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MINISTRY RESTORING PATTERNS · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: To us this afternoon. Lead us and gentlemen, let's welcome
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Salmon as a bless us us today, a true
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  Speaker 1: apostles the Lord. Thank you, he's so so very much.
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  Speaker 1: It's my pleasure. I want us to honor the State
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  Speaker 1: Chairman of PFM. I truly honor you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for send Davis and his wife,
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  Speaker 2: and then all the executives. I have learned the difference
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  Speaker 2: between people as friends, brothers and in their official capacity,
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  Speaker 2: and I will never abuse that.
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  Speaker 1: I honor every single one of you in that capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give them a big, big God bless you in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. And I want to salute and
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  Speaker 1: honor every man of God. Most people here are preachers.
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  Speaker 1: We do not do the things that we do because
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  Speaker 1: we're necessarily better. It's an election of grace and the
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  Speaker 1: messy of God. My coming here this afternoon is to
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  Speaker 1: help by the spirit to make contributions to our efficiency
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  Speaker 1: as ministers of the gospel. And then under this umbrella,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that a few minutes that we have
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  Speaker 1: to spend together, that God will add grace to grace,
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  Speaker 1: faith to faith. In the name of Jesus in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ as a god man again, I
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  Speaker 1: know you. Thank you so very much. Let's lift our
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  Speaker 1: hands and ask a lot to speak to us within
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  Speaker 1: these minutes that we have to share fellowship together. Someone
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  Speaker 1: is praying. My heart is opened. Speak to me. Let
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  Speaker 1: the words bring perspective to my efficiency as a minister
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  Speaker 1: of the gospel. Let PFN go from glory to glory.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' mighty name, we pray help us this afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Spirit of the Living God, speak to us, cause us
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  Speaker 1: to understand and that we make progress in life, destiny
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  Speaker 1: and even in ministry. To you be all the glory
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  Speaker 1: for in Jesus' name we pray. Please you may be
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  Speaker 1: gloriously seated again, God bless you. I'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: three things very quickly. This is what the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: placed upon my heart as a contribution to all the discussions.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that we have been under the influence of
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  Speaker 1: various speakers with vast experiences across leadership and ministry, and
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  Speaker 1: so this is an addition to the things that we
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  Speaker 1: have learned this morning. And I'm praying that what will
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  Speaker 1: be hearing will truly add value to our spiritual understanding
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll be talking across three areas very very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and then hopefully will get to pray. And I consider
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  Speaker 1: this a very great opportunity because I have learned from
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  Speaker 1: scripture and by experience that the quality of believers across
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  Speaker 1: any territory is a reflection of the kind and the
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  Speaker 1: quality of priesthood within that territory. Also a way together.
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  Speaker 1: That means, where you sample believers in no particular order
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  Speaker 1: in Legos, it should be able to give you an
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  Speaker 1: accurate feedback as so the quality of men and women
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  Speaker 1: of God that we have serving His purposes here. And
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  Speaker 1: so everyone here represents at least ten twenty thirty forty
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  Speaker 1: people a network of churches. So in speaking to one leader,
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  Speaker 1: you are literally speaking to thousands of people. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a very noble honor. Hallelujah. Two Scriptures asks Chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Collosans Chapter four and verse seventeen. Colloss four
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  Speaker 1: and verse seventeen. Let me quote it quickly for sake
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  Speaker 1: of time. It says say onto Occupos that you take
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  Speaker 1: heed to the ministry that Thao has obtained or received
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord, that thou fulfill it. Paul was speaking
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  Speaker 1: to his son in the Gospel, and he says to
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  Speaker 1: say onto Occupos, that you take heed. The word take
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  Speaker 1: here there means be attentive, be descigning, be careful, be
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  Speaker 1: intentional over the ministry that thou has received in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Notice he never said the ministry you receive from the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: To receive from the Lord means you don't need a relationship.
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  Speaker 1: To receive in the Lord means it is a byproduct
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  Speaker 1: of an encounter away together. The ministry you have received
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. Ministry is not just received from the Land.
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  Speaker 1: It is received in the Lord, a derivative of your
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  Speaker 1: knowing God. You're loving him, You're pressing into the things
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  Speaker 1: of God. Let's consider one more scripture, Acts, Chapter twenty
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  Speaker 1: and verse twenty eight Profound Scripture. This is a call
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  Speaker 1: and a charge to shepherds those who love Jesus at
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. May I request that we read it
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  Speaker 1: in concert together. Ready one to read take heed therefore
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  Speaker 1: onto yourselves, Aha, and to all the flock which the
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  Speaker 1: Holy goals has made you over seers to feed the
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  Speaker 1: Church of God. I like also reading one more time,
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  Speaker 1: one to go. Take He therefore on to yourselves and
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  Speaker 1: to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost had
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  Speaker 1: made you over seers, to feed the Church of God
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  Speaker 1: which he had purchased. Allelujah. Dotr. Bley made a statements
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  Speaker 1: that I heard, and it was very profound, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I would like to start from there. It matters
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  Speaker 1: that we understand God's program. This is the first thing
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  Speaker 1: that I need to talk about. And with all due respect,
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the major issues that has affected
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  Speaker 1: the efficiency of priesthood within this nation across the African
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  Speaker 1: continent is that for most people there is no clarity
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  Speaker 1: and definition as to God's program. So if you ask
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  Speaker 1: a pastor what are you doing exactly? You can say
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  Speaker 1: God said, go and raise me people. And while that
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  Speaker 1: may be true, it is not concise enough to prove efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: The average pastor is at a loss as to God's program.
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  Speaker 1: Most men and women of God, with all due respect,
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  Speaker 1: cannot give you an intelligent presentation of God's program, which
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  Speaker 1: is the basis for ministry. Are we together? And once
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  Speaker 1: that centrality of God's program does not govern your church activity,
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  Speaker 1: does not govern your salmons, does not govern your conferences,
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  Speaker 1: it is natural to veer off into error and even compromise.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? It matters that every preacher, every
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  Speaker 1: man of God, every intercessor, every general overseer, every superintendent,
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  Speaker 1: you must be able to know this for yourself and
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  Speaker 1: then raise leaders after disunderstanding what exactly is God's program?
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  Speaker 1: What is God about across the nations? Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: And I want to say this, and and I say
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  Speaker 1: this with a burden in my heart, but with every
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  Speaker 1: sense of respect. There are certain things that are not
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  Speaker 1: left to personal revelation. One of it is God's program.
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  Speaker 1: God's program is not just revealed to an individual as
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  Speaker 1: a secret. It is a template that is available to
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  Speaker 1: everyone who desires to serve Him. Away together now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: because I think one of the challenges I will wrap
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  Speaker 1: up by identifying a few challenges with the Nigerian Church
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully proferring a few solutions. And one of it
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  Speaker 1: is the abuse of God said the abuse of I
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  Speaker 1: had the Holy Spirit. The abuse of it has brought
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  Speaker 1: a lot of chaos disorderliness.
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  Speaker 3: Just because it's a spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: Affair does not mean it cannot be vetted away together now, yes,
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  Speaker 1: so I can come up with anything. And because spirituality
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  Speaker 1: or the faith work is a relationship between me and God.
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  Speaker 1: I can say this is what God told me. But
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  Speaker 1: then there are standards according to scripture to george spirits
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  Speaker 1: and to test all spirits. Are we learning already, so
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  Speaker 1: let me not go ahead of myself. According to scripture
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  Speaker 1: and in theologically, we have come to know God's agenda
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  Speaker 1: to be called the Great Commission. And while that is
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  Speaker 1: very simple enough, most people do not have a very
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  Speaker 1: concise picture as to what the Great Commission is all about.
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  Speaker 1: If you prove into the understanding of the average pastor,
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  Speaker 1: you will find people who tell you the Great Commission
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  Speaker 1: is about evangelism. You are right, but it is incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: Others talk about transformation. You are rite what you are incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: The Great Commission, as we know, is holistically revealed across
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  Speaker 1: three scriptures.
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  Speaker 3: There are three scriptures altogether that.
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  Speaker 1: Really form the basis for the Great I'll just run
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  Speaker 1: through them and then I'll listen out for sake of time.
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  Speaker 1: Number one is found in Mark chapter sixteen. Please mark
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixteen, from verse fifteen down to twenty. Jesus himself
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  Speaker 1: is speaking. This is the first piece of what we
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  Speaker 1: know as the Greek Commission that represents God's agenda. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: in ministry should be about this. This is the construction.
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  Speaker 1: This is literally the vision of all that we do
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  Speaker 1: being casted from scripture. And he said, unto them, go
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  Speaker 1: ye into all the world, and preach, preach the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: to every creature. Verse sixteen. It says he that believeth
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  Speaker 1: and is baptized shall be saved, and he that does
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  Speaker 1: not believe shall be damned. So the first part of
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  Speaker 1: the Greek commission has to do with the.
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  Speaker 3: Preaching of the Gospel.
