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Greater Light: The Mysteries of Dominion by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Jesus, for my elevation fixed on you.
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  Jesus, for the accomplishment of your speakings over my life.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Our eyes are on you tonight. Oh God, we pray that your word
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  will come strong upon our hearts.
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  Break away Stony hearts, give us hearts of flesh, give us wisdom.
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  Cause us to experience you in a greater dimension.
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  We vow to give you all the glory and to you be all the praise
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  given tonight. For in Jesus name we have
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  worshipped and prayed. Shout aloud, Amen.
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  God bless you. Please be seated.
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  Good evening everybody, the psalmist said.
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  I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go to the House of
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  the Lord. Many things happen in the House
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  of the Lord. There is understanding in the
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  House of the Lord. You encounter the God of the
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  Bible when you come to the House of the Lord.
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  Hallelujah, there is fellowship 1 towards another Hallelujah.
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  The Bible says if we walk in the light as He's in the light, we
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  have fellowship with one another and the blood of His Son
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  cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
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  And may tonight be one of such encounters for you.
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  In the name of Jesus, I honor everyone.
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  Thank you so much for your commitment and your diligence to
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  learn. I want you to see yourselves as
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  students in the school of the Spirit.
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  I have told you and it is worthy of a reminder that you, beyond
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  members, beyond congregants, beyond fans, Hallelujah.
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  This is a destiny project. God is making men.
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  God is building men. God is furnishing men in the
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  name of Jesus. And I pray that that which you
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  hear tonight will contribute to your growth and your excelling
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  in the spirit you believe that say Amen.
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  Again, we're honored to have our excellence in our meets.
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  Doctor Howard Taylor, let's give her a big, big God bless you.
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  The former vice president of Liberia, God bless you.
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  Ma, thank you so much for making the time to fellowship with us
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  in Jesus name, Hallelujah. Now let me encourage you before
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  we go straight to the teaching of the Word tonight, that you
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  have a role to play in your becoming God's expectation for
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  you. God has a desire.
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  He has an expectation for you. But whether or not you will
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  become that portrait and experience does not just depend
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  on God, doesn't even just depend on the preacher.
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  It depends on your cooperation and your participation.
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  Hallelujah. God's role is to give the Word
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  and to supply the grace. My assignment is to teach you so
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  diligently by the Spirit, to help you understand the ways of
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  God and to become a channel for that grace to flow through your
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  life. But your own role is to receive
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  by faith to understand the truth, and to obtain grace to
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  engage it. Are we together?
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  You are the final factor that is responsible for your becoming,
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  the final factor that is responsible for the
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  manifestation of God's Word in your life.
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  And if you do not play your role effectively, God can play His
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  role effectively. I can play my role effectively,
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  but your results will still be short.
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  The reason is because that which depends on you, you did not do
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  diligently. And so it's important for you to
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  understand this tripartite cycle that God has a role to play in
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  your becoming in your excel in His role is to send His word.
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  His role is to like grace because everything comes from
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  Him. My role as a prophetic midwife
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  is to help you interpret the speakings of God and to
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  communicate the counsel of God that makes for your holistic
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  development. Hallelujah.
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  And then to allow through my life that the requisite grace
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  that must rest upon your life pass season for your making, for
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  your building. But your own role is to have a
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  prepared heart to #1. Receive.
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  Believe. And then obtain grace to engage.
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  If you do not engage the truths that you hear, you will never
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  see the results in your life. That is the truth.
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  They heard the Word just like we did, but the Word did not profit
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  them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
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  Hallelujah. So it's important for us to not
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  waste the abundance of light that God is granting us access
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  to week after week. I'm reminded of I think that
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  should be Philippians chapter 2 Paul to the church in Philippi
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  either 11 or 12. It says that you.
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  Walk. Out your salvation the be part
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  of that scripture. I think that should be 12
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  Philippians 212. Please give it to us and let's
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  see yes. Wherefore, my beloved, as ye
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  have always obeyed, listen not as in my presence only, but now
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  much more. In my absence, he says, work out
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  your own salvation. With fear and trembling, work
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  out your own salvation. The picture that I have in my
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  mind is the picture of his students.
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  No matter how diligent the lecturer is, he will not write
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  your exam for you. Hallelujah.
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  Now, yeah, I can cook, I can serve.
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  I can even help you. I can support your eating.
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  But it cannot get to your stomach through my mouth.
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  It will only get to my own stomach through my mouth.
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  If it must get to your own stomach to nourish you, then it
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  must pass through your own mouth.
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  Are we together? So many believers have not taken
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  the responsibility to insist that they must bear fruit.
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  The Bible says He shall be like a tree that is planted by the
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  rivers of water, which yield its fruit in season, and whose leave
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  does not wither. He says whatsoever he doeth
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  shall prosper. It is your responsibility to cry
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  for the dimensions that are missing in your life and your
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  Christian experience and to stay there and insist until there is
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  a performance in your life. Are we together now?
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  Walk out your own salvation. Let me tell you the truth, at
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  one point or the other, every one of us will have to sit down
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  like a student in the Spirit. And you will write your own
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  exams. You will write it by yourself
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  and your level of preparedness determines whether you will pass
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  the exams or not. There are students who because
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  of their diligence, not just their intelligence, their
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  diligence, they know they will pass the exams and it's not
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  pride. Hallelujah.
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  I know students who are really very brilliant, really very
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  brilliant. They may hardly read.
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  They just have that advantage of intelligence and they can write
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  and pass. But I know other students that
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  may not be, as you know, intellectually sound, but they
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  use diligence to remedy for the absence of intelligence.
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  They literally stay and read and burn the midnight candles and do
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  whatever it takes. And eventually you will see that
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  they excel. Some of us here, you already
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  have a leverage of a great spiritual heritage.
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  Maybe your parents were already ministers.
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  Maybe you had the opportunity to have a good foundation from the
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  time you got born again. You didn't have the opportunity
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  to double into error and false teachings and nonsense.
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  So there's nothing much to correct.
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  Yours is not necessarily renewal.
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  Yours is just transformation. There's minimal renewal because
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  your mind follow the right path to mentorship.
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  But others you are still doing AU turn.
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  You've not even started the journey.
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  You are still doing AU turn from a life of receiving wrong
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  information. Your level of diligence will not
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  be the same. Are we together now?
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  A child who had an opportunity to be mentored by a godly
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  father, a godly mother, went to a godly mission school, had the
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  opportunity to be under mentors and tutors who taught them
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  directly. The truth is that provided that
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  child is interested in becoming, the rate at which that child
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  will become will be faster, richer, better, more predictable
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  than an individual who got born again by himself, maybe under a
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  family of idol worship limited to serve the true living God.
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  Because he was still under, his parents had to wait 10 years in
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  error to leave the house. To now start correcting all
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  those things you see you will you will need a greater strength
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  of. Passion.
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  To contend for renewal and then transformation.
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  So as we're scattered here, seated in this place, let me
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  tell you, we are not at the same journey and it's not the same
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  peace. The level of what God is
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  cleaning in my mind, your mind, your mind differs for others.
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  You've already you've made the job easy for the Holy Spirit.
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  Others, your parents have helped to make the job easy for the
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  Holy Spirit. Are we together?
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  But there are others in truth, your level, the the level of
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  transformation required. It would take grace from God.
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  And because time is not on your side, you must give them more
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  diligence so that you can cover up grounds.
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  Because based on the prophetic calendar of your life, you
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  should have been in ministry by now.
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  You should have been doing Kingdom exploits by now.
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  And yet by now you are still learning the riddiments of the
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  Kingdom. Are you saying that now if you
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  have that orientation, you pay attention a lot more than
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  someone who can just freelance knowledge?
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  You listen with rapt attention, with the intention to hear and
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  to receive and then to become on time.
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  I pray for you that you would never trivialize the Word of God
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  in your life. I pray for you that you will
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  never trivialize transformation. Let me tell you one truth.
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  Opportunities never present themselves as this at the same
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  rate or the same level always. A day is going to come.
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  You will not have this kind of convenience again for various
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  reasons. For various reasons.
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  Are we together now? There are people today that wish
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  they had the opportunity to be here, physically present, but
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  maybe their job, maybe some other, you know, endeavour life
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  has placed a demand on them. There are people right now while
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  service is going on, they want to attend.
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  They literally are having to juggle between their jobs and
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  then to follow online whilst they are listening and some of
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  them are drawing from the residues of the days they had to
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  eat for the journey being far. Are we together for someone?
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  God is asking you to eat because the nourishment from this food
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  will not benefit you alone. You have a cross to carry even
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  for those connected to you. Maybe out of a family of 678
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  siblings, you are the first to have come this far with God.
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  It can't be that God is working on you alone for yourself.
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  Imagine that your sister is listening to me in you, your
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  brother listening to me in you. So you're not just listening for
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  yourself, you're listening for the sake of those who will be
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  liberated from your attentiveness.
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  That means if you lose a word that you should receive, you
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  will also punish another person's destiny who is
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  depending on you. Are we together?
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  So when you come to church, pay attention.
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  Pay attention, let your heart be open, let your spirit be ready
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  to receive in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Now we're going to go into a two-part series tonight.
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  My my desire for us like never before in this season is to be
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  able to lay hold on eternal life and the principles that make for
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  dominion. More intentionally.
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  I have a goal for us by the Spirit of God.
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  There is a standard and a reference that God desires every
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  believer to attain onto and it is my assignment to work with
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  the Spirit of grace week in week out to keep chiseling those
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  dimensions in our lives and to see that we become that
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  portrait. I was standing up there where
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  the media is the day, the gentleman during the School of
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  Ministry practicum, the gentleman was trying to draw me.
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  I had no idea what he was doing. I mean, of course I knew it was
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  me he was going to draw, but how it was going to happen and with
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  confidence I was invited. So I didn't even know whether it
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  was me or not. And the gentleman with dedicated
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  focus, never seen someone paint with both hands.
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  I know that there are people who are ambidextrous, but I didn't
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  know that. I mean, someone could do that
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  kind of thing. And as he was painting with
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  dedicated focus, I kept looking and it started looking like me,
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  Started looking like me, Started looking like me.
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  Eventually I was still confused. Is this me again?
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  Is this guy missing something? Which part of me?
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  I can't find my face, Am I inverted?
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  Am I falling? Am I left?
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  Am I right? Is it a mirror image?
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  What is he doing? And when the gentleman was done,
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  all he did was to flip it, and that was me looking really like
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  me. Hallelujah.
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  Do you know what that means? You are like that portrait and
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  there is something God is painting.
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  And even when you do not understand, trust.
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  Even when you do not understand, trust when you do not
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  understand. Trust, trust, trust.
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  Trust that you are becoming something.
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  When God flips you, you will marvel and wonder.
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  So this is what He was doing. This is the extent of wisdom He
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  was putting in me. This is the extent of power that
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  He's putting within me. Are we together?
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  This is the extent of favor. I have been able to come into
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  that. Let me tell you the truth, when
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  God is done with you, all that will be left is beauty and
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  glory. Do you believe?
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  That the Bible says in Romans 8 and verse 18.
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  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time is not
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  worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in
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  US. 818 The glory that shall be revealed in us.
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  There is a dimension of glory that is going to be revealed in
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  you, going to be revealed in me. And week in, week out, I want
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  you to capture the picture of that, my dear painter.
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  That's what God is doing. Hallelujah.
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  And I want you to know that the painter is not me.
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  The painter is God himself. I am the brush.
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  He's using that brush. Are we together now?
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  You are that canvas. He's painting something upon
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  your life. And As for me and him, I've I've
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  made-up my mind as a covenant to be and remain malleable.
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  The brush is not rebellious. The brush looks dead.
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  And you see the degree of death by the ease with which the
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  painter can use the brush to write and paint on that canvas.
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  Are we together now? Yours is to stay believing that
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  God is molding. You stay believing that God is.
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  The prophet is still forming. The apostle is still forming.
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  The evangelist is still forming. The Kingdom financier is still
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  forming, the man, the woman of influence.
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  Esther is still forming, the Bora still forming.
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  Gideon still forming. You wouldn't form in one day.
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  The guy knew what to do, but it took time for the portrait.
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  That's how it is with God. The Bible says now are we the
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  sons of God? And it does not yet appear.
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  So for every truth that you are served with, receive it as a
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  component of that portrait. Are we together now?
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  Yes. If you receive it, then you will
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  watch the beauty and the glory that God brings out of your
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  life. He won't stop.
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  He won't stop till I look just like him, He won't stop.
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  He won't stop till my life looks like him.
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  He won't stop. He won't stop till I look just
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  like him. He won't stop, he won't stop.
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  Hallelujah. So I'm teaching on a two-part
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  series called Greater Light. Part 1 will be looking at the
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  mysteries of dominion, Greater light, Genesis 116, Greater
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  light, the mysteries of dominion, and God made true
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  great lights. The Bible says the greater light
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  was given an assignment to rule the day and the lesser light to
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  rule the night. The greater light to rule the
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  day and the lesser light to rule the night.
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  The greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule
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  the night. Keep that scripture there.
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  The greater light does not rule the night.
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  No. The greater light only comes
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  when there is day. The assignment of the greater
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  light is to turn morning to shine at its brightest.
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  When there is night, you do not need the greater light.
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  The light from the moon is sufficient.
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  And so here's how the journey is.
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  The journey from night to afternoon starts this way.
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  The moon gives light through the night.
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  Are we together? And the moment the morning
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  comes, the moon begins to fade in as much as we know and we can
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  describe. And then the light from the moon
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  is now replaced by the sun itself.
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  Even though we know that there are many from the dimension we
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  no one understand the sun takes over from the moon.
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  You would think because it were morning the sun would not come.
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  The assignment of the sun is to take over from the morning and
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  turn morning to afternoon. So the moon turns night to
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  morning, but once you get to the morning, you do not need the
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  moon again. The moon may not be able to
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  serve and the sun takes over. There are many things that
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  cannot happen in the morning. Even though it is no longer
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  darkness. It is difficult for your clothes
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  to dry on time in the morning because many times with the
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  morning will also come due. With the morning will also come
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  a lot of things. So there are inconveniences.
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  You are in your morning. But it may not be enough to give
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  you the kind of result that you need.
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  Sometimes even though it is morning, it can affect
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  visibility and flights can be grounded.
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  But once it is afternoon, so the Bible says the path of the just
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  are we still here is such a shining light.
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  Then it gives the progression that it shining more and more.
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  The question is from where to where it shining more and more
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  from the night time. Are we together the dawning of a
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  new day? And when the moon called the
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  lesser light is done with its own ministry, then the sun, the
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  greater light now takes over and the Bible says the greater light
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  rules in the day. So the first assignment is for
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  you to come out from night to day.
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  When you get to day, you still need another kind of light that
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  keeps you in dominion and causes you to shine at its brighter.
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  The Bible says, arise shine. Isaiah chapter 60 are we still
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  together? For your light is come, and the
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  glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
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  Verse 2 it says, for darkness shall cover the earth.
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  Give us verse 2 and cross darkness the people.
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  It says, but upon you the glory of the Lord shall rise, and his
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  glory shall be seen upon you. Verse three.
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  Now it says Gentiles shall come to your light.
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  Gentiles shall come to your, but kings do not come to your light.
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  Kings come to the brightness of your rising Gentiles come to
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  your light. The lights that shows in your
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  morning is enough to bring Gentiles, but not kings.
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  Unfortunately, the Gentiles do not come with treasures.
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  They don't have it. It is kings that have the
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  treasures. The treasures that reward you
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  are resident within the palaces of kings, and the Bible says the
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  kings will come. In honor to the brightness of
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  your rising. Is someone learning now?
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  So God made 2 great lights. They are all called great
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  lights, but now in terms of their power to illuminate and to
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  turn darkness to brightness, to glory, The Bible says the lesser
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  light rules in the night, but once you get to your day, you
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  now need the greater light. Someone say I receive greater
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  light one more time. Say I receive greater light for
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  one last time. Say I receive greater light.
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  Amen and Amen. Job chapter 38 and verse 33.
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  Popular scripture. Please give us NIV or NLT.
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  The Bible says do you know Job 38 and verse 33?
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  My apologies. 3333. Oh well, we can do 32 and then
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  end at 34. It still falls in line.
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  Can you direct the sequence of the seasons or guide the beer
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  with the corpse across the heavens?
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  Then it says, do you know the laws of the universe?
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  NLT says New Living Translation or NIVI think It says do you
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  know the laws of the heavens also?
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  Something like that. And can you set up God's
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  dominion upon the earth? 34 It says, Can you raise your
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  voice to the clouds and cover yourself through that mystery
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  with a cloud of water, greater light?
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  This is very powerful. So he's probing Job here and
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  he's asking Job, do you understand the mysteries by
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  which the universe is regulated by the mysteries that are
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  responsible for the supernatural extraordinary manifestations of
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  power within our world? First Timothy as a reference,
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  chapter 2, when you read 1 to 4, particularly verse 4, the Bible
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  tells us that God desires that all men be saved.
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  And then let's just jump to verse 4 for time that we come
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  onto the knowledge of the truth, the knowledge of the truth.
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  Now please look at me. Truth is in levels, truth is in
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  levels. All truth can liberate.
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  All truth should liberate, but they do not liberate at the same
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  dimension. Truth is likened to light, and
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  light does not shine. The illuminating power of light
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  is not at the same dimension. Are we together?
