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Line Upon Line The Power Of Structured Knowledge Isaiah 28;10

Apostle Joshua Selman
May 5, 2026 2h 30m

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Insto the King of Kings. I believe that we needed this atmosphere of worship. I decided to sit back a little more, just to let him press and to dives in deeper. Father will thank you. Just take a minute, as. You soaking, and as you receive everything that has come as a deposit in this atmosphere of worship. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Father will bless you. We honor you, we know you, we know you, We honor you in Jesus matchless name. We have worshiped again in Jesus' matchless name. We have worshiped. Amen and amen, Please let's celebrate, minister. Don't sing for this atmosphere shifting worship the Lord. Bless you in Jesus name. Everyone, please, you may be seated, You may be seated. Such a rich time of worship. I was thoroughly blessed, mightily blessed in Jesus' much less name. We pray, Thank you again, Thank you again, minister, don't send the Lord honor you in Jesus name. Tonight we're going to be considering. A subject that I believe will help build and edify us as we. Learn the ways of God. Part of my goals this year as I stayed with God, planning for the year was to help believe us get to a point where the world of God becomes a stronghold on your

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Insto the King of Kings. I believe that we needed this atmosphere of worship. I decided to sit back a little more, just to let him press and to dives in deeper. Father will thank you. Just take a minute, as. You soaking, and as you receive everything that has come as a deposit in this atmosphere of worship. Thank you, Jesus, Thank you, Father will bless you. We honor you, we know you, we know you, We honor you in Jesus matchless name. We have worshiped again in Jesus' matchless name. We have worshiped. Amen and amen, Please let's celebrate, minister. Don't sing for this atmosphere shifting worship the Lord. Bless you in Jesus name. Everyone, please, you may be seated, You may be seated. Such a rich time of worship. I was thoroughly blessed, mightily blessed in Jesus' much less name. We pray, Thank you again, Thank you again, minister, don't send the Lord honor you in Jesus name. Tonight we're going to be considering. A subject that I believe will help build and edify us as we. Learn the ways of God. Part of my goals this year as I stayed with God, planning for the year was to help believe us get to a point where the world of God becomes a stronghold on your mind, where you are so fortified by knowledge, fortified by a thorough. Understanding of the mysteries of the Kingdom. And tonight I pray that as we consider that we would be considering by the spirit, let it help build, help strengthen, and help fortify your spirit. Man, you believe that shall. Amen for a topic tonight, We're going to be considering lyne upon line, I'm going to be teaching you the power of structured knowledge. Line upon line, the power of structured knowledge. I will be showing you from this teaching tonight, why many believers do not have knowledge that is aggregated enough to produce victory and dominion, And how it is possible for a believer to be in an atmosphere of abondant spiritual knowledge and yet not able to translate that knowledge to power, that knowledge to victory. Help us tonight, Holy Spirit in Jesus' name, two scriptures very quickly as we begin a discussion ISAA twenty eight and verse tend from where we got the title for precept must be upon precept. It says, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, Here a little and there a little. The Lord bless this word in Jesus name. Second Scripture, Look Chapter one. We're looking at the first four verses. Look Chapter one, the first four verses, for as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them onto us, which from the beginning where eyewitnesses and ministers of the world it seemed good to me haven't had perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write onto thee in all the most excellent of fellows, that's four, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed. The Lord bless the reading of his word in Jesus' much less name. We pray, so we have a number of things who are going to be considering tonight, and I want to us always to lend me your attention with a heart that is determined to lend. And I pray, like we prayed earlier on again, that the Holy Spirit will find unrestrained access to your spirit and unrestrained access to your mind. In Jesus's much less name, we pray for a foundation tonight. It's important for us to know that one of the factors that distinguishes the Christian faith from every other faith practice is that we have beyond a set of. Rituals to honor and live by. The Christian faith is built on the possibility for a functional relationship with God. No other faith practice has that kind of orientation where as a distinct person, not as a corporate people, that everybody can individually and distinctively have a functional relationship with God. I've studied a number of religions, and for most of them, they teach that there is the existence of God in whatever form or fashion or maybe some cosmic power, and they teach usually that that Diety, whoever he is, because of the extent of his or her excellency, as the Christ may be, are far beyond the reach of the creation, that in an act of love or benevolence, they have pen down through mediums, certain rituals, certain manuals, certain scrolls that can help the practitioners of that religion. To gain some form of accendance in the spirit. You know, you find similar teachings in Buddhism, and you know other you know, Eastant practices and so on and so forth. But the Christian faith is very unique in that it provides the possibility for an individual and no matter how many people, the Christian faith teaches that an individual can uniquely have what we call a personal relationship with God away together. Now, some other religions teach and they believe that God can and does reveal himself to the people, but not distinctly, not individually. They believe that by fulfilling certain rituals, it is possible for the people to experience similitudes of God like it was in the Old Testament, ceremonial claim sings, you know, certain obeisance and certain obedience to some rituals, that it could invoke messy and favor from God and it would show up as a cloud and whatever way. But that the believer, no matter how many we are, that an individual can have a functional, provable relationship with God. It's a very profound difference. Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. So the believer is not just bound to the ritual of learning the word away together. So there is the Word as a person, and there is the Word as the compendium of the thoughts of God. It's important that our Lady's foundation so that you will understand the things that I'm about to teach. So there a relationship with God and access to knowledge through the world are two related but distinctively different experiences. For many believers, they do not know or have not been mentored into an understanding that a man can have a functional relationship with God. Not just a theoretical understanding like I received the life of God, but an individual can actually grow in a functional relationship with God as mysterious as mighty, as invisible and invincible as he is, that are not marry. Man can have a functional relationship with God that can be proven here and now, not in the afterlife. Do you believe that prays the name of the Lord. As mighty and mysterious as God is, he can be known. He wants to be known. John seventeen and vers three. Jesus is praying, and he said, this is life eternal, that. They may not be the only true God. And Jesus, whom thou hast sent so God can be known, he wants to be known, and that it is possible in the Christian faith and in the faith practice to have number one, a functional relationship with God as a person, and then to grow in the knowledge of His word. Hallelujah. Usually the word of God helps you to know more. In fact, the primary channel for the knowledge of God that's revealed in scripture is scripture itself. Jesus spoke about scripture testifying of him. You find that in John chapter five, give it to us place from verse thirty nine. John chapter five, from verse thirty nine. Let's look at thirty nine and forty. John five, thirty nine and forty. It says such the scripture he was speaking to the two men in Emmaus. For in then ye think he have eternal life, it says, And they are. They which testify of me. You know what that means that Jesus is different from the Scripture. The scripture testify of Jesus, but the Bible is not God. Listen carefully to be sharing some things that you need to build as an orientation that gives you strength. So an encounter with the person God. Through Jesus through his spirit is very separate from learning the scripture and learning the ways of God. Even though they are interrelated. A believer can be an intelligent scholar of scripture and not know God. The scribes and the Pharises were people who were not ignorant as far. In fact, the condition to become a pharist in those days likened to what you would. Call a doctor PhD in our world today. Among the many rituals was that you had to know the five books of Moses, called. The Pentetoge or the Torah of Heart. And those guys were so intelligent they knew the Book of Moses, the five Books of Moses of Heart, Allelujah. And yet it was very clear that they did not know God. When Jesus came, they doubted him, they fought him, and they partnered will say and to kill him. So having a functional relationship with Jesus Christ is related to, but distinctively different from, having the knowledge of scripture. Are we learning already prays the name of the Lord? Now the Bible is the principal manual for helping us to know God and understanding his ways. The Bible is the principal manual. By now you know that there are many other texts that capture the life and the experiences of Jesus in the Quran, you find Jesus there expressed in various ways. In a lot of other religious books you find Jesus carrying several names, and you know, all kinds of expressions, including a documentation of his miracles. But only the Bible, according to the teachings of the Christian Faith, only the Bible. The Bible has the richest capture of the revelation of God. Are we together? And the Bible has the most concise description of the ways of God. But look or please, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible is not God. It's important. It's a very subtle revelation, but you must have that at heart. The Bible contains the richest capture of the revelation of God in terms of a documented print of the character of God, a documented print of the ways of God, a documented print of the life of God as revealed by Jesus, a documented print of the ministry of the Holy Spirit, a documented print of. The prophetic destiny of the Church. But the Bible is not God. Are you learning now? So? There is the Word of God as a person, and there is the Word of God as a compendium of the thoughts and the speakings of God. You want to write that down, that there is the Word of God as a person, the living Word, the Bible calls John one and verse one. There is the Word of God as a person, and there is the Word of God as the. Logos of God, a compendium. Are we together of the thoughts and the speakings of God? And the believer is mandated in your search to attend onto maturity, to encounter those dimensions of the world. You must encounter the Word of God as a person. The Bible says, as many as received him, not just received it, received him. He gave them power. He's a living person who can be known. Are we together now, prays the name of the Lord. There is the Word of God as a person, and there is a Word of God as a compendium of the thoughts and the speakings of God. If you're following so far, say amen, so believe it. Both encounters for you to experience a life of victory and dominion, power and grace. It is important that you press to encounter God as a person revealed through Jesus and by his Spirit, and then to encounter the Word of God as a compendium of the. Thoughts and the speakings of God. And that compendium is captured in what we call the Bible. Away together now, classically speaking, and like you have been taught, the Bible itself is not the word of God. The Word of God is contained in the Bible. Are we together? Like you carry a tray, and that tray carries a pot of rice, a pot of beings, a port of soup. The tray is not the rise, The tray is not the soup. But you cannot access the rise and the soup without carrying the port the tray. Are we together now? So? The Bible itself is not the word of God. This is a material that was produced perhaps by White Taker House, by Zondervan. And quite honestly, some of the. People who printed these materials may not even be born Againe. They are just doing business. They're producing a book that is the best seller all time and desired by most Christians to aid their knowledge of God. It's as simple as that. Are we following so far? But that contain within these frail letters printed. By a publishing house. Are we together? That you can find the word of God. This is why the Bible says you search the scripture and you such it without revelation. You will not find anything there if someone learning now this is very very important. So that's the first thing I need to stress that you can have a functional relationship with God as well as. Pressed for a thorough understanding of His ways. Hallelujah. Now, let me back up a little and teach you recap for some what I have called the dynamics of growth in the kingdom. Do not forget what we're discussing tonight. Line up online and teach. You the profit points the power of structured knowledge. Allelujah. When you get saved. I've taught you many times in this house, but I'm praying that it will become a stronghold in your mind, that it will become one of the things that are most surely believed. When you get born again, we call it getting saved. We call it the new birth experience, or we call it an encounter with Jesus Christ, you know, administering salvation to you. Remember I've taught you in this house that there are three gifts a man receives at the point of salvation. Let me do a quick recap on that number one. The first gift. You receive when you get saved is called the forgiveness of sin, the forgiveness of sin. Efficients one and verse seven. For everyone who comes to Jesus Christ declaring his lordship over his life. The Bible says, in. Whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. Number two. The second gift that everyone receives upon encountering. Jesus is called the gift of righteousness. Write that down, please, Romance Chapter five and then verse seventeen. The gift of