RE DEFINING THE GREAT COMMISSION

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Of revelation, access to light and the corresponding grace that empowers you to walk in light of all that you have learned and you will be learning tonight. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord. Every man of God. Every teaching priest is a spiritual chef. Alleluyah. The Bible says that we serve and we feed God's people. According to Jeremiah three point fifteen, I will give you past us shepherds according to my heart, and the Bible says that they will feed you with knowledge and with understanding. So that is a mandate to feed you, Allelujah. And every every good cook, every chef has the responsibility of combining the right ingredients that make for a balanced meal. Allelujah. Prays the name of the Lord, that when you are under a good cook, you know that you are enjoying the ministry of a good. Cook by your health. Your health is the clearest index that you are eating well. Allelujah. You can eat onto death. In fact, the Bible tells us that death can be part of the ingredients that can be used to cook. The prophets looked at this food and said, there is death in the pot. In other words, by whatever means. As they were adding these ingredients, maybe there was a mistaken combination and death was added in the port, and the prophet had to do something about it. It means that men can consume knowledge onto their destruction, or they can consume knowledge onto their elevation and their excelling. Allelujah. And I can. Guarantee you that tonight you were in for a three course mail in the name of Jesus Christ. So lend me your attention. It will be hearing truths that will bless you. Every week. I make it as a common treat meant and a covenant under God to make sure that I serve His people with truths that apply to our lives the times that we live in and empower us to live victorious lives in experience. And tonight will not be different. In Jesus's name, Redefining the Great Commission, Redefining the Great Commission. This is a very powerful and thought provoking teaching. Tonight We've been on a series of teachings that are aimed at building us and bringing us to a point of maturity and stature, and helping our overall excellence in life. The goal of this teaching is to help provide for the Body of Christ a better and a clearer understanding of the mandate that Jesus left with the church. It is important and imperative that we understand the mandate Jesus gave the church the all kinds of confusion as to what the great commission exactly is. And because our lives should be about this, it is important that we understand the message that Jesus left with the church. Allelujah. To start tonight, let's go to Matthew chapter nine. Matthew chapter nine, from verse thirty six, Thank you Jesus. Matthew nine thirty six. The Bible says Jesus, Now, but when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they thinted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd twenty seven thirty seven. Now, then he said onto his disciples, the harvest is truly plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers in to his harvest. May the Lord bless the reading of his word in Jesus' name. So, the main issue here that Jesus identified with the harvest is not the inability. To gather the harvest together. The major issue that. Jesus pointed out from this scripture is the scarcity of laborers. Allelujah, Every soul. In the mind of Jesus is already a harvest, not a seed growing, already a harvest. In the mind of God, every lost soul is a harvest right already. The problem, according to Jesus, is not the inability to reach the souls or the havevest as we know, but the scarcity of laborers. This is very important. That means that there are many. People in the field, but there are only very few people that God identifies as laborers. Allelujah. Not talking about the scarcity of men. In fact, he's not talking about the scarcity. Of men around the harvest field. He's saying, among the many people roaming around the harvest field, there are few people who can in truth be called laborers, and that the more we have laborers, indeed. The more the harvest would be a reality. So we can have pastors, we can have preachers, apostles, great men and women of God, missionaries, and all kinds of people, but there are a few people that the Bible calls laborers. And what empowers a laborer is the understanding of his assignment, not just his being around the harvest field. You can be around the harvest field, but being proximity to the harvest does not make you a laborer. Allelujah. Proximity to the harvest does not make you a laborer. It is the understanding of your mission in the harvest. Field that makes you a laborer. Very quickly, let's look into this very serious subject. What is the Great Commission? What exactly did Jesus leave You will be surprised to find out that there are preachers, men and women of God. There are missionaries. Who will not be able to scripturally articulate for you what the Bible calls the Great Commission, or what we call the Bible doesn't call it that way. It is a commission, is a mandate. But what we have come to know as the Great Commission, the Great Commission, generally speaking, rests upon three scriptures. There are three scriptures, and all those scriptures came as a result of conversations that Jesus himself had. The Great Commission is a mandate that came directly from Jesus. So we look at three scriptures. This already is a correction because for many people when they examine the subject of the Great Commission and they just. Peak any of these three scriptures. The scriptures have to be put together to understand the full scope of the Great Commission, Are we together? Number one Mac sixteen Please Mac. Sixteen and verse fifteen were reading from fifteen to twenty Marc. Sixteen fifteen to twenty, and he said, unto them, the heaving Jesus, go ye into all the world. Take notes now and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. But he that believeth not shall be domb seventeen, he says, and this sign. Shall follow them that believe in my name. They shall cast out devils, They shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents. And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then, after the Lord had spoken onto them, he was received into heaven and sat on the right hand of God. The last verse. And they went forth and preached everywhere in obedience the Lord walking with them and confirming the word. With signs following amen. Scripture number two Matthew, Chapter twenty eight, Please from verse eighteen to twenty. If you must understand the Great Commission, then we must examine the three foundational scriptures. That capture the mandates the instruction that Jesus gave to his disciples that apply to all believers today. And Jesus came and spoken to them, saying, all power. The word power, there's the word exusia. It should be authority. All authority is given onto me in heaven and in earth. Nineteen. Go ye, therefore, now we see another account. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. Mark's accounts has preach the Gospel to every creature. Matthew is now telling us teach all nations, baptizing them. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of. The Holy Ghost twenty teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And whilst you do this, lo I am with you all way, even to the end of the world. Amen. Are you ready for the third scripture adds Chapter one. Please from verse six, reading down to eleven. These are the three foundational scriptures upon which the mandate of the Great Commission rests. When they therefore will come together the acts of him saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the Kingdom of Israel? And he said unto them, it. Is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power. But ye shall receive power. After that the Holy Goost has come on you upon you, and ye shall be witnesses onto me, both in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and onto the autumost part of the earth verse nine. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld him, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight verstead. And while they looked steadfastly towards heaven, as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? These same Jesus, which is taken off from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven. Praise the name of the Lord. So three scriptures, max account, Matthew's account, and now the account that the Book of Art gives us. All all of these accounts are pieces together that, when brought with understanding, help us understand the Great Commission. Please write, what is the Great Commission? The Great Commission is a mandate given by Jesus. The Great Commission is a mandate given by Jesus to his disciples, and now it extends to all believers. A mandate given by Jesus to his disciples, and now to all believers to reach the entire globe with the Gospel of Salvation. I'll take it again. The Great Commission is a mandate given by Jesus to the disciples. Then and now it extends to all believers to reach the. Entire globe with the Gospel of. Salvation, and then to bring nations to the knowledge of the truth true discipleship. Say long definition, but you must write all of it. Number one, to reach the entire globe with the Gospel of Salvation. You add a comma there to bring nations to the knowledge of the truth, true discipleship, and then finally to consequently I wrote here bring territorial and societal transformation. A mandate given by Jesus to the disciples and now all believers to number one, reach the entire globe with the Gospel of Salvation, to bring nations to the knowledge of the truth, true discipleship, and then to consequently bring territorial and societal transformation. Hallelujah, you have that down, so you see that if you want to really understand the Great Commission, the mandates that Jesus left with. The church, you will if. You examine max account alone, it gives you one dimension, and you will not fully accomplish the Great Commission. If you look at Matthew's account alone, it brings a. Piece of the truth. You see, there is only one thing greater than the truth, the whole truth. Are we together now? Yes, If you have a piece of the truth and you do not have the whole truth, your adventure will be lopsided. It will not be holistic. And now in Act