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  When you have a flood of light, the kind of brightness that can
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  be produced from that dimension of light is by far different
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  from that which comes from a phone or something of that sort.
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  Hallelujah. I think I gave this example
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  already from this place that if you were in your night time at
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  home, notice the transitions in the kinds of lights that you
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  use. Sadly, there are parts of the
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  world that don't easily experience blackouts, but in
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  Africa, we're accustomed to a lot of blackout where I mean,
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  everything just goes from the power holding company and you're
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  left in pitch darkness. Now watch how it starts from
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  pitch darkness. The first thing you usually
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  would do is to use your phone light or a Lantern or a torch
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  light. That is light.
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  But remember that light is helping you find another kind of
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  light. You don't stop there.
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  You start with a torch light or a Lantern.
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  Am I right on that? And then with a torch light or a
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  Lantern, usually, in fact, you start with maybe your phone.
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  Light. Or a torch light.
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  Then you find where a Lantern is and you can put that Lantern and
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  then if you're fortunate to have a generator, you now use the
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  torch light or the Lantern or whatever kind of light to the
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  generator house. Are we together?
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  As soon as you put on the generator, you switch off the
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  torch light. It's no longer needed because
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  the light from the generator and depending on the capacity of the
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  generator. There are certain generators
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  because they have low capacity. You will off your AC, you will
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  off your fridge. The only thing that will be on
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  is just the bulbs because the generator is too small.
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  And cannot carry the weight. Are we together now?
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  The load that is in your house is too much for that generator.
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  But let's assume that you have a generator large enough to take a
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  number of your appliances. Please look up how many of you
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  know that as you run that generator, your greatest
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  expectation is not to run on Gen. forever.
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  You are hoping that the power holding company will normalize
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  light, and as soon as you see your indicators show you that
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  there's light as it has come from the power holding company,
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  what do you do? You switch on your Gen. and if
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  it's in the night you own your security lights and the moment
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  you get to morning do you leave the lights on?
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  You switch them on because the light of the sun is there.
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  Look at the various progressions.
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  So if I see you with a torch light in the night, you.
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  Cannot camp around that torch light and say I'm fine, I'm
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  fine. This is my expectation.
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  Now the torch light, if you do not have that torch light, you
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  may not even get to the generator room.
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  Am I right on that? So once you have that torch
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  light, you are grateful for it, but you know that that is not
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  your ultimate expectation. So the torch light helps you so
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  far until you get to a Lantern, until you get to a generator
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  room and then eventually, if you're fortunate, light now is
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  restored and then you switch on the generator.
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  Are we together now? And then by morning you are
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  happy because you don't have to pay anything for sunlight.
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  It is one of the reasons why you are happy.
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  Do you know that there are limitations to the lights that
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  you have in your house? For instance, it cannot accept
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  you are using a washing machine. The lights that is generated
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  from your generator or the power holding company may not easily
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  and naturally dry your clothes. So it still has limitations.
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  When you want to dry your clothes, you don't put it under
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  a phone light. By morning it will still be wet.
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  That light does not have the kind of power.
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  Are we together now? Yes.
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  Even if you on the gem and you put it, sometimes you can use
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  your iron and force a wet cloth to be dry.
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  There are consequences. It can turn a white material to
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  look something else because you were using an unnatural means.
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  Are we together? But try the sun.
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  Try the sun in Abuja. Are we together?
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  You hang that thing there and sometimes before you are done
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  strolling, half of it is already done.
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  Greater light producing different levels of results,
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  helping you to command different dimensions of dominion.
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  So the Bible says he made 2 great lights.
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  And then he made the greater light to rule the day and the
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  lesser light to rule the night. Now that God has helped you to
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  come into your day, the light that helps you to be in command
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  even during the day, let that light rest upon you tonight in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  For instance, I give you an example, if you are called into
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  the ministry, there is a level of light that helps you to
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  jumpstart the work of the ministry has committed to you.
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  But by the time you get to a point where by mercy and by
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  grace you have gotten to your day, the dynamics will change.
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  Are we together? The kind of light you need to
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  sustain a ministry like this, by the grace of God is not the kind
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  of light. The light that was given to me
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  that was used to start Koinonia, if I use that kind of light, it
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  will not even last one day, no. There is greater light and it
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  keeps getting greater. Are we together?
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  The dynamics of leadership, the dynamics of spirituality,
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  accessing higher and greater levels of grace?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. That's Azaria family following
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  God. Bless them in the name of Jesus.
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  So I'm saying that the level of light illumination that you have
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  determines the kind of command that you have.
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  Are we together now? For many of us, you have light,
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  but you've been camping around a torch light and wondering why
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  your house is not shining bright.
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  Some of you have been holding a Lantern and your oil is almost
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  about to dry off. I'm here to bridge the gap so
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  you will not be called a foolish virgin in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Are we together now?
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  And there are others. God has granted you a generator
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  set, but I hope you know that as he keeps expanding you, it will
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  get to a time where the load will be too heavy for that
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  generator you are carrying and there are many things it cannot
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  do even though it produces light.
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  But I'm. Praying that for someone it will
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  be like the light of the sun in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  It will be like the light of the sun that anything that is wet,
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  you can drop it there and in a matter of minutes.
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  Even if it's a destiny, even if it's I mean you will command
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  results at a frequency that will cause you to marvel yourself.
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  May this greater light rest upon you.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. All right, so let's go to the
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  Word of God. Genesis chapter one, please.
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  From verse 26 down to 28, we're dealing with greater light, the
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  mysteries of dominion. This is Part 1.
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  Samala Kubara to Sieta. And God said, let us make man in
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  our image and after our likeness, and let them have
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  dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fall of the air,
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  over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every creeping
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  thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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  Amplified, please. Verse 26 back to 26 Amplified.
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  There's. Something I want you to see.
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  What version of Amplified are you guys using here?
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  My version of Amplified There's something I'm looking for.
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  Do we try Amplified Classic? Will it have what we're looking
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  for? There is an information about
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  OK, so let's make do with what we have so that we save time.
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  God said amplified says here let us Father, Son, Holy Spirit make
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  mankind in our image. Now is the word image that I
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  wanted to give you greater clarity, but I'll still do the
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  teaching. Amplified version as projected
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  here doesn't do the kind of justice we're looking for.
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  After our likeness, it says, and let them have complete
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  authority. Now back to KJV.
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  Let's do 27. And 28 So that I'll begin to
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  teach. 2728 KJV So God created man in his own image, in the
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  image of God created he him male and female created he them. 28
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  And God blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and
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  multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have
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  dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air,
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  over every living thing that moveth upon the.
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  Earth, the Lord. Bless the reading of his word in
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  Jesus name. So the Bible tells us in verse
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  2826 now that God created man and there were two very
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  important information here that I want you to get.
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  Please listen carefully while discussing greater light that
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  God created man number one in his image.
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  Everybody say image. One more time shouted say image
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  and then the Bible says after his likeness.
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  So God created man. It matters that you understand
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  how God created man and the components that were present at
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  his creation. So God created man in his image
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  and then after his likeness. Let me try to pull up Genesis
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  120. 6 from my own amplified rendition here, and then I'll
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  read for you what it says. From my amplified rendition,
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  this is what it says and God said, let us, Father, Son, Holy
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  Spirit, make man in our image according to our likeness.
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  Then it says not physical but a spiritual personality and moral
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  likeness. Then it says and let them have
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  complete authority. And then it reads on, Are we
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  together now? So the Bible tells us that God
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  made man. Thank you very much media.
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  God bless you. God made man in his image and
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  then after his likeness. You have to understand these
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  twofold dimensions. What exactly does it mean for
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  man to be made in the image of God?
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  Because no other creature was made in the image of God.
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  No other creature was made in the image of God.
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  Only man was made in the image of God.
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  So here we have the making of man, image and likeness, image
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  and likeness. I'll tell you very quickly what
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  the image of God is. The image of God talks about the
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  spiritual quality, the nature of God, the spiritual quality.
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  The image of God is not something physical, it is the
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  spiritual quality. Are we together a spiritual
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  quality, the image of God, the nature of God?
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  And then the Bible says man was made in the likeness of God.
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  The word likeness here means to function like God, to function
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  like God. So when the Bible says man was
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  made in the image of God, it means that God captured the
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  essence of who he is and he imprinted it upon that man.
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  And like you'll be learning the image of God as revealed in
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  Scripture most visibly manifest is Christ.
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  The Bible calls him the express image of the invisible God.
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  That should be Hebrews 1 and verse 2.
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  The express image one verse 3 of the invisible God, are we
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  together? The express image of his person.
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  That means if you want to know what God looks like, the nature
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  of God. When Jesus walked upon the
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  earth, he revealed for us, He gave us an opportunity to really
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  know what God looks like. I've done several teachings
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  there, but it's important that you understand this.
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  Listen, no man will be able to walk in true dominion if you do
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  not understand these two dimensions, the image of God and
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  the likeness of God, the nature of God, and then how God
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  functions. And I want you to work with me
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  very carefully tonight as we unravel these two dimensions.
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  Greater light. If you want to access the grace
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  for dominion, you want to live an invincible life within this
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  side of God's Kingdom, then you have to understand the
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  implication of being created the way you were created.
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  There was every kind of intention invested in the
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  creation of man the way God created him.
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  And if you do not subscribe to that template, something will be
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  wrong with your exercising authority, something will be
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  wrong with the quality of your Christian experience, something
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  will be wrong with the kinds of results that you command in
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  life, in business, in destiny. The key is to go back to the
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  original template and find out the implication of being created
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  in the image of God, being created in the likeness of God.
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  Please look up. Do you know why the fish in the
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  sea never have a problem swimming?
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  Because they have not violated the template of their design
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  till today. Can we imagine that the fish do
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  not have presidents, governors, they do not have advancement in
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  terms of the human kind of civilization, and yet you.
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  Go to any sea across the globe, you find fishes swimming very
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  freely. Are we together?
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  The reason is because they work in keeping with the templates
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  that was given originally. How about animals?
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  They have their own primitive way of leadership and all of
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  that. But isn't it amazing that even
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  in the animal world there is no guarantee for anything?
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  No guarantee for food because you can be prey today and be a
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  predator tomorrow. What sort of a life is that?
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  You are not even sure of what you will become any day.
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  So you can kill an animal today, and by tomorrow you are the one
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  who will be killed. Depending on where you are, the
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  mistake of location can turn you into a prey immediately.
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  And yet, in the midst of all of these things, can we imagine
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  that the animal Kingdom continues to thrive in spite of
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  the volcanoes, in spite of the Tornadoes, in spite of the
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  wickedness of men, in spite of what we have done to them?
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  Hallelujah, I said. We so don't look at me.
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  I included myself there. You know the amount of fish we
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  eat per day, You have no idea. You know the amount of goats
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  that die per day, cows that die per day, including today.
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  Are we together now? And isn't it amazing?
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  Now listen, I'm saying this for a reason that regardless the
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  kind of disadvantage this lower animals have because they were
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  able to maintain status quo as designed, it still did not
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  tamper with them. This is powerful.
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  Very, very powerful. It is only humans.
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  We are the most disoriented of God's creation, even though by
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  destiny and ordination we are the highest of His creation.
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  And I will tell you the problem is that there is a high level
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  deviation from God's pattern and so we seek to command dominion
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  using our own formula. And life has refused to obey us.
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  It has refused to obey US financially.
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  It has refused to. Obey us spiritually.
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  The forces of darkness do not seem to pay attention nor
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  respect our presence. God created man in his image,
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  and God created man after his likeness.
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  Let's consider the image of God. I told you that the word image
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  there is the nature of God. What is the implication of being
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  created with potential to have and to manifest the nature of
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  God? First and foremost, the Bible
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  teaches us that the nature of God can be learned.
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  The nature of God can be understood.
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  I've shared this with you extensively in Isaiah chapter
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  40. Let's read verse 28 to 30.
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  We're discussing the nature of God.
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  Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard the
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  everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the
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  earth? Watch this now.
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  The Bible says he fainted. Not now.
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  Do you know the implication of studying the nature of God?
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  Because that is the accurate lens, the accurate Vista.
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  You know how far you can go. You know the implication of the
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  nature you are carrying when you study God.
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  In theology we call it the reflection principle.
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  All you are is derived from all that He is.
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  You cannot know how much you have, you cannot know how far
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  you can go, you cannot know how great you can become until you
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  study Him. The Bible says as He is, so are
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  we in this world now? Are we learning now?
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  So the Bible tells us that the Creator of the ends of the earth
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  that he fainted not, and there is no searching of his
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  understanding. 29 He says, he giveth power to the faint, and
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  to them that have no mighty increase that strength I like.
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  30 He says, even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the
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  young men shall utterly fall. Final verse 31 He says, But they
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  that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their strength.
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  They shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and
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  not be weary. They shall walk and not faint.
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  You know what he's telling you? He.
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  He begins by telling you that God your creator, he does not
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  faint and he's not weary. Then he says, as a man
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  unassisted by God, you will faint and be weary, but that
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  like God you can rise to that realm where although you are a
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  human. Being the possibility of
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  fainting and weariness will no longer be found in your life
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  because you have outsourced a system that keeps you fresh,
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  keeps you going even though you are human.
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  And he calls it waiting upon the Lord that when you bring that
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  mystery to your life, you can be like God in terms of manifesting
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  that possibility. Who is learning now?
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  Now let's go to one more scripture helping you to
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  understand the nature of God so that you will see what He's done
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  in your own life. This is very powerful.
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  Psalm 1:45 Please give us from verse 8.
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  Let's see how far God will help us tonight.
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  Psalm 145, Are you ready? The Bible says the Lord is
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  gracious. The word gracious there means
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  kind is the quality of kindness. The Lord is gracious and full of
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  compassion. Look at me.
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  Do you know what that means? Every believer in Christ who
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  understands that he was built having the nature of God or the
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  potential to manifest that nature.
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  These possibilities should be captured in your life.
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  Back to the Scripture, please. The Lord is gracious and full of
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  compassion. That means I can be gracious and
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  full of compassion regardless my background, regardless my
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  temperament. I was created in the image and
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  the likeness of God. That means these qualities are
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  compatible with my being. That means my life and my
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  reality should not fight my having these qualities because I
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  was created in the image of Christ.
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  Anything that is short of this, I must see it as a deviation to
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  the original template. I'm I must cooperate with the
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  spirit of grace to see myself restored.
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  This is what the status quo of the believer is.
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  Gracious, full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great
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  mercy. Let's read on.
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  The Lord is good to all the quality of goodness and his
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  tender mercies are over all His works.
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  Next verse. Please.
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  All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord, and the Saints shall
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  bless thee, Ahar. He says they shall speak of the
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  glory of your Kingdom, and talk of your power.
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  Read on to make known to the sons of men His mighty heart and
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  the glorious majesty of His Kingdom.
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  Verse 13 he says Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, thy
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  dominion endured throughout all generations.
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  Reading to 20, the Lord upholdeth all that.
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  Fall this is he's describing for you the nature of God and he
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  raises all those that are bowed down.
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  That means when you are becoming like Christ inexperience.
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  We should be finding through your life this manifestations.
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  The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou giveth them their meat
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  in season. He's describing God for you now.
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  Thou openest thy hand and satisfies the desire of every
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  living thing. You know why the fish still eat
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  even though they cannot talk, as we know.
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  You know why other animals as low as they are.
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  He is that intentional about their survival.
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  The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and wholly in all His
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  works. Are you learning now?
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  Verse 18. The Lord is nigh unto them that
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  call upon Him, and all upon, and them that call upon Him in
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  truth. Verse 19 He will fulfill the
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  desire of them that fear him. I like this.
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  He will hear their cry and he will save them.
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  Final Verse The Bible says the Lord preserved all them that
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  love him, but all the wicked shall he destroy.
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  This is a description of God's nature.
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  It's important for you to learn the nature of God because the
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  nature of God becomes your assignment as far as
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  transformation is concerned. I told you that transformation
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  is the name given to the journey that makes you become like the
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  Christ. Inexperience.
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  Transformation should never, never be an impossible pursuit
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  because you were originally designed.
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  To be like Christ? Are we together now?
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  Next scripture, the nature of Christ.
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  First John chapter 4. Please give us 7 and we'll read
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  down to verse. 12 First John, chapter 4 Seven Apostle John
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  John the Beloved. Guess what he has to say about
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  the nature of God as revealed in Christ Jesus.
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  Beloved he says let us love one another.
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  Now he talks about love for love is of God and everyone that
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  loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
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  Verse 8 he says he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is
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  love. Say that after me for God is
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  love one more time for God is love.
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  The next verse please. He says in this was manifested
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  the love of God towards us because that God sent his only
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  begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
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  Next verse. It says herein is love not that
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  we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be a
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  propitiation for our sins. Final verse we're reading to
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  verse 12. Beloved, if God so loved us, we
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  ought also to love one another. Verse 12 it says no man had seen
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  God at any time. If we love one another is proof
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  that God dwelleth in US and His love is perfected in US.
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  Someone's in love. So the Bible says God is love.
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  God is love that that nature of love is the hallmark.
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  Are we together now when a man is carrying God the ultimate
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  proof that he is carrying God is not power.
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  It is love. The very nature of the Christ
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  When you read Galatians chapter 5 when we get to verse 22, the
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  Bible says the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Notice he never put an S to fruit.
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  The fruit of the Spirit is, is love.