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  Speaker 1: The second part of the Greek Commission is found in
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  Speaker 1: Mark Matthew, chapter twenty eight from verse eight. Matthew, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight from verse eighteen, same Jesus speaking. This is
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  Speaker 1: Matthew's synoptic account. Jesus came and speak onto them, saying
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  Speaker 1: all authority is given on to me in heaven and
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  Speaker 1: in the earth. And he says, go ye there for
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  Speaker 1: verse nineteen. Now of yeah, go ye therefore and teach.
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  Speaker 1: Now we see that he's going beyond preaching and teach
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  Speaker 1: all nations.
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  Speaker 3: Matt's account says, preach.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel to every creature. Now Matthew is saying, teach
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  Speaker 1: all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: the Son, and the Holy goes. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go into the theological debate of this. That's not my assignment.
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  Speaker 1: Now are we together now Verse twenty, he says, teaching
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  Speaker 1: them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.
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  Speaker 1: And while you are about this business, know that I
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  Speaker 1: am with you all way onto the end of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Please say amen. So the first aspect of the Great Commission,
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  Speaker 1: representing God's agenda, has to do with the preaching of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel, and then the teaching discipleship. The last aspect
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  Speaker 1: is found in Acts chapter one. From verse six. Acts
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, verse six, Jesus is having his final sessions
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  Speaker 1: with the disciples so that they would receive the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: And they came to him and said, Lord without at
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  Speaker 1: this time restore the kingdom of Israel. The next verse,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus replies and says, it is not for you to
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  Speaker 1: know the times and the seasons which the Father has
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  Speaker 1: put in his own power. Verse eight now says, but
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  Speaker 1: you shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has
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  Speaker 1: come upon you, and that empowerment will cause you to
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  Speaker 1: be weaknesses weaknesses, And he defines that geography of the
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  Speaker 1: witness first Jerusalem, then Judea, then Samaria. The entire goal
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  Speaker 1: is the Autumno's part of the earth. When you combine
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  Speaker 1: Mark sixteen, Matthew twenty eight and at chapter one, it
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  Speaker 1: gives you the whole picture of what we call the
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  Speaker 1: Greek Commission.
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  Speaker 3: Now the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: I came from an evangelical background, and so I understand
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  Speaker 1: a bit of the limitations as we have been mentored
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  Speaker 1: into understanding the Great Commission.
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  Speaker 3: Because on the one hand, we have.
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  Speaker 1: People who the entire scope of understanding God's agenda is evangelism,
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  Speaker 1: and that is important.
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  Speaker 3: But like you, will be learning.
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  Speaker 1: And I think doctor Warey talked a bit about that
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  Speaker 1: by the time you bring in the habits and leave
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  Speaker 1: the habst that way, there are consequences even though you
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  Speaker 1: gather the harvest. Are we together now, yes? And then
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  Speaker 1: he talks about teaching, and then he taught about being witnesses.
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  Speaker 3: What is the Great Commission?
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  Speaker 1: I wrote here that the Great Commission is a mandate
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  Speaker 1: given by Jesus to then his disciples, but today to
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  Speaker 1: all believers, a mandate given by Jesus Christ. It was
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  Speaker 1: then to his disciples, but now to all believers, to
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  Speaker 1: reach the entire globe, please listen, To reach the entire
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  Speaker 1: globe with the Gospel of Salvation, to bring nations to
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge of the true discipleship, and to consequently bring
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  Speaker 1: territorial and societal transformation. I will take that again that
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  Speaker 1: the Great Commission, as given by Jesus, is a mandate
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  Speaker 1: to reach the entire globe with the Gospel of s Salvation,
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  Speaker 1: to bring nations to the knowledge of the truth through discipleship,
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  Speaker 1: and to consequently bring territorial and societal transformation. Immediately, you
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  Speaker 1: see that there are three aspects to the Great Commission,
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  Speaker 1: and every time you deviate from any one of these,
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  Speaker 1: you will corrupt the program. Number one, the first aspect
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  Speaker 1: of the Great Commission is world evangelization. World evangelization, world evangelization,
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  Speaker 1: reaching the lost. The Bible says that God desires that
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  Speaker 1: all men be saved, all men be saved, all men
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  Speaker 1: be saved, all men be saved. World evangelization. Statistically, they're
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  Speaker 1: are about eight point now one billion people upon the earth.
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  Speaker 3: Eight point one billion people.
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  Speaker 1: I hope my statistics is still write eight point one
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  Speaker 1: billion people and there's just a little over two point
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  Speaker 1: six billion professing Christians statistically confirmed across the earth. Now
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  Speaker 1: we have a mandate to reach the entire globe. Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, it should challenge us that in spite of
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  Speaker 1: the churches, the crusades, the conventions, the programs, the advantage
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  Speaker 1: of internet intellectual privileges that we have, we have not
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  Speaker 1: been able to cover even thirty percent, or twins or
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  Speaker 1: forty percent of it. And yet we believe that when
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  Speaker 1: in the end times we believe that we're wrapping up
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  Speaker 1: the church age?
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  Speaker 3: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: That means that we have not been doing a very
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  Speaker 1: effective job from.
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  Speaker 3: A statistical standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: That if we have about two point six billion professing Christians,
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  Speaker 1: this includes everything from backsliders to those who just identify
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  Speaker 1: with the faith.
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  Speaker 3: We're not talking of those who genuinely.
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  Speaker 1: Saved, those who have filled a form and wrots there
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  Speaker 1: that I am a Christian even in their idol worshipers.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Now? But look at this, Let me challenge you for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. How many of you know that our social
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  Speaker 1: media applications. I'm not sure that most of the applications
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  Speaker 1: that we depend helplessly on are even more than twenty
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five years. Yet somebody brought an idea that
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  Speaker 1: broke the barrier of boundary. Somebody brought an idea that
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  Speaker 1: broke the barrier of religion.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody brought an idea.
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  Speaker 1: That broke the barrier of education, and it's been received
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  Speaker 1: by more people upon the earth. Within twenty years, someone
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  Speaker 1: certain his room and formulated an idea that has made
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  Speaker 1: the old and young, male and female Christians and non
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  Speaker 1: Christians helplessly glued to those applications.
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  Speaker 3: It means there is.
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  Speaker 1: A formula for a more effect if world evangelization.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: If within twenty years, young people spelling their twenties came
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  Speaker 1: up with an idea, an idea without the active acknowledgment
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  Speaker 1: of the contribution of the Holy Spirit, are we together?
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  Speaker 1: They never came up to say I open to you
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  Speaker 1: that the Holy Spirit. They never attended an importation service,
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  Speaker 1: they never received a prophetic world, and yet they came
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  Speaker 1: up with an idea that all of us prophets and apostles,
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  Speaker 1: with all the annointing, with all due respect, we are
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  Speaker 1: helplessly dependent on those applications. It means there is something
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  Speaker 1: God can place upon our lives that will cause the
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  Speaker 1: advancement of the Gospel to break barriers. The level of
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  Speaker 1: inefficiency that we are experiencing in our evangelism should be
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  Speaker 1: a concern for anyone who loves Jesus. Are we together, yes, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Number two.
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  Speaker 1: The second aspect of the Great Commission is discipleship. Transforming
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  Speaker 1: believers through discipleship. Transforming believers through discipleship, it matters what
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  Speaker 1: we do with the harvest. Jesus called those fishers of men.
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  Speaker 1: And once you fish, you don't drop the fish there
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: You have to work on it discipleship.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you this, and I submit to you
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  Speaker 1: that the missing ingredient in the kind and the quality
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  Speaker 1: of believers that have come out from this nation and
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  Speaker 1: Africa is largely a product of the poor or known
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  Speaker 1: level of discipleship whatsoever. The average believer is not methodically
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  Speaker 1: mentored into understanding God and understanding.
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  Speaker 3: The ways of God.
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  Speaker 1: Al Chapter twenty udverse tharty Tude says, and now, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I commend you to God and to the world of
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  Speaker 1: his grace, which is able to build you up, number one,
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  Speaker 1: and then to give you an inheritance among them that
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  Speaker 1: are sanctified, he says, and that from a child thou
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  Speaker 1: hast known the Holy Scripture, which is able to make
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  Speaker 1: you wise onto salvation. The Bible says and air for
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  Speaker 1: as long as that is a child, that he differed
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  Speaker 1: not from a slave, even though he be Lord of all.
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  Speaker 1: Are we learning now? Paul said, when I came to you,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't speak of these things because you are still
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  Speaker 1: yet as paved and not spiritual. The average believer cannot
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  Speaker 1: defend his spiritual understanding. We know a little of everything,
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  Speaker 1: a little of prayer here, a little of fasting here,
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  Speaker 1: a little of breakthrough, a little of finances. Our growth
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  Speaker 1: module is so scattered it does produce a people of stature.
