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Line upon line (The Power of Structured Knowledge) with Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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Just take a minute as you soak in and as you receive everything
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that has come as a deposit in this atmosphere of worship.
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Thank you Jesus, thank you Father, we bless you.
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We all know you, we all know you, we all know you, we all
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know you. In Jesus much less name, we have
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worshipped again in Jesus much less name we have worshipped.
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Amen and Amen. Please.
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Let's celebrate Minister Dong sing for.
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This. Atmosphere shifting worship.
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The Lord bless you in Jesus name.
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Everyone, please. You may be seated.
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You may be seated. Such a rich time of worship.
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I was thoroughly blessed, mightily blessed in Jesus
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marchless name. We pray.
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Thank you again. Thank you again minister.
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Don't say the Lord honor you in Jesus name.
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Tonight we're going to be considering a subject that I
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believe will help build and edify us as we learn the ways of
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God. Part of my goals this year as I
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stayed with God, planning for the year, was to help believers
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get to a point where the Word of God becomes a stronghold on your
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mind, where you are so fortified by knowledge, fortified by a
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thorough understanding of the mysteries of the Kingdom.
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And tonight I pray that as we consider that which will be
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considering by the Spirit, let it help build, help strengthen
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and help fortify your spirit. Man, you believe that Shout Amen
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for a topic tonight we're going to be considering line upon
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line. I'm going to be teaching you the
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power of structured knowledge. Line upon line, the power of
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structured knowledge. I will be showing you from this
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teaching tonight. Why many believers do not have
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knowledge that is aggregated enough to produce victory and
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dominion, and how it is possible for a believer to be in an
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atmosphere of abundant spiritual knowledge and yet not able to
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translate that knowledge to power that knowledge to victory?
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Help us tonight Holy Spirit in Jesus name. 2 scriptures very
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quickly as we begin our discussion.
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Isaiah 28 and verse 10 from where we got the title for
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precept must be upon precept. It says precept upon precept,
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line upon line, line upon line. Here a little and there a.
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Little the Lord bless his word in Jesus name.
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Second scripture Luke chapter 1 We're looking at the 1st 4
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verses Luke chapter one the first 4 verses.
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For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a
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declaration of those things which are most surely believed
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among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the
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beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the.
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World. It seemed good to me.
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Having had perfect understanding of all things from the very
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first to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus
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verse four, that thou mightest know the certainty of those
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things wherein thou has been instructed.
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The Lord bless the reading of His word in Jesus, much less
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name. We pray.
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So we have a number of things we are going to be considering
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tonight and I want you, as always, to lend me your
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attention with a heart that is determined to learn.
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And I pray like we prayed earlier on again, that the Holy
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Spirit will find unrestrained access to your spirit and
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unrestrained access to your mind in Jesus matchless name.
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We pray for a foundation tonight.
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It's important for us to know that one of the factors that
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distinguishes the Christian faith from every other faith
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practice is that we have beyond a set of rituals to honor and
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live by. The Christian faith is built on
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the possibility for a functional relationship with God.
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No other faith practice has that kind of orientation, where as a
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distinct person, not as a corporate people, that everybody
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can individually and distinctively have a functional
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relationship with God. I've studied a number of
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religions, and for most of them they teach that there is the
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existence of God in whatever form or fashion, or maybe some
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cosmic power. And they teach usually that that
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deity, whoever he is, because of the extent of his or her
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Excellency, as the case may be, are far beyond the reach of the
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creation, But that in an act of love or benevolence.
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They have pen down through mediums, certain rituals,
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certain manuals, certain scrolls that can help the practitioners
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of that religion to gain some form of ascendance in the.
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Spirit, you know, you find similar teachings in Buddhism,
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and you know, other, you know, Eastern practices and so on and
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so forth. But the Christian faith is very
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unique. In that it provides the
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possibility for an individual and no matter how many people,
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the Christian faith teaches that an individual can uniquely have
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what we call a personal relationship with God.
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Are we together now? Some other religions teach and
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they believe that God can and does reveal himself to the
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people, but not distinctly, not individually.
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They believe that by fulfilling certain rituals it is possible
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for the people to experience similitudes of God like it was
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in the Old Testament ceremonial cleansings, you know, certain
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obeisance and certain obedience to some rituals.
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That it could invoke mercy and favour from God and he would
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show up as a cloud and in whatever way, But that the
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believer, no matter how many we are, that an individual can have
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a functional, provable relationship with God.
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It's a very profound difference. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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the Lord. So the believer is not just
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bound to the ritual of learning the Word.
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Are we together? So there is the Word as a person
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and there is the Word as the compendium of the thoughts of
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God. It's important that I lay this
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foundation so that you will understand the things that I'm
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about to teach. So there, a relationship with
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God and access to knowledge through the world are two
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related but distinctively different experiences.
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For many believers, they do not know or have not been mentored
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into an understanding that a man can have a functional
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relationship with God. Not just a theoretical
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understanding like I received the life of God, but an
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individual can actually grow in a functional relationship with
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God, as mysterious, as mighty, as invisible and invincible as
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he is. That an ordinary man can have a
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functional relationship with God.
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That can be proven here and now, not in the afterlife.
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Do you believe that? Praise the name of the Lord.
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As mighty and mysterious as God is, He can be known.
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He wants to be known. John 17 and verse 3.
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Jesus is praying, and he said, this is life eternal, that they
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may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus whom thou has
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sent. So God can be known.
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He wants to be known. And that it is possible in the
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Christian faith and in the faith practice to have #1A functional
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relationship with God as a person and then to grow in the
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knowledge of His Word. Hallelujah.
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Usually the Word of God helps you to know more.
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In fact, the primary channel for the knowledge of God has
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revealed in Scripture is Scripture itself.
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Jesus spoke about Scripture testifying of Him.
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You find that in John chapter 5. Give it to us, please, from
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verse 39. John chapter 5, from verse 39.
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Let's look at 39 and 14 John 539 and 40.
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He says such the scripture he was speaking to the two men in
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Emmaus for in them he think he have eternal life.
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He says and they are they which testify of me.
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You know what that means that Jesus is different from the
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Scripture. The scripture testify of Jesus,
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but the Bible is not God. Listen carefully.
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I'm going to be sharing you some things that you need to build as
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an orientation that gives you strength.
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So an encounter with the person God through Jesus, through his
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Spirit, is very separate from learning the Scripture and
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learning the ways of God, even though they are interrelated.
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A believer can be an intelligent scholar of Scripture and not
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know God. The scribes and the Pharisees
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were people who were not ignorant as far.
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In fact the condition to become a Pharisee in those days likened
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to what you would call a doctor PhD in our world today.
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Among the many rituals was that you had to know the five books
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of Moses called the Pentateuch or the Torah of Heart.
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And those guys were so intelligent, they knew the Book
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of Moses, the five books of Moses of heart.
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Hallelujah. And yet it was very clear that
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they did not know God when Jesus came.
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They doubted him, they fought him, and they partnered with
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Satan to kill him. So having a functional
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relationship with Jesus Christ is related to, but distinctively
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different from having the knowledge of Scripture.
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Are we learning already? Praise the name of the Lord now.
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The Bible is the principal manual for helping us to know
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God and understanding his ways. The Bible is the principal
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manual. By now you know that there are
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many other texts that capture the life and the experiences of
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Jesus. In the Quran you find Jesus
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there expressed in various ways. In a lot of other religious
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books you find Jesus carrying several names and you know all
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kinds of expressions, including a documentation of his miracles,
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but only. The Bible are.
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According to the teachings of the Christian faith, only the
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Bible, the Bible has the richest capture of the revelation of
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God. Are we together?
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And the Bible has the most concise description of the ways
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of God. But look up, please, Ladies and
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gentlemen, the Bible is not God. It's important.
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It's a very subtle revelation, but you must have that at heart.
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The Bible contains the richest capture of the revelation of God
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in terms of a documented print of the character of God, a
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documented print of the ways of God, a documented print of the
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life of God as revealed by Jesus, a documented print of the
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ministry of the Holy Spirit, a documented print of the
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prophetic destiny of the church. But the Bible is not God.
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Are you learning now? So there is the word of God as a
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person and there is the word of God as a compendium of the
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thoughts and the speakings of God.
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You want to write that down that there is the word of God as a
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person, the living word, the Bible calls John 1 and verse
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one. There is the word of God as a
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person, and there is the word of God as the Logos of God.
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A compendium are we together of the thoughts and the speakings
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of God and the believer is mandated in your search to
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attend unto maturity, to encounter those dimensions of
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the Word. You must encounter the Word of
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God as a person. The Bible says as many as
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received him, not just received it, received Him.
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He gave them power. He's a living person who can be
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known. Are we together now?
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Praise the name of the Lord. There is the Word of God as a
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person, and there is a Word of God as a compendium of the
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thoughts and the speakings of God.
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If you're following so far, say Amen.
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So believers need both encounters for you to experience
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a life of victory and dominion, power and grace.
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It is important that you press to encounter God as a person
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revealed through Jesus and by his Spirit, and then to
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encounter the Word of God as a compendium of the thoughts and
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the speakings of God. And that compendium is captured
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in what we call the Bible. Are we together Now, classically
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speaking, and like you have been taught, the Bible itself is not
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the Word of God. The Word of God is contained in
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the Bible. Are we together, like you carry
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a tray, and that tray carries a pot of rice, a pot of beans, a
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pot of soup. The tray is not the rice, The
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tray is not the soup, but you cannot access the rice and the
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soup without carrying the pot of the tray.
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Are we together now? So the Bible itself is not the
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word of God. This is a material that was
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produced perhaps by White Taker House, by Zondervan.
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And quite honestly, some of the people who printed this
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materials may not even be born again.
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They are just doing business. They are producing a book that
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is the best seller all time and desired by most Christians to
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aid their knowledge of God. It's as simple as that.
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Are we following so far, but that contained within these
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frail letters printed by a publishing house.
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Are we together that you can find the word of God.
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This is why the Bible says you search the Scripture and you
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search it without revelation. You will not find anything.
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There is someone learning. Now this is very, very
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important. So that's the first thing I need
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to stress that you can have a functional relationship with God
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as well as press for a thorough understanding of His ways.
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Hallelujah. Now let me back up a little and
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teach you recap for some what I have called the dynamics of
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growth in the Kingdom. Do not forget what we're
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discussing tonight. Line up online.
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I'm teaching you the the profit points, the power of structured
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knowledge. Hallelujah.
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When you get saved. I've taught you many times in
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this house, but I'm praying that it will become a stronghold in
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your mind, that it become one of the things that are most surely
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believed when you get born again.
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We call it getting saved. We call it the new birth
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experience or we call it an encounter with Jesus Christ, you
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know, administering salvation to you.
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Remember, I've taught you in this house that there are three
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gifts a man receives at the point of salvation.
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Let me do a quick recap on that number one, the first gift you
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receive when you get saved is called the forgiveness of sin.
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The forgiveness of sin. Ephesians one and verse 7 for
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everyone who comes to Jesus Christ declaring his lordship
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over his life. The Bible says in whom we have
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redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins
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according to the riches of His grace #2 The second gift that
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everyone receives upon encountering Jesus is called the
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gift of righteousness. Write that down please.
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Romans chapter 5 and then verse 17, the gift of righteousness.
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For if by one month offense he says death reigned by one, it
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says much more Day, which received the abundance of grace
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and the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by 1.
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Jesus Christ, and then the third.
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Gift. Which is the most superior?
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Most superior in terms of what it does to man?
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That was the whole goal. The forgiveness of sin and the
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gift of righteousness was to this end that we become
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recipients and possessors of what the Bible calls away, the
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life of God. That is the third gift that God
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gave to man at the point of salvation.
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John 1010 and then first John chapter 511 to 13.
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Both scriptures talk about the abundant life that have been
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given to man in Christ. He says I am come that he may
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have life and that you have that life more abundantly.
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And then John speaks again in his epistle.
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First John chapter 5. When you read from verse 11 to
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13, John was speaking and he said this is the record.
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It's a testament that God has given us eternal life.
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Say I have eternal life and that this life is through His Son.
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Are we together? Are you seeing now He didn't
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just say this life is through His speakings.
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The life is through His Son, a person, and that you encounter
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the Son, then you have life. If you have not encountered the
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Son, you do not have that life. Praise the name of the Lord.
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And I've taught you here that what we call the way or eternal
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life or everlasting life as some versions put, is beyond mere
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existing outside of the frame of death.
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It's beyond that I have told you, arguably, that everybody
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really has everlasting life. Nobody ceases to leave.
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What happens is that there is a translation.
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Dimensions change. Are we together?
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And the realities that befall you in those dimensions is what
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describes the quality of your life.
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Everybody who's died now, whether they died in Christ or
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not, they are still alive. They are alive in another
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dimension under a certain set of conditions.
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To those who are dead in Christ, we call it sleeping because they
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wake up on to life everlasting. And those who are outside of
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Christ, are we together? If outside of Christ, they have
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been judged already, especially for those who had the
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opportunity to hear the gospel. Now if you never had the
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opportunity to hear the gospel and you would die, God will use
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the standard of godliness that was available to you while you
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were alive. That becomes a standard of
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judgment. Nobody will be banished.
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And who will go to hell who never had the opportunity to
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hear the gospel? Are we together now?