chapter one we see the last piece. He says you are witnesses, and that your weakness should reach Judea Samaria, Judea Jerusalem, and to the. Autumost part of the earth. And all these. Were statements that Jesus himself made. So we're not just saying this as state means that one prophet made somewhere. Jesus himself made. The statement in Mark, the statement in Matthew, the statement in the Book of Acts. Immediately we see that there are three components to the mandates that Jesus left with the church. This will be my discussion tonight. There are three components to what we call the Great Commission. Three components to the mandates that Jesus left with the church. Let's discuss them now. Number one, The first component in the Great Commission, as we see, is world evangelization. Please write Marc. Sixteen fifteen again, please give it to us. World evangelization is the first component. As far as the mandates. The Great Commission that Jesus left with the church is concerned. And he said onto them, please look up, go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. Allelujah. So we are given the mandate to preach the gospel. Preach the gospel. What we should do is very clear. Preach. To preach means to declare. To preach means, to proclaim. To preach means to announce. To preach means to bring to your awareness. And the content of our preaching is the Gospel. When it has to do with. The Gospel, the message is ever the same Gospel, the Gospel of salvation, allelujah. And I have taught us here but for this teaching, let. Me repeat it again in. The clearest terms as much as I want us to be deep in our understanding of the Kingdom, it is important that we must have a basic foundational knowledge of the Gospel of Salvation. What we call the Gospel or the Gospel of Salvation, is a revelation of the Father's love revealed in and through the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Are we together, man. And creation being the object of that sacrifice, to the end that any man who believes, according to scripture that. We are safe translated from the. Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of his dear son. This was the mission of Jesus. When he came to die. He came to die to reconcile us. The Bible says, through the shedding of blood, are we together now? So it's important for us who understand that the first component that is captured in the Great Commission, the mandate that Jesus left with the church is world evangelization. And when Jesus was speaking about the harvest, he said, pray ye, the Lord of. The harvest, the Lord of the havest. The word lord dear means the owner. The supervisor, that is, the Holy Spirit. He's the one who was left with the church. Are we together that He may send labor us so that there can be an acceleration as far as the harvest is concerned. Now I want to point out something here give us Mac sixteen again. I want you to look very carefully at this scripture. The instruction that Jesus gave as far as world evangelization is concerned, is very clear. He says, go ye. The word go ye. There means that he expects action. Go Ye means be strategic. Go ye means be prepared to take action. It is not a passive word. It does not demand carelessness or laxity. Go Ye means there has to be energy, passion that is invested into this instruction. The location is all the world. That means there is. Nowhere across the globe that should be spared as a mission field. In the mind of Jesus. Everywhere on Earth qualifies to be called the mission field, no matter how dangerous, no matter how peaceful. In the mind of Jesus, everywhere the entire line mass of Earth where men can be found, qualifies to be called a harvest or mission field. So go ye all the world. And then the instruction is to preach. I told you earlier. To preach means to declare, to proclaim, to bring to your awareness. Then he told us the content. The content of our preaching is the Gospel. But notice he never told us how. He told us what to. Do, go ye, what to preach the gospel? Who to preach to every creature where the entire world. But he left the matter of strat strategy. Why because we will need to adjust. He allowed the strategy to be flexible, because we will need to reinvent strategies. The mission remains the same goal, ye, the mission field. Remains the same all yet the world. And the message is to preach the Gospel to every creature. But how we will do it? He left it to the creativity of the times. Are we together? Yes? That the way the Gospel was preached in the seventies, eighties, nineties, and even as far back as ten twenty years ago. Because of the changing times and the reality in our world today, there has to be intelligence invested toward evangelization. God has provided us, through technology, for instance, very effective tools of getting the message. Nobody would have imagined that true technology. From one point, you can be communicating the Gospel to literally everybody across the globe. Hallelujah. We must develop effective end time strategies. I wrote here for the task of world evangelization. I submit to you that the rate at which evangelism is happening globally speaking is very slow compared to God's expectation, and with respect to the time we have left, there has to be intelligence outsourced from. The spirit, more effective methods. One on one evangelism, as powerful as it is, will only end us in frustration. A few statistics for your understanding. We have about eight billion people approximately last I checked on Earth today and Christianity as we know that includes everything that is called Christianity. It's about two point eight billion people. So we have two point eight billion practicing Christians who are alive today. Statistically speaking, are we together? And if it took that long to have this kind of harvest, and how many hundreds and thousands of years will it take to be able to cover the globe with the message? It then means there has to be an intelligent idea. There are people who have come up. For instance, from a standpoint of technology. Did you know that the amount of people who subscribe to many of the apps and some of the technological products we have on earth are way more than two point five billion. That means human beings have invented an idea that is more in is more productive than the Gospel, because the world received their ideas, and all those ideas are not more than twenty years old. Are we together twenty years ago? Many of the. Social media platforms we have today, we're not there or were not the way they are now. That means that the. Believer in approaching the subject of world if I angelization, understanding the message is not enough. Our next assignment must be to work in partnership with the Lord of the Harvest, to come up with effective and time strategies of ensuring and insisting that the lost get the message. Whether they make their respond positively to the message or not is up to them, but that we have a mandate by God to deploy every scriptural means to get the message with clarity and on ambiguity to the lost. Are we together? This is the mandate Jesus gave us. That means, if you are alive today as a believer and your life is not about these as far as God is concerned, you are not part of his program. World Evangelization is not a mandate for evangelists and missionaries in the mission field. World evangelization is every believers mandate. You listen. If you ever say you love Jesus or you love a man, you would want to listen to his final words and heed to it, and make sure you plunge your life into anything that makes that mandate come to pass. The final words. Of men, even in our world today, are precious. We keep them before a man transits in glory. We listen carefully for the final words, the expressions, and we take it serious. And Jesus Christ. Before his transition to be seated at the right hand of the Father, his emphasis was the great Commission. And I'm saying that the first dimension, the first component, is world evangelization. Please look up, you I believer today because you got saved. Yes, sister, the lady who was. Here giving her testimony, someone took responsibility and preach Jesus to her and gave that young lady. A chance to now bring order to her life. It is amazing how many believers around us never have an opportunity to hear the Gospel because subliminally believer us have been programmed to downplay the relevance of the gospel and believe that it is for people in the village who most likely do not have clothes to wear away together. And there are many people. The moment we have some kind of superior orientation. We believe that we are not the gospel is not necessary. So in our minds we believe. That the Gospel is a product to the poor man or somebody in the rural area. And that is wonderful. But you will be surprised to know that people in the rural area are at least a lot more spiritual than modern people. They are closer to spirituality, whether. By witchcraft or whatever. Their faith is purest in the rural areas because they have no options. Health care is almost zero, a lot of things, and then they survive in health because they have learned how to combine leaves plus spirits plus other things to remain alive. Are we learning now this is very important. When Jesus comes and as he begins to reward men, the Bible clearly tells us that the reward of the believer is going to be with respect to the Great commission. This is very interesting. The standard for our rewards are not left in the dark that our rewards when making or being with Jesus, as we know, is just one aspect of it, but that there are rewards in heaven, and that those rewards will be according to our passion and our drive. As far as fulfilling the Great Commission is concerned, there are many aspects to the world, to world evangelization those who are sent for I remember growing up sometimes you would attend, you know, certain programs crusades, and the ask people how many of you are ready to dedicate your life and go to the mission field. And sometimes you see people just come out crying and the men what they were doing as they came out, because some of them had to shut down everything. Now, as much as we love the missionaries who are doing there, all, I want you to know that world evangelization, let me repeat. For your understanding, part of the. Responsibilities of any believer in Christ is to be an active contributor towards the global harvest. It