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THE-GENERAL-ASSEMBLY · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Good evening Abuja. And good evening Koinonia family.
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Speaker 1: Apostle Selman, I lack words to express how my heart feels.
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Speaker 1: I want you to know that you have a friend here.
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Speaker 1: I love you and I honor you dearly. There are
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Speaker 1: very few places right now in the continent of Africa
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Speaker 1: where you go and hear the kind of things you
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Speaker 1: are hearing. Thank you for paying the price to build
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Speaker 1: these movements. Anything that is at my disposal that I
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Speaker 1: can give or contribute to help you take this thing
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Speaker 1: to its logical conclusion, I'm willing to do it. I
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Speaker 1: want to especially thank Reverend Julian. Thank you for bringing
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Speaker 1: that message. I just kept telling the Lord, thank you
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Speaker 1: for allowing me to get here on time to hear this.
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Speaker 2: I was taking note throughout the time you were speaking.
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Speaker 2: Every one of you that is here, tonight is your night.
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Speaker 2: All the generals, Reverend Obyonubogo, and my.
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Speaker 1: Very dear friend from South Africa, Pastor Felix, and the
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Speaker 1: First Lady, all the generals, my bishops of Uji Diocese,
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Speaker 1: all of them, please, I don't want to go in
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Speaker 1: that route.
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Speaker 3: I honor and salute every one of you. Jesus, I
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Speaker 3: honor you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for what you are doing. Thank you. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: The scripture said, you hid these things from the high
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Speaker 1: and mighty, but you have revealed them to base, for
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Speaker 1: so is pleasing your sight. Father tonight, let your kingdom come.
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Speaker 1: Let his glory and power, his wisdom, his essence.
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Speaker 2: Be revealed, Lord. Breathe upon me.
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Speaker 1: Enable me to communicate these things in such simple terms
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Speaker 1: that even a baby can understand it.
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Speaker 2: Yet, let your word go forth with majesty and with power.
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Speaker 1: Let every life be transformed and transported to another dimension
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Speaker 1: of oppression. Everyone here and all the people that are
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Speaker 1: watching from around the world, let your purpose for creating
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Speaker 1: this nation, Nigeria, let your plan for the continent of Africa.
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Speaker 2: In these last days.
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Speaker 1: Not only take hold of all of us, but let
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Speaker 1: it come into, begin to come into manifestation through every
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Speaker 1: man and woman that will hear the sound of our voice.
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Speaker 2: We thank you.
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Speaker 1: We bless you. In Jesus' mighty name. Can I hear
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Speaker 1: you shout hallelujah? You may be seated. You may be seated.
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Speaker 2: You may be.
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Speaker 1: Seated.
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Speaker 2: Let me pick one of the.
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Speaker 1: Scriptures that Reverend Julian read and then pick it up
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Speaker 1: from there. Matthew chapter 4 verse.
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Speaker 2: 24, 23. And Jesus went about all gathering.
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Speaker 1: Teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
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Speaker 1: and healing all manner of sicknesses and all manner of
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Speaker 1: diseases among the people.
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Speaker 2: I want to add another scripture to that, which is.
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Speaker 1: 1 Corinthians 1, verse 18.
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Speaker 2: For the preaching of the cross....
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Speaker 1: Is to them that perish foolishness. But unto us which
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Speaker 1: are saved.
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Speaker 2: It is the power of God.
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Speaker 1: What Paul calls the preaching of the cross. Is the
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Speaker 1: gospel that saves people. Is the gospel of salvation. Is
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Speaker 1: the gospel of grace. But what I read earlier. That
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Speaker 1: Jesus was going around preaching. is the gospel of the
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Speaker 1: kingdom so the gospel has two parts one is the
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Speaker 1: gospel of salvation the other is the gospel of the
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Speaker 1: kingdom Africa has two major problems Nigeria has two major
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Speaker 1: problems the whole world has two major problems The first
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Speaker 1: problem is the human problem. The second problem is the
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Speaker 1: system problem.
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Speaker 2: The first problem is you and I.
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Speaker 1: And before we can solve the problem of Nigeria, before
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Speaker 1: we can solve the problem of Africa, you have to
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Speaker 1: allow God solve you first. The second problem is the
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Speaker 1: societal problem. God's solution to the human problem is the
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Speaker 1: gospel of salvation. God's solution to the societal problem is
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Speaker 1: the gospel of the kingdom.
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Speaker 2: If we only.
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Speaker 1: Want people to be saved and go to heaven, then
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Speaker 1: we will focus.
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Speaker 2: All our effort on preaching salvation.
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Speaker 1: But if we want the world where we live to
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Speaker 1: be a better world, if we want our society to
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Speaker 1: be transformed, if we want our families to be transformed,
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Speaker 1: if we want our organizations and companies to be transformed,
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Speaker 1: if we want to live in a better world, then
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Speaker 1: we have to understand and preach the gospel of the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: That is what Jesus was teaching us in our last prayer.
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Speaker 1: That thy kingdom come. And let your will be done
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Speaker 1: on earth.
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Speaker 2: As it is done in heaven. When the gospel of
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Speaker 2: the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: Takes hold. Spreads our preeminence. The society becomes more like heaven.
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Speaker 1: And human beings become more like Christ. These are the
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Speaker 1: two problems God wants to solve. In between those two issues,
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Speaker 1: he put the church in the middle as the means
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Speaker 1: through which he gets the job done. The church is
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Speaker 1: God's instrument for reaching the lost and saving every man
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Speaker 1: and bringing every man to salvation. The church also is
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Speaker 1: God's instrument for bringing transformation to society and bringing the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of God to bear on the earth. So you
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Speaker 1: can say that we have three assignments. One assignment is
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Speaker 1: winning the lost. The other assignment is transforming our societies.
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Speaker 2: The third one.
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Speaker 1: Now It's to look after ourselves, who are the agents
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Speaker 1: of transformation.
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Speaker 2: To look after the body of Christ.
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Speaker 1: Look after your brothers and sisters. And of course, one
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Speaker 1: of the most important tools he gave us to get
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Speaker 1: that one done is working in love.
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Speaker 2: Working in covenant. Now, that is not my job tonight.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that amazes me about Apostle Selma.
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Speaker 1: Is not only the heart God has given him for
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Speaker 1: the body.
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Speaker 2: I've observed that.
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Speaker 1: I have also noticed the heart God has given him
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Speaker 1: for the society. He has passion for souls. He has
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Speaker 1: passion for the church. And now he has passion for nations.
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Speaker 1: You don't find it.
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Speaker 2: Everywhere. It's very rare. I was with Dr. Miles Muro
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Speaker 2: in Bahamas.
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Speaker 1: I and my wife, we use his November conference to
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Speaker 1: also go on holidays. So we just go for the
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Speaker 1: conference and use it and do tourism. One of our
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Speaker 1: pastors was working with him. And so he was one
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Speaker 1: that opened the door for us to have a relationship.
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Speaker 2: One day we were in his office. We just came
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Speaker 2: to honor him and honor him. He said, Dr.
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Speaker 1: David, you preach salvation. God has blessed you, you do healings,
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Speaker 1: crusades and all that. He said, but the gospel of
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Speaker 1: salvation is just 10% of the job.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to hear me again.
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Speaker 2: I had to make the discovery myself.
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Speaker 1: The gospel of grace, the gospel of salvation is just
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Speaker 1: 10% of the gospel.
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Speaker 2: The gospel of the kingdom is 90% of the curriculum.
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Speaker 1: If we only preach grace, I only preach salvation message,
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Speaker 1: we might be ready for heaven, but the world where
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Speaker 1: we are, where we live, we collapse on top.
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Speaker 2: Of our heads. You cannot understand what Nigeria is going through.
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Speaker 1: While we are getting more and more, you know, perfected
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Speaker 1: in the art of grace, the society is.
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Speaker 2: Collapsing on our head.
