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GREATER WORKS (PART 2) · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's said, be the name of the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Wave your hands to Jesus and give him all the praise,
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all the things to the one who died now is alive,
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lifted exalted above the nations of the earth. Give him
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all the praise, give him all the things. Father, we
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honor you, Shaba Saba Lahaskapran the Gabala Kosiata. Lord, we
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bless you to Jesus. Be all the praise to Jesus,
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be all the honor. Are you thanking him for the
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diverse manifestations of his word in the midst of his people.
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Go ahead and bless him. Father, we honor you. Onto
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the God that answers prayer. Shall all flesh come blessed
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be your name. Blessed be your name. Blessed be your name.
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From everlasting to everlasting. You remain God, God all by yourself,
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God in the midst of your people. Now ask him
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for an encounter tonight. I have come to receive. I
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have come to rise in the spirit. I have come
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to accend higher realms and dimensions. I have come to
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be imparted with wisdom. I have come to know one
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learned the ways of God. Are you praying the Bible
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says for everyone that asked receiveth praise cali caapra, has
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caparandos sagrest. In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed. Do
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us go tonight, ol God, and we pray that Jesus
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will be revealed yet again, glorified, yet again, exalted yet
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again in the midst of his people. Let your word
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come with power, Let it come with grace. Send someone's
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word to him tonight or God, in the name of
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Jesus Christ. And I pray that everyone who is here,
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all who are connecting from across the globe, that no
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one will return disappointed. For in Jesus' mighty and mtchless
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name we have prayed. Give Jesus a beacond clap, and
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please you may be seated.
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Speaker 1: God bless you.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome.
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Speaker 1: This is coin Onia. Allelujah. I sincerely welcome.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's always a joy to fellowship with God's people here
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on ground and across the globe. Zaria is also connecting
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blessings to you. In the name of Jesus Christ. I
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want to specially thank a great Man of God that
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we have in our midst. Bishop Macanto from the Upper
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Room Cathedral in Yola.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time.
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Speaker 2: The Lord honor you in the name of Jesus Christ, allelujah,
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and every other person who has come as a visitor.
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Speaker 1: You are most welcome in Jesus' name.
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Speaker 2: Amen. Isaiah chapter forty six and verse ten tells us
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that God declares the end from the beginning, that God
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has a unique ability to see the end, and that
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he declares the end even from the beginning. And this
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is not only true for God, it must be true
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for any vision leader. That means that in building people,
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you must be able to have the end picture. I
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was meditating on this a few days ago while preparing
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my notes, and it just occurred to me that many times,
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as leaders and as ministers of the Gospel, we keep
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teaching teaching, teaching, and that is profitable, but first ourselves
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and the people that we seek to teach do not
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have a picture of what they should become.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: In architecture and building, one of the reasons why the
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structures are build almost as exact as you see it
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on paper is because there is first a paper representation
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of the finished structure.
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Speaker 1: Are we together?
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Speaker 2: No one just begins to build, adding block upon block
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and then just hopes that as they build they will
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understand what they are doing. Usually you will not have
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a very wide structure.
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Speaker 1: A strong, stable structure belts that way.
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Speaker 2: So the architect, in partnership with all who are involved
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in construction, would sit down and using the power of knowledge, creativity, imagination,
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they will come up with an intelligent structure putting all
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of the factors that need to be in consideration away together.
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And right from before the cornerstone is put the first
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block is put on ground, there is already a picture
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of the end and that picture is not a secret.
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It is known to both the architect and the client
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that they are building for away together, and the knowledge,
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the awareness of what the finished structure will look like,
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is what gives the architects the same power to meticulously
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follow to details and then will give the client the
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patience to allow.
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Speaker 1: The builders do their work away together.
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Speaker 2: When there is no aware of how the finished product
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will look.
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Speaker 1: Like, impatience becomes imminent.
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Speaker 2: So if you're building a twelve or twenty or thirty story,
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it would be unwise for any clients to expect an
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architect to build all of that within a month or
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two months. He knows that no matter how dexterous that architects,
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that builder is, because of the nature of the product,
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the structure that they seek to produce, it will.
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Speaker 1: Take a while.
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Speaker 2: There are many things that need to be put every
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step of the way.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: And I thought that it was really very important for
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us to understand that week in week out, as we meet,
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God is not just bringing random knowledge. There is an
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exact spiritual house you are becoming, Allelujah. There is a
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kind of believer that God seeks to make out of you,
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and it is important that you know that He's not
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just interested in you being a Christian. He's not just
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interested in you being a legion's person, a church goer
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and attendant, a congregant, a member, perhaps a fan. God
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desires more than that from you. His intent is that
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you'll be built in a specific way.
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Speaker 1: There is a kind.
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Speaker 2: Of believer that can advance the purposes of God.
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Speaker 1: There is a kind of believer a way together.
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Speaker 2: Just because you're a believer haven't received the life of
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God does not automatically make you usable. It takes a
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lot to furnish and told, to chisel and to make
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you become a believer. With stature a way together, and
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I thought to just do this, perhaps just to give
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us a picture what kind of believer is going on
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in your building. I think I should do that just
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for a few minutes, and then we get to part
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two of what we're teaching. It's important that you have
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this at the back of your mind to know what
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kind of believer the Holy Spirit, in partnership with it,
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the teaching ministry is producing out of your life. That
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way you will be patient, that way you will be determined.
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That way your heart will remain ever open to partner
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with the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: Number one. I believe that God seeks to build a
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people who are first and foremost spiritually vibrant. Your spiritual
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vibrancy is God's greatest goal as far as building and
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making you become a believer with stature, spiritual vibrancy, men
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and women who are passionate lovers of Jesus and lovers
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of the things of God. This is the first kind
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of believer that God seeks to build.
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Speaker 1: It's important you get this.
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Speaker 2: Your spiritual growth, your spiritual progress, your spiritual vibrancy, in
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order of priority, is God's highest goal as far as
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building you of his concern.
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Speaker 1: To become a passionate lover of.
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Speaker 2: Jesus, not just a religious fanatic, but a sincere passionate
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lover of Jesus, and then a lover of the things
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of God. And that includes the house of God, that
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includes the program of God. Number two. God seeks to
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build in this house and through this house the believer
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with character, very important character. What does that mean that
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you are? You sustain a growing determination to be like
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Jesus in experience, a growing determination you are a man
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of character. Indeed, not just because you hold through certain
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positive traits and virtues.
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Speaker 1: It takes more than that.
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Speaker 2: This is beyond just being positive about life. There must
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be a growing determination in that believer that I want
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my life life to be a reflection of the christ inexperience,
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It says, my little children, of whom I travail until
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Christ be formed in you. So the Lord seeks to
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build through this ministry, through this vision, through the things
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that we do, a believer that is of character, that
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you become the closest representation of Jesus to your world.
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Speaker 1: Number three.
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Speaker 2: What kind of believer is God building in and through
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this house? Number three? He is building intelligent and transformed believers.
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Intelligent and transformed believers by now you should have sustained
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and appreciation that spirituality does not take away intelligence. In
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Isaiah chapter eleven, when you read verse two and verse three,
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after listing the sevenfold operation of the spirit of the Lord,
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verse three says, it shall make thee of weak understanding allelujah.
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It takes intelligence to reflect Christ.
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Speaker 1: It takes intelligence to live.
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Speaker 2: Out the purposes of the Kingdom in experience. So God
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is raising intelligent and transformed believers. What does that mean?
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Believers who have a thorough understanding of the Word of God.
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A thorough understanding of the Word of God alongside listen
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carefully before you write alongside the ability to apply the
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word towards a victorious life.
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Speaker 1: It's not enough to just know the word of God.
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Speaker 2: You must sustained the intelligence and understanding to apply the
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Word of God towards a victorious life. There are many
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believers that have suppose that spiritual knowledge, so many kinds
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of information spiritually profitable, but they are not able to
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translate their knowledge of God and their knowledge of the.
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Speaker 1: World towards a victorious life.
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Speaker 2: Knowledge is truly a waste until you are able to
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translate it for your profiting and the profiting of others.
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So when we talk about an intelligent and a transformed believer,
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I'm reminder of the scripture that says, let the world
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of Christ dwell in you richly.
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Speaker 1: It says in all wisdom.
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Speaker 2: It should not just be in abundance, but it must
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be mixed with wisdom.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: Most believers shell intelligence and transformation, and they believe that
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being zillous for the things of God is sufficient to
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produce champions out of them. It doesn't happen that way.
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There must be intelligence and transformation.
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Speaker 1: That you are.
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Speaker 2: Having access to the world of God intelligently and methodically communicated,
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seasoned with grace, that when you receive that word, the
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Bible lets us know that it is able to drive
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away darkness John one five. The light shine it in
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the weakness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
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Speaker 1: But when the world comes, are we together?
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Speaker 2: Now? You must also sustain the intelligence to apply that
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word such that it produces a victorious Christian out of you.
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Speaker 1: Can I tell.
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Speaker 2: You your Christian experience will be pungentous to many.
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Speaker 1: If what you claim to know.
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Speaker 2: About God and about the things of God does not
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eventually translate into.
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Speaker 1: A victorious version of you.
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Speaker 2: So there are many believers whose propositions about God is
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not desired by the nations. And the reason is because
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they have not seen the world you claim to know
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and have and understand produce a wonder out of you?
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Are we together? Number four? What kind of believers is
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God raising? Please do not forget this is a very
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this is a very beautiful introduction.
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Speaker 1: What kind of a believer are you becoming? Weak?
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Speaker 2: In Number four? God seeks to produce responsible, purpose driven
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and effective believers. I repeat, he seeks to produce responsible,
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purpose driven and effective believers. Responsible, purpose driven and effective believers.
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In my humble submission, I think that this is one
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of the major challenges with the context of Christianity in Africa.
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Speaker 1: It does not capture this dimension.
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Speaker 2: Where people evolved to be responsible, to be purpose driven,
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and to be effective. We non bewigh the passion for efficiency,
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and most people are not pro kingdom. They do not
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have a goal and an intent. Nothing drives their lives.
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It's a terrible and dangerous, even destructive way to live,
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destructive to you and to anyone around you. Allelujah, purpose driven,
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responsible and effective believers. Number five. What kind of believers
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is God raising in this house and through this house?
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Speaker 1: Are you ready? Number five?
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Speaker 2: Agents of societal and territorial transformation.
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Speaker 1: This is very profound.
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Speaker 2: God is raising agents of societal and territorial transformation. That
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means individuals who can translate their Christian experience to a
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context that becomes relevant to their world.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: This is where the tragedy of blind fanatism comes in,
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and it's becoming a cancer in Africa. Unfortunately, where there
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is such enthusiasm, there is such on bending devotion away
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together to many lobsided dimensions of the God Gospel and
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the truth of it. In fact, most people empress dimensions
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that has no applicability to society. One of the greatest
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expressions of territorial transformation was used by Jesus himself. He
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calls us light and he calls us salt. Do you
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know that both light and salt do not benefit themselves.
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Speaker 1: The relevance of light is that it illuminates the room.
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Speaker 2: The relevance of salt is that it gives taste and
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preserves something odd than itself. I will never advocate a
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Christian experience that makes people small minded, limited and without
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any societal relevance. It is the reason why people become
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the more spiritual we are in Africa, and respectfully speaking,
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even across our nation, the more we are not able
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to see the imprint of the God life that we
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claim to have. Crime still remains, all kinds of vices
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still remains, and yet there is a supposed multiplication of
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those who claim to be obedient to the faith. There
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is an apostolic dimension to the Christian experience that must
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be captured in every believer's life. That I am not
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just a member, I am not just a congregant. I
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am light and I am sold away together. Every time
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I have the honor of teaching the world of God,
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I am aware that there are several kinds of people
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listening to me, and many of them are listening using
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different vistas. Some are listening as professionals, some are listening
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as military people, some are listening as politicians. Orthers are
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listening as intellectuals academicians. Others are listening as lay people
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who have never had any kind of exposure or orientation.
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Orthers are listening as fellow ministers of the gospel. Others
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are listening as critics, orthers are listening as you know,
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maybe some unbeliever non Christians who are just passionate about
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learning and they want to just sincerely, openheartedly listen to
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what we have to say.
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Speaker 1: Any wise man of God who loves.
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Speaker 2: God and loves the people most factor in the mindset
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of your audience while you teach while not in a
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pastor's conference.
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Speaker 1: But this is important for us to.
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Speaker 2: Learn that in communicating the Gospel, especially in the context
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of today's world, you must be able to buy into
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the mindset and the thinking of those who are listening
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to you.
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Speaker 1: Are we together?
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Speaker 2: This informs your presentation, This informs the approach to communicating
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the world that the goal and the intent of teaching
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is for understanding.
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Speaker 1: If at the end of.
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Speaker 2: Your communication people are left at a loss, they are
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not understanding, there is no point of application in their lives.
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Speaker 1: You only waste their time.
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Speaker 2: And I can assure you that we live in a
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day and age where intelligent people will not submit themselves
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to foolishness. Are we together? Yes, Some of the people
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who come to church are intelligent nation builders, CEOs, students,
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men and women of God, people with superior orientations that
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have helped them to achieve all kinds of things in life.
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And if and when they do come and submit themselves
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to us preachers, we must be intentional about communicating the
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world of God in a profitable way. Imagining, for instance,
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a government organization now says we're going to allow Cornonia
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to be aired on national TV every time. Will Nigeria
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have become better because they are listening to us? Or
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are we just going to produce and not that group
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of fanatics with no purpose, no vision.
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Speaker 1: You see, blind fanatism.
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Speaker 2: Is characterized by enthusiasm and devotion with no balance and
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no purpose. So you find out that the extremists groups
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across all religions that destroy nations. Extremism is one of
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the major plagues in the world today, and extremism comes
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from fanatism without purpose, fanatism without balance away together.
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Speaker 1: So whether it's.
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Speaker 2: From the Christian side or non Christian side, any religion,
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as this may apply, you find out that most extremists
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that destroy people.
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Speaker 1: And kill and men and do all kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: At the back of that mayhem is a destructive orientation
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that was not balanced. It may sustain some truth there,
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but because it was not holistically captured and presented, it
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will produce all kinds of error, widespread erra. So in
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building believers, I need you to understand, so you appreciate
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what God is doing in your life, that at the
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end of your journey you should not be here one week,
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two weeks, one year, and then you are not able
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to defend your transformation. That will be a total waste
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of your time away together. As a believer, you should
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be able to articulate with intelligence and grace that from
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the time I submitted myself to this body of knowledge,
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this is what has happened to my understanding.
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Speaker 1: Grace has come upon me.
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Speaker 2: Not just that I got a car, not just that
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I got a house. Those things are wonderful away together.
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But the real proof that you have met God is
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that you cannot be the same person again. It affects
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your spirit, It affects your mind, It affects the works
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of your hands, It affects your ideology and your perspective.
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You imagine there are men of God here seated, and
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that whilst listening to me, there are corrections that begin
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to happen in your spiritual understanding. You go back and
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begin to make adjustments in your ministry, you produce a
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dexteros and powerful people, not just tongue talking people, not
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just worth confessing people, people who can be called even
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by government because of the level of light and salts.
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They have become on account of your mentorship. That is leadership,
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that is spirituality. True leaders do not maintain followers. They
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translate followers to become leaders and leaders into agents of change.
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Speaker 1: Alleluyah.
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Speaker 2: So don't carry this mindset that I'm just coming to church.
