We are talking about
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual man. That a spiritual man in addition to
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  Speaker 1: an encounter. With the person and the ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Must submit to the Lordship of the Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you one classic sign to know. That
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  Speaker 1: is the Holy Spirit leading you. There is nothing he
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  Speaker 1: will ever tell you. That will be by force. No.
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  Speaker 1: You will be constrained. Constrained.
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  Speaker 4: But the Holy.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit as the Spirit of God will always respect the
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  Speaker 1: will factor. The greatest gift God gave man is salvation
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  Speaker 1: through Christ.
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  Speaker 4: And even that he never forced it on any man.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that demands that you do it by force is
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  Speaker 1: not the Spirit of God. It is inconsistent with the
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  Speaker 1: nature of love. I said before you life and death.
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  Speaker 1: I said before you blessing and cursing. I can only
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  Speaker 1: advise you.
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  Speaker 4: Choose life.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Holy Spirit is called a counselor. Are
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  Speaker 1: we listening now? Now with all due respect. I know
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  Speaker 1: that I've read many books.
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  Speaker 2: Books.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one person who has had a rich heritage of
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  Speaker 1: a journey with the Holy Spirit by the grace of God.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: And I've read books on revivals. And I've seen in
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: many writings where people say things like. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: told them if you don't do this you will die.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: And I respect their level of revelation. But I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you by the authority of scripture.
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  Speaker 4: It's not accurate.
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  Speaker 1: God does not work like that. If God did not
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  Speaker 1: force you to receive him. The moment God puts pressure
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: on you and takes away the will factor. It's no
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: longer called obedience. It's called oppression. The basis of obedience
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: is that your.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: Power to choose must remain.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot tell me to obey until you give me
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  Speaker 1: an option to disobey. That's why there were two trees
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  Speaker 1: in the garden of Eden.
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  Speaker 4: Not one tree.
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  Speaker 1: Is someone learning now? This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 1: you judge spirits. And also, this is also one of
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: the ways you judge prophecies. Anything that has to constrain
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: you by force. Something is wrong. No. No. No.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Give by force.
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  Speaker 1: Go there by force. That language of force is not
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom language. Not towards the saints. Towards demon spirits,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: yes sir. But not the saints. Is someone learning already?
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: Not by force. So by the time someone says, it's
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: not that me too, it's not like I, God just
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: forced me. Be careful. You are not bad, but just
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  Speaker 1: accept that you are still growing. When you grow, you
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  Speaker 1: will find out you have been blaming God. It's a lie.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: It's not God. God constrains. He puts pressure within your heart.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: Either to go or to stay. But he will always
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: leave the will factor.
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  Speaker 4: You can choose.
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  Speaker 1: I can choose as an act of my will today.
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  Speaker 1: As a man of God. And stand before you and
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: stand before the whole world. And say you know what?
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not interested in God again. It's an act of
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: my will. You will intercede for me, but at the
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  Speaker 1: end of it, when you intercede for me, let me
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: tell you what happens. The Spirit of God will keep
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: revealing to me the excellency of staying with Him and
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: the disaster that may happen to those He has connected
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: to my grace. But at the end of it, when
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  Speaker 1: He finds out I have made up my mind, He
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: will honor my decision and raise another person. That's how
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: God works.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: Are you learning the ways of God?
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: Because there are many believers who do not submit to
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of God. And the reason why they do
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  Speaker 1: not submit to the Spirit of God is that they
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: are afraid. Here's what they are afraid of. I have
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: arranged my life my own way. I have planned everything.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: From graduation, it's America. And when you are praying, what
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: you are saying is, God, you better make America work.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: Every time you pray that prayer, something in you and
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: you say, I won't pray again. Because you are suspecting
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: that if you actually submit to the.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: Spirit of God. Let me teach you something.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: If you run life by your understanding, you will make
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: many mistakes.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: If you run life, the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: In Proverbs chapter 3 from verse 5 to 7.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 4: Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: And he says to lead not unto your own understanding.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: In all your ways.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: Verse 6. Acknowledge him. And he shall direct your path.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Someone say direct me. Shout and say guide me oh God.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Guide me oh God. Ladies and gentlemen. The beat that
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: God has done. In this ministry today. Is from the
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: foolishness of the guidance of the spirit. There is nowhere
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: written in the Bible that Koinonia will move from Zaria
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: to Abuja. There is nowhere written in the Bible that
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: Koinonia will be all over the globe. It's not written
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: directly there. There is a mandate to reach the ends
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: of the earth. But that bespoke direction plus the seizing.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: That's the Holy Spirit for you. If you do not
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: submit to the Holy Spirit. It will be like a
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: man driving a beautiful car. But not holding the steering.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: And this steering of destiny is too complicated for you
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: to hold it. You are too small. Your hand is
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: too small. You will not even be able to turn it.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: And when you insist that I will hold it and
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: run my life my own way. Very soon you will
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: see another hand bigger than your own. Running you to
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: a ditch. That's Satan for you.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: Are we together?
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. Allow God to lead
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: you by His Spirit. Trust His leadership. You submit to
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit the same way you gave your life
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: to Christ. That from this day, Spirit of the living God,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: I trust you as the Spirit of the Father. And
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: I submit to your leadership. I submit to your leadership
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: to guide me, to speak to me, to help me.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: I am unable to make destiny walk my own way.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 4: Tried and tried.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: And it does not work you are the spirit that
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: guided Jesus to completion of his assignment even Jesus himself
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: needed to be guided by that same spirit the spirit
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: of God is an ancient spirit he has worked with
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: many men you are not the first when you invite
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: him into your life don't you think the Holy Spirit
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: just comes uninvited and says hold my hands Jared no
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work that way that's a demon spirit Even
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: if it's after 10 years, he will stretch his hands
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: and say, give me a chance to produce the glory
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: of God out of your life.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 4: And you will argue and say, I want to do
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: things my own way.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: After you go around and waste time and waste destiny,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: you still come back to the same point. And you
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: will see the loving spirit say, I can make this
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: journey easier for you. For someone tonight, you came to
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: church and God is telling you this carnal approach to life.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 4: Using guesswork. Are we together? Oh, this one, this one.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: Abuja, Lagos.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: Abuja, Lagos. Let me count five.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: One, two, three, four, five.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 4: It's Lagos. You will ruin your life that way.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: This kind of superstitious living. You cannot risk your life
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: and the destinies of people just using intelligence. What if
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: you know better and you find out you made a mistake? No.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit for you. When he holds you You
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: will start one journey after another. It will not make sense.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: So when he starts. Remember I told you. He will
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: disrupt a lot of your plans. You will not even
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: understand your own life yourself. The only thing is that
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: you know he is leading me. But as he leads you.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: Through all of that darkness.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden you will start seeing a ray
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: of light. And that light. And through the foolishness of
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: your submitting to him, it may take a few years,
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: but you now begin to see the beauty and glory
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: that comes out of your life. And people will turn
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: and say, I used to know this sister. My God,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: we thought this sister was a total failure. Look what
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: God has done. Look what God has made out of
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: his life, out of her life. Let me speak to
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: someone here before I continue. You have run your life
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: your own way. Listen, you came to church because God
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: is telling you this is the stubbornness that got your
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: grandfather where he was. God gave him a chance. He
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: rejected it. For some of us, God came to our
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: parents and said, can I help you?
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: You don't know the road.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: There used to be an old hymn we used to
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: sing in a seminary. My God knows the way through
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: the wilderness. He says, all I have to do is
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: to follow. That you hold his hands. And say spirit
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: of God. The world is too wicked. Too complicated. Too deceptive.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even know who is sincere and who is not.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: But I can trust you. Can trust you.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: What's that song? Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: And lean not on your own understanding. In all your
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: ways acknowledge him.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: And he shall direct.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: And he shall direct your path.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: Trust in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In all your heart.
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  Speaker 3: And lean not on your own understanding. In all your
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: ways acknowledge him.
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 4: And he shall direct.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 9: And he shall direct.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: Honestly I want you to believe. That the Holy Spirit
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: is a master. At navigating destiny. He knows the mountains.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: He knows the valleys. You see. Because in this journey
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: of destiny. You can be looking at a hole. And
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: not know it is a hole. It's only when your
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: eyes tells you it's a hole. And you will see
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: beautiful lush gardens.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: And quickly get there.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: And find yourself in a hole that if you are
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: not careful you may never come out of. There are
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: many people who have entered pits in destiny. Pits in ministry.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: Pits in family. Only God can bring them out. Because
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: they have decided that they will stubbornly run their lives
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: by themselves. God is speaking to someone. Trust God with
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: your life. You have trusted people and things of lesser value.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: You carried your whole life and gave them. Help me.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 3: You are the mighty God. You are the glorious God.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 9: You are the mighty God.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 4: You are the glory of God.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 6: Can you not hope it too?
