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The Spirit Of Wisdom · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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Speaker 1: Apostle Femi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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Speaker 2: Then I will cause your voice to be heard.
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Speaker 1: And all who pay attention to my word on your
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Speaker 1: lips will not lack light and direction. He is a
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Speaker 1: man sent from God, sent to raise God's end time armies.
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Speaker 1: With Apostle Fermi Lazarus, every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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Speaker 2: Let's give the Lord a big hand. Praise God. Can
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Speaker 2: you give me my topic? I mean, we have a very,
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Speaker 2: very interesting conversation. New series starting today. Who is excited?
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Speaker 2: I said, who is excited? Every series in this house
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Speaker 2: is like bomb. Every series is like what? Bomb. And
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Speaker 2: we are in for a new one. We are in
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Speaker 2: for something unbelievable. Is that okay? Okay. And I told you,
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Speaker 2: I posted this yesterday, that this is one series you
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Speaker 2: will see that my life is transformed. I didn't hear
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Speaker 2: amen to that. Now, turn your Bibles with me to
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Speaker 2: 1 Corinthians chapter number 2. 1 Corinthians chapter number 2.
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Speaker 2: 1 Corinthians chapter number 2. 1 Corinthians chapter number 2. Amen. Alright,
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Speaker 2: let me start the reading from All right, 1 Corinthians 2,
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Speaker 2: chapter number 2. Let's start reading from verse 4. For
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Speaker 2: the sake of, all right, detailed understanding, said, and my speech,
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Speaker 2: 1 Corinthians 2, forever, let's say amen. Now listen to this.
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Speaker 2: And my speech and preaching was not with enticing words
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Speaker 2: of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit
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Speaker 2: and of power, that your faith should not stand in
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Speaker 2: the wisdom of men But in the power of God. Alright.
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Speaker 2: How be it. We speak wisdom. Among them that are perfect.
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Speaker 2: Yet not the wisdom of this world. Nor the princes
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Speaker 2: of this world. That comes to north. Now the topic
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Speaker 2: or the title of the new series is Sophia. Which
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Speaker 2: means wisdom. That's the Greek word for the word wisdom.
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Speaker 2: Somebody say wisdom. Wisdom. So we are going to be
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Speaker 2: looking to the subject of the spirit of wisdom. Alright?
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Speaker 2: And the Bible is making it very clear. Now listen
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Speaker 2: to this. There is the wisdom of this world. Is
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Speaker 2: that simple enough? There is what? The wisdom of this world.
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Speaker 2: The wisdom of men. Logic. Alright? There are certain things
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Speaker 2: that are logical. Certain things are logical. Alright? Um... Let
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Speaker 2: me give an instance. It is not logical for Adam
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Speaker 2: to need help meat. And the response of God to
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Speaker 2: it is sleep. That doesn't make sense. What is logical?
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Speaker 2: Go on dating sites. See where you can find people easily.
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Speaker 2: Be more active on social media. So they can see you.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying those things are bad. Do you understand
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? So rest is not logical. Particularly when
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Speaker 2: you need answers to things. But you see. Look at something. Alright.
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Speaker 2: Let me show you something. Isaiah 55 verse 9. Isaiah
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Speaker 2: 55 verse 9. Isaiah 55 verse 9. Look at it.
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Speaker 2: Says as the heavens are higher than the earth. so
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Speaker 2: are my ways higher than your ways. When God speaks,
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Speaker 2: he speaks with superior wisdom. He speaks with superior wisdom. So, alright,
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Speaker 2: sometimes we look at our daughter, alright, probably she wants
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Speaker 2: to eat, and maybe sometimes she wants to stand up
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Speaker 2: eating her food. And we say, sit down there and
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Speaker 2: eat your food. And we try to collect the plate
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Speaker 2: for her to sit down Then eat your food. Then
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Speaker 2: she has the impression of, once you collect this plate,
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Speaker 2: I'm not getting it back. I won't sit down. Give
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Speaker 2: me my food. I will think of what to do next.
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Speaker 2: Are you seeing that now? All right. Why? Because she's young.
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Speaker 2: She does not know where we are acting from. And
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Speaker 2: sometimes that's what God says. Sit at my right hand
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Speaker 2: side till I make your enemies your foodstool. Sit down.
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Speaker 2: All right. Everyone seems to be running to the west.
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Speaker 2: God said no. Go south. See it doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 2: Everyone that has come to share testimony. They shared it.
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Speaker 2: Because they went this way. God says no. That's not
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Speaker 2: your route. Go south. For as the heavens are higher
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Speaker 2: than the earth. So are his ways higher than your ways.
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Speaker 2: You see. This scripture here. Sounds to me. Like. It
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Speaker 2: sounds to me like. A proverb. You see, you can't
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Speaker 2: measure the distance of heaven to the earth because it
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Speaker 2: is not in kilometers. It is in realms. The heaven
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Speaker 2: is not far from the earth by measurable distance. There
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Speaker 2: are two realms. So you would see, for instance, someone
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Speaker 2: walks in the hospital. Here is the doctor. Here is
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Speaker 2: a patient who has just died. and they do everything
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Speaker 2: possible to resuscitate the patient, the patient is still dead.
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Speaker 2: Family members come and scream the name. The person is
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Speaker 2: still dead. It is not about distance. There's a switch
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Speaker 2: in REM. So, look at this. Please look up. If
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Speaker 2: I pick my phone and I send a picture from
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Speaker 2: my phone to your WhatsApp, you receive it, right? Good.
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Speaker 2: Do you see the picture flying in the air It
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Speaker 2: moves through a medium. You can't see it. But there's
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Speaker 2: an exchange. You can't see it.
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Speaker 1: Alright?
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Speaker 2: It's a wave. You see that now? The natural human
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Speaker 2: eye is not designed to pick such wave. You can't
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Speaker 2: pick it. That's why your ears can't pick FM. See,
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Speaker 2: God is too wise. Even in creation. Imagine if your
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Speaker 2: ears can't pick FM. You can't sleep. As you are
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Speaker 2: trying to sleep, you just say... What's that? You can't sleep.
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Speaker 2: Are you seeing that now? Now, if a Chinese man
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Speaker 2: comes here and speaks his China or Chinese language, you
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Speaker 2: don't understand what he's saying.
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Speaker 1: Alright?
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Speaker 2: Because that's not your own reality. That's not your reality.
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Speaker 2: You don't understand what he's saying. Alright? So, your ways
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Speaker 2: are entirely different. But the issue is that ways can
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Speaker 2: be learned Ways can be learned. God wants to pass
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Speaker 2: you through a system that he will introduce you that
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Speaker 2: this is my method. Actually, when I say give me,
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Speaker 2: I am not collecting. I'm giving you much more. And
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Speaker 2: there are times he collects. And the first thing he
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Speaker 2: wants to teach you is contentment. The ways of God
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Speaker 2: can be learned. His ways can be known. The Bible
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Speaker 2: said he showed the Israelites his heart but his ways
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Speaker 2: he revealed to Moses. He revealed his ways to Moses.
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Speaker 2: So it means if you will not come up higher
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Speaker 2: to learn his ways everything God is saying will be
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Speaker 2: confusing you. It will make no sense. Because listen the
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Speaker 2: words of God doesn't make any human sense. If you are,
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Speaker 2: listen to what I'm saying. If you are going to
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Speaker 2: do this life and you are going to be a
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Speaker 2: winner at the end of your race, you are going
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Speaker 2: to have the God result. You cannot do what is logical.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense. I mean, when you look
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Speaker 2: at the book of Exodus chapter number 14, how do
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Speaker 2: we have over 2 million people? Over 2 million people
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Speaker 2: before the Red Sea. Look at it. They've been walking
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Speaker 2: and now face to face with the sea. Not a river. Sea.