righteousness. For if by one man's offense, he says, death reigned by one, it says much more, day which receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. And then the third gift, which is the most superior, most superior in terms of what it does to man. That was the whole goal. The forgiveness of sin and the gift of righteousness was to this end that will become recipients and possessors of what the Bible calls away the life of God. That is the third gift that God gave. To man at the point of. Salvation John ten ten. And then first John chapter five, eleven to thirteen. Both scriptures talk about the abundant life that have been given to man in Christ. It says, I am come that he may have life, and that you have that life more abundantly. And then John speaks again in his epecial first John chapter five. When you read from verse eleven to thirteen, John was speaking, and he said, this is the record. It's a testament that God has given us eternal life. Say I have eternal life, and that this life is through His Son. Are we together? Are you saying now? It didn't just say this life is. True his speakings. The life is through his son, a person, and that you encounter the Son, then you have life. If you have not encountered the Son, you do not have that life. Prayse the name of the Lord. And I've taught you here that what we cause, the way. Or eternal life or ever lasting life are some versions, is beyond may existing outside of the frame of death. It's beyond that. I have told you arguably that everybody really has everlasting life. Nobody ceases to leave. What happens is that there is a translation. Dimensions change away together and the realities that before you in those dimensions is what describes the. Quality of your life. Everybody who's died now, whether they died in Christ or not, they are still alive their life in another dimension under a certain set of conditions. To those who are dead. In Christ, we call it sleeping, because they will wake up onto life everlasting. And those who are outside of Christ areway together. If outside of Christ, they have been George already, especially for those who had the opportunity to hear the Gospel. Now, if you never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel and you die, God will use the standard of godliness that was available to you while you were alive. That becomes a standard of judgment. No body will be banished and who will go to hell who never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel away together. Now, if you hear the Gospel and you will reject Jesus, then you have made your choice, and for that choice against the Lord, you have to face eternal damnation. But to the one who sincerely died like an idol worshiper who never had an opportunity to hear a missionary, and so on and so forth, God will use the standard of morality and righteousness that was present. As that when they were alive. That becomes the basis of judging them who is learning already prays the name of the Lord. It will be unfair for those who practice idolatry and never had the opportunity to hear the gospel to suddenly be banished with eternal damnation. No, when Jesus died, according to the Epistle of Peter, he went to Hades, and there there were departed sayings who were there, And the Bible. Say he preached the gospel to them. He gave them an opportunity to believe. And those who believe followed him in that triu young fund resurrection. It's in your Bible that when. Jesus resurrected, he did not resurrect a lord. He resurrected as the first born, not just the only begotten, the first bon among the brethren. Graves were open in Jerusalem, and the departed saints came and walked round the streets of Jerusalem. Wasn't a vision, wasn't a parable allelujah? So eternal life here talks about the quality of life. Here's what I define it as. That life here is the way, here is beyond may existence is beyond just being alive. I describe it as a summation of every component in God, that of great Man to the God class. It calls away every component the goodness of God, the wisdom of God, the power of God, the grace of God, every component found in God through Christ that is able to upgrade a mortal, frail, ordinary man to rise until he's able to function in the God class. It's what the Bible calls zowey. Alle lujah. Are we learning already? Now, That's not even where I'm going. I'm just trying to guide you through a route that stabilizes your understanding so that for those who will be saved later on in the course of this discussion tonight, and for those who are saved in fact, he says, I write these things to you that ye may know that you have eternal life. Most believers have confessed Jesus Christ, but many have not been mentored into a structured understanding. Of what really happened. And because they are not aware of what happened, they cannot walk and stand first in the liberty where Christ has set them free. If you are saved, you are born again, you have confessed the lordship of Christ. The Bible says that these three gifts are yours right now, the forgiveness of seeing, the gift of righteousness, and the life of God. Again, shout, I have the life of God. Let the devil here, you say, I have the life of God. Now the next step, which is very important, the next step. And at this point I make reference to my teaching. You may want to listen to it in the course of the week, The ministry of Light, the journey beyond salvation. Now, most believers, please listen to me, and with all due respect, I will encourage those who, particularly of the evangelical foundation, listen carefully, because for most people they do not know that salvation is only the initiation of the process that evolves a man until he becomes a witness. And so most people come around the initial experience of salvation and they do not know and they are not taught that that is the beginning of a journey that should drive anyone who has now come to Christ away together that beyond the initial salvation, the next step, listen, is the journey. Of transformation and empowerment. Do not forget this, the journey of transformation and empowerment. The moment you see anyone who gets saved. In fact, I recall and let me let me remind you are gay that the greatest need, from a spiritual standpoint, the greatest need of every unbeliever is what salvation. You still remember every time you see an unbeliever, whether as a business partner, whether as a spouse, whether as a sibling, whether as a billionaire, whether as a politician. From a natural standpoint, to are seeing a colleague a friend, but from a spirit kingdom standpoint, the greatest need of every own believer is salvation. They may not know, they may not be aware, they may not accept away together, but the greatest need of every own believer around you have this as an orientation. Is salvation. Meaning no matter what good you. Do to a nonbeliever, from a spiritual standpoint, you have not really completed your good to that person until you are used by God to lead that person to salvation. Because God desires that. All men, how many men, all men, be saved, and then when they are saved, that they come onto the knowledge of the truth, pray the name of the Lord. So the greatest need of an unbeliever is salvation. The greatest need of a believer. Now in Christ is transformation. Remember, and the greatest need of a transformed believer is empowerment. It's important so there is a progression that after salvation, the journey of transformation and empowerment begins. And let me see how many of you have gotten this as a stronghold in your mind. I have taught you that for transformation and empowerment to happen profitably in. The life of any believer, there are three ministries you must be exposed to. Number one is called the Ministry of the Holy Spirit. Write that down, please, the Ministry. Of the Holy Spirit. Let me take it slowly and not take for granted that everyone here has a thorough knowledge of that. For some of you, it's a reminder. For some of you is a new information. And sings who are teaching line up online. Let me take a few minutes to help arrange your spiritual understanding, because this frame of understanding is what determines whether you will eventually become a product of power and grace or you will become a frustrated believer. Even though saved, you will. Not be able to capture victory and dominion in experience in your life. The Ministry of. The Holy Spirit is the first ministry that John needs any believer to. A point of transformation and empowerment. John sixteen thirteen. Jesus was speaking, and it says, when he the Spirit. Of Truth is come, how be it? When he the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all truth. Are you saying that just because you have truth does not mean you will succeed or profit from it. You must be guided. He shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. And he will show you things to come first. Core Interns, Chapter two. I believe from verse ten to twelve, Paul is speaking to the church in Courent now, and it says God has revealed them to us, how by his Spirit. For the spirit such as all things, yet the deep things of God. Verse eleven, it says, for what man knowing the things of man, save the spirit of man, which is in him. Even so the things of God know no man but the Spirit of God. Let's read verse twelve together. Everyone want to go now. We have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. Why that we may know the things that are freely given to us of God. It is impossible for you to get to that point of comprehension of the things that have been freely given outside. Of the spirit so you can be saved. And if you are not exposed to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, you may never get into that point of experiential knowledge, not even to talk of victory. Number two. The second ministry you have to be exposed to is the ministry of the world. The ministry of the world. You will notice from this three that I give you prayer was not mentioned, because when you are talking about the ministry of the Holy Spirit, that is really the ministry of prayer. A major part of your prayer engagements is a spirit affair, is a spirit business whose endpoint. Is your transformation. I have taught you this. When you become matured and apostolic and you approach to. The faith life, you will see. That the subject of crying for things and petitions only take a should take a minute part of your prayer. A major part of your prayer should. Be that coinonia, that spirit interaction. Are we together because there are many things you would not need to. Ask for when you grow Many prayer requests are report cards. They are showing your. Stuntedness in knowledge and growth spiritually. And so when a major part. Of your prayer life becomes your desire to press into God to build capacity, the Bible already says the Holy Spirit will reveal to you. You will find out that your prayer life becomes richer, and you do not become a neat different Christian just coming to prayers. Say, Father, you're the line of the tribe of Judah, Rose of Sharon, Lily of the valley and all of that. I thank you because of my life and those prayambles. And then you now go into your request. Father, I'm asking you of this and again, my rent, help me, or tell the landlord to forgive me, or tell somebody this and that and that. And we say all kinds of things very spiritually inqu hearnd communications, and we wrap up everything within Jesus name. I prayer, Amen, and out you go. And they say, what have you been doing? Is I've been praying? I've been praying seriously. No, you have not been prayed seriously. You have just been in a place where God has been sure you messy seriously. It's not been prayed seriously. Are we together now? Every time we talk of the fellowship of the Spirit. Don't separate it from prayer. No, the theology of prayer was primarily supposed to be for fellowship. The word choynonia is a word that connotes prayer, the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the choynonia the participation of the spirit. So it's not just about coming. To us for requests, buying demons, cast demons, say amen and walk away. Do you know people can be involved in that ritual for decades and not know God and not grow spiritually. And because God is a messy for God. And he will keep to his world, you will get a lot of results, but you will not have wholesome growth. That translates to victory. Is someone learning now, So. The ministry of the Holy Spirit and that true prayer. And then number two, the ministry of the world. Let's hurry up. Let's hurry up the ministry of the world. First bitter Chapter two and verse two. The Bible tells us that what every baby Christian, what the Bible calls a. New born babe. Once you are born in Christ, you are in Christ, but you are an infant. It doesn't matter how old you are. It doesn't matter how intellectually qualified you are. Once you come into Christ, the name for you is an infant. And the Bible says your desire should be the sincere milk of the world, because that is what. Will help you grow who is learning now. It says, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the world, that ye may grow. Thereby adds Chapter twenty and verse thirty two, And brethren, I commend you to God and to the world of His grace twenty thirty two, which is able to what build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that are scientified. You are already sanctified in Christ. The instant sanctification that came in Christ is already your heritage. But whether or not you will work in that which is your inheritance depends on your access to the word of His grace. Someone learning, so. The ministry of the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the world number three, the ministry of a teaching priest. Listen, I'm saying this to you so that you can help someone to grow intelligently. The moment you find someone who is not a believer. Your greatest desire for that person should be that the person is safe, not just to get a job, not just to get a child. It doesn't matter if the person comes from miracle service. All of those miracles are disas are important, but by far inferial, because no matter what the person receives, if it does not receive the life of Christ, that person is still in danger. The devil has legitimate access to anyone who is not in Christ. The immunity of anyone who wants total freedom from Satan is not Church is Christ. Church can provide a covering so far. But it is the name of the Lord that is a strong tower. The Bible says. The righteous runs into it, and they are saved. There is no other name under Heaven given on. To men by which we must be saved. Are we learning now the ministry of a teaching priest? Second Chronicles, chapter fifteen and verse three. The Bible says, now, for a long time, Second Chronicles three and verse fifteen, for a long season, It says, Israel had been without the true God. Watch this Israel. Had been without a