is not an option. It has nothing to do with being called into the five fold ministry or not. And you know I say this with every sense of sadness. We pride ourselves even in ministry using mundane parameters of success. In the mind of God, no matter who you are and no matter what you do, if it does not translate to the conversion of souls, you are. Not much in kingdom. That is the truth. It's as simple as that. Never see a soul winner and believe that soul winna is wasting time. The soul wiinner cannot preach. But if you can bring people to Jesus, he is great in the kingdom. It's important for us to redefine our success by superior spiritual references. There are many. Many people as believers, even as men of God. In a whole year, you can literally count by hand the number of. People who are saved. Is a waste of platform, is a waste of grace. Two point six billion professing Christians. This is not an advocation of an evangelist. This is a crime that is in the heart of God. And listen, let me tell you the truth. The Bible says I shall not die. We hear that a lot. What the Bible says that you're longevity the Kingdom, among many other factors, is connected to your participating in the Great commission. I shall not die, but leave even declare. In other words, if your life is not. Actively contributing as far as the Great Commission is concerned, there is no justification for your longevity. Are we sticking together? Power was given to the disciples with respect to Great Commission, the Great Commission, influence with respect to the Great Commission today with desire, power, prosperity, fame. But in isolation to the Great Commission, all of thengracings that come from God to the believer are supposed to be tools that will be used eventually for the harvest. So there are many people praying for the grace, for miracle, science and wonders, and it is absolutely not connected to the Great Commission. No wonder those you read about in the Bible, and those who read about you know, in modern history we call them gods generals. The reason why we. Do not see the kind of power and manifestation of the spirit in their lives that we saw in their lives was because their attention. Was not on power. Their attention was not on the miraculous. Their attention was on fulfilling the Great Commission. And whilst they went, the Bible says the Lord walking with them, confirming the world with signs following in Ads Chapter eight. When you read from. Verse five, the Bible speaking about Philip, said that Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ in obedience to the mandate. He preached Christ as soon as he got to Samaria. There was no other business. Listen, these guys were so intoxicated by this assignment. If they found themselves in a city, whether they were free or in chains, their prayer point was not freedom from captivity. Their prayer point was how do I every Body was a harvest to them. Everybody, if they were in the prison, was an opportunity for everybody. The jailer, the prisoners, everybody, his family. Were a harvest. They saw a damn cell rejoicing prop assigned by the spirit of divination, a harvest. They were flowed and taken to prison. They were harvest conscious. If you're together, say amen. They never allowed any opportunity. To be wasted. You make a mistake of bringing Paul before any of the council. Give him five minutes to open his mouth and you almost be converted. He coordinated his intelligence. His energy. When Paul was in prison. You would think he should be frustrated. He's thinking, Okay, if I were free now, I would have been reaching these people. Let me at least write a letter, a letter to this shot. I hope you're still well behaved. I'm coming out soon, and I assure you when I come out, I'm coming straight to you. If you come out of prison, wouldn't you run a go and read your Bible? The mandate that Jesus gave us requires a level of aggression. This is the reason why when you love your. Life, the Bible says you will lose it. You have to love you more. Than your life, that your life is all about the great commission. Today, people desire fame. Today, people desire to be celebrities, respectfully speaking, even as men of God, with desire elevated platforms. And you will be surprised that in all of that desire, the purposes of the Kingdom, even world evangelization, is the. Least of our concerns. Great men like David Youngie show and while these men had the opportunity to serve the purposes of God in their lifetime, the reason why they model such level of increase, such level of excellence in church growth was because at the back of their desire. Was world evangelization. Not same same with fathers in the faith like Barbad de Boy. I remember when he clocked eighty. His mandate was to be able to win. I can't remember how many, how many? About eight million souls with the remaining time he has. Can you imagine you ask a man what do you want? And anything he says will almost become an instruction for you. And yet he says, all I want is eight million souls. That's what brought about the light of campaign globally that within the time. I remember one time, you know, just respectfully speaking, I was speaking to one of his people and I said, I hope you people get to rest. Please tell you know that is should take some time to rest. And he said, no, he will rest when he gets to heaven. As far as the earth is concerned, I must walk the walks of him that sent me. This is a man in his eighties, and there are many many young people jumping up and down crying and say I want a double portion of his grace without a double portion of. The desire. World evangelization. Please hear me, No matter how sophisticated you, as first revelation is concerned, if your life does not directly translate to soul winning, effective soul winning when it has to do with soul winning, numbers matter when it has. To do with discipleship. Numbers may not matter, but ladies and gentlemen, so willing is one soul as a time. If you win one. Hundred souls versus ten souls, hundred souls are better by far. But when it has to do with discipleship, you. Can have five thousand members versus twenty members and you are dealing with twenty. More effective people. I repeat in soul winning numbers matter. That means our lives must be all about using every scriptural mechanism to bring people to Jesus, allelujah, to. Bring people to Jesus. One time I was told that that GEO was preaching among pastors. It was a pastors conference also, and when he was don't preaching? Was it his leaders or thereabout? I can't remember the story exactly. Then he made another call, these are people. He trained, but there's no taking chances. Who knows. May God restore our passion for souls, allelujah. May God restore our passion for souls. May God increase our passion to be greater than our desire for power. May God increase our passion for world evangelization to be greater than our passion for money and fame, and all of these things. I am telling you. That all that we seek only finds its value when it is connected to purpose, in this case world evangelization. This is the first component. So if a man fails by any ethnic standard in life, and you spend your life bringing many to Jesus, the Bible tells us in Daniel, chapter twelfth. And verse three, please give it to us. It says there that the wild shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever, forever and ever, forever and ever. We have converted soul. Winning respectfully speaking, and focused it largely as a tool for church growth rather than world evangelization. As sincere as that is, there needs to be an adjustment to our understanding. The purpose of soul winning is not more members in church. The purpose of soul winning is to see that the message the gospel gets to the lost. Are we together now? Yes? And everyone, including those hearing me now, all the who are connected across the globe. It is your business. Don't just be around the harvest field. You are not a laborer. Because you are looking at the field. You are not a laborer because you are. Near the field. You are a laborer to the degree. To which you are actively participating in the harvest. The second component, very quickly, please write The second component of the mandates that Jesus left with the church is called discipleship. Please write it down. Discipleship. The second component discipleship Matthew twenty eight from verse eighteen to twenty. Matthew twenty eight from verse eighteen to twenty. And Jesus came and speke onto them, saying, all authority in heaven is given to me in heaven and earth. Nineteen. Go ye, therefore, now watch this now and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Goal twenty teaching them to observe whatsoever I have commanded you. And while you are about the business of teaching and guiding them to observe, I am with you all way to the. Ends of the earth. The second component of this mandate Jesus gave us the Great Commission is discipleship. What is discipleship The mentorship of believers to attain maturity and stature through doctrine, The mentorship of believers to attain onto maturity and stature through doctrine. This is what the Bible calls discipleships, the mentorship of believers those who are now saved to attain onto maturity and stature through doctrine. Another definition of discipleship helping believers on the and the principles of the Kingdom. Helping believers understand the principles. Of the Kingdom through the teaching ministry. Please write helping believe us understand the principles. Of the Kingdom the ways of God through the teaching ministry. So we see that the first component of the Great Commission has to do with preaching the Gospel. The second component has to do with maturing believers, mentoring them to maturity and stature through doctrine. The end product I wrote here of discipleship is personal transformation and maturity. The end product of discipleship. Whatever you call discipleship, you know whether it is biblical discipleship if it leads to personal transformation and maturity. That means when you submit believers to any body of truth whatsoever. For that matter, if it does not translate to personal transformation and maturity, it is not biblical discipleship. Are we learning? So component number one world evangelization. Component number two is discipleship. Now do you know that component number two is the primary reason for the physical