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Speaker 2: Behind them, the host of Egypt. With their chariot. Egypt
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Speaker 2: was known to have the best armed forces in the world.
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Speaker 2: As at that time. Nations will scream if Egypt should
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Speaker 2: join any other nation to fight them. They were like
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Speaker 2: the America or the China of their days. And the
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Speaker 2: Israelites cried out and said, Oh, now it's because there's
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Speaker 2: no grave in Egypt. You have brought us here to die.
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Speaker 2: Moses said, stand. You will see the salvation of the
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Speaker 2: Lord your God. This is it. God said. Why are
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Speaker 2: you making noise? Tell them. That they go forward. Does
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Speaker 2: that make any sense? Does that make any sense? then
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Speaker 2: God now said you Moses stretch your rod over the
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Speaker 2: sea and divide it listen to this the ways of
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Speaker 2: God are revealed in his words the ways of God
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Speaker 2: are revealed in his words everything he says to us
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Speaker 2: shows us his method Shows us his modus operandi. How
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Speaker 2: he does things. If you are going to know the
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Speaker 2: way of God. You have to listen to him. His
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Speaker 2: wisdom is encapsulated. In his words. See when you take capsules.
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Speaker 2: The jelly like substance. Which is actually had in now.
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Speaker 2: Is not actually. Is not the drug. It is us
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Speaker 2: holding it. It is holding it. That's the same way...
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Speaker 2: What is inside the word of God... Is his wisdom...
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Speaker 2: You will never know his wisdom... If you don't obey
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Speaker 2: what he has said... Listen... His wisdom is not received
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Speaker 2: when you hear his word... His wisdom is known when
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Speaker 2: you do it... So the Bible says... A wise man
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Speaker 2: is one that heareth what I say... And doeth them...
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Speaker 2: And doeth them... Do you know... That... Let's say for instance...
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Speaker 2: When we read the laws of the Old Testament and
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Speaker 2: all those things, we say, oh, laws, laws, laws. But
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Speaker 2: do you know that if we actually live by the
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Speaker 2: content of those laws, we'll live longer? Yes. Yes. See,
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Speaker 2: sometimes people are too desperate to get out of something
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Speaker 2: they perceive as bondage, that they enter into something that
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Speaker 2: is a greater bondage. Do you understand what I'm saying? See,
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Speaker 2: this wisdom is a wisdom that is a revelation of
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Speaker 2: God's ways. A man who is not in God's realm
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Speaker 2: cannot understand it. That's why you see that the world,
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Speaker 2: they have every problem with what we are doing in church.
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Speaker 2: To them, we must be fools to be in church.
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Speaker 2: You must be a fool to give offering. You must
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Speaker 2: be a fool to give tithe. You must be a
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Speaker 2: fool to give fresh food. That is the world. To them,
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Speaker 2: you must be a fool to have a pastor. You
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Speaker 2: must be a fool to honor the pastor. That is
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Speaker 2: the world. To even pray, to them you must be
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Speaker 2: a fool to pray. They will tell you in Nigeria
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Speaker 2: you are building churches. In China they are building industries.
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Speaker 2: You want to know what is going on in China?
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Speaker 2: I can tell you. To know what happens in nations
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Speaker 2: that have turned their back on God. Are you aware,
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Speaker 2: and I say this with a knowledge of what I know,
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Speaker 2: that there are people that are being bred as cattle
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Speaker 2: in China for organ donation against their will. indoctrinated they
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Speaker 2: make sure they live clean lives exercise themselves but once
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Speaker 2: a big man needs a liver or a kidney do
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Speaker 2: you know the atrocities of these nations and why god
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Speaker 2: said he will judge them do you know how much
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Speaker 2: they have destabilized you see you see the issue is
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Speaker 2: that poverty somehow has made it so that we just
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Speaker 2: focus on the externalities do you know how these nations
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Speaker 2: are sitting on kind of worms Do you know the
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Speaker 2: evil that is going on in these nations? I watched
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Speaker 2: the video of a man at Dr. Phil's show. Is
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Speaker 2: it Dr. Phil's show now? I mean, this is his son,
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Speaker 2: he gave birth to as a boy. Now they are
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Speaker 2: trying to interview father and son before the whole world.
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Speaker 2: And the boy came out now as a girl. They've
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Speaker 2: done some silicone implants, give him breast. Altered his hormones.
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Speaker 2: Give him things that will make him think and act
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Speaker 2: like a woman. But it does not change the fact,
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Speaker 2: God made you a male. I watched the man cry
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Speaker 2: and he was shaking. And it's against the law of
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Speaker 2: the land for him to even query the boy. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you give birth in certain nations, you cannot stop your
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Speaker 2: own children from having sex with your own children. Is
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Speaker 2: this the nations we want to be like? You see,
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Speaker 2: when people say this, most times because, number one, They
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Speaker 2: have either not traveled or they have been to places
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Speaker 2: and not even understand what is going on. They say,
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Speaker 2: Nigeria is building churches. I mean, I don't want to
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Speaker 2: go into statistics. Alright? Because that's not the aim of
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Speaker 2: my teaching. To show you what Nigeria will look like
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Speaker 2: without us having this revival. despite what we are having
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Speaker 2: as a revival still look at what is happening for
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Speaker 2: a sitting governor to sit down in kaduna and say
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Speaker 2: this is our plan for the next 25 years no
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Speaker 2: christian will be here okay and then believers who have
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Speaker 2: not been taught god's word and kingdom will now step
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Speaker 2: out and say things like all this church church everywhere
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Speaker 2: are you seeing what is happening The devil is fighting
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Speaker 2: the body of Christ and believers who are not trained
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Speaker 2: and taught in God's word are also major instruments against
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Speaker 2: the body. Who are those who goes online and drag
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Speaker 2: pastor here at the boy? Christians. You will rarely see
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Speaker 2: Muslims dragging their imams. Just say anything that looks like
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Speaker 2: you are against their political affiliation. You will see boys
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Speaker 2: who can be great grandson or grandson. Who say Enoch
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Speaker 2: or what do they call your name? in quotes, we
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Speaker 2: are hungry. Because we want the nation to be better.
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Speaker 2: And we fight and so fight till we begin to
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Speaker 2: fight the wisdom of God. When election was coming, I
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Speaker 2: won't count PVC. We know. But I was just counted.
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Speaker 2: Not by prayer. We know. Okay, you have gone to
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Speaker 2: the street. You voted, right? Correct. That's if you were
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Speaker 2: able to vote. How did it count? Listen to what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. The power holding the fabrics of this world,
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Speaker 2: they are not physical structures. They are spiritual structures. The
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Speaker 2: Bible says, 10 verse 3. It said, though we walk
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Speaker 2: in the flesh, we do not walk after the flesh.
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Speaker 2: It is the wisdom of God to fight. It said,
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Speaker 2: the weapons of our warfare, they are not carnal. They
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Speaker 2: are mighty through God. As believers, we are spiritual people.
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Speaker 2: We are not ordinary men. We don't take our reference
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Speaker 2: in the flesh first. We take our reference in the spirit.
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Speaker 2: That's where the wisdom of God is known. Are you
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Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? Are you asleep? I said,
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Speaker 2: are you asleep? That's where the wisdom of God is what? Known.
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Speaker 2: Not in the flesh. A carnal man knoweth not the
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Speaker 2: things of the spirit. They are spiritually discerned. They are
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Speaker 2: a language that is high level language. Too coded for
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Speaker 2: him to understand. His mind can't grasp it. He can't
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Speaker 2: imagine it. He can't fathom it. He is a novice.