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Speaker 1: And then he said to me, he said, it's just
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Speaker 1: about 2%, less than 2% of God's children that understand this.
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Speaker 2: He said, but any man that does, God will move
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Speaker 2: heaven and earth. This is what he said.
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Speaker 1: He said, God will move heaven and earth. Open every
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Speaker 1: door to get you around the nations. If you see
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Speaker 1: how I was feeling when I was sitting there, the
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Speaker 1: level of gratitude I was giving to God, I said,
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Speaker 1: my God, this is what is going on here. After
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Speaker 1: that child by Dr. Miles Muro, I decided to dive in,
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Speaker 1: to find out. I didn't come with a physical Bible,
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Speaker 1: so I have my electronic Bible here.
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Speaker 2: But if I'm to hold a physical Bible in my
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Speaker 2: hand now, and I.
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Speaker 1: Open the New Testament, from Matthew to Revelation and hold
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Speaker 1: it and let the rest of the Bible flip over.
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Speaker 2: You will notice that the New Testament is just one
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Speaker 2: third or one fourth of the whole Bible.
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Speaker 1: What is the importance of Genesis to Malachi?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what the whole curriculum is? The kingdom,
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Speaker 2: the kingdom, the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: You get into the New Testament again. What is the
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Speaker 1: record of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? What is the
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Speaker 1: major curriculum of those four books? The kingdom, the kingdom,
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Speaker 1: the kingdom. Towards the ending of each gospel, Jesus began
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Speaker 1: to introduce.
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Speaker 2: The gospel of salvation.
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Speaker 1: And then the records were given about how he went
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Speaker 1: to the cross. What he did for our redemption.
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Speaker 2: That part you will see.
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Speaker 1: It is a small component of every part of the
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Speaker 1: full gospel.
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Speaker 2: There are many of you here. There might be a
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Speaker 2: few people who are exceptional.
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Speaker 1: But there are many of you here who have given
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Speaker 1: your life to Christ. You are genuinely born again. So
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Speaker 1: after salvation, what next? After salvation, what next? That is
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Speaker 1: what you find from Genesis to Malachi and to the
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Speaker 1: four gospels. Amazingly again, you jump the epistles, you land
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Speaker 1: in the book of Revelation, it continues with the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: The whole book is about the kingdom. You hardly hear
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Speaker 1: any message about salvation. Let me tell you how Jesus spoke.
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Speaker 1: Or how even the apostles wrote. Usually an apostle Some
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Speaker 1: of them that are privileged will write a gospel. Jesus
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Speaker 1: did not write the gospel by himself. They wrote it
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Speaker 1: for him. But he was the one that taught them
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Speaker 1: what they were writing. An apostle will write a gospel.
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Speaker 1: Then later he writes epistles. So Peter wrote a gospel.
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Speaker 1: It's called the gospel of Mark. Because he was an illiterate,
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Speaker 1: Mark documented Peter's account.
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Speaker 2: Later, you see Peter's epistle. 1 Peter, 2 Peter.
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Speaker 1: John wrote the gospel, the gospel of John. Later, you
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Speaker 1: see the epistles of John. 1 John, 2 John, 3 John.
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Speaker 1: Paul wrote a gospel. Paul did not write any gospel.
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Speaker 1: It was Luke that wrote it.
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Speaker 2: And later you see the epistles of Paul. You see,
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Speaker 2: Luke was Paul's scribe, Paul's traveling companion.
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Speaker 1: Anytime you are reading anything from Luke, you are reading
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Speaker 1: Paul's perspective. And of all the apostles, he is one
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Speaker 1: that wrote most of the epistles. The purpose of the
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Speaker 1: epistle was to explain this new life that believers have
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Speaker 1: received when they receive Christ.
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Speaker 2: How to live it.
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Speaker 1: Some of them will even explain how to receive it
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Speaker 1: and then how to live it.
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Speaker 2: But if epistles is.
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Speaker 1: All you read, you will learn how to live a
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Speaker 1: good Christian life.
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Speaker 2: You will die, you will go to heaven. you will
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Speaker 2: be useless here on earth.
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Speaker 1: When I want to learn how to build business, you
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Speaker 1: won't find it in the epistles.
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Speaker 2: When I want to learn how to build nations, you.
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Speaker 1: Won't find it in the epistles. When I want to
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Speaker 1: learn how to build a family, you won't find it
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Speaker 1: in the epistles.
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Speaker 2: Of course, Paul contributed to marriage. He wrote some things,
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Speaker 2: one or two chapters on marriage.
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Speaker 1: But if you really want to understand that institution called
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Speaker 1: the family, you have to go to the kingdom. Because
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Speaker 1: family development is part of the gospel of the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: Economic development is part of the gospel of the kingdom.
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Speaker 2: Health development is part of the gospel of the kingdom.
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Speaker 1: National development is part of the gospel of the kingdom. Okay.
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Speaker 1: If we want to learn how to solve security problem,
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Speaker 1: look at the challenges Nigeria is facing. You will not
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Speaker 1: find the answer in the epistle. Yet the Bible has
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Speaker 1: all the answers. if we ignore David if we ignore
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Speaker 1: Nehemiah who taught his people to build with one hand
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Speaker 1: and hold sword and be ready for defense with the
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Speaker 1: other hand if we ignore the rest of the scripture
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Speaker 1: you will die and perish and leave your job half
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Speaker 1: undone If you want to learn how to exact influence
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Speaker 1: and leadership.
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Speaker 2: As a woman, you won't find it in the epistles.
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Speaker 1: But yet there is a book that contains 24 laws
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Speaker 1: of influence called the book of Esther. And the principles
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Speaker 1: work for both men and women. The church in Africa
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Speaker 1: has come of age. The gospel of salvation is the
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Speaker 1: baby food, is the milk of the world, is the
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Speaker 1: children's food.
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Speaker 2: The gospel of the kingdom is the strong man's meat.
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Speaker 1: If we want to come of age, if we want
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Speaker 1: to become a church of manhood, a church that can
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Speaker 1: express the fullness of Christ, we have to understand the
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Speaker 1: gospel in its balance form.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Between solving the human problem and solving the system problem.
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Speaker 1: Let me take the system and just address just one.
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Speaker 2: Small thing in it. And then I will leave you
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Speaker 2: till tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Unless tomorrow we talk about the human being. How do
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Speaker 1: you solve the human problem? How do you create good
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Speaker 1: people in a society? How do you create people that
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Speaker 1: are like God? How do you produce people that are
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Speaker 1: like Jesus? Can you imagine if all our policemen are
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Speaker 1: like that? Are you going to be having killings and corruption?
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if our military men are like that?
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine if our politicians are like that? Can
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Speaker 1: you imagine if all pastors are like that? How do
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Speaker 1: you solve the human problem?
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Speaker 2: I will show you.
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Speaker 1: How do you solve you, you? And human problems are threefold.
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Speaker 1: There is, you know, Paul in his epistle wrote that
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Speaker 1: the Lord God will sanctify you wholly. He said, may
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Speaker 1: your whole spirit, your whole soul, and your body be
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Speaker 1: preserved blameless until the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. So,
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Speaker 1: there is redemption for your spirit. There is redemption for
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Speaker 1: your soul. And there is redemption for your body. Then
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Speaker 1: you can have the total man made. If you watch
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Speaker 1: where I read, it said Jesus was going about preaching
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Speaker 1: the gospel of the kingdom.
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Speaker 2: He said first, teaching and preaching and healing. Three things.
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Speaker 2: What was he doing there? He was addressing the total man.
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Speaker 1: You address the problem of the human spirit through preaching.
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Speaker 1: You preach the gospel that saves people. You address the
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Speaker 1: problem of the human soul through teaching. If you don't teach,
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Speaker 1: you don't solve the problem of ignorance. The problem of
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Speaker 1: the darkness of the soul. Then you address the problem
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Speaker 1: of the human body through healing. I actually want to
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Speaker 1: say that physical problem is not just sickness only. It
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Speaker 1: is you address it through healing and through addressing financial provisions.