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  Now when you read from KJV like you have learned, it looks like
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  they are 9 Lovejoy, peace, suffering.
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  But I've taught you that the fruit of the Spirit is love, but
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  that that love begins to express itself as joy, peace, patience,
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  or long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. 23 Now
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  meekness, temperance. And it says against such there
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  is no law. Are we together the fruit of the
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  spirit, the fruit of the recreated human spirit?
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  That means the nature of God finding expression within a
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  recreated human spirit should be.
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  Tossed love in all its variety, as joy, as peace, as patience,
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  as meekness. The nature of God.
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  The Bible tells us that God is. Love Jesus had this to say about
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  himself in Matthew Chapter 11 when we read 28 to 30.
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  Matthew Chapter 11 from verse 28 to 30, here's what it says.
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  Come unto me, all ye that labor are not heavy laden.
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  He says I will give you rest. Verse 29 He says, take my yoke
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  upon you and learn of me and learn of me, for I am meek.
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  This is what he's saying about himself as God Incarnate.
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  I am meek and lonely in heart, and ye shall find rest for your
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  souls. Come and learn of me, for I am
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  meek and I am lonely. Hallelujah.
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  Now do you know the implication of manifesting the love of God?
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  There are many laws in the Spirit that will not obey you
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  until you walk in love. One of them is faith.
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  Faith that moves mountains. Faith is not just a function of
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  intelligence and light and understanding.
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  What the battery that powers faith and causes the realm of
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  the Spirit to honor your speakings is when they find that
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  nature of love, that nature of God in you.
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  The Bible says God created man in his image.
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  Are you seeing that now? Do you know?
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  I have studied my Bible and I also studied the results that
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  came from the apostles. I noticed that the extent of
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  their exploit was largely dependent on the nature of the
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  love of God that was at work in them.
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  Yes, Sir, Yes, Sir. No wonder the one who is called
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  John the Beloved. Of all the encounters, nobody
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  was given the privilege. In as much as they met Jesus,
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  they had all kinds of things. John had spectacular
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  manifestations. Bible history would tell us that
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  John was thrown in hot boiling oil and he would not even be
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  roasted. He would not be burnt.
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  They didn't know what to do with him, and so they banished him to
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  an island called Patmos, and that was where he received the
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  revelation of Jesus as captured in this book that we call
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  Revelation Love. There are many people who want
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  to work in dominion. There are many people who want
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  the laws of the Spirit to work for them, but they fast and pray
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  sincerely so, and they do not know that in order of priority
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  until you are restored to this pattern where you manifest the
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  image of Christ and. Then you function like Christ.
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  Creation will obey you like they obey the Son.
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  Are we together now even among ministers of the gospel, as we
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  have seen fathers, patriarchs, some have gone to be with the
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  Lord, some are here now that they are exploits.
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  I can tell you for many of them is a function of their love
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  life, the nature of Christ that has been formed within them.
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  Many believers do not place value on embracing and seeking
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  to see manifest in their life the nature of God.
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  We are trying to function like God, and I'll come to that
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  shortly. So we speak like God, for
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  instance. We command things to obey us,
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  like God for instance, and then. They do not seem to obey us.
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  It is the same scripture that Jesus, you know, spoke that if
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  in fact it's even a capture of what he did and you.
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  Say it like he said and mean it like he meant, but you don't get
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  the result because that nature has not been formed in you, and
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  the realm of the Spirit only honors those who have become a
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  reflection of the nature. It is image and.
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  Likeness, not likeness alone. Image and likeness.
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  Jesus. I know, Paul, I know.
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  I used to think it was just because of the Excellency of
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  revelation that they had, but now I'm learning by the Spirit
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  of God that it was the nature of God, the degree to which the
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  nature of God is furnished in experience within you.
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  I tell you that is the degree to which the realm of the Spirit
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  will comply to you as intended. Are we together?
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  There are many people who do not pay attention to embracing and
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  contending to see manifest in their lives the nature of God,
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  man. Was first created in the image
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  the image. The image, the image of Christ,
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  the image of Christ, the image of Christ.
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  When you understand this, mysteries like the communion can
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  work for you. Otherwise you can take 1 full,
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  what they call it now jar of that black current and it will
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  never do anything in your life. You can eat the wafers, finish
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  it, and you find out that no demon moves anywhere because you
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  see, you do not even understand the implication.
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  So most people do it as a ritual.
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  They take the waffles, they swallow whatever it is, no
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  matter how small or how large. In fact, do you know Paul got
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  angry and was even rebuking the people because they got to a
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  point where they did not understand this implication of
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  oneness with Christ, that that mystery was supposed to reenact
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  an experience within you. The concept of that oneness that
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  you are now inseparable. As it is with God in Christ, so
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  it is with you and. Many people started taking that
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  the wine and they got drunk and so many things were happening in
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  the church in Corinth and Paul had to come and call for a
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  conference. I said nonsense is going on
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  here. I hear that some of you take
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  this communion from the communion.
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  You get tipsy, you fall and the essence of it.
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  That's where he began to talk about partaking of the body and
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  the bread of Christ unworthily. He says for this some of you are
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  weak, some of you are. Sick.
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  And some of you do sleep. Not dishonest.
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  The Lords body Hallelujah. The nature of Christ.
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  Listen, there was first a nature that Jesus had that made him
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  victorious. It was not just the things he
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  said. It was not just the things he
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  did. It was not just the places he
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  went to. There was something intrinsic
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  within him. For instance, Jesus said this
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  about himself, that Satan cometh.
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  To me, did you read that in your Bible and that he did not find
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  anything? He cometh to me.
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  He cometh to me. Meaning no matter what you know,
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  if Satan comes to you and can find something within you that
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  becomes a connection point, He has legal authority.
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  Be patient as we get to Part 2. I will be teaching you something
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  about altars and you will, you will learn.
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  You will learn a very deep mystery that if you do not know,
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  you can be a prayer warrior, you will still be frustrated.
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  You can be a giver, you will still be frustrated.
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  You can be a sincere person, you will still be frustrated.
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  You can quote scripture, you will still be frustrated.
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  Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven and turns thou establish
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  the dominion thereof. I'm speaking to you that the
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  realm of the Spirit respects careers of the nature of Christ.
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  Not in theory, careers of the nature of Christ.
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  There is an elevation in experience in the Spirit.
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  Now from a human standpoint, we don't seem to place so much
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  value on people because we live in a wicked world.
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  And the more you are like Christ in this world, people think you
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  are cheap, you are weak, they take advantage of you, but you
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  do not know what happens to you in the realm of the Spirit.
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  The greater credibility is not even among men.
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  We call it a man of character. If you are meek, you are humble.
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  These are wonderful things. It can end your relationships.
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  But the the greater weight of carrying the nature of Christ is
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  seen in the realm of the Spirit. It translate to a greater
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  command of power. Creation will respond to you in
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  a way that will surprise you if you do contend to have the
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  nature of Christ. For instance, the Bible says
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  faith works by love. How many people have tried to
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  fix? Don't believe by focusing on
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  love. Most times when we want to fix
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  unbelief, we focus on revelation and there's nothing wrong with
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  that. But you get revelation and don't
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  walk on the love component. The Bible says faith walks by
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  love. Are we together?
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  Faith walks by love. The more you grow in
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  understanding the love of Christ, the more you grow in
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  having that love. I can tell you, please look up
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  as a man of God by the privilege of God's grace.
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  I understand a bit about walking in the anointing and I have seen
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  that most people cannot walk in the anointing.
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  Not because something is wrong with your prayer life, not
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  because something is wrong with revelation.
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  Something is wrong with that nature component.
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  Are we together? When the law of life,
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  representing order, dimensions of the nature of Christ, finds
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  expression in you and is fully formed within you, there is no
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  limit to the kind of power, the kind of grace and the kind of
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  glory that emanates from your life.
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  Believe us, Are you learning now?
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  It looks like a very simple subject, but I'm telling you why
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  creation is not respecting many of us.
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  The reason why you speak to situations and circumstances,
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  they do not hear you, they do not pay attention, they are not
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  even interested. I'll tell you why.
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  The reason is because you have not contended for that love.
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  You know our world has abused love.
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  When we say love, what most people think of is a woman or if
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  the female gender and something very weak and affectionate.
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  Are we together? The things that carry love in
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  our world usually die for nothing, and so we don't respect
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  love when we say love. You just think something that is
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  so weak unto death. No, that should not be your
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  description of love. Love is powerful.
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  It is God's very nature. What faith could not do love
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  deed? What power could not do love
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  deed. It was love that finally nailed
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  the subject of the fall of man, seen Satan, hell, and the great.
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  It was love that dealt with those things on the cross, not
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  power. Hallelujah.
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  The nature of Christ, that everything you see reflected in
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  the Bible as the nature of God as revealed in Christ, that must
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  become your assignment. I seek to be patient.
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  I seek to be kind. I seek to be humble.
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  I seek to be gracious. I seek to be merciful.
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  I seek to be loving. Inexperience.
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  Let me tell you the truth, there are many diseases that will not
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  be found in your life if the nature of God dwells in you.
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  I'm not talking about just from a spiritual standpoint.
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  From a psychological standpoint, you will be delivered from many
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  diseases. Like high blood pressure as a
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  result of anger, envy, and jealousy, the overthinking that
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  comes from that state. Can kill you.
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  Are we together? Do you know that many diseases
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  that destroy people start from the realm of the mind, an
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  attitude of competition? I need to get this.
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  I need to get this. And you think?
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  And you are depressed. Are we together now?
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  You see, the nature of Christ was supposed to correct many
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  things in our world, many things we are fighting now and trying
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  to manage with drugs. With all due respect, the
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  ultimate cure is embracing the nature of Christ.
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  And I'm not just talking about the supernatural implication of
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  having that nature, that the nature of Christ itself dwelling
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  in an environment of God's nature is.
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  Therapeutic Everything we do today, from security to food
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  nutrition is our human way of trying to simulate the
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  atmosphere of the fruit of the spirit.
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  Why do you get dogs? You are looking for peace
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  because you know there is some criminal somewhere who will not
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  allow you have your peace. Are we together?
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  So the price of dogs have increased because of the problem
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  of men and because of the. Absence of God's nature.
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  Who is learning as much as you came to church, even though it
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  was the House of God, you locked your car.
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  True or false, Why did you lock your car knowing that believers
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  are the ones who are gathered here?
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  The bag you have now in church, you locked it and you are still
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  watching it. Do you know why?
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  Because not all men have faith. The awareness that human beings
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  are tampering with the manifestation of the fruit of
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  the Spirit, the nature of Christ.
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  There are businesses that have been formed as a result of that
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  deviation. Isn't it amazing how much we
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  invest in security today? I don't know anybody.
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  Who intends to grow and last? Who does not invest in security?
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  Security has become billion dollar businesses today.
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  You know why? Because somebody who does not
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  have the nature of Christ is still on earth and most likely
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  near your neighborhood. You can call him Mama an armed
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  robber. You can call him a kidnapper.
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  These are the deficiencies of not having the nature of Christ.
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  Lovejoy, Peace is someone learning now.
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  When somebody because of an attitude of hatred goes to speak
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  to your destiny helper and says don't promote this lady, don't
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  promote this man. You see the reason why we even
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  pray favor provoking prayers. Those prayers would not have
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  been necessary, in fact, if everyone were walking with the
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  nature of Christ, because you know that wickedness is real and
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  that there are. People who will vow.
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  Vow to see that you do not rise. Vow to see that your children do
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  not rise. Are we together?
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  Why do we pray against encounters with wicked and
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  unreasonable people? The Bible says all men.
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  It is not all men that have faith.
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  I'm just telling you that most of the problems in the world
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  today that we are trying to solve is a direct problem that
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  is a consequence of the absence of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Absence of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  That means the more you restore that nature, you are restoring
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  everything to God's original pattern.
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  Where did greed come from? Do you know how many problems in
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  the world today exist just because of this one negative
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  human trait called greed? There are wars today in our
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  world fueled by greed. There are people in pain today
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  courtesy, greed. There are companies that are
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  folded today because of greed. Are we together?
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  There are families crying over their loved ones today because
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  of greed. I mean, just pick.
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  Greed and self. How about hatred?
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  Tell me all the problems in the world that exist today because
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  of the deficiency of love. Hatred.
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  There is a whole industry built around hatred.
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  That means if hatred stops, the industry will die.
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  Hallelujah. Who would have believed today,
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  ladies and gentlemen, that billions of dollars is being
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  transacted from nation to nation in the name of peacekeeping?
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  You see that now, and we thank. God for all those who work to
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  keep peace across Africa, across the nations of the earth.
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  But is it not because somebody is determined to distort God's
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  order? There are different groups and
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  different sects being formed around the world every day,
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  every week because of the desire of men.
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  Take pride as an example. I'm just showing you these
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  things that most of the problems in the world, they are not the
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  issues of policies, they are not government issues.
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  They are not even issues of skin color.
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  It's a deficiency of living in an environment that is bankrupt
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  of the nature of God. This is the difference between
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  heaven and earth. The first thing you see in
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  heaven is not the power of God. It's an atmosphere that carries
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  within it the nature of Christ. Let me tell you the truth.
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  Look at me if you want Kingdom to come.
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  The first thing you need is not a download of God's power.
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  The first thing you need is a download of God's culture, God's
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  environment, God's culture. Simulate an organization that
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  has the fruit of the Spirit and you will see.
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  The extent of advancement that will happen there, when you see
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  companies grow and they tell you these companies are nice, do you
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  know that they have brought policies that are consistent
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  with the fruit of the spirit that is the reason why they are
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  going forward? Oh no, they greet people, they
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  show manners. Are we together now?
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  They value integrity. You translate them into
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  policies. All the nations today you call
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  first World Now, whether they believe in Jesus personally or
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  not. I am saying any policy that
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  simulates heaven is because it has captured within it the
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  nature of God. They may not call it that way.
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  We have Millennium Development Goals, we have all kinds of
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  projects. UN, African Union, they are
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  pushing all these things, and I've read some of them
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  intelligently presented. I can summarize all of them.
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  The world is in hunger looking for the nature of God.
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  They do not know it is God's nature they are trying to get.
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  They call it peace, they call it justice, they call it equity.
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  Are we together now? These are just intelligent,
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  intellectual names. I am telling you the problem of
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  the world today. Is that we have deviated from
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  this reality of the image of Christ and we are paying for it.
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  Love, love, love, love. What makes somebody who is due
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  for promotion and then they fight the person simply because
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  of the color of his skin or the region that he comes from?
• 1:10:45
  Party spirit, seditions, these things are not found in the
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  nature of Christ. He sits upon a throne that is
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  made-up of righteousness and justice.
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  Every time men deviate from living in the environment of
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  God's nature, God's love, the fruit of the Spirit, there will
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  be consequences. Who is learning so far build a
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  business whose environment and whose culture is parallel and
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  similar? And in consistency with the
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  fruit of the Spirit and watch what happens to that business.
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  You literally can use the fruit of the Spirit, translate them
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  into policies, run your business and watch what happens.
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  In this organization there is love.
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  Before you report anybody, tell me 3 things you love about the
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  person. Then you can criticize.
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  If you cannot tell me, go back to your office.
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  Fruit of the Spirit. You don't have to paste it on
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  people's face and say the fruit of the spirit is love.
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  In this company, there's joy. Are we together?
• 1:11:49
  So as the CEO, maybe once a week you stroll into every office,
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  crack a joke and let the people laugh.
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  And then you go back and see what happens to their
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  productivity. The fruit of the spirit is
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  beyond just a nature. It is the environment that
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  optimizes the function of man. When man goes out of the fruit
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  of the Spirit, it's like a fish going out of water.
• 1:12:12
  Are you learning now? It's like a bird not having the
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  ability to fly. When you rate a bird using the
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  ability to swim, it will fall short of it.
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  Man has gone out of his spiritual ecosystem is the
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  reason why we have sicknesses today.
• 1:12:27
  We cannot explain is the reason why we are intellectual and yet
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  not moving forward. God created man in His image who
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  is learning. Let me tell you the truth, one
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  of the secrets of longevity is to walk in the fruit of the
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  Spirit. Believe me when I tell you this,
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  the fruit of the Spirit, read it and pray it in your life, that
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  in the name of Jesus I walk in love.
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  In the name of Jesus I live a joyful life.
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  I will never wrinkle my face because of the problems
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  happening around my nation while I am trusting God for a miracle.
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  You tell yourself in the name of Jesus.
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  I enjoy peace. I refuse to overthink.
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  My mind will not be stressed because of over thinking.
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  There are young men today in their their late teenage early
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  20s who are having high blood pressure like people of 60 years
• 1:13:19
  because of worry. Jesus took time to.
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  Warn us, he said. Which of you by worrying can add
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  1 cubit? Who is learning now?
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  To the point that in our world today, if they see you joyful
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  and happy and jovial, people look at you and say what is
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  wrong with you? Do you know there are
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  corporations that look for stuff and what they're finding is the
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  joy of the spirit. They don't know that's what
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  they're finding. They just say you have to be
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  friendly. What is friendliness?
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  So when somebody comes, is very happy, a young lady greets
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  everybody, they crack a joke, she laughs very generously and
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  naturally they said this is my secretary.
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  The man is an unbeliever, but he knows God when he sees it.
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  Are you learning? Everybody you drive around your
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  life is because you detected something in them that is in
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  defiance to the nature of Christ.