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 9: You are the glorious God.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: I'm ministering to you.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: Dave, can you sing for me that song, Spirit Lead Me?
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Find a convenient key and sing it. I want you
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: to listen.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 10: Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders. Let
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 10: me walk upon the waters. Wherever you would call me
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 10: Take me deeper than my feet would ever wander.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: And my faith.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 10: Would be made stronger In the presence of my.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 9: Savior Spirit lead me where my trust.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: Is without borders.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 9: Let me walk upon.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 10: The waters wherever you would call me. Take me deeper
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 10: than my feet would ever wander. And my faith would
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 10: be made stronger in the presence of my Savior.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 9: Spirit lead me where.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: My trust is without borders.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 9: Let me walk upon the waters wherever me and take
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 9: me deeper than my feet would ever wander and my
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: faith would be made stronger in the presence of my.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: Savior hallelujah the spiritual man is beyond a church goer
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: the spiritual man is beyond a tongue talker The spiritual
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: man is beyond a routine prayer practitioner. A spiritual man
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: is beyond a fasting person.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: Now, at the.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: Core of the journey to true spirituality, It's number one,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: a genuine encounter with the son of the living God.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: Number two, an encounter with the person and the ministry
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Number three, a thorough comprehension of
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: the ways of God. The mysteries of the kingdom. The
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: principles of the kingdom. And that by the scripture. Number four,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: listen carefully.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: Submission.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: Submission. Submission is different from encounter. There are many people
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: who can write books about the Holy Spirit. But it
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: is clear from their lives that they do not want
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: the inconvenience of submission to the governing authority of the
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: Spirit of God.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 4: As an act of faith, as an act of trust.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 4: Number five.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: The fifth factor that defines spirituality. Write this down please.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: Is submission to transformation. By the word of God. Again.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: Just like submission to the Holy Spirit. Just because you
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: have access to the mysteries of the kingdom.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: That is knowledge.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: It does not mean you have chosen to submit to transformation.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Number five. Is one of the cardinal pillars. That transits
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: a man from carnality to spirituality. A carnal man is
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: a carnal man because he is carnally minded. A spiritual
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: man is a spiritual man because he is spiritually minded.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: Any other factor that holds minus mentality cannot leave someone
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: a spiritual person. There are many people bragging about spirituality.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: But from the lens of scripture I submit to you,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: they are not spiritual men.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: Transformation submit to transformation this is the fifth you are
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: willing to submit to transformation by the word of God
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: Romans 12 1 and 2 I beseech thee brethren by
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: the message of God that ye offer present your bodies
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: unto God a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: which is your reasonable act of worship verse 2 it
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: says and be not conformed to this world but The
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: thinking pattern that comes with this system. He says.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 4: But be ye transformed.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: Here it is. By the renewal of your mind. That
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: by your transformation. You can prove. What is that good. Acceptable.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: And perfect will of God. Philippians chapter 2 and verse 5.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: Let this mind be in you. Which was also. In
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. Permit. Allow. Do not restrict. Do not restrain.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: This mentality from being in you. Which was also in
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. Through spirituality. It's not just about activities. True
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: spirituality is seen in the extent of your submission. For
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: transformation to a point where you are changed in experience.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: There are many people who pray but have refused to change.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: Did you hear what I said?
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: Because prayer is supposed to lead to change. But they
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: have refused to change. Many people study the scripture and
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: quote scripture. But they have not submitted to transformation. Many
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: people fast and keep fasting. But they have not submitted
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: to transformation. Many people come to church. They can quote
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: everything they have learned from everywhere. But they have not
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: submitted to change. Can I tell you? You cannot be
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: a spiritual man with a carnal mind. It doesn't work
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: that way. It is that transition from carnal thinking to
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: true spirituality. And the Bible says the reward you.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 4: Get is life and peace.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: Submission to the word of God.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: Submission to transformation.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: Transformation. That the word of God like the spirit of
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: God becomes.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 4: Final authority over your life.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: You have been indoctrinated by the value system of the kingdom.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: Are we together? I have taught you that one of
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: the ways you test transformation. Is that it becomes difficult
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: for people to connect you to any.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 4: Region within the earth.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: It's difficult for them to say you are Yoruba or
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: Hausa or Igbo. Maybe by your accent or by your
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: look that's fine. But by behavior, no. Your behavior is
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: so transitioned, it betrays.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: Where you are coming from.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: You can't see someone and say, you are behaving like them.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: Where are you from? It's all these people. That's how
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: they behave. No, that means you've not grown. Because the
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: kingdom of God.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 4: Has its culture too.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: And when you submit to the word of God, something
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  Speaker 1: begins to happen to you. You see that? He won't stop.
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  Speaker 2: He won't stop.
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  Speaker 1: Till my life looks like him he won't stop he
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  Speaker 1: won't stop till my mind looks like him he won't
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  Speaker 1: stop he won't.
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  Speaker 3: Stop till my destiny looks like him.
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  Speaker 4: See when you know this you will not only get born.
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  Speaker 1: Again and keep bragging i've been a christian for 10
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  Speaker 1: years and make a mockery of your christian experience The
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  Speaker 1: next thing to ask yourself is whose mindset am I representing?
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  Speaker 4: Whose mindset have I embraced?
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  Speaker 1: Stumbling blocks that will not allow you to be a
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  Speaker 1: representation of the image of Christ in experience. Are we together?
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  Speaker 4: Submission to transformation.
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  Speaker 1: This is what is happening to you that's why I
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  Speaker 1: salute you and I take your coming every week not
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  Speaker 1: just as a I don't have a membership mentality as
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  Speaker 1: a man of God I'm too serious to be thinking
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  Speaker 1: membership no you are beyond members this is God's God's
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  Speaker 1: vessel God's.
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  Speaker 4: Ship on a project towards transformation is.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why I take my work very seriously you
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  Speaker 1: see that Because every time we have the opportunity to meet,
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  Speaker 1: whether to meet virtually or to meet here, is the
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  Speaker 1: business of transformation. I know that if you are not transformed,
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  Speaker 1: the reality of the Christ life will not be manifest
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  Speaker 1: in you. And this is what has plagued many people.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: Some of you are here and you are wondering why
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God cannot find expression.
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  Speaker 4: There is a kind of believer.
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  Speaker 1: That can capture the promises of God in your life
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  Speaker 1: and experience. And if you don't transition. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: for instance. And I will wrap up with that. The
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  Speaker 1: believer who cannot give up anger. Look up please.
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  Speaker 4: Anger alone.
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  Speaker 1: Just let's use one fleshly attribute of anger. That you
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  Speaker 1: cannot die to anger by the spirit. Anger alone can
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  Speaker 1: wreck all your relationships and destroy your destiny forever.
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  Speaker 4: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: How about lust? Not just lust in terms of immoral behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Lust for things, money. It can relocate you out of
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. Send wrong people to your life.
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  Speaker 4: You see that now?
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  Speaker 1: I hope you are listening to what I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: Just one fleshly attribute... It's like a virus that can
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  Speaker 1: enter your system and wreck you into pieces.
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  Speaker 4: Wreck you into pieces.
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  Speaker 1: I love God though. But let me tell you, me,
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  Speaker 1: my own kind of pastor is when I'm angry, I
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  Speaker 1: will come down to the member and beat the person
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  Speaker 1: and come up.
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  Speaker 4: You see, don't celebrate bad things.
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  Speaker 3: Change.
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  Speaker 1: Change. Whether you're a man of God, whether you're a member,
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  Speaker 1: if you find out something in you is not good,
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  Speaker 1: don't justify it. Because a man of God is still
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  Speaker 1: a student. Change.
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  Speaker 4: Don't justify it. I won't go back.
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  Speaker 3: I can't go back to the way it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: Before your presence came and changed me.
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  Speaker 1: I won't go back.
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  Speaker 5: Can't go back.
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  Speaker 4: To the way it used to be.
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  Speaker 3: Before your presence came and changed me.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I want you to know. That if you refuse
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  Speaker 1: to transit to be spiritual, at the end of your life,
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  Speaker 1: your Christian testimony will never inspire anybody to love God.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 4: Because all that your life.
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  Speaker 1: Will capture is a plethora of events that will cause
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  Speaker 1: you pain, misrepresent Christ, and perhaps cut short your life.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: You will never see the reality of the victorious life
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  Speaker 1: at work. And you will be wondering why. God will
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  Speaker 1: push you to destiny helpers.
