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Understanding The System Of Egypt (Part 2) · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Fermi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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  Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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  Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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  Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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  Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Then I will cause your voice to be heard.
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  Speaker 1: And all who pay attention to my word on your
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  Speaker 1: lips will not lack light and direction. He's a man
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  Speaker 1: sent from God, sent to raise God's end time armies.
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  Speaker 1: With Apostle Fermi Lazarus, every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord. Let me show us a scripture.
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  Speaker 3: John chapter number 6. Should I start from there?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me go to Matthew 6. Okay? Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 2: number 6.
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  Speaker 4: Please, I want us to pay very keen attention.
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  Speaker 2: Is that okay?
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  Speaker 4: And I'll tell you the reason why I have to
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  Speaker 4: start from here. If I'm Matthew 6, please say amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Alright. Now, the disciples came to Jesus to teach
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  Speaker 2: them how to pray. Okay? Okay? They came to him
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  Speaker 2: to teach them how to what? Pray.
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  Speaker 4: I want to use this as a foundation to go
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  Speaker 4: back to my series that we are teaching, understanding the
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  Speaker 4: system of Egypt. And there's a reason why we need
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  Speaker 4: this foundation. Now, Jesus teaching them how to pray. Let's
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  Speaker 4: start reading from Matthew 6 from verse 9. Matthew 6
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  Speaker 4: from verse 9. Look at what Jesus said to them.
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  Speaker 4: After this manner, therefore pray. Our Father which art in heaven,
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  Speaker 4: hallowed be thy name. What's verse 10? Thy kingdom come.
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  Speaker 4: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on a minute. Alright, let's break that down a
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  Speaker 2: bit for the sake of contextual understanding. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: Look at what the Bible says I'm going to read
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  Speaker 4: NCV translation. It says, May your kingdom come and what
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  Speaker 4: you want be done on the earth as it is
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  Speaker 4: in heaven. Let's go to New King James. It says,
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  Speaker 4: Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as
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  Speaker 4: it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Alright? I take one more translation, then I show you
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  Speaker 2: a few things. If you are with me, say Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I love....
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  Speaker 4: God's word translation says, let your kingdom come, let your will,
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  Speaker 4: that is your kingdom now is, we can say that
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  Speaker 4: the kingdom has come when what God really wants is
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  Speaker 4: what is being done on earth.
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  Speaker 2: And the prototype for that is what is being done
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. Are you with me? That's the prototype.
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  Speaker 4: We want the earth to experience the influence of your
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  Speaker 4: reign the same way the heavens are experiencing it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still with me? Pay attention.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to show you something. Let's take this a
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  Speaker 3: step further.
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  Speaker 4: Genesis chapter number 1.
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  Speaker 3: Genesis chapter number 1 from verse 1.
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  Speaker 2: If you are there, say Amen.
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  Speaker 4: Now I believe that this is one of the deepest
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  Speaker 4: aspects of the Bible. And This is what you see
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  Speaker 4: in Genesis 1. It's the same way everything will end.
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  Speaker 4: But let me show you something. Look at what the
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  Speaker 4: Bible says here. In the beginning, God created. Somebody say
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  Speaker 4: God created?
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  Speaker 2: The heaven and the earth. Verse 2.
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  Speaker 4: Can we read verse 2 together? 1, 2, 3, go.
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  Speaker 4: And the earth was without form and void. And darkness
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  Speaker 4: was upon.
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  Speaker 2: The face of the deep.
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  Speaker 4: And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
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  Speaker 4: the waters. What did the Bible say in the book
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  Speaker 4: of Genesis 1.1?
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, God what? Created. The word used there
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  Speaker 2: is the word created. To show that he finished. Two things.
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  Speaker 2: The first one. Heaven.
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  Speaker 4: Some other tradition says that the heavens. Or some says
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  Speaker 4: the heaven of heavens. I'm not ready to go there.
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  Speaker 2: And the earth.
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  Speaker 4: Genesis 1.2 looks like a coincidence. Because the Bible is
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  Speaker 4: suddenly saying. And the earth was without form and void,
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  Speaker 4: and darkness upon the face of the deep. And the
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  Speaker 4: Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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  Speaker 4: So God did two things. But one out of those
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  Speaker 4: two things, the Bible is now giving us a report
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  Speaker 4: that the earth was without form. If the Bible said, God,
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  Speaker 4: who is the master architect, finished two things. Now you
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  Speaker 4: are telling us in verse 2 that what the master
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  Speaker 4: architect did, one out of it is empty.
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  Speaker 2: The word used there is the word toobo, meaning shapeless
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  Speaker 2: and formless. How come? It's done the both. And the
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  Speaker 2: next thing God came to do.
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  Speaker 3: Is to look at the region that was shapeless and formless.
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  Speaker 4: Verse 3. And God said, let there be come on now,
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  Speaker 4: let there be Let there be light. Meaning that the
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  Speaker 4: response of God to chaos is light. The response of
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  Speaker 4: God to disorderliness, when things are messed up and things
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  Speaker 4: are so bad, how does God respond?
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  Speaker 2: Light.
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  Speaker 4: And we have read this scripture, you know, you can
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  Speaker 4: read this scripture on the surface and believe that when
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  Speaker 4: God said, let there be light, he was calling for sunlight.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't calling for sunlight. He wasn't calling for light.
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  Speaker 4: Neither was he calling for the moon, because those will
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  Speaker 4: later be created. When God said, let there be light,
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  Speaker 4: Jesus came to further explain that you are the light
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  Speaker 4: of this world.
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  Speaker 2: That is, the world is empty, shapeless, and formless.
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  Speaker 4: Not to the degree that God has not taken responsibility,
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  Speaker 4: but to the degree that light here has refused to shine.
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  Speaker 4: Meaning that an atheist is wrong for believing that God
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  Speaker 4: does not exist. The atheist should blame the man. It's
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  Speaker 4: your responsibility. You should not.
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  Speaker 2: Doubt the existence of God.
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  Speaker 4: You should doubt the presence of the man that God
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  Speaker 4: has placed in charge.
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  Speaker 2: A family is so bad. Things are bad.
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  Speaker 4: People are divorcing and going separate ways, killing themselves.