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  Speaker 1: No body attends lecture in any class in the university
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  Speaker 1: and receives a degree. The program is constructive. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you can predict that these naive students in six years
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  Speaker 1: can be a medical doctor because of the quality of
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  Speaker 1: the content beyond even the.
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  Speaker 3: Lecturers' ability.
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  Speaker 1: Away. Together, we must obtain grace from God and challenging
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  Speaker 1: us in righteousness and with all humility. Let's stop maintaining members.
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  Speaker 1: Let's raise witnesses the consciousness of maintenance of membership. Ten
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  Speaker 1: years in church and they cannot defend their spiritual understanding.
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  Speaker 1: But let me bring the test to us with all
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  Speaker 1: due respect, their man of God, their Woman of God,
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  Speaker 1: their co laborer at the gospel. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 1: a question. What do you know about prayer? What do
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  Speaker 1: you know about Satan? What do you know about Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about salvation? What do you know
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  Speaker 1: about increase? What do you know about leadership? What do
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  Speaker 1: you know about the anointing? What do you know about
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit? What do you know about warfare? What
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  Speaker 1: do you know about growth? What do you know about restoration?
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about administration? What do you know
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  Speaker 1: about conflict management? These are the bodies of spiritual understanding
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  Speaker 1: that makes an individual leader. Indeed, you cannot help the
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  Speaker 1: people at the same level of understanding with them.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus called the people blind, leading the blind. He was
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  Speaker 1: not insulting them. He was describing their spiritual states. Pick
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  Speaker 1: an average member, five of them, put them on stage
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  Speaker 1: and ask them questions. Talk to me about the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: You will be surprised. The person is the head of
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  Speaker 1: ushering and it does not know what the gospel is.
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  Speaker 1: I do just know that Jesus died. Okay, how do
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  Speaker 1: you need an unbeliever to become a child of God.
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  Speaker 3: Well you confess the prayer. What does he say?
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  Speaker 1: Because it is not every information about Jesus that saves.
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  Speaker 1: There is an exact body of information about Jesus that
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  Speaker 1: translates to salvation. It's a let it be known to
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  Speaker 1: you or Israel that this same Jesus were crucified, has
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  Speaker 1: today been exalted as Lord and Christ, and three thousand
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  Speaker 1: people came.
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  Speaker 3: Are we learning?
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  Speaker 1: We need to go back and probe the basis for
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  Speaker 1: our discipleship because the truth is, I hate to say this,
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  Speaker 1: what many ministers are genuinely called what they are ill prepared.
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  Speaker 1: It shows in the kinds of salmons that we bring.
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  Speaker 1: It shows in the centrality. We bring a lot of
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  Speaker 1: salmons that are clearly not doctrinal. They are largely opinions
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  Speaker 1: or just copying from one person to the order, or
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  Speaker 1: a transfer from poor mentorship. Are we together? What do
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  Speaker 1: you know about prayer? What do you know about fasting?
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  Speaker 1: What do you know about oil? What do you know
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  Speaker 1: about mantos? What do you know about Satan and demons?
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  Speaker 1: With all due respect, and I say this with every humility,
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  Speaker 1: sense of humility, if I call any man of God
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  Speaker 1: here in no particular order, and give you the mic.
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  Speaker 1: I said, take five minutes out of my time teach us.
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  Speaker 1: How do we take over territories? We all want growth,
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  Speaker 1: But what is the formula? Because Jesus said the church
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  Speaker 1: is built, there must be a formula. No architect begins
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  Speaker 1: to build without a formula. What is the master plan?
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  Speaker 1: We are called master builders, and God wants us to
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  Speaker 1: be wise master builders. Another question, can you tell me
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  Speaker 1: the kind of believer you are producing from your teaching
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  Speaker 1: every day? If you don't have the picture, something is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: A lecturer already has a picture of the kind of
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  Speaker 1: student he's producing from the first day of the lecture.
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  Speaker 1: He can assure the people that in five years an
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  Speaker 1: architect is coming out of this lecture. Can you define
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  Speaker 1: the kind of believer that our Sunday salmons, our conferences?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of believer is in the mind of your spirits? Discipleship?
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  Speaker 1: The key to effective discipleship is to understand doctrine. The
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  Speaker 1: word doctrine comes from the Latin word doctriner. It means
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  Speaker 1: a body of truth that turns a disciple to become
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  Speaker 1: like his master. Doctrine.
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  Speaker 3: Doctrines are not opinions.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says in Act chapter two and verse forty two,
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  Speaker 1: it says, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: and in fellowship and in the breaking of bread and
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  Speaker 1: in prayer. That was their apostolic model that was given
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  Speaker 1: to them.
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  Speaker 3: It's God helping us.
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  Speaker 1: Every man of God who loves Jesus and loves his
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  Speaker 1: program must go back.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm saying this, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just speaking apostolically to the body of Christ. We need
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  Speaker 1: to re examine our spiritual understanding because that is where
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  Speaker 1: our salmons come from. There are sermons that don't profit
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual lives of the people nor blill them to
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  Speaker 1: become effective witnesses.
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  Speaker 3: So here is the progression.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody starts as a nonbeliever in iniquity. Did my mother
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  Speaker 1: concede me? Everybody nobody inherits salvation from the womb away together.
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  Speaker 1: So the journey is that you start as an unbeliever.
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  Speaker 1: Please watch this, and then by acknowledging the substitutionary sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: of Christ translating to eternal life, you get to the
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  Speaker 1: next level.
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  Speaker 3: You are a believer.
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  Speaker 1: And when you become a believer, there are three stages.
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  Speaker 1: There is a babe one who is just saved, an infant,
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  Speaker 1: but void of spiritual understanding. The moment you get transformed,
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  Speaker 1: God introduces you to three ministries to continue the journey
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  Speaker 1: to your maturity. Number one is the ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Number two is the ministry of the World.
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  Speaker 1: Number three is the ministry of the teaching priests. Anybody
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  Speaker 1: who lacks and encounter with these three ministries will have
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  Speaker 1: a deformity in his spiritual growth. That is the order
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  Speaker 1: that means. The moment an individual gets saved, it's important
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  Speaker 1: he understands that there are three ministries about to be
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  Speaker 1: introduced to his life and must embrace all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, I repeat the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Number two the ministry of the World, the Logos of God,
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  Speaker 1: a compendium of the thoughts of God. And then number
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  Speaker 1: three the ministry of a teaching priest. Jeremiah three fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: and I will give you pastors or shepherds according to
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  Speaker 1: my heart, and they will feed you with knowledge, They
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  Speaker 1: will feed you with understanding. Allelujah. When this gentleman, whoever
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  Speaker 1: he is now as a babe, encounters these three fold ministries,
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  Speaker 1: they begin to journey him through the process of transformation.
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  Speaker 1: What is transformation the name given to the process that
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  Speaker 1: makes you become like Christ? In experience, it says, my
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  Speaker 1: little children, of whom I traveil until now, until Christ
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  Speaker 1: be formed in you. When the believer becomes transformed, that
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  Speaker 1: is the second layer of the believer. The third layer
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  Speaker 1: is empowerment. A believer, I can be transformed and yet
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  Speaker 1: not empowered.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus himself mentored his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: For three and a half years. They were transformed, but
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  Speaker 1: they were not empowered. So he said, carry you in Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Your issue is not an information deficiency. You do not
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  Speaker 1: have power to defend the things that you know. It
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  Speaker 1: is dangerous to only be transformed and not be empowered.
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  Speaker 1: You will say many things that are correct, but not
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  Speaker 1: be able to defend them. Many things. For instance, you
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  Speaker 1: will be knowledgeable enough to know that God heals, but
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  Speaker 1: you will never see healing. You will be knowledgeable to
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  Speaker 1: know that God empowers, that God lives, but there is
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  Speaker 1: no performance. Knowledge that brings transformation and then brings empowerment.
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  Speaker 3: Now, please hear me.
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  Speaker 1: The moment you encounter transformation and empowerment, you stop just
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  Speaker 1: being a believer. You become a witness. A witness is
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  Speaker 1: a believer who has gone through the school of transformation
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  Speaker 1: and gone through the school of empowerment. A witness is
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  Speaker 1: not somebody who starts ministry. You can start ministry and
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  Speaker 1: in the spirit, you are not yet a witness. The
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  Speaker 1: trigger for being a witness is that you would have
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  Speaker 1: submitted yourself to transformation and submitted yourself to empowerment. This
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  Speaker 1: is the model that Jesus showed us at age twelve.
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  Speaker 1: He was at the temple learning the law, even though
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  Speaker 1: he was the word himself, but that did not release
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  Speaker 1: him to start ministry. The Bible tells us that he
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  Speaker 1: met John and he told John. John said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even worthy to untie the latchet of your shoe. He said,
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  Speaker 1: so far to be so is an ordinance that Scripture
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  Speaker 1: be fulfilled. And when he baptized John, the heavens opened,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible says the Holy goos descended upon him
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  Speaker 1: in the similitude of a dove, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: voice that said, this is my beloved son.