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Speaker 2: He may be a smart guy in class. He may
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Speaker 2: be smart about his business. He may know how to
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Speaker 2: make money. But when you hear him talk. And compare
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Speaker 2: what he is saying with the wisdom of scriptures. You
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Speaker 2: know he is a fool. Have you seen somebody who
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Speaker 2: is so smart. But you listen to him. And you
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Speaker 2: know you are just not wise. You don't even know
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Speaker 2: the system you are up against. You think life is
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Speaker 2: about just what you see and what you hear. You
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Speaker 2: have no idea that there is a system that is
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Speaker 2: more complicated than your energy. That when you are done
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Speaker 2: exhausting all that you think you know, you will now
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Speaker 2: have to learn that there is something called the spiritual
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Speaker 2: realm and it controls the physical. Listen, if your reference
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Speaker 2: is only in the physical, you are a victim already.
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Speaker 2: You are a victim of many conclusions. Let me show
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Speaker 2: you this. Look up everybody. There's something I need to
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Speaker 2: show you. If a boss has an adage, they will
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Speaker 2: say it is the person who is not around that
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Speaker 2: the goat gives birth to one child. I had that
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Speaker 2: adage 12 years ago. I can't forget it. You know
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Speaker 2: what that means? If you have a goat that is heavy,
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Speaker 2: you know, in Nigeria, we don't do ultrasound for goats.
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Speaker 2: You hear what I'm saying? A goat is heavily pregnant. So,
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Speaker 2: you have traveled, you've gone out. And he came back.
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Speaker 2: He said, it's one. The neighbors have shared it. Do
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Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying? Everybody have carried it. At least,
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Speaker 2: just so you know, something was inside. It's one. Listen,
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Speaker 2: if you take your reference in the physical, the good
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Speaker 2: things will have been shared by men who are in
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Speaker 2: the spirit. Either demonic or divine. So don't just say, no,
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Speaker 2: either demonic people or divine. I shared a story out
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Speaker 2: that somebody went for a job interview He went for
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Speaker 2: a job interview and when they were going to call
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Speaker 2: the person next, sitting to him, the person brought out something.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the guy wore a suit. Wore a suit,
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Speaker 2: not at his time. Brought out something red from his pocket.
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Speaker 2: Licked it in three times. Licked it in three times.
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Speaker 2: Said a few words. Put it back in his pocket.
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Speaker 2: The guy looked at him. The guy said, it's too late. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 2: it's too late. Should have prayed before coming. There are
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Speaker 2: people who never see death until it is right in
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Speaker 2: front of them. The spiritual realm is much more vast
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Speaker 2: and intelligent. God can show you things years ahead. That
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Speaker 2: is his wisdom. It's in the spirit. You have to
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Speaker 2: be in that realm to know it. You can't know
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Speaker 2: it if you are a physical man. You can't know
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Speaker 2: it if you are a carnal man. A carnal man
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Speaker 2: is born again. But he is not walking in the
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Speaker 2: light of the word. His senses are still dominated by
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Speaker 2: or his life is still dominated by sensual things. Sensual.
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Speaker 2: It's ruled by the sensory realm. It's ruled by what
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Speaker 2: can be felt, what can be seen, what can be touched.
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Speaker 2: When you hear him talk, you know he's not beyond
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Speaker 2: this realm. This is as far as he knows. I
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Speaker 2: was talking with those in the house on Saturday and asking,
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Speaker 2: how many of them have cast out demons before? We're
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Speaker 2: going to orchestrate a situation where we're going to have
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Speaker 2: to cast out demons. And after I finished meeting, I
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Speaker 2: received a call. And they said, hey, Apostle, so-and-so person
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Speaker 2: is dying. All right? And, I mean, this person has
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Speaker 2: died before. God raised her from the dead. You know
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying? So they know that if anything is happening,
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Speaker 2: just call her father. You know. So the so-and-so person
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Speaker 2: is dying. So I said, okay. They rushed her to
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Speaker 2: the teaching hospital, emergency ward. I said, put me on
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Speaker 2: video call with her. So as they put me on
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Speaker 2: video call with her. See, you know what it means
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Speaker 2: for doctors to remove oxygen? And say, just forget. So
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Speaker 2: they've already removed the oxygen. Because the more she was
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Speaker 2: on the oxygen, her stomach was getting bigger. As they
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Speaker 2: put her on video call. As I looked at her
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Speaker 2: on video call, you know what she did? That was
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Speaker 2: the spirit. Somebody dying. That was the spirit. I said, okay,
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Speaker 2: now I know what's happening. So I commanded you foul
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Speaker 2: spirit of death. I'm here again. Lose her now. And
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Speaker 2: let her go. Medicine at handed where it knows. Going forward.
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Speaker 2: The power of God. Which is the wisdom of God.
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Speaker 2: Is the only thing that can work. Medicine is powerful.
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Speaker 2: It's a level. It's a level. I joined into a
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Speaker 2: study of diseases. And all those things. Epidemiology. I know them.
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Speaker 2: But it's a level. It's a level. In fact, they
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Speaker 2: tell you that when there are certain outbreaks of certain things,
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Speaker 2: these are the procedures, these, these, these. Thank God for
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Speaker 2: those knowledge. But it's a level. There's a level that
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Speaker 2: men like John G. Lake walked in and he asked
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Speaker 2: for a virus to be isolated on his hands and
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Speaker 2: he died there. It's a level. If you pick your
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Speaker 2: reference only in the physical realm, you will be dead
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Speaker 2: before you know it. You can't see things coming. What
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Speaker 2: do you know? What do you know? No, hold on.
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Speaker 2: What we call knowledge, everything we call knowledge is past.
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Speaker 2: The best of your knowledge is about the past. No,
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Speaker 2: let me explain. The best, what you call knowledge, knowledge
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Speaker 2: is past. It's past. Even word of knowledge is about
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Speaker 2: the past. So, by what are you making decisions that
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Speaker 2: governs your life? By the past. Have you seen a
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Speaker 2: case whereby you say, God, you are trying to marry
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Speaker 2: somebody and you just lost your peace. Something is not right.
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Speaker 2: The one who knows the future is letting you know
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Speaker 2: based on what is here, something is not right. Leave.
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Speaker 2: You say, well, I mean, I have the spirit of
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Speaker 2: God in my inside. I can make things happen. Oh,
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Speaker 2: praise God. So I can make things happen. He said, okay.
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Speaker 2: You know, somehow, we have so bastardized the subject of
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Speaker 2: marriage that it now looks like you should marry who
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Speaker 2: you like. Somehow now. It has entered. It looks like
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Speaker 2: God does not really have a say again. Like, God
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Speaker 2: has given up on your marriage. Just pick anybody that
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Speaker 2: you like. Make sure you like the person. That's how
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Speaker 2: you go and like a fool. I shared the story
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Speaker 2: with you about 13 years ago. six girls came to
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Speaker 2: me and they said, we know if you pray for us.
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Speaker 2: One of them, I was discipling her. Say, if you
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Speaker 2: pray for us, we want to know who God is
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Speaker 2: saying we should marry. And that reminds me, out of
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Speaker 2: those six girls, I think four amongst them, 13 years ago,
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Speaker 2: is still unmarried. Because they wanted to do it by
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Speaker 2: force with their own knowledge. One of the most difficult
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Speaker 2: things to do is to rest. Just rest. Rest. Rest.
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Speaker 2: Rest feels like dying, but rest. Calm down. The agitation.
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Speaker 2: When the emotions swell, you say, I'm going to make
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Speaker 2: a decision. Rest. The devil is going to work perfectly
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Speaker 2: with your emotions. He will master it. He will master it.
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Speaker 2: And when you feel that height of the emotions, he
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Speaker 2: will make sure you make a decision that will be sealed.
