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DISCIPLESHIP (BUILDING THE MEN THAT TRANSFORM NATIONS) WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN · Selah Media House

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  You lift. Your hands to heaven bless his.
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  Name give him thanks. For tonight, with hands lifted
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  high above your head, let's give him praise.
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  Thank him because he's a good God.
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  For your faithfulness, we thank you.
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  For the abundance of your mercies, we thank you.
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  It's a grateful person thanking the Lord tonight for compassion.
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  We thank you for wisdom, for favor, for your hand, for your
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  help, or we give thanks to the King of Kings and the Lord of
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  Lords, Shapratina Kaparando SA Brigade Belleca parando siata.
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  We give you thanks, O God. And we give you praise.
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  One minute you are giving him. Thanks Lavish thanks coming from
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  a grateful heart. Lavish thanks coming from a
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  thoughtful heart. In Jesus mighty name.
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  We pray now as always. Would you lift your hands and
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  ask the Lord to give you an encounter tonight?
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  He brought you here to encounter His light, His presence, His
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  wisdom, His power. Go ahead and pray.
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  My heart is open, my ears are attentive, my eyes are washed
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  with eyes out that I may see Shanene ke Pala so pragatiya
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  capran de gebelene ke paras. We give you.
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  Praise O God, appear unto me by your word tonight.
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  Change me. Do an inner walk of
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  transformation. For in Jesus, much less name, we
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  have prayed. Father, we bless your name.
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  For tonight you have gathered us again to lift us, to grow us, to
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  bless us, to anoint us, to enlighten us, to give us
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  understanding. We yield ourselves, O God, as
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  desperate people in need of your touch, desperate people in need
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  of your wisdom. We desire your presence.
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  We desire the wisdom that comes from that presence, the power
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  that emanates from that presence.
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  Lord, we thank you tonight because we will change.
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  We thank you because we will see you, Clara.
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  We will hear you like never before.
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  And as we are focused on you, we are transformed.
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  We are changed in the name of Jesus.
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  And as your word comes tonight, let the sick be healed.
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  Let your press be delivered. Let the hopeless find hope.
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  May we be mightily imparted and to Jesus be all the glory for
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  this in Jesus, much less name. We have prayed.
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  Give Jesus a big hand clap. Good evening everybody.
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  Hallelujah. Please be seated.
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  It's good to see everyone in church.
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  It's always a blessing to be in the presence of God.
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  Always a blessing. You never lose being in His
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  presence. You never lose investing time to
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  know Him and to grow in the knowledge of our God.
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  I want to challenge you tonight to ensure that your passion for
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  Jesus, your passion for His presence, your passion for His
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  Word, that it never goes down. It's the secret to your victory.
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  When Satan wants to destroy you, he does not start by attacking
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  you. He attacks your passion, your
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  passion for His presence. And it can be with legitimate
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  reasons, like your walk, the business of the day, and before
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  you know it, you get busy. You get preoccupied doing good
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  things, good things that steal away your time with Him, good
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  things that steal away your passion.
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  You must guard His presence in your life jealously.
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  You must guard your passion for His Word, your passion for
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  prayer, your passion for wisdom #2 never allow coming to church
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  become a ritual in your life. You can get into the motions of
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  coming to church every Sunday, every Tuesday, every Wednesday,
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  every other day for the church service or any conference and
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  literally lose that favor. That desire is no longer.
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  There you are, just fulfilling the ritual of answering a
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  psychological register that I came to the House of the Lord
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  today so that no one would look at me and say, where have you
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  been? And you'll be surprised that you
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  can be here from start to finish and never receive anything.
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  You must approach His presence. You must approach every moment
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  in his presence as though that were your first time.
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  You must approach every moment in His presence as though you
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  never have a chance again. So you look at it as though it's
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  your first time, and you look at it as though it's your last
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  time. That's the attitude you need if
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  you want to excel in His presence.
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  Meaning that you approach him like a baby who's never really
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  experienced his wisdom and power, that malleability of
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  heart ready to receive from him. And then you approach him as
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  though you want to get everything you can get.
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  Imagine someone who appeared in your life just once and you
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  never. Had a chance to see that person,
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  but with that one encounter, every possibility could be yours
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  upon demand. It is that mentality you need
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  when you come to church. So don't drag.
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  Yourself and sit down and. Guess the motions of the
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  worship. Oh, I know it's time for opening
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  prayer after that, I'm sure someone is going to come up now.
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  You watch and see, especially if you come with visitors, they
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  come with hunger and you kill their hunger through
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  familiarity. I know that this man is coming
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  up now it's time for offering. Just start counting your money
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  even before he talks. And then once you are done,
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  Apostle is going to come up now. And while he's previously just
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  watch and see, someone will start shouting all that they're
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  anointed and you know. As as you are, as you are, going
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  through the motions, distracting yourself and perhaps those who
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  came with you, you'll be surprised that the Spirit of God
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  is moving mercifully but seriously across the hearts that
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  are willing, that came desperate.
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  There's no time I come to church that I come with the rituals of
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  familiarity even though I'm about to speak.
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  I know what I'm about to teach you now, but I approach it
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  myself like a steward. By grace and by mercy.
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  I look forward to finishing the teaching so that I go and listen
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  to it myself. I don't have the privilege of
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  being a member when I'm in front of you, but now when I'm done
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  preaching, then I go back home as a faithful member of Koinonia
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  and listen to what the man of God has taught so that I will
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  receive it for my own self too. So that I don't excite you.
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  And it flows. You see, it doesn't come from
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  me. I'm not the source, I'm the
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  channel. It flows from the throne through
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  a vessel to willing hearts. Did you hear that?
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  From the throne through a vessel to willing hearts.
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  That means it is not Joshua Salman speaking to you.
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  It is God speaking to you through this frail lips of clay,
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  running His program through my mind to access your destiny.
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  So when I am done, I have to go back to and listen to what God
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  said to us using my lips. Maybe this is already a word for
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  a preacher and you feel just because you understand what you
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  are teaching the people, even if it is something you know
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  mechanically, the grace that comes with it must enter your
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  life by submission. If not, it will pass through
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  your life without entering your life is someone learning so make
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  sure every time including now and that includes those who are
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  following online. Don't just say I'm a.
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  Faithful member connected in diaspora.
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  I'm watching from maybe US or Canada or some African nation or
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  some state within Nigeria. And you are happy to hear what
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  God has today, but you are not trembling at His word.
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  Pay attention, don't be distracted.
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  The minutes and hours you are going to invest will be life
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  defining. It is my assignment under the
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  leadership of the Holy Spirit to make sure I never waste your
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  time. I have a covenant with God that
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  you will never invest your time here in any service whatsoever
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  and have us. Play games.
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  We are serious people and we take your destiny seriously.
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  And so everything you see that happens on this altar,
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  particularly the ministry of the world, it's come from hours of
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  Labor, study, prayer. Are we together and then served
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  with grace. You can trust the things that
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  you hear in as much as we are men and we are frail, but the
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  Spirit of God rides through our limitations to make sure that
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  you get that which is edifying for your spiritual life.
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  And I pray for you in the name of Jesus that tonight will be a
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  service, that you can say it was made for me, that someone will
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  leave church tonight knowing that God.
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  Came to me. He visited everybody, but he
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  zoomed his light on me and he came to me.
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  That is, you say, Amen. Hallelujah.
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  All right, just one or two functions very quickly and then
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  we get to the Word. This concerns a conference
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  coming up in November. We're happy to see what God is
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  already doing. And so I want to just put a few
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  words. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord, the General Assembly it is called,
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  and 19th to 23rd is the date. But just a few logistics.
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  We're beginning to put things on ground.
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  There are so many people coming from this nation and around the
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  world, you can imagine Abuja alone.
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  And so it behoves us as leaders to make sure we plan and to make
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  sure that it's it is a convenient and seamless
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  spiritual events that edifies people with minimal
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  inconveniences whatsoever. And so we're up and doing, I
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  mean, we're sitting on the drawing board, making sure that
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  we put everything that needs to be done well to dodge the IS,
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  cross the TS and make sure that both for us who are here home
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  and for those who are coming from across the globe abroad,
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  that we have a seamless stay here.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. And the first of that step we're
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  taking is that we created a registration portal.
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  Now, the registration will help us to be able to make several
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  arrangements like sitting like, you know, transportation and a
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  few other things. Whether you register or not, the
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  conference is for you. So the purpose of the
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  registration is to be able to help us have an idea.
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  You can imagine how saddening it will be for me having only about
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  20 to 30% of the people who attend that have access to
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  comfortable seats and all of that simply because we probably
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  underestimated the people. So please walk with us.
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  We're going to request that everyone, everyone at all, both
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  Nigerians, Africans, Europeans. The registration is not for
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  those in diaspora and we don't do too well with registration in
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  Nigeria. We're not used to it.
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  We just come. But so no problem, you're
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  invited, come that way. But let's God will grant us
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  grace in Jesus name. You would notice there that
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  there are some who don't really like the QR thing.
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  For you who are not interested in using the QR code, there is a
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  text only. There is a text there.
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  You can simply register by text only.
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  Just send us the details. Let's just know you are coming.
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  There are so many people already.
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  The demands has been overwhelming and we're trying to
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  make sure that we're able to manage.
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  Dealing with a crowd of certain magnitudes require many levels
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  of preparation, even though we've hosted meetings across the
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  globe. And so we're not.
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  It's not new to us. But then we don't take for
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  granted the things we don't want stampedes.
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  We don't want people dying, anything happened in the name of
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  Jesus that will not happen. But then we need to take
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  responsibility in terms of planning.
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  So please, all of you will scan the QR code.
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  And for those who are travelling from across the 36 states of the
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  federation, pastors, our family and diaspora, those of you who
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  are coming from across Africa, I mean there are so many people
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  already from Ghana, Western Africa, Kenya, Malawi and you
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  know, you name it. And those who are coming down
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  from Australia and all of that. So please make sure, do us a
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  favour, help us, everyone is invited at all, but everyone,
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  whether from Abuja here, you who are seated here, please do us a
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  favour of the registration so that it can guide us already.
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  We're trying to do a lot of logistics around venue,
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  transportation, security and all of that.
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  So we just want to make sure that we have a seamless day and
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  God will help us in Jesus name. So the registration links there,
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  those of you abroad, please go ahead and register, particularly
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  for those who will be coming. If you're coming with your
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  family, if it's a whole church coming with the leaders, you can
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  do well to let us know. And by the grace of God, you
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  will help us with the planning. The QR code is there.
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  We'll just pick a blessing over it and then open it up.
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  And for those of you who are here, give it the liberty to
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  pick your phones if you need to and do the registration just for
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  30 minutes or a minute if it doesn't go the text if your eyes
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  cannot see it. Be prepared to be healed while I
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  pray for you. But I mean, you can work with
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  your QR because it looks small. I'm OK.
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  I'm not sure it's that small on the other screen.
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  So you can go ahead. Go ahead.
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  You need to do the registration. I'll give you a minute and a
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  family following online for everyone who is coming for the
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  General Assembly, a global convention, Koinonia global.
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  Please do well to register sons and daughters connected to the
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  ministry who are coming. Please make sure you're
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  connected friends, family, just let us know.
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  It doesn't interrupt your participation whether you
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  register or not, but this is to help us plan so that we ensure
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  that already. You know how saddening it is for
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  me when we come to church, even though it's not a major program,
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  having most of the people outside instead of inside.
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  So we're really working to see that God will help us to be able
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  to serve people with comfort where people of excellence and
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  we want to maintain that standard even as we do the
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  things that we do Praise God. So there it is, in the name of
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  Jesus. We declare it, bless the e-mail,
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  the phone and the QR code. Your one minute will soon be up.
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  If for any reason you are not able to just be patient after
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  service, you can go ahead. There's no jamming of anything
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  that we're not limiting it as we do abroad because of the global
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  demand. We're open towards many people
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  and praise the name of the Lord. By next week, I'll take the time
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  to introduce a few people who'll be playing key roles so that our
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  global family can see them with respect to whatever roles they
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  have to play, particularly that which involves guest management,
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  correspondences and so on and so forth.
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  So that we have a very structured way of attending to
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  whatever concerns for us who are here and for those who are
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  outside of this place. I'm hoping probably should the
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  need arise, we can create a dedicated website for it so that
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  it just gives people room. It will also save our PR
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  department the burden of everybody calling and say what's
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  it about. So probably we'll work.
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  We have people who are bright minds.
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  In a day or two they are able to put together a beautiful
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  website, justforitthegeneralassembly.com
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  or something of that sort. I'm sure they already have the
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  domain page saved, so we'll just work on that.
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  So that media. So that's to you and whoever is
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  involved. Let's try to put it together
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  excellently so that we can people can have access to it and
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  know what this is about. It saves the burden of having to
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  attend to people 1 by 1. The Lord will bless us in Jesus
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  name all. Not before the miracle service.
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  We would also roll out some of the ministers who will be
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  serving alongside myself in the ministry of the world and in
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  prayer. And by the end of the month,
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  we'll begin our publicity officially across the city.
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  And then, of course, generally like we do.
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  So just to let us know, preparation is in Top Gear.
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  It's our first global convention as a ministry.
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  And I you can be sure that you are not the one I'm inviting.
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  I'm not inviting you. It will be an embarrassment to
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  your understanding of mentorship if you feel I'm inviting you.
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  Every Walker, every faithful person who is connected to this
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  ministry, you are the one who should invite others.
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  You are not invited. You are already Kolonia is you.
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  You are not. You are not a stranger coming to
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  hear the man of God. So make sure that you are the
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  one who does the work of letting people know that it's a great
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  convention and we trust God for a mighty, mighty outpouring.
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  It's going to be quite an experience.
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  And we pray that in the name of Jesus, it will bless us as a
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  global family and it will serve as a great blessing and a shift
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  within the body of Christ. You believe that?
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  Say Amen. Hallelujah.
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  Father, we thank you for this opportunity.
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  We pray as always that you will be glorified.
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  You will be lifted in Jesus, much less name.
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  We pray Amen and Amen. All right, so that being said,
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  let's go to the business of tonight.
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  I'm excited about the things that you'll be learning tonight
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  because contained within the teaching tonight are precious
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  keys that sustain the power to transform lives, to transform
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  territories, churches, and even nations.
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  I consider all my teachings to be quite interesting and
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  edifying, but sometimes I just get very personal and emotional
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  with the teachings because of the power that is contained
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  within the truths that I communicate.
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  This is one of such teachings where at whatever spiritual
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  level you will find it most edifying.
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  And this is also one of those teachings where you don't have
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  to be a Christian to be blessed by it.
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  There are teachings that require a certain foundation and require
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  certain depth and understanding of the Word of God for it to
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  bless you, but this is a kind of teaching where a politician will
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  sit and listen and will bless you.
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  A government, presidents, individuals, pastors,
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  businessmen, whoever you are, Christian, Muslim, free thinker,
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  traditionalist, I mean you're welcome participate in the
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  teaching tonight and I pray that it will bless our hearts in
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  Jesus name. I've studied the concept of
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  nation building. I've studied the concept of
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  transformation, both personal, territorial.
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  I've studied the concept of growth and maturity and stature.
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  This is something I've studied for myself, but it's been my
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  intent to gain mastery in understanding how people change.
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  I'm a systems person. I like to learn how systems
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  work. I am pro productivity.
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  I like results. I like things that work.
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  Hallelujah. And so that has has propelled me
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  to study the word of God and also to study leadership, to
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  study systems, to study the governments, to study the, the,
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  the, the technicalities behind results.
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  And I've come up with a lot of interesting findings that I
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  think will profit our global family and will profit the body
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  of Christ. And I'm hoping that tonight's
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  teaching will be 1 of such. My emphasis tonight will be to
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  deliver to us and to the many who are following the key to
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  transforming nations. I want to show you how
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  individuals, how families, how nations become transformed
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  through the power of God's Word. And tonight our emphasis is
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  going to be on how to build the men that transform nations.
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  The topic for tonight, as we teach, is called discipleship
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  Building the Men that transform nations.
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  Discipleship we're going to consider and learn how to build
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  the men that build societies, how to build the men that build
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  businesses, how to build the men that build the program of God
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  churches, how to build the men that build society.
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  Acts Chapter 11 we read from verse 19 to 26.
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  Blessed be the name of the Lord. Acts Chapter 11.
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  Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that
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  rose up about Stephen, travelled as far as Fineca, and Cyprus,
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  and Antioch, preaching the word to none, but unto the Jews only.
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  Next verse. And some of them were men of
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  Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch, they
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  speak unto the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number
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  believed and turned on to the Lord.
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  Next verse please. The tidings of these things came
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  to the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem, And they sent
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  forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
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  Now follow carefully who, when he came, he had seen the grace
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  of God. Barnabas now.
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  He was glad, and he exhorted them all with that purpose of
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  heart, that with purpose of heart they would cleave.
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  Unto the Lord. Notice what Barnabas is doing
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  here now. Next verse.
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  For he was a good man. What a testimony.
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  It was not just enough that he was encouraging the people.
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  The Bible says Barnabas was a good man.
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  He was full of the Holy Ghost. And of faith and much people was
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  added unto the. Lord two more verses 25 the
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  Bible says, then departed Barnabas to Tasos to seek for
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  Saul, and when Saul. Came He had found him.
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  He. Brought him on to Antioch, and
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  it came to pass that the whole year they assembled themselves
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  together. Notice when Barnabas did his
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  work, he assessed the progress of the church that had now been
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  born in Antioch. He looked at it.
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  He was very impressed. He encouraged them to remain
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  steadfast. The Bible says he travelled and
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  went to look for Paul Saul now and said come come, come, come.
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  Your ministry is needed here. The Bible says when he found
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  him, verse 26 found him from. Tasos he brought him, and then
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  they came to Antioch, and it came to pass.
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  The whole year they assembled themselves with the Church and
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  taught much people. The Bible says and the disciples
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  were called Christians first in Antioch.
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  May the Lord bless the reading of His Word in the name of
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  Jesus. Christ, Second Scripture,
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  Matthew chapter 28. We're going to read from verse
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  18 to 20. Matthew 2818 to 20.
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  Let's look at it from. NKJV New King James Version,
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  please And Jesus came and speak unto them, saying, all power is
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  given unto me in heaven and in the earth.
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  Let's go to verse 19 now. And Jesus came and spoke unto
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  them. OK, just keep from verse 19 and
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  NKJV 19. Let's go to 19.
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  Go therefore and make. Disciples KJV will say Go and
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  teach all nations. It says go and make disciples of
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  all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
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  the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Verse 20 teaching them to
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  observe all the things that I have commanded you and lo.
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  I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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  Can we shout a loud Amen. So as a background and a
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  reminder, the Great Commission, as I have taught you in this
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  house, has three components or three dimensions to it #1 is the
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  world evangelization or soul winning as you call it.
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  The Great Commission, the mandates that Jesus gave us to
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  the nations is threefold. We call it in the, the church,
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  the church language, the Great Commission.
