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Church and State Part 1: Impact Beyond Church Walls by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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Lift your hands to heaven. Everybody give him praise, Give
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him glory, Honor him, his King of kings, his Lord of Lords.
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Father, we bless you. We thank you.
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Thank you for tonight's thank you because you are God, God,
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all by yourself. Someone lift your hands and
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thank him. Lift your hands and praise him.
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Lift your hands and worship him is the God of all flesh.
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There is nothing too hard for you to do.
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One generation declares your name to another.
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From everlasting to everlasting. You are God.
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Lord we bless you. We're still worshiping.
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With your hands lifted, with your voice is raised unto the
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King eternal, unto the King immortal, unto the King
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invisible, the only wise God, captain of our salvation.
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Lift your voice and bless him. Lift your voice and bless him.
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Lift your voice and bless him. He's the God of all fresh.
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Shabrata banakada krata Bala nakata brandakada.
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If I were you all pray in the spirit, haven't prayed in my
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understanding. If I were you, I was singing the
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spirit. Haven't song in my
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understanding. Would you lift your voice and
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pray in the Spirit for one minute?
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I have searched and. Searched all the earth.
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Searched and searched all the earth.
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And I found. I have searched and searched all
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the earth, searched and searched all the earth and I found that
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Babu Ali Khamar. That's my testimony I have.
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Searched and searched all the earth.
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Searched and searched all the earth and I found that.
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There's no one like him. There's no one like him.
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I have. Searched and searched all the
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earth. Searched and searched all the
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earth and now and. Singing with me.
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There's no one like you, my goodness.
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Says there's no one like you. Ask him for a mighty encounter
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tonight, Father. Let the veil from my eyes be
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lifted so that I will see. Let my ears be open and
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attentive to hear. Let my heart be inclined to
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understand. Change me, raise me, build me,
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refine me, reform me, realign me by the power of Your word
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tonight. Let tonight's service be my
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service for an encounter. Be my service for healing, for
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lifting, for deliverance. One minute you're praying, it's
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part of the service. You're praying.
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You're connecting yourself to the floor of the mighty things
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God is already doing. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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the Lord. Amen.
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Welcome to church. Welcome to the House of God.
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Welcome to the presence of God. Welcome to a place where you
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will be transformed by the power of God's Word.
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Welcome to the place of intelligence, the place of
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illumination. Welcome to the place where faith
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is planted to your spirit, where the haziness about life and
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destiny is lifted from off you. Where you are.
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Given exactitude and understanding as to the Kingdom,
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as to life and your destiny. For those of you who are coming
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for the first time, you're welcome.
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God brought you here to change you.
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He brought you here to transform you.
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For us who are part of this fold, it is never a thing to be
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taken for granted every time when he's present.
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Because the Bible says they go from strength to strength.
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As many as appear before him in Zion.
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Now we have appeared, we must be prepared to go from strength to
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strength. Do you believe that glory be to
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the name of the Lord? Be the name of the Lord.
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Be the name of the Lord. Baru Kashem.
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Baru Kashem. Baru Kashem.
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Baru Kashem. Baru Kashem, baru kashem.
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Baru kashem. Baru kashem.
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Baru kashem. Baru kashem.
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Baru kashem. Baru kashem.
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Baru kashem. Baru kashem.
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Baru kashem. You're not just clapping.
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Baru kashem. Baru kashem say be thy name of
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the Lord, Baruch Hashem. I don't know, Let's say be the
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name of the Lord, Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem.
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Hallelujah. Amen.
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Please, you may be seated. God bless you.
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God bless you. We're grateful to God for the
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abundance of His presence, the abundance of His power.
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Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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I want to just honour at least two people representing all our
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international guests tonight. First of his His Excellency, Mr.
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Walde Natangwe, the High Commissioner of the Republic of
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Namibia. God bless you.
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Please, let's give him a big Koinonia.
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Welcome. I hope I got the name right.
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God bless you, Sir. Honored to have you in our
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midst. Her Excellency, Miss Fielder
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Nani Karen, did I get that right?
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The High Commissioner of the Republic of Botswana to Nigeria,
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please give a big Koinonia. God bless you.
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May God bless you. It's always an honor to have you
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in our midst and for everyone who has travelled from far and
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near, we love you. We all know you.
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This is Koinonia. Can we give a global audience
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connecting online a. Big.
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God bless you. Hallelujah.
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Praise the name of the Lord. So tonight's teaching makes me
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feel like a lecturer more than a preacher.
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I feel as though before a global classroom to deliver a lecture
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or a keynote address on the subject of consideration.
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And sometimes it just happens like that.
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You just feel more intellectual than not, not necessarily at the
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expense of your spirituality, but I guess sometimes because of
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the nature of the topics for consideration.
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By the way, let me say this. Building a thoroughly furnished
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Apostolic community of believers.
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I think I should start on that note.
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If you desire to build a people who are matured, who are
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enlightened, who are empowered, you will have to focus on at
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least 4. Areas of the teaching ministry,
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and I'll talk a bit on this in the course of my discussion, but
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I just thought to bring this and this came as a very deep
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contemplation in the course of the week and as I just went
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through my notes. The teaching ministry,
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particularly in Africa, is very powerful in terms of a zeal to
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teach, but I think that we have not done justice in capturing
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all the dimensions that should be in a teaching ministry in
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order to produce wholesome, balanced believers.
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There are four areas that must be captured in every teaching
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ministry to build believers maximally.
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Please write #1 Doctrine. The first area that must be
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captured in any teaching ministry in order to build
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believers is doctrine. Doctrine here refers to the
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fundamental beliefs of the Christian faith.
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The fundamental beliefs of the Christian faith, the Christian
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life or the faith walk has a set of foundational non negotiable
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beliefs. We may differ in many other
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areas, but there are certain foundational truths and beliefs
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that if you do not believe you cannot be called a Christian.
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So these, among others, are called doctrine #2.
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The second area where the teaching ministry must cover is
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the knowledge or the teaching of the principles of the Kingdom.
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Now the principles of the Kingdom are not the same as
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doctrine. Jesus did not just teach
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doctrine. In fact, Jesus taught very
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little of doctrine. Most of doctrinal teachings were
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in the Pauline Epistles. Hallelujah.
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The reason why doctrine was necessary because now he was
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talking to those who were in Christ.
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There was nobody who was in Christ as at the time Jesus
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walked upon the earth, there were those who were with Him.
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Hallelujah. But until his death, his burial,
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and the resurrection, no one could truly be in Christ.
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Hallelujah. Doctrine was part of the things
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Jesus said. I have many things to tell you,
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but He cannot bear them now. He spoke about a few things here
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and there, but Jesus emphasized what we call the mysteries of
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the Kingdom. He began his discussion from,
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say, for an example, from Mark's synoptic account from Matthew
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chapter 5. We're not reading that.
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I'm just stressing the point. We call it the Beatitudes.
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He began to contrast the way that the world approach life
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versus the way the Kingdom would approach life.
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He began to teach them concepts that were foreign until that
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time to the understanding. So a teaching ministry must
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build believers along the area of doctrine #2 the principles of
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the Kingdom #3 The third area where the teaching ministry must
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cover is wisdom for living, wisdom for living, wisdom for
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living that guarantees victory and guarantees efficiency within
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the cosmos. Doctrine has to do with those
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who are in the faith. The mistress of the Kingdom has
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to do with those who are in the faith, but there is a level of
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wisdom that is required to operate within the cosmos.
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The cosmos is beyond the church. The cosmos talks about the
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social strata, and it's important for believers to be so
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enlightened to know how to live. There are people who are
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doctrinally sound, They understand the mysteries of the
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Kingdom, but they do not have the wisdom for living.
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Usually these are the kinds of people who, if they have an
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opportunity to occupy positions of power, any position that has
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to do with the the cosmos, they don't perform well.
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But there are people who are in Christ because they lack the
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wisdom for living. The 4th area the teaching
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ministry must cover is to give believers a word compliant
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worldview, Word compliant, WORD compliant world, WORLD view, a
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word compliant worldview. I'll repeat myself again because
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this is a very powerful preamble.
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In attempting to raise believers, to raise a balanced,
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thoroughly furnished Apostolic community of responsible,
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enlightened believer, you must cover these four areas in your
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discipleship. You must cover these four areas
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in your teaching ministry. One doctrine.
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Believers must learn the foundational truths of the
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Christian faith #2 they must learn the mysteries or the
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principles of the Kingdom. They need to know how to operate
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in the Kingdom. Now look at me for example.
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How many of you know that Nigeria, as a Federal Republic,
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has laws, Am I right? Our laws are captured in our
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constitution and if you default in those laws or if you do not
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understand them, you will not be able to live effectively as a
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Nigerian. But how many of you know that in
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our global space today, learning to live as a Nigerian is
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important but not enough because you will travel to other regions
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and then it means you have to broaden the scope of your
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knowledge. If you travel to UK, for
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instance, you travel to America or even parts of Africa.
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The laws differ, so the doctrine has to do with establishing the
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believer, knowing the foundational truths of the faith
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#2 the principles of the Kingdom, helping you to operate
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within the Kingdom system and to excel there.
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Number 3 is wisdom for living, teaching you how to leave us a
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sheep among wolves teaching you how to be wise, a serpent
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teaching you what to know, how to know, how to navigate when
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you get to the office because not everybody in your office is
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praying in tongues. Not everybody in your office
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loves the Lord. Are we together teaching you how
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to navigate the nuances of politics, governance, you know,
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the complication of leadership at a, you know, at a national
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scale? Most believers don't learn this.
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And then ultimately or not ultimately additionally giving
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you a world compliant worldview. I wish I had the time to define
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for you what a worldview is, but a worldview generally talks
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about a lens, a Vista with which you interpret life, a Vista with
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which you interpret life. Your interpretation of life from
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a global scale is called your worldview.
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Matters of justice, matters of equity, matters of leadership,
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matters of responsibility, all of these things together, your
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understanding of it and your interpretation of it is your
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worldview. Now, I said that to say this
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many believers, and this ties into my discussion for tonight.
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Many believers have one or more of these areas accurately,
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accurately taught them. But because they are not
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wholesome, you'll find believers who are both knowledgeable and
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ignorant. This paradox exist in the
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church. On the one hand, you can find a
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believer who is doctrinally sound when it has to do with
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defending the faith. There's no argument there.
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They understand the foundational principles for an example, you
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know the reality of the Godhead, you know the substitutionary
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sacrifice of Jesus, the way to salvation, the church.
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They understand all of this, but put that person as a leader in a
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management setting. He will pray in tongues and
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bring that company down because something about the mistress of
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the Kingdom is not given to him. Are we together?
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On the other hand, you can have somebody who has a very accurate
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worldview, very accurate understanding the wisdom for
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living with it. They can build a great
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conglomerate and you can mistaken their excellence in
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business and the rest to mean they are Christians.
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It is when you bring them closer and the matters of character and
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consecration is tested, you will find out they are not exactly
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Christians, even though they use Christian principles.
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So you can take for granted that because that man is building an
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excellent business, you ordain him to be a pastor.
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You just assume that because he's excelling as far as his
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knowledge of business and leadership is concerned, he must
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be a consecrated human being. He must be a person of
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character, and we take for granted that one.
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A deficiency in any of these four areas aforementioned will
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leave you a lopsided believer. Do I repeat myself one last time
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that in raising a vibrant, Apostolic, well-rounded
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community of believers who are not only passionate about the
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things of God but relevant to society, you need to capture
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within your teaching ministry these four areas?
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1 Doctrine, the foundational truths of the Christian faith.
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Every believer should eventually be grounded in the knowledge of
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God, of Christ, of sin, of redemption, of salvation, of the
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Church, of the coming judgment and the future of the Church.
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These are the things that are all contained in doctrine #2 the
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believer must be grounded in the knowledge of the principles of
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the Kingdom. For an example, principles like
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prayer, principles like giving, principles like agreeing
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together, principles like warfare.
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These are not doctrines, however, they are the modus
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operandi of the Kingdom, how to function effectively to secure
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the favour of God in your life and to excel in the Kingdom #3
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you need to have the wisdom for living.
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That is responsible for efficiency, responsible for
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excellence within the cosmos. That's where you learn things
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like the law of honor. That's where you learn things
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like human nature. That's where you learn things
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like the reward system of the Kingdom if someone falling now,
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or the reward system in life for an example, you learn there that
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influence follows attention. Anywhere attention goes, that's
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where influence goes. So the first way to influence
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people is to get their attention.
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This is not doctrine. This is not even the mistress of
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the Kingdom. This is wisdom for living.
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And then ultimately you need to have a word compliant worldview
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because one of the implication of influence is that you will be
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found in spaces where you will need to sell an idea of God in a
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way that is non fanatical. Are we together now?
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You will find yourself in settings where you don't have to
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use chapters and verses. You need to translate your
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understanding of the God, life and scripture and use the lens
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of scripture to assess the happenings in the world.
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Many believers cannot do that. Get a chair and keep them in a
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studio and question them, not necessarily in a fanatic or
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religious way. What's your idea about justice?
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What's your idea about nation building?
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What's your idea about Africa? How to suggest two ways you
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think the continent can unite? And you will be disappointed at
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their understanding, even though they are intelligent.
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It's someone learning now and it is the assignment.
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You see that a lot rests upon us men of God, particularly in
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Africa. You cannot train a people to be
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greater than your own level of understanding.
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The greatest way to be a blessing is to grow, not to look
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for those to bless to grow. It is the greatest way to be a
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blessing because out of your growth will come the growth of
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those who are under your care, where you are stunted in terms
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of your understanding. No matter how sincere you are,
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you cannot raise the people to be greater than your level of
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understanding. So I'll give you an example in
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this place right now. I'm following online.
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We have pastors who are also leaders over their
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congregations. We have career people entry
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level and those who are at managerial levels.
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We have politicians of all ranks, we have international
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people. It is literally a global
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platform. There are people from across the
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continent, don't forget, having a background of many cultural
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experiences that are divergent from the average African
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culture. And now everyone has converged
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to hear you speak as a man of God.
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You see that now this is where you demonstrate not only your
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spirituality, but your level of transformation in selling Jesus,
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in selling an idea. Someone, let's say for an
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example, the president of a nation is watching right now.
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It means the nation is watching because everything that nation
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becomes, it will be part of the ideas you are selling.
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Who is learning now? So the teaching ministry is very
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important. It's not just about raising
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religious fanatics, doctrine, the mistress of the Kingdom,
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wisdom for living, and a world compliant worldview.
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Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, any man who submits
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himself methodically to be mentored along these areas, I
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show you a champion. He's a man whose relevance
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cannot fade, especially in the dispensation we live in now.
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And may that be you in the name of Jesus.
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I'm saying that to let you appreciate what happens to you
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here week in, week out. By the grace of God and by the
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mercy of the God of heaven, He has made us wise master builders
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such that we ensure that we continue to vacillate across
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these pillars in building you in disciple, you in disciple
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nations, in mentoring people. So for one week you see us
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dealing with matters of doctrine.
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For the other, we're teaching you the wisdom for living.
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Then we're teaching you the principles of the Kingdom, then
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helping to correct and alter for the good your worldview.
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When you keep going through these circles like a furnace,
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something begins to happen to you.
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You become a spiritual, vibrant, responsible, thoroughly
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furnished believer whose relevance goes beyond the church
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walls. Hallelujah.
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Praise the name of the Lord. This is very important.
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And this is the kind of person you should be.
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Because you see, when we do not follow this road map, let me
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tell you the danger. We are going to produce a set of
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believers who will not be relevant in their world.
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It's already happening. It's just that there is a
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generation that was privileged to just escape it by reason of
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loyalty. But there is a generation that
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is coming right now where two young people of the same age
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cannot talk to one another because of a divergent in
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worldview. And those two young people are
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your children. We live in a world right now
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where almost everything is relative.
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There are redefinitions for the good or for the bad.
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It's important that believers are cultured to have a global
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but Kingdom world compliant worldview.
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My prayer for you tonight in the name of Jesus is that my
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submissions are discussions. My presentation tonight for you
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will help in building you that you will go a step further in
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becoming a more confident, vibrant, robust believer who is
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not only prepared to leave victorious to serve the purposes
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of the Kingdom, but to be relevant to your world.
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And if that is you, please shout a loud believing.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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That said, let's go straight to our discussion.
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I intended for it to just be tonight.
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But from the nature of what my studies showed me, we have to
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make it a two-part series. So tonight we're discussing
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church and state Part 1, Church and state Part 1.
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I want to teach you how the church can be impactful beyond
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the church walls. We're dealing with the matter of
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church and state. Please gather everybody.
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For those falling online, gather a particularly pastors,
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politicians. Just just tell them that God
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wants to say something to you. Come it before you're set and
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you want to listen. Whether you're a Christian or
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not, you are welcome. Muslims, free thinkers,
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philosophers, you're welcome to church.
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Tonight's service is for you. You are most welcome.
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Let's let's learn the ways of the Kingdom and May God help us
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in the mighty name of Jesus. You believe that?
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Say Amen. Church and State Part 1, impact
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beyond church walls. Matthew chapter 5, please.
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Let's begin our reading from verse 13 to 16, an extension of
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the teachings of Jesus. He began in chapter 5 and verse
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one. Theologically speaking, we call
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it the Beatitudes. He was introducing them to the
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culture and the system of Kingdom living, and he began by
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contrasting the way that the world understood life and the
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way they lived, the way they went about doing the things that
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they did versus how God expected believers to function.
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Now he gets to verse 13 and he makes a very profound statement.
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I'm not sure this is a statement that the church has exhausted in
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terms of understanding the richness that is captured in
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this statement. It says ye are the salt of the
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earth. Look at that statement.
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Don't be in a hurry to just finish up everything.
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He didn't say you are like the salt of the earth.
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That's a metaphor there. He says you are literally the
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salt of the earth. And like I've taught you here,
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but for the sake of tonight, let me recap that.
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When you mention salt, as we know common salt that you use in
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the kitchen, there are four things that should come to mind
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immediately. Before we finish that Scripture,
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let me just point it quickly #1 salt can lose its server.
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That means it is possible to have salt, original salt, not
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fake salt, but for whatever reason, it's lost its capacity
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to influence the meal. You see that now?