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  Speaker 2: What is the response of God? Light! Who is that light? You!
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  Speaker 2: So Paul will later.
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  Speaker 4: Explain In Romans chapter number 1, Romans chapter number 8,
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  Speaker 4: sorry please. Romans chapter number 8. I want you to
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  Speaker 4: please turn your Bibles there. We'll later explain something really amazing.
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  Speaker 4: And look at what it says. Romans chapter number 8
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  Speaker 4: from verse 19. We'll read from verse 19 to 20.
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  Speaker 4: If you are there, say Amen. Let's read the book
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  Speaker 4: in Amplified Translation. Romans 8 from verse 19. In amplified translation,
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  Speaker 4: if you can give me that, I'd be glad. Let
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  Speaker 4: me read from my own Bible. Romans 8. Look at
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  Speaker 4: what the Bible says here.
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  Speaker 5: For heaven, the whole creation, all nature, waits expectantly and
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  Speaker 5: longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known.
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  Speaker 4: Wait for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship. Look
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  Speaker 4: at what verse 20 says.
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  Speaker 2: Is it on the screen now? Give me verse 20 now.
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  Speaker 2: Look at it.
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  Speaker 4: For the creation, nature was subjected to frailty, to futility,
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  Speaker 4: condemned to frustrations, not because of some intentional fault on
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  Speaker 4: his part, but by the will of him who subjected
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  Speaker 4: it yet with the hope of what?
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  Speaker 3: That sons will rise.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why I'm showing you this is.
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  Speaker 4: To understand that the strategy of God is man. You
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  Speaker 4: may look down on yourself and and question how God
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  Speaker 4: will use somebody like you, considering the mistakes you have made,
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  Speaker 4: and all those things. What you are saying may sound
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  Speaker 4: quite interesting. It does not change the fact that the
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  Speaker 4: strategy of God is what?
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  Speaker 2: Man. So, when we judge by.
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  Speaker 4: What happened in Genesis 1-1, Why was the earth brought
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  Speaker 4: to nothing? Because man was not yet there. And that's
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  Speaker 4: why the next thing God did was to put everything
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  Speaker 4: in place again. So what you read in.
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  Speaker 2: Genesis 1 is the account of a re-creation.
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  Speaker 4: Because in Genesis 1, the Bible said He created. Genesis 1,
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  Speaker 4: the remaining verse is close to what we see in
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  Speaker 4: Ezekiel 37. This is God calling back the things that
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  Speaker 4: used to be. But there was something He did extra.
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  Speaker 2: He made man.
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  Speaker 4: So in Genesis 1 verse 26, God said, come Let
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  Speaker 4: us make man in our own image. How will God
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  Speaker 4: respond to the situation of the people that are crying?
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: When people in Egypt were crying and they were groaning
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  Speaker 4: to God, how did God respond?
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  Speaker 2: Moses.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is God has sent you to the place
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  Speaker 4: where you are to be solution. But you are joining
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  Speaker 4: them crying about the problem. We will not cry. about
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  Speaker 4: the frustration in Nigeria. We will solve it.
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  Speaker 2: We did masses. We did masses.
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  Speaker 4: Stop that. Solve the problem. You'll be rewarded at the
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  Speaker 4: level of the problems you solve. The Spirit of God
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  Speaker 4: on our inside is not just for speaking in tongues.
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  Speaker 4: It's for us to bring the God kind of life.
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  Speaker 4: And in that God kind of life, there is wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: There is wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: The wisdom with which Daniel administrated was that wisdom. Say
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  Speaker 4: it again, I am wise. Come on, you are not
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  Speaker 4: saying it well. Say, the Spirit of God is at
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  Speaker 4: work on my inside. I will not join the multitude
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  Speaker 4: in complaining. I am a problem solver. I carry the
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  Speaker 4: Spirit of God on my inside. Everywhere I step, the
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  Speaker 4: influence of the kingdom is there.
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  Speaker 2: This is who I am.
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  Speaker 4: I am an extension of God's oppression on the face
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  Speaker 4: of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: This is who I am.
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  Speaker 4: I am an extension of his influence on the face
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  Speaker 4: of the earth. This is who I am. I was
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  Speaker 4: traveling recently and I was rushing to catch my flight.
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  Speaker 4: I was among the last passengers to board. And a
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  Speaker 4: woman met me while I was trying to pass. And
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  Speaker 4: she came and hugged me tightly.
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  Speaker 3: And she was crying. She wept and wept. I said, Apostle,
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  Speaker 3: thank you. You saved my marriage.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I introduced your teaching to my sister in
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  Speaker 4: so and so country.
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  Speaker 2: You saved their marriage too. Thank you. Our presence here
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  Speaker 2: is God's way of saying, I am here. We have
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  Speaker 2: to realize it. We have to acknowledge it. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say it again.
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  Speaker 4: Our presence here is God's way of saying, I am here.
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  Speaker 4: I give you an illustration on Tuesday. When Nigeria was
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  Speaker 4: to be colonized, the queen herself did not need to
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  Speaker 4: come down. She only needed to send someone who is
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  Speaker 4: an extension of her influence.
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  Speaker 2: If people can do that on the earth, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think God is doing?
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  Speaker 4: God is sending people as an extension of his influence
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  Speaker 4: in families.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear you meant to that. In the business world.
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  Speaker 2: In spiritual or religious world. He's sending extensions. He's sending extensions.
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  Speaker 2: He's sending extensions. He's sending extensions. Say it again. I'm
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  Speaker 2: an extension of God's operation. Say it. I know who
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not confused. I can't be deceived. I'm an extension
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  Speaker 4: of his operation. On the face of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: I know who I am. Now thank God I was
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  Speaker 2: able to meet the testimony of the lady that was
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  Speaker 2: sharing testimony.
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  Speaker 4: How the devil was telling her to jump. That they
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  Speaker 4: will not miss her. Now the question is, is that true?
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  Speaker 4: The devil is the master of all lies. When he
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  Speaker 4: knows what you are, he will make every attempt to
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  Speaker 4: convince you against it. So all the lies you have
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  Speaker 4: been hearing is the devil's way of saying you are
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  Speaker 4: not what you are. And if the devil is saying that,
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  Speaker 4: it means that thing you don't think you are, you are.