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  You may not give it that definition, but that is what?
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  Why do you throw away someone and say, you know what, this
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  person, you won't be my friend again.
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  This one, even though you are a sister in Christ, you are not my
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  sister again. What is the difference you have?
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  Found something that is in defiance.
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  Show me an individual who is a healthy capture of the fruit of
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  the Spirit I show. You a man?
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  Who will be desired? The same way you desire Jesus,
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  same way you desire Jesus. And it doesn't matter whether
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  you are a preacher. Are we together now?
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  It doesn't matter. Whoever you are, once you carry
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  that nature of Christ, you become the desire of nations,
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  the desire many people want to come around you.
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  You are joyful, you are patient. Take the quality of kindness.
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  I hope you are learning tonight. There are people who are so
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  kind. If you don't see them after two
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  days, you feel as if you lost something.
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  Where is this person? She's so kind.
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  Where is this man? He's so kind.
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  You can give them a job, not because of their degree, because
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  of that quality called kindness. There are businesses that have
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  been built. Why do comedians make a lot of
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  money? How do you pay 30 pounds, 50 lbs
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  VIP, 1000 lbs VVIP, whatever it is to sit down somewhere and
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  laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and go home and
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  you don't consider it silly? Do you know why?
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  That is how desperate men are to look for joy and peace.
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  Hallelujah. Now look up, why do people drink
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  themselves to stupor? You meet all of them and say why
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  are you like this? Look up, we found you in a
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  gutter. I say my worries.
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  Let me tell you there is peace that only Jesus gives.
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  That guy is trying to use another route to seek to find
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  that health of that nature called peace.
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  Who is learning tonight? God knows what He built that he
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  called man. We have distorted that
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  architecture and we are paying the price today.
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  There are people who cannot rejoice.
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  There are people who are not gentle.
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  We have cliches that support a rough, scattered and lawless
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  life. We give it beautiful names even
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  though they are destructive traits.
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  I'm a hustler. I'm a That's how I am.
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  You see that now. You are not gentle to the point
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  that some of us feel insulted when they say you're a
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  gentleman. Say I'm not, I'm not.
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  I was a gentleman and I suffered.
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  I'm a rough man. I drag it.
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  You slap me. I give you many slaps so that
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  you will not slap me again. The Lord is gracious and
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  compassionate. Show me a husband that is a
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  capture of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  I show you a man whose wife would thank God for him every
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  day. Show me a wife who is a capture
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  of the fruit of the Spirit. I show you a woman who her
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  husband will say thank God for you.
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  Show me a child who is a capture of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  The parents would thank God for this child every day.
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  When you say my child is stubborn, you are describing the
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  absence of a fruit of the Spirit whose name you do not know, so
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  you call it stubborn. When you say my child is wicked,
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  what are you saying? What is wickedness?
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  The absence of goodness, the absence of kindness.
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  So Moses said, Lord, show me your glory, and God said, I will
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  allow my goodness. 1 of this quality.
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  Let me tell you the truth, my greatest desire is not just to
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  be a man of power. My greatest desire is not just
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  to be a man of science and wonders.
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  When I seek to know the Lord the more my greatest desire is that
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  God will find greater space within His life to manifest His
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  nature. That the nations will see you
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  and see that you are the most visible portrait of the Christ
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  that they can trace. And it will not matter at that
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  point whether you come from Nigeria or Ghana or South Africa
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  or you are Yoruba or Ebo. Are you see now do you know that
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  when you blame someone and say you are behaving like from so
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  so, so place, you are just using regions?
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  But the truth is that it is the absence of the fruit of the
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  Spirit. When believers come together who
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  are a rich manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit, you will
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  not know any man in the flesh again.
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  You will not even know who comes from here or there, who comes
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  from Ghana or South Africa. When the Bible says that we come
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  to the fullness of the stature of the measure of Christ, this
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  is what it means that I can see a believer from Abuja, a
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  believer from Lagos, A believer from Maiduguri, A believer from
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  Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, A believer from America.
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  We can all come together and literally know we are a family
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  because we have been bound by a common nature, not just a common
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  creed. Are we together now?
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  Why do you pay a huge amount of school fees parents to send your
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  children to certain school? It is not just the educational
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  standard in terms of the intellectual composition of the
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  school. Most times when we are what
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  people degrees, we say they have qualified in both learning and
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  character. Learning and character Are we
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  together now is the reason why when you find out that their
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  character is compromised even though they have earned that
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  degree, you can withdraw it on account of that character Are we
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  together? The first component, you want
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  creation to honor you. You want life to work for you.
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  You want gates to be open for you.
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  I tell you, pay the price to build within you.
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  The nature of a Christian is the nature of God as revealed in
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  Christ. He says come and learn of me.
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  Can you be somebody who is loving?
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  Can you be somebody who is kind? Can you be somebody who is
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  gentle? With all due respect for some of
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  you I'm describing A foreigner because it's not you at all.
• 1:20:52
  As I said, gentle you are wondering, kind, you are
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  wondering, loving, patient. You are none of this.
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  Welcome to church. This is where you open up your
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  heart and say God walk upon my heart.
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  The Holy Spirit does an inner walk, an inner walk before he
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  does an outer walk, that when you appear before men that
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  Jesus, they've not seen, when they look at you, they know that
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  you are the closest representation of Him.
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  You are gentle, you are kind. Life will work for you to the
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  degree to which it finds the nature of Christ flowing in you.
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  And let me tell you the truth, I respect psychology and I know
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  that we're taught that we have different temperaments,
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  phlegmatics, choleric, sanguine, etcetera.
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  I understand and I respect the experts who have come up with
• 1:21:41
  those things. But there's one thing I know.
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  It doesn't matter what you are, you can change the read what I
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  said, it doesn't matter. Fill your form and find out who
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  you are. But you can change.
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  For God's sake, you can change. Don't say I'm an angry person.
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  It is something that I've told God if I I am kind, provided
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  nobody looks for my trouble. But if you touch me, I'm like
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  fire. Change, change.
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  Who is learning what I'm saying now to be like Christ?
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  There are preachers who are not like Christ.
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  Annoy them and you know they are not like Christ and it's not
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  something to be excited about. No, no, not at all.
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  There are businessmen who love God but place money in front of
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  them. They forget their businessmen,
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  they will push anybody and match on any neck until they see
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  profit. When they see the figure hard,
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  they can say you are my brother, what were you saying before?
• 1:22:38
  And while I I owe it to train you by the Spirit so that when
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  people look at you, it's not by praying in tongues and
• 1:22:47
  manifesting power and signs and wonders.
• 1:22:51
  If that is the first thing people see about you to know you
• 1:22:53
  are a Christian, you are a faulty, distorted Christian.
• 1:22:59
  I'm telling you this sincerely that when you show up on Monday,
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  the reason why they say pastor is coming is not because you are
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  holding a Bible that later you will steal and it's not because
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  you are using church words. Oh, good afternoon, Sir.
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  How are you? My brother, sister, this and
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  that, That's wonderful but the nature of Christ, do you know
• 1:23:25
  there is a presence that the nature of Christ carries that is
• 1:23:28
  discernible even by a non Christian.
• 1:23:32
  Have you found people just come to you and they sit down and say
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  sorry I want to share some things about my life.
• 1:23:38
  I will tell you what brought. Them.
• 1:23:41
  It is that nature of Christ and meeting, drawing people the same
• 1:23:46
  way they would come to Jesus. That was what compelled
• 1:23:48
  Nicodemus to come to Jesus by night.
• 1:23:52
  Are you learning now to be like Christ, to be like Christ in
• 1:23:57
  experience? Fight everything that violates
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  His nature within you, the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Open your Bible and look at it. This issue of temper, I need to
• 1:24:09
  deal with it. This issue of pride, I need to
• 1:24:11
  deal with it. When you when you don't deal
• 1:24:14
  with it, it would destroy your destiny and stop you from
• 1:24:18
  becoming Hallelujah. The nature of Christ finding
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  expression. Please look at me.
• 1:24:38
  Let me have your attention. I hope as you're laughing,
• 1:24:40
  you're learning, because we're dealing with very serious
• 1:24:43
  things. Here very serious things.
• 1:24:46
  Here you get the glory, you get the praise, you take the honor.
• 1:24:58
  I just want to say Hallelujah. Look at me, some of you can
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  receive any other nature of Christ minus giving.
• 1:25:11
  You will prefer to love your enemy 1000 times than to give.
• 1:25:19
  Are we together? Once you hear giving like this,
• 1:25:22
  your spirit gets angry. I'm not asking you to give, I'm
• 1:25:25
  just telling you something is wrong.
• 1:25:28
  During offering you act as if you are not in church.
• 1:25:31
  Once he's done and worship team stands, you lift your hand, you
• 1:25:34
  shout, you jump, you even push people around you.
• 1:25:37
  No. How about loving your brother?
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  Some of you love God so much, but you hate every other person
• 1:25:44
  who is not him, even those created in his image.
• 1:25:47
  You are a hypocrite. The Bible says you cannot claim
• 1:25:50
  to love God that you have not seen when you hate your brother
• 1:25:54
  that you have seen. There are people who come to
• 1:25:56
  church and sorry for whoever sits by your left and right.
• 1:26:00
  That becomes an uncomfortable service for them because you
• 1:26:03
  love God who you have not seen. And the reason why you love him
• 1:26:07
  is because you have not seen him.
• 1:26:08
  Because when you see him, he looks like your neighbor that
• 1:26:11
  you hate. Are we learning?
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  Now in my life, be glorified, be glorified.
• 1:26:29
  In my life, be glorified, be glorified.
• 1:26:38
  You got the glory. You got the glory.
• 1:26:41
  You got the praise. You take the I just want to say
• 1:26:49
  thank you. You get the glory.
• 1:26:54
  You get the praise. You take the.
• 1:26:58
  I just want to say thank you. Lay your hands gently on your
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  head and cry to the Lord. Walk on my character.
• 1:27:09
  Walk on my character, Mention it by name.
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  Walk on my character. Walk on my character.
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  I I came to church seeking for power, but walk on my character.
• 1:27:22
  I was not just created in the likeness of God.
• 1:27:25
  I was first created in the image of God, carrying his character,
• 1:27:30
  carrying his character, the image of God.
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  Go ahead and pray. Shamaka parata.
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  Gabelleke parusiata empratila caparantos Coty bracchetti la
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  cosia walk on my character. Someone pray, cry unto the Lord.
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  Shaleke parantas quebeleke parieta.
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  To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, to reflect the Christ
• 1:27:57
  like character. Cry unto the Lord, walk upon my
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  character. The fruit of the Spirit find an
• 1:28:05
  expression within me. Purge my life of wickedness.
• 1:28:10
  Purge my life of hatred. Someone pray purge my life of
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  pride. You get the glory, you get the
• 1:28:24
  praise, you take the honor. I just want to say thank you.
• 1:28:33
  You get the glory, you get the pray.
• 1:28:39
  You take the honor, take the. Corporate people, let me
• 1:28:47
  challenge you in one minute. Anyone here who is a business
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  owner, captain of industry in this house, let me challenge
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  you. Go and translate the fruit of
• 1:28:57
  the Spirit into policies. Let it become the code of
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  conduct and the modus operandi that governs your company void
• 1:29:06
  of sentiments and watch what happens.
• 1:29:09
  I give you a guarantee. Turn it into policies.
• 1:29:13
  It doesn't matter whether your company captures believers, non
• 1:29:16
  believers. You see, the fruit of the Spirit
• 1:29:19
  was not supposed to produce fanatics.
• 1:29:21
  It was supposed to produce Christ like individuals.
• 1:29:25
  If you're becoming a Christian cannot allow you to be a
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  blessing to non Christians. You are not an authentic
• 1:29:31
  Christian. This is not a promotion of
• 1:29:34
  fanaticism. I'm a friend to many people.
• 1:29:37
  I have my values, but I'm a friend to believers, non
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  believers. I meet with them in the course
• 1:29:43
  of the things that we do. We interact with all kinds of
• 1:29:46
  people. Are we together?
• 1:29:49
  Use the fruit of the Spirit. Design your policies.
• 1:29:53
  You're my driver. This is the policy.
• 1:29:56
  I want a joyful person smiling every day.
• 1:29:59
  If there is a reason why you cannot smile, let me know.
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  Don't hold bitterness. Open up to me.
• 1:30:04
  Are we together politely? So come up with a policy on the
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  only kind of criticism allowed in this corporation is
• 1:30:13
  constructive criticism. If it will move the company
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  forward, I am for it. If you are tearing other people
• 1:30:20
  leave the company. It's better to lose one person
• 1:30:23
  than to lose the future of the company who is learning.
• 1:30:28
  Parents use this to govern your house.
• 1:30:31
  Don't let people carry their atmosphere, Antichrist
• 1:30:33
  Babylonian atmosphere and just come from the knock, you know,
• 1:30:36
  is that there's a familiar, there's a strange spirit about
• 1:30:40
  to enter your house. Now in this house, when someone
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  goes wrong, you say I'm sorry immediately, specifically, and
• 1:30:50
  it ends there. In this family, everybody is
• 1:30:53
  everybody's keeper. Are we together?
• 1:30:56
  In this family there is mutual respect.
• 1:30:58
  There's no such thing as first born, last born.
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  Everybody respects everybody. In this family.
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  The man is head, not alpha and Omega, so he can apologize if
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  he's wrong. It doesn't matter that his
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  father. Are we together?
• 1:31:15
  The day the children shout at the father, you don't tell, it's
• 1:31:18
  your fault. No, you don't shout at your
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  father. That is wrong.
• 1:31:24
  My colleague shouts at his father in school.
• 1:31:26
  It is wrong with him, wrong with you.
• 1:31:28
  And if I catch you with that boy again, are we together?
• 1:31:33
  You're laughing, but I mean what I'm saying.
• 1:31:37
  The fruit of the spirit should not only be in us, it should be
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  translated into policies. That becomes the environment for
• 1:31:44
  business, the environment for governance, the environment for
• 1:31:48
  leadership. I'm I'm giving you many of you
• 1:31:52
  when you are you are policy makers, I'm giving you a
• 1:31:54
  challenge. Go and use the template of the
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  put together 12 or 13 character traits that represent the nature
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  of God. As found in Christ translates
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  them into a business friendly atmosphere and watch what
• 1:32:12
  happens that every client that comes to this place you greet
• 1:32:16
  them with courtesy. You demonstrate the nature of
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  Christ. See what happens to your
• 1:32:20
  productivity. You know the thing I like about
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  faith. The gospel must be taught in a
• 1:32:25
  way that is is useful to society.
• 1:32:28
  I don't believe in teaching truths that produce fanatics
• 1:32:31
  without a point of application. As far as you're becoming,
• 1:32:35
  you're excelling and the building of a nation is
• 1:32:38
  concerned. With all due respect, let me
• 1:32:41
  challenge our correctional centers.
• 1:32:43
  Review what you are using to correct prisoners.
• 1:32:46
  If not, they are only going out to return back again.
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  Don't steal is not how you turn thieves to Saints.
• 1:32:55
  I recommend with every sense of joy the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Yes Sir, Turn it into programs. If you walk in prisons here,
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  hear me. It's my honest recommendation,
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  turn it into programs. Don't just say you know, you see
• 1:33:16
  what you are doing. You are now here and depends.
• 1:33:18
  Well, I'm here. You think you would change like
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  that? No, the deliverance part, you
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  can do it or connect them to Koinonia.
• 1:33:25
  Let me help you undo that one. But once they are done that
• 1:33:31
  rehabilitation, listen, let me tell you the truth, if I were
• 1:33:35
  policy maker from a governmental standpoint, I will put together
• 1:33:39
  people and recommend policies. And before you bring a policy,
• 1:33:44
  you must tell me the reference. Where did it come from?
• 1:33:48
  Are we together so that we see where it has worked before you
• 1:33:52
  implement it? Don't ship everything to your
• 1:33:55
  organization and say one somebody run a business with it.
• 1:33:59
  Did it produce results? You teach the people within your
• 1:34:03
  organization. When one person cries, everybody
• 1:34:06
  cries. That's how you build unity.
• 1:34:11
  Are we together? When you are about to reward
• 1:34:14
  excellence, you start by appreciating everybody.
• 1:34:18
  Then you appreciate the person who was uniquely exceptional.
• 1:34:21
  The remaining fine consolation, because you started by telling
• 1:34:24
  them thank you too. But when you isolate others and
• 1:34:27
  you say you are not like this other foolish people, you have
• 1:34:29
  brought a lot of money to this corporation.
• 1:34:31
  You make them hate him. That was the mistake of Jacob.
• 1:34:35
  Jacob would have appreciated all his sons then he would have now
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  given Joseph a coat of many colors.
• 1:34:41
  But he kept loving only Joseph. And shouting it.
• 1:34:45
  And the brothers hated him for three reasons.
• 1:34:48
  Let me do a crash course and teach you 3 reasons why men hate
• 1:34:51
  you #1 men who hate you because of the love of your father
• 1:34:54
  towards you, in this case, God. Number two, men who hate you
• 1:34:59
  because of your dreams. They hated Joseph because of his
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  dream. Number three men hated him
• 1:35:05
  because of the gift his father gave him, the coat of many
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  colors. Now let's go very quickly to
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  functioning like Christ. I hope someone is learning.
• 1:35:18
  So God made man. We're still considering Genesis
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  chapter 1 and verse 26 that God made man in his image.