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  Speaker 4: But anger will drive you away from them.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Demon spirits will come to oppress you. But because you
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  Speaker 1: have not submitted to that which builds your discernment. You
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  Speaker 1: will fall cheaply into all kinds of things. You see,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why we pray... The reason why we fast.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why we study the word. The reason why
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  Speaker 1: we submit ourselves to all the spiritual disciplines is to
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  Speaker 1: this end. It is not to show religiosity. It is
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  Speaker 1: as part of the tools that sponsor that transition to
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  Speaker 1: become spiritual. The justification for prayer.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: It's not just doing it in the presence of people.
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  Speaker 1: It's the change that happens as proof that it has
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: changed you. The justification for studying scripture is not just
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  Speaker 1: to quote it in the presence of people. That can
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  Speaker 1: be pretense. It's that you have been so immersed by
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: that word, you have become one with it. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not just something you preach. It's not even what you
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  Speaker 1: do again. It is who you are. Just like God,
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  Speaker 1: you have become an expression of the logos of God
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  Speaker 1: in experience. That when men look at you, the next
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  Speaker 1: person they think about is Jesus Christ. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: because you are holding a Bible. It's not because you
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  Speaker 1: are standing on stage. It is because you have become
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  Speaker 1: one with the word. One with the spirit. Through the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle of prayer. Through the vehicle of fasting. Through the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle of listening to the word of God. Most believers
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  Speaker 1: don't know why they pray. Let me tell you the truth.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: A major part of believers in Africa pray because of guilt.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: Not because they want to grow. They just pray because
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  Speaker 1: it seems like they don't want to be blackmailed. That
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  Speaker 1: they are not spiritual by not being prayerful.
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  Speaker 4: And so people just do it as a ritual. And
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 4: you will see a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of energy dissipated in prayer. But the transformation is
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: to capture. It's not captured in the life of the people.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: A lot of believers study scripture. Simply, especially men of God.
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: We like to study scripture simply because we want to
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: go through the rhetorics of intelligence. But the transformation that
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  Speaker 1: comes by submitting to the word is largely deficient in
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  Speaker 1: our lives. The spiritual man, hear me, is not just
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  Speaker 1: one who is blind. Out of the spirit, interacting with spirits.
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: Because occultists do that. The spiritual man is one who
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  Speaker 1: in order of priority has encountered Christ. The spiritual man
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  Speaker 1: has encountered the person and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: Has access to the mysteries of the kingdom. And then
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  Speaker 1: has chosen as an act of his or her will
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  Speaker 1: to submit to the governing authority of the spirit of God.
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  Speaker 1: To guide you in all matters. And you have chosen
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: to submit to transformation. That the word of God becomes
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  Speaker 1: the vista.
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  Speaker 4: With which I look at life.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Are you learning? Now let me teach
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  Speaker 1: you something as we. Find a place to pray. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Someone is rising in.
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  Speaker 4: This place tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And by the spirit of the living God, you are
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  Speaker 1: stepping into a dimension in the spirit where your life
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  Speaker 1: becomes a sign and a wonder.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: Now, listen. The Bible talks about attaining unto the fullness
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  Speaker 1: of the measure of the stature of Christ. Ephesians chapter 4, please.
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  Speaker 1: Give us from verse 10. The Bible says, he that
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  Speaker 1: descended is also the same that ascended far above the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: that he may feel all things. Verse 11. It says,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave unto some. Please pay attention now. You
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  Speaker 1: need to get what I'm about to show you. He
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  Speaker 1: gave unto some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors
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  Speaker 1: and teachers.
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  Speaker 4: Verse 12.
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  Speaker 1: Why did he give that? For the perfecting. The word
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  Speaker 1: perfecting means the maturing of the saints. For the work
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  Speaker 1: of the ministry. For the edifying. Listen. Of the body
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: of Christ. And here is the standard that God has
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: for every believer. Verse 13. It says, till we all
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  Speaker 1: come into the unity of faith and of the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the Son of God unto a perfect mature entire man.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: Then he says, unto the measure of the stature, help.
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  Speaker 4: Me please, of the fullness of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That is God's destiny. As far as the making of
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: the believer is concerned. That you can get to a
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  Speaker 1: point in the spirit where you can attain the fullness
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: of Christ. And manifest that. I've studied this for a while.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: Because in my mind I'm just wondering and saying. How
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  Speaker 1: does a man become a reflection of.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 4: The Christ in his fullness? Is that even possible?
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: Can a man actually be a reflection of the fullness
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  Speaker 1: of Christ? I found out it is true. And I
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: want to show you how right now. And then we'll pray.
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: That a man can attain unto a state of maturity
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  Speaker 1: where your life becomes a wholesome reflection of Christ in
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: his fullness to your world, to the earth.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 4: Now, in learning.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and in reflecting him, Please, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to listen. And if you're a man of God here,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: I want you to listen.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 2: If you are.
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  Speaker 1: Training people to become like Christ, these are the areas
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: you must focus on. If these areas are not captured
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  Speaker 1: in your training, the people you are leading will never
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: become like Christ. It doesn't matter what kind of spiritual
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: activities you engage in. The formation of Christ in the
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: saints has a formula. Are we together? There is something
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  Speaker 1: you have to guide.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 4: The people into understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Receiving. Submitting to.
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  Speaker 4: And you will find out. Not just one, two, three people.
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  Speaker 1: En masse.
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  Speaker 4: You will find out that ordinary people.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: Weak people. Sinners as we call them. Will suddenly begin
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: to transition in the spirit. Until you have the privilege
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: of leading people who are truly like Christ. Can I
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: show you this? Number one. The first area, the first
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: area you must focus on, building in your attempts to
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: build in people, the image, the character, the formation of Christ,
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: the first area you have to focus on to mold
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: in them is the nature of Christ. The first dimension
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  Speaker 1: of the fullness of Christ that must be captured and
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: reflected in people is the nature of Christ. The nature
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: of Christ. The nature of Christ. The people you are
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: leading are not becoming like Jesus if his nature is
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: not manifesting and if his nature is not reflecting in them.
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  Speaker 4: Notice the progression.
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  Speaker 1: The primary assignment of any man of God in an
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  Speaker 1: attempt to build a people who are.
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 4: A reflection of Christ.
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: In an attempt to build true spiritual people. Is to
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  Speaker 1: partner with the word and the Holy Spirit. To sit
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  Speaker 1: with that the nature of the Christ is formed in them.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: Galatians chapter 5.
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  Speaker 4: And verse 22.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: What you know and you call the fruit of the Spirit. Now,
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: when you read KJV, follow carefully. KJV makes it look
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  Speaker 1: like there are nine fruits. Love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing wrong if you see it that way.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: But classically speaking, the fruit of the Spirit, you notice
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: it's not said fruits. It is one fruit. The epitome
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  Speaker 1: of the manifestation of the Christ is love. The nature
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  Speaker 1: of God at work in a man is the love nature.
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  Speaker 1: But that this nature expresses itself in all of these varieties. Joy,
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  Speaker 1: an expression of love. Peace, an expression of love. patience
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: and expression of love gentleness gentleness is not a personality
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: thing it is the outworking of the spirit of the
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: christ in a yielded vessel listen as you are looking
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  Speaker 1: at these things now debunk respectfully from the lens of
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: scripture that thought that this is my personality i am
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  Speaker 1: an angry person i am not gentle. I am jealous.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: That's how we are. It's a lie. When you become
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual man, it is the journey to deadening every
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  Speaker 1: other thing that is not of the Christ. Are we
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: together now? The nature of Christ. Everybody say the.
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 4: Nature of Christ. That means I should be.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: Able to bring someone, Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, South-South, Middle Belt, Caribbean, American, European.
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: Group all of them together. If it is true they
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  Speaker 1: are spiritual men, they should look like relatives from the
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: same family. Are we together? That you should have reduced
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: like a viral load to its barest minimum the character
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: of the flesh. When you look at them, please keep
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: that scripture. This is what I should find in a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man. Love. In all its expressions. Joy.
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  Speaker 4: You see that?
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: Peace.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 4: Patience. I'm not a patient person, but I love God.
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  Speaker 4: Work on it. Work on it.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: Allow the spirit of God. Live out the character of
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  Speaker 1: the Christ. All of these things, we saw it in
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: the life of Jesus. And the Bible says, as the
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  Speaker 1: Father has sent me, so send I you.