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  Speaker 4: You see, going forward, when you look yourself in the mirror,
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  Speaker 4: you should be afraid of what you see. You should
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  Speaker 4: be afraid of you. Who survives the things you have survived?
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  Speaker 2: And is he smiling? Still in church? Dancing? The disappointments?
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  Speaker 2: The failures? And he's still bouncing back. What are you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you thinking the devil is just going to look
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  Speaker 2: at you and say, enjoy your life? No.
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  Speaker 4: It will not go down without a fight. And that's
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  Speaker 4: what I want you to understand. We are combatants.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? We know what we are. We can drop the
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  Speaker 2: old thing and say, let's fight this thing off.
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  Speaker 4: We have an assignment here. Say loud and clear, I
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  Speaker 4: know who I am. God's strategy is man. A family
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  Speaker 4: has been going through so much problem. What's God's way
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  Speaker 4: of responding?
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  Speaker 2: Release a child. Unto us a child is born. Unto
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  Speaker 2: us a son is given.
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  Speaker 4: In the equation of the head, talking about the sin
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  Speaker 4: of Adam and how that affected all of us. God's
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  Speaker 4: way of responding was he sending a man. Paul speaking
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  Speaker 4: to Timothy spoke about, there is one God and one
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  Speaker 4: mediator between God and man.
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  Speaker 2: The man, Jesus Christ. The man, the man, the man,
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  Speaker 2: the man. I am that man.
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  Speaker 4: So, linking this with what Jesus was teaching them in John,
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  Speaker 4: in Matthew 6, He was simply saying, when you pray,
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  Speaker 4: the most interesting or the most important aspect of your
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  Speaker 4: prayer is to pray that.
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  Speaker 2: The kingdom will come. Is to pray that the kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of God will come to the earth.
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  Speaker 4: Is to pray that His will will be done here
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  Speaker 4: as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. That's what he wants. He wants this place to.
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  Speaker 4: Be an extension of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of problems we face now, does it make sense?
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  Speaker 4: People can't go to work and take, what do you
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  Speaker 4: call it now, along in peace. Somebody was sharing a
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  Speaker 4: testimony a few months ago, entering a.
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  Speaker 2: Bus, or along, they are cabs, right? Not buses. Not buses.
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  Speaker 2: And a woman inside the cab thought that they were kidnappers.
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  Speaker 2: And they were not kidnappers. She opened the door and
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  Speaker 2: jumped out. She looked around. Ah! Dark shade. This one.
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  Speaker 2: Dark shade. That one. All boys.
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  Speaker 4: Was waiting, was waiting. When she saw, she just opened
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  Speaker 4: the door and rolled. That's how much fear there is.
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  Speaker 4: But do you know just one person here that God
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  Speaker 4: has given a voice can insist with the government that
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  Speaker 4: all are long to be registered with certain color code.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the solution.
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  Speaker 4: Pick people only from the garage, this, this, this. Let's
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  Speaker 4: mark the plate number.
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  Speaker 2: Insights. Don't blame the world for their confusion. The solution
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  Speaker 2: is here.
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  Speaker 4: Don't blame them for their confusion. They are trying their best.
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  Speaker 4: The Holy Ghost we have is an advantage. They are
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  Speaker 4: trying their best. Nations are confused. Nations are confused. That's
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  Speaker 4: the honest truth. Nations are perplexed. They are wondering, how
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  Speaker 4: can we go for that? What should we do?
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  Speaker 2: They have questions.
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  Speaker 4: Look at what the Bible says in Isaiah 60 from
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  Speaker 4: verse 1. Isaiah 61 says, Arise, shine, for your light
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  Speaker 4: is come. The glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
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  Speaker 4: Darkness will cover the earth. There's darkness everywhere. People are terrified.
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  Speaker 4: Most evenings, I tell you, my mind is up. Oh Lord,
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  Speaker 4: we have people coming back from work now. Please protect them.
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  Speaker 4: Please shield them.
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  Speaker 2: Help them. Oh Lord, guide them back safely across the
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  Speaker 2: world where we have our people. Let all be well.
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  Speaker 2: But that is only necessary because there's darkness everywhere. I
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  Speaker 2: saw a news in Lagos. A young man was going
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  Speaker 2: to work early in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: A programmer with his laptop They tried to collect his laptop.
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  Speaker 2: It was not dropping. And they stabbed him on his
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  Speaker 2: neck for a laptop. Of how much? That's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of darkness there is. That's the kind of darkness there is.
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  Speaker 2: Don't blame God. Blame the refusal of sons to rise.
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  Speaker 2: If the influence of God will be felt, it is
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  Speaker 2: through us. Amen? It is through who? It is through us.
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  Speaker 2: It is through our lives. Our policies. Our understanding of
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom.
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  Speaker 4: Knowing fully well that everything God is doing in our
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  Speaker 4: lives is for the purpose of the establishment of his kingdom.
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  Speaker 2: On the earth. People are dying young and it's not
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  Speaker 2: God's will. Amen?
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  Speaker 4: You know, there are simple things that we have not
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  Speaker 4: come to agree on in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And it is painful.
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  Speaker 4: That the wisdom of God on our inside can supply
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  Speaker 4: insight even in the aspect of research.
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  Speaker 3: In the aspect of medicine, engineering, technology.
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  Speaker 4: Somehow we just believe that the same people who believe,
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  Speaker 4: who think that this entire beautiful world is a product
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  Speaker 4: of big bang theory.
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  Speaker 2: There was an explosion. You know, who did this?
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  Speaker 4: Was it Albert Einstein or I can't remember who did this.
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  Speaker 4: Called an atheist to his place who said there was
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  Speaker 4: no God. Then made his chef to make beautiful delicacies
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  Speaker 4: about three course meal and served on the table. While
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  Speaker 4: the atheist was busy eating, the professor said, there's no chef.
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  Speaker 2: In this world. The man said, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's food. The prof looked at him. He
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  Speaker 2: was very foolish. So you believe that this could not
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  Speaker 2: be a product of Big Bang.
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  Speaker 4: But you believe the mountains, the seas, the valleys, the lands,
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  Speaker 4: the forests and the trees are a product.