teaching priest, and had been without law. When you back up to verse five, you will see the tragedy that happened to them as a result of the absence of a teaching priest. It says, and in those times there was no peace to him that went out, not to him that came in, but great vexation. Was upon all the inhabitants of the countries. There will always be spiritual chaos and anarchy, and it will translate to financial chaos, economic chaos, all kinds of chaos without the presence of a teaching priest Jerreman three fifteen. And I will give you pastors or shepherds according to my heart, and they will feed you with knowledge and with understanding. So once a believer is saved, when you want to help that believer to grow to a point where he becomes a mighty man of stature, you are going to have to work in partnership with God to introduce that person to this threefold ministry. I repeat again Number one, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, strengthening his prayer life and turning that person to a man of prayer. Number two, the ministry of the world, exposing him to the thoughts and the ways of God. Number three, the ministry of a teaching priest. Teaching priest, teaching priest now let me show you where all these three ministries were captured in the growth process of a man. Can I show you that at chapter eight? And you, holy Spirit, let's go to verse twenty nine. At chapter eight and verse twenty nine, please give it to us media. And the spirit said on to Philip. Everybody watch. The Spirit said on to who Philip, go near and join yourself to this chariots. Next verse Philip ran Tita and to him. And when he heard him the utopian Enoch, he was reading the book of Isaiah. Watch this, can you see scripture? There? He was reading the scripture. But Philip, as a teaching priest, now ask him a question. You are a faithful steward of the world. But he said, understand that what you read, what thou readers verse that you want? And Philip said, how can I I am a sincere person with a good heart. I have the scriptures with me. But he said, how can I accept some man should guide me? That is the assignment of the teaching priest. He does not replace the word, but he gives guidance and perspective to your understanding. And he desired that Philip would come and sit with him. Thatty two the place. Of the scripture which he read was that he was led as a ship to the slaughter. It had to be the Holy Goost leading that man to have read that scripture like that, and like a lamb doom before the sharer. So he opened not his mouth versetaty three. And in his humiliation and his judgment was taken away, and we shall declare his generation, for his life is taken away from the. Earth now verse forty four. And the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee of whom splickered the prophet, this of himself or of some man Verse thirty five. Then Philip opened his mouth as a teaching priest to one who was desirous to learn, and he began at that scripture he preached onto him Jesus thirty six. And as they went on their way, they came to a certain place. Now he had walked on his understanding, and he saw water. It was a eunuch himself. See, you have. Told me something about the baptism and all of that. There is water here. Don't hinder me from being baptized. Are you saying that there are some things you can never truly see until God uses a teaching priest to open your eyes. That man would have passed that water if he went alone, and he had just gone to perdition. But now under the influence of Philip as a teaching priest, are we together. He helped him expounded to him the Way of the Kingdom thirty seven. The Bible says Philip said, if dou believers with all your heart. He played two roles, both. As an evangelist and then a teaching priest, and. He answered, he said, I believe that Jesus is the Son. Of God verse thirty eight. And he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they went down, both into the water, and both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. To tell you, the Holy ghost was there. What's what happened? In verse thirty nine. As soon as he was done, The Bible says, when they were come out of the water, the spirit of the Lord carried Philip away. At what point did he carry him when he finished his assignment? Did younuch saw him no more? And he went his way rejoicing. Let me tell you where they found Philip. He's in verse forty. And Philip was founding Azotus. Wherever that was, he carried Philip. Philip next work, I have another assignment for you. Carry the man from that place and took him by the spirit. Are we together? Is someone learning? I won't even say. Anything about that statement, But ladies and gentlemen, that happened in the Bible, and it's not a parable. I believe that before Jesus comes, there are men who will press into God. And I'm telling you this from my heart. I believe that there are men who will press into God. God will work wonders with them from city to city, without any aid of man. God will take people and break whatever barrier that people will be carried, and they will appear in cities and preach the gospel to specific individuals and leave and leave. You just know by the morning that social so has repented what happened. His security does not need to fight anybody. You don't even need them. You appear to his room and speaks here. I'm not an angel, I mean a living person. I'm just a demonstration of the life that comes with Christ. We live in a generation that has been so degenerated spiritually. Concepts like this just look like a Christian cliche. Let me tell you it will happen. It will happen. The Bible says there are men who will taste of the powers of the age to come. Yes, sir, do you believe that now a lot of people have experienced this a bit in types and shadows, out of body, experiences, a number of things. But this will be in full swing. It will not just be people trying to show spirituality. That one day, someone is going somewhere and God will say, can I have twenty minutes of your time? You will say yes. And as you are saying yes, you'll find yourself somewhere in Russia, somewhere in Pakistan, and you are in the room of someone and. The person is kneeling their saying, Lord proves to me you are God. And here you show up. You are not an angel, and you are saying, I come with glad tidings of good joy, mister man. I have ten minutes to share Christ with you. And as soon as you are done, as soon as you step out, you besides yourself and you are back to your place. Come on, now, let me tell you. If it is for the gospel, God will not restrain his hand. You don't know how far God can go to see men save. If it's for self that one you're just wasting God's time. But if it is for the Gospel, God will go beyond. And if He's sent his song, is it carry you to where you are needed? That is not there? It would take you. If I'm telling you, before Jesus comes, I believe that many strange things will happen. I don't want to begin. To suggest things that looks like I've got anything at all. In the Bible, for the sake of God's program, animals spoke for the sake of God's program. Animals were silent for the sake of God's program. Fishes broad Coin, this is God for you. You need to be able to see the desperation that is in the heart of God. All men to be saved. That means for the sake of the God of the Gospel. God can raise one man in one year and power you in one year. Whether you know business or not. He's found the Gospel in your heart and he wants to drive you into that program. In the name of Jesus. May God find the world is stewarding you. Please be seated, Please be seated. I believe this though I really do. Now, let's talk about the Word of God. We need to build on what is a subject of discussion tonight. The Word of God. Is the principal tool for the believers enlightenment and transformation. Simple statement, but write it down. The Word of God. Is the principal tool for the believers enlightenment and transformation. Not visions, do. Not prophecies, not out of body experiences. Please listen carefully. The Word of God is the principal tool for the believers, enlightenment and transformation. Let me tell you where error starts for believers. And please, I wanted to lend me your attention now. And I say this with every sense of honor to the Body of Christ. When the Word of God does not gain supremacy in your life, particularly as a preacher, you will have to route the transformation process of believers. Through a means that is not scriptural. And even though it is sincere, the chances of you encountering familiar spirits and encountering error is very high. Are we together now? According to the Word of God, the Bible said, ye I cling to the world that I've spoken to you. There is no body who becomes enlightened and transformed through visions, through prophecies, through dreams, and through extra biblical practices as the primary tool. No, Sir, visions can support, dreams can support. But when you. Want to build believers, they are commended to God and to the world of His grace. That is what is able to build them up. Am I speaking to you? Now? Let me tell you where the error of many believers started from. Perhaps maybe you. Had a prophetic exposure in your life, and as soon as you got born again with all you respect, maybe the person who mentored you did not have value for the world of God. You will find out that your entire. Spiritual journey is totally a product of isyesol and the imagine of error. Using that spiritual trajectory, you. Will see a lot of things, both good and bad. The realm of. The spirit is a vast realm. You can see everything. There are we together and you will start act seeing out the things you are seeing. Later you will build a ministry that reflects your vision. And you find out that people are receiving results, but there is no growth, and they cannot now explain when their interactions are with demon spirits. Or the Holy spirits. If they hear voice, says Joshua Selman's stand up. They say, yes, Lord, And it may be Satan, because Satan. Can appear as an angel of light. The purifier of all spiritual experiences is the Word of God, who is. Learning this now. So there are many believers today who are sincerely convicted. But when you check what is the template of their spiritual life, you will find out that something is grossly missing. They are sincere people, but they were not trained to honor the world. They exalt any other spiritual experience above the world. I give you an instance. If you tell that believer God you are blessed, he fuels you wasted his time. He says, you didn't touch me, you didn't do this, you didn't give me a cloth. Now, I'm not saying all those things are wrong, but when your life is built on experiences outside of the world, there is already going to be a problem which you're becoming victorious. It's someone learning. So the Word of God is. The primary principal tool for the believers enlightenment and transformation. And let me remind you again. That I taught you scriptures that it contains essentially promises, principles, and prophecy you still remember that number one. The Bible contains promises. Second Peter, Chapter one and verse four. The Bible says, wherefore are given to us exceeding great and precious promises, that by this we might be partakers of His divine nature. Haven't escaped the corruption that is in the world through loss Number two. The Bible contains principles Matthew Chapter. Thirteen and verse eleven. It has been given on to. You to know the principles or the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, Job thirty eight thirty three n IV. Knows doubt the laws of the universe, it says, and can'st thou establish the dominion over the earth. The Bible contains promises, self timing promises. The Bible contains principles, say principles, and then the Bible contains prophecy. Secondputer Chapter. What now? Remind me find that scripture for me? No prophecies of personal interpretation? Secondmputer is that chapter one? Please find it for me Media, I just came to my spirit. If you can find it, it's in first pit. Second puter. I think chapter what now one from verse nineteen Thank you one. Let's go to nineteen nineteen and twenty. He said, we have the most short word of prophecy. Thank you, thank you media. Second puter one, nineteen and twenty, we. Have a what more shot word of prophecy where onto you do well to take heat as onto a light that chine it in a dark place until the day dawn and the day start. Arives in your hearts. Verse twenty. It says, knowing this that no prophecy of the scripture. So there is what we call the prophecy of the scripture, that it is not of personal interpretation. Hallelujah. Is someone learning the Bible contains promises, principles, prophecies. Now this is where the main discussion tonight starts. I've laid all. These foundations because it's important so that you understand what I'm about to say. What teaching line up online, the power of structured knowledge. There is a challenge, and believer us, please, I wanted to listen to me. Here is a challenge. There is a way and manner to engage the word so that it becomes profitable to you. There is a way and manner to engage the world so that it becomes profitable to you. And there is a way and manner to engage the word that. Makes it unprofitable to you. If you understood what I just said, just write it down, and then I'll say it again. That there is a way and manner to engage the world as a believer so that it becomes profitable to you. But there is also a way and manner to engage the world that makes. It totally unprofitable to you. The Bible is clear as to the fact that. Scripture is profitable. Second Timothea, Chapter three hundred sixteen. All scripture is given by the inspiration of God. Cornonia look up, he says, and is profitable. Says scripture is profitable. So the Bible says the word of God is profitable. In Proverbs chapter four, from verse twenty to twenty. Two, just bothress it on the fact that the word of God is profitable. My son a, ten to my words. Incline your ears to my sayings. Verse twenty one. It says, let them not depart from your eyes, keep them in the midst of your heart. Twenty two It says, for. Their life the words they are life not to everybody, to those who find them, and health onto their flesh. Hebrews Chapter one, verse twelve Scripture, the Word of God is profitable four and twelve Hebrews. For the Word of God is quick and powerful. It is sharper than. Any two edited sword, piercing into the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow. And it's a dishner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. All of these scriptures show you that the Bible scripture, the word of God is profitable. But there is a way you can engage the world such that it becomes profitable to you. And I'm telling you there is a way you engage the world such that as powerful as the world of God is, it does not become profitable. And this is our discussion tonight. The