Living Epistles 4

Hallelujah, praise the Lord. Are you excited to be in God's presence this morning? You may be sited. God bless you. This morning. Again, it's my privilege to be standing before you to bring to you the word of the Lord. I want to quickly acknowledge and honor our Father in the house this morning, Reverend Insa e Ao, I thought your excitement to be more than that. Glory to Jesus this morning. You know, we as young people, we are full of energy. Oftentimes the challenge we have is we time. But I trust that the Lord will do a quick walk this morning. A person who always tell us he doesn't take God eternity to do that which is sitana, So just lift her hands toward heaven and worship the Lord one more time as we appear before the throne of Him that is God. E taner, whisper something to the Lord from the depth of your heart. It's possible to be lost in the service. It's possible not to participate in the service. We are taking the announcements, the choir are doing the administrations, and we are just there watching. Whereas every time we come to a corporate service like this, it's needful for us to make an appearance before the Lord. The Bible said, they go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion that appeared before the Lord. Sometimes the reason we become weak, even. Though we are participating corporately in an assembly like this, is because we fail to make appearance in Zion. Because every time we make an appearance, the Bible said, of necessity. We go from strength to strength. So strength is a function of appearing before the God of Zion. Can you whisperak to him this morning from the depths of your heart, say something to the Lord. Maybe you've not told him this week. How about you love him? Like the sister said earlier, Can you go ahead and just say something to. Jesus, not just one of the dwelling in your press. I don't want to worship from my fa Draw me. To you. I just want to be well. You are. In your dwell in place for a. Take me to the place where you want. I just want to be with you. And so, precious Father, this morning, we thank you for the privilege that we have to congregate on the spaces of your spirit. We asked that you instruct us, We ask that you impart us. We asked that you would empower us so that as we go into our world, will become an extension of your reality. In the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah, you may be seated, God bless you. We are considering the subject living epistles, and we are looking at the inability of being experientially in living epistles as a challenge of enlargement. The Lord began to help us as we started this conference. By exposing us to depths and scriptures as touching what it means. To be a living epistol. And this morning, I would like to look at three very significant and very strategic. Implications of. What it means or what living epistles are in the Kingdom of God. Most times we approach truth from the standpoint of theological dexterity. Most times we approach truth from the standpoint of biblical accuracy. But truth will not have implication in our lives except we begin to consider it from the standpoint of life. It is possible to know about God and speak authoritatively and vipociously about Him, but it will not have existential implication in your life. It's possible to talk about the healing power of God, yet. You are dying of sickness. It's possible to talk about the love of God, yet your heart is collocted with bitterness. One of the effects that reveals the fact that we have not truly understood a spiritual reality is when it's only a mental assertion, not an existential expression. So we cannot truly understand what it means to be a living epistle AUNTI. The implications of a living epistle becomes our daily expressions. This is where truth becomes a proponent of life and reality. Many Christians in the world, but oftentimes. When we look at the territories, it looks as if there are more own believers than there are Christians. It looks as if there are more demons that there are angels, and it looks as if the devil himself is more powerful than God. There is a crisis that must be dealt with, and one of the strategic intelligences that God have put in place in order to remediate the effect of the foe and to bring his kingdom to bear is the strategy of living witnesses, walking on the streets and walking in the systems of this world. The world have no reason to be in darkness if there are true witnesses and living episodes walking in every sphere of human and devil. So if our territories in darkness, it's not because the devil is strong, It's because we have refused to take responsibility for who we truly are in God. This is where realities become much more than theological assertions and biblical exegetical accuracy and intelligence. Three implications this morning and in the next forty minutes will be done. We began by saying, a living epistle. Is a proof and an exhibit of the reality of God. A living epistle is a communication, a vessel of communication that brings to bear the mind of God, the will of God, the purpose of God, so that the government of God is established in his fear of influence. And on the strength of this we declared very authoritatively that is beyond talking about God, it is actually living as God. And looking at the context where we find ourselves and the context in which we were born, we saw that it would be literally impossible to live like God in a dark and a falling creation, first because we were born in sin. Secondly, because the world itself is falling. So what is that strategic intelligence that God has put in place to make a man who is burning sin into a falling