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Tonight, I want to share briefly with us on Christian responsibilities because I've come to discover that the things that don't really appear powerful are the real powerful things in spiritual work. Sometimes you think it's knowing the deep things. The mysteries and what we call mysteries are complex issues. We think sometimes knowing those is what you devise our lives, and we have labored and labored and labored and curated so many of them. Yeah, things are not changing if you will pay attention to basics. I'm not saying the advanced things are not important, but if you pay attention to basics, you will see how fast your life will change. And so responsible Christianity is very important. And if you study your Bible, there is this strong advocacy for Christians and believers to become responsible. So you need to know what it means to be responsible. You need to know the areas or the dimensions where God expects you to be responsible. You need to know what it takes to be responsible and then leave responsibly so that your life does not only improve, but so that your life becomes a blessing to others, and so very quickly that's really few scriptures to let you k
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Tonight, I want to share briefly with us on Christian responsibilities because I've come to discover that the things that don't really appear powerful are the real powerful things in spiritual work. Sometimes you think it's knowing the deep things. The mysteries and what we call mysteries are complex issues. We think sometimes knowing those is what you devise our lives, and we have labored and labored and labored and curated so many of them. Yeah, things are not changing if you will pay attention to basics. I'm not saying the advanced things are not important, but if you pay attention to basics, you will see how fast your life will change. And so responsible Christianity is very important. And if you study your Bible, there is this strong advocacy for Christians and believers to become responsible. So you need to know what it means to be responsible. You need to know the areas or the dimensions where God expects you to be responsible. You need to know what it takes to be responsible and then leave responsibly so that your life does not only improve, but so that your life becomes a blessing to others, and so very quickly that's really few scriptures to let you know that I'm not the one advocating for responsible Christianity. This is a doctrine of scriptures. Ephrisians five, verse fifteen to seventeen. One of the discoveries you will make as a believer is that nothing We are begging God for nothing, not one that has not been made available. It says, see then that you walk sircumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. So anybody who is not working responsibly conscious of the times that we are in the Bible said, this description is that of a fool. Anybody who is working responsibly conscious of the time that we are in the Bible said, is disposition is that of the wise, Seeing then that we walk sircumspectfully, not as fools, but as wise. Verse sixteen we read to seventeen redeeming who is on the If that person needs energy, can somebody help him with locals at boost because it's obvious that the worship and the prayer didn't do much. Maybe what is looking for is atp if they're redeeming the time because the days are evil. Second emphasis, if you are not responsible, you are not just considered foolish. Is there you are setting yourself off for destruction, because we are living in a time when your challenge of irresponsibility is not just the things that you have not done and the implication it has on you. There are forces trying to destroy you. So you must be responsible. If you don't have enemies, irresponsibility can destroy you. But they're telling you that you have enemies, that. Even if you are working, you need this. So if you are not even responsible, it means you are in trouble. This is double Japardy verse six seventeen. Werefore be not on wise but understanding what the will of the Lord is. So what's the will of God that you live? That comepactly give it to me on the amplified classic. Let's look for other words. Therefore, see that you work carefully, living life with honor papers courage, shining Those who tolerate and enable evil not as unwise, but as wise, sensible, intelligent, They sunning people. Sensible intelligent they stunning people. Is that making the very most of your time on it, recognizing and taking advantage of each of the unity, using it with wisdom and diligence. Because the day are filled with evil, Therefore, do not be foolish and thoughtless, but understand and family grasp what the will of the Lord is. This is the admonishmental scriptures. I head, doctop and suppose sharing. Recently, he said, you are going to bed to rest, He said. The question is from what what did you do? What reasonable thing have you done in the day that warrants rest? Okay, what are you resting from? And that you wake up? You want to eat for what? What do you want to deploy the energy for? Instead, it's like filling your tongue with fuel and puncturing it out and you feel it again. We want to eat. Man must work, work for what purposal you have been working with that impact. Work? Second, spectly admonishmental scriptures Galatians six best four to five. Please write the scriptures down, be deliberate about transformation. Fight for your life to change. He said. But let every man prove his own work, and then he shall have rejoicing himself alone, and not in another next verse, for every man shall bear his own burden. So if you're not responsible, don't start accusing people of being callous. Tomorrow this world has become wicked. They don't even care about it. Oh, Gasa, do you care about yourself. You don't care about yourself? What makes you feel somebody else? We care about you. You are where you are because of the decisions you're made over time. Now you don't care about yourself. Why are you accusing people of not caring about you? And I'm not saying people should be callous, But if plays every man who bear his own bodies, So every area of your life where you are irresponsible, when the repercussion comes, prepare your shoulders. You will carry it. If God does messy Britain intervention, thank. Him for his name, but be ready to bear your bodies. Glory to God. Let's be that in the amplified classic. I think I love the settle words that they create in some of these scriptures go to rest worm ex that. But each one most carefully scrutinies his own work, examining his actions, attitudes, and behavior. And then he shall have person us satisfaction and inner joy of doing something commendable without comparing himself to another. So he's saying, if you are responsible with what you do, you would appreciate it. Most times we are focusing on people other people's success and exploits, and we are condemning ourselves pitying ourselves. God, why am I here? Look at this person? Look at that, he's saying. No, whatever God has committed to your trust, if you are responsible in it, it will bring you sufficient joy and satisfaction. And that joy will be so palpable that you won't bother about the exploits of other people, either to. Envy them or to compete with them. Verse five. For every person will have to bear with patience his own bodies of thoughts and shortcoming for which he, he alone, is responsible. We need to work up. Sometimes we looks as if our pretain of grace has made irresponsible Christians in different aspects of their lives. And I'm not saying we should not speak of the superflu us benevolence of God, but we must understand that in this christ sandom everything Grace provides, Grace also enables you to be responsible to assress them, because God is not just interested in meeting your needs. He wants to make you. And at least you understand that God is refined in fire. The best of you can come out unless you take certain responsibilities. If there's no pressure, that can be no glitter. And so this irresponsible generation is heading for destruction. And if we are not careful to emphasize these things in black and white, when we end up raising more atheies than will raise disciples, because by the time they are running with I don't need to do anything. I don't need to do anything, and reality dawns on. Them in five years, ten years, they will begin to blame the gospel. And it's not because the God is not powerful. It's because those two toty thirty wrongly first and may fourth worlds. This is scriptures admonish you us with cost on and emphasis on repercussion. Let no one look down on you because of your youth. But you know we quote let no matter despise you because of your youth if and only if you are responsible. If we are not responsible, everybody is permitted to look down on you. Let no man look down on you because of your youth. But be an example and set a pattern for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in taith, and im moral purity. So I show you the need for responsibility or responsible Christian living. Titles two verse sticks to it in a similar way. Arge the young man to be sensible and self controlled, and to be wisely and to behave wisely taking life seriously. Tell the young people to be sensible, self controlled, and behave wisely taking life seriously. Some people are too careless with life, irres possible about everything, yet hoping that one day you go better. The biggest shock of your life is what time we bring to you in the future. That nothing gets better with time. Everything gets better based on the values you put in by reason of discipline than the intervention of God net worse. Verse seven, go to the seven first, and in all things, show yourself to be an example of good works, with purity in doctrine, having this trick text regard for integrity and truth dignified, vers it sound and beyond reproach in instructions, so that the opponent of the faith will be shamed, having