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Speaker 1: Society too has three problems So I will mention it
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Speaker 1: and pick out one And show you how to solve
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Speaker 1: it If you want to solve The problem of the
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Speaker 1: system You start by solving the human problem They call
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Speaker 1: it human capital development You can't transform Nigeria until you
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Speaker 1: transform Nigerians Build whatever you like. Do whatever you like
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Speaker 1: to the economy. When you finish, the human beings will
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Speaker 1: spoil it. That's why if you want to tackle nation building,
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Speaker 1: the starting point is spiritual, is human development.
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Speaker 2: And when you get to human.
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Speaker 1: Development, you have to start from his spirit to his
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Speaker 1: soul to his body.
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Speaker 2: So a complete education is one.
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Speaker 1: That tackles the moral problem, the decay of the human heart.
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Speaker 2: The heart of the human problem is the problem of
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Speaker 2: the human heart.
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Speaker 1: Then you have to deal with intellectual development and then
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Speaker 1: you have to train the hands and the body. Somebody
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Speaker 1: calls it, you train the heart, you train the head,
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Speaker 1: and you train the hands.
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Speaker 2: Then you have a fully educated man.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to solve the problem, if you
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Speaker 1: want to make Nigeria a fortress of heaven, we have
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Speaker 1: to first solve the problem of Nigerians.
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Speaker 2: We have to.
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Speaker 1: Solve the human problem. Where do we get the terrorists from?
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Speaker 1: Where do we get the armed robbers troubling our society from?
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Speaker 1: Where do we get the prostitutes from? Where do we
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Speaker 1: get the corrupt pastors and prophets from? Where do we
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Speaker 1: get corrupt politicians from? We did not import them from
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Speaker 1: America or from Britain. Where did you get that witch
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Speaker 1: and wizard trying to kill for your village or for
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Speaker 1: your family?
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Speaker 2: Where did you get that wicked uncle and wicked aunt?
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Speaker 1: You see now the first assignment of the church. If
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Speaker 1: we don't solve the human problem and help men find
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Speaker 1: peace Redemption and experience transformation. Salvation is not enough. They
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Speaker 1: have to get salvation and experience personal transformation.
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Speaker 2: Then you now have assets to the society.
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Speaker 1: It is through those human beings that God now transforms
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Speaker 1: the society. I was in Canada and I had finished
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Speaker 1: a program.
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Speaker 2: I was hosted by the.
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Speaker 1: Government and they wanted to give me an award, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't go because of awards.
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Speaker 2: Those were my least concern.
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Speaker 1: And I asked them, tell me your problem because I
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Speaker 1: came here to help you solve your problem.
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Speaker 2: They were shocked.
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Speaker 1: That somebody came from Africa to ask a Western nation
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Speaker 1: what their problem is Oh, I already know that every
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Speaker 1: society you get to, sometimes they have their systems working,
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Speaker 1: but they have their human beings decaying. In some places,
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Speaker 1: they get the human being right and the system is
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Speaker 1: not working. In Africa, it looks like we have both problems.
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Speaker 1: So we have work as a church in Africa. Human
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Speaker 1: resources are decaying across the continent and our nations are going.
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Speaker 2: Down the drain with it.
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Speaker 1: So I already know, I've done research on them. I
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Speaker 1: know they have a lot of depression, a lot of suicides.
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Speaker 1: People who want to, oh my, one day I made
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Speaker 1: an altar call for people who hear voices. Some of
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Speaker 1: them who hear, kill another person. Those who see things,
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Speaker 1: they can't sleep. Those who can't sleep in the night, insomnia.
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Speaker 2: Those that are depressed.
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Speaker 1: Those that are, if you see the multitude, it was
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Speaker 1: like you are making an altar call for salvation. That's
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Speaker 1: the western country for you. Here, our problem is physical.
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Speaker 1: We have poverty. We have insecurity. We have bad roads.
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Speaker 1: We are looking for electricity. There, they have those who
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Speaker 1: want to solve. Their problem is internal and their problem
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Speaker 1: is more complex. They don't even know what is a
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Speaker 1: male and female anymore. That's how deep the situation has gotten.
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Speaker 1: So some of you, when you want to run away,
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Speaker 1: you are trying to run to go and get dollars.
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Speaker 1: Because they have economy sorted. Your economy is sick. But
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Speaker 1: you forget that God is sending you to go and
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Speaker 1: solve the human problem. Because the human problem is huge
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Speaker 1: there while the economy is working. And if you can
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Speaker 1: help them fix their human problem, you can get so
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Speaker 1: much more than what your years of work can offer you.
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Speaker 2: But when you go to.
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Speaker 1: Become an economic migrant, you become a 21st century slave.
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Speaker 1: You slave away your life. One day you realize that
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Speaker 1: you are old. You wonder, what did I achieve? For
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Speaker 1: 30 years of living in UK. 25 years of living
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Speaker 1: in Canada. You just went as an economic slave. Those
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Speaker 1: societies are in need. of the manifestations of the sons
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Speaker 1: of God. And that's who you are. So society has
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Speaker 1: three problems. If you want to build society, and let
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Speaker 1: me say this, because I understand the seven mountain principle.
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Speaker 2: You see, one of the grace God.
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Speaker 1: Has given me is how to look at anything that
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Speaker 1: is complex and simplify it.
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Speaker 2: For example, the gifts of the Spirit are nine.
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Speaker 1: But if I want to simplify it, you understand that
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Speaker 1: there are just three. It's just power, revelations, and utterances.
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Speaker 1: Inside each one, you can now unpack. Power gifts, revelation gifts,
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Speaker 1: and inspiration gifts. So that's how this whole seven mountains,
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Speaker 1: all these things It's just three things. Human development, human
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Speaker 1: resource development. We have to tackle the human being first.
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Speaker 1: The society is the system, the infrastructure.
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Speaker 2: It's the container.
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Speaker 1: Human being is the content. It took God six days
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Speaker 1: to create the container. On the last day, he put
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Speaker 1: what we live inside.
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Speaker 2: That container, and it is you and I.
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Speaker 1: Society is the vehicle, the structure. Human being is the passenger,
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Speaker 1: the vehicle is meant to carry. So when God is
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Speaker 1: talking about his kingdom, he's building a society, a system.
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Speaker 2: For his children to live in.
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Speaker 1: So the first problem of society is human beings that
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Speaker 1: live there. The second problem, the soul. Because human beings
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Speaker 1: like the spirit. The soul of society is the economy.
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Speaker 1: You know how they say the soul is in the blood?
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Speaker 1: When you are dealing with a human being. When you
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Speaker 1: are dealing with a human being. You say the soul
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Speaker 1: is in the blood. That's how the blood flows.
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Speaker 2: That causes society to run is its economy. That includes
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Speaker 2: all kinds.
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Speaker 1: Of things from your career to vocational skills to businesses
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Speaker 1: to bank.
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Speaker 2: It's huge.
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Speaker 1: But the heart of the society is the human beings
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Speaker 1: that live there and their value systems. This is why
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Speaker 1: the scripture says righteousness exalts a nation.
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Speaker 2: It is the kind of values.
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Speaker 1: That run that society that decides its greatness at the core.
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Speaker 1: If that society runs on love, on value for human life,
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Speaker 1: if that society runs on integrity, if that society runs
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Speaker 1: on justice, that.
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Speaker 2: Society will rise to be great.
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Speaker 1: So the spirit, the heart, is the human beings and
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Speaker 1: the kind of principles and values that govern their lives.
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Speaker 1: So if we don't preach the kingdom, if we don't
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Speaker 1: preach his righteousness, we can get all the souls in
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Speaker 1: Nigeria saved and yet Nigeria will still be the most
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Speaker 1: corrupt nation on earth. Because you will find that that
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Speaker 1: yeast that is destroying the nation will be inside the church.