• 1:35:25
  We're looking at the topic greater light and for Part 1,
• 1:35:28
  we're considering the mysteries of dominion, and in a very
• 1:35:32
  unassuming way, I'm showing you that you're working in the
• 1:35:35
  experience of dominion has a lot to do with your receiving,
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  manifesting, and experience the nature of Christ and creating an
• 1:35:44
  atmosphere that captures the nature of Christ.
• 1:35:48
  Now let's look at what it means to function like God.
• 1:35:51
  This is what it means, the likeness of God.
• 1:35:53
  Now please look up. I used to think the likeness of
• 1:35:56
  God means having the form of God.
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  Even though that is true, it does not stop there.
• 1:36:03
  So when the Bible says God made man in the likeness of God, God
• 1:36:08
  has two hands, man has two hands.
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  God, as we know, has revealed in Christ, has one head.
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  Man has one head. Are we together?
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  He walks upon his feet like man walks upon his feet.
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  So there is the form of God. But then the greater implication
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  of being built to function like Christ is that you must have.
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  The requisite knowledge you must know how God works, how God
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  obtains results, how God manifests dominion, and then to
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  replicate it in your life. And I want to open your eyes to
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  a few things very quickly. Are you ready to function like
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  God? Genesis chapter one, verse one,
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  the Bible tells us. Let's look at a few things very
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  quickly. My God, I'm already sensing a
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  very strong anointing. That means something is going to
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  happen here now in the name of Jesus.
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  Genesis one verse one in the beginning God created everybody
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  say God created one more time shouting say God created.
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  That means every other person he created is also a creator.
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  Are we together? In the beginning God created.
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  In the beginning God created. In the beginning God created.
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  So the Bible says that he created the heavens and he
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  created the earth. That means within everybody,
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  every believer, is the ability to change your reality and to
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  change your environment, that there is something within man.
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  In functioning like God, you have the liberty to fade away
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  any scenery in your life that is inconsistent with God's
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  blueprints. Are we together?
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  The Bible did not say God explained.
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  He said God created the heavens and the earth.
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  Verse 2 the Bible says and the earth was without form and void
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  and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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  What does this tell you? It means challenges.
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  Dark days are not unusual. Even God experienced it in his
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  journey to creation. Are we together now that you are
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  going to face moments that may not be not so good?
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  The Bible says the earth, for whatever reason was now without
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  form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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  The Bible says the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the face of the
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  waters. Lesson #3 We learn never give up
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  on things because they are not walking.
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  You are learning to function like God.
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  When there was darkness, God did not run away waiting for someone
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  to create lights, then you will come back.
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  The Bible says the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of that
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  darkness, upon the face of that water.
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  The company is not walking, make it work, don't run away.
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  Are we together now? Anything that is not working
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  Champion, they don't stay until they make it work.
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  Verse 3 the Bible says and God said everybody say and God said,
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  So we see now that God created we see that God stayed even in
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  the. Midst of an unfavorable
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  environment. Now the Bible says God said that
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  means every spirit he created is a talking spirit, that you
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  create realities by speaking. This is how God functioned.
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  God functions by saying he frames realities by saying the
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  Bible says and God said he did not discuss the prevalent
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  situation. He just said let there be light,
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  let there be light, let there be light.
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  The Bible says and there was light #4 How to function like
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  God and God saw. The power of vision.
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  If you are to function like God, you must have the ability to
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  see. God saw the light.
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  You must see opportunities. God did not see the darkness.
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  Even though there was darkness, the Bible says God saw.
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  It matters what you see, not just that you see.
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  It matters what you see. Who is learning now?
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  From verse one to four, I'm showing you how to function like
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  God. That God created that when there
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  was darkness and chaos and anarchy, he did not run away.
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  He stood there and solved that problem.
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  And that God spoke. He created man to have capacity
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  to speak. And the Bible says God saw, man
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  can see. God has given every man the
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  power of vision, the ability to see things as safe as they
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  should be, even if they are good.
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  You can see it better. God saw the light.
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  God saw the light. God saw the light.
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  Who is learning? Very powerful.
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  Most people do not know how to function like God.
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  Let's read 1 Psalm 121 from verse one and two.
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  If you are learning, shout Amen. Psalm 121 verse one and two, I
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  will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comment my
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  help. Verse 2 it says my help comment
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  from the Lord which made the heavens and the earth.
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  God is a maker. You know what it means to make?
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  To make means to coordinate resources together to produce
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  something glorious. That's what it means to make, to
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  make his different from creation.
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  God made man God created man. You can create and you can make
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  making requires intelligence. It is beyond speaking.
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  You have to learn the act of bringing together all of the
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  systems of advantage, humans, material resources together.
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  That's how you make and the Bible called God a maker.
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  God called I mean the Bible calls him a maker.
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  That means everyone is a. Maker, everyone is a maker.
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  Everyone is a maker. You can produce a glorious life.
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  Are we together now? This is very powerful, very,
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  very powerful. Now the Bible also tells us,
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  like you have learned, that God has.
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  Let's go to Revelation chapter 4 please, from verse 10:50.
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  Who are learning how to function like Christ.
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  I'm showing you, he says the four and 20 elders fell down
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  before him and sat down on the throne and worshipped him that
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  lived forever and ever and cast their crowns before him saying
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  pay attention now. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to
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  receive. Glory help me and honor and
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  power, for Thou has created all things, and for Thy pleasure
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  they are and were created. I like these 3 words.
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  Glory and honor and power. Glory and honor You are worthy
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  to receive. That means it should be captured
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  in the life of every believer. Glory and honor and power.
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  Say that after me, Glory and honor and power.
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  Glory and honor and power. Everything that makes God God
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  his wisdom, glory, everything that makes God God his
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  intelligence, glory. And the Bible says honor and
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  then power found. In him, and he must be found in
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  all the Saints. The Bible calls God Almighty not
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  only the Creator, it calls him the owner and the ruler of
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  everything. First Chronicles chapter 29 and
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  verse 11. I'm showing you a few things so
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  that you will see how God functions.
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  Dying, oh Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory.
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  There you find it again, and the victory and the majesty for all
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  that is in the heavens and is in the earth is dying.
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  Dying is the Kingdom, oh Lord, and thou art exalted above it
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  all, Please. Look at me.
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  Did you ever read in your Bible that we have been raised up with
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  Christ? Efficiency chapter 1.
• 1:44:04
  Efficiency chapter 2. That means everything that God
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  has that was invested in Christ. That is now the believers
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  reality. Listen, you cannot function like
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  God until you know what God has, until you know what God carries,
• 1:44:20
  not just who He is. When you talk about who He is,
• 1:44:23
  you talk about His nature. But you must know what God has,
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  because it also belongs to you in Christ.
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  Are we together? It belongs to you in Christ.
• 1:44:36
  Paul taught us that we are possessors of this.
• 1:44:39
  The Bible calls it inheritance in light that the Saints have an
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  inheritance and that inheritance is in light efficiency of the
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  one and verse. 3. The Bible says God had blessed
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  us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ the
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  Bible tells us that we have been given exceeding great and
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  precious promises that by them we might be partakers of his
• 1:45:05
  divine nature. Haven't escaped the corruption
• 1:45:08
  that is in the world through lust.
• 1:45:10
  What did God give Jesus as a reflection of himself he gave
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  Jesus power. He gave Jesus authority.
• 1:45:19
  All the Saints have power and the things have authority, but
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  the power and the authority they have is knowledge activated.
• 1:45:27
  Are we together knowledge activated?
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  There is no mention in the Bible of God functioning in ignorance.
• 1:45:35
  That means in ignorance the Saints cannot function like God.
• 1:45:39
  He dwells in the midst of light. He functions from a standpoint
• 1:45:43
  of light. He speaks in light.
• 1:45:46
  He acts in light. When the Saints dwell and remain
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  in darkness, they are not able to function like God.
• 1:45:54
  Now Psalm 115, please. And verse 16.
• 1:45:58
  Let's hurry up. Psalm 115 and verse 16 The
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  heaven, I like this. Even the heaven of heavens are
• 1:46:05
  the Lords. Read with me.
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  Koinonia, I want to go. But the earth had He given to
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  the children of men one more time.
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  But the earth had he given to the children of men.
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  The real trustee of this earth is everyone who is in Christ,
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  not everyone who is alive, everyone who is in Christ.
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  The real trustee of the earth, I repeat, is everyone who is in
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  Christ, not everyone who is alive.
• 1:46:38
  Let me tell you the truth, when you have this mentalities as a
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  man of God, you know that you have a property somewhere, I
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  don't know where it is, but there is somewhere.
• 1:46:47
  You know that the issue of housing.
• 1:46:49
  Is settled in Christ, it is just the wisdom for you to find your
• 1:46:53
  portion. But by this revelation there is
• 1:46:57
  you walk tall, not in pride, but in confidence, knowing that I
• 1:47:01
  may be in a rented apartment today, but in this planet called
• 1:47:06
  Earth there is a space for me. I am in Christ.
• 1:47:09
  The earth was willed to Abraham and to his seed, his seed being
• 1:47:14
  Christ. And since I am in Christ, I am a
• 1:47:17
  beneficiary, A partaker. Not just the spiritual
• 1:47:20
  blessings, but the estate that was given to Abraham.
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  Apostle, this is a nice word. You don't believe it.
• 1:47:29
  You will not have any land, I tell you Hallelujah.
• 1:47:35
  And if you be Christ, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs
• 1:47:40
  according to the promise. You have this revelation.
• 1:47:43
  You can function that way. You can know that there is a
• 1:47:46
  permanent site for coedonia. You can know that there is a
• 1:47:49
  permanent site for every vision. You can know that where you are
• 1:47:53
  now there is a place I don't. Know where it is, but I know it
• 1:47:57
  is there. This revelation already is
• 1:47:59
  helping you function like God. Who is learning?
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  Let me tell you some more how God functions.
• 1:48:06
  The Bible says even God look up please.
• 1:48:08
  Who quickeneth the dead and collect those things that be not
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  as though they were. That means God does not wait for
• 1:48:16
  things to manifest before he calls them.
• 1:48:19
  He calls them to manifest. You get up in the morning and
• 1:48:22
  with the spirit of vision you begin to design A life using
• 1:48:26
  words. You are functioning like God.
• 1:48:32
  Do you believe this? Man was created in the image of
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  God, and he was created in the likeness of God.
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  Now there are a few things about man that I need you to know
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  about. Four of them.
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  Then I will show you three ways classically, of functioning like
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  Christ. And we'll begin to pray #1 I've
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  taught you in this place, and let me repeat it, that man
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  generally is the legitimate steward of the earth.
• 1:49:08
  The legitimate steward of the earth is man generally.
• 1:49:14
  God intended for the earth to come under the stewardship of
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  men. But because men have been
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  separated now into fallen men and those who are in Christ, are
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  we together? Access to be possessors,
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  stewards and custodians of God's property.
• 1:49:32
  Look at me, if you have a son and you have a property and
• 1:49:37
  someone who is outside of that family wants to lay claim on the
• 1:49:40
  property, what do you do? You'll get a lawyer because
• 1:49:43
  something is wrong. Am I right on that?
• 1:49:45
  The prodigal son, provided he was within the family, he had
• 1:49:49
  access to his father's estate. When he chose as an act of his
• 1:49:53
  will, to go out of the family, whatever he was given, that was
• 1:49:57
  all he had. He lost everything.
• 1:49:59
  When he came back into the fold, he now was reintroduced into
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  that covenant of sonship. This is how it is.
• 1:50:08
  Make no mistakes about it, the earth may not be in the hands of
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  believers. Now it is clear that believers
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  are not the ones who are possessors.
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  And when I talk about the earth, I don't just talk about the land
• 1:50:20
  mass. Are we together?
• 1:50:22
  I'm not just talking about the land mass, I'm talking of
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  manipulating the mind control systems too.
• 1:50:29
  The earth believers are not supposed to be victims of
• 1:50:32
  policies and a modus operandi that is Antichrist.
• 1:50:36
  It is because we do not understand how to function like
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  Christ. We have been so reduced to a
• 1:50:41
  point. Where we are victims of anything
• 1:50:43
  that comes from anywhere. Unfortunately, Satan went ahead
• 1:50:47
  of many believers, and he's captured the kings and the
• 1:50:50
  gatekeepers of the. World and they continue to
• 1:50:53
  manipulate the cosmos to come up with policies and come up with
• 1:50:57
  things that are Antichrist. We are largely victims, but I
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  believe in Jesus name that things are changing.
• 1:51:06
  There are some of you here. By accessing Kingdom influence,
• 1:51:10
  God is going to elevate you like Esther and put you at strategic
• 1:51:14
  places where you will you will. Protect and defend the cause of
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  the Kingdom. Who believes what I'm saying?
• 1:51:22
  Refer to my message Redefining the Coming Revival.
• 1:51:25
  I teach you that that the coming revival will be beyond pulpits.
• 1:51:29
  It will not be the way we have described.
• 1:51:31
  It will not just be the campaign of filling stadiums alone.
• 1:51:34
  God is going to be raising people strategically and He's
• 1:51:37
  going to be keeping them across several places.
• 1:51:40
  You will see Estas in that revival.
• 1:51:42
  You will see Daniels in that revival.
• 1:51:45
  It's not only Elijah's you will see.
• 1:51:47
  It's not only Paul's that you will see.
• 1:51:49
  You will see Gideons that will arise.
• 1:51:51
  You will see process that will arise.
• 1:51:53
  Are we together now? The revival will not come the
• 1:51:56
  way we have seen the world and the rest.
• 1:51:58
  It will not just be the revival of stadiums and healings and
• 1:52:02
  wheelchairs. It will be revivals of changing
• 1:52:05
  policies, rising to a point of Kingdom influence where one man
• 1:52:09
  can single handedly protect the cause of Christ across a
• 1:52:13
  continent with one policy, one policy, one policy.
• 1:52:21
  Let me tell you the truth, not everybody is going to be a
• 1:52:25
  prophet. Not everybody is going to be an
• 1:52:27
  apostle, not everybody is going to be a teacher.
• 1:52:30
  And unfortunately, we've marketed this ministry so much
• 1:52:35
  that anyone who is not in the fivefold fields is not part of
• 1:52:38
  God's program. No, go and read your Bible.
• 1:52:42
  The fivefold without a Daniel will be in trouble.
• 1:52:45
  It was because there was nobody in the parliament, and since
• 1:52:50
  Daniel was not there, nobody to defend him.
• 1:52:53
  If there were enough people in Babylon, they would have said
• 1:52:56
  no. This policy, we cannot see how
• 1:52:58
  it applies to Babylon. It is dangerous when we only
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  have Christians in church. It is dangerous for the nation.
• 1:53:06
  We must have Christians in the assemblies, in the presidency.
• 1:53:10
  Are we together? We must have Christians as CEOs.
• 1:53:13
  We must have Christians as. Policy makers.
• 1:53:19
  This is the Apostolic model that was left with the Church.
• 1:53:22
  There was a time the Lord told the told Apostle Paul, I think
• 1:53:25
  he said do not be afraid. I have many people in that city.
• 1:53:28
  Your advantage is number. There are many people who are
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  believers. We need vice chancellors who are
• 1:53:35
  men who function like God. Are we together now?
• 1:53:38
  We need lecturers who are men who function like God.
• 1:53:41
  We need chief medical directors who do not just understand
• 1:53:44
  medicine and surgery but have the anointing they know how to
• 1:53:47
  function like God. Are we together now?
• 1:53:50
  We need CE OS who are not just intelligent people counting
• 1:53:53
  naira and cobra and dollars, but people who can defend the cause
• 1:53:57
  of Christ. If you are one of such shouting
• 1:53:59
  loud. Amen.
• 1:54:06
  When God created man in His image, let me tell you the
• 1:54:09
  truth, He did not create man to just attend miracle services and
• 1:54:13
  crusades forever. It is a very distorted theology
• 1:54:18
  of Kingdom advance. A major part of a believer's
• 1:54:21
  life should not just be in church and crusade grounds.
• 1:54:25
  Church is a training ground. The cosmos is the field if all
• 1:54:31
  we keep doing, with all due respect, is to bring members and
• 1:54:35
  keep pounding them with knowledge without a strategic
• 1:54:38
  way of helping them deployed both we, the men of God and the
• 1:54:43
  members who soon be frustrated. What I teach you now, tomorrow
• 1:54:49
  you're in your office. By Sunday you are excited to
• 1:54:52
  return because you've applied it and you've seen it work.
• 1:54:55
  Now coming to church becomes an exciting adventure.
• 1:54:58
  What more do I need to learn? I applied this and it worked
• 1:55:02
  like fire. I applied the law of honor,
• 1:55:04
  functioning like Christ as a CEOII redesigned a model and in
• 1:55:10
  one week those of favor open. Why wouldn't you want to come to
• 1:55:14
  church? You would drag all your
• 1:55:16
  executives and say, let me tell you which is not just a place
• 1:55:19
  that builds fanatics, it builds intelligent people that the
• 1:55:23
  world can apply to nation building.
• 1:55:25
  You've you've heard me, you, you can, you can literally bring
• 1:55:28
  statistics to show that from the time I became a member of this
• 1:55:33
  church. Look at our productivity.
• 1:55:37
  This is a language that will subdue principalities and
• 1:55:42
  powers. Not just blind fanaticism, it
• 1:55:45
  will only work among a few small minded people, but at a macro
• 1:55:49
  level it will have no effect on God's program.