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I'm about to write something. Now, who knows by this
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writing I may get a car. By this writing, I
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may get a house, and you will, indeed. But beyond that,
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if all I give you is prayer for a car
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and house, have insulted your intelligence. Allelujah. In the Kingdom,
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what we present is by first superior to anything mundane.
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The products that we communicate and not earth bound are
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we together. They apply in the earth, but they are
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more superior in value and quality.
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Speaker 1: The Bible, speaking about.
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Speaker 2: Wisdom, says that the price of it cannot be compared
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with anything, that the price of it is greater than choice, silver,
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than gold and rubies. So when you are listening to
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the wisdom of God's world, you are receiving more than
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that which programs you to have a car, a house.
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Those things will become benefits that you will not even
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be aware of when they arrive, because you are focusing
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on a bigger cause. Allelujah, now that you know what
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you are becoming. Praying one minute, Lord, I submit myself
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to your wisdom. Even tonight are we praying?
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Speaker 3: Ohlorials God, we praion and were sha pray coin onia,
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Oh be lifted.
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Speaker 1: Above all lo the.
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Speaker 2: We lay our cry.
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Speaker 1: And work sh Ala sambacuciada.
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Speaker 2: Above on all the buns.
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Speaker 1: We lay up.
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Speaker 2: And work.
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Speaker 1: All glorious God.
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Speaker 2: Save we prays. We lay.
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Speaker 1: And Oh glorious.
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Speaker 2: God, were we And what time, Oh.
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Speaker 1: Glorious God said.
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Speaker 2: Well we halleluia, please be seated Greater works Part two,
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let's said be the name of the Lord. We've been
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on a teaching series and we're trusting God. The goal
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is to prepare us to be more effective believers, to
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be able to communicate the life, the wisdom, the grace,
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the power of God at a level that reveals Jesus
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in a greater dimension. And our text is John fourteen twelve.
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Jesus speaking, he said verily Verily, I say unto you,
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he that believed on me, the works that I do,
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shall he do also, And greater works than these shall
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he do. Because I go to my father.
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Speaker 1: May that be your experience in the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 2: And we established a few things last week, just a
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very quick recap, and then we get to the business
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of today.
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Speaker 1: We explained that.
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Speaker 2: The reason why we should believe in the Greater Work
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project is Number One, that Jesus said so. We believe
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that greater works is the heritage of every believer, first
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and foremost, because Jesus said so, and the Bible clearly
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tells us that God is not.
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Speaker 1: A man, that he should lie, not the son of man,
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that he should repent.
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Speaker 2: Number Two, that the believer has been given authority to Christ,
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the advantage that we have by reason of the death,
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the best, the resurrection, the accession, exaltation of the Christ.
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Speaker 1: The implication to the believer today.
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Speaker 2: Is that we have authority in and to Christ Jesus,
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and that authority has afforded us the opportunity to manifest
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greater works. Number Three, that the reason why we must
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believe in the Greater Work agenda is that we have
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access to the Spirit of God, Allelujah. Access to the
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Spirit of God and the Bible lets us know in
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Acts chapter one and verse eight that we receive power
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when the Holy goos comes upon us, and that he
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empowers us to be witnesses in Jerusalem Judea Samaria to
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the outmost part of the world.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah. And I did explain the concept of greater.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps I will repeat it again that the reason why
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Jesus used the expression greater was not as though he
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was limiting himself. But I told you that reason number
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one was because when Jesus walked upon.
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Speaker 1: The earth, all that he could do, he did it alone.
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Speaker 2: Are we together that now we have the advantage of
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efficiency because the Spirit has been poured upon all flesh.
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If Jesus were in one city, he was not in
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another city, because even though he was God, he became
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earth bound by reason of wearing a mortal body. So
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when he says greater work, he also means more efficient work,
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because now I don't have to be everywhere for the
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program of God to go, because there are other believers
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who have been anointed. Are we together that where I
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am limited, there is some believer today? Like I said
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last week in France, there's some in Italy, even in Nigeria.
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Here there are several men and women of God, several
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people representing the purposes of God as God has graced them.
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Now that makes the agenda more effective. Imagine if I
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were the only one mandated to take the whole world
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number one, I would die young, am I right on
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that number two?
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Speaker 1: That program will not come to fruition, I guarantee you.
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Speaker 2: So when Jesus said greater works, he meant there will
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not just be one Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Again, there is one Jesus, but many witnesses. You see that.
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Now the agenda is to.
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Speaker 2: Reveal that one Jesus. There are not many Jesuses, just
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one Jesus called the Christ, the resurrected one. But there
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are many witnesses, advocates, promoters of that Christ and his purposes.
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This is why he called it greater. But the second
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reason why he called it greater was I told you
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that Jesus performed many phenomenal miracles. So when he speaks
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about greater, of course you know that he's not just
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talking of raising the dead and all of that. The
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greatest miracle that can be performed by any individual is
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to give life to someone who is lifeless, and that
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miracle has already been performed by Jesus.
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Speaker 1: So there is no miracle anybody whoop.
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Speaker 2: Any miracle perform on someone who is already alive is
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less sad than the miracle of resurrection, because the last
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and the greatest enemy to be destroyed by any man
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is death, and Jesus already resurrected.
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Speaker 1: He resurrected three people.
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Speaker 2: There were three instances of resurrection, as captured in the Bible.
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One is Lazarus, the second the son of the widow
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at Nane, and then the third the centurion's daughter, Jarus's
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daughter Allelujah. Even before Jesus arrived, the raising of the
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dead was already something that was being practiced by the prophets.
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So when he talks about greater works, you can be
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sure that he does not just refer to greater miracles
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than me. I told you that there was one miracle
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Jesus could not perform, and that was the miracle of
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giving eternal life, because that miracle would demand death and
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the blood it would demand resurrection as sansion and pouring
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his blood in that heavenly tabernacle. So as powerful as
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Jesus was, as he walked upon the earth, the greatest
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miracle man needed.
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Speaker 1: He could not perform it before the cross.
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Speaker 2: So when he says, greater works, you are now empowered
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to do something I could not do. Whilst I walked
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upon the earth. He healed the sick, he multiplied bread,
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He performed all kinds of phenomenal miracles. But there was
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no mention of him giving salvation to any He could
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forgive sin, but he could not translate men from the
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kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God's their son.
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Everyone healed in the Bible still died a we together.
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Now everyone he gave bread still became hungry. But when
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Jesus rose again as the resurrected king, now he gave
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us the ministry of reconciliation. And we can announce the Gospel.
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We can propose God's idea to men that, in believing
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the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus, eternal life can be imputed
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to the spirit of man profound greater works. Allelujah. Then
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we said, there are forces that need to be in place.
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There are forces that need to be at work in
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the life of any believer who seeks to manifest greater works.
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Allelujah number one. We looked at the force of prayer
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last week that the first spiritual force that must be
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engaged and activated in the life of any believer who
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seeks to represent the purposes of God in a higher dimension,
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to make.
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Speaker 1: Jesus known, to reveal him.
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Speaker 2: To the nations, his life, his power, and everything that
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Christ brought.
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Speaker 1: And made available to the believer, must be a person
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of prayer.
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Speaker 2: And I did tell you that we can use prayer
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as a tool and a weapon to both birth and
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establish the purposes of God upon the earth. Prayer has
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many dimensions and prayer has many assignments. One of the
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major assignments of prayer, as far as this context is concerned,
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is as a tool to birth and then to establish
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the purposes.
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Speaker 1: Of God across any territory.
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Speaker 2: Revival will be far from any territory that does not
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have an apostolic and a prophetic community of people who
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know how.
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Speaker 1: To pray with intelligence and with understanding.
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Speaker 2: I made an observation about prayer last week that I
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may want to repeat that for your prayer to create
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the kind of changes that you desire, it must be effectual,
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and it must be fervent.
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Speaker 1: For prayer to be effectual, it must be word.
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Speaker 2: Based, not energy based. Energy based is powerful, but energy
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based prayer is where fervency comes. It must be from
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the depth of your heart. There must zeal and energy,
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But in order of priority. If your prayer is fervent
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and not effectual, it will only be a waste of time.
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Effectual prayer is only as it submits to the world
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of God. The word compliancy of your prayer is what
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makes it powerful.
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Speaker 1: Are we together, so he says, the.
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Speaker 2: Effectual and pavent prayer of the righteous have fail led much,
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have failed much.
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Speaker 1: That means it has great profiting.
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Speaker 2: When a righteous man who knows how to pray based
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on scripture, because I have taught you in this house
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that as mighty as God is, he limited his dealings.
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Speaker 1: With man to the boundary of scripture.
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Speaker 2: That means God cannot deal with man outside of the
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provision that scripture allows.
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Speaker 1: Are we together?
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Speaker 2: Dealing with God outside of the provision of scripture will
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not secure his attention that he has submitted to his word,
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even a bo he has submitted, He has exalted his
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word even.
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Speaker 1: Above his name.
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Speaker 2: So the force of prayer and the last that we
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saw last week is the force of wisdom Mark six two.
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The force of wisdom as the second spiritual force that
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must be in place for any believer who desires to
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manifest greater works. The Bible says on the Sabbath day,
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when it was come, he began to teach in the synagogue,
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and many hearing him were astonished, saying, from whence had
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this man these things? And what wisdom is this which
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is given to him? That even such mighty works are
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wrought by his hand. There is a relationship between wisdom,
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wisdom that comes from above, and mighty works. You cannot
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separate mighty works from wisdom. Everywhere you see wisdom, you
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know that there's mighty works connected to it. I define
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wisdom for us last week number one as the accurate
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application of knowledge. Wisdom is the accurate application of knowledge.
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Knowledge is only potential power. Is often said in our
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world that knowledge is power. I disagree. Knowledge is potential power.
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It is knowledge that is understood and applied with intelligence
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that becomes power.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: So wisdom is the accurate application of knowledge. Another definition
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wisdom is the ability I said last week to use
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the written and inspired word of God to make accurate
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decisions and provide solutions to life's problems. I'll take it
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one more time, that wisdom is the accurate application of knowledge,
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and then that wisdom is the supernatural ability to use
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both the written word scripture and the inspired word, the
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Ramma word that comes from the Holy Spirit to make
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accurate decisions and then to provide solutions to life's problems.
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That means the fruit of wisdom is seen in the
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quality of decisions that are taken. Are we together? You
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know where wisdom is functioning by the superiority and the
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quality of decisions that the possessor takes.
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Speaker 1: It is impossible to claim to have wisdom.
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Speaker 2: That comes from above, and then your life continues to
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be a representation of inferior decisions. Now, there are four
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kinds of wisdom, as revealed in James Chapter three and
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verse fifteen. James three fifteen lists for us, in no
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particular order, four kinds of wisdom. Number one, it tells
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us there is earthly wisdom that is a product of.
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Speaker 1: Your being alive on the earth. Are we together? Yes,
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human wisdom, common sense. We call it.
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Speaker 2: Number two. There is sensual wisdom. Another word is scientific wisdom.
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Wisdom that is a product of experimentation. You keep building
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hypothesis until it is established as a theory. Sensual scientific wisdom,
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academic wisdom.
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Speaker 1: The third kind of wisdom is called.
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Speaker 2: Devilish or demonical wisdom, wisdom that is as a result
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of your fraternity with spirits that are not the spirit
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of God.
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Speaker 1: It is possible that a man can possess the.
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Speaker 2: Ability to make certain decisions, and not by the spirit
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of God. We see that clearing the Book of Arts,
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where a lady who was possessed with the spirit of divination,
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she was professigned accurately. How be it not by the
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spirit of God at sixteen when you read from verse
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sixteen that a damn cell was possessed with the spirit
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of divination, and she brought their Master's great gain using
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her sooth? Say so, it is possible that someone by
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a familiar spirit, a spirit that is outside of the
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Spirit of Christ, may seem to make temporary progress.
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Speaker 1: It is called devilish wisdom. Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: And then finally, the Bible tells us there is wisdom
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that comes from above. There is wisdom that comes from above,
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supernatural wisdom that comes by the spirit of the living God.
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This is the kind of wisdom and the dimension of
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wisdom that if and when possessed and accessed by the believer,
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evidently your life will produce greater works. May that be
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your testimony in the name of Jesus Christ. Do not
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forget that I said, you see that excellency of wisdom
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by the quality of decisions that you make.
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Speaker 1: We do not decide consequences.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, consequences are connected by default to decisions, So you
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don't choose consequences. You make choices and decisions, and with
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those choices and decisions that corresponding consequences connected to them
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become your lot automatically. That means that when you look
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around your life and you find out your life is
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plagued with failure, defeat, pain, regret, negative decisions, it goes
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to tell you that there is bankruptcy of wisdom, and
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we all need wisdom. Wisdom is a very profound gift,
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a treasure that is needed and required by all men
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for destiny, actualization and then even for greater works. Jesus
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in Luke chapter two, verse fifty two, the Bible says
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he increased, he grew in wisdom, in wisdom, Jesus himself,
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increase in wisdom, then in stature, then in favor with
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God and with man.
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Speaker 1: Are you seeing the protocol there.
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Speaker 2: That even before he opened up of favor, he access
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wisdom Because everything favor brings, wisdom preserves. If the only
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thing you pursue is favor, you will keep having things
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that you will lose because wisdom is a preserver. So
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but two will be a continuation of wisdom, and then
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will take it. There's a lot tonight. Receive grace to
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hear and understanding Jesus name wisdom. What are the benefits
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of wisdom? I think I should just state that most
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believers do not appreciate the benefit of wisdom in the
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life of an individual who presses to have it at
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work in his life. Number one, wisdom strengthens and secures
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Ecclesiast seven nineteen eclas Yes seven and verse nineteen. The
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Bible says wisdom strengthened the wise more than ten mighty men,
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which I'm in the city powerful, that wisdom can secure
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you more than ten mighty men.
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Speaker 1: Which are in the city.
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Speaker 2: In fact, one of the versions I think amplify or
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thereabout will say wisdom secures more than ten mighty rulers.
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Speaker 3: So he's not just.
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Speaker 1: Talking about ordinary men.
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Speaker 2: He's talking about rulers and philly and generals. Can you
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imagine that wisdom is greater than ten mighty rulers with their.
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Speaker 1: Experience put together.
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Speaker 2: Wisdom that comes from above truly secures Number two Eclais
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Yes seven and verse twelve. Wisdom protects and wisdom preserves,
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it says, for wisdom is a defense. Watch this, and
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money too is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge
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is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.
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Give us amplified. Let's say the justice that amplified did
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for that. It says, wisdom is a defense, even as
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money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is
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that wisdom shields and it preserves the life of him
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who has it. He's telling you the difference that wisdom
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can bring defense even as money can bring defense. But
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the difference is that money cannot preserve the life of
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the person who possesses it. If money could preserve the life,
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the rich fool would not die because he had a
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lot of money but no wisdom. And the first proof
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of wisdom is that you acknowledge that there is a
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god in heaven, because only a.
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Speaker 1: Fool who say in his heart that there is no
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God are we together?
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Speaker 2: Wisdom preserves number three ecclesies since ten ten with brings
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efficiency popular scripture. Wisdom brings efficiency to your life. If
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the ion be blonde, and he do not wet the edge,
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sharpen the edge, now.
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Speaker 1: Then must he put more strength.
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Speaker 2: But wisdom is profitable in that it has the ability
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to direct you towards an efficient life. I can tell
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you sincerely speaking an uncomfortable truth. But a hard life
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is directly traceable to the absence of wisdom. Hardship has
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an explanation. Wisdom brings efficiency. Wisdom brings efficiency. Wisdom brings efficiency.