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The Bible tells us that that is a possibility, but #2 we learn
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that it is never too late to add salt.
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Isn't it amazing? For those of you who cook, there
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are certain ingredients that if you miss the timing, you have
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ruined the meal. Am I right on that?
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But even when you serve the meal on the table, usually you add
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chili or pepper and then you add what we call the table salt is
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there so that if it did not taste, you can still add it and
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the meal is still intact. The meal does not factor in the
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lateness of the salt. Once you can put it and then,
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you know, just tear everything, it becomes fine #3 Salt is also
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used to add taste. So when the Bible says you are
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the salt of the earth, the meaning of that is that there is
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a level of relevance the church should have that should never
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deplete, should never decline. The church Jesus built is not a
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declining church. It's not a depleting church
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because we are salt. We are not just believers.
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And then salt preserves was an ancient method of preserving
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beef. You see that now?
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I don't know if it's still a popular practice today, but
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people will rob salt and then they just allow it to preserve
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beef. If you've ever seen worms or
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maggots, you would literally use salt to kill them, am I right?
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You can use salt, literally just spray salt, and that's all salt.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen worms or jams around salt trying
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to eat it or play around with salt.
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No, no, they can prey on any other things, fruits and
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whatever, but not salt. You live salt.
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You find it in touch there. Whatever touches it by itself,
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it lifts. So he says you are the salt of
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the earth, but he says that is supposed to be your prophetic
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destiny. Now.
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Let's continue, he says. But if the salt that's you now
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has lost its sever or its saltiness, it says, where which
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shall it be salted? It is tense force, good for
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nothing except to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot
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of men. He now uses another metaphor,
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verse 1514. Now he says You are the light of
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the world. You are the light.
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You are the light, very definite.
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You are the light. Not a light, not another light,
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not one of the lights, the light of the world.
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You are a city. I like this.
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He didn't say you are a member. He didn't say you are a
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congregant. He said you are a city that is
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set on a hill that cannot be hidden.
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That's influence, that's relevance.
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Then he says verse 15. Neither.
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That means this is an anomaly. If it is true that you are
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light, you should fight this thing from happening.
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Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel.
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That means anything that fights your Kingdom influence and
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relevance is demonic. Neither do men light a candle
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and put it under a bushel but on a Candlestick and it give it
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light to harmony. Talk to me as light.
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Your influence should cross cultures, borders, religions,
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races. It says it gives light to all.
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I like how the Bible puts it. It said that was the true light
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that lighted every man. Not Christians alone, not
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Africans alone, not Ibos alone, not Yorubas alone, not the
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Ashantis of Ghana alone. No, not S Africans alone, not
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not Europeans. It lighted every man.
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Then he leaves us with an instruction.
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Verse 16, back to Matthew 516. I like this.
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It says let your light. I have taught you the word let
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means permit. Do not restrict, do not
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restrain, allow unhindered. Let your light so shine before
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men, so shine before men, that they may see your good works and
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glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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Everybody say I am salt, convincingly so Say I am salt.
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Say I am light. One more time.
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Say I am salt. I am light, yes.
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Now look at this. Did you know, ladies and
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gentlemen, you don't need to put a bulb everywhere in your house
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to light everywhere. That's a beautiful thing.
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With light, you can switch on the bulb from one point and the
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entire room becomes illuminated. So when he says you are light,
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you don't have to be everywhere for everywhere to feel your
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impact. Are we together now?
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You can be in Nigeria and yet Ghana is feeling your impact and
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yet UK is feeling your impact and yet US is feeling your
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impact. You are light.
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I've taught you here that believers are classified
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twofold. From a theological standpoint,
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there are two ways to classify believers.
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There is classification based on identification, your oneness
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with Christ, and then there is classification based on
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function. Do not forget.
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So when the Bible classifieds believers based on identity, he
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tries to show us the extent of our connectedness, the extent of
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our oneness. So the Bible uses terms like
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joint heirs with Christ, raised up with Christ, seated with
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Christ. That is classification based on
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identification, but there is classification based on
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function. He calls us light, He calls us
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salt. He calls us ambassadors.
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Are we together? He calls us kings, He calls us
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priests, He calls us witnesses. Those classifications are a call
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to duty. It's not just showing your
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connectedness, it shows you that you are ordained to serve.
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If you're following so far, say Amen, praise the name of the
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Lord. Now, very quickly, let me look
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at the first aspect of my teaching.
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Let's look at the concept of the church.
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I'm teaching again on the church and state, and I don't want to
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take for granted our divergent views.
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One of the things I've learned about teaching people and
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mentorship is that language and definitions matter in creating
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understanding, particularly when you are talking to people, you
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are talking to a global audience, it matters.
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It does matter, language and definition.
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Sometimes as preachers, we take for granted that because we know
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what we are trying to say, we can carelessly assume that
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everybody who is listening should understand what we say
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the way that we want them to understand.
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But it may be very wrong. Definitions differ.
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Terms differ, and so sometimes one of the ways I have found to
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getting people to really understand the Word of God is to
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bring a unified definition of terminologies so that when you
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mention words, people have an understanding of what you are
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saying. There are no assumptions.
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Hallelujah. So very quickly, let's talk
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about the concept of the church as a way of building this
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foundation. Then we connect it to our
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subject of discussion. Still learning.
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Shout Amen. Let's redefine the church.
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Jesus was speaking to us and a number of scriptures from the
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Bible talk about the church. 1 of it.
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The classic definition where you even find the name literally
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church is Matthew chapter 16 popular scripture.
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So Jesus began by saying, who do men say that I, the Son of man
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AM? And they said, you are this you
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are that and he said, who do you say that I am?
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And they all kept quiet and Peter spoke by the Spirit.
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He said, I know who thou art, thou art Christ, the son of the
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living God. He said Simon by Jonah flesh and
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blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.
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And then verse 18 this I say unto you, you are Peter.
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And upon this revelation, upon this revelation of Christ, of
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Jesus being Lord and Christ, I will build my church, and it
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will be so formidable that the gates of hell shall not prevail
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against it. You believe that, say Amen.
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So Jesus himself brought the concept of the Church, but we
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find other similar expressions that relate to the Church from
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an Apostolic standpoint. An example we find in Micah
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chapter 1 from verse one and two, Micah chapter 1.
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Four. Micah chapter 4 My, I beg your
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pardon one and two. Micah 41 and 2 it says, But in
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the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the
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House of the Lord. So you don't see the word
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church, but you see the word the House of the Lord.
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The mountain of the House of the Lord shall be established in the
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top of the mountains. It shall be exalted above the
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hills, and people shall flow to it.
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Many nations shall come and say, come, let us go up to the
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mountain of the Lord and to the House of the God of Jacob, and
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He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in his path, for
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the Lord shall go forth from Zion.
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Remember what the Bible says about Mount Zion, that you have
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come to Mount Zion. The innumerable company of
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angels, the spirits of judgment made perfect, Jesus the first
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born, the blood of sprinkling, and all of that.
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Paul was talking to the church, the Hebrew church.
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See that now? So the Bible in many areas talks
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about the church. An example again we find in
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efficiency, I believe efficiency 2, I think 19.
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Let's try 19, efficiency 2 and verse 19.
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Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners watch
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this but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household
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of God doesn't use the word church, but it uses the word the
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household of God. Verse 20 reading to 22, please.
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Verse 20 it says Anna built up on the foundation of the
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apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
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cornerstone. 21 in whom all the building fitly framed together
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grow it into a holy temple in the Lord.
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Final verse it says in whom we are builded together for an
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habitation of God through the Spirit.
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That's a description of church without mentioning the word
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church. Are we learning now?
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So generally speaking, as I teach, there are three
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definitions of the church according to the Bible.
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And I'll run it very quickly. I'm not really dwelling here,
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but I just want to put that background #1 the church is a
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spiritual strategy. Please write that down.
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Very strange but true definition.
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The richest definition of the church is not as a place, is not
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as a building. The church is a spiritual
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strategy. Jeremiah chapter 51 will read
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verse 20 and 23. The church is a spiritual
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strategy, the only spiritual strategy that sustains the power
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to drive the program of God to fruition.
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The church is God's own invention.
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It's not man's fabrication. The church is not a product of
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growth and science. It was not an invention that
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just happened by technology. The church is a brainchild of
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God's wisdom is part of his predetermined counsel.
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It is a spiritual strategy. Someone shout strategy.
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The church is a strategy. Jeremiah 51 from verse 20 thou
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at my battle axe. Please look up that statement.
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He didn't say I will give you an axe.
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He say you as the church, You are my battle axe.
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Can you imagine? It says You are my weapon of
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war. Everybody says strategy.
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Say it again says strategy. It says For With you I will
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break in pieces the nations, with you I will destroy kingdoms
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21. With you I will break in pieces
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the horse and his rider. With you I will break in pieces
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the chariot and the rider. 22 With you I will break in pieces,
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man and woman. With you I will break in pieces,
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old and young. With you I will break in pieces
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the young man and the maid. Final Verse I will break in
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pieces the shepherd and the flock.
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With you I will break in pieces the husband, man, and the yoke
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of oxen. With you I will break in pieces.
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Captains and rulers. Nobody was left out.
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You are my battle axe when I want to do things, when I want
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to advance my program, you are the tool that I use.
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The church is beyond the congregation.
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The church is a strategy. God's strategy for revival,
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God's strategy for restoration, God's strategy for redemption,
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God's strategy of hope, God's strategy for nation building,
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God's strategy for advancing a civilization is not government,
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is a church. Little wonder when anything goes
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wrong, you read your Bible. Every time anything goes wrong
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in any nation, God does not go to the government, he goes to
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the church. Remember what the Bible says, If
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my people, which are called by my name, are we still believers?
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If they shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
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turn from their wicked ways, It says, then we lie here from
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heaven and will forgive their sins.
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But I will not just stop there, I will heal their land.
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Meaning the sickness in the land is traceable to something about
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the church. All through Scripture, Jesus
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held the church responsible for everything that happened on
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earth. The church is a spiritual
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strategy, God's strategy for revival.
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The most potent strategy for betting and advancing the
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program of God is the church. Don't forget this.
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You are that useful, Sir. You are that valuable.
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Perhaps this scripture would comfort you in this social media
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age of blackmailing and tearing down people's relevance.
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Let me remind you again that you are God's strategy.
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God's strategy, meaning he can do without you, but he's chosen
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to depend on you. Say I am God's strategy.
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God's strategy for reformation, God's strategy for revival,
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God's strategy for salvation, God's strategy for healing,
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God's strategy for restoration, God's strategy for
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reconciliation. Did you not read that?
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He gave us a ministry of reconciliation.
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My goodness. God's strategy for deliverance,
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God's strategy for hope, God's strategy for joy, God's strategy
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for a better world is the church.
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This is not fanatics, it is true.
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The church #2 What is the Church?
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The Church refers to believers in Christ.
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It is the generic name for believers in Christ, not just a
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gathering of them. The generic name for believers
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in Christ. When there is a gathering or a
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collection of believers who are in Christ, in Christ, meaning
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they are born again, they have received salvation through faith
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in Jesus Christ, they are called the church.
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An individual cannot be called the church, but a collection of
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believers. They are called the church.
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Is someone learning now? Now it does not matter whether
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that congregation of believers are gathered outside or gathered
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in a building. Are we together or gathered in
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Parliament? Once there is a congregation of
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believers who are in Christ, more so having a Kingdom
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mentality, the Bible calls them the church.
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So #1 the church is God's strategy for deliverance,
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healing to the nation's reformation, salvation,
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transformation, hope, advancement, nation building #2
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the church represents believers who are in Christ, not just a
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congregation of believers who are in Christ.
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He leave us a collection regardless where they are found.
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They are called the church. Let me give you the 3rd and
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final. Well, let me give you a
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scripture for that. First Peter 2 and verse 5.
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First Peter 2 and verse 5. Please, let's hurry up.
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We have a lot to cover. He says he also as lively stones
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are built up into a spiritual house, an holy priesthood to
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OfferUp spiritual sacrifices acceptable unto God.
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You are built up into a spiritual house, not a spiritual
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person. You are a lively stone as an
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individual, but when you are built up into a spiritual house,
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it is called the church. Romans chapter 12, four and
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five, Romans 12/4 and five. It says for as we have many
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members in one body and all members have not the same
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office, verse 5 it says so we being many are like this being
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many are one body in Christ. That's another name for the
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church, the body of Christ, the body.
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When we talk about the body of Christ, we're not talking of an
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aggregate of many denominations, although that is applicable, but
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we're talking of believers together in Christ and everyone
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members one of another #3 very quickly, the third definition of
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the church, the church is an institution.
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So the church is a strategy. The church is a collection of
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believers in Christ, and then the church is an institution.
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What does it mean for the church to be an institution?
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The church is an institution that is relevant, relevant to
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society, relevant to the happenings within our world.
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So it's not just a strategy. The church is an institution.
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First Timothy chapter 315, please.
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First Timothy chapter 3 and verse 15, it says, but if I
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tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou Artest to behave
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yourself in the House of God, which is the House of God, which
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is the House of God, also known as the Church of the living God,
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also known as the pillar and the ground of truth.
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So the church as an institution has a mandate of trapping and
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communicating the greatest expression of truth in society.
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That means no matter where you don't find truth, the final bus
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stop for truth is the church. If everywhere fails, the church
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is the pillar and the ground of truth.
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If governments want the truth, where should they come to the
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church? If business people want the
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truth, where should they come to?
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That means the church should not be a place of falsehood.
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It is the institution mandated with the responsibility of
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preserving truth transgenerationally.
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Many times you find in Scripture in the Old Testament, if God
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moved in a certain way, God will mandate the leaders to build
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monuments and offer sacrifices and build a stone and make a
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covenant there. And you hear every once in a
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while God will say, if your children ask you, is that in
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your Bible? Why, What minute this thing you
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will tell them, I revealed myself in such and such a
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manner, and that this is a memorial to all generations.
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The Church is an institution, the pillar and the ground of
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truth. Hebrews chapter 1024 and 25.
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Hebrews 10/24 and 25. Let us consider one another to
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provoke unto love and onto good works.
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These are expressions of truth, love, good works, not forsaking
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the assembling. Please look up.
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So the Church also refers to the assembling of believers beyond
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the building, the institution, assembling of ourselves together
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as it is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so
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much more as you see the day approaching.
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Can I give you one more Scripture?
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Acts chapter 2 from verse 42 to 47.
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Acts chapter 2. The early church they continued
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steadfastly watch this in the apostles doctrine, in
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fellowship, in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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And fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were
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done by the Apostles. Next verse please.
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It says, And all that believed were Talk to me believers.
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All that believed were together, not apart.
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All that believed were together and had all things in common.
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They sold their possessions and goods, and planted them, and
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gave to every man as he had made, And they, continuing daily
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in one accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to
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house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of
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heart. 47 Final verse praising God together and having favor
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with all the people, And the Lord added to the church daily
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as should be saved the church. It's a spiritual strategy, God's
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strategy, God's invention, God's idea, God's program #2 The
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church refers to a collection of believers who are in Christ, the
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body of Christ, the ecclesia #3 The church is an institution,
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not just a religious institution, a spiritual
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institution. Hallelujah.
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Now we're learning so far. Now let's talk about the
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declining relevance of the church in society.
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I told you tonight, it seems to me as though I'm presenting a
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paper lecture. I'll do my best to make sure
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that it still sounds like church.
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Hallelujah, the declining relevance of the church in
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society. The declining relevance of the
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church in society. It is amazing that when you
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consider for an example the continent of Africa, I'm not
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sure there has ever been a time in history, recorded history
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where we have as many churches, as many preachers, as many
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church and spiritual programs happening concurrently.
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And I don't say this from any standpoint of sarcasm.
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From Nigeria to Ghana to South Africa to Namibia to Zimbabwe,
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you name it, almost everywhere, Kenya.
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And then you go down to America, Europe, there's, there's all you
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need to do is go online. There's at least a live church
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program happening somewhere. And that's, that's wonderful.
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That's wonderful, except that it is a paradox that we have
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statistically more churches being registered every other
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time. Every year we have churches and
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programs on the increase and it seems as though the impact of
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the church beyond the church walls is on a gradual decline.
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It seems to me as if there is a generation that is finally
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accepting that the church is an obsolete institution or an
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obsolete idea as far as the current times are concerned.
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It seems to me like the church is being looked at as what
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typewriter is now to our wall. That it was once relevant
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because we don't see governments as such, consulting the church
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from a non bias, where we don't see individuals consulting the
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church in a way that should be. It then means that something is
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wrong in spite of all the programs that are happening,
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conventions, conferences, colonial services, all kinds of
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things. And don't get me wrong, the
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church has done commendably in many ways, I can tell you that.
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But it seems like the nations are yet to accept the relevance
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of the church from an empirical standpoint, a non non biased,
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non sentimental standpoint, a data proven standpoint of the
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relevance of the church in society.
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Now don't get me wrong, I know that there is a plot by darkness
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to fight the program of the church.
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It's always been sold from time immemorial.
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And I'm not talking about people who are antagonistic to the
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program of God. I'm talking about the declining
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relevance of the church. I'm currently on a study on the
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relevance and the value of church, and I took for an
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example and with all due respect, the West.
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I'm on a case study on the West. There's been all kinds of
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materials that seem to purport the decline of the church in
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America as far as their relevance to state is concerned.
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And I wanted to investigate the factors, a number of factors.
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I may not want to mention so many of them and all of that,
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but generally speaking is said today, I hope my data is still
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right. At least 40% of Americans say
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they still believe in God, but they don't believe in church.
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Again, they believe in God, but not church.
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They still believe in God, but they are not interested in
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anything church. And among the many reasons they
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gave, aside from the character inconsistencies of the men of
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God who have been the shepherd through the years, most of them
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said the teachings that have come from the pulpit have failed
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to empower them to be relevant in the world today.
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And most of them found out that after committing their loyalty
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to a preacher for decades, sitting on the supposed
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spiritual teaching in the face of real life situation, those
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teachings failed to produce results and so they were
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disappointed. Many of them started as children
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and now as adults they are not able to live a meaningful
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victorious life courtesy church. And so they made-up their minds.