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If you hear the gospel and you will reject Jesus, then you have
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made your choice, and for that choice against the Lord, you
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have to face eternal damnation. But to the one who sincerely
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died like an idol worshipper, who never had an opportunity to
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hear a missionary and so on and so forth, God will use the
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standard of morality and righteousness that was present
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as that when they were alive. That becomes the basis of
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judging them. Who is learning already?
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Praise the name of the Lord. It will be unfair for those who
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practice idolatry and never had the opportunity to hear the
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gospel to suddenly be banished to eternal damnation.
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No, when Jesus died, according to the Epistle of Peter, he went
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to Hades and there there were departed Saints who were there,
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and the Bible says he preached the gospel to them.
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He gave them an opportunity to believe, and those who believe
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followed him in that triumphant resurrection.
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It's in your Bible that when Jesus resurrected, he did not
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resurrect alone. He resurrected as the first
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born, not just the only begotten, the first born among
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the brethren. Graves were open in Jerusalem
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and the departed Saints came. And walked around.
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The streets of Jerusalem wasn't a vision, wasn't a parable.
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Hallelujah. So eternal life here talks about
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a quality of life. Here's what I define it as.
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That life here is the way here is beyond mere existence is
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beyond just being alive. I describe it as a summation of
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every component in God that upgrades man to the God class is
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calls away every component, the goodness of God, the wisdom of
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God, the power of God, the grace of God.
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Every component found in God through Christ that is able to
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upgrade a mortal, frail, ordinary man to rise until he's
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able to function in the God class is what the Bible calls
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Zoe. Hallelujah.
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Are we learning already? Now that's not even where I'm
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going. I'm just trying to guide you
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through a route that stabilizes your understanding so that for
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those who will be saved later on in the course of this discussion
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tonight, and for those who are saved.
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In fact, he says, I write these things to you that ye may know
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that you have eternal life. Most believers have confessed
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Jesus Christ, but many have not been mentored into a structured
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understanding of what really happened.
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And because they are not aware of what happened, they cannot
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walk and stand fast in the liberty where Christ has set
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them free. If you are saved, you are born
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again. You have confessed the Lordship
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of Christ. The Bible says that these three
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gifts are yours right now, the forgiveness of sin, the gift of
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righteousness, and the life of God.
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Again, shout, I have the life of God.
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Let the devil hear you say, I have the life of God.
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Now the next step, which is very important, the next step.
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And at this point I make reference to my teaching.
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You may want to listen to it in the course of the week.
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The ministry of light, the journey beyond salvation.
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Now, most believers, please listen to me.
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And with all due respect, I will encourage those who,
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particularly of the Evangelical Foundation, listen carefully
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because for most people they do not know that salvation is only
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the initiation of the process that evolves a man until he
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becomes a witness. And so most people come around
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the initial experience of salvation and they do not know
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and they are not taught that that is the beginning of a
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journey that should drive anyone who has now come to Christ.
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Are we together that beyond the initial salvation, the next step
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listen, is the journey of transformation and empowerment.
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Do not forget this, the journey of transformation and
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empowerment the moment you see anyone who gets saved.
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In fact, I recall, and let me let me remind you again, that
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the greatest need from a spiritual standpoint, the
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greatest need of every unbeliever is what?
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Salvation. You still remember every time
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you see an unbeliever, whether as a business partner, whether
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as a spouse, whether as a sibling, whether as a
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billionaire, whether as a politician, from a natural
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standpoint to a scenic colleague, a friend, but from a
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spirit Kingdom standpoint, the greatest need of every
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unbeliever is salvation. They may not know, they may not
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be aware, they may not accept. Are we together?
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But the greatest need of every unbeliever around you have this
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as an orientation is salvation. Meaning no matter what good you
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do to an unbeliever, from a spiritual standpoint you have
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not really. Completed your good to that
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person. Until you are used by God to
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lead that person to salvation, because God desires that all
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men, how many men, all men be saved, and then when they are
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saved, that they come on to the knowledge of the truth.
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Praise the name of the Lord. So the greatest need of an
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unbeliever is salvation. The greatest need of a believer
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now in Christ is transformation, remember, And the greatest need
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of a transformed believer is empowerment.
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It's important. So there is a progression that
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after salvation, the journey of transformation and empowerment
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begins. And let me see how many of you
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have gotten this as a stronghold in your mind.
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I have taught you that for transformation and empowerment
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to happen profitably in the life of any believer, there are three
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ministries you must be exposed to.
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Number 1 is called the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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Write that down, please, The ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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Let me take it slowly and not take for granted that everyone
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here has a thorough knowledge of that.
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For some of you, it's a reminder.
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For some of you, it's a new information.
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And since we're teaching line up online, let me take a few
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minutes to help arrange your spiritual understanding because
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this frame of understanding is what determines whether you will
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eventually become a product of power and grace or you will
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become a frustrated believer. Even though saved, you will not
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be able to come of victory and dominion inexperience in your
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life. The ministry of the Holy Spirit
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is the first ministry that journeys any believer to a point
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of transformation and empowerment.
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John 1613 Jesus was speaking and he says when He the Spirit of
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truth is come, how be it? When He the Spirit of truth is
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come, He will guide you into all truth.
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Are you saying that just because you have truth does not mean you
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will succeed or profit from it? You must be guided.
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He shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear
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that shall He speak and He will show you things to come.
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First Corinthians chapter 2, I believe from verse 10 to 12.
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Paul is speaking to the church in Corinth now and he says God
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has revealed them to us. How?
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By his Spirit for the spirit such as all things here the deep
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things of God. Verse 11 it says for what man
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knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in
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him. Even so the things of God
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knoweth no man but the Spirit of God.
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Let's read verse 12 together. Everyone want to go now we have
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received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is
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of God. Why?
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That we may know the things that are freely given to us of God.
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It is impossible for you to get to that point of comprehension
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of the things that have been freely given outside of the
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Spirit. So you can be saved.
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And if you are not exposed to the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
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you may never get into that point of experiential knowledge,
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not even to talk of victory #2 the second ministry you have to
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be exposed to. It is the ministry of the world,
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the ministry of the world. You will notice from this three
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that I give you prayer was not mentioned because when you are
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talking about the ministry of the Holy Spirit, that is really
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the ministry of prayer. A major part of your prayer
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engagements is a. Spirit affair.
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It's a spirit business whose endpoint is your transformation.
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I have taught you this. When you become matured and
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Apostolic in your approach to the fake life, you will see
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that. The subject of crying for things
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and petitions only take a should take a minute part of your
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prayer. A major part of your prayer
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should be that Koinonia, that spirit interaction.
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Are we together? Because there are many things
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you would not need to ask for when you grow.
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Many prayer requests are report cards.
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They are showing your stauntedness in knowledge and
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growth spiritually. And so when a major part of your
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prayer life becomes your desire to press into God to build
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capacity. The Bible already says the Holy
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Spirit will reveal to you. You will find out that your
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prayer life becomes richer and you do not become a need
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different Christian just coming to pray and say Father, you are
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the lion of the tribe of Judah, Rose of Sharon, Lily of the
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valley and all of that. I thank you because of my life
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and those preambles and then you now go into your request.
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Father, I'm asking you of this thing again, my rent help me or
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tell the landlord to forgive me or tell somebody this and that
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and that and we say all kinds of things, very spiritually
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incoherent communications and we wrap up everything within Jesus
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name. I pray, Amen.
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And out you go and they say what have you been doing is I've been
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praying, I've been praying seriously.
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No, you have not been praying seriously.
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You have just been in a place where God has been showing you
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message. Seriously.
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We've not been praying seriously.
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Are we together now? Every time we talk of the
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fellowship of the Spirit, don't separate it from prayer.
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No, the theology of prayer was primarily supposed to be for
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fellowship. The word Koinonia is a word that
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connotes prayer, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love
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of God, and the Koinonia, the participation of the Spirit.
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So it's not just about coming to ask for request, buying demons,
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cast demons, say Amen, and walk away.
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Do you know people can be involved in that ritual for
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decades and not know God and not grow spiritually?
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And because God is a merciful God and He will keep to His
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Word, you will get a lot of results, but you will not have
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wholesome growth that translates to victory.
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Is someone learning now? So the ministry of the Holy
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Spirit and that through prayer and then #2 the ministry of the
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world. Let's hurry up.
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Let's hurry up. The ministry of the world.
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First Peter chapter 2 and verse 2, the Bible tells us that what
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every baby Christian, what the Bible calls a newborn babe, once
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you are born in Christ, you are in Christ, but you are an
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infant. It doesn't matter how old you
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are. It doesn't matter how
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intellectually qualified you are once you come into Christ, the
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name for you is an infant, and the Bible says your desire
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should be the sincere milk of the Word because that is what
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will help you grow. Who is learning now?
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It says, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word,
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that. Ye may grow thereby.
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Acts chapter 20 and verse 32. And now, brethren, I commend you
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to God and to the word of His grace. 2032 which is able to
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what build you up and to give you an inheritance among them
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that are sanctified. You are already sanctified in
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Christ. The.
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Instant sanctification that came in Christ is already your
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heritage, but whether or not you will walk in that which is your
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inheritance depends on your access to the word of His grace.
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Is someone learning? So the ministry of the Holy
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Spirit, the ministry of the world #3 the ministry of a
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teaching priest? Listen, I'm saying this to you
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so that you can help someone to grow intelligently the moment
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you find someone who is not a believer.
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Your greatest desire for that person should be that the person
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is safe. Not just to get a job, not just
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to get a child. It doesn't matter if the person
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comes from miracle service, all of those miracles.
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And desires are important, but by far inferior because no
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matter what the person receives, if he does not receive the life
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of Christ, that person is still in danger.
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The devil has legitimate access to anyone who is not in Christ.
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The immunity. Of anyone who wants total
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freedom from Satan is not church is Christ.
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Church can provide a covering so far, but it is the name of the
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Lord that is a strong tower. The Bible says the righteous
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runs into it and they are saved. There is no other name under.
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Heaven given unto men, by which we must be saved.
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Are we learning now the minister of a teaching priest?
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Second Chronicles chapter 15 and verse 3.
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The Bible says now for a long time.
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Second Chronicles 3 and verse 15 for a long season, it says
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Israel had been without the true God.
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Watch this. Israel had been without a
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teaching priest, and Israel had been without law.
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When you back up to verse 5, you will see the tragedy that
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happened to them as a result of the absence of a teaching
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priest, he says. And in those times there was no
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peace to him that went out, not to him that came in.
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But great vexation was upon all the inhabitants of the
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countries. There will always be spiritual
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chaos and anarchy, and it will translate to financial chaos,
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economic chaos, all kinds of chaos without.
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The presence of a teaching priest.
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Jeremiah 315 And I will give you pastors or shepherds according
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to my heart, and they will feed you with knowledge and with
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understanding. So once a believer is saved,
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when you want to help that believer to grow to a point
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where he becomes a mighty man of stature, you are going to have
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to work in partnership with God to introduce that person to this
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threefold ministry. I repeat again #1 the ministry,
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ministry of the Holy Spirit strengthening his prayer life
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and turning that person to a man of prayer #2 the ministry of the
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world, exposing him to the thoughts and the ways of God #3
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the ministry of a teaching priest, teaching priest,
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teaching priest. Now let me show you where all
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these three ministries were captured in the growth process
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of a man. Can I show you that?
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Acts chapter 8. Thank you Holy Spirit.
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Let's go to verse 29. Acts chapter 8 and verse 29.
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Please give it to U.S. media and the Spirit said unto Philip.
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Everybody watch the Spirit said unto who?
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Philip, go near and join yourself to this chariot.
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Next verse Philip, Rantita and. To him and when he heard him the
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Ethiopian Enoch, he was reading the book of Isaiah.
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Watch this. Can you see scripture there he
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was reading the scripture but Philip as a teaching priest.
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Now ask him a question. You are a faithful steward of
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the word. But he said understand that what
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you read what thou readest. Verse 31 And Philip said, how
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can I? I'm a sincere person with a good
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heart. I have the scriptures with me.
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But he said how can I accept some man should guide me?
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That is the assignment of the teaching priest.
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He does not replace the word, but he gives guidance and
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perspective to your understanding.
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And he desired that Philip would come and sit with him. 32 The
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place of the Scripture which he read was that he was led as a
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ship to the slaughter. It had to be the Holy Ghost
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leading that man to have read that Scripture like that.
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And like a lamb Dome before the Shearer, So he opened not his
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mouth. Verse 33.
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And in his humiliation and his judgment was taken away, and
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which shall declare his generation, for his life is
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taken away from the earth. Now verse 44 And the eunuch.
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Answered Phillip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the
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prophet this of himself, or of some man?
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Verse 35. Then Phillip opened his mouth as
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a teaching priest to one who was desirous to learn, and he began
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at that scripture he preached unto him Jesus. 36 And as they
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went on their way, they came to a certain place.
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Now he had worked on his understanding, and he saw water.
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It was, you know, himself who said, See, you have told me
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something about the baptism and all of that.
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There is water here. Don't hinder me from being
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baptized. Are you seeing that there are
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some things you can never truly see until God uses a teaching
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priest to open your eyes? That man would have passed that
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water if he went alone, and you were just gone to perdition, but
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now under the influence of Philip as a teaching.
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Priest are we together? He helped him expound that to
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him the way of the Kingdom. 37 The Bible says, Philip said, If
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thou believe us with all your heart, he played.