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  Speaker 2: Of an explosion.
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  Speaker 4: But food is not a product of an explosion. Something
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  Speaker 4: is wrong with your mind. Even nature should teach us
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  Speaker 4: That there is a God.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? Even nature.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to what I'm saying here. There are things that
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  Speaker 4: will not be done. It doesn't matter how hard we cry.
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  Speaker 4: The response of God then is His response now.
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  Speaker 2: Sons. It will give them insight in different aspects of life. Insight.
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  Speaker 4: As starting family life. Insight in music. Different aspect of life.
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  Speaker 4: Put your right hand on your head and say, I
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  Speaker 4: receive insight today. Say it again, I receive insight. Please
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  Speaker 4: listen to what I'm about to say now. One thing
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  Speaker 4: has been consistent with the church, regardless of the revivals
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  Speaker 4: we have experienced.
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  Speaker 2: It is the tendency for extremes. The tendency for extremes. Extremes.
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  Speaker 2: That there are believers who still think right now. That,
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  Speaker 2: you know, people argue. And you look at the argument.
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  Speaker 2: That actually, God.
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  Speaker 4: Himself is not intending for any believer to do anything.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just live our life and then, you know, be
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  Speaker 4: glorified in our smallness.
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  Speaker 2: Really? Really? Can God be glorified in your smallness? Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Is your smallness the expression of glory?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: Can it be glorified in somebody's misery? Look at the
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  Speaker 4: case of Job. Job went through all he went through.
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  Speaker 4: And God was telling the devil, he's not going to
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  Speaker 4: cave in. But was that the original intention of God?
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  Speaker 2: No. God was just making a statement. He will survive it.
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  Speaker 2: And he will not bow to your desires. Was that
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  Speaker 2: the way God wanted Job to live for life? No!
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  Speaker 4: Because God blessed his letter end and the beginning.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: What I'm trying to show you is that the agenda.
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  Speaker 4: Of God on the face of the earth will suffer
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  Speaker 4: if we don't understand the power of influence.
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  Speaker 2: It will. It will drag.
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  Speaker 4: And most times we have been wrongly indoctrinated. I saw
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  Speaker 4: something this morning and I just want to read it out. Alright,
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  Speaker 4: so I saw something written this morning written by Pastor
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  Speaker 4: Oju Emadi.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, he's one of the men I love so much.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what he said and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: He said, the eternal life within the believer which would
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  Speaker 4: have been used for the development of the environment is
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  Speaker 4: trapped within.
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  Speaker 2: Us through a wrong indoctrination and fear. Let me read again.
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  Speaker 4: He said, the eternal life within the believer, which would
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  Speaker 4: have been used for the development of the environment, is
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  Speaker 4: trapped within us through wrong indoctrination and fear.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, look at this.
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  Speaker 4: That which would have brought innovative ideas to our environment
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  Speaker 4: is now made subject to the traditions of men. People
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  Speaker 4: who should be standing upright.
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  Speaker 2: And walking miracles.
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  Speaker 4: And rivers of living water flow out of their own bellies.
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  Speaker 2: And running Elta's Keta. Begging to be prayed for. Running everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Say please pray for me. Because they have not paid attention.
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  Speaker 4: To the life that they carry.
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  Speaker 2: This is a very simple truth.
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  Speaker 4: That God intends to do something with the church more
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  Speaker 4: than our gatherings. It is supposed to be ecclesia, not
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  Speaker 4: a gathering of defeated folks.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? How many of you.
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  Speaker 4: Have tried to do things and you hanged around the
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: religious people and they shut down what you wanted to
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  Speaker 4: do and you missed the season? Some of them because
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  Speaker 4: of their religious inclination. It doesn't matter who you are.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the number of years you have been ordained.
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  Speaker 2: If what you have seen.
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  Speaker 4: Is not in line with scriptures, I will not take it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me show you a scripture.
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  Speaker 4: Ephesians chapter number 3. Ephesians chapter number 3. Ephesians 3.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to verse 10. We read this in King
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  Speaker 4: James translation.
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  Speaker 3: Then we read this in Amplified translation.
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  Speaker 2: Ephesians 3.10.
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  Speaker 3: If you are there, say Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at it.
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  Speaker 4: It says to the intent that now unto principalities and
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  Speaker 4: powers in the heavenly places might be known by the
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  Speaker 4: church the manifold wisdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: Alright.
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  Speaker 4: Can you please give me this in Amplified translation. Ephesians
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  Speaker 4: chapter number 3.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this. Please look at this.
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  Speaker 4: The purpose is that through the church The complicated, many-sided
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  Speaker 4: wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable
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  Speaker 4: aspect might be made known, might now be made known
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  Speaker 4: to the angels, to the angelic rulers and the authorities,
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  Speaker 4: principalities and powers in the heavenly spheres.
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  Speaker 2: Go to verse 11. This is in accordance with the
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  Speaker 2: terms of.
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  Speaker 4: The talent and timeless purpose for which he has realized
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  Speaker 4: and carried into effect the person of Christ Jesus. So
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  Speaker 4: the Bible is saying that God intends to, through me
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  Speaker 4: and you, show different aspects of his wisdom. That when
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  Speaker 4: you look at this one and say, God is so wise,
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  Speaker 4: you see another one.
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  Speaker 2: And say, wow.
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  Speaker 4: We will destroy this if we try to clone men
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  Speaker 4: and make everyone the same. Not everyone will preach, but
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: everyone should establish the kingdom. And not everyone will do
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: it by holding the mic. It is infinite wisdom. You
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  Speaker 4: can't exhaust it. And one of the things that is
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  Speaker 4: likely going to happen is that God is starting something
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  Speaker 4: new through you. That you are not finding it common
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  Speaker 4: around and it's a lonely walk.
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  Speaker 2: Stay with him regardless. Do you know the number of
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  Speaker 2: Keep quiet. The number of things I've faced. Saying, how
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: dare you preach the way you are preaching.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Somebody sent me what I call the most ridiculous message.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: And said, you don't teach with authority when it comes
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: to the subject of marriage. Said, I've been married for
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: 10 years. Say you are only married for three years.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: How dare you take me such authority? It's the authority
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: of scriptures. And you can be married for 20 years
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  Speaker 4: and still be a fool at it. You know, it's
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: not about how long.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: It's how well. Talk to me now.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: Don't make the word of God of no effect through
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  Speaker 4: your traditions.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Through your cultures.