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Alle Lujah.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the third foce. Are you ready?
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Speaker 2: Force Number three that is responsible for the manifestation of
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greater works in the Saints and is much needed, especially
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because of the days that we're now living, is called
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the force of faith. Please write the force of faith,
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the force of faith. There is no believer who seeks
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to manifest greater works as desired by Jesus Christ who
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will ignore walking by.
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Speaker 1: Faith and walking in faith. The Bible has a lot
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to say about faith.
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Speaker 2: Number one Hebrews eleven and verse one, it says, now
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faith is I like Paul. Now faith is the substance,
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he says, of things hoped for. He calls it the
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evidence of things not seen, the substance of things hoped
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for and the evidence of things not seen. Verse two
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it says, for by it this force called faith, elders
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obtained a good report. And when you read all the
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remaining renditions down to the end of that verse.
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Speaker 1: Those were the good reports that were obtained by faith.
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Speaker 2: In fact, if we go to thirty three, thirty three
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begins to give us a very intelligent representation of these reports.
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Through faith, they subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stop
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the mouth of lions. Thirty four it says, quench the
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violence of fire, escapes the edge of the sword. Out
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of weakness, were made strong once valiant in fight turned
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to flights.
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Speaker 1: The armies of the aliens look at this.
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Speaker 2: Women received their debt to life, and it says, orders go.
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They were tortured and had the opportunity to accept deliverance
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by faith, they refused. They refused deliverance because they wanted
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to obtain.
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Speaker 1: A better resurrection.
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Speaker 2: Thirty six it says others who had trial of cruell
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mock clings, and all of these things. The Bible says,
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all of these things, they were called elders, and they
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obtain good report by faith.
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Speaker 1: Let me give you two reasons why we need faith
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in our work with God.
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Speaker 2: Number one, the first reason why every believer needs to
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understand the subject of faith and then to work and
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live by faith is because there are realities beyond the
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scope of our sight, beyond the scope of science. Please write,
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there are realities beyond the scope of sight and beyond
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the scope of science Collosians one, sixteen to eighteen. There
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are realities beyond the scope of sight that means what
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your optical eyes can see, and then beyond the scope
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of science. The human nature is trained scientifically and trained environmentally.
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Speaker 1: Allelujah.
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Speaker 2: These are the two principle ways by which we are
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trained to understand and to deal with our environment. There
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is an environmental conditioning and then scientifically. From the time
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you begin to go to school formally or informally, you
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begin to learn how to use the techniques of science
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to relate with your world. But the truth is that
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there are realities beyond the scope of sight. There are
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realities beyond the scope of science. Even science agrees that
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the human eye, which has twenty twenty vision, cannot see everything.
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Are we together? It is very possible. I don't know
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if it has happened to you, that a very small
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insect will bite you. You feel the pain. The pain
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is real, but you cannot You almost cannot find the
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insect biting you. Yet it is there, and it is
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not like you said, demonishing, it's just too small for
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your eyes to see. You usually use the direction of
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the pain to investigate that most.
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Speaker 1: Likely it is there.
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Speaker 2: There are many, many things that the eye of man
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cannot see. There is a limit to which the vision
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of man twenty twenty. We are told, Are we together?
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You may need to take advantage of a telescope to
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see beyond certain ranges. So there are realities beyond the
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scope of sight and beyond the scope of science.
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Speaker 1: Collosians one sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Please it says for by Him where all things created
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that are in heaven follow carefully, and that are in
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the earth visible and invisible. So there are things visible
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and there are things invisible. Please note that invisible does
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not mean unreal. Our concept of reality is anything the
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frame of our eyes, our ears, our hands, and all
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of that our senses can relate with. But there are
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realities beyond the scope of sight, and there are realities
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beyond the scope of science. The Bible says visible and
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invisible things. For instance, the realm of the Spirit is
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a real realm that when all is said and done,
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it is that realm that most people are going to
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live in. So we are given an advantage of duality
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of rems. You have a spirit or you are a spirit,
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and then you live in a mortal body, and that
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mortal body gives you access to the earth. Are we together?
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But you are not a body. Your body, as you
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have been taught, it is just an instrument of execution.
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When people die, we call it death, but the realm
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of the Spirit never calls it death, because our idea
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of death is to cease to leave. But that is
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only correct from our realm, from the realm of the spirit.
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When you say someone has died, they look at you
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with shock and wonder, because there is no such thing
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a cessation of living.
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Speaker 1: We see that in scripture.
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Speaker 2: Are we together? The rich man and Lazarus see one
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The rich man is there enjoying his prosperity and finances.
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Is there suffering and then sin two both of them die,
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and we see that they were both alive in another dimension,
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one in Abraham's bosom, the other one was perishing in hell.
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Speaker 1: And he was crying.
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Speaker 2: He had intelligence, His intelligence was still with him deep
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what ti in your finger? And please quench my thirst?
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And that was not possible. And he said, all right, please,
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can you allow the man to come back to the
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earth and preach to my brethren that there is something
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I need to change about my life and my ways?
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And he said, no, they have Moses and they have
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the loss. Let them listen to them. There was intelligent communication.
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When Jesus stopped breathing in the earth, as we know,
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he did not cease to live. He went to had Is,
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the place of the dead set and being a spirit
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is alive. Jesus being a spirit alive, the departed saense
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that he preached to. According to the Gospel of Peter,
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Peter told us in his epistle that he preached to
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the departed saints.
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Speaker 1: They believe, and he led them together. It was a
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try your find entry.
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Speaker 2: Are we together? When he resurrected from the dead, the
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Bible says, graves of the saints that were once departed
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were open, and the people came out and walked all
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through the streets of Jerusalem. This may be a word
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of comfort for someone. The moment you see your loved
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one close his eye or a eye, never to open
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it again, find comfort.
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Speaker 1: It was just the body that stopped this assignment here.
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But life is.
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Speaker 2: Real more real. Is difficult for uso comprehend this because
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you were not given the privilege of consciousness before your
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arrival here. Consciousness began for you when you want this
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mortal body. So it's difficult for you to relate with
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the reality of that realm, except and unless God give
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you the privilege of visionary experiences. Supernatural and visionary experiences
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can train your spirit to at least a bit to
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understand how the realm of the spirit Worksunderstanding misover. Yes,
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we need to work by faith because there are realities
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beyond us. Would you believe if I told you that
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there way angels all around this place? You don't have
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to wait until someone is shouting and say, oh, truly
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their angels. No, the Bible says, so, you see, because
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the faith is based on what God said the very
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foundation of faith is built upon the person and the
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speakings of God. Let me repeat myself that the very
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foundation of Bible faith is built upon the person of
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God and the speakings of God. What regulates the entire
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faith economy in the spirit is what God has said.
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Speaker 1: If you extract what God has.
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Speaker 2: Said, there is no possibility for manifesting Bible faith again,
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because Bible faith must have a business, and that basis
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is the Word of God. John one one.
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Speaker 1: In the beginning, what's the world? And the Word was
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with God? And the world was God. Verse two it
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says the same was in the beginning with God.
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Speaker 2: Verse three it says all things I like this were
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made by Him the Word, and outside of his influence
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and participation was not anything made that was made. The
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second reason why we need faith and we need to
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work by faith as one of the forces for commanding
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greater works is that faith commits God in the affairs
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of men. Faith commits God in the affairs of men.
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Speaker 1: This is profound.
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Speaker 2: Faith commits God in the affairs of men. John eleven
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forty That it has to do with your conviction. Jesus
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said unto her, said I'm not unto you that if
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thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see.
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Speaker 1: The glory of God.
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Speaker 2: Your working in faith, and you're working by faith has
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an implication in that it commits God in the affairs
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of your life. And as you know from Scripture that
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the moment God gets committed look one thirty seven to
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the affairs of men, impossibility vanishes. It says, for with
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God nothing shall be impossible. Faith has a unique ability
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to commit God in the affairs of our lives. You
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want to do greater works, it wants be by faith.
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And I've taught you here that faith. Number one represents
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your confidence in God, who God is, and the integrity
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of his person, your conviction, your persuasion, your confidence. Number two,
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faith is the action that you take as proof that
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you believe God, the action that you take as proof
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that you believe God in order to commit Him as
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touching the affairs of your life. So when it has
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to do with Bible faith, two things are involved. Number one,
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your conviction, your depth of persuasion about who God is
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and the integrity of his person. Number two, you must
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take action actions of obedience. Johnah took action, but his
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action was in disobedience. So It's not just blind action.
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You must act according as God has directed. If it
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be now bid me come, and he said come. If
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the guy sat back, that will be action, but not
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action of faith. Most people act but acting disobedience. If
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God says, God left and you go right, you're not
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working by faith.
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Speaker 1: Albeit you are acting, but not by faith. Are we together?
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Speaker 2: Are you saying that the entire economy of faith depends
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on who God is and what He has said. So
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the foundation for Bible faith, as you have been taught,
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is to find out.
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Speaker 1: What God has said, what has he said?
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Speaker 2: I refer you to my message exceeding great and precious promises,
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a compendium, a capture of everything God has said that
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provides an advantage to the believer in Christ. Efficients one
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and Thes three, the Bible says that God had given us,
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had blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places.
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Speaker 1: In Christ. Please hear me. If you do not learn
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to walk by faith, you will be limited.
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Speaker 2: You will be crying and blaming God, whereas supernatural blessings
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are on their way coming to you, just because you
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cannot see it.
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Speaker 1: I gave an example last week. I hope you still
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remember about someone who would leave Legos? Was it last week?
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Speaker 2: Yes? That if someone took a flight from Lego and
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you were waiting for the person at the airport coming
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to Abuja, did you know that a fifteen minutes flight,
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and for about forty six to forty seven.
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Speaker 1: Minutes of that flight from the time it lived, you
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are not going to see the plane.
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Speaker 2: Yet you are aware and you believe, you are convinced
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that the person did not die in the sky, is
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on its way coming and you are there standing away together.
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Occasionally they might be it delayed, maybe some minutes, but
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then you see the plane and then it arrives. When
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you are going home from coin Onia, did you know
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that for over ninety eight percent of the journey you
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do not see your house, and yet you believe it
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is there. What makes you believe that the house has
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not disappeared? Now while you are here, you believe that
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the food you left in your kitchen is still there
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waiting for you.
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Speaker 1: Am I right on?
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Speaker 2: That this is not word of knowledge? This is experience? Allelujah?
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Where else should the food be away? Together?
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Speaker 1: By faith?
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Speaker 2: So when God says Deuteronomy twenty eight one and two
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that it shall come to passive, THATU shall diligently happen
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to the voice of the Lord that God, to observe
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and to do all his commandments, which I command you
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this day, that the Lord that God will set thee
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on high above the nations of the earth. Above how
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many nations coming onia, Please answer me above? How many
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nations do you believe? That? Above all the nations? And
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you see, while he's saying that you are looking at
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the fact that you do not have a job. While
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he's saying that you are looking at the fact that
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you do not have you know, maybe some kind of qualification.
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And yet he does not change what he's saying because
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of your condition. Powerful at any given point in your life,
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there are at least two reports that tear you and
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your destiny at the faith. It is up to you
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to choose whose report you would believe. This is the
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character of faith.
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Speaker 1: There are men sitting down here were so blessed by
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the testimony of the dear lady feeling pains and having pains.
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Speaker 2: And I like the fact that she took responsibility to
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at least go to the hospital, but that did not
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stop her from releasing her faith. Bible, faith produces Bible.
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Faith produces Bible, faith produces ladies and gentlemen. What you
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call collinonia today, by the grace of God, is a
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product of faith.
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Speaker 1: There are no guarantees in life.
1:00:35
Speaker 2: Nobody gives you any guarantee anywhere. We live in a
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world that is obsessed with guarantees. Unfortunately it does not exist.
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Calling your uncle your guarantees a risk. In fact, calling
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yourself your guarantee is a risk. Calling the Habi list
1:00:56
in your village a guarantee is a risk. Because when
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men sleep, only God wakes men. There is something that
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is common to all men. The moment days sleep. The
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habilis must receive grace to wake up to continue what
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is doing.
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Speaker 1: I lay me down and I slept. The sum said,
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I wait for the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Waiting people is exclusive, is exclusively, the prerogreative and the
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office of God, not devil anyway.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you that.
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Speaker 2: So when people anssive, they have your destiny their hand.
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Tell they make sure you don't sleep. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
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By tomorrow, if you're still there, call there not a way.
1:01:48
Speaker 1: Be careful, Be careful because the sun is going down.
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Be careful.
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Speaker 2: Very arrogant world that forgets that there is a God
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that rules over their of men? Have you forgotten Aboucadnezza
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a man who believed that he had everything, the entire
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globe in his hand, and he could manipulate the destinies
1:02:09
of men. And he said, make the fiery furnace seven
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times hotter. And they threw those young boys there on
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account of their trust and their believing Jesus. They said,
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we're not taught to dishonor authority, but as touching this one,
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we're not careful to tell you our God will deliver us.
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But even if it does not deliver us, we count
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him faithful. And they saw the fourth Man in the fire, Allelujah.
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Now I don't know if they themselves saw the fourth Man,
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because the Bible does not seem to record that they
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themselves saw the fourth Man. We know that the man
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who saw the fourth Man was the King himself and
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the other people. All we know is that they believed
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that the fire had no power over them. The faith
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was on their own part because they were not They
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didn't have to see the fourth Man to enter the fire.
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And most likely will they were in the fire, they
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probably did not see the fire. You see when you
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are walking by fate. Usually it is those who are
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the onlookers who will be seeing the marvelous things that
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God is doing. You just know you are obeying God.
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You are in that fire, and you are walking that
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fire out. You're in that den of lions, And yet
1:03:26
it has no power waiting. Who will not enter the
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fire when you see the fourth man already waiting. It
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is easy to give when you have a lot of
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ten million in your account. Then you smuggle out one
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thousand and say, God, you see what I gave you?
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Is that really faith? That is charity? Allay together, it's
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a true faith. Abel offered, how about Abraham, I will
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make you father of many nations? No evidence, no Isaac.
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And the Bible tells us as in the order of
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men and women he had become very old, and Sarah
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even when she had gone past, as in the manner
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of women, the Bible says, And yet they counted God faithful.
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You find that in Romance, chapter for that he waved
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not I like Abraham, he wavered not. Please find that
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scripture for me Romans for and verse look for it verse.
1:04:29
I don't know what verse that is.
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Speaker 1: Now that he counted God faithful.
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Speaker 2: Are we together? He concede that not the deadness of
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Sarah's womb.
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Speaker 1: Are we together? Verse twenty thank you.
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Speaker 2: He'sa god not at the promise of God through unbelief,
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but was strong in faith in fact, Backdawn, go to
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eighteen eighteen. It says, who agains hope? Did you see
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that the foundation of faith is that there is hopelessness
1:04:57
already hopelessness. He gains hope believed in hope.
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Speaker 1: That he might become the father.
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Speaker 2: Imagine if you saw Abraham ninety years Abraham, how are you?
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Speaker 1: And he says, I'm still holding.
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Speaker 2: On to God's word? And you say, Abraham, you are
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still at this madness called Christianity. I know he spoke
1:05:20
to me. It's not a lie. And he himself will
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go to God and say, God, why are you doing
1:05:25
this to me? Seeing that I got childless? Okay, here
1:05:27
is Elias in my house. You somebody in my house
1:05:30
who respects me to have children for me? And God says,
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knowing to come from you, I.