nothing bad to say about us strict test regard for integrity. So you're not just being responsible, is that you are being responsible at the highest standard that even if you approved, they will find for it. Look sixteen, and this is where Jesus cast it up. If you are not faith, we need to you are not faith with much. That means there's no promotion for an irresponsible Christian. Your promotion is tied to your responsibility. After looking around at them all, he's said, Luke sixteen ten, forgive me. Let's that be the. Lord God Almighty? Who was any honest to come? Let's that be the Lord God? Oh my, sing that song for me? Who have the good boys there annointed one? All of you sing? Now, don't you have? They are looking. Around God, ah may, who was to come? Let's thirty the Lord. God who. Far? Let's let's be Lord. God foods. To come? Let's let me. God? Is that who you? He who is faithful in a very little thing, it's also faithful in march. And he who is dishonest in very little things, it's also dishonest in much so. Every thing we pray for is that the messy of what we are doing with what we currently have. If we are not responsible with what we currently have, we better stop wasting our time praying for the things that we don't have. Because the way God vets you and qualifies you for promotion is by assessing you based on what you're currently doing. This is why responsibility is to paramount. You can find a thousand and one scripture that admoney this believers to be responsible and all to come less setting mm hmm. Ooo for letty boosers. To come, thank sty the God. Boom ah, thank you Father. Two things that'll be doing tonight quickly. It's number one sures what it takes to be responsible as this spirit to a man. And then number two to show you area us of your life where you must be deliberate about being responsible, if your life will be impactful and if you will make a difference in your generation. I was teaching in school with a young man a bit older than me those days, and both of us were coemistry teachers. Here we come when we sit in the lab during our free period, and it will be talking. Look at this burst, he said, this head, you are saying, now we packed the blocks we build that church. If where we carry the blocks that built that church? See where he is now, see where we are. I wanted to blame the past of what I looked. I just broad up life. I said, no, this paston is innocent. We come to the office before it. I think you knows the man. This guy comes to the office by it, he's already smelling of alcohol. H And they said, even the alcohol at least they are they are some alcohols that I'm talking dry Jane. This one that they put shot before it. The guy has taken it. This tanch is not and they will come like that smelling alcohol. Students. People know that's the first thing blaming person. So sometimes I know there are many people who are who don't care about people. But when people talk look at their lives, you will see the answer. There a point came the principle had to drive him away from the school. This guy is very intelligent. Tanks of alcohol in the morning. What is looking for everybody to blame? How can how can such a person go forward forget about church best, even if it were to be in an oil company? What we hand over to such a person? Where can you fit into gross irresponsibility? And that's one of the biggest plays of this generation. And so are we retmised what it takes to be responsible? And then I will show you the areas where a believer is expected to be responsible. But very quickly, when we speak of responsibility in spiritual context, what are we talking about? It simply means living intentionally, faithfully and at countably. Responsibility or responsible living means living intentionally, faithfully and accountably before God and before others. Reflecting the character of Christ and advancing the Kingdom of God. Living intentionally, faithfully and accountably before God and before man, reflecting the character of Christ and advancing the frontiers of the kingdom. Responsible Christianity may not necess really be seen. Less perfection, no, but it speaks of. Faithfulness, progressive maturity, and growth. So when you find a responsible Christian, he's maturing on the daily basis, he's growing on the daily basis, And it shows in the intentionality with which it does what it does. People who are responsible, they are not intentional. They keep needing motivation. Somebody rose recently put motivation. Put this discipline, make discipline and faith motivation because motivation is important, but it's spontaneous. People who live by motivation, their life is up and down, up and down, up and down. Any week they are motivated, they are bonny with weed. But any week there's no motivation, they can go down and destrive with what they built the previous week. So we are not talking about motivated living this. When I was growing, you know, they said, if you motivate an idiot, you haven't be motivated idiot. There is why if you look off. If some of us where raised with so every idios can be motivated. So we are not talking motivation. That's why even pretty, when pretty becomes about motivation, you'll see people excited. Don't need shorge, check them out in life. They come not into you. So we are talking intention a living anything. The Bible said you find your hand doing it said do it with all on, all your heart, your mind, your soul, your strength. That's intentional living. If it's worth doing, it's what doing good. And if it's not worth doing, no need wasting your time. So people who are not intent on are not responsible. People who are not faithful, that means you can't they can't be committed to a cost. They are spontaneous. Today, they are here today, they are there. You can't find them invested into anything. They are not responsible. So it takes intentionality, it takes faithfulness, and it takes accountability. It's not just that I've done something. What you have done? Is they off to the mark. It's there after the standard and can you give account for it? If need or demand displaced on you, that's what it entails. And so any dimension of life, whether the spirit, whether relation, whether socio in your interaction with people, whether your your civic responsibility to society. There must be intentionality, there must be faithfulness, and there must be accountability. If these things are not there, you're not responsible. Responsbility is not just that I have something doing. I have a job. No, that's not all we're saying. Responsibility is not just that I have a business. Yes, it begins with have been something to do, because the Bible says, so your hand must find something to do. But a man above having something to do? How intentions are you? How faithful are you? How accountable are you? This is the demand that scriptures placed on us anywhere we go to which the more tell the higher standard, even where we are not being supervised those days when we were. Looking for jobs. One of the things you must always remember to add to your CV is ability to walk with little or no supervision. That accountability is required everywhere. The Bible said it's aspected of his keyword first Corinthians, pothers too, that a man being found faithful. I'm telling you this is even in church. There is grossly responsibility church where we are conscious of God's presence, how much more outside church? This is why much can be committed to us. Sometimes God, you know Jesus said, don't commit holy things to this wine, not because they are pigs in nature, but because of their irresponsible nature. It didn't say that because they are pigs. It said that because the pig nature make them behave in a certain way. He said, when you give them, they would trump put it on their mood. So when people have no value, they can be responsible. So responsibility speaks of value value the three gods, deliberateness, value, the three God, faithfulness, value, the three God, accountability, and many treats lack this in diverse aspects of their lives. Believe me, if you will become anything in this kingdom or even in life, generally you must be responsible. So number one, find something to do. And number two, when you find something, be intentionals, be faith and be accountable. These are the two badly things about responsibility. Find something, never be idle. You go read Matthew twenty five. In the morning. At the first watch he found some people. He gave them what to do, the Bible said. At the third watch he found another people. He said, what don't you have anything doing? They said nothing. They come and. Walk at the speaks to watch. He went out again. He found come and walk up until you five pm. He still found some idea. People, He said, come and walk, so that you'll be no time when you are found without doing something. And it's there where God puts you. You must become responsible there by first of all finding something, and then when you have found something. You are intentional. Don't wait to be motivated. You don't need a speech to do what you're doing well, because the moment you need to be motivated. You see, being the leader, The person whould have to motivate you is the leader. So if you want to beat the head and not the taal, then you must be intentional. Her the one who motivates is the leader. The one who is motivated is the follower. So if you want to be at the top, be intentional. If you can't be intentioned on her, I tell you all your life you have and there's nothing wrong against something except that the arcade has the samis so massavans others are songs. That's the difference. So quickly, what does it take? What does it take to become responsible? Number one a genuine relationship with God. And I give you reasons why because number responsibilit it is the nature thing. And then it's a training thing when you find people who are responsible. First of all, there is the nature that supports it. For reastance what I'm doing here, there's no way you can expect a baboom to do it. So there are things