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  Speaker 3: The question is what was he before.
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  Speaker 1: Amen? So the challenge most times in Nigeria is that
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  Speaker 1: most people are called, but they are not yet sent
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  Speaker 1: and they go. There is a difference between being called
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  Speaker 1: and sent. You are not called to do ministry. You
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  Speaker 1: are called to Jesus. Then you are sent to the nations.
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  Speaker 1: You are called to Jesus. Your calling is not to
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  Speaker 1: a church. Your calling is to Jesus. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: he selected the disciples to be with him and then
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  Speaker 1: that you will send them. Something happens when you are
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus. It is from the residue of that encounter
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  Speaker 1: your salmons come out. It is from the residue of
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  Speaker 1: that encounter, your impact comes out. Just because you are
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  Speaker 1: genuinely called does not mean you are being sent. Us
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  Speaker 1: called the disciples from day one of his ministry, but
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  Speaker 1: he only sends them when he resurrected.
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  Speaker 3: The trigger was the coming of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a lot of zellous people who start
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  Speaker 1: ministry with joy and passion, genuinely called. After one month,
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  Speaker 1: they've exhausted everything they know to say. And it is
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  Speaker 1: dangerous because when you have exhausted, do you know? Saturday
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  Speaker 1: nights are the most frustrating nights for most pastors because
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  Speaker 1: they have to think, what in the world am I
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  Speaker 1: going to share? If His righteousness have preached on it. Holiness,
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  Speaker 1: have preached on it, breakthrough, have preached on it, give it,
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  Speaker 1: have preached on it, deliverance. What else do I say?
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  Speaker 1: If you get into that state, it is proof that
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  Speaker 1: something has tried in your spirit. I'm been very honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. If you ever get to that state as
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  Speaker 1: a man of God, go for a retreat first, It says,
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  Speaker 1: that will show us a part of light. It is
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  Speaker 1: in your light that we see light. That you are
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  Speaker 1: so full of life. The days are not given enough
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  Speaker 1: because there is so much. Are we together now? The
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  Speaker 1: last thing I'll say about discipleship, and then I'll pass
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  Speaker 1: that quickly. We're still talking on the great commission? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know when it has to do it? Knowing the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: there is no end to your knowledge. You will keep
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  Speaker 1: learning Him even in heaven. But when it has to
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  Speaker 1: do it building victorious people. The body of truth that
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  Speaker 1: turns are not notive believered to a witness is finite.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in finite. The body of knowledge that actually
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  Speaker 1: makes the maturity of a believer is finite. Like a
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  Speaker 1: curriculum that turns his students to a graduate, you can
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  Speaker 1: exhaust it. The student's learning continues but as far as
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  Speaker 1: that course of study is concerned, you can exhaust it.
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  Speaker 1: Something plus something plus something plus something equals a mature Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Building believers through maturity is not an infinite pursuit of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: And you are wondering there is an exact body of knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible calls it marvelous light, the name given to
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  Speaker 1: the body that makes tuture out of ordinary believers. It
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  Speaker 1: is my considered opinion, and I hope you don't find
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  Speaker 1: offense in it that if any member is faithful in
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  Speaker 1: any shot for two years on that structured mentorship, and
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  Speaker 1: that person cannot attain onto a state of maturity, is
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  Speaker 1: either the man of God is wasting his time or
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  Speaker 1: the individual is not serious with his growth. Away together
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  Speaker 1: now prays the name of the Lord. It doesn't take
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  Speaker 1: forever for the habilist in our villages to train another person.
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  Speaker 1: They bring a naive person. The body of knowledge is exact.
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  Speaker 1: They will tell you this young boy will be a
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  Speaker 1: habi list in three years, and you will wor the
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  Speaker 1: boy going every day and watching and watching, And after
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  Speaker 1: three years they will now crown him the one who come,
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  Speaker 1: who who brings meyhem? But how come with all due respect.
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  Speaker 1: We have people who are being saved before some children
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  Speaker 1: were born, and those children to their pastors, and the
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  Speaker 1: people are not transformed. Nothing about their communication shows maturity.
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  Speaker 1: We need to go back to our pul pits and
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  Speaker 1: examine the content. The content is what produces victory or defeat.
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  Speaker 1: It matters what the people hear. Thankfully, as a continent
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  Speaker 1: and as a nation, we have people who are loyal
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  Speaker 1: and passionate to hear. They are so passionate they don't
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  Speaker 1: care what they hear. They trust you enough to hear,
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  Speaker 1: and if what you are communicating his error, they are
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  Speaker 1: still grateful. One thing the Bible tells us about being
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  Speaker 1: a teacher is that you will be judged for having
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  Speaker 1: access to the ears and the minds of people. Is
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  Speaker 1: God's speaking to us. So the Great Commission has number
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  Speaker 1: one world evangelization, number two discipleship. World evangelization is God's
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  Speaker 1: program for the world of sinners. God has a program
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  Speaker 1: for the world of sinners. It is called world evangelization.
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  Speaker 1: God has a program for the saints. It is called discipleship.
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  Speaker 1: Attaining maturity through discipleship. And then the third aspect I
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  Speaker 1: will give you quickly is called territorial Transformation Matthew Chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: from verse thirteen to sixteen. Jesus is teaching now, and
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  Speaker 1: he begins by saying, you are the salt of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He says, but if the salt has lost his salt
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  Speaker 1: in hasids seven, it says, where rich shall it be salted?
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  Speaker 1: It is good for nothing except to be thrown down
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  Speaker 1: and trampled a foot of men. Then it says, in
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen, you are the light of the world. He
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  Speaker 1: calls us a city that is set on a hill
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  Speaker 1: which cannot be hidden. It says, neither do men light
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  Speaker 1: a candle and put it under a bushel, but they
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  Speaker 1: put it on a candlestick, and it gives light to
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  Speaker 1: everyone in the room. Verse sixteen now says, let your light.
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  Speaker 1: The word let means permit, do not restrain it. Let
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  Speaker 1: your light so shine before men that they may see.
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  Speaker 1: God wants men to see that they may see your
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  Speaker 1: good deeds and glorify your father. That means the way
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  Speaker 1: God gets glory is when the sun's manifest good walks.
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  Speaker 1: John chapter fifteen and verse eight. Herein is our Father
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  Speaker 1: glorified when you bear much fruit. So shall you be
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  Speaker 1: my disciples. John fifteen sixteen you have not chosen me,
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  Speaker 1: but I have chosen you and ordained you that you
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  Speaker 1: should go and bear much fruit, and that your fruit
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  Speaker 1: should remain territorial transformation. I was very touch as we
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  Speaker 1: heard the chairman bringing a lot of societal projects. Can
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  Speaker 1: I tell you results are evangelists results? There are Salmon's
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  Speaker 1: only results can preach and there is an audience that
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  Speaker 1: was designed to hear that salmon. If all we keep
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  Speaker 1: doing in church is falling on that the anointing and rolling,
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  Speaker 1: let me assure you, society, we need to bring data
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  Speaker 1: driven statistics that shows that the church is relevant. And
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  Speaker 1: the way you do that is by becoming light and salt.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to insult you, but there are many
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  Speaker 1: beer parlors near the churches, and they're joining the praise
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  Speaker 1: and worship while the praise and worship is going on.
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  Speaker 1: Their rejoicings at this drama. It looks like they've changed
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  Speaker 1: a new drama. No transformation within the territory, No transformation whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together.
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  Speaker 1: And Roberts lean on the back of the church while
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  Speaker 1: someone's are going waiting for service to be over, so
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  Speaker 1: they will steal no transformation. I don't want to become
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  Speaker 1: a part of any movement that does not speak to
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  Speaker 1: the development of society. We must be very apostolic in
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  Speaker 1: our approach. We must sell God in a way that
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  Speaker 1: society will be ready to embrace him. It is the
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  Speaker 1: reason why Christianity in many developed nations is being considered
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  Speaker 1: as a nuisance because they do not have data driven
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  Speaker 1: proof of relevance of church in nation building.
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  Speaker 3: It's good to sing, it's good to shout, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Good to fall and stand, but receive the wisdom that
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  Speaker 1: came in the place of prayer and use it to
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: develop the society charitable organizations. By do you know, I
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  Speaker 1: always why Jesus fired five thousand? Now I know the
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  Speaker 1: feeding of the five thousands number one to prove that
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  Speaker 1: he loved them.
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  Speaker 3: But number two as a message with.