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  There's no word or expression written Great Commission in the
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  Bible, but it's just a a word or an expression that was coined
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  out to capture the mandate that the believer has been given to
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  the nations. And so the Great Commission has
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  three dimensions or three components to it.
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  Component #1 is our ministry to unbelievers, our ministry to the
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  world of unbelievers, That is world evangelization or soul
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  winning as is generally understood us.
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  The second component has to do with the equipping and the
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  maturing of the Saints. So you see the ministry is
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  threefold. There is the ministry to the
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  world, there is the ministry of the church to the church, and
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  then there is the ministry of the church to society.
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  I'm in elementary in this background so that everyone
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  who's not connected with our thoughts on this wise will at
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  least connect before we proceed. So the Great Commission, the
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  mandates that Jesus gave the church is threefold #1 is our
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  ministry to the world. That is world evangelization and
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  soul winning. To see to it that we bring many
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  to the saving knowledge of Jesus #2 represents our ministry to
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  the church. That is the equipping and the
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  maturing of believers, transitioning believers from
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  infants until they become witnesses, transitioning
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  believers from infants, baby Christians, as we call them,
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  transitioning them through the various protocol of growth until
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  they become witnesses. And then the third part of the
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  Great Commission is impacting and transforming societies using
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  the value system of the Kingdom. We call it territorial
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  transformation, impacting and transforming society using the
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  value system of the Kingdom. That's where we talk about
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  giving charity, productivity, technological advancement,
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  economic emancipation, etcetera. The impact of the Church as
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  light and salt to society. Transforming society, you know.
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  Heightening the moral fabric of society and so on and so forth.
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  So generally, this is at the core of the believers work.
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  When you understand who you are in Christ, when you come into
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  the knowledge of the riches that you have received through the
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  grace of God, among the many other things that proceed that
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  knowledge that proceed as far as your learning is concerned is
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  the Great Commission. And it's important that we get
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  that background. Hallelujah.
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  Now all three components are very important.
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  All three world evangelization slash soul winning very
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  important the maturity of the Saints by teaching them doctrine
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  and the. Principles of the Kingdom until
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  they attain maturity and stature in experience very important
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  impacting upon the fabric of society through the value system
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  of the Kingdom important but. But the second component, the
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  maturity of the Saints. What you call discipleship is
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  uniquely important because it translates to the health of the
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  first component and the third component, even though it is the
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  second component in order of priority.
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  That means to the degree to which the Saints become matured
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  and attend onto sonship, it will cause for the efficiency of soul
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  winning because it is still the matured Saints who will do the
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  work of the evangelist and it is still the matured Saints who
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  will translate, transform society.
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  Are we together now? So it makes the concept of
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  discipleship and the maturity of the Saints uniquely important.
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  I wrote here and I'll read all three components of the Great
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  Commission, as aforementioned, are important.
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  But the second component, which is discipleship or the maturity
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  of the Saints is uniquely important because it is the key
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  to being effective in every other aspect of the Great
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  Commission. Failure in equipping failure in
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  training believers will result in a decline in soul winning.
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  Failure in equipping and training believers will result
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  in a decline in the the availability of change agents
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  that transform society. Have you understood me so far?
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  So I'm saying that all the three components of the Great
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  Commission as aforementioned are important.
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  But the subject of discipleship, attaining maturity and sonship
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  is uniquely important because to the degree to which the training
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  of believers happens, it will cause for the efficiency of soul
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  winning and the efficiency of territorial transformation.
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  Hallelujah, the cure, let me tell you this, the cure to many
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  of the evil and the backwardness in society alongside the poor
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  quality of believers is due to lack of discipleship.
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  That means when you look around a society like Abuja, Nigeria,
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  Africa and the globe, there is an explanation as to the
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  decadence, whether economically, whether morally and so on and so
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  forth, the cure to the many evils that plague society.
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  Do you know governments across the globe are meeting like never
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  before and trying to decide what to do with men.
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  The more men across the globe, the more trouble everywhere.
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  Are you saying that everybody's tired?
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  I mean people are tired in church, people are tired around,
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  teachers are tired because of the kinds of students.
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  Now look at the testimony of the gentleman, a young boy in
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  college, and now he's been introduced to adult content.
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  And this boy, now his mind begins to be polluted and
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  corrupt. Imagine if that man is the
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  chairman of your local government.
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  You see what happens to the people there.
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  Imagine when he becomes a senator.
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  Are we together? Imagine if that man now is the
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  one responsible for recruiting young men.
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  You see that there's already trouble in society.
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  I have told you here that every national problem is first a
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  regional problem that was not dealt with.
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  Nigeria listen to me, or Africa listen to me.
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  Every regional problem is a community problem that was not
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  dealt with. Every community problem is a
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  family problem that was not dealt with.
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  A thief never becomes a national thief.
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  From the first day he steals meat, he steals what you know,
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  whatever it is and goes caught free.
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  He steals cleaners, he raises virus in school, goes caught
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  free. And every time you succeed in
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  evil you are, you are propelled to continue until he becomes a
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  global terrorist, until he becomes a nuisance to people.
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  Is someone learning now? So I'm saying that the evils
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  that have plagued our world today, I mean, that's just like
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  never before. Almost tired of people.
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  I mean, you can find a church with 200 members and the pastor
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  cannot sleep because of trouble from this one beating his wife
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  to this one beating the husband to the children beating their
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  parents. Parents do all kinds of things.
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  This one stealing government money and is in trouble.
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  And they say which church you attend, they now call the pastor
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  and say your member is in prison, You better come and
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  comfort the person. And while you are at that,
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  someone who does not listen and does not understand the secret
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  of victory is now being, I mean, you can see if we do not solve
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  this problem, eventually government will break down,
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  preachers will break down. Are we together?
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  Law and order will break down and all of that.
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  You ask legal practitioners, well, it's even truly speaking,
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  it's even milder in Africa, Abroad, everything is to the
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  court. Everything is to the court.
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  You smile at someone, they say, why did you smile this way?
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  You're headed to court and say you violated the appearance and
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  all kinds of things. Hallelujah.
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  The cure to many evil, the backwardness.
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  How about someone who siphons the resources that should build
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  a school, the resources that should build the school, the
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  next generation of children. And one man can steal that money
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  without conscience past the school he was supposed to build
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  because his brother was the person in charge of giving the
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  contract. And that person may be a tongue
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  talking Christian. That person may even be a pastor
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  himself. And he collects the money and
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  he's giving Tide from it. Isn't that now?
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  And before you know it, you watch the children who should go
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  to school because there's nothing for them to do and their
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  minds are active. That psychological dopamine is
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  there. Then comes terrorist
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  organizations and they say, you know what, you are the kinds of
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  people we are looking for and we next to nothing.
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  They recruit an army of young people and radicalize them who
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  become a nuisance to society. And so it's not enough to just
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  pray and fast. There must be intelligence in
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  analyzing the subject of national transformation.
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  Are we together And human capital development.
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  Listen very carefully. Discipleship.
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  I want to teach something that will be beneficial to us.
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  Every parent, every leader. Please lend me your attention.
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  If you're learning so far, say Amen.
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  Hallelujah. How many of you know that there
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  are many corrupt people who are directly members of churches?
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  Do you agree with me? There are many, most marriages
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  that have all kinds of crises. I hope you know that most of
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  them. Now, please don't feel bad.
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  I'm not just trying to Pierce into your personal affairs, but
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  I'm I'm dealing with a broad subject here, so give me the
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  liberty to be very detailed. You find a man praying in
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  tongues beat his wife and he won't lock himself praying in
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  tongues and he's hurrying, going for Bible study and he beat the
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  woman and now others women beat men too.
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  The surprising thing, you know, you would think that meant, Oh
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  yes, this work of ministries like the work of a doctor.
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  I've seen there are surprises that I've managed.
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  They beat the living daylight out of their husbands.
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  Absolutely not you, not you may, God forbid, May God forbid.
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  I'm just saying it is on record that it happens.
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  Hallelujah. Policies after policies, you go
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  to the Senate, you go to the House.
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  People are trying to deliberate on how to solve the Nigerian
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  problem, the problem of the state.
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  Across Africa you find people trying to solve the problem of
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  crime, the problem of poverty, the problem of education, the
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  problem of of poor and ill prepared people on the pulpit,
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  destroying people's lives in the name of ministry.
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  I mean, you turn left and right and there are all kinds of
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  problems, but I can tell you there is a solution.
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  Say there is a solution, say there is a way out.
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  All right. Now, very quickly, what is
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  discipleship? Many of us have heard the word
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  discipleship, and unfortunately, the model that you saw was so
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  irritating. You ran away and hated both the
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  process and the word. Let me redefine for you
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  discipleship. We read Matthew 2819 and 20
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  already, so I will not go back into that.
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  I'm going to give you a series of definitions.
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  And please listen to, learn, and listen to write #1 discipleship.
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  Listen. And then you write.
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  If you're writing while I'm saying it, it will enter your
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  spirit. Just listen to me.
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  And then I teach in a way that is very intentional.
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  Don't worry, you will write. This is a school.
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  Discipleship is the ongoing process, my first definition,
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  the ongoing process of progressively becoming like
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  Christ in thoughts, in Word, and in actions through the
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  transforming power of the Holy Spirit.
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  The first definition of discipleship again, and then you
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  will write. Discipleship is the ongoing
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  process of progressively becoming like Jesus Christ in
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  thoughts you're thinking, in words you're speaking, and in
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  actions through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Now you write, I'll dictate for you and you write.
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  So we said discipleship is the ongoing process.
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  It's not one off, It's not one time, it's not after one week,
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  it's not after one year. Discipleship is the ongoing
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  process of progressively becoming like Jesus Christ in
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  thought, becoming like Jesus Christ in words, becoming like
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  Jesus Christ in actions, and that through the transforming
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  power of Jesus Christ. So when you submit to the
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  ongoing process of progressively becoming like Christ in your
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  thoughts, in your words, and in your actions, depending on the
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  transforming power of the Holy Spirit, we call that
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  discipleship. You have that down definition
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  #2. Discipleship, I wrote here, is a
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  lifelong journey. A lifelong journey of spiritual
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  growth, transformation, and conformity to the character of
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  Christ in experience. It is a lifelong journey of
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  spiritual growth, of transformation and conformity to
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  the character of Christ Inexperience Second definition.
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  It is a lifelong journey of spiritual growth,
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  transformation, and conformity to the character of the Christ.
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  Inexperience definition #3 Discipleship, I wrote here, is
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  also the intentional and structured mentoring of
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  believers so that they progressively attain onto
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  maturity and stature. Inexperience.
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  A long one, but I'll take it slowly.
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  That discipleship by my third definition is also the
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  intentional and structured mentoring.
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  Take note if you're writing with a pen on the line, intentional
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  and on the line structure. It is also the intentional and
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  structured mentoring of believers so that they
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  progressively attain onto spiritual maturity and stature.
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  Inexperience. Intentional and structured
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  mentoring of believers so that they progressively attain onto
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  spiritual maturity and experience.
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  Do you understand my definition so far #4 I'll give you the 4th
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  definition. Discipleship is building the
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  culture of the Kingdom in believers.
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  Building the culture of the Kingdom in believers titles
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  Chapter 3 from verse one. Building the culture of the
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  Kingdom in believers. It says, put them in mind to be
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  subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to
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  be ready to every good work. Verse 2.
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  To speak evil of no man. Listen now to be no brawlers or
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  gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.
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  Next verse Let's work together Media.
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  For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
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  deceived, serving diverse losts and pleasures, living in malice
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  and envy, hateful and hating one another.
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  Reading to 8 verse 4. But after that the kindness and
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  the love of God our Savior towards man appeared, not by
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  works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His
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  mercy. He saved us by the washing of
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  regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, Verse 6, which
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  is shared on us abundantly through Jesus our Savior. 7.
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  It says that being justified by His grace, we should be made
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  heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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  Final read It says, This is a faithful saying.
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  And these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that
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  they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain
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  good works. These things are good and
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  profitable unto men. Ephesians chapter 5 from verse
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  one and two. Ephesians 51 and two it says be
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  ye therefore followers of God. NKJV and other modern
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  translators will say be imitators of God as their
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  children. Verse 2 yes it says be imitators
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  of God, dear children. Then it says, and walk in love,
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  colonia. Are we still here as Christ also
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  loved us and given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice
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  to God for a sweet smelling aroma?
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  So I gave you 4 definitions of discipleship.
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  Let me run through them then. We'll now look at a broader
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  picture of discipleship. Number one, I said discipleship
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  is the ongoing process of progressively becoming like
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  Christ in your thoughts, your words, your actions, and that
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  through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit #2 that it is
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  a lifelong journey of spiritual growth, transformation, and
• 44:55
  conformity to the character of the Christ.
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  In experience #3 we said that discipleship is also the
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  intentional and structured mentoring of believers so that
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  they progressively attain onto spiritual maturity and to
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  stature. Inexperience #4 we said
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  discipleship is building the culture of the Kingdom in
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  believers now on a broader scale, we're looking at a
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  broader picture now. Discipleship also involves
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  strategically transforming those who will transform territories
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  and nations. When you look at the broader
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  picture of discipleship now, it has to do with transforming
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  those who will eventually transform their territories and
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  transform nations, building those who will be builders,
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  transforming those who will be national transformation agents.
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  It involves strategically transforming those who will
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  transform territories and nations.
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  In other words, building men. So on a broader scale,
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  discipleship is simply about building men.
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  The technical word for it, as we use from a national scale, is
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  human capital development. Human capital development to the
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  degree to which the human capital of every church, every
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  business, every territory, every nation are developed.
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  That is the degree to which they have sufficient manpower to
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  drive anything at all that moves that nation, that organization,
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  that territory forward. Some of the finest and the
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  brightest organizations across the globe.
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  Their real edge, it's not their technology, their real edge.
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  It's not all these other things. We celebrate that they have the
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  gift of good people who have been trained.
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  Are we together? What you call the ABS the the,
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  the IT tech giants who build great conglomerates, the tech
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  giants and all their their products.
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  They did not manufacture themselves from the air.
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  They came as a brainchild of faithful people, a nation, a
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  church, a family, a territory that ignores its human capital
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  resource will be a nation, a territory that remains beggarly
• 47:25
  forever. And if the body of Christ
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  ignores the vast army, the potential army, men and women
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  who if trained and when trained, when structurally mentored, can
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  be the tools for soul winning, can be the tools for national
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  transformation. If you're understanding me so
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  far, say Amen. Now, I'd like you to listen to
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  this very carefully. The church I wrote here is the
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  most reliable institution on earth with the divinely
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  accredited strategy for reforming and transforming men.
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  Let me repeat that. The church is the most reliable
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  institution. It's not the only, but it's the
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  most reliable institution on earth with the divinely
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  accredited strategy for reforming and transforming men.
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  That means there are other institutions, the legal
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  institution, the educational institution.
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  Are we together? We have a lot of other
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  institutions, rehab centers, all kinds of things, therapy
• 48:34
  centers. They are all helping to put
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  people back in place, mentally and otherwise.
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  Schools, universities and all of that.
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  The police, law enforcement, agents, all together.
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  But I'm saying where the court fails, the church has a
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  solution. Where the police and the
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  military fail, the church has a solution.
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  Are we together where therapy and all kinds of mental work
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  fail, The church is the most reliable institution on earth
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  with a divinely accredited strategy for reforming and
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  transforming men. All this is powerful.
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  This is powerful Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We are not ordinary. It is beyond just falling down
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  and getting up is beyond just nice salmons.
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  We are truly a solution no matter what fails anywhere else.
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  It is only in the church you will hear of the dead being
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  raised. It's only in the church you will
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  hear of growth disappearing. It's only in the church you will
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  hear that someone was a drunkard overnight without withdrawing
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  self withdrawal symptoms by the next day.
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  That person has loved the Lord with all his heart.
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  It's only in the Bible you hear of Saul becoming Paul.
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  It's only in the Bible you will hear a vast array of mighty
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  manifestations that a woman can lock herself with oil and jars
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  and by the time she comes out she's ready to be free from
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  death. The church is no ordinary
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  institution. It is the most accredited
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  institution on earth by heaven. As far as providing the solution
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  for reforming and transforming men.
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  I'll tell you this, the secular world, and they are right on
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  that as per what they believe and with respect to their
• 50:24
  convictions, they believe that educating the human brain and
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  mind is the noblest thing you can do in helping anyone to live
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  a meaningful life. And from a secular standpoint,
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  that is right, that is correct because ignorance is a cancer
• 50:39
  that destroys your potential to be intuitive, to be creative and
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  so on and so forth. But I wrote something here that
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  educating the human mind alone cannot produce a reformed and a
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  transformed people. I do not downplay education at
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  any level, formally or informally.
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  Are we together now? We invest heavily in helping
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  people to get educated. But I will tell you this,
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  educating the human mind alone may produce an intelligent
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  person as far as quantitative and qualitative reasoning is
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  concerned, but it is not enough to produce a reformed and a
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  transformed people. There are professors in prison,
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  with all due respect, there are lawyers in prison.
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  There are politicians in prison. These people are not uneducated.
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  I hope you know that organized terrorism is based on high level
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  intelligence. You ask the military, they will
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  tell you no dull person can be a terrorist transcontinentally.
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  You must understand diplomatics. You must understand
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  administration, leadership. Are we together?
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  You must understand the rules of engagement.
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  So it is not for lazy and ignorant people at all.
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  Corruption at an institutional level.
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  You can't do it if you are dull. You will need to be in the
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  system, understand the ropes, then manipulate it, whether it's
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  in banking, whether it's in politics.
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  Who is learning tonight? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So I'm saying educating the human mind alone cannot produce
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  a transformed and a reformed people.
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  Except of course, if the curriculum where the school or
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  the institution is using is founded upon the Word of God.
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  Is the reason why I'm praying without any bias or sentiments
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  that in the name of Jesus God will raise people who will build
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  academic curricula? Are we together that is hinged
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  on the Word of God that does not produce fanatics, but that it
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  produces reformed, transformed people who transformed
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  societies. Now I tell you this and and I
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  don't have any statistics to prove it.
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  I'm just using my instincts and I think I'm right.
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  Find out people who had the privilege of going to mission
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  schools early, real mission school especially.
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  With all due respect, I apologize not to offend anybody,
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  but with respect to core Orthodox mission schools,
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  Catholic schools, Anglican schools, Evangelical schools,
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  are we together? Most people who had that
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  background, I tell you, even when they get stubborn in the
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  future, there's still a seed of the world that was planted in
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  them. There will be prodigal people
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  for years, but eventually they will return back.
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  Even if they do not acknowledge the law, they still have
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  conscience. Now I'm not saying public
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  schools are bad, don't get me wrong.