• 1:55:52
  I'm telling you, are we together?
• 1:55:55
  Do you realize that there is an intentional plot by hell?
• 1:55:59
  Oh, I, I wish I have the liberty to tell you the things that are
• 1:56:03
  cooking that will be unveiled as the days come and it is targeted
• 1:56:08
  at the church. We have no idea the the spirit
• 1:56:11
  of the Antichrist because we have refused to learn how to
• 1:56:15
  function in the image and the likeness of God.
• 1:56:18
  Darkness is brewing up policies, brewing up strategies,
• 1:56:23
  strategies to destroy schools, strategies to destroy an entire
• 1:56:27
  generation of children and. What are we doing in the church?
• 1:56:30
  Just shouting Hallelujah, which is important and we are losing
• 1:56:34
  our minds and not thinking. We are not translating Kingdom
• 1:56:37
  come intelligently to serve God's purpose.
• 1:56:40
  But things are changing to function like Christ.
• 1:56:44
  Look at me when Jesus walked upon the earth.
• 1:56:48
  I want you to notice how Jesus did ministry number one.
• 1:56:52
  He started by doing all kinds of crusades, healing.
• 1:56:55
  That means if we are to function like Christ, there must be
• 1:56:59
  captured within the church. Are we together now?
• 1:57:02
  A people and a platform that allows Christ to be revealed?
• 1:57:06
  Do you know what it means to gather?
• 1:57:07
  5000 people aside, women and children, It was beyond a
• 1:57:11
  crusade. It was a statement that God is
• 1:57:14
  alive. It is not all programs that are
• 1:57:17
  just for soul winning alone. There are times that there are
• 1:57:21
  statements that show the health of the church, that the church
• 1:57:24
  is still alive in numbers enough to influence society.
• 1:57:31
  Are we together #2 We see that Jesus did not shy away from the
• 1:57:37
  powers that be. Do you read in the Bible how
• 1:57:39
  Jesus interacted with people from an economic standpoint?
• 1:57:43
  One person whose economic approach was punishing a lot of
• 1:57:47
  people called Zacchaeus. Is that not in your Bible?
• 1:57:53
  You would think, I hope you know, Jesus was not going to his
• 1:57:55
  house. Jesus was on his way passing.
• 1:57:58
  But when he saw Zacchaeus, he says, Zacchaeus, come down, I'm
• 1:58:01
  going to your house. There must be a space within the
• 1:58:05
  Church where the purposes of God must be represented in our
• 1:58:09
  economic policies, not just crusades, our economic policies.
• 1:58:16
  How about Nicodemus? Nicodemus was an intellectual.
• 1:58:19
  He was a doctor of the law. He came to Jesus by night.
• 1:58:23
  I hope you know the whole of John 316 was a conversation
• 1:58:26
  between Jesus and one intellectual.
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  Person we have used it today to save millions of people, but it
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  came as a conversation there must be a part of the church
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  that relates to the intellectual world.
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  We must know that just because we are anointed, we are not
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  dummies. He's not only a creator, he's
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  the. Only wise God.
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  Now to the King eternal. He says, the King immortal, the
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  King invincible, He calls him the only wise God.
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  It is in His He is the fountain of wisdom.
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  Functioning like God, let me tell you the truth, most of the
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  challenges in society, in addition to not having the
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  nature of Christ, most of the defeats that is in the life of
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  believers is because we have not been trained to function like
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  Christ. There are many dimensions to
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  that function, but I want to give you 3 for the purpose of
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  Part 1 of this series and then we'll pray.
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  Let's do that very quickly. Who is learning everything I've
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  been teaching to function like Christ Number one, look up
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  please, according to God's design as revealed in the life
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  of Jesus. Please, please lend me your
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  attention. According to God's design as
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  revealed in the life of Jesus. We find that in Matthew chapter
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  4 and verse 4. The very code to function like
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  Christ is given to us there, that man.
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  Shall not leave by bread alone, man shall not leave by bread
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  alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of
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  God. Who is learning now that in
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  functioning like Christ, your first assignment is to
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  prioritize the Word of God if you do not know the Word of God?
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  And you do not have access to the word of God.
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  You cannot, cannot function like Christ.
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  Jesus himself said that man, Any man, a businessman, a man of
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  God, a man as a father, a man as a politician, a man as a
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  professional, a man as a diplomatic career person, a man
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  as anyone in the fivefold ministry, whoever that person
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  is, if you want to function like Christ, then it will have to go
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  beyond. Bread, he says.
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  You. Function by respect and engaging
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  every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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  Say after me the word of God. One more time, say the Word of
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  God. So to the believer in Christ
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  intending to function like God, the Word of God becomes a
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  template. Are we together?
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  The basis for everything you do must be with respect to what
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  God? Said with respect to what God
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  said, not with respect to what you feel, not with respect to
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  what society is saying. The believers entire Christian
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  experience is with respect. To the word of God, the way you
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  give with respect to the word of God, the way you talk with
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  respect to the word of God, the way you do things with respect
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  to the word of God. If you lose the word of God
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  factor, you have no basis of functioning like God.
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  Look at this, when God made Adam and Eve, I thought the only
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  thing he gave them was a garden. But the real thing he gave them
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  was his word because when Satan came he didn't bother about the
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  garden. The 1st place Satan went to was
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  what God said. Satan knows he has an
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  understanding that if he wants to distort a man and.
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  Stop that man from functioning like Christ.
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  All he needs to do is to bring you to a point where you do not
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  respect the supremacy of God's word and that you build your
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  life on any other thing. Minus the word of God, He knows
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  you are defeated. Man shall not live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that proceeded from the mouth of God.
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  Colossians chapter 1 and verse 9 still speaking about the word of
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  God. This was Paul praying he says
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  for this course we also since the day we heard it.
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  Listen carefully, do not cease to pray for you and to desire
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  that you might be filled with the.
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  Knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual
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  understanding. Spiritual understanding.
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  Now, when we talk about knowledge in the Kingdom, we do
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  not just mean knowledge of secular things.
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  There are three kinds of knowledge a believer needs to
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  excel #1 which is the highest is spiritual knowledge.
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  Spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of the Word of God #2
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  intellectual knowledge, the knowledge of the laws that
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  govern the cosmos, the knowledge of the laws that govern the
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  cosmos, then #3 knowledge as specific to whatever field of
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  endeavor. I'll repeat that again.
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  There are three kinds of knowledge every believer needs
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  to have. Generally speaking, the highest
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  is spiritual knowledge. Knowledge as revealed by the
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  Word of God #2 the knowledge of the laws of life.
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  This physical world, you see, has laws and you must know it.
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  There are laws you need to know else will fail #3 the knowledge
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  in your field. Now whether you are a doctor.
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  So if the only thing you know is the knowledge of medicine and
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  surgery, or the knowledge of law, or the knowledge of what
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  they call it now engineering or the knowledge.
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  Of architecture, you will be limited in life in as much as
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  you are an intelligent person. You may say, let me tell you the
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  truth, the knowledge. Of your field, your field of
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  practice with respect to the realms of knowledge available is
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  the lowest level of knowledge you can obtain.
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  So don't just say I'm a graduate.
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  I have masters in business administration.
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  I'm, I'm a consultant in medicine and surgery.
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  Now I, I, I appreciate you with respect to your field.
• 2:04:44
  You will do well. But with respect to living, you
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  will live so poorly and so defeated.
• 2:04:50
  Have you seen people who are so intelligent as far as their
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  field of endeavour is concerned, borates them as per their life
• 2:04:58
  and destiny is nothing to be desired is?
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  Because they did not contend for these three realms of knowledge.
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  Let me repeat it again for your learning.
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  The highest level of knowledge that every believer must contend
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  for is the knowledge, spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of the
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  ways of God. As revealed in Scripture, are we
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  together? The second level of knowledge is
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  the knowledge of the laws that govern the cosmos.
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  There are laws that govern the cosmos.
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  And then #3 knowledge in your area of specialty or your area
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  of, of endeavour. So you can be an architect and
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  yet the results in your life and the quality of your life is
• 2:05:39
  beyond the practice of architecture.
• 2:05:41
  Because number one, you have wholesome spiritual knowledge #2
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  you understand the laws that govern the cosmos.
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  I'll give you an example. The law of relationships is both
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  a spiritual law and one of the fundamental laws that governs
• 2:05:57
  the cosmos. You can be very.
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  Intelligent, but not knowing that law alone can.
• 2:06:02
  Cost you so much Are we learning Everybody say the word of God.
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  When you see that we emphasize the word of God, it is because
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  this is the modus operandi, the basis for every believers
• 2:06:20
  decisions and choices should be the word of God.
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  Everything. The way you build business by
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  the world. The way you build ministry by
• 2:06:30
  the world. The way you build family by the
• 2:06:33
  world, are we together. The way you build your
• 2:06:35
  cooperation by the world. The way you build your spiritual
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  life. If it must be accurate, it must
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  be by the world. Now let me tell you this.
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  The greatest attack in your life will come from Satan distracting
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  you and making you trivialize the place of God's Word.
• 2:06:56
  Show me a man who does not place value on the Word of God, but
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  desires to function like Christ. I show you a man who wants to
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  drive a car without battery, fuel, tires.
• 2:07:08
  How will that car be driven? Are we together?
• 2:07:11
  Now imagine a man who wants to drive a car.
• 2:07:14
  The cars do not have tires, no battery to start the car,
• 2:07:18
  nothing else and yet the man can be sitting there for years
• 2:07:22
  kicking the car and saying I know one day I will use this car
• 2:07:25
  to go to Lagos. You're wasting your time.
• 2:07:31
  There are components in a car you can do without.
• 2:07:34
  If your mirror is broken, the car will still move.
• 2:07:37
  But if there's no tire, the car will not move.
• 2:07:39
  The components in this car called your destiny do not all
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  have equal value. There are things you can do
• 2:07:45
  without. For instance, everybody does not
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  need to love you. The paint of a car can scratch
• 2:07:51
  and yet it can speed more than a new car.
• 2:07:53
  There you have to major on the majors and minor on the minors.
• 2:07:58
  Imagine a man who would rather give up his tire to buy paint
• 2:08:01
  for his car. Is that a wise man?
• 2:08:04
  This what a lot of people are doing.
• 2:08:05
  They are giving up their spiritual life so that they will
• 2:08:08
  look beautiful or look handsome. My goodness, my God, imagine a
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  very a well decorated car, no battery, no Kickstarter, no
• 2:08:22
  steering, no nothing. But there is a big DVD player
• 2:08:27
  inside shouting around. I said sit down, we're going,
• 2:08:30
  will you get anywhere? No Sir.
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  Listen, I hope you get what I'm saying.
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  Now there are many of us who cannot function like Christ
• 2:08:39
  because we have not respected the word of God.
• 2:08:42
  When Jesus came watch this, what was he doing at age 12?
• 2:08:46
  Talk to me, Jesus. Went to the temple, are we
• 2:08:50
  together? And he was listening.
• 2:08:53
  This was the Word Incarnate. He knew that if he was to
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  function like his Father, because he had now come in the
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  flesh, stripped himself. Don't think that Jesus came with
• 2:09:04
  memory of Scripture in his head. No, He stripped all of that.
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  He came as a human being. Everything he knew that he said,
• 2:09:10
  it is written, he learned it. It did not come automatically.
• 2:09:14
  He stripped himself of everything.
• 2:09:16
  God became a man. He went to the temple knowing
• 2:09:19
  that he needed these resources of It is written.
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  Please look at me. If you don't take the word of
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  God serious in your life, I give you a guarantee that eventually
• 2:09:31
  you will fail. You will not be able to function
• 2:09:33
  like Christ. You will speak but not like God.
• 2:09:37
  You will move but not like God. You will act but not like God.
• 2:09:43
  You see, the fruit of the Spirit help you to be like Christ.
• 2:09:48
  The gifts of the Spirit help you to act like Christ, whether it's
• 2:09:54
  the gift of wisdom, what is the gift of whatever.
• 2:09:57
  Together they help you to act like Christ.
• 2:09:59
  Are we together? You think like Christ, you act
• 2:10:02
  like Christ. But for most people, we have
• 2:10:05
  focused, like I said earlier, on, on gifts and all of that
• 2:10:09
  without focusing on the nature of Christ, but that when you get
• 2:10:13
  the issue of the nature of Christ, you are allowed the Holy
• 2:10:17
  Spirit to do that in our work producing the character of the
• 2:10:20
  Spirit. The next assignment is that you
• 2:10:23
  must respect the Word of God. The beautiful.
• 2:10:25
  The full thing about the Word of God is that it is the tool that
• 2:10:29
  builds both the image and the likeness.
• 2:10:32
  Same. Word.
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  So as you submit yourself to the Word of God, watch this Now that
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  which is locked up within you, potentially in the new birth
• 2:10:43
  experience, now begins to find expression.
• 2:10:47
  I don't know how people live without respecting the Word of
• 2:10:51
  God. They don't study it.
• 2:10:53
  They don't care about it and yet they want to get God's result.
• 2:10:58
  You can never get God's result until you follow God's
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  strategies. Did you hear what I said?
• 2:11:04
  You can never get God's result until you follow God's strategy.
• 2:11:10
  So Apostle, I want to prosper. The Bible says I should prosper.
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  You have various options. 1 of it is to open up the word of God
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  and find out how did God design His creation to prosper.
• 2:11:24
  Follow it diligently and you will arrive at God's results.
• 2:11:28
  Are we together? Man shall not live by bread
• 2:11:37
  alone. Word by every word.
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  I give you an instance. I have drummed it here in
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  Koinonia. Let's try it again for one last
• 2:11:44
  time tonight. The Bible says let the redeemed
• 2:11:47
  of the Lord say so. The power of words.
• 2:11:50
  It says, declare ye that thou mightest be justified.
• 2:11:54
  How many believers know that if you are to function like God,
• 2:11:58
  your speaking must be seen as a vital component to your life and
• 2:12:03
  your destiny? And yet many people do not
• 2:12:05
  speak. I'm not talking of just jumping
• 2:12:07
  and shouting rubbish, I'm talking of creating your life
• 2:12:10
  with intelligence, knowing that God said for him to see, so you
• 2:12:14
  must say for you to see. No weapon fashion against me
• 2:12:21
  will prosper. In the name of Jesus Christ I
• 2:12:24
  decree and declare my September must be better than my August,
• 2:12:28
  my October must be better than my September, my November better
• 2:12:32
  than October, December better than November.
• 2:12:36
  What is the basis for that speaking?
• 2:12:37
  That the part of the just is as a shining light, that Shiner
• 2:12:42
  ever brighter, more and more on to the perfect day?
• 2:12:46
  Are you learning this? Now it is true.
• 2:12:50
  The Bible says he keepeth his bones and none is lost.
• 2:12:53
  So you prophecy in the name of Jesus.
• 2:12:56
  As I saw John, my body is healthy, my organs are healthy,
• 2:13:00
  my body rejects any virus, rejects anything that is not of
• 2:13:04
  God. This is true.
• 2:13:06
  If you do not learn to function like this, you are not
• 2:13:09
  functioning like God. Surely they shall gather, but
• 2:13:14
  because their gathering is not of the Lord, they will scatter.
• 2:13:17
  They come against me in one way, and they flee in seven ways.
• 2:13:23
  Hallelujah, I'm showing you how to function like God.
• 2:13:26
  When you understand the word of God, now you can engage these 3
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  dimensions. One of them is speaking.
• 2:13:34
  Speaking the talking spirit produce other talking spirits
• 2:13:40
  who designed their lives with the power of words, the power of
• 2:13:45
  words. I will never stop speaking God's
• 2:13:49
  Word over my life. I will never stop speaking God's
• 2:13:53
  Word over you. I will never stop speaking God's
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  Word over Koinonia. I will never stop speaking God's
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  word over my destiny. Someone say I will speak.
• 2:14:04
  Say I will declare. Say I will decree one more time.
• 2:14:08
  Say I will speak. Say I will declare, Say I will
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  decree. Never allow a day.
• 2:14:16
  Pass without you making declarations of God's word.
• 2:14:19
  But here's the question, if you have not hidden that word in
• 2:14:23
  your heart, you will have no vocabulary, spiritual
• 2:14:26
  vocabulary. The problem with many believers
• 2:14:29
  is not that they do not want to speak, is that they are bankrupt
• 2:14:33
  of the scriptures. They have not hidden just the
• 2:14:36
  scripture enough to declare it. You want to function like
• 2:14:41
  Christ. Get on the project of
• 2:14:44
  transferring the Word of God from the pages of this book into
• 2:14:48
  your spirit man. That's what Jesus did for 18
• 2:14:51
  years. He invested his time with the
• 2:14:54
  Word of God and in three years he lived an invincible life,
• 2:14:59
  demonstrated dominion, and finished the plan of redemption.
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  In the name of Jesus, Koinonia goes from glory to glory.
• 2:15:10
  The Bible says I am the children that the Lord has given me.
• 2:15:13
  We are for signs and we are for wonders.
• 2:15:15
  In Israel. Koinonia will never go up and
• 2:15:17
  come down. That epileptic destiny is not
• 2:15:20
  part of our heritage. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
• 2:15:23
  decree and declare that the Lord multiplies me.
• 2:15:26
  I will not be small. He glorifies me.