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  Speaker 1: Roman government, we are not irrelevant and we are not
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  Speaker 1: in usance because by the time you camp five thousand
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  Speaker 1: people for three days and you don't feed them, you
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  Speaker 1: have given the government a right to say you want
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  Speaker 1: to kill these people. You are cult and they are right.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus said, don't let them go this way. There's
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  Speaker 1: already enmity against this program. Feed them. Let them know
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  Speaker 1: that there is an aspect of God's love that speaks
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  Speaker 1: to nation building. Do you know women can sing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of praises. I'm sure a lot of women sand
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  Speaker 1: from the mountain. Where is Caesar? Where is Herald? Come
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  Speaker 1: and see what Jesus is doing. You guys have been
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  Speaker 1: scribes and pharisees for years. You never fed us? Can
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  Speaker 1: I tell you the truth? Own believers can also be
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  Speaker 1: used to evangelies. They will go to a senate and said,
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  Speaker 1: this bohole came from the church, my daughter, Since today
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  Speaker 1: court see the church. This marriage that would have scattered
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  Speaker 1: was brought back court see the church.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't worship.
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  Speaker 1: Power, but if you thought that, you see that now listen,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you this. Part of the principles of
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  Speaker 1: dominion is that you must be able to translate the
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  Speaker 1: God life to affect all an sundry, because He sends
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  Speaker 1: rain both on the good. God has a program for society.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Every man of God who has attained
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  Speaker 1: a commendable size in ministry, you owe there is a
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  Speaker 1: corporate social responsibility. You don't have to be an oil
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and gas company. Once you are a man of God
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  Speaker 1: who intends to last, there must be an expression. I
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: used to be in Zaria before I moved to a
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  Speaker 1: Budja and up until now, every time I visit our
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  Speaker 1: expression there, once they know I'm around, you will find
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  Speaker 1: it's literally like a crusade without calling anybody. You see
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  Speaker 1: one thing I've learned with Muslims, if it's welfare, they
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  Speaker 1: will stop there from coming. They can stop crusades. But
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  Speaker 1: once you say food medicals with Jesus Joy, even if
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  Speaker 1: it's inside the baptistry, they will enter there waits.
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  Speaker 3: Most of us have.
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  Speaker 1: Been wasting an opportunity for a harvest because we are
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  Speaker 1: unconcerned about the things that happen in society. That theology
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  Speaker 1: is not accurate. We are not of the world, I agree,
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  Speaker 1: but we are in the world. We cannot be detached
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  Speaker 1: from the activities that happen within our space. I'm praying
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ, that for a man
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  Speaker 1: of God, for a woman of God, for a pastor who.
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  Speaker 3: Has come here.
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  Speaker 1: Whilst you are hearing me, the Holy Spirit will tell
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  Speaker 1: you this is the missing link. This is why your
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  Speaker 1: church has been in a place for ten years and
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  Speaker 1: the community you have never seen. The chief of that community.
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  Speaker 1: You have never greeted the traditional head within that community.
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  Speaker 1: He does know you. Yet you have so much property there.
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  Speaker 1: The young boys in that community cannot defend the land.
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  Speaker 3: They do know the order.
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  Speaker 1: They have never participated in anything. Kingdom, You've never called
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  Speaker 1: them for anything. You will know the relevance of community
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  Speaker 1: when there is a crisis. Well, with all due respect,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: most of you here in the world, you've not really
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  Speaker 1: seen a serious crisis, you see, but when you are
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: in a place where at any point they can bund
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  Speaker 1: things here and there there are people who say, I
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  Speaker 1: am a Muslim, bought minorse this, This was the person
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  Speaker 1: feeding our wives, our husbands. George is squire. This is
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  Speaker 1: Butstard's conference. Zoe. I want to believe the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is speaking to our hearts. I love us all this
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  Speaker 1: it is because that's the way we translated to improve
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  Speaker 1: Our people are well together. So the Great Commission I
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  Speaker 1: said three things. This is the first thing now to
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  Speaker 1: understand God's program. That God's program, if it must be
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  Speaker 1: done well, it must capture within our experience and our
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  Speaker 1: mission statements and our church activities.
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  Speaker 3: Evangelism.
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  Speaker 1: Let me submit to you, with all due respect, there
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  Speaker 1: are churches that cannot remember the last time they made
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  Speaker 1: an aut call. And I don't mean to insult us.
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  Speaker 3: It is a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot finish preaching and consistently and just say well,
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  Speaker 1: if the salmon taught you you are always free to
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  Speaker 1: give you a life to Jesus. No, that's not the
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  Speaker 1: model that was handed over. She desires that all men
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  Speaker 1: be saved and to come onto the knowledge of the truth. World, evangelization,
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  Speaker 1: God's program for the unbelieving world, discipleship that leads to
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  Speaker 1: transformation by the sound communication of doctrine, God's program for
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  Speaker 1: helping the Saints attain maturity, and then societal or territorial transformation,
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  Speaker 1: God's program for society. You believe that, say amen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to talk much about discipleship. This was the
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  Speaker 1: second aspect that I wanted to talk quickly, building men.
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  Speaker 3: The Bible says that he led.
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  Speaker 1: Captivity captive, and he gave gifts onto men, and that
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  Speaker 1: he gave those gifts some apostles, some prophets, some pastors, evangelist,
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  Speaker 1: some pastors, some teachers, and the Bible says he gave
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  Speaker 1: that for the maturing perfecting of the saints, that the
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  Speaker 1: saints will do the work of the ministry. Please look
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  Speaker 1: at me, every man and woman of God. Here I
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  Speaker 1: want you to know that the business of ministry is
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  Speaker 1: the business of building men. The business of ministry beyond
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  Speaker 1: physical buildings, beyond registering ministries and organizations in corporate Affairs Commission.
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  Speaker 1: The ministry that we are called into is the ministry
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  Speaker 1: of building men. If you are not building men, if
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  Speaker 1: you build structures more than you build men, you are failing.
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  Speaker 1: If you build structures more than you build men, you
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  Speaker 1: are failing. No matter the ministry expansion, no matter the
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  Speaker 1: network of churches globally, the real index is the kind
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  Speaker 1: and the quality of men that you are building. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: I will build my church. He was speaking of these
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  Speaker 1: living stones men. And there is a formula for building men.
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  Speaker 1: And praying again that God will grant us intelligence to
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  Speaker 1: come up with programs that build men. And you know
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  Speaker 1: that building men is across various there are The way
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  Speaker 1: you build members is different from the way you build leaders.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? The Bible says strong meat belongs to them who
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  Speaker 1: by reason of yous have learned to exercise their senses
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  Speaker 1: onto godliness. Let me tell you the truth. There are
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  Speaker 1: certain things you should not teach new believers, you will
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  Speaker 1: destroy them. An example, prosperity, The first salmon a young
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  Speaker 1: believer should hear is not prosperity. You teach a young
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  Speaker 1: believer a somemon on prosperity, you have destroyed him. He
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  Speaker 1: has not learned death to the flesh. He's not learned character,
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  Speaker 1: he's not learned how to live a surrender life. And
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  Speaker 1: now you open him up to you have only multiplied
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  Speaker 1: loss upon that person. You will destroy that believer. It
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  Speaker 1: is line upon line, precept upon precept.
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  Speaker 3: Here in to there a little. There must be a formula.
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  Speaker 1: We must go back and remodel our formula for buil
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  Speaker 1: didn't believers. There are things a believer most here before
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  Speaker 1: he hears about money. There are things a believer most
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  Speaker 1: year before he hears about influence. Every topic is not
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  Speaker 1: relevant at every level. Line up on line, Jesus being
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  Speaker 1: the chief corner stone.
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  Speaker 4: Show us the ancihanpa, Will you lead us along eternal highway?
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  Speaker 4: We want to fall all the way self cheesus, we
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  Speaker 4: want to end yours.
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  Speaker 3: Show us the shapa.
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  Speaker 1: Will you lead us along e turn on highway?
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  Speaker 4: We want to fall all the food steps of cheesus.
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  Speaker 1: We want to end your.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something God revealed to me.
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  Speaker 1: No amount of publicity will bring people more than God
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  Speaker 1: himself recommending them to a house he knows they will
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  Speaker 1: be trained. Thank God for billboards, Thank God for Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: but there is a mystery that no technology can reproduce
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  Speaker 1: as far as bringing men and the Lord added daily daily.
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  Speaker 1: If you are not willing to save sin us, it
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  Speaker 1: is a useless prayer to pray for increase to your church.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but it's the truth. If you are not
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  Speaker 1: willing to pay the price, let me tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: By God's grace. I respect everyone here, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure there's anyone here who is up two hundred years.
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  Speaker 3: Men of God, this call is a call to sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not allow these geomantality deceivers. Thank God for honor,
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  Speaker 1: but please let's drop it aside and serve God's people sincerely.
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  Speaker 3: A man of God who is a lazy person.
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  Speaker 1: Should retire from ministry because ministry is about diligence. Most
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  Speaker 1: people desire increase. They admire what God is doing in
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  Speaker 1: the life of great ministries, but they do not have
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  Speaker 1: an understanding of the kind of labor that goes in
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  Speaker 1: to be trusted with men.
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  Speaker 3: Allelujah. It's a sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: You will never be an effective priest at your convenience. No,
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  Speaker 1: we were not trained that way. Those who train those
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  Speaker 1: labored onto death. We saw from them diligence. And I
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  Speaker 1: speak with all your respect to those of my generation.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: There no decaway that geo office mentality and get to work.