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  I'm saying there is a real advantage.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Yes, I have seen children even
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  till now who had the privilege of going to schools that are
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  exceptional, are excellent, and then founded upon Christian
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  principles. There are universities across
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  the globe today. I don't want to begin to mention
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  names. The the the basis of their
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  success was that the core value system, the modus operandi that
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  guided them and still guides them today is founded upon the
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  Word of God. You may not see a chapter and a
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  verse, but it is an extract of the principles that are
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  consistent with the Word of God. There are organizations today
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  that may not acknowledge them. You will not see anything vast
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  this chapter this, but that there is, they said down a
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  download. The leaders translated the
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  wisdom from Scripture and turned them into policies that drive
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  the operation of that. Society are we?
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  Together, let me tell you this, their parents, it is wonderful
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  to educate your child, but it's important to verify what they
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  are learning. Especially in the days that we
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  live in now. There are children, young
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  children under 10 because of sometimes the poisonous, subtle
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  subliminal indoctrinations they get, whether from cartoons,
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  whether from online content. And then, you know, sometimes
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  unfortunately from schools, there are young children whose
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  destruction started from the model their teachers gave them.
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  Are we together by the time? With all due respect to your
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  convictions, A teacher stands in front of a school and is smoking
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  and doing all of that. The young people look on to them
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  and before you know a teenagers, young people with all their
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  hormones running up and down, they are looking for how to
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  experiment and that's how they start and become a disaster to
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  society. Do you know why it is so?
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  If you are not interested in it? A child who becomes bad will
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  hurt your child who is good because your child who is good
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  is not interested in fighting. But when he lives in a world
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  together with a stubborn child who likes fighting, one day you
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  will hear that your child is dead because you taught him to
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  be a peacemaker versus somebody who was taught that you fight
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  and kill. So tonight's message, don't say
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  it does not concern me. Eventually it will find its way
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  to your corridor. You can be a righteous man like
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  what's his name who followed Abraham Lot and be in Sodom and
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  Gomorrah. You may lose your wife and you
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  may lose your daughters, not for any sin you committed, but
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  because the territory is so depraved, it's not enough to be
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  saved. As an individual, you must be
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  interested in territorial transformation.
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  Is someone learning now? Hello Hima, don't.
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  Your Kingdom come, your will be done.
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  Hello Hima don't your will be done.
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  Hallelujah. Most of the problems in homes,
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  most of the problems in marriages, most of the problems
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  in the political space, most of the problems in the workplace,
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  most of the problems on the pulpit.
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  The headache were going through US men of God mostly are
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  connected to discipleship or the absence of it.
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  I tell you this with all due respect, by the time a young man
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  just gets up and believes not trained, not disciple, does not
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  love the Lord, He just had that pastors have a way of getting
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  money. For instance, are we together
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  and the young guy tries, he submits his CV to NMPC, He
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  doesn't get a job. He submits his CV to civil
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  defense. He doesn't get a job.
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  He tries around someone just advises him and say you, you
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  will sit and rot here. You can sing, you can preach and
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  the gentleman just gets up and starts a church and everybody
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  he's looking for equals to an offering based on his
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  orientation. Are we together now?
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  And you find out that all kinds of things happen on the pulpit
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  that and the the danger is that when it happens, it rubs off on
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  everybody, both the good and the bad.
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  All with all due respect, again, when I say this, I love my
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  nation, but certain truths have to be admitted.
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  There are passports around the world.
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  When you carry today, no matter how good you are, as soon as you
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  stand on the line, you are a suspect already.
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  Hallelujah. You watch somebody looking like
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  a criminal, but because of the passport he's holding, he will
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  pass and go free. But simply, no matter, even if
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  you are praying in tongues as you are holding the passport,
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  they will say, wait, where are you coming from?
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  Join this line and they'll say where are you coming from?
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  What do you want to come and do here?
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  I mean, it's like they've interpreted.
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  I'm not saying it for myself, but then when you are helping
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  the body of Christ, you see what is the percentage of those who
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  have the leverage of relationships to help them scale
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  these bottlenecks? A reformed people, a transformed
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  people will not only produce a healthy Kingdom, healthy
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  witnesses, but it will translate to a Great Society.
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  Look at me, I give you an example.
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  How many of you know that if a man who is born again and was
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  trained by a good pastor and taught to respect the word of
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  God, now he gets married, that man is going to live out is not
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  beauty and looks that run a home.
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  It is the mindset of the people there.
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  Most likely, most likely that man will not hurt his wife if
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  he's discipled. Most likely are we together?
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  That man will not watch his children and say go to your
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  neighbor's house and go and eat because a scripture will judge
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  his heart that if you fail to take care of your own, you have
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  denied the faith. But a man who has not been
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  discipled, even if he was barely saved, what do you think he'll
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  do when his wife annoys him? Are we together now?
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  What do you think will happen when his children are changing?
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  He just wants them around. What are you doing in this short
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  thing? I hear you inquire choir for
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  what? Stay at home.
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  And the child remains at home and he says, what do I do now?
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  And the devil tells him you have Internet, you can watch
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  pornography. And the child begins this or
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  starts learning Yahoo, what? I call it fraud Yahoo Plus
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  because he's idle and now because a man does not
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  understand the value of transformation, for instance,
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  and that boy right in his room in one year.
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  Do you know there are many parents and I've spoken to those
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  who are involved in children ministry.
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  A woman was talking to me about a shocking statistics.
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  Young children whose parents have no idea what they have
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  become. While the parents, they come
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  home and they greet, they wear a long cloth that reaches the
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  ground and they are nice people. And the parents, while they are
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  thinking these are wonderful children, you have no idea what
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  they have become. Some of them have become
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  cultists. Some of them at young ages,
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  they've already been exposed to things that they should not be
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  exposed to. If the church keeps quiet, we're
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  going to produce a disaster. A man who does not fear God will
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  become a governor who does not fear God.
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  A man who does not fear God will become a pastor who does not
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  fear God. A man who does not fear God will
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  become a senator who does not fear God.
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  Are we together? A man that did not take care of
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  his father and his mother? Is it his local government he
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  will take care of? Please talk to me, believers,
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  when your father and your mother, you did not take care of
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  the person you are talking of a local government.
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  I said no, I'm here to eat. I'm like a hand that has put my
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  head on the ground. Until I'm satisfied, I will not
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  lift it up. Believers, are we learning a man
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  of God who has not been taught that ministry is not all about
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  titles and money and cars and houses, with all due respect,
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  may not have the time to raise and build these people.
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  What is your business with the people?
• 1:02:16
  You are using them as ladders. You are interested in fame, You
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  are interested in whatever it is.
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  I came in from Lagos this afternoon and I was talking with
• 1:02:26
  someone and the person said a possible you are coming to
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  preach this night, are you going to have the energy to preach?
• 1:02:31
  I said me, I'm like a child that has taken sugar.
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  You know what children do when when they take sugar and run
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  around and not let you sleep? No, until my work is done.
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  I've trained myself even if you put a bed for me now, I will not
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  sleep the the scriptures that will come out and I will give
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  you pastors after my heart. Peter, lovest thou me more than
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  this? Feed my lamb.
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  He won't let me sleep. I'm being sincere with you.
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  Talk less of manipulating members to say, give me more.
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  You see what I've been doing? I prophesied to you.
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  I hear you are now a senator. You've not come to greet me, you
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  know, and all of that. And then?
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  No, no, no, no, no, not at all. Listen, Conscience does not come
• 1:03:18
  from the sky. It is engineered based on a
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  standard. Is somebody learning this now?
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  Every problem has a root and every man is guided by
• 1:03:30
  something. If you are not guided by the
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  Word of God, you will become a disaster to yourself and to
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  others. A man who does not pay his child
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  school fees and is a pastor or a Deacon in church.
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  With all due respect now, I speak from a standpoint of love.
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  You know me when I speak. I don't speak to be sarcastic.
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  No, we are solving problems here, not revealing flaws, but a
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  man who does not take care of his child.
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  I've told you with all due respect and I I say that with a
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  heavy heart. There are many of our children
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  by the messes of God, some of these children, we took care of
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  them right from primary school or secondary school, primary
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  school to university. Their fathers are alive and they
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  have never found out who raised my child is when it's time to
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  collect dowry. You see it now, the man will say
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  you better come and see your father before.
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  Your father is not just the one who gave birth to you, the one
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  who revealed God to you and disciplined you and raised you.
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  That is your father who is learning.
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  So most of the problems there are very painful things I don't
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  want to go into right now because they are torchy matters,
• 1:04:54
  but they are connected directly. The misbehavior.
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  Every time you see a widespread bad behavior in homes, on the
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  pulpit, there are ill trained people.
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  They've not learned the law of honor.
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  Have you seen young men like that?
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  They woke up to elders, serious discussions.
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  Maybe their parents are wealthy people, with all due respect.
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  And you find a young boy coming, tapping the shoulders of elderly
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  people. I want to talk to you.
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  You just see lack of training. You know that this boy has not
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  been cultured. Charity does not begin at home.
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  Oh, because many bad things begin at home.
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  Charity begins when you open the world and find out what is there
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  and begin to build your life on the world.
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  Is someone learning? Now listen to this discipleship.
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  I said. Most of the problems in homes,
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  most of the problems in the workspace, most of the problems
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  in the political space, in marriages, even on the pulpit
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  can be corrected. Or this is a word of hope.
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  It's a word of hope for the church.
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  It's a word of hope for society. No matter what you think is
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  happening on the pulpit, no matter what you think is
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  happening across society, I'm telling you, there is a way out.
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  It can be corrected through the power of discipleship.
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  Now listen to this. Discipleship can benefit anyone,
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  whether you are saved or unsaved.
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  But Bible discipleship is only most profitable to believers,
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  those who have received salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  I'll read that again. It's a very important point.
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  I hope you are learning tonight. I said discipleship can benefit
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  anyone because the Bible said disciple nations, not just the
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  church alone. So there is an element of
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  discipleship that can benefit anyone, saved or unsaved.
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  Teaching people moral values, teaching people honor.
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  You see that now only that they don't have the empowerment to
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  leave it out, but they can be aware of it.
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  Discipleship can benefit anyone, whether saved or unsaved.
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  However, Bible discipleship is only most profitable to
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  believers. That means those who have
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  received salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  Anyone can benefit from the general idea of discipleship.
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  Companies train people. That's discipleship.
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  Are we together? There are programs that
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  governments across the nation put in place to train people.
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  Corporations train people. Government parastatals train
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  people. That's an aspect of
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  discipleship. But Bible discipleship is only
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  most profitable to believe us, those who have received the gift
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  of salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  Now listen to this. An unbeliever needs salvation
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  first before discipleship. Remember, we've agreed in this
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  house that the greatest need of an unbeliever is salvation.
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  The greatest need of a believer is enlightenment,
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  transformation. The greatest need of a
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  transformed believer is empowerment.
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  An unbeliever needs salvation before transformation.
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  Now, I liken salvation to the operating system in a computer.
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  Hallelujah. Before you begin to talk of
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  whatever it is, a laptop, a computer, a device that does not
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  have an operating system that runs its program, it's as good
• 1:08:48
  as dead. That's how salvation is.
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  We together now trying to put in programs in that computer
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  without first verifying whether there's an operating system.
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  That's how salvation is. You need to get God in the
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  people first before you talk of transformation.
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  Because without the Spirit of God, the capacity to truly be
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  transformed, Bible's way is not there.
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  Because transformation is by the Spirit and it is through the
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  world. Again, transformation is by the
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  Spirit and through the world. It's not just the receiving of
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  most superior ideas through transformation.
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  Reformation is by the Spirit and through the world.
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  Now there are two major aspects of discipleship.
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  Who is learning so far? Discipleship as defined now has
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  two major aspects. And I want you to pay attention
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  right now. There are two major aspects of
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  discipleship #1 in many books and references you will see some
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  of you who may care to study various materials is generally
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  agreed that there's what we call knowledge based discipleship.
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  Knowledge dash based discipleship.
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  What does that mean? This is the first aspect of
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  discipleship or the first dimension of discipleship.
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  Knowledge based discipleship. This is becoming like Christ by
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  contending for a sound superior knowledge of scripture.
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  Becoming like Christ by contending for a sound superior
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  knowledge of scripture. Becoming like Christ by
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  contending for a sound superior knowledge of scripture.
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  This talks about the journey of enlightenment that comes through
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  structured knowledge of God's word.
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  So you get to know about God. You get to know what the Bible
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  says is called knowledge based discipleship.
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  There is no true disciple of Jesus who is a disciple in
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  ignorance. Your journey to discipleship
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  starts by knowing what the Bible says.
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  The Bible says ye such the scripture for in them you think
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  you will find life. It says the scripture testify of
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  me in as much as you will meet Jesus eventually, but you have
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  to understand what the Bible says.
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  I'll tell you this ladies and gentlemen, this is my Bible.
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  There are many believers and this is a very shocking fact.
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  Churchgoers, the only time they interact with the Bible is when
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  a someone is being preached and they said turn to the book of
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  this. Aside that from Sunday to
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  Sunday, somehow there are preachers with all due respect,
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  they have never read their Bible cover to cover.
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  It's funny. It's like someone who wants to
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  be called a professor of medicine and he's never read any
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  medical textbook or has just browsed pages and then he tells
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  you lie down for a delicate brain surgery.
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  Is that how you hate your destiny?
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  Are we together or someone who believes or purports to be a
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  consultant gynecologist or you know, a nurse, a midwife and
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  comes to say wants to help your wife deliver.
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  And he said, So what is the basis of this confidence?
• 1:12:20
  And the person tells you, well, you know what, I browse online
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  how to help a woman give birth. You say, not my wife.
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  Go and try to someone else first.
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  Are we together knowledge based discipleships?
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  So the Word of God alongside Word compliant materials, The
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  Word of God alongside Word compliant materials are used to
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  acquire or transfer spiritual knowledge about God and His
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  ways. This is the first aspect of
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  discipleship that has to do with acquiring knowledge, learning
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  the Bible. So you will find someone who is
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  very enlightened. He knows what the Bible says
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  when you are mentioning salvation and the plan of
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  salvation. He has that orientation when you
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  are mentioning walking in love, living by faith.
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  That person has so understood the word of God now.
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  But I'll tell you this, knowledge based discipleship is
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  profitable, but if you stop there, you will never truly
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  reflect the character of the Christ because there are many
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  people who have the knowledge they have Bible an example, the
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  scribes and the Pharisees. Did you know that among the many
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  requirements, stringent requirements to be called a
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  Pharisee was that you had to know the entire Torah, the five
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  books of Moses of heart. Can you imagine that?
• 1:13:54
  That you literally. So those guys were learned
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  colleagues. They were people who were
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  intelligent at a level that was superior.
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  Paul was one of such people. You can see because he already
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  had a memory Bank of Scripture. It was easy for the Holy Ghost
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  to use that content, rearrange it, and turn him into a Cotton
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  edge apostle. Knowledge is important, the Word
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  of God alongside what compliant materials are used to acquire or
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  transfer spiritual knowledge and the understanding of God and His
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  ways. The second aspect of
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  discipleship, and this is the one that is grossly lacking in
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  the church today. This aspect of discipleship is
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  grossly lacking in the body of Christ.
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  It's called lifestyle based discipleship.
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  Lifestyle based discipleship, What does that mean?
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  Deciding to adopt the culture and the lifestyle of the Kingdom
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  as demonstrated by Jesus. Deciding to adopt.
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  I use the word decide because it is an act of your will.
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  You are empowered by grace, but your will has to cooperate with
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  that grace. Deciding to adopt the culture
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  and the lifestyle of the Kingdom as demonstrated by Jesus and
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  then replicating that lifestyle through the enablement of the
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  Spirit. Lifestyle based discipleship.
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  Deciding as an act of your will to adopt the culture, the value
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  system if you care, and the lifestyle of the Kingdom as
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  demonstrated by Jesus, and then replicating that lifestyle
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  through the enablement of the Spirit is someone learning What
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  is lifestyle based Discipleship? Growing into a lifestyle of
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  obedience. Write that down.
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  Growing into a lifestyle of obedience and surrender that
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  reflects the life of Christ. Growing into a lifestyle.
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  It doesn't happen in one day, but you are growing
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  progressively into a lifestyle of obedience and surrender on
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  the line. Those two words.
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  You are never a true disciple of Jesus Christ if you do not
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  understand obedience and surrender.
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  What else is the is lifestyle based discipleship living now
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  the fruit of the spirit inexperience Living out the
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  fruit of the spirit inexperience. 2 Aspects of
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  discipleship Knowledge based discipleship Acquiring relevant
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  knowledge of Scripture so that you are enlightened, you
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  understand the doctrine of scripture, but that is not
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  enough to change your character. Are we together?
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  There are many, many knowledgeable people in the body
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  of Christ who are wicked. There are many knowledgeable
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  people in the body of Christ who have no manifestation of the
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  fruit of the Spirit whatsoever, whether in business, whether as
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  pastors are we together. So knowledge is important, but
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  it's not enough to transform you by itself.
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  I'll tell you this, lifestyle based discipleship is beyond
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  character modification. We are not talking of lifestyle
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  modification. So you tell someone, you know
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  what, don't drink again, don't steal her.
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  Don't don't look at women or don't look at men.
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  No, that is you are not. We are not talking about
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  lifestyle modification. Once you are not in Christ, once
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  you are not transformed, that life itself is called the flesh.
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  Are we together now? What you need is not a lifestyle
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  modification. What you need is an overhauling
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  of the whole, the old man, and to put on the new man, which is
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  renewed in the spirit of your mind.
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  It is a complete change of lifestyle and behavior to
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  reflect the values of Christ. It is a complete change of
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  lifestyle and behavior to reflect the value of Christ.
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  I'll tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, and I say this with
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  every humility, when it has to do with lifestyle discipleship,
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  there are no masters there yet. Everybody's progressively
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  growing in it. It is in this area that you
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  don't make mouth too much because someone will know you
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  and before you know it, you've carried your hand like that and
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  you just remember that. Listen, I shouldn't be doing
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  this. It's a journey.
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  It's a journey especially when you become a leader.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. When you become a leader, you
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  will almost run yourself mad with the headache of the bad
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  behavior of people. Satan, just use these people to
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  test your patience, to test whatever it is.
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  Hallelujah. There's a man of God.
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  History has it that when he died, he lived for Jesus.
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  He loved the Lord and did his best.
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  But when he died, they found out that he was involved in drugs,
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  not drugs. I think because of the stress of
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  ministry, he had to use a lot of drugs.
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  You see that? And nobody knew until he died
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  and they investigated and they found out that this was what was
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  happening behind the scenes. Let me tell you this, becoming
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  like Christ, even with the enablement of the Spirit, you
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  would die daily. You would die daily.
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  Many people are not honest in church.
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  And men of God, the more honest we become, the freer we become.
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  Because when we lie to people and give them some kind of God
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  like impression the day they catch you angry they say.
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  But the fruit of the Spirit is. And on that day, you have no
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  explanation. So it's not to claim weakness,
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  but it's better to be honest, to let the people know that this is
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  a progressive journey. Some have already gone farther
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  than others, but we are all together looking onto Jesus
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  Christ. Are we together now?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. So the second aspect, the
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  lifestyle based discipleship, this really ladies and gentlemen
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  is one of the greatest challenges in the church today.