• 2:15:29
  You see that now the Lord is my light and my salvation.
• 2:15:32
  Of whom shall I be afraid of? The Bible says whatsoever you do
• 2:15:36
  a prosper. You lay your hands in the
• 2:15:38
  morning before you go to the office.
• 2:15:39
  Don't think you have been childish.
• 2:15:41
  I'm showing you how, God. Functions in the name of Jesus
• 2:15:45
  every document I lay my hands upon in the office will not
• 2:15:48
  bring me trouble. I will not sign anything that
• 2:15:51
  will lead to the dismissal of my job.
• 2:15:53
  You lay your hands on your mind. I have the mind of Christ in the
• 2:15:57
  name of Jesus. I have the mind of Christ.
• 2:16:00
  I decree on the Claire. I'm performing optimally in an
• 2:16:03
  extraordinary dimension. The spirit of grace is at
• 2:16:07
  working me. You quote the scripture like
• 2:16:09
  Ellie who that there is a spirit in Joshua Selman and the
• 2:16:12
  inspiration of the Almighty makes me of understanding.
• 2:16:16
  Ah, my heart is indicted. A good matter.
• 2:16:19
  Yeah. I speak of excellent things.
• 2:16:21
  As a preacher. You will tell yourself my tongue
• 2:16:24
  is the pen of a ready writer. That when I open my mouth, I'm
• 2:16:28
  not speaking gibberish. I'm writing and rewriting and
• 2:16:31
  deleting and rewriting over the destinies of men.
• 2:16:36
  I will call on one man, and a nation will respond.
• 2:16:39
  You believe that? Listen, every time God had a
• 2:16:44
  need there was provision. Every time Jesus had a need,
• 2:16:48
  there was provision. He said go to the street whose
• 2:16:52
  roads divide. You will find A cause there that
• 2:16:55
  no man had written on. There is something for you that
• 2:16:59
  no one has touched. If you don't know how to call
• 2:17:02
  it, you can remain where you are.
• 2:17:06
  Are we together? Greater light?
• 2:17:08
  How to function like Christ? Let me tell you the truth,
• 2:17:11
  ladies and gentlemen. Work with the simplicity of this
• 2:17:14
  truth and watch what happens in your life.
• 2:17:17
  You know how the spirit of depression functions.
• 2:17:20
  It brings you to a point of silence.
• 2:17:22
  Medical science will tell you when you say.
• 2:17:25
  Depressed person is not a noisy person.
• 2:17:27
  He keeps quiet, then he takes a deep breath.
• 2:17:31
  So my life, not me. I get up in the morning.
• 2:17:35
  This is the day the Lord made, not the Lord and Satan.
• 2:17:38
  This is the day the Lord made. He considered my interest in
• 2:17:42
  making that day. I rejoice and I am glad in it.
• 2:17:47
  Hallelujah, even when you are going through trouble and
• 2:17:50
  negative circumstances, what does the word of God say?
• 2:17:54
  Count it all joy my brethren, when you go through diverse
• 2:17:58
  temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith
• 2:18:02
  produces patience. He says let faith, let patience
• 2:18:06
  have his work that you may be matured and tired, wanting
• 2:18:10
  nothing. You get to the office and they
• 2:18:13
  drop a sack letter and say your services are not needed.
• 2:18:17
  If you don't just say God, just kill me.
• 2:18:19
  Just kill me, no. That's not how God functions.
• 2:18:23
  When He saw darkness, the Spirit of God did not run away from the
• 2:18:26
  darkness. He hovered around the face of
• 2:18:29
  the darkness. Look at that situation eyeball
• 2:18:31
  to eyeball. I will run away from you.
• 2:18:34
  I'm tired of running away from the financial situation.
• 2:18:37
  I will not run away from the rent situation.
• 2:18:39
  When you run, you will leave to fight another day.
• 2:18:42
  I face you with faith. I may not have a job now.
• 2:18:45
  I don't have an idea how I will come come out of that financial
• 2:18:48
  situation, but I start by speaking the same spirit that
• 2:18:52
  raised Christ from the dead, who raised me from death, and bring
• 2:18:56
  me to a point of blessings. Start from there.
• 2:19:04
  Greater light kings reign by their words.
• 2:19:08
  It is their words that are penned down and become policies.
• 2:19:12
  Are we together now? I wake up in the morning, I'm
• 2:19:16
  speaking, I walk around, I'm speaking in the name of Jesus.
• 2:19:20
  I am blessed, I'm blessed. I can whom it beyond just just
• 2:19:24
  below my breath, but I'm speaking, I'm speaking, I'm
• 2:19:28
  flying. If I'm not sleeping, you would
• 2:19:31
  see me just mom. If I'm not praying in tongues,
• 2:19:33
  I'm making declarations as this plane is flying.
• 2:19:36
  That's how my destiny will fly to.
• 2:19:39
  I don't waste opportunities, no, the same way this plane could
• 2:19:43
  not be resisted 35,000 feet above sea level, living every
• 2:19:48
  mountain, every valley. That's how my destiny is
• 2:19:50
  following too. Hallelujah, the name of Jesus.
• 2:19:58
  I'm a well watered garden, Well watered garden in the name of
• 2:20:02
  Jesus Christ. Well watered garden.
• 2:20:04
  Colonia, you go from glory to glory.
• 2:20:07
  It is your heritage in Christ. In the name of Jesus, our young
• 2:20:11
  men in Koinonia are gainfully employed.
• 2:20:13
  They are responsible people. Armed robbers are not being
• 2:20:16
  raised here. Touts are not being raised here.
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  Responsible, visionary, Kingdom driven people.
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  Our ladies are after the order of Esther.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, women with nobility and power,
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  women with character and virtue, found it in the Bible.
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  Where did you find this apostle? Genesis chapter 17 and verse 6.
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  Genesis and I will make the exceeding fruitful.
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  And I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of
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  thee. Kings shall come out of thee.
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  So when you hear someone come to testify and say I was an
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  ordinary person, I am now walking UNI.
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  Sit back there. And I said, that's right, the
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  speaking is walking kings. Kings, Kings, Hallelujah, you
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  can transfer the same mentality as a mother.
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  Lay hands on your children every day before they go to school.
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  Let them learn it. Once they are done with
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  breakfast, they line up. Let them remind you that you
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  forgot to speak over their life. My son, you are great.
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  Say after Tammy I'm a champion. Say after Tammy I'm a warrior.
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  Speak to him before some some ill mannered young boy somewhere
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  goes to destroy the confidence of your child in school,
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  especially in this day that we live in.
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  Some bully gets up somewhere and rubbishes your child and he
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  begins to fail. Say after me boy you are a
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  champion. He says I'm a champion.
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  Say I'm the head and not the tail.
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  Before you know it, he begins to say, Mommy, you forgot to say
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  this. I'm a champion.
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  I'm the head and not the tail. If somebody tells him you are
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  stupid, he will say, my mother did not say I'm stupid.
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  She's told me I'm a champion. I'm a champion.
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  I am victorious. Hallelujah.
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  As a man of God, you may not be ministry yet.
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  Don't let some ignorant person look at you and just call you a
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  riff raff. Why young?
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  All these young guys going nowhere?
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  No, you are going somewhere. They may be sincere, but not
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  everybody's on serious. You may not yet have a platform,
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  you may not yet have a ministry, but that is a mighty man in the
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  spirit. You have been furnished from the
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  the furnace of affliction, but it does not mean you will not
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  carry grace. Hallelujah, I will never.
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  Repeat after Satan. Did you hear what I said?
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  I will never repeat after Satan. He can say anything he says, but
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  you will not get a second voice. Even in Parliament when they
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  pass a policy, they say who is there to 2nd that policy?
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  It cannot be passed into law until there is a secondment.
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  Come on, talk to me, government. People, is that not true?
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  So there are wonderful bills that they bring, but because
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  they lack a secondment, it dies there.
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  If Satan says were a failure, make sure you realize there is a
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  bill about to be passed over your destiny, but that you have
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  the power to refuse, you have the power to reject.
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  I function like Christ. I call the things that be not.
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  I call the things that be not. I call the things that be not.
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  Hallelujah. I've not spoken to politicians
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  in a long time. Let me speak to them.
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  Politician, if you lose election, don't say I'm
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  finished. You are repeating after Satan.
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  Your relevance should not be tied to just an electoral
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  office. It should be tied to your value,
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  elected or otherwise. I am serving my grace to my
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  nation. That I've become a lamb standard
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  cannot be denied, regardless the party of political affiliation.
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  Do you believe this? Believe it, believe it, young
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  lady. Believe that you can prosper by
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  God in righteousness. Don't just sit down waiting for
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  somebody to marry you into a blessed life that is wonderful,
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  but by God you can run through a troop.
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  By your God, you can live over a wall.
• 2:24:27
  Are we together now? Don't listen to nonsense that
• 2:24:29
  comes from society. Being a woman is not a cause.
• 2:24:34
  Being a female is not a 'cause there is no female female brain
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  or male brain. Well, biologically they have,
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  but spiritually as designed by God.
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  There are people championing all kinds of courses across the
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  globe. You can challenge yourself.
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  Everybody say I will function like God by speaking.
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  Say it by speaking. Consistent with the Word Say it
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  again, I will function like God by speaking.
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  Consistent with the Word. Say it again, I will function
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  like God by speaking consistent with the Word.
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  Don't forget what I taught you tonight.
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  Never repeat after Satan. Never leave this place knowing.
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  Make up your mind. I will never repeat after Satan
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  if he calls me a failure. That's the bill about to be
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  passed. It dies there because there is
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  no secondment. But if God says you are lifted,
• 2:25:38
  I echo it. Yes, I am lifted or let it be
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  passed into law. That I am lifted, that every
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  human being who sees me there is a bill on my life.
• 2:25:47
  I call it prophecy. God has said I'm lifted.
• 2:25:50
  I agree that I'm lifted. The wisdom that puts me in that
• 2:25:53
  experience becomes mine. Hallelujah.
• 2:25:59
  Sit down, let me give you one. Our time is gone.
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  I can't do justice with the other two.
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  This thing has has fired my spirit.
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  But we have to end. You function like God by
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  speaking, and the basis of your declaration is the word of God.
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  Regardless what you see, you are not just speaking gibberish.
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  It is the word of God. True faith.
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  We understand that the walls were framed by the word of God.
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  Hallelujah. My business is blessed.
• 2:26:32
  Yes, Sir, Pray your home is blessed.
• 2:26:35
  You get up in the morning, you walk around in the name of
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  Jesus. Where I'm staying is only my
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  starting point. I will not end here.
• 2:26:44
  In the name of Jesus. I already see things that I'm
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  doing for the Kingdom. I may not be able to give as
• 2:26:50
  much as I want to give, but in the name of Jesus Christ, I
• 2:26:54
  finance the projects of the Kingdom.
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  You are a man of God. You are going to church.
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  Don't drag yourself and hope that you see members who are
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  happy. No, in the name of Jesus, the
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  Lord is sending daily to the church as many who should be
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  saved. They are receiving the Word and
• 2:27:10
  they have been transformed by it.
• 2:27:11
  As I speak to them. I'm not wasting time.
• 2:27:13
  Their spirits are open. They are receiving the Word.
• 2:27:16
  It's bearing fruit in them. Look at me.
• 2:27:23
  Believe us. The basis of your counseling
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  should be the word, the basis of your addressing anything.
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  If you must speak, let it be with respect to Scripture.
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  Write that down. If you must speak, let it be
• 2:27:38
  with respect to Scripture. If you must speak.
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  Good morning. How are you?
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  I'm fine. May God bless you.
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  How is everything? God bless you.
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  How are your children? God bless you.
• 2:27:51
  How is Nigeria? We bless the name of the Lord.
• 2:27:54
  You see, you can't tell about, oh, you can't say, oh Nigerians,
• 2:27:58
  there are things you say, they will slap you there so that you
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  are wise. Oh, we bless the name of the
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  Lord. We, we, we know, we trust God
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  for greater days. We know that God is doing great
• 2:28:07
  things. Let me tell you what will happen
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  if that person is not a person who loves God and has faith.
• 2:28:12
  He will leave you quietly because you sound boring based
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  on the way they speak in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:28:23
  When I speak over Nigeria, I do not speak over a Nigeria that is
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  defeated. I don't speak over a Nigeria
• 2:28:28
  that is corrupt. I speak over a Nigeria that is
• 2:28:31
  loving God, serving God, exporting the gospel as a
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  spiritual resource and that things are changing gradually.
• 2:28:40
  We may not see it, but in the name of Jesus.
• 2:28:42
  I know that things will change and God will make that happen
• 2:28:45
  for his name's sake in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  So the first way that we function like Christ, using the
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  word of God as a reference, is by speaking like Christ.
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  God is a talking spirit. All believers are talking
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  spirits and must function as soul.
• 2:29:07
  Listen carefully. God is a speaking spirit.
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  God is a speaking spirit. All believers must be speaking
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  spirits. They are speaking spirits and
• 2:29:18
  they must function as such #2 how do you function like Christ
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  by walking in obedience? Listen carefully.
• 2:29:28
  How do you function like Christ by walking in obedience?
• 2:29:31
  Philippians chapter 2 from verse 5.
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  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus verse
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  6. Quickly, please, the Bible says
• 2:29:40
  who been in the form of God, listen carefully taught it not
• 2:29:43
  robbery to be equal with God. Verse 7 the Bible says, but made
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  himself of no reputation, and took upon himself the form of
• 2:29:52
  his servant, and was. Made in the what likeness of man
• 2:29:56
  verse 8 the Bible says being found in fashion as a man I like
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  also read the remaining part of verse 8 together he humbled
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  himself and became. Listen, nobody is born obedient.
• 2:30:09
  People become obedient. Did you get it there?
• 2:30:13
  Nobody is born obedient, the psalmist said in iniquity.
• 2:30:17
  Did my mother conceive me? Obedience is not a gift.
• 2:30:21
  It is a labor. In the spirit you become
• 2:30:24
  obedient. The Bible says he became, He
• 2:30:27
  became. It's a process.
• 2:30:29
  He became obedient. Even.
• 2:30:33
  Unto death, the death of the cross, the prophet of obedience
• 2:30:37
  verse 9 the Bible says, wherefore God had so highly
• 2:30:42
  exalted him. Obedience always leads to
• 2:30:45
  exaltation. You ask how did Jesus rise from
• 2:30:49
  the earth to sit on the throne? He was not just speaking.
• 2:30:52
  Are you seeing now if the only thing you do is speaking, you
• 2:30:55
  will get results, but you'll be limited.
• 2:30:57
  The exaltation of Jesus went beyond speaking.
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  Please look at me. This is where I have a bit of a
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  disclaimer for believers. For most believers, they believe
• 2:31:10
  that the entire scope of functioning like Christ is to
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  speak alone. I refuse.
• 2:31:17
  Jesus spoke, but he went beyond speaking.
• 2:31:20
  The basis for his exaltation was not speaking.
• 2:31:24
  The Bible does not tell us, but many times Jesus spoke,
• 2:31:28
  destroyed this temple, and I will build it again in three
• 2:31:30
  days. He spoke, but we see that beyond
• 2:31:33
  speaking, he obeyed. What did He obeyed?
• 2:31:36
  The principles as consistent with God's desire.
• 2:31:41
  God's desire was that without the shedding of blood there is
• 2:31:44
  no remission of sin. So Jesus obeyed even unto death.
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  Can I tell you the truth? In addition to speaking, if you
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  must function like Christ, you must learn the ways of God and
• 2:31:55
  obtain grace is to obey someone. Shout obedience one more time.
• 2:31:59
  Say obedience. Don't be tired, you're almost
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  there. Say obedience.
• 2:32:05
  A speaking spirit who does not work in obedience will still be
• 2:32:09
  a limited spirit. Many are limited, I'm sorry to
• 2:32:13
  say. There are ministers of the
• 2:32:14
  gospel who speak wonderful and great things and don't obey God.
• 2:32:21
  Servant Bishop Poetico will save faith.
• 2:32:23
  He is not saying what God has said alone.
• 2:32:26
  Faith is doing what he has said as a way of committing him to
• 2:32:31
  deliver. I agree.
• 2:32:33
  Faith is beyond saying what God has said.
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  Faith is doing what God has said so as to commit His word to
• 2:32:42
  deliver. Please look at me.
• 2:32:44
  The riches that are hidden in the Word of God only answer to
• 2:32:48
  obedience. You start by speaking, but you
• 2:32:52
  don't stop there. Who is learning tonight?
• 2:32:54
  Don't think this is elementary. Believe me, this is greater
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  light. It is the IT.
• 2:33:00
  It gives you an explanation as to why many people don't seem to
• 2:33:05
  rise. They don't speak like God.
• 2:33:08
  They don't obey. We learn from Jesus.
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  Are we together? Let me give you an example of a
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  few things you need to obey if you want to rise.
• 2:33:17
  Here's what the Bible says. A diligent hand shall be made
• 2:33:21
  fat. Is that in your Bible?
• 2:33:22
  So you can speak in the name of Jesus increases on my life.
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  You are right. But if you are not diligent.
• 2:33:29
  Here's what the Bible says. Whatsoever your hand, find that
• 2:33:32
  to do. Ladies and gentlemen, please
• 2:33:34
  hear me. The Bible says do it as unto the
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  Lord. Is that true?
• 2:33:39
  So there are many people who do not obey.