convergence of believers. What you call church. The acclasia as a local assembly is supposed to be an authorized platform where believers converge consistently. Are we together? There has to be a central point of convergence, so that believers are mentored methodically, line upon line, precept upon precept. In Ads two forty two, the Bible says they continued steadfastly in the apostles, doc in fellowship, in breaking of bread, and in prayers, so they had a place of convergence consistently. The purpose of church is not just to tie men who are loyal to one man of God. Respectfully speaking, no church is greater than that. It is supposed to be a place of convergence. Are we together, where believers come and they are men taught to be effective witnesses, effective communicators of the Gospel, and effective people to live their lives effectively and then. To be agents of transformation. As far as the program of. God is concerned, many aspects of. The Great Commission focus on world evangelization. And we ignore discipleship. This is the reason. Why when you get your haves from the farm, please look up. I've said it here many times. Imagine with me that you go to the firm and you have say to matter or Yam or whatever it is, and you just keep it in the field there and you do not take it into processes to package it. What begins to happen to it, it begins to decay. This is the challenge we have in the Body of Christ. So we have several people who have encountered Jesus genuinely, but because of the absence of growth and maturity, some of them even attain onto leadership positions just because of longevity of their stay, not using the index of transformation and maturity. So if you have, respectfully speaking, a pastor or a leader or a head of departments who now has influence to perform functions within the churche or the program of God, and that person has not been disciples he will only mentor people. From the lens of his or her limitations. Are we together? Discipleship is very important, And now I know that when we talk about discipleship it means many things to me, many people I'm talking about biblical discipleship. The end of discipleship is not slavery and subjugation. The end of discipleship is liberty by communication of doctrine. I told you you know it is biblical discipleship is at the end of it, there is personal transformation and there is maturity. So here is a believer who is a product of world evangelization. Now he has come to Jesus Christ, and he is now allotted by grace. Remember there is one. Who is called the Lord of the Harvest, and he's the one who allots the souls to the various platforms. All that you have given me, Jesus said, I have kept. Nobody has the power to bring members to himself. It is God that allocates people based on many factors, including the faithfulness and the preparedness of the teaching priests. Are we together now, Yes. So when God brings people to Cononia, and God brings people to any ministry, he's empowering you to teach them and to mentor them, to show them the. Ways of God. Is the reason why, as much as possible, the central focus in every church activity, as much as possible, must be the teaching of the world, not respectfully, speaking with all due respect, sometimes we need to manage except for special locations, I understand. But the centrality of a church activity it should be centered around platforms that impact understanding. If you have, for instance, a church service of three hours and it is largely spent doing a lot of things that do not translate to teaching, then justice is not being done to the mentoring and the maturity of the people, because the truth is, it takes time to learn. The ways of God. Are we together? Papa Hagen and many of the Blessed memory the reason why their products were solid people was because they spend time teaching. They spend time in pating knowledge. Sometimes they would have meetings for days, and they were largely world based meetings. Look at Jesus the ratio of his teaching ministry to impartation three and a half years to one day, the moment the disciples were with him. All right, gentlemen, sit down. Occasionally a crowd will come and he turns it into a crusade. And when he's done healing and doing all of that, go home. Then he sits with the disciples and says, let's continue. That was all he did for three and a half years. And then he said, now that you know, tarry until you be empowered. Look at the product of Jesus's mentorship. You want to know how well Jesus performed. Go to add chapter two, one, verse one. When the holy goos came, Peter said, no, we're not in ignorance. He said, this is that. And this guy began. That was his first official salmon from a student in training to now an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. And he defended the faith with intelligence. This guy's look at this, as said, this is a scripture. He was preaching the gospel. He started from David. He now went to Joel, now to Suns. And he ended his. Salmon by saying, this send Jesus, whom you have crucified, has today been exalted as Lord and Christ, who will not be caught to the heart. After that Simon, the Bible says, they were caught to the heart. And they said, men and brethren. What do we do? And he said, repent for the remission of your sins, hallelujah, and then you shall receive this promise, for the promise is unto you and to your children. And so on and so forth. Many believer us today. The quality of believers that we have, respectfully speaking in the Body of Christ is largely a product of poor or imbalanced mentorship. So the lopsidedness and the quality of believers that have been produced. You can know the quality of discipleship within. Any predefined territory by. Random sampling believers and testing the level of maturity and the level of transformation agains factors like prayer, how they respond to challenges, their orientation about material wealth with respect to God's eternal standpoints. Are we together? All of these indices are parameters that you can use to literally gage the. Maturity level of a believer. If it then means that we have a responsibility as believers, and especially as those who have been privileged to serve at the altar, to ensure that we take the issue of discipleship very seriously, to methodically grow and build believers until they attain a state of transformation and maturity. I have told us here that the value of power men upon a believer is when the anointing comes upon a mind that is transformed. Now, notice the Gospel deals essentially. With the heart or the spirit of men. Transformation by the teaching ministry deals essentially with the mind. The Great Commission is essentially a battle for the hearts and the minds of men, the hearts and the minds of men, the hearts and. The minds of men. Allelujah. When Jesus walked upon the earth, his emphasis was on the. Minds and the hearts of men. Said discipleship one more time, Bless shouted, said discipleship. And it is everybody's business. When a father, as a priest takes responsibility as a disciple to mentor and teach the children and all who are within your care, the quality of the product that comes from your heart house will be added to the school that the children go to. My right on that now you make the job easy for teachers, because well behaved students are already on their way. That the well. Behaved children will become well behaved students. In addition to the mentorship that happens within the school, you now begin to produce products that can influence their pears positively. You've heard me say every national problem was eventually a regional problem, eventually, or at the. Start, a family problem that. Was a product of carelessness and neglect. Every ambroba came from a home. Everyone disturbing society came from. A home, and everyone to. The who is a joy to every society came. From a home. A home there does not just mean a biological place. Even the church is a home. Allelujah. Let me tell you the truth. The major problem I will tell you that has affected the quality of believers Innigeria, in Africa and globally so is the ill health or the imbalance of discipleship, the lapse in understanding and approach. As far as discipleship is concerned, you cannot raise mighty men by communicating some standard spiritual truths. It does not happen that way. Ordinary men came to David in the cave of Adullam, and the Bible says he men taught them and produced men of power, that he called them the men of David. This men were so dexterous and powerful. These are the kinds of men, the kinds of men that God is looking for in this end time, and it is going to be through the instrumentality of discipleship. You're sitting on that distincching grace. Now you're learning the ways of God. When life, When life comes to you in whatever form it comes, it is on the strength of the truths that you know that you are able to stand. Am I right on that if you have been taught, for instance, that challenges are not unusual for the believer. When you find out that you are confronting challenges, you will not begin to make statements like God, where are you? Rather, you will find out what does the Bible say should be? The believers approach an attitude in the midst of challenges. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid of? I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus. Is any man afflicted, let him pray. So when as a matured believer, properly mentored in the face of challenges, while one person is languishing and shouting for you, as a believer, there has been a scriptural mindset that you have been given. Are we together? Yes? When you lose a loved one. If you have been properly mentored, part of the mentorship you should have received is how to manage people who transit in glory. Because poorly mentoring the church, he let us know that when people die in they are not dead. They sleep, And so in the midst of the pain that comes by being a human being, you are comforted by the fact that to be absent in. The body is to be present with the Lord. Maturity has given you the fortitude to stand. Are we together now? Yes, If you are in a region where you are facing tribulation and persecution in the office, instead of bending to compromise. Because of proper. Discipleship, you know the Bible says. Counted, or join my brethren when. You face diverse persecutions, knowing this that the trying of your faith work at patience. On the strength of that maturity, you can. Stand even if you stand the loone. Jesus said, in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good share. I have overcome the world. So you may cry, but you still stand for righteousness. That is the product of mentorship. Not evangelism. Most believers chicken in the face of. Everything because capacity has not been built through discipleship. He says, if you turn aside in the day of battle, it. Is that your strength is small. Are we together? If you have been taught the purpose of wealth. When God blesses you. It does not bring pride because mentorship has balanced your understanding that. Everything in the Kingdom. Finds its relevance as it is connected to purpose. So you can be a billow neere, and yet you can serve in the House of God with humility because you know that a man can receive nothing excepted is given to him. Are you seeing now your life is brought to order because of discipleship and maturity. How about the place of character? Now you learn that the grace and anointing can lift you, but it takes character to remain there, My little children, says of whom I travel until Christ be formed in you. So when you come with. Your lost and anger and whatever, you are not ashamed. You come before the Lord like a threashing floor, knowing that in his presence there is the worshing of the water by the world. Are we blessed? Discipleship is the only hope for the maturity of the believer. Methodically mentoring believers and holistically soul. I have always been an advocate of balance. Mentorship and maturity. So your spiritual life is covered. Your life as far as relating with the cosmos is covered. Intelligence that translates to the quality of your life is covered. Are we together? No aspect of your life is left without you receiving wholesome teaching. When I'm teaching you on finance, I would teach you that sif there is nothing else to teach. When I'm teaching on soul winning, I. Will teach us if there is nothing else to teach, because it is lying upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there, a little. When you are teaching on the gift of the Spirit, you help the believer to understand and appreciate that there is such a reality as the gift of the Spirit, but then that the gift of the Spirit only profits the body when it is done dissently and in order. Many of the excesses within the Body of Christ, includes the Nigerian Church, the African Church, and respectfully speaking, world over, is a direct product of the inefficiency in discipleship. Our discipleship models must be reviewed because there are many discipleship models that end. Up leading to slavery. There are many discipleship models that do not bring liberty. Respectfully speaking, there are many discipleship models that simply bind people across a sect and does not bring liberty to the kingdom. Ambassadors. So when I talk about. Discipleship, the true proof that you have been discipled is your personal transformation and your maturity. What made you cry yesterday no longer makes you cry today because you have grown and talking about growth. First Corinthians, thirteen and verse eleven. Please give it to us thirteen eleven. First Corinthians, let's read together. Ready want to read. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. This is the. Biblical index to measure maturity, your thoughts, your words, that you have been so transformed you approach life from a superior standpoint. If someone looks at you and says you're a failure, it does not become a prayer point. Mentorship are so beaut you, you are so elevated in your mind. You will not demean your transformation by paying attention to mundane things. You have been so indoctrinated that you are seated with Christ. You are of a superior race in Christ, that. If someone looks at you and says you will not make it, prayer will be for the peasing. Because you've been taught you see that now as an example, the mandate that Jesus gave us requires proper discipleship to raise a very, very healthy, a very vibrant army for him. And this is the assignment that God has given the Fivefold according to Efphicients, Chapter four. When you read from verse eighteen efficients four from verse. Eighteen, did I get that right? Help me? He led captivity captive, and he gave gifts to men, and the Bible says, he gives some apostles and prophets and pastors and teachers. Elevened my apologies, he says, for the ed defying verse twelve. Now perfecting or maturing of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the ed defying of the Body of Christ. That means, the. Fivefold industry in its entirety, is God's strategy designed to help believe us attain onto maturity of our. Stating says, it says, till we all come into the unity of faith and of the. Knowledge of the Son of God, onto a perfect man, the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, the fullness of Christ, the fullness of Christ. He's talking to people who are already saved, but He's saying, there is an experience of the fullness of Christ that we. Need to come into. If you're understanding me, shout a loud amen. Your response to life, your response to all the things that happen around your life, is a testament as to how. Much you have been transformed. Hallelujah. That is the reason why the Bible says not many people should presume to be teachers, because our judgment as teachers will be higher. You know why God will say, I gave you access to the minds of millions for twenty years, for thirty years, for forty years. What did you teach them? You can literally tild a whole generation towards error because. Of the power of teaching. And you can direct a generation back. When Satan wants to destroy the sheep, the first thing he does is to corrupt or destroy the shepherd. It is very easy to destroy the sheep when the shepherd is out of balance, out of reach, out of order. Are we together? That is why, as shepherd will depend on God with all our lives. The Bible says, trusting. The Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. It says, in all your ways acknowledge him, and it shall make straight your part when it has to do with this mission of transformation and discipleship. There are no masters there because we are all students continually learning. We lean consistently on His grace as we help to make our contributions, as far as building a rope. Boss and me for the King is concerned. Your grace, your grace. I'm nothing without you, your grace. Your grace shines on me. It's your grace. Hear your grace. I'm nothing without you, your grace. Hear your grace shines on me. My dear people, Let me give you a very big secret. The greatest gift you can give any man of God. It is not a car. The greatest gift you can give any man of God. It's not a house, it's not a lie, and money in the account as wonderful as that is, the greatest gift you can give a man of God is submission to be transformed by the truths that comes from Him to you. Any man of God who loves Jesus and loves the people committed to him. The greatest joy of any man of God I know who sincerely loves God and loves his people is to see them evolve into superior spiritual versions in response to the truth that he's bringing that a weak man, someone who came January February. Right now, you look at this lady, this gentleman. You are filling the Holy Spirit, working in the things of God, loving Jesus, being used by Jesus to do great things for the kingdom, and then making personal progress in your life and destiny. There is nothing that consoles and rewards a. Teaching priest as transformation. If you become rich and you are not transformed, there's still a trouble for the man. Body wants to see Ill build people around him. We want to see dexterity and stature and power from the opening of your lips. It shows how you were properliamentored, that the way you speak, your words are communicated, that with grace in your heart onto the Lord, your speaking has been cultured. Your life has come on that define order. And people will usually ask you. They will say things like which shorts do you attend? These are all attempts to say who taught you you are a sound product. Listen, there are schools today that when YX results YX the West African exam in Nigeria or jam because of the performance that the students have. Am I right on that people who usually go and. Say, come, we need to examine the curriculum because it's not that the students magically evolved to become the best. They were subject to a kind of strategy that produced that result. So what we aim to do. By the spirit of God is to methodically pass us through a spiritual system line upon line. Can I tell you I submit to you by the authority of Scripture that if you submit yourself to the truths that you are hearing week after week with your heart being opened, the opening of your heart is your own responsibility. Are we together it is impossible to remain a failure by every and all standards. Your life will be nothing short of a sign and a wonder because the truths you are hearing are not conningly devised fables. They have been tested, not just in our lives, they have been tested in the lives of those that we have received the button from and the Bible says, and that from a child now has not the holy scripture. You want anointing, There is a strategy you want wisdom, There is a strategy you want favor. There is a strategy, an increase. That God should lift you and cost your voice to be heard across the nations. It is not luck. Mentorship is the key to stature and transformation. Is someone learning. That is why when Satan attacks your passion and your desire to come to the House of God, it is a real attack. Hallelujah, because she knows that once the seed has been sown, you cannot stop the harvest. The only way to stop the harvest is to stop. The seed from getting there in the first place. And if it cannot get you to come to the House of God or stop you from coming to the House of God, the next assignment becomes to turn your heart to a tony ground, so that even if good seed comes upon it, like the parable of the soul. The Bible says there that did not produce where those who heard the world they did not understand it, they didn't mix it with faith, and it did not produce anything. But in the name of Jesus, there's someone who is seated here week after week. You may not understand what God is doing in your life, but there is a wonder that is that is