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Two roles, both as an evangelist and then a teaching priest.
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And he answered, he said, I believe that Jesus is the Son of
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God. Verse 38 And he commanded the
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chariot to stand still, and they went down both into the water
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and both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him to tell you
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the Holy Ghost was there. What's what happened in verse
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39? As soon as he was done, the
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Bible says when they were come out of the water, the Spirit of
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the Lord carried Philip away. At what point did he carry him?
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When he finished his assignment, did you not saw him no more and
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he went his way rejoicing? Let me tell you where they found
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Philip. He's in verse 14.
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And Philip was found in Azotos. Wherever that was, he carried
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Philip. Philip, next walk.
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I have another assignment for you.
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Carried the man from that place and took him by the Spirit.
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Are we together? Is someone learning?
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I won't even say anything about that statement.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, that happened in the Bible, and it's
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not a parable. I believe that before Jesus
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comes, there are men who will press into God.
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And I'm telling you this from my heart.
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I believe that there are men who will press into God.
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God will walk wonders with them from city to city without any
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aid of man. God will take people and break
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whatever barrier that people will be carried, and they will
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appear in cities and preach the gospel to specific individuals.
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And leave. And leave.
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You just know by the morning that so so so has repented.
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What happened. His security does not need to
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fight anybody. You don't even need them.
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You appear to his room. And speak, say I'm not an Angel,
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I'm a living person. I'm just a demonstration of the
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life that comes with Christ. We live in a generation that has
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been so degenerated spiritually. Concepts like this just look
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like a Christian cliche. Let me tell you, it will happen.
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It will happen. The Bible says there are men who
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will taste of the powers of the age to come.
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Yes Sir. Do you believe that?
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Now a lot of people have experienced this a bit in times
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and shadows, out of body experiences, a number of things,
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but this will be in full swing. It will not just be people
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trying to show spirituality that one day someone is going
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somewhere and God will say, can I have?
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20 minutes of your time, he will say yes.
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And as you are saying yes, you find yourself somewhere in
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Russia, somewhere in Pakistan, and you are in the room of
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someone and the person is kneeling there saying Lord,
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prove to me you are God. And here you show up, you are
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not an Angel. And you are saying I come with
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glad tidings of good joy? Mister Man, I have 10 minutes to
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share Christ with you and as soon as you are done.
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As soon as you step out, you are beside yourself and you are back
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to your place. Come on now, let me tell you.
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If it is for the gospel, God will not restrain his hand.
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You don't know how far God can go to see men saved.
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If he's for self, that one you are just wasting God's time.
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But if it is for the gospel, God will go beyond.
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And if he sent his Son, is he carrying you to where you are
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needed? That is not there?
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He will take you. If I'm telling you before Jesus
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comes, I believe that many strange things will happen.
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I don't want to begin to suggest things that looks like I bought
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anything at all in the Bible. For the sake of God's program,
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animals spoke. For the sake of God's program,
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animals were silent. For the sake of God's program,
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fishes brought coin. This is God for you.
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You need to be able to see the desperation that is in the heart
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of God for all men to be saved. That means for the sake of the
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gods of the gospel. God can raise one man in one
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year, empower you in one year, whether you know business or
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not. He's found the gospel in your
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heart and He wants to drive you into that program in the name of
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Jesus. May God find the worthy steward
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in you. Please be seated.
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Please be seated. I believe this, so I really do.
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Now let's talk about the Word of God.
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We need to build on what is our subject of discussion tonight.
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The word of God is the principal tool for the believers
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enlightenment and. Transformation.
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Simple statement, but write it down.
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The word of God is the principal tool for the believers.
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Enlightenment and transformation.
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Not visions, not dreams, not prophecies.
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Not out of body experiences. Please listen carefully.
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The Word of God is the principal tool for the believers
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enlightenment and transformation.
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Let me tell you where arrow stands for believers.
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And please, I want you to lend me your attention now.
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And I say this with every sense of honor to the body of Christ.
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When the Word of God does not gain supremacy in your life,
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particularly as a preacher, you will have to route the
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transformation process of believers to a means that is not
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scriptural. And even though it is sincere,
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the chances of you encountering familiar spirits and
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encountering error is very high. Are we together now according to
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the Word of God, the Bible? Say ye are cling to the word
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that I've spoken to you. There is nobody who becomes
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enlightened and transformed through visions, through
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prophecies, through dreams, and through extra biblical practices
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as the primary tool. No Sir.
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Visions can support, dreams can support.
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But when you want to build believers, they are commanded to
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God and to the word of His grace.
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That is what is able to build them up.
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Am I? Am I speaking?
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To you now, let me tell you where the era of many believers
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started from. Perhaps.
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Maybe. You had a prophetic exposure in
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your life and as soon as you got born again, with all due
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respect, maybe the person who mentored you did not have value
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for the Word of God. You will find out that your
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entire spiritual journey is totally a product of I saw and
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the margin of error. Using that spiritual trajectory
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you will see a lot of things, both good and bad.
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The realm of the spirit is a vast.
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Realm. You can see everything there are
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we together and you will start acting out the things you are
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seeing. Later you will build a ministry
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that reflects your vision. And you find out that people are
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receiving results, but there is no growth.
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And they cannot now explain when their interactions are with
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demon spirits or the Holy Spirit.
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If they hear voices, Joshua, Salman stand up, they say yes
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Lord. And it may be Satan, because
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Satan can appear as an Angel of light.
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The purifier of all spiritual experiences is the Word of God
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who is learning this now. So there are many believers
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today who are sincerely convicted, but when you check
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what is the template of their spiritual life, you will find
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out that something is grossly missing.
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They are sincere people, but they were not trained to honor
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the world. If they exalt any other
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spiritual experience above the world, I'll give you an
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instance. If you tell that believer God,
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you are blessed, he feels you wasted his time.
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He says you didn't touch me, you didn't do this, you didn't give
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me a cloth. Now I'm not.
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Saying all those things are wrong, but when your life is
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built on experiences outside of the world, there is already
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going to be a problem with your becoming victorious.
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Is someone learning So the word of God is the primary principal
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tool for the believers enlightenment and
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transformation. And let me remind you again that
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I taught you scriptures that it contains essentially promises,
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principles and prophecies. You still.
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Remember that number one, the Bible contains promises.
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Second Peter chapter 1 and verse 4.
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The Bible says, wherefore are given to us exceeding great and
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precious promises, that by this we might be partakers of his
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divine nature, Haven't escaped the corruption that is in the
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world through laws #2 the Bible contains principles.
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Matthew chapter 13 and verse 11. It has been given unto you to
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know the principles or the mysteries of the Kingdom of
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Heaven. Job 3833 NIV Knowest thou the
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laws of the universe? It says and comes thou establish
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the dominion over the. Earth.
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The Bible contains promises, self timing promises.
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The Bible contains principles, say principles, and then the
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Bible contains prophecy. Second Peter chapter what now
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remind me, find that scripture for me.
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No prophecies or personal interpretation.
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Second Peter is that chapter one.
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Please find it for me. Media just came to my spirit.
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If you can find it, it's in it's in first Peter.
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Second Peter, I think chapter word now one from verse 19.
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Thank you one. Let's go to 1919 and 20.
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He said we have the more sure word of prophecy.
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Thank you. Thank you media Second Peter 119
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and 20 we have a what more sure word of prophecy.
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Where unto ye do well to take heed as unto a light that shine
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it in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise
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in your hearts. Verse 20 it says knowing this,
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that no prophecy of the scripture.
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So there is what we call the prophecy of the Scripture that
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it is not of personal interpretation.
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Hallelujah is someone learning the Bible contains promises,
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principles, prophecies. Now this is where the main
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discussion tonight starts. I've laid all these foundations
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because it's important so that you understand what I'm about to
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say. We're teaching line up online.
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The power of structured knowledge.
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There is a challenge and believers, please, I want you to
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listen to me. Here is a challenge.
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There is a way and manner to engage the world so that it
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becomes profitable to you. There is a way and manner to
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engage the world so that it becomes profitable to you.
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And there is a way and manner to engage the world that makes it
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unprofitable to you. If you understood what I just
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said, just write it down. And then I'll say it again that
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there is a way and manner to engage the world as a believer
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so that it becomes profitable to you.
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But there is also a way and manner to engage the world that
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makes it totally unprofitable. To you, the Bible is clear as to
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the fact that Scripture is profitable.
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Second Timothy chapter 3 and verse 16 all scripture is given
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by the inspiration of God Colonia Luke up he says Annis
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profitable says scripture is profitable.
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So the Bible says the word of God is profitable in Proverbs
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chapter 4 from verse 20 to 22. Just buttress it on the fact
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that the word of God is profitable.
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My son, attend to my words, incline your ears to my sayings.
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Verse 21 He says, let them not depart from your eyes, keep them
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in the midst of your heart. 22 He says for they are life, the
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words, they are life. Not to everybody, to those who
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find them unhealthy on to their flesh.
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Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 12. Scripture the word of God is
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profitable 4 and 12 Hebrews for the word of God is quick and
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powerful it is sharper than any two edit sword, piercing into
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the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and
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marrow, and it's a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of
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the heart. All of these scriptures show you
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that the Bible. Scripture, the Word of God, is
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profitable, but there is a way you can engage the Word such
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that it becomes profitable to you.
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And I'm telling you, there is a way you engage the Word such
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that as powerful as the Word of God is, it does not become.
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Profitable and this is our discussion tonight.
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The Word of God can be made unprofitable.
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Mark Chapter 7 and verse 13. Mark Chapter 7, please, and
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verse 13. I'd like us to read it together.
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Everybody. I'll be showing you all the
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factors there are certain factors that if present can make
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the word of God, no matter how powerful it is to be important.
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Let's read verse 13 Mark chapter 7-1 to go making the word of God
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of non effect through your tradition which he have
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delivered and many such like things do ye so according to
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Scripture. We see here that traditions.
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What is traditions here? The stiffness of mind.
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To accommodate spiritual things Tradition, the stiffness of mind
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to accommodate spiritual things, that means.
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You create a mental mode that the word of God must fit before
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it is received. The Bible says it can make the
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word of God of non effect traditions, stiffness of mind to
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accommodate spiritual things. Creating a mental mold in your
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mind that the Word of God must fit before it is received.
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That means there is a way you want the Word of God to appeal
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to your mind, and if it does not appeal to your mind that way,
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you reject it. It's called traditions.
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And the Bible says. One, no matter how sincere that
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person is, if you maintain. That template, the Word of God
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will not profit you #2 is someone learning the second
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basis for the word of God becoming unprofitable is found
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in Luke chapter 8. We read from verse 11 to 14.
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This one is the heart condition. Now the parable is this the seed
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is the word of God verse 12 those by the wayside are they
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that here and then commend the devil and takes away the word of
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God out of your heart, lest they should believe and be saved
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12/13 and they that are on the. Rock are they, which when they
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hear, they receive the word with joy.
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But watch this, these ones have no root, which for a while
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believe, And in the time of temptation what happens to them?
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They fall away. Verse 14 it says, And that which
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fell among thorns are they which when they have heard, they go
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forth, and are choked with the cares and the riches and
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pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
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So three groups of people, potent word, powerful word, but
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it becomes unfruitful. For this it is the hard
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condition of the recipient, whether as rebellion or lack of
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passion. It can make the word of God of
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non effect. Are you understanding me So far?
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I'm showing you from scripture that it is possible that the
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word of God, even though the Bible says it is profitable, it
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may not profit you. And I'm showing you the various
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conditions upon which the Word of God can be unprofitable #1 is
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that when the Word of God comes to a mind that is already
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fixated on traditions, stiffness of mind to accommodate spiritual
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things, what is praying in the spirit?
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For instance, how do I begin to pray Baba?
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Baba, what kind of nonsense is that?
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I'm too scientific and intelligent for that.
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Traditions, that stiffness of mind.
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What is the meaning of the receipt that scatter it and yet
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increase it? The receipt that withholded more
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than is meat and 10 superior? No Common sense teaches that the
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more you keep, the more you grow the stiffness of mind.
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You have already created a mold and every you judge the word of
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God scientifically or you judge the word of God culturally or
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intellectually, and once it goes beyond the boundary of
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intellectual mold. You throw it away the Bible says
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you have to become like a child to receive the things of the
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Kingdom and then the heart condition of the recipient.
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Let me tell you the truth, I've come to a conclusion that there
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are people who even without the assistance of the devil, their.
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Hearts are perpetually rebellious towards the word of
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God. Perpetually rebellious.
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They will hear the word of God, you will pound it left, right
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and center, but there is already a predetermination in their
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hearts not to take God seriously.
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There is already a predetermination in their hearts
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not to be passionate about spiritual things.
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And for such a one, you find out that they are unable to make the
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world profitable in their lives. May that not be you in Jesus
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name. Hallelujah.
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Hebrews chapter 4-1 and two gives us the third reason as to
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why the word of God may not be profitable in the life of any
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believer. It says, Let us therefore fear
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lest a promise been left us of entering into his rest, that any
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of you should seem to come short of it.
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Verse 2 It says, For unto us, Listen now unto us was the
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gospel preached, as well as unto them, So there is us, and there
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is them, two groups of people. The bamboo says, But the war did
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not profit them. The reason why did not profit
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them is that it was not mixed with faith.