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  I wrote you and I want you to listen.
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  The church is full of many believers with deep and
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  sometimes high sounding spiritual knowledge, but our
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  lifestyle is in many regards hardly a reflection of a true
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  Christian. It's true.
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  It's an honest admission. You say, I say we.
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  This is not something to point hands at people.
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  Hallelujah. Someone said one day I love you
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  so much opposed to Joshua, Sam and I look at the gentleman I
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  said you love what you see on stage.
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  Have you seen me when I'm hungry?
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  Have you seen me when I'm hungry?
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  Have you seen me when network is not working?
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  Have you? Are we together?
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  And it's easy for men of God to wear this, this garment of lies
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  and sometimes come and deceive people.
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  And then they can look through you and they can see that the
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  anger is still there. Then we find a scripture to say,
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  no, it's the Holy Ghost, Sir. It's just, it's not the zeal of
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  the Lord, Sir. Lifestyle, best discipleship.
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  You can be a preacher and still remain a student.
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  You are not supposed to graduate yourself in the school of the
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  Spirit simply because you are now holding a mic.
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  The servants of the Lord Jesus Christ listen.
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  Let's not deceive ourselves. As we minister to God's people,
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  we must remain students too. When you focus on ministry more
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  than your growth, you will keep embarrassing yourself on the
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  pulpit because your lack of transformation will become
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  obvious to all. Some of this anger, this
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  jealousy, that we spiritualize it and make it look like it's
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  the Holy Ghost causing it. It's a liar.
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  It's lack of transformation. Are we together?
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  Somebody was telling me that a man of God was holding a program
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  and he stood and said why are people not transported?
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  He said they should, you know, they should get free transport.
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  I don't know if it was a joke. I was a, you know.
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  And then the committee said, all right, they now brought the
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  budget and showed the man the budget to transport the people.
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  He said, we need to be like, Christ, transport these people,
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  don't let them walk around like this.
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  So the people said, truly, thank God, you're a Good Shepherd.
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  As they brought the budget and the man looked at it, he said,
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  what is this? He said, no, no, no.
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  A committee of intelligent people came with this.
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  So don't think somebody's taking anyone error.
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  The man started insulting, using words you cannot imagine.
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  You think I am this and that and this and that.
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  And I was yelling at the leaders and they were all saying yes
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  Sir, sorry Sir. And you know God is so merciful
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  because you can finish that nonsense from your office and as
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  soon as you stand here, people are shouting under the anointing
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  and you will make a mistake of thinking that performance under
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  the anointing is proof that you have graduated in the school of
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  the Spirit. I can tell you there is
• 1:23:45
  something I've learnt about God. You can be God can be dealing
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  with your issues and then suspend it for you to go and
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  preach once he will back you up with power miracles once he's
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  done he's OK. Let's go back this anger.
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  You know you are you are there's jealousy working but because you
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  have a conference tomorrow morning.
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  Let's suspend the training go and minister in that conference
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  and sometimes once you are ministry news old Jesus Christ.
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  Look at this man, look at this and God is watching what is
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  saying is finished and come and meet me.
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  But you know what happens to many of us because of quoting
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  scripture. Once we finish, rather than
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  returning back, we go and climb where the spotlight is and we
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  raise our hands and God keeps warning you and says, if I don't
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  prune you, a day will come. You will fall before the whole
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  world. And he's saying, before you
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  embarrass yourself, let me deal with you now before you expand
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  and go global. This anger, this lost, this
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  greed, you can kill for money. I will not disgrace you because
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  you are my shepherd. You see, the thing about God is
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  that he's the Father. He will rebuke and yet cover.
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  It's only you and him that will know.
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  What's that Doctor Paul and Anchor song?
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  Sing it for me. Powerful song with you Lord.
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  That is why. Listen and I love the body of
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  Christ. Please listen to me.
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  I tell you why many people get into all kinds of troubles when
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  they are up there. Something happens in their aside
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  from demonic attacks, most of them what is destroying their
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  lives and with all due respect, their ministries is a school of
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  the spirit, a class in the school of the spirit that they
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  jumped. You know, in the secular you can
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  jump a class and read it up and write the exam and even get a in
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  the school of the spirit, the class you jump, even if it's
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  after 30 years, it will haunt you.
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  When Satan comes to your life, he verifies what class you
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  jumped in the spirit through pride, through an arrival
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  mentality. Listen, this thing about God,
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  there's no big man there in his presence.
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  We are all children. We roll before him and said,
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  Lord, show me mercy. If you have made my life a model
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  enough, help me. There is no man who is too big
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  to fall. There is no man who is too big
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  to fail. Even Jesus almost missed out on
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  redemption. Jesus, the pain of the cross.
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  He said Father, if it be your will, let's renegotiate this.
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  Sing that song for me one more time with you, Lord, I can be
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  naked and not a shame. Look at me.
• 1:27:47
  Your liberty in the Spirit begins the day you realize that
• 1:27:53
  if God does not help you, help cannot arise for you anywhere.
• 1:27:57
  And in doing that you have to remove the regalia of apostle,
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  of prophet or preacher. Are we together now?
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  There's something I know about God.
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  He will never raise you to drop you down, except you come.
• 1:28:12
  You jump out of His hand because men are clapping for you, and
• 1:28:16
  then one day you will crash like a pack of card.
• 1:28:25
  The church is full of many believers with deep spiritual
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  knowledge. They can preach until you bring
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  the issue of money. This is not a pastor's
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  conference and there are some things I should not tell you
• 1:28:39
  here. There are some things you cannot
• 1:28:41
  say in the open because when you study ministry, ethics, he says,
• 1:28:46
  little children, I write to you. Little children, I write to you,
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  young men, I write to you fathers.
• 1:28:53
  Maybe a man of God should listen to me.
• 1:28:54
  Now let me do ministry one O 1. There are letters that are for
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  fathers, There are letters that are for young men.
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  There are letters that are for children.
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  No matter what level in the spirit, there is a letter for
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  you. The problem is you don't read
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  the letter of fathers to children.
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  There are some things they should not see.
• 1:29:16
  Are we together now? If you are a leader, it is not
• 1:29:20
  every matter in your organization that you discuss
• 1:29:23
  with everybody. I write these things to you
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  children. But there is a one I write to
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  you, young man, but there is a one I write to you.
• 1:29:32
  The way God deals with a child. A child come back naked.
• 1:29:35
  There's no shame because he's a child.
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  He's not even aware of what to cover.
• 1:29:41
  Are we together? But when he gets to a young man,
• 1:29:43
  he has energy, but he's self-conscious.
• 1:29:45
  He now says, I come back with my sister again and you understand,
• 1:29:49
  but there is a father. When you see an adult walking
• 1:29:55
  naked, you call the person a mad person, but you can't call a
• 1:29:59
  child walking naked a mad child. Are we together now?
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  So I'm teaching you this is ministry or we're not doing
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  ministry now, but maybe this is a word for a man of God.
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  It is not every issue in the body of Christ.
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  You say in the open and you tell everybody you are not covering.
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  It is wisdom. I write to you young men and
• 1:30:19
  this is some of these young guys in ministry who are ill trained.
• 1:30:23
  They don't understand that there is a protocol, everything to be
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  said. They just said you bring
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  dishonor to the body of Christ. There are issues that should be
• 1:30:32
  built as the church. It preserves the honor and the
• 1:30:36
  sanctity of the church. Are we together now?
• 1:30:42
  When he said to Peter, get thee behind me, he did not tell him.
• 1:30:46
  I'm not sure. I'm not ready to gain well, but
• 1:30:49
  I don't think he said it to everybody when he was meeting
• 1:30:52
  with Nicodemus. Nicodemus came by night.
• 1:30:55
  He would have said, you're a stupid man, come to my crusade.
• 1:30:57
  Let everybody see you. No, he dealt with him when he
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  was going to the House of Zacchaeus.
• 1:31:03
  He says, Zacchaeus, you are a great man, Let's go to your
• 1:31:06
  house. There are things I want to tell
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  you, but it cannot be in public. Is someone learning?
• 1:31:15
  This is wisdom for the body of Christ.
• 1:31:20
  Noah drank wine and he became naked and slept.
• 1:31:28
  When his sons came and saw their father's nakedness, 2 of them
• 1:31:32
  were laughing and they called the other brothers.
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  They said come and see the nakedness of your father.
• 1:31:37
  And one saw it and said what is this?
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  He took a garment and went behind and covered.
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  When Noah got up even though he drank he crossed the sons.
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  He said his servant of servant shall you be.
• 1:31:48
  I can tell you this. The thing you are thinking you
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  have seen in the life of fathers and men of God.
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  You are not the only one seeing it.
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  Every other person has seen it too.
• 1:31:58
  But you see there are people only God can talk to.
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  We'll leave it for pastors conference.
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  This is, this is, this is discipleship.
• 1:32:13
  Is someone learning? Now go around showing ignorance.
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  No, I write. Listen, I write these things to
• 1:32:21
  you little children. There is a letter for children.
• 1:32:24
  Fathers can read the letter of children.
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  They are the ones who even delivered.
• 1:32:29
  I write these things to you young men.
• 1:32:32
  You've been in ministry for 1020 years.
• 1:32:34
  Let me tell you this, I've not been in ministry for too long,
• 1:32:38
  but when you see the fathers keep quiet, wait till you get to
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  certain levels. It's easy to be a commentator
• 1:32:44
  when you are not doing anything. I don't know why I digress like
• 1:32:47
  this. Oh, this man is greedy, this man
• 1:32:49
  is wicked, this man likes money. Don't worry, the day 1000 people
• 1:32:54
  tell you please pay the school fees of our children, you will
• 1:32:57
  know the value of wealth. Are we together?
• 1:33:02
  Having traveled around the world a bit, holding global
• 1:33:05
  conferences, doing a lot of things, my brother, my sister,
• 1:33:09
  let me tell you, there are many sermons, many people are
• 1:33:11
  preaching now. Let them grow a little more.
• 1:33:14
  They will repent 1000 * 1000 times.
• 1:33:20
  Sing that song one more time with you, Lord, I can be naked.
• 1:33:49
  Don't get me wrong, I'm not endorsing licentiousness never
• 1:33:52
  will I but I'm just telling you until you get to certain levels
• 1:33:57
  bar just keep your mouth shut. The day somebody gives you 10
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  billion are we together 100 billion and it says all I want
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  you to do is sign this sign that and you will change your destiny
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  forever. That's the first time you ask
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  you only oh God, I would give up everything.
• 1:34:17
  How much is in your bank account?
• 1:34:19
  Don't worry the day someone kidnaps your child and say
• 1:34:25
  change this policy or will kill your child tomorrow.
• 1:34:28
  That's the day you know whether you are really a Christian or
• 1:34:31
  not for money, you can resist it, but the day you hear the
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  voice of your child on phone, Daddy helped me and I said
• 1:34:39
  manipulate this result or we will slaughter your child.
• 1:34:43
  That's the day you are standing before justice as the word of
• 1:34:47
  God demands and you are standing before your child.
• 1:34:51
  It's easy to resist money. You don't even need to be born
• 1:34:54
  again. But when it is your child, your
• 1:34:56
  wife. Look, let me tell you ladies and
• 1:34:58
  gentlemen, hear what I'm telling you.
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  There are letters that are for fathers.
• 1:35:04
  This is not my teaching. If you see me do this thing,
• 1:35:06
  it's the Holy Spirit. There are letters that are for
• 1:35:09
  young men. Let me speak to the young men,
• 1:35:11
  especially of my generation. I will say it again.
• 1:35:14
  You don't know what it means to enter the shoes of these
• 1:35:17
  fathers. Some of us, if we were to drive
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  that car, will not reach one year.
• 1:35:21
  Our pride will kill us. You know what it means to have
• 1:35:26
  presidents as sons, ministers of economy as sons, and still
• 1:35:31
  maintain your integrity? No, Sir.
• 1:35:34
  No Sir. You told lies because of house
• 1:35:37
  rent and you want to be trusted with access to the program of
• 1:35:41
  God? No.
• 1:35:45
  Are we together? That's why the older people get
• 1:35:50
  the most silence. They are is young people that
• 1:35:52
  shout anyhow and just talk. What is them parenting.
• 1:35:57
  You can raise good children and you see a woman who has been
• 1:35:59
  married for 40 years. My son take it easy.
• 1:36:02
  No, I I mean I have an app that teaches you whatever continue
• 1:36:10
  someone gets married for five just five months and is advising
• 1:36:15
  everybody. So what is hard in the thing
• 1:36:17
  now? Why is all this and someone say
• 1:36:20
  be careful, be careful, let's get back to our teaching, Let's
• 1:36:28
  get back to our teaching. It is easy to be a commentator
• 1:36:40
  when you are not doing anything serious.
• 1:36:42
  Hallelujah. Where did we stop bad and unruly
• 1:36:56
  behaviors among pastors, leaders are largely a direct absence of
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  discipleship. Let me come home now a bit.
• 1:37:07
  And when I speak, I don't speak with a sense of self
• 1:37:10
  righteousness. I say all of us.
• 1:37:12
  I'm not ashamed of as a man of God, I'm not ashamed to grow.
• 1:37:16
  I threw away that pride long time ago, long time ago.
• 1:37:20
  I rather be right with Jesus than be right before men and
• 1:37:24
  fail with him. He knows my heart.
• 1:37:33
  Stealing and corruption among Christians largely a product of
• 1:37:39
  lack of discipleship. How about hatred?
• 1:37:43
  How about envy? Hi, do you know ladies and
• 1:37:45
  gentlemen, I I spoke with someone I think so a few weeks
• 1:37:49
  ago and he was lamenting over an issue when I got to hear the
• 1:37:54
  schemings that happened in his office.
• 1:37:57
  Do you know over 7 people out of the eight that skimmed that
• 1:38:02
  thing against him? They were serious Christians.
• 1:38:05
  About three were his church members.
• 1:38:08
  It is something that will Pierce your heart if I tell you and you
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  wander and see these things happen in church.
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  Yes Sir, it was not a stranger that kissed Jesus, it was Judas.
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  It was not a stranger that killed the first person in the
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  Bible, it was a brother. I'm not teaching you to be
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  judgmental. I'm just telling you that God
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  needs to help us. The real secret of societal and
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  national transformation is not just in electing leaders, as
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  wonderful as that is, I wrote here.
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  It is a massive emergence of reformed and transformed people.
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  Let me tell you this, I believe in the power of leadership, but
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  I do not believe that any single entity alone sustains the power
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  to transform any organizational society.
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  No, you can create the environment, that is correct.
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  Are we together? You can protect the policies,
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  that is correct, but it will take transformed people in mass,
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  not rebels, to transform society.
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  Now discipleship, I wrote here, must capture certain teachings
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  or elements or else it can become a religious ritual and
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  even put believers in in danger, in bondage.
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  Now I'm balancing something very quickly.
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  I hope we're learning so far. If you're learning, say Amen.
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  I need to know you are receiving.
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  If you're learning, shout Amen. So I wrote here that
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  discipleship must capture certain teachings or elements or
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  else it can become a religious ritual and even put believers in
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  bondage. I'm sorry to say this, but there
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  are many things we call discipleship in the body of
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  Christ that is not Bible discipleship, it's bondage.
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  People have been tied down with religious ropes and kept in
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  bondage, putting pressure on believers to adopt the behavior
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  of a pastor. Putting pressure on believers to
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  adopt the behavior of a church, putting pressure on believers to
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  try to attain holiness and righteousness through human
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  efforts does not translate to Bible discipleship, it is true.
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  Are we together now? Yes.
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  Discipleship is beyond looking like a man of God.
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  With all due respect, the discipleship is beyond just
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  conforming to the tenants of a church, as much as that is
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  important. It is rather becoming like
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  Christ in experience. I wrote here that discipleship
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  is also not about making slaves out of people in an attempt to
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  appease the standards that are set by men.
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  I need to balance this. Sometimes our pride in the body
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  of Christ makes us to stand as references and standards.
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  Are we together and then we create a template.
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  If you don't look like me, you are not like Christ.
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  We need to be careful now. It should be so that a man can
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  walk with God and attend onto a standard where your life is such
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  a model that should be and truly there are people whose lives are
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  like that. Quite an impressive model.
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  There are fathers whose lives are quite an impressive model
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  worthy of emulation. In as much as they are men.
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  They have attained on to a standard of Christ like
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  character that is worth emulating.
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  But the goal is to be like Christ and if at all we follow
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  men it is so that eventually we will become like Christ and not
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  like the men. If you become like Jesus Christ
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  and you are not like Joshua Selman, I am satisfied.
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  If you become like me and not like Jesus Christ, I destroy
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  your destiny. Elements of discipleship, write
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  it down, please. That's the next thing we want to
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  deal with tonight is a Bible school.
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  Elements of discipleship. What does this mean?
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  For your discipleship to be effective, it must capture the
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  following. This is not all of it, but I
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  just want to give you a few things that must be part of the
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  cost content in producing disciples.
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  No matter what else you teach, if it does not capture some of
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  these things, you cannot produce true disciples #1 the first
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  element of discipleship. In no particular order.
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  I'm just giving you a few. There are many more.
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  Anyone seeking to be a true disciple of Jesus must
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  understand salvation through the finished work of Christ.
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  You cannot become like Christ if you do not understand salvation
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  through the finished work, not salvation through rituals and
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  self righteousness. Ephesians chapter 28 and 9 Let's
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  work together so we can pray. Ephesians 28 and 9 For by grace
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  are you saved. It is true faith and not of
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  yourselves. It is the gift of God.
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  The Bible says in verse 9 not of works.
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  What kind of works? Not the word works there.
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  Replace it with rituals not doings.
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  You see the Bible in especially the King James and other
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  versions. Sometimes they don't do justice
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  to the language. Don't forget the Bible was not
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  written in English. Anytime you see walks there.
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  He's talking about rituals, not doings.
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  He's not talking about action, because even salvation is
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  received through the action of faith.
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  So when the Bible talks of walks as contrasting it to grace, he's
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  talking about the rituals akin to the rituals under the law.
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  He's not talking about doings, he's talking about rituals.
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  Are we together? Because the idea we get of walks
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  is inertia, not doing anything. Calling upon the name of the
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  Lord is doing something. Stepping up from your seat to
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  come up to the puppet is an action of faith.
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  Are we learning now? So when you see the Word works,
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  he's talking about rituals, customs that were done in all
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  times as against accepting the finished work of Christ and
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  receiving by faith #2 what should be captured in a proper
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  discipleship structure that raises witnesses, indeed the
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  responsibility of obedience and alignment in becoming like
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  Christ. Write that down.
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  One of the second elements that must be captured in producing
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  disciples is that they must be taught the responsibility of
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  obedience and alignment in becoming like Christ.
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  You cannot become like Christ outside of surrender, alignment
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  and obedience in as much as the grace of God.
