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A WISE MASTERBUILDER (PASTORS AND LEADERS SESSION) · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Recognition of something. Let's welcome Apostle Joshua self. Allelujah, blessed
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  Speaker 1: be the name of the Lord. Good morning. Everyone. Please
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  Speaker 1: walk up to one or two people and tell them
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. God bless you, God bless you. Speak
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  Speaker 1: over their lives. God bless you. Are you blessing someone?
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  Speaker 1: God bless you in the name of Jesus. I suppose you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much, sir, and a big
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  Speaker 1: congratulations for thirty years of impact. I think we should
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the Lord for his good health and upon past
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  Speaker 1: support you and the Covenant nation. I sincerely celebrate with
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  Speaker 1: this ministry, and I honor the grace of God upon
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  Speaker 1: his life and upon this vision. And it's a great
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  Speaker 1: honor to be sharing God's word like I'll be doing now,
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  Speaker 1: And so thank you so much for you and your
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  Speaker 1: dear wife. The Lord bless you and honor you in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name. Please be seated, everyone, Please be seated everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I have a few things that I'll be sharing very briefly,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm happy to know that this is a session
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  Speaker 1: for past us and leaders, and so we rob minds
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  Speaker 1: together for a few minutes and trust God to give
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  Speaker 1: us wisdom. I'm hoping in the name of Jesus that
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  Speaker 1: what will be hearing, in addition to that which we
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  Speaker 1: have heard, will further equip us and prepare us to
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  Speaker 1: be very efficient, first in the ministry and then in
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  Speaker 1: every end devil where we have been called. So, Father,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that you'll grant us wisdom. We look up
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  Speaker 1: to you, we obtain grace. Let your word come with power,
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  Speaker 1: Let it transform us. Our hearts are open, we are
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  Speaker 1: willing to learn, We're willing to unlearn, We're willing to relearn.
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  Speaker 1: Grant us wisdom that works in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. Okay, So we'll be discussing a few things.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be teaching on the wise or a wise master builder,
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  Speaker 1: a wise master builder, in honor to these thirty years
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  Speaker 1: of God's hand upon his servant and this ministry. I
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  Speaker 1: just thought to share a few things that will really
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  Speaker 1: challenge our hearts, and I pray that God will help
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  Speaker 1: us in Jesus name. First Corinthians, chapter three and verse ten.
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  Speaker 1: A wise master builder Paul is speaking, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: according to the grace of God which is given onto
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  Speaker 1: me as a wise master builder. He says I have
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  Speaker 1: laid the foundation, and another builder thereon. But let every
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  Speaker 1: man take heed how he builded thereupon. You believe that,
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  Speaker 1: say loud amen. The first thing I want us to
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  Speaker 1: know in charging our hearts this morning is that, as
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  Speaker 1: believe us, please lend me your attention now as believe us,
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  Speaker 1: and more importantly, ministers of the Gospel, the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us that we are co labor us with God. First
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians three and verse nine. We are co labor us
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  Speaker 1: with God. Very simple pression, but is very profound. My
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  Speaker 1: life changed when I came into this recognition that a
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  Speaker 1: man can be a co laborer First Corinthians three and
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  Speaker 1: verse nine. The Bible says, we are co labor us,
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  Speaker 1: labor us together with God, not labor us together with angels,
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  Speaker 1: labor us together with God. Isn't this amazing that God
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  Speaker 1: can do without us? Yet in his wisdom He's left
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  Speaker 1: out a space as though limited. It then means that
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  Speaker 1: if you have this revelation, you know that you count
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  Speaker 1: as far as God's prophetic program is concerned. You count.
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  Speaker 1: You are not just a number. You are a co
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  Speaker 1: laborer with God. In Matthew sixteen and verse eighteen, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was speaking, and he said, I will build my church.
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  Speaker 1: And on hearing that statement, you will think it was
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  Speaker 1: a statement that absolutely meant I don't need any man.
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  Speaker 1: I can do it alone. But now is bringing perspective.
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  Speaker 1: He's saying, although Jesus said he would build his church,
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  Speaker 1: but that pragmatically speaking in that business of building men,
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  Speaker 1: we are co laborers with God, are we together? Now?
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  Speaker 1: It's the first thought that I want to bring this
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  Speaker 1: morning that as believers generally, when it has to do
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  Speaker 1: with kingdom advance, we are co laborers. But as ministers
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel, the Bible says we are co laborers
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  Speaker 1: with God. Number two, the second thought that I want
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  Speaker 1: to bring this morning is found in Efficient chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: We read from verse fourteen to nineteen profound statement Efficient
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  Speaker 1: chapter three. For this cause, I bow my knees to
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  Speaker 1: the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, reading to nineteen
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  Speaker 1: next verse please, of whom the whole family in heaven
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  Speaker 1: and Earth is named, Uh huh, that he would grant
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  Speaker 1: onto you pauly spraying now according to the riches of
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  Speaker 1: His glory, to be strengthened with might by His spirit
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  Speaker 1: in the inner man. He says, that Christ. Pay attention now, please,
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  Speaker 1: that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith, and
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  Speaker 1: that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ahah, may
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  Speaker 1: be able to comprehend with all the saints. What is
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  Speaker 1: the breath, the length, the depth, and the height. Let's
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  Speaker 1: read verse nineteen together. Ready one to go and to
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  Speaker 1: know the love of Christ, which surpathed all knowledge, and
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  Speaker 1: that ye might be filled with all the fullness of
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  Speaker 1: Pauly spraying now, and he reveals to us through his
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  Speaker 1: prayer that in as much as we are co labored
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  Speaker 1: us with God, we are not giving the liberty to
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  Speaker 1: decide how to build men. There is a standard, are
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  Speaker 1: we together now? And that there is already a standard
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  Speaker 1: that God desires that all men become a reflection of
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  Speaker 1: what Paul calls the fullness of God. Very ambitious statement,
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  Speaker 1: very generous description. How can a man become an expression
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  Speaker 1: a reflection of the fullness of God? Paul is praying now,
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  Speaker 1: in as much as we are co labor us with God,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't give us the liberty to build anyhow or
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  Speaker 1: decide or free lance our method. There is a standard.
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  Speaker 1: So he goes further to let us know that there
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  Speaker 1: is an expectation in the mind of God. He brotresses
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  Speaker 1: on that when we get to efficient chapter four, please
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  Speaker 1: pay attention, and I'll tie everything together Efficient chapter four
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  Speaker 1: from verse seven. Now reading from seven to thirteen. So
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  Speaker 1: there is a standard, it says, But onto every one
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  Speaker 1: of us is given grace, grace, grace according to the
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  Speaker 1: measure of the gift of Christ. Aha, he says. Wherefore
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  Speaker 1: he say it when he has sended upon high, he
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  Speaker 1: led captivity captives, and he gave gifts on to men.
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  Speaker 1: The word gift there does not just mean talent or
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  Speaker 1: spiritual gift. He gave men to men. He gave men
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  Speaker 1: as gift to men away together he gave men to men.
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  Speaker 1: Next verse please, he says, Now he that ascended, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is the same that descended to the lower parts of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. And then verse ten, he says that he
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  Speaker 1: might feel all things. Let's go to eleven. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: reading to thirteen. He gave some, not all, some as
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  Speaker 1: gifts to men. He gave some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists,
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  Speaker 1: some pastors and teachers. Aha. He says. For the affecting
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  Speaker 1: the word perfecting there means the maturing of the saints.
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  Speaker 1: Are weay together for the work of the ministry? Do
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  Speaker 1: we have it still all right? Beautiful, for the work
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  Speaker 1: of the ministry, for the defying of the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: If you believer, let's shout, starting together, ready, want to
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  Speaker 1: go till we all come? Aha, aha, And onto the measure.
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  Speaker 1: There it is again of the stature of the fullness.
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  Speaker 1: That means God is so intentional about raising this bar.
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  Speaker 1: There is a kind of believer he seeks to see.
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  Speaker 1: There is a kind of believer who can serve his
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  Speaker 1: purposes to his satisfaction. And the Bible begins to tell
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  Speaker 1: us all the resources and the machineries that go put
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  Speaker 1: together to help make this goally reality were together that
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  Speaker 1: He did not just stop at giving us that standard.