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  Speaker 4: Some of you are coming from places where the signs
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  Speaker 4: that you are making heaven is that you are very small.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Because heaven is narrow. So you must be small to enter.
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  Speaker 4: The Bible says it is easy for a camel to
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  Speaker 4: pass through a needle than for a rich man to see.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: You didn't read the Bible. It's not the Bible It's
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: the back of the Bible. The needle there is not
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: the needle, what they used to sew clothes. It's the passageway,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: pedestrian passageway. So camels pass through. They have to bend
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: and offload their.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Loads to pass. It's a route.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: It's not needle like that.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: And that's why in year 2000 when they said Jesus
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: was coming, People went to sell their houses so that
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Jesus must not meet them as landlord.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: News flash, 24 years after he has not come, they
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: are homeless. Wrong doctrine.
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  Speaker 4: The same thing is still happening. We got to where
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  Speaker 4: we are now, all over the world, because of wrong indoctrination. Amazingly,
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  Speaker 4: those things are still surviving.
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  Speaker 2: Amazingly.
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  Speaker 4: We like to recycle problems. And tell people that God
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: is raising to do giant things. And shut them down.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: And tell them you are going too fast. You are
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: doing it too big. Make it small so you can last.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Who told you that being small is secret of lasting?
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Just dig it. God cannot be interested in all these
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: people are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Really. You see, it is amazing that you can sing
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  Speaker 2: a song that is purely doctrinal. No, no, no. It's
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: funny you all speak that song. I say, this song,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I'm singing carnality here. That high. What are you talking about?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Are you aware? It's not everyone that will sing. You
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  Speaker 2: are alpha. I know me. Not everyone will sing that one.
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  Speaker 4: When we are done singing you are alpha, our people
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  Speaker 4: are getting married. There is a song they will dance to.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: And there are those that will give us that vibe.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Multi-faceted wisdom of God. Innumerable in its aspects. You can't
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: box God to a corner.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Because of your tradition. If the song is not slow,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: it's not God. You may like slow-mo. I watched a movie, Zootopia.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And there's this guy that says, Hello. Hello. Holy are thou, Lord.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I said, I went to that church, I feel the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. But as they were dancing, the Holy Ghost
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: left you.
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  Speaker 4: As people were dancing, it's not the Holy Ghost that
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: left you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: It's your mindset that is wrong. Because the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: doesn't leave.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: While they were singing, as they were dancing, he that
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  Speaker 4: sits in the heaven shall laugh.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: But you that carry the Holy Ghost, laughter now.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: It's a sign of carnality. So we that we are
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: heaven bound, how shall we therefore laugh? You can't be
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: more Catholic than a Pope.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: No, you can't.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: You can't be holier than the Holy Ghost. If you
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: don't sit in the heaven to laugh, you too rejoice.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: You won't believe some people are sitting looking at me
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  Speaker 4: and say, well, I'm trying to adjust my theology to this.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: How can we come to the house? I said rejoice
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  Speaker 2: in the Lord. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: The house of the Lord is not a place of mourning.
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  Speaker 2: When we come, we rejoice. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: They go from strength to strength. Everyone appears in Zion.
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  Speaker 4: The joy of the Lord is our strength. That is
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  Speaker 4: what we come to do. People go everywhere depressed. They
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  Speaker 4: come to church also depressed.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: He that sits in the heavens, we that we are
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  Speaker 4: seated with him too shall.
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  Speaker 4: The Christian that God is raising now must learn to
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  Speaker 4: be audacious. Because there are many contrary women that will
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: fight what God is telling you. And you must stand
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: your ground. The system of God, the strategy of God
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: is you. I don't care what you think about yourself.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I was too convinced all my life that nobody like
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: me would be a preacher. My biggest interest was baggy jeans.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: G-Unit. In the days of Cisco. No, Gen Z's. Don't
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: know all those ones. Who sent Gen Z's? What, Cisco? Latecomer.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Are you with me?
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Who were the ones that were vibing to Eve? You
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: know those guys? We don't know what you guys are
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: singing now. It's not in your head, is it?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: We were the real homies, guys. We started sagging. Though
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: we met it. We're big.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Boots and big, all those things. Palm my hair like dropper.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Look at me now and feel, this man must have
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: been born, born again. I wasn't born, born again, man.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Go to parties. Out of depression, though. And they pass
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  Speaker 4: around kuli. If you don't know what that means, forget
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 2: I know, guys.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: And they say, guy, guy, guy, your turn. I say,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: let it go around, please. You know, my bad boy,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: I couldn't do all those things. I used to be
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: the specialist in writing love letters.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Yes. For boys.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Valentine was my richest period. Write letters. One time a
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: boy was asking a girl out in school. The girl
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: knew the boy was not that smart. So she shouted.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: She was looking at the boy and shouted, Lazarus.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Leave me alone. I know you are the one behind this.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I was listening upstairs. I said, she know. We are
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: not born born again. But the light of God brought
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: us home.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: If you told me all those times that somebody like
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: me will preach, I will laugh. Preach what? It's not
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: for special people. It's for broken people. You don't have
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: to feel anything for God to use you. You don't
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: have to feel anything. I don't have to use you
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: only as a preacher. I can use you in many aspects.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: used to wipe away the tears of people. Because his
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: strategy is man. And those people don't always look like it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: So if you don't look like it, welcome to the club.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: That was how we started.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I was the first timer in the church when I
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: became pastor. First timer.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I ran for my life. Never stepped that church again.
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  Speaker 2: Me. Pastor. Where? How?
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Tell your neighbor, keep running. Jonah did worse. Fish swallowed
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  Speaker 4: him and took him back. Back to where he should
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: go and preach. And some of you, what you are
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: facing now is God saying, go back to Nineveh.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: That was where I instructed. Go back to what I said.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Go back to what I told you. Go back.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: You are not going to continue thinking less of yourself.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Sometimes the devil attacks your mind to wrong people. Sometimes
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: it can be a wrong church.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It can be.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: You were given everything else except what you should be.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: And you keep seeing it as a sin to dare
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: to be great. It's not a sin. God is calling
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  Speaker 4: you back home. Are you with me? Now the reason
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: why I'm laying this foundation is to show you That
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: the strategy of God is man. And because that strategy
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: of God, it needs that man to be in strategic places.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Because that's his strategy. Let me show you a scripture.