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Most of these rebellion supposedly started from COVID
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and post COVID many people have not gone to church again.
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I can tell you this with all due respect, in Europe there is a
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gradual decline decline of church.
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One of the topics we took for consideration during Sound of
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Revival, I think it was last year or the year before last,
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was a call to restore the church, a call to restore the
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church. I was so humbled when I heard of
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many people who returned to church after the sound of
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Revival. Some of them had been so hot.
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Some of them had been wounded. Some of them had been betrayed
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by church. Some of them lost hope in
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church. You'll get to certain churches,
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with all due respect, and what you find are people from age
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4050, sixty, I mean those who are just years left.
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You don't find the young people there, but once there's a
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football match, you find them there.
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Once there's a show, you find them there.
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Once there's a tech exhibition, you find them there.
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Nothing wrong with those things, but it's to tell you that there
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is an idea of church that is becoming obsolete.
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And the whole generation is gradually coming into a settled
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realization that they don't need church.
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But in the name of Jesus, in our lifetime, the church will not go
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down. Say Amen.
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And it's easier said than done. Amen is wonderful, but it does
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not stop there. That's why I'm going to be
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showing you a number of things. I've identified a number of
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reasons. And please, I want you to listen
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as to why the church seems to decline in its relevance in
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society. Don't get me wrong, not its
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relevance in God's grand scheme of things per SE, but the
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perception of the relevance of the church is loosening that
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that that stake that we had in society as far as nation
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building, policy formulation, whatever is concerned.
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It looks like the governments of nations are gradually looking at
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the church as a nuisance to civilization.
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There are a number of reasons for the seeming declining
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relevance of church in society. Are you ready?
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Can I give you a number? Number one, the first reason for
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the declining relevance of the Church in society I wrote here
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is the character disposition. Of the ministers of the gospel
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the declining level of morality among the preachers, the
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ministers of the gospel, this is the first reason the character
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or the declining the declining moral disposition or moral level
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of pastors, preachers, it's affected the relevance of the
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church declining character dispositions, a lot of moral
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failures repeatedly so to a scale that is is too significant
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to be ignored. The first reason for the
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declining relevance of the church.
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Please look at me. There are 16 laws at least that
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govern influence. Influence is a product of many,
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many principles. And when you study influence,
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there are at least 16 laws that govern influence.
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One of the laws that govern influence is what we call trust,
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trust of the one wanting to influence people.
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People will not lend you their attention until they trust your
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authenticity, until they trust your integrity, and until they
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trust you to be relevant in their lives.
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Are we together now? So one of the ways you command
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attention of a generation is not to call them, is to as much as
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you can become the model of what you want them to become.
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Until they trust you, they will not follow you.
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Until they trust you, they will not give attention to you.
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Until they trust you, they will not take you serious.
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And while it is true that all men are human, we must
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understand that the call to being a minister requires a
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certain you. There is an intention that you
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must give to being trustworthy as much as you are able to.
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This is why the Holy Ghost comes to help us.
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This is why the Word of God comes to help us.
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This is why there are systems that can help us.
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But I can tell you this, look at me.
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How many of you know that three people can say the same thing?
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A generation will take one person serious and not take the
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other person serious. It is not what was said, it's
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who said it. Someone can say, let's meet in
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the evening for a program and the whole generation says, yes,
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Sir, we are coming. It is trust, or at least the
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perception of trust. Yet another person can say,
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let's meet in the evening and everybody says, well, we don't
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take you serious. Why is that so?
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It's not just the will of God. It's not just the grace of God.
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It's the perception of trust, the way you command the
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attention of a generation. It's not just to be intelligent,
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it's to be trustworthy, and your trust must be interpreted in the
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way they understand. If you say I'm a man of
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integrity, that's your business. They must see that you are a man
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of integrity. If they cannot see that you are
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a man of integrity, forget it. You can claim you have
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integrity. Your generation, the loyalty of
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your generation is a report card of your character.
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It's a report card. It's a report card.
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Watch this, I was thinking to myself as I studied the
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scripture. Do you know what it meant for
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Jesus to gather 5000 men minus women and children?
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The question is how many people were in the world at that time?
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Think about it that in today's world this is not just an issue
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of crowd, but in today's world that you are able to, without
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prior notification, converge 5000 heterogeneous people, minus
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their wives and their children to come with you for three days.
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They are hungry, but they will not leave and go back home to an
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extent that you have to feed them.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that kind of loyalty is a description of
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trust and the perception of it. Are we together?
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So the declining or the decline in character and moral
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excellence, particularly among those who are shepherds and
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serve the grace of God. And when we talk of moral
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decline, it expresses itself in various dimensions.
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Please make reference to my teaching, The Purified Church
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You want to listen to my teaching For more information
1:04:52
The purified Church. It's a powerful classic
1:04:57
describing the six major sins of the modern day church that God
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would want us to address. 6 of them, the purified church.
1:05:10
But let's continue very quickly. So the first reason is the moral
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failure of pastors, of preachers, of spiritual leaders,
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moral failures in various dimensions #2 the second reason
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for the declining relevance of the church in society.
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Ready The law or poor quality of the sermons and the teachings
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that are served from the pulpit. The poor quality in content,
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poor quality in terms of value, relevance and applicability.
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The poor quality of the sermons and the teachings that come from
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the pulpit. Oh, this is powerful.
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This is a major reason, very major reason.
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The poor quality of the sermons. There is a reason why people
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don't need a typewriter. Again, there is a reason,
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because once your information, your idea, your products and
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your services can no longer serve a people, they will leave
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you. People love you, but they love
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themselves too. One time I was having a
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discussion with a group of people some years ago and they
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were diplomats and they wanted to just share my perspective on
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matters of church, state, nation building, you know, and so on
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and so forth. And they asked me, they said
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apostle, what do you think is the problem with the church in
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Nigeria and Africa? I said, well, the church
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intrinsically is OK. The major problem is the content
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of our sermons, because the power of transformation is in
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the quality of the teachings. Let me say that the power of
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transformation is in the quality of the teachings.
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The real power is in the quality of the teachings.
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Quality balance life. Applicable scripture based
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teachings that caught across the four areas I mentioned earlier
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will produce a powerful, potent, refined, responsible group of
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people. Failure to achieve that will
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also produce the, the, the, the negative effect of it.
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I submit to you, and I'm embarrassed to say this, as a
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man of God, I really am embarrassed to say this, but I
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have to admit it, that there needs to be a very serious work
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on our teachings, our sermons, the content, and the
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presentation, while thanking God for the much that has been done
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across our platforms, our puppies, Oh no, to servants of
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the living God globally. But I must tell you that there
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is still much work to be done. And you see, when I speak like
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this, I'm broad in what I'm saying because with all due
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respect, the fight among God's pastors is the fight for
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supremacy in one or more of these four areas.
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Those who are masters in doctrine will tell the other
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people the mysteries of the Kingdom and worldview.
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You are not needed. The ones who have a great
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worldview say sit down there with your knowledge of God while
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I win in life, you see? So the battle is rather a battle
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of supremacy instead of completion.
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You see that now. So when I talk about a need to
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correct ourselves, I'm not just talking of everybody returning
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to doctrine alone. It is dangerous If the only
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thing you teach people is doctrine, very dangerous.
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It looks spiritual, but it is dangerous.
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You will raise a consecrated people who will still be a
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nuisance to society. You need doctrine, the mistress
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of the Kingdom, the wisdom for winning in life and destiny, and
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a world compliant world view. You need this.
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If you're learning, say Amen. So the poor quality of our
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sermons, our teachings, and many of these sermons do not come
1:09:30
from wicked people. Please don't get me wrong.
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Not every man of God is wicked. Not every man of God intends to
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deceive or to mislead, but sometimes we are limited by the
1:09:40
structure of our own mentorship and understanding.
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Are we together? You cannot raise the people
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greater than your level of transformation.
1:09:48
You can never raise the people greater than your level of
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enlightenment. And remember, when I talk about
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being enlightened, I'm not saying being more western.
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I'm talking of being more ward compliant.
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I want to emphasize that because sometimes our idea of being
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enlightened is to be more western.
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No, when I talk about being enlightened, I mean being more
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ward compliant. Still following Say Amen #3,
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What is the third reason for the declining relevance of the
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church in state and society? The inefficiency of the
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witnesses produced from our faulty or incomplete teachings.
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The inefficiency of the witnesses produced from our
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faulty, our faulty teachings and churches, reflecting fanatism,
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imbalance, inaccurate understanding and a poor world
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view. I'll take that again.
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The third reason for the decline of the church, this one has to
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do with the products. Now the believers, the
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inefficiency of the witnesses that are produced from our
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faulty teachings, our imbalances, our exaggerations.
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You see that our poor communications of truth
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reflecting fanaticism instead of passion, reflecting imbalance,
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reflecting inaccurate understanding, reflecting a poor
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worldview, in fact reflecting defeat.
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Let me take that one more time. The third reason for the
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declining relevance of the Church in society is the
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inefficiency of the witnesses. Say the products, the
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inefficiency, the congregants, the members, the witnesses, the
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byproducts of our teachings, our seminars, our conventions, our
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prophetic programs. With all due respect that after
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many years of teaching, praying, shouting, it seems to me that
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the quality of the products that come out from the church are
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largely inefficient, reflecting fanaticism, reflecting
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imbalance, reflecting a poor aberrated worldview.
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You see that now, reflecting defeat, spiritually and
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otherwise, reflecting irresponsibility.
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I want to say this as a responsible Christian and please
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don't find offence in this statement.
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Many broken homes today are homes of Christians.
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Many lawless children today, with all due respect, are
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children from Christian families.
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Many armed robbers today that cause mayhem in society carry
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Christian names. It means something is wrong.
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Many corrupt politicians today attend services.
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Many of them with all due respect, are even registered
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members. True or false?
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I hope you are not part of them. As you are saying.
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True. Most of the things we learn that
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destroy us. I can tell you a number of them
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came from the church. Materialism did not come from a
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club, it came from the church. Selfishness did not come from
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the club. Now let me tell you this.
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There are three institutions at least that when you destroy, you
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have destroyed society. There are actually 4, but three
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of them are foundational. Let me give that to you #1 the
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family institution #2 the schools, the educational
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institution #3 the church. And then if you want to add #4
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government because of policy formulation and so on and so
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forth, you may want to write that for your learning.
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Every time society is in decadence from a systemic
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standpoint, these are the institutions to consult.
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The first revelation of God for any individual was supposed to
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come from the home. The relationship between the
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father and the mother is supposed to be the first visible
1:14:26
expression of the love of God. So if something goes wrong
1:14:30
there, God will have to depend on schools to correct what
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happened at home. And if schools fail, and my
1:14:39
goodness, those of you who own schools, particularly Christian
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schools, I encourage you in the name of the Lord and I'm praying
1:14:46
for you. May God give you the finances
1:14:48
you need. But there needs to be a re
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editing some of the things that happen in schools.
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You don't want to imagine there are things that don't happen in
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the club but happen in schools behind those educational walls.
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You will be surprised. Some of them are taught by
1:15:04
teachers to students. Some of them is the intrinsic
1:15:07
corruption that is in the hands of the people.
1:15:10
Some of them outsource through social media, enhanced by
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gadgets. School, every time the home is
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failing, God looks up to the school to correct it.
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There are many children who failed at home because of the
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parental structure and the family structure that raised
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them. And God looked forward to them
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getting admission and they got admission and some of them were
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fortunate to go to good schools is the reason why I pray for
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you. The resources that will empower
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you to take your children to good schools.
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I cry from my heart. May God place it in your hands.
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Let me tell you, I'm convinced that one of the greatest
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investment a parent can make over the destiny of the child is
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to go to a school that will give you a twin combo of academic
1:16:04
excellence and a strong moral foundation.
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Academic excellence. An educated, corrupt child.
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An educated, immoral child is not a blessing.
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That's a danger on his way coming to pass.
1:16:19
And let me encourage parents. You have a right to respectfully
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find out the curriculum in the schools where you are taking
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your children. Attend PTA meetings and ask
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questions. Don't be too busy making money
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while they are destroying your children.
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Until your child asks you a question one day that you will
1:16:38
not have an answer. You watch some of these little
1:16:40
children and hear the kinds of discussions that they have.
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At their age. You were not asking those
1:16:45
questions, but they can ask you a question that you wake up in
1:16:49
the night as if you are depressed.
1:16:53
And these children are so intelligent and coherent.
1:16:56
They speak like adults. They will ask you with the
1:16:59
gravity of an adult. And you say, who taught my child
1:17:02
this thing? Welcome to the world, the world
1:17:06
that you cannot run away from. You've already claimed long
1:17:08
life, so it's better to find out how to live well.
1:17:15
Are we still together? You are not dying soon.
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No way. You are not going anywhere.
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I wouldn't even allow you to go. So the family institution.
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Family institution. Men, please be good men.
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Women, be good women. For God's sake.
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Are we together? And then schools.
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But when schools fail, where else do you think God would
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depend on church? You see that now.
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And church is more potent because church covers both
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family and schools. Everybody who comes from a home
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attends church. At least safe assumption and
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even in schools you can balance it because there are people that
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family failed them. Honestly, there are those that
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school failed them, the parents maybe did not have the
1:18:19
resources. Now let me say this, sometimes
1:18:22
people say why are Christian schools expensive?
1:18:25
The truth about it not in all the cases it takes resources to
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produce quality. That's the truth it's an
1:18:33
uncomfortable truth. It takes resources to produce
1:18:37
quality and in as much as schools are not business but
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they are value adding systems, they must be maintained takes
1:18:46
resources and then church. The reason I say this is because
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long after that child is grown, there are children who were born
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in certain churches. They grew in those churches.
1:19:03
They married in those churches. They became pastors in those
1:19:06
churches. They died in those churches.
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Meaning a summation of their understanding was about 7080% a
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product of the pulpit that served them all through their
1:19:17
lifetime. Please pray for us men of God.
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Oh pray for us, pray for us. Don't just give us gifts.
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Pray for us that God will help our understanding so that we
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don't destroy the destinies of people using the Bible.
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The Bible is a powerful tool, but the Bible can be used as a
1:19:37
weapon of mass destruction. It depends on who uses it.
1:19:40
I can carry this Bible and from the lens of my selfishness,
1:19:45
teach a man something that makes him a destructive person in
1:19:49
society. Teach a woman something that
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makes her a destructive person in society.
1:19:54
Am I right on that? And yet I can use this same
1:19:57
Bible, ladies and gentlemen, and turn an ordinary man into a
1:20:01
responsible citizen. I can use this and turn You can
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influence a nation through the power of the gospel.
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The Bible is a prophetic book. You can make it speak any
1:20:15
language. The language of love can be
1:20:17
spoken from the Bible. The language of lost can be
1:20:20
spoken from the Bible. The language of self can be
1:20:23
spoken from the Bible. You will find a vast for it.
1:20:27
Anything you want, you will find a vast for.
1:20:29
It is the reason why the Word of God must be rightly divided so
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that it does not destroy people. For those of us who are ministry
1:20:38
or who are getting into ministry, it takes beyond
1:20:41
ordination. It takes beyond the ability to
1:20:44
speak. The Bible says He shepherded
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them with the sincerity of his heart and the skillfulness of
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His hands. The sincerity of his heart and
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the skillfulness of His hands. He shepherded them with the
1:20:59
sincerity or the integrity of His heart.
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Psalm 78172 He shepherded them according to the integrity of
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His heart, but He guided them by the skillfulness of His hands.
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You can be a person of integrity, but you lack the
1:21:16
skill. You know one of the things I
1:21:18
found out? Everything hate can do, love can
1:21:21
do it too. Did you hear what I said?
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Love was not meant to be that way.
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But everything you know, hate and evil can do, you can use
1:21:30
love to do it too. Faith can destroy.
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Evil can destroy. Love can destroy too.
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There are many people who were too loved to be disciplined.
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They were too loved to be allowed to serve God.
1:21:44
They were too loved to be allowed to be independent.
1:21:47
They didn't go for parties and whatever, but they were not
1:21:51
allowed to become responsible. Love can hurt and can kill.
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It takes love and capacity to produce result, not just love.
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You can have love as a parent and not know how to raise your
1:22:05
child. You love the child, but you
1:22:07
raise a disaster to society, not by hate but by love.
1:22:11
Is someone learning the institution of family?
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Let me repeat again the institution of school,
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educational systems and the institution of church, and then,
1:22:24
of course, government. Now, the strange thing about it
1:22:27
is that number four starts from #1 #2 and #3.
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Am I right on that? The person who later becomes a
1:22:36
senator, for example, or a commissioner or whatever, that
1:22:40
person was born. He once was in a family.
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No matter how short a time he stayed, he most likely went to a
1:22:46
school, no matter what level of education and if he's a
1:22:50
Christian or a Muslim, at least he went to a mosque or he went
1:22:54
to a school or some spiritual house or some, some system that
1:22:58
planted the consciousness of God and faith.
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And then finally he gets to the office.
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That's why I said this number 3, the inefficiency of the
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witnesses as a testament of the poor products.
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How many of you will want to patronize somebody or a product
1:23:16
that keeps being defective and deficient?
1:23:18
Will you go there even if this is your brother that produces it
1:23:24
now that fights fake drugs, there are quality control
1:23:29
systems across every nation to fight things that are fake and
1:23:33
things that are destructive. You see that now because of what
1:23:37
it can do to people, the products that are coming out of
1:23:43
the church. Let me tell you, ladies and
1:23:45
gentlemen, if our sermons were corrected and balanced again,
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corrected, upgraded and balanced, they would produce
1:23:55
such a rich capture and a global Apostolic community of refined,
1:24:01
reformed, vibrant, spiritual, enlightened and empowered
1:24:06
believers. It would be very easy to change
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society. The problem, the kinds of
1:24:12
products that we are producing, I have a responsibility under
1:24:16
God for an example, for colonial global, to see to it that you
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are holistically built. It's my assignment, it's my
1:24:24
mandate, and God will judge me what I do with your attention,
1:24:28
what I do with your loyalty, what I do with the gift of your
1:24:32
attentiveness. You have done your own part to
1:24:35
be faithful, to be committed, to listen.
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My own part is to make sure I don't deceive you.