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  Speaker 1: He went as far as by a divine election of grace,
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  Speaker 1: selecting a few people and dealing with them in such
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  Speaker 1: a unique manner so as to be able to label
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  Speaker 1: to present this special this kind of believer that will
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  Speaker 1: be a reflection of what the Bible calls the fullness
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  Speaker 1: of God in chapter three, and in chapter four Paul
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  Speaker 1: calls it the measure of the stature of the fullness
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. So the first thing I told us. A
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  Speaker 1: quick recap is that we are co labored us with God.
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  Speaker 1: Still remember but that there is a standard. Please listen.
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  Speaker 1: There is an expectation that God has and desires for
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  Speaker 1: every believer to attain in terms of our spiritual growth.
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  Speaker 1: And then for every man of God there is an
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  Speaker 1: expectation in terms of those we raise. We are not
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  Speaker 1: given liberty to just raise people as we think. There
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  Speaker 1: is a standard, and you are not really ministry until
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  Speaker 1: you know that standard. Just because you have a sincere hat,
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  Speaker 1: a good salmon, and the propensity for integrity does not
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  Speaker 1: qualify you, in truth to be a minister. A necessary
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  Speaker 1: requirement is that you must have that picture. How many
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  Speaker 1: of you know that a lecturer does not wonder what
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  Speaker 1: your students will become right from the first lecture. He
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  Speaker 1: already has an idea of the kind of doctor. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they use images to paint the picture, so that
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  Speaker 1: as naive and confused as that doctor in training is,
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  Speaker 1: he has an idea. Transformation is difficult without a reference.
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  Speaker 1: There has to be a reference. You cannot become like
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  Speaker 1: no thing. Are we together now? So the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: there is a standard every man of God in training,
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  Speaker 1: in building in teaching, in pastoring, in discipling. It's important
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  Speaker 1: beyond learning the salmon, to preach the series. To take
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  Speaker 1: you must understand by the spirit that as a whole
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  Speaker 1: laborer with Christ, I have a standard. There is a
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  Speaker 1: bar away together. Now this becomes the basis for gaging
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  Speaker 1: your success in ministry, because if you do not understand
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  Speaker 1: God's expectations, you will be tempted to use mundane parameters,
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  Speaker 1: mundane parameters, undane parameters. There is a standard, and the
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  Speaker 1: standard is called the fullness of God. Please say after me,
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of God. That is the standard. That means
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  Speaker 1: no pastor is given the liberty to rest nor or
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  Speaker 1: necessarily club for yourself until we find in upon the
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  Speaker 1: people you are building, until they cannot attain in experience
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible calls the fullness of the stature of
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  Speaker 1: the measure of Christ. Are we together? Galicians? Chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: verse nineteen. Paul cried, speaking over the Galician short He said,
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  Speaker 1: my little children, of whom I travail in birth. He
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  Speaker 1: was speaking to people already saved. It says again, until
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  Speaker 1: Christ be formed, the formation of Christ, until Christ I
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  Speaker 1: travail I label, are we together? Regard I will come
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  Speaker 1: and visit you again. You would see the passion of Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Even in prison, he was not bothered about his coming out.
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  Speaker 1: He was still writing letters to warn them the while
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  Speaker 1: in prison. I'm hearing that there are deviations here. Shortly
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  Speaker 1: I'll be out of this place, and you believe me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming back to you to correct certain things. It's
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  Speaker 1: seem to me like this was the true north, the
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  Speaker 1: focal point of Paul's ministry. He was not as interested
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  Speaker 1: in fame, he was not as interested in visiting many churches.
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  Speaker 1: His desire, this bar was what was before him, to
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  Speaker 1: produce in ordinary men the fullness of God. And he
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  Speaker 1: deployed every and all creativity, whether it was letter, whether
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  Speaker 1: it was a conference to settle their understanding, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was training and mentorship of others. The goal was to
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  Speaker 1: be able to produce in all believers the fullness of God.
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  Speaker 1: Who is understanding so far so that number one, we
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  Speaker 1: are whole laborers with God. Many know that. But the challenge,
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  Speaker 1: especially for ministers of the gospel, is that we do
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  Speaker 1: not even understand the reference the bar. So everyone is
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  Speaker 1: sincerely doing what he hopes to do. And so if
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  Speaker 1: you ask an average person what exactly are you trying
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  Speaker 1: to produce He tells you, I'm preaching the gospel and
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  Speaker 1: it's been sincere or he says, I'm raising people, and
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  Speaker 1: so for a long time you would find members loyal
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  Speaker 1: but not becoming anything. They do not even have an
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  Speaker 1: idea of what they should become, depending on who preaches,
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  Speaker 1: depending on who comes with the altar, or depending on
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual thoughts that are a trend. The people are
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  Speaker 1: like an amiba, you know, you know that creature called
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  Speaker 1: an amiba. They become anything. There is no form, there's
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  Speaker 1: no fashion, there is no intention in building the people.
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  Speaker 1: The programs that constitute the salmons are largely freelanced as
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  Speaker 1: a result of what is in vogue, part time per season.
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  Speaker 1: Very dangerous, unfortunately. You see, the kind and the quality
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  Speaker 1: of believers that are produced in any territory are a
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  Speaker 1: reflection of the spiritual intelligence of the leaders that build them.
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  Speaker 1: You literally can sample a people and use them as
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  Speaker 1: a report card to assess the level of understanding and
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  Speaker 1: the level of intelligence of the leaders that have molded
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  Speaker 1: them away together. So we're exploring a few things, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying that there is a standard. Please say there
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  Speaker 1: is a standard. Say it again, there is a standard,
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  Speaker 1: and that the standard is called the fullness of God,
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of God, the fullness of God. The third
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  Speaker 1: thing I wanted to know is found in First Corinthians, now,
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  Speaker 1: chapter three, where we got our text. It's a long
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  Speaker 1: red and please be patient. I'll start from verse one,
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  Speaker 1: verse one, so that will put everything in context. First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter three and verse one. And I, brethren, I could
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  Speaker 1: not speak to you as onto spiritual, he says, but
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  Speaker 1: as onto kernel, even as babes in Christ. I have
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  Speaker 1: fed you with milk and not with meat. For hither
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  Speaker 1: or you who are not able to bed? Neither yet
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  Speaker 1: can ye? Are you now able to be? Eight who
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  Speaker 1: were saying, for ye, are yet canal? For whereas there
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  Speaker 1: is among you envyings and strife? Listen carefully, Now, divisions,
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  Speaker 1: he says, are you not Cannal and workers men? Verse four?
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  Speaker 1: For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another
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  Speaker 1: I am of Apollos, are you not Cannal? Follow the discussion? Now,
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  Speaker 1: who then is Paul? He says? And who is Apollos?
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  Speaker 1: But ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord
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  Speaker 1: gave to every man Verse six now I have planted,
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  Speaker 1: he says, apollos water. But God gave the increase. Let's
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  Speaker 1: stop here for a moment. Who gives increase? There is
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  Speaker 1: no technology invented by the wisdom of man that sustains
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  Speaker 1: the ability to bring increase in ministry. If God does
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  Speaker 1: not help men, I can't tell you this. And we
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  Speaker 1: need to be careful because in deploying all kinds of ways, weather,
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  Speaker 1: for church growth and the rest, and I respect all
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  Speaker 1: of those things. Some of them have been tested scientifically. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: men are not animals. God gave them a will. And
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  Speaker 1: if God does not touch the heart of a man,
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  Speaker 1: there are times you can go to the sea like Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Your boat is correct, your net is correct. The sea
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  Speaker 1: is where you will fish, and yet you will not
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  Speaker 1: catch fish. And there is no explanation at all. It's
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  Speaker 1: not incompetence. There is a God factor in this business
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  Speaker 1: of ministry, only the size of God. You can't use
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  Speaker 1: brain work. There is a place for principles and diligence.
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  Speaker 1: What I can tell you there is a signature that
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  Speaker 1: only the hand of God can write. And it's important
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  Speaker 1: we put this at the back of our minds. Paul
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  Speaker 1: planted Please, let's go back to the scripture Apollos water.