• 2:33:42
  You don't obey the principles that are connected to the
• 2:33:45
  results you desire. And you wonder why, in spite of
• 2:33:48
  abundant confession, things don't change.
• 2:33:54
  Obtain grace to speak, but obtain grace to obey everybody.
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  Say obedience. Obey the laws of the Kingdom.
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  Honor is a law obeyed. Diligence is a law obeyed.
• 2:34:06
  Godliness is a law obeyed. What else?
• 2:34:10
  Again, capacity. Value is a law obeyed.
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  Relationships is a law obeyed. You will see the result there.
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  Number one, to function like God, the Word of God must be the
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  basis of everything you do in the Kingdom.
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  You speak like God. To function like God, and that
• 2:34:29
  your speech must be with respect to the Word of God #2 you obey
• 2:34:35
  consistent with the principles that are hidden in Scripture.
• 2:34:39
  Let me give you #3 and then we'll prepare to wrap up.
• 2:34:42
  Who has learned today? Are you ready?
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  The third way we function by like God is by sacrifice.
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  Sacrifice. Yes Sir, yes Sir, yes Sir.
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  If you only talk like God and obey like God, and you are
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  afraid of sacrificing like God, there is no dominion for you.
• 2:35:08
  Sacrifice, obedience unto death. There is obedience, but there is
• 2:35:14
  obedience unto death. Sacrifice.
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  Psalm 50, verse 5 Gather unto me, my Saints, they that have
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  made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
• 2:35:26
  Did you hear what Paul said? Let no man trouble me, for I
• 2:35:29
  bear upon my body. I didn't just speak the word of
• 2:35:33
  God. I did not just obey God.
• 2:35:34
  There are scars as proof of sacrifice, the sacrifice of
• 2:35:39
  praise, the labor of prayer, the labor of the world.
• 2:35:45
  These are sacrifices. None of these things are
• 2:35:47
  convenient. Sacrifice.
• 2:35:52
  Hallelujah. Do you know what it means to
• 2:35:55
  lock yourself and pray for two hours, three hours, maybe more
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  than that you are challenging yourself is beyond obedience.
• 2:36:04
  You have entered the realm of sacrifice.
• 2:36:06
  You know what it means to empty your account for the sake of the
• 2:36:09
  gospel and say I want to make sure that God's program does not
• 2:36:13
  dye in my hands sacrifice. This is beyond obedience and
• 2:36:18
  there are people who have entered that realm.
• 2:36:20
  Here's what the Bible says. Greater love had no man than
• 2:36:23
  this, that a man lays down his life.
• 2:36:25
  Can I tell you a man who speaks to be anointed, a man who obeys
• 2:36:31
  to be anointed, a man who sacrifices to be anointed?
• 2:36:35
  The difference will be clear, very clear.
• 2:36:39
  Are we together now? Very clear.
• 2:36:41
  The realm of sacrifice is the realm where any spiritual
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  activity agrees that it is the necessary requirement for
• 2:36:50
  attaining certain heights in the spirit.
• 2:36:53
  Whether you practice, God forbid, occultism or any bad
• 2:36:57
  practice, there are heights. Have you heard of people who
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  slept on graveyards because they were looking for power?
• 2:37:03
  Two days, three days, one week, because they are looking for
• 2:37:07
  power to get money in business. They understand sacrifice.
• 2:37:11
  The Church has embraced a gospel of excessive convenience and we
• 2:37:17
  have thrown away the sacrifice dimension.
• 2:37:20
  Jesus came full of compassion, full of grace and truth, but a
• 2:37:24
  point came in his life where his obedience had to move to the
• 2:37:28
  realm of sacrifice, to the point where he said, Father, if it be
• 2:37:31
  thy will. Let me tell you, ladies and
• 2:37:33
  gentlemen, I don't, I don't. I hate to sound arrogant, but if
• 2:37:38
  you fear sacrifice, forget greatness, forget dominion.
• 2:37:43
  I've had a busy stretch of the week right from I don't know
• 2:37:47
  what day. I don't know how many sermons
• 2:37:49
  are preached from Wednesday or Thursday.
• 2:37:51
  Aside doing a lot of other things.
• 2:37:54
  I return back now. I'm here after service.
• 2:37:58
  It's not like I'm going home to go and sleep.
• 2:37:59
  There are still things to be done.
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  There are meetings, the sound of revival just about a week
• 2:38:04
  coming. Sacrifice.
• 2:38:07
  You don't carry the anointing on a vessel that craves for
• 2:38:10
  convenience. Sacrifice, Go and ask any CEOI
• 2:38:15
  know you see the Jeep that is coming out of you, see the
• 2:38:18
  beautiful office, find out how late they stay to have meetings
• 2:38:22
  while you are sleeping. Sacrifices the language of
• 2:38:25
  champions. Sacrifices the language of
• 2:38:27
  greatness. Let me tell you the truth,
• 2:38:29
  sacrifice at a point in time in your life you will get to a
• 2:38:33
  point where sacrifice is no longer circumstantial.
• 2:38:37
  It literally becomes a realm that you live in, that death
• 2:38:41
  will walk in you so that life will walk in others.
• 2:38:44
  It's a mystery, but it is true. The more you die, the more you
• 2:38:49
  live. The more you are weak, the more
• 2:38:52
  you become strong. I learn this is a principal law
• 2:38:57
  that governs the anointing. God created man in his image and
• 2:39:07
  in His likeness the image of Christ.
• 2:39:10
  The character, the nature of God has revealed in Christ as
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  captured in the fruit of the Spirit, that it should be the
• 2:39:19
  template of the believer. And then in addition, it should
• 2:39:23
  become the environment that is the original ecosystem that
• 2:39:29
  every believer was designed to function and exist in.
• 2:39:33
  And that if you run away from embracing and pressing to see
• 2:39:38
  manifest in your life the nature of God, there are health
• 2:39:41
  consequences, there are psychological consequences,
• 2:39:45
  there are spiritual consequences, there are physical
• 2:39:49
  consequences. But when you learn to function
• 2:39:52
  like Christ, your next assignment, I mean you learn to
• 2:39:56
  be like Christ, understanding the implication of being created
• 2:40:00
  in this image and now in Christ being restored to that image.
• 2:40:05
  Your next assignment is to learn how to function like Christ.
• 2:40:09
  And I've told you, when you get to the realm of functioning like
• 2:40:13
  Christ, your modus operandi is not opinion, is not emotions.
• 2:40:19
  Is not assumptions, it is the word of God and that from a
• 2:40:22
  child thou has known the Holy Scripture which is able to make
• 2:40:26
  you wise unto salvation. And now brethren, Acts 1032.
• 2:40:31
  I commend you to God unto the word of His grace, which is able
• 2:40:34
  to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that
• 2:40:38
  are sanctified. You contend for light, high
• 2:40:42
  level spiritual illumination, and when you find it and hide it
• 2:40:46
  in your in your heart, then your next assignment becomes to speak
• 2:40:51
  it, to declare with faith, to declare with understanding, to
• 2:40:55
  use words to paint a picture of your destiny, and to insist
• 2:41:00
  until things begin to change #2 in addition to speaking, you
• 2:41:06
  obtain what I call the doing grace.
• 2:41:08
  In fact, there's a teaching like that.
• 2:41:10
  Go online and search for a colonial global.
• 2:41:12
  The doing grace. There is an end, there is the
• 2:41:15
  saving grace, but there is the grace that enables you.
• 2:41:19
  You do the doing, but the power comes from God.
• 2:41:23
  The doing grace, the grace to obey, the grace to obey, the
• 2:41:28
  grace to obey and then number three, that is the realm that
• 2:41:32
  many of us need to get to tonight.
• 2:41:34
  The realm of sacrifice where your life is literally poured as
• 2:41:38
  a drink offering. Can I tell you when you get to
• 2:41:41
  that point of sacrifice, no enchantment and no divination
• 2:41:46
  against you can stand because you have gotten to the realm in
• 2:41:49
  the spirit called Galatians 220. I have been crucified with
• 2:41:53
  Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not I,
• 2:41:56
  but Christ that lives in. Me and the life that I now live
• 2:42:00
  in the flesh, It says I live by the faith of the Son of God.
• 2:42:04
  It is at that point God will reprove people for you.
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  Someone will be thinking evil against you because of the blood
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  that drips from your altar. They are judged before they
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  execute their will. Sacrifice there are people to
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  make enchantments again is a waste.
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  I tell you, they have died. Many.
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  Times. Serving the purposes of God, the
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  sacrifice are we. Together you provide the fire.
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  Many of us sing that song without understanding how
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  provide the sacrifice. Remember that song you provide?
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  I will open house, feel me up, feel me up God, feel me up, feel
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  me up, feel me up till I overflow.
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  I want. To run over.
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  Fill me up till I overflow. At this point in my Christian
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  experience, this is my assignment to myself, not just
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  as a sermon to you. If I was created in the image of
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  Christ, if I was created to function like Him, my personal
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  project becomes number one, that Christ be fully formed in me,
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  fully formed in me, that the fruit of the Spirit find
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  unrestrained access in my life, that I become as clear a
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  portrait as possible of the living Christ to my world.
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  My next assignment becomes to learn further.
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  Please do not miss or well, next week.
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  Next week is what's now. It's still another service or
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  beautiful. I thought it was a miracle
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  service. So come next week, come
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  prepared. I want to show you something
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  about altars. I want to open your eyes to
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  something about altars. We're going to be delving into
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  something deep in the Spirit. I want to show you why
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  conditions never change in spite of the fact that people pray and
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  pray. You pray and still see yourself
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  where you used to see yourself. In the midst of your prayer, the
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  same oppression happens. There is an explanation.
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  Hallelujah. And then next week, we'll take
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  the time to pray some prayers. I have found a key by the
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  spirit. Tragedy can end, I tell you.
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  Circles can end if you don't know it.
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  This is greater light. You can remain at the surface
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  and keep laboring, laboring with torch light, whereas there is
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  sunlight that can come. Please, if you know that things
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  have not been working in your life, I want you to come next
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  week with your heart open. Come prayerfully, prayerfully.
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  And open your eyes. But for now the challenge for
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  you is that if you want creation to respect you, then you must
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  allow God to reset you to the version he authorized creation
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  to respect. Any other thing you become that
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  is inconsistent. Creation would treat it as an
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  antivirus. It will not work.
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  You need to be restored to that version that reveals and
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  manifests the nature of Christ, love being the highest of that
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  manifestation, and then to speak like Christ, to be given to
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  obedience and then to master sacrifice.
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  Sacrifice as a key that elevates you.
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  Rise up and let's pray. We have to end now.
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  Hold hands with someone as we pray.
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  Fill me up till I overflow. I want to run over.
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  I want to run over. Fill me up till I overflow.
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  I want to run over one more time.
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  Fill me up till I overflow. There's just one prayer point
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  for us tonight, and I want you to pray to the next.
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  One minute with all your heart, Father, I contend for a greater
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  revelation of your nature and character.
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  I contend for grace to function like you, like never before.
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  Lift your voice and pray. Lift your voice and pray.
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  It says, my little children, of whom I travel in birth, until
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  Christ be formed in you, until Christ be formed in you.
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  Someone pray the nature of Christ formed in me, the
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  character of the Christ formed in me.
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  The fruit of the Spirit manifesting in me, manifesting
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  through me. I believe I prayed, manifesting
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  through me, manifesting through me.
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  Lovejoy, peace, patience, self-control, goodness.
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  I am merciful, I am kind, I am compassionate, loving Jesus, and
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  loving man. Decree and declare that I begin
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  to function like Christ, Like Jesus.
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  I'm a talking spirit. I will not be silent.
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  I make declarations. I recreate my destiny.
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  I change things. I keep things.
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  I addict things Using the power of prophetic speakings.
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  Obtain grace to obey heaven. Your readiness to judge all
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  disobedience. If and when your obedience is
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  complete, go ahead and pray. The grace to be all way
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  obedience. The grace to be all way
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  obedient, The obedience that commits God to perform the
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  obedience that commits God's word to perform.
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  The obedience that produces strange order of miracles.
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  Obtain grace to live a sacrificial life.
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  Obtain grace to give yourself as a sacrifice upon the altar.
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  You function like Christ by speaking like Christ, consistent
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  with the Word of God, obeying the principles that are
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  contendering as proof that you believe God, and living a life
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  of sacrifice. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  As always, let me challenge you, ladies and gentlemen, please
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  take the time. Take the time.
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  Take it as an instruction in righteousness.
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  Take the time. Listen to this teaching again.
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  Don't assume you understood what I said.
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  Listen carefully this time around, like a student
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  listening, void of destruction. Sit down sometimes this night,
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  sometime, maybe tomorrow morning.
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  Just settle down and listen again.
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  Pray the prayers with all your heart and watch what your life
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  becomes. Have you been blessed tonight?
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  Let me give someone an opportunity to know Jesus
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  tonight. Remember, we spoke about the
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  nature of Christ. Let's minimize movement.
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  We just have one or two minutes and we're done.
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  You are in this place and you are saying, apostle, I cannot
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  leave this place without making Jesus Lord of my life.
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  There's no need to cajole you. There's no need to manipulate
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  you. You know that you need Jesus.
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  You were sent from your homes to this place.
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  Some of you, you traveled so far to be here.
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  And once you heard me speaking, the Holy Ghost began to speak to
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  you that when the man of God makes an altar call, make sure
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  you do not sit there. I want to give you an
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  opportunity to make it right with Jesus.
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  It pays to make it right with Jesus whether you are seated
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  inside, whether you are outside. Wherever you are, Syria, UK,
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  Canada, US, wherever across the globe, I want to give you an
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  opportunity to make it right. If you are in this place, I'm
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  going to ask you to step forward very quickly.
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  I count 1 to 5. Leave your seat in a hurry and
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  please be here standing. Take your bags, your Bibles,
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  whatever you came to church with.
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  Let's begin to count. Now as they come, one God bless
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  you, God bless you, come 2 God bless you, God bless you, keep
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  coming for your sake. We'll spare one more minute to
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  allow you make your way to the front.
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  If you're coming from any of the overflows, please make haste,
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  make haste. Else will be required to just
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  stand in front of your LEDs. Zarya, make sure that those who
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  are making this, responding to this call that they come out
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  accordingly. Come.
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  It matters that you make it right with Jesus.
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  Do not say I'll do it another day, maybe too late.
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  Today is the time. Now is the hour of salvation.
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  Hallelujah, God bless you. I see my little ones coming to
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  make it right with Jesus. Let's celebrate them as they
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  come. Hallelujah.
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  I want to thank all of you for making this decision.
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  It pays to know Jesus, to love him, and to serve him.
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  Let me request that you lift your right hand as a sign of
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  surrender to this Jesus. Say after me as loud and as
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  clear as you can. Say, Lord Jesus, I believe you
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  that you are the Son of God. I love you with all my heart.
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  Tonight I believe that you died for my sin.
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  I believe that you rose again for my justification.
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  Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord,
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  and my King. I believe that I'm saved and I'm
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  a child of God. The power of sin, Satan, hell
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  and the grave is broken over my life.
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  From tonight I go for whatever and back whatever.
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  Amen. Keep your hands lifted Father.
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  Thank you for this ones. I decree and declare according
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  to their confessions that they are safe today, save forever,
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  saved eternally in the name of Jesus.
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  They spend their days loving you.
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  They spend their days living for you.
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  They spend their days serving your purposes.
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  The power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over
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  your life. I'm seeing a spirit just roaming
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  around. I command that spirit to live
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  now in the name of Jesus Christ. I decree and declare every
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  influence on anyone causing chest pain, severe chest pain.
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  Let it be broken right now by the power of the Holy Spirit in
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  the name of Jesus, Amen. Please look at me, gentlemen and
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  ladies, please move to my rights.
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  That will be your left. There are counselors who will be
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  glad to have a word with you. They will pray with you and then
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  you'll be on your way. Let's honor them as they go.
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  Let's honor them as they go. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Just remind us that we're days
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  away to Sound of Revival UK. Make sure that you pray.
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  I'll give more detailed announcements next week.
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  Before we start, please, I'd like you to invite everyone you
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  know around this city. I want you to listen to next
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  week's teaching and we're going to deal with very serious issues
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  here. It will be a time of prayer.
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  We're going to be praying and would take the time to flog out
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  some things with destiny once and for all.
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  Have you been blessed tonight? I decree and declare in the name
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  of Jesus. The nature and the character of
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  Christ will be evidently manifested in your life.
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  In the name of Jesus. Men will look at you and they
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  will see Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus.
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  And I pray for you, the grace to function like God in experience.
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  Let that grace be released upon you.
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  You will speak like Christ and see results.
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  You will obey and see the results.
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  You will live a life of sacrifice and be elevated
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  nonstop in the name of Jesus. I declare that your week
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  beginning is blessed. Let it be a week of testimonies,
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  A week of science and wonders, shame and reproach is far from
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  you. This is the week you encounter
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  destiny. Help us.
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  This is the week that you rise to another level.
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  You will know God better this week.
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  You will love God better this week.
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  You will see results in your life.
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  The Lord bless you. It is well with you.
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  In Jesus name we pray together as a family of faith.
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  Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the
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  Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us now and
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  forever, Amen. Surely God's goodness and
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  mercies follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the
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  House of the Lord forever and ever, Amen.
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  Greet someone, hug someone on your way out.
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  The Lord bless you and see you next week.