that can never be done if nature does not support. If you get a baboon to hear to come here and preach, you are a joker. And don't they have the nature that supports it. So when we are talking responsibility, first, there must be a natural context to it that a man has the DNA to function in the area that you are opposing. Then number two, he has to be trained because completense matters. In responsibility to be able to deliver. So there is a natural affect and there's a training aspect. But are achieved when you have a relationship with God as your commune God his nature. It became pattern to you, first a salvation, then continuously in intimacy, and then number two, your learne of him, Jesus said, learne of me is that my yoke is simple, my body is light. So both nature and training are acquired in intimacy. And who can be the best example mentor raw model if not God himself. The word began with God taking responsibility. In the beginning Genesis one, from verse one, God created the heavens and the. Earth, and the earth was void. Darkness was upon the face of the deep, and God showed up again, the spirit of the Lord moving upon the face of the water. And God's said, light feed. He never came to lament. He came to solve problems. So he began solving problem as the responsible God. If you want to grow in responsibility, you're both be intentional, faithful and accountably connected to God in intimacy. Look what Jesus said John fifteen, verse five is that without Me you can't do nothing. There's trend to withdraw in order to be responsible. It is drawn from our relationship with God. And remember, responsibility is not just what to do on your job. That's part of it. It's deeper because there's also spirity, a context to responsibility. So you need avita connection with God to be responsible. M First that in Philippius to thirteen is that it is God that work getting us, but to will and to do of His good pleasure. Post that in Philippians for thirteen, I can do all things through Christ, which threatens me. So responsibility is occasioned when you have invita connection with God. Check your Bible. All the men that worked with God were responsible. That means there's something about our connectivity to God that provotes responsibility. He will not just inspire, He gives commands. He drives you to be responsible. Number two, what does it take to be responsible? A heart posture committed to obedience and accountability. Anybody who does not have the heart posture of obedience, anybody who doesn't have the heart posture of accountability can never be responsible. If you find a man and that any instruction giving, he counts it. Stop wasting your time. If you love and pray. For him, come back. The job will be done. You'll find a man who fails to do the job, and you'll try to correct, redeal. All demand accountability. And he said, wait, it gives you a thousand and one excuses. Don't waste your time. You have found somebody that will not just stop it from being done. He will stop others who were willing. From doing it. So too, dangerous people you will find, if you want to do anything, at those who are not obedient, and at those who are full of excuses. Put them aside quickly, because if you are not strong, after a while even you will becoming activist. They will not just give you reason why shouldn't be done. They will give you reason why you do. You don't trouble yourself. Who got it last? Now are you building a new word? I've that this annoys you. There were Ah, why are you now? I agree with them that they will love about you. Know now it'll be possible. I know. I read many years ago. I forgotten who said it? Now? Is that that thing that you give an excuse for? They are more than a thousand people who can get it done, but they text a heart fust job. If the heart is not there, even. If it is a simple task, it won't be done. But if the heart is there, even if it is difficult, you will do something about it. Even if you don't get it done, you will do something about it. So you find people who are responsible. It takes the heart FoST job. And I tell you that heart is no more there. This is a generation where tear somebody pick a pin. He chudges you. No problem. If you must do it at the cost, that's fine, so long as you have the value. But you see pay them they give you excuses. Somebody who works for me recently, I told him I will never give you any job again because I will never finish it. He will do the oh work. It will remain a hinge on the door. It will become toies. I say, you have this sing from in you that doesn't get things don And because of that, I will never because I don't want you to impact me. Holy, ohly. Ah, you lock God. Oh my. Body is the head. Body is the head. You are holy? Who you love God? Oh my. Body is the lad. Body is a lad. You know why you pinstorms like this? All you are thinking about It is for me to be see less like God, to be pre like Jesus. That's true, that's part of it. But that's not all. Did you read your Bible? God is not just see less. God is responsible. When God started walking, there was no record that he rested. There was no record that he waited to relax. He was on the job for six days. He finished, and now said, and now God rested from all his works. You have not walked. What are you wrestling from? It's where you are. You want to be like God? You think holy like God. It's seem lessness only it's part of it, because you have to be responsible around your purity. But that's not all. How many of your jobs have you finished? God, God is all finished before he rested. A new generation must be born, and it takes their heart, and many don't have it. In John fourteen fifteen, it didn't just say keep my commandment, No evil. God knows we are not robots that just keeps commandments. He say, if you love me, then keep my commandments. That means obedience is a product of heart. So when people are not obedient, when people are irresponsible, check number one is either they lack the training, provide training. After you provide training, if they are still irresponsible, discipline them may lead you because they may be struggling with issues in the in themselves, like lack of focus, lack of discipline. Now, when you discipline the leads when they are still there, leave them, it means their heart is not there. If you love me, keep my commandments. Look six forty six sus said, why do you call me lord lord? Why you don't do what I say? So if the heart is not right, don't need the guy can't do it. Most times people give excuse because their heart is not invested in the project. So when you find consistency in excuses some way seeing or stary, look for a new person. Otherwise you'll be spoke responsible Christianity and this is from God's plane of reference number three. What does it take to be responsible? It's paton for sammis patron. When you see responsible people, there's an energy they have. Michal was sharing. If it's somebody telling him, when do you rest? And if people ask you questions, sometimes they expecting the answer usual gives where they taught it with the one I'm tired. I don't have the right to be tired. Tired for what? Why do you rest? They think that you were saying the night Reverend David boy is that the difference between night and day is light. So if the job is not done and it's night on light, continue walking. You think people just appear? There is his mentality, when do you rest? Bishops, when I'm finished? If I'm not yet finished, I have no right to give myself rest. That one of his pitchers looked at him many years ago, pretts Man klaimself. He's still here. All of them now call him father. Meanwhile, the people who have rework don't complain. He is the one who have nothing that I cry. And every day I was listening to the documentary and I'm not using this person. I won't call the name so that I'm not using him for as an example, one of the richest men in the world today, he said, those days when they were doing coding the whole night and they were cold and step up network and in the daytime they were hosted, and people will be using the network at night. He will use their whole nights to code their time. They are there debugging and people are and they ran that for years because they were trying to host a network. Today they are setting they are sending rockets to space. But they began with small network local area network code in the night. First in the morning. People use it in the morning. When they are using it, you are debugging. You'll see two hours and sleep. They were sleeping in the office. People don't have PIATA. They are responsive and their pattern on their purpose. They came to where they are. We are the one here talking grace. My grace is sufficient for you talking interventional talking God, we show up if God is showing up the way we expect, and we're not going to become useless with father resisting child like that. You don't do anything for God to show up? Are you one year old? The fish you were doing for your child when there were six months? Nine months? Will you do it? When the attackey is the responsible Christianity and it's largely because we don't have passion. Jesus was speaking in Mark ten forty five. He said, the son of Man did not come to be saved, but to salve. There was a paton driving him. I must do the work of him that sends me while it is there. The night come like when no man walking. People who don't have pasted on in their spirit I very need today. They are the ones who assess themselves, appress themselves. I cannot let them much. They have done. Nobody's noticing, but they have done so much, and they expect the world to be clappy. Please, I beg you, this is I share with you. Write them down, make them your prayer point. Father, give me pat on for something I can't leave, like a mediocre Look up your life. You are twenty, you are twenty five, you are thirty, you are thirty five, you are forty. What have you poured your energy into? What can you point out and say this one? If I leave the head today, this is what I have