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  Speaker 4: Esther chapter number 4. Esther 4.
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  Speaker 2: If you are there, say Amen. Let's start the reading
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: from verse 7.
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  Speaker 4: God is going to empower you. Please say that amen.
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  Speaker 4: You are not going to be a small person. For
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: those who are saying that amen, God will empower you.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: There are people who are crying. And the response of
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: God to their tears is that He raised you. You
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  Speaker 4: will not lag behind. And you will not miss those people.
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  Speaker 4: God will use you to wipe away their tears. In
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: the name of Jesus.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: It will use you to change their stories. In the
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Some of you, your existence is the end of tears
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: in your lineage. God giving you to them is God's
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: way of saying, stop crying. You can't give up, oh.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Many people will go down if you go down. I'm
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: not motivating you. I'm telling you. When I look at
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: the lives that I changed today, I keep thanking God
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: that you helped me to survive what I survived. If
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: you had the original plan, nobody would do it like you.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: So don't stop thinking that God will find a replacement.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, he will.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: But it takes time. And some would have died. Tell
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: your neighbor, you can't afford to give up now. You
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  Speaker 4: can't stop. Remember where you started. God is with you.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: You may not hear his voice, but he's there. You
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: can't stop now.
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  Speaker 2: You can't stop. You can't give up on that marriage.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: How do we go ahead and convince another generation that
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: it can work? Please mind us. The one that they
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  Speaker 4: are trying to abuse you and stab you, that one
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: you should run. I'm not talking about that one. That
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: one run like we say both. Esther chapter number 4
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: verse 7. And Mordecai told him of all that had
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: happened unto him and the sum of money That Haman
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  Speaker 4: had promised.
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  Speaker 2: To pay the king's treasuries. For the Jews. To destroy them.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: And he gave him the copy of the writing and decree.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: That was given to Shushan. To destroy them. To show
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  Speaker 4: it to Esther. And to declare it unto her.
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  Speaker 2: To charge her.
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  Speaker 4: That she should go unto the king. To make supplication
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  Speaker 4: unto him. And to make request.
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  Speaker 2: Before him. For her people.
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  Speaker 4: And Hathach came. And told Esther the words of Mordecai.
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  Speaker 4: And again Esther speak unto Atash saying. Give him the
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  Speaker 4: commandment unto Mordecai. And all the king's servants. And the
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  Speaker 4: people of the king's province do know. That whatsoever. Whether
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  Speaker 4: man or woman. Shall come into the king's inner court.
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  Speaker 4: Who is not called. There is one law of his.
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  Speaker 4: To put him to death. Except such to whom the king.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Hold out his golden scepter. That he may live. But
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I have not been called.
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  Speaker 2: To speak.
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  Speaker 4: Called to come in unto the king. These 30 days.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: And they told Mordecai Esther's words.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Look at verse 13. And Mordecai commanded to answer Esther saying.
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  Speaker 2: Think not. Think not.
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  Speaker 4: That with yourself. You shall escape the king's house. More
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: than all the Jews. The same way I like to
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: tell Christians in the west. You keep doing Christianity alone.
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  Speaker 4: Don't think to your mind. That what is happening in
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: the north. Will not happen in the west. We must
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  Speaker 4: rise up for each other.
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  Speaker 2: Is that okay now? We are here today. We are
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  Speaker 2: holding service. Yes, there might be police presence, but we
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: are not under any tension.
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  Speaker 4: But there are places in Brunei, in Medjugorje, in Kaduna,
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: in Jaws, in Pleitu, where they cannot hold services with
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: their eyes closed. We must support. We have a responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: The offering and title of the church is not for
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: the local assembly alone. We must adopt small churches in
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: the north. So don't think that if they come for
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: the Jews, they will not come for you. That's what
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Mordecai was saying. If you allow something to go on
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: in the region, it will spread to your own region.
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  Speaker 4: Attack is the best form of defense. Do something before
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: it comes to you.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Look at it.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: Verse 13, And Mordecai commanded to Esther, Think not with
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: yourself that you shall escape the king's house more than
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: all the Jews. For if you all together hold your
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  Speaker 4: peace at this time, then shall there be enlargement and
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: deliverance arise to the Jews from another place. But you
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: and your father's house will be destroyed.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Maybe you have come to the kingdom for such a
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: time as this. That's a very powerful word. Don't think
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: that this thing will not touch you, Esther. You can't
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: sit in your glass house and be throwing stones.
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  Speaker 2: You can't sit down in your own comfort of safety
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  Speaker 2: and think all will be well. And that is what
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  Speaker 2: is actually destroying the community.
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  Speaker 4: Let me tell you this. Let me branch a bit.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: When we drive on the road, the moment God has
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  Speaker 4: blessed you, that daily bread is no longer your own problem.
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  Speaker 4: You must find ways to flow out to. You must
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  Speaker 4: find those who are in need and be a blessing.
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  Speaker 4: Refuser to do so is you preparing.
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  Speaker 2: Your own grave. And I'll tell you why. The people
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  Speaker 2: we ignore on the street, they are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: will pick guns later. We have a responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: That's how bloody revolutions break out.
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  Speaker 2: When you neglect a sect of people longer enough.
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  Speaker 4: You see, I saw a video. This video is funny.
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  Speaker 4: A guy was riding bike And some cows were just running,
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  Speaker 4: avoiding the bike. And some cows were branching.
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  Speaker 2: To the bush.
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  Speaker 4: But there was this big one. Probably was too tense
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  Speaker 4: to branch. And the cow got to a point where
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  Speaker 4: the cow was tired. Then the cow turned back and
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  Speaker 4: faced him. And came to knock him out of his bike.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: There's something hunger does. There comes a time that people
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  Speaker 4: have had enough. And that's why we must start helping now.
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  Speaker 2: The most dangerous weapon in this world is a crowd
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  Speaker 2: that wants little. Anybody can buy them.