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  Speaker 4: We always think.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 1: Of this with respect to power. But power issue will come.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: But the first area that you must labor with the
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: spirit to build is the character and the nature of Christ.
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: Say it again, the nature of Christ. Gentleness, goodness, faith.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: Verse 23. Meekness.
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 4: You know what meekness is?
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: Teachability. Teachability.
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  Speaker 4: The antidote to pride.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: Teachability.
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  Speaker 4: Temperance.
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  Speaker 1: Another word for temperance is self-control. Self-control. Self-control. He says
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  Speaker 1: against such there is no law. Listen to me. When
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  Speaker 1: you look at a Christian. A child of God. Who
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  Speaker 1: has truly become a spiritual man. The first thing that
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  Speaker 1: should catch your attention. Is not tongues. The first thing
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: that should catch your attention. Is not rhema. The first
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: thing that should catch your attention. Listen carefully. Is not
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: manifestations of power. The first thing that should catch your attention.
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: When you meet a real Christian. Is the energy that
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: flows from his love life. Did you hear what I said?
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: You see that we.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 4: Have a lot of work to do in our lives.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: How many of us say we are Christians and people
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  Speaker 1: stand and they want to run away.
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 4: Because hate has an energy. You can feel it.
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: We vent our anger in our sermons. We vent our
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  Speaker 1: anger as we deal with people in our offices. And
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: we wrap up everything in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: No sir. No sir. The real proof that you are
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: becoming a spiritual man. I am telling you this. With
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: no excuses whatsoever. Is that the love of Christ is
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: growing within you. We say that after every service. And
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: yet we do not believe it. Here's what we say.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: And we even say the sweet fellowship. Of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Be with us all.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: Love. Love for God. And love for people. Everybody say love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying this to you so that you will check
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  Speaker 1: your life right now. You came to church. And if
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  Speaker 1: you find out that the love of God is not growing.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: And if it's only God you love, you are lying.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: I hope you know that. Because the nature of God's
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: love is both vertical and horizontal. If your love is
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: only to God. The more you love him, the more
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: you love those he died for. the more you love him,
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: the more you love those he's trusting you with. You see,
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: as a man of God, for instance, when you love
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  Speaker 1: the people God has sent to you, you don't need
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: to be preached into not manipulating them. All of these
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: things we try to address in the body of Christ,
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: the real problem is that people do not love God
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: and they do not love the people that God has
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: sent to them. Because there are many, many things that
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: live your life when love is there. Are we together?
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: When you love God and you love the people he
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: has sent to you, you will love them too much
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: to deceive them. You will love them too much to
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: manipulate them. You will love them too much to try
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  Speaker 1: and turn their minds for your own personal gain.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is beyond an issue of conscience.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: This is as a testament that the nature of God
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  Speaker 1: dwells in you. How many believers have love? When you
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: begin to make teachings on love, most believers just think
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: it's a feminine thing. Their mind goes straight to Valentine.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: And they think love, love. Is it really this love thing?
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: And one miracle and power is the reason why many
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: people become cheated. Because love is not as weak as
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: you think it is. That's what defeated Satan. People come
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: to church and just for three hours, they cannot tolerate
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: the people sitting by their left and right.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 4: Three hours.
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  Speaker 1: Because hatred in them is boiling like water at 100 degrees,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for who to pour on.
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  Speaker 4: Sit down.
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  Speaker 1: The next time you push me, I will slap you,
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  Speaker 1: even though we're in church. Let me just tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like that. If you are tired of me,
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  Speaker 1: go and look for another neighbor. Lift up your hand.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus, I love you.
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  Speaker 1: And God is saying, who are you deceiving?
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  Speaker 4: I hope you are learning.
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  Speaker 2: Love.
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  Speaker 1: The real missing ingredient. Because our world does not know
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  Speaker 1: the value of love. Love is not a feminine thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just some weak emotional thing. It is the
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  Speaker 1: very manifestation of the nature of God. Let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: it is beautiful to see a believer that really truly
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  Speaker 1: has the love of Christ. There are things you will
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  Speaker 1: not do to your neighbor if you have love. You
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  Speaker 1: will not rejoice. I don't want to take you to
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: 1 Corinthians 13. And show you what the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: about love. Though I speak with.
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 4: The tongues of men.
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  Speaker 1: And of angels. And I have not love. Is that
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  Speaker 1: in your Bible? Though I offer my body to be born.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: Say sacrifice. Many people have the power and the energy
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: for sacrifice. But the love component is not there. It
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: says though I have the gift of prophecy. And I
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: understand all mysteries. I've not met such a man. And
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: though I have all knowledge. And I have all faith
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  Speaker 1: to move mountains. And I have not love. I am nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Verse 3.
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  Speaker 1: It says.
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  Speaker 4: Though I bestow my goods to feed the poor. Say charity.
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  Speaker 4: And I give my body to be born.
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  Speaker 1: Matiadom. And I do not have love. It does not
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  Speaker 1: profit me anything. Then it says. Love is patience. I
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  Speaker 1: wish we have new King James. Love is patient. Thank you.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 4: Suffers long. It is kind. It does not envy.
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  Speaker 1: Are you seeing now? So don't say I have love.
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  Speaker 1: Check whether you have envy. If envy is there, envy
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  Speaker 1: push part of love out to be there. Does not
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  Speaker 1: parade itself. Is not puffed up. Verse 5. Does not
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  Speaker 1: behave rudely. Does not seek its own self. Is not
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: easily provoked or provoked. Thinketh no evil. You see that
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  Speaker 1: love is also a mentality issue.
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  Speaker 4: Verse 6.
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  Speaker 1: Does not rejoice in iniquity. But rejoices in the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 7.
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  Speaker 4: Bears all things. Believes all things.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean believe nonsense whatever they bring. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you understand that now. Hopes all things. Endures all things.
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  Speaker 1: This is the character of love. When the love of
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  Speaker 1: God is at work in your life and you're a
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: true Christian, the first thing unbelievers want to see is
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: not power. The first thing unbelievers want to see is love.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you the truth. I have studied church
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: growth and I want to tell you something. This is
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: not a pastor's conference. I don't know why God is
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: going this way this night. But let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: one real secret to church growth. Love. You will not
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  Speaker 1: hear this taught in Bible in pastor's conferences.
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  Speaker 4: Rather people can say, you know what, do this.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the biggest churches today in the world, with
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: all due respect, are not necessarily power churches. It said
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  Speaker 1: John did no miracles. But there was one testimony he had.
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  Speaker 1: He was an honest man. He had love within his heart.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen people who are very powerful. And wonder why
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to listen to them. Because human beings are
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: not only looking for power. We have made power look
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  Speaker 1: like it is everything. No. There is a place for
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  Speaker 1: that as you will be learning. But the first manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Christ like dimension in a man. Is his nature.
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  Speaker 1: Never forget this. Before you seek power. Seek to be
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  Speaker 1: like Christ. By having his love. and his character at
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  Speaker 1: work in you then your being powerful will be valuable
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  Speaker 1: but it is a dangerous thing to pursue power without
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  Speaker 1: the nature of God first and leaders when you are
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  Speaker 1: mentoring your people don't be in a hurry to just
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  Speaker 1: lay hands and impart people no Build the nature of
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  Speaker 1: Christ in them first.
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  Speaker 4: An anointed preacher.
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  Speaker 1: Who does not have the character of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Is a dangerous person.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you this. It's the reason why there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of misbehavior with the anointing. If I'm angry I
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  Speaker 1: can speak a curse on you anyhow. That is not
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  Speaker 1: a power problem. It is a nature of God problem.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: One time the disciples saw some people and said, should
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  Speaker 1: we call down fire? Like Elijah did. Jesus looked at
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  Speaker 1: them and said, do you not know of whom you
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: are of? No. This is another kind of spirit at
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  Speaker 1: work in you. Place your hand on your chest and
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  Speaker 1: pray one minute. I desire to have the love nature
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Please pray.
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  Speaker 4: Sincerely from your heart.
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  Speaker 1: When the love of God is at work in you,
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  Speaker 1: you do not rejoice over the hurt and the pain
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  Speaker 1: of others. The body of Christ needs to grow out
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  Speaker 1: of this. We rejoice over the hurt and the pain
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: of others. No. The Christ like formation starts with his love.
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 4: The love of Jesus. That you hear that someone lost
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  Speaker 4: a job.
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  Speaker 1: In your office.
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  Speaker 4: You are not rejoicing and.
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: Saying confirmation of prophecy. I saw it. No. No. You
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: go back and you say, how will this man now?