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  Speaker 3: There are souls to say. If you don't have a
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  Speaker 3: salmon to preach, go and.
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  Speaker 1: Sit in your study room and be designing a Bible
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  Speaker 1: study manual to mentor your people. You can't say there
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  Speaker 1: is nothing to do. Honestly, anyone in ministry who only
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  Speaker 1: does Sunday to Sunday is a lazy person.
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  Speaker 3: Take that from me.
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  Speaker 1: There has to be someone to be following up during
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  Speaker 1: the week. You know how long it takes to prepare
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  Speaker 1: a salmon that is balanced and theologically sound, not to
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  Speaker 1: straggle something while they're taking offering. And then you come
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  Speaker 1: up and say, don't worry, we need to sit down,
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  Speaker 1: don't teach people's opinions, get the world study to show
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  Speaker 1: yourself approved onto God. A workman that needed not to
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  Speaker 1: be a shame. There is a relationship between shame and laziness.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Alle Lujah. Let's encourage our worshippers.
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  Speaker 1: Don't write songs that are meaningless, songs that just came
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: as a result of copying all kinds of things. No,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the intelligence that is in your song is where the
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: edification comes from. It's good to sing, but what is
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: the song saying? Is it helping someone know God? Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? Let's minimize some of these songs that matchet.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Ignorance prays the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Please someone who has faith self time in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: I receive grace to feed God's people. I receive grace
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  Speaker 1: to feed God's people. You're a man of God. Please
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  Speaker 1: go back, woman and sit down. I don't condemn you.
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  Speaker 1: There are concordances, there are lexicons to buy.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together?
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: There are manuals, people who have already labored for you.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: For God's sake, Let's sit down and get truth and
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  Speaker 1: feed God's people. It is at this point that with
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  Speaker 1: all due respects, expect the Catholics and the Anglicans, the
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  Speaker 1: pedrecostus thank God. I mean with thank God for the
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: ministery of the Holy Spirit. But you see, I was
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: raised by the Anglican and there was no room for
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: laziness the structure. If anyone here has passed through the
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  Speaker 1: Anglican communion, No, you don't stand and preach opinions.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: The topic is already known, so you wouldn't come and
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  Speaker 3: preach none.
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  Speaker 1: Says with sufficient versus well researched. Yes, sir, you would
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  Speaker 1: not even serve if you could not recite your apostle's creed.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: You see that. Let's be the name of the Lord.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: So we must obtain grace to build God's people. Your
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: salmons should come out of your desire to see God's people,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: but your sermons will be an overflow of your transformation.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: You cannot feed God's people beyond your level of spiritual transformation.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Let me repeat that again, you cannot feed God's people
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: beyond your level of spiritual transformation.
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  Speaker 3: And let me make an honest admission to you.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain things that your people need that you
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: don't have the grace to give them. You must have
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: the honest, shamemedness to outsource the graces that can help them,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: graces that are vettered across the lines of godliness and character.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: And don't let your people die because of ego. If
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: you don't have the grace. There are people within the body.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: It's God helping us. I have to give us the
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: last area and then will stop less it be the
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: name of the Lord. My final thoughts with us as
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: a contribute to this conference is I want to identify
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  Speaker 1: a few issues within the Body of Christ that I
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  Speaker 1: believe as a recommendation that God is going to help us.
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  Speaker 1: Part of my call and my mandate is to help
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  Speaker 1: bring love, unity and balance within the body. You never
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  Speaker 1: find me insulting people, tearing down people tearing down another
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  Speaker 1: person's ministry. That is not It has never worked, it
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  Speaker 1: won't work, allelujah. But the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: from his inception has never been without challenges. Please, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to listen carefully. Having challenges across the body is
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily a proof of backsliding. In most cases, it's
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  Speaker 1: not even a demonic issue. It's just the reality that
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  Speaker 1: comes with the human nature. And if you understand leadership,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: you know that conflict and everything around it is part
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: of growth. When the Church.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: Began to grow, there were issues.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Is that not so? In your Bible?
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: There were issues you find that in Act chapter six.
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  Speaker 1: The first issue we see that the church had to
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: deal with was welfare issue. Some people felt like they
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  Speaker 1: were being neglected in the daily sharing and the report.
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  Speaker 1: It first started as a rumor, and then it got
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  Speaker 1: to the apostles, and the apostle said, no, we have
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  Speaker 1: a mandate and we have a jurisdiction to stay in.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: And this is a lesson for someone. The more growth comes,
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  Speaker 1: the easier for you to move away from the ministry
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: and get into administrative duties. And administrative duties are wonderful,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: but if you do not outsource systems that keep you focused,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: you will stop being a man of God and become
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: an excellent administrator. There are people the worst thing that
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  Speaker 1: happened to you is that you grew in ministry that
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: in itself seemed like an attack, because you left the
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: ministry of the world and prayer and got to serving tables.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Tables should be served, but he said, no, select some
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  Speaker 1: among yourself, but we will give ourselves continually as chapter
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  Speaker 1: six hundreds four to prayer and the ministry of the world.
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  Speaker 1: And how many of you know that among those who
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  Speaker 1: were selected to save tables, other people rose up from there,
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  Speaker 1: including the person that the Bible identifies as an evangelist.
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  Speaker 1: They were ordained to save tables, but eventually at least two.
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  Speaker 3: Of them became mighty men.
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  Speaker 1: Philip was one of them, Stephen was another. Hallelujah. But
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: let's talk about two things or three things as I
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: wrap up. There are many challenges in the Body of Christ,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: and there's almost no end if we have to dissect
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: them one by one, because most of those challenges are subjective.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: But I will talk about the issues that concern everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Number one and.
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  Speaker 1: The peer and Chairman Legos chapter graciously mentioned one of them.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: I think that as the Body of Christ, we must
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  Speaker 1: be able to come up with a statement of faith.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: At what point are you called a Christian? What are
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the parameters that define in Nigerian Christian If we do
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: not answer this question with all due respect in the
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: next five ten years, they will ship in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things into this nation that will pollute the authenticity
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: of the faith life. Once there is no definition, anything
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: is permissing. There must be a statement of faith. What
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: do I have to believe to be a Christian? I
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: feel very sad and I think the PFEN you know,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Chairman also mentioned this about Dr Ottterbill, you know, bringing
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  Speaker 1: that as an observation. Because the faith work is largely personal,
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  Speaker 1: and because of the person of the Holy Spirit and
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  Speaker 1: the unique expression of the way he trains us, we
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: will have different templates. As far as I work with
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  Speaker 1: God is concern, and that is all right. But the
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  Speaker 1: danger there is that if it is not balanced by
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  Speaker 1: the jurisdiction of the world, we can delve into anything
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: in the name of the Spirit leads. So I can
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  Speaker 1: walk down right now and slap past the God Man
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  Speaker 1: and say, it was an instruction the Holy Ghost gave me.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: Are we together? I'm not being sarcastic now.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: It is difficult to say I'm wrong, because one, you
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: are not the Holy Ghost.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Too, you are not me, and he says, spiritual thing.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: But later, after five year, I will find out it
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: was a demand that spoke to me and quietly repent.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: But while I'm doing that, I have mentored orthers across
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: that error, so that slapping will now become a doctrine.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Are we learning now? One of the ways error spreads
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: is because it is spiritualized. Once error is spiritualized, it
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: is difficult to tame it because the basis for taming
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: it will look like being your being a what's the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: world now?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Are we together now?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: No matter your work with God, the template on how
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the spirit of God works with people will always be
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: consistent with the character of Scripture. We are not the
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: first to receive all kinds of instructions, and I tell
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: you God can give sometimes very challenging instructions.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: Are we together now? As a man of God?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: God has given me instruction that cannot be a doctrine.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Now there are three layers of learning spiritually. Number one
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: is called a historic learning historic a geological learning. The
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: second kind of learning is called a doctrinal learning. The
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: third kind is called personalized dealings. Well, because of your
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: work with God and the unique expression of God's grace,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: he will lead you to a pathway that is only
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: for you. You are never supposed to replicate that unique dealing,
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  Speaker 1: if not to destroy another believer. I'll give you an instance.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: God may check my heart and say to it that
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: if it gives me many houses and many cars, because
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: of my level of alignmental submission, it may lead me
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: into partition. And because of that, in order to manage
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: that tendency of the flesh in me, he will give
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: me a unique instruction. Never have more than three houses,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: never have more than three cars. And once I work
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: in keeping with that instruction, I will flourish in ministry.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: So when you do an interview for me and say
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: what is the secret of your success, I will tell
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: you I do not have more than three cars and
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: three houses. If you now men taught that personalized dealing,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: maybe you assignment requires ten houses. You are in trouble already.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Are we together now? Because our personalized dealings with God
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: produced results in our lives, chances are excellent that as
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: we men taught those who are around us, we also
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: bring our unique dealings and turn it into a doctrine
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: because of the result that it produced.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: This is one of the causes of error in the body.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: So God can tell someone slab the person on the
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: wheelchair three times a define instruction one, two, three, and
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  Speaker 1: the person jumps up. The young man who watched you
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  Speaker 1: now will organize it cusaine and bring a son of
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  Speaker 1: a police officer who is on a wheelchair and slap
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  Speaker 1: him three times.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: The guy will not get up, and the boy will
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: go to jail.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: And we blame the Holy ghost.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: It is not the Holy spirit.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Is that we do not know the difference between God's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: unique dealing to you and what is doctrine? Now? Allelujah,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Never build ministry out of personal visionary experiences, no matter
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: how spectacular, you will be destroying the ministry we're rapping up?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: Are we together? Now?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: I've heard by the messes.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Of God, I am one who has been graced to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: live in the reality of angelic encounters, encounters.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: Of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: There are encounters that if I bring us my personal experience,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: it would destroy.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Many people in the Body of Christ.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Not because it is erroneous, but the nature, the instructions,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: the things that God gave, the kinds of instructions that
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: came from that encounter. It was from my personal edification,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: and it was not because it worked for me does
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: not mean I automatically turn it into a doctrine. And
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: sometimes the error comes. Sincerely, it's just people telling you
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: their story how it worked for them. Not every story
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: is a testimony. There are some you keep to yourself.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: We have to pray your grace, your grace. Have nothing
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: we helt you.