pought my energy in, and I can't tell that it has affected humanity. How many things can you point out? If you're left the head today? What is your legacy? You are lost in the crowd and you are satisfied there. You must pray for God to give you a passion for something where you can burn and be burned for. Other Wise what makes us difference from the animals? Mainly have no passion? And if you have a paton, God recognize it and rewards your responsibility. Along those lines in Hebrew six Verst. Ten, he said, God is not unjust to forget your labor and your walks of love that you have shown. Jesus had the same person John two seventeen that the real of my father's house has consumed me. When he stood before Pilot, Pilots was telling him I have the power to release you. He wasn't hearing him. He looked a Pilot. He said, you don't have that power. I said, has been given to you. And in case you don't know, my kingdom is not of this world. If it were out of court, he said, But for this cause was I born? He said, for this cost came I into the world that I may bear witness to the truth. That was the persion. He's come to write this life by his persion. For this cost was I born? So it doesn't matter. He said, how am I stretched? That was Jesus talking. He left forth night and day until his own body was pleased, and Jesus himself exclaimed, how I'm stretched, and I will be stretched. Narrational even while you're not doing anything, people already halling you. When do you rest? Hey, this is what we does. People look at me some time, they say, gay man of God? Ah? What what the wow? More grace? When do you rest? I say rest? What? I'm going for a meeting. I'm flying, I'm sleeping on the aircraft. I relax, I'm praying. I go for the meeting. I finished preaching. Come back. I relax in the hotel. I fly back as they went to I rest. My whole life is wrest. How many hours did I preache? You go ask for people who were galloping on donkeys for hours. You go right on a camera for two hours. Nowadays we will fly business class. If we call on stressed. I don't want to see for ten Meanwhile, the people rode on horsebacks, they rode on car else for weeks. I'm pretty to you now see the micro free how loud it is. When Paul preached, that was no mike and they pray two thousands. That means every time they preach, they shouted on top of their boys. Look at the bonomos electronics there for me to talk to this more number le's some prefer there's kipboard everything pray. I say, when do you rest Augasa, I'm wrestling, don't don't clap me out of my destiny. I'm not saying kill yourself, but I'm saying, don't make yourself lady by your necessary are colleagues, if in the days of poor people can win hundreds of thousands of sous, you, you and this generation where you have media to support you have not won ten thousand souls. Don't you think you're playing? We need to work up. Except the things that were reading Romance fifteen four. They were written for our learning that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope patience and comfort to scriptures. But you need pattern. Your pattern is your free wel for destiny, burn it on your purpose, and people have run out of passion. Nothing moves them, nothing motivates them. Even when you drag them into something that is worth living, they still can't find passion for it. One thing you must tell yourself is I will never be the one to be motivated to do anything. I would rather be the one motivating others. I won't sit back for somebody else to tell me. I will tell other people. Your life will change drastically, not my pife dedication to passnal grooves. You can't do more. Than your level of development. My son is three years old, my first song. Even if he's wise and wants to hurt me, there have many areas it can't help me. It's not groom when it gets to me, carries from carries the handkerchief, stands in front of the TV, and it's trying to mimic what I'm doing. Even if I'm tired here, it's the last person I will go. It's not about love, it's about maturity. Imagine if I say I can't preach now and live first on God to live fast, or Frank live fast, or you leave all this man here live fast to a live broadwn me live lucky, leave everybody, and then I give my my song Mike. They are gonna be wondering is it and they have three drama it's it for two minutes. What is he doing? Because it takes God to be responsible, So pattern is good from pattern. See any area you want to be responsible, you know something there? Just grow? Why you grow, not chureally, you become responsible. So our irresponsibility in itself is a testimony and a testation of our immaturity because those who are mature are responsible. In fact, one of the marcats of maturity is responsibility. They prove that you are grown at these assignments you can handle. That's why when God gives you an assignment, he's telling you I see you as mature. Onto us, a child is born as they are nine very six, nothing happens onto us. A son is given. Things change. The government of this world should be upon the shoulders. You don't give government to children, You give government to the mature. It said the air. So long as it's the child Galatians for one, it's not different from his other. Even though there's a lord of owe, but you can't allow him hand to my pass of speed. It's tch maturity. That's why scriptures admonished that we grew. In Hebrews five twelve to fourteen, he said, whoever uses milk, it's the baby, and it's on skillful. In the world of righteousness, whoever uses milk, except for when there ought to be teachers, you have need of being taught the first principles of the oracles of God. Whoever use this milk is the best, and it's on skillful. In the world of righteousness. That means the word of righteousness, also the quiet kid. That's why Job said, I made a vow with my eyes not to look on the veget is killed. It's not at the righteousness of God, and you are falling like chicken. You need skilled if there for strongly belongs to them who by reason of youth, maturity strongly belong to them who are full age, who by reason of youth have exercised their senses to discern between good and ego responsibility. It takes maturity, so that decade, commit yourself, make efforts by the spirits to grow. We have too many infants. That's why when you come to charge miracles, lavish is not a. Flawded but vigeus ascanti evangelisis scanty because everybody's coming to it. They are looking for the fiasts where God is applying. But when God has an assignment, you can't find them because they are babies. And it shows you the picture of the body of Christ to be is a movement of babes. Anywhere you find crowd, prophet is happening, miracles are happening, and anyway that is country, evangelity and prayer is what is happening. And most times we celebrate baby, the babies that we're gonna and it doesn't profit God. Look at the church Jesus left, all of them, all became witnesses, all not storm. When Juda's fail. They picked two people by Lord, and. They had this touch of the apostles. So long as you went in and out, you can be an apostle. If you are not, it's because God didn'tchoose you. They you that's fair. They said, come, let's catch a lot, back back back, pick two people. Pray to God who is to pick this one? And Mattires had the same stature. Him too was Mattire didn't change his mind. We need to work off that. No hide in the multitude play your part, but you can't unless you are committed to personal groups. Number five. Willingness, willingness to stand in the gap. For God and for man. If that willingness is not there, you can't take responsibility. You must have heard you can't take a horse to the river. You can't force it to drink water. Willingness. Many are not willing, mainly are not willing. I love the way Paul put it. It is that necessity is laid upon me. I think that's First Corinthians Nye around verse fourteen to eighteen. Check it. Necessity is said, whoae onto me? If I preach not the gospel? Whoe onto me? Ask willingness to take responsibility? Number six A sense of accountability. I've mentioned that already as one of the course second currenials. Five times he said we must all appear before the judgment's fleet of Christ, all of us. That everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to what he had done, whether it be good or bad. So why you were in the flesh, If everything you did, you will appear before the judgment, said or Christ to give you account. That sense of accountability is one of the things that provokes reward. While you find responsible people, especially in spiritual context, is because at the end of time they want to hear thou good and faithful servent. If that's not a motivation for you, you will never be responsible. But some of us who know the implications, when we remember scriptures like that, it proved a push the sauce. In Matthew twelfth thirty six, Jesus said, everyone we give account of all he had done. And Elias said, if they're either words or who some word, everyone. Must give account for it is expected of a seaward. First Corinthians four two demand be found faith. So you find responsible people. There's the consciousness of accountability, and accountability is in levels. You need to understand that, and I think it's sensitive, so. I have to say it that accountability is in lebush issue. Oh oh. Ah uh. Issue. For those who are responsible are those, thank you, who have a sense of accountability. First to God Romans fourth word. So then each of us we give account of ourselves to God. Secondly to spiritual authorities Hebrews thirteen seventeen. Obey them that have rule over you, for they watch over your souls and must give account for you and so that when they do, they will do with joy, for it is profitable. One to you. Number three to fellow believers, I'm accountable to you or do I'm a spiritual authority over you. What I'm accountable to you. If I do anything that is not morally right, I lose the right to stand here to speak to you. Accept as repentance and restitution is carried