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  Speaker 4: They will kill. They will destroy. They will be used
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  Speaker 4: for wrong purposes. They are just a crowd. When you
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  Speaker 4: teach people to want little or expose them to only little,
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  Speaker 4: they will be buyable. We have the responsibility of slowing
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  Speaker 4: down the decay that is going on.
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  Speaker 2: The rot in our system. We have that responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: God is not going to come down from heaven to
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  Speaker 4: dread for us. Mordecai told Esther, maybe God has placed
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  Speaker 4: you there.
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  Speaker 2: For such a time as this.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe the reason why daily bread is no longer a
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  Speaker 4: prayer point for you so that you can be of
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  Speaker 4: help to those who need it.
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  Speaker 2: We can't say the kingdom Is being expressed through us.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: If we ignore the needs of others. I saw a story.
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  Speaker 2: A woman was going to Walmart. To buy some groceries.
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  Speaker 4: And she saw a man outside. An homeless man outside.
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  Speaker 4: And she planned. That when she get inside. She will
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  Speaker 4: buy him chicken.
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  Speaker 2: And other things. So the guy could eat. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Then getting inside, while she was trying to buy chicken,
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  Speaker 4: she heard the voice of the Holy Spirit on her
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  Speaker 4: inside telling her that he likes banana. So she bought
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  Speaker 4: the chicken but bought some bananas for him. So when
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  Speaker 4: she brought it outside and the man saw the banana,
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  Speaker 4: he broke down in tears and said, who told you
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  Speaker 4: that I love banana? God that is in heaven so
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  Speaker 4: cares about the preference of a beggar. We must not
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  Speaker 4: become cold on the inside. We have a duty. See,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: we blame the government for everything, but we are worse
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  Speaker 4: than the government. I'm telling you, I'm having projects going
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: on right now. They say, dollar, price has changed. It
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  Speaker 4: has not affected your business. They've changed the price. Nigerians,
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  Speaker 4: we just find a way to blame government for.
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  Speaker 2: Everything, but we have our own jurisdictions. We have our
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  Speaker 2: own role to play.
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  Speaker 4: Are you aware that regardless of what you feel about
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: the government, we hold them prayer?
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. Are you aware? Pray out. Pray for kings.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for those who are in authority. We pray for you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Nigeria now, you say you pray for the president,
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: they will drag you for three days. But the Bible
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: is the Bible. There's nothing you can do about it.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: The word of God is complete. There's nothing you can
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  Speaker 4: do about it. We have a duty. A man told,
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  Speaker 4: a mother told her, maybe God has placed you here
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  Speaker 4: for such a time as this. Your being here is
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  Speaker 4: not a mistake. It's a Kairos moment. It's not a joke.
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  Speaker 2: God was not making a mistake.
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  Speaker 4: He said, if you all together hold your peace, Then
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  Speaker 4: enlargement and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place. Say,
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  Speaker 4: but you and your father's house will be destroyed. Say,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you have come to power for such a time
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  Speaker 4: as this. Look at what Esther said in verse 16.
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  Speaker 4: Go gather together all the Jews that are present in
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: Shushan and fast for me. And neither eat or drink
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  Speaker 4: for three days, night or day. I also and my
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  Speaker 4: maidens will fast likewise. We'll do marathon fast. And I
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  Speaker 4: will go in unto the king which is not according
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  Speaker 4: to the law.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: If I perish, I perish. That was what she said.
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  Speaker 2: The reason why she said if I perish, I perish
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  Speaker 2: and she did.
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  Speaker 4: Not perish is because of the influence. Let me say
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  Speaker 4: this to you. Let me wrap up with this. No
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  Speaker 4: nation is worth dying for. You are better alive than dead.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? Use your head. The Yerubas have
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: an adage.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: They say, if the hand of a child has not
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: taught the sword of vengeance, it should not ask for
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  Speaker 4: the death that killed his father. That is what killed
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  Speaker 4: his father can kill him. Nations all over the world,
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  Speaker 4: they are used to the blood of the innocent being shed.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: It's not a luther.
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  Speaker 4: It's you understanding the power of influence. When you sit
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  Speaker 4: at a place where your Bible can control things, it
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  Speaker 4: is better than shouting.
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  Speaker 2: It is better than shouting. And that's what God wants
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  Speaker 2: to do with you. He wants to strategically position you.
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  Speaker 2: Not to oppress.
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  Speaker 4: Not to tell people, if I can't see your skirt,
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  Speaker 4: you won't get the job.
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  Speaker 2: No. To be an extension of kindness. Of his mercy.
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  Speaker 2: Of his reign. Of his love. Many people now hate church.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they hate the church their HR is attending.
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  Speaker 4: Say, this person that is, if that's your church, if
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  Speaker 4: I come.
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  Speaker 2: To that church, my band.
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  Speaker 4: You cannot preach the good news if your life is
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: a bad news.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot.
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  Speaker 4: We must represent him accordingly. And I want us to
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  Speaker 4: pray for that spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Renew within me a right spirit.
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  Speaker 4: There's something called a right spirit. Psalms 51, David prayed
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  Speaker 4: about it. Restore unto me the joy of my salvation.
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  Speaker 4: Renew a right spirit within. I want a right spirit.
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  Speaker 4: To do everything right. Lift your right hand everyone and
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  Speaker 4: pray that prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Renew within me a right spirit. I want your right spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't just want to make noise.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I don't just want to make noise. I want to
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  Speaker 2: represent you fully. Oh yes. Please pray that prayer for
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: a minute. Pray it for a minute.
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  Speaker 4: The day it occurs to you that you are God's method,
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: you are God's strategy. You will take your life serious.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: You will take more responsibility for the world around you.
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  Speaker 4: You will do much more. You will do much more.
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  Speaker 4: In Jesus' mighty name we pray. You know, yesterday evening,
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  Speaker 4: I was just meditating. And the Lord just spoke something
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  Speaker 4: in my spirit. Just a very simple word in my spirit.
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  Speaker 4: So I knew I was supposed to bless people.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It was a very short word. He said,
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  Speaker 2: just let God do His thing. Relax. Relax.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I got several messages of people who were
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  Speaker 4: contemplating suicide who just saw that.