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Speaker 1: The body, the physical container on which everything now runs
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Speaker 1: on is what you call development, infrastructure, electricity, good roads,
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Speaker 1: all these different institutions. So you see, When Nigerians are
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Speaker 1: looking for a better country, when African nations are looking
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Speaker 1: for a better country, what they're actually thinking about is
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Speaker 1: their economy. They want a buoyant economy. They want their roads.
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Speaker 1: They want their infrastructure. They want their railway system. They
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Speaker 1: want steady electricity. You are only dealing.
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Speaker 2: With one-third of the problem. So you see, you see....
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Speaker 1: It is when you solve the human problem that you
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Speaker 1: get good governance. It is when you solve the human
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Speaker 1: problem that you get good leaders. And we are not
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Speaker 1: going to solve it with only salvation. The starting point
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Speaker 1: is salvation. But you have to take it further. That's
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Speaker 1: why Jesus said, go and disciple nations.
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Speaker 2: Disciple nations. We have to teach them values.
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Speaker 1: We have to teach them principles, kingdom values and principles.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you have a complete Bible, a complete curriculum.
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Speaker 1: And when they are taught, they will rise up and
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Speaker 1: develop the physical component, which is the environment, the infrastructure,
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Speaker 1: and all of the systems that make a society run well.
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Speaker 1: That's how it has always been and that's how it
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Speaker 1: will be when the church in Africa gets this. For
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Speaker 1: the first time, we are building a society that receives
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Speaker 1: the gospel but remains underdeveloped.
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Speaker 2: That is nonsense. It has never happened.
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Speaker 1: There is no nation where the gospel only saves people.
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Speaker 1: It saves the people and transforms their society. What is
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Speaker 1: causing this problem is that we are not preaching the
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Speaker 1: holistic gospel. Of course, I'm giving all of us assignment
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Speaker 1: both here and the global church world. Let's make Apostle
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Speaker 1: Sermon a major point of prayer.
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Speaker 2: You don't understand.
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Speaker 1: This project he has started.
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Speaker 2: I told him while I was sitting there, I said,
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Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: If I want to pick a type of shadow from
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Speaker 1: the Bible, Old Testament, you will see the three dimensions
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Speaker 1: to the gospel in there.
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Speaker 2: You will see that the first part is going to Egypt.
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Speaker 2: I'm using Moses, bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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Speaker 1: The first part is going to Egypt to redeem a
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Speaker 1: people and the instrumentality for getting that job done. Is
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Speaker 1: that blood of the lamb that was sacrificed for them
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Speaker 1: on Passover. And that is exactly what the message of
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Speaker 1: the cross does. That is the message that saves people
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Speaker 1: out of the world. The Egypt of this world. The
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Speaker 1: message that brings people out and makes them citizens. And
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Speaker 1: citizens of the kingdom of God. And children of God.
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Speaker 1: That is the first part of the gospel. The gospel
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Speaker 1: of the kingdom.
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Speaker 2: It's about completing the job.
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Speaker 1: Not just to bring them out and abandon them in
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Speaker 1: the wilderness. But to take them to the promised land
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Speaker 1: where they take over the land and build the most
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Speaker 1: successful society on earth. It is amazing that this Israel,
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Speaker 1: one tiny country that is challenging the whole of the
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Speaker 1: middle East, is the most advanced in technology, is the
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Speaker 1: most advanced in military, is the most advanced in education,
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Speaker 1: is the most advanced in the whole Middle East, was
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Speaker 1: a bunch of slaves that was brought out from Egypt.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly what God is expecting the church to do,
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Speaker 1: to take sinners out of the world, out of the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of darkness, but build them into a mighty nation,
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Speaker 1: a holy nation, a peculiar people, God's general assembly, the ecclesia,
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Speaker 1: through which God's purpose will be established on the earth.
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Speaker 1: That part that deals with tenor, that deals with.
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Speaker 1: Is the part of the gospel that Africa.
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Speaker 2: Needs to discover. In between the two is their journey
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Speaker 2: through the wilderness.
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Speaker 1: And when they got to a place called Manzana, they
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Speaker 1: experienced Pentecost when God came down with fire. And then
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Speaker 1: he established a covenant with them and made them a
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Speaker 1: holy nation. That part in between is where the church
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Speaker 1: is located. They went to Mount Sinai. You and I
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Speaker 1: now come to Mount Zion.
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Speaker 2: The city of the living God. That's the church.
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Speaker 1: It was at that foot of the desert, that mountain peninsula,
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Speaker 1: that Sinai peninsula, that Moses had an encounter with God.
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Speaker 1: and receive the anointing to go to Egypt and bring
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Speaker 1: the people out. Every one of us that have been
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Speaker 1: brought out of Egypt, that has come to Zion, must
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Speaker 1: understand that the experience we get there is so we
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Speaker 1: can go out and get the world saved. But after
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Speaker 1: getting them saved, to take them in, not just salvation
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Speaker 1: as an end. Salvation is just the beginning of the journey. Amen.
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Speaker 1: That's why if a church preaches grace from January to December,
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Speaker 1: keep preaching grace, you have killed your people at the
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Speaker 1: foundation school, at the elementary school. You are going to
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Speaker 1: raise a generation of people that will die as babies.
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Speaker 1: As powerful as the grace message is. It's the message
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Speaker 1: that brings the people out of Egypt. Because they did
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Speaker 1: not come out of Egypt because of their righteousness. They
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Speaker 1: came out because of the blood of that slum that
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Speaker 1: was slain for them.
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Speaker 2: And you and I were.
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Speaker 1: Not saved because of our righteousness or our goodness. We
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Speaker 1: are saved because of grace. Because of the finished.
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Speaker 2: Work of Christ for us on the cross.
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Speaker 1: But God has a purpose for you beyond coming out
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Speaker 1: of Egypt.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Let me take, I diagnosed three major problems of the society.
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Speaker 1: So you have the human problem. You have the blood,
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Speaker 1: the economy. That's why when people go to school, The
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Speaker 1: school is helping to solve the human problem. It's just
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Speaker 1: that many schools focus only on the mind, intellectual development.
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Speaker 2: They leave the other two components. So when Christians build schools,
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Speaker 2: it must be holistic.
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Speaker 1: Once people are in school, getting ready to go, make
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Speaker 1: sure they are taught how to create wealth, how to
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Speaker 1: be productive, how to help build the society. Apart from
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Speaker 1: personal survivor, train them to build, create world, create systems
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Speaker 1: that will help make the world they are living in better.
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Speaker 1: Let them not come out to be looking for job.
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Speaker 1: Let them come out to create one, to solve other
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Speaker 1: problems that exist in the society. All school curriculum must
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Speaker 1: be changed to accommodate this.
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Speaker 2: All church curriculum must be improved upon to accommodate this.
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Speaker 1: Not only to raise believers, but to raise priests and kings.
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Speaker 1: then ultimately you have to get to the top level
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Speaker 1: where we deal with governance, good governance, and infrastructural and
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Speaker 1: societal development. Until our development reaches leadership, kingdom influence, governance,
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Speaker 1: and societal transformation, our education still falls short. Okay, for
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Speaker 1: some reason, the Holy Spirit is impressing on me to
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Speaker 1: address something now. Because of the state of the country,
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Speaker 1: the state of the continent of Africa, I want.
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Speaker 2: To address the blood of.
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Speaker 1: Development, economic development. I just want to do that and
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Speaker 1: I leave you just a few things.
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Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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Speaker 1: If you read your Bible, especially the book of beginning, Genesis,
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Speaker 1: and you read chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4,
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Speaker 1: and chapter 5, just the first five chapters, there is
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Speaker 1: so much you are going to see. In chapter 1,
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Speaker 1: you will see that God spent six days creating.
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Speaker 2: The heaven and the earth.