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  Speaker 1: But God gave the increase. God is giving someone increase,
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  Speaker 1: increase in life, increase in ministry in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Next verse place very quickly. So neither then is he
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  Speaker 1: that planted anything, neither he that water ed, but God
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  Speaker 1: that giveth the increase Verse eight. Verse eight. Now okay,
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  Speaker 1: now here that planted and here that water red are one,
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  Speaker 1: and every man shall receive his own reward. Listen according
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  Speaker 1: to his own labor verse nine. For we are laborers
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  Speaker 1: together with God. I established that already ye are God's husbandry,
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  Speaker 1: Ye are God's building. Verse ten, it says, according to
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God, which is given to me as
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  Speaker 1: a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and
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  Speaker 1: another builded their own. It says, But let every man
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  Speaker 1: take heed how he builded their own verse eleven. Or
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  Speaker 1: other foundation. Can no man lay than that which is laid,
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  Speaker 1: which is Jesus Christ. Verse twelve. We'll stop at thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen, please, if any man built upon this foundation gold,
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  Speaker 1: so whatever you build upon it is what deterimin is
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  Speaker 1: the basis of your reward. Christ is the cornerstone. But
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  Speaker 1: It says there are all kinds of things that can
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  Speaker 1: be built on that foundation. Please leave it for us, gold, silver,
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  Speaker 1: precious stones, wood, hey, and then stubble, let me do thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Now it says every man's work shall be made manifest,
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  Speaker 1: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be
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  Speaker 1: revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's
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  Speaker 1: walk what sort it is? Who is understanding so far
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  Speaker 1: that a time is going to come in ministry where
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  Speaker 1: your work will be tried by fire, and it will reveal.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something you can hide. It will tell us
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  Speaker 1: the quality of the investments who have been making Christ
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  Speaker 1: is the foundation of everything. Are we together? But that
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  Speaker 1: the quality of what your ministry becomes, Please listen, is
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  Speaker 1: whatever you add to that corner stone. That some can
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  Speaker 1: add gold, some can add silver, some can add wood,
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  Speaker 1: some can add hay, and that eventually fire will come
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  Speaker 1: and try the quality of what you are built. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? Now? So when you find out that there
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  Speaker 1: are people who don't seem to have longevity of impact,
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  Speaker 1: it's not always a demonic attack. It's just that there
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  Speaker 1: are times and seasons within the span of their work
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  Speaker 1: ministry where their works are tried and they would have
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  Speaker 1: been found wanting. And let me tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: It is not only setan that takes according to the
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  Speaker 1: parable of the talent. God also collects from inefficiency and
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  Speaker 1: adds to efficiency. It is how the economy of heaven works.
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  Speaker 1: So verif I who took what you lost so that
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  Speaker 1: you don't bind and cast in ignorance? There are times
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  Speaker 1: that it is God himself for his namesake? Is it
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  Speaker 1: not in your bible? He gave on to one, five,
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  Speaker 1: he gave two, he gave one, He gave to all
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  Speaker 1: of them. But what they added on what he gave
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  Speaker 1: was what he jdged them based on. This is what
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  Speaker 1: Paul said that Christ is that corner's told. But whatever
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  Speaker 1: you add on that building, they will come, fire will
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  Speaker 1: come to test it. The kind of people you have raised?
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? And I can tell you sincerely,
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  Speaker 1: this is a person's conference. I'm at liberty to say
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  Speaker 1: a few think many of us need to go back
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  Speaker 1: and re examine whether the kind of work we are
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  Speaker 1: doing will have longevity. We're celebrating thirty years. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you know that thirty years old anything is old enough.
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  Speaker 1: A totty years of fool needs a miracle. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: need prayer, It needs a miracle, a complete miracle. If
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  Speaker 1: you are thirty years and you are working in wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: you have gained some experience. Am I right on that? Yes, longevity.
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  Speaker 1: There is a way I wrote here, God design that
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  Speaker 1: men be built. Please listen, Please listen, Please listen their
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  Speaker 1: laborers in the Gospel. There is a way that God
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  Speaker 1: designed that men be built. There is a way that
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  Speaker 1: men need to be built in order to be matured
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  Speaker 1: and useful vessels. This must be every minister's approach in
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  Speaker 1: raising men. Now listen. The degree of compliance to that
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  Speaker 1: model is what makes a man of God a wise
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  Speaker 1: master builder or otherwise, when you are called a wise
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  Speaker 1: master builder, it is with reference to the degree of
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  Speaker 1: compliance to that model. Are we together? Now? There are
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  Speaker 1: many estates in legos, and how many of you know?
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are in real estate. Yeah, I believe
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  Speaker 1: when you carve out an acre of land or some
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  Speaker 1: acres of land, you mark them to be built. And
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  Speaker 1: many times some estates insist on uniformity of buildings. Am
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  Speaker 1: I right? You buy the land, but you are not
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  Speaker 1: given the liberty to build what you want. The condition
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  Speaker 1: is that you can buy your land, use whatever engineer,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to receive the architecture from the owners
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  Speaker 1: of the estate. So you can find five buildings looking
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  Speaker 1: the same but built by different engineers. What brought the
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  Speaker 1: consistency of results is not the engineer, is compliance to
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  Speaker 1: the architecture. That means I should see a believer in Legos,
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  Speaker 1: in Karduna, in Ghana and the difference should not be
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  Speaker 1: too wide. The variety of species of believers were raising
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  Speaker 1: tell the degree of compliance or deviation to that pattern.
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  Speaker 1: This is what God is helping us understand. Are we're
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  Speaker 1: together that the same way you can see a professor
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  Speaker 1: of medicine from saying my degree meeting with a professor
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  Speaker 1: of medicine in Legos, meeting with a professor of medicine
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  Speaker 1: in Johannesburg. They can meet for the first time and
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  Speaker 1: nobody with without one another because there was a system
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  Speaker 1: that standardizes their practice. They literally can meet for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in the theater and nobody is doubting another
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  Speaker 1: person's proficiency. How come when you see a believer a
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  Speaker 1: believer b you are still not sure. It tells you
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not that kind of architecture that may not
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  Speaker 1: be part of the blueprint is what is being deployed.
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand this? It's not about being good or bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's about compliance to the standard. No wonder. We have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of activities that happen weekday, week in, but
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  Speaker 1: we do not find that conformity to that standard called
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Who is understanding this is true? This is true? This
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  Speaker 1: is true if I see a believer who is part
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  Speaker 1: of the covenant nation, faithfully, genuinely connected, whether here or
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  Speaker 1: in the island, or any other expression. Even from an
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  Speaker 1: organizational standpoint, I expect similarity in belief systems. Some things
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  Speaker 1: should not shock you. Are we together now? If it does,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes an embarrassment to the investment of your perst
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  Speaker 1: on you. Either you are a we call it in
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  Speaker 1: civil service ghost walker. So they're there, but they're not
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  Speaker 1: really there. You understand, You know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who are in the perro, but they
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  Speaker 1: never show up. Nobody knows who they are. This has
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  Speaker 1: been a bother for me for a very long time.