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And it takes more than sincerity, it takes knowledge,
1:24:44
it takes capacity. I can deceive you innocently and
1:24:48
then allow you to go and test your knowledge in the real world
1:24:51
and pay dearly for it, while I enjoy a false reputation of
1:24:55
being a great man of God. But I assure you, by the mercy
1:24:59
of God, provided you are under this grace, I want you to know
1:25:03
that you will live an excellent life that I assure you is a
1:25:06
commitment, vibrant, transformed, empowered,
1:25:11
visionary, responsible, nation building.
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We call it the Koinonia believer.
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It is what you are becoming. Is a picture of who you are
1:25:22
becoming. Is someone getting transformed?
1:25:30
The reason for the decline of the church's relevance in
1:25:33
society again 1 The moral failure of preachers to the poor
1:25:39
quality, both in terms of content and delivery content and
1:25:43
delivery of our sermons and our teachings #3 the inefficiency of
1:25:49
the witnesses that are produced from these faulty teachings.
1:25:53
And with all due respect, the faulty approach to church that
1:25:57
reflects fanatism, reflects imbalance, reflects inaccurate
1:26:01
understanding, reflects a poor world view, reflects A lopsided
1:26:06
Christian life, and generally ultimately defeat.
1:26:10
Now, what's the result of all of this put together?
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Believers who are knowledgeable in one area but totally ignorant
1:26:18
in another area. The danger of this is
1:26:22
lopsidedness. So for an example, we have
1:26:25
different hybrids of Christians in Nigeria for the purpose of
1:26:29
classification. We have, for an example, those
1:26:32
who are doctrinally sound but with a very small, inexposed
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worldview. It's going to be difficult for
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God to use them to do something of of significance.
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Not because they are not sincere.
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There's something wrong with their worldview.
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Their minds are small, their walls are small, their visions
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are small, their perspectives are small.
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See that now? Then there are those that are
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exposed, but at the expense of their consecration.
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There are those that are very exposed, but their tendencies
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are too much. God cannot trust them with
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spiritual leadership over a generation.
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They will drive a generation through inconsistencies in
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emotion and character. Today they believe this.
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Tomorrow after placing your loyalty, you don't know what
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they can become. There are people in church it's
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dangerous to be friends with. With all due respect.
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There are people in church it's dangerous to identify with
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publicly. With all due respect, not
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because we are being judgmental. Their tendencies are too much.
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They can become something today that betrays your trust of 10
1:27:46
years. There needs to be stability of
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character and godliness. So we have different hybrids.
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Let me repeat myself. We have those who are
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consecrated, doctrinally sound, but they do not have wisdom for
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living. If you probe them against the
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foundation of doctrine, prayer, fasting, consecration, you will
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be impressed by their spiritual life.
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But in terms of leadership, knowledge management, nation
1:28:13
building, reformation, policy formulation, preserving the
1:28:18
heritage of God, territorially, they know nothing about it.
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Their concept of revival is aberrated and almost laughable,
1:28:26
you see. But then we have those who are
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enlightened to a measure, whether academically, whether
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informally, but something is wrong with their level of
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consecration. And so just when you are
1:28:40
impressed by their level of exposure and enlightenment, they
1:28:44
now disappoint you in the area of consecration.
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There's there's too much inconsistency, the danger of
1:28:56
exorcism. And then there are those who are
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lesser, fair. They are neither doctrinally
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sound nor exposed nor knowledgeable.
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And honestly, their laxity is a reflection of the kind of
1:29:10
shepherd training them. The man of God is not serious
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about prayer, even though he's born again.
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He's not serious about growth. He doesn't care whether they
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grow. He doesn't care whether they
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attend church. He doesn't care.
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It doesn't matter. There are people who are just
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there. So we have hybrids of Christians
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using Nigeria as a Chris study, and none of them is entirely
1:29:35
wrong. It's only that they are
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incomplete. And the trouble I'll be coming
1:29:39
there shortly is that when that imbalance meets with pride, they
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all build walls, you see. So the one who is consecrated
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but not broad in their understanding will build a wall
1:29:52
around their limited understanding.
1:29:54
The one who has a an intelligent world view but absence of
1:29:58
consecration will also build a wall.
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Everybody's protecting the wall of their knowledge.
1:30:04
And the result is the poor products that we're having in
1:30:07
church. But I believe God is doing
1:30:10
something. You believe that say Amen.
1:30:12
I believe that God is breaking down those walls in the name of
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Jesus who believe that. Amen.
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God is breaking down those walls so that there will be a mixing
1:30:23
of truth, not a corruption of it, a mixing of truth to the
1:30:28
proportion that produces balance and produces power.
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And I believe with all my heart that in my lifetime and in this
1:30:35
generation, God will raise believers.
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That will be an accurate portrait of the kind of believer
1:30:42
he died for. If that describes you, shout
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Amen. Spirit, lead me where my trust
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is Without Borders. Let me walk upon the waters
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wherever you will call me. Take me deeper, where my feet,
1:31:04
my faith will be made stronger. One more time.
1:31:13
My say Spirit, lead me Spirit lead.
1:31:16
When I trust, let me walk up on the water.
1:31:25
Wherever you will call me, take me.
1:31:31
Leave away my. We're tired of excellence
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without godliness, or godliness without knowledge, or knowledge
1:31:53
that is imbalanced. You see that we're tired of a
1:31:57
consecrated believer who is not a reformer, who are tired of
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someone whose idea of revival is only pray and fasting, as
1:32:04
important as that is, no revival happens with Elijah alone.
1:32:08
You need Daniel. You need Joseph.
1:32:10
Are we together now? That's the reason why the Bible
1:32:13
is a capture of all of these men.
1:32:15
Elijah alone cannot bring the revival.
1:32:17
Daniel alone cannot bring the revival.
1:32:20
Is someone learning now, Joseph? Until you understand God's
1:32:37
program from a bird's and eagles eye view, you will not see the
1:32:41
destruction that some of these imbalances are causing.
1:32:45
In God's program you literally program a people to fail.
1:32:49
In life, you literally program a people to be defeated.
1:32:54
Balance is a miracle. Balance is a real miracle.
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Come and I will show you the Lambs wife and he showed me a
1:33:03
city that was equal in length, equal in breadth, equal in
1:33:08
depth. That's the lambs wife.
1:33:10
No exaggeration. Spirit lead me where my trust.
1:33:19
Is Without Borders. Let me walk upon the waters
1:33:26
wherever you will. Remember, we're discussing
1:33:47
church and state. We are looking at how the Church
1:33:50
of the Lord Jesus Christ can gain relevance beyond church
1:33:54
walls. Now, very quickly, let me
1:33:57
provide for you a road map to impact, relevance and influence.
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A road map to impact, influence and relevance haven't examined
1:34:12
the decline of the church. It will do no justice to just
1:34:16
show what is wrong. We must be able to from the lens
1:34:19
of scripture, provide an intelligent ward based road map
1:34:24
that the church, a restorative pathway that the church can
1:34:28
follow and gain back for some or maintain for some or scale up
1:34:33
for some, their impact, their relevance.
1:34:37
And please, you want to listen to this.
1:34:39
This right here is the zenith of our discussion tonight.
1:34:43
Lend me your attention as you pray in the Spirit in one
1:34:45
minute, One minute of prayer, preparing your heart to hear
1:34:49
this. These words are precious.
1:34:51
They are precious to me. I pray that they become precious
1:34:54
to you. As you hear online praying the
1:34:57
Spirit, you're about to learn something that is really life
1:35:00
transforming. Chapranta Mecca Parantusiata, a
1:35:07
road map to the impact, the influence and the relevance of
1:35:13
the Church in Nigeria, in Africa, across the nations.
1:35:19
These are some of the keys that will restore the relevance of
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the church. That our children don't need to
1:35:26
run away from God. That the elderly who serve God
1:35:29
in a frustrated manner will not give up on faith before they
1:35:32
die. That the young people will not
1:35:35
lead a campaign of rebellion against faith because of their
1:35:39
disappointment in church and their disappointment in any and
1:35:42
all things spiritual. And that those who are standing
1:35:45
now will not become discouraged after living years of lies and
1:35:50
pretense, failing, but acting. That things are working.
1:35:55
Lift your voice in one minute as you pray.
1:35:58
This is a most important subject, particularly in our
1:36:02
world today. In Jesus name we pray
1:36:15
Hallelujah. So I'll be giving you a few
1:36:17
submissions in points as a road map, a restorative road map to
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reclaiming the relevance that influence the impact of the
1:36:30
church beginning from our nation, Nigeria, and spreading
1:36:33
across our beautiful continent and all through the ends of the
1:36:37
earth. Number one, let me say this as a
1:36:39
preamble, by the way, one of the greatest miracles, and please
1:36:43
listen as I write or just just listen first before you write.
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One of the greatest miracles that can happen to our society
1:36:51
today is the humility of pastors, one of the greatest
1:36:56
miracle in this journey of the restoration of the glory of the
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church. I submit to you as a man of God
1:37:05
that one of the greatest miracles that needs to happen in
1:37:08
church today is not rising up from the wheelchair.
1:37:12
No, it's not multiplying bread. It's not crowds filling up
1:37:16
stadiums and and theaters. It is not.
1:37:20
It is not the the regurgitating of scriptures from intelligent
1:37:25
preachers. One of the greatest, most needed
1:37:28
miracle in the church today is the humility of pastors.
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I submit to you that if pastors can humble themselves, they will
1:37:39
account for over 70% of the southern tsunami of
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transformation and reformation of members.
1:37:49
The humility of pastors. It is safe to assume that the
1:37:54
pride of pastors has stood like a wall.
1:37:57
It has punished the church transgenerationally.
1:38:02
There are people who would rather die than humble
1:38:05
themselves to say let me listen, it's dangerous, the pride of
1:38:12
pastors. I say this in a very with a
1:38:17
humble submission. And when we teach like this, we
1:38:20
don't teach in a way that should provoke disrespect.
1:38:23
Let me put a disclaimer because there are naysayers who like
1:38:27
these kinds of things. And when they hear, they say how
1:38:29
you see, I like this preacher. He's insulting.
1:38:32
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We are not in an advocacy of
1:38:36
insulting the relevance of pastors.
1:38:38
I will never do that, never do that.
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So the, the goal is not to point fingers at pastors.
1:38:45
No, it is childishness and immaturity to do that.
1:38:48
However, it is truth that we must point out the fact that
1:38:53
pastors are proud. We need to be humble.
1:38:57
It's it's an, it's a, there's no other way of saying it.
1:39:00
We need to be humble. Our pride is beyond walls.
1:39:04
We have punished innocent members because it is on.
1:39:08
You see the the way we have done ministry is to sell an idea of
1:39:14
flawlessness and invincibility and the times have put pressure
1:39:19
on us to defend that perception. And a man who has claimed to be
1:39:24
flawless and invincible, you now cannot say I'm sorry because
1:39:28
that is true. You have reduced yourself by our
1:39:31
perception. So we rather create another road
1:39:34
map of deception than to simply admit that we can be better.
1:39:41
One of the things I've learned about people is that
1:39:44
authenticity and sincerity attracts loyalty and respect.
1:39:49
It doesn't take it away that a humble submission before people.
1:39:55
Oh, I didn't see this clearly this way yesterday, but by the
1:39:58
grace of God, I'm on a journey of transformation.
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It does. It makes you authentic and
1:40:04
people love you sincerely. But because you see, I want to
1:40:08
tell you this with all due respect, Africa came from a
1:40:12
largely a Kingdom traditional setting.
1:40:17
Are we together? So masculinity in Africa was
1:40:21
measured by worship and invincibility.
1:40:25
And that mentality is still not still today.
1:40:28
There's nothing particularly wrong except for the fact that
1:40:31
we believe that if for any reason I'm seen as wrong or
1:40:36
something needs to be corrected, it is an insult on my
1:40:39
masculinity or on my leadership. And we have transferred those
1:40:43
things to church and it has destroyed people.
1:40:50
So a preacher who has not taught other aspects of the Kingdom
1:40:55
life or will not allow those who know to teach it, would rather
1:40:59
stop his members from hearing those truths for the sake of his
1:41:03
ego. If you don't know anything about
1:41:06
finances, stay away. Don't confuse the people and
1:41:10
don't say it is not relevant. If you don't know anything about
1:41:13
consecration, stay away and respect those who know it and
1:41:16
teach it. If you don't know anything about
1:41:19
prayer, stay away, learn and then respect those who know it.
1:41:22
If you don't know anything about leadership, stay away.
1:41:25
Don't destroy the members because of your ego.
1:41:29
There are things I know, but there are things I don't know.
1:41:32
I stay in my area of call while learning and respecting those
1:41:36
who know. The problem is where you do not
1:41:39
know and then you trivialize those who know.
1:41:43
This is the that's why I said the problem of the church is is
1:41:46
seldom the members. It is the pride of pastors. 5
1:41:51
minutes of humility can teach a pastor a dimension that will
1:41:56
produce a miracle in his members.
1:41:59
Why will I transfer the pain of members to 30 years when I can
1:42:03
humble myself for five years or for 5 minutes and learn
1:42:07
something I do not know? If all you know about wealth is
1:42:12
tightening and giving, you are right.
1:42:14
But that is not all. So stay away.
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Let those who have labored in the spirit and land and those
1:42:20
who have a wholesome knowledge, let them teach you.
1:42:23
Sit down and learn. There is what we call
1:42:27
postgraduate. A lecturer can be a lecturer and
1:42:30
a student at the same time. Is that not true?
1:42:33
You can be doing your PhD while still being a student.
1:42:36
It's not an insult. When you are before your
1:42:39
professor, you sit down as a student.
1:42:41
When you are done, you go and teach your undergraduates.
1:42:46
Imagine a Doctor Who you come to and is a pediatrician,
1:42:50
consultant pediatrician, and you come to meet him over a matter
1:42:54
of say gynecology and he says, well, I'm a pediatrician.
1:42:58
However lie down, let me see what I can do.
1:43:03
Let me see what I can do. Or a pilot who just read
1:43:10
something here and there about flying and jumped into an
1:43:14
aircraft and said I can take you visa free, for instance to
1:43:17
London. Will you follow the person even
1:43:20
if the person is playing my sermon in that in that aircraft.
1:43:24
Now you are hearing my sermon. Will you follow?
1:43:28
Is someone learning? Honestly, I make this as a as an
1:43:32
honest submission and I'm praying it is part of my
1:43:35
intercession that God will by a way only He can.
1:43:40
I know it's not easy for us pastors, please pray for us.
1:43:43
Don't look down on us, don't insult us.
1:43:45
We are also doing our best, but we are praying that God will by
1:43:49
an act of His mercy, break this pony heart.
1:43:52
You see, most people use ministry as a healing bomb for
1:43:57
a, a a a a beaten childhood. So when people find ministry,
1:44:04
they hold on to it like their ankle of relevance.
1:44:08
And sometimes, while that is sincere, we do that at the
1:44:11
expense of the growth of the people.
1:44:13
Can I tell you if it means me going to sit down here quietly
1:44:17
and learn because I do not know an area to allow Koinonia grow?
1:44:22
God sees my heart. I will do that forever.
1:44:25
If that is the price for your growth, it's true.
1:44:37
The real miracle for the revival and the Reformation, the
1:44:41
restorative path is touch with the humility of preachers that
1:44:47
women of God can have the humility to say, you know what,
1:44:50
I've been 10 years in ministry, 20 years in ministry, 30 years
1:44:55
in ministry, and I thank God for the exploit.
1:44:58
He has gone through my life. But I'm face to face with a
1:45:01
situation right now that reveals incompetence in an area and I
1:45:06
must humble myself and learn. That may mean learning from the
1:45:10
generation after you. The fact that you get back to a
1:45:14
child does not mean the child cannot teach you.
1:45:16
If the child can feed you, he can teach you.
1:45:18
Did you hear what I said? Just because you are ahead in
1:45:23
terms of time may not mean you are ahead in terms of knowledge.
1:45:27
And not every experience is an advantage.
1:45:30
There are some experiences that are not transferable.
1:45:33
They are useless experiences as far as success is concerned.
1:45:36
So sometimes we need to balance it.
1:45:38
With all due respect, and I can tell you this, my little
1:45:42
interaction with the fathers of faith in this nation, do you
1:45:44
know the strengthening I've learned is that when you come
1:45:48
close to them, you find out that they learn.
1:45:50
No, their hearts are open to learn.
1:45:53
They are not too proud to learn. They learn.
1:45:58
It's the young people that don't learn.
1:46:01
The young people don't learn because we have created a
1:46:04
mentality of invincibility. Let me give you a an honest
1:46:08
counsel. Beware of who mentors you and
1:46:13
beware of what you are taught. Beware, beware.
1:46:19
The only problem with the church is not fake.
1:46:22
Pride is a major problem. Imbalance is a major problem.
1:46:26
Is someone learning. Now, that said, the miracle of
1:46:30
the humility of pastors, may that be our prayer.
1:46:34
And I know in the name of Jesus that slowly but surely God will
1:46:38
keep helping us. He's already helping us.
1:46:41
The fact that we can admit openly that there is need for
1:46:44
growth, there is need for change, sincerely, that is a
1:46:48
welcome development. Now the danger is don't let our
1:46:51
submissions make you look down on us, because that's the
1:46:54
problem. When you now turn and look down
1:46:56
the people and take away that sacredness, it now works against
1:47:00
you. To restore the relevance of the
1:47:06
Church, we need the following #1 a threefold restoration within
1:47:17
the priesthood. That's the first key.
1:47:20
To restore the glory of the Church, we need #1A threefold
1:47:25
restoration within the priesthood or ministers or
1:47:29
pastors. Then you put a column a
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restoration of character, broadness of knowledge and
1:47:38
supernatural power to restore the relevance of the church and
1:47:43
society. The first key is that there must
1:47:46
be a three fold restoration within the priesthood, meaning
1:47:52
among ministers, among pastors, A3 fold restoration, a
1:47:57
restoration of character or moral excellence, broadness of
1:48:03
knowledge, broadness of knowledge, broadness of
1:48:08
knowledge and then a restoration of supernatural power.
1:48:12
Give us Philippians chapter 2 please. 14 to 16.