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Speaker 2: The devil wants to master your emotions. The moment you
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Speaker 2: are feeling, let me quickly make this. I think this
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Speaker 2: is it. It will push. Make it now. So that
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Speaker 2: in the days that you will now not feel the emotions,
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Speaker 2: you have already made a decision. Never let him master you. Rest.
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Speaker 2: So as I looked at the girls, say, okay. So
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Speaker 2: I came down. I said, all right. So you have
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Speaker 2: some list. We say, yes. How many names? Say five.
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Speaker 2: You have a name. Say six. You have a name.
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Speaker 2: Say four. your main name, say five again. I said, okay,
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Speaker 2: you know God speaks to me, say yes. You know
25:38
Speaker 2: God speaks to me, say yes. Let's start from the basic.
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Speaker 2: You can't be born again and have six names. How
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Speaker 2: are you leading six people on? By what energy? How?
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Speaker 2: Those who are trying to explain that maybe six people
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Speaker 2: in their radar, you see, you are like them. You
25:56
Speaker 2: are just one mile away. Say no, it's not actually that.
25:59
Speaker 2: You see, you see, culprits defending culprits. Is there any
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Speaker 2: corporate here? Shout hallelujah. How do you have six names?
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Speaker 2: And then you, your entire life, you can't hear God.
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Speaker 2: You will now depend on one prophet who will spend
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Speaker 2: your money and say, let me fast for you. And
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Speaker 2: the prophet is buying video mic on Monday morning. The
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Speaker 2: prophet will just look at the names and say, this name,
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Speaker 2: I like what you're going to say. You know, one
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Speaker 2: of my friends was sharing a story. Ah, and it's
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Speaker 2: a very bloody story because you know the story. His
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Speaker 2: dad is a prophet. So he said, somebody went to
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Speaker 2: meet his dad to pray about which person he should marry.
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Speaker 2: Whenever he shared his story, he would say something like,
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Speaker 2: that is, my dad spoilt this person's life. So what happened?
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Speaker 2: The name he wrote, the last, you know this prophet,
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Speaker 2: he wants to just show something. The last one, that's it. See,
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Speaker 2: in this life, I don't want to even enter the matter.
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Speaker 2: Let me just preach in peace. I reject temptations. The
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Speaker 2: name he wrote, the last, is the name of a
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Speaker 2: lady that was about ten times his size. It's not
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Speaker 2: a big, it's not a crime to be big. But
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Speaker 2: you know what you like. Alright, so, They said that
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Speaker 2: the man didn't see pictures. Maybe he would have said,
27:36
Speaker 2: but he said, any, any. So the guy went on
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Speaker 2: and married the person. They've been married for years now,
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Speaker 2: over a decade. No single attraction. Prison for life. No attraction.
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Speaker 2: Whenever the woman is coming, the guy is angry. And
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Speaker 2: now he hates the prophet. I say, you spoiled my life.
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Speaker 2: You are the one... Hear God. Don't let anybody spoil
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Speaker 2: your life. Hear God. His wisdom is in his word.
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Speaker 2: Hear God. There are things that will look nice, but
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Speaker 2: God is not there. Hear God. If not, you'll be
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Speaker 2: a victim of people's prejudices. Your life will be manipulated
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Speaker 2: and turned around. And guess what? There will be the
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Speaker 2: same fresh set of people that will come and insult you.
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Speaker 2: And say, save your life. Save your life. Everything God
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Speaker 2: wants to give you, they are trapped in his wisdom,
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Speaker 2: in his word. Let me show you as we continue
28:45
Speaker 2: that scripture. Go back, 1 Corinthians 2, start from verse
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Speaker 2: 6 now. 1 Corinthians 2, start from verse 6. Very,
28:53
Speaker 2: very important scripture. Look at it. It says, how be
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Speaker 2: it we speak wisdom among them that are perfected, Yet
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Speaker 2: not the wisdom of this. There is the wisdom of
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Speaker 2: this world. Not the wisdom of this world. Nor of
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Speaker 2: the princes of this world. That comes to naught. It means.
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Speaker 2: If you function by the wisdom of the world. You
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Speaker 2: will have no result at the end of the day.
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Speaker 2: The sum total of the wisdom of this world. Is
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Speaker 2: that it comes to nothing. Anybody who comes. Who function
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Speaker 2: by it. Also comes to what? Nothing. See. Zero times
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Speaker 2: one million. Zero. It doesn't matter the figure. It comes
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Speaker 2: to naught. comes to nothing see there are things God
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Speaker 2: says that doesn't make sense you look at him and
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Speaker 2: you're wondering what are you talking about but that's God
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Speaker 2: that's God you must sacrifice what makes sense for what
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Speaker 2: does it make sense for what he says you are
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Speaker 2: limited understand that you are very limited understand that without
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Speaker 2: God we are too limited we don't know much Only
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Speaker 2: God knows the future. Only God knows the future. How
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Speaker 2: many of you know when there was MMM? Moku, Mogwe, Modaro.
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Speaker 2: You know, as they say. We don't even know what
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Speaker 2: the name is. We just know that one. See, one
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Speaker 2: of my friends pressured and pressured and pressured the dad
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Speaker 2: to invest in 1.6 million in MMM. They invested 1.6
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Speaker 2: million on Thursday. It closed on Saturday. Dear God, you
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Speaker 2: don't know much. See, we have so built our life
30:45
Speaker 2: that we no longer pray prayer of inquiries. Lord, what
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Speaker 2: will you have? It is dangerous to know the full
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Speaker 2: blueprint of your life. You see, God will never give
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Speaker 2: you the full details so you can keep waiting on him.
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Speaker 2: He won't. What he said to us was, go to Abuja.
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Speaker 2: We have no idea. It didn't make sense. So leave
31:04
Speaker 2: Ibadan when we left Ibadan. It didn't make any sense. Actually,
31:07
Speaker 2: it didn't make any sense. Because it was clear that, okay,
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Speaker 2: God is giving us this city. How do you say
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Speaker 2: in the middle of that, get out? In this kingdom,
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Speaker 2: whatsoever he asks you to do, do it. That was
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Speaker 2: what the mother of Jesus said. That's the only message
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Speaker 2: she preached to. And that by far is one of
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Speaker 2: the greatest messages. Whatever he asks you to do. Do it.
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Speaker 2: So when they said wine is finished. And Jesus looked
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Speaker 2: at them. He said go and fetch water. In the jars.
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Speaker 2: He said take the water that you have fetched. Go
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Speaker 2: and give it to the event planner. It was water.
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Speaker 2: Jesus never blessed it. He just said take the water.
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Speaker 2: Go and give it to who? The event planner. And
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Speaker 2: they took the water. Did it make sense? Do you
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Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? Do you know how event planners
31:59
Speaker 2: provoke when there's events? What? Event planner. What do you think?
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Speaker 2: And when the guy drank it, he said, so you
32:09
Speaker 2: guys kept the best wine for the last. If you
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Speaker 2: want the best wine to be served later, that is
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Speaker 2: no matter what you are seeing now, there's something more
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Speaker 2: beautiful coming. Live in God's wisdom. Live in God's wisdom.
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Speaker 2: Living God's wisdom. Your life will become like wine. The older,
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Speaker 2: the better. You keep getting better. People are confused. What's happening?
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Speaker 2: You see, let me tell you this. And I'm going
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Speaker 2: to say what I want to say with moderation and
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Speaker 2: with balance. You know, when God told me not to
32:43
Speaker 2: dedicate my life around pursuing a career and rather come
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Speaker 2: to him. Like I've always said, one thing you cannot
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Speaker 2: take away from me is diligence. To study, pray and
32:53
Speaker 2: fast For this life, God is saying I should go into.