out. So we are accountable to one another. Galician six one to two carry each other's body, and so we fulfill the. Law of Christ. It's best in James by sixteen. Confess your faults one to another, so we all that level of accountability. Number four to see week authorities. You are accountable to the constitution of your country. You are accountable to the authorities that be, for they are ordained of God. You can't say no, I don't care, I can do what I want. No, you cancer the Bible's every authority that be ordained of God, and they say, if you're valid them, they don't bear the road in vain. So you are accountable. Let everyone romance Statin Verse one and two, based subjects to the governing authority. Let everyone based subject onto the higher power or governing authority, except for there's no power but of God, and the powers that be are ordained of God. Accountability, and then finally obedience or responsible Christianity. I beg your pardon is the function of faithful stea watship. That's an inward character of your spirit. Faithful stea watship, faithful stea watch. There are people that hate it for anything in their hands not to walk. There are people that hate it for anything committed to them to feel, even if there was no profit, as it were, so long as you say this is committed to. You, that we do all for it to walk, it's a state of their spirit man. It's got skeea wats ship, faithful sea wordship. Most people who are responsible, that's the disposition of their inner man. They are not even doing it because of you. First because of God, and secondly because they can't deny themselves. If it fails in their hands, they will almost not forgive themselves. And the Bible of Hostald values. I caught it for you already from Luke's investen, that God haspets us to be faithful even. In li. I cought there for you from first Corientians, Par. Two. That is expected of a see word that a man defined faithful. So responsible people are people that are naturally faithful the Bible is a faithful man who can find that means there are men who are faith In fact, if you find faithful people that have loyalty in them, they are big treasures. They have two things that I must for anybody who must be committed authority, amongst other things. Number one is loyalty, which is the product of love and faithfulness, and number two is competence. When you find anybody that has these two poly that's one of the biggest pleasing God that's given to you. If you are hiding the course because it's in some people, and there are people that rebellion is in there. I'm telling you it's in there naturally. In fact, you will invest all the grace of God on your life to help them remove it. They don't even know find such people. If they are not leading, they are not involved, and the moment they are leading, they want to do it their way. Give them authority. They have a problem with twenty people already. Everybody is wrong for them. They can't command people, they can't punish people. They're there. You give them one punishment they're out rebellion. That's not responsibility because for every level of growth, God we check your rebellion in the kingdom. One thing that can never be done on evenly heaven is rebellion. When seta rebelled, he was kicked out. So responsibility requires hate, fusty words. And so anybody who wants God to help him in this corridors these seven things are lost for you. Write them down, maybe tet on scriptures. I'll give you very few scriptures. Go on such other scriptures on this subject studied, and ask God to help you. Why Because responsibility does not just improve your life, it really does. Most of you will attest that even on your job, every work committed to you educates you and improves you. It may be hard, but it will leave you better than he met you. And remember those days when my friend I think two three years ago, now let me know them. Do this where my friend god Will was as exam of his time in the university where he lectures. Ah, he looked like a plague. You mean you're gonna collect. Not just the exam of hissef a level or the whole department. You are gonna collecate results. No room for error. You will bet you will collect. It looks as if they hated it, but I'm. Sure the level of acuteness and precision that it has came from some of those things. Jobs don't destroy you, They leave you better because there will stretch you to your limits. So the first reason you must embread responsibility is that improves you, because if you don't embred that improvement, you will end the shame some of you who are here who don't read your Bible. If I say take a charge, there you are taking charge. Certainly you're gonna dust your concorders as that my magic scriptures together. Suddenly you see they need to pray terms for two hours before coming for Bible story or Sundays. I think you just throw it to service. Why are you not praying before coming? Responsibility we put a demand, and so the more responsibility you carry, the more refined you become. So your best essions are a product of your responsible lifeestyle And then number two, it proposedly won't. God does not reward your looks, neither does reward your salvation. He rewards your leport of love. So this is something those who are white demand for whether in the kingdom or outside. And then number three, it improves humanity because anything you do becomes a platform for somebody else to excel. And these are justifications for which you should be motivated and not if you work by motivation to be responsible. I'm not dealing with the blessess of responsibility tonight because of time. In fact, I'm about to round them. Let me touch areas, areas where God respects us to be responsible. Number one, it's in your spiritual development. Maybe that's the only one I can touch because of time, your spiritual development. Second multi two fifteen study to show yourself approved onto God, a workman that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the world of truth stody to show yourself approved. So God wants you to be responsible through the totality of your spiritual life. That means that touting your spiritual life. God wants you to be intentional about that development. God wants you to be accountable in that regard, so that maturity is attained to the degree that you reflect Christ. So the first aspect of development or responsibility is your spiritual development or spiritual life. The second abject of responsibility is in your mental faculty. Please be deliberate. And being conscious, not only to grow the strength. Of your spirits, but also your mind. There are lots of things that God can do with you if your mind is limited for us the man think it, so is he? So your mind is important. Ask yourself for a second. I don't know. This is just a price of position. Peter walks with Jesus. John walk with Jesus. James walk with Jesus. But the document that was sent to us to use only road for tea chapter for timbooks. There are some who worked with Jesus that did. They did send one. Now the web powerful in their generation. I am not saying the field, and I hope I'm not hearing. I first tried to pray. That's why I said, it's an assumption. I prayer, don't but think about it. Paul, who didn't work with Jesus, although he counter Christ, we can't deny it. And he told us God reveal Christ in him. He didn't despise the apostles either. If I went up by revelation presented my gospel to them, so that I don't run in here. But does it not occur to you? He was the one who had capacity to articulate certain emphasis needed to build the church. Mentality has a part in this matter. You're gonna read the writings of Paul. They are literally arguments of a lawyer. I was reading the Book of Gardisians two days ago. I couldn't drop it. I thought, my food that the intelligence of the guy he began by right, how that he's an apostle and his apostle ship was not concerned on him by a man that God caught him, so he just defied his authority as an apostle. He went further. He began to talk about where he was before God found him, how that he read her book on the church, but God discovered him and his life became a blessing. That so much so that the church spoke about it. Then he went number three, he's not talking about the gospel. He's preaching how that no man taught him that it was in Arabia, that Jesus wasn't there to him, and God redeat this to him. It was putting him from his brother's room activated in Arabia. Then he went number four. In case you will say I'm preaching my own message. He told us in chapter two how he went to present it to the apostles, and when they looked at it they didn't find any fault. Are you sing? This is an air tight argument and intellect you are talking. It's not just revelation. Do we said? Where did you get your message from? Jesus gives me because they may say, ah, if people will see preacher, where decide put some Jesus, where are you from? He said, it's not only those who work with Jesus in Galii that knew him and encountered him. And in case you said, but is your message I used to not the apostles who approve it. I went to them first, came back for three years later I went again. I lived with Peter and. James, and I thought few of the apostles they bet their gospel and approved it. He now finished. He began to now deal with the subject of the message, and it started this argument from Abraham. See, oh can in last dude, you can't go five your mind this dog. He went to Abraham and began to argue that Empraham was not blessed because they kept the law that was blessed before the law was giving, and that the blessing that was given to Abraham the Lord that came for this centuries letter can't conswer it. And then he went further to tell us that the blessing of Abraham was not for Isaac because when God was speaking, he wasn't speaking about his seed. He spoke about his seed, which is singular. And he said that freed is Jesus Christ. He went further to argue that to ever accept Jesus has entered into Abraham's blessings because Jesus now is they