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Please say faith one more time. Say faith.
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It was not mixed with faith in them that heard it.
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So there are two groups of people.
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There is US and there is them. The same word was preached.
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For the one group the word produced profit.
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For the other group it did not produce profit.
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And Paul was trying to do a diagnosis and he says among
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other reasons, the reason why the word of God, the word of
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healing, the word of lifting, the word of prosperity, the word
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of influence, are we together? The reason why the word did not
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profit them is that they did not mix it with faith.
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What does that mean? The unwillingness to translate
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knowledge to action through obedience so that it delivers.
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The unwillingness to translate knowledge to.
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Action through obedience so that it delivers.
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There are many people, no matter what they hear.
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Life applicable, truths powerful.
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Words garnished with grace. Full of wisdom, full of the Holy
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Ghost, It does not produce profit in their lives because
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they are unwilling to translate, to take advantage of the doing
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grace the Bible calls it, and to translate knowledge to action
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through obedience. It says now that ye know these.
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Things happy or blessed are you if you do them.
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Are we learning tonight? Praise the name of the Lord.
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Now, in addition to these three reasons I've given you as to why
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the Bible, the word of God, Scripture does not produce
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profits in the life of believers, traditions, the hard
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condition of men and then lack of faith, not mixing the word
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that is heard with faith. In other words, actions of
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obedience. There is one major reason, and
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that's really what I want to talk about tonight.
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One of the major reasons I wrote here, why believers have a lot
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of spiritual information. And please, please, I want you
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to listen to me now. This world is going to help you
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and it will reconstruct your spiritual understanding.
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And in the name of Jesus, from tonight you'll begin to produce
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victory in your life. You believe that?
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Shout Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, this was a
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revelation that God gave to me some time back and I began to
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look at my own life and I found out in my own life that there
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were certain arrangement of spiritual truth in my life.
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The way and manner they came and the way and manner they are
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arranged is the reason why it's not produced victory in my life.
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Are we together? One of the major reasons why
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believers may have a lot of spiritual information but are
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not able to use it to produce a life of victory, grace, power
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and dominion. Listen is that our knowledge is
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mostly random. Our knowledge is mostly
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disjointed. Our knowledge is mostly non
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sequential. It is incomplete and sometimes
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not balanced. I will take that.
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Again, you may want to listen and then you write in addition
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to all the reasons that I mentioned.
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As to why the word of God fails to produce profit even though
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the word of God is full of life, potentials, possibilities and
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profit, but that for many believers, even though they have
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the word of God in them, it is. Not able to translate to a life
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of victory, dominion, grace and power.
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And I gave. You 3 reasons according to
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scripture. That one the stiffness of mind.
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The Bible calls it tradition. #2 the state of their heart, the
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unwillingness to be passionate about God, the unwillingness to
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tremble as God's word, the unwillingness that the rebellion
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that is enshrined within their heart.
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And then #3 not mixing. They are not obtaining the doing
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grace to act upon the world when they hear it.
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I'm saying in addition to these three, there is one that is a
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principal subject of discussion tonight.
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And that the reason why many believers, even though they have
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access to a lot of spiritual information, they are not able
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to use that information to produce a life of victory, of
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grace, of power and dominion. And this reason is that our
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knowledge is mostly random. Our knowledge, spiritual
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knowledge is mostly disjointed. It is non.
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Sequential. It is incomplete in many
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regards, and then it is not balanced.
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Ezekiel chapter 37 and verse 7, when the prophet spoke as led by
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the Spirit. I want to Draw Something
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prophetic there. It says as I prophesied in an
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attempt to produce a mighty army.
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The first thing that happened, ladies and gentlemen, is that
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Bone came together. Bone to his bone.
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Why did bone have to come to his bone in the making of the mighty
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army? Because, ladies and gentlemen,
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if the hand bone went to the feet, the feet bone went to the
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ankle. That may be a structure, but not
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a structure that would produce a mighty army.
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Are we together now? Yes.
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So here's what believers do. If believers were to arrange the
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bones there, even if you have the bones together, some will
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take the collar bone and put it on the knee, some would take the
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knee. Bone.
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And put it at the lumbar vertebra.
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Here at the end of it there will be an sort of an amoebic
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structure. Something will be found wanting
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with that structure. And the army cannot stand
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straight. If you desire to be a man of
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stature, you need beyond the arrival of knowledge.
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There is a way. The knowledge has to be arranged
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to produce victory. Who is understanding my
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teaching? So don't tell me I have
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knowledge. The reason why it is not working
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is that there is a sequence is the same principle that is used
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in cooking. I've given you an illustration
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here. I can give you all the
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ingredients to make fried rice or jollof rice and you'll be
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surprised at the rubbish you produce.
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And the problem may not be the availability of the ingredient.
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It is the combination and the sequence.
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Who is understanding me for somebody?
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I hope I'm not the one. You would join whatever it is
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and do everything and close the pot.
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And when you sense that it is burning, that's your proof that
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it's done. You open the pot and check
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everything and whatever you find there you receive with
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Thanksgiving. But can you see that two people
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here? 1 is called a chef, another
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person is called maybe Joshua Salman or whoever.
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But you'll be surprised that I can cook.
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Who knows? Who knows?
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All things are possible if I can pray in tongues that I can
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prophecy don't believe to my potential for cooking.
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Praise God, but it's someone learning now.
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So two people, same ingredients, the one is producing rubbish.
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You know what you are producing is rubbish.
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You already know without prophesying that at the end of
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it nobody is going to eat. Whereas for another, what is
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coming out from the kitchen alone, someone is anticipating.
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Do you know that's how your spiritual life can be?
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The same blood of Jesus, the same holy goes, the same access
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to the world, but someone produces such an indomitable
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Christian life and another person becomes such a failure.
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If you are to learn Jesus through the lens of that person,
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you will doubt everything the word of God says.
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I'm showing you that. The reason for that, when the
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Word of God does not profit you, is because it was designed to be
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sequentially arranged. There is something you should
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know before another thing. There are other things where you
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know it together you will become a man of.
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Power and stature Hebrews 6 and verse one.
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Therefore, living the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let
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us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of
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repentance from dead. Works.
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And of faith towards God, verse 2.
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And of the doctrine of baptisms, he calls them foundations, and
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of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection from the
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dead, and of eternal judgment. And verse three he says, And
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this we will do if God. Permits.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, listen very carefully.
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Many believers have interacted with the Word of God in various
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forms and various fashions, some through books, some through
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preachers across the. Internet are we?
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Together, some through discipleship programs, some have
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even had all kinds of encounters.
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Now you imagine with me. Let me walk with your mind.
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Imagine this believer who has a little knowledge that has been
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sampled from various places, some from preachers, wonderfully
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so, some from the Internet, some from a book.
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And the challenge is that that believer was not mentored into
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structured knowledge. He has a lot of knowledge but
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cannot use it to produce power. You know why?
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Because he's making the same mistake as a student who will go
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to the faculty. Let's assume a student was
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admitted to study medicine and surgery.
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Are we together? And on Monday, that student goes
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to the Faculty of Medicine. On Tuesday, he goes to the
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faculty of arts. On Wednesday, he goes to the
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faculty of what's now social sciences.
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On Thursday, he goes to engineering.
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And he keeps doing that for five years.
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And the person says I demand a certificate as a doctor.
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Is that person a lazy student? No.
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But can you give that person MBBS?
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Can you give him MD or whatever the the certification that
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befits a doctor? No.
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What is his error? His knowledge is not sequential,
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it is not aggregated. Are we together versus the one
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who goes to the College of Medicine and begins the sequence
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learning the elementaries until he gets to a point where he
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writes his final exam? Those two people, if you say
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those who are knowledgeable, stand up, two of them will
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stand, but one will be issued a certificate and another one,
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unfortunately, will not receive anything because his knowledge
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is not sequential. Look at me.
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Let me tell you the reason why. Many people have a lot of
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knowledge, but it does not produce power because they have
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land some things before learning others, and what they knew
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before knowing others has destroyed their potential, the
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potential of them seeing God in a certain way.
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I'm going to give you a few examples of the kinds of
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disjointed knowledge, with all due respect, that flies across
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the body of Christ and the reason why many of us keep
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consuming spiritual knowledge. But it does not translate.
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To power who is learning what I'm saying tonight, praise the
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name of the Lord. Examples of an approach to
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Scripture that cannot produce profits.
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I'll give you a few. This is to help you, and this is
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to help the body of Christ. Listen, for instance, the
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teaching on the gifts of the Spirit before salvation.
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Do you know it's possible to try to get someone who is not saved
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filled with the Holy Ghost to pray in tongues and to prophecy?
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Something is already wrong with that sequence.
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And let me tell you the shocking thing.
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One day you hear the person saying ba ba.
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Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. But something is wrong.
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That person has not fierce violated a protocol.
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Everything that has to do with receiving the Spirit is after
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the initial encounter of Jesus as Lord.
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Do you know it is possible for someone to not be saved?
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But he can join a leadership discipleship class in church,
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and at the end of it, he can be so knowledgeable.
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And yet, fruitfully speaking, he's not born again.
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He's not evil. He's just like he's been there
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for a long time. You will feel guilty not
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appointing him as a Deacon or as an elder.
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The ministry of the Holy Spirit. There are many, many unbelievers
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who want the anointing. There are many unbelievers who
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want to pray in tongues. There are many unbelievers who
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want to prophecy. They don't want Jesus, but they
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want the Holy Spirit. And sometimes because we have
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not mentored people into the sequence that leads to growth,
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we lay our hands on them and we do a lot of things.
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Unfamiliar spirits right upon the fact that there's darkness
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in their lives and they receive all kinds of gifts, and you find
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them manifesting similitudes of spiritual things.
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But the character that defeats one who is saved is not there.
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And then destruction upon destruction.
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They may not be wicked people. They themselves do not know.
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They have not found Christ. Just because the person, for
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instance, and with all due respect, has been prophesying
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for a long time does not suddenly make him a prophet.
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His father was a traditionalist. His eyes was open as a child.
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All of a sudden they incorporated him when he became
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a teenager and his official name was prophet.
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That guy has not met Jesus in the sincerity of his heart.
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He will double in between witchcraft and true
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spirituality, confusing himself. And confusing others.
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Hallelujah. In almost every tribe I know in
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Nigeria, there are people who see before they are saved.
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I know that there are people who it comes as a gift.
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You, you have it in your place. Some of you are we together.
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They don't have to be born again.
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Some of them right from teenagers.
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They can tell you things before it happens.
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They don't steal, they don't kill.
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They just found that ability working in them and chances are
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excellent. With all due respect, once you
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are looking for leaders in church as pastors, it's easy to
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quickly reach out and say you are already gifted.
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Just mount the pulpit. That violation of the sequence
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because it did not start with eternal life.
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Something will happen to that delivery no matter how sincere
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that person is. Are we together if professign
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alone was powerful and without Christ?
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Remember Paul and Silas, they will not rebuke the damsel who
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had the spirit of divination because her prophecy was
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accurate, 100% accurate. That it took Paul a few days to
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really examine, to discern #2 line upon line, the teaching of
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holiness and consecration without first teaching on the
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power of the cross. The teaching on holiness and
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consecration without teaching first on the power of the cross.
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This again is another mislead. So when you teach people to be
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holy and to be consecrated and yet you do not teach them the
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power of the cross, you are only going to raise a frustrated
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people who will be totally frustrated because the only
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immunity to the flesh, Satan, hell and the grave is the power
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of the cross. Are we together now?
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You cannot teach a people holiness and consecration and
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then that they carry it out by the strength of the flesh.
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You are wasting your time. You will produce a people who
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live perpetually in guilt, lying to themselves and living in
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falsehood. The key to genuine deliverance
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is the cross. Who is learning what I'm saying
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now? So if I come to you and I say
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don't steal, don't do this, don't do that, don't do this, be
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this, be that. I have only given you sincere
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rituals, burden, some rituals that you may not have the power
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to keep. And this right here is what is
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destroying people in church. Are we together?
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They are not taught the power of the cross, but they are taught
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do's and don'ts, and they sincerely do their best to keep
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it. And it does not work.
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And So what happens is a campaign of falsehood.
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Who is learning line upon line? An example of teaching #3 the
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teaching of faith as only a means of receiving from God.
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Now it's a very dangerous thing, ladies and gentlemen, and with
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all due respect again to the body of Christ, if the only
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scope of your teaching of faith to believe us is as a tool for
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receiving things from God, you would have done something to the
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mind of that believer that will leave him disappointed in the
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future. Because receiving from God is
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only one of the many assignments of faith.
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In fact, it's not even the noblest assignment of faith.
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The Bible says for by each the elders obtained a good report.
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There were people in the Bible who did not obtain promises, but
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they all obtained good reports. Listen to my message.
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The other side of faith. If you teach people that faith
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is only about receiving things from God, what explanation do
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you have to tell someone who prayed and prayed and prayed and
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prayed and prayed for the mother or the father or the brother and
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the brother still died? How do you now tell that person?
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Explain faith to that. Person Explain faith to the
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person who believed God and in believing God he lost the job.
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Explain faith to such a person. There is a dimension of faith
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that goes beyond obtaining promises.
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It is about a testimonial that you trusted God.
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The Bible calls it a good report.
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Are we together now? The Bible talks about those who
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received their death to life and those who died.