32:58
Speaker 2: You see that now? But several times I wept and
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Speaker 2: I cried because it looks like everyone had left me.
33:04
Speaker 2: Have you been there before? When you look at your
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Speaker 2: life and you are asking, I seem to be the
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Speaker 2: only one left behind. See, just when you find yourself
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Speaker 2: in that spot, you are in a very delicate spot.
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Speaker 2: You have the tendency of becoming the one everyone else
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Speaker 2: will pity. And you are also at a spot to
33:23
Speaker 2: overtake with small steps. Just follow what he says. When
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Speaker 2: you find yourself in that space where everyone seems to
33:30
Speaker 2: have left. Everyone. You look at them. They are celebrating
33:34
Speaker 2: things while he's doing this. And you wonder, God, why
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Speaker 2: am I the one left behind? Stay. Stay. Stay. If
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Speaker 2: it will help you to reduce the number of things
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Speaker 2: you hear, reduce them. Just so that you can hear God.
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Speaker 2: That space, that position is the advantage for speed. But
33:56
Speaker 2: that same position is the disadvantage to be pegged for life.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you. Have you seen people that they have
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Speaker 2: testimonies of waiting on God, but nothing at the end
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Speaker 2: of the day. Also, they waited in vain because they
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Speaker 2: didn't obey God. You can wait and still disobey. Don't
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Speaker 2: waste waiting. Stay. God It doesn't, and I'm telling you,
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Speaker 2: I was at this same spot for seven years. It
34:23
Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. Sometimes you cry, you weep, you
34:30
Speaker 2: look like a reproach, but please, stay. Stay this season.
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Speaker 2: Stay this season because everyone who had gone with chariot
34:39
Speaker 2: and horses will come back to ask you, how did
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Speaker 2: you do it? What changed? What happened to you? What changed?
34:49
Speaker 2: Your life changed overnight. Obey him. You don't know the way.
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Speaker 2: You will hear a voice behind you saying, this is
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Speaker 2: the way. Walk in it. I showed you. The Israelites
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Speaker 2: walked 40 years in the wilderness. 40 years. 40 years
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Speaker 2: in the wilderness. The day God said, turn not what?
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Speaker 2: They covered in two days. How do you cover in
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Speaker 2: two days what you can't cover in 40 years? It's
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Speaker 2: wisdom in his word. You don't know the way. You don't.
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Speaker 2: 40 years of toiling. The avaliant men died. All the
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Speaker 2: generation that left Egypt died. 40 years. You know, the
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Speaker 2: journey was actually a journey of 11 days. It was
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Speaker 2: an 11 days journey. How do you do 40 years
35:42
Speaker 2: for a journey to cover 11 days? That is what
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Speaker 2: happens when you lead yourself. Have you seen people that
35:49
Speaker 2: I mean, all their lives. You wonder, why won't you
35:53
Speaker 2: just submit to God? Why won't you just pay attention
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Speaker 2: to what he's saying? Why do you have to? How
36:01
Speaker 2: much did Judah sell Jesus? How much? 30 pieces of silver.
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Speaker 2: Compared to the weight of what he lost in eternity.
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Speaker 2: 30 pieces. 30. By what means? Was he that broke?
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Speaker 2: Look at the wisdom of Gehazi. Naaman had been healed.
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Speaker 2: Elisha did not want any gift from him. He just
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Speaker 2: came to show him that there is a God in Israel.
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Speaker 2: And that God does not need your money. He wanted
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Speaker 2: to show him. But Naaman changed the reputation of God.
36:33
Speaker 2: He went after her. And he said, my master sent me.
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Speaker 2: Give me some raiment. He said, you bring some now.
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Speaker 2: And he still went back with audacity. And stood before Elisha.
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Speaker 2: You know, let me say this to you. Sometimes the
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Speaker 2: most advantaged people Are those who are closer to a grace.
36:51
Speaker 2: Also the most disadvantaged people. Are those who are closer
36:54
Speaker 2: to a grace. If anyone can master. The wisdom of
36:59
Speaker 2: being close. And yet working in honor and recognition. The
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Speaker 2: person will go far. He stood there. So much audacity.
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Speaker 2: In error. And Elisha said where are you coming from?
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Speaker 2: He said I've been busy about my master's business. He
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Speaker 2: said did not my eyes go with you? How that
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Speaker 2: you pursued after Naaman. and collected this. Now, for that
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Speaker 2: wisdom you thought you have, you want to blow, right?
37:22
Speaker 2: He said, let the leprosy of Naaman cleave to you.
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Speaker 2: Meaning that when things leave people, it doesn't go, it stays.
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Speaker 2: The leprosy, and to your generation, and that was how
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Speaker 2: he carried it. That's how he became leprous. The man
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Speaker 2: who should be a prophet instead could not become because
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Speaker 2: of human wisdom. See, it pays to submit to God.
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Speaker 2: What are you looking for? Is it wealth? Is it?
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Speaker 2: It pays! It pays! I mean people go out of
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Speaker 2: the way in this world. And try to get things done.
37:54
Speaker 2: They destroy their lives and die. Many young girls are
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Speaker 2: walking on the street. They've been used. By one boy
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Speaker 2: who won't ritual. Use them. They are walking. And if
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Speaker 2: you don't pray and you marry them. They have used
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Speaker 2: you too. They will use them and put something there.
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Speaker 2: That will be using those that have contact with them.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes. As you are entering. They've not put calabash
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Speaker 2: on your head. But you are becoming one with the
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Speaker 2: one that places it there. Sometimes just the patience. The
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Speaker 2: patience of trusting God's process. Of trusting God's time. We
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Speaker 2: say this thing like a cliche that God's time is
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Speaker 2: the best. That is a very powerful word. There is
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Speaker 2: no better time than God's time. It makes everything beautiful.
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Speaker 2: In its time. In its time. In its time. submitting
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Speaker 2: to his wisdom, pays. It pays. It does. Listen, sometimes
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Speaker 2: wisdom looks slow, but it is enduring. The man who
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Speaker 2: waits for it will outlive and outlast everyone. You know,
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Speaker 2: one of the things God has always done for me
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Speaker 2: is that everywhere I find myself, he plants me strategically
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Speaker 2: around an old person around. There's going to be one
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Speaker 2: old person somewhere, you know, that I've noticed as a pattern.
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Speaker 2: And one time I was speaking to a very old
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Speaker 2: man in his 80s. The man, no, no, he was, yeah,
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Speaker 2: around 89 or thereabout. Very old man. And the man
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Speaker 2: said to me, he said, Femi, he said, do you
39:30
Speaker 2: know that many of, he said, all my friends and
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Speaker 2: those we call younger ones growing up, he said, they
39:37
Speaker 2: are all dead. So he said, he has looked at
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Speaker 2: this life and he has discovered that actually what kills
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Speaker 2: people faster is haste. And impatience. That's what he said.
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Speaker 2: You know. A man look. He said. I've looked at
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Speaker 2: his life. He said. What King Luther says. Is haste
39:57
Speaker 2: and impatience. He can trace their stories. Put your hands
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Speaker 2: on your head. God give me wisdom. Pray. Keep me wisdom.
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Speaker 2: Keep me wisdom. I refuse. To trust my own senses.
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Speaker 2: Some trust in us. Others in chariots. But we put
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Speaker 2: our trust in the name of the Lord. It may
40:26
Speaker 2: look slow. But wait. The wisdom of God. Supersedes all
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Speaker 2: human wisdom. It may not make sense. It may look
40:37
Speaker 2: like you are behind. But wait. In Jesus name we
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Speaker 2: are praying. Now look at everybody. Can I tell you something?
40:44
Speaker 2: I'm telling you this. I'm telling you what I'm saying with. Just.