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  Speaker 2: They just saw that.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: Somebody broke down in tears and said, it's as though
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  Speaker 4: you are seeing me right now in my room. He said,
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: my life is flashing before me. We can do more
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  Speaker 4: with influence. If you put it out and there are
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  Speaker 4: just two people seeing it, of what use is it?
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  Speaker 4: All that I've been saying is to try to educate
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  Speaker 4: the church that influence is not a sin.
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  Speaker 2: You will do more for God and with God with it.
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  Speaker 4: If there's anyone here who knows that influence is not
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  Speaker 4: a sin and you trust God to make a name
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  Speaker 4: for himself through your life, I decree the light of
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  Speaker 4: God's influence will shine on your life. God is going
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  Speaker 4: to make a name for himself through you. God will
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: make a name for himself through you. The light of
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: God's influence. It's a powerful thing. Two people can say
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  Speaker 4: the same thing, it will eat differently. Because the voice
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  Speaker 4: of one can be heard. Your voice will be heard.
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  Speaker 4: Your voice will be heard. When you speak, kings will tremble.
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  Speaker 4: When you speak, kings will tremble. When you speak, kings
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  Speaker 4: will tremble.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just tell you this.
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  Speaker 4: Recently, I was sitting with the, I won't mention which state,
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  Speaker 4: the governor of a state.
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  Speaker 2: And he said something to me. He said, never you
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  Speaker 2: think that the things you are doing are only seen
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  Speaker 2: by your people.
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  Speaker 4: Never you think, you do something small, it will get
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  Speaker 4: to the ends of the earth. One of my friends
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: working with United Nations called me and said, even our
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: bosses who don't like church, don't want to hear anything pastor,
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: they are all uploading your messages on their status.
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  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: It is the light of God's influence. It is a
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: covenant of hear, hear him. It told me there is
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  Speaker 4: no tongue, no language where your voice will not be heard.
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  Speaker 2: It's real. And that's what God wants to give you.
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  Speaker 2: And more, you can do a lot for him with that.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes my heart just bleeds. Just like, imagine us having
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  Speaker 2: a meeting. One of the major epidemics in Nigeria right
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: now is debt. People are owing. Not good debt though.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Say they are good debt.
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  Speaker 4: This one is debt, loan up, all those things.
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  Speaker 2: 3,000 a year, 5,000 there.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: Imagine if we can call 10 people out and we
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  Speaker 4: clear the loans in one service. How do you think
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: God will be excited? But if all of us are broke,
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  Speaker 4: how can we do that? How can we wipe their tears?
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: There's little you can do with smallness. That's just what
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to say. The only thing you can trade
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: with when you're small is pity. I'm going to say, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: God will help you. God will help you. But when
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  Speaker 4: God has raised us, we can change the old narrative.
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  Speaker 4: Let's rise on our feet, everybody. Again, I insist and.
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  Speaker 2: I pray for you. You will not be small. You
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  Speaker 2: will not be small.
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  Speaker 4: What you are doing will spread to the ends of
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  Speaker 4: the earth. Kings will come to the brightness of your rising.
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  Speaker 4: President of nations will call you father and mother. And
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  Speaker 4: when that influence comes, you will use it rightly. You
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  Speaker 4: will not lose the virtue of what God has placed
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  Speaker 4: inside of you. You will represent his kingdom well.
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  Speaker 2: You will not fail God. Amen. In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: You will not be another disappointment. Through you the tears
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: of many will be wiped off. The pains of many
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: will be erased. In the name of Jesus. God himself
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  Speaker 4: will help you. He will fight your battles. Everything that
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  Speaker 4: look like problem now is eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: If there's anyone who is going through a case that
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  Speaker 4: needs connection, God will raise help for you. He will
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  Speaker 4: raise voices for you where it matters. Before this week
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  Speaker 4: is over, you'll sing a new song. Anyone who is
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: going through a narrow path, you have cried, you have wept,
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: you wish things will change. I decree the change is here. Again,
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: I decree the change is here.
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  Speaker 2: It is the beginning of new things. All around. Everywhere
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: you turn. New things. One thing on the heels of another.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: God begins to send men to help you. He will
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: send men to help you.
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  Speaker 2: He will raise voices for you in high places.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus. There is a grace upon
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  Speaker 4: this house. It's the covenant of ease.
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  Speaker 2: From today.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing will be difficult for you to do. There's somebody
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  Speaker 4: here asking, where do I start from?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: Where do I start from? You stand on the platform
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  Speaker 2: of grace.
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  Speaker 4: That shame that you already think is inevitable, you will
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: not see shame. You will not see shame. And those
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: who have gathered to mock you, they will also gather
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  Speaker 4: to rejoice with you. You are the earth. You will
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  Speaker 4: never be detailed. From the depth of my heart, I
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  Speaker 4: bless you. Now listen to this. you will not be
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  Speaker 4: a star that went down suddenly. There's nothing like sudden departure.
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  Speaker 4: With long life, it will satisfy you.
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  Speaker 2: It will cause you to see good days all your life.
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  Speaker 4: If there's any here who like Jabez have only known
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  Speaker 4: sorrow the days of your joy has started today one
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: time in my life the only question I had was
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: will I ever be happy will a day ever come
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: that I'll be happy I can tell you those days
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: are here now If there's anyone asking similar questions, you
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: will laugh last.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: You will laugh last. I rebuke confusion.
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: From today, the peace of God that pass understanding flood
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: your spirit and soul.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Erupa Adich says, eating together is not sweet if one
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: person doesn't have. Among your contemporaries, you will have also.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: All your friends too will have And you will serve
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: God together. You will not bury anybody prematurely. You will
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: finish well.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: I cover you with the blood of Jesus. Everywhere you step,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: the presence of the Lord goes ahead of you.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: Anything that looks like this fellow is kidnapped, it will
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: never be you. You will hear of thousands fall by
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: your right. and tens of thousands by your left, no
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: evil will come near you. Thank you, Lord, because it
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: is done. From today, you are that individual that will
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: wipe away the tears of many.
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  Speaker 2: It is done. In Jesus' mighty name. Let's give Jesus
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: a big hand. Amen. God bless you.
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