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Speaker 1: And when he got to the earth, because the earth
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Speaker 1: was actually created.
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Speaker 2: On the first day.
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Speaker 1: He said in the beginning God created the heaven and
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Speaker 1: the earth. And then other things started following. As he
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Speaker 1: created the earth at the beginning, the very time he
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Speaker 1: created heaven. But what are those other things that he
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Speaker 1: spent six days creating? They are called provisions. Natural resources.
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Speaker 1: He's about to bring his son into the earth, Adam.
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Speaker 1: So he first laid the foundation of everything Adam will need.
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Speaker 2: And all his descendants will need.
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Speaker 1: All the money, all the resources, all the things you
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Speaker 1: need to live this life, even if you are to
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Speaker 1: live for the next 1,000 years have been provided. For example,
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Speaker 1: on the fourth day, fourth day, was the day he
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Speaker 1: created the sun, the moon, and the stars. It was
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Speaker 1: that day God took care of solar energy and other
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Speaker 1: kinds of energy. It was that day God created calendar
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Speaker 1: and the means of marking and calculating time. Because time
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Speaker 1: is one of the currency. Anybody that misses time is
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Speaker 1: in big trouble. That's not the day he created time.
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Speaker 1: He created time at the beginning. At the beginning, what
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Speaker 1: he did was create time, space, and matter. In the beginning,
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Speaker 1: God created the heavens and the earth. The beginning is time.
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Speaker 1: The heavens is space. And it's plural, heavens, space. Then
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Speaker 1: the earth is matter, material things, physical world. Because these
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Speaker 1: are the things, the context in which we are going
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Speaker 1: to operate. So on the fourth day, he now gave
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Speaker 1: us a means for calculating time. So we can have
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Speaker 1: a year, have months, have weeks, be able to remember
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Speaker 1: our calendar, be able to trace the day your child
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Speaker 1: was born.
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Speaker 2: All of those things.
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Speaker 1: If you remove it, life will have problems. The day
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Speaker 1: before that day, the third day, was the day he
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Speaker 1: created our food.
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Speaker 2: He created vegetation. He created.
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Speaker 1: Wood. Look at most of our construction industry. Our cabinetry industry.
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Speaker 1: Our furniture industry. He created flowers. He created fruits. And
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Speaker 1: from there our juices that we drink.
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Speaker 2: He created glasses. He created glasses.
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Speaker 1: If I get in just that day three, if you
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Speaker 1: see the amount of industries that are attached to that
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Speaker 1: day three creation provision. So, look at what God is
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Speaker 1: busy doing. Just creating provisions. On day five, he created
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Speaker 1: the marine economy, the marine world. From fish to whales
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Speaker 1: to to all kinds of things, including oil in the sea,
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Speaker 1: including all the resources. For example, sea salt is the
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Speaker 1: best type of salt that you have on earth. It
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Speaker 1: provided all the things that are there. The sea is
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Speaker 1: well there than the earth. It created our fishes, it
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Speaker 1: created the birds, so we can eat chicken and all
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Speaker 1: the other types of On day six, he created the
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Speaker 1: animal kingdom. That's the day of meat again. That's the
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Speaker 1: day we have leather to build shoes and bags. That's
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Speaker 1: the all kinds of things were created that day. And
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Speaker 1: then the last thing was human beings. Now everybody listen
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Speaker 1: to me carefully now. The moment he created human beings,
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Speaker 1: it was part of day six. That he created men,
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Speaker 1: he created women. What if this world is only men?
51:05
Speaker 1: How nice will it be? A world of men without women.
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Speaker 1: There will be civil war every day. Maybe one day
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Speaker 1: there might be 20 civil wars. Go and check most
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Speaker 1: of the killings and most of the wars and fight
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Speaker 1: who are the people doing it. Women, you are fearfully
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Speaker 1: and wonderfully made. Without you, there is no step down.
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Speaker 1: He created love and relationships. He created family. He created children.
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Speaker 1: And from family, he created communities. And from communities, he
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Speaker 1: created society. He created nations.
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Speaker 2: Do you know that the greatest treasure God put.
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Speaker 1: On earth is not in the earth cross, is not
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Speaker 1: in the sea, is not in the sky, is in
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Speaker 1: the human resource. He buried wealth in every human being
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Speaker 1: that is created in, he made us in his image.
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Speaker 1: Gave us creative ability like himself. Say it with me,
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Speaker 1: I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Maybe I should use
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Speaker 1: this opportunity, even though I'm not addressing human problem today,
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Speaker 1: and let you know that God loves you. God values you.
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Speaker 1: And God needs you. He loved you before you loved him.
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Speaker 1: He loved you while you were his enemies. He came
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Speaker 1: for you while you were not looking for him. And
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Speaker 1: not only that, died for you. It is not us
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Speaker 1: that found him. It is him that found us. Let
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Speaker 1: me not go there.
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Speaker 2: Are you still here? Say I'm still here.
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Speaker 1: The moment he created man, God introduced something else. He
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Speaker 1: made man in verse 26 of Genesis chapter 1, made
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Speaker 1: him in his image. gave him the abilities that God has,
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Speaker 1: including creative ability. He created us as co-creators. Then in
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Speaker 1: verse 28, he now introduced something. He introduced what is
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Speaker 1: called the productive aspect to economy. So the first level
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Speaker 1: of economy is provisions. Apostle, this is what African nations
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Speaker 1: are preaching. Supernatural abundance. Supernatural provision. God will do it.
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Speaker 1: God will do it. God will do it. So our
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Speaker 1: economic development is only at Genesis chapter 1. Because from
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Speaker 1: verse 28 to Genesis chapter 2, the whole thing about
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Speaker 1: economy is about productivity.
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Speaker 2: Productivity.
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Speaker 1: In Genesis 2 verse 15, he said, God took man,
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Speaker 1: put him in a garden to walk it and to
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Speaker 1: dress it. In Genesis chapter 2 from verse 4 all
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Speaker 1: the way to verse 6, he said, this is the
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Speaker 1: generation of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
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Speaker 2: That before God made.
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Speaker 1: Other things like trees and vegetation, he did not say
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Speaker 1: rain because there was no man to till the ground.
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Speaker 1: So I want you to see something. Why the church
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Speaker 1: in Africa is poor. And why African nations are poor.
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Speaker 1: African nations are living in Genesis chapter 1. Dealing only
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Speaker 1: with raw materials. Only with provisions that God provided. Western
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Speaker 1: nations has moved on to Genesis chapter 2 where they
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Speaker 1: are dealing with productive resources, finished products, and to transfer
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Speaker 1: resource from provision to To production, it needs a human
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Speaker 1: being to finish creation. God created provision. God commanded man
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Speaker 1: to create finished products. That's why he made us co-creators.
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Speaker 1: He only created raw materials. He didn't give us finished products.
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Speaker 1: He created cotton.
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Speaker 2: No clothes. He created aluminum. No aircraft. He created iron. Metal.
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Speaker 2: No cars. No cars.
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Speaker 1: So Adam was moving around naked. That's after the fall.
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Speaker 1: Before the fall, he was clothed with something else. Not
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Speaker 1: made of matter. He created gold, no jewelries. He created
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Speaker 1: crude oil, but no gas, no petrol, no nothing.
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Speaker 2: God started creation. He did not finish creation.
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Speaker 1: Because he created us as co-creators.
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Speaker 2: He made us in his image. So listen.
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Speaker 1: It's only 10% of your wealth that you get from provision.
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Speaker 1: All this pronouncement. And I believe in complete. Remember I'm
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Speaker 1: teaching you the holistic gospel. So prosperity is both supernatural
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Speaker 1: abundance and productive wealth creation. Supernatural provision can only give
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Speaker 1: you a maximum 10% of your wealth. If you don't
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Speaker 1: become productive, if you don't start creating wealth, if you
56:49
Speaker 1: don't learn how to build business, if you don't develop
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Speaker 1: skills and capacity for creation, you will die only eating
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Speaker 1: raw material, drinking.