40:49
Speaker 2: A few years ago, I'm telling you, if anybody ever
40:54
Speaker 2: tell me that a time will come in my life
40:56
Speaker 2: that I will have at least 100,000 in my account,
40:59
Speaker 2: I'll be shocked, dude. I remember when I was going
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Speaker 2: to celebrate my 25th birthday. I don't know your age,
41:09
Speaker 2: just so you know you are not failing. You are
41:10
Speaker 2: just in process. 25th birthday years ago. All I wanted
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Speaker 2: for my birthday was Was chicken pepper soup. Just. I
41:23
Speaker 2: have suffered enough. Let me even at least now. Let
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Speaker 2: me too at least. Just a little bit. Everybody came.
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Speaker 2: Apostle we celebrate you. No they don't call me apostle.
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Speaker 2: Pop wine. Pop wine. The way they all came. They
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Speaker 2: all left. I was there I said. So at 25,
41:48
Speaker 2: I can't afford half a kilo of chicken and just
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Speaker 2: eat pepper soup. Half a kilo. Do you know what
41:57
Speaker 2: half a kilo of chicken is? Do you know? Because
42:00
Speaker 2: you guys are looking at me. Do you know what
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Speaker 2: half a kilo of chicken is? Are you sure? Because
42:04
Speaker 2: you look like you are from Lekki or from Asokoro.
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Speaker 2: You know. I can't afford it. Until one of my
42:13
Speaker 2: friend's fiancée just called i said what would you like
42:19
Speaker 2: to have today i said chicken pepper soup and she
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Speaker 2: was the one that went to buy the chicken and
42:24
Speaker 2: i saw it as god's mercy i wasn't failing i
42:29
Speaker 2: was just in time in process you are not failing
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Speaker 2: you see you see you are actually failing if things
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Speaker 2: are not happening and you are lazy and without vision
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Speaker 2: But once you are not lazy, you are doing what
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Speaker 2: you are doing diligently. But it is not, you know
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Speaker 2: seed time and harvest will not cease. This is still
42:49
Speaker 2: seed time. But it has not produced. You are not failing.
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Speaker 2: Stay with it or it will produce. You see, the
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Speaker 2: kind of insult I face in this life from family members.
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Speaker 2: You are a lazy person. Hey, this is this. I
43:07
Speaker 2: have to spend money to go to school. Come and
43:09
Speaker 2: go to UK. Come on. UK these are countries who
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Speaker 2: would not even blink twice to enter so would have
43:23
Speaker 2: sacrificed all these things for UK you know some when
43:29
Speaker 2: they hear opportunity to travel abroad they will not even
43:32
Speaker 2: pray that what do you have for me here do
43:35
Speaker 2: you know I've had to pray for people living outside
43:38
Speaker 2: the country who became homeless in America in Germany And
43:44
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's the force? Go there with God. With God.
43:51
Speaker 2: You see, the wisdom of God, let me show you.
43:54
Speaker 2: Let's continue with that scripture. Go back to that scripture.
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Speaker 2: 1 Corinthians 2. Start from verse 7 now. The wisdom
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Speaker 2: of God is not on anybody. It is hidden. It
44:03
Speaker 2: has to be searched out. It has to be searched out.
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Speaker 2: He said, we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.
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Speaker 2: Even the what? Hidden wisdom. Hidden wisdom. So this wisdom
44:14
Speaker 2: is for those who can inquire. What will you have
44:17
Speaker 2: me do? What should I do with my life? What
44:20
Speaker 2: should I be doing at this time? Let me tell
44:24
Speaker 2: you one secret. I don't know any secret of church growth.
44:28
Speaker 2: Because what it takes to open different territories up is
44:31
Speaker 2: not the same. This one comes by waiting. What should
44:37
Speaker 2: we do? You see, if you don't ask that question,
44:42
Speaker 2: when you are done doing all you need to know
44:43
Speaker 2: how to do, you will ask that question. What should...
44:49
Speaker 2: You know, Abuja can be very confusing. I'm excited about
44:52
Speaker 2: the number of you seated. Abuja can be... You are wondering.
44:56
Speaker 2: Abuja has people. But where are they? On Sundays, you
45:02
Speaker 2: can see Dunamis 100 buses. You say, where are these
45:05
Speaker 2: people coming from? You go to church one day, It
45:09
Speaker 2: will take the hidden wisdom of God to pop it open.
45:14
Speaker 2: This one is not strategy. You know, I laugh at
45:18
Speaker 2: people that go to territories and they start boasting. We
45:21
Speaker 2: are taking this territory. It sounds like faith. Until you
45:24
Speaker 2: know the foundation. The foundation is we have money. We
45:28
Speaker 2: came with millions. By the time we spend. By the
45:31
Speaker 2: time we fix billboards. You will put the billboard without
45:35
Speaker 2: the hand of God. Nobody will see it. Have you
45:40
Speaker 2: seen billboards in an environment that after a while you
45:42
Speaker 2: now say, ah, why have I not been noticing this?
45:45
Speaker 2: That is exactly how it is when the hand of
45:47
Speaker 2: God is not on your life. Are you following what
45:52
Speaker 2: I'm saying? You comb your hair well, I trust your
45:55
Speaker 2: beard as a guy, not your tie. Talk about it again. Say, sorry,
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Speaker 2: what are you saying? I thought you have bars to
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Speaker 2: drop bars. Can you please excuse me? Hot water. It
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Speaker 2: is the hidden wisdom of God. It is a mystery.
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Speaker 2: Now look at it. Mark 4 verse 11 and 12.
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Speaker 2: Mark 4 verse 11 and 12. Mark 4 verse 11
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Speaker 2: and 12. And he said to them. Unto you it
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Speaker 2: is given. To know the mystery. Of the kingdom of God.
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Speaker 2: But look at it. Unto those who are outside. These
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Speaker 2: things are in parables. That is they cannot understand it.
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Speaker 2: Why is your life like. They can't get it. You know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes pastoring around campus, I've had to pastor on campus,
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Speaker 2: around campus for years. And sometimes you see parents, we
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Speaker 2: fight their children for going to church. And sometimes even pastors.
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Speaker 2: But until this same child now start going to club.
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Speaker 2: The only antidote to that life is Christ. It's Christ.
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Speaker 2: That's the only antidote. The wisdom of God, those who
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Speaker 2: are outside can't understand. They don't know what we are doing.
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Speaker 2: We are living a higher life. They don't understand us.
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Speaker 2: They don't know the reason why when you are broke,
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Speaker 2: you should be rejoicing. You don't do anything. Why are
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Speaker 2: you happy? I mean, we know you don't have a job,
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Speaker 2: so why are you shouting every time? Why are you
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Speaker 2: singing in your house? What's good about the money? They
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Speaker 2: expect you to be crying, to be sobbing. But the
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Speaker 2: Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength.
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Speaker 2: That is the wisdom of God. Let the weak say,
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Speaker 2: I'm strong. It is the wisdom of God. Why we
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Speaker 2: look not at the things that do appear? For the
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Speaker 2: things that appear are temporal. It is the wisdom of God.
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Speaker 2: Not to call conspiracy. What they call conspiracy is the
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Speaker 2: wisdom of God. It doesn't make sense. You see, but listen.
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Speaker 2: The reason why you are confused is because you fellowship
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Speaker 2: more with the world. If you will give the same
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Speaker 2: time you give to social media to your Bible, nobody
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Speaker 2: will confuse you. You see, many of us, there's an habitat.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember now. It's been long I've done biology.
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Speaker 2: But if I remember well, there's an habitat called Estuarine.
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Speaker 2: Something like that. It's like a region of brackish water
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Speaker 2: between fresh and salt. Am I correct? Talk to me now.