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They chose death. They had the power to live, but
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they chose death because they saw a better.
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Resurrection. I'll tell you why many things
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are going wrong in the body of Christ.
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It comes from the kind of theology.
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It may be sincerely sold, but there is a need for re editing.
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The assignment of faith is not only to receive things from God.
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So when you teach me with all due respect, that once I have
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faith I must get everything I want #1 something is wrong with
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that teaching. Because faith, as much as
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everything in the Kingdom, must be connected to the will of God
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and the program of God for it to be called Bible faith.
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Faith is not a license to obtain losts from God.
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There is a spiritual immigration system that vets your desire and
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only delivers that which is consistent with the will of God.
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You can't claim another person's wife by faith, you can't claim
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another person's husband by faith you can't sit on someone's
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beautiful can say in the name of Jesus Christ.
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I use the power of words is witchcraft.
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I hope you see that I'm not trying to be sarcastic.
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I'm just showing you the power of structured knowledge.
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I have seen believers with all due respect, any car that
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passes, they push their hand and touch their chest and you see,
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you cannot produce an Apostolic community with that kind of
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orientation. Something is wrong.
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The name of Jesus is not a license for is not is not making
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lost official. Are we together?
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So what many people call faith is not faith because the will of
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God is not part of their desire, the Bible.
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Says, And this is the confidence we have.
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That when we ask anything according to His will.
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So the Bible leaves the believer to have desires, but those
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desires have to be consistent with the will of God.
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And the program of God is someone learning.
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Let me show you faith, Father, if it be Thy will, let this Corp
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Passover me. Nevertheless, if you say
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nevertheless in the world today they say you don't have faith,
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but nevertheless is a language of faith.
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In other words, I submit to that which you desire above my own
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will left for me. I don't want to die, but I know
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that there is a no black program, and if it pleases you,
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pleasing you is more important to me than receiving things.
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Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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Faith is the reason why a believer, God forbid, but a
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believer who's been diagnosed of let's say cancer or some
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whatever and was given four days to die, that believer is still
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living two years, but you will be hiding it.
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Because we have taught faith that the fact that there's
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something you are still trusting God to bring, it means that the
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Word of God is not working. So people hide and take drugs in
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secret and come out and say I've not taken whatever for a long
1:19:08
time. Don't get me wrong, there is a
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realm where the reality of the Word of God swallows you up.
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You can enjoy the fullness of health that matches the God
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class. Are we together?
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Most of the faults would trade in.
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The body of Christ is traceable to this disjointed communication
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of truths. Many years ago I used to think
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faith was all about receiving promises.
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Now I know better. Because what do you do when a
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family is bereaved? They call you.
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You prayed for them, and now you go to that place and they say
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so. Explain to me some of those
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people were fasting dry for days and whilst they were fasting the
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person's health was deteriorating.
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Let me tell you the truth ladies and gentlemen, there are
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questions. If we don't answer, many people
1:20:05
will leave God. Did you hear what I said?
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The days of pretending and just wrapping everything in the name
1:20:11
of Jesus is over. If we do not learn to give
1:20:15
answers, many people are going to leave God.
1:20:18
Someone should be able to know that if you do not obtain
1:20:24
promises that trust in God in the midst of the storm is also a
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good report. It is faith and according to
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God's justice, whether in this life or in heaven, there is a
1:20:35
compensation system to reward you for trusting God through the
1:20:39
storm. That way you know that there is
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prophet all wise, trusting God whether I receive results here
1:20:46
or not. No matter whatever may come my
1:20:57
way, I'll follow. I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll
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follow. No matter whatever may come my
1:21:11
way, I'll follow. I'll follow.
1:21:23
There is need to reconstruct the way we serve the Word of God,
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the wisdom of God, and the grace of God.
1:21:31
I have gotten to a point in my life where I believe God for
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everything the Bible says, but if I never receive anything the
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Bible says, I cannot leave God again because my pursuit was
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never about it. Who is learning now?
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Because we have a generation that is falling away from God,
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and it's because of what we taught them.
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We promise them that as soon as you come to Christ in one year,
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all your troubles will be over in one year.
1:21:59
And there is a provision for that kind of indomitable life,
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don't get me wrong. Except for the fact that your
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love for God must surpass receiving things.
1:22:11
Are we together? Let me tell you, ladies and
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gentlemen, I was born and bred in the north.
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In this my little life I have seen crisis.
1:22:20
In this my little life, I've seen the persecution of
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Christians. In this my little life, I've
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seen dead bodies that were torn apart with babies inside.
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In this my little life, I've seen people who worship God and
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they don't know if they will be there by.
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Next week, that is faith. That's not just receiving
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things. You can receive cars and houses.
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That is wonderful. But Bible faith was never hinged
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on just receiving things. Obtaining a noble report is
1:22:51
greater than obtaining things. I will use faith to get the
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promises of God, don't get me wrong, but I'm saying beyond
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promises. Let me encourage someone here.
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If you are going through a storm in your life, don't be
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embarrassed by it. Let your tears come out while
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your praises rise to heaven. You are still a man of.
1:23:09
Faith, don't pretend and hide it.
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You are going through a crisis, your body.
1:23:14
Maybe you are sick in your body. It's not a license to allow the
1:23:18
devil eat you up, but take your drugs with honor.
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While you are declaring I shall not die.
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We will stand with you in faith. But don't you ever make this?
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Theology flying around to make you believe you are not trusting
1:23:31
God. The person who is singing in the
1:23:34
lion's den is by far stronger than the person singing in a
1:23:38
palace. Yes, Sir.
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Yes, Sir, yes. Sir.
1:23:43
You are standing before a lion and you are saying Hallelujah,
1:23:46
glory be to God. I know my Redeemer leaves that
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even though he slay me, yet will I praise him.
1:23:52
What then is your definition of faith?
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Believers have left Jesus Christ simply because visa was declined
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visa to US to UK they believe God and they fasted Lord.
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If you are the king of King. An apostle is an anointed man.
1:24:14
He touched my visa, my my my passport and they stand before
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the people and while they are praying in.
1:24:22
Tongues. And they look at them and in one
1:24:26
minute they say no, no, no, there's no, they don't ask them
1:24:29
any question. They just say no, you will not
1:24:30
get it. And the guy comes out and he's
1:24:33
thinking the prophecy that came from the altar, the seed I gave,
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the fact that I waited to see the man of God.
1:24:42
I was young and now I am old. I've not seen the righteous
1:24:46
forsaken. And something begins to happen.
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And you know, let me tell you the truth, the older people have
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a greater endurance for spiritual things.
1:24:54
There is a generation now that is so unapologetic if we don't
1:24:59
teach them to be strong in the midst of storms.
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Let me tell you this Genesis. You see, they will leave God in
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a heartbeat. Ask many young people,
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especially the children of pastors, and they will tell you,
1:25:12
I saw my Father serve the Lord. He never built a house.
1:25:16
Whoever told you loving God was about a house, a house should be
1:25:21
there. Forget not his benefits.
1:25:23
But we must train them to know. House or no house, I'm in love
1:25:27
with Jesus. Lifting or no lifting, I'm in
1:25:30
love with Jesus a job or no job. Now listen, listen, listen.
1:25:35
You have to teach the believer death to the flesh before you
1:25:40
start teaching on prosperity. Are we together now so that the
1:25:44
person now embraces a good life but has it at the back of his
1:25:48
mind that no matter what happens, I belong to Jesus
1:25:53
forever? Hallelujah.
1:25:58
This is where I thank God for my spiritual background.
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With all due respect I can tell you this Pentecostals and
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Charismatics, we need to trust God for grace to go back and
1:26:09
begin to re edit the foundation upon which our members are
1:26:13
standing on. I will keep teaching you to
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prosper. I will even bless you after all
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I've said now to go forward. But hear me, ladies and
1:26:22
gentlemen, I need you to be a people of power that if things
1:26:26
don't work, with tears in your eyes, you say, Lord, I trust
1:26:30
you, but as far as my allegiance, it will not affect.
1:26:33
It. Yes Sir, people have left God
1:26:40
because of wife, left God because of husband.
1:26:44
You saw the lady and you believed he was your wife.
1:26:47
You went to and she said she has three children, she's married
1:26:51
and and you now say God. So this gift of the Spirit I
1:26:54
received and because of that you leave church and leave God.
1:26:59
You will be surprised at the silly reasons why tongue talking
1:27:03
Christians are not serious. Again, let's go back to our
1:27:06
fathers. Men who loved God.
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They loved not their lives unto death.
1:27:16
I belong to Jesus. I'm never going back.
1:27:21
Never going back. Some some.
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Even if Kolonia were not the way it is today, it will not affect
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my worship. I take everything from my life,
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take the name, take the ministry.
1:28:08
If I still have Jesus, I'm not defeated.
1:28:14
Wake up my dear sister, you are about to leave God because a man
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did not tell you he will marry you.
1:28:21
It's amazing people come to church and give God three weeks
1:28:25
and sometimes, with all due respect, preachers, we are the
1:28:28
ones who sell this kind of message.
1:28:32
You sinned against God for 30 years and you are giving God
1:28:36
three years, three weeks to clean your life and give your
1:28:39
husband by force. I belong to Jesus.
1:28:44
I'm never going. Please be seated for a moment,
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line upon line. Hear me when you teach believers
1:29:19
on financial prosperity, when you teach believers on increase,
1:29:24
when you teach believers on influence without teaching them.
1:29:28
Consecration, You have destroyed them.
1:29:31
You have destroyed them. Sir, there is a sequence which
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with truth is to be taught. When a believer gets born again,
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he has no business learning business principles, not yet.
1:29:43
He will learn it later on, but not yet.
1:29:46
He has no business just receiving.
1:29:48
And no, no, no, no. Leave marriage first.
1:29:50
Leave a job first. When you get born again, the
1:29:54
sequence that makes you mighty is that you are introduced and
1:29:58
immersed into a passion for God. Beyond ministry, passion for
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God. Beyond the job, Passion for God.
1:30:07
Beyond name, passion for God. We have reversed the sequence.
1:30:14
And will produce a powerless people.
1:30:17
People shout Amen every week but let one thing go wrong.
1:30:21
They will cause God to his face and cause the preacher who
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represents God. You hear people move from place
1:30:28
to place and say I hate this church.
1:30:30
They gossip. Where don't they gossip?
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Where I hate. Evil.
1:30:38
Even in heaven there was war. I hope you are learning tonight.
1:30:50
Let me tell you the truth, My burden is for the generation
1:30:56
that is coming. God is going to have to create a
1:31:01
system and help us to remove this this wrong foundation upon
1:31:07
this which this precious people are standing on.
1:31:12
I cannot give my life to Christ just because I want a car.
1:31:17
I cannot give my life to Christ just because I want a job.
1:31:21
Now agree, it is trouble that brings people to Jesus Christ.
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That is fine, I agree, there's nothing wrong with that.
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Jesus said Come unto me, all ye that are weary.
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So don't get me wrong, trouble will always drive people to the
1:31:36
cross, but when they come he solves that problem.
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But when he solves that problem, he tells them there is a nobler
1:31:43
call. There is a.
1:31:44
Nobler call, I vowed with my life.
1:31:50
Success in ministry or otherwise does not affect my love for
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Jesus. How about teaching people to
1:31:57
live long without connecting them to God's program and God's
1:32:01
agenda? Do you know longevity as a as a
1:32:04
spiritual truth was not supposed to be taught in isolation to
1:32:09
God's program. Before you teach people about
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living long, you have to teach them the program of God.
1:32:16
That is the justification for longevity.
1:32:18
He said. I shall not die, but live and
1:32:22
declare. There are many people afraid of
1:32:25
dead, but they are not serving the purposes of the Kingdom.
1:32:31
Now look at me, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you will
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call your child of three years old and start teaching the child
1:32:41
certain subjects? Imagine you call your child of
1:32:45
three years old and you're teaching the child an MSC
1:32:48
program and say no knowledge is a waste.
1:32:52
No, Sir. There are children.
1:32:55
All they are learning is to play.
1:32:57
They call it play class. Play what?
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One more time. Play class.
1:33:03
What did they do there? They play, but it's learning at
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that level. If you play like that as an
1:33:08
adult, you will fail. But with respect to their life,
1:33:10
that's how they learn. They play and they learn.
1:33:13
They get accustomed to things. They play.
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Some of these, my children, when we have gifts for them, as I'm
1:33:20
hugging them, they're not looking at me.
1:33:21
Their mind is straight to what they're collecting, and I'm
1:33:25
telling you, I'm laboring to hope that they absolutely don't
1:33:27
care who is standing in front of them because that's their world.
1:33:31
I can't say the boy is selfish. No, he's a specter of a little
1:33:35
child. Do you know I have taken this
1:33:39
responsibility myself when God began to show me to go back to
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see the sequence, the sequence with which I have been building
1:33:49
Koinonia Global. What have I taught you that may
1:33:52
have been wrongly taught? I give God thanks for the grace
1:33:56
to have taught you certain things.
1:33:58
The Spirit life, the power of the Holy Spirit, the supremacy
1:34:02
of the world, death to flesh, and then now you begin to build
1:34:06
upon it. The victorious Christian life,
1:34:09
the gifts of the Spirit. Then you begin to build upon it.
1:34:12
That's what made me teach what we call now the colonial
1:34:16
believer. Remember the teaching?