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Speaker 2: Your crude oil.
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Speaker 1: But you are never able to drive a car, fly
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Speaker 1: a jet. If your appetite grows for finished product, you
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Speaker 1: go to our brothers that develop the full potential and
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Speaker 1: import it. So what is Africa doing? Selling raw materials,
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Speaker 1: the raw ones that God created. selling it to our
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Speaker 1: brothers in the West, they will refine it, sell it
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Speaker 1: 10 times back to us. This is why our governments
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Speaker 1: are poor. This is why our societies are poor. This
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Speaker 1: is why we're still underdeveloped. Creation is done twice. Genesis
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Speaker 1: chapter 1 model and Genesis chapter 2 model. In Genesis
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Speaker 1: chapter 1 model, you deal with raw materials. You create raw.
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Speaker 2: Provisions.
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Speaker 1: And there is prosperity in provision. And African churches only
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Speaker 1: pray for that. Supernatural abundance. So sometimes God does a miracle.
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Speaker 1: Just like he did a miracle in providing oil. In
58:08
Speaker 1: providing fish. In providing water. Just water business alone. Water business.
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Speaker 1: Just to refine water. Package it. Can make you a billionaire.
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Speaker 2: Just food.
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Speaker 1: Can make you a billionaire. But guess what we do?
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Speaker 1: We sell raw. So we collect crumbs. Oh, K-String, you
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Speaker 1: need to know how blessed I am by your ministry.
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Speaker 2: My God.
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Speaker 1: My God. I told Apostle Selman, thank you especially for
58:56
Speaker 1: raising a man like this. Let me tell you, there
58:59
Speaker 1: are many gospel songs out there. There are many gospel artists.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say it this way. I don't listen
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Speaker 1: to everything.
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Speaker 2: I have a few.
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Speaker 1: When I want to pray, when I want to ascend,
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Speaker 1: it's not everybody that follows me to the Holy of Holies.
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Speaker 1: I have to find a psalmist, an ego that understands
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Speaker 1: the prophetic. Those are the ones when I want to
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Speaker 1: worship in the morning. When we want to do entertainment,
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Speaker 1: do ceremonies, do weddings, we bring the other ones.
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Speaker 2: You are one of the people that made it to
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Speaker 2: my Holy of Holies. My God.
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Speaker 1: And the apostle himself is a psalmist, so I can
59:44
Speaker 1: understand where the thing is coming from. But you know,
59:56
Speaker 1: there are many people God gave natural resource, gifts of music.
1:00:00
Speaker 1: They just carry it raw like that. You don't know
1:00:03
Speaker 1: how I grew up in the faith. This is what
1:00:05
Speaker 1: we are used to. Brethren, I have a special number.
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Speaker 1: Don't bother about the music or the sound or the song.
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Speaker 2: Just listen to the words. Let me tell you what
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Speaker 2: it means. I came to your house. You are hosting me.
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Speaker 1: You bring raw yam, raw beans, raw rice. He said,
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Speaker 1: man of God, don't bother. I have water by the side.
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Speaker 1: Just eat it like that. Just receive us the way
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Speaker 1: we are.
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Speaker 2: That's what you have done.
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Speaker 1: You serve me raw rice, raw. And that's why the
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Speaker 1: poverty continues. Then you look at the children of this world.
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Speaker 1: You look at Davidos. You look at all those whatever.
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Speaker 1: They understand the total package. The same talents.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: Now, the people that are using their own to serve God,
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Speaker 1: In the other kingdom, understand the complete ecosystem. The ones
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Speaker 1: that are using their own to serve the God of
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Speaker 1: creation only understands raw materials. Look at the level of
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Speaker 1: excellence you are seeing here. The sound system, the stage
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Speaker 1: and everything. This is kingdom, kingdom thinking. Kingdom thinking. Somebody
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Speaker 1: else will say, how can you waste money in all
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Speaker 1: this and all that? Do you think our God is
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Speaker 1: an idol? That you give blood, you pour blood, the
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Speaker 1: blood will enter the eye. After three days, he has
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Speaker 1: not even eaten the sacrifice you gave him. Because he
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Speaker 1: has no mouth, he cannot eat. You give him any healthy,
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Speaker 1: you can dash him dead things. No. Anything you do
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Speaker 1: for God, do it first class. This is the church
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Speaker 1: the world is waiting for now. God gave us Nigeria
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Speaker 1: to disciple. God gave us the continent of Africa to disciple.
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Speaker 1: We are busy complaining about politicians, complaining about others. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: all the answer is supposed to be coming from the church.
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Speaker 1: For it shall come to pass in the last days
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Speaker 1: that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be exalted
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Speaker 1: above all the mountains and established on top of all
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Speaker 1: the hills and all nations. I say all nations. I
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Speaker 1: say all nations. I say all nations shall flow into it.
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Speaker 1: The politicians will flow into it. The military men will
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Speaker 1: flow into it. The business people will flow into it.
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Speaker 1: The bankers will flow into it. The youths will flow
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Speaker 1: into it.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Because the church has the answer. You are the answer
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Speaker 1: walking on two legs. You are the solution working on
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Speaker 1: two legs.
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Speaker 2: Say it with me. I am solution. Package in human form.
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Speaker 2: Say it, say it, say it. I am the answer.
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Speaker 1: Working on two legs. The way God gave Jesus. to
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Speaker 1: be the answer to the problem of the world. That's
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Speaker 1: how he now gave his church to be the answer
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Speaker 1: to the problem.
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Speaker 2: Of the world.
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Speaker 1: That's what Jesus means by, as my father has sent me,
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Speaker 1: so sent are you.
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Speaker 2: Let me end this way. The program did not go
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Speaker 2: far before Satan.
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Speaker 1: Came and intervened and man fell. That's Genesis chapter 3,
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Speaker 1: another day story. He recruited man into his rebellion and
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Speaker 1: when man joined the rebellion, man fell just like Satan fell.
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Speaker 2: And so something went wrong. So Apostle, the first time.
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Speaker 1: The two boys that Adam gave Bethel tried to contact God.
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Speaker 1: Man used to have fellowship, friendship. Man was son. Man
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Speaker 1: was family. God is a family man. God is love.
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Speaker 2: We were his family. We were his children. The relationship
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Speaker 2: was severed and there was a problem.
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Speaker 1: So the first time, the two sons of Adam tried
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Speaker 1: to make contact with God.
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Speaker 2: Their father used to talk with God face.
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Speaker 1: To face before he fell. They went and built altars.
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Speaker 1: I want you to listen now. This is Genesis chapter
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Speaker 1: 4 now. They built altars and offered sacrifices. Abel understood
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Speaker 1: how to bring blood. Because it's the blood that makes
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Speaker 1: atonement for sin. It's the blood that rebuilds the bridge
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Speaker 1: that was broken. Abel brought of his animals and offered
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Speaker 1: a blood sacrifice. So God responded to him. Cain brought
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Speaker 1: the fruit of his ground, his own hard work. And
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Speaker 1: God did not respond. And so Cain was angry. And
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Speaker 1: he turned his anger.
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Speaker 2: To his brother. Since God is far up in heaven,
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Speaker 2: even if you're angry with him, you can't reach him.
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Speaker 1: So what Cain did was to turn that anger to
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Speaker 1: the one that God showed favor with.
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Speaker 2: And that led to the first murder. He killed his brother.
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Speaker 1: God actually came and preached to him and said, Ken,
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Speaker 1: I don't do favoritism. If you do well, will you
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Speaker 1: not be accepted? The way is blood. The way is blood.