get away to that blessing? Is that a needle they're talking? Can those which the men argue that Gods, this is the lawyer giving you a pit as this he is not there. He now told us if you have a step that Christ. He began to argue, how that what transforms you and not those and don't, but the life that is in Jesus. That's why I said the air so long as it's the child, it's not dipreved from Isaba. It said, for God gave the law so that when Christ comes, it will no longer be by the law, but by the grace that is in Jesus. And so when you receive that place is the life that is put in you. So a new nature now regulates you. Thith does not undermind the law. But the law is now not a regulation that justifies you, but the life makes you live the law as your nature. So agues from the promise to nature. And it said in cash you have Christ and you have not experienced it. It said, the key is for you to yield to the Holy spirity a good from Him as a sinner God and a postle given a message. The message is better by other apostles, and that the promise of Meebraham prove that Jesus was. That promise proved that if you receive Christ, you are part of that promise. Shows you that the reason you receive Christ, it's not that you don't live virus not a good legho, but the true creates in life pow at you, and that life is active better when you submit to the Holy Ghost. He learned the book that you can forward whether you are Jew or Genta. You commander, oh guy, is Lord have the part? In intelligence analysis. Critica thinking was what God bleted upon. I'm not saying tell if it's the move of intelligence, but I'm saying the Holy Ghost does a lot within you that mind. That was the argument. That's how it is in romance. That's why it is in official The guy we opened the textbook as that an argument. Develop your minds out. It's not just if you don't beligious, you'll. Go to her. Relax. They got deeper than that. It's deeper than that. So be responsible in your mental development. I'm not saying land physics to breed the gospel. I'm not saying land mathematics. But I'm saying your mind must be refined. So you must be responsible in your mind. It speaks of your personality. It peaks of your ability to communicate in a wholesome manner if you allowed the Holy Goos breathe upon this. Number three, be lessponsible with your body, bodily exercise profits what lidle. That lid to is something, because if you don't have that lid to, you will leave you a twenty eight And I'm gonna deal with all of these things. That's why I'm not touching them. I'm just mentioning them. They're responsible to us, your spiritual development, your mental development, your bodily development. Number four, be responsible in. Your relationship with others things. That's the way we ought to behave with one another. In all moral standards in love and compassion, mutual respect, this and laws inscriptions. It's the deal with the younger woman as your sister. In all purity. It is they exhaust others more than yourselves, multual respect, purity. There are standards for our relationships, and you must say that responsibility. And then number five, area of responsibility in your service to God and his kingdom. If by Tari to come Festivalti three fifteen, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the House of God, which is the charge of the Living God, the ground and pillar of truth. So be responsible in the house of God. And I have thought you. Basically, responsibility in the house of God is in prayer, in service, corporate service, in so winning. In giving for kingdom advancement. These are the four basic responsibility requirements in the House of God. It takes your energy, it takes your time, it takes your resources. So you participate in prayer, you participate in the corporate service, You participate in giving for kingdom advancement, because the world the billionaire on response of crusade. And then you participate in so willing and discipleship. And finally, area of responsibility to this state and the nations where you belong. Socia or civic responsibility. Most of us think service, responsible kingdom living. If we talk about a responsible believer is about spiritual sensuality only, so we categorize everything about responsibility in prayer, in fasty, in thirty of the world. No, it's deeper than that. All of that is spiritual development. You need mental development, you need body need development, you need relations that development there you need call service in the House of God. Then you need civic responsibility. See, we need to begin to raise Christians. Who don't only have character, but who also have capabilities. Through the principles of the Kingdom, to lead the world. We are not the light of the Church, we are the light of the world. The time has come where Christians must take responsibility in governance. I will not be the one to tell you to join the political party. That's not my job. But I will show you principles. I will show you truths that makes you know that if you are not part of the governing leadership of your country, then we make polities that will subsecute the church, then we allow policies that. Will lead that society with immorality. Then will bring. Corruption that will induce the potential and the quality of people's lives, so that you wake up to your place there. Not all of us are pursonals on the author preachings are. Some of us are post us in government. Some of us are post us in the marketplace. Don't be responsible in ch savist and be ill responsible in sleepig saves. All of them are important. You are not the light of the church. You are the light of the war. The church is the eclestia. We make laws here, true prayer. We make laws here, true prophecy. We met laws here, true doctrine. But when we have finished what we are doing here, all of us both enter our ward and shy left Your light. So shine not among brethren, among men, so that they see on good walks and glorify your heavenly Father Matthew five sixty. So going to the water, Jesus resurrected. It is there, Go and gadda. They gather together, they go out. They were in the oper room. They locked themselves. This thing is no longer about church of wars. It's not charge without wars. Step out there. So the Holy Girst came and took them from the opera room into the market. They preached there, but it's beyond gathering to preach. They level stood of what happened to the other us. Eventually some went to antilock. Eventually some became tech to make us like chaos, like a filler. Eventually some of them became leaders today. If anybody starts wakinging toms, it's within the prophet. If anybody starts beginning tongue, it's not then an a possible. No, it's not the fire in you that gives you a colleague. The fire in you is for you to burn and review God, and you can do that. As a business man. We need props sign senate horses. That's what I'm saying. We need tromps sighing below theres So that's when they wake up. They end up the market. We preschool. They don't just go there with the economy, because the market is the jumble rill powers. Most of us don't know some people who come to the market dressed in school. Check them out in the spirits. They are carrying their path from your harmlies. They are carrying tombs that are pierced with I on. So when you got there, say and no, said nough, don't have to pack up as if somebody stook me I was part alive. I'm telling you to carry power there when there's back you shakedown that power, chock power, try that away. Come pat big man took to k we are not living. I want did your economist, No, that's not my job, but I would did. You have to carry Christ wherever you go. You must walk with Christ so that it tells you where you go. And if it's in the economy, the water is occupie still like com, palk your pie till like com, walk your pie tall like com. If it's in the academia, park your pie. If it's in media, walk your pie. If it's in government, walk your power. If it is in the economy, walk your pow. So that is there is charge responsibilities, and there's also there are thoughts responsibilities, and there are also sific responsibilities. Vote and the voted. But is the patent trade and investment? That is the patents. Geopolitics write laws from Senate chamblers. With lot of witnesses. They they got to the Senate, make a lay in one week, we prey for two years to change it, and we say is hot no? Not that that's the people there that said, No, I object. There's the people raising these typeos there. You gotta check the source of the bond woman. Every tector. You know they have people in every category. What strategy do we have about the How many generals are in the military that can come together. Then let's hold has some pri for the security of the missions. Say we can prey from hell, we can profits high. But the generals are. The living apostles in the military. They are the ones who know the security matters. They're not see how the revelation about security we'll be giving to them. How many are being groomed. You've been shocked that the source of the bond woman can tell you how many plutenant generals he has, how many major generals, how many brigatio generals. They can give you their numbers, how many cornerers, how many lieutenant cornells, how many captives? They can give you the rank down. They can tell you where they are located. Now you take over that and the ideas not to seek power and to trigger any form of revolution in the natural. No, they are there is to establish the Kingdom of Christ, so that integrity, law, shostice, equity can become the other of the day. Do you know how many. Reators in this country. Who has little two fifty hectas of land. And said, listen, we will bring a new civilization. How many do you know we are planting charge? We are taken over church when we should take over the world. Our greatest glory now is the siziest of our churches. And I'm not against big church, because the more the disciples multiply, the bigger the beauty will be. But that's not our poodcast. How many