Word of God can be made unprofitable marc. Chapter seven and verse thirteen MARC. Chapter seven, please and verse thirteen. I like us to read it together, everybody. I'll be showing you all the factors. There are certain factors that, if present, can make the world of God, no matter how powerful it is, to be important. Let's read verse thirteen, Mark chapter seven. One to go making the word of God of non effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered, and many such like things do ye. So according to scripture, we see here that traditions. What is traditions here the stiffness of mind to accommodate spiritual things. Tradition the stiffness of mind to accommodate spiritual things. That means you create a mental mode that the word of God must fit. Before it is received. The Bible says it can make the word of God of non effect. Traditions stiffness of mind to accommodate spiritual things. Creating a mental mode in your mind. That the word of God must fit before it is received. That means there is a way you want the word of God to appeal to your mind, and if it does not appeal to your mind that way you reject it. It's called traditions. And the Bible says one, no matter how sincere that person is, if you maintain that template, the word of God will not profit you. Number two, if someone learning. The second basis for the Word of God becoming unprofitable is found in Luke chapter eight. We read from verse eleven to fourteen, this one is the heart condition. Now the parable is this the seed is the word of God. Verse twelve those by the wayside are day that here and then comment the devil and takes away the word of God out of your heart, lest they should believe and be saved twelve thirteen. And they that are on the rock are they which when they hear, they receive the world with joy. But watch this, these ones have no root which for a wild belief. And in the time of temptation, what happens to them? They fall away? Verse fourteen. It says, and that which fell among thns a there which when they have heard, they go forth, and I choked with the chres and the riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. So three groups of people potent word, powerful world, But it becomes so fruitful for this it is the hard condition of the recipient, whether as rebellion or lack of passion, It can make the word of God of non effect. Are you understanding me so far? I'm showing you from scripture that it is possible that the word of God, even though the Bible says it is profitable, it may not profit you. And I'm showing you the various conditions upon which the world of. God can be unprofitable. Number one is that when the world of God comes to a mind that is already fixated on traditions, stiffness of mind to accommodate spiritual things. What is praying in the spirit, for instance, how do I begin to pray blah. Blah blah blah. What kind of nonsense is. That I'm too scientific and intelligent for that traditions? That's stiffness of mind. What is the meaning of the receipt? That's cataract? And yet increase it. There is here that withhold that moder and it's meat and tendsupenury. No common sense teaches that the more you keep, the more you grow the stiffness of mind. You have already created a mold. And every you judge the world of God scientifically, or you judge the Word of God culturally or intellectually, and once it goes beyond the boundary of intellectual mode, you throw it away. The Bible says you have to become like a child to receive the things of the kingdom. And then the hard condition of the recipe. Let me tell you the truth. I've come to a conclusion that there are people who, even without the assistance of the devil, their hearts are perpetually rebellious towards the world of God. Perpetually rebellious. They will hear the word of God, you will pound it left, right and center. But there is already a predetermination in their hearts not to take God seriously. There is already a predetermination in their hearts not to be passionate about spiritual things. And for such a one you find out that they are unable to make the world profitable in their lives. May that not be you in Jesus name, allelujah. Hebrews chapter four one and two gives us the third reason as to why the word of God may not be profitable in the life of any believer. It says, let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest, that any of you should seem to come short of it. Verse two, it says, for onto us listen now, onto us was the gospel preached as well as onto them. So there is us and there is them, two groups of people. The bamble says, But the world did not profit them. The reason why it did not profit them is that it was not mixed with faith. Please say faith one more time, say faith. It was not mixed with faith in them that heard it. So there are two groups of people. There is us and there is them. The same word was preached. For the one group, the word produced profit. For the other group, it did not produce profit. And Paul was trying to do a diagnosis. And it says, among other reasons, the. Reason why the word of God, the word of healing, the word of lifting, the world of prosperity. The word of influence are we together. The reason why the world did not profit them. Is that they did not mix it with faith. What does that mean? The unwillingness to translate knowledge to action through obedience so that it delivers. The unwillingness to translate knowledge to action through obedience so that it delivers. There are many people know matter what they hear, life applicable truths, powerful words, tunish with grace, full of wisdom, full of the Holy ghost. It does not produce profit. In your lives because they are unwilling to translate. To take advantage of the doing grace the Bible calls it, and to translate knowledge to action through obedience. It says, now that ye know these things, happy or blessed her you if you do. Them are we learning tonight prays the name of the Lord. Now, in addition to these three reasons I've given you as to why the Bible, the word of God's scripture does not produce profit in the life of believers. Traditions, the heart condition of men, and then lack of faith, not mixing the world that is heard with faith, in other words, actions of obedience. There is one major reason, and that's really what I want to talk about tonight. One of the major reasons, I wrote her White believers have a lot of spiritual information, and please, please, I wanted to listen to me. Now, this world is going to help you, and it will reconstruct your spiritual understanding. And in the name of Jesus, from tonight you will begin to produce victory in your life. You believe that. Shout amen, ladies and gentlemen. This was a revelation that God gave to me some time back, and I began to look at my own life, and I found out in my own life that there were certain arrangement of spiritual truth in my life. The way and manner they came, and the way and manner they are arranged is the reason why. It's not produced victory in my life? Are we together? One of the major reasons white believers may have a lot of spiritual information but are not able to use it. To produce a. Life of victory, grace, power, and dominion listen, is that our knowledge is mostly random. Our knowledge is mostly disjointed. Our knowledge is mostly non sequential. It is incomplete and sometimes not balanced. I will take that again. You may want to listen, and. Then you're write in addition to all the reasons that I mentioned as to why the world of God fails to produce profit even though the Word of God is full of life, potentials, possibilities, and profit, but that for manly believers, even though they have the Word of God in them, it is not able to translate to a life of victory, dominion, grace, and power. And I give you three reasons according to scripture. That one the stiffness of mind the Bible calls it tradition. Number two the state of their heart, the unwillingness to be passionate about God, the unwillingness to tremble as God's word, the unwillingness the rebellion. That is enshrined within their heart. And then number three not mixing they are not obtaining the doing grace to act upon the world when they hate. I'm saying, in addition to these three, there is one that is a principal subject of discussion tonight, and that the reason why many believers, even though they have access to a lot of spiritual information, they are not able to use that information to produce a life of victory, of grace, of power and dominion. And this reason is that our knowledge is mostly random. Our knowledge, spiritual knowledge. Is mostly disjointed. It is non sequential, It is incomplete in many regards, and then it is not balanced, is it? Gels Chapter thirty seven and verse seven. When the prophet spoke, as led by the spirit, I want to draw something prophetic there, it says, as I professide in an attempt to produce a mighty army. The first thing. That happened, ladies and gentlemen, is that. Bone came together, bone to his bone. Why did bone have to come. To his bone in the making of the mighty army, Because, ladies and gentlemen, if the handbone went to the feet, the feet bone went to the ankle. That may be a structure, but not a structure that would produce a mighty and me. Are we together now? Yes? So here's what believers do it. Believers were to arrange the bones there. Even if you have the bones together, some will take the collar bone and. Put it on the knee. Some will take the knee bone and put it at the lumber vatibra. Here. At the end of. It, there will be an sort of an amabic structure. Something will be found wanting with that structure, and the army cannot stand straight. If you desire to be a man of schedule, you need beyond. The arrival of knowledge. There is a way the knowledge has to. Be arranged to produce victory. Who is understanding my teaching? So don't tell me I have knowledge. The reason why it is not working is that there. Is a sequence. Is the same principle that is used in cooking. I've given you an illustration here. I can give you all the ingredients to make. Fried rice or jowl of rice, and you'll be. Surprised at the robbish you will produce. And the problem may not be the availability. Of the ingredient. It is the combination and the sequence. Who is understanding me? For somebody? I hope I'm not the one. You will join whatever it is and do everything and close the pod, and when you sense that it is burning, that's your proof that it's done. You open the. Pods and check everything, and whatever you find there you receive with thanksgiving. But can you see that two people here. One is called a chef, another person is called maybe Joshua Salmon or whoever. But you'll be surprised that I can cook. Who knows? Who knows? All things are possible if I can pray in tongues and I can professy. Don't believe to my potential for cooking. Praise God, but in someone learning. Now, so two people, same ingredients to the one is producing rubbish. You know what you are producing is rubbish. You already know without prophesying that at the end of it, nobody is going to eat, whereas for another what is coming up from the kitchen alone someone is anticipating. Do you know? That's how your spiritual life can be the same blood of Jesus, the same Holy goos, the same access to the world. But someone produces such an indomitable Christian life and another person becomes such a failure. If you are to learn Jesus through the lens of that person, you will doubt everything the world of God says. I'm showing you that the reason for that when the Word of God does not profit you, is because it was designed to be sequentially arranged. There is something you should know before another thing. There are other things where you know it. Together, you will become a man of power and stature Hebrews sixth and verse one. Ah therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith towards God. These two, and of the doctrine of baptisms, he calls them foundations, and of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection from the dead, and of eternal judgment. And these three he says, And this we will do if God permits. Now, ladies and gentlemen, listen very carefully. Many believers have interacted with the world of God in various forms and various fashions, some through books, some through preachers across the internet away together, some through discipleship programs. Some have even had all kinds of encounters. Now you imagine with me, let me work with your mind. Imagine this believer who has a little knowledge that has been sampled from various places, some from preachers wonderfully so, some from the internet, some from a book. And the challenge is that that. Believer was not mentored into structured knowledge. He has a lot of. Knowledge, but cannot use it to produce power. You know why, because he's making the. Same mistake as a student who will go to the faculty. Let's assuman student was admitted to study medicine and surgery away together. And on Monday, that student goes to the faculty of Medicine. On Tuesday, he goes to the faculty of Arts, On Wednesday, he goes to the faculty of what's now social sciences. On Thursday he goes to engineering. And he keeps doing that for five years. And the person says, I demand a certificate as a doctor. Is that person a lazy student? No? But can you give that person mbbs? Can you give him MD or whatever the certification that befits a doctor. No? What is his error? His knowledge is not sequential, it is not aggregated. Are we together. Versus the one who goes to the College of Medicine and begins the sequence learning the elementaries until he gets to a point where he writes his final exam. Those two people, if you say those who are knowledgeable, stand up, two. Of them will stand, but one will be. Issued as certificate and another one, unfortunately, will not receive anything because his knowledge is not sequential. Look at me. Let me tell you the reason why many people have a lot of knowledge, but it does not produce power, because they have learned some things before learning orders, and what they knew before knowing orders has destroyed your potential, the potential of them seeing God. In a certain way. I'm going to give you a few examples of the kinds of disjointed knowledge with all due respect that flies across the Body of Christ, and the reason why many of us keep consuming spiritual knowledge but it does not translate to power. Who is learning what I'm saying tonight prays the name. Of the Lord. Examples of an approach to scripture that cannot produce profits. I'll give you a few. This is to help you, and this is to help the Body of Christ. Listen, for instance, the teaching on the gifts of the Spirit before salvation. Do you know it's possible to try to get someone who is not saved, fill with the Holy goos, to pray in tongues and to prophesigh. Something is already wrong with that sequence. And let me tell you the shocking thing. One day you hear the person say. Blah blahlah blahlh blah blah