1:34:19
A spiritually vibrant believer #1 number 2A transformed
1:34:23
believer #3 an anointed believer #4A responsible believer.
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An agent of societal transformation.
1:34:31
There are 7 descriptions of the colonial believer.
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It's a sequence, line upon line, precept upon precept.
1:34:42
You became a consultant today because the elementary things
1:34:46
were taught. You are we together.
1:34:48
And then as you grew, wait, your things started coming and now
1:34:53
you have become a consultant. That's how you become a man of
1:34:56
stature. There are believers that when
1:34:59
they get born again, there's no foundational building for them.
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You see why discipleship is very important.
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And when I say discipleship that that we can spend all night
1:35:10
talking about that because there are certain things that we call
1:35:13
discipleship that is just a bordersome ritual.
1:35:16
It does not produce power. But discipleship as the Bible
1:35:20
intended is how believers attain unto maturity.
1:35:27
Death to the flesh, loving Jesus with your heart, with your soul.
1:35:32
Most of the people you see today, particularly in my
1:35:35
generation who are men of power in the Spirit, asked them how
1:35:39
they learned God. When we started, there were
1:35:42
things we were not even aware of.
1:35:44
For instance, I tell you the truth and I lie not.
1:35:47
I never knew of anything called honorarium.
1:35:50
That when you go to preach, they can squeeze 10 naira $1.00 and
1:35:54
put in your pocket. No, it was never the reason.
1:36:00
When I later found out that there was something called
1:36:03
honorarium that a man preaches and they can encourage you, at a
1:36:07
point I felt guilty. Why collect this?
1:36:10
For what? For preaching Jesus?
1:36:13
I had to find it in Scripture that it is not ungodly to
1:36:17
minister to the person's spiritual things.
1:36:19
That was the only time my heart opened to receive it.
1:36:22
But there are many young people today.
1:36:24
They are already calculating if I have 100 ministrations, four
1:36:29
worship programs, 1 crusade, 5 contemporary worship.
1:36:34
If I get five, 500,000 give or take.
1:36:37
You see if you have that kind of.
1:36:38
Mentality. I'm not being sarcastic, my dear
1:36:41
people, listen to me. This is a word from the Lord
1:36:44
with that vain calculation, and you expect power upon the altar?
1:36:49
God is not a herbalist, Sir. No Sir.
1:36:52
No, Sir, No Sir. You don't like what I'm saying?
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We have thought that you are only serious with God if you are
1:37:11
calling to ministry. If you are going to be a banker,
1:37:14
A politician, just be around church and give.
1:37:17
It's not true. Go and read the Bible.
1:37:19
Do you know the training of those who manage God's resources
1:37:23
was almost as strict as the trainings of priests?
1:37:27
Yes, Sir, in training the disciples, Jesus did not
1:37:32
dichotomize anybody's training. Everybody went through the same
1:37:35
thing. Regardless what you are going to
1:37:37
become in Colonia, whether you are called to be a prayer
1:37:43
warrior, whether you are called to be a financial apostle, when
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it's time to pray, you will pray.
1:37:48
When it's time to give, prayer warriors give, financial
1:37:52
apostles give. Is the same training, the same
1:37:54
Spirit of God training? Are we together now?
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So some of these things that we have taught and many of them I
1:38:11
submit to you sincerely. So they have either come with
1:38:14
imbalances or they have not been complete.
1:38:18
Are we together or we have arranged a sequence wrongly?
1:38:23
Now, don't get me wrong, ladies and gentlemen, there are people
1:38:25
who are uniquely gifted as ministries in certain areas.
1:38:29
There are prophetic ministries. There are ministries that are
1:38:32
gifted in the area of leadership and excellence, and chances are
1:38:35
excellent that everyone will be most dominant in the area where
1:38:39
he's called. However, I will still tell you
1:38:43
there is a sequence for building believers.
1:38:45
There are things. If you don't teach a Christian
1:38:48
before teaching other things, there will be a side effect in
1:38:52
the future. And one of which, the most
1:38:57
prevalent one I will tell you sincerely, is the issue of
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finances. Ladies and gentlemen, by the
1:39:03
messes of God, I can tell you money can change people.
1:39:07
This money, you see, it has such tremendous power.
1:39:14
By the time you hold money and your hands are still lifted,
1:39:16
you're a Christian. You're a Christian.
1:39:20
Money can change people. It gives people options.
1:39:24
By the time you have money, over 80% of your prayer requests will
1:39:27
be answered. That's when you know whether you
1:39:29
are prayerful or not because sorrow and worry can drive
1:39:35
people into the secret place and you will be thinking you are
1:39:37
there because you love God. But the truth is that you are
1:39:40
there because you are in trouble.
1:39:41
You are going to jail by the next week.
1:39:43
It is a natural response. Are we together?
1:39:46
Biology teaches us is is flight and what they call it flight and
1:39:51
free hormones that can drive you to that place of prayer.
1:39:54
And you find out that whilst you are trying to do the ritual of
1:39:57
spirituality, you really do not love God.
1:39:59
He's just the most available option you have.
1:40:03
Because when God blesses you, like an alert comes immediately
1:40:06
you wrap up the prayer. So it was never about your love
1:40:08
for Jesus. Thank you, Father, for answering
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the prayer. I give you glory.
1:40:12
You are King of kings. I see you another time when I'm
1:40:14
in trouble. Now, while you are laughing, I
1:40:20
hope the Holy Spirit is speaking to you, because I can't tell you
1:40:24
sincerely without insulting your pedigree.
1:40:27
It is possible that some of you came here tonight totally not in
1:40:31
love with Jesus. You just heard that one
1:40:33
prophetic word can come from this man of God and your life
1:40:36
can change. And that's a noble reason to
1:40:38
come. But I propose to you a
1:40:41
relationship more than receiving things that God needs your heart
1:40:45
beyond your hands. I will pray for you to get what
1:40:49
you are getting. But my question is, what if you
1:40:51
don't get it? Will you still love him?
1:40:54
Will you still come to church? And then what if you get it?
1:40:58
Will you still love him? Will you still come to church?
1:41:02
What if suddenly the building happens?
1:41:04
What if suddenly every good thing happens in your life?
1:41:07
Do you know both glory and pain can take you away from God?
1:41:16
Hallelujah. Sometimes people say things
1:41:21
like, if God is this, if God wants me to serve him, he must
1:41:26
prove it. Let me tell you this, as
1:41:28
powerful as that statement is, we need to be very careful.
1:41:32
God is not under obligation to prove anything.
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You are the one who will go to hell if you don't believe him.
1:41:39
He's not the one going to hell. I'm not.
1:41:42
I'm not being sarcastic. Are we together?
1:41:44
Hell fire is not for him. He's not threatened by anyone.
1:41:48
There's no government that would dethrone him.
1:41:50
He's not going to die. He doesn't get sick.
1:41:54
Nobody voted into power. You need to realize how much God
1:41:58
can do without you to know how mighty He is.
1:42:03
Are we together? Sometimes we blackmail God by
1:42:05
making I will leave you and we thing is please now don't.
1:42:09
When He says I have loved you with an everlasting love, it is
1:42:13
the depth of His love, not powerlessness.
1:42:16
I am aware that with or without me, with or without Koinonia,
1:42:21
God's program will still happen. It is an honor for us to have a
1:42:25
portion in His end time prophetic program and we must
1:42:28
keep that mentality. Thank you all my Father, for
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giving us your Son and leaving your spiritual.
1:42:42
Your work on earth is done. I thank you all, my Father, for
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giving us your son and leaving your spiritual.
1:43:05
Now sit down and listen to this. We are going to pray.
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The believer only becomes powerful to the degree to which
1:43:13
your spiritual knowledge is structured, built and aggregated
1:43:23
to produce results for you. The degree to which your
1:43:27
knowledge is structured, build, in fact understood and engaged
1:43:34
so as to deliver you are not just powerful because you have
1:43:38
access to knowledge. You will need to rearrange the
1:43:42
sequence of your spiritual understanding.
1:43:45
There are some of you who need to take a retreat of the subject
1:43:50
of money and go back to the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
1:43:54
Some of you may need to take a retreat of the subject of a job
1:43:59
and go back to the rediments of the Kingdom, because as it is
1:44:03
now, you know sincerely that you don't love God that much.
1:44:08
And let me tell you the truth, before life frustrates you to
1:44:11
leave the Lord, take a pause. I know you are studying on
1:44:15
influence right now. I know you are studying on how
1:44:18
the Word of God works. That's wonderful.
1:44:20
But for some, you may need to suspend it a bit and go back.
1:44:25
Learn about death to the flesh. Learn about the mysteries of
1:44:29
consecration, how a man can love God whether his prayers are
1:44:33
answered or not. When you get that right, you can
1:44:36
resume your study on prosperity with the assurance that it will
1:44:40
not defeat you. I don't depend on my
1:44:44
circumstances to prove whether God is mighty or not.
1:44:47
No, my circumstances are too small.
1:44:50
Are we together now? May God forbid, but if Koinonia
1:44:54
does not work in my lifetime, if I fail him minister as a person,
1:44:58
I will take responsibility, but I will never.
1:45:02
Look at God and say God is. Because of this, no, you will
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never ever change. You are the Lord.
1:45:13
You remain the same. You will never, ever change.
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Let me speak to someone who did not get admission.
1:45:32
Let me speak to someone who just buried your loved one.
1:45:35
Let me just speak to someone who's yet to get a job, yet to
1:45:39
get a wife, yet to get a husband, yet to get children,
1:45:42
yet to get visas. My God is able to bring you that
1:45:47
result. Never confuse it.
1:45:49
He's that powerful. But the believers template is
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that you must love him beyond those things.
1:45:57
Raise it high for me. Don't see his presence has
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tempted me now. I'll be here worshipping all of
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the days of my life. I'll be here worshipping all of
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the days of my life. I'll be loving you all of the
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days of my life. I'll be loving you all of the
1:46:42
days. Let me tell you how to test
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whether you love God. In your mind, Remove everything
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that is an advantage. Now remove it.
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Take away your car in your mind. Take away your spouse in your
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mind. Take away your certificate in
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your mind. Take away the beautiful job
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giving you 1,000,000 per month. I know you are saying Lord I
1:47:10
thank you, but I want to hear you say it again.
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When those things are not there, then I trust what you are saying
1:47:16
man of God. Take away the likes and shares.
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Let's assume all your page, what they call it God hacked
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immediately and suddenly the likes, the shares just vanished
1:47:28
overnight. That's the worship I'm.
1:47:30
Looking for That's the one I'm looking for to sing Mama.
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Thank God you are worshipping because 10 of your children, 1
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is a governor, 1 is a president, 1 is an ambassador.
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But show me the woman who has five children in prison.
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And she's still raising her hands.
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That's a worshipper there. Halanako Sabalanthusia, show me
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someone who is standing before a dead body.
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You are looking at your loved one and you are still saying be
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magnified. Oh Lord, you are highly exultant
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and there is nothing you can do. Oh Lord, my eyes are on you.
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Be magnified. Oh Lord, be my now look at me.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to answer me in your mind.
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Do you love Jesus more than marriage?
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Do you love Jesus more than ministry?
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Do you love Jesus more than political title?
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Politician. I don't care what party you are.
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Do you love Jesus more than election?
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Oh, are you beginning to draw near to church as election is
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coming close? Do you love Jesus more than a
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university certificate? Do you love Jesus more than a
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Jeep that is parked outside? Do you love Jesus simply because
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there is a sea of O on your table?
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I wouldn't trade you for silver. I wouldn't trade you 4 reaches
1:49:36
on tour. You are.
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You are my everything. You are the love of my life.
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You are the hope that I can lead to.
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You mean more than this world to me.
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I would dream for silver of God. I would dream you.
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For each is unto all you are. You are my everything.
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Let me tell you this and I say to you, God sees my heart and
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may he forgive me if I'm lying. There are times that I stand and
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I look at all that God has done in my life and while text
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messages are coming from people who are possible, you are this.
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I just say Holy Spirit can you help me take away these things
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and let me search if my heart is still with you?
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Because those things can become idols.
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Who will not say thank you Jesus?
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When someone just gave you a house, who will not say thank
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you Jesus? When your wife just had a child,
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who will not say thank you Jesus?
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Even a non believer will say thank you Jesus.
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Can I tell? You something we don't teach
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believers, that God must test your motive before real grace
1:51:52
comes on your head. I don't care.
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Listen to me. I don't care what you have had
1:51:58
before, now by the messes of God and with every sense of humility
1:52:03
I understand a bit about the anointed and the glory.
1:52:06
I can tell you there is a circumcision.
1:52:09
There are many times you come to the Lord expecting oil on your
1:52:13
head for a long time. You will not.
1:52:15
Place it there. To prune you to.
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Test your heart. You will run to someone who will
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pray for you and God will suspend that impartation.
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And at a point you say this man is not anointed.
1:52:30
Let me look for someone I need anointing now.
1:52:33
And God says no. The economy of the of heaven
1:52:37
works with the purity of a man's motif.
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Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir.
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The day you die, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw
1:52:50
there is something you see when you die.
1:52:52
In the day my pride died, I saw in the day that flesh died.
1:52:58
Let me tell you, there are many billionaires right now.