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Speaker 1: Mankind is in a falling state, but it is the
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Speaker 1: blood that makes atonement. The way is blood. The way
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Speaker 1: you went is not, the way is blood. If you
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Speaker 1: do the right thing, you too will be accepted. God
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Speaker 1: is no respecter of person. But instead, he ignored her
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Speaker 1: and killed his brother. Anyway, after he killed his brother,
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Speaker 1: he saw that his problem now got worse. So later,
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Speaker 1: Adam gave birth to another child to replace her by
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Speaker 1: a corset. I want to show you something now. And
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Speaker 1: this is how I close this thing tonight. Cain's descendants,
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Speaker 1: who have lost touch with heaven, focus all their attention
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Speaker 1: on the earth and developing the physical world and conquering it. Abel,
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Speaker 1: now Seth, Seth's descendant, who now have found the secret
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Speaker 1: Abel found, who can still make sacrifice and make connection
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Speaker 1: with heaven, now focus on the ministry of altar and
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Speaker 1: worship and religion and left the physical earth. I don't
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Speaker 1: think you are hearing me well. And Adam was given
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Speaker 1: a complete dominion that covered both kingship and priesthood.
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Speaker 2: But now the thing fragments into two.
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Speaker 1: The people that discovered priesthood focus on priesthood. Cain that
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Speaker 1: has lost priesthood and lost touch with heaven focus on
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Speaker 1: the material world. But the man that God gave Adam
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Speaker 1: is have dominion on earth. Why you maintain your relationship
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Speaker 1: with me? So when you read Genesis chapter 4, look
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Speaker 1: at verse 17.
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Speaker 2: You will see.
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Speaker 1: There is now a dichotomy between building altars and building kingdoms.
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Speaker 1: Building altars and building systems. Building altars and building businesses.
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Speaker 1: Building altars and building society.
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Speaker 2: This is where. You will find out. Why is it.
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Speaker 2: That it's.
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Speaker 1: The economy of the world. The economy of most nations.
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Speaker 1: And the political power and influence. Is. Is controlled more
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Speaker 1: by the sons of Cain. By the wicked and by
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Speaker 1: the children of this world. Why is it. That the
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Speaker 1: sons of Abel. The ones that are pursuing righteousness. The
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Speaker 1: ones that understand spiritual things. The ones that are keeping
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Speaker 1: relationship with God. Why is it that they are the
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Speaker 1: ones that. most deprived when it comes to economic, political,
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Speaker 1: and social influence. Why is it that many Christians are
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Speaker 1: struggling financially and when it comes to the container, you
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Speaker 1: see them struggling. When it comes to the content, when
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Speaker 1: it's spiritual life, all that, you see them excel. Why
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Speaker 1: is it that many churches are struggling but institutions that
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Speaker 1: are financing Satan's agenda on earth are buoyant economically and financially?
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Speaker 1: The answer is very simple. The people of God focus.
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Speaker 2: On altar.
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Speaker 1: Satan said to his children since you can't reach heaven
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Speaker 1: focus On the earth. Genesis chapter 4 verse 17. Let
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Speaker 1: me at least show them one or two scriptures.
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Speaker 2: One or two things. Ken knew his wife. I want
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Speaker 2: you to watch. And she conceived and bear Enoch. And
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Speaker 2: he built. The first man to build a city. Real estate.
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Speaker 1: Infrastructure development, building roads, building bridges, building all the things.
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: The first man was the one that is in rebellion.
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Speaker 1: The one that is a murderer. The one that is wicked.
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Speaker 1: The Bible says, Ken, that is of the evil one.
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Speaker 1: But he's the first. Let's see another thing. Verse 18.
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Speaker 1: To Enoch, that's his son. This is not the Enoch son.
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Speaker 1: That of the righteous man. The one that came from Adam.
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Speaker 1: Was born Irad. And Irad begat Mehujel. And Mehujel begat Methuselah.
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Speaker 2: And Methuselah. This is not Methuselah begat Lamech. Go on.
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Speaker 1: Verse 19. Unto Lamech he took two wives. The first person.
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Speaker 1: This one I don't want to say it's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: But the first person to introduce polygamy. Was also the
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Speaker 1: bad guys. Because they didn't just take over the economy.
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Speaker 1: Take over government. They introduced all the evil that we
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Speaker 1: have on the earth today. They introduce pornography, homosexuality, every
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Speaker 1: evil you know in the world.
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Speaker 2: Killing people.
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Speaker 1: They are the ones that introduce murder. They are the
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Speaker 1: ones that introduce kidnapping. They are the ones that introduce
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Speaker 1: every evil you know on earth today. But they also
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Speaker 1: took government, took economy, took influence, took the media, took
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Speaker 1: the sports, took entertainment, and they are using it to
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Speaker 1: corrupt the rest of the world. The children of God
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Speaker 1: that are supposed to be the ones shining as light
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Speaker 1: refuse to touch anything in the world. They stay only
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Speaker 1: on the altar. So they touch heaven and lose the
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Speaker 1: earth where they live. Go on, put the scripture up.
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Speaker 1: Put the scripture up, verse 19. Let me show you something.
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Speaker 1: So this man introduced polygamy. Verse 20. Look at the
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Speaker 1: next innovation. And he was the father of such that
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Speaker 1: dwell in tent and such that have cattle. So who
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Speaker 1: introduced animal husbandry? Who introduced development building of tents and
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Speaker 1: all that?
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Speaker 2: Who introduced that? Cairns descendants.
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Speaker 1: I want you to watch what is going on.
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Speaker 2: So, Apostle, the ones.
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Speaker 1: Who love altar, who love to do sacrifice, who like worship,
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Speaker 1: Whenever they need to do worship and offer sacrifice, guess
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Speaker 1: where they go to buy their animals?
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Speaker 2: They go to Jabba. Hey, please put the scripture up.
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Speaker 1: They go to Cain's descendants, the wicked people, to buy cow, to.
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Speaker 2: Buy ram, to buy.
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Speaker 1: So economy was moving from the kingdom to the kingdoms
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Speaker 1: of this world. The people of God are bleeding away
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Speaker 1: their blood, bleeding away their economy, and empowering the same
1:13:51
Speaker 1: wicked people that want to kill them. Because they can't
1:14:00
Speaker 1: start cattle business. They can't start raising fish. They can't
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Speaker 1: start raising rabbits. They can't start poultry business. They can't
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Speaker 1: start anything to create food. To sustain their economy. They
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Speaker 1: are only worshipping. Show verse 21. His brother's name was Jubal.
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Speaker 1: He was the father of such that handle harp and organ.
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Speaker 1: So the people of God love worship. But the instruments,
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Speaker 1: the saxophone, the organs, the flutes, the drums, the keyboards,
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Speaker 1: was being manufactured by the wicked, the descendants of Cain.
1:14:41
Speaker 1: So the people of God got tired of clapping hands.
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Speaker 1: They want good music. They want to improve their worship life.
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Speaker 1: They notice that the only good music is coming from
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Speaker 1: the world. Sweet music coming from the world, but the
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Speaker 1: relics are terrible, corrupt. So you wonder, the youths are
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Speaker 1: moving to where the good music is coming from. The
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Speaker 1: church is just there thinking it's only hand they should
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Speaker 1: be clapping. Because we are dwelling, dealing with just raw materials.
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Speaker 1: These guys have started developing productive resources. So when we
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Speaker 1: get tired of clapping hands, we want to buy keyboard.
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Speaker 1: We want to buy guitar. We want to buy drum.
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Speaker 1: We go to the children of the world and pay
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Speaker 1: them our offering, our church money. Pay them all the
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Speaker 1: kingdom resources. And so the world was getting bigger and
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Speaker 1: bigger in wealth and influence. And the people of God
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Speaker 1: are shrinking and shrinking more in wealth and influence. Oh,
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Speaker 1: let me look at one more, at least. The next verse.
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Speaker 1: And Zahar also bowed to Baal Ken. He became the
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Speaker 1: instructor on every artifact, in brass, in iron. So, Ken's
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Speaker 1: descendants were the ones to invent technology, everything that.