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: It is love that should lead us to prayer. It
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: is love that should lead us to Bible study. It
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  Speaker 1: is love that should lead us to fasting. Any other
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  Speaker 1: thing that leads you aside from love is not of
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: faith and it is sin. Love must be the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I desire growth in my life and in this ministry.
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: If love is not there, the alternative will be competition.
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  Speaker 1: The alternative will be envy. The alternative will be jealousy.
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  Speaker 1: The alternative will be vain glory. Love is a purifier.
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  Speaker 1: It purifies motives.
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  Speaker 4: Number two.
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  Speaker 1: The first dimension of Christ that must be captured in
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  Speaker 1: any man to be spiritual.
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  Speaker 4: Is called his nature. The nature of Christ. Number two.
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  Speaker 1: The second dimension of Christ that must be captured in
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: every believer. To be called a spiritual man. Is called
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  Speaker 1: the mind or the wisdom of Christ. So the first
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  Speaker 1: is the nature of Christ. The love of Christ. The
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  Speaker 1: second dimension is called the mind of Christ. Philippians chapter
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  Speaker 1: 2 and verse 5. The mind of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: The mind of Christ. The mind of Christ. The wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I think it's 1 Corinthians 2, 7 or so.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I got that right. Give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. 1 Corinthians 2, 7. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: The wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: The hidden wisdom that God ordained for our glory. I
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  Speaker 1: used to think when the Bible says the mind of Christ...
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: It just means the brain of Christ. But the word
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  Speaker 1: mind of Christ does not just mean the mentality of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: It's an overall capture of the wisdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: One of the ways you manifest Christ is in wisdom.
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: There is something in the Bible called the wisdom of
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: the just. Luke 1.17. The wisdom of the just. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: who is in Christ, there is a dimension of wisdom there.
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  Speaker 4: Is called the mind of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Transformation. But a manifestation of wisdom. If that wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: not captured in your life. You are not a spiritual man.
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: It's like a general that does not know how to
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: shoot a gun. Is that a real general? How did
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: he become a general? Even a young boy graduated from NDA.
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  Speaker 1: Who cannot shoot a gun will not graduate. Are we together?
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  Speaker 4: A general that cannot shoot a gun.
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  Speaker 1: A football superstar who has never scored one penalty kick.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: A policeman who has never made one arrest. No. There
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: is a wisdom component that is required in life. Are
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: we together? Listen. When you believe this, you will cry
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: out for the nature of Christ.
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 4: To be more like him.
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  Speaker 1: But then, in addition to being like him, you have
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: to justify his nature by supplying to your world a
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  Speaker 1: dimension of wisdom they know can.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 4: Only be found in Christ.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: Are you seeing it now? The first place it affects
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  Speaker 1: is your heart.
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: Then it goes to your mind. Are you seeing that now?
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: Then it goes to your hands. Power. Your heart.
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 4: Purified.
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: You become like Christ in experience. I shared with you
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: here humorously a story. Many years ago, went to look
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: for instruments from a man of God. And after the
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: man was done preaching, preached powerfully, when we met the man,
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: he lambasted and insulted us, used words that even a
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 1: baby Christian should not use. And at the end of it,
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: I remember, these very, very young boys were on their
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  Speaker 1: way going back, and I was thinking to myself, what
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: kind of a preacher is this? I'm comparing in my
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: mind two people. One person who minutes ago was standing
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: and shouting, And the other person who stood and was
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: insulting us and calling anything he can remember. I'm saying no,
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  Speaker 1: this ought not to be so. The nature of Christ
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  Speaker 1: and then the wisdom. The wisdom of God. I'm praying
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: for you in the name of Jesus Christ. That the
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  Speaker 1: dimension of wisdom that will begin to flow from your
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: life today. It will cause everybody to love God because
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: of you. That the wisdom that you will begin to command.
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: It will produce extraordinary results from your life. You will
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: gain mastery over the mysteries of the kingdom. And you
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: will engage them with such level of mastery. Your life
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: will be an unending episode of kingdom exploits. You believe that?
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: Say Amen. It takes wisdom to build and excel in ministry.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: It takes wisdom to build an excellent career. It takes
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  Speaker 1: wisdom to maintain relationships. It takes wisdom to frontier and
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  Speaker 1: champion kingdom activities. Behind the mighty works you see. That
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: the saints command. Is the wisdom of God. Ordinary men.
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: Fortified by divine wisdom. Wisdom that is not Sophia. Not
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: just earthly wisdom. Wisdom that is not just sensual and scientific.
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: Wisdom that is not just demonic or diabolic.
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  Speaker 4: Wisdom that comes from above.
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 6: Pure.
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  Speaker 1: Potent. Carrying the ability to deliver results. Be tired.
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 4: Of your non productive nature.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: As a believer. And begin to contend for wisdom. Something
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: is wrong with my life. I love the Lord. Let
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 1: people not look at your life and say. This man
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: if he's been a Christian. He loves being a child
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: of God. But in terms of kingdom results. Don't go
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: to him. He has 100% love. And zero wisdom. Bad decisions. Wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: The wisdom of the just.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: There is a kind of education believers must have. Your
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: secular education, as powerful as it is, is wonderful, needed, useful,
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 1: but not enough to produce the kind of God-like destiny
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: you seek to produce. Do you know why? The variables
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: that you need to overcome to be successful God's way.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: are so many and not all of them are captured
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: in your secular training you have to be re-enlightened re-educated
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: again god's way to equip you with the requisite wisdom
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: to reign as a king and as a priest that
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: you are hallelujah everybody say wisdom And wisdom is not
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: just a spiritual thing alone. Wisdom affects your mind. The
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: way you think. There is a way you can do
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: the business God has given you.
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 4: You will see the... Let me tell you this.
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: How do you know God's wisdom is at work? Because
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: you will see God's dimension of results through your decisions.
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: The moment your decisions are still producing human results, you
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: have not brought God's wisdom. I tell you. Extraordinary. Undeniable works.
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: By the hand of God. That is wisdom for you.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: Wisdom in ministry. Wisdom in business. Wisdom in your marriage.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: Wisdom in how you are raising your children. Wisdom in
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: how you are dealing with your finances. Wisdom in leadership.
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: How you are raising the people you are raising.
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  Speaker 4: You see that now? Something happens to a.
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: People when they become wise unto godliness.
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 4: Not at wisdom. Not smartness. Not wisdom.
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: That manipulates someone cough out two thousand and you say
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: you are smart no that is demonic diabolic wisdom there
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: is a wisdom that puts you in a class A
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  Speaker 1: class that it will be clear that.
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 4: It's God that kept you here.
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: My God, I have seen carriers of this wisdom in
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: my life. I've had the honor to meet a few
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: of them. And when I do, for the times that
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  Speaker 1: I have, I cry for an impartation of that wisdom.
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: The wisdom that comes from above. There is the gift
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: of wisdom. There is the spirit of wisdom. You will
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  Speaker 1: never be able to do any work of the kingdom
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: and excel. Except you have wisdom. So number one, the
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: nature of God. Number two, the mind of Christ. Are
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: you ready for number three? I will give you this
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: and then we'll pray to end the service tonight. The
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: spiritual man. The third dimension of the reflection of Christ
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: that must be captured in the believer is called.
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 4: The works of Christ.
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: So here we have The nature or character of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Number two we have the mind slash wisdom of Christ.
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 1: And then the final phase are the works of Christ.
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: Acts 10.38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. And with power. With power. With power. When
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: it has to do with the works. You see power
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: has been introduced now.
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 2: Power. Power.
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  Speaker 4: Who went about doing good.
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: He didn't say who went about organizing programs.
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 4: He went about doing good.
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  Speaker 1: As a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: The works of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Doing good. This is beyond just charity. Doing good. Bringing life.
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  Speaker 1: Becoming like a river. That everywhere you flow to. Life
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  Speaker 1: happens for the people. Healing all who were oppressed.
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  Speaker 4: Of the devil.
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  Speaker 6: Notice.
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  Speaker 3: Notice.
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  Speaker 1: Three words that you should not forget when it has
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: to do with the works of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: The Holy Spirit.
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: Power. Satan. The Holy Spirit who brings the power. And
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: that power is primarily against the demonic activities that assault
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  Speaker 1: the saints.
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  Speaker 4: The works of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: In John chapter 20 and verse 21. John chapter 20
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  Speaker 1: and verse 21.
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  Speaker 4: Please give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: John 20 and verse 21.
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  Speaker 4: Do we have that?
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  Speaker 1: John 20 and verse 21.
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  Speaker 4: So Jesus said unto them again.