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  Speaker 1: The kind and the quality of believers, and sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: spiritualize our architecture. It is still wrong there is a standard,
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  Speaker 1: and intelligent God will not design a program and leave
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  Speaker 1: it to the personal creativity of people. Know there is
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  Speaker 1: a place for creativity, but you see, when you work
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  Speaker 1: with God, creativity is not needed. It's when you are
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  Speaker 1: manifesting as a king that creativity becomes required. Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: There is a standard, there is a reference. Your call
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  Speaker 1: is alignment and obedience. There is there is a pathway
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  Speaker 1: that if you pass any believer from a non believer
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  Speaker 1: to a believer, there is a guarantee that that believer
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  Speaker 1: will have a minimum standard of excellence as far as
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  Speaker 1: reflecting the crisis concern. And I'm not just going to
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  Speaker 1: live you in limbo. I want to show you the
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  Speaker 1: coordinates that the Bible calls the fullness of Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of God, so that you use this to benchmark
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  Speaker 1: the kinds of salmons you know, Sir, As God helps
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  Speaker 1: me in ministry and as I grow, I'm learning again
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  Speaker 1: that if we do not become intentional about raising people
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes spiritualized. You know, when someone spiritualizes an idea,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how wrong it is, there's no accept your
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  Speaker 1: spiritual money. It becomes difficult to job to say, look
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  Speaker 1: this thing, the person himself can be in delusion because
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  Speaker 1: the error came from the realm of the spirit, does
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  Speaker 1: not make it correct. Are well together, now, Yeah, there
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  Speaker 1: is a way God designed that men be built. You
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  Speaker 1: become a wise master builder to the degree to which
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  Speaker 1: you understand that blueprint, that architecture, and you submit yourself
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  Speaker 1: to it as you build God's people. Remember, the goal
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  Speaker 1: is that the fullness of God, as revealed in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: be expressing the people. Now, it's a theological expression. In theology,
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  Speaker 1: we call it the reflection principle. The reflection principle is
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  Speaker 1: a principle by which you find a parallel and an
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  Speaker 1: image reflects an object altogether. You find that even in geography,
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  Speaker 1: the sun and the moon. How many of you know that,
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  Speaker 1: depending on the level of the alignment of the moon,
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  Speaker 1: the shape is it gives from the sky, It's not
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  Speaker 1: the same. There are times we call it full moon.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true? There are times it looks like it's
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  Speaker 1: almost there. In fact, many religions use that those alignments
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  Speaker 1: even decide seasons. That's how many believers are. You can
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  Speaker 1: see a believer barely there. And the problem is not
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  Speaker 1: the soun. The problem is how you found yourself there
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  Speaker 1: are we together now? Yes, the reflection principle. There are
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  Speaker 1: so many believers who, when you look at their lives,
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  Speaker 1: they do not sell the idea of God in a
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  Speaker 1: way that the nations should desire. They are such a
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  Speaker 1: destoping misrepresentation of God. And sometimes it has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with being good or bad. It is largely a
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  Speaker 1: product of the kind and the quality of mentorship. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to thank God if you are truly
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  Speaker 1: a member of this church. And I'm saying it not
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  Speaker 1: because I'm on stage here. When God really wants to
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  Speaker 1: show you messy, he shortens the distance between you and
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  Speaker 1: a teaching priest. So we have two believers here saved
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  Speaker 1: on the same day. But for the one he had
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to be planted in a church under a
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  Speaker 1: teaching priest, and for the other it was so unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: If free lance this way and you draw those people
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  Speaker 1: after five years, you will see the difference. The difference
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  Speaker 1: is not the Holy Spirit. No, are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: The difference. I hope you know that the moment you
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  Speaker 1: get saved, maybe I should run this progression with you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm not boring you that when an unbeliever
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  Speaker 1: becomes a believer. So this is the pathway when an
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  Speaker 1: unbeliever becomes a believer, And I hope you know how
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  Speaker 1: that happens. There are many persons who don't know how
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  Speaker 1: owned believers become believers. It's not an importation mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And it is not everything about Jesus that translates to
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  Speaker 1: salvation of your soul. I hope you know there is
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  Speaker 1: an exact body of truth about Jesus. You must believe
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  Speaker 1: to be saved. There are things demons believe about Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: but they are not saved. So if you say you
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  Speaker 1: believe in Jesus, I'm still concerned. What about him do
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  Speaker 1: you believe? Because there is an exact information about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: that translates to salvation, don't tell me you believe in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Ah Idol worship ers believe in Jesus. They believe in
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  Speaker 1: an idea called Jesus. There are many, many people who
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  Speaker 1: have Bibles, Qurans, other books, and they are quite sympathetic
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  Speaker 1: to all of them. They don't mind opening anyone. They're
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  Speaker 1: very comfortable with any idea that comes from them. This
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  Speaker 1: is a person's conference. Forgive me, but just allow me
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  Speaker 1: drameda in the name of Jesus Christ. There is an
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  Speaker 1: exact information about Jesus. You must believe. If not, you
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  Speaker 1: are not saved. There are three things in paul salmon
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  Speaker 1: where I'm not dealing with that, But there are three
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  Speaker 1: information about Jesus that Paul gave, I mean, Peter gave
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  Speaker 1: in the first salmon that brought three thousand people. If
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  Speaker 1: you miss that information that, let it be known to you,
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  Speaker 1: O Israel, that the same Jesus whom you have crucified
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  Speaker 1: has today been exalted as Lord and Christ. It matters
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  Speaker 1: what idea about Jesus you present away together anyway, So,
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  Speaker 1: believing in Jesus as Savior, Lord and Christ brings you
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  Speaker 1: to a point where you are a believer. But the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us that being a believer is in levels.
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  Speaker 1: There are those that the Bible calls babes. In Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together that maturity is not a gift in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit. You will never find a gift of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: So you are in Christ, but you are still a babe.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible defines a babe as one who is
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  Speaker 1: bankrupt of knowledge, bankrupt of spiritual intelligence. Now, from that
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  Speaker 1: point where you become a believer, there are three forces
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  Speaker 1: that must come into your life to help your growth.
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  Speaker 1: Number one is the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Number
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  Speaker 1: two is the ministry of the world. Number three the
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  Speaker 1: ministry of a teaching priest. If you lack any of
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  Speaker 1: these three already you are disadvantage. The ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit guiding you in all truth. The ministry of
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  Speaker 1: the world, helping you to understand the models operandi of
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom. The ministry of a teaching priest like a lecturer,
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  Speaker 1: serving you grace, filtering sense from nonsense, and helping you
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  Speaker 1: to grow. When you find a believer who becomes efficient,
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  Speaker 1: you check that person's life. You will see that he
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  Speaker 1: was exposed to destripartite forces. Even if you don't know
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  Speaker 1: anything about the Holy Spirit, even if you don't know
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  Speaker 1: anything about the world, you would just be exp opposed
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  Speaker 1: to a teaching priest. You see the reason why ministers
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  Speaker 1: will be judged because this is the gravity of influence.
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  Speaker 1: You literally will that level of influence over any man's destiny.
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  Speaker 1: There are people whose prayer for churge growth, God himself
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  Speaker 1: will not allow to be answered. You know why, because
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  Speaker 1: it is a risk to be trusted with more people.
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  Speaker 1: He does not hate them, but he needs to verify
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  Speaker 1: your understanding of his project. Do you understand what He's building?
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  Speaker 1: You can't keep saying, God, give me more members. Why
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  Speaker 1: you say I love souls? No? No. The degree to
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  Speaker 1: which you understand his project is the degree to which
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  Speaker 1: you will trust you with the people who should attain
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  Speaker 1: onto that. So you will find sometimes very unlikely people,
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  Speaker 1: and God seems to honor them with his presence and
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  Speaker 1: honor them with visibility. Is not anything of themselves. Is
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  Speaker 1: the degree to which they've paid the price with childlike
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  Speaker 1: faith to understand this project. I can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: anybody who understands this maturity project, that God's goal is
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  Speaker 1: not just to have more members. God's goal. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just to have more Salmon's God's goal. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: to have a big church, as important as that is.
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  Speaker 1: God's goal is to be able to raise a people,
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  Speaker 1: to bring them to a point of maturity where the
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  Speaker 1: least among them is able to reflect through their growth
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  Speaker 1: through their lives the fullness of Christ. The Bible calls
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  Speaker 1: it the fullness of the stature of the measure of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now very quickly let's delve into this
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  Speaker 1: issue of the fullness of Christ. What exactly is the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of Christ or the fullness of God? It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a very disturbing statement, and I understand that a
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  Speaker 1: man can reflect the fullness of God. In Isa, chapter
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  Speaker 1: forty Popular Scripture and verse twenty eight, the Bible there
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  Speaker 1: clearly tells us that God is in finite. It already
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  Speaker 1: says there is no suching of His understanding? Are we
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  Speaker 1: together an extent of the vastness of His understanding? So
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  Speaker 1: how do you now say that I'm not not really
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  Speaker 1: believer can reflect the fullness of Christ? Now, probably let
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  Speaker 1: me digress for a minute and help you, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just understand something so that it makes sense what
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to say. Now, when the Bible calls us
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  Speaker 1: partakers of God's divine nature, please lend me your attention.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you know it is not every part of
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  Speaker 1: God's nature he gave man. Now, it is not every
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  Speaker 1: part of God's nature. There are dimensions to God and
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  Speaker 1: in God that are exclusive to him. For instance, he says,
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  Speaker 1: I am the vine, you are the branches. You will
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  Speaker 1: see it three dere but it differentiates it without make
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  Speaker 1: no mistakes. Don't confuse it because they look the same.
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  Speaker 1: I am the one who is the vine. You are
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  Speaker 1: the branches away together. Now there are three attributes of
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  Speaker 1: God just for your knowledge that God did not share
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  Speaker 1: with man. And this, among others, are the major attributes
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  Speaker 1: that brand him as God in a class by himself.
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  Speaker 1: Number one is called omnipresence. God did not share that
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  Speaker 1: with man. Man is not omnipresent. You cannot be everywhere
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, no matter how yielded, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how annointed. You are finite. Even when Jesus became a man,
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  Speaker 1: he could not be everywhere at the same time. And
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  Speaker 1: that was our pattern. Man, who is learning, so man
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  Speaker 1: even do a particar of God's divine nature is not omnipresent.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, Man is not omni shared. We are not
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  Speaker 1: all knowing. We see in part, we prophesy impart. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together now? That means the most yielded, the most aligned.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot know everything. This is what separates us from God,
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  Speaker 1: even though we are one. Number three omnipotence all powerful.