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Speaker 3: Will hold on through the storm, and I will hold
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on to your work.
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Speaker 2: My life will soon reveal you're the lifter of men,
1:05:55
the lifter of men.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I will hold on through the storm. I will
1:06:05
hold on through my life.
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Speaker 2: Will soon reveal.
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Speaker 1: You're the litter of man, the litter Pionia. Hear me.
1:06:23
Speaker 2: It does not just pay to serve Jesus, it pays
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to believe him. I don't know what he's told you.
1:06:30
I don't know what he's told your family. I don't
1:06:33
know what he said concerning your health, concerning your ministry.
1:06:37
Speaker 1: He saw the prevailing circumstances when he said it, and
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it does not plan to change what he has said.
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It's up to you to believe his report.
1:06:45
Speaker 2: Hear me. At every point in your Christian experience will
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be you will be met by at least two conflicting reports,
1:06:53
the reports of men, the reports of ill health, the
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report of society, the report of the present, the economic
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globally speaking, or whose report God's report?
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Speaker 1: The integrity of God has captured in scripture.
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Speaker 2: You're a man of God? Yeah possible? Where will the
1:07:12
bills come from? Your parents? School? Fish has been increased
1:07:15
multiple folds, rent increased multiple fold, the amount to buy
1:07:20
your house, to do whatever it is. Perhaps you are
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here struggling with all kinds of things and your faith
1:07:26
is really shaking.
1:07:27
Speaker 1: Can I tell you I know God who is mercive,
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full and faithful, languageious.
1:07:39
Speaker 2: You know that song and the ample love is as
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I like this, but it's big, so I will way
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God hear me. The message for you here is hold on.
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God is still as faithful as you've known him to be.
1:08:51
Don't allow negative situations. So this is how my life
1:08:55
will be. I thought by now a job would have come.
1:08:57
I wanted to still hold on in the of Jesus.
1:09:00
The devil is a liar. I taught by now the
1:09:03
health I prayed, I submitted my prayer request, and I
1:09:07
taught by now I'll be free. I want you to
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count him faithful, count him faithful. You're not the first
1:09:14
to go through what you're going through. He's called faithful
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and true.
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Speaker 1: Please say down, you want to command greater works.
1:09:25
Speaker 2: Man of God waiting for a destiny helper to bring
1:09:29
all the money for you. Before you begin to pray
1:09:31
and plan to have the building you will never build
1:09:34
anything in your whole life. Start writing the budget with
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zero and iron your account.
1:09:41
Speaker 1: Start. It's an act of faith. Are we together?
1:09:50
Speaker 2: Be careful about this over this scientific approach to Christianity.
1:09:55
Now science is important. I just acknowledged science, but over
1:09:59
dependent on intellect can rob you of an opportunity to
1:10:03
walk by faith? Can I tell you, no matter what
1:10:05
you are getting from God, no matter how cheap it is,
1:10:08
if it is God that will be the giver, faith
1:10:11
must be required. Faith. God will rout you through a
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part that will demand that you believe him.
1:10:20
Speaker 1: So, he says.
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Speaker 2: Follow them who through faith and patience have obtained the promise,
1:10:27
it says, and Abraham, after he had patiently endured he
1:10:31
obtained the promise. Is someone learning we must obtain grace
1:10:36
to walk by faith. Anything God tells me, I believe him.
1:10:41
I don't wait until I see any evidence.
1:10:43
Speaker 1: I believe him. Koinonia, I say, great nation, I believe him.
1:10:48
You are going to raise.
1:10:49
Speaker 2: Mighty men after the order of Genesis seventeen and verse six.
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This is what God told me, and I believe with
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all my heart Genesis seventeen six. I will make them
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exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of THEE, and
1:11:04
kings shall come out of thee. This is what God
1:11:07
told me. He didn't say it yesterday, he didn't say
1:11:09
it last year.
1:11:10
Speaker 1: He didn't say ten years ago.
1:11:14
Speaker 2: Waiting until you see the evidence, you will only waste
1:11:20
your time and not walk by faith. There to believe God,
1:11:24
there to obey God, there to act in keeping with
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what He has told.
1:11:29
Speaker 1: You, and watch the God of Wonder, the God of
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Wonder arise for you.
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Speaker 2: Every testimony you see shared here is the end point
1:11:40
of the journey of faith. The end point of the
1:11:44
journey of faith. Usually when you start, you start with
1:11:48
nothing except what God has said. The raw material for
1:11:51
your destiny, esentially is the world of God. If he
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has said it is sufficient to start the journey, the
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same word that costs you to begin the journey will
1:12:03
keep the things you need somewhere in your path. If
1:12:06
you never take the step, you will not meet what
1:12:08
you need in the journey. What you need for the
1:12:11
journey will not be given at the point you start.
1:12:13
Ah ah. The only thing that will be given at
1:12:16
the point of the journey is the Holy Spirit and
1:12:18
the world that is sufficient for the journey. And you
1:12:21
start one step after the other, falling down, bards, standing up,
1:12:26
getting up, Oh God, what is this? I don't understand you.
1:12:30
You promise me that you're going to take care of me.
1:12:32
You ask me to come down to Abuja, now, I mean, Abuja,
1:12:35
it's been six months.
1:12:36
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
1:12:37
Speaker 2: Where my next meal will come from. And you hear
1:12:41
a word from the spirit while you are praying, turn
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your pain, Turn everything you're going through to praise. I
1:12:47
am giving you a testimony that will bless people tomorrow.
1:12:50
And in the midst of your tears you may not
1:12:54
know what to do, and you are taking the time
1:12:57
to pray and say, Lord, I still count you faithful.
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By now a job will come. I taught by now
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the help us would have arrived. But I say thank you.
1:13:07
Can I tell you when you thank God in the
1:13:09
midst of storms, you really have faith. When you thank
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God in the midst of your result, that is praise. Report.
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But when you are thanking God when you have not
1:13:19
seen anything, allelujah, learn to thank him. We live in
1:13:28
a world that prides him, complaining God, you have not
1:13:30
done this. You gave me tea, no bread, How am
1:13:34
I supposed to take it? And God says you just
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keep thanking me and taking the tea with gratitude and
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bread will arrive. The force of faith. Let's hurry up.
1:13:46
Number four.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready for the fourth force? It's God helping someone.
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Speaker 2: Here, am I speaking to people who will begin to
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manifest greater works by the spirit in the name of Jesus,
1:13:58
the son of the Living God. Are you ready for
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Force number four, the force of wealth and abundance? Please write?
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The fourth force that is responsible for commanding greater works
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is the force of wealth and abundance.
1:14:17
Speaker 1: Zachariah one seventeen.
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Speaker 2: The force of wealth and abundance, Cry yet, saying forth,
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saying the Lord of host my cities. True prosperity shall
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be spread abroad. And the Lord shall yet comfort Zion
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and shall choose Jerusalem Scripture number two, Deuteronomy eight eighteen.
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But thou shall remember the Lord died God here what
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the Bible says, For it is he not it is it.
1:14:51
It is he that giveth the power to get wealth,
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that he may establish his covenant, which swear onto thy fathers,
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as it is this day.
1:15:03
Speaker 1: Can I tell you?
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Speaker 2: Wealth from time immemorial has always played a major role
1:15:10
in shaping civilization, promoting evil or promoting righteousness. Let me
1:15:16
repeat myself again that wealth and abundance from time immemorial
1:15:21
has played a unique role of promoting shaping civilizations.
1:15:28
Speaker 1: Promoting evil or promoting.
1:15:31
Speaker 2: Good When you see evil in a society and a
1:15:34
territory behind the ever increasing decadence of any.
1:15:39
Speaker 1: Society, is wealth playing a role, a wrong role.
1:15:44
Speaker 2: When you see advancement and civilization of any sort in
1:15:48
any society behind it, there is wealth playing its role.
1:15:52
When you see the purposes of God being advanced.
1:15:56
Speaker 1: From place to.
1:15:57
Speaker 2: Place behind it, there is wealth playing is either ways,
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whether you want to promote evil or promote good, wealth
1:16:06
is a tool that must be present and evident. I
1:16:11
have learned from scripture, and I can tell you sincerely
1:16:15
by experience, that the absence of financial resources will cripple
1:16:19
your life, will cripple your destiny, will cripple the program
1:16:23
of God. Let me show you a scripture that might
1:16:26
interest you, Mattchew twenty eight. Let's go to Matchew twenty eight.
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From verse one, at the end of the Sabbath, watch
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this as it began to dawn towards the first day
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of the week.
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Speaker 1: This is the resurrection morning.
1:16:39
Speaker 2: Mary Magdalene and Mary and the other Mary came to
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see the sepulcher verse two, and behold, the Bible says
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there was a great earthquake, for the Angel of the
1:16:51
Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the
1:16:55
stone from the door and sat on it. Three It says,
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his countenance was like lighting, and his raiment was white
1:17:02
as snow.
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Speaker 1: He says, and for fear of him, watch this now.
1:17:07
Speaker 2: The keepers the gods that were put around the grave,
1:17:10
the Bible says, they did shake, and they became as
1:17:13
dead man. Five, he says, And the Angel answered and
1:17:16
said on to the women, fear not, for I know
1:17:19
that he seek Jesus, which was crucified. Ah, he is
1:17:23
not here for his reason, hallelujah, as he said. He says,
1:17:27
come see the place where the Lord lay. Seven, and
1:17:32
go quickly. The Angel is giving them an instruction by God.
1:17:36
Tell his disciples. So the Angel is said, listen, don't
1:17:39
keep quiet about the fact.
1:17:40
Speaker 1: That he's reason. Announce it that he has risen from
1:17:44
the dead.
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Speaker 2: And behold, he go forward before you into Galilee, and
1:17:49
ye shall see him as I have told you verse eight.
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Speaker 1: And they gathered.
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Speaker 2: They departed quickly from the sepulcher with fear and great joy,
1:17:58
and did on to bring his disciples. Word nine.
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Speaker 1: And as they went to tell his disciples, watch.
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Speaker 2: This, the Bible says, behold, Jesus met them, and he said,
1:18:10
all hail, And they came and held him by the
1:18:12
feet and worshiped him. Ten and then said Jesus onto them,
1:18:18
be not afraid. Jesus is now mandating them. Go tell
1:18:21
my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they
1:18:25
shall meet me. Eleven reading to fifteen. He says, now
1:18:29
when they were going, behold watch this. Some of the
1:18:33
watch came into the city and showed onto the chief
1:18:37
priest all the things that were done. That means those
1:18:40
who were at the sepulcher right the gods. They came
1:18:43
and told the chief priest, listen, we witnessed something spectacular.
1:18:47
Speaker 1: We saw an angel came. Was not a vision.
1:18:50
Speaker 2: He rolled away the stone with great power. And the
1:18:53
Bible says when verse twelve, and when they were assembled
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with the elders, when the chief priests had this, they said, Wow,
1:19:02
they knew the truth. They knew the gods were not lying.
1:19:05
But the Bible says, they assemble themselves together, look carefully,
1:19:10
and had to take counsel, and they gave what large
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money onto the soldiers. They called the soldiers and said,
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come this resurrection, if the whole city knows it.
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Speaker 1: There will be obedient to the faith.
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Speaker 2: This is literally going to bring an end to a
1:19:26
civilization and start another. But we are going to do something.
1:19:30
Take large amount of money, and with that money, here
1:19:34
is the instruction. Thirteen. Say this that his disciples came
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by night. You see how powerful money is. Says, disciples
1:19:45
came by night and told him away while we slept. Fourteen.
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And if this come to the governor's yares, don't worry,
1:19:54
because it will get to the governor.
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Speaker 1: Don't be afraid that you say you were sleeping.
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Speaker 2: Will have a way of covering you, it says, we
1:19:59
will persuade him and secure you.
1:20:04
Speaker 1: So they took the money. What did they do with
1:20:07
the money? They took the.
1:20:10
Speaker 2: Money because they had wives and children, They had bills
1:20:14
to pay, and instead of the ten ten narras salary,
1:20:17
now a large amount of money just to lie. Who
1:20:20
is Jesus relative to my children's goofies? Who is that
1:20:23
Jesus relative to my wife's trouble that I'm looking for
1:20:26
ten thousand mira. Now you bring me twenty million just
1:20:30
to make a little lie and say he did not
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resurrect with speed? Give me are you seeing number one?
1:20:38
If those guys were bad people. They will not even
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come to report it. They came because the thing troubled them.
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It was from a standpoint of conviction. Conviction is at
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the mercy of prosperity. To be stabilized, to be guaranteed.
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Your conviction will shake like a leave if you're not empowered.
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One moment they come and you're sending the truth, and
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they say, come, come, come, come, come.
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Speaker 1: We have to announce that he's not raison.
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Speaker 2: Let's finish that scripture when they were assembled thirteen. Let's
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go to thirteen media, okay, and it says saying to
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the disciples that they came and told him fourteen. Now
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it says, and if this come to the governor's ears,
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we will persuade him and secure you. Read verse fifteen.
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Place ready one to read. So they took the money
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and did as they were taught. And this saying is
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commonly reported among the Jews until this day, longevity of
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life promoted by money, that there are people who went
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to hell today. Now there are people who are in
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hell because a group of people.
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Speaker 1: Paid to make sure they don't get life.
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Speaker 2: Do you know Satan is still paying people today to
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say Jesus is not raising. There are many people, many
1:21:59
of our children, across the globe today learning.
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Speaker 1: All kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: Sponsored by the abundance of financial resources. I will repeat
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it one more time for your hearing, Koinonia, that the
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name of Jesus is very heavy. It takes financial resources
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to lift it high so that the nations will see.
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Speaker 1: Out of all the.
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Speaker 2: Strategies to stop the manifestation of the name of Jesus
1:22:29
set and decided to choose the issue of finance. Please
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do not downplay it. I was teaching the workers and
1:22:40
also a school of ministry students that when you remain
1:22:43
in abject poverty, three things must happen to you. One
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you must steal, Two you must tell lies. Three you
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must borrow one of these three things. Usually all three
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will eventually happen to you. If you are poor.
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Speaker 1: It has not to do it whether you are good
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or bad.
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Speaker 2: It is the consequence of not being empowered economically. For instance,
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if you don't have the money to pay your rent.
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Even if you're a sincere prayer warrior, chances are excellent
1:23:13
that when your wife and your children are about to
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be kicked out of the house, you will know when
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you will beg your wife to say, please tell them
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I traveled. I will tell God sorry later on board
1:23:24
for now, and you will feel bad, and yet you
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will repeat it again. The bondage that poverty puts men.
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It would take God to open your eyes to seed.
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I have told you that every time we advocate wealth
1:23:38
and abundance is from a pro kingdom standpoint. Don't approach
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it from a canal mundane standpoint.
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Speaker 1: Just fueling lost. This is not what we're teaching.
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Speaker 2: But I can tell you that among the many tools
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that must be present in your life, first to live
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a life of dignity, then to advance the purposes of God,
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and then to fulfill Genesis twelve three that in this
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shall all the families of the earth be blessed. You
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will not be able to do greater works if you
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lack resources. That is the truth, the force of wealth
1:24:14
and abundance. I used to watch the Great Crusades of
1:24:19
renhad Bonke, the Great Crusades of Billy Graham, and they
1:24:24
would pat stadiums. And I know that usually when we
1:24:28
watch those crusades, the central point is just Billy Graham coming.