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  Speaker 1: Peace to you as the Father has sent me. My God.
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  Speaker 1: As the Father has sent me. He did not just
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  Speaker 1: send me to reveal his nature. He sent me to
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: reveal his power. When Jesus went to the temple to
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  Speaker 1: read the messianic prophecy. He opened it and he said
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord is upon me. Because he
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  Speaker 1: had anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor
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  Speaker 1: or the meek. He had sent me to bind up
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: the broken hearted. You are wondering what the works of
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: Christ are? I'm listing it for you. To bind up
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  Speaker 1: the broken hearted. To proclaim liberty to the captives. The
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  Speaker 1: recovery of sight to the blind. To set at liberty
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 1: them that are oppressed. The works of Christ. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to be a reflection of the Christ as a
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: spiritual man. You have the character of Christ. The wisdom
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: of Christ. But you need the works of Christ. And
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: this is where the value of the anointing comes. When
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: the sick are healed supernaturally to the glory of God,
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: that's the works of Christ. When you reach down to
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: the poor and the needy and by helping them to
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: supply help and aid and then teaching them the principles
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  Speaker 1: that empower them, that is the works of Christ. When
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: you become light upon the earth, salt upon the earth,
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: light upon You see that? The works of Christ. There
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  Speaker 1: are many believers who do not want to contend for
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  Speaker 1: this dimension of power to do the works of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: It is the nature of Christ plus the wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: Christ plus the works of Christ that represents the fullness
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: of Christ at work in a believer. Let me take
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  Speaker 1: that again. The nature or the character of Christ. plus
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: the wisdom, the mind of Christ, plus the works of Christ,
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: extraordinary exploits by the Spirit and through the Word.
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 4: When these three.
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  Speaker 1: Dimensions are captured in your life, you are truly a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man. A spiritual man, therefore, is not just a
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  Speaker 1: man who loves to study the Bible. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: a man who loves to pray. It's not just a
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  Speaker 1: man who loves to go to church. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: a man who wants to serve God in ministry. A
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man. You can safely summarize it. As one who
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  Speaker 1: has worked with the spirit of God. To be able
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  Speaker 1: to embrace. And inculcate within himself.
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  Speaker 4: In experience.
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  Speaker 1: The nature of Christ. Who is manifesting by submission to
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  Speaker 1: the word. You see that?
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  Speaker 4: The wisdom of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And. Who by the spirit of grace. Is demonstrating and
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  Speaker 1: manifesting the works of Christ. The chiefest of them. Being
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  Speaker 1: the work of global evangelization. Bringing many to Christ. Because
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  Speaker 1: according to scripture. God desires that all men be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And then to come unto the knowledge of the son.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight there are three categories of.
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  Speaker 4: People in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. Those who have never been saved. Unregenerate. They
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  Speaker 1: have not met Jesus. They've been at crusades. They've been
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  Speaker 1: at churches. They have Christian names. Born from Christian families.
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  Speaker 1: Related to men and women of God. But they have
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  Speaker 1: never made this decision for Jesus. Number two. There are
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  Speaker 1: believers who are barely saved. And have remained without an
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  Speaker 1: intention to grow. Using the parameters that I've given you.
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  Speaker 1: They are just out of that list that I gave
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  Speaker 1: you for a spiritual man.
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  Speaker 4: It is only one over five they have.
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  Speaker 1: Their only justification is that they are saved.
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  Speaker 4: But they have not submitted.
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  Speaker 1: They have not encountered the person of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 4: Nor are they interested.
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  Speaker 1: They have not encountered the logos of God.
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  Speaker 4: The thoughts of God.
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  Speaker 1: And they are not willing to submit to the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. They are not willing to submit to transformation
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  Speaker 1: by the Word of God. And then we have this
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  Speaker 1: third category. And there is no graduation in this third category.
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  Speaker 1: You never get to a point where you say, I
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  Speaker 1: am done becoming a spiritual man. No. It is a
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  Speaker 1: bar measured upon a bar measured. By the time you
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  Speaker 1: cover grounds in spirituality, God opens up another layer. And
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  Speaker 1: you see that there is still more of his nature
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be formed. There is still more of
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  Speaker 1: his wisdom that needs to manifest through you. There is
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  Speaker 1: still more of his power that needs to be revealed.
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  Speaker 1: By the time you cover grounds, after 10 years... He
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  Speaker 1: commends you and then he gives you a greater charge
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  Speaker 1: to become like him in a greater way.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: For anyone, including you, including me, who will contend by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit that from today I will see to it
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  Speaker 1: that I will take advantage of the life of God
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  Speaker 1: that I already have. And allow the spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: the word of God through all the activities of prayer, fasting,
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  Speaker 1: the word study, prayer. Engaging in mentorship that I will
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  Speaker 1: allow by the spirit. The full formation of the nature
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  Speaker 1: of God in my life. That love nature reflected in
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of the spirit.
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  Speaker 4: And then the wisdom of God. The mind of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: A superior transformed mentality. A God-like mentality. Producing God-like dimensions
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  Speaker 1: of results.
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  Speaker 4: And then for the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: That for as long as I'm alive, through my words,
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  Speaker 1: through my hands, many.
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  Speaker 4: Will see Christ at work. A display of his power.
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  Speaker 1: Dumbfounding principalities and powers. That under my watch, there will
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  Speaker 1: be no untimely death in my family again. That under
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  Speaker 1: my watch, it will never be that people are desirous
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  Speaker 1: of a job or whatever to do. No, you come
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  Speaker 1: there as the manifestation of the Christ. So you don't
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  Speaker 1: just say things you cannot defend. You can gather your
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  Speaker 1: family and tell them I found a way. This family
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  Speaker 1: can become a great reflection of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: And they say how? You will tell them number one.
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  Speaker 1: The nature of Christ can superimpose all these demonic manifestations.
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  Speaker 1: These habits and challenges that misrepresent Christ. Number two. By
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  Speaker 1: transformation the mind of Christ can find expression in and
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  Speaker 1: through our lives. Communicating the wisdom of God. Commanding mighty
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  Speaker 1: works through it.
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  Speaker 4: And number three.
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  Speaker 1: By the supernatural and gracing of the spirit. I can
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  Speaker 1: get to a point where I attain unto power. Genuine
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  Speaker 1: spiritual power. I believe in the power of God. But
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  Speaker 1: I believe that in order of priority. The nature of
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  Speaker 1: God is greater than his power.
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  Speaker 6: It is true.
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  Speaker 1: If you are asked to choose between the power of
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  Speaker 1: God and the nature of God, it is wise to
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  Speaker 1: choose the nature of God. Because it is impossible to
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  Speaker 1: truly have the nature of God and not eventually manifest
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  Speaker 1: His power.
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  Speaker 4: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So if you've had it the other way around, unfortunately
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: you see, all these three dimensions... We have communicated part
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  Speaker 1: of them. And we call our communications of part of
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  Speaker 1: them denominations. They only represent our emphasis. So there are
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  Speaker 1: those who camp around the nature of Christ. And that
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  Speaker 1: becomes their definition with all due respect of the fullness
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  Speaker 1: of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: That is inaccurate.
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  Speaker 1: There are those who don't care about the nature of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: They are especially the teaching ministry. The wisdom of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And you find people manifesting dimensions of wisdom without the
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  Speaker 1: corresponding character. And then we have another group that all
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  Speaker 1: there is is power and the charismatic gifts of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether you are a criminal. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter whether you are a devil. Once the gift of
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  Speaker 1: the spirit can flow, that's not the way it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be. This is the correct arrangement. The nature of
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  Speaker 1: the Christ. The mind, the wisdom of the Christ. The
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  Speaker 1: power of the Christ. The works of Christ. This is
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  Speaker 1: what represents the fullness of God's nature. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what Paul was telling the church in Ephesus. That it
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  Speaker 1: is to this end that God went through all that
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  Speaker 1: labor to give unto some apostles. And prophets.
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  Speaker 4: And evangelists.
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  Speaker 1: And teach us. Are we together? And pastors. Why? To
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  Speaker 1: be able to help the body of Christ manifest in
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  Speaker 1: its fullness the nature of Christ. Manifest the wisdom of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And manifest the power of Christ. And let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you honestly before we round up. You will seldom be
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  Speaker 1: given an assignment to complete or manifest all these three
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  Speaker 1: by yourself. No. No. Usually there are portions of these
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  Speaker 1: dimensions given to us. The whole job is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be done by a corporate body. Not only one person.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have a rich understanding of the nature
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  Speaker 1: of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: And you stop there.