1:53:01
I tell you sincerely, no matter what kind of business argument
1:53:05
you have, because of your prophetic destiny, there are
1:53:09
certain levels of wealth you will not touch until God walks
1:53:12
on your heart. You will find out that that
1:53:14
business will not work. Everything you do is correct,
1:53:18
but God is in the kind of wealth I'm giving you.
1:53:21
If I don't have your heart, it will tear you into pieces.
1:53:26
Others can go, no problem. They may not be sons of
1:53:29
prophecy, but for you, because I'm going to be placing the
1:53:33
resources of heaven, you will need more than buying and
1:53:36
selling. There is death that must happen
1:53:39
one day. God will say carry your car and
1:53:41
give it. You say God forbid this one is a
1:53:43
demon spirit and God will say it was not about the car.
1:53:46
I already told the person you were to give to give it back to
1:53:49
you. I only wanted to test your
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heart. You are not ready.
1:53:52
Remain here as an act of My mercy until you are ready.
1:53:58
Many years ago the Lord told me, Son, if you will let men see me,
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there is nothing I will not give you.
1:54:04
Can I tell you the truth? The real key to influence and
1:54:07
frame and glory is to forget about it.
1:54:11
Forget about it and stay the secret.
1:54:15
To be known is to be hidden. When you are hidden, then you
1:54:19
will be known. It's a mystery.
1:54:22
It's a real mystery in this Kingdom that the more you hide,
1:54:26
the more you become glorious. The more you hide, the more He
1:54:30
announces you. The Lord sent me tonight to
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teach someone that the reason why your knowledge is not
1:54:43
profitable is because you are doing what we call selective
1:54:47
transformation. There are certain levels of
1:54:50
spiritual knowledge that is weighty because knowing that
1:54:54
thing would demand a responsibility.
1:54:56
You have jumped it quickly and you've gone to the ones that are
1:54:59
easy, that appeal to your lost. So when people are being
1:55:03
transformed, they select what they want.
1:55:06
This topic is too hard, I don't like it.
1:55:08
This one is too hard, I don't. I like this one, this one
1:55:11
appeals to me. When you come to the Kingdom,
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you embrace everything for your making.
1:55:19
Hallelujah. I don't know why I'm saying
1:55:22
this, but God wants to build a people of power and influence.
1:55:26
But let me tell you that death in my heart.
1:55:32
Lord, be glorified. Be glorified in my life.
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Lord. Be glorified today.
1:55:53
Can someone mean that song just one time in my life, Lord, be
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glorified. Be glorified in my.
1:56:26
I once read about ancient kings, kings in the yesteryears, yester
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centuries, that there were particular kings because of the
1:56:37
extent of their majesty. They had a group of people
1:56:41
around the throne and all the people said was you are a man,
1:56:46
because sometimes the kings forgot that they were men.
1:56:49
So there were people who were contracted and all they kept
1:56:53
chanting was you are a man. Because when a man can possess
1:56:57
the soul of anybody, you can look at someone and say I want
1:57:01
you to die and in one minute the person is dead.
1:57:04
Sometimes you can forget you are a man.
1:57:06
So they put people to tell the king it was a system to help the
1:57:11
king. You are a man.
1:57:14
Have you not seen it happen to politicians?
1:57:16
Sometimes they forget it's only 8 years and then all of a sudden
1:57:20
it's over. And then the man is brought back
1:57:22
to himself like Nebuchadnezzar, and he sees that truly there is
1:57:27
a God that sits in the circle of the earth.
1:57:31
What's the intent for tonight's teaching?
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Number one, to show you that there is a sequential
1:57:38
arrangement to the journey of transformation, empowerment and
1:57:43
the evolution of a believer. Until he becomes a witness.
1:57:47
You are not at liberty to choose how you change.
1:57:51
No, it's already preset. There are things you must go
1:57:56
through. Don't reject the dealings of God
1:57:58
because it's uncomfortable. And then you select the message
1:58:02
of prosperity, you select the message of a good life, you
1:58:05
select the message of power, You select an incomplete message
1:58:10
about certain dimensions and reject the other one.
1:58:14
You will be surprised that there are some of you.
1:58:17
The level you are now. God may send you and say with
1:58:20
all due respect, go and get a message by or a book by our
1:58:25
Father and the Lord that the Geo or Papa Kumui.
1:58:30
It doesn't matter whether you like him or not.
1:58:33
Something in that message is needed for your growth.
1:58:36
There is something within that message that will kill something
1:58:39
in you. Now you reject it because of
1:58:41
traditions and with all due respect, maybe, maybe just maybe
1:58:46
someone has mentored you into rejecting the diversity of the
1:58:51
gifts within the body and you reject what can transform you
1:58:55
and make you a personal power for someone.
1:58:58
God can give you an assignment and say for the next one week go
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to this Orthodox Church that is close by.
1:59:05
They may not have revelation to shout, but you are in the school
1:59:09
of the Spirit and you are learning character and you're
1:59:13
setting. You won't get the teaching on
1:59:15
character so much. Go and meet that reverend.
1:59:18
Sit quietly under that church for two weeks or one month.
1:59:23
He may not give you Rhema, but you will see sincerity.
1:59:27
For instance, they would tell you how much was collected to
1:59:30
the last one Naira. You see, I wanted to learn it
1:59:33
because I'm trusting you. That's something you may not
1:59:37
find with Pentecostals. Yes Sir, it is line upon line
1:59:48
because there are people of power that God is raising.
1:59:51
But you see, if you go through the university system, you can
1:59:55
jump lectures and read 2 days of the exam and still pass.
1:59:59
But in the school of the Spirit, the lecture you jump will haunt
2:00:03
you even after 10 years. You jump character one O 1, You
2:00:09
jump character three O 1. After 20 years in ministry, that
2:00:14
lecture you missed is what will bring you down.
2:00:18
And if God wants to show you mercy, even if you're a General
2:00:21
Vasia who is 30 years old, let me tell you, God will take you
2:00:25
back to that course. You must do it.
2:00:28
This is God for you. When God meets you on your own
2:00:33
journey, He does not continue with you where He found you.
2:00:36
He takes you back to His patterns even if you have been
2:00:40
in ministry for 20 years. I'm saying this when it has to
2:00:44
do with the business of death to the flesh.
2:00:46
There are no generals, Sir. There are generals of
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revelation, there are generals of whatever.
2:00:52
But when it has to do with this business of the cross and death
2:00:56
to the flesh, no body qualifies to be called a general.
2:01:00
No, Sir, No Sir. Even Jesus himself was about to
2:01:05
give up. There are no generals.
2:01:09
Everybody must fall before the throne and cry out his heart and
2:01:13
say, Lord, if you do not show me mercy, I cannot find any.
2:01:17
The Bible says a broken and a contrite heart.
2:01:20
Oh God that will not despise. Maybe a man of God needs to take
2:01:25
some time this week. Just keep the issue of ministry
2:01:28
for one moment. And say Lord.
2:01:30
I didn't realize ministry has become an idol.
2:01:33
Let it be me and you this week. I'm coming back to the heart of
2:01:39
worship. When it's all about you, It's
2:01:44
all about you, Jesus. I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing
2:01:50
I've made it. When it's all about you, it's
2:01:56
all about you. With all due respect, before we
2:02:00
pray, let me have the honor of speaking to my generation and
2:02:04
those who by mercy are looking up to us.
2:02:06
Can I tell you, let your journey not be to be the greatest.
2:02:10
Let the journey be to know him, to know him.
2:02:14
Someone may be sitting down and say I want to be the next.
2:02:16
Do see your car. That's a sincere desire.
2:02:19
Or you must follow the path that was followed.
2:02:21
The path to the throne is the crosser.
2:02:25
The path to the clone is not a triumphant entry.
2:02:28
A triumphant entry leads to the cross.
2:02:31
So if you find any throne you are sitting on and you cannot
2:02:34
see the cross, know that you were scammed.
2:02:37
Life is only playing games with you.
2:02:39
The official way to the throne. Is the cross.
2:02:45
And I've told you, the cross is where both good and bad people
2:02:48
meet. When you find people in the
2:02:50
cross, on the cross, you don't look down on them because Jesus
2:02:53
is there too. You don't have to be
2:02:55
unrighteous. The cross is where the pruning
2:02:57
happens. They sang it well.
2:02:59
Where there is new I, there is new.
2:03:25
Let me give you 2 assignments tonight.
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Assignment number one. Write out the various areas of
2:03:32
your life where you are yet to experience victory in Christ.
2:03:37
Write it out. Be honest with yourself.
2:03:40
You don't have to do it now. Listen.
2:03:42
Colonial global, body of Christ, those listening, write out the
2:03:46
areas of your life where you are yet to experience victory.
2:03:51
I'm yet to experience victory in my finances.
2:03:54
Write it down. God is able to give you victory.
2:03:57
I'm yet to experience victory in my home, my health.
2:04:00
Write it down. Don't be embarrassed.
2:04:03
It is in. Acknowledging the fact that you
2:04:05
are yet to see the victory of Christ established in that area,
2:04:09
then you can now pursue the light component, the body of
2:04:13
sequential knowledge that is connected to that result.
2:04:18
Are we together? Assignment #2 Take an inventory
2:04:25
of your life and an inventory of your knowledge bank.
2:04:34
An inventory of your life, an inventory of your knowledge
2:04:39
bank. I'd like you to vet your
2:04:43
understanding of the Spirit life, Vet your understanding of
2:04:50
the Kingdom. Vet your understanding of God's
2:04:54
program. Vet your understanding of
2:04:59
victory and dominion. Take an inventory of your life.
2:05:04
Take an inventory of your knowledge bank.
2:05:08
Vet your understanding of the Spirit life, your understanding
2:05:12
of the Kingdom, your understanding of God's prophetic
2:05:16
program, your understanding of victory and dominion, and see
2:05:22
the degree of light you have. Or otherwise, you will be
2:05:28
surprised that there are things you have not learned.
2:05:31
For instance, when you begin to learn about the Kingdom, you
2:05:34
will find out that there are many things you do not know,
2:05:36
like God's prophetic agenda. You are in search for money and
2:05:40
prosperity and increase. But in truth, you know nothing
2:05:44
about God's agenda. And it's important to know God's
2:05:47
agenda before you begin to ask for His resources, because His
2:05:51
resources are for His agenda. If you do not understand God's
2:05:56
prophetic agenda, why do you want Him to give you the
2:05:59
anointing? Why do you want Him to give you
2:06:01
the gift of man? Why do you want Him to give you
2:06:03
influence, to give you a platform?
2:06:06
All those things are resources that only make sense and become
2:06:10
an advantage to your life to the degree to which you understand
2:06:13
His program. So for you, God will call you
2:06:16
now and say, you know what, Go back to the secret place.
2:06:19
Let me teach you about the Kingdom that My agenda is all
2:06:24
about the revelation of Jesus Christ and enthroning Him and
2:06:28
his purpose is in the hearts of men and across every strata of
2:06:32
human activities. When you know that, he says, do
2:06:36
you now understand? You say, yes, Lord, I
2:06:38
understand. He says, now let's go to the
2:06:40
subject of influence. So when you receive influence
2:06:43
and access the likes and the shares, when you receive all of
2:06:47
the elevated platform because you have been taught the program
2:06:51
of God, are we together now? It will not derail you.
2:06:55
When God gives you 1 billion, you already know that that 1
2:06:58
billion is not for you. There is a portion for your
2:07:01
comfort. There is a portion for His
2:07:03
program. When God gives you an elevated
2:07:06
platform where you can blow a chauffeur and 33,000 people can
2:07:09
show up, you know that is for Him.
2:07:16
If you're a man of God here, encourage you in righteousness.
2:07:19
Please build a solid discipleship system for your
2:07:22
people and let them learn the truths of the Kingdom
2:07:26
sequentially. Don't say it does not matter.
2:07:29
There is need to tame the marketing of lost using
2:07:34
spirituality. There are many believers who do
2:07:37
not love God. They have only been given a
2:07:40
proposal that in following God there is a plethora of benefits
2:07:45
they are to receive and it is true, but they must be taught
2:07:49
that their love for Jesus must be beyond the things that they
2:07:52
get. I'm telling you that's what will
2:07:54
determine a worshipper that is presence carrying and a
2:07:58
worshipper that is an entertainer.
2:08:00
That's what would distinguish between a man of God who comes
2:08:04
and is speaking every level of revelation but no power, and
2:08:07
another one who will come and say May God lift you and open
2:08:11
your heavens because they are coming from a place of deep
2:08:14
consecration and death. It was in a pastors conference.
2:08:19
I was told one time that during a pastors conference, pastors
2:08:23
were praying. I was told after our Father and
2:08:25
the Lord that the Jew had LED prayers or so and the man of God
2:08:29
said while they were praying. This was a very old story.
2:08:33
I think that they were saying for over an hour or so that all
2:08:37
that the Jew was saying was messy, messy, Lord, messy.
2:08:42
That's it. Younger ministers were shouting,
2:08:44
Lord, he must walk all yell on my head, this and that and that.
2:08:48
And a veteran who has understood the ways of God, who knows it is
2:08:52
by the lost mercy or the lost mercy that were not consumed.
2:08:55
He was shouting mercy, mercy Lord,
2:09:08
if you want to produce results, undeniable results in your life,
2:09:13
ladies and gentlemen, I show you the pathway.
2:09:16
You must rearrange your motivation.