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  Speaker 5: Your grace. Your grace shines on me. It's your grace,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: your grace.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 6: I'm not say thout you pray you agree, Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: I may not have the time to discuss it, but
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: please write it down. Number one, you need a statement
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: of faith that guides your life. How far is far
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: in your work with God? How far is far? As
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: far as the church you are leading is concern. All
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: things are lawful, but not all things are expedient by
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: the message of God. I have the privilege of preaching
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: across several places, several denominations, and as a principle, I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: learn to adapt to whatever is the modus of randy
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: of any church that I find. But I have my
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: personal convictions. I don't preach everywhere because I agree with
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: everything there. I have my reservations. However, it is not
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: enough reason for differences. But as far as mentoring and
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: building those under your care concern, you have to define
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: what being a spiritual person is. Define the parameters for
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  Speaker 1: true spirituality. Number two. The second challenge that I wish
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  Speaker 1: I had the time to talk about was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that many people are in ministry who have been wounded
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  Speaker 1: and did not stay to be healed, and they got
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  Speaker 1: into ministry. As simple as this sounds, it is dangerous
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  Speaker 1: to carry the mantle of priesthood when you are not healed.
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  Speaker 1: A scar is proved that a wound was once there
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  Speaker 1: but is now healed. And if that sca is not
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  Speaker 1: If that wound is not healed, God does not send
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  Speaker 1: you most of the envying, the jealousy, the bad, biting,
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  Speaker 1: and lots of things that you see happening across the
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  Speaker 1: body of Christ. The root of it is that people
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  Speaker 1: have pains that came from their background, that they did
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  Speaker 1: not stay with the spirit to be healed from.
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  Speaker 3: Then their spirituallynes that pain.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now growing up in life and ministry.
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  Speaker 1: I really did not know that emotional wounds were real.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: I just focused on physical wounds. But now as God
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  Speaker 1: has helped me to grow, I have seen that emotional
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  Speaker 1: wounds can be like diabetes. It can stay there for years.
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  Speaker 1: There are people carrying all kinds of pain, their angers.
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  Speaker 1: What send them to go and pray? And first, the
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  Speaker 1: such for their non was not to bless people. It
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  Speaker 1: was from a standpoint of competition. Let me tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: only wounded people wound orders. When you are healed. You
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  Speaker 1: don't wound orders when you readjoy over the pain of
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  Speaker 1: another man and not that person's ministry. When you are
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: happy when you see people going down, no matter how
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: you spiritualize it, it is because there is an injury.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Psychologists are wise enough, and most of us have churches
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  Speaker 1: full of intelligent people. They can look at you as
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  Speaker 1: a pastor and know that this salmon is not the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. This salmon came from your background. It came
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: from your pain. You are trying to manage your frustrations. Listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: I really I have to honor the time and stop,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of you are here. But I want
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  Speaker 1: you to please get this. You need to go and
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  Speaker 1: stay with the Holy Spirit and say, heal me. Oh God,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what injury. Joseph. Your brothers threw you
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  Speaker 1: in the kit. You are not even aware that you
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  Speaker 1: are wounded already. Make sure you are healed before you
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  Speaker 1: see them. It took a healed Joseph to ignore the
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  Speaker 1: wickedness of his brothers. It took a healed Joseph to
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  Speaker 1: not punish fortifi. If I am Joseph, as I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: out as a prime minister, who is the first person
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  Speaker 1: you call? But if I where are you? You and
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  Speaker 1: the wife get back into that prison.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Most of us came from Polygamo's families. You did not
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  Speaker 1: realize the effect. Most of us probably did not go
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  Speaker 1: to school, Elie. Most of our parents made nasty comments,
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  Speaker 1: and you did not know that he was wound upon wound.
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  Speaker 1: They called you a failure. They said you will never
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  Speaker 1: amount to anything. Just because you are old doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you are healed. You can be old in age still
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  Speaker 1: carrying the wound of childhood. So you don't know why
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  Speaker 1: you are an angry man of God. The moment someone
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  Speaker 1: says this your shoe, is it original or fake? That
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  Speaker 1: can become a two year wark. He was just throwing
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  Speaker 1: a joke, but the joke taughts an injury. Listen carefully, well,
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  Speaker 1: Rappin or boy, you need to hear this. If we
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  Speaker 1: want to see unity, there is a revelation that brings unity.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together.
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  Speaker 1: Healed? There are preachers that are not healed. That is
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  Speaker 1: the reason why there is fight for membership. There are
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  Speaker 1: preachers that are not healed. Is the reason why we
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  Speaker 1: disor no elderly people.
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  Speaker 3: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Most of the things we do, from.
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  Speaker 1: A fake life, to selling lives on the internet, to
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  Speaker 1: trying to use dressing to show that faith is working.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: All of those things are proof of a wound that
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this. When a young man gets into
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  Speaker 1: ministry and in one year his dream is just to
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  Speaker 1: buy a private jet have the largest charge, he may
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  Speaker 1: not be wrong, but a young man has been wounded.
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  Speaker 1: He does not even know what is motivating this. It's
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  Speaker 1: not always demons. Demons are surprised themselves because what they
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  Speaker 1: did and what they did not do wereout blaming them.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to pray. You've been patient. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Most of you ask your congregations for extra time. Let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you for extract time. Now we're going to pray.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me, please hear me. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: will become of a general overseer's wife who was wounded
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  Speaker 1: by her stepmother, Call the bad lady, a prostitute, called whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Now she's married, man of God, she's in a church.
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  Speaker 1: Most likely she will look at every other woman's dressing.
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  Speaker 1: She's not a bad woman, She's only a wounded woman.
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  Speaker 1: Who is this woman always dressing? Rich Marca for me,
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  Speaker 1: all these useless wars in church. I am telling you
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  Speaker 1: the chure is not just reconciliation. The cure is healing.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have a mindset that if I celebrate first
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: of God Man and I celebrate the work he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: what if I lose my relevance that orientation came as
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  Speaker 1: a result of a wound. Aircrafts don't crash in the
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: air because there is space for every aircraft, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how big it is. Some of you right here, you
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  Speaker 1: are in this place. I know we are pasted us.
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  Speaker 1: Let God use me for one minute to heal someone
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  Speaker 1: before we wrap up.
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  Speaker 3: There are some of you who cannot see yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You are here now, but you cannot look eyeborn to
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  Speaker 1: eyeborn because you are angry. And most of those who
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  Speaker 1: have that anger don't have growth. So what you're fighting
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: about is not truly it's unnecessary. You are looking for
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  Speaker 1: something to blame, and if there's nobody else to blame,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: your wife becomes a victim. Listen to me, Men of God.
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  Speaker 1: We have lost valuable people in our churches because we've
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  Speaker 1: not been able to tame our anger, tame our jealousy.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: Some of you are jealous. Even with your children and
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: your sons and daughters three who you raise, you still
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  Speaker 1: fights them. It's not because you want them to fail.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: It's because you want to succeed alone, and that succeeding
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  Speaker 1: alone came because you did not take first position. You
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: watch awards given to people, and there is still the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: craving of a primary school child craging within, an individual
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: still wanting to be celebrated alone. Let me teach you something.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: Let's let's do a little consult and say this is
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  Speaker 1: not a man of God. Now. The highest psychological need
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  Speaker 1: of any man, including you looking at me, is the
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  Speaker 1: need to feel loved, the need to feel valued, and
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: the need to feel appreciated. Say aftime, he loved, say valued,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Say appreciated one more time, say loved, valued, appreciated. Anybody,
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  Speaker 1: including your spouse, who violates that law becomes your enemy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you where your words are coming from, because
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  Speaker 1: someone bruised your ego knowingly or knowingly. You stepped into
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  Speaker 1: a meeting and the person three realizes your apostleship, and
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: you walked out of that meeting, marking his face, and
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  Speaker 1: he became your enemy forever. Tonight be healed. Healed. You
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  Speaker 1: have been wounding your congregations. Tell them you're shouting at
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  Speaker 1: them because they went left.