world, to become an expression of God. This becomes the weight of the subject. Not just to declare that we are living epistles, not just to declare that we are supposed to be living epieciles. Every one of us is aware of that. How do we become living. Episius becomes the big challenge that confronts every one of us. When seeing comes into your boders, what do you do about it? To manifest the righteousness of God becomes the big challenge. The challenge is not to know that you are supposed to be the righteousness of God. How do you become manifestly the righteousness of God? Becomes the challenge? When the devil comes into the family, how do you become the expression of the power of God becomes the challenge. The question is not knowing what ought to be. The question is how to get what ought to be to become what is? And this is where many are challenged. This is where the devil oftentimes tries to make a mockery of our belief system. Or there is a way, And we. Saw that the simplest and most accessible way of achieving this reality is by our inde interaction with the Word of God. The Bible said, in the beginning was the world. The world was with God, and the world was God. He said, all things were made by Him, and without him was not anything made. That was made in him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it north. So if there is darkness, it means the believer have not become light by the world. And if the believer have not become life light, it simply means he has not made contact with life. Because until the life that flows. From the world becomes the experience of the believer, he cannot be a light in darkness. And we said many times interacting with the Word of God becomes the challenge of the believer. We receive it graciously, and sometimes he will religiously, but we don't gage it. The Bible said in John chapter one, verse ten to eleven, and twelve, he said he. Came into the world, the Word knew him. Not, of course, the world cannot know him, because the world is falling. The world is alien to his reality. When Adam fell, creation and man rebelled. He said, what as many as received him to them, he gets the right to become the sons of God. And that is when most of us stop. We stop when we become the sons of God. So there is no experience. Legally we are the sons of God, but experientially we are expressions of different spirits apart from God. So you look at the sister dressed half naked, and you say what is your name? And she said, my name is married. You look at the brother, you say, what is your name? He was caught coming on the internet, and he said, my name is Christian. Legally he has been born again, accepted Jesus. What experience Aventially, his life is an expression of Babylon. His life is an expression of Jezebel. His life is an expression of Mammon, the god of commerce. What is the problem? God is supposed to be the most powerful the Bible said, all things were made by him. Without him, was not anything made that was made? And you have received the all powerful God, how come you are still a puppet in the hands of the devil the inability to engage the world. In verse sixteen, he said, we beheld him. The people that journey from legal reality to experiential reality. He said, we beheld him, and when we beheld him, we no longer saw the logos. He said, we saw him as the glory of the Father, full of grace and truth. Others only received him and stuff, But some people went further, He said, we beheld. The moment we beheld, we began to see something much more than the logos. Somebody has received him because they told him for God's soul loved the world and gave It's only begot in song. But somebody else, after hearing that and accepting that truth, sat on the truth and began to look upon it. How is this possible? And as he beheld the Bible said, the glory was made manifest. And Paul came in a Condcurrenians three eighteen. He said, we all with unveiled faces. What unveiled our face is the acceptance of Jesus Christ. He said, for the Lord that was giving on the mountain, even though the face of most is shown till you this day. The veil was upon them. But they say, as we turned to the Lord, the veil is removed. So when we received him, the veil is removed. But the irresponsibility of beholding to see the glory becomes the crisis of our life. You say, as we beheld him, we are changed from glory to glory by the Spirit, even to the same image. So the Holy Spirit, even though. It's within, cannot walk until you behold. Because the Spirit begins to walk. When the believer begins to behold, and we said when they believer behold, something happened. It becomes the physical. The manifest expression of everything that God on his inside is. This is when the believer becomes a living episode, when it's able not just to host. God, but to give expression to God. And if this truly begins to happen in your life, then in eternity you become. An entity of recognition. This is where I want to get into certain implications, because most times we listen to doctrines, we master them, but we don't know the implication. Most times, it's. Possible, especially for the youths, to assume that everything about life and time. Paul said, if only in this life we have hope, we are of all men most miserable. Life is a ticket and an opportunity given to us to invest in etality. I told us how that everything we see in life is a lie. Your looks you are seventeen years old, you say you are a slave queen. Wait until you becomforted. That face that you robert the powders that shines and glows like the song. When you becomforted, there you discover rinkles appear from nowhere, and you begin to wonder. You thought everything was