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  Speaker 1: I have spoken once and twice have you heard that
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  Speaker 1: power belongs to the Lord. Are we together now? So?
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  Speaker 1: God is all powerful, but man is not all powerful.
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  Speaker 1: The power that is manifested in the believer is derived
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  Speaker 1: our dominion in this kingdom is not absolute dominion. It
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  Speaker 1: is derived from our relationship and depends on our relationship
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  Speaker 1: for its function. God does not need you. Are we
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  Speaker 1: together now? Yes? I wish I had the time, would
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  Speaker 1: have dealt with the issue of authority, power and jurisdiction,
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  Speaker 1: because there are two things God gave man. And it's
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  Speaker 1: very important for you to understand. God did not just
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  Speaker 1: give man power. God gave man power authority. It is
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  Speaker 1: dangerous for a man to have power alone. The only
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  Speaker 1: person who has power alone is God. Do you know why?
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  Speaker 1: Because when your power is the capacity to influence things,
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  Speaker 1: the force that compels compliance. But authority is the legitimacy
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  Speaker 1: to use power. An umbroba has a goune power and
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  Speaker 1: a military man has a goune power. But a military
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  Speaker 1: man has a license to shoot. That's authority. That's the
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  Speaker 1: reason why when an umbrober shoots is gone, he goes
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  Speaker 1: to jail, and then you commend a military man. But
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  Speaker 1: you see, the rules of authority is that there cannot
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  Speaker 1: be true authority except number one, there is jurisdiction. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: there must be a system of supervision. It's impossible to
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  Speaker 1: have authority because authority is conferred by someone higher than you.
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  Speaker 1: The person who confers that authority or tomatically supervisis it's use.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reason why God as God cannot have authority,
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  Speaker 1: because there is no other entity higher than him that
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  Speaker 1: supervises compliance, and there is no jurisdiction that restricts his
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  Speaker 1: power from function. Now you understand what I'm saying, and
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  Speaker 1: don't just go and preach. You know. The challenge again
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  Speaker 1: we have is that when I'm having the liberty because
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking to preachers sometimes and and please don't feel insulted.
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  Speaker 1: Preachers sometimes get excited over things they don't really understand
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  Speaker 1: the context they think they do, and then they carry
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  Speaker 1: it like that and just slam it on believers who
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  Speaker 1: are just growing and completely scatter the pace of their growth.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end the people don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about. Again, so the idea is just for
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  Speaker 1: our knowledge connecting to what we're saying, not just that
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  Speaker 1: we run with something new from this conference and then
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  Speaker 1: you tell someone something and the devil uses that shock
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  Speaker 1: and starts manipulating his experiences. I hope you know Satan
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  Speaker 1: is an opportunist. Satan uses both good and evil. Any
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  Speaker 1: raw material that can help him toward the purposes of God,
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  Speaker 1: whether it is light or darkness, he is available to
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  Speaker 1: use it. Go and read your Bible. You see Satan
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  Speaker 1: using truths many time to destroy. Is the reason why
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  Speaker 1: when the spirit of truth comes, even though you have truth,
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  Speaker 1: you must be guided. If you are not guided to
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  Speaker 1: use truth like a knife, you can enjoy yourself with it.
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  Speaker 1: How did I get here? Forgive me, let's get back.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get back to Okay, so we're talking about the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of Christ. Now, please pay attention. If you did
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  Speaker 1: not get anything that I said, I beseech you, standing
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  Speaker 1: upon the grace of God's servant, to please listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: When you want to study God. Because of how mysterious
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  Speaker 1: he is, you do not have the liberty to study
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  Speaker 1: God except through the lens of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: is the most accurate portrait of the invisible God. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together now? The Bible calls him the express image
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  Speaker 1: of the invisible God. That means any other's study on
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  Speaker 1: God without Jesus as a reference will land you in
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: various shades of error. Are we together? Your most accurate
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: study of God is through the lens of Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: a pattern. Man, are we learning now? So we have
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  Speaker 1: to study Jesus to be able to filter out the
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  Speaker 1: various dimensions that the Bible calls the fullness of God.
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  Speaker 1: And very quickly, I want to show you three dimensions.
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  Speaker 1: These three dimensions must be captured in every believer you raise,
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  Speaker 1: else it cannot be said they are complying with this
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  Speaker 1: pattern called the fullness of God. Number one, the first
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  Speaker 1: dimension of God that represents his fullness that he seeks
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  Speaker 1: to see reflected in all believers. And that becomes a
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  Speaker 1: mandate for every man of God. Is the nature or
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  Speaker 1: the character of God. Please write that quickly the nature
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  Speaker 1: or the character of God. In Exodus chapter thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: Please give us eighteen and nineteen the nature or the
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  Speaker 1: character of God. This is the first dimension of the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of God has revealed in Christ that God seeks
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  Speaker 1: to see in every believer. Exodus chapter thirty three. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, I besich them, Moses, Now show me your glory,
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  Speaker 1: uh huh. And he said, I will make all my
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  Speaker 1: goodness my goodness. Moses is asking for his glory and
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  Speaker 1: he's saying, my goodness. It is an expression of my
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  Speaker 1: glory to pass before you. Hallelujah. I will make my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Now when you read Psalms one hundred and three, I've
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  Speaker 1: read my Bible a bit, and this psalm has the
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  Speaker 1: most concise capture of God's character as revealed in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: You literally can use Psalms one h three as a
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  Speaker 1: lens to study God. Most people do not understand the
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  Speaker 1: character of God. It is dangerous to depend on men
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  Speaker 1: to review God. To you, it's not very accurate. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? Now? The most accurate revelation of God is
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  Speaker 1: seen in Jesus. Then from the lens of Jesus you
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  Speaker 1: can now find supporting models that come close to that reference.
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  Speaker 1: So the principle of transformation is number one looking onto Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: then number two the followers of them in that order,
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  Speaker 1: looking onto Jesus, then followers of them. If you follow
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  Speaker 1: the them who are not following Jesus, you will become
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  Speaker 1: something else. These are the models of transformation. Number one
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  Speaker 1: looking onto Jesus, the author and the finisher. Then number
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  Speaker 1: two following them who are looking onto Jesus. Are we're
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  Speaker 1: learning now? So I'm saying the character of God Psalms
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  Speaker 1: one or three. Maybe let's look at two or three
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  Speaker 1: verses very quickly, please give it to us media. Psalms
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and three, very powerful. Bless the Lord, oh
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  Speaker 1: my soul, and all that is within me, Bless his
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  Speaker 1: holy name. Verse two it says, bless the Lord, oh
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  Speaker 1: my soul, and forget not his benefits. Then it begins
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  Speaker 1: to list five of them who forgives your sins, who
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  Speaker 1: heals your diseases? You know who redeem it thy life.
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  Speaker 1: This is a description of who God is, so that
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  Speaker 1: if you do not know God, and you've never met him,
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  Speaker 1: you do not know him, you literally can use his
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  Speaker 1: nature to identify him and set creat him from other gods.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible that I want to meet a gentleman
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  Speaker 1: I have never met. You can use that person's nature
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  Speaker 1: and character to help me identify that person. You will say,
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  Speaker 1: enter this room, you will see a gentleman. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really talk loud. He will most likely be a respectful fellow.
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  Speaker 1: When I will use the lens of your description and
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  Speaker 1: with prophetic accuracy, without being a prophet, I can say,
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  Speaker 1: you are most likely the person who I was sent to.
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  Speaker 1: So you can use the nature of God to decipher
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  Speaker 1: between him and every other entity. Most people do not
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  Speaker 1: know God because they do not know his nature. And
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  Speaker 1: in order of priority, the first dimension of God he
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  Speaker 1: wants to see him believers is his nature, his character.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says in John chapter four, First John Chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven, just write for reference seven to twelve. He says,
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  Speaker 1: God is love. This is profound. I can when all
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  Speaker 1: day talking about this. He says, be loved. Let us
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  Speaker 1: love one another. It says, for love is of God.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone that loveth, please listen, is born of God.
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  Speaker 1: And know where God. Verse eight, he that loveth not Ah,
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  Speaker 1: know it not God. Even if he's talking about him.