1:24:33
Speaker 1: But you need to have an understanding of the budgets.
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Speaker 2: Are we together now by the privilege of God's grace
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and by reason of what I do.
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Speaker 1: I can't tell you that it.
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Speaker 2: Takes serious amount of money to do anything meaningful for
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the kingdom. Souls are expensive. It takes resources to bring
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them to the cross. The gospel is free, they say,
1:24:55
but the means to take it to the loss is
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not free. Prays the name of the Lord takes a lot.
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There are many people today who have relevant teaching messages
1:25:09
that can shape the body of Christ, can help us
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come into a greater level of stature and understanding, but
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they cannot publish those works because they are incapacitated financially.
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Speaker 1: Am I right on that?
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Speaker 2: There are many parents today who have been given the
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responsibility of raising the next apostles and prophets, and they
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know by the spirit that God already told them that
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your child is going to be a mighty tool before
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I return.
1:25:34
Speaker 1: But to take that child to a good missionary.
1:25:36
Speaker 2: School, a responsible school where he can be prepared for destiny.
1:25:40
They want to do so, but they do not have
1:25:42
the resources to make it happen. It is terrible to
1:25:45
know what to do and still be limited because of finances.
1:25:49
I'm praying for you in the name of Jesus, the
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Son of the Living God, that which limits men, incapacitates
1:25:55
men financially and makes your life a representation of mock
1:26:00
and shame. May it live your life from tonight. Allelujah,
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please be seated. I've done several teachings on finance. I
1:26:10
wanted to lay hold of them and listen. One of
1:26:12
them you may want to pay attention to. Is the
1:26:15
series The Power to Get Wealth. I wanted to settle down.
1:26:18
I'm not teaching on finance. I'm just introducing it as
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one of the irrefutable forces that.
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Speaker 1: Is responsible for greater works.
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Speaker 2: Can I tell you, when money enters the hand of
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a man whose heart loves God and who has wisdom
1:26:36
and vision, you will watch the wonder.
1:26:39
Speaker 1: Of Kingdom advanced through that person. Let me repeat myself.
1:26:42
Speaker 2: When money financial resources enter the hands of a man
1:26:47
whose heart is passionately in love with God and who
1:26:51
has wisdom and vision, you will watch how far he
1:26:56
will take the program of God. There are many visionary
1:27:00
people today, great people, but are limited, limited financially. Limited financially,
1:27:13
this vision is excelling today by the privilege of God's
1:27:19
grace because there is a mandate from God. There are
1:27:22
faithful and wonderful workers. But I tell you sincerely, I'm
1:27:26
speaking to the whole world, and you know this is true.
1:27:28
What you see is also riding on the wings of
1:27:32
huge financial resources. Without financial resources, there are many many.
1:27:37
Speaker 1: Things that will not come to pass. Alle Lujah. It
1:27:42
takes money to raise your children properly.
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Speaker 2: It takes money to make a choice of a good
1:27:47
school that you can be sure of what they are learning,
1:27:51
especially in this wicked world today. Are we together? Education
1:27:56
has become so expensive globally speaking, and that in a nation.
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And I'm telling you I don't mean to make you
1:28:03
feel bad, but have you sample children and see the
1:28:06
difference in their understanding as a result of a good
1:28:10
school and a bad school.
1:28:12
Speaker 1: I agree.
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Speaker 2: I'm always around children, and sometimes my heart breaks because
1:28:16
you will see a child of four or five six
1:28:18
years old who has had the privilege of being mentored
1:28:21
by parents that God does help financially and they've provided
1:28:25
that leverage. And then you see all that children with
1:28:27
their heart that is sincere. You know there is destinying
1:28:31
these children. But you see that because probably their parents
1:28:34
or their guidance were incapacitated financially. The difference in intelligence,
1:28:39
the difference in a commen the difference in understanding, is clear,
1:28:43
and these poor children will grow with low self esteem.
1:28:46
That's why they start joining cult by age thirteam. Since
1:28:51
they're intellectually weak, they will want to join a cult
1:28:54
or a group where the person can now become a caple.
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If I don't have understanding, at least let me have
1:29:02
the ability to kill.
1:29:05
Speaker 1: Do you know.
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Speaker 2: That. Consult with any military personality and they will tell
1:29:10
you most of the terrorists that inflict mayhem in this
1:29:13
nation and across the nations, most of them are from
1:29:16
teenagers into their mid twenties. How many old people have
1:29:20
the strength to do all these kind of things. It
1:29:23
takes strength to serve even the devil, and the devil
1:29:27
will not make do with people who are too weak
1:29:29
and cannot be effective, And so he goes He literally
1:29:33
looks for a demography and age range and captures them.
1:29:37
But in the name of Jesus, we are here on
1:29:39
a mission to redeem all that the devil has plugged,
1:29:43
that the devil has shared families, shame, bread winners, shame, destiny.
1:29:48
Help us using the tool of poverty. He has programmed
1:29:52
it to even be transgenerational, so that all the discipline
1:29:56
godly serious young men in certain families they never to
1:30:00
rise until you fraternize with Him and meeting happalist.
1:30:04
Speaker 1: Then you find out irresponsible people.
1:30:06
Speaker 2: Now begin to rise and praying for you. Every chain
1:30:09
of poverty that has held your life, held your children
1:30:13
in the name of He who died and rose again,
1:30:16
may be broken now and forever.
1:30:23
Speaker 1: Allelujah with prosperity.
1:30:29
Speaker 2: When prosperity mixes with wisdom and vision, it does much
1:30:34
for the kingdom.
1:30:35
Speaker 1: When prosperity meets with.
1:30:37
Speaker 2: A canal heart, a careless mind, a visionless destiny, an
1:30:42
irresponsible personality, it becomes a detriment to kingdom, come a
1:30:47
detriment to kingdom advance. There is no fear as to
1:30:51
opening your heart to receive prosperity when you know your
1:30:54
heart is right with God. Are we together now? Because
1:30:57
it becomes an advantage. I look forward to times where
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God will raise certain strategic kingdom financiers, that there will
1:31:10
be a group of men who will set up a
1:31:12
company with the principle reason to fund the kingdom because
1:31:17
they are so blessed they don't need anything as far
1:31:20
as their personal gains are concern. That they literally build
1:31:24
companies and corporations and many will come out of this
1:31:27
vision in the name of Jesus Christ.
1:31:32
Speaker 1: Literally that they will sit down.
1:31:34
Speaker 2: In board meetings and they're not just talking about sharing profits.
1:31:37
They're saying, Okay, there is a crusade about to happen there.
1:31:41
How much ten million narra let it go there. I
1:31:43
hear that there is some missionaries they need to translate
1:31:46
Bibles to houser and translate to French.
1:31:48
Speaker 1: Ten million nira. Let this one go for the kingdom.
1:31:51
Speaker 2: I hear that there is some missionary that has been
1:31:53
kidnapped somewhere, and I hear that his wife and children
1:31:57
are grounded, no food. Please send a million narrh. Imagine
1:32:01
living a life like that and Heaven is watching you.
1:32:03
I'm saying, who is this ambassador representing my purposes? This much?
1:32:09
This is the assignment of money. Not I have a GIP,
1:32:13
I have a car, I have houses, Thank God for
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those things. But we are people who have been trained
1:32:19
to love God more than that. Alle Lujah.
1:32:24
Speaker 1: Imagine one of you here that God gives you.
1:32:26
Speaker 2: A vision to raise one hundred children from primary school
1:32:30
till university. Because you want them to love the Lord.
1:32:33
You hand piqued them. And God tells you this, lady,
1:32:36
you are saying, this is Esther forming, this is Elijah forming,
1:32:39
this is Daniel forming. Give them a chance. It's not
1:32:42
your fault that your parents died. It's not your fault
1:32:45
that your parents are idol worshipers. The parents will say, well,
1:32:48
my child will worship the devil. But if you can't
1:32:51
pay for his wof is carry him as a liability.
1:32:54
And you say, no problem, bring him to me. Tell
1:33:02
me who ignore you? When you go to a community
1:33:05
and build fifty boreholes in the name of Jesus, fifty
1:33:09
represented one hundred boreholes, and say, this community, do you
1:33:13
read the history of the church in Nigeria and reviver
1:33:16
us in Nigeria. Those who came with the gospel also
1:33:19
came with benefits that improved the lives of people. And
1:33:22
because of that, the communities were at the messy of
1:33:26
the permission that their kings will give them. And because
1:33:29
of the benevolence the kings who usually have a meeting
1:33:32
and say, this day, I stand as a king over
1:33:34
this community, and I declare that as a community, we
1:33:38
will serve the Lord, and every other person follows suit.
1:33:42
When kings receive Jesus, their communities receive Jesus.
1:33:47
Speaker 1: Do you believe what I'm saying?
1:33:49
Speaker 2: Listen, ladies and gentlemen, among the many things you must
1:33:54
open your heart to receive in this kingdom, in this
1:33:57
season is the prospect parity package that God is dispensing
1:34:03
to people who have vision who love him. God are
1:34:07
the days where people become an embarrassment to the kingdom
1:34:10
because they are God prospers them. They go ahead, they
1:34:13
just they change. They're not serious, no prayer, pride, or
1:34:18
kinds of indiscipline. God is using certain people to mentor
1:34:22
a generation, to show them what to do with money.
1:34:27
Money is not about pride and bragging and making noise
1:34:30
and saying I am a millionnaire.
1:34:31
Speaker 1: I am a millionnaire. Listen.
1:34:33
Speaker 2: If you love Jesus Christ and you love his program
1:34:36
and his purpose is being arrogant on account of finance
1:34:39
is a total waste. It is not the way the
1:34:42
kingdom works.
1:34:43
Speaker 1: The King's business is bigger than just trying.
1:34:45
Speaker 2: To show you have arrived. People are not stupid. If
1:34:48
you are blessed, they know you are blessed.
1:34:50
Speaker 1: Am I right on that?
1:34:54
Speaker 2: If you are here and you are trusting God, or
1:34:56
you believe you're a Kingdom financier, can I tell you
1:34:59
if all you are doing is making noise and telling lies.
1:35:01
I have money God, it will not trust you because
1:35:04
wealth in the Kingdom is not an achievement, is a trust.
1:35:08
Let me repeat myself for your hearing. Wealth in the
1:35:11
Kingdom is not an achievement.
1:35:13
Speaker 1: It is a trust.
1:35:15
Speaker 2: He gave on to one five talent he gave on
1:35:18
to one two. It will look like you worked for it,
1:35:21
but that wisdom came from God. That favor came from God.
1:35:24
You can use wisdom to open a big mall, but
1:35:27
it takes God to bring customers to you. Coinonia, don't
1:35:35
be afraid of being prosperous. Did you hear what I'm saying?
1:35:38
Let me repeat myself. Do not be afraid of being prosperous.
1:35:43
Your fear of money will cost more harm to the
1:35:46
program of God than good. The fear of money does
1:35:51
not make you more spiritual. It is canality, a heart
1:35:54
that does not love God, a hat that wants to
1:35:57
When Satan comes to your life, it's not only your
1:36:00
money he will use He will use your whole life.
1:36:03
He will manipulate every thank God gave you for your destruction.
1:36:07
But I can tell you if people paid what brought
1:36:11
Samson down. I know you say it's Delilah, but it's
1:36:15
not really Delilah.
1:36:16
Speaker 1: It was money.
1:36:18
Speaker 2: The Philistines called Delilah and said, listen, there is a
1:36:21
man who has become a jodge over Israel. This man
1:36:24
has mysterious strength. Mysterious strength that one man can use
1:36:30
the job bone of a donkey and kill three thousand Philistines.
1:36:33
Speaker 1: What army will stand before that man? We want you
1:36:36
to please.
1:36:37
Speaker 2: We will give you money. Can you help us to
1:36:40
find out the source of his strength and if possible,
1:36:43
destroy that man for us, ladies and gentlemen. What a
1:36:46
lion could not do, what a beer could not do,
1:36:50
what an army could not do. You would think a
1:36:54
woman did it. It's not a woman that did it.
1:36:56
Money is what did it. I had met her and said,
1:37:01
can you be a participant in an agenda?
1:37:04
Speaker 1: Go and kill something?
1:37:05
Speaker 2: She probably would have insulted them and walked out of
1:37:07
that place. But when they brought money, she said, all right,
1:37:09
let's se down, let's talk.
1:37:11
Speaker 1: What do you want.
1:37:13
Speaker 2: You want to bring down something, it's difficult to How
1:37:16
much are you going to give me? Because something is
1:37:19
not just this somebody that taught the lion. That means
1:37:21
I can die in the process. This mission is a
1:37:23
risky mission. If he killed a lion, I mean use
1:37:28
a business sense, she will negotiate as a business woman.
1:37:32
You think she would just receive peanuts for the risk
1:37:34
of killing something. You know what it takes to kill something?
1:37:37
Find out how many times she tried and feel Samson
1:37:41
the Philly stands out upon you, and he got up
1:37:43
and he said, you lie to me again.
1:37:46
Speaker 1: I don't know what?
1:37:47
Speaker 2: Well anyway, do we live that for another discussion? The
1:37:51
most important thing is that something eventually went down. Are
1:37:55
we together many times? Do you know if something real lie?
1:38:01
I don't know what really happened to him. Maybe it
1:38:04
was an attack. But if if imagine, listen, listen, listen,
1:38:09
imagine that Sathon eventually got angry and looked at her
1:38:15
a lion, Sathon toy lion toy beer defeated the Philistines
1:38:21
really moved the city gate, not the door to your house,
1:38:25
the gates to a city that people use cranes to carry.
1:38:29
He carried it and then went up a mountain dropped
1:38:32
it there. If you were answered one and fight such
1:38:35
a man, wouldn't you turn and look at the person.
1:38:37
Speaker 1: Who sent you and say, is this how you want
1:38:39
to kill me? So imagine.
1:38:43
Speaker 2: But with all of that, when money came, he said,
1:38:45
cleared away. Let me show you the power I have.
1:38:48
I don't talk, but I moved things money for you.
1:38:53
And Deliah said, all right, since you brought the subject
1:38:55
of money, I can't take the risk. Finally, Samson revealed
1:39:01
the secret, my glory and the powers and the covenant
1:39:06
that is captured in my hair. Samson, the Phillis stands
1:39:11
upon you. He got up. The Bible said, he shook
1:39:14
himself as before this time around money had gone forth.
1:39:21
Speaker 1: And noticed the moment.
1:39:23
Speaker 2: They discovered after she shaved his hair, the next thing
1:39:27
that happened was his eyes, not his hands. Vision was
1:39:32
what was taken away immediately his eyes were plucked out.
1:39:37
Speaker 1: When his eyes were plocked out, the devil did not want.
1:39:40
Speaker 2: To remove the hand because he will still be useful
1:39:42
for the devil.
1:39:43
Speaker 1: And you see what a great man, a George, a
1:39:45
man who was dregged dead by that.
1:39:47
Speaker 2: Some of the best armies in the dead world, he
1:39:50
became one who was going around threshing. In the prison,
1:39:53
he was bound with fetters, and his assignment was to
1:39:57
go and be grinding. Can you imagine reduced from a
1:40:00
of honor using the tool of money. I'm praying for you,
1:40:05
whatever has reduced you to a place of shame and mockery,
1:40:09
reduced your family ordained for greatness but brought down because
1:40:14
of the absence of economic resources. May my God, who
1:40:18
is the lifter of men in this season that the
1:40:21
Church is stepping into, in the name of Jesus, May
1:40:24
God prosperre you for greater works. May my God prosperre
1:40:30
you for greater works.