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  Speaker 1: You will rob people from manifesting the wisdom of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: And doing the works of Christ. You see that?
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  Speaker 1: That is the reason why it is a dangerous thing
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  Speaker 1: when the body.
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  Speaker 4: Of Christ fights itself. This is what we are fighting.
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  Speaker 1: The believer who only manifests the nature of Christ will
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  Speaker 1: never manifest the fullness of Christ. The believer who manifests
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  Speaker 1: only the wisdom of Christ will draw people to him.
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  Speaker 1: But lack of character, the nature of Christ will even
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  Speaker 1: bring a bigger betrayal to the name of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Because you will be like that tree.
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  Speaker 1: You attract people by your wisdom. But when they come,
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  Speaker 1: because you see proximity reveals. The moment you come close,
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  Speaker 1: you will see, ah, no now, not again. And if
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  Speaker 1: all you have is the power of God, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: misrepresentation of the Christ will come from manifesting his power
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  Speaker 1: without his wisdom and without his nature.
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  Speaker 4: That is dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Because of these three, the one that has the most
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  Speaker 1: attraction is the power dimension. So it will bring multitudes.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll find out you are bankrupt of wisdom. But
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  Speaker 1: sadly bankrupt of his nature. So in mentoring believers. You
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  Speaker 1: don't start with power. You don't start with wisdom. Discipleship 101.
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  Speaker 1: The labor of building the character of Christ in people.
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  Speaker 1: Then the wisdom of Christ. Then the power of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: You have raised a mighty army for Jesus. Are you
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  Speaker 1: ready to pray?
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  Speaker 4: Please rise up on your feet.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. We are going to pray as we wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: That even for people who God has helped to be spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: There are various dimensions of these formations of Christ in us.
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  Speaker 4: There are people the richest.
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  Speaker 1: Dimension of the formation of Christ in you is his wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: Not his character.
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  Speaker 1: There are those the richest formation of the Christ in you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like the nature is not there.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not rich enough to bring glory to Christ.
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  Speaker 1: God is calling us tonight to adjust these various areas.
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  Speaker 1: For the one who has the power of God more
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  Speaker 1: than character. More than wisdom. God is calling you to
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  Speaker 1: step up these two. Don't just perform miracles. Don't just prophesy.
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  Speaker 1: There is room to know the word of God and
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  Speaker 1: have an understanding of scripture. Your antidote to error. But
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  Speaker 1: more importantly the nature of Christ. That the closer people
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  Speaker 1: come to you. They will truly see that you are
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  Speaker 1: a representation of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine you. having a rich.
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  Speaker 1: Manifestation of his nature and character in experience. Having sound wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding the ways of God. That the moment you open
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  Speaker 1: your mouth is wisdom that is communicated. And then having
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  Speaker 1: the faculty to defend the things that you propose through wisdom.
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 1: That you have power. You are not deficient of spiritual power.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be your prayer. Please open your mouth
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  Speaker 1: and pray. You know what area is deficient in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Take the next few minutes to cry before God. Lord
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  Speaker 1: I'm praying walk upon my character. Let the nation see
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  Speaker 1: you when they see me. Someone is praying. Online, make
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: sure you are praying. I desire a richer manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: the nature of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: The attributes of the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: That misrepresent God in my life. Someone is praying. That
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  Speaker 1: they die and give room for the Christ to be seen. Pray.
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  Speaker 1: For those who have done a good job. Allowing the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of the spirit manifest. The fruit of the spirit
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  Speaker 1: is important but you need in addition to it wisdom.
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: Many people lack wisdom. They are born again. They are
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: sincere Christians. But they are poor. They are broke. They
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  Speaker 1: cannot build any organization. They cannot build any ministry. They
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: can't build anything. They can't build their children. The problem
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 1: is not lack of character. The problem is lack of wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you do not have the power to build anything
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  Speaker 1: that lasts. Is a wisdom problem. Go ahead and pray.
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  Speaker 1: And there are those who have wisdom. When you listen
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  Speaker 1: to them. They say a lot of intelligent things. But
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  Speaker 1: there's no demonstration of the spirit. We can talk about healing.
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 1: But then the seeker never heal. Talk about liberty. We
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 1: can teach intelligently about liberty. But the performance dimension of
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  Speaker 1: God is not there in their life. Please go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and pray.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 11: Salvation has come. Oh, salvation has come. Oh, redemption has come. Oh,
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  Speaker 11: Redemption has come. Freedom has come.
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  Speaker 4: Freedom has come.
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  Speaker 9: Ebenezer Ebenezer Ebenezer My help has come Deliverance has come.
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  Speaker 1: Are you praying? Ten more seconds. Father, your nature. The
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: character of the Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Pray against everything you know.
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  Speaker 1: Anger. Lust. Jealousy.
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  Speaker 4: Bitterness.
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  Speaker 1: Rage. Don't keep quiet. everything that fights the nature of
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  Speaker 1: Christ should be your project in this prayer let it
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  Speaker 1: die let it die let it die in the name
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: of Jesus that when men see me The first thing
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  Speaker 1: they see.
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  Speaker 4: Is the nature and.
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  Speaker 1: The character of Christ.
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  Speaker 4: Love.
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  Speaker 1: Kindness. Joy. Now pray for wisdom. That's the reason you
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  Speaker 1: are not able to build anything.
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 4: Not your finances. Not your business. Not your ministry.
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: Every time you cannot build is a wisdom problem. It
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: may not be a character problem, a wisdom problem. It
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  Speaker 1: is by wisdom a house is built. It is by
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 1: wisdom a destiny is built. It is by wisdom a
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: ministry is built.
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 4: Every time you do not build to excel.
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  Speaker 1: You do not build to last, the wisdom of Christ
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  Speaker 1: is deficient in you. Someone is praying. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: Please go back and listen to this teaching again.
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  Speaker 1: That the signature attestations to your being a spiritual man.
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  Speaker 1: Is that you must reflect Christ in his fullness. And
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 1: that in reflecting Christ to his fullness. There are three compartments.
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  Speaker 1: His nature.
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  Speaker 4: His character.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit of the spirit. The recreated human spirit. Who
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  Speaker 1: is yielded to the Holy Spirit. Will produce these fruits.
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  Speaker 1: And then his wisdom. The empowerment to build anything that
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  Speaker 1: brings glory to Christ. Sponsored by wisdom. The quality of
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  Speaker 1: your decisions. The superiority of your understanding. The dexterity of
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: your thinking. Wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: And then the power of God.
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: The ability to demonstrate Christ here and now. To bring
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  Speaker 1: heavenly reality to be made manifest. Supernaturally so. It is
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 1: impossible to walk these three things. And not truly reflect Christ.
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: The fullness of Christ is not a mystery. It is
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 1: the nature of Christ. At work in you. Plus. The
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of the Christ. The mind of Christ. Richly formed
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  Speaker 1: in you. In ever increasing measure. Plus the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: Finding expression. So the next time you go to the
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  Speaker 1: place of prayer. And you say Lord I want to
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 1: become like you. You are now not praying a vague prayer.
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: You know what you are praying. a greater formation of
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  Speaker 1: your nature, a greater importation of your wisdom, a greater
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: manifestation of your power.
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 4: You see, you are now praying profitably.
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 1: When you open your Bible and you are studying, this
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: is still what you are becoming. The next time you
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: say I want to become like Christ. You can help
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 1: correct someone's understanding. So that that becoming like Christ does
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: not become abstract. To the average believer when they say
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: I want to become like Christ. They don't even have
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: a picture. I have given definition to that abstract concept.
• 2:41:15
  Speaker 4: It is the nature of the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: The mind, the wisdom of the Christ, and the power.
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 4: Of the Christ, enabling you to do the works of Christ.
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 4: This is what.
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  Speaker 1: Is captured in the fullness of Christ. For every conference
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: you will attend, for every church service, for every message
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: you will listen to, for every prayer program, every fasting program,
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: every word study program, every book you will buy and read,
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: I want you to interpret everything from the lens of
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: this journey. This is your journey with the spirit. This
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: is your journey with God. Lift your hands.
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  Speaker 4: Father.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for your people. In the name that is
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  Speaker 1: above all names. The grace. To allow that life of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That they received at the point of salvation. The grace
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: to allow this fine expression. I'm praying may that grace
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: rest upon you. Number two. For those who have manifested
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: the nature of Christ in such a rich way. But
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 1: you've not been able to build anything in your life.
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: The matters that make for life. You are defeated there completely.
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: Defeated in your finances. Defeated in leadership. You've not been
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: able to raise anybody. Or do anything great for the kingdom.