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  Speaker 1: God is saying, you do not know me. It is
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  Speaker 1: impossible to love me, and we ought to claim to
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  Speaker 1: know me without loving me and loving your brother. He says,
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  Speaker 1: for God is love, everybody is. Please say God is love.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible tells us in one word that the
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  Speaker 1: very nature of God is love. That means God uses
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  Speaker 1: love as the ultimate index to measure maturity, not enlightenment,
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  Speaker 1: in the economy of God. When he comes to measure
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  Speaker 1: your extent of spiritual maturity. He does not search for revelation,
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  Speaker 1: that is very secondary. He looks for how much the
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  Speaker 1: love of God has been furnished within your heart. And
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  Speaker 1: the proof is not your love towards him. The proof
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  Speaker 1: is your love towards your brother. That if you cannot
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  Speaker 1: love your brother, who you can see is impossible to
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  Speaker 1: claim who is learning now? So the love life of
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  Speaker 1: a believer is proof that the nature of God is
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  Speaker 1: at working you. These are exact references. They are not given.
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  Speaker 1: You are not given the liberty for argument the love
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  Speaker 1: of God. When the Bible says the fruit of the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is love, joy, peace. In truth, the fruit of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit is love. And then it's various expressions is
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  Speaker 1: what you find as joy, peace, and so on and
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  Speaker 1: so forth. That is the outworkings of the nature of
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  Speaker 1: God within the recreated human spirit. Are we learning now? So?
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  Speaker 1: The first dimension of the fullness of God that we
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  Speaker 1: must see to eat, that is reflected in everyone under
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  Speaker 1: our care is the nature of God, the character of God.
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  Speaker 1: The nature of God, the character of God. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is gracious and compassionate, he is slow to anger,
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  Speaker 1: and rich in love. If you are going to reflect
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  Speaker 1: the Christ like him, you must also be gracious and compassionate,
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  Speaker 1: regardless your background, regardless your temperament. That's why the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Goos came. He came as an equalizer to terrible temperaments.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? So once you get born again,
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  Speaker 1: your excuse of foundation is over. You cannot say it's
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  Speaker 1: because of the way I was raised. Now, I understand that,
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  Speaker 1: and I respect it. But the moment you get born again,
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  Speaker 1: you have entered into a system that can wield a
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  Speaker 1: force upon your limitations and still make you Christ like.
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  Speaker 1: Who is learning the nature of Christ. Let me hurry
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  Speaker 1: up for the sake of time. Number two, the second
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  Speaker 1: dimension that represents the fullness of God as sein in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: is called the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God
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  Speaker 1: that means imbuilding men. This is the architecture that you
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  Speaker 1: labor to sit with. That Number one, the nature and
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  Speaker 1: the character of God as revealed in Christ is fashioned
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  Speaker 1: within them. Then number two, the wisdom of Christ, what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible calls the ways of God sums one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and three and verse seven. The ways of God. Now
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  Speaker 1: this is important, and the other matters He made known
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  Speaker 1: His ways onto Moses his acts to the children of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says in Matthew thirteen and verse eleven, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was speaking. He said, it has been given onto you
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  Speaker 1: to know the mysteries of the Kingdom. The wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: God now as important as the nature of Christ is.
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  Speaker 1: If you stop there, you will produce and lopsided people.
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  Speaker 1: You have to, in addition to planting within them the
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  Speaker 1: nature of Christ, they must manifest the wisdom of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: because it is true wisdom. A house is built, not
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  Speaker 1: true character. Character is wonderful, but it is true wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: There are believers who have the nature of Christ, but
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  Speaker 1: you see the deficiency of the wisdom of Christ, and
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  Speaker 1: they do not attend that stature called the fullness of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Who is learning the wisdom of Christ. Teaching after teaching,
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  Speaker 1: submitting yourself to the ministry of the teaching priests. It
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  Speaker 1: does something to your spiritual understanding. It says, let this
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  Speaker 1: mind be in you, which was also in Christ. Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: It is superior belief that brings superior experiences. Your experiences
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  Speaker 1: will be a reflection of your belief systems. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I say it this way, that your belief system is
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  Speaker 1: your contribution to your failure or your success. Your belief
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  Speaker 1: system is your own contribution to your failure or your success.
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  Speaker 1: The nature or the character of Christ number two, the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of Christ. Number three finally, is called the power
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  Speaker 1: of God or the works of Christ. You see there
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  Speaker 1: is something called the power of God, the power of
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  Speaker 1: God Matthew twenty two from verse twenty nine, the bee
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  Speaker 1: part the power of God. Please give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said, unto them, you do air, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to know both, not knowing the scriptures nor the
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  Speaker 1: power of God. In efficients chapter one, when you read
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  Speaker 1: from verse eighteen and nineteen, Paul was praying over the
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  Speaker 1: church in Ephisos, and he lets us know. He lets
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  Speaker 1: us into the content of his prayers, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may
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  Speaker 1: know the hope of your calling, the riches of the
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  Speaker 1: glory of the inheritance in the Saints. Let's read verse
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  Speaker 1: nineteen together, and the exceeding greatness he wants you to know.
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  Speaker 1: You can know the exceeding greatness of His power to us.
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  Speaker 1: Word will believe, and you can work in that reality,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the nature of God as revealed in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: plus the wisdom of God as revealed in Christ, plus
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  Speaker 1: the power of God as revealed through the works of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He calls the fullness of Christ. Now hear me. Every
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  Speaker 1: time you find a lopsided believer, you will trace it
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  Speaker 1: to the deficiency in the patterns yere. So we have
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  Speaker 1: various versions of believers, and you can explain that variation
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  Speaker 1: from the degree of compliance of these patterns or otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: You can have a believer who has been mentored well
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  Speaker 1: to understand the implication of opening themselves to have the
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  Speaker 1: nature of Christ moral excellence, holiness, righteousness. But that person
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  Speaker 1: can be broken, mediocre, defeated, And you'll be wondering, why
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  Speaker 1: how can somebody who has such integrity and such character
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  Speaker 1: be defeated in life? Usually we blame it on God,
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  Speaker 1: but God is saying it is a deviation. There is
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  Speaker 1: a standard that if this gentleman followed through mentorship so
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  Speaker 1: that he will never bribe, No, he will not be corrupt.
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  Speaker 1: He would rather pay the price. And yet the gentleman
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  Speaker 1: believes that just because he has the nature of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: he has the fullness of Christ, and it desires results
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  Speaker 1: that only wisdom and power can give. And it becomes
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  Speaker 1: dangerous if you are now deceived and beguile to ign
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  Speaker 1: not other dimensions. Then number two, we have those who
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  Speaker 1: have ignored this the nature of Christ, and they have
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  Speaker 1: press through sound teachings, communication of doctrine, the principles of
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom, and the laws that govern the universe. They
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  Speaker 1: have access the wisdom of Christ. They are system builders,
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  Speaker 1: They run businesses, they have a lot of things. They
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  Speaker 1: are prosperous, but they do not have character. They will
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  Speaker 1: compromise at every given opportunity. And sometimes you wonder, how
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  Speaker 1: can you be so full of light and darkness at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. It depends on how you were trained.
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  Speaker 1: Are you seeing that now? It doesn't matter. They are smart.
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  Speaker 1: They can get the contract, but they can cut corners
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  Speaker 1: and it does not matter. And then number three, you
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  Speaker 1: have those who can profess high, can manifest the gifts
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  Speaker 1: of the spirits away together can heal andy sik body.
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  Speaker 1: But oh dear you sit down under that atmosphere, you
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  Speaker 1: will be lean and hungry till you die, even in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the annointing, because all you will receive
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  Speaker 1: is you will be healed and yet not be transformed.
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  Speaker 1: You will receive all kinds of prophetic world until in
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  Speaker 1: all sincerity you become confused because your whole life you
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  Speaker 1: can't work in authority and confidence. The side effect of
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  Speaker 1: gifts alone is that you will have fear because they
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  Speaker 1: open you up to the realm of the spirit beyond
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  Speaker 1: your level of transformation, and you live your entire life
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to travel. Tell me will I die or
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  Speaker 1: will I leave? Authority becomes useless to you because you
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  Speaker 1: are becoming slave to gifts. Is someone learning? Now? Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you this. No single man of God
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  Speaker 1: as a ministry is given the liberty to bring any
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  Speaker 1: believers to this threefold dimension alone, no matter how yielded.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rapping up now. I want to show you where
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  Speaker 1: the challenge most times in the Body of Christ is.