territories are we taking and when we say territory is not landmaster the access of influence. Economics there, academics there, governmental players. It's our civics responsibility. Which you have people from our congregations who can stand up today and say there's an economics from it, we will will sin and shat, go and sit down and see what God is doing with them. And they got the captains of industries and take them biplical principles. As they're listening to business for doing it with integrity. When the finished showing economic principles, they show kingdom principles. You don't have to compromise to make it in business. Not them. Talk to them about the wisdom of the Holy ghosts that the Holy Ghost can inspire. Let them talk to them about grace that God can enable, and their lives will be an evidence enough for these people to know what they're saying is not talk. You use thee other religions of the world from hiding too, Islam and the rest. And I'm not trying to call them to make them look as if they are better than us. But you can't find them anywhere without the identity of where they came from. So they did them thrust as a post us to those corridors. Please catch fire or carry your fire to the market. Some of those prophetic words. I know God can give you a prophetic word for the charge. Or use some and find the land and take over a region so that you can establish something for God. Use some and look for a strategic position. Empower. Just have used wisdom to deliver Egypt, and in the process Israel was delivered. Then they I use wisdom to the slight kings in Babylon. This is the generation where power of God only move in Chorge. Propheties are only given in church service in Pattersons only happen in George. Meanwhile, the people from the Shrine they do their only im partition in midfield. Somebody is going to present a bill in the Senate chamber for three days. We choose to instect, and when he read it, nobody opposes it. We are the man who is peaking tongue and going present a bill and need to be passed. That's why when we enter the market we throw Christanity away. Our Christianity is only active on Sunday. Many people in the market on Monday, when they talk, you wonder what they have ever been accepted Jesus, because we taught them that. When you are coming to churche, carry your Christian mantuan. We ate act pious. Ask me one when you leave charge, remove it through a way, become yourself. See I profess over you. Some of you listening to me. In the next two years, in the next five years, you'll be the ones checking the economics fire. In the next five years, you'll be the ones shining in governmental corridors. In the next five years, you're be the ones checking the media. You're be the one checking the academia. In the name of Jesus, Christ sae down for a moment, mm hmm. Grace is not only for praying for blind people, annoys. It is not only for raising creeples. They might have had an anointing after had that anointed, just have heard that anointed. Damia had an anointing. They were never in charge. They lived all their lives in mission field and in the marketplace. Wacome, spiritual development, mental development, bodily development, relation that development development and participations on in church Davis, and then civic responsibilities. These are six areas that you must be impactful and responsibly committed to. If you would be a holistic deliver, I won't go to the government, but if you hear this truth and take it there, you will represent yoursels. It to be your platform. We're out of time. I would just list spiritual responsibility and then you go and develop them. At least let me give it to one when next I come. I will not do it. The last one civic responsibility, because those are the two areas where people really don't know much about. I'll do expositions on the life of Joseph, the life of Mehemiah, the life of Esta, some of the prominent figures that represented Jesus in different spares, so that we can glean from their lives. If you want to develop your spirit or your spiritual life. Number one, you must take responsibility in the place of prayer. Look eighteen Ver's one men ought always to pray and not to faint. First a Salonians five seventeen, pray without ceasing. If you don't pray, you can't grow in God. Because prayer is not just about asking and receiving things. It's about becoming a queen teed we and to the voice of God. And that acquaintance helps you to access dimensions in God. Do you rematter that three verse three ask of me? I answer, But beyond answering, I'll show you great and mighty things that you know not of. So anybody who wants to develop his spirit or responsible towards the spirit, but become responsible in prayer. I'm not saying every time you praih out. I'm just saying, maintain communion with God. Is that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Spirit should rest and abide with you. Number two, responsibility towards the world act speaks best form. We will not give ourselves to tables, will give ourselves to prayer and to the minstry of the world. You're both be committed my soul. Proverbs four twenty three. If you read from verse twenty attend to my words. Give thy ears to my sins. Let them not depart from thy eyes. Put them in the midst of your heart. They are lives. To them that finder and help to all their flesh. Guard your heart with all diligence out of it. At the issues of life, you must be committed to the world if you want to develop your spirit until I come first Simulary four thirteen. I'm fifteen. Give attendance to reading, to exhortations, and to doctrine. Give thyself only to these things. Your property will be made manifest to all secon trimult To two fifteen. Starting to show yourself approved on to God, a workman that need not be ashamed. Rightly dividing the world of truth you have to You have to from the deaths of the youth secon Timolti three fifteen. Thou hast known the Holy scriptures, which is able to make the wise onto salvation. So you want to grow commitments to the world. Number three, you must be responsible. To us fellowship and fellowship team with believers Hebrews ten twenty four twenty five. People who on the rector are guarding, they don't become. Ask yourself. Sometimes the things you let, the things you learn about God from one savicet, is more than what you learn in one month or your own. So you're despite the fellowship of the believers. You do it at your periader. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good walks Verse twenty five. You said, not for sacing, the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of so, but exactly one another. So much so as the day approaches, you want to grow be committed refused to the garding of believers. And that's not all. When you're come, be responsible with the air of stewardship, do something, pray, served, geth don't just be idle. You are not expectator, You participant. This is your father's house. So number four is responsible stee watching first Corinciance four Ver's one and two is then let a man account of us, ask ministers of God and sea world of the mysteries of Christ. For it is aspected of a sea world that a man is found worthy gather together. Very important it has your growth. But when you come, don't be idle. Whoa to him? That is that is desire? Whoa to him? Don't be at ease in Zion, find something to do in axire. So it's not enough that you have got Yes, that's the blessing. It's the one three three ver's one to three. If they behold how beautiful, how pleased it is for prayer to dwell together harmony. It's like the oil on the head of error that flows to his beer, to his cat. So what Errand experiences the guy and this catch Wilso experience. That's the beauty of corporate worship. The energy, the watch, the annointing is available to everybody in the same proportional to fetch as much. As they can. It's like the due upon Mount Zion. There the Lord commands this blessings. So you grow in fellowship, but much more participates. There is something you can do if you are not praying, be saving, if you're not saving beginning, but by all means, play it part and show that the corporate fellowship is possible because of your contribution. It's called three watship. One person can't do all, but everybody must do something. Number four. You want to grow it more fair responsible in receiving and applying prophetic instructions God brought me. One of the biggest coverings that does not just globe or protest believers is their responsibility towards instructions. Do you know how many believers become casual? Is they take for grantest spiritual instructions In Hebrews thirteen seventeen, Or baid them to have rule over you submit yourself to them. They watch over your soul. That means if you don't obey prophetic instruction, you can be watched over. And it's not just about watching as that they two sixteen or sixteen that you do help me check you quickly. I commend you to God and to the world of His great which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance amongst them which are sanctified when instructions come to building. That's why those who are wise and serious about their spiritual develop when they receive many instructs on they commit themselves holy. They know they have development, they have fill joining. God depends on it. You didn't bring yourself here. You were left here by the holy goods, and He knows there are things that we live here to change your life. That's why he led you here. He knows where you are going. I don't know, so he brought you. If you want to be a military officer, you don't go to the school of economics. The instructions are difference depending on where you are going. The one who brought you brought you because he knows that what is communicating from the author here can't change you. You take it for granted that you're pariding, and it's not you who describes this instruction. We discover the danger in one front. There's the depressure of wrong. Jump. You don't want to. When you go to war, your