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Speaker 2: You two are forgotten, but I think I'm correct. Now,
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Speaker 2: that is exactly where many believers are living. influence of
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Speaker 2: the world. The God influence. They have clarity in church
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Speaker 2: until they hold their phone back at home. They are
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Speaker 2: confused again. And you know, even when God speaks, his
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Speaker 2: words are volatile. That is, they are easily, they can
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Speaker 2: be easily evaporated. If you don't have a life that
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Speaker 2: traps it through honor, you will forget what he said.
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Speaker 2: Many of you don't have things you hold as anchors.
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Speaker 2: Because you have no plan. You have no structure for
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Speaker 2: the world. And meanwhile, the only anchor of our soul
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Speaker 2: is what it says. It's what it says. It is
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Speaker 2: the hidden wisdom. If it was common, everybody would walk
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Speaker 2: in it. And I was showing you this morning in
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Speaker 2: workers meeting. When Elijah said to the woman, make my
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Speaker 2: own food first. I mean, it didn't make sense. No,
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Speaker 2: sorry Elijah. What kind of, does it make sense? There's famine.
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Speaker 2: She was going to die. But that's the wisdom of
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Speaker 2: God to preserve her. Sometimes if the media world should
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Speaker 2: hear what we do, they will insult our pastors and
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Speaker 2: insult God. Have you seen people call God wicked? They say, look,
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Speaker 2: you are lying to the poor people. Give. Meanwhile, it
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Speaker 2: is in giving that we are blessed. In fact, we
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Speaker 2: have now taken it so far that we now say
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Speaker 2: there's no reward for giving. How? How? Let me show
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Speaker 2: you a scripture. Turn to the Bible's first Corinthians. Let's
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Speaker 2: check scriptures. I mean, sometimes, and that's why if there's
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Speaker 2: any other time, if there's any time to make sure
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Speaker 2: you are planted in a local church, now is the time, boy.
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Speaker 2: Now is the time. There are too many things that
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Speaker 2: will mess up your life. 2 Corinthians 9 from verse 6.
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Speaker 2: Too many things will mess up your life. Too many preachings.
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Speaker 2: I think I was showing my wife how that I
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Speaker 2: was hearing a man, a pastor on the pulpit and
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Speaker 2: was justifying polygamy. He said Solomon has this wife. David
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Speaker 2: has so and so wife. Moses has so and so wife.
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Speaker 2: It is not everything in the Bible that is for
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Speaker 2: our practice. It is not every word in the Bible
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Speaker 2: that you obey. Because God spoke. The devil spoke. Men spoke.
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Speaker 2: At some point Elijah said woe to you now. So
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Speaker 2: if I come and tell you now that woe unto you.
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Speaker 2: Does that make any sense? He who sows sparingly shall what?
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Speaker 2: There's reaping. Sparingly. And he who sows bountifully shall also
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Speaker 2: be bought bountifully. Verse 7. Every man according as he
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Speaker 2: proposes in his heart, let him give, not grudgingly, nor
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Speaker 2: of necessity. For God loves a cheerful giver. God loves
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Speaker 2: a cheerful giver. This is also wisdom. Stop boning when
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Speaker 2: you are giving offering. Stop. Offering time to be your
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Speaker 2: most excited time in church. Because I am It is
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Speaker 2: a privilege to give. Oftentimes, have you ever sat down
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Speaker 2: and danced during praise and worship? It's not the same
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Speaker 2: way they dance during offering time. What are you doing?
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Speaker 2: You know, I love the Ghanaians for one thing. If
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Speaker 2: you see the Ghanaians give during offering, actually they will
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Speaker 2: dance out. And they have those beautiful dances. And they will,
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Speaker 2: you know, give... With so much joy. You know. It's
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Speaker 2: the wisdom of God when we dance in the midst
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Speaker 2: of tribulations. When it doesn't make any sense. When it
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Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. Look at it. God loves a
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Speaker 2: cheerful giver. Verse 8 now. Yes. Quickly. Okay. And God
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Speaker 2: is able to make all grace abound towards you. That
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Speaker 2: you always. Sorry. That you always have in all sufficiency.
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Speaker 2: In all things may abound. Unto every give good works. Yes. Yes.
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Speaker 2: As it is written, he had dispersed the bread, he
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Speaker 2: had given to the poor. His righteousness remained forever. Ten. Now,
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Speaker 2: he that ministered seed to the sower, both ministered bread
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Speaker 2: for your food and multiply your seed sown and increase
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Speaker 2: the fruit of your righteousness. He multiplies your seed sown.
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Speaker 2: It is the wisdom of God. So you go online
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Speaker 2: and get pitied. Start feeling pity. How they be telling
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Speaker 2: us that we are giving to us missions. Even me,
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Speaker 2: have I eaten? Say, they are not pitying us. They
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Speaker 2: are not pitying us. In fact, this church thing, I've
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Speaker 2: been thinking, he says, come. You are going small, small.
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Speaker 2: This wisdom is not for those who are working in
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Speaker 2: carnal minds. See, if you are going to follow God,
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Speaker 2: follow him completely. But it pays to follow God. It pays.
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Speaker 2: I can tell you a lot of testimonies. There are
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Speaker 2: times that I have had some of the most spectacular
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Speaker 2: open doors of my life by obeying simple instructions. Obeying
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Speaker 2: simple instructions. Son, do this. Yes, Lord. Do you know
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Speaker 2: that you can be doing everything right, but you have
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Speaker 2: shut the door for increase? And God will tell you, okay,
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Speaker 2: review your structures now. Be more accessible. Be more accessible.
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Speaker 2: When people chat you up, the first thing to say
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Speaker 2: should not be what? What? What do you want? Where
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Speaker 2: did you get my number from? Are you the president?
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Speaker 2: Where can they get your number from? You have many
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Speaker 2: WhatsApp groups. And your picture is there. And it's fine.
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Speaker 2: Even though some of them are AI. Look at me now.
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Speaker 2: Are you guilty? Okay. The picture was fine. Somebody liked
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Speaker 2: what they see. They chatted you up. Okay. See. See.
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Speaker 2: Let it keep coming. Then you find out, okay, you
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Speaker 2: know where this person is going. Then you can say, actually,
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Speaker 2: I'm in a relationship. If you know it can't work,
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Speaker 2: there's a way to say it and the relationship is preserved.
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Speaker 2: And that's God's wisdom to somebody. Be more accessible. You
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Speaker 2: are always angry. It is wisdom to smile. That when
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Speaker 2: people see you, the first thing they think of is,
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Speaker 2: how do I talk to this person? Look at your
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Speaker 2: neighbor and smile. See how beautiful and handsome you are.
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Speaker 2: Some of you are still not smiling. Look at your
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Speaker 2: neighbor again and smile. Wow. Somebody might say, I'm just
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Speaker 2: noticing you. I've never seen you. Are you new here? Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: you've been here for the past. You have not seen
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Speaker 2: this version that smiles. I am saying it is God's
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Speaker 2: wisdom for somebody today to become more accessible. Stop acting
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Speaker 2: like they want to kidnap you and say, hello sister.
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Speaker 2: These are Buja boys. Calm down. Some of the most
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Speaker 2: powerful things begins with hello. Calm down. Touch your neighbor's shoulder.
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Speaker 2: I hope they won't spark. Touch, touch. Say hello. Oh,
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Speaker 2: the person didn't get angry. Place your hands there. Say hello.
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Speaker 2: How you doing? Yeah. Are you good? Learn to smile.
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Speaker 2: Be more accessible. It's wisdom. Do you know there was
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Speaker 2: one morning in PPC that I said by the spirit
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Speaker 2: we all post on our timeline I'm available for big projects.