about what you had, and then suddenly the wind comes and blows everything away, and you say, what is going on? Even time you self, you now realize is a lie. So men that have understanding, they look to the heels from whence their health comet because they have realized that life in itself can only be expressed in etality. So eternity becomes their greatest motivation. This is why a man can give his body to be burned. I was contemplating the justice system of heaven, and I wondered why a family with one child, and God will send that boy to Afghanistan. And God knows because he's only sied that this boy will be slaughtered in Afghanistan. And he sends that boy to Afghanistan and the boy is slaughtered. And I began to wonder what kind of justice is done. There are families that have ten souls and don't know what to do with them. Why not pick one of them? And then I realize that the value of life itself is not in time. The man that God sends and runs is iran. What God is doing exactually favoring him, because when true reality is made manifest, then he will realize that time would have been a lie apart from God. Youah, you anciensi young skin. Cordus, Cordus, you are mighty on your true You Easis are young skin. God, God, you a mighty on your true. What time is the first implication of a living episode or being a living episode. It's called witnessing witnessing. It is not telling people about Jesus Christ. If you have not been on this part for long, you will assume witnessing is just to talk to people about God. If you choose this part, then you understand the frustration that men are going through. What do you think You're telling Halot that God loves you, and then all of a sudden she changes from being a halot. Witnessing is being able to bring God on the scene. It can be through your words. He can be through your lifestyle. But any believer that cannot bring God on the scene is not a witness. And if it's not a witness, he is not a living epistle. What is the implication? Without witnessing, there will be no proof that God is real. God is a lie, except that our witnesses. Witnesses are the proof that what we call God and everything we say about him is real. There's no way you can see him. He dwells in the invincible reign, and he's not in the hordy to prove himself. Many came and said, if you are God, show yourself. He didn't answer them. The only way he can. Be proven that God is true and it's real is when you and I become witnesses. So the first implication of being a living epistole is to prove to this world that there is God and that he is real and is alive. If man cannot see God through you, there's no way they will see him. So Paul, speaking in First Contems three one, he said, to be there for beginning to present ourselves as commendation letters to you. There's no point doing that. You, yourselves are the proof that God is real. Many believe us in our offices, in our schools, in our banks, in the society. Nobody can see God through us. So even when we say God, Daryl, the people say, yes, we know, you say somebody dying. You say, but God said this. I know. This is where religion was borne from. Men could not present God, but they want to let the world know that God is real. So everybody is acting accordingly. But there's no. Life, and we are not only proving to the world about God is will and his power withnessing is beyond men, is to all creation. In Job, chapter one from verse one to three and chapter one from verse six to certain went to God, you don't know the politics that is going on up in the spirit realm, so you don't know the implication of being a witness. Every one of us that is a witness is a spectacle on it, making statements beyond the wound that standing in the realm of the spirit. Saturn went to Job and the Bible said, there was a man in oars from the side of the east. He said, it's a man that feared God and is choot evil. Evil could not dwell within the borders of his habitation. His life was an expression of God and Joe came and said. Saturn came to God and began to argue over Joe. He said, I have moved through the whole eight. The eight is not my domain. And God say, have you considered my servant Joe? That means the only. Legality that God had on it at the end the days of Joe was the life of Job on it. Satain came to make a boast to God that have conquered it. The head belongs to me. Now I own it. And God said, have you seen my savant job? So long as Job is still on it, you don't own the eth. The power of witnessing. God is sovereign. The devil would have challenged him and successfully made a mockery of him, except that there was something standing in between the devil and it's challenge. Have you seen my savant Joe. So the reason God was this sovereign in the days of Joe was because. Joe was there. Without Joe, the devil would have made a mockery of God. That's how important witnesses. Witnessing is. Is it possible that God can come to Unica and the prince over this territory is bragging that I owned this place. Anybody that comes there belongs to me. And then he goes to heaven to make a post, and there's no body God can point out and say, so long as this man is here, that territoryy belongs to me. There reason God has his take on it is because they are witnesses. There isn't God has his take in a family is because they are witnesses. Why you come to a family the devil buffets at will is because there's no witness. This is why certain families every three years somebody dies. A devil is making a statement that I am God here. And when the devil is God, the Bible said, they comment not God will kill, to steal and to destroy. If you see a life that force and rises. Lived in iniquity, it means