2:09:18
Why are you seeking God? Why are you coming to the place
2:09:22
of prayer? Why are you coming to church?
2:09:25
If you tell me to receive breakthrough, I will not condemn
2:09:28
you because you are right. But I have to check the
2:09:31
foundation upon which your conviction is standing on.
2:09:34
At the end of this, I'm going to speak over your needs.
2:09:37
I do not believe in a God who does not reach out to people to
2:09:41
meet their needs. God does that, but he demands
2:09:44
and desires that a people love Him beyond the things that He
2:09:48
gives. So while I'm speaking to your
2:09:50
needs, I have the liberty to speak to your needs, knowing
2:09:54
that it is not the arrival of those answers that is the basis
2:09:58
for your loving Jesus. They are merely consolations to
2:10:02
your Christian experience. If you understand what I just
2:10:05
said, then you've understood tonight's teaching.
2:10:08
So here's how God trains people. He shows you the possibilities
2:10:13
that are arrayed for you in this Kingdom in Christ.
2:10:19
And then he tells you that after salvation, He desires to journey
2:10:22
with you through a process of transformation and empowerment.
2:10:26
And ladies and gentlemen, that journey depends on your will and
2:10:30
your participation. But the curriculum is not within
2:10:33
your power. It's already fixed.
2:10:36
And it is yours to stay with God and allow Him, no matter how
2:10:40
uncomfortable, to build you. And can I tell you the
2:10:44
curriculum is the same, but how God uses it on us is different.
2:10:49
So for someone, you will attend the first course with the Spirit
2:10:53
like it is in a university and that course will only take three
2:10:56
months and you are done. Then the second course with the
2:11:00
Spirit will take four years and you are done.
2:11:03
So it's not like it's just per week, per month.
2:11:05
You can be 4 years with God and you are in one course because of
2:11:09
the unique expression of His glory that He seeks to bring out
2:11:13
in your life. The weight of glory and honor
2:11:16
that God wants to place upon you is so mighty.
2:11:19
It will take Him about four or five years for that circumcision
2:11:24
to be complete. And while that is happening,
2:11:26
those you started with may go ahead of you and God says you
2:11:30
remain back. Find comfort.
2:11:32
It is because of what will be dropping on you when you are
2:11:35
done in the school of the Spirit.
2:11:39
Has this ministered to someone We're so blessed when minister
2:11:43
dosing came up and was ministering, I mean in minutes.
2:11:48
I mean the presence carrying, I can tell you it's it's not for
2:11:52
your knowledge, but I can tell you, I know a bit of some of the
2:11:58
the spiritual consecrations and and for want of what the the
2:12:04
rituals in terms of preparation that he goes through.
2:12:11
You have no idea what some of the people you admire go through
2:12:15
to carry the glory that sometimes people take for
2:12:18
granted is beyond preaching or try it.
2:12:21
Here's your Bible, here's a mic yes, Strong's Concordance,
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Matthew Henry's commentary, Greek lexicon.
2:12:31
Here you go, emoji. That's when you realize.
2:12:39
That is beyond just talking. You are speaking from somewhere.
2:12:42
Where you stand from is what makes what you say powerful.
2:12:46
It's not just what you say. There is an altitude in the
2:12:49
spirit that that is demanded for certain weights to back what you
2:12:54
are saying. You can say the same thing, but
2:12:58
it's the altitude you are standing from.
2:13:01
Are we together now so our father in the Lord, that a Jew
2:13:05
can come here now and say, Let me just speak a blessing to my
2:13:08
children, May the Lord bless you.
2:13:10
And as casual as it is, it is not what he's saying.
2:13:18
It is an altitude. Who shall ascend to the heel of
2:13:21
the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?
2:13:25
He that has clean hands and a pure heart was not lifted up his
2:13:28
soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
2:13:32
There are requirements. We're going to pray, we're going
2:13:36
to find a neighbor and we'll take 2-3 minutes to pray.
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Your prayer tonight is going to be Lord.
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The classes I have jumped in the Spirit because I'm in a hurry
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for manifestation. I'm not ashamed.
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Take me back to those classes. Let me rearrange sequentially.
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Let me structure my knowledge such that I become a person of
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stature. I drum the class of character in
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the spirit. Take me back.
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I drum the class of consecration in the spirit.
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Take me back. I drum the class on patience in
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the spirit. Take me back.
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Open your mouth and begin to. Pray.
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Go ahead and pray. I desire wholesome knowledge,
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sequentially arranged. I don't want to put zinc before
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blocks. I don't want to do my casting
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before a foundation. Lord, if it means bringing the
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building down, called me to rebuild it again.
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You are the Porter and I am the clay.
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Smash the clay again and let the building start again.
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Let it start again. What have I embraced, what
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teaching have I embraced that has corrupted my motivation in
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terms of my pursuit for You? Rearrange my spiritual
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understanding. Let the majors become majors.
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Let the minors become minors. Someone is praying.
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Rearrange my spiritual understanding.
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Let my hunger for you. Let my thirst for you.
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Let my passion for you become greater than obtaining things.
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Let it become greater than fame, greater than prosperity, greater
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than making a name, greater than ministry, greater than politics,
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greater than business. In Jesus name we pray Prayer
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point #2 Father, every gap in my spiritual understanding.
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By your mercy and by your spirit bring completion to my spiritual
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understanding. Lift your voice and pray every.
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Gap in my spiritual understanding.
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I have learnt about prosperity, but my knowledge is incomplete
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and that half knowledge is corrupting me.
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I have learnt about holiness and consecration but my knowledge is
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incomplete. I've not been taught the power
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of the cross and it's still bringing struggles.
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Bring completion to my knowledge.
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I've learnt on influence, I've learnt on advancement, but I've
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not learnt the purpose for it. Bring completion to my spiritual
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understanding. Someone, lift your voice and
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pray. Lift your voice and pray.
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I learnt about Satan, but I was taught about Satan in a way that
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has kept me in fear. I've not learnt that is
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defeated. I was not taught that the
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victory is already sure. I've not been taught that I'm a
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victor in Christ. Bring completion to my
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knowledge. Someone open your mouth and
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passionately cry. Bring completion the areas of
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gaps creating fear, the areas of gaps empowering Satan.
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Gaps in my knowledge affecting my efficiency in the Spirit.
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Deliver me from the knowing only syndrome.
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Bring wholeness to my knowledge. Let me understand about wealth
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holy, consecration holy, the agenda of God holy, the
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mysteries of power holy. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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the Lord. I'm going to speak over your
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life. But please, I beseech you, by
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the message of God, I can assure you that many of you have not
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gotten the full import of what was taught tonight.
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As you go back home, listen to this message again.
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There is a sequential arrangement of truth that makes
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it profitable and in addition to the many factors like
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traditions, the state of your heart and not mixing the world
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with faith to produce the arrangement of truth can
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determine whether it profits you or not.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah Yahweh we worship Hallelujah who we are
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Hallelujah who we are. Yah way we Yah way we worship.
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Yah way we worship. Yah way we honor, Yah way we
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honor, Yah way we worship. We are way.
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We worship you Holly, You we are Hallelujah, we are Yahweh we
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worship. One more time.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. We are Yahweh we worship.
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Yahweh we worship. Yahweh we worship.
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Yahweh we worship. Yahweh we worship.
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I sense in my spirit that some of you, if you really do this
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assignment, you will need to go back and sample the messages
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that have been preached in this house.
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Don't say I was there. Arrange them.
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Spiritual growth, write them down.
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Faith building teachings, write them down.
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Teachings on relationship, write them down.
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Teachings on wealth and abundance.
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Write them down. I can now begin to pray.
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Say Lord, I jumped a class Spirit of the living God, I am
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back to learn it. I now see that understanding
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influence without relationships would destroy me.
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I must start influence by mastering value.
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But I did not master human relations.
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So you go back, opening destiny, doors to relationships, the gift
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of man, you complete that course fast.
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The beautiful thing about the Spirit of God is that when God
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is taking you back, He won't let men know He will cover you.
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It's only you and Him that will know you are going back.
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He will preserve your honor even while He walks on you as a man
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of God. You love the Lord, but your
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problem is integrity. Don't feel bad, go back, search
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for a message. What message addresses
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character? Are we together now?
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Yes, you can listen to the message.
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Send me. You can listen to the message.
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The man God uses. Get these teachings and build
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yourself. You will come back to your
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pulpit and people will see that that deficiency has gone.
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His presence has carried it away.
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Hallelujah. Now I'm going to sing this song.
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Hallelujah once if you are here and you need Jesus, I don't need
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to cajole you in this kind of atmosphere.
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I want you to run and you come and stand here.
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You are saying, apostle, I cannot allow this service finish
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without making it right with Jesus.
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I'm just going to raise the song.
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That's what God is putting in my heart.
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And no matter where you are, my dear brother and my sister, God
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is giving you a chance to make it right with your life.
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Whether you are outside any of the overflow Saria across the
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globe, I want you to run for those who are here.
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You come and stand right in front of me.
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I raise that song once, twice, and I pray for you because I
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need to speak over God's people. And we end Hallelujah.
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Keep coming. Keep.
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Coming. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Come to Jesus, Hallelujah.
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Please look at me, my dear brothers and sisters.
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On behalf of Jesus Christ, I want to salute you for the
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courage to be here. Some of you are crying.
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Don't be ashamed of your tears. The Bible says that if you are
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ashamed of me before men, I will be ashamed of you before my
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father. This is family.
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This is a family affair. Salvation is a family affair.
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I see some other people coming. Please come quickly.
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Make haste. Come quickly.
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I'm about to lead God's people in prayer.
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Listen to me. You can start afresh.
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Tonight you participated in the moments of prayer.
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You participated in the moments of worship.
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Now the world has come and you've been convicted by the
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Spirit. Lift up your right hand if you
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will. Let it be as high as you can to
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Jesus and say this after me, Say Lord Jesus, you just imagine
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Jesus standing before you. Take.
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Don't worry about Joshua Salman. Take Me Out of the way.
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Too small a reason. Let your eyes be on Jesus, Say
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Lord Jesus. Tonight I have heard your word.
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I declare that I love you with all my heart.
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I declare that you are my Savior.
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You are my Lord, and you are my King.
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I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell.
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And the grave. It is broken over my life from
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tonight. I am a child of God.
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I go for whatever and back whatever.
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Amen. Keep your hands and I pray for
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you Father. Your word declares that as many
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who will come to you, you will in no wise castaway.
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I stretch my hands over these precious people, help those
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under the anointing, and I decree and declare that the
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power of sin. Satan, hell and the grave, let
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it be broken over your life. Now, in the name of Jesus
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Christ, I call you bonafide recipients of the life of God,
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and I decree and declare that from tonight and forever you
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live for Jesus and you serve him all the days of your life.
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In the matchless name of Jesus, we pray.
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Amen and Amen. Please look to my right, your
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left from where you're standing, there are counselors waving the
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placard. Would you do me a favor to just
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follow their direction for a moment?
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They'll pray with you, have a word with you, and then you are
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back very quickly. Let's celebrate them very
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quickly. Let's celebrate them quickly.
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In Jesus name, we pray. God bless you.
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God bless you, let me speak over your life and we're done.
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Thank you for your patience. Tonight.
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I decree and declare by the power of the Holy Spirit that as
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death walks in you through consecration, death to the
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flesh, let life begin to emanate from you to the nations in the
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name of Jesus Christ. I decree and declare, because
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you have exalted Jesus above and beyond your needs.
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You will look. Left and right and not see any
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need again. I say to you, because you have
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exalted Jesus and you've made a determination in your heart to
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love him beyond tea and bread, to love him beyond the things
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that money can give, I pray for you as you seek Him, those
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things will come to you. In the mighty name of Jesus.
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I speak over your weak beginning.
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Let it be blessed. Blessed with favor, blessed with
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good things, blessed with good news.
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May your hunger for Jesus continually grow.
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May your appetite for prayer continually grow.
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May your appetite for His Word continually grow.
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Let this be the weak, where the Lord by His Spirit will close
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every gap in knowledge. Let this be the weak.
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You will hear what you've never heard before.
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Let this be the weak. You will learn what you've never
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learned before. You will interact with wisdom
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beyond comprehension. In the name of Jesus can I call
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help us to your life, because your heart is stayed on God.
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Those who matter for the next level of your life, may my God
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gravitate them towards your life.
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I call you blessed in the name of Jesus.
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You are blessed in the city. You are blessed in the country.
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Your going out is blessed. Your coming in is blessed.
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The works of your hands blessed. You will not die this week.
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The preserver preserves you, the lifter lifts you, the blesser
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blesses you, the helper helps you, the announcer announces
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you. It will be clear that the hand
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of God is upon your life, and any man that means you evil,
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your God will judge them. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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Shout Amen three times as loud as you can.
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God bless you, so do me a favor, please make sure that as many
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people as you can get them to listen to this message and for
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some it may just be a line in the message that will be a word
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for you. Sow it as a seed to someone and
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let it build them spiritually in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Minister, don't say thank you again for your time with us
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today and for the wonderful time of worship.
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Together let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
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Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, the sweet fellowship of
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the Holy Spirit. Let it rest and abide with us
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now and forever. Amen.
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Surely God's goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our
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lives as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever
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and ever, Amen. God bless you, everybody.
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See you on Sunday.