1:40:35
Speaker 1: Please sit down the Force of wealth and abundance.
1:40:45
Speaker 2: Number five. Are you ready for the fifth force? The
1:40:49
fifth force that is responsible for greater works? My God,
1:40:53
I really believe that this world is entering someone's spirit
1:40:57
that you are getting. There is a holy anger that.
1:40:59
Speaker 1: Is coming upon you.
1:41:00
Speaker 2: That when you get up, you will coordinate all these
1:41:03
forces and your life will become a sign and a
1:41:05
wonder The fit force that is responsible for exalting and
1:41:11
releasing Jesus revealing him to the world is called the
1:41:16
Force of influence. Write it down, please. Influence is power,
1:41:22
the force of influence, the force of influence.
1:41:29
Speaker 1: Influence is power. Please write it down.
1:41:32
Speaker 2: Influence is great power, the force of influence. Influence, like money,
1:41:43
are related. They shape civilizations. They define people's understanding, They
1:41:50
define people's thinking, They define people's values. At any given point,
1:41:57
can I tell you our world today? It's not just
1:42:01
going at the messy of time. Our world today is
1:42:05
a reflection of the mindset of certain influential people, godly
1:42:10
or otherwise. From technology to sociology, to the language we use,
1:42:16
the way we raise children, the way family is run.
1:42:20
Speaker 1: Are we together now?
1:42:21
Speaker 2: The way ministries run, the way businesses are conducted. Civilizing
1:42:27
influence literally shapes civilization. What does it mean to influence?
1:42:34
Number one? The capacity to have an effect. Influence is
1:42:40
defined as the capacity to have an effect on the character, perceptions, behaviors, decisions,
1:42:54
and the values of another.
1:42:56
Speaker 1: I will take it again. Influence is the capacity to have.
1:43:03
Speaker 2: An effect, whether positively or negatively, an effect on the character,
1:43:11
on the perceptions, on the behavior, on the decisions, and
1:43:18
on the value of another.
1:43:21
Speaker 1: When you have an effect on the character.
1:43:25
Speaker 2: The perception, the behavior, the decisions, and the values of another.
1:43:31
You are exerting influence upon that person one last time.
1:43:36
The capacity to have an effect on the character number one,
1:43:41
number two, the perception number three, the behavior number four,
1:43:46
the decisions number.
1:43:48
Speaker 1: Five, the values of another is called influence. Please look up.
1:43:57
Speaker 2: This concept of influences very powerful, and it's very profound
1:44:03
because you see a handful of people historically and even
1:44:07
now are the ones who are always responsible for shaping
1:44:12
and defining the.
1:44:13
Speaker 1: Narrative of a civilization. Are we together now?
1:44:16
Speaker 2: That people a crowd of people who usually model their
1:44:20
lives after an individual or a set of individuals that
1:44:24
they consider to be worthy of emulation. They call them
1:44:28
all kinds of names. Role models. Some will call them celebrities,
1:44:32
some will call them influenzas, some will call them you
1:44:36
name it.
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Speaker 1: You know all the names.
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Speaker 2: And unfortunately, some of these people have been positive role
1:44:42
models in terms of bringing values that shape society properly.
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But many of them, sadly, have been very wrong and
1:44:50
destructive models.
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Speaker 1: There are children today who have no.
1:44:53
Speaker 2: Business learning certain things except that someone they admire. You
1:44:57
see the psychology of influences. The moment you like someone
1:45:02
and he becomes a reflection of your aspiration. You will
1:45:06
copy everything you can see and find in his life,
1:45:09
good or bad, because the assumption is that whatever he
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is doing, since he has that result to show, it
1:45:16
must be right. Are we together? So when Satan once
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would destroy a generation, he does not go after everybody.
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What happens is that he builds certain people through covenant
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back top with excellence and an indoctrination that makes them
1:45:34
know that they are pro Satan Antichrist vocaliso. And then
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when he brings them, when that negotiation is done, then
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he will exhort them and give them the leverage of influence.
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Speaker 1: Are we together now?
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Speaker 2: And from that standpoint, they begin to sell certain value systems,
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and as ugly as some of those value systems are,
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you will think they should be so pungent and intell
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person should reject them, but never downplay what influence does
1:46:04
to a man. Influence can make darkness look like light.
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Greater works on the wings of influence. There are many
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people today. Do you know, once upon a time, have
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you noticed that generally speaking, we speak better. Our generation
1:46:23
communicates a lot better. Not necessarily because people who have
1:46:27
gone to more schools and learned. It's simply because The
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Internet has afforded people a greater opportunity to hear and
1:46:33
listen to communicators, and that has automatically improved people. You
1:46:37
listen to our children. When you hear our children speak,
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you wish you were them. They speak intelligently, they will
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correct you. I had an experience with one of our
1:46:47
lovely children. I was calling everything that was around orange.
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So one time I was at the rotunda and I said, wow,
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this is orange, and she tapped me. She said, it's
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not orange. I can't remember the name she called it,
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and she was right, ladies and gentlemen, ah is for that's.
1:47:03
Speaker 1: What you were taught.
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Speaker 2: Anything that is oh is orange. But our children, now
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you can imagine, they will correct you and say, no, no,
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this is orange, this is this one, this is this one.
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Speaker 1: That is the level of advancement court see influence.
1:47:21
Speaker 2: Children learn now at a remarkable pace because they have
1:47:24
all your visuals that help support their understanding, pictorial representations
1:47:29
of the things. Biology used to be a nightmare, chemistry, physics,
1:47:32
but now children life while they're learning. When they fail,
1:47:35
the teachers call them and say, were you in your
1:47:37
right state of mind?
1:47:38
Speaker 1: Are you okay?
1:47:38
Speaker 2: We can repeat the test you know what happened where
1:47:41
you were writing your test. You carry your results and
1:47:45
start crying before you get home because you know exactly
1:47:50
what will happen, and what you are expecting is exactly
1:47:53
what will happen. I leave you to guess whatever it is.
1:47:57
I will not say it. Oh, yes, you know, you
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knew exactly what was going to happen. Now results are
1:48:08
released in eversions. You don't have to join any Q
1:48:10
and do anything. I'm just saying that influence shapes civilization.
1:48:15
Speaker 1: Are we together very, very powerful and profound?
1:48:18
Speaker 2: It then means that if we believe us are going
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to do greater works, we must trust God for grace
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to accent heights and realms where our life becomes visible
1:48:29
and clear. Are we together in an elevated platform where
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people can see the life of God in you? I
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like Jesus. Matthew Chapter five thirteen to sixteen is the
1:48:39
most concise capture of the confluence, the whole idea of influence.
1:48:45
Jesus says it this way. You are the salt Matthew
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five thirteen of the earth. We are the salt. Ladies
1:48:54
and gentlemen, You know what salt is able to do?
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One pot of rice does not require one pot of
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salt to taste well away together. Look at the ratio
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of the salt that must be added to a pot.
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Speaker 1: Of rice to make it taste well. Say influence.
1:49:15
Speaker 2: So when you see a bag of salt and a
1:49:18
bag of rice, you're not holding the same thing. If
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you mix them ratio one to one, you destroy that meal.
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Am I right on that? So light is even a
1:49:31
greater expression of influence because light does not have to
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be everywhere to shine everywhere. Just put it at one
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point and give it room to shine, and it gives
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light to everyone in the room. It says, neither do
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men light a lamb and put it under a bushel.
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Watch this, the light is put on a candlestick and
1:49:51
kept on a bushel, and the whole room is illuminated
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by that light. And Jesus says, you are that salt.
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Don't say we are few. Don't say we are few.
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Five people who are salt, indeed can rewrite the narrative
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of a generation. Am I right on that?
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Speaker 1: Five people?
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Speaker 2: And then he says you are light. Look at the sun.
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Speaker 1: As we know. Every time I use the example of
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the sun, I.
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Speaker 2: Learned the power of influence. Did you know that if
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you ask the Sun what do you do about darkness?
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The Sun will tell you I have never seen darkness.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know it exists.
1:50:38
Speaker 2: The concept of darkness is the rotation of the Earth
1:50:43
in a way that the Sun does not reach it.
1:50:45
But as far as the Sun is concerned, from its creation,
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there has never been darkness.
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Speaker 1: Because from that standpoint, isn't it brilliant?
1:50:54
Speaker 2: When you are traveling, especially transcontinentally, you see the wisdom
1:50:58
and the beauty of the sun that one moment you
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are living and it's night, and then you are turning
1:51:05
to the other side of the globe, and then you
1:51:07
are seeing the sun rising. Incredible, profound. You go to
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other parts of the world where at about eight or
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nine is still bright, and then all of a sudden,
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the brilliance and the wisdom of God. No one that
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he says you are salt and he says you are light.
1:51:23
Most believers only know that they are believers. But God
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is transitting your understanding, giving you an apostolic perspective that
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you are salt and you are light. Please say salt,
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say light one more time. Says salt, say light. That
1:51:40
means in the midst of five hundred students. If you
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are the only one who is there, you are enough
1:51:46
to create.
1:51:46
Speaker 1: That change salt for you.
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Speaker 2: The assignment of salt essentially is to add taste and
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then to preserve. These are the two principal assignments of salt.
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There can be a lot others, of course, but then
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to taste and then to preserve. And you see, like
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I taught you here in Coinonia, it is never too
1:52:06
late to add salt to a meal. This is the
1:52:08
thing about salt. There are certain ingredients that if you
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do not add them on time, you have destroyed that meal.
1:52:14
But even when the meal is already served at the table,
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you will still see salt. And if it does not taste,
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you can add salt and it does not ruin the meal.
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Profound How about light? Remember my example that I gave
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you ten years darkness. A room with ten years darkness,
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another with one year darkness, another.
1:52:38
Speaker 1: With two week darkness.
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Speaker 2: Imagine all of these rooms they have been dug for
1:52:41
that long, and then you connect them to a bob
1:52:46
with a central switch. As soon as you switch it on,
1:52:49
which of the rooms who come up first? All of
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them at the same time. The longevity of darkness does
1:52:55
not affect the effect of true light just because the
1:52:59
light has been or for ten years. As soon as
1:53:02
you get it right and you fix it in that moment,
1:53:05
the light will come up. Jesus says, I am the
1:53:07
light of the world. For as long as I am
1:53:09
in the world, I am the light of the world. Cornonia,
1:53:12
hear me. You are the light of the world. You
1:53:14
are not just Christians. You are the light of the world,
1:53:17
the light of the cosmos, the salt of the earth.
1:53:21
I believe in influence right from the time God started
1:53:25
raising and bulliness. I believed with all my heart that
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it is profitable for us and for the kingdom to
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attain a point of influence. Influence brings you closer to
1:53:36
the corridors of power and authority, and it affords you
1:53:39
the opportunity to enhance positive changes. Prophets in the Bible
1:53:45
were people who advise kings. They advise nobles. Nobles called
1:53:49
prophets my father. Why because among the many decisions that
1:53:54
control their nations, where there are submission to prophets who
1:54:00
brought to them the wisdom of God or the wisdom
1:54:02
of other deities. I don't run away from the corridors
1:54:08
of influence and power. I will not be corrupted and
1:54:11
compromised by them. But I'm not one of those men
1:54:13
of God who would chicken away.
1:54:14
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no.
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Speaker 2: No.
1:54:15
Speaker 1: Great men, big men, they are my friends.
1:54:17
Speaker 2: I would love them, pray for them, counseldom as much
1:54:20
as they are willing to listen. There is a narrative
1:54:24
in the Church that seems to isolate the believer from
1:54:28
the main activities within the cosmos. There is a history
1:54:31
to that error. When you study the history of the church.
1:54:34
I don't want to mention the name of the groups
1:54:36
because I'm speaking to a global audience. But when you
1:54:39
study the history of the Church, once upon a time
1:54:41
there was a group of people who believe that the
1:54:44
idea of holiness and purity was being e theenenated from
1:54:48
the mainstream activities of the church. And historically that happened
1:54:53
because during an emperor called Emperor Nero, there was persecution
1:54:58
of the church. Believers were warned with fire, they were
1:55:01
putting oil, and all kinds of mayhem was being unleashed
1:55:04
on believers.
1:55:05
Speaker 1: Are we together?
1:55:06
Speaker 2: And so under the reign of Emperor Constantine, Bible history
1:55:10
would tell us that victory because of a revelation God
1:55:13
gave him of the cross, victory was brought for his armies.
1:55:18
And because of that, they liberalized the practice of the
1:55:22
Christian faith and gave an injunction that Christians should no
1:55:25
longer be persecuted on account of their faith. Now, those
1:55:28
who under the reign of men like Emperor Nero, if
1:55:32
you were saved, sometimes you would not even last two
1:55:34
three days because they were living in the midst of persecution.
1:55:37
So things like taking care of family, attending to other
1:55:41
needs was not in their mind. It was just mattiadom.
1:55:44
But when that burden was lifted that then believers did
1:55:48
not know what to do with their lives.
1:55:50
Speaker 1: Are you seeing now?
1:55:51
Speaker 2: And so a few people said, look, we cannot sit
1:55:53
here living useless lives.
1:55:54
Speaker 1: We love the Lord.
1:55:55
Speaker 2: But since we're no longer dying, we have wives, we
1:55:58
have children, we have response usibilities.
1:56:00
Speaker 1: We're living in a society that we need to be
1:56:03
part of.
1:56:04
Speaker 2: Even though not compromised by then, a group of people
1:56:08
now branched out and said, listen, we need to be
1:56:10
involved in activities of commerce, activities of nation building. We
1:56:14
cannot alienate ourselves. And that started branching different sects in
1:56:18
the Christian faith. So the idea of alienating yourself from
1:56:22
mainstream society as proof of spirituality is a.
1:56:26
Speaker 1: Repetition of an aged old error.
1:56:29
Speaker 2: And apostolic community must know that you are scent. Please
1:56:33
say after me sent one more time, says send. Scent
1:56:37
gives an idea of a forward movement, that you are
1:56:41
sent as light in the midst of darkness.
1:56:43
Speaker 1: Light is not profitable in light. Here's how it works.
1:56:50
Speaker 2: If you on your phone, Let's assume God forbid that
1:56:53
the light in this auditorium suddenly went off, you will
1:56:55
have to make do with the light on your phone.
1:56:57
Speaker 1: Am I right on that?
1:56:58
Speaker 2: But when the light comes up, you don't need that
1:57:00
lesser light again, you have to put it off. That's
1:57:02
how it works. So when the world will have to
1:57:07
manage the systems that they have that explain morality, that
1:57:11
explain excellence, like using a touch light, because the church
1:57:14
that is the true light has refused to rise, So
1:57:17
systems and policies that sometimes may not be pro kingdom
1:57:21
will have to be enacted and established as a midwife
1:57:26
until the manifestation of the saints. But my Bible, says
1:57:30
Romance eight eighteen. For I reckon that the sufferings of
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this present time is not worthy to be compared with.
1:57:36
Speaker 1: The glory that shall be revealed in US.
1:57:38
Speaker 2: Verse eighteen says for the endness expectation of creation awaited,
1:57:43
the manifestation of the sons of God. If you're part
1:57:47
of that army, shout a loud amen, allelujah. When you
1:57:54
have the opportunity to rise through influence and have the
1:58:00
ears the heart of kings, and you can direct them aright.