there is no witness. Sufficient witness is not there. Spirits are out to make a post that they are dominating this realm, the physical creation, the visible creation, is the realm of manifestation. Every spirit is making a post and making trying to have his take in this realm. The only way a spirit can have his take in this realm if when it has a representative and a functional in this realm. The worship and memory of God will be lost from the earth. It would do his sovereign unless their witnesses this take God has on it. It's you and I. The business of soul is too important because without its, spirits are insignificant. As mighty as God is, it will be insignificant on it unless you and I representing. That's the power of witnesses. But for you to be a witness of His spirit, you must have His life on your inside and expressing. This is why talking about God is not the issue. And the spirits we prove you. It's not something you just say and they say, okay, since you said so, let it be. Job told God. God certain told God. He said, Zoe, fear you for nothing. That means you are you are bribing Joe to fear you. Job does not necessarily have your life those Job does not necessarily prove your existence. Job is just leaching on you. So he's not a witless That's who most of us are. We come to. God for bread or breakthroughth for job opportunities, so we are not necessarily representing God. We are only there to nach from Israel. And the devil came and said, take these things away, and you will discover that Job is not your representative. And God say, go ahead. What does a man do for God to make it boast of him? That's a man who is popular among the motash. There are many of us that are popular among men. We have touture, we have rank among men. But in the spirit there's no authority. Men that God can brag about that have. Authority in the spirit him and the man that God can can depend on, regardless of the issues on ground, touch him, and the devil came and swept everything. In joke, hadd Job was in movie and the devil was not enough. He came back. It is key for Sky. If you touch his body, he will no longer be your witness and God they go and touches flesh and touches home. Joe chapter two from One to Drink What a boosts no one that Paul said, we have known God, and now corrected himself. He said, no, we are known of God. A man that can prove God and comes to a point where he can stake his life, that's a man that is relevant to heaven. Some people they are relevance. We end on it. But setting people their relevance begins from heaven. Even when this world comes to an end, they will still be significant. The Bible said men will come from the north, the southeast, and the west to sit at the feet of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It was not only a star even in heaven, it was a ranking personality because of the quality of life he lived on it. Will you end your journey on earth as a miserable man because you have no stake in heaven. The key is to become a witness. Because the Princess we come to challenge you circumstances we come to challenge you. Will you still be standing, because when you stand, then you prove to this world that God. Is still alive. When you stand, then everything you say about God becomes true. Everything you talk about God. Will be a lie. Unless you are able to stand in the face of crisis. That is a witness. Jobs that's tament about God will be a lie, except as in the face of challenge is to this ground. So one of the waves of checking who truly is a witness is by triers. But you cannot pass through trials unless you have done business with the world. In Job twenty nine ers four, he say, as I was in the days of my youth, when the secrets. Of God was upon my tabernacus. So it was by the secret of God, he said, by the secret of God, I walked through darkness. I put my feet in butter. When the candle of God was upon my head, and by light I walked through darkness. He did business with the world until point came when even the devil could not compromise him for what he stood for. So in all of eternity, the name of Joe wrang. The first book that was written in the Bible is the Book of Job. Because the Scriptures is a revelation of witness. God needed to review to us that our life itself have no value except as we can prove you. This is why men will die for the kingdom. And then you think they have lost. But in Eternity said they receive the crown of life witness. The first implication of a living epicis we can come and teach that we are living epicles, and open all the scriptures and do the Bible study. The moment we step out of the church, the devil will come to check whether what we say we know it. You don't know it until you can prove it. You don't know it until you can experience it and communicate the same experience. It's easy to talk. Talk is cheap. Anybody can gother tell scriptures. If you have a good conquorders, you can God tell scriptures. Where you truly preach is in the face of crisis. Joseph a young man, loving the Lord and making decrees that his life dependent on God, until he was sold. And the Bible said in some one five or seventeen, he said he sent a man before them. How God wishes to make posts of men who can witness for him. You think they were selling the guy to be a slave. But the Bible said, what he sent. A man before them. So everything happening to Joseph were orchestrations of God. Because God wanted Joseph to stand somewhere and prove that he is king. He sent a man before them. Even Joseph, whom they sold for a savant, his feet was bound with fetters until the time that the word of the Lord came. The word of the Lord tried him. They saw him. You would