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 1: I'm praying for you. As you begin to journey through
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: the world. May authentic wisdom be imparted upon you.
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  Speaker 4: Number three.
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  Speaker 1: I'm praying for those who are getting frustrated. By saying
• 2:42:50
  Speaker 1: the many things God can do. As revealed by wisdom.
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 1: But not able to demonstrate it here and now.
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 4: In your life.
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  Speaker 1: Not the life of those who trust you. I'm praying
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 1: for you. This missing power component. That will help you
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: do the works of Christ. Let it rest upon you now.
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. For everyone today. Who is
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: struggling with the flesh. Attributes of the flesh.
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 2: Anger.
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  Speaker 1: Jealousy.
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  Speaker 4: Competition.
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: All the things that keep misrepresenting.
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 4: Your knowing God. I'm praying for you.
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: The spirit that is behind that programming. I curse it
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: right now. I curse it right now. In the name
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 1: of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. Finally I pray for you. The next time
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 1: someone is looking to see who God is. May God
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: send you to them. As a representation of the image
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 1: of the Christ.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you Father. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you Father.
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  Speaker 1: Please I want to encourage you. Go back home. take
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  Speaker 1: this as an instruction listen to this message again don't
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  Speaker 1: assume you understood everything i said stay with the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of grace absorb it into your spirit and you find
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  Speaker 1: someone who is confused about his spiritual journey you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the time to explain all this just give the
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  Speaker 1: person this message and say listen to this message the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual man.
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  Speaker 4: Be patient and follow through the thoughts and then.
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  Speaker 1: You will see that indeed becoming like christ is not
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  Speaker 1: abstract There is a guided pathway that can help men
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  Speaker 1: become like Christ. You are here and you need Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Please allow me to make the altar call while we
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  Speaker 1: are still standing. Remember I told you, the first transition
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  Speaker 1: from a natural man to a believer in fact, before
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  Speaker 1: we even talk about a spiritual man, is your encounter
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  Speaker 1: with Christ. Do not allow this meeting end without your
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  Speaker 1: making this decision. And for the sake of one or
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  Speaker 1: two persons that whilst you were listening to me, you said, Apostle,
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  Speaker 1: in truth, I have not made this decision. Or you
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  Speaker 1: are saying, I want to rededicate my life. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to count one to five. And I'll need you to
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  Speaker 1: be fast on this because of our time. Pick your Bibles,
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  Speaker 1: your bags, everything you brought to church. Please be on
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  Speaker 1: your way as I begin to count. Come right in
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  Speaker 1: front of me. By now you should know that you
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  Speaker 1: don't need cajoling. We're talking Jesus here on your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: I begin my counting now. One, let's appreciate them as
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  Speaker 1: they come. God bless you. Your bags, your Bible. Please
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  Speaker 1: stand for sake of space. God bless you. Stand. Koinonia,
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  Speaker 1: let's celebrate them as they come.
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  Speaker 3: I won't go back, can't go back to the way
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  Speaker 3: it used to be.
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  Speaker 1: Before your presence.
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  Speaker 4: Came and changed me. I won't go back.
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  Speaker 1: Can't go back.
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  Speaker 4: To the way.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be.
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  Speaker 4: Before your presence came.
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  Speaker 1: And changed me. Keep coming one more time.
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  Speaker 5: I won't go back, can't go.
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  Speaker 2: Back, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I need you. For your presence came and changed me.
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  Speaker 1: If you're joining them, please come quickly. I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: lead them to pray. Thank you so much, my brothers
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  Speaker 1: and sisters, all of you who have responded to this call.
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  Speaker 1: And for the many who are responding to this call,
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  Speaker 1: whether in your home, you're following by television or internet,
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  Speaker 1: As I lead God's people to make this prayer, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to make that prayer to knowing that this
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  Speaker 1: becomes your point of transition from being a natural person
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  Speaker 1: and then you begin your journey to being a spiritual man,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual woman in experience. May I request that you lift
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  Speaker 1: your right hand if you can, please, high above your head.
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  Speaker 1: Say this after me as loud and as clear as
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  Speaker 1: you can. Say, Lord Jesus, I have heard your word.
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  Speaker 1: I declare that I love you With all my heart,
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  Speaker 1: I believe that you are the son of God. of God.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that you died for my sin. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that you rose again for my justification. Right now, I
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  Speaker 1: receive Jesus into my heart as my savior, my lord
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  Speaker 1: and And my king, I declare that from today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a child of God. I go forward ever and backward never. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your beautiful hands lifted. Father, thank you for these
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  Speaker 1: precious people. You have brought them before you. Your word
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  Speaker 1: declares that as many who will come to you, you
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  Speaker 1: will in no wise cast away. Lord, we honor you
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  Speaker 1: for these many who have come to you. And I
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  Speaker 1: pray that based on the authority of scripture. That their
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  Speaker 1: sins be forgiven from this moment. And that in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. They are bona fide recipients of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Empowered to live the victorious Christian life.
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  Speaker 4: Knowing Jesus. Loving Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And living for him all the days of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell and
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  Speaker 1: the grave. Is broken over your life. From tonight you
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  Speaker 1: walk in righteousness. And you live victorious Christian lives. In
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  Speaker 1: Jesus name we pray. Amen and amen. Please do me
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  Speaker 1: a favor by walking to my right. That will be
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  Speaker 1: your left. There are counselors who are waiting to have
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  Speaker 1: a word with you. Very briefly. And then all of
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  Speaker 1: you will be back to your seats. Let's honor them Koinonia.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the best you can do?
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the name of the lord okay just one quick
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  Speaker 1: announcement next week we're going to be waiting upon the
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  Speaker 1: lord we'll be fasting so please make sure you plan
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  Speaker 1: this the prayer focus will be sent by saturday night
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll all be fasting um as always children
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  Speaker 1: can fast if they can stretch why not if they
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  Speaker 1: are tired they can stop by 12 or 1 get
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  Speaker 1: them something to eat hallelujah and um.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone should participate.
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  Speaker 1: Please make sure that it's part of the discipline that
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  Speaker 1: builds you. We don't fast carelessly. We fast with understanding.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why it is sent in the night is
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  Speaker 1: so that you can use your night time to start praying.
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  Speaker 1: You may not have all that time to pray during
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  Speaker 1: the day on Sunday. Maximize the night time. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as we walk with the media to make sure at
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  Speaker 1: least by maybe 6 or 7 p.m. Saturday, the prayer
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  Speaker 1: focus is there. And you receive it. Run with it.
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  Speaker 1: Pray it into your heart. So that you become a manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: Of that which God desires. Have you been blessed tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I declare your week is blessed. Shout a believing amen.
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  Speaker 1: May the hand of God rest upon you. In the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. The results you have been waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: Let this be the week that they manifest. I say
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  Speaker 1: it again. The testimonies you have been waiting for. Let
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  Speaker 1: this be the week they manifest. The helpers you have
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  Speaker 1: been waiting for, let this be the week they manifest.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that is not of God in your life, I
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  Speaker 1: drive it far from you. I place a mark of
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  Speaker 1: grace and honor upon your life. Everywhere you go this
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  Speaker 1: week beginning be honored. Everywhere you go this week beginning
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  Speaker 1: be favored. Everywhere you go this week beginning be lifted.
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  Speaker 1: It will be clear through your life that it pays
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  Speaker 1: to serve Jesus. It will be clear through your life
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  Speaker 1: that it pays to love Jesus. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Speaker 1: Together let's share the grace in fellowship. The grace of
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  Speaker 1: our Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God. The sweet
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  Speaker 1: fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us
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  Speaker 1: now and forevermore.
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  Speaker 10: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: All the days of our lives. As we dwell in
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  Speaker 4: the house of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Forever and ever.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Please greet and hug someone by your left and right.
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  Speaker 4: And then see you next week.
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  Speaker 6: No, he has learned what God.
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  Speaker 2: Has prepared for me. So I submit to him.
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  Speaker 6: So I submit to him. His word gives me still
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  Speaker 6: Christ before me.
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  Speaker 2: No, I have sinned.
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  Speaker 6: No, I have sinned. No, he has learned what God
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  Speaker 6: has prepared for me.
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  Speaker 2: So I submit to.
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  Speaker 6: His work in me Till Christ be forgiven me No.
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  Speaker 2: I have sinned.
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  Speaker 6: No he has died Was not a free man for
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  Speaker 6: me So I submit to his work in me Till
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  Speaker 6: Christ be forgiven me
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  Speaker 2: A destiny, a purpose