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You move mountains, you cause what's?
1:48:22
To fall, it's with your power. You perform miracles and there
1:48:31
is nothing that's impossible. We're standing in.
1:48:45
I believe with all my heart that something is happening in the
1:48:47
church. Yes, out of the ashes of all the
1:48:50
problems and the fights, insulting one another and so on,
1:48:53
God is doing something in the name of Jesus.
1:48:57
Truth is prevailing in the name of Jesus.
1:49:00
Balance is being restored in the name of Jesus Christ.
1:49:04
The Holy Ghost is walking, walking convicting hearts,
1:49:08
telling people I know you are angry, but look at it is true.
1:49:13
It says do all things without murmuring or disputing.
1:49:16
Verse 15 That he may be blameless and harmless, the sons
1:49:23
of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse
1:49:28
generation. It says, Among whom you should
1:49:31
shine as light in the world. Among whom you should shine as
1:49:39
light in the world. Verse 16 It says, holding forth
1:49:44
the word of life beyond reproach.
1:49:48
Shine as light as you hold forth the word of life.
1:49:54
So the first key to restore the glory of the Church is that
1:49:57
there must be a three fold restoration among preachers,
1:50:02
among priesthood, the restoration of character or
1:50:06
moral excellence #2 the broadness of knowledge that
1:50:11
captures doctrine, the mistress of the Kingdom, wisdom for
1:50:16
living and a world compliant broader world view. 3-4
1:50:24
Restoration, character, broadness of knowledge.
1:50:28
No more limitation in knowledge, no more smallness in scope and
1:50:32
approach of the Christian faith. No more imbalance over
1:50:36
emphasizings and exaggerations and under emphasizings.
1:50:41
That prayer will have its rightful place in the church.
1:50:44
That the world will have its rightful place.
1:50:46
Fasting will have its rightful place.
1:50:49
Deliverance will have its rightful place.
1:50:51
The confession of the world is rightful place.
1:50:53
The place of grace is rightful place.
1:50:55
The place of leadership is rightful place.
1:50:58
The place of excellence is rightful place.
1:51:00
The place of secular knowledge is rightful place.
1:51:03
The place of productivity is rightful place.
1:51:08
Broader knowledge and then of course the supernatural power of
1:51:12
the spirit. It is still dangerous to just
1:51:14
raise people who are intellectuals.
1:51:17
Demons are real, Challenges are real.
1:51:19
Satan has an agenda. It takes power to keep him at
1:51:22
Bay #2 The road map of the church to impact influence and
1:51:32
relevance. Are you ready for #2 There needs
1:51:36
to be an upgrade. Please hear this, the second
1:51:40
road map. There needs to be an upgrade in
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the quality of the teachings and the method of the teachings from
1:51:50
our pulpit to capture and reflect doctrine, the principles
1:51:57
of the Kingdom, the wisdom for living and a word compliant
1:52:03
worldview. Long read, but let me take it
1:52:06
again. There needs to be an upgrade on
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the quality of the teachings. The sermons that come from our
1:52:18
pulpits, that come from our churches are not great in the
1:52:25
quality of the sermons, are not great in the quality of the
1:52:29
teachings. To capture doctrine, to capture
1:52:34
the principles of the Kingdom, to capture wisdom for living and
1:52:39
to capture a world compliant worldview, there needs to be an
1:52:44
upgrade. For some it is a balance that is
1:52:48
needed. For some it's an addition or
1:52:51
subtraction. For some it's a total change of
1:52:56
an approach to preaching and teaching.
1:53:00
There needs to be an upgrade on the quality of the teachings and
1:53:05
then the method of those teachings.
1:53:08
Now let me tell you this. When you study homiletics as an
1:53:12
aspect of theology, that is the art of preaching, and there are
1:53:15
many other supporting bodies of knowledge, there is a way to
1:53:19
teach. We have personality differences
1:53:22
and we have different ways of approaching, but from an
1:53:26
educational and an academic standpoint, those who study
1:53:30
education professionally, there is a way to teach and train the
1:53:34
human mind such that your impact as far as transforming that
1:53:39
transferring that information becomes maximally beneficial.
1:53:44
Generally speaking, it's agreed that people do not assimilate at
1:53:48
the instant beyond 10 to 15% of the thoughts that are
1:53:52
communicated at best, maybe 26% thereabout.
1:53:56
So a major part of your idea sold to the people does not
1:54:00
really get into their minds. So it will take you inventing
1:54:04
strategies. There is a science to
1:54:06
transferring knowledge. It's not just utterance.
1:54:10
It's not just auditory, it's not just spirituality.
1:54:13
There is an intelligence to transferring knowledge.
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That's how you were trained in college.
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That's how they trained you. That's why there are good
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schools and bad schools. That's why there are schools
1:54:23
that produce students having parallel A1 and others.
1:54:27
The best student to have two CS, there is a difference.
1:54:32
It's not just how they were raised.
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Are we together? There is a theology to
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communicating truth, but there is also a science.
1:54:39
There is psychology to selling truth, and it is the
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responsibility of the preacher to broaden your knowledge.
1:54:46
Your primary way of transferring thoughts, discipline, raising
1:54:51
people is words, communicating thoughts and ideas.
1:54:54
You must learn how best to communicate thoughts in a way
1:54:58
that goes beyond the members nodding, in a way that files
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those information and it is relevant for their life.
1:55:05
Let me tell you this the greatest use of wisdom, the
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greatest use of wisdom, and the greatest proof of wisdom is in
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its ability to help you make superior decisions that produce
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victorious consequences in your life.
1:55:25
The real proof of wisdom, or the real value of wisdom, wisdom in
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any way, in any manner, is in its ability to influence your
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thoughts, to influence your decision making capability, to
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influence your understanding so that you make pro destiny
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decisions and you take actions that are consistent with the
1:55:47
path of victory. Meaning if truth fails to
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produce or to influence you, if wisdom fails to influence you
1:55:56
towards making superior decisions, it is useless.
1:56:02
The real value of wisdom is not storing it in your mind, it's in
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the ability to use it as a lens to make wise choices, to take
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wise actions that lead to consequences of victory and
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efficiency of witness. Are you following so far?
1:56:25
There needs to be an upgrade in the quality of teachings and the
1:56:30
method of teachings from our pulpits so that they capture
1:56:35
doctrine, the foundational truths of the Christian faith,
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strengthening the foundations of believers so that they capture
1:56:43
the principles or the mysteries of the Kingdom.
1:56:46
So that they capture wisdom for living, living within the cosmos
1:56:51
and so that they give the believers a world compliant
1:56:56
worldview. Let me tell you what this means.
1:56:59
Please look up when we say justice, when we say equity,
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when we say prosperity, when we say advancement.
1:57:14
All believers should think a similar concept because their
1:57:18
worldview should come from the Word of God.
1:57:20
Are we together By the time we say advancement and there are
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divergent views? It is because there is no
1:57:28
unified training from the pulpit.
1:57:30
Someone learning. Now there are certain
1:57:32
terminologies that should mean the same or similar things to
1:57:36
all Christians. For an example, if I pray for
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you as a man of God, Koinonia, and I say in the name of Jesus
1:57:44
this week, May God prosper you and as you say Amen, if you have
1:57:50
been properly discipled, I expect a major part of those who
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in Amen to already know that the reason for that prayer is not
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funding lost. The reason for that prayer is
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not selling materialism and the reason for that prayer is not
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using prophecy to replace responsibility.
1:58:10
Are you getting the idea now? That is because you have been
1:58:13
trained to see that it takes more than just prophesying that
1:58:17
you prosper the Nehemiah strategy.
1:58:20
With one hand you are holding the sword, with another hand you
1:58:23
are using your skill. So when you say Amen, I say that
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with the assumption that you have been trained.
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But it is amazing. Ask an average believer today,
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how do you plan to take care of your children?
1:58:39
For an example, you will find somebody who says, well, it is
1:58:43
my responsibility. My pastor taught me that I would
1:58:46
take care of my children by the works of my hands.
1:58:49
Word of God, prayer is not needed.
1:58:53
Unfortunately, that's what his pastor taught him.
1:58:55
You ask another member, how do you plan to take care of your
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children? You say by prophecy.
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I know the power of prophecy. My pastor already spoke in my
1:59:04
heart, Somebody's going to wake up this week and not have rest
1:59:07
till he transfers money to me. That is that man's strategy to
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raising his children. It's not his fault somebody
1:59:15
taught him to. You ask another person, how do
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you plan to raise your children? He said My father died.
1:59:22
I raised myself. Let my children know how they're
1:59:24
going to I've given back to them.
1:59:27
I raised myself. I won't raise you.
1:59:30
You see that now. Now imagine if that man I
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mentioned becomes your senator, the other man becomes your
1:59:36
commissioner, the other person becomes the Chief Justice in
1:59:39
your state. Now think of the mess that is
1:59:42
going to happen in that state because they will deliver
1:59:44
according to their beliefs. Are we learning?
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So a man who becomes a general overseer and with all due
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respect, the only thing he knows about wealth is tithing and
2:00:07
giving. That man may be sincere, but he
2:00:09
will raise a dangerous congregation.
2:00:12
It will be a lopsided, defeated congregation.
2:00:15
They won't be able to do much and they will be angry one day.
2:00:22
There needs to be an adjustment on our sermons for an example.
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Preaching is not the only way to serve God.
2:00:30
This is a mentality that a generation must receive because
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there is a generation that has been sold a subliminal message
2:00:37
that the moment you sense passion for God in your heart,
2:00:41
the meaning of that is ministry. And they are right if ministry
2:00:44
is properly defined. But for many people, the moment
2:00:48
their prayer, their fasting is producing zeal, no matter their
2:00:52
relevance, they drop it. And the next thing they think
2:00:55
about is pulpit is not always so.
2:00:57
There are many inventors today sweating in front of
2:01:01
congregations, not knowing what to say because the graceful
2:01:05
invention will not produce a preacher's result.
2:01:09
Are we together now? There are many people today who
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should be politicians. They stand on stage and they
2:01:15
cannot preach. They are talking politics with
2:01:17
passion and they are right, but the location is wrong.
2:01:23
Preaching is not the only way to serve God.
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No, there are many ways to serve God.
2:01:30
And it's our assignment to teach people that the person who
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serves God as a Kingdom financier and the person who
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serves God as a judge in the law court, and the person who serves
2:01:40
God as a police administering justice, and the person who
2:01:44
serves God as a politician and the person who serves God as a
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responsible father and mother over children are doing the
2:01:51
exact same thing the evangelist is doing.
2:01:55
Until we restore respect to other areas of serving God, we
2:01:59
will keep exalting preachers beyond proportion and destroying
2:02:03
other areas of service in church.
2:02:05
So everybody now wants to become a pastor and there's saturation
2:02:09
on the pulpit. Is someone learning?
2:02:14
You just see a lady that prays seriously taking her spiritual
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life serious. What is the most likely the
2:02:21
prophecy issue here? You are going to marry a pastor,
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a pastor's wife you are going to solve, You are going to marry a
2:02:27
pastor or you will be a woman of God.
2:02:30
You are right in being a woman of God, but who told you that
2:02:33
zeal must always end up in the pulpit?
2:02:37
Where did you get that programming from?
2:02:42
The lady is serious spiritually, but there is a burden in her
2:02:45
heart to go into the fashion world to correct the aberration
2:02:49
of of wrong nodity and the rest. But because of the environment
2:02:53
she found herself they now being they keep being threatened by
2:02:57
prophecy and threatened by the limitation of preachers.
2:03:00
You rob a nation of valuable hands and turn them into
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fanatics on the pulpit. No, it ought not to be so.
2:03:16
Ought not to be so, ought not to be so.
2:03:21
There are only a handful of people who can have access to
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the pulpit. Let me tell you why there's a
2:03:25
lot of fighter jealousy among pastors because not everybody
2:03:29
should be there. But we have trained everybody
2:03:31
that the way you express your zeal is to be there.
2:03:33
There's a long queue now. The guy's been waiting.
2:03:36
He's been praying and he's been fasting for a long time.
2:03:39
What do I do with my zeal? They say remain an ocean like
2:03:41
that for 10 years. The guy say you are stupid.
2:03:43
I want to start my ministry. He starts his own ministry and
2:03:46
finds out after two months that truly that grace is not there.
2:03:50
And now he he's too proud to close the ministry.
2:03:52
He's in trouble. So he uses offense as a sermon
2:03:56
because he was never supposed to be a pastor.
2:04:06
Listen to this or this just Part 1.
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Someone learning, I gave you #1 I said the first restorative
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part to restoring the dignity, the relevance and the impact of
2:04:21
the Church. It starts with priesthood.
2:04:24
There must be this threefold restoration, restoration of
2:04:27
character and consecration, a broadening of the scope of our
2:04:31
understanding, not just spiritual understanding.
2:04:34
And then the power of God, the supernatural at work in our
2:04:39
lives. When that is done, the next
2:04:42
thing is the quality of our sermons, the quality of our
2:04:46
teachings. You cannot be using with all due
2:04:49
respect, you can't go and just type chargipity.
2:04:53
What do I preach today? Enter and the thing brings out
2:04:57
all can teach on kindness. You have to teach on love and
2:05:00
you just download something and put it there.
2:05:02
Members are not stupid. They know where you are lazy and
2:05:07
the empty pills will keep showing you that members are not
2:05:09
jokers. You can joke with your destiny
2:05:11
but nobody will come. For an example, there are high
2:05:15
commissioners here representing their nations.
2:05:18
You can come and sit down for 2-3 hours of your time and you
2:05:21
are listening to nonsense. You are representing a whole
2:05:25
nation. Are we together now?
2:05:27
There are presidents watching. There are people watching.
2:05:29
You can't listen. And then at the end of it,
2:05:32
imagine the betrayal in the heart of those who invited
2:05:35
others to follow the teachings and you get one hour, 2 hours of
2:05:40
nonsense. I've said the preachers, we must
2:05:43
be serious. And let me tell you, there is an
2:05:46
energy that follows seriousness and members know it.
2:05:50
They know it. The fact that they're saying
2:05:52
yes, Sir, does not mean they respect you.
2:05:54
They can kneel down while they're standing in their heart.
2:06:03
If you're not ready to do the work of ministry, get out of the
2:06:06
pulpit, find something else doing.
2:06:08
There are many things you can do that can be pro Kingdom.
2:06:12
But if you want to answer the call to serve the grace of God,
2:06:16
then please bend down, roll your sleeves and do the work.
2:06:20
Do the work #3 Koinonia is quiet.
2:06:28
Church and State, Are you ready for #3 The third submission as a
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restorative part road map to the relevance of the church and
2:06:39
society. Please listen carefully.
2:06:41
Believers must be trained to not only comment and pray about, but
2:06:49
to actively engage in matters that concern set and society.
2:06:54
Let me take that slowly. Believers must be trained to not
2:06:59
only comment and pray about, which is important.
2:07:04
This is usually what we do. We commend and then we pray
2:07:07
about and stop there. But believers must be trained to
2:07:11
not only commend and pray about or to actively engage in matters
2:07:18
that concern state and society. Believers must be trained to not
2:07:25
only comment and pray about, but to actively engage in matters
2:07:32
and activities that concern state and society.
2:07:43
Are we together? Don't see your nation going down
2:07:47
politically and say we are praying about it.
2:07:50
Don't see children becoming armed robbers, ladies becoming
2:07:53
prostitutes. What are you doing?
2:07:55
We are praying about it. Wonderful.
2:07:58
You go on social media, Nigeria is bado.
2:08:02
I don't believe I can say that we will permit the person.
2:08:05
But if you as a Christian go and just type Nigeria is bado, it's
2:08:08
a betrayal on your call delivers.
2:08:14
Don't go commenting nonsense. They start by prayer and then in
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the place of prayer, they receive wisdom to do something
2:08:21
about it. Hallelujah.
2:08:25
Or there are ladies who are prostitutes everywhere, start an
2:08:28
NGO, start an NGO, start gathering all the ladies
2:08:33
prostituting themselves and show them the path of dignity.
2:08:37
Or there's too much malpractice. OK, you start a sensitization
2:08:41
program, you get a few people, you who is intelligent, offer
2:08:45
free, excuse me, free services for three months.
2:08:52
Where the work is is where the robber meets the road.
2:08:55
Many commentators are not willing to put their money,
2:08:58
their energy. We can comment is easy to type,
2:09:02
but the responsibility part, everybody goes down.
2:09:07
Hallelujah. Believers must be trained to be
2:09:10
Apostolic enough to not just comment on matters of state and
2:09:15
society, whether it's matter of matters of politics and
2:09:18
governance, whether it's matters of economy, whether it's matters
2:09:21
of family. Anything you see wrong in a
2:09:24
society becomes your mission, not the basis for complaining.
2:09:29
The least you can do is to pray. We always start with prayer, but
2:09:33
it does not end with prayer. It is irresponsible to only pray
2:09:38
about issues. Did you hear what I said?
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It is irresponsible. It is not wrong, but it is
2:09:44
irresponsible to only pray about matters of nation building and
2:09:48
society. Daniel prayed, but he did not
2:09:51
pray alone. He got up and used an excellent
2:09:54
spirit and did something that exalted him to be part of the
2:09:57
6th presidents. I'm praying in the name of Jesus
2:10:00
that those we call prayer warriors will also be solution
2:10:04
providers. That those we call fasting
2:10:07
giants will also be policy formulators.
2:10:11
Say Amen. Hallelujah.
2:10:16
Don't tell me you're a prayer warrior alone.
2:10:18
I understand the ministry of intercession, but God did not
2:10:23
just give you a voice. He gave you a brain too.
2:10:25
He gave you a mind to use all of them.
2:10:28
On one hand, pray, fast, speak to the atmosphere, but realize
2:10:34
that God needs you to be actively involved.
2:10:38
I made a covenant with God that I will never raise a people who
2:10:42
are just spiritually vibrant. We pray about issues here, but
2:10:45
we get up and do something. God has given us a mandate to
2:10:49
carry that restorative Apostolic evangelical fire across the
2:10:53
nations using the platform of sound of revival.
2:10:56
In a few weeks when Liverpool again spending so much money,
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time, energy, it is because when we pray, we get up and act.