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  Speaker 1: So if there are people who, by reason of their
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  Speaker 1: alignment and your election, this is the area of stay
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  Speaker 1: to help the Body of Christ become a people fashioned
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  Speaker 1: after God in character, righteousness, and holiness, and the bias
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  Speaker 1: of your training is such that God trains you in
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  Speaker 1: such a way that you excel where He has called you,
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  Speaker 1: and that excelling can beguile you to imagine that any
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  Speaker 1: other dimension outside of your space is not useful. But
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  Speaker 1: you will see the deficiency of your not embracing other dimensions.
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  Speaker 1: So the man can say, I would dive for let
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  Speaker 1: my children eat grass. I will stand on my what
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  Speaker 1: they call it now or my integrity. I agree. But
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  Speaker 1: that person produces a disaster. And if someone is to
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  Speaker 1: learn God through the lens of such a life, he
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  Speaker 1: will say God must be a wicked God, because based
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  Speaker 1: on that he does not reward holiness. And yet it's
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  Speaker 1: because he's not wholesome in that expression. Then you have
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  Speaker 1: someone who is wise. I mean anything he touches becomes gold.
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  Speaker 1: He can tell you the principles of anything. He knows,
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  Speaker 1: the principles of influence, the principles of leadership, the law
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  Speaker 1: of honor. The Bible says, knows doubt the ordinances of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and canst thou establish the dominion thereof upon the earth.
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  Speaker 1: This is the assignment of wisdom. Wisdom is connected to
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  Speaker 1: mighty works. And because of the excellency of that dimension,
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  Speaker 1: you will find out that sometimes you can ignore the
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  Speaker 1: nature of Christ or ignore the power of Christ. For
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  Speaker 1: such people the Bible says, ever learning, but never coming
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  Speaker 1: onto the knowledge of the truth, because there is a
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  Speaker 1: great dimension that makes what you have heard become profitable.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? And for most unfortunately, and with all
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  Speaker 1: due respect, especially the apostolic and the pro this is
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  Speaker 1: where there's been a very big mistake. You can be
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  Speaker 1: carried away by the abbondance of the demonstration of the
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  Speaker 1: gift of the Holy Spirit. And because science and wanders
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  Speaker 1: are very compelling in the world of men, if someone
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  Speaker 1: rises up up on you know you're speaking now, someone
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  Speaker 1: stands up from a wheelchair, it's too spectacular to ignore.
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  Speaker 1: And chances are excellent that how do you now tell me?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm saying, But it's possible I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm saying. You see that now. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of miracles have made many bad things to remain,
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  Speaker 1: because when error seems to be endorsed by a miracle,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the messy of God for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: those who have come to receive. It's not necessarily endorsing
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  Speaker 1: that limitation of the vessel. God will not because of
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  Speaker 1: the carelessness or the lack of growth of one man
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  Speaker 1: of God ignore the hunger, the prayer, and the first
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  Speaker 1: thing of someone. There are many miracles that happen in
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  Speaker 1: the meeting. I tell you sincerely, that has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the man who is there. It's just that
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  Speaker 1: we claim credit because you were the one holding the
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  Speaker 1: mic at that point. But the truth is that that
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  Speaker 1: man had been praying and he had gotten to the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of time that coincided with your preaching. So it
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  Speaker 1: may not necessarily be. Now, don't get me wrong. There
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  Speaker 1: should be a performance to the things that you say,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not always an endorsement. But chances are
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  Speaker 1: excellent that in the presence of such spectacular manifestation we
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  Speaker 1: take credit for it to mean God is endorsing even
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  Speaker 1: our limitations and our ignorance, and so we stop being
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  Speaker 1: students in the school of the Spirit, and people begin
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  Speaker 1: to follow after that error theirs. Such is for the
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  Speaker 1: miraculous and not for growth. A wise master builder, if
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  Speaker 1: you are to bring the formation of the Christ in
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  Speaker 1: his fullness, it is going to be the nature of
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  Speaker 1: Christ plus the wisdom of Christ plus the power of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: This is the portrait of God, the portrait of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: that every church must contend for Now, if you do
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  Speaker 1: not have the grace to make all these three possible.
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  Speaker 1: It is your responsibility to true humility and discernment outsource
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  Speaker 1: other graces that can complement and supplement for that deficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now, we're going to pray. Many of
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  Speaker 1: us are ministers of the gospel. The Lord just answered
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  Speaker 1: your question as to why there are many poor people
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  Speaker 1: in your church. Even though Dear Holy I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you don't feel embarrassed. It is because the wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: Christ deficient. With the intelligence of a consultant, you can
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  Speaker 1: diagnose the spiritual state of those under your care and
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  Speaker 1: know what dimension of God is deficient and know how
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  Speaker 1: to bring it. Like a doctor says, oh, you lack
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  Speaker 1: vitamin D. You lack vitamin E. Take this supplement for
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  Speaker 1: two months, and you find out that the pain that
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  Speaker 1: came as a result of lack of vitamin D because
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  Speaker 1: you are taking it. For some of you. You came
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  Speaker 1: for this meeting, and God is telling you go back
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  Speaker 1: and work on your own character and the character of
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  Speaker 1: those under your care. There is a gross deficiency of
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  Speaker 1: the reflection of this dimension of God's glory for many.
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  Speaker 1: I presume, with all due respect, the deficiencies in the
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  Speaker 1: area of wisdom, you see wisdom wisdom. The stuntedness, the
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  Speaker 1: absence of longevity in an impact is the bankruptcy of wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: The ups and downs are a testament that wisdom is missing.
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  Speaker 1: It's an uncomfortable truth, but it's true. And then for
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  Speaker 1: many we still lack the power. And I'm not just
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  Speaker 1: talking of falling down and standing up. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual investment upon you, the ware without to bring
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  Speaker 1: performance to your speakings, because the assignment of the annointing
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  Speaker 1: is to bring validation to the speakings of God. If
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  Speaker 1: the word of God does not proceed, the annointing does
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  Speaker 1: not have any assignment. The assignment of the word of
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  Speaker 1: God is to bring validation, to insist that God did
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  Speaker 1: not lie. So, if you have the truth and you
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  Speaker 1: do not have the power that backs the truth, the
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  Speaker 1: truth will soon look like a lie. Are we together, Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: As the Word said you would die and rise again
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  Speaker 1: after three days. That was the truth, but it took
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  Speaker 1: power to raise him. That same power. It didn't take
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  Speaker 1: truth again. Truth made the statement. Power defended the statement.
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  Speaker 1: So you can teach the truth, but you need the
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  Speaker 1: power that backs up truth upon your people, so it
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  Speaker 1: stops it from being a lectural. You tell people God
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  Speaker 1: is the lifter, and teach them the principles the love
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  Speaker 1: of honor, the love of relationships. For whilst you are teaching,
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  Speaker 1: you are aware that there is an invisible transaction. There
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  Speaker 1: is an importation happening. Someone is saying, Wow, I'm learning
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  Speaker 1: the love of honor. Then the en never playing power
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit is resting upon them. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: that to obey the truth requires grace? There is something
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  Speaker 1: called the doing grace. It says, now that you know
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  Speaker 1: these things, how clear you when you do them? They
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  Speaker 1: heard the word just like we did. They didn't yet
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  Speaker 1: a lie, but they could not perform it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: son of man. Stand up upon your feet, he tells
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  Speaker 1: after two one, verse one. He didn't have the power
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  Speaker 1: to stand. He hurt the truth, but the grace to
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  Speaker 1: stand what's not there? Then, it says, the spirit and
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  Speaker 1: tap mey the spirit and tad me. There is an ungracing.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the dimension. And the dynamics for working
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  Speaker 1: in these dimensions are different. Maybe one day God will
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  Speaker 1: give us grace to discuss them. How you build the
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  Speaker 1: nature of Christ is different from how you build the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of Christ is different from how you build the
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  Speaker 1: power of Christ. So don't tell me you are doing
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  Speaker 1: spiritual exercises for which goal? Which one are you doing prayer?
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  Speaker 1: And first thing is wonderful and it helps, But it
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  Speaker 1: does not get all of these things at once. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's an uncomfortable truth. But the held, dear, I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: we alt humility. You believe me on this. There are
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  Speaker 1: people who want the nature of Christ. There are the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual dynamics that builds within you. The nature of Christ is.