blah blah. But something is wrong. That person has not he has violated a protocol. Everything that has to do with receiving the spirit is after the initial encounter of Jesus as Lord. Do you know it is possible for someone to not be saved, but he can join a leadership discipleship class in church and at the end of it he can be so knowledgeable and yet truthfully speaking, he's not born again. He's not evil. It's just that he's been there for a long time. You will feel guilty in not appointing him as a dicken or as an elder. The ministry of the Holy Spirit. There are many many own believers who want the anointing. There are many own believers who want to pray in tongues. There are many own believers who want to prophes high. They don't want Jesus, but they want the Holy Spirit. And sometimes because we have not men taught people into the sequence that leads to growth. We lay our hands. On them, and we do a lot of things, and familiar spirits right upon the fact that there's darkness in their lives. And they receive all kinds of gifts, and you'll find them manifest in similitudes of spiritual things. But the character that befits one who is saved is not there. And then destruction upon destruction. They may not be. Wicked people, they themselves do not know. They have not found Christ. Just because the person, for instance, and with all due respect, has been prophesigned for a long time, does not suddenly make him a prophet. His father was a traditionalist. His eyes was open as a child, all of a sudden day incorporated and when he became a teenager and his official name was prophet. That guy has not met Jesus. In the sincerity of his heart. He will tabple in between witchcraft and true spirituality, confusing himself and confusing others. Allelujah. In almost every. Tribe I know in Nigeria, there are people who see before they are saved. I know that there are people who it comes as a gift. You have it in your place. Some of you Are we together? They don't have to be born again, some of them right from teenagers. They can tell you things before it happens. They don't still, they don't kill. They just found that ability working in them, and chances are excellent. With all due respect, whilst we are looking for leaders in churches, pastors, it's easy to quickly reach out and say you're already gifted. Just mount the pulpit. That violation of. The sequence, because it did not start with eternal life, something will happen to that delivery, no matter how sincere that person is. Are we together? If profess signing alone was powerful and without Christ, remember Paul and Silas, they will not rebuke the damn cell who had the spirit of divination, because her prophecy was accurate, one hundred percent accurate. That it took poor a few days to really examine to discern. Number two. Lying uponline, the teaching of holiness and consecration without first teaching on the power of the cross. The teaching on holiness and consecration without teaching first on the power of the cross. This again is another mislead. So when you teach people to be holy and to be consecrated, and yet you do not teach them the power of the Cross, you are only going to raise a frustrated people who will be totally frustrated because the only immunity to the flesh, say Dowan, Hell and the grave. Is the power of the Cross. Are we together now? You cannot teach people holiness and consecration and then that they carry it out by the strength of the flesh. You are wasting your time. You will produce a. People who live perpetually in guilt, lying to themselves, and living in falsehood. The king to genuine deliverance is the Cross. Who is learning what I'm saying now. So if I come to you and I say, don't steal, don't do this, don't do that, don't do this, be this be. That I have only given you sincere rituals, but then some rituals that you may not have the power to keep. And this right here is what is destroying people in church. Are we together? They are not taught the power of the Cross, but they are taught doors and doors, and they sincerely do their best to keep it. And it does not work. And so what happens is a campaign of falsehood. Who is learning. Line upon line? An example of teaching. Number three, the teaching of faith. Has only a means of receiving from God. Now it's a. Very dangerous thing, ladies and gentlemen, and with all due respect again to the Body of Christ. If the only the scope of your. Teaching of faith to believer us is as a tool for receiving things from God, you would have done something to the mind of that believer that we're live him disappointed in the future. Because receiving from God is only one of the many assignments of faith. In fact, it's not even the no blessed assignment of faith. The Bible says for by it the elders obtained a good report. There were people in the Bible who did not obtain promises, but they all obtained good reports. Listen to my message the other side of faith. If you teach people that faith is only about receiving things from God, what explanation do you have to tell someone who prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed for the mother or the father, or the brother, and the brother still died. How do you now tell that person? Explain faith to that person. Explain faith to the person who believed God and in believing God. He lost the job explain faith to such a person. There is a dimension of faith that goes beyond obtaining promises. It is about a testimonial that you trusted God. The Bible calls it a good report. Are we together now? The Bible talks about those who receive their dead to life and those who die. They chose death. They had the power to leave, but they chose dead because they saw a better resurrection. I'll tell you why many things are going wrong in the body of Christ. It comes from the kind of theology. It may be sincerely sold, but there is a need for re editing. The assignment of faith is not only to receive things from God. So when you teach me, with all due respect. That once I have faith, I must get everything I want. Number one, something is wrong with that teaching, because faith, as much as everything in the Kingdom, must be connected to the will of God and the pro of God for it to be called Bible faith. Faith is not a license to obtain. Lost from God. There is a spiritual immigration system that vets your desire and only deliver us that which is consistent with the will of God. You can't claim another person's why by faith you can't claim another person was one. By faith, you can't sit on someone's beautiful can't say, in the. Name of Jesus Christ, I use the power of words is witchcraft. I hope you you see that. I'm not trying to be sarcastic. I'm just showing you the power of structured knowledge. I have seen believers, with all due respect, any card that passes, they push your hand and towards your chest. And you see you cannot produce an Apostolic community with that kind of orientation. Something is wrong. The name of Jesus is not a life sense. For it is not making lost of fcial are we together? So what many people call faith is not faith. Because the will of God is not part of their desire. The Bible says, and this is the confidence we have that when we ask anything according to His will. So the Bible leaves the believer to have desires. But those desires have to be consistent with the will of God and the program of God. If someone learning, let me show you faith, Father, if it be thy will, let this call pass over me nevertheless. If you say nevertheless, in the world today they say you don't have faith, But Nevertheless, it's the language of faith. In other words, I submit to that which would desire, are both my own will left for me. I don't want to die, but I know that there is no blood program, and. If it pleases you, pleasing you is more. Important to me than receiving things. Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. Faith is the reason why a believer God forbid. But a believer who's been. Diagnosed of let's say cancer or some whatever and was given four days to die, that believer is still living two years. But you will be hiding it because we have taught faith that the fact that there's something you are still trusting God to bring it means that the. World of God is not working. So people hide and take drugs in secret and come out and say I've not taken whatever for a long term. Don't get me wrong, there is a realm where the reality of the world of God swallows you up. You can enjoy the fullness of health that matches the God. Class are we together. Most of the falsehood trait in the body of Christ is tressable to this disjoint. Communication of truths. Many years ago, I used to think faith was all about receiving promises. Now I know better, because what do you do when a family is believed? They call you. You prayed for them, and now you go to that place and they say so, Explain to me. Some of those people were fasting dry for days, and whilst they were fasting, the person's. Health was deterilerating. Let me tell you the truth, medic and gentlemen, there are questions. If we don't answer, many people will leave God. Did you hear what I said? The days of pretending and just wrapping everything in the name of Jesus is over. If we do not learn to give answers, many people are going to leave God. Someone should be able to know that if you do not obtain promises, that trusting God in the midst of the storm is also a good report. It is faith and according to God's justice, whether in this life or in heaven, there is a compensation system. To reward you for trusting God through the storm. That way, you know that there is profit always trusting God. Whether I receive results here or not. No man, whatever may come my way, our fall, our fall, our fall, our fall, no mad whatever make my way. Our fall, our fall. Our fall. There is need to reconstruct the way we serve the world of God, the wisdom God and the grace of God. I have gotten to a point in my life where I believe God for everything the Bible says. But if I never receive anything the Bible says, I cannot leave God again because my pursuit was never about it. Who is learning now? Because we have a generation that is falling away from God, and it's because of what we taught them. We promise them that as soon as you come to Christ in one year, all your troubles will. Be over in one year. And there is a provision for that kind of indomitable life. Don't get me wrong, except for the fact that your love for God most surpassed. Receiving things are we together. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I was born and bred in the North. In this my little life, I have seen crisis. In this my little life. I've seen the persecution of Christians. In this my little life. I've seen dead bodies that were torn apart, babies inside. In this my little life, I've seen people who worship God and they don't know if they will be there by next week. That is faith, That's not just receiving things. You can receive cars and houses. That is wonderful, But Bible faith was never hinged on just receiving things. Obtaining a noble report is greater than obtaining things. I will use. Faith to get the promises of God. Don't get me wrong. What I'm saying beyond promises. Let me encourage someone here. If you are going through a stormy in your life, don't be embarrassed by it. Let your tears come out while your praises rise to heaven. You are still a man of faith. Don't pretend and hide it. You are going through a crisis your body. Maybe you are sick in your body. It's not a license to allow the devil eat you up. But take your drugs with honor. While you are declaring I shall not die, we will stand with. You in faith. But don't you ever make this theology flying up around to make you believe. You are not trusting God. The person who is singing. In the lions, then, is by fast stronger than the person singing in the palace. Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes sir. You are standing before a lion, and you are saying Hallelujah, Glory be to God. I know my redeemer lives that even though he slay me, Yet. Will I praise him? What there is your definition of faith? Believers have left. Jesus Christ simply because visa was declined, visa to us, to UK. They believe God and the first head Lord. If you are the king of king. And a personally is an anointed man, they touched my visa, my passports. And they stand before the people and what they're praying tongues. And they look at them. And in one minute they say no, no, no, no, they don't the many questions they does so know you will not get it. And the guy comes out and he's thinking the prophecy that came from the old the seed I gave the fact that I waited to see the man of God. I was younger and now I am old. I've not seen the righteous for saken. And something begins to happen. And you know, let me tell you the truth. The older people have their greater endurance for spiritual things. There is a. Generation now that is so honor apologetic. If we don't teach them to be strong in the midst of toms. Let me tell you this, Genesus. You see, they will leave God in a heartbeat. At many young people, especially the children of pastors, and they will tell you I saw my father serve the Lord. He never uilt a house. Whoever told you loving God was about a house? Now a house should be there forget not his benefits. But we must train them to know how or no house. I'm in love with Jesus. Lifting or no lifting. I'm in love with Jesus. A job or no job. Listen, listen, listen. You have to teach the believer death to the flesh before you start teaching on prosperity. Are we together now so that the person now embraces a good life, but has it at the back of. His mind that no matter what happens, I belong to Jesus forever. Hallelujah. This is where I thank God for my spiritual background. With all due respect, I can tell you this, Pentecostas and Charismatics, we need to trust God for grace to go back and begin to re edit the foundation upon which our members are standing on. I will keep teaching you to prosper I will even bless you after all I've said now. To go forward. But hear me, ladies and gentlemen, I need you to be a people of power that if things don't work with Yes, in your aunts we say, Lord, I trust you, but as far as my allegiance. Kit will not affect it. Yes, sir, people who have left God because of wife left God because of husband. You saw the lady and your believed it was your wife. You went to and she said she has three children, is married. And and you now said God. So this gift of the spirit I received, and because of that you live church and leave God. You will be surprised at the silly reasons why Tom talking Christians are not serious again. Let's go back to our father's men who loved God. They loved not their lives onto death. II belong to Jesus. I'm never going back, never going back. Some me yes soon Taza Pazza came. Baza Pazza. Na. Let me tell you the truth, and I submit to you before the Lord. If we if Coinonia ware not the way it is today, it