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  You see the word grace is a wonderful word and there's many
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  that there's a depth of riches of the grace of God.
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  But but there are many dimensions of grace.
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  There's what we call the saving grace, the finished work of
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  Christ you only receive and appropriated by faith.
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  But there is what we call the enabling grace.
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  So you take the action of obedience, but the strength to
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  do it comes from God. Are we together the
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  responsibility of obedience and alignment in becoming like
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  Christ? If you are going to become like
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  Christ, you are going to have to pray.
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  There is no gift of prayer. It will take your time.
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  There is no gift of sitting to open your Bible and read for
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  hours. Believers must understand the
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  responsibility component of becoming like Christ, and it is
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  discipleship that teaches that. If not, you are going to produce
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  a lazy, entitled people who abuse the grace of God and turn
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  it into an instrument of licentiousness #3 the third
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  element of discipleship. People must be taught to walk in
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  love. WALKIWALK to walk in love.
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  You cannot produce true disciples if you don't teach men
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  how to walk in love. Love for God and love for
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  people. Ephesians 51 and two, love for
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  God and love for people. If you love God alone and hate
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  people, you are not a true disciple of Jesus.
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  Be ye therefore followers of God as their children.
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  Verse 2 and walk in love, as Christ also had loved us and
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  given Himself. The law of love is one of the
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  fundamental laws of every true disciple.
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  Discipline is part of love. Rebuking in love is part of
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  love. Are we together?
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  Giving is part of love. Forgiving is the highest
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  demonstration of love. There are many believers who do
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  not work in love. You hear people make careless
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  statements like over my dead body.
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  Then they told her I'm listening to you be talking walking in
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  love. Walking in love does not mean
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  being foolish. No, walking in love does not
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  mean being unwise. It does not mean allowing evil
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  things to just prevail around you.
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  No, the law of love, the greatest way you know, a true
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  disciple of Jesus is not power, is not wisdom, is love.
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  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples.
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  Not when you pray in tongues, not when you preach well, not
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  when you attend Koinonia. Not when you host programs
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  around the world, when you have love one for another.
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  Next element who is learning? People must be taught the value
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  of living by the Word, the value of living by the Word, the value
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  of living by the Word. There is no true disciple of
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  Jesus Christ who does not culture himself herself to
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  develop an unquenchable passion for the Word of God.
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  The modus operandi in the Kingdom is found in Matthew 4
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  and verse four. Man shall not live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of
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  God. You are not a true disciple of
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  Jesus if you are careless about the Word of God.
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  You must love it more than your necessary food.
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  Hallelujah. I love the word of God.
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  I don't just preach it. Oh how I love your laws.
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  It says they are my meditation all day.
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  I truly love the word of God. I can stay on one verse for
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  days. Not because I'm looking for a
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  sermon. I just find a well through that
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  verse and I'm just using all kinds of fetchers to draw it
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  out. If you do not love the word of
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  God, it's an attack. It's corrupting your potential
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  for being like Christ. At age 12, Jesus was at the
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  temple studying scripture even though He was the Word.
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  I pray for you, my beloved people, in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Any attack on your passion for
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  the Word. You open your Bible but never
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  read it. Your house is full of all kinds
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  of word compliant books, but you never read 1.
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  You cannot open your Bible. You can read books twice the
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  size of your Bible, but even to finish a Gideon International
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  New Testament, you are not able to because it's an attack.
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  Don't feel condemned. I'm praying for you.
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  Let fresh grace rest upon you right now.
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  Let fresh grace rest upon you right now.
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  Please. Be seated, I'm listening for
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  you. Some of the elements that must
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  be captured in any structure, any program that turns men into
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  Christ. Salvation through the finished
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  work of Christ. Then the responsibility of
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  obedience and alignment in your journey to becoming like Christ.
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  Then how to walk in love, Then the value of the Word of God.
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  How to live by faith is the next element.
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  Write it down. A believer who must be like
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  Christ must be taught, must be mentored on how to live by
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  faith. There are no guarantees in life
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  the Bible says to hold for the shield of faith wherein you will
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  be able to quench all the fiery darts of the enemy.
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  Vision 616. How to live by faith The Bible
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  says 4 times in scripture the just shall live by faith.
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  Believers must be taught how to live by faith, how to act upon
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  the world so that you commit God to perform in your life.
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  If you don't know how to live by faith, you will not live a
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  victorious life because the Bible says this is the victory
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  that overcomes the world, even our faith.
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  Who is learning now? What else should you learn that
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  makes you like Christ under the subject of discipleship?
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  Productivity as a key to impact an economic emancipation.
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  Write that down. Productivity as a key to impact
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  an economic emancipation. Don't just teach people to live
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  a holy life, as wonderful as that is.
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  Don't just teach people to be prayerful.
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  Don't just teach people to work in love.
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  You must teach people the principles of productivity.
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  And this is where it now benefits the larger society as a
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  key to impact an economic emancipation.
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  If you don't teach people productivity, they will steal.
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  They will become thieves because they have bills to pay.
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  If you don't teach people productivity as the way of
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  dignity to be emancipated economically, they will be
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  beggarly. Homes will break because of
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  financial issues. Men will continue to be lazy and
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  not care. A man will not take care of his
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  family and say it's because I'm an OSHA in church.
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  No, it's not because you're an OSHA in church.
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  Oshring does not make you a lazy husband.
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  Hallelujah, Mass Monroe blessed memory said there was a time,
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  and I think I've said the story here, where a man was mad with
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  his wife. I mean, he was almost breaking
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  their home and it was because of church.
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  He hated the fact that the woman was going to church.
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  And one day the woman came and told Doctor Miles Monroe,
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  According to him. He said, look, I'm sorry, I may
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  not be able to come to church again.
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  He said, why is that so? He said my husband is angry and
• 1:53:29
  he hates the fact that I come to church.
• 1:53:30
  He said I don't have time to take care of, you know, him and
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  the children and all of that, and he's angry.
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  He was asking who is really your husband, me or your pastor, you
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  know, and all of those kind of things.
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  And the man was threatening that you lose the marriage.
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  You know what Doctor Miles said? He said, you know what, go back
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  home. She said no, no, no, no, no.
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  I mean I my heart. He said go back home.
• 1:53:50
  He said, your husband is right, go back home, take care of your
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  home. And the woman said no, no, I
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  know. He said go back home.
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  The woman returned home, true story.
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  Her husband said why are you home?
• 1:54:01
  You know man and their ego, why are you home?
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  And she said, my pastor sent me back home and said my
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  responsibilities to take care of you and my home.
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  The man said, oh really? Then he kept quiet.
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  Then he thought about it. Then the next time she was going
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  to church he said OK, let me just you know men, she this is
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  my my wonder of of late now saying the story.
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  And then the man came and hung around that he didn't enter, but
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  he hung around and said that your pastor is it, can I have a
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  word with him? And Mas Munro came and according
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  to if I get the story right, maybe I may have missed one or
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  two things. But the point is that he came,
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  shook the man and said look, we are a pro family church and will
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  not destroy your family because of church.
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  What we are teaching here is for the good.
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  We are transforming your wife and your children so that you
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  will even enjoy your marriage. Do you know what happened?
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  The man later became a Walker in that church.
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  Productivity. You should never come for
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  Koinonia. And then, with all due respect
• 1:55:10
  on Monday, become a foolish worker at your place of work,
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  become a bad wife, become a bad husband.
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  No. Then it means what we're
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  teaching is not working. Are we together now?
• 1:55:23
  Our children should not come to church, come for service, and
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  then eventually they are not doing well.
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  No. No, the pride of every man of
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  God is to see the people committed to him becoming like
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  Christ, not just giving him money, not just attending
• 1:55:38
  conferences. If you attend conferences, I
• 1:55:41
  don't care. If you feel from here to the end
• 1:55:43
  of Nigeria and you are not like Christ, then I'm wasting your
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  time and I'm also wasting my time is someone learning.
• 1:55:52
  You must teach people to be productive.
• 1:55:55
  That's why I teach you. We had a financial seminar for
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  workers. Someone had been, I think
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  someone sent me a text. Let me respond to that person
• 1:56:02
  now. He sent a text some months ago
• 1:56:04
  and he said, Apostle, it's been long.
• 1:56:05
  You preached about finances. So this thing is really hitting
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  me. Say something.
• 1:56:09
  I said, don't worry, we'll say something one of these days.
• 1:56:13
  I told him. I said what I've said.
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  Have you listened to? He said, yeah, I've listened to.
• 1:56:16
  I said, listen again, you, you certainly have not gotten
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  something there. Listen again.
• 1:56:21
  I will teach you everything that will make you become great, no
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  matter how controversial it is. If it will make you become like
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  Christ, my name is Joshua Selman.
• 1:56:31
  I will teach it. I will teach it.
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  If it's finances, I will teach you as if you will never learn
• 1:56:37
  anything in your life again. If it's becoming like Christ, I
• 1:56:41
  will teach it. I will rebuke you.
• 1:56:43
  You will cry together or rub your back and then do it again.
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  I won't stop till you look just like Him.
• 1:56:52
  It's my commitment. I won't stop.
• 1:56:54
  No, I won't stop. You may hate me for a while.
• 1:56:58
  Don't worry. It's like a child hating the
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  father who says get up and go to school.
• 1:57:02
  One day when he becomes a doctor, he will buy the father a
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  child, a car. Some of you, you may not buy me
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  a car, but one day when I see your life and I see you speaking
• 1:57:12
  before presidents and I hear that they gave you a bribe of
• 1:57:16
  $100 million and your Tony said no, no, no.
• 1:57:18
  I've been trained more than that.
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  Don't bring money to me. I've been taught to die to the
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  flesh. These are the kinds of people we
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  are raising that someone will bring you money and say no, this
• 1:57:30
  is this is not me. I've been trained.
• 1:57:33
  I've been trained that someone will advise you and say beat
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  your wife, say no, not in Koinonia.
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  I will tell her I'm sorry. She's right.
• 1:57:41
  The Bible says dwell with them according to knowledge.
• 1:57:44
  And you go to your wife and say I'm sorry and your wife say you
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  have changed what happened. You say this is Koinonia.
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  God is raising mighty man in this place.
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  God is raising people of wisdom in this place.
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  He won't stop. He won't stop till we lose.
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  Just like him. He won't stop.
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  No, He won't stop till we lose you.
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  He may cry, but he won't stop till you look just like him.
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  You may wait, but he won't stop till you look just like him.
• 1:58:40
  Some of the teachings will stretch you.
• 1:58:42
  Some of the teachings will annoy you.
• 1:58:44
  Sometimes you will feel like stoning me.
• 1:58:47
  Don't worry, it's part of the making.
• 1:58:50
  It's part of the making. Have you seen someone adding
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  pepper to food? And your own eye is tearing, but
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  you will see added. There are times you watch a
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  woman in the kitchen and she's bleeding.
• 1:59:01
  The knife just cuts her. She doesn't stop cooking.
• 1:59:03
  Sometimes she just ties it. And with joy, she's happy that
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  her children will eat. And she calls the children and
• 1:59:10
  sometimes they don't even appreciate Mommy, I'm hungry.
• 1:59:12
  And he says thank you and he's looking at the bar.
• 1:59:14
  What happened to your hand? He said, don't worry, my son,
• 1:59:17
  your food is ready. That's leadership.
• 1:59:22
  Some of you don't know the injuries.
• 1:59:23
  Sometimes we sustain to make sure we stand for truth.
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  You don't know the things we have said no to.
• 1:59:29
  You don't know the things we would have received in the last
• 1:59:33
  one month. I've not slept generously.
• 1:59:35
  I've not. I'm telling you this is before
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  God. But it is a sworn covenant that
• 1:59:46
  under my watch you must become like Christ, must become like
• 1:59:50
  Christ. After the sound of revival, I
• 1:59:56
  had an encounter with the Lord and he said, I will give you
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  grace to disciple nations. I will give you the grace to
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  disciple nations, not just regions, nations.
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  You have given us a destiny. And a purpose to fulfill so we
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  know I am every breath in me. I'll spend my life to see Jesus
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  reveal and Jesus glory fire, Jesus reveal and Jesus love.
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  Let me minister to you for one minute.
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  Listen, everybody. No, I has sinned, no hear has
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  heard what God has prepared for you.
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  So you submit to his work in you, till the Christ be formed
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  in you. No, I has sinned, no hear has
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  heard what God has prepared for you.
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  So you submit to his work in you till Christ before, till his
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  glory is seen in you, till His wisdom rests on you, till His
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  life flows through you. He has given you a destiny.
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  Let me tell you this, I don't mean to brag.
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  We're not the only ones doing what we're doing.
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  But Koinonia, wait for the next 5 years, wait for the next 10
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  years, you will see what will begin to happen across the
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  nations. It's a move of the Spirit.
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  I was in Kenya over the weekend as I stood ministering God's
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  grace to people. I said it is possible to change
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  nations. That statement can a nation be
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  born in one day? We are getting into that
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  dimension from Glasgow to New York to Calgary to Kenya to
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  Ghana to South Africa. Here in Nigeria, I'm telling
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  you, you don't need to be in power to be in power.
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  You need to be with God and you will disciple nations from where
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  we are. We will teach kings the ways of
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  God. We will bring My God chapter
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  two, My God chapter 4 to place that all nations will flow and
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  they will say, come, let's go to the God of Jacob and we will
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  teach them. We will teach them the ways of
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  God. I am humbled at the kinds of
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  people who are connected right now across the globe.
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  I'm telling you, Koinonia, I've been listened to.
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  Now I'm not exaggerating and I'm not lying.
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  Homes of presidencies, billionaires.
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  I meet people around the world and I am amazed.
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  They will say, apostle, I've followed you for five years.
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  I've done this and that. I have run my company with the
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  things. There was a whole company that
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  used one of our series for their retreat as a corporation.
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  They sat down the board members. I had a little time.
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  We're in Kenya and I had some time with Safaricom.
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  Many of you will know them. The largest Internet, I mean the
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  largest service provider, 50 million people, 4000
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  transactions per second. And I had the opportunity to sit
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  with the board and speak to them and hold prayer with them.
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  We're disciplined nations. It doesn't look like it, but
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  wait to see what our children will become.
• 2:04:44
  It may not look like it, but be patient to see what you will
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  become. Oh, let me tell you this.
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  The nations will not be fixed from government directly.
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  It will be fixed from the altar. Those who will fix it in
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  government are here. It won't start from us or rock.
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  It will start from the church. It won't start from White House.
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  Hear me. No nation has been changed from
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  the Government House. It is changed from the pulpit.
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  Can I tell you, no matter how stubborn people are who are now,
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  I'm not a politician, but I'm just saying anybody who is
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  destroying the program of God, you know, people who are taking
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  people's scoop, the corruption that is in Africa.
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  Can I tell you, even if you cannot fight a man, time can
• 2:05:34
  take that man out of the way. So rather than crying and saying
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  this one, that one Africa, this senator has been there 20 years,
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  don't worry, be raising the next ones now.
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  This is what we should be doing. That's why you see, I don't talk
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  about election. I don't there's every political
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  party in Colonia and for everybody.
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  I'm I'm, I care less about political parties.
• 2:05:57
  I love the current set of leaders across Africa, across
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  Nigeria, but my interest is not them.
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  I'm taking care of what the next five years, the next 10 years
• 2:06:08
  were raising a breed without greed.
• 2:06:11
  People who love the Lord, people of Covenant, that king, priest,
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  prophet, formation who will return it to government will
• 2:06:22
  start small. When you lighten matches is
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  small when you put it on one candle, then on another, then on
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  another. I made a prophetic statement
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  years ago. I said we will all be great and
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  we will know ourselves. It's true, it is true,
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  Hallelujah, it is true. The precious lady who flew us
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  from Kenya and brought us to Nigeria, you know, she was in
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  the meeting, she was in the conference.
• 2:06:56
  Lovely lady. I'm telling you, the one who
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  flew us flew that aircraft. You see that Lady?
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  You think she cannot drive a golf, but she was going to sit
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  on that thing and carry us there.
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  And I said this is Kingdom, Kingdom Hallelujah.
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  Oh, yes. Look, there are things I should
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  not tell you. Hallelujah.
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  Yes, the Kingdom. A day will come when someone is
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  about to pass a policy and he says, excuse me for a moment.
• 2:07:30
  He gets into a room to refresh and you think he's taking a tea
• 2:07:33
  break. And while you are passing as a
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  cleaner, you hear him say, Father, in the name of Jesus,
• 2:07:39
  which way should I go? Spirit of the living God?
• 2:07:42
  And you say so. This senator, he's also born
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  again. Also tongue talking.
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  Oh, come on. You can't stop it.
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  It's God's program. This is not about Christianity.
• 2:07:53
  It's an emergence of reformers. It's an emergence of people who
• 2:07:57
  will transform nations. It may look small, but you keep
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  watching. You keep watching.
• 2:08:03
  God has given us the influence. He's giving us the resources.
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  He's giving us the integrity of heart.
• 2:08:09
  There's no stopping again. I'm going to raise a breed of
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  youths in Nigeria. I tell you a day will come when
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  a young man will tell you I need my job and I'm not going to
• 2:08:22
  bribe. It will come by meritocracy.
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  I love Jesus Christ. It does not yet appear what we
• 2:08:32
  shall be like, but you keep listening.
• 2:08:35
  It's a software. When it gets to you, you can't
• 2:08:38
  undo it. Again, you can't undo it.
• 2:08:41
  I'm teaching you the hidden wisdom of God.
• 2:08:43
  I'm teaching you the principles of favor.
• 2:08:45
  You watch where to take you. One day you will wake up and
• 2:08:48
  find yourself among kings and say, what am I doing here?
• 2:08:51
  The mysteries of the Kingdom listen of an employee.
• 2:08:57
  Your status based on what you are hearing is, is the realm of
• 2:09:01
  a Cordian of conglomerates. What you are learning now is
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  listen. I'm teaching you beyond tea and
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  bread. If all I'm raising you to do is
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  just and I'm speaking to a global family right now.
• 2:09:15
  Every time you connect to Koinonia, it's more than meeting
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  your needs. If it's all about meeting your
• 2:09:20
  needs, don't listen again. You are done.
• 2:09:23
  Favor alone can sort you for life.
• 2:09:25
  Who are teaching you the principles that can make you be
• 2:09:28
  trusted with the program of God over territories that God can
• 2:09:33
  say I want to change Zimbabwe in the next 5 years.
• 2:09:36
  Can I trust you and you say yes Sir, grant me the grace and you
• 2:09:40
  will shift climate from government to government or a
• 2:09:44
  time will come. They will not laugh at the
• 2:09:45
  church again. No, Sir, the church will not be
• 2:09:48
  a news and society. You go to the educational
• 2:09:50
  sector, we are there. You go to the legal system, we
• 2:09:53
  are there. You go to banking and finance,
• 2:09:55
  we are there. I'm telling you, go to the
• 2:09:59
  mission field, we are there. Go to sports, we are there.