2:11:06
Are you listening to me now? If your son is smoking and
2:11:09
drinking somewhere, don't just get up and pray and say, Lord
2:11:12
bring my child back. Take responsibility.
2:11:15
Where did I miss it as a father? Where did I miss it as a mother?
2:11:19
What part of my behavior drove that child to the bar while I'm
2:11:23
trusting him to come back home? Let me be fixing myself too, so
2:11:27
that you will come back and find a transformed father.
2:11:33
Oh, our young people are doing Yahoo Plus.
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All right, show me how many seminars you have put free
2:11:40
seminars to help young graduates to see what they can do
2:11:44
financially. The guy is under pressure.
2:11:47
His father has died, the mother has died.
2:11:50
He has ten siblings taking care of him.
2:11:53
There's no job, there's no opportunity.
2:11:56
Somebody recruits him and say kill and steal and I will give
2:11:59
you 100,000. And there are noise making
2:12:02
believers saying that society is going down.
2:12:04
Let me tell you, talk will never change anything.
2:12:08
It will take action. Are we together?
2:12:14
Most of the people saying our young ladies are prostitutes?
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They have never given anybody 100 naira and say I hear you an
2:12:21
orphan so that it will keep you walking before you get those
2:12:25
ladies that are prostitutes. If they ask that man and say
2:12:28
please help me with school fees, the man will block them.
2:12:33
And so here comes another unbeliever who says you know
2:12:36
what to do. You are not a small girl.
2:12:38
I can give you a school fees all through, you know church.
2:12:41
Let's stop at just talking and insulting.
2:12:44
Go ye remains the mission. You only have the right to talk
2:12:48
when you are doing something about it.
2:12:50
If you are not doing something about it, shut your mouth and
2:12:53
respect those who are doing something about it.
2:12:57
Hallelujah, someone learning. Oh, we have all kinds of corrupt
2:13:06
and unserious ladies. They can't cook.
2:13:09
Where were they supposed to learn it?
2:13:11
Is it not a shame that your daughter's first exposure to
2:13:14
good cooking is a catering school, not your house?
2:13:19
Even hot water she cannot boil. Something is wrong.
2:13:25
While she's not all about that, it is also about that.
2:13:31
Are we together or apostle? I don't like being domestic, but
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I need marriage. No, you don't need it.
2:13:37
There are responsibilities attached to it.
2:13:40
You don't choose one part and leave the other part.
2:13:42
That's why it is not a a reason to go to heaven.
2:13:45
But if you must do it, you embrace everything.
2:13:48
It's like a man who says I want to be a president or a governor,
2:13:52
but I don't want criticism. I want to be a great man of God,
2:13:54
but I don't want persecution. Sorry Sir, it goes together.
2:13:58
You don't choose one and leave the other.
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Is someone learning? That said, if you are doing
2:14:06
Yahoo, stop it. Prostitution, stop it.
2:14:14
I don't think I'm endorsing you whatsoever.
2:14:21
Hallelujah. Because God is speaking to you
2:14:26
now before the police catch you and the day they catch you for
2:14:30
you, you may not even have the chance to go to the court.
2:14:33
They may kill you there and then and you waste your young life.
2:14:37
And there is a nobler path. I will teach you everything that
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empowers you. When it's time to teach
2:14:43
finances, I will teach finances as if it's the only thing I will
2:14:46
teach you. If there's time to teach
2:14:48
character, I will teach character, wisdom, moral
2:14:51
excellence. You believe that?
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Say Amen. Hallelujah.
2:14:57
Believers must be trained. They must be trained.
2:15:03
We must correct the template that defines a serious or
2:15:08
impactful believer. Still, on that point, I said it
2:15:12
earlier on, not every zeal must end up on the pulpit.
2:15:17
No, the guy is prayerful, but he can be a prayerful businessman.
2:15:22
He can be a fasting businessman. That is even how we should be.
2:15:27
Are we together? She can be a prophetic mother.
2:15:30
She does not need to start ministry because she's seen no
2:15:34
sin is not the condition to start a prophetic ministry.
2:15:37
God, open your eyes because of the kind of child he's giving
2:15:39
you. Use it there.
2:15:41
It is not always about pulpit. We must redefine our idea of
2:15:45
success and our idea of impact. Don't look down on people who
2:15:50
are not on the pulpit as though they are secondary to men of
2:15:53
God. That's my point.
2:15:55
The person who is behind this camera right now, the worship
2:15:59
team playing the keyboard for me and the man who is preaching,
2:16:03
you see that now. They may not be operating at the
2:16:05
same level, but they are driving themselves together.
2:16:09
Don't over respect men of God at the expense of other people.
2:16:14
The politician, if he's doing it well, is a witness tool.
2:16:17
The career person is doing it well is a witness tool.
2:16:20
The father who is raising a responsible son is a witness
2:16:24
tool. If we do that, we will have
2:16:27
serious belief US more witnesses and not everybody will end up on
2:16:32
the pulpit. This is where the concept of
2:16:35
seven mountains come in. There are some whose witness
2:16:38
should end in the school. Academia should fix the decaying
2:16:43
educational system. There are those who are in arts
2:16:45
and entertainment. There are those who are in
2:16:47
business. There are those who are in
2:16:50
ministry, the ministry of priesthood.
2:16:53
There are those who are in family.
2:16:55
There are those who are in media.
2:16:57
I'm praying for you from the depth of my heart everywhere God
2:17:00
has allotted for you in destiny in the name that is above all
2:17:04
names from today, may my God move you there and where you
2:17:10
have been at the wrong place with no anointing, suffering,
2:17:14
competing under a wrong mindset that you've been given about
2:17:18
impact. May God relocate you correctly.
2:17:25
If everybody is a preacher who provides the finances for the
2:17:29
ministry, there are men who must be respected as the Kingdom
2:17:34
financiers. They must be honored.
2:17:36
If everybody is a Kingdom financier who are busy
2:17:40
travelling around the world, who are those who will become the
2:17:42
members? Who are those who become the
2:17:45
parents taking care of the children?
2:17:47
Do you not know that when you are going to battle, ask the
2:17:50
military. There is always a formation.
2:17:52
There are those who stay behind but they are military too.
2:17:55
There are those who are cooking for the soldiers while they are
2:17:58
fighting. Am I right on that?
2:18:00
There are those who are employed in the military but they are
2:18:03
they are chefs. There are those who are imams
2:18:05
and pastors, but they are in the military.
2:18:07
They are the ones who encourage them.
2:18:09
They are the ones who work in the area of intelligence.
2:18:12
They come up with the strategy for the attack.
2:18:15
There are the generals, there are those who fight, there are
2:18:19
those who fight in the air, There are those who fight on
2:18:22
land. There are those who use the
2:18:24
power of technology. There are those who continue
2:18:26
keeping bilateral relationships with allies.
2:18:29
All of them together make for the victory.
2:18:32
This is how the army is. Not everybody will be on pulpit
2:18:37
whilst we are here now. There are those interceding for
2:18:40
us. There are those sending seeds
2:18:42
into the account. There are those who have the
2:18:45
influence when we get to the airport and somebody wants to
2:18:48
delay us. There are those who have
2:18:50
influence there who say no. These are credible people on my
2:18:53
honor, let them pass. All of these people are needed
2:18:56
in this formation. Is someone learning?
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There are the media people right now, all of us here put together
2:19:06
a minute fraction compared to those who are falling across the
2:19:10
globe. But it is through the lens of
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the media. All the social media platforms
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right now are active. Once people are you are
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listening to this teaching, how do you downplay everybody and
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just over celebrate only one man?
2:19:25
I'm not saying don't honor the one man, but it is that danger
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that is causing problem in the church.
2:19:30
So everybody who wants to be relevant believes that the only
2:19:34
way to be relevant is to be a pastor.
2:19:36
No Sir, preaching is not the only way to serve God.
2:19:40
Giving is a way to serve God. Career excellence is a way to
2:19:43
serve God. Exploiting science is a way to
2:19:45
serve God. Administration is a way to serve
2:19:48
God. Growing in your diplomatic
2:19:50
strength and acumen is a way to serve God.
2:19:53
Rising in government is a way to serve God.
2:19:56
Is someone learning. And I pray for you in the name
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of Jesus, by the power that raised Christ from the dead.
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As this end time army is positioning itself
2:20:06
strategically, may you find your place.
2:20:11
For those of you like me who the pulpit is your jurisdiction, I
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pray for you for the grace to be faithful.
2:20:18
Those who are the businessmen who will bring resources for
2:20:22
Kingdom come, I empower your hands and your minds.
2:20:26
Those who are the parents raising the prophets and the
2:20:29
apostles, I pray for you the grace to do your work
2:20:32
diligently. Receive it those who are the
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educators and the academicians who will train and mold the
2:20:40
minds of the people to have a world compliant world view.
2:20:44
I pray for you for the grace to be faithful.
2:20:48
Our media giants, our arts and entertainment giants, from
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sports to whatever area, in the name of Jesus, May God bless
2:20:56
your minds. Praise God, please sit down.
2:21:06
Who made this nice shirt for you?
2:21:09
Or it's a believer. You mean it's a believer?
2:21:12
What is her name? What is his name?
2:21:15
Or is it just because it's a church member?
2:21:17
No, look at the competence. Whose school is this?
2:21:23
Having this kind of dexterous students?
2:21:25
They are obedient, they are intelligent, excelling
2:21:29
academically. Or it is this sister.
2:21:31
They took it as a vision. Who is this governor that his
2:21:36
state is so well fixed like this little or 0 Corruption,
2:21:41
excellence in administration. Where did you learn this from,
2:21:45
Sir? And I say, well, I learned it
2:21:46
from school, but I learned the moral principles from church.
2:21:51
You can't deny it because the results are there to show.
2:21:55
Hallelujah, not Who is this thief and the pencil?
2:22:00
Hold on. Before you jail me, let me call
2:22:02
my pastor. They now call me.
2:22:06
Hello, Sir. I say yes.
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How are you? He said there's a thief
2:22:09
somewhere. He says he's a very faithful
2:22:11
colonial member. I wouldn't deny you, but I will
2:22:15
rebuke you. I wouldn't deny you that one.
2:22:18
You can be sure I wouldn't deny you.
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No. I will come and stand with you
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there. I will hug you and rebuke you.
2:22:27
I wouldn't deny you. I wouldn't deny you is someone
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learning. Embrace the spirit of
2:22:38
excellence. Make up your mind that in the
2:22:42
matters of prayer, I will not be found wanting.
2:22:45
I will pray like my life depends on it.
2:22:47
I will fast like my life depends on it.
2:22:50
I will study the word like my life depends on it.
2:22:53
I will read books on leadership like my life depends on it.
2:22:56
I will build character like my life depends on it.
2:22:59
Are we together now? I will train myself like my life
2:23:02
depends on it. I will learn about fatherhood
2:23:05
like my life depends on it. I will learn about motherhood
2:23:08
like my life depends on it. I will learn about parenting
2:23:11
like my life depends on it. I will excel in my career like
2:23:15
my life depends on it. That's the kind of Apostolic
2:23:19
family God is building the church and state.
2:23:28
Nigeria has a lot of Christians and a major part of what the
2:23:32
Christians are doing right now is complaining, complaining,
2:23:37
insulting. Church ministry is not the only
2:23:41
platform to serve the purposes of God.
2:23:43
I'm not saying go and serve the devil and say it is my part or
2:23:51
there will come a generation that will serve the Lord.
2:23:54
You will hear a praise and worship song on Sunday.
2:23:57
By Monday you'll hear the same song in the company.
2:24:00
You will hear the same song everywhere because it's the same
2:24:03
set of people singing it. Their relevance goes beyond the
2:24:06
church wall in the name of Jesus.
2:24:09
This is the generation that will lift up the name of the Lord.
2:24:41
That's our testimony that we raise a banner high, We'll shine
2:24:48
your light so bright, we'll sing in honor of you.
2:24:55
That's our anti massive generation.
2:24:57
We will raise your banner high. We'll shine your light so
2:25:03
bright, We'll sing in honor of you one more time.
2:25:09
We'll raise your banner high. We'll raise your banner high.
2:25:15
We'll shine your light so bright.
2:25:18
We'll sink in honor. One more time.
2:25:23
We'll raise your banner high. We'll raise your banner high.
2:25:28
We'll shine your light so bright.
2:25:32
We'll sink in honor of you. When we are talking about
2:25:41
consecration and character, you will find the church there.
2:25:44
When we are talking of intelligence, you will find the
2:25:47
church there. I tell you this, there are
2:25:51
believers who will come up with applications and text solutions.
2:25:56
No, no, no. It's not just lifting people
2:25:58
from the wheelchair. Some of you, you will go to bed
2:26:00
in the night and the spirit of grace will rest on you.
2:26:03
Listen, listen, listen. Look at me, how many of you know
2:26:07
that in Nigeria, in Africa there is there are millions of homes
2:26:13
deficit in housing. We need people to come up with
2:26:17
low cost real estate solutions, not just for profit.
2:26:23
Show me the value of your praying in tongues.
2:26:26
What did the Holy Ghost put in your mind when you prayed?
2:26:29
Don't insult this ministry. Don't show me how you are
2:26:32
jacking up and down praying in the Holy Ghost.
2:26:34
Show me the solutions that came from the glory that from my
2:26:37
prayer I came up with a solution where people can use 50 million
2:26:43
to buy a three bedroom flat without corruption.
2:26:47
It's a strategy by the Spirit and you build a 1000 estate
2:26:53
housing, you think the government will ignore you?
2:26:55
No, Sir, no, Sir. This is not the issue of being a
2:26:59
Christian or not a Christian. You have translated spirituality
2:27:03
to a context that is relevant. There will many people will get
2:27:07
jobs because of your spirituality.
2:27:10
A wife will be able to feed her children because of your
2:27:13
spirituality. There is a deficiency.
2:27:16
There's food scarcity across Africa.
2:27:20
Where are those who are praying in tongues?
2:27:22
Buy the farms, set up the farms, solve the food security.
2:27:26
Don't insult government. Start while you pray in tongues
2:27:30
for grant. The relevance of my prophesying
2:27:33
over you is that there is what the prophecy can rest on.
2:27:44
We have some of our people here who are involved in fishery.
2:27:48
I can tell you this, at least three of them.
2:27:52
They produce some of the finest fish that I've seen.
2:27:56
They smoke it, they package it. It does not smell excellence.
2:28:00
They are all spiritual people, deeply consecrated, but they
2:28:04
don't beg for bread because they also know the law of
2:28:07
responsibility. Is someone learning now?
2:28:10
Yes, Sir. Let me tell you, most of the
2:28:13
people you see serving in this ministry, they are not serving
2:28:16
because of failure, they are not serving because of salary.
2:28:20
They are serving because of love.
2:28:21
They are not begging for food. Forget that you see them
2:28:24
serving. Some of them are multi
2:28:26
millionaires. They have used their mind.
2:28:28
They have translated intelligence into a context that
2:28:32
is serving. Hallelujah, election will soon
2:28:40
start now you start seeing people roam around from
2:28:43
everywhere. Everybody wanting a position.
2:28:46
My only concern, it's all those who want electoral, I don't care
2:28:50
who I don't every. I'm not a partisan person, but
2:28:53
how many of them have been mentored?
2:28:56
For most people, they just want that thing because they believe
2:29:00
that politics is a way to get money.
2:29:03
Unfortunately. Go and ask most of the people
2:29:11
who want to buy forms from ward members, chairman and the rest.
2:29:15
What have you read about policy formulation?
2:29:19
What have you read about nation building?
2:29:22
Bring 2 books from your library that have.
2:29:25
Have you read about how Singapore turned from a third
2:29:28
world nation to a first world nation?
2:29:30
As most of the politicians? With all due respect, what is
2:29:33
the history of Nigeria economically?
2:29:36
What is the current economic data?
2:29:38
They won't be able to tell you. But don't insult the politicians
2:29:44
as we men of God too, we don't have answers.
2:29:48
We can only tell you the loss of the spirit.
2:29:50
How many angels are in the spirit?
2:29:52
Which is wonderful. But we are on earth.
2:30:00
And before you laugh at us, ask yourself, why should I patronize
2:30:08
your business? Because we are Koinonia.
2:30:10
Don't bring that sentiments. Don't bring that sentiments.
2:30:15
You'll get my measurement. And so this I'm not coming to
2:30:19
you again, Sir. I am not coming to you again,
2:30:22
Sir. I don't hate you, but you will
2:30:24
see me again. People eat your food and their
2:30:27
stomach runs from pillar to post.
2:30:30
No, there is a way of excellence.
2:30:33
Ladies and gentlemen, pray in tongues.
2:30:36
But when you are done praying, carry that brain that has been
2:30:39
anointed, take it out of the secret place and let the Lord
2:30:43
breathe upon it and shift the climate.
2:30:47
What is wrong with our do you know I was reading a very scary
2:30:50
statistics. We're about to pray.
2:30:53
It says that I was shared with the school of Ministry students.
2:30:56
It is said that is it that Gen. Z's now or the ones after Gen.
2:31:00
Z's Gen. Alpha It is said I read it.
2:31:04
You know, somebody said it. I believe it's true.
2:31:07
They said this is the first generation that is mentally
2:31:11
backward than the generation before them from the time Adam
2:31:15
started. Every generation is always an
2:31:18
intellectual improvement but here is the generation so
2:31:21
millennials and Gen. alpha plateau knowledge and the
2:31:25
generation after them is declining.
2:31:29
You will be alive to see those children become president, so
2:31:32
you better be concerned about what is in their head.
2:31:39
Their attention span is so short, their disrespect is so
2:31:45
high, their level of godliness is almost not there.
2:31:49
And you know what we're saying? It doesn't matter.
2:31:51
Their children. Let me challenge churches.
2:31:58
Don't just preach. Set up programs.
2:32:01
Start with your workers. I'm challenging churches in
2:32:04
righteousness. Don't just preach and don't just
2:32:07
have welfare programs. Have trainings.
2:32:10
Trainings that build the minds of people, trainings that build
2:32:13
your professionals, training that builds people in every area
2:32:17
of life. In the name of Jesus, we will
2:32:20
not fail. By the power that is in the name
2:32:23
of Jesus, we will not fail. Let me tell you something that
2:32:28
will be uncomfortable for you to hear.