I think, he say, okay, since God did not defend me. If God was there, why did they tell me the guy was in a strange land, but he feared the Lord. When forty first wife came, he said, how can I commit this evil against God? You will turned up and say you are betrayed. A witness seize it as an honor when he dies for his King. For him, life in itself have no value except that he can serve the will of the King. The Bible said concerning David, that after he served his generation according to the will of God, he arrested. So life is a summation of serving the will of the spirit of God. A man who does not understand this will live for his appetite. And the Bible said him that livered for pleasure is dead. Why he leave it. You may be Brittany. Oxeding for eighty years, but you will not appear in the readar of heaven. When they look for you, you not be found, because the only signature you have in etality is the quantity of your witness. The first implication of a living episode is the ability to be a witness for God. That ability is what we keep the devil quiet in this world, where you see the devil shouting and bragging in the life of a man or in etality, is because witness is insufficient. When witnesses rise, the devil becomes silent. God doesn't fight with the devil. It is witnesses that defend the integrity of God before the devil. Second implication of a witness You may not understand the implication of these things on the young people, But if you want to be relevant in eternity, shift your priorities away a bit from those powders, from those vivants, from those suits and those categories. Shift to your priorities away bit. If not, where you show up in heaven, you will be amazed. These things have eternal implication because we have dodged that life in itself have no value in time, except as there is a record in heaven. Second implication is that living episodes are the house of God. You know, poor came by the spirits of revelation in first Countians that three verse nine, and they say we are. God's houseboundry, we are God's beauty. Why you read it at first value, you may think it's us a geological statement. I got thirty in the scriptures, and I saw something that all tired my priorities forever. The Bible said in Revelations Apter twenty one, from verse. One to three. And he began to speak about John. He say, I saw in new heaven and a new eth. I saw in new heaven and a new eight. For the first seven and the first edge we passed away, and there was no more sy and I John saw the holy city they knew Jerusalem, descending down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride. I don't for her husband. I didn't know the implication of that statement. Firs. Three s. And I had a great voice out of heaven, saying, behold, the tannacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. Go to Vessel eleven. I didn't understand the implication. Talking about the same city, he said, having the glory of God and her light was like onto stones, most precious, even like jasper stone. Claire as Christa go downs and hard, walk great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels and names greeting their own, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. Go down, go down against the verse fourteen. And the war of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelfth are pursus of the Lamb, and the holy Goos began to speak to me. That was when I understood what per men. When he said we are God's building. Anyone that is not worked on in this world will not be a part of the city. I saw that they are pursus of the Lamb. Everything they did for God in time became a signature in the city. So they became part of the foundation of the city. That means they knew Jerus. It is not a block's people. So a man whose life is not committed to God on it in perpetual service will not be part of that beauty. He said, the names of the twelfth purses of the Lamb were on the foundation. That means they were the signature and the foundation of. The new Jerusalem. So when Paul saying we are God's beauty, Paul was talking about a literal structure, but in the spirit. And now understood why Peter will say in first first two verse five, Now he's saying we. Are lively stores. We are lively stores. So every time the word of the Lord comes to you and tries you and God Jesus things out of your life. What God is actually doing is shaping you so that you can fit into that beauty. So it's possible for a man to live on earth the way he wants and refuse God ch sling him, refuse to walk in the will of the Father. What he doesn't know is that he is refusing to be part of the new Jerusalem because he would have no place to fit into that structure. When you see this structure. There reason the structure have many shapes is because the builders took times. Some of them were caught into half and half was thrown away. It's only half that could enter the beauty. So for them for that block to be part of the beauty, half must be caught off. For that block to be part of the beauty, certain things must happen. The block that is in the foundation most time is toughtled. More sentment goes into it because of where it will be in the beauty. So I now saw why the dealings of God are different for us. Somebody else receives God and in three years it's everywhere another person. God keeps him without being known. For twelve years, I didn't know that God was actu any beauty. So the quality of our soul becomes the blocks that forms the infrastructure of the new Jerusalem. So you can live in this world and dire the age of ninety, but you have no place in Zion. We are lively stones, he said in Isaiah to tell verse sixteen. He said, I lay in Zion a side stone, a