• 2:10:04
  Prayer warriors, we are there. Policy makers, we are there.
• 2:10:09
  Presidents, we are there. Captains of industry, we are
• 2:10:12
  there. We have the power to short a
• 2:10:15
  nation against the devil. All you need to do is call the
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  policy maker who calls the judge, who calls the policeman,
• 2:10:23
  who calls the law enforcement agent who calls the intercessor.
• 2:10:27
  And together as a team, we drive darkness out of territories.
• 2:10:35
  These are not all realistic things.
• 2:10:37
  No, I've stopped talking about the days of Swan Soul when the
• 2:10:42
  greatest days now Greatest days, I tell you, Oh, being a child of
• 2:10:48
  God will be exciting. It will no longer be that boring
• 2:10:51
  thing of coming to sit because from Monday to Tuesday your life
• 2:10:54
  is an unfolding of the wisdom of God.
• 2:10:57
  You believe what I'm saying? It is true.
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  Now listen, sit down, sit down. Please sit down.
• 2:11:04
  Sit down. Koinonia.
• 2:11:06
  I want you to look at me. How many of you know that?
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  Just missing this element of productivity alone, you can
• 2:11:14
  program someone to fail as a person, fail as a father, fail
• 2:11:18
  as a leader simply because he did not know that productivity
• 2:11:23
  should also be captured in your discipline.
• 2:11:25
  People. I'm not one of such persons that
• 2:11:29
  tell people don't steal, don't kill.
• 2:11:31
  I show you a superior alternative.
• 2:11:34
  There is a way and not an alternative that befits man of
• 2:11:38
  God alone. This is Samu, this is Samu.
• 2:11:49
  Believe me, this is Samu, this is we are here for you.
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  Come and do what you do. We are here for you.
• 2:12:15
  Come and do what you do. Set our hearts for you.
• 2:12:35
  Please be seated. Please be seated.
• 2:12:37
  Please be seated. I want you to write what else
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  should be captured in a proper discipleship that raises mighty
• 2:12:48
  men in addition to productivity as a key to impact an economic
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  emancipation. Responsibility as a lifestyle.
• 2:12:58
  Responsibility as a lifestyle. Every gift, every door that
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  opens, every lifting and every increase, whether in ministry,
• 2:13:09
  whether in family, whether in politics, whether in career,
• 2:13:14
  must be seen as a gift that comes with responsibilities
• 2:13:20
  attached to them. We must raise the people who are
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  conscious. The word responsibility comes
• 2:13:26
  from towards your ability to response.
• 2:13:29
  Responsibility that when someone stands and is getting married,
• 2:13:35
  as they are asking you, are you going to marry this lady?
• 2:13:37
  You don't just say yes looking at your friends dancing, but you
• 2:13:40
  know that that increase, that gift, that covenant comes with
• 2:13:45
  responsibility. When they promote you to become
• 2:13:47
  ACEO, you don't just hold the party and dance and laugh, but
• 2:13:52
  you recognize the responsibility component as a preacher trusted
• 2:13:57
  with people. Whether it's two members, 5
• 2:13:59
  members, 100 members, 1000 members, you know that it's not
• 2:14:04
  about man of God alone. They celebrate you on your
• 2:14:07
  birthday, on your anniversaries, they buy you cars, they sponsor
• 2:14:11
  you for holidays abroad. You must know that that gift
• 2:14:14
  comes with a responsibility. Let me tell you this, the man in
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  our society will change if our discipleship capture
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  responsibility. I'm sorry to say, but some of
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  the most irresponsible men in society are Christians because
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  of things like favor, because of things like grace, because of
• 2:14:35
  things like destiny. Help us.
• 2:14:37
  The average person just wants you.
• 2:14:39
  Ask the average person, how do you want to feed your family?
• 2:14:42
  He said. I know God will do it.
• 2:14:44
  While other people are reading the books and attending the
• 2:14:47
  seminars, we just fold our arms and say, God, I know you, I will
• 2:14:51
  overtake everybody. Now, one favor is true.
• 2:14:55
  We must balance it with the dignity of responsibility.
• 2:15:00
  You never stay around me as an irresponsible person.
• 2:15:03
  No, no. If you're married, one day I ask
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  you, what are you doing with your wife and children?
• 2:15:10
  Who takes care of them? Oh, God has been faithful.
• 2:15:13
  I know he has been faithful. What?
• 2:15:15
  Who takes care of them? Now that your child is going to
• 2:15:18
  the university, have you prepared?
• 2:15:20
  Your wife got pregnant in January.
• 2:15:22
  You are running around on the day she will give birth.
• 2:15:25
  Please help me. She gave you nine months notice.
• 2:15:28
  Responsibility. Every gift comes with
• 2:15:31
  responsibility. We must teach our people.
• 2:15:34
  We must teach the young people. We must teach the children.
• 2:15:37
  The day you give your child a phone, tell him this is a gift,
• 2:15:41
  but it comes with responsibility.
• 2:15:43
  The day you give him a car, tell him I'm giving you an SUV.
• 2:15:46
  You are now 18. But there is responsibility to
• 2:15:49
  it. Everything God gives man, there
• 2:15:54
  are responsibilities. Jesus was coronated, sitting at
• 2:15:57
  the right hand of the Father, making intercession for the
• 2:16:01
  Saints. If you accept gifts or you teach
• 2:16:06
  people to accept liftings, accept open doors without the
• 2:16:10
  responsibility component, that's what destroys them.
• 2:16:14
  And I'm saying this with all due respect, and I am one person who
• 2:16:18
  loves the nation. By the message of God, we have
• 2:16:21
  become faithful emissaries, ambassadors even of this nation.
• 2:16:25
  And so at least we can say something.
• 2:16:27
  Let me charge the politicians and those in government in
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  Nigeria for God's sake. Let's begin to look at the
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  destiny of this nation beyond ourselves, beyond ourselves,
• 2:16:39
  beyond ourselves. If you are a governor or a
• 2:16:43
  senator, you are only there for a while.
• 2:16:46
  A day will come. If Christ tarries, everybody
• 2:16:49
  will go. It is nobler to spend your life
• 2:16:53
  not just in acquiring things, but in making a mark.
• 2:16:57
  You travel around the world, even across Africa, and my
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  goodness, sometimes you see things that challenge you.
• 2:17:03
  It is doable. We have the human resource, we
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  have the intelligence. Nigerians are some of the
• 2:17:09
  brightest minds globally. We can start becoming putting
• 2:17:14
  structures together to aggregate our human capital resource and
• 2:17:18
  change this nation as we travel around the world.
• 2:17:27
  I thank God for the privilege he's giving us in our own little
• 2:17:30
  way. He's helping us to rewrite the
• 2:17:32
  narrative about the Nigerian that Nigerians are not all
• 2:17:36
  criminals, Nigerians are not all cooks, Nigerians are not all
• 2:17:41
  about bribery and corruption by the messes of God.
• 2:17:44
  We are exporting the gospel. We are exporting integrity.
• 2:17:48
  We are disciple nations. We are serving his graces,
• 2:17:52
  wisdom and power. And we are frontiering God's
• 2:17:55
  program in raising not only vibrant and spiritual people,
• 2:17:59
  but territorial reformers. It will happen slow by slow, bit
• 2:18:04
  by bit. I'm not a politician, but I will
• 2:18:07
  raise politicians. I will raise businessmen.
• 2:18:10
  Oh yes, one day seated here will be governors of states.
• 2:18:14
  One day. This is not some some some
• 2:18:18
  primary school open day encouragement.
• 2:18:20
  I'm prophesying over you that someone will sit down one day.
• 2:18:29
  It's already happening. Really, ladies and gentlemen, in
• 2:18:33
  the last two years, God open my eyes to see the kind, the depth
• 2:18:38
  and the wealth of the human resources He's put in this
• 2:18:42
  ministry alone, not just the body of Christ.
• 2:18:51
  Responsibility. Every gentleman in Koinonia,
• 2:18:55
  let's start with our own home. Please make up your mind to be
• 2:18:58
  responsible from today. Make up your mind to be
• 2:19:02
  responsible. Every gift and every position
• 2:19:05
  you receive see it as a debt you owe the people.
• 2:19:09
  If I stand before you hear my joy is the calm driving or the
• 2:19:13
  cloth I'm wearing or the kind of food I'm eating.
• 2:19:17
  I'm wasting your time. I value you and I respect you.
• 2:19:21
  More than that. I will not come and waste your
• 2:19:23
  time with frivolities and nonsense.
• 2:19:26
  People would not leave their companies.
• 2:19:28
  You know, I'll tell you this back to the story, and I'm sorry
• 2:19:31
  that I have to just talk about it.
• 2:19:32
  The precious lady who flew, that Lady as a pilot, a veteran,
• 2:19:37
  She's been flying for 30 years, 30.
• 2:19:41
  She was in New York at the sound of revival, deeply connected to
• 2:19:45
  what we're doing. And do you know, all through
• 2:19:48
  while we came, I kept thinking about myself as I've met people,
• 2:19:53
  especially for this year, all our series of sound of revival
• 2:19:56
  and my travels to minister and personal meetings with people,
• 2:20:00
  politicians and all of that. You know what I told myself?
• 2:20:03
  I said, Lord, help me to respect the caliber of people you have
• 2:20:07
  brought under my care. I think men of God need to pray
• 2:20:10
  that prayer. If we really know the kinds of
• 2:20:13
  people that God has brought under us, we will go and do our
• 2:20:16
  homework and not come and waste their time on Sunday.
• 2:20:21
  Someone who is a consultant running conglomerates across the
• 2:20:25
  globe, are we together now? Consulting for conglomerates
• 2:20:29
  comes to humble himself as an OSHA and sits here and hears all
• 2:20:33
  kinds of nonsense. No, no, let me give you the
• 2:20:46
  last. Sorry, sometimes we just get
• 2:20:50
  emotional with these things we are saying.
• 2:20:55
  What is the maybe this will be the last, but not the only one,
• 2:20:59
  but the last element that should be captured in proper
• 2:21:02
  discipleship that produces Christ Selflessness.
• 2:21:06
  Oh, this must be taught. There is no true disciple of
• 2:21:11
  Jesus who does not learn selflessness, that nothing
• 2:21:16
  created by God lives for itself and everything leaves when it
• 2:21:21
  serves a purpose bigger than itself.
• 2:21:25
  Professor John Kennedy would say those who live for others live
• 2:21:29
  beyond their time. Nobody I know has received a
• 2:21:34
  Nobel Prize for receiving. People receive Nobel Prizes for
• 2:21:39
  giving for their contributions. Selflessness, corruption will
• 2:21:46
  die in natural death. Greed will die in natural death.
• 2:21:52
  When people beginning from us preachers spreading across the
• 2:21:56
  body of Christ, when they understand the value of
• 2:21:59
  selflessness that a man's life does not constitute just in the
• 2:22:04
  abundance of the things that he has.
• 2:22:06
  And so that you don't misinterpret me, I will never
• 2:22:09
  raise a poor people. You are not poor.
• 2:22:11
  Are we together now? So when I say that I'm not, I'm
• 2:22:14
  not speaking a mediocre language to endorse poverty.
• 2:22:18
  But selflessness is a detachment.
• 2:22:21
  If you are not selfless, you can't be used by God beyond
• 2:22:25
  certain heights. You need to be able to look at
• 2:22:28
  people and live for people beyond yourself.
• 2:22:35
  Tools for Effective Discipleship was soon to wrap up.
• 2:22:41
  Tools I just shared with you The elements or the cost content, a
• 2:22:46
  sample of it that should be captured in every discipleship
• 2:22:49
  program. Salvation through the finished
• 2:22:51
  work of Christ. The responsibility of obedience
• 2:22:55
  and alignment in becoming like Christ.
• 2:22:58
  Learning how to walk in love. The value of the world in the
• 2:23:02
  life of the believer. How to live by faith.
• 2:23:05
  How to be productive as a key to impact an economic emancipation.
• 2:23:11
  Learning responsibility as a lifestyle, seeing every gift as
• 2:23:17
  one that comes with responsibilities attached to it.
• 2:23:21
  And then learning the law of selflessness that to make impact
• 2:23:25
  you have to live beyond yourself.
• 2:23:28
  The tools for effective, effective discipleship.
• 2:23:33
  There are five of them, and then we'll end up by giving you the
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  fruits of discipleship very quickly.
• 2:23:40
  I may not do so much teaching, I want to just push it through,
• 2:23:44
  but I hope you are learning. Church is quiet, I know, I know,
• 2:23:47
  trust me, what is happening to you is happening to me too.
• 2:23:50
  Just just let it work. It's an inner walk of
• 2:23:52
  transformation by the Spirit. There are five tools that must
• 2:23:59
  be available for discipleship to happen #1 I I call them tools
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  just for forsake of description #1 the ministry of the Holy
• 2:24:09
  Spirit. The first requirement for
• 2:24:12
  discipleship to happen The Bible's way.
• 2:24:15
  Any discipleship that ignores the ministry of the Holy Spirit
• 2:24:20
  cannot be true discipleship. It will just be a burdensome
• 2:24:23
  ritual created by man because only the Holy Spirit can
• 2:24:27
  transform a man from inside out. No amount of ritual.
• 2:24:31
  Rituals will only produce eye service like it's happened for
• 2:24:35
  many people. Only the Holy Spirit transforms
• 2:24:38
  people from inside out. The ministry of the Holy Spirit.
• 2:24:43
  The second tool for effective discipleship, The Word of God.
• 2:24:47
  Scripture. Scripture must be the basis for
• 2:24:52
  the truths that are communicated, not ideas, not
• 2:24:55
  just church policies, except those policies are rooted in
• 2:24:59
  scripture #3 What's the third tool for effective discipleship?
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  The presence of teachers, mentors, or role models.
• 2:25:12
  The presence of teachers, mentors, or role models.
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  That means men and women who embody knowledge, who embody
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  character, who embody transformation, who embody
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  consistency, and who embody results.
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  I'll take that again, the 3rd tool for effective discipleship
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  in desiring to produce people like Christ.
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  You need the minister of the Holy Spirit.
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  You need the ministry of the world.
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  You need the presence of teachers, mentors, role models,
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  men and women who embody knowledge, who embody character,
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  who embody transformation, who embody consistency, and who
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  embody results. Jeremiah 315.
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  I will give you pastors according to my heart.
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  They will feed you with knowledge, and they will feed
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  you with understanding #4 very quickly.
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  What do you need for effective discipleship to happen?
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  A spiritual family? Write that down.
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  The 4th tool if I would use that expression.
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  A spiritual family. What does that mean?
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  A community of like minded believers that allows for
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  fellowship and social interactions.
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  It's impossible to truly be an effective disciple without a
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  spiritual family. I wrote something here.
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  I said community. Give us Hebrews 10/25.
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  Kingdom community living is one of the major ways to sustain
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  Kingdom values. Kingdom community living is one
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  of the major ways to sustain Kingdom values.
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  Look at a broom. A broom like we use in Africa.
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  How many of you know that if you just carry 1 strand of that
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  broom it can sweep? Am I right on that?
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  It has potential, but it cannot sweep.
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  How about 20? How about 30?
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  How about 100 pieces? Now because of that that that
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  aggregation, you are able to sweep and it sweeps.
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  Well, that's how you are In isolation.
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  It will be difficult for you to work in keeping with the tenants
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  of the Christian faith. But when you have like minded
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  people in the early church, they had what they call their
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  company. When they persecute them, they
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  return to their company. When Peter came out of prison,
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  he went to the company of believers praying.
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  It's important to have and to value the presence of a
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  spiritual family, a community of like minded believers for the
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  purpose of fellowship and social interactions.
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  Let me tell you this, if you come to a good church, most
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  likely most likely you will marry a Good Wife.
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  Most likely are we together you will have good friends.
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  Most likely are we together? You will have good acquaintances
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  because they will usually be within the system.
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  It's already a warning for someone.
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  It came as an example, but God is using it as a warning.
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  You see what Christian zoo they sit in?
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  Church, ladies, my wonderful daughters of Abraham, daughters
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  of Zion, don't come to church and allow us shout here sweating
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  and talking to you. You are clean by the Word.
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  You are reformed and then you go somewhere and just pick
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  somebody. Are we together?
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  And then beyond equally yoked and wonder why he's beating you.
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  I'm not saying insult people, but I'm telling you the truth.
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  Someone whose value system is not rooted from scripture cannot
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  be a nice person forever. He may be a nice person for 10
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  years till the course in his family strikes.
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  I'm not saying to ignore people. No, we love everyone but a
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  covenant that's serious and expensive.
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  Iron sharpens iron. The Bible says believers can
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  strengthen one another. You need a spiritual family #5
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  What is the 5th tool for effective discipleship?
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  A platform for service. A platform for service.
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  You cannot be a true disciple until you find a way of serving
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  the purposes of God, and it starts by serving, at least in
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  the House of God. One of the ways we grow is
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  through service. One of the ways that God
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  measures greatness, Matthew 2027 and 28, is not in acquisitions,
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  is not in being on top. It is service.
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  Give it to us. Matthew 2027 and 28 And
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  whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
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  Did you see that? So when you say you are a leader
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  in the Kingdom, it means you are a servant.
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  Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered onto, but to
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  minister and to give his life as a ransom for many.
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  The Bible says a Good Shepherd lays down his life.
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  It doesn't mean to allow people to take you for granted, but one
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  of the crosses, you know the Bible says to carry your cross.
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  One of the crosses when you study discipleship is the cross
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  of service that you live for Jesus all the days of your life.
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  Now let me wrap up very quickly by listening out for you the
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  fruits of discipleship. How do you know a true disciple?
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  This will be the last discussion.
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  This one is a cause for you to go and study all through this
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  week. If I were you, as I go back
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  home, I will now sit down and listen.
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  The Fruits of Discipleship The following are some of the major
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  fruits of a true disciple. You can test what I'm saying
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  with your life here and now and know whether you're a true
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  disciple of Jesus Christ #1 The greatest fruit of a thoroughly
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  discipled believer write this down is a balanced Christian
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  life that reflects on Well, this is just a preamble.
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  The greatest fruit of a thoroughly discipled believer is
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  a balanced Christian life that reflects the following one.
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  The fruit of the Spirit, especially love, the first fruit
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  of a true disciple of Jesus, is a manifestation of the fruits of
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  the Spirit. Galatians 522.
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  Whether you are a pastor, whether you are an apostle,
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  whether you are a prophet, whether you be one year in
• 2:32:36
  ministry or 50 years in ministry, with all due respect,
• 2:32:39
  whether you are a businessman, if we do not find with time a
• 2:32:45
  gradual progressive imagines of the fruit of the Spirit in you,
• 2:32:50
  most especially the love nature of Christ, you are not a true
• 2:32:54
  disciple of Jesus. You don't have to be fake, but
• 2:32:57
  you are not a true imitator of Christ.