evolving. Believe me as you're submitting yourself. Do you know? I have met people and have been humbled by their depth of passion and sincerely speaking without exaggeration. As much as I've traveled across the globe, I have seen people and have been humbled by their sense of discipleship. Some of them do not have the privilege to be here directly, but they have made up themselves. They've made up their minds to submit themselves to truth, and you sit with them for five minutes. The excellency of your understanding even challenges you as a man of God. Whatever you want to do, Lord, you can do through me. Whatever you want to say, Lord you can say through me. Wherever you want to go, Lord you can go through me. Hami Jesus, sound yours. For ad Lord, Hamy. Jesus, sound yours for Can I tell you? The greatest way to say yes to Jesus is not saying yes, is preparing to be used by him. Hear me again. The greatest way. To say yes to Jesus is not too far by lies. Yes, you need that when it has to do with salvation. The greatest way to say yes is not. To say yes, is to be prepared. If I ask you come to my house, and you pick my car and say I. Am coming, and go back to cover yourself with blankets. Are you really coming? The Greater? You may not even answer me, but get up and jump to the bathroom. I say your readiness to come by your preparation. There are many tongue talkers, There are many people. Oh God, use me, but the submission to be trained and to be built to become that battle acts. There is laxity. And you say, let me tell you an advantage that we have. And I say this God, since my heart is not because. I'm the one speaking. If you ever have the opportunity to have a teaching priest that is sounding doctrine and lost you sincerely go back and lie down our role before God and say, Lord, thank you for making my journey to knowing you and being used by you easy. Most people have no understanding. Let me tell you this, and I say it on behalf of every serious man of God. Most people have no idea. The labor and the body of being a man of God. Most times we just say maybe protocols from little blessings that come, and especially younger believers, they just admire and that that glamor is fwelling. They're lost. All that is in your mind is the gyp the Man of God entered. All that is in your mind is that the whole paraphernalia. These are all supports systems. Just to make it easy, let me tell you the labor of the world is real. Label to sit down and get life applicable teachings. I preach an average of two to three salmons every week. I've done this for as long as I. Know, under no circumstance, no matter where. Traveler around the world. If I would be around on Sunday, I must make sure the message to give God's people is fresh, is ready to be served. That is labor that comes by love. Listen, I'm not just saying this to I hope you. When I teach like this, I get so uncomfortable. It's just that the truth has to be said. Submitting to the ministry of a teaching priests indeed, bringing balance and a holistic capture of the truths that number one help you to know God, Number two help you. To understand the Kingdom. And number three help to produce personal excellence in your life, keeping you effective from an eternal standpoint, and excelling. Within the cosmos. I am telling you it is a blessing. Many believers take for granted, the label that brings truths that uield them. You'll be surprised someone who has been failing in business. You just come when a financial series has been taught and you get one one truth that brings balance to your life. Managing pride, managing anger, managing lost, managing. All kinds of things that would destroy you. How about the manifestation of. The power of God. Witshcraft and curses and yolks from anywhere to anywhere, and you come together, those spirits join you to church, and yet you leave them behind and go back as a freeman. All kinds of yokes. Of course, for twenty years, I've not found liberty in my life. And God says, go there. I'm the one who is preparing this teaching priests. I know what I put in them. You go and sit down there and watch what happens. Gods, But you see, the goal is not for you to be a member and just keep watching. No, there is a training. Please listen to me. There is an equipping. It is a very painful thing to any man of God. If you have been around his church or the spiritual cycle for a long time, and the evidence of transformation is not in. You, even if you are a giver. It is more than money. It is your transformation that I was here. I thought like a child, I understood like a child. Look my spiritual understanding. Now, when you are assessed by life across. A range of areas, your. Spiritual life, your understanding about Satan, about God, about life, about challenges, about victory, about success, you have been so fashioned. And so framed. Now God can send you to one be a man of God that cry remember when He sent you. You may have commers and ussher, but your destiny is to be a prophet and apostal. To the nations. Mentorship is what evolves you from that cleaner to a mighty man. Men do not rise. Just because time is man rives upon the quality of the information, the sound understanding that is being imputed into their spirits. If you're with me, say amen, and then let me sub me to you. And I'm saying disrespectfully. When God grants you access to come across the life of people who genuinely have results, respect that atmosphere. Most we live in a world where people put downplay. Results as if it is by it's just lucky. No, no, consistency is proof of mastery. You can have short time results by luck, but you cannot have sustainable results by lock. The Bible says he that strives. For mastery is not crowned except and unless he strives lawfully. Allelujah prays the name of the Lord. So the great commission that Jesus gave us number one again. The first component is world evangelization, reaching the lost. The second is discipleship. Are you ready for the third? The third component of the Greek commission is called territorial or societal transformation. Please write this is. The most neglected component of the Greek commission. This is the piece that has not been brought in. It is a tripartite mandate, but most times we have only looked at the world evangelization or at best included discipleship in a lopsided way. Territorial or societal transformation. What does this mean that the gospel that we bring and propose, as designed in the mind of Jesus was supposed to penetrate systems and structures that society must. Feel the impact of the gospel. Any gospel that cannot penetrate and transform. Society is baring of many components of power. Listen, The first area of impact of the Gospel in society I wrote here is impact on the moral fabric of society. Please write it down on that territorial transformation the true Gospel. When the Church. Becomes light and the message of the Gospel is really going far backed up by discipleship, it must impact on the moral fabric of society. What does that mean? There has to be a change. In the overall expression of the moral fabric of any society. Crime rate should reduce, disobedience should reduce. There are many things that should reduce. Thank God for the prison, Thank God for law enforcement agents. But can I tell you the church is supposed to work in partnership with these law enforcement agents as diminishing the rise of moral decadence within society. The church is supposed. To be the killer and the ground of truth to bring moral decadence to the minimum. But when we have. More churches, and as the church is rise, crime is rising, all kinds of things are rising. It may not be that the church is important. Is that the content of our communication and the efficiency. Of our weakness is now found wanting. Every time there was a revival and awakening in the Bible, it translated to many other things. When you read Acts. Nineteen, you will see that people brought their magic books. Am I right on that as a result of the authoring. The Bible says they brought their magic books, they gathered them together. And burnt them. And the Bible tells us the financial worth of it. That is the gospel penetrating society. When Jesus walked upon the earth, he was not just the disciples and seeners alone that he spoke to. He went to the houses of those who were people of influence, for instance, Zachios. His encounter with Zachios saved many people who had been unjustly treated because. Zakios became broken and repentant and now. Used this influence to correct the manipulation and the corruption that he was having. As far as taxes concern, I hear that if society does not feel the impact of the Church, not from a standpoint of fanatism, falling and rising only benefits us. Society has no business with that. When the watch believers all and rise, they're just interested in seeing this superstition like manifestation. It is the transformation that happens in society. Can I tell you the moment your life, respectfully speaking, your ministry and whatever platform begins to directly in part society. You start drawing the attention of certain. People and they're not you to be an agent of transformation, and they begin to incorporate you in processes that help to transform society. This is where men become nations. Allelujah, men can become nations. I'm reminded of my grades, greatly revered, mentored the Lord. Now he's going to be with the Lord. Doctor Miles Monroe. Aside from being a man of God, he understood this dimension of territorial transformation, and he translated is on his spiritual understanding to a context. When soon Mandela was released from prison, I understand that it was him and one other person that were sent as delegates to go and greet him and receive him. These were men who impacted the fabric of society. Man of God, if only the church claps for you, you are not doing well. Society must join the church to say well done. We may not believe in you all, but we respect the fact that there is transformation. They may not call it God, but they should call it transformation. The hospitals should see the effect of the gospel, the prisons should see the effect of the gospel. Someone learning this is the mandate that Jesus left. The church in Africa is very ineffective as societal transformation is concerned. So the understanding of the average unbeliever about the church in Africa is that we're just a bunch of fanatics. Who like prayer and life falling down. Occasionally we prophes high and those who seem to be sound have revelation. End of discussion, and so the work sometimes and they are also interested. Wow, come and see people falling down, and it does not translate to anything as far as societal transformation is concerned. These are day that turned the world upside down, not just day that preach well, not just day that laid hands. Are we together by the time, say, the Judicial Council of Nigeria comes to meet you as a man of God and as a church that we just came to recognize you because we have found out that all the products that come from this church have been active contributors to reducing crime within a territory. Now that is light. You are the light of the world, not the light of the church. That in the prison they can. Know your name and the person can say I agree. On this sinner, But thank God for. This person and that person because you have added joy. I'm so many of you are blessed than his by what a school of ministry students? Did you watch the video? We allow them to place those videos their visits to the prisons and the rest to be able to help and see that. The concept of ministry is not just preparing for pull pit puor pitch walk only accounts for about thirty percent of ministry. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good deeds. They will call your light good deeds. You are the only one who knows it is light. As first they are concerned it is good deeds, they will call it. But all these the Bible says, they will glorify your Father who is in heaven. Allelujah. Someone learning territorial transformation. The first area of territorial transformation, I said, is impact on the moral fabric of society. What is the second area, impact on the quality of lives of the people within that territory. Oh, this is important that if it is the gospel, ladies and gentlemen, it must impact on the quality. Of lives of the people. In John chapter ten and. Use ten, Jesus said, the thief comment not brought for to steal, to kill, and to destroy. Please let me have your attention. It says I am come that he might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Is that in your bible Matthew chapter fourteen. Please give us from verse sixteen. Matthew fourteen, give us from verse sixteen. Jesus said, unto them, they need not to depart. This is Jesus. He finished preaching in. A crusade, and now he saw several people, But because he was a portrait of the holistic gospel, he paid attention to their needs and their wellbeing. He said, they need not depart. Give them to eat seventeen. How can such a preacher, and as they are cool walker the embodiment. Of the gospel, the reason for the. Gospel, the means of attaining the life of God himself. He showed us that the gospel does not just end in the spiritual health of the believer, that God is concerned about the quality of the well being of believers. This is the balance gospel. The gospel that just influences your spirit money alone, and does not. Care about the overall. Quality of your life. There is a problem with that kind of gospel. Let me finish the scripture, please leave it for us. Next verse it says, bring them hither to me five loaf now, and two fish. The Bible says verse nineteen that he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. He took the five loave two fish, looking up to Heaven, he bless and break and gave it to his disciples, who were those who shared the welfare. Disciples, the same people he was training to be men of God. That means a man of God has a dimension of him if properly mentored that most serve and care for people even at their physical needs. To say to it that your lives become qualitative while they know God and serve God is a balanced view. Of the Gospel. There are people who. Are erroneously taught that the Gospel does not have a place in the overall wellbeing of people. I disagree. Jesus has demonstrated from scripture the Gospel captures the tripartite nature of man. Spirit, soul, body. The quality of your life should be improved because you are a child of God. Now it is true that the ultimate. Posit of the believer is not for things, And unfortunately the gospel of materialism has had its fair share of destruction in the body of Christ. Thank God for the transformations that are ongoing. But the truth still remains that the gospel that does not affect the quality of living over people. There is something in complete with that message. Jesus said, I am come that he may have life, and to have it more abundantly. When Jesus so hungry people, he contributed to making their lives better. Jesus taught on finances. Is that not in your bible. Jesus taught on demons, Jesus taught on himself. Jesus taught on the Father. The gospel, being holistic, must capture every dimension of men's lives. It must have an impact on the quality of the lives of the. People within a territory. Nobody should sit down under a preacher listening to the gospel, being mentored and discipled, and then eventually cannot take care of his wife. Or children lives, a poor and a miserable. Life, not connected to purpose, not finding meaning for his life. There is something wrong with that kind of mentorship. When God comes, he elevates everything about your life, and that includes the quality of your living. You believe that, shout amen? I was not like this when I started with God. I have never been motivated by money or motivated by self, you know, natural things. But I'll be lying today to say God does not blessed me while I preach the gospel, and it. Will be wicked of me. If I have benefited orlistically from preaching the gospel, I must extend the same to everybody. Am I right on that? When I started preaching the gospel there were privileges. I did not have the quality of. My life today as a result of being a laborer inasmuch as my passion has not changed, that's only gone from glory to glory. God, in communicating that gospel, make sure that your life also benefits from it. Why then will I teach you and focus just on your spiritual life. And ignore other aspects of your life. It took me driving a car to come to church here? Is that true? That means while the focus is not on you buying a car, I'm buying a house. Eventually, as you serve purposes love him. His benevolence extends that far to reach to the nitty gritty. Did the Bible not say even the hair on your hair is numbered. He knows smile name, he knows my. Thought, He sees hd the face, and he hes me. Well, listen to me. It is true that you can prosperse. We call prosperity material prosperity without Jesus. But there is something Jesus brings to a life that only him can give you that kind of prosperity, Ladies and gentlemen, The Gospel. Is not limited to knowing Jesus alone. The Gospel also includes and enjoin the benefits that comes from knowing the Lord. Let me show you one scription. It says, bless the Lord, oh my soul. That should be some one hundred and three. Please give it to words. There are five benefits that the Lord brings to men. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Please listen and learn. Bless his holy name. Verse two, Bless the Lord all my soul, and forget not whose benefits. Everybody says all his benefits. One more time, say all his benefits. There are benefits that God gives people by reason of knowing him, loving him, serving him, living for him. That is never the motivation for loving him. But these are consolations that come with loving him. Are you ready five of them? Never forget Verse three? Number one, who forgiveth all. Thine iniquities the salvation of your soul, receiving eternal redemption. Truth is blood that she first of all benefits, but not the only one. Benefit Number two, who he let all thy. Diseases, is that in your Bible. Benefit number three, who redeemed thy life from destruction, deliverance and preservation. Benefit Number four, who. Crowned thee with loving kindness and tender messes honor is a benefit. And then finally read this one. If you're a Christian, ready want to read who satisfy? Stop? What part of your body does it satisfyed Ah? Who satisfied thy mouth with good things? So that on account of the efficiency of your life. Your youth is renewed like that of an eagle. This one. That renewal of your life is direct let tied to what enters your mouth. If nothing enters your mouth, something will happen to your youth, and something. Will happen to your vitality. The quality of your life is also incorporated in the Gospel. Please find the way of believing this. I have vowed on that God that I will never by God raise the people who are just spiritually vibrant and then be careless about other aspects. Of your life. I'm a man of God who will be very intentional and vocal as much as God grants grace in communicating the whole counsel of God, as it leads to the overall excelling of believers. We should never have. Workers, for instance in Cholnonia, who are having the children not go to school, and it does not matter. All you are doing is being a good worker. That will be hypocrisy when your lives are improved. Listen, do you know the church as an institution? The church as a corporate institution. There is no nation I know, maybe aside from the Vatican, there is no nation as a church of believers that. Is an institution on its own. From a governmental standpoint, there are non Christian nations and platforms that they have. They literally control the economy and it is. Directly to is directed to serve whatever course it stands for. There is no such thing like that in the church. So the church largely. Depends on the excelling of the membership and their benevolence as it comes to the treasury. Am I right on that? That means when there are. People who are incapacitated, there is so much that cannot be done by the church, and then the few who may be empowered to do it. If you are not careful and you become a beggar to too many people, they will erode the purity of your message using the portage of skill that they give you to it. Are we together? There are many people who are poor and helpless in churche, bankrupt of influence, and yet we act as if. It is not an issue the gospel. If it is Jesus you are teaching. Who is an epitome of love, and it's in the character of love to give, then it means the first thing that should happen to me is that my heart should be so purified that money and material and mundane things should never take his