corner stone, a precious stone. He now said, they that believe will not make haste. So the second implication of being a lively stll is that you are the blocks with which God is viewed in the city that we come in. The life hereafter. A man who refuses the dealing of God upon his life, a man who refuses the workings of the world of God in his spirit. He may think he's being spart on earth, but when Zion appears, he will have no place. So this subject matters. They are deeper than time. They are realities of vitality. You wouldn't know why you have come to church. You have heard the word of the Lord and is sweet, and when he enters, your belly becomes bitter because you heard how that God loves you. But you now go into the systems of the world. Because you say you stand for truth, everybody begins to fight you. Suddenly they slash your salary. Suddenly they send you from the city center into the village, and then you are wanted in God. Where are you? What God is doing is that is beauty in the house. He is bringing you into a structure that is time for eternity. But the only way your toughness and your residence can be verified is when the world of the. Lord tries you so for truth. Many were killed for truth. Many were sent away from places of prosperity, and they lived in pain and poverty all. Their lives on earth. They may be irrelevant, but in Zion the Bible say they are part of the new jer In fact, the Bible said, the war of that glitter's like just past all. So those people become like the very reflectors of God. They are not just part of a structure. That structure becomes a reflection of God. Those times when they went through that process, what they did not realize what God was shaping them so that they can fit into different corners of the beauty. And by ordination, every one of us fit into different locations. The blocks may be many, but when the building begins. Some enters the foundation, some enters the roof, some enters the corner. By ordination, we have different places to fit in, and the Holy gooes. We come to Jesu loos until we are able to enter into those different dimensions to form that building that will be a witless of the new age that comes from sion. So when God deals with a man, it's not a time to cry. It's a time to give thanues. That is why he said, abrahams that God not had the promises of God through and believe they made a mockery of him. He had no child, the wife had no child. And then God comes and say he did not only promise him. He said, now go and tell everybody that I am the father of many nations. What a mocking you are there. Things are going wrong and God. Is telling you to go and mix it in declaration and people are laughing. Oh the money you say for one year, God, now say donate it for this project. I wanted to buy a car. What you don't do is that God is viewed in a city with foundation. Who's builder and. Maker is God. We are lively stones, We are not just men motors. There is a place we need to stand in sion. But whether we stand there or not depends or what God does to us and the degree of our hutenness to be spreading. This is where texture comes into Christianity. You can be preaching the whole world knows you, your TV and your name everywhere, and suddenly God shows up and say go to the village. Nobody captures you anymore. You were talking to ten thousand people. Now your congregation is three hundred. Sometimes your congregation becomes ten of fifteen, and then. You come to church you are like, what kind of teen is this? Every first of every month. A seid will land in your account because there was a senator in your church. Now, God, does you go to the village. I want you to provide witness. But a man who does not understand that God is beauty the house, he will remain in the city because he thinks relevance is in time. But when we begin to discern zion correctly, something happens. We torn and face the Lord. This is why the Bible will say Moses, when he was come of age, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than the pledgures of Egypt, which is for his season. You may not know how hard these things are. When God chistus a man, he doesn't kill him. He's alive. He said, we are living sacrifice. You are there. God tellts you to go and apologize. That's the hardest thing to do. You are older, you are more influential about this. They apologize. What is trying to do is to remove that excess, that oblong dimension of that block, because there is somewhere that block cannot fit into. Leaving epistus stories that God is telling from heaven. And the only way he could be captured. They said, we are lively stones. When God makes a tone out of a man, even the devil cauntural legion anymore, because he has been chistood. There is no way to hold Jesus said this, the prince of this work, comet to me and find it not why the Bible said in the beginning of the world, He first of all gave us a robust citation about Jesus. The world was with God. The world was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him. Without him, was not anything that was made, that was made Three very heightened recognition. One he was in the beginning with God, two the creator of what things. Three is God and the same Jesus that you call creator, that you call God, that you call being in the beginning. You're not telling to go to child them publicly and kneed them before. John the Baptist cheat me. This is why he is the author and finished off our feet cheats me. There is why many marriages all work is because people don't know that they are lively stones. The man comes to say, I'm the head of this house. Meanwhile, God, they apologize, but I am the head of this house. The woman no, he's