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  The fruit of the Spirit more than good preaching, the fruit
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  of the Spirit, more than excellent communication, The
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  fruit of the Spirit more than a large ministry, the fruit of the
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  spirit #2 What is the second fruit of a true disciple?
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  Are you ready? Death to self, Death to self.
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  You are not a true disciple of Jesus when you have an unhealthy
• 2:33:29
  attachment to pleasure. Death to self is one of the
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  cardinal elements, cardinal proof fruits of a true disciple,
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  one who has been worked on by the Spirit, one who has been
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  worked on by the world, One who has been transformed.
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  One was transited from an infant to a witness.
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  Death to self, What does that mean?
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  A healthy, an unhealthy, or a detachment from an excessive
• 2:34:04
  love for pleasure? What does it mean to die to
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  self? To embrace a life of modesty
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  even in the presence of abundance and plenty?
• 2:34:19
  To embrace a life of modesty? And it's up to you to define
• 2:34:25
  what that means to you. But I can tell you by experience
• 2:34:28
  that the best way to live the effective Christian life is to
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  be modest. Enjoy whatever blessing God
• 2:34:35
  gives you, but put a cup on meat.
• 2:34:37
  There is a level of excessive as far as material things are
• 2:34:42
  concerned that if you are not careful it will not give you the
• 2:34:46
  liberty. It will corrupt the purity of
• 2:34:49
  your followership. You don't have to live in
• 2:34:53
  poverty and live a miserable life to prove that you love
• 2:34:57
  Jesus. I'm not for that.
• 2:34:59
  But there is a level of decent living.
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  Generally speaking, I advise people who are under my care
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  minimize an excessive lifestyle. Are we together over showing
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  off? There are necessary needs and
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  there are things you should enjoy your life.
• 2:35:18
  Don't feel guilty for being successful, but a life of
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  modesty has been proven from Bible and through modern history
• 2:35:26
  as the the best template for being a true disciple.
• 2:35:30
  You can be a billionaire and enjoy your billions and still
• 2:35:35
  within your realm live a modest life.
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  Are we together? Death to self?
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  Many people don't like this part of the teaching in church.
• 2:35:46
  Believers must be taught death to self.
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  Once a man dies to self, you can't bribe such a man again.
• 2:35:53
  Once the man dies to self, there are certain appetites that die
• 2:35:56
  and go forever #3 What is the third fruit of discipleship?
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  Placing priority on Jesus as the most important relationship in
• 2:36:09
  your life. The third fruit of a true
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  disciple of Jesus. Placing priority on Jesus as the
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  most important relationship in your life.
• 2:36:21
  Greater than friends, greater than family, greater than
• 2:36:25
  spouses, greater than children. I'm not saying to ignore them,
• 2:36:30
  but nothing should come close to your relationship.
• 2:36:33
  If your wife come pass with your relationship with Jesus, she has
• 2:36:37
  become your idol. If said if your husband or your
• 2:36:41
  children or your job. No relationship on earth should
• 2:36:46
  sustain the power to tamper with your love for Jesus.
• 2:36:50
  Now if you are not responsible to other relationships and you
• 2:36:56
  claim is because you are loving Jesus, you are a liar because
• 2:36:59
  the Bible says how can you love God that you have not seen.
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  So I'm not giving a license. There are many people who have
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  allowed their children cry. They are children, cry in hunger
• 2:37:10
  and they claim that it's church. But I can tell you this, a true
• 2:37:16
  disciple of Jesus is one who knows.
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  And when you get married or when you are married, your wife will
• 2:37:22
  know, your husband will know. As your children come, you will
• 2:37:25
  teach them, I love you with all my heart.
• 2:37:28
  I can give my life for you. But my precious children learn
• 2:37:31
  this when it has to do with me and Jesus.
• 2:37:34
  He was there before you came. My wife I love you, my husband I
• 2:37:43
  love you, my parents I love you, siblings, relatives, but nothing
• 2:37:48
  should stand your way with Jesus.
• 2:37:51
  This is how the patriarchs showed us the way of the cross,
• 2:37:55
  not just death to self. I tell you the reason why it's
• 2:37:58
  very easy for people to give up on the things of Jesus.
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  He was never a priority. He was part of the many things
• 2:38:05
  in their life. When God began with us, it was
• 2:38:09
  not about money, it was not about fame, it was about loving.
• 2:38:13
  Jesus is the reason why you see me.
• 2:38:15
  I I till today as a person. Now you don't have to do it.
• 2:38:19
  When people start to celebrate and over celebrate me, it
• 2:38:22
  affects me. I can shout on the poor people.
• 2:38:25
  Till today I'm still a bad receiver.
• 2:38:28
  I'm still learning because I feel that I should hide behind
• 2:38:31
  the cross and all I want is for Jesus to be seen.
• 2:38:35
  That's it. You are not a true disciple of
• 2:38:41
  Jesus. Church of God in Nigeria, Church
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  of God in Africa. These are the things that
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  produce power. These are the things that shape
• 2:38:50
  society. A man who prioritizes Jesus will
• 2:38:54
  prioritize the values of Jesus. And whether you become a
• 2:38:58
  politician, whether you become whoever, you will live by that
• 2:39:02
  code. Let me give it to you quickly.
• 2:39:03
  Let's finish up. So #1 the fruit of the Spirit,
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  especially walking in love. Number two, death to self, a
• 2:39:14
  detachment from excessive pleasure, a life of greatness
• 2:39:22
  and glory, but with modesty, even in the presence of plenty
• 2:39:26
  and abundance #3 Placing priority on Jesus as your most
• 2:39:33
  important relationship. Greater but not to ignore
• 2:39:38
  friends, family, spouses, children, and every other human
• 2:39:43
  relationship #4 What is the fourth fruit of a true disciple
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  of Jesus? Freedom from mammon?
• 2:39:53
  Freedom from mammon? What does that mean?
• 2:39:58
  The ungodly, unhealthy attachment to money and other
• 2:40:04
  material things, but particularly money.
• 2:40:07
  Oh, you cannot be a true disciple of Jesus if you are
• 2:40:16
  still attached to mammon. That does not stop you from
• 2:40:20
  being a billionaire. That does not stop you from
• 2:40:22
  running conglomerates. You can be the wealthiest man on
• 2:40:26
  earth, if possible, and still not be attached to Mammon.
• 2:40:29
  And the proof that you are not attached is that you can let it
• 2:40:33
  go. Anything you cannot let go is
• 2:40:37
  your God. Anything.
• 2:40:41
  You're my treasure, my priority. Who can compare to you?
• 2:40:51
  Great is the measure of your own Realty or Morning Star you truly
• 2:41:01
  are. Let me tell you the truth, one
• 2:41:07
  of the reasons why God instructs people to give many times is
• 2:41:11
  because occasionally He prunes you to kill your detachment to
• 2:41:18
  Mammon. So every once in a while he will
• 2:41:21
  give you a heavy instruction to part with something that is
• 2:41:24
  valuable and you'll be like no Kai, this is not God who said
• 2:41:28
  this is what I wanted to show you how much it has become an
• 2:41:31
  idol and you say God, You mean you now waited until they gave
• 2:41:36
  me a rears of eight years? You would have told me to pay it
• 2:41:40
  last month. I had only 20,000 in my account.
• 2:41:43
  I would have obeyed with one instruction.
• 2:41:45
  You now waited until my uncle have not seen for 10 years.
• 2:41:49
  You gave me $10,000. You must be a wicked go.
• 2:41:51
  And God says no. Let me tell you something that
• 2:41:54
  happened not too long. We're about to pray.
• 2:41:58
  Was it a guy or a lady? I can't recall now, but somebody
• 2:42:00
  came with a seed. And when I saw the person, I saw
• 2:42:03
  the person holding an envelope. And God spoke to my heart that
• 2:42:06
  if this person hands over this seed, I should add to it and
• 2:42:10
  give the person that the person truly was making a sacrifice.
• 2:42:15
  But it was a test. It was a crucifixion of the
• 2:42:19
  appetite for mammon. I think it was a lady.
• 2:42:22
  She stands before me and you could see that releasing this is
• 2:42:25
  Isaac. And she said apostle, God
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  instructed me and I looked at how it is smiled.
• 2:42:30
  I is a lady and I told her, I said, you know what, I receive
• 2:42:34
  it. May God bless you.
• 2:42:36
  And I did what God asked me to do.
• 2:42:39
  I mean the lady was almost broken.
• 2:42:41
  Why is this? I said no, you have given me
• 2:42:43
  your own seed, but God said I should bless you.
• 2:42:51
  If you have worked with God for up to five years and He has
• 2:42:54
  never demanded A sacrifice from you, there's something wrong
• 2:42:58
  with your work. I'm telling you that God I know,
• 2:43:02
  keep waiting. One day He will come to you
• 2:43:04
  early in the morning. He will come after your retreat
• 2:43:06
  when your hearing is clear, so that you don't doubt and say
• 2:43:10
  this is some kind of Antichrist spirit.
• 2:43:12
  He won't come when the flesh has deadened Your hearing, I mean
• 2:43:16
  after your consecration, you've rolled before God.
• 2:43:20
  Your heavens are open and you say, my son, that shoe or that
• 2:43:24
  shit or maybe money, money, three times your salary for the
• 2:43:28
  next three months. And he said, God, you are
• 2:43:30
  joking, you are joking, you don't know what is going on in
• 2:43:33
  Nigeria and Africa. And God says no.
• 2:43:36
  I am teaching you that a man's life does not constitute in the
• 2:43:40
  abundance of what he has. Something happens to you when
• 2:43:43
  you let go, things that are valuable.
• 2:43:47
  A string is caught. The day that string is caught,
• 2:43:52
  God will now say, now open your hands, let me give you when it
• 2:43:55
  rests upon you, no matter how heavy, you'll find out that it
• 2:43:59
  cannot get here again because you have died.
• 2:44:02
  Disciples, ladies and gentlemen, you have no idea how many
• 2:44:10
  things, opportunities, the things that people have wanted
• 2:44:15
  to do for me that will redefine the destiny of my children and
• 2:44:20
  children to the 4th generation. And God said no, no, when you
• 2:44:25
  are a true follower of Jesus, even with tears in your eyes,
• 2:44:30
  his voice becomes your restraint or your system of allowance.
• 2:44:35
  Death to mammon. The church must trust God for
• 2:44:38
  diesel, The reason why people don't see true Kingdom
• 2:44:42
  prosperity. The strange thing is that those
• 2:44:46
  who really have an appetite for money never have it.
• 2:44:49
  By God, you must die. You must die.
• 2:44:58
  Freedom from Mama Church is quiet.
• 2:45:02
  He wouldn't tell you. Don't worry.
• 2:45:03
  Leave what is in your account. I mean, I'm not going to ask you
• 2:45:07
  to give anything. Be comfortable, sit here.
• 2:45:11
  You are part of a responsible ministry.
• 2:45:13
  Are we together? But let me tell you, if you are
• 2:45:16
  happy that Colonia does not ask you for money to mean that you
• 2:45:20
  are hiding greed. God will find a way one day.
• 2:45:24
  Don't worry. As you are saying I love you, I
• 2:45:27
  love you, O God, with all my heart.
• 2:45:29
  One day he will tell you I want you to do this and that.
• 2:45:33
  That's the day you will bind and cast his voice until your love
• 2:45:37
  for Mammon dies. Let me tell you this.
• 2:45:39
  I stand before the God of heaven and the person speaking to you
• 2:45:43
  by the message of God. I'm not speaking in ignorance.
• 2:45:46
  There is no amount of money that will derail my passion from God.
• 2:45:51
  May God help me if I'm speaking nonsense.
• 2:45:53
  But as sincere as I know no. And this man has been tested.
• 2:45:58
  You have no idea. Remember our letters.
• 2:46:05
  There are letters that you don't.
• 2:46:06
  Read you keep it there. But it's only God that knows
• 2:46:10
  what some of us have done for the Kingdom.
• 2:46:14
  I'm tempted to sing that song. You are the first.
• 2:46:20
  I don't have the energy in my voice.
• 2:46:21
  If you bring it down, I will sing it.
• 2:46:23
  I mean, it's boiling in my spirit.
• 2:46:27
  Hallelujah. Sometimes I sing these songs.
• 2:46:29
  We're going to go. But I sing it because it
• 2:46:32
  ministers to you and I sing it for someone.
• 2:46:35
  Listen, don't join me, just listen.
• 2:46:38
  You are the 1st, you are the stream, You are the hunger
• 2:46:47
  living deep inside of me. Oh very powerful, You are the
• 2:46:54
  food. Let's satisfy.
• 2:47:00
  You are provision for the journey of my life.
• 2:47:09
  You are everything. That's the language of a true
• 2:47:15
  disciple. You are everything.
• 2:47:21
  It doesn't matter what you give me or don't give me.
• 2:47:26
  I everything in spite of the billions and the millions He may
• 2:47:31
  give you. But how high you rise in life?
• 2:47:46
  Freedom from Mammon. The cancer that has aborted
• 2:47:51
  great destinies, has killed the destinies of pastors, rob men of
• 2:47:56
  their integrity. The cancer of Mammon.
• 2:48:02
  If you're a young minister here, let me give you an advice, an
• 2:48:05
  honest advice in the name of Jesus.
• 2:48:07
  If you find out that you have a an ungodly affinity to money and
• 2:48:12
  material things as a proof that ministry is working, I don't
• 2:48:19
  condemn you, but go for a retreat quick.
• 2:48:22
  Go and flog it out with God. If you must, buy a Jeep before
• 2:48:27
  you feel you are doing well. If you must wear designers from
• 2:48:32
  head to toe. Never allow anything around you.
• 2:48:36
  Define yourself worth. Dress well, look well.
• 2:48:39
  Live in the mansions, buy the cars.
• 2:48:42
  That's fine, provided you are buried the appetite for Marmon.
• 2:48:50
  There is a subtle campaign and we need to be careful.
• 2:48:55
  On one hand, there are people who hate the issue of wealth.
• 2:48:58
  I don't know why, maybe because of the abuses that have happened
• 2:49:02
  around and the lack of integrity and the over emphasis on
• 2:49:05
  material wealth and that is justifiable, but it must be done
• 2:49:10
  with moderation. There are those who have tried
• 2:49:13
  to be blessed and it did not work and so they hate everything
• 2:49:16
  that reflects finances. But on the other hand there are
• 2:49:20
  those who have built spiritual monuments around money and it
• 2:49:24
  looks like the only definition of success is money.
• 2:49:28
  That must also be balanced, for a man's life does not constitute
• 2:49:33
  in the abundance of the things that he has.
• 2:49:36
  Poverty is not my friend. I hate it forever for me and for
• 2:49:39
  you. But I can tell you one thing.
• 2:49:42
  You must die to Mammon next, very quickly.
• 2:49:48
  What is the number? What's now the fifth fruit of a
• 2:49:53
  true disciple? Victory and dominion by engaging
• 2:49:59
  the mysteries of the Kingdom. I know you are a true disciple
• 2:50:02
  of Jesus. When I eventually see a
• 2:50:06
  manifestation of victory and dominion in your life, you can
• 2:50:10
  indefinitely be a failure, failing in every area of your
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  life and call yourself a disciple.
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  There might be seasons of training, seasons of pruning,
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  but eventually I should see an emergence of dominion and
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  victory because he calls us more than conquerors.
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  Victory and dominion is the fifth fruit.
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  And that by engaging the mysteries of the Kingdom.
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  And then number six, and this is where we end.
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  This is by no means all the fruits.
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  I'm just listing 6 for you for the purpose of our discussion
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  tonight. Discipleship, raising the men
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  that transform nations, raising the man that advanced God's
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  program, raising faithful's keywords of God's end time
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  program that he can trust they will take advantage of His
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  enabling grace and do mighty things for the Kingdom.
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  The 6th that is the fruit. Are you ready?
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  Freedom from fear of persecution and death.
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  Oh, you are not a true disciple of Jesus until you get to a
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  point where you become free from the the fear of persecution and
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  death. Again, this is where I thank God
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  and that with every due respect, this is where I honor the
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  Evangelicals and those that we call the Orthodox Assemblies.
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  When we were trained as little children, among the many
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  instruments of training was the pride and the dignity of dying
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  for Jesus if need be. Our wonderful people now, today,
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  especially in the modern church era, is good to live long, but
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  it's better to live well, serving the purposes of the
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  Kingdom. We fear death.
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  We fear persecution. We are overly conscious of our
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  reputation. What did they say about you?
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  What did social media say and how do you?
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  No, no, no, no, no, no, no. A true disciple of Jesus has
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  tied to your reputation. You will be misunderstood many
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  times, no matter how sincere you were.
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  They call Jesus Beelzebub. They will call you Beelzebub.
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  Are we together? Persecution is not a strange
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  thing for the believer. Avoid the avoidables, stay away
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  from trouble. But when trouble meets you on
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  account of the cross, stand with honor.
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  Stand with honor. I tell you I've gotten to a
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  point in my life where for me, I mean it is a dead man standing
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  before you. I'm telling you, for me to live
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  is Christ. The things of this world, as
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  wonderful as they are, they make very little sense for me.
• 2:53:05
  Little sense. I've found a nobler ankle of my
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  passion. So when you say you love Jesus,
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  make sure you understand what you are saying.
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  A true disciple is not one who lives for Jesus alone is one who
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  if need be, can die. This is how the gospel came.
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  Paul said that I may know him. We stop there usually.
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  And the power of his resurrection, he says, and the
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  fellowship of his sufferings. Fellowship, partaking of his
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  sufferings, that if they insult you as a pastor, they insult
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  you, they misunderstand you, they say all kinds about you,
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  you rejoice in your heart. That is on account of the cross.
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  This was how the Fathers brought the gospel.
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  Right now we have an obsession for a seeker friendly world.
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  I'm not talking about becoming foolish and being hated by
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  people. If you are foolish and you are
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  hated by people, you are receiving the fruits of lack of
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  wisdom. That's not persecution, I'm
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  talking about loving Jesus. And then Satan begins to
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  manipulate men from within and without raising men to towards
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  your, your, your, your vision and your concentration.
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  No, this is it emoji. Thank God you are hearing me
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  before you open the ministry next week.
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  That is the implication of being a pastor.
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  I know the poster is already. You have an online version of
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  it. I'm not being sarcastic.
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  Good message for you. You know 7 dimensions of hearing
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  the voice of God. Also, learn how to die for
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  Jesus. Learn how to die for Jesus.
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  Let me tell you this, I'm a young man, but I have been
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  privileged to be around a few crises including post election
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  violence. When the violence happened in
• 2:55:11
  just, I was there, I was in town.
• 2:55:14
  There were a few uprisings that have happened in Zarya.
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  I was there. There was a time at the height
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  of what Boko Haram was doing in Maiduguri.
• 2:55:23
  I went to minister for F for NCCFI, was about to come and
• 2:55:27
  take a flight from Zarya to Abuja.
• 2:55:30
  True story. And then they cancelled the
• 2:55:32
  flights. Then I think it was an airline
• 2:55:34
  called, well, I won't mention the name.