will not affect my worship a. Take everything from my life, take the name, take the ministry. If I still have Jesus, I'm not defeated. Welcome, my dear sister. You're about to leave God. Because a man did not tell you he will marry you. It's amazing people come to charge and give God three weeks and sometimes with all due respect. Preachers, we are the ones who sell this kind of message. You sin against God for thirty years, and you are giving God three years, three weeks to clean your life and give you a husband by force. I belong to Jesus. I'm never going by, never ling by. I loved you, Gesus, clever, enver going back. I love be love. I'm never going. Going Please be seeing there for a moment, lying upon line, hear me. When you teach believers on financial prosperity, when you teach believers on increase, when you teach believers on influence without teaching them consecrat, you have destroyed them. You have destroyed themselves. There is a sequence which with truth is to be taught. When the believer gets born again, he has. No business learning business principles. Not yet. He will learn it let out, but. Not yet, he has no business jobs, receiving an no no no no, leave marriage first, leave a job first. When you get born again. The sequence that makes you mighty is that you are introduced and they massed into a passion for God, beyond ministry, Passion for God beyond the job, passhon for God beyond name, pershon for God. We have reversed the sequence and will produced a powerless people. People shout a man every week, but let one thing go wrong that will cost God to his face and cost the preacher who represents God. You hear people move from place to place and say, I hate this shorge. They're gossip. Where don't they gossip? Where? I hate evil? Even in heaven there was war. I hope you are learning tonight. Let me tell you the truth. My body. Is for the generation that is coming. God is going to have to create a system and help us to remove this wrong foundation upon this which this precious people are standing on. I cannot give my life to Christ just because I want a car. I cannot give my life to Christ just because. I want a job. Now, I agree it. Is trouble that brings people to Jesus Christ. That is fine. I agree, there's nothing wrong with that. Jesus said, come. On to me all ye that are weary. So don't get me wrong. Trouble will always drive people to the cross. But when they come, he solves that problem. But when He solves that problem. He tells them there is a no black call. There is a no black call. I vowed with my life. Success in ministry or otherwise does not affect my love for Jesus. How about teaching people to live long without connecting them to God's program and God's agenda? Do you know longevity? Say as a spiritu our truth was not supposed to be taught in isolation to God's program. Before you teach people about living long, you have to teach them the program of God. That is the justification for longevity. He said, I shall not die, but live and declare they are manly. People afraid of dead body are not serving the purposes of the kingdom. Now look at me, ladies and gentlemen. How many of you will call your child of three years old and start teaching the child certain subjects. Imagine you call your child of three years old and you're teaching the child an MSc. Program and say. No knowledge is a waste. No, sir, there are children. All their learning is to play. They call it play class. Play what one more time? Play class? What do they do there? They play? But it's learning at that level. If you play like that as an adult, you will fail. But with respect to their life, that's how they lead. They play and they learn, they get accustomed to things. They play. Some of these my children, when we have gifts for them. As I'm hugging them, they're not looking at me. Their mind is straight to what they're collected. And I'm telling you I'm laboring to hug them. They absolutely don't care who is standing in front of. Them because that's their world. I can't say the boy is selfish, No, it's respective of a little child. Do you know I have taken this responsibility myself when God began to show me. To go back to see the sequence, the sequence. With which I have been building Cononia Global. What have I taught you that may have been wrongly taught? I give God thanks for the grace to have taught to certain things the spirit life, the power of the Holy Spirit, the supremacy of. The world, death to flesh. And then now you begin to build upon it, the victorious Christian life, the gifts of the spirit. Then you begin to build upon it. That's what made me teach what we call now the Coinonia believer. Remember the teaching a spiritually vibrand believer. Number One number two a transformed believer. Number three an annointed believer. Number four a responsible believer, Nagent of societal transformation. There are seven descriptions of the colonial believer. It's a sequence, line upon line, precept upon precept. You become a consultant today because the elementary things were taught, you areway together. And then as you grew weightier things started coming, and now you are becoming a consultant. That's how you become a man of stature. There are believers that when they get born again, there's no foundational building for them. You see why discipleship is very important. And when I say discipleship, that we can spend all night talking about that, because there are certain things that we call discipleship that. Is just a bordersome ritual. It does not produce power. But discipleship, as the Bible intended, is how believers attain onto maturity, death to the flesh. Loving Jesus with your heart, with your soul. Most of the people you. See today, particularly in my generation, who are men of power in the spirit, ask them how their lands God. When we started, there were things we were not even aware. For instance, I tell you the truth and I lie not I never knew of anything called or aralium that when you go to preach, they can squeeze ten narra one dollar and put in your pocket. No, it was never the reason. When I later found out that there was something called on a raio that a man preaches and they can encourage you. At a point, I felt guilty, why collect this forward for preaching Jesus. I had to find it in scripture that it is not on godly to minister to the person's spiritual things. That was the only time I heard opened to receive it. But there are many young people today. They are already calculating if I have one hundred ministrations worship programs. One who said five contemporary worship, if I get five five hundred. Thousand, give or take. You see if you have that kind of mentality, I'm not being sarcastic, My dear people, listen to me. This is a word from the Lord. With that, then calculation and you expect power upon the altar. God is not a habbid lissa. No, sir, No, sir, no, sir. You don't like what I'm saying. We have thought that you. Are only serious with God if you are calling to ministry if you're going to be a banker a politician, just be around church and give. It's not true. Go and read the Bible. Do you know the training of those who manage God's resources was almost as strict as the trainings of priests. Yes, sir, in training the disciples, Jesus did not diechotomize anybody's training. Everybody went through the same thing. Regardless what you are going to become. Coanonia. Whether you are called to be a prayer warrior, where you are called to be a financial apostle, when it's time to pray, you will pray. When it's time to. Give, prayer warriors gift financial apostles give. Is the same training, the same spirit of God training. Are we together now? So some of these things that we have taught, and many of them I submit to you sincerely. So they have either come with imbalances or they have not been complete. Are we together? Or we have. Arranged a sequenced wrongly? Now, don't get me wrong, ladies and gentlemen. There are people who are uniquely gifted as ministries in certain areas. There are prophetic ministries. There are ministries that are gifted in the area of leadership and excellence, and chances are excellent that everyone will be most dominant in the area where he's called. However, I will still tell you there is a sequence for building believers. There are things. If you don't teach a Christian before teaching other things, there will be a side effect in the future, and one of it, the most prevalent one I would tell you sincerely, is the issue of finances, ladies and gentlemen. By the messes of God, I can tell you money can change people. This money, you see, it has such tremendous power. By the time you hold money and your hands are still lifted, you're a Christian. Christian money can change people. It gives people options. By the time you have money, over eighty percent of your prayer requests will be answered. That's when you know whether you are a prayer full or not. Because sorrow and worry can drive people into the secret place, and you will be thinking you are there because you love God. But the truth is that you are there because you are in trouble. You are going to jail by the next week. It is a natural response and we're together. Biology teaches us its flight and calling, fight and flee. Homons that can drive you to that place of prayer, and you find out the worlds you are trying to do the ritual of spirituality, you really do not love God. It's just the most available option you have. Because when God blesses you like and alert comes immediately you wrap up the prayer, so it was never about your love for Jesus. Thank you Father for answering the prayer. I give you girling. You are king of kings. I see you another time when I'm in trouble. Now, while you are laughing, I hope the Holy. Spirit is speaking to you because I can tell you sincerely without insulting your pedigree, it is possible that some of you can tonight totally not in love with Jesus. You just heard that one prophetic world can come from this Man of God, and your life can change. And that's a noble reason to come. But I propose to you a. Relationship more than receiving things that God meets your heart beyond your hands. I will pray for you to get what you are getting. But my question is what if you don't get it, will you still love him? Will you still come to church? And then what if you get it? Will you still love him. Will you still come to church? What if suddenly the building happens. What if suddenly every good thing happens in your life? Do you know both glory and pain can take you away from God. And illulia. Sometimes people say things like, if God is this, if God wants me to serve him, he must prove it. Let me tell you this. As powerful as that's. Is, we need to be very careful. God is not under obligation to prove anything. You are the one who will go to hell if you don't believe him. He's not the one going to hell. I'm not being sarcastic. Are we together? Hell Fire is not for him. He's not threatened by anyone. There's no government that will dethrone him. He's not going to die. He doesn't get sick. Nobody voted into power. You need to realize how much God can do without you to know how mighty he is. Are we together? Sometimes we blackmail God by making you I will leave you and with things. Ah, please now, don't when it says I have loved you with an everlasting love, it is the depth of. His love, not powerlessness. I am aware that with all without me, with or without coin on her God's program will still happen. It is an honor for us to have a person in his antime prophetic program. And we must keep that mentality. Thank you, oh, my Father, forgiving us yourn and leave in your. Spirital your work horth is done. I thank you all my Father forgiving us your un and leave your spirit tale. Your work on earth is done. Now sit now and listen to this. We're going to pray. The believer only becomes powerful to the degree to which your spiritual knowledge is structured. Build and aggregator to produce results for you. The degree to which your knowledge is structured, build in fact, understood, and engage. So as to deliver. You are not just powerful because you have access to knowledge. You will need to rearrange the sequence of your spiritual understanding. There are some of you who need to take a retreat of the subject of money and go back to the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Some of you may need to take a. Retreat of the subject of a job and go back to the ridimens of the kingdom. Because as it is. Now, you know sincerely that you don't love God that much. And let me tell you the truth before life frustrates you to leave the Lord. Take a pause. I know you are studying on influence right now. I know you are studying on how the world of God works. That's wonderful, but for some you may need to suspend it a bit. And go back. Learn about death to the flesh, learn about the histories of consecration, how a man can love God, whether his prayers are answered or not. When you get that right, you can resume your study and prosperity with the assurance that it will not defeat you. I don't depend on my circumstances to prove whether God is mighty or not. No, my circumstances are too small. Are we together now make God forbid? But if coin on your does not work in my lifetime, if. I fairly minister as a person, I will take responsibility. But I will never look at God and say God is because of this. No, you will neverver ever change. You are the Lord. You remain the same. You will never a change. You are the Lord. Let me speak to someone who did not get admission. Let me speak to someone who just buried your loved one. Let me just speak to someone who's here to get a job. You had to get a wife He had to get a horseband, you had to get children, you had to get visus. My God is able to bring you that result. Never confuse it. He's that powerful. But the believer's template is that you're most loving beyond those things. Raise it high for me, don't since presence has tempted me. Now I'll be here worshiping all of the things of my life. I'll be worshiping all of the day of my life. I'll be loving you all of that days of my life. I'll be. Loving me. All of that day. Let me tell you how to test whether you love God in your mind. Remove everything that is an advantage. Now remove it. Take away your kind your mind, take away your spouse in your mind, take away your certificate in your mind. Take away the beautiful job giving you one million per month. I know you are saying, Lord, I thank you, but I want to hear you say it again when those things are not there. Then I trust what you are saying. Man of God. Take away the likes and shares. Let's assume all your page what they call it God hat immediately, and suddenly the likes the shares just vanish overnight. That's the worshiper I'm looking for. That's the one I'm looking for to sing, Mamma, thank God you are worshiping because ten of your children. One is a governor, one is a president, one is an ambassador. But show me the woman who has