1:58:05
You see, this is the reason why before God will
1:58:08
trust a man with influence, he will deal with your flesh,
1:58:12
and flesh must die.
1:58:13
Speaker 1: Do you know why?
1:58:14
Speaker 2: Because when you run to a point of influence, you
1:58:17
are now around and within the corridors of power. And
1:58:20
it takes a covenant walk with God not to be
1:58:23
compromised by the greats and the glamor that power brings.
1:58:28
The challenge until now, for the body of Christ is
1:58:31
people who have been ill trained and have not stayed
1:58:34
to be properly trained and mentored.
1:58:36
Speaker 1: If they find.
1:58:37
Speaker 2: Themselves in position of authority, with all due respect, whether
1:58:40
they are politicians or government people, and all of that,
1:58:44
they suddenly find themselves by whatever means in the corridors
1:58:47
of power, because they have not been trained. The Bible
1:58:51
says in Daniel one and verse eight, it says, and
1:58:54
Daniel posts in his heart that he would not defile
1:58:57
himself with the portion of the king smith.
1:59:01
Speaker 1: He purposed a determination.
1:59:04
Speaker 2: Your will can play role that in the name of Jesus,
1:59:07
as I get to this office, I will not caught corners.
1:59:10
I will not bribe. I will not give or take bribe.
1:59:13
This is how I will show favor. I will help people.
1:59:16
But this is how I will run my life.
1:59:18
Speaker 1: You can purpose in your heart. I give you a disclaimer.
1:59:25
Speaker 2: Integrity has a serious consequence because we live in a big,
1:59:29
deviled world. So if you are planning to be a
1:59:32
person of integrity, get ready to go through the persecutions
1:59:36
that follow people of integrity and character. You will be
1:59:40
termed a fool by many people. They will call you
1:59:43
names and say you and your children would die of hunger.
1:59:46
You don't know how this thing works. You would have
1:59:49
manipulated your way and a billionaire. I will certainly evolve
1:59:52
out of thin air.
1:59:53
Speaker 1: But can I tell you?
1:59:54
Speaker 2: The Bible says Mark the wicked, the end is destruction.
1:59:59
That is why you find out many people who look
2:00:02
and steal money. With all due respect, they get to
2:00:05
a point where you find out their children cannot even
2:00:07
right so become anything great. And the children don't know
2:00:10
what kind of causes on them. Did your Bible not
2:00:13
say the couse of the Lord is in the house
2:00:15
of the weeked? But by all means, ladies and gentlemen,
2:00:22
God is not just looking for good preachers. He's looking
2:00:25
for men who will accend the heights of influence and relevance.
2:00:29
Because one on one evangelism will not get the job done.
2:00:34
Thank God for one on one evangelism. But while living
2:00:37
today in a sociological context where it's not even safe
2:00:40
to stand and do one on one with anybody again,
2:00:43
because you can corner somebody one on one, and the
2:00:45
person who bring out a knife and say, before you preach,
2:00:47
drop your money and your fold. I've been looking for
2:00:50
somebody that I will steal from. Thank you for making
2:00:52
yourself available. And so we must be wise as serpens
2:00:56
and gentle as doves. Jesus or they told us that
2:01:00
we are sheep in the midst of wolves?
2:01:03
Speaker 1: Are we together?
2:01:06
Speaker 2: Someone can blackmail you and say, while you are preaching
2:01:08
the person can say you are an umbroba.
2:01:10
Speaker 1: You don't know whether the.
2:01:11
Speaker 2: Person just came out of a forest, and then you
2:01:13
are the first evangelist the person met and you are
2:01:15
trying to preach, whereas the memory of his being kidnapped
2:01:18
one week ago, he can just shout and call you
2:01:21
fccy or call the police, and if God does not help,
2:01:24
you're in trouble. So we most reinvent wise the strategies.
2:01:29
I'm not saying one on one is bad, but I'm
2:01:31
saying that we must invent more effective kingdom strategies of
2:01:35
witnessing to people. And one of such as proposed by Scripture,
2:01:40
is influence. Kingdom advances at the messy of a healthy
2:01:45
blend of evangelism and influence. Evangelism and influence, evangelism and influence.
2:01:52
Speaker 1: Isn't it incredible that I'm.
2:01:54
Speaker 2: Standing from this point, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm talking
2:01:57
literally to tens of thousands of people, potentially millions of
2:02:01
people across the globe from one point. That is the
2:02:06
power of influence thanks to technology. Don't reject influence. It
2:02:11
is not just a tool to feel good. There is
2:02:13
an assignment. Influence is a tool. There are many people
2:02:18
who will love Jesus because the what you love in Jesus.
2:02:21
There are many people who be responsible because there what
2:02:24
you being responsible. There are many people who be frugal
2:02:28
because they watch your model frugality. There are many people
2:02:31
who be men and women of integrity because they see
2:02:34
it manifest in your life. I'm praying for someone here
2:02:37
on account of your desire to see Jesus glorified. May
2:02:41
God elevate you to any platform required for you to
2:02:45
serve Him well in the name of Jesus Christ.
2:02:49
Speaker 1: If you need to be a CEO to.
2:02:51
Speaker 2: Representing me, that great rest on you. If you need
2:02:57
to be given an appointment with some international organization so
2:03:01
that you will be a model to nations that there
2:03:03
are men who can serve God wellth I'm crying on
2:03:06
to my God that in the name of Jesus, may
2:03:09
you begin to put you in strategic positions.
2:03:16
Speaker 1: From the rising of the sun to the setting of
2:03:22
the same.
2:03:25
Speaker 2: Your name is to.
2:03:32
Speaker 1: Listen down righte.
2:03:34
Speaker 2: The key to influence is results. The key to genuine
2:03:41
Bible influence is results. Ladies and gentlemen, I hate to
2:03:45
be a bearer of bad news, but I announce you
2:03:48
painfully so that no body will follow a man who
2:03:52
does not have results. Nobody will follow an institution that
2:03:56
does not have results.
2:03:57
Speaker 1: No body will be loyal to a nation on.
2:04:00
Speaker 2: A people, a person and organization that does not have results.
2:04:06
Results here represent solutions, solutions that better people, solutions. You
2:04:11
can imagine some of the influencers in the world from
2:04:14
a technological standpoint. Some of you have never seen some
2:04:17
of the giants, the tech giants. You've never met with
2:04:20
them one on one, and yet people dress like them,
2:04:24
talk like them, bear their names. How many people today
2:04:27
will fight to own the jerseys of certain footballers use jerseys.
2:04:33
That's the power of influence. Are we together? Because you see,
2:04:41
the human spirit was so designed. I've taught you to
2:04:45
find fulfillment when you make progress, and when you see
2:04:49
people who model what you desire to become, it's usually
2:04:53
a beautiful sight to behold. And chances are excellent that
2:04:56
you will want to practice anything you think they are doing.
2:04:59
To have gotten to that position. Influence results. Our generation
2:05:05
is so vulnerable to influence. This is why God must
2:05:09
raise models that represent the counsel of God.
2:05:12
Speaker 1: Holistically.
2:05:13
Speaker 2: Let's show the world what it means to be intelligent, blessed, humble.
2:05:18
Speaker 1: And yet loving the Lord with all our hearts.
2:05:21
Speaker 2: And let me tell you, when your heart is right,
2:05:23
God will take the limits of your life and elevate you.
2:05:26
You've heard me say it, and I will repeat it
2:05:28
again that the Lord told me many years ago that
2:05:31
if you see, if you let men see me, there
2:05:34
is nothing I will not give you. Allelujah. The question
2:05:39
I have for you is that if the whole world
2:05:42
were to model their lives after you, will the world
2:05:45
become a better place or a terrible place? If the
2:05:49
whole world We're given a divine instruction by God that
2:05:53
between now and the end of the year December, everybody
2:05:56
on Earth, from Europe to America, Asia, Antarctica, across the continents,
2:06:03
you are the God's recommended model. And everybody young and old,
2:06:09
educated on educated, diplomats, academicians, intellectuals, family people, they are
2:06:15
mandated by God to model only you for six months.
2:06:20
Will it solve the problem in the world or will
2:06:23
it add to the problem in the world. Make reference
2:06:28
to my teaching redefining Inheritance and then the teaching what
2:06:32
seekest now There I teach on the concept of fulfillment
2:06:35
and progress and impact. And one of the things I
2:06:38
taught as an inheritance is a good name. At the
2:06:43
end of your life. Your name can be a key
2:06:46
or a padlock. I repeat, at the end of your
2:06:49
life to your children and to all those who look
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up to you. Your name can be a key that
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opens closed doors, or your name can be a padlock.
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Speaker 1: The truth about it is whether.
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Speaker 2: You look at it politically or spiritually or generally. There
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are people today, if you mention their names, their names
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represent hope. When you mention people like Nelson Mandela, When
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you mention people like Mahatma Gandhi, these are people who
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their names exemplify hope. People can cry literally are the
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mention of their name because they're inspired by what they
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live for. There are other names like Satan. When you mention,
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am I right on that? At least let me mention
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the worst Satan. Imagine someone calling you that name and
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then he says, I'm joking. You will still be angry.
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Speaker 1: Am I right on that? Why is it a spelling?
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Speaker 2: Very beautiful spelling, but there is a terrible history behind
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that name?
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Speaker 1: Is it S that is wrong?
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Speaker 2: Or A that is wrong? Or T that is wrong?
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These are letters in enoughphabet that way called I'm the letters.
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Speaker 1: Of an alphabet, but that there is a history behind
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that name.
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Speaker 2: I'm praying for you that if there is anything connected
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to your name today, that at the mention of will
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will represent pungency and make people say, over my dead
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body made the messy of God, erase it today. I
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say to get made the messy of God. Erase it today.
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There are families today where individuals connected to those families
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have had to change the surnames, in fact, change the
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entire names. Do you know why, because if they there
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mentioned that name in certain quoters and certain circles, it
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can change their destiny indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: Influence ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 2: Influence is beyond social media, even though social media plays
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a great role because of the generation administers too.
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Speaker 1: But I can tell you this, the greatest way to
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market anything is the truth.
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Speaker 2: You have no fear if what you are advocating and
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communicating is the truth. The limitation with the social media space,
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with all due respect, is that it has provided an
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advantage for growth, for increase for enlightenment, but it has
2:09:21
come with a terrible side effect that sells falsehood. Falsehood
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is literally a product, and many keep buying it. One
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of the major products being sold out and is being
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consumed by people is falsehood. You can spend your entire
2:09:40
life creating the narrative of a lie, or living in
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a lie, selling a lie, being deceived yourself and deceiving others.
2:09:50
That is the one demerit unfortunate thing about the ill
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use of the social media space. It is a very
2:09:58
profitable platform. It has changed the way world redefine civilization.
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But it is only most profitable if these ills, this
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side effects can be managed. Coinonia is not only a
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place of power and grace, miracles, science and wonders.
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Speaker 1: We have a mandate to also raise people of influence.
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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you you do not know the joy
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in my heart when I hear that God is giving
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people jobs, giving people promotions, elevating them. For me, as
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a man of God, I don't just beat my chest
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and say wow, my people are rising. No, no, no,
2:10:32
no no. My joy is that vision that God has
2:10:35
given Genesis seventeen six, that it is coming to pass,
2:10:38
and I'm praying for you. I would never stop even
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now I'm saying it again. Any position you need to
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rise to, whether in sports, whether in media space, whether
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as a man of God, whatever kind of results your
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life needs to produce to give you an elevated platform.
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May my God, who is also your God, lived you
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and keep you there and hear me for some of
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you who are already lifted there any power that wants
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to bring you down.
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Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I call upon the God
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of Heaven.
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Speaker 2: May here rise and sear down any altar that wants
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to bring you down. I say it again, men by God,
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a rise and tear down any altar choprakatu'siata any man
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who has been elevated by God. And any conspiracy by
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charms or hexy spells or enchantments that said this man,
2:11:33
this woman must die, this person was faul this priation
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wast fall, this politician must fall.
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Speaker 1: I declae and declare.
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Speaker 2: Those altars are scattered right now, Allelujah. There are forces
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looking for men of God to bring them down. You
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know why not because of the man of God. Because
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if such a great man goes down, the millions of
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people who believe in the person who also go down.
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There are many business men who many people eat because
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of your business. And you see the strategiest this. When
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Satan sees that you are in an elevated position.
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Speaker 1: Where your life matters.
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Speaker 2: To the well being of many people, you become his
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principle source of attack. He will use anything human, systemic, demonic,
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spiritual discouragement. Danielle was elevated in Babylon, and because of
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his position, he was protecting not only the interests of God.
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I'm not advocating fanatism. Listen to me. The Christianity that
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I preach does not profit Christians the presentity that I.
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Speaker 1: Profit all men.
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Speaker 2: I don't advocated Christianity that downplace other religions. You will
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never hear me do that. Jesus came and he fed
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five thousand men. The Bible does not tell us that
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everybody there was a believer. I will never advocate the
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Christianity that is built on blind fannatism.
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Speaker 1: Please hear me.
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Speaker 2: If you're a politician here, or you are anyone in
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an elevated position, God did not put you there to
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favor Christians alone. God put you there to favor all men.
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The Bible says, be good to all men. Albeity says,
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especially there that are of the household of faith. Let
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the Gospel and the Kingdom profit from your life, but
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not from a standpoint of blind fanatism. There are many
2:13:26
people today who are being wrongly mentored, and they got
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to positions of authority, and the only people they so
2:13:32
were Christians, and they left other people or the non
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Christians hungry.
2:13:37
Speaker 1: No, if you are putting a position, you are there.
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Speaker 2: Of course, everybody will serve to reflect what they believe.
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But let me tell you sincerely, we are called to
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serve all men. When God grands us the privilege to
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do the things that we do to prisons, bore holes
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and the rest, we don't do it in.
2:13:54
Speaker 1: Consideration to whether who is a Christian or not.
2:13:57
Speaker 2: He sends the rein to the godly and young, godly
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privileged society must enjoy by reason of you being a
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child of God.
2:14:06
Speaker 1: Are we together? I have to say this because when
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you are raising.
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Speaker 2: People of influence, influence is a delicate product. You can
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use it to mislead people. I say it again, I
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will never advocated Christianity that throws down other people. There
2:14:24
are non Christians watching me right now, watching from various places.
2:14:29
And as much as we are people who are motivated
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by our love for Jesus vocally, so orn as shamedly.
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So we have the responsibility of translating the Kingdom life
2:14:40
to a context that better society. If abucha is better
2:14:44
because of collinonia, we are serving God properly. If only
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Christians are better in a bucha, we are not serving
2:14:50
God properly. You believe that when a road is built,
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it's not only Christians that will pass it. Am I
2:15:05
right on that when health care becomes a thing worthy
2:15:08
of emulation, it's not only Christian patients that will be
2:15:11
attended to. How many people are operated upon, they pray
2:15:15
before they go to the hospital. Yet it's a non
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Christian probably sometimes someone who is not even does not
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believe in anything, But that's the person who performs the surgery,
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and you submit your body to that person. This is
2:15:30
responsible Christianity that.
2:15:32
Speaker 1: You are learning.