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  Speaker 1: There are variations when you want to contend for the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of Christ. You see, you can build the nature
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  Speaker 1: of Christ alone through consecration, through prayer, through repentance. You
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  Speaker 1: can't build wisdom alone. You need to be taught, It says,
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  Speaker 1: how can I understand except some man teach me? Are
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  Speaker 1: we together? You can stay alone and cry repentance, pour
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  Speaker 1: out your heart. You don't need anybody when it has
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  Speaker 1: to do with building the nature of Christ. Your secret
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  Speaker 1: place is your real secret. But when it has to
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  Speaker 1: do with building wisdom, the house of God. When I
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  Speaker 1: came to the House of God, then understood I the
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  Speaker 1: ministry of the teaching priests methodically helping you line upon line,
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  Speaker 1: precept upon preserved. I have to wrap up words, land something.
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  Speaker 1: A why master builder is the one who number one
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  Speaker 1: realizes that I am a co laborer with God in
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  Speaker 1: any dimension at all, ministry, business leadership. Number two. A
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  Speaker 1: wise master builder understands that there is a standard. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible calls it the fullness of God, the fullness of
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  Speaker 1: the measure of the stature of Christ. So that when
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  Speaker 1: you go back to your various churches, as you stand
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  Speaker 1: on the pulpit, you are not looking at congregants. You
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  Speaker 1: are looking at people who have been trusted. God gave
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  Speaker 1: them to you as a trust, and you must account
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  Speaker 1: for them. John seventeen. All that you have given me,
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  Speaker 1: I have kept, and none is lost except the son
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  Speaker 1: of Perdition, and that that scripture might be fulfilled. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know Jesus had to account for Judas. He had
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  Speaker 1: to explain why Judas fell, And he said, look, it's
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  Speaker 1: a son of Perdition. There is a prophecy that I
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  Speaker 1: will be betrayed. Unfortunately he partnered with that word. That's
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  Speaker 1: how he landed there. God, how to how to explain that?
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  Speaker 1: For many of us here? Listen to me I'm rapping
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  Speaker 1: up now. You see that you'll be careful where you
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  Speaker 1: are crying for increase. Lord, what you gave us support
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  Speaker 1: you in most common disconference, and God is saying, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a problem bringing increase, but it becomes
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  Speaker 1: a risk you'll become and not that kind of error
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  Speaker 1: that will be sold. And you see, the thing about
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  Speaker 1: error is that it travels almost at the same rate
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  Speaker 1: as truth. So until it that makes this a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people because it takes a lot of courage to
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  Speaker 1: stop error. The person who becomes the one anointed to
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  Speaker 1: stop error must be prepared to be wounded with many blows.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be wound dead. Ah. It is once
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  Speaker 1: you are wound dead, then people eventually see that, oh
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  Speaker 1: this is true, but for the time being, and not
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  Speaker 1: many people who have that courage to stand the way
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  Speaker 1: of error until it stops, so it continues sometimes transgenerationally.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had the time would have spoken about
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  Speaker 1: a man in the Bible called Balam, would have followed
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  Speaker 1: the progression of how that guy got into a disaster
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  Speaker 1: away together. He started from the error of Balam. It
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  Speaker 1: was an error, then eventually it became a way of Baalam.
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  Speaker 1: By the time we get to revelation, it had become
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  Speaker 1: the doctrine of Baalam. God told you by only three
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  Speaker 1: cars that its unique dealing. Your obedience produced great results,
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  Speaker 1: and you mentored people after that, and he started becoming
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  Speaker 1: a way all the people who come from you. And
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  Speaker 1: for someone his assignment demands tenkers, because you'll be giving
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  Speaker 1: a lot of them. You now meet his assignment stunted
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  Speaker 1: in honor to what you call revelation, until eventually, because
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  Speaker 1: of the excellency of your obedience, it now becomes a doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: Away together, we're going to be praying. We're celebrating a
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  Speaker 1: man today. And I say this in all sincerity. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: years of consistency, thirty years of grace. Only God knows
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  Speaker 1: the giants that have been brought down, the worlds that
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  Speaker 1: have been pushed the troops that have been pushed through.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not just here to celebrate, but we're here
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  Speaker 1: to learn and to inspire ourselves. If you see the
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  Speaker 1: Covenant Nation standing, then I believe that it is because
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  Speaker 1: God has brought longivity to this ministry, in honor to
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  Speaker 1: its degree of compliance to pattern. The lesson is that
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  Speaker 1: all of us must examine ourselves first in light of this,
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  Speaker 1: to what degree can you say the character of the
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  Speaker 1: Christ has been formed in you? And when it has
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  Speaker 1: to do with this thing of character? But there are
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  Speaker 1: no generals there. Let me tell you upfront. There are
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  Speaker 1: generals in revelation. There are signs and wonders, generals. But
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  Speaker 1: when it has to do with the nature of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: it must become our consistent pursuit per day to become
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  Speaker 1: more like Him. To become more like him, Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: that I may know him. Paul cried, desiring his conformity
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  Speaker 1: as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. At the
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  Speaker 1: zeniate of his apostolic ministry, Paul opened up his frustration
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  Speaker 1: battling the flesh and the spirit, and he said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you a true confession. I serve the
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  Speaker 1: Lord with my spirit, but it says within my body,
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  Speaker 1: I find another law walking within my members, so that
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  Speaker 1: the things I want to do I do not find
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  Speaker 1: myself doing them, and the things that I do not
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  Speaker 1: want to do, I find myself doing them. Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: old wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me
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  Speaker 1: from this body of death? The one who casted out
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  Speaker 1: demons is crying for help and messy. So when it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with this issue of character, godliness, moral excellence,
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  Speaker 1: I can't if we give pastupporach to the mic to
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  Speaker 1: come and help us. I'm sure you will tell us stories.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who scattered their testimony at their twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninet year, so you can be too old to fall.
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  Speaker 1: When it has to do with the issue of character,
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  Speaker 1: we must learn to hold onto the forehrones of the altar,
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  Speaker 1: obtaining messy by God, and out of the abundance of
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  Speaker 1: that messy we have received, we communicate same to those
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  Speaker 1: who are under a care Who's understood me so far?
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  Speaker 1: It's true? And then the wisdom of Christ. Don't come
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  Speaker 1: here and just be admired and admire all the things
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  Speaker 1: that God has done through the man of God. Learn
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  Speaker 1: everything you see that makes this ministry work is a
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  Speaker 1: product of wisdom. Wisdom is connected to mighty works. Learn
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  Speaker 1: what do I need to add to my church or
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  Speaker 1: my organization. I don't understand people's skills. I need to
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  Speaker 1: go and get a book. Don't say it's all necessary
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  Speaker 1: because you are praying the Bible. Say add to this, this,
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  Speaker 1: add to this, this, add to this this, It's say,
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  Speaker 1: if you do that, you will be entire lacking nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And then, for the power of God, we have other sessions.
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  Speaker 1: And I trust that within the course of this conference,
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  Speaker 1: God will expose us to the truths that will build
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  Speaker 1: afresh and everyone again this threefold dimension. Is it a
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  Speaker 1: right to say a word of prayer. Let's rise upon
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  Speaker 1: our feet. You are the one that we pray. You
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  Speaker 1: one prayer point Father, you obtain grace, I obtain messy.
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  Speaker 1: Someone cry celebrating thirty years of your faithfulness over this church,
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  Speaker 1: over this ministry, over God's servant in ministry. Go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and obtain grace, the doing, grace, the keeping. Grace. Someone,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and pray that by the ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, that God will walk upon you to deepen
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  Speaker 1: your consecration, walk upon you to cry like never before,
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  Speaker 1: to have the nature of Christ manifested in you, inexperience
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  Speaker 1: the love life, the character of the Christ. Messy compassion,
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  Speaker 1: love for God and for one another, and for the
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  Speaker 1: people that you lead, for someone. You are crying for wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to step up to a level of wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: Wisdom that walks, Wisdom that walks, not ignorance, laced with pride,
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  Speaker 1: Wisdom that walks. And then for someone you are crying
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  Speaker 1: for the power of God because you are entering a
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  Speaker 1: season of performance. Mary said, how shall these things be?
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  Speaker 1: Seeing that I know not a man. There are many
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  Speaker 1: projects that some of us have. It needs the power
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  Speaker 1: of God. Take a minute to pray and let it
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  Speaker 1: be from the depth of your heart.