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  Speaker 3: They moved right, you still shouted. It's not the direction it's.
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  Speaker 1: You, PF and I'm sorry, or you invited me. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Now please, everybody's done. Everybody's done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the next five minutes. I
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  Speaker 1: like you to walk to everybody you can find and
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  Speaker 1: just tell them. I bless you and I honor you.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, God bless you. Hold the person, whether you
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  Speaker 1: know the person or not. I bless you, and I
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  Speaker 1: honor you. We fought during the crusade, but we're still Christians.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, God bless you. We are neighbors, but
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  Speaker 1: I've never entered you chance to see what God is doing.
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  Speaker 1: Please appreciate someone. I honor you. You may have party members,
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  Speaker 1: but I appreciate you. You may have two members, but
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Take a minute. You soon return to
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  Speaker 1: your seat. Make sure you celebrate them. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: how many members you have. I know you are still learning.
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  Speaker 1: We may not be at the same level of grace,
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  Speaker 1: but just for you to know that we are stronger together,
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  Speaker 1: stronger together, stronger together, stronger together. You are the one
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  Speaker 1: that we prey, You are the one we.
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  Speaker 7: So please return back to your seats, rejoicing.
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  Speaker 1: We're out of time. Return back to your seats. We're
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  Speaker 1: about to pray. Return back to your seat. I know
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  Speaker 1: you are a prophet. I respect you as a prophet.
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  Speaker 1: I know you are an apostle. I respect you as
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  Speaker 1: an apostle. I don't downplay your stay. Listen.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: When you derive joy in demeaning the relevance of another
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  Speaker 1: man of God, it does not make you great. Fathers. Please,
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  Speaker 1: we're rapping up. We're rapping up. Let me have your attention. Please.
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  Speaker 1: God wants to tell us something serious. Now listen, Please, fathers,
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  Speaker 1: you are greatly honored, but respect the songs. They have
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  Speaker 1: an advantage of time and can learn experience from you.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Every father has shown us what he can become, but
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  Speaker 1: we do not yet know what the sons will become. Eli,
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  Speaker 1: you play the role in the life of sam Well,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: but don't demean that young boy. That is the prophet
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  Speaker 1: who will ordain soul. That is the prophet who will
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  Speaker 1: ordain David. Sons. Respect fathers. It doesn't matter what they preach.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many times you travel to the
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  Speaker 1: spirit and come back. You are still a son. If
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  Speaker 1: a baby takes ten teens of breast milk, the baby
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  Speaker 1: does not become an adult. The baby becomes a healthy baby. Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Let me speak especially to younger people in ministry. Don't
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  Speaker 1: follow this blind and foolish campaign of pointing fingers against fathers.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, the more I grow in ministry, the
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  Speaker 1: more I'm silent. When you see father's quiet. Find out
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  Speaker 1: why young people have seen without wisdom. When a father
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  Speaker 1: says and keeps quiet, keep quiet as a young man
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  Speaker 1: to you'll be wiser. I way together, contemporaries, let's respect ourselves. Now.
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  Speaker 1: If you find somebody's ministry.
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  Speaker 3: People are not idiots. They're know truth when they see it.
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  Speaker 1: And the moment you begin to find people, you'll make
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: you show your insecurity. It comes on display because those
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  Speaker 1: who are helped by God walk ever conscious of His
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  Speaker 1: messy over their lives. So I will end my session
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  Speaker 1: by saying this. Apostle John, speaking by the spirit, he
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  Speaker 1: wrote to three groups of people. I write to you fathers,
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  Speaker 1: I write to you young men. I write to you children.
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  Speaker 1: No matter the category of Asian experience in ministry, there
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: is something written to you, a letter from God. What
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: God is telling the fathers. It's not what he's telling
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the young men. Now, the fathers have wisdom and experience,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: The young men have strength. The children have maliability of heart.
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  Speaker 1: You can make them become anything. Hold hands with someone
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  Speaker 1: about the rabble. Lord makers instruments of your peace. Where
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  Speaker 1: there is hate trend, let your love.
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  Speaker 8: Your mad truments, all surpride and preschiness.
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  Speaker 1: Chay when we are your instrumn. Please look at me,
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  Speaker 1: man of God. If your principles and practices are wrong,
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  Speaker 1: I don't condemn you or change if you are being mentored.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: When I say unity, I don't mean empressing everything, because
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: there are things in the Body of Christ that are
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: absolute nonsense. Don't mistaken what I'm saying if it is
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: not Jesus crucified, if it is not Jesus glorified, if
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  Speaker 1: it is not Jesus revealed. So when we talk of
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  Speaker 1: coming together, we are not saying don't carry Rachel. Leave
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  Speaker 1: the idols of your father's house. There is a better
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: covenant with God. There are some of us. He was
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: mentorship that led you into all kinds of extra biblical practices.
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  Speaker 1: While we do not condemn you, there is room for repentance. Change.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Now use this conference to change. Some of you were
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  Speaker 1: taught by wrong friends manipulative ways to raise money for church.
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  Speaker 1: There are veterans with understanding who can help you on
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: how to structure church finances with integrity. Find them, Go
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: and sit down under their meetings and learn. There are
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  Speaker 1: some of us who have all kinds of character challenges.
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  Speaker 1: These are things you have been ignoring for a long time,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: but it's telling on you. Pop can work on yourself
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: at every level. Growth is still possible. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: So when I say this, the Bible says, to examine
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  Speaker 1: ourselves whether we are still in the faith. Honestly, there
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  Speaker 1: are people I love, but they cannot be my friends.
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  Speaker 1: I love them sincerely, but until I see the degree
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  Speaker 1: of your yieldedness to and His purposes.
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  Speaker 3: I love you from afar and I.
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  Speaker 1: Wish you well, but it will be a risk to
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  Speaker 1: bring you into my space. Your emotional carelessness is not
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  Speaker 1: healthy for friendship with me. Your level of in discipline
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  Speaker 1: with anything at all. Say anything you want to say,
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  Speaker 1: do anything you want to do. Don't pinto people's house,
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  Speaker 1: collect their cass, collect you whatever. In the name of
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  Speaker 1: prophetic instructions, I love you, but change. Don't harass any
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  Speaker 1: member to collect money from them they didn't send you.
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  Speaker 1: If you are bankrupt, go to the one who sent
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: to us, saying what was the strategy for my feeding?
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 3: I have to say this. We cannot end a pastor's
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  Speaker 3: conference without pointing this.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is that some of you have lost your honor.
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  Speaker 1: It said that like you leave because of character issues.
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  Speaker 3: Your issue was not revelation.
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  Speaker 1: You lack character. Once you drop down from the pool kit,
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  Speaker 1: you are almost as if you're never given your life
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  Speaker 1: to Christ. There are young people that cheerlessness started from
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  Speaker 1: campus and there was no system to pay it. Some
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  Speaker 1: of us are learning all kinds of rubbish. Lend me
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: all kinds of rubbish. It has to change anybody who
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  Speaker 1: is coming to your church, plundering you or making you
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: stop wealthy people in your church, or all kinds of
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: character challenges. I don't condemn you, never will I We're
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: products of God's messy. But for God's sake, some of
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  Speaker 1: you may need to take a break for a few
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: weeks and sit down with a seasoned man of God
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  Speaker 1: and say, help me, I have anger, help me I
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  Speaker 1: have lost Help me I have what again, jealousy, bitterness, envy,
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  Speaker 1: ah unforgiveness over my dead body.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 1: Repent now, repent. This is why we're holding hands. One
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  Speaker 1: prayer and I leave this place. Show me messy your God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't pray for your congregation. Don't worry about your congregation.
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  Speaker 1: Pray for yourself. Obtain messy. Work upon my heart. Someone, pray,
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  Speaker 1: walk upon my heart. Give me long givty of impacting ministry.
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  Speaker 1: Let me be a person of love. Sen knowingly, send, knowingly,
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  Speaker 1: Send knowingly. Let me become a pul that to the
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  Speaker 1: body noted destroyer. Someone, go ahead and pray. Repent for
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  Speaker 1: the manipulations you may have cause to the members of
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: your church. Ask God to show you messy. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: is nigh them that call upon you. Make a tye
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  Speaker 1: before God. I'm ready to do ministry with integrity from today.
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  Speaker 1: Integrity from today given to prayer, given to the body
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  Speaker 1: of the world, given to lef worrying to build God's people.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead and pray.
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  Speaker 1: Let it be from the depth of your heart.