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Speaker 2: Had to do with metals, jewelries.
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Speaker 1: Just going there and bringing gold, refining it, refining brass,
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Speaker 1: refining iron, creating steel, and so they were the first
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Speaker 1: to develop instruments of war. If we want vehicle for transport,
1:16:28
Speaker 1: we go and buy from them. If we want to
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Speaker 1: protect ourselves, we go to them to sell us weapons.
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Speaker 1: So anytime there is war between the children of the kingdoms,
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Speaker 1: And the children of the world, you know what the
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Speaker 1: result will be. The children of the kingdom will only
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Speaker 1: be praying and these people will come and massacre them.
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Speaker 1: It's only altar they are doing. Meanwhile, Jesus said his kingdom. Ah,
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Speaker 1: you better be in that tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Morning session now. Come and take this. Let me close.
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Speaker 2: In 1 Samuel chapter 13.
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Speaker 1: I want you to see something, verse 19. And this
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Speaker 1: is how things were. The first human being from the
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Speaker 1: kingdom of light to go into productive materials was Noah.
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Speaker 1: He was the one to invent shipping line, ocean liners,
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Speaker 1: sea transports. And he was the one that invented the
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Speaker 1: technology for preserving seeds, preserving animals, and preserving human life.
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Speaker 1: Like these last days, we are reading about all the
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Speaker 1: things that will happen. The shakings in the weather, the droughts,
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Speaker 1: the famine, and all of that. Gosh, people need to
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Speaker 1: go and learn from Noah how to live in the
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Speaker 1: last days. Noah's job was preaching and building.
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Speaker 2: The church is only.
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Speaker 1: Doing preaching and we are not building anything. Preaching, he
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Speaker 1: was a preacher of righteousness and building an alternative system
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Speaker 1: to save his generation. Because as he was in the
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Speaker 1: days of Noah, so shall he be at the coming
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Speaker 1: of the Son of Man. The last COVID that came
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Speaker 1: I saw what hunger did and other problems health problems
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Speaker 1: that the world faced and it affected the church I
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Speaker 1: vowed that is the last time there will be hunger
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Speaker 1: and drought and people under me will be hungry it
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Speaker 1: will not happen that's how we went into agriculture massively
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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk now I don't want to
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Speaker 1: talk I don't want to talk.
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Speaker 2: I told the Lord to.
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Speaker 1: Give me a few more years. Let me show the
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Speaker 1: Nigerian church something. Let me show the African church something.
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Speaker 1: This is the same thing Joseph did when he saw
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Speaker 1: that famine was coming. Now we are hearing, reading all
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Speaker 1: the end time prophecies and reading and making people afraid.
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Speaker 2: Where is our Goshen city?
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Speaker 1: Where is something that we are built to protect lives
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Speaker 1: when earthquake comes? To protect lives when flood comes? To
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Speaker 1: protect lives when there is famine? To protect lives when
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Speaker 1: the economy shakes? Where is something you are built to
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Speaker 1: create jobs? This country called Nigeria is in the hand
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Speaker 1: of the church in Nigeria. It's not in the hands
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Speaker 1: of the politicians. This continent, the continent of Africa is
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Speaker 1: in the hand of the church in Africa.
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Speaker 2: The Bible said the world.
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Speaker 1: Is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.
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Speaker 1: Help me tell the person beside you, the world is
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Speaker 1: waiting for you. 1 Samuel chapter 13, verse 19.
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Speaker 2: I want to close with it. 13, 19.
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Speaker 1: So this is the state of the people of Israel
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Speaker 1: until David came to power. Now there was no smith
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Speaker 1: found throughout all the land of Israel.
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Speaker 2: This is during the reign of King Saul. No smith found.
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Speaker 1: Nobody who can make a knife, make plate, make sword,
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Speaker 1: make anything with metals.
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Speaker 2: Found throughout the land of Israel.
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Speaker 1: For the Philistines said, let the Hebrews make them sword
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Speaker 1: or spear. So the Philistines had the technology. The people
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Speaker 1: of God didn't. Verse 20.
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Speaker 2: All Israelites went down to the Philistines.
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Speaker 1: To sharpen every man his share, his cutlery, and his axe,
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Speaker 1: and his mattock.
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Speaker 2: Number one, the Jews have.
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Speaker 1: To go to the Philistines to buy the instruments for farming.
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Speaker 1: They will not sell weapons of defense to them. And
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Speaker 1: when they want to sharpen their knife, sharpen their cutlers,
1:21:40
Speaker 1: sharpen their axe, they go back to them and pay.
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Speaker 2: Just to sharpen.
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Speaker 1: So the economy easily was bleeding. The Philistines were getting rich.
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Speaker 2: Watch. Yes, go back.
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Speaker 1: Verse 21. Yet they had a fire for the mattock.
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Speaker 1: For the cutter. And for the forks. And for the axes.
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Speaker 1: To sharpen the goods. 22. So it came to pass.
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Speaker 2: In the day of battle. Nigerian church hear me. And
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Speaker 2: hear me well. The church in Africa hear me. And
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Speaker 2: hear me well. It came to pass.
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Speaker 1: That in the day of battle there was neither sword
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Speaker 1: nor spear found in the hand of any of the
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Speaker 1: people that were with Saul and Jonathan.
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Speaker 2: That were with Saul and Jonathan.
1:22:34
Speaker 1: But with Saul and with Jonathan his son were they found.
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Speaker 1: In a whole nation of Israel only two people had swords.
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Speaker 1: The king and his son. The president and his son.
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Speaker 1: everybody in the whole nation was not equipped. This is
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Speaker 1: the people of God. If you read verse 4, 5
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Speaker 1: to 7, you will see that the people, the army
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Speaker 1: of Saul fainted.
1:23:02
Speaker 2: They were afraid. They were hiding in caves, hiding in rocks.
1:23:06
Speaker 1: Some of them crossed River Jordan to go over to
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Speaker 1: the other side because they were afraid of the Philistines.
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Speaker 1: Now you can understand, the day David showed up in
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Speaker 1: that battle, To kill Goliath. There were only two swords
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Speaker 1: in the whole nation. And Saul had one. Jonathan had
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Speaker 1: the other. He had to use stone. Combined with the anointing.
1:23:27
Speaker 1: To bring Goliath down. David used natural resource. Not productive resource.
1:23:37
Speaker 1: And God's anointing came on him and helped him. The
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Speaker 1: moment David became king. He trained the people of Israel,
1:23:46
Speaker 1: built the most powerful army in the whole of the
1:23:48
Speaker 1: Middle East, built their economy, built the military, built every aspect,
1:23:55
Speaker 1: and that country became the most dynamic force in the
1:23:58
Speaker 1: whole Middle East. By the time his son Solomon came,
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Speaker 1: he took things to another level. They became the leading
1:24:04
Speaker 1: economy in the whole world. Israel since then has never
1:24:08
Speaker 1: recovered back. This is the kind of church God is
1:24:15
Speaker 1: looking for in the last days. It's the kingdom church.
1:24:19
Speaker 1: We have seen the evangelical church that started from Europe.
1:24:24
Speaker 1: They preach salvation. We have seen the Pentecostal church that
1:24:28
Speaker 1: came from America. They took us further and preached Pentecost.
1:24:35
Speaker 1: That's the New Testament version of Mount Sinai. When they
1:24:39
Speaker 1: went to Sinai, fire came. When we went to the
1:24:42
Speaker 1: upper room, Fire also came, but our own is empowerment
1:24:47
Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. What is missing is a kingdom
1:24:54
Speaker 1: church that will present.
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Speaker 2: The holistic thing.
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Speaker 1: It is not throwing away salvation. It is not abandoning
1:25:00
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. It is building on that to take this building,
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Speaker 1: the ecclesia, the general assembly, to its final conclusion so
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Speaker 1: that the Lord can return.
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Speaker 2: God bless you God bless you