• 2:55:37
  They're no longer, they're no longer in existence now.
• 2:55:40
  But then they were there. I remember the driver.
• 2:55:42
  I asked him, I said can you go to Maiduguri because the
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  believers were happy nobody was going there for justifiable
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  reason. I mean, you could die.
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  And I told him, I said I'm coming.
• 2:55:54
  He was the NCC of that time. I said I will come.
• 2:55:57
  I told the man, I said can you, can you take me by Rd.
• 2:56:00
  He told me how much I will pay. I said let's go.
• 2:56:02
  I passed Kano. It was less than one hour when
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  there was a bomb blast and I didn't stop the journey.
• 2:56:09
  We went to a place called Portisco and there they had
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  closed because the military were protecting those areas.
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  I'm not saying that to command sympathy.
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  I'm saying somewhere in the journey of your life you will be
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  faced with a situation where you will choose between Jesus and
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  this life. It is milder for others.
• 2:56:31
  Some never even experience it. Oh my goodness.
• 2:56:34
  For some that is the last budget they carry as they transit.
• 2:56:38
  You are not a true Christian if you are not taught this.
• 2:56:44
  Are we together? That night I did not sleep in
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  Protisco because of poverty. I was not poor.
• 2:56:54
  It was the privilege of the Fellowship of the Cross we got
• 2:56:58
  there. It was night.
• 2:56:59
  They had closed the place because there were no fighting
• 2:57:02
  and the rest were going on and I remember sleeping that
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  mosquitoes and everything. They were piles of cars.
• 2:57:09
  And I remember a joy welled up in my spirit.
• 2:57:12
  Later in the night I said I'm doing this for your glory.
• 2:57:15
  With all honor, with all honor, with all honor is someone
• 2:57:28
  learning. I have decided to follow Jesus.
• 2:57:35
  I have decided all song but very powerful.
• 2:57:41
  I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning
• 2:57:50
  back. I have decided to leave for
• 2:57:55
  Jesus. I have decided to leave for
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  Jesus. I have decided to leave for
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  Jesus. No turning back.
• 2:58:10
  No turning back. I have decided to walk with
• 2:58:16
  Jesus. I have decided to work with
• 2:58:22
  Jesus. I have decided to walk with
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  Jesus. No turning back.
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  It's not a song go, it's a declaration.
• 2:58:44
  I hear there are many people who sing this song now.
• 2:58:46
  I hope that the people who sing it are ready to die for Jesus.
• 2:58:51
  If not, don't sing it yet. Keep it first the day you die,
• 2:58:56
  then you can sing it. You die to your flesh.
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  Many people sing it and it's just a Jamboree.
• 2:59:04
  No, it's a declaration that if I serve him in life, glory be to
• 2:59:09
  God, but if death meets me as I serve him, let it be my honor,
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  the hymn writer says. I will be a true soldier.
• 2:59:17
  I will die at my post. Every military man.
• 2:59:21
  Go and ask the generals. Some of them never died in war.
• 2:59:24
  The next time you see a general, that is a testament of a man who
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  fought many battles. Many battles there are soldiers
• 2:59:33
  that started from NDA, some did not finish, they died on the
• 2:59:37
  way. One time I went to Zarya and
• 2:59:40
  some of the soldiers that are around when we go, I went one
• 2:59:43
  time and I didn't see one of them again.
• 2:59:45
  And I was asking the friends, I said where is this other person?
• 2:59:48
  And they all looked at one another and they said he's gone.
• 2:59:51
  They went for an operation and they did not make it the same
• 2:59:54
  way it is in the military. Some die in battle, others
• 2:59:58
  survive, but they carry injuries.
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  Others as generous you stand with you see no finger.
• 3:00:03
  Again it went. Others leave until they retire.
• 3:00:08
  Others tie. That's why they hold them in
• 3:00:11
  honor. There are military men in
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  hospitals today because they fought for our nation.
• 3:00:16
  That's how it is in the Kingdom. Some will start.
• 3:00:20
  Others have gone, like Doctor Miles Monroe.
• 3:00:23
  All their others have gone. Some finished, some in active
• 3:00:27
  battle because those who should support them were busy wasting
• 3:00:32
  their time, showing success and competing.
• 3:00:36
  Others stood alone in battle and they died.
• 3:00:40
  Today's our turn. I wish I can talk to young men
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  who are doing ministry. This is ministry, not preaching,
• 3:00:49
  not Greek, not Hebrew. No turning back.
• 3:00:58
  You're turning back. Not conferences, No Sir.
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  Not suits and designers. Thank God for those.
• 3:01:08
  Not how many members, Not just flying private jets.
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  No die. I thank God that he started with
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  me from the north. I've seen all kinds of things.
• 3:01:21
  All kinds of things. If I tell you I love Jesus,
• 3:01:25
  believe me, Koinonia, if you love Jesus, this is the price
• 3:01:35
  for being a disciple. Rise up on your feet.
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  Rise up on your feet. Please hold hands with someone
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  by your left and right if you can.
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  We're wrapping up. Sorry for stretching you.
• 3:01:51
  Please, let's minimize movement. In 5 minutes or so, we're done.
• 3:01:55
  You can be that patient. Not after a sermon like this.
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  The fruits of disciples. A balanced, thoroughly discipled
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  believer must capture both the victories and the possibilities
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  for the sufferings. They go together.
• 3:02:15
  The fruits of the Spirit, the inner walk of transformation
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  where you are Christ like in thoughts, in conversation, in
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  your life. Death to self.
• 3:02:27
  A detachment from excessive pleasure and the cares, the
• 3:02:31
  desires of this life. Living a life that is excellent
• 3:02:34
  but modest enough to keep your focus intact.
• 3:02:39
  Placing priority on Jesus as the highest and the noblest
• 3:02:43
  relationship in this life. Freedom from Mammon, the God of
• 3:02:48
  gold, an obsession for money and building your confidence and
• 3:02:55
  yourself worth around the presence or the absence of
• 3:02:59
  things. Victory and dominion or you
• 3:03:04
  should experience many triumphs in your life by engaging the
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  Word. And finally, freedom from the
• 3:03:12
  fear of persecution doesn't mean to go and enter trouble.
• 3:03:16
  Many have died thinking they were persecuted, but it was
• 3:03:19
  foolishness. There are times where you do
• 3:03:24
  everything. The horse is prepared for
• 3:03:26
  battle, but if it meets you there, you fight.
• 3:03:31
  You do. I told you one time I flew.
• 3:03:35
  I've not had many of those incidences.
• 3:03:36
  It's just one I remember having where the aircraft, it was as if
• 3:03:41
  it was already gone. I was in that aircraft.
• 3:03:45
  It was, I mean, it was as if somebody held it.
• 3:03:47
  I was bouncing it like a ball. And I thought to myself, I said,
• 3:03:52
  so is this going to be the day? Let me tell you this.
• 3:04:01
  If you die without Jesus, you are going to hell.
• 3:04:07
  Period. If you die without Jesus, you
• 3:04:15
  are going to hell. The meaning of that is that
• 3:04:19
  there is no possibility for finding salvation in the grave.
• 3:04:24
  When Lazarus cried on the rich man, the rich man begged
• 3:04:29
  Lazarus. He says, go to my family
• 3:04:31
  members, they've not died. Warn them that I was proud when
• 3:04:35
  I was on earth. I sat on my money and I thought
• 3:04:39
  that was everything. Warn them for me.
• 3:04:41
  He said, sorry, that cannot happen again.
• 3:04:43
  But they have the law. They have the prophets in our
• 3:04:47
  days who say you have the Bible as a witness, and you have the
• 3:04:51
  voice of vessels that God has raised.
• 3:04:55
  Don't wait till you die to land. I'm not scaring you, but I
• 3:04:59
  cannot but tell you the truth. Books were open, ladies and
• 3:05:02
  gentlemen, and another book was opened.
• 3:05:06
  The works of men were written. That is the day the arrogance of
• 3:05:10
  men will fail them. The one who dies without Jesus
• 3:05:13
  Christ does not need any judgment, is already judged.
• 3:05:17
  The judgment that will happen the second death is to relocate
• 3:05:21
  men into hell. Officially with Satan.
• 3:05:24
  It is the second death, and then that men will be rewarded
• 3:05:28
  according to their works. The ones who died as
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  missionaries, their names will be called.
• 3:05:34
  We used to sing a song in the seminary.
• 3:05:37
  When the robe is called of Yonder, when the robe is called
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  of yawn, When the robe is called of Yonder, when the road is
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  called of Yonder, I'll be there. Some of you just lied because
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  you will not be there. Not because of what you did or
• 3:06:04
  didn't do. No, nobody gets into a
• 3:06:10
  relationship with Jesus Christ because of what they did or
• 3:06:13
  didn't do. No, you are rewarded in heaven
• 3:06:17
  for what you did. That was for the Kingdom.
• 3:06:19
  But your entrance into the Kingdom is not by what you did
• 3:06:23
  or did not do. Your works will be rewarded
• 3:06:26
  after you are saved and you spend your life for Jesus.
• 3:06:31
  I want to make an altar call. I've made many altar calls.
• 3:06:34
  I make altar calls every week and every other time.
• 3:06:37
  But tonight's altar call, I want you to be a serious one.
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  You've heard me speak and from the start of this discussion
• 3:06:45
  tonight you are online listening to me across the nations of the
• 3:06:50
  earth. You are a pastor.
• 3:06:52
  You are, you know, a member. You are in this place and you
• 3:06:57
  are saying apostle. I want Jesus not because of the
• 3:07:01
  fear of death. It is because of this death you
• 3:07:04
  see this eternal damnation where you lose both your body and your
• 3:07:08
  soul forever that Jesus came and paid that price to salvage you.
• 3:07:13
  I'm going to count 1 to 5. I'm looking for someone who
• 3:07:16
  understood everything I said tonight and you're saying,
• 3:07:19
  apostle, give me a chance to make it right with this Jesus.
• 3:07:23
  I'm going to ask you to leave your seat and come stand right
• 3:07:27
  in front of me. Or you're saying apostle, I'm
• 3:07:29
  tired of the way I've lived my life.
• 3:07:32
  I want to get it right. Come, let's celebrate them as
• 3:07:34
  they come. When the road is called up
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  Yonder, come the road. It's called of Yonder.
• 3:07:47
  When the road is all of Yonder, keep coming when the road is all
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  of Yonder. I'll be there one more time.
• 3:08:00
  When the road is all of Yonder. When the road is all of Yonder.
• 3:08:12
  When the road. For those of you who are
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  following online, tonight is a serious night.
• 3:08:30
  We're discussing something that is beyond doing well.
• 3:08:35
  We're discussing something of eternal value, something that
• 3:08:39
  gives you value here on earth and then even after this life is
• 3:08:43
  done, that act of safety. If you are here and you are
• 3:08:48
  saying apostle are backsliding, I remember making it right with
• 3:08:52
  Jesus, but as it stands now, I cannot say I have a functional
• 3:08:56
  relationship. Join them very quickly.
• 3:08:58
  Join them, join them. You can leave your seat and come
• 3:09:03
  and have the assurance of salvation once and for all.
• 3:09:07
  God bless you. Come, come quickly.
• 3:09:17
  When the road is called up Yonder, I'll be there.
• 3:09:23
  When the names are called up Yonder, I'll be there.
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  Come When the road is called up Yonder.
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  I'll be there when the names are called up Yonder.
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  God bless you. Nothing to be ashamed of.
• 3:09:51
  We're not a family that condemns.
• 3:09:53
  Tonight's message was harsh because that's the way it is.
• 3:09:56
  You don't raise disciples in the presence of comfort.
• 3:09:59
  You stretch people until they love Jesus.
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  You stretch them until they know him.
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  I'm going to pray for you, my dear brothers and sisters.
• 3:10:07
  Thank you so much for making this noble decision.
• 3:10:12
  I salute your courage and I thank you.
• 3:10:14
  Some of you are crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears.
• 3:10:18
  Someday you will stand before Jesus and He will remind you of
• 3:10:22
  this message you heard and say thank you that you did not allow
• 3:10:27
  my sacrifice for you to be in vain.
• 3:10:30
  Please lift your hand above your head.
• 3:10:35
  And for someone who is watching online, I may not see you, but
• 3:10:41
  Jesus Christ sees you, the one who died for you.
• 3:10:44
  And I want you this night as this one's pray.
• 3:10:47
  You may be somewhere in Russia, Kuwait, some eastern nation
• 3:10:53
  perhaps you may not even be a child of God as you were born or
• 3:10:57
  from a Christian family. You can make it right tonight.
• 3:11:01
  You can make it right tonight. You can make it right tonight.
• 3:11:06
  You can make it right tonight, Say Lord Jesus, Say those of you
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  who are in front, say Lord Jesus, I have heard your word.
• 3:11:19
  I love you with all my heart. I believe you are the Son of
• 3:11:26
  God. I believe you died for my sins.
• 3:11:31
  I believe you rose again for my justification right now.
• 3:11:37
  I receive forgiveness of sin. I receive your life.
• 3:11:42
  I declare that Jesus is my Savior, my Lord, and my King.
• 3:11:50
  I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is
• 3:11:58
  broken over my life from tonight.
• 3:12:00
  I'm a child of God. I go for whatever and back
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  whatever. Amen.
• 3:12:07
  Keep those beautiful hands lifted.
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  Father. Thank you for my dear brothers
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  and sisters, this precious people you died for.
• 3:12:14
  They have come declaring your lordship, and indeed they have
• 3:12:16
  declared. I commend them to the integrity
• 3:12:19
  of your word. You promise that everyone who
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  comes to you, you will. In no wise castaway, I pray in
• 3:12:25
  the name of Jesus Christ that tonight begins a new walk in
• 3:12:29
  their lives. I declare that the power of sin,
• 3:12:32
  Satan, hell and the grave, let it be broken over your life.
• 3:12:36
  The grace of God becomes yours through Jesus Christ and the
• 3:12:40
  power to live a victorious Christian life evolving in
• 3:12:44
  experience to become a true disciple of Jesus.
• 3:12:48
  May that grace be released upon you and to a family connected
• 3:12:51
  online. In Jesus mighty name we pray,
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  Amen and Amen. Congratulations.
• 3:12:57
  Please look to my right, you will see the counselors waiting
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  to receive you and to have a word with you and to pray with
• 3:13:05
  you. Please do cooperate with them,
• 3:13:06
  Let's honor them as they go. God bless you, God bless you,
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  God bless you, God bless you. Keep clapping Koinonia, our time
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  is up, but keep clapping. So what is sacrifice tonight in
• 3:13:26
  Jesus name? One final instruction, I beseech
• 3:13:31
  you, by the message of God, please, I want you to take the
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  time and listen to this message at least 2 * 2 times.
• 3:13:41
  Media this week and grafted words.
• 3:13:43
  Just make it 2 summons because people need time to listen to
• 3:13:47
  this one, maybe this one, and we'll find one order.
• 3:13:51
  These are renewal messages. Are we together renewal
• 3:13:55
  messages? So just two messages is enough
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  for this week so that the people can stay with it and come with
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  it. Some of you can listen to it
• 3:14:05
  every day. Some of you can listen twice,
• 3:14:07
  three times before the week. Let it sink into your spirit.
• 3:14:11
  Be in the mood of prayers. You are listening in the night.
• 3:14:14
  Maybe when you are back from work, when you are done with
• 3:14:16
  family and whatever, you can sit as a pastor in your office and
• 3:14:20
  listen. And where it hits your spirit,
• 3:14:23
  you turn it to prayer with tears coming from your eyes.
• 3:14:27
  Are we together? Praise the name of the Lord,
• 3:14:30
  listen to it and get it across to someone, and let me speak to
• 3:14:34
  the body of Christ as you listen to these messages, please.
• 3:14:37
  Careless about theological accuracy and whatever.
• 3:14:41
  Whatever you find that you don't believe, just shrug it away and
• 3:14:44
  settle down and focus on the one that changes your life.
• 3:14:49
  You'll be surprised that people listen to a message like this
• 3:14:51
  and all they are looking for is what is wrong.
• 3:14:53
  You may find it maybe in many instances, but you can't deny
• 3:14:57
  it's power to change men. Stay there and find the what?
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  The part that changes men's lives in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. And so I'm saying this in
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  advance, so that you sit down undistracted and listen and let
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  it bless you and let it change you.
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  Give any pastor who cares to listen.
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  Give your brothers and your sisters in ministry.
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  Take it to someone who needs to learn.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Pray with it and let it build you to become a true disciple of
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  Jesus Christ. Reminding you for one last time,
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  for those of you who have not registered for the conference
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  coming, we're doing a registration does not affect
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  your attendance, but please help us so that we can have an idea
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  of the numbers and it will help with our planning.
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  This includes Nigeria, every state you're coming from, any
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  state in Nigeria, please do register to.
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  It's not just for the international people and those
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  coming from across police media. Drive this message to all our
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  platforms. Let the people know we're
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  registering so that it can help us.
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  Whether you register or not doesn't affect your attendance,
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  but this will guide us on things like venue security and the
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  rest. There's a lot on the table we're
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  working with, and soon by next week, we'll begin to structure
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  our preparation. And then announcing to you as it
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  matters again, we're looking at the mandate and we're trusting
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  God to guide us to reorder the body of Christ back to the
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  things that matter and to guide us as a ministry and as a global
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  vision. Have you been blessed tonight?
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  In the name of Jesus, I speak the blessing over you.
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  I pray that beginning from this week, you will be a true
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  reflection of a Christian. You will be a true reflection of
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  one who has met Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus.
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  And every victory that comes with knowing Jesus Christ may be
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  manifest in your life this week. Every breakthrough that comes
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  with knowing Jesus Christ may be manifest in your life this week
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  in the name of Jesus Christ and everything Jesus died to abolish
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  may be abolished in your life in the name of Jesus.
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  I call you the head and not the tail.
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  I call you above and not beneath.
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  I declare the lines have fallen for you in pleasant places.
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  Everything that attaches you to the things of this world, I
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  disconnected from you in Jesus name.
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  And yet, in the midst of that detachment, you will enjoy
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  plenty. God will fill your hand with
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  good things. He will fill your home with good
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  things. I speak wisdom over your life.
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  I speak favor over your destiny because you have allowed Him to
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  build you. May He raise you to be a captain
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  over His inheritance. In the name of Jesus.
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  Monday is blessed. Tuesday is blessed.
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  Wednesday is blessed. Thursday is blessed.
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  Friday is blessed. Saturday is blessed, Sunday
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  again is blessed for you and your children, for your
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  business, blessed for your family, blessed for your
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  ministries, blessed for Abuja, blessed for Nigeria, blessed for
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  Africa, blessed. In the name of Jesus, go in
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  peace and I declare you return with testimonies for this.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray together.
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  Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the
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  Holy Spirit. Let it rest and abide with us
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  now and forever. Amen.
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  Surely His goodness and mercies 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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  Amen. God bless you.
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  See you in church next week.