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Speaker 2: Do you know how many people got contracts that day?
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Speaker 2: Do you know? Of course. What do you do? Tell me.
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Speaker 2: Somebody got someone That was going to invest in tune
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Speaker 2: of tens of millions. Tens of millions. They called me
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Speaker 2: by so and so time. And they began simple things.
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Speaker 2: God's wisdom. Inspired wisdom. Now listen to this. If you
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Speaker 2: do the same thing without God calling for it, you
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Speaker 2: will not get the same result. But when God says it,
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Speaker 2: stake your life on it. Stake your life on it.
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Speaker 2: You see, you may not understand the wisdom of God
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Speaker 2: saying go to Abuja yet. Until the day we are
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Speaker 2: back to this city to open a city. With a university.
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Speaker 2: The thing is, it will happen. Some of us are
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Speaker 2: going to have private university like we are having church branches. See,
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Speaker 2: I can't help it. He has said it. It cannot
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Speaker 2: go back. It will happen. That's the truth. So tell
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Speaker 2: the neighbor, go get your master's. Go get your PhD.
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Speaker 2: So you can be relevant. When that time comes, go
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Speaker 2: get your master's. Hallelujah. I round up now. Let me
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Speaker 2: start rounding this up now. Say it loud and clear.
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Speaker 2: The hidden wisdom of God. It is not on the surface.
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Speaker 2: It is not. It was on the surface. Everyone will
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Speaker 2: pick it. The wisdom of God is his hidden method
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Speaker 2: of doing things. It is his hidden method of doing things.
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Speaker 2: This wisdom doesn't make sense to anybody who is not
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Speaker 2: walking in the spirit. As a matter of fact, the
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Speaker 2: wisdom of God offends a man who is not spiritual.
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Speaker 2: It is an offense. It offends them. They are offended.
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Speaker 2: They are offended several times on campus. Maybe my friends
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Speaker 2: notice that maybe a girl is coming around me. They say,
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Speaker 2: take this opportunity. It's your opportunity. Look at it. And
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Speaker 2: they will pray. Look at that one. It's not a
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Speaker 2: pastor like you. We know what they do. This is
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Speaker 2: your own opportunity. He said, no. I can't. Others may.
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Speaker 2: I can't. You know what is happening? Today, those my friends,
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Speaker 2: if anybody should dare say anything against me online, they
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Speaker 2: are Muslims. They are the ones that will come out
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Speaker 2: and say this one. We know him. We know him.
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Speaker 2: One time, I know him. We are classmates, roommates, hostels mates.
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Speaker 2: I know him. Forget about what you are saying. It
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Speaker 2: pays to obey God's wisdom. It pays. It pays. This
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Speaker 2: wisdom doesn't make sense to a carnal man. When he said,
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Speaker 2: go right, the nature of the flesh says, go left.
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Speaker 2: Follow God. Follow God. Lastly, look at it. In this
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Speaker 2: same 1 Corinthians 2, 7, it said, we speak the
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Speaker 2: wisdom of God in a mystery. Even the hidden wisdom
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Speaker 2: of God, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
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Speaker 2: Meaning that the more glorious your lives will become will
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Speaker 2: be determined by the level of wisdom of God you
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Speaker 2: walk in. See, let me say this to you. This
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Speaker 2: doesn't make any sense. I'm telling you. But when God
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Speaker 2: says it, obey it. Bishop Oedipo will tell you how
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Speaker 2: that God told them to go to Otah, a place
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Speaker 2: that is bush. And that place will open up and
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Speaker 2: become a pilgrim center where people will travel from all
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Speaker 2: over the world to come and be blessed. I was
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Speaker 2: watching the documentary of Dunamis yesterday, how that God told
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Speaker 2: them to go to the airport road at a time
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Speaker 2: that Nothing was really moving in that direction. And they said,
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Speaker 2: I prepared the land. And they got 700 acres. 700 acres.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't make human sense. The church of Detroit is
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Speaker 2: like the size of a nine football field. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: make any human sense. It doesn't make any human sense.
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Speaker 2: Go here. I provided this. Go there. Now, listen to
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Those of you who are in business,
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Speaker 2: in all those things, you will begin to get more
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Speaker 2: results as you engage more of divine wisdom. You have
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Speaker 2: not seen anything yet. You're talking about getting a land. Land.
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Speaker 2: We'll be buying estates. I'm telling you. Tell everyone to
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Speaker 2: get this land. How did I get into real estate?
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Speaker 2: Just one simple wisdom. What are you driving? A car?
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Speaker 2: How much is this car fetching you? Nothing at all.
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Speaker 2: I'm the one spending money. Okay. You know what to do?
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Speaker 2: I sold my car. I told my wife, give me
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Speaker 2: three weeks. We'll do everything we should do. Invested millions. Cleared, plot, survey,
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Speaker 2: all documentation. In three weeks, I made over 300% of
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Speaker 2: my investment. In three weeks. I could not have done
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Speaker 2: to do that myself. Just being inspired. Some of you
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Speaker 2: have things God is leading you to go into, but
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Speaker 2: you'll never trust it. Because you're afraid. If I start
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Speaker 2: this now, if the capital didn't come, who will sponsor it?
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Speaker 2: You say if it doesn't come. I want to bless you. Okay?
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Speaker 2: And I want to particularly decree That from today. The
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Speaker 2: things that are ten will become a thousand. So do
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Speaker 2: you mind? Do you mind? I stretch my hands towards you.
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Speaker 2: And I decree. That by the operation of God's divine wisdom.
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Speaker 2: That is upon your life. By the operation of God's
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Speaker 2: divine wisdom. That is upon your life. That will begin
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Speaker 2: to function for you today. Right, left and center. Begin
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Speaker 2: to get unusual results. This wisdom is ordained for your glory.
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Speaker 2: Glory is the opposite of shame. Everything called shame. Or
1:03:13
Speaker 2: looking like shame in your life. Is neutralized. By the
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Speaker 2: operation of this wisdom. You will get results that people
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Speaker 2: can't understand. If there's anyone here who is in any
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Speaker 2: form of ridicule or shame. I decree, you are coming out.
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Speaker 2: The voice of God becomes clear. From today, you know
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Speaker 2: what to do by the Spirit. You are not confused.
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Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. You are not confused. All
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Speaker 2: is well with you. As you obey what God is
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Speaker 2: saying next, you will get the kind of results you
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Speaker 2: have not gotten. From today, by the operation of that wisdom,
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Speaker 2: I declare a shift. It is done. In Jesus' mighty name. Now,
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Speaker 2: look at this. Get up on your feet, everybody. One
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Speaker 2: of my spiritual sons was sharing a testimony in this
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Speaker 2: apostolic tour we just had in Southwest. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: guy had been trusting God for a job for years.
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Speaker 2: And after the declaration on Wednesday, Wednesday, I can't remember,
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Speaker 2: it was Tuesday. He got a free slot with NNPC.
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Speaker 2: Another slot came with an American job that would pay
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Speaker 2: him in dollars the same day. The CEO of a
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Speaker 2: company resigned. A major beauty change company resigned and said,
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Speaker 2: he saw something in him, he should come and fill
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Speaker 2: in his place. Three. All right? Within the space of
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Speaker 2: three days, we had eight jobs. All of them are
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Speaker 2: powerful enough. Do you understand what I'm saying? What could
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Speaker 2: not happen in three years? The blessing is a force.
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Speaker 2: I shared this with another of my boys who has
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Speaker 2: been earning 25K for a while. After the blessing just
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Speaker 2: got an opening, they're going to pay him, I think,
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Speaker 2: a thousand something dollars. Just be working in this economy.
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Speaker 2: One blessing is enough. One instruction can change your life forever.
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