wrong. He's wrong. God say kneed down like Sarah and call him Lord. They said, no, it can't happen. So the family is catask nothing God viuse will never walk unless men become lively stones. This is why our families we fail, because we don't know the intelligence of becoming lively stores. He tells the man to love his wife as God love the child. Is it possible? That means your affection for your wife is not emotional. Is the love of his spirit. The only way you can know how it works is when you see her. It is done in the spiritual. Even your parents' advice we not work. You must do it the way God depicted. The truth is of strife, the love of a spirit. That's when sometimes you come home and God say need down, and you say, I am the head of the family. The family we break because what you call a family is an institution that God is created from the spirit, and only by spiritual addittates can he find expression what only lively stones understand the intelligence of beauty. We cannot build until we allow God to chiasull us, until we allow ourselves to become stones that the builder can do anything he wants to do upon. This is why in life we are not called to be creative. We are caught to be heded. The creative one is a messiah. Sometimes he allowed so you are talking as a child. Then you came to an age and he say, no more talking. He is the one who is allowed to be creative because you don't know the part of the beauty you're fit in. Have you seen a blog that said before, I want to be at the foundation. It is not given to you, he says, it's not given to man that walked to order his steps. You want to be turnally relevant, you must become a stone. Lively stones. The reason why we can't move forward, even though we know so much, is because we are no stones. Men that cannot be tried. They want to handle glory. Say when God are built up, sire, that is only when he can appear in his glory. Every man God ever walked with. There was a chiseling process. Many cried, and then they thought, God, we show messy. That is when the messy of God is lost. Because he wants you to be turnaldy relevant. He will cut off that orblong head until you become part of his specification. If we wipe up that, you'll shower that you carry like this because you need to fit into somewhere and this space is not very large. This space is narrow. You are too big. You cannot enter. So he wi be cut off your feet, that your eye that behold evil, he will cut it off. Lively stores, there isn't the principalities are strong in the territories. Because we are not lively stones. We come to talk about a God that does not have authority over ours. Gods. God doge, you are mighty on your true because you have a good voice. We prepare on Sunday with high heat. I'm very elegant gown. Then you are singing. You think God is impressed with your voice. If he's based on voice, it would have allowed only injurls to worship him. That person that refused the chiseling of God. He thinks it's coming to worship God. Worship is not singing. It begins with a life of obedience. This is why we sing. Nothing happen. This is why we shout, nothing happen. Even when we pray, nothing happen, because we are not lively stores. Our voice is to say in Zion. We are only known on it, so our prayer and as a function of volue. Father, nothing happens when a lively stone thinks about God. Things happen when a lively stone whispers. Heaven can move on his account. I am the Lord that confirmed the wars of my servants and performed the counsel of my messenger. Except they don't talk. The moment they orter their voice, their voice becomes like the sound of many waters. Even the principalities with bow leaving a pecus is. Not a doctrine, is more of a concentrated life. What can God do with you? What can God do with you? It is the extent to which God can work on you that we determine your relevance, not what you know about God. I would have talken to you about spiritual authority as being superior to the anointing. The reason why people fall in church but their life is not changing the territory is because we have anointing, we don't have authority. Meanwhile, the business of colonization is a business of authority, not anointing. The devil was in heaven most anointed of the angels, but he knew that for him to have government and authority, he needed to ascend it thrue. Even though he was most anointed, the Bible said he was the revelation of beauty and glory. He said, from the day of your creation, he. Said, you were covered with the finest tones, jasper to pass, gold, sapphire, cabunco. He was cluded. He was shining like the sun. He said, you walk in the midst of the court of fire. You were in eating from the day of that creation, Thy taps and thy tables were Indeed, the guy knew the emotions of God somewhere that if God wanted to laugh, he. Knew what to do if he shats this God, the. Heaven is saturated with sound, different kinds of sound that communicated the emotions of God. The Bible said, you are the anointed cherdood that cover it. So he was both a cherubing. He was also a seraphine. Cherubbings are the ones that called that God the jealousy of God's glory. Saraphins, they're the ones that keep the holiness of God moving in the coast of fire. The devil was both moving in the coal of fire. Was both a covering for the glory of God. But he knew that annointing cannot colonize the territory. Meanwhile, in our generation, we celebrate annointing, but there are no men of stature. The same people that come to church. They are the same people in the night clubs, the same people we preto on they could sit down. They are the same people that are killing and doing all kinds of evil. Because we cannot