five children in prison and she's still raising her hands. That's a worshipper. There alla called sabalantosia. Show me someone who is standing before a dead body. You are looking at your loved one, and you're SI saying, be magnified, Hollo. You are highly excel and there is nothing you can do. O Lord my eyes sarony, be man, oh be man. Now look at me, ladies and gentlemen. I want you to answer me in your mind. Do you love Jesus more than marriage? Do you love Jesus more than ministry? Do you love Jesus more than political title? Politician? I don't care what party you are. Do you love Jesus modern election or are you beginning to draw near to church as election is coming close? Do you love Jesus more than a university's certificate? Do you love Jesus more than a jeep that is parked outside? Do you love Jesus simply because there is a sea of all on your table. I wouldn't trade you for a seal. I wouldn't trade you for each. She's onto You are you are? You are the love of my life. You are. The hot that I mean to You mean more than this world to me. I wouldn't trade FALSI God, I wouldn't trade. For each cheese unto you are you are my. Let me tell you this, and I say to you, God sees my heart, and may he forgive me if I'm lying. There are times that I stand and I look at all that God has done in my life, and while text messages are coming from people who are pursue you at this. I just say, Holy Spirit, can. You help me take away these things and let me search if my heart is still with you? Because those things can become idols who will not say thank you Jesus, when someone just gave you a house, Who will not say thank you Jesus, when your wife just had a child, who will not said thank you Jesus. Even a don't believer. I will say thank you Jesus. Come me, Nana, can he? Nana can. Call me Nanah? Can hey? Yeah, yes, yes, she yes, she can. I tell you something we don't teach believers that God must test your motive before real grace comes on your head. I don't care. Listen to me. I don't care what you have had before. Now, by the messes of God, and with every sense of humility, I understand your bit about your annoytent and the glory. I can't tell you there is a circumcision. There are many times you come to the Lord expecting oil on your head for a long time. You will not place it there to prune you, to test your heart. You will run to someone you will pray for you, and God will suspend that importation. And at a point you say, this man is not annointed. Let me look for someone I need annointing now. And God says no. The economy of them of heaven works with the purity. Of a man's motive. Yes, sir, Yes, sir. The day you die, in the year that King Usiah. Died, I saw, there is something you see when you die. In the day my pride died, I saw in the day that flesh died. Let me tell you there are many billooneres right now, I tell you, sincerely, no matter what kind of business actumen you have, because of your prophetic destiny. There are certain levels of wealth you will not touch until God works on your heart. You will find out that that business will not work. Everything you do is correct, but God is saying the kind of wealth I'm giving you If I don't have your heart, it would tear you into pieces. Others can go no problem, they may not signs of prophecy. But for you, because I'm going to be placing the resources of heaven, you will need more than buying and selling. There is death that must happen. One day. God will say, carry your can't give it? You say, God forbid, this one is a demon spirit? And God will say, what's not about the car? I already told the person you were to give to give it back to you. I only wanted to test your heart. You are not ready. Remain here as an act of my messy until you are ready. Many yearesa god. The Lord told me, son, if you will let men see me, there is nothing I would not give you. Can I tell you the truth? The real key to influence and frame and glory is to forget about it. Forget about it and stay. The secret to be known needs to be hidden. When you are hidden, then you will be known. It's a mystery. It's a real mystery in this kingdom that the more you hide, the more you become glorious. The more you hide, the more he announces you. The Lord sent me tonight to teach someone that the reason why your knowledge is not profitable is because you are doing work because selective transformation. There are certain levels of spiritual knowledge that is weighty, because knowing that thing would demand their responsibility. You have jumped it quickly, and you've gone to the ones that are easy, that appeal to your lost. So when people have been transformed, they select what they want. This topic is too hard. I don't like it. This one is too hard. I don't like this one. This one appeals to me. When you come to the kingdom, you embrace everything for your making. Allelujah. I don't know why I'm saying this, but God wants to build the people of power and influence. But let me tell you that death in my heart, Lord deep, glorified, be glorified, be my life, Lord, big GLORI fa today. Can someone mean that song? Just one time? My life, Lord, glory fire the glorified, my. Life, Lord be glory fare to day. I once read about ancient kings, kings in the yester years yester centuries, that they were particular kings because of the extent of your majesty. They had a group of people around the throne, and all the people said was you are a man, because sometimes the kings for good that they were men. So there were people who were contracted, and all they kept chanting was you were a man. Because when a man can possess the soul of anybody, you can look at someone and say I want you to die, and in one minute the person is dead. Sometimes you can forget you are a man. So they put people to tell the king. It was a system to help the king you are a man. Have you not seen it happen to politicians. Sometimes they forget it's only eight years, and then all of a suddenly is over and then the man is brought back to himself like Nebucket Nezza and he sees that truly there is a God that sits in the circle of the earth. What's the intent for tonight's teaching number one to show you that there is a sequential arrangement to the journey of transformation, empowerment, and the evolution of a believer until he becomes a witness. You are not at liberty to choose how you change. No, it's already present. There are things you must go through. Don't reject the. Dealings of God because it's uncomfortable. And then you select the message of prosperity. You select the message of a good life, You select the message of power. You select an incomplete message about certain dimensions and reject the other one. You will be surprised that there are some of you the level you are now. God may send you and say, with all your respect, go and get a message by a book, by our Father and the Lord that did geo or paper. It doesn't matter whether you like him or not. Something in that message is needed for your growth. There is something within that message that will kill something in you. Now you reject it because of traditions, and with all due respect. Maybe it may be just maybe someone has mentored you into rejecting the diversity of the gifts within the body, and you reject what can transform you and make you a personal power for someone. God can give you an assignment and say, for the next one week, go to this Orthodox church that is close by. They may not have revelation to shout. But you are in the School of the Spirit and you are learning character, and you're setting you won't. Get the teaching on character so much. Go and meet that reverend, sit quietly under that church for two weeks or one month. He may not give you rama, but you will see sincerity. For instance, they will. Tell you how much was collected to the last one Mira, He say, I want you to learn it because I'm trusting you. That's something you may not find. Reprien the corseelves, Yes, sir, it is line up online. Because there are a people of power that God is raising. But you see, if you go through the university system, you can jump lectures and read two days to the exam and still pass. But in the School of the Spirit, the lecture you jump will haunt you even after ten years. You jump character one oh one, you jump character three oh one. After twenty years in ministry, that lecture you missed is what to bring you down. And if God wants to show you messy, even if you're a general of a see how who is thirty years old. Let me tell you, God will take you back to that course. You must do it. This is good for you when God meets you on your own journey. He does not continue with you where he found you. He takes you back to His patterns, even if you have been in ministry for twenty years. I'm saying this. When it has to do with the business of death to the flesh, there are no generals. Are There are generals of revelation, there are generals of whatever. But when it has to do with this business of the cross and death to the flesh, no body qualifies to be called a general. No sir, no sirn even Jesus himself was about. To give up. There are no generals. Everybody must fall before the throne and cry out his heart and say, Lord, if you do not show me messy, I cannot find any The Bible says a broken and a contrite heart. Oh God, that will not despise. Maybe a man of God needs to take some time this week just keep the issue of ministry for one moment and say, Lord, I didn't realize ministry has become an idol. Let it be me and you this week. I'm coming back to the herd of worship. When it's all about you. It's all about you, she esus. I'm sorry, Lord, for the thig. They heed it. When it's all about You's all about. You with all your respect. Before we pray, Let me have the honor of speaking to my generation and those who, by messy are looking up towards Can I tell you? Let your journey not be to be the greatest. Let the journey be to know him, to know him. Someone may be sitting down saying I want to be the next don see or your car. That's a sincere desire. Or you must follow the part that was followed. The path to the throne is the crosser. The part to the throne is not a triumphant entry. A triumphante leads to the cross. So if you finally throne you are sitting on and you cannot see the. Cross, know that you were scammed. Life is only playing games with you. The official way to the throne is the cross, and I've told you the crosses where both good and bad people meet. When you find people in the cross on the cross, you don't look down them because Jesus is there too. You don't have to be a righteous The cross is where the puning happens. They sound it well, where. There is new, Why there is new, Let me give you. Two assignments tonight. Assignment number one, write out the various areas of your life where you are yet to experience victory in Christ. Write it out, be honest with yourself. You don't have to do it now. Listen on your global body of Christ. Those listening, write out the areas of your life where you are yet to experience victory. I'm yet to experience victory in my finances. Write it down. God is able to give you victory. I'm yet to experience victory in my home, my health. Write it down. Don't be embarrassed. It is in acknowledging the fact that you are yet to see the victory of Christ established in that area. Then you can now pursue the light component the body of sequentional knowledge that is connected to that result. Are we together? Assignment number two, Take an inventory of your life and an inventory of your knowledge. Bank. An inventory of your life, an inventory of your knowledge bank. I like you to vet your understanding of the spirit life, VET your understanding of the Kingdom, VET your understanding of God's program, VET your understanding. Of victory and dominion. Take an inventory of your life, take an inventory of your knowledge bank. Vet your understanding of the spirit life, your understanding of the Kingdom, your understanding of God's prophetic program, your understanding of victory and dominion, and see the degree of light you have or otherwise. You will be. Surprised that there are things you have not learned. For instance, when you begin to learn about the Kingdom, you will find out that there are many things you do not know, like God's prophetic agenda. You are in search for money and prosperity and increase, but in truth, you know nothing about God's agenda. And it's important to know God's agenda before you begin to ask for his resources, because his resources are for his agenda. If you do not understand God's prophetic agenda, why do you want him to give you the anointing, Why do you want him to give you the gift of men? Why do you want him to give you influence, to give you a platform? All those things are resources that only makes sense and become an advantage to your life to the degree to which you understand this program. So for you, God will call you in now and say, you know what, go back to the secret place. Let me teach you about the Kingdom. That my agenda is all about the revelation of Jesus Christ and then throning him and his purple in the hearts of men. And across every strata of human activities. When you know that, he says, do you now understand? You say, yes, Lord, I understand. He says, Now, let's go to the subject of influence. So when you receive influence and access the likes and the shares, when you receive all of the elevated platform, because. You have been taughted the program of God, are we together now? It will not derail you. When God gives you one billion, you already know that that one billion is not for you. There is a portion for your comfort. There is a portion for his program. When God gives you an elevated platform where you can blow a chaufan tatty three thousand people can show up, you. Know that it's for him. If you're a man of God, to encourage you in righteousness, please build a solid discipleship system for your people and let them learn the truths of the kingdom. See queencially don't say it does not There is need to tame the marketing of lost using spirituality. There are many believers who do not love God. They have only been given a proposal that in following God there is a plethora of benefits there to receive. And it is true, but they must be thought that their love for Jesus must be beyond the things that they get. I'm telling you that's what we're determine. A worshiper that his presence carrying, and a worshiper that is an entertainer. That's what would distinguish between a man of God who comes and is speaking every level of revelation but no power, and another one who will come and say, may God. Lift you and open your heavens. Because they are coming from a place of deep consecration and death. It was in a pastor's conference. I was told one time that during a pastor's conference, pastors were praying. I was told after a father and the Lord that the Jew had led prayers or so, and the man of God said while they were praying. This was a very old story. I think that we're saying for over