life depends on Lisa. If you don't jump, you are shot dead. You want to grow. Commit to prophecies, commit to spiritual instructions. Many have become casualties because they tech propheties for granted. They tech spiritual instructions for granted. Believe in the Lord your God, Second Chronicles, twenty twenty. Social here be established. Believe is prophets. Social he prospers by a prophet. He brought them out of captivity by a prophet. They were preserved. Telling you when many don't grow. Number five, you want to grow tech responsibility in you thing to the spirit. What we are doing is transmitting what the Holy Ghost is doing. But the Holy Ghost is not limited to me. He has the personal relationship with you. So you if you must grow most new to him, as many as are led by the Spirit of God, not by the pastor. They are the sons of God. Now you know that the difference between his son and the child. You became a child when you were born again, your received godst life. You became a son when you might joy enough to be encosted with kingdom. And it takes the leading of the Holy Spirit as many as a lad by the spirit Romans eight fourteen. They are the sons of God. So if you want to grow, you to the spirit. In Galatians five fifteen is that if. We walk in the spirit, we will not forfid the desires of the plash. So the spirit is the one that grows us off. There are too many people who are not responsible the Holy Ghost frits. They don't obey the inspires, they don't act, so they either provoke him or they quention. Don't get to a point where the Holy Goest is quenched in your life, because it said the spirit of God, who knows, trive with man forever. First they quench, not the spirit. Quench not the spirit. So you can quench you. And if you're quenching, stub grewing, because it came, it came to guide you to our truth. I have many things to give you, John sixtenter thing you can't. Have it, he said, But when the spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into our truths. So he's the one that leads you there. And when he leads to you will find pastors. Number six, take responsibility to God. I can't see them. Test on and state. If you want to develop your spirituality or your spiritual life God, I can't sing God. I can't stata God against temp tiation. If you avoid temptation, you avoid seeing. If you avoid saying sat with powerless in your life as well. Flee youthful loss. That wage is war against your soul. Flee in official when it save if then giving no place to the devil h res this is the devil. First bit of five five to six. He will flee from you. Change first, devil RESI is the devil. Humble yourself before God. Resis the devil. He will flee from you. So raise the standard in grace and by the spirit against it. There are many people who are not growing because they exposed themselves with temptations. I told you I just came from Duba. Step down from the hotel. People are blessed naked. It's not a play for sidly. I looked up my window walls. Where's this Sodama Gomura? I went back because only once with me the first day, as we came down for breakfast, I didn't know why. I hardly eat breakfast. Maybe there and let you go Dubar. They dragged me down to eat breakfast. I look left, look right, I said, where is this place? They say is the five palm Jamira? Hoo? Hell know Jamira is the island that's like palm, so all kinds of. Creatures come there. I put my head like this at when I finished, I went off. I was there to It was dark when they carried me to put in it in that class to go and preached. When I came back, I went, some of you are strong, that's why you can afford pornographic You are strong people. You are know where you go to conker in the evening they be pay all kinds of iniquity? Are you say we have the mind of Christ. He had the minder your way fall in the pit where they were. If God comes there, they will do it, require mask for it. They do it about Joseph, he flaid, He flaid from from time press because you a process, so it's not about you're acting as a match of man in front of it. Pictures are recorded, voices are recorded. You know what happens, you're sawing true on them. And the day when you're on that pack you were discover that this happens has become a dragon. That's why some of us, when we go life with it by accident, we're going a pretty it's a casting down imagination. Every high standing thing that opposes hell. I bought the knowledge of God. I'm bringing into captivity all things to the obedience of Christ, so that when your obedience is fulfilled, you can avenge. Casting down, casting down, casting down. I had evil. I thought evil. You know what the Bible said, please. From every appearance of evil. But when I saw if I mistake, I got on my closet and I connected with the one that the only thing to the ass of man. Is that the spirits that thing they did things for the heart. He can do as pontually. There I use the word of cord. I tore this, you know why, because the wall is like a double waters. He piss it divides us thunder. They taught at the intense of the heart. So the wars can enter. For how can a young man keep his ways by taking he got to thy war? Thy war? Have I put in my heart that I cannot see? I test you the bibles there walk in the spirits. You cannot fulfill the desire for the nurse. This is a horny god. There's a whole horrible I don't come to your pa. He's a honey go I don't come on there, he come, come come to your time? Here, hey go mad Can you play the honey goals for one minute? Take your part your time? Sa che come come up? Then I come up here, look come back of copa hella. He's a honey. He's a honey. Go very over. You have to wear responsible to us your spiritual lie. And then I looked through the window. I saw a young man void of understanding. Oh, there are many young people in the spirits who are void of understanding. It's that he took the way that led to the house of the Haloads. For the haload entisy. As they come, my husband is shown it to a parlor. I've covered the bends with rubies. It's they come. He said that part is the part of death. Many is pounded and they never returned. You will not find a wonder in the part of death. And we're not wonder you know, we're not wonder songs. I'm not wonderers. We are led by the city. We are left. Please take responsibility for your spiritual development. We're out of time for the last two points. Number six. Be committed to witness. When you witness, you much are because you keep what you carry. My little tu drive Gardasians four nineteen, of whom I try to sail again in prior until Christ is formed in you. While you start winning sauce, you match home, and you know, the young ladies who got married get back to treat you drive. You look at them seven years later, they look as if there are two times their age. They wait the bodies of traveling confessed maturity. While you start winning storf. Even on the journey you see that God works closer with you to give you words, to give you inspiration, to give you strategy, to impart you with powers. That's why people who are serious about growing, they are committed to winning honors. The more you give out, the more you are saturated. And then finally you must commit to accountability. Ion sharpenet ion as the man the countenance of his friend. There that's as trump the lesser. Sis one and two should be the buddings of the week. When you are accountable, you ask the kills. Him that worketh with the wise, is himself wise. So be accountable to brethren, be accountable to spiritual authority, and be accountable to God. Turn run and hide when you fall? Is that the right, Prince? If you fall, not when you fall, because we are not expecting you to. Don't hide. Inituity, tribes in secresy. In fact, if you are wise, when you are overtaken by fought, run to those who are stronger, because they say no already, that those who are stronger should help the weak ones when they're overtaken by your fault. I know some Christians are weakened. When you share your vulnerability becomes news. This man who to go to there must be one person that can help you start Simon. Simon, Saturn desires to have you to sift through like w what I have prayed for you if they went down after recover panting I treasurment. There are some who are wrong. We are not all weak at the same time. When you are weak, stantif beside you, it's another man who is strong. That thing you are falling to God to give out somebody from me the moment to go. If you are counterful and you are still here, you won't fall. But when you hide iniquity, even God WoT here you can you lift your hands on prayer, ask for grace, grace to be responsible. Grace. Grace is that we have seen a bound grace that pounds much more. The eyes of the law is that watch is to and throw the eggs looking for the week that you might spend your death. If you're a pressure neally, God will release grace tonight. Can we go ahead on us? Can we go ahead of us? Can we go ahead of us? He is a holy God. He's a honey girl. Please everything. You be, He's a honey girl. Here's a honey girl. Honey go hez a honey girl, peez a. Holy God. A right. Let you fuck over the kai for here a man nakata for hitter tomorrow Passama taka. Hiz Thank you, bam. M hm. I pray and I decree over you, decreat. I and the power that compels responsibility. Let it rest upon your life from tonight. Your life will not be wasted. Your destiny will count. You will make your mark in your generation. Nothing we make you to patter, Nothing, we make you to fail. By the power of the endless life. I decree and declare. Let that restability and consistency, intentionality. Let's have accountability in your work with God in Jesus mightiness. For those of you that destruction is making a mess of receive grace to rise above that level. As they receive grace to rise above that level. Yah, both of you are lost. Is making a maple received place to rise above that level. Thank you Father, We give you preaze, We give you glory in Jesus, precious knaves, come on, give Jesus the big hen. Come on,