talk to their haart. We only talk to their head. Because ourselves there's no government Jesus safe for their saves. I sanctify myself so that they too might be sanctified. The prince of this world, come to me and find that nothing. That's a lively story. That's a living epistolee. When he talks to you, you have no choice. He saw a task collector in the days of Oh. The task collector is like one that works in geval. He said, follow me, and the guy abandon this store. He's official man with their parents, he said, follow me, they abandon their ned. That's not a man talking, it's a lively stone. That's a living epistle. Every time he speaks, you hear the voice of God to him. But it begins with government. Suffer it to be so for now doors, it. Becoming us to fulfill your righteousness. So the creator went down to be baptized by creation. Many of us cannot bow. We are too strong in ourselves. How can you work for God when you are strong. That's why we have no authority. The devil will come to your family and still your family members you cry. You say, God me while you are the priest of that family. But there's no authority because when God wanted to deliver that family, that was when he came to you and says, stop fornicating you. Didn't know that stop funicating. It's not just only living. It will con fail authority, or you want preserve your family. When God came says, stop lying. You don't know that that is the life of your elder brother. I was living carelessly. God, well, come to me and say pray at night. I thought it was it was a religious act. Pray at night. I kept quiet for six years, and in six years my mother and my brother were killed. And te I realized that something was wrong. And when I began to obey, the same witch came from my father, and then God told me I'm now a gate keeper. I did not only stop the situation. I killed the witch and he confessed before dying. He said he killed my brother. So those days when God was telling me wake up and pray at night, it was my brother's life. It was barginning. But I was not wise. He was bargaining my brother's life with me. It was parkenning my brother's destiny. He was parkenning my brother's future. I thought it was about sleeping and praying. I didn't know that life depended on it. My father too would have gone because I think it's about lorury and sleep. So now ten to twelve. Everything you do, you keep your energy because you need to wake up at night because lives depend on it. This is where authority is born. There are many people that the destiny of your territories in their hands. But they think that they need to have that girl friend. They think is about girl friend. They don't know that that consecretion God is bringing upon their life is to say the generation. It is when you. Commit to it that something now happens to your voice. God puts authority there. So when you clean the princess in darkness, we run away, he said. The land of Zebulu mat fuw chapter four or sixteen, the land of Natali, by the way of the sea beyond joan Ganiy of the gentle, the people that sat in darkness have seen a great light. Light was not because he was a lie. It was because he went to Jong and said, so far to be so for now. It's because the Holy goes led him into the widness to be tempted, and he followed. So when it came out from dealing, it became a light. Most of you, your brothers, your sisters, your father, as we die, unless your rise up. The significance of lively tones. The significance of being a living epistle is beyond talking about God, is bringing God on the scene. But this is where many cannot walk. So our Christian life is reduced to religion. Let's boy our heirs and prayer. Now God may have pause by his messes to become a witness, so that our life we prove the existence of God. That will become liveless tones and become part of the etherurner buildings that is raising in sion, and that will become men of authority, that we advance His purpose on the face of the earth, the purpose of God on earth. We die unless men of authority. Lies our life on earth to be a waste. Unless we become liveless tones that will be part of the beauty in heaven, and God will never be accepted on earth unless we truly become witnesses. Significance of a living epistle. You ask a lot to help your heart. Now, maybe you have been in charge for five years year, for ten years, for twenty years, and you did not understand that being a witness is beyond talking about God. Being a witness is proving in your office that God is real and not just that God is really. That He has a purpose, he has a will, he has a government. Maybe you did not know that being a witness is also the only ticket you have to be relevant in Zion. And maybe you did not know also that the purpose of God on it will never be accomplished unless you become a witness. I see many people that stand on Facebook and on media insulting pastors. They are funny people. They don't know. It's not the job of a pastor. To bring the will of God to the earth is the job of every believer. We are the ones to do the work of the ministry. It has nothing to do with the pastor. But there are no lively stores. Oh hello, he don't uh hello he we woll shape you most cards card dog goude Hello, he don't h Hello he we wore. Next time God puts in your heart to bring that money to church, know that it's not you doing the church of favor. Know that is you security place for yourself in Zion. Next time God tells you to speak to Darcena, know that it's not you just bringing servisial Todner. It is you bringing God into this world. And next time God gives you an assignment, an instruction. Know that it's you walking into the roomb of spiritual authority.