an hour or so that all that did you was saying was messy, messy, Lord, messy, that's it. Younger ministers were shouting, Lord, it must walk, Oh, yell on my head, this and that, and that, and a veteran who has understood the ways of God who knows it is by the loss messy or loss messy that were not consumed. It was shouting messy messy. Lord. If you want to produce results, undeniable results in your life, ladies and gentlemen, I show you the pathway. You must rearrange your motivation. Why are you seeking God? Why are you coming to the place of prayer? Why are you coming to church? If you tell me to receive breakthrough. I will not condemn you, because you are right, but I have to check the foundation upon which your conviction is standing on. At the end of this I'm going to speak over your needs. I do not believe in a God who does not reach out to people to meet your needs. God does that, but he demands and desires. That a people love Him beyond the things that he gives. So while I'm speaking to your needs, I have the liberty to speak to your needs knowing that it is not the arrival of those answers that is the basis for your loving Jesus. There are merely consolations to your Christian experience. If you understand what I just said, then you understood to Night's teaching. So here's how God trains people. He shows you the possibilities that are are raid for you in this kingdom in Christ, and then he tells you that after salvation, he desires to journey with you through a process of transformation and empowerment. And ladies and gentlemen, that journey depends on your will and your participation. But the curriculum is not within your power. It's already fixed, and it is yours to stay with God and allow him, no matter how uncomfortable, to build you. And can I tell you the curriculum is the same, but how God uses it or not is different. So for someone you will attend the first course with the Spirit like it is in a university, and that course will only take three months and you are done. Then the second course with the Spirit will take four years and you are done. So it's not like it's just per week per month. You can be four years with God and you're in one course because of the unique expression of His glory that He seeks to bring out in your life. The weight of glory and honor that God wants to place upon you is so mighty it will take him about four or five years for that circumcision to be complete. And while that is happening, those you started with may go ahead of you, and God says you remain back find comfort. It is because of what will be dropping on you when you are done in the school of the spirit. As this minister to someone, we're so blessed. When Minister Docing came up and was ministring, I mean in minutes, I mean the presence carrying. I can't tell you it's not for your knowledge, but I can tell you I know a bit of some of the spiritual consecrations and for want of what the rituals in. Terms of preparation that he goes through. You have no idea what some of the people you admire go through to carry. The glory that sometimes people take for granted. It's beyond preaching or try here's your Bible, here's a mic yes, strongs concordance, Matthew Henry commentary, Greek lexicon. Here you go, MG. That's when you realize that it's beyond just talking. You are speaking from somewhere. Where you stand from is what makes what you say powerful. It's not just what you say. There is an altitude in the Spirit that is demanded for certain weeks to. Back what you are saying. You can say the same thing, but it's the altitude you are standing from. Are we together now, so Father and the Lord that the joke can come here now and say, let me just speak a blessing to my children. May the Lord bless you. And as casual as it is, it is not what he's saying. It is the altitude. Who shall as send to the heel of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place. He that has clean hands and a pure heart, who's not lifted. Up is so long to no sworn deceitfully. That are requirements. We're going to pray. We're going to find a neighbor and will take two three minutes to pray. Your prayer tonight is going to be Lord. The classes I have jumped in the spirit because I'm in a hurry for manifestation. I'm not ashamed. Take me back to those classes. Let me rearrange sequentially, Let me structure my knowledge such that I become a person of stature. I jump the class of Karaci, and the Spirit take me back. I drouamp the class of consecration in the spirit. Take me back. I jump the class on pay sense in the spirit take me back, open your mouth and begin to pray. Go ahead and pray. Cha parantus colatuaranta. I desire wholes, some knowledge sequentially arranged. I don't want to put sync before blocks. I don't want to do my casting before I foundation. Lord, if it means bringing the building down, called me to rebuild it again. You are the potter, and I am the clay. Smash the clay again and let the building start again. Let me start again. What have I embraced? What teaching have I embraced. That has corrupted my motivation in terms of my pursuit for you? Rearrange my spiritual understanding. Let the majors become majors. Let the minus become minus. Someone is praying, rearrange my spiritual understanding. Let my hunger for you, let my thirsk for you. Let my passion for you become greater than obtaining things. Let it become greater than faith, greater than prosperity, creator and making a name creator and ministry creator than politics, great adamn business. In Jesus, then we pray, pray. A point to Father, every gap in my spiritual understanding. By your MESSI and by your spirit, bring completion to my spiritual understanding. Lift your voice and pray every gap in my spiritual understanding. I have learned about prosperity, but my knowledge is incomplete, and that half knowledge is corrupting me. I have learned about holiness and consecration, but my knowledge is incomplete. I've not been taught the power of the Cross, and it still bring in struggles. Bring completion to my knowledge. I've learned on influence. I've learned on advancement, but I've not learned the purpose for it. Bring completion to my spiritual understanding. Someone lifts your voice and pray. Lift your voice and pray. I learned about Satan, but I was taught about Satain in a way that has kept me in fear. I have not learned that is defeated. I was not taught that the victory is already sure. I've not been taught that I'm a victory in Christ. Bring completion to my knowledge, So might open your mouth and passionately crime. Bring completion. The areas of gaps creating fear, the areas of gaps empowering satin gaps in my knowledge affecting my efficiency in the spirit. Deliver me from the knowing only syndrome. Bring wholeness to my knowledge. Let me understand about world. Holy consecration, Holy, the agenda of. God, Holy, the mysteries of power. Holy. Hallelujah, prays the name of the Lord. I'm going to speak over your life. But please, I beseech you by the message of God. I can assure you that many of you have not gotten the full import of what was taught tonight. As you go back home, listen to this message again. There is a sequential arrangement of truth that makes it profitable. And in addition to the many factors like traditions, the state of your heart, and. Not mixing the world with faith to produce. The arrangement of truth can determine whether it profits you or not. Ha you yeah we worsha haly yeah. Yeah way yeah way we were shaped y were shah way we are way. We are yeah way we were ship way we are ship Holly a holiday you are. Yeah way were shot one more time Holly. Yeah way we were showy way, we were shut way, we were shove way, we were shop a way we were show a sense of my spirit do some of you. If you really do this assignment, you will need to go back and sample the messages that have been. Preaching this house. Don't say I was there. Arrange them. Spiritual growth, write them down, Faith building teachings, write them down. Teachings on relationship, write them down. Teachings on wealth and abundance, write them down, and now begin to pray. Say Lord, I jumped a class spirit of the Living God. I am back to learn it. I now see that understanding influence without relationships. Would destroy me. I master influence by mastering value, but I did not master human relations So you go back opening destiny doors through relationships the gift of men. You complete that course first. The beautiful thing about the spirit of God is that when God is taking you back, he won't let men know he will cover you. It's only you and him that will know you are going back. He will praise, serve your honor even while he works on you as a man of God. You love the Lord, but your problem is integrity. Don't feel bad. Go back. Search for a message. What message addresses character? Are we together now? Yes, you can listen to the message send me. You can listen to the message. The man, God uses get these teachings and kill yourself. You will come back to your prupit and people will see that that deficiency has gone. His presence has carried it away. Hallelujah. Now I'm going to sing this song, Hallelujah wants if you are here and you need Jesus, I don't need to catule you in this kind of atmosphere. I want you to run, and you come and stand here. You are saying, Apostle, I cannot allow this service finish without making it right with Jesus. I'm just going to raise the song. That's what God is putting in my heart. And no matter where you are, my dear brother and my sister, God. Is giving you a chance to make it right with your life, whether you are outside any of the overflows Sarria across the globe. I want you to run for those who are here. You come and stand right in front of me. I raise that song once twice, and I pray for you because I need to speak over God's people. And we end hally keep coming yeah way we were share Harley yeah way we sh yeah way away yeah way away we were yeah way way away. Keep coming yeah way we. Gods hard God, God sweep shirt. Harlay a. Don't be shaty. Ha. Don't we. Come to Jesus Ah, don't we worshare? Ah? Don't believe share allelujah. Please look at me, my dear brothers and sisters on behalf of Jesus Christ. I want to salute you for the courage to be here. Some of you are crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears. The Bible says that if you are ashamed of me before men, I will be ashamed of you before my father. This is family. This is a family affair. Salvation is a family affair. I see some other people coming. Please come quickly, make haste, Come quickly. I'm about to lead God's peakle in prayer. Listen to me. You can start afresh tonight. You participated in the moments of prayer. You participated in the moments of worship. Now the word has come and you've been convicted by the spirit. Lift up your right hand, if you will, let it be as. High as you can to Jesus and say this after me. Say Lord Jesus, you just imagine Jesus standing before you. Don't worry about Joshua Salman, take me out of the way. Too small a reason. Let your eyes be on Jesus. Say Lord Jesus, tonight. I have heard your word. I declare that I love you with all my heart. I declare that you are my savior, You are my Lord, and you are my King. I declare that the power of Sin, Satan, Hell, and the grave is broken over my life. From tonight, I am a child of God. I go for whatever and back whatever. Amen, keep your hands, and I pray for you further. You're what declares that as many who will come to you, you will know why it's cast away. I stretch my hands over these precious people who help those on that are nainting. And I decree and declare that the power of Sain, Satan, Hell, and the Grave, let it be broken over your life. Now in the name of Jesus Christ. I call you bona fide recipients of the life of God. And I decree and declare that from tonight and forever you live for Jesus, and you serve him all the days of your life. In the muchless name of Jesus, we pray, Amen and amen. Please look to my right. You're left from where you're standing. There are counselors waving the placard. Would you do me a favor to just for your direction for a moment. They'll pray with you, have a word with you, and then you are back very quickly. Let's celebrate them very quickly. Let's celebrate them quickly. In Jesus' name, we pray, God, bless you, God, bless you. Let me speak over your life and we're done. Thank you for your patients. Tonight, I decree and declare by the power of the Holy Spirit, that as death walks in you through consecration, death to the flesh, let life begin to emanate from you to the nations. In the name of Jesus Christ. I decree and declare, because you have exalted Jesus above and beyond your needs, you will look left and right and not see any need. Again. I say to you, because you have exalted Jesus and you've made a determination in your hand to love Him beyond tea and prayer, to love him beyond the things that money can give. I pray for you as you seek him, those things will come to you. In the mighty name of Jesus. I speak over your week beginning Let it be blessed, blessed with favor, blessed. With good things, blessed with good news. May your hunger for Jesus continually grow. May your appetite for prayer continually grow. May your appetite for His word continually grow. Let this be the weak, were the Lord by his spirit. Will close every gap in knowledge. Let us be the weak. You will hear what you've never heard before. Let us be the weak. You will learn what you've never learned before. You will interact with wisdom beyond comprehension. In the name of Jesus. Can I call help us to your life because your heart is stayed on God. Those who matter for the next level of your life, May my God grab it teach them towards your life. I call you blessed in the name of Jesus. You are blessed in the city. You are blessed in the country. You're going out is blessed. You're coming in is blessed. The works of your hands blessed. You will not die this week. The preserver preserves you, the lifter lifts you. The blesser blesses you, The helper helps you, the announce announces you. It will be clear that the hand of God is upon your life, and any man that means you evil, your God would judge them. In the name of Jesus Christ, shout Amen three times as loud. As you can. God bless you, so do me a favor. Please make sure that as. Many people as you can get them to listen to this message, and for some images, be a line in the message that will be a worth you. So it as a see to someone, and let it build them spiritually. In the name of Jesus Christ. Minister doing sm thank you again for your time with us today and for the wonderful time of worship together. Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Let it rest and abide with us non forever. Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercy follow us all the days of our lives, as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever and ever. Amen. God bless you. Everybody see you on Sunday.