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Speaker 2: So please hear me. If you have any practice in
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your place of power that that victimizes a certain set
2:15:41
of people intentionally, that is not God's that is not
2:15:45
the advocacy of the Christian faith. All should enjoy the benevolence,
2:15:50
All should enjoy you being there. I'm saying this because
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weomen of God with all due respect, we need to
2:15:56
be careful to not put pressure on the people of
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infraid that God has brought under our care. Leave them
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to serve with integrity and dignity. We can correct, we
2:16:06
can advise, but never put anybody under the palm of
2:16:09
your hand, under the guise of spiritual leadership. We must
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allow God's people to serve. When they go wrong, we
2:16:16
correct them in love. Are we together? And we advocate
2:16:20
a Christian context that makes the entire society profit. This
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is what Jesus thought.
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Speaker 1: That's what it means to be the soult of.
2:16:28
Speaker 2: The earth, the light of the world. Please be seated.
2:16:35
Speaker 1: Let me give you the last point, and then we'll
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finish greater works.
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Speaker 2: Part two.
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Speaker 1: I believe in influence. I advocate influence.
2:16:50
Speaker 2: God is raising strategic people and giving them these mantles
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and these graces, elevating them. There are tools that help
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and individual to become a person of influence, excellence, the
2:17:03
fortitude to do your work or to surpass ordinary standards.
2:17:08
Speaker 1: Are we together now?
2:17:09
Speaker 2: I will not give a job to a Christian who
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is lazy and will cut corners in the name of
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Jesus and will not do a great job. No, if
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I have a road project and someone comes, if you're
2:17:20
a Christian.
2:17:20
Speaker 1: You can secure my.
2:17:22
Speaker 2: Sympathy in all fairness, and I will do it without
2:17:25
I wouldn't do it without any hiding or whatever. But
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then you must show me the excellence you are bringing
2:17:31
to the table. Considering you will only become an added
2:17:34
advantage when I have seen.
2:17:36
Speaker 1: That your excellence will be worth the while.
2:17:39
Speaker 2: Let's not advocate blind fanatism that keeps destroying our continent
2:17:43
and our nation. There are many people who have destroyed
2:17:47
the lives of others in the name of Jesus, bad
2:17:49
roads in the name of Jesus, bad buildings in the
2:17:54
name of Jesus. And yet there are people who are
2:17:56
competent and just because of biases of faith. When you
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hear me speak like this, I don't speak of myself.
2:18:03
It is the spirit of God speaking through me. Allelujah.
2:18:10
The Church should profit from every believer that God elevates.
2:18:15
But in profiting we must not forget the fact that
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God sends us to minister to all men, and that
2:18:23
influence is enhanced by a life of excellence.
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Speaker 1: Excellence.
2:18:29
Speaker 2: If you are given a job, do it well with integrity.
2:18:32
Those start eating the money before the contract is on.
2:18:35
No be disciplined. Do the job well, the profit will come.
2:18:39
And when you see, excellence has a way of recycling
2:18:42
opportunities to your life again.
2:18:44
Speaker 1: There is nobody who lives what works.
2:18:47
Speaker 2: When you are excellent and you deliver as a man
2:18:51
of God, God grants you grace. People will invite you
2:18:53
for a conference. Do your own work. Don't stand there
2:18:56
and just go and make noise, and then pray that
2:18:58
you are invited again. No, you pray what you study,
2:19:02
do your homework, speak to the people with excellence. You
2:19:05
will go back there again. As a banker, do your
2:19:07
work well. A businessman, do your work well. You run
2:19:11
a shop and a mall. You wake up by eleven
2:19:13
o'clock and close by three o'clock. And your excuse is
2:19:16
that I'm running to church. I love you sincerely, but
2:19:19
that approach is a loser's approach. You can employ people,
2:19:24
and that includes other people who may not be there,
2:19:26
so that while you are in church, your products are
2:19:28
still running and you are blessing people.
2:19:31
Speaker 1: Listen, I told you that.
2:19:32
Speaker 2: The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is not just
2:19:34
a spiritual platform. It's also an institution where people are
2:19:38
reoriented afresh. In fact, it is the cheapest institution on earth,
2:19:45
because you do not need to write jump to come
2:19:47
to church. Age, range does not matter, quarter of regions
2:19:51
does not matter. You find your way from your home
2:19:53
and come and sit down, and after two three hours
2:19:56
you leave a radically transformed version of you, the cheapest
2:20:00
institution known to man as far as advocating change, transformation
2:20:06
and greatness is concerned. Let me give my last point.
2:20:08
Looks like I'm giving a speech. We're still in church.
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This is coin onia. This is not a un conference. Allelujah,
2:20:20
the last Force. And then we find somewhere to pray.
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Have you been blessed the force of the prophetic greater works,
2:20:29
the last force that I would give you that is
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responsible for manifesting greater works. And I'm going to be
2:20:36
speaking over your life shortly and in the name of Jesus,
2:20:39
this grace will work for you, the force of the prophetic.
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Exodus seventeen, from verse eight. The prophetic, as designed by
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God has been a major tool that has shifted changed
2:20:57
the climates, the spiritual climate of territories. Men have come
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to bow to the lordship of Jesus all through scripture.
2:21:05
Court see the prophetic every time people derail every time
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in society and a territory plunges to any kind of decadence.
2:21:14
It is very usual of God, and it's a strategy
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to raise a prophetic voice.
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Speaker 1: And I'll explain to you what I mean by.
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Speaker 2: Prophetic, because for us believe us today. Let me say
2:21:25
that upfront, the prophetic is not just limited to the
2:21:28
office of a prophet.
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Speaker 1: There are three.
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Speaker 2: Dimensions of the prophetic. And I'll show you as we
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wrap up. But let's read Exodus seventeen from verse eight.
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Speaker 1: Watch this.
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Speaker 2: Then came Amlek and fought with Israel at Refidum.
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Speaker 1: We're reading down to fifteen.
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Speaker 2: The Bible says, and Moses said, onto Joshua, choose us out, men,
2:21:50
and go out fight with Amlek. Tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I will stand on the top of the heel with
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the rod of God in my hand.
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Speaker 2: Watch this. Now they are going to battle, and Moses
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is saying, I will not be there fighting, but I
2:22:04
have a role to play in the victory of Israel.
2:22:07
Speaker 1: Are we together?
2:22:08
Speaker 2: And Moses said to Joshua versus verse ten.
2:22:10
Speaker 1: Now let's go to verse ten.
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Speaker 2: So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and
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fought with Amelek. And Moses watched this, Aaron and oh,
2:22:21
three men, they went to the top of the hill.
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You would think that a serious battle were happening. Moses
2:22:26
should come and join and fight, But Moses said, no,
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My role in establishing these victory is not to fight physically.
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Speaker 1: I have a prophetic role. Watch this now verse eleven.
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Speaker 2: And it came to pass when Moses held up his
2:22:43
hand that Israel prevailed. Look at this, and when he
2:22:48
let down his hand, Amelek prevailed. What then was the
2:22:52
excellency of the training. Warriors are fighting and the victory
2:22:57
does not depend on the dexterity of their soul or
2:23:00
they're skill in battle. That someone is fighting, who is
2:23:03
not even looking at.
2:23:04
Speaker 1: Moses, and yet a man.
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Speaker 2: Is standing and the position of his hand is literally defining.
2:23:10
Speaker 1: The destiny of a nation.
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Speaker 2: Twelve. But Moses's hands became heavy. Can you imagine that
2:23:23
that is trouble for Israel. Moses's hand, the prophetic became heavy,
2:23:29
the prophetic became downplayed, and the Bible says.
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Speaker 1: And they took a stone.
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Speaker 2: Now watch this, You would think, because Moses was tired,
2:23:39
it would be logical for Aaron or Joshua, Aaron and
2:23:43
huw to say all right, Moses, go and rest. If
2:23:45
it's all about the rod, will hold it. But the
2:23:48
Bible says, no, it was not just about the rod.
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It was about the man.
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Speaker 1: Away.
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Speaker 2: Together they took a stone and put it under him,
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and he sat. They invented whatever skill under God to
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keep that hand lifted, because they understood that in the
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midst of swords, in the midst of skill, in the
2:24:09
midst of courage, the prophetic still has a role to
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play in bringing the victory of a people, the Bible says,
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And Aaron and Harst stayed up his hand, and one
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on one side and the other on the other side,
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and his hands were sturdy until the going down of
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the sun. That's how long the battle lasted. And for
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as long as his hand was lifted, victory was clear.
2:24:34
Thirteen and Joshua discomfited Amlek and his people with the
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edge of the sword. Now this looks like a mystery.
2:24:44
Speaker 1: Now why are you telling us about Joshua and the
2:24:46
sword again?
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Speaker 2: But the secret behind the scene was a man's hand,
2:24:51
a prophet's hand ordained by God for the victory of
2:24:54
the people. Fourteen Let's finish up, And the Lord said
2:24:57
onto Moses, he said, write this.
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Speaker 1: When God says to write something, it means it's a pattern.
2:25:03
Speaker 2: Are we together? When God says, right, you see the
2:25:06
same thing in revelations. Right, every time God tells men
2:25:10
to write, he's saying there is a spiritual pattern. Right,
2:25:15
this is for a memorial in a book, and rehears
2:25:19
it in the ears of Joshua. For I will utterly
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put out the remembrance of the Amelek from under heaven
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final verse fifteen, and Moses butt and altar there and
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named it after that experience as Jehovah Nissi.
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Speaker 1: Jehovah Nissi.
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Speaker 2: That name came out of an experience that your skill
2:25:44
in partnership with the Prophetic is what produces greater works.
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Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen, you have been taught
2:25:51
the value of the Prophetic. Here, for the sake of
2:25:54
our discussion tonight, very quickly, let me give you three levels.
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Today I wrote here all believers can.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy the blessings of the Prophetic.
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Speaker 2: Today, all believers can enjoy the blessings of the Prophetic
2:26:11
through these three channels. All believers can enjoy the blessings
2:26:15
of the Prophetic through these three channels. Number one, the
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Word of God. The Word of God affords all believers
2:26:24
the opportunity to enjoy the prophetic second Peter one nineteen.
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Second Peter one nineteen. The first channel by which all
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believers can enjoy the ministry of the prophetic for their
2:26:36
profiting is called the world of God.
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Speaker 1: It says, we have also a more show word of prophecy.
2:26:44
Speaker 2: So it calls scripture the Word of God, a most
2:26:48
shore word of prophecy. That means, if you never have
2:26:51
the opportunity to meet any prophet one on one as
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it where, you are still not.
2:26:57
Speaker 1: Disadvantage as it were.
2:26:58
Speaker 2: If you have access to the world Lord, that the
2:27:00
Word of God is able to meet wife, you're accessing
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the blessing of the prophetic.
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Speaker 1: Number two, The second.
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Speaker 2: Basis for enjoying the ministry of the prophetic for the
2:27:13
believer today is the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The
2:27:17
Holy Spirit has been given to all believers without reservation,
2:27:21
and his ministry affords you an opportunity to enjoy the
2:27:25
prophetic John sixteen thirteen. Is God speaking to someone John
2:27:30
sixteen thirteen, How be it when he the Spirit of
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Truth is come? The Bible says he will guide you
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into all truth? Are you seeing his prophetic assignment? There?
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He shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear,
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that shall he speak I like the last sentence. And
2:27:49
he will show you things to come. So, if you
2:27:53
do not have the privilege of hearing Joshua Selman prophesied
2:27:57
or speak to you, you have no fear, because greater
2:28:00
Joshua Salman is in you, and with you are we together.
2:28:03
Now it's good to receive of the prophetic ministry, but
2:28:07
you must be careful so that you do not get
2:28:10
into the idolatry of worshiping the prophetic above the world
2:28:14
of God and above the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
2:28:17
Every man of God that operates in the prophetic correctly
2:28:21
is empowered by the Spirit of God who lives in you.
2:28:24
So the Bible says that he can show you things
2:28:27
to come. It is an advantage when you have a
2:28:30
vessel that can bring guidance and direction, reprove correction, instruction,
2:28:35
and help you exhortation, like the Bible says.
2:28:39
Speaker 1: But that you are not at a disadvantage as it.
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Speaker 2: Were if you do not have a physical personality that
2:28:46
represents the prophetic. The ministry of the Holy Spirit can
2:28:49
become that breach and help you to know things to come.
2:28:53
The Bible says in First Corinthians to Unvers ten, First
2:28:56
Corinthians to Unvers ten of the Holy Spirit as a
2:29:02
channel for expressing the prophetic. But God had revealed them
2:29:06
to us. The revelatory dimension of the prophetic does not
2:29:11
just happen because of a vessel. It happens also because
2:29:15
of the Holy Spirit, it says, for the Spirit can
2:29:18
such all things. There is no prophet that can touch
2:29:21
all things of God. Because the Bible says in First Corinternstatin,
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it says, we see impart and we prophesy in part.
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So the most accurate of any prophet on earth is
2:29:31
still limited. Are we together now? But the Holy Spirit
2:29:34
has the unique ability to such all things, even the
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deep things of God. Part of those old things are
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the matters that relate to your destiny, the matters that
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relate to your ministry, the matters that relate to your family.
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And that when you pay respect to the prophetic minister
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of the Holy Spirit, you can receive and outsource that
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prophetic advantage could see the Holy Spirit. And then finally,
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the third, which is the most common channel for expressing
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the prophetic is through the ministry gifts that we call
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the prophetic. And by prophetic here it does not just
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mean prophetic office. It just means everyone who, either by
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call or by alignment, has come to a position where
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they are able to communicate the counsel of God. There
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are prophets who are called of God into that ministry,
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but there are believers who have stayed with God and
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evolved into dimensions where they are prophetic has been so
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sharpened you will think they are prophets, but they are not. Profits.
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The prophetic is a privilege of every believer, the same
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way everybody can cook.
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Speaker 1: You have access to the kitchen. But there are people
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called chefs. Am I right on that?
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Speaker 2: Yes, those people are specialized. If you want to cook
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for kings and the rest, they are the people to call.
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But that does not mean everybody has the privilege of
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a kitchen and to cook there.
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Speaker 1: This is how it is.
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Speaker 2: There are people called into the office of the prophetic.
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According to Efphicients for eleven and twelve, he gave on
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to some apostles. He gave on to some prophets, some evangelists,
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some pastors, and teachers, to what end twelve for the equipping, perfecting,
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maturing of the saints, for the work of the ministry,
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and for the defying of the Body of Christ. Certain
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to the points that we come into the unity of faith,
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of the knowledge of the Son of God, onto a
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perfect man, onto the measure of the stature of the
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fullness of Christ. But not this for a certainty that
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if you ignore the prophetic, either the prophetic that comes
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from scripture, the prophetic that comes from the inspiration and
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the guidance of the Spirit, or the prophetic that comes
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from the voices that God has placed over you, you
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will never be able to command greater works. Jesus, the
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first dimension of the prophetic at work in his life
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was the very fact that he was the Word incarnate.
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He was the Word himself. Yet from age twelve he
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went to the temple to learn scripture, to find out
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the things that were written concerning him, to lend the
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law number two. The Bible tells us that Jesus himself
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the Holy Ghost came upon him.
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Speaker 1: Are we together?
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Speaker 2: After he was being baptized of a man, he prophet
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again called John, and then the Holy Ghost came upon him.
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He went to the wilderness, and so on and so forth,
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and all through John only met him once and did
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not meet him again until he died, as recorded in scripture.
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But the Holy Spirit remained with Jesus until the time
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that he was about to perform the substitutionally sacrifice, where
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he had to leave him so that he would become seen.
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That's why the same spirit that came back on the
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third day and raised Christ from the dead, meaning he
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was not in him.
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Speaker 1: Jesus would never have died with the Holy Spirit