2:32:30
Listen to me. Don't make it a habit to insult
2:32:36
leaders because you are angry. Read your Bible.
2:32:42
Every nation and I'm not saying this peculiar to Nigeria, every
2:32:46
nation that makes it a point of duty.
2:32:49
I'm not saying don't call leaders when they are wrong, but
2:32:52
every nation that makes criticism and insulting your
2:32:56
leaders the way to go, I assure you there are always
2:33:00
consequences because those who are not there are truly not even
2:33:04
doing better than those who are there.
2:33:06
The man who is failing in his home is still insulting
2:33:09
government whereas his children are not eating, yet he believes
2:33:13
he's all right. He should be forgiven for his
2:33:15
children going to go and be prostitutes at age 12.
2:33:18
The man cannot pay the school fees of his child, yet he can
2:33:21
shout and say all these senators are corrupt.
2:33:24
I understand what they mean to say, but if everyone focuses on
2:33:28
their own territory, doing well. I was teaching the students in
2:33:32
Harvard three years ago and I told them about the power of 1.
2:33:36
You change 1000 people by changing one.
2:33:40
If you cannot change the one in your house, don't even come to
2:33:43
me and say I should vote you. Are we together?
2:33:48
You can't take care of your child.
2:33:50
You want to take care of a local government?
2:33:52
You want to take care of Nigeria?
2:33:54
You want to take care of Africa? No, you are so greedy.
2:34:00
You can't give your wife money, you can't pay your children
2:34:03
school fees, yet you want to be chairman of a local government?
2:34:06
In what way should we trust you? Because you gave me a seat as a
2:34:09
man of God? No Sir, Shorthand state.
2:34:16
Let me wrap up this way. A few years ago I was standing
2:34:22
in Boston, MA and I went to a place called the Monument of the
2:34:26
Forefathers. They took me on a tour giving me
2:34:30
the history of America, how America came to be.
2:34:35
I wanted to learn about how nations are built and he was a
2:34:43
very comprehensive tour and I stood before the stones called
2:34:49
the monument of the forefathers and those stones have their
2:34:53
carved within them all of the policies that were the
2:34:57
foundation of making America, America.
2:35:01
I took note of them. Education, policy formulation,
2:35:07
justice and equity, Spirituality or religion.
2:35:12
I took note of those things. I snapped them when I came back
2:35:15
home. I used them to create a nest, a
2:35:18
message. How nations are built.
2:35:20
Please. Get it.
2:35:21
How nations are built. I found out.
2:35:25
Look at me, please. What you call policies.
2:35:29
Policies are simply belief systems and convictions that
2:35:34
were translated into law and a modus operandi that guides the
2:35:38
behavior of men within a territory.
2:35:41
What you call a policy started as a belief system, as a
2:35:44
conviction. Justice is a belief system.
2:35:47
Corruption is a belief system. Fairness and equity is a belief
2:35:51
system. Are we together now?
2:35:53
Selfishness is a belief system. Irresponsibility is a belief
2:35:57
system. Laxity is a belief system.
2:36:00
Entitlement mentality is a belief system.
2:36:05
We can have laws in Nigeria with policies written there, but the
2:36:10
policies do not work just because they are in papers.
2:36:13
It must be bound in the heart of men.
2:36:15
This is the foundation for what we call nationhood and it does
2:36:19
not start just by shouting it. The law enforcement agents can
2:36:22
do their best. Let me tell you this, the
2:36:25
greatest platform that can reform and refine nation
2:36:30
builders is the church. If you want responsible citizens
2:36:35
to arise in Nigeria, let responsible citizens rise from
2:36:38
every church. By the time we minimize the
2:36:42
number of hatred we have for one another in the pulpit, we have
2:36:45
minimized the the hatred we have in the nation.
2:36:49
Are we together in church? People's phones get missing.
2:36:55
True or false? That's Nigeria for you, That's
2:36:58
Africa for you in the presence of God with fire falling, phones
2:37:02
get missing, cars get missing, laptops get missing.
2:37:08
Somebody comes to church with 5000 naira, he lives with 350
2:37:12
naira. How did that happen while
2:37:14
service was ongoing church? And yet we are shouting, Let me
2:37:18
tell you this, you don't change the beak by changing the beak.
2:37:23
You change the beak by changing your environment.
2:37:27
If everyone of us here, if you go back home and fix your home,
2:37:32
fix your mind, fix your child, your home is in disarray.
2:37:37
You are fighting with your wife, you are fighting with your
2:37:39
husband. That's still Nigeria fighting.
2:37:42
Leave what is happening in the Senate and fix what is going on
2:37:45
in your home. Leave what is happening in
2:37:48
Nigeria. Fix what is going on on your
2:37:50
pulpit. Every man of God should take
2:37:53
responsibility. Where you have been teaching
2:37:55
well, keep teaching well. Where you are incomplete, go for
2:37:58
knowledge. Where you are proud, be humble.
2:38:02
Fix your puppet. If every church in Nigeria, with
2:38:06
all due respect, took the responsibility to work on their
2:38:09
content to raise serious people, refine people, balance people,
2:38:16
consecrated people, transform people, then we can go to
2:38:20
schools. How many schools are in Abuja
2:38:23
and how many of those schools in Abuja and mission schools?
2:38:27
What are the policies that standardize the operation of the
2:38:31
school? Who is the professional?
2:38:32
Who is the consultant? Who is building the curriculum
2:38:36
of that school? Don't just tell me he's a
2:38:38
Christian. What is his resume?
2:38:40
Is he competent or is he your tribesman?
2:38:43
Which one was the basis of selection?
2:38:50
The man who helped you as an apprentice for six years and you
2:38:53
refused to say to him, you threw him away and went to do what?
2:38:58
Whatever you did. That's Nigeria being corrupted.
2:39:02
There are we together? You have three children.
2:39:10
One stole meat in the kitchen and you left them and you were
2:39:14
laughing. They children.
2:39:15
Children. That's Nigeria There.
2:39:17
That's a chairman stealing our money there in your kitchen.
2:39:21
Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir, that's a chairman
2:39:24
stealing our money in your kitchen.
2:39:26
He only started it in the kitchen.
2:39:28
But he will not end up in the kitchen.
2:39:29
I guarantee you that boy will start from the kitchen.
2:39:33
Have you not seen the young boys that bully others in school?
2:39:36
They started it at home. The father bullied them.
2:39:39
Now the guy will get to school. He's not doing well
2:39:41
academically, but he bullies all the other children and he plans
2:39:46
a complex in the young boy and up till 18/19/20, the young boy
2:39:50
is still behaving because of the memory of that.
2:39:54
Every national problem was a regional problem that was not
2:39:58
fixed. Every regional problem was a
2:40:02
state problem that was not fixed.
2:40:04
Every state problem. Was a community problem that was
2:40:08
not fixed, and every community problem was a family problem
2:40:13
that cannot was not fixed. How do you build nations?
2:40:17
Change the family, change the community, change the state,
2:40:21
change the region, change the nation.
2:40:25
Let me tell you this, I want to make a very bold statement.
2:40:30
Me by Joshua Selman. This is my opinion.
2:40:33
I don't care who becomes senator.
2:40:36
Well, I care, but I'm I'm saying whoever becomes president,
2:40:41
senator, is not as important as the root of the problems in this
2:40:45
nation. The aberration that a Messiah
2:40:49
suddenly shows up and solves every problem without everybody
2:40:53
rolling their sleeves is foolishness that has been proven
2:40:56
from history. Let me tell you, from a
2:40:58
standpoint of intelligence, there is no Messiah that
2:41:01
independently has the power to change any nation.
2:41:04
National transformation is everybody's business.
2:41:07
We must fold our sleeves from the pulpit to the schools to
2:41:12
policies. We must start from there is
2:41:19
because many of us like a wolf. So we just believe.
2:41:25
And sometimes I really feel sorry for politicians because
2:41:29
they believe themselves that they magically would change
2:41:32
Nigeria. No Sir, no Sir, I'm not speaking
2:41:35
as a man of God. I'm speaking as one who has
2:41:37
studied a bit. I've read history, I've read why
2:41:40
nations are built. I've made submissions in my
2:41:44
teachings. I'm not.
2:41:47
I'm not. I'm not dull of knowledge.
2:41:50
I build people for living. This is what I do.
2:41:53
I'm a builder. So when it has to do with
2:41:59
transformation, information, national building, don't argue
2:42:04
with me. You can argue with me in another
2:42:05
area, but leave this one. There is grace and knowledge
2:42:08
there. I can tell you, you will never
2:42:11
build any territory. The the, the, the blessings of
2:42:15
people is that they create the enabling environment for truth
2:42:19
to thrive or truth to die. That's the advantage.
2:42:23
But real reformation starts from the software.
2:42:27
It starts from individuals taking responsibility.
2:42:30
I will not be corrupt. I will be a responsible person.
2:42:34
So help me God. Growing up, we used to sing the
2:42:39
national anthem. Then we place our hands on our
2:42:42
chest and recite what we call the national pledge.
2:42:49
That national pledge, it was so personal.
2:42:52
People took it personally. I think it's the former one now.
2:43:03
It was a very powerful one. I wish I could recite it, I
2:43:07
really do, because it was a testament and subliminally it
2:43:13
was programming responsibility. People joked as they said it,
2:43:17
but the mind does not know the difference between imagination
2:43:20
and reality. Repetition creates conviction.
2:43:23
As people began to grow, even those who are not serious with
2:43:26
God, there was a limit. They couldn't go too far.
2:43:30
But the sense of nationhood is lost, lost completely because of
2:43:34
betrayal, both from government and from the pulpit.
2:43:39
But the good news is that we're still here and we're still
2:43:42
alive. And the meaning of that is that
2:43:44
we're still salt and we're still light.
2:43:47
Koinonia, you are not the generation that thrives on
2:43:50
complaining. You are the saviors that come
2:43:52
out of Zion. Is someone hearing what I'm
2:43:55
saying? Africa, hear me.
2:43:59
I know that foreign policies may not be at the best, but
2:44:03
insulting foreign powers does not change them.
2:44:07
It doesn't affect them. We have to look down and begin
2:44:11
to respect ourselves and lock hands in glove.
2:44:15
From South Africa to Ghana to Kenya, List them for me to
2:44:19
Rwanda to Zimbabwe to Zambia to Morocco.
2:44:25
I'm speaking to Africa. Give me one minute to prophecy
2:44:28
over my continent that from everywhere to everywhere, it's
2:44:31
time to load hands. That a Nigerian would not see a
2:44:37
Ghanaian as a cause. That a Kenyan will not see a
2:44:41
Ugandan as a cause. If we kill ourselves, we will
2:44:45
die and the world will see remain there.
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We must realize that God is counting on us.
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Let me tell you, hate can be sold on the pulpit, but peace
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can be sold on the pulpit too. We are Better Together.
2:44:58
We are Better Together. Nigeria plus Ghana is better
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than Nigeria alone. Nigeria plus South Africa is
2:45:06
better than Nigeria alone. Nigeria plus Kenya is better
2:45:10
than Nigeria alone. Nigeria plus Ghana plus South
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Africa plus Kenya plus Rwanda plus Zimbabwe.
2:45:17
That's a stronger Africa. This is stronger body of
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believers only a. Shoe will reign forever to his
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Kingdom. There will be no way.
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Only a shoe will reign forever to his.
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Let me tell you this. Look at me.
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Let me challenge the church for one minute.
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Don't complain about poor leadership.
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Those who have the influence and the grace start creating
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programs to raise the next generation of leaders without
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guile or corruption. And thank God, even in our
2:46:17
midst, we have people here who are veterans in leadership.
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It doesn't take too long to grow.
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While you are complaining, growth has happened and another
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set of corrupt people. Can I tell you the truth?
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I believe one of the reasons why God has kept the fathers is
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because we are not ready to take their shoes.
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We can complain in our arrogance to say they should go.
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I'm thinking about myself for an example wearing the shoes of
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that is you. I don't know what the church in
2:46:47
Nigeria will become. I don't trust myself.
2:46:50
I don't know what I can do. I don't know if I can stand the
2:46:53
pressure for an example of wearing that shoe.
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So I will not be foolish to run my mouth while they are still
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alive. We will watch what we have to
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learn. We learn where God is adding to
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our small knowledge, we add to it.
2:47:07
Spend more time raising the next generation of reformers than
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complaining about the ones who are there.
2:47:16
If the church rages or this is the national, is this still the
2:47:19
current one? It's embarrassing.
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No, this is the former one. Now this is the current one.
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I pledge to Nigeria, my country. Is that it?
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We are going to recite this thing before we are done.
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So allow me finish. Then you lay your hand on your
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chest, we'll shout it and then we'll pray.
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You have to believe in Nigeria. This, your hatred for Nigeria
2:47:43
must change. I hope the politicians are
2:47:47
seeing what we are doing so that the next time they are speaking,
2:47:50
give credit to the church too. We are doing what some of you
2:47:53
people are not doing. Hallelujah.
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So take a good look at that statement.
2:48:06
We're about to pray. If a church right now creates a
2:48:11
program to raise entrepreneurs, how many of you know that the
2:48:15
battle to fight them will still be in the church?
2:48:18
They'll say, why are you raising people?
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It's not about finances. Finance is not an issue of the
2:48:22
church. Why are you saying that?
2:48:24
Correct what is wrong and raise reformers.
2:48:27
If you find people stretching for 5-6 hours praying in the
2:48:31
church, it's still the church that will insult them.
2:48:34
What are you doing with long prayers of three, 4-5 hours,
2:48:37
5-10 hours? I see there are no demons.
2:48:40
I see growth is not a spiritual affair.
2:48:43
Are you seeing that now there is an autoimmune problem in the
2:48:48
church? The battles that are plaguing
2:48:52
the church are not from the exterior is right from me.
2:48:56
I don't mind social media and all those insulting the church.
2:48:59
That is a minute fraction of our problems if we can love
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ourselves. So let me speak to the church in
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Nigeria. I'm advocating a campaign of
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balance, love and unity. Say that after me.
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Balance, love and unity. Koinonia.
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Shout it again one more time. If these three things are
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restored in the church in Nigeria, you know whatever
2:49:33
happens in Nigeria spreads across the African continent.
2:49:36
God has given us a unique grace balance, a restoration of
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completion in the content of our teachings because that's the
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shape. That's what shapes the belief
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system of people. And then love.
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I don't need to ask you, are you cooking?
2:49:54
Are you Aqua? Are you redeemed?
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Are you deeper life? Oh, you said you are so.
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So no, you are calling. No, no, no, no.
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I'll take my hands if it's calling.
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What are your hair? Well, if our fathers made that
2:50:06
mistake, let's love and honor them while we correct it so that
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those coming after us will not follow that path.
2:50:13
And then unity. Unity is not uniformity.
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Unity means even in diversity, A Yoruba man can hold a neighbor
2:50:22
man's hand, a house a man can hold.
2:50:25
Not every Northern man is a terrorist.
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Did you hear what I said? Not every Northern man is a
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terrorist. Not every Fulani man is a
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terrorist. Not every Yoruba man is corrupt.
2:50:38
Not every Igbo man is corrupt. Not every Northern man is
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irresponsible. No, let your experience not be
2:50:45
the Vista with which you used to interpret things.
2:50:47
No, not every South African is xenophobic.
2:50:50
Not every Nigerian is irresponsible.
2:50:52
Not every Nigerian in diaspora is a thief.
2:50:56
No, not every Ghanaian hates Nigeria.
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I've been to Ghana. I go there every year.
2:51:02
One of the greatest honor I've received, the ministry has come
2:51:05
from that nation. I can tell you that.
2:51:07
I've been to South Africa, I go there every year.
2:51:10
I've been to Kenya, I go there every year.
2:51:12
I've been to many parts of Africa.
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Let's be careful when we generalize.
2:51:21
Everywhere you see a northern and in your mind you think
2:51:23
terrorists, wicked people, Anywhere you see an evil man, we
2:51:26
think, oh, these people like money.
2:51:28
Anywhere you see no, no, no, no, no, no.
2:51:31
If that's what your parents thought, you'd change it.
2:51:34
Unity. Anywhere you see a Nigerian in
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diaspora, you just think these are corrupt people.
2:51:40
No Sir, no Sir. Anywhere you see a South African
2:51:46
or a Kenyan or a Zimbabwean, No, anywhere you see a prophet, you
2:51:51
just think a false prophet. Not every prophet is false.
2:51:55
Anywhere you see a young man who is wealthy you just in Yahoo or
2:51:58
scam? No Sir, don't insult the
2:52:00
diligence of people while you were playing, they were reading.
2:52:03
Don't blame them for their reason.
2:52:05
Don't blame yourself for whatever result you're having.
2:52:09
Are we together? Don't see every beautiful lady
2:52:11
and think she's following a man for money.
2:52:13
There are consecrated daughters of Zion who love the Lord with
2:52:17
all your heart, don't see every young man and think these are
2:52:24
the young guys coming to carry church girls.
2:52:26
No, there are people who love God.
2:52:29
A redefinition of your mentality.
2:52:32
Are we together? Politicians don't see every man
2:52:36
of God coming to you and think they're coming to your pocket.
2:52:39
Many of them are richer than you.
2:52:40
They don't need anything from you.
2:52:45
And listen to me, the men of God don't see every politician
2:52:49
coming to you and think all they want is vote.
2:52:52
Some of them just need prayers and brotherhood.
2:52:55
Let's not be too proud. Don't see every captain of
2:52:59
industry and think they are proud.
2:53:01
Don't see every young man and think they are disrespectful.
2:53:05
Don't think I don't see every elder and think they are
2:53:08
ignorant. We need to restore unity.
2:53:11
Let the rich respect the poor. Let the enlightened respect
2:53:15
those who are starting. Let fathers respect children.
2:53:17
Let children respect fathers. Let pastors respect members, let
2:53:22
members respect pastors. Let Nigeria respect South
2:53:25
Africa. Let South Africa respect
2:53:27
Nigeria. Let Ghana respect Nigeria.
2:53:30
Let Nigeria respect Ghana. Let all African nations respect
2:53:33
themselves. Let the West respect Africa.
2:53:41
Our national pledge, please everybody stand, whether you are
2:53:46
Nigerian or not, you would say you are in Nigeria, Nigerians in
2:53:55
diaspora, perhaps you've not seen this in a long time if
2:53:59
you're a politician. In fact, I wish I would say put
2:54:02
two hands, every politician who is going to connect, who is
2:54:07
going to do election and you are following me, put your hand on
2:54:12
your chest. I don't care what party you need
2:54:14
to say this. If not, don't ask us to vote
2:54:17
you. Are you ready?
2:54:20
1-2 go. I pledge to Nigeria, my country
2:54:25
to be faithful, loyal and honest, to serve Nigeria with
2:54:28
all my strength, to defend her unity, to uphold her honor and
2:54:33
glory. So help me God, now hold on,
2:54:37
hold on. You are going to pray for
2:54:46
Africa, we'll end it at Nigeria, We'll pray for the whole world
2:54:50
but all the other nations. Just allow us to pray for our
2:54:53
continental one minute, we'll come to you.
2:54:55
Hold hands with someone. It doesn't matter what African
2:54:59
nation. Please hold hands, lift your
2:55:02
voice in one minute and pray for as many African nations.
2:55:07
Media, I wish you can project for us the different flags of
2:55:10
Africa. If you are not able to, that's
2:55:12
fine. Our nation's flag is OK.
2:55:15
Please pray. Lift your voice.
2:55:17
Pray for Kenya, pray for South Africa.
2:55:20
Beloved people, pray for Ghana, pray for Rwanda, pray for Cote
2:55:27
d'Ivoire, pray for DRC Congo, pray for Better Republic, Pray
2:55:34
for Mali. Lift your voice and begin to
2:55:38
pray that the Lord will be exalted over the African
2:55:42
continent out of the ashes of our mistakes, our past, our
2:55:48
limitations, the corruption of leaders, the insensitivity of
2:55:52
people, the mistakes of preachers, that God will raise a
2:55:57
new United continent. Pray for a greater spirit of
2:56:02
forbearance. Pray for love.
2:56:06
Pray for counsel, pray for the presidents and the leaders
2:56:10
across these regions that God will bless their hearts.
2:56:15
Pray they don't have to be Christians, We are Africans.
2:56:20
Pray it is our desire that we all come into the saving
2:56:25
knowledge of Jesus Christ, but we owe it to pray for our
2:56:28
continent, Libya. Go ahead and pray.
2:56:31
One minute you are sowing that seed, speaking over the destiny
2:56:35
of Africa. Egypt, lift your voice and pray.
2:56:39
We decree and declares a continent that we are rising
2:56:43
from the ashes of all that has happened to us, the ashes of our
2:56:51
history. Documented or undocumented,
2:56:55
accurate or inaccurately communicated, we are rising that
2:56:59
it's a new season for Africa now.
2:57:03
Pray for Europe. Pray for for Europe that in the
2:57:07
name of Jesus, the Son of the living God, let the Gospel
2:57:10
thrive. Let the Apostolic and prophetic
2:57:15
emissaries that are there represented in that land, that
2:57:19
because of them Europe will not go down.
2:57:23
Pray for South America, pray for North America, Pray for Asia,
2:57:31
pray for Antarctica, pray for Australia, pray for the Middle
2:57:39
East. In the name of Jesus, we decree
2:57:42
and declare that every church represented in these areas, they
2:57:47
will shine as light. They will shine as light.
2:57:52
The church will not go down. We will not just be fanatics, We
2:57:56
will not just be miracle workers.
2:57:59
We will be solution providers. Who will to preserve the
2:58:03
heritage of godliness, we will shine, shine like the stars in
2:58:08
the sky. Shapran taka paraka tosca
2:58:18
prakata laka prakata takata parakata parakata parakata,
2:58:25
parakata parakata from the north to the South, the east and the
2:58:30
West. Now lift your voice and pray for
2:58:34
Nigeria. Come on 36 states, 774 local
2:58:40
governments, lift your voice and cry from Abuja to Lagos to
2:58:45
Maiduguri to Kano to Plateau State to Katuna to Kogi State to
2:58:51
Ado State to Rivers Delta By Elsa.
2:58:55
Are you praying? Sharpen Takata Brakata that the
2:59:02
the Church in Nigeria will arise and become truly Apostolic,
2:59:07
fervent in prayer, fervent in the world, responsible in the
2:59:13
communication of the truth on the altar, producing a vibrant,
2:59:17
balanced community of believers well represented across the
2:59:23
seven mountains that influence systems and human activities.
2:59:32
Go ahead and pray. We bind the spirits of division.
2:59:36
We bind the spirits of pride in the Church.
2:59:40
Pray for men and women of God that God will deliver us from
2:59:45
pride. God will deliver us from self
2:59:50
for the sake of His people. We will be humble enough to
2:59:54
learn. Lift your voice, we're wrapping
3:00:07
up out. Of the ashes of a dying today we
3:00:17
see the breaking. Of a brand new day in which the
3:00:24
name of the Lord alone is glorified, we see the breaking
3:00:33
Of a brand new today. Out of the ashes of our talking
3:00:41
today we see the breaking. Of a brand new day.
3:00:51
In which the name of the Lord alone is glory fire.
3:00:59
We see the breaking of a brand new day.
3:01:07
Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
3:01:11
You are now going to pray for your neighbor.
3:01:13
Whoever hand you are holding, please intercede for them.
3:01:18
Father, build character in them. Broaden their knowledge, not
3:01:24
just spiritual understanding. Let them understand doctrine.
3:01:27
Let them understand the ways of the Kingdom.
3:01:30
Let them understand the wisdom that makes for excellence in the
3:01:33
cosmos. Let them have a healthy pro
3:01:35
Kingdom worldview. Lift your voice and pray for
3:01:38
them and pray for a supply of spirit power that they become
3:01:43
custodians of the anointing of the Holy Spirit, that they will
3:01:46
not just be relevant in spiritual things, for their
3:01:49
relevance will transcend the church walls.
3:01:52
Lift your voice and pray. All that it takes for the church
3:01:57
to be salt indeed. All that it takes for the Church
3:02:01
to be light indeed, I decree and I declare by the power of the
3:02:05
Holy Spirit. All that it takes for the Church
3:02:09
in Nigeria to be salt, indeed, to be light indeed, we declare
3:02:15
by the power of the Holy Spirit, it is marvelously supplied to
3:02:20
every altar, every church, every denomination that we will love
3:02:26
and respect ourselves. Let there be a restoration of
3:02:29
balance, balance of doctrine, balance of the mysteries of the
3:02:33
Kingdom, balance of the whole Council of God that empowers the
3:02:38
believer holistically, a broadening of our knowledge.
3:02:43
Pray for men and women who are consecrated, men who have
3:02:47
character. Pray for men who have power,
3:02:53
genuine Apostolic Holy Ghost power.
3:02:59
Pray. For politicians, from the
3:03:08
presidency down to the local government chairman down to the
3:03:13
ward members, lift your voice and pray.
3:03:16
Regardless party, regardless political affiliation, let's cry
3:03:21
that the Lord will continue to help this country.
3:03:23
Pray for our military, pray for the Air Force, pray for our
3:03:28
defence. In the name of Jesus, lift your
3:03:33
voice and pray. Pray for families.
3:03:41
Pray that the private sector that God will raise vibrant
3:03:44
entrepreneurs that will make for the availability of jobs.
3:03:52
Pray for minds that work. Pray for a conscience that
3:03:57
works. Pray that our elders will be
3:04:00
guided by a sense of godliness and posterity.
3:04:23
Pray for our schools, our educational system, that we will
3:04:29
raise vibrant men and women, that the school will not be like
3:04:34
a recruitment Center for cultists and prostitutes and
3:04:39
gang members and addictions. Pray that in addition to pastors
3:04:52
and apostles and prophets that entrepreneurs will rise, that
3:04:56
policy makers will rise, that leaders imagine leaders will
3:05:01
rise. One minute we're wrapping up in
3:05:19
Jesus name. Look at me, say the advancement
3:05:24
of the Kingdom, say it again, say the advancement of the
3:05:28
Kingdom, say the advancement of Nigeria, say the advancement of
3:05:35
my family, say the advancement of my destiny, say the
3:05:41
advancement of Africa, say. The advancement of the world
3:05:46
depends on me. I have a role to play and I
3:05:52
obtain grace to play that role. Say it again.
3:05:56
The advancement of Nigeria, the advancement of my family, the
3:06:02
advancement of the Kingdom, the advancement of Africa, the
3:06:08
advancement of my family, the advancement of my children, the
3:06:13
advancement of my spouse, the advancement of Koenonia, the
3:06:18
advancement of the Church. Global depends on me and I
3:06:24
obtain grace to play my role. I'll serve.
3:06:35
I'll serve, I'll serve you, Lord forever.
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I'll serve. I'll serve.
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I'll serve you, Lord, forever. Ever.
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I'll do my best. I'll do my best.
3:07:01
I'll do my best for you. I'll do my best, my very best.
3:07:12
I'll do my best for you. I'll Sir.
3:07:19
I'll Sir, I'll serve you, Lord forever.
3:07:27
I'll serve, I'll serve. I'll serve you, Lord forever.
3:07:40
I'll do my best. I'll do my best.
3:07:45
I'll do my best for you. I'll do my best, my very best.
3:07:54
I'll do my best for you. Listen to me, be a nation
3:08:05
builder, be a Christian, be a responsible individual, be a
3:08:11
good person. If it will not edify, don't post
3:08:17
it. If it will destroy, stay away
3:08:20
from it. If it will build, then you are
3:08:23
invited. If it demands you being corrupt,
3:08:27
stay away from it. If it will steal, kill and
3:08:31
destroy, you are not invited. Be guided by conscience,
3:08:37
empathy, respect, responsibility, justice, equity,
3:08:43
diligence. These are the pillars that build
3:08:46
nations, godliness, prayerfulness, studying the
3:08:51
word, being diligent in the House of God.
3:08:54
These are the elements that build a vibrant person
3:08:57
spiritually. You merge that together and you
3:09:00
are producing A refined witness and this is what God expects of
3:09:03
you. Have you been blessed tonight?
3:09:06
Church and state Part 1. We'll do Part 2 next week.
3:09:12
Hallelujah. Everyone rise up on your feet.
3:09:14
Let me do the altar call. It's been a great night
3:09:18
challenging us. By the power of God.
3:09:24
If you love Jesus and you love your nation, you love God's
3:09:29
program, and you love humanity, then you will take the issue of
3:09:33
repentance from dead work seriously.
3:09:36
I want to challenge someone. While others were laughing, you
3:09:39
were not laughing. You were taking the matter
3:09:42
serious because it is a serious matter.
3:09:45
You are in this place tonight and on hearing me speak, the
3:09:49
Holy Ghost began to challenge your heart, speaking to you and
3:09:53
telling you that you need to make it right with Jesus.
3:09:56
Please give me the honor of leading you to make this one
3:10:00
decision that's changed my life and the life of every believer
3:10:03
in this place. Whether you are falling online
3:10:06
or you are here on site across all the overflows, the balcony,
3:10:10
I'm going to count 1 to 5 like we always do.
3:10:13
I need a bold and serious person who is saying apostle.
3:10:16
I heard the things you said and I took them seriously and I'm
3:10:20
responding to them now. I don't know where to start, but
3:10:24
I know it starts with Jesus. Let Him be Alpha over your life
3:10:27
tonight so that He can take it from there wherever you are.
3:10:32
I'm counting 1:00 to 5:00 with every sense of boldness and
3:10:36
courage and with every sense of love and welcome.
3:10:40
I want to usher you to come stand right before me here as I
3:10:43
count one to five. I need an honest and a bold
3:10:46
person is sincere and a broken person who is an apostle.
3:10:50
The word was for me. I've heard that word.
3:10:52
I need Jesus. I cannot become a reformed
3:10:55
believer outside of Jesus. Don't mind who is looking at you
3:10:59
or not looking at you as I begin my count.
3:11:02
Please make your way to the front.
3:11:03
God bless you, Sir. My counting begins.
3:11:06
One, Koinonia. Give them a big God bless you.
3:11:09
Let's encourage them as they come.
3:11:11
Two, this is not all. I believe someone is still
3:11:14
coming. I believe someone is still
3:11:17
coming. Drawn by the Holy Ghost, come.
3:11:21
Convicted by his word, Come. Resolute to make it right with
3:11:26
your life. Come.
3:11:27
Let's keep clapping. They're coming.
3:11:29
I count 1 to 5. Two.
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A brother who wants to win that war.
3:11:34
Finally, a sister who is an apostle.
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You spoke to me and I heard you loud and clear.
3:11:39
Come. An accomplished person who is
3:11:45
still empty without Jesus. Come.
3:11:48
Young, old, come. Rich, poor.
3:11:50
Come. Educated, uneducated.
3:11:52
Come, two more counts and we're ready to pray for God bless you.
3:11:59
Thank you for the courage. Don't sit back there while the
3:12:02
Holy Ghost is telling you to come.
3:12:04
Today's your day. Now is our salvation.
3:12:07
I see a gentleman coming. God bless you.
3:12:09
Thank you for your courage. If you're coming from outside,
3:12:12
make haste. Come quickly.
3:12:14
For those who are unable to stand here, use the LED screens
3:12:18
from your various overflows and viewing centers.
3:12:21
And for those who are connected from across the globe, I may not
3:12:24
see you. You are the other side of this
3:12:26
broadcast, but I want you to know that Jesus is right there
3:12:29
with you as I make this call. Be prepared to answer.
3:12:32
Lift your hands and pray the prayers I would lead them.
3:12:35
Final count 5. Let's give Jesus a big hand.
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Clap for these ones. Hallelujah.
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Thank you very much, my dear brothers and sisters.
3:12:43
With your hands lifted, would you say this loud and clear?
3:12:47
Lifted. Loud and clear.
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Say, Lord Jesus, tonight. I have heard your word.
3:12:54
I love you with all my heart. I believe you are the Son of
3:13:00
God. I believe you died for my sins.
3:13:04
I declare from tonight that Jesus is my Savior, my Lord, and
3:13:12
my King. I declare that the power of sin,
3:13:17
Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over my life from
3:13:22
tonight. I'm a child of God.
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I go for whatever and back whatever.
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Amen. Keep your hands lifted, Father.
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Thank you for this precious brothers and sisters, those who
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are here on site, across all our viewing centers, across all our
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expressions, and the many who are following online.
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Thank you for your grace and your help.
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I decree and declare by the authority of your word that
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their sins are forgiven. We call them bona fide
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recipients of your life. We call them the righteousness
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of God in Christ Jesus. I decree in the name of Jesus
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that they go for whatever and back whatever I break the power
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of sin, Satan, Helen, the grave over their lives and in the name
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of Jesus, the grace to live the victorious path I impart upon
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you in Jesus, much less name we pray Amen and Amen.
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Please look to my right, ladies and gentlemen, there are
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counselors waving the placard. They are prepared to receive you
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have a word with you very quickly thereafter, you return
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back to your seat. Just one quick announcement.
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This is from the Protocol department they are announcing.
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The Protocol department is now open for new members.
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All of you who want to be part of the Protocol and Logistics
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department, please send your application through the mail.
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Apply to protocol@gmail.com and then you can walk to the back of
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the hall and meet our PR people at the PR desk.
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They can also guide you on what to do.
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This application is open to persons who are registered in
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Abuja. So the limit of the application
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is to those who are registered in Abuja and it's environs and
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it will close on Monday, Monday the 11th of May.
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So please do take advantage of this.
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Make sure you register now. You can register online
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immediately or you walk to the back of the hall and the PR desk
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will be glad to help you. Again, we're grateful for the
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High Commissioner of the Republic of Namibia and the
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Republic of Botswana. Thank you both.
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I love to your nations. We love you sincerely.
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This is home for you any and all times and for all those who have
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come. Whether we acknowledge you or
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not deserving of honor, please know that this is a House of
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honor. We love you.
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Just before the end of service, Reverend Akila was here.
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We're closing, but we love you. Thank you so much, Sir.
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May God bless you. In the name of Jesus, please
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rise. Let me speak the blessing over
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you. And then we're done.
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For the weak. The Lord bless you.
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Shout a believe in Amen. The Lord bless you.
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The Lord bless your weak. The Lord bless your children.
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The Lord bless your spouse. The Lord bless the works of your
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hands. The Lord bless your mind.
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The Lord bless your going out. The Lord bless your coming in in
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the name of Jesus Christ. May you have a reason to rejoice
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this week. May you have a reason to
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celebrate this week. Go forward this week.
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Advance this week. Make progress this week in the
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name of Jesus. In the place of prayer, may you
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receive ideas. In the place of prayer, may you
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receive strategies. You will not only be a miracle
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worker, you will be a solution provider.
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A combination of wisdom and power works in your life.
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You are a blessing everywhere you go.
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I say it again, you are a blessing everywhere you go.
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The lines are falling for you in pleasant places.
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Go and succeed in the name of Jesus.
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Zarya you are blessed, Abuja you are blessed.
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UK you are blessed. Canada you are blessed.
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America you are blessed. Zambia you are blessed.
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Ghana you are blessed. South Africa blessed, Kenya
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blessed, Uganda blessed, Africa blessed, the 36 states of this
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nation blessed. In the name of Jesus, if it will
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destroy you, May God keep you away from it.
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If it will cost you pain, may my God take you away from it.
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You will only move towards the direction of greatness.
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You will only move towards the direction of glory.
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May the Lord bless you. The grave is shot for your sake.
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You will not be a victim of accidents.
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You will be a law abiding citizen.
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In the name of Jesus, May God, God answer your prayer this
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week. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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declare you blessed. Everything you lay your hands to
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do is blessed. Let honor never depart from you.
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You return on Sunday rejoicing. You return on Sunday
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celebrating. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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Can you shout three powerful amens?
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123 God bless. Together let's share the grace
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and fellowship, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
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God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
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Rest and abide with us now and forever, Amen.
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Surely God's goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our
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lives as we dwell in the House of the Lord.
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Amen. God bless you.
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See you next week. Make sure you listen to this
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teaching again all through the week.
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God bless you.