place. However, while I focus on Jim, he does not leave my needs attended unattended to. Eventually, my life should be a holistic capture of the goodness of God. Is it not in your Bible, it says old taste and see not just that the Lord is savior, that the Lord is cool? Are you learning the great commission? Growing up, I saw many missionaries and respectfully speaking. With all due respect and honor to all who are in the mission field. Today most people have Do you know why evangelism is almost a psychological threat to many people because of the condition of those who answered the call. They answer the call almost to their pain. Right now, you go and meet a young lady somewhere and say, I want to marry you. I want to go and see your parents. And let me tell you, God has called me to go to the vineyard as soon as we marry well on our way to Iraq and the rest. And the Father looks at you us said, so this is how you plan to reward me for labor it or much. It doesn't mean that they don't love Jesus. That the gospel we have brought a context of the Gospel that seems to be hon attentive to the quality of the lives of people. Now, when you're pursued, becomes ultimately an all materialism. I'm coming to Jesus because of a car, a house. I'm coming to Jesus because of. A husband, a wife, because of promotion. Now something is wrong because your priority has been misplaced. While it is true that he does all of that, he wants your heart to love him, to serve him, to be lifted above every other God, the God of materialism, the God of gold. Are we together now? Yes, this is what needs to be balanced the overall quality of the lives of God's people. Now, please listen. There are two. Ministries that have been seriously threatened in the Body of Christ, and there needs to be cautioned and balanced. There. There are two ministries that are being threatened. Number one is the prophetic ministry. Number two is the ministry that has to do with transformation and empowerment, even financial empowerment. We must be careful in attempting to purify the Body of Christ. There are two ministries who are fighting, and we're going to regret it because. These two ministries are the ministry. That played the greatest role in bringing the gospel. The ministry of the prophetic was why the Gospel walked, and the ministry of Kingdom financing. Are we together now? I'm just aggressing to place. There are many believers today who because of the imbalances around the prophetic unfortunately, which we have identified and we know that God is working on across Nigeria across Africa. There have been many issues here and there. There are two major issues with the prophetic that is now being corrected. Number one is the absence of genuine consecration. So over the years there's been a lot of carelessness and seriousness around the prophetic simply because of the abundance and the charismatism around the gift. I'm just teaching you this for your knowledge. Number two has been the purity and the word compliancy of the practices. Many of the practices around the prophetic circles. Are large extra biblical, and there's no time. One day, I hope I'll have the time to teach you on the prophetic and the apostolic ministry. The very nature of the prophetic ministry is controversial. All the controversial manifestations of Jesus in the Bible when he switched prophetic are we together. So there is already a. Natural propensity of being in a place of. Where you can provide error and confusion. That is the reason why a true prophet must balance it by being sound in scripture. This has been the greatest mistake of the prophetic over the years. Absence of consecration, carelessness around the altar, and then number two principles and practices that in many regards are very disdaining and completely antichrist. But that does not mean the Prophetic as a ministry should be thrown away just because we're trying to purify it. In my opinion, and respectfully speaking, even though I'm teaching on the Great Commission, the greater problem that needs to manage, to be managed is what is brewing right now, the arrogance of the Apostolic ministry. This will cause more. Danger than the disaster of the prophetic ministry, because naturally and by apostle, I don't mean whether your name is Apostle Joshua said, no, no, no, that's not the idea. The Apostolic ministry. Generally, all through scripture Paul Peter Modern history, the Apostolic ministry generally comes with a sense of pride and a sense of superiority, are both other ministries. It is a natural weakness that comes with the Apostolic. Ministry when you see. It through Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is humble. It didn't come by default. It is a product of the dealing of the Holy Spirit. Now, the apostolic ministry needs to be careful as we manage and deal with the matters that have to do with the prophetic ministry, because it was through the prophetic ministry. That apostles were even born in the first place. You see that, and we have to be careful. There are people right now whose lives cannot be changed because of the prophetic ministry, because it looks like they've been squeezed. We are trying to do what Jezebel did to the prophets. We need to be careful. Allelujah. There were prophets who were under the custody of Elijah who were in hiding because of a threat that came to them. Now there are many young men who have genuine prophetic calls. But because of the overall. Image of the prophetic, the prophetic is a great blessing. It remains an eternal blessing. What we need to do is to pray, and I'm saying this on it. I'm saying this respectfully. Let's pray for all our colleagues and brothers and sisters across the world. Those who have been given to compromise and the bankruptcy of consecration. Provided Jesus has not come, there is still room for renewal and transformation and repentance and then to re exactly in prophetic practices in light of scriptural strategies. These are the things that need to be corrected. But while that is happening, the apostolic ministry needs to quickly go back to the threashing flow and start repenting from pride, because when we are done dealing with the prophetic ministry will find out that the pride and the imbalances false teaching is worse than false prophecy. You see, I can profess sign to you falsely and you can know the truth in one moment, But when I build you around an error, I have carved you on stony to take God away together. Now, it's not easy to transfer false prophecy, but you can transfer imbalance. You can transfer false teaching. So there is a bigger problem across the Nigerian and African soil, and that is there has to be a restoration of doctrine. Step one need to admit that the best of us does not know everything, and then to know that God has only committed dimensions to us. We are mandated by God to be effective within the dimension given to us, while appreciating the other supplies in. The body, which includes the prophetic. Ministry, and then to be on our knees praying for the overall health of the Church. An attack on the prophetic is an attack on the church. An attack on the apostolic is an attack on the church. Rejoicing over the downfall of orders is going to be a catastrophe to our life because when there are no profits, it will hinder the manifestation of the program of God in many ways. Are we together now? Yes? So this I just thought to bring this in because. There is a many people who are called to empower the church, even financially. We have pushed them out of the scene and with all their ideas and their wisdom, biloonneas and millionnaires, and now the church is looking for money and our bank because we have ignored. Those ministries, is now beginning to push us in compromise. Some of them came with Some of. Them are veterans in business, veterans in economy, and they brought their hearts sincerely to serve the body like any other ministry that will have their error. Everybody listen. Everybody is a fanatic to his area of call. So when you find people emphasizing an area above another, it is simply the fire that comes with the bias of your call. If I've been called to lead you in prayer, i will teach you prayers if there is nothing else to do. If I've been called to empower you financially, i will teach you finances as if there's nothing else to do. It is simply the fanatism that comes with the call. But that does not mean that we should throw away many people. There are many believers now, many churches, now, many circles now. Their number one prayer point is finance, many projects to do. But those that God has empowered to come and serve the body, were pushing them away in a bit to try to clean the church. It is a mistake. There is a refree. A man who is playing football cannot assess other footballers. There are people outside the field who assess everyone. The Bible says, let him that things it stands take heed lesslie falls are we learning now? I'm saying this. Because there is a generation that is learning anything they find, and. That generation is going to be a disaster if balance. Is not brought to their life. What true Lucifer from heaven was not lost? It was pride that translated to treason. God himself opposes pride. We have to be able to manage people, and when we observe wrongs within the body of Christ, we must communicate. The truth in love. I repeat the truth in love. Once the truth is outside of love, there is a serious problem. Now. I have sensed in my spirit that there is trouble within the spiritual climate of Nigeria, Africa and across the globe. We have insulted the West and made it look like they're all called. They're not serious. We have no idea some of the moves of God that are still being preserved. I have met people across the world, Europe, the US. I am telling you their spiritual fire and vibrancy and consecration. Some of us do not come close into it. God is everywhere still with witnesses, is raising. We need to be careful Nigeria. Our arrogance may pegg us and have bought something prophetic that God is giving us the grace just because in this season, God has put the lamp on Nigeria. We must not make the mistakes that has happened in the history of the Nigerian Church. We must approach this mission God has given us with profound humility, or the wise our bishopric will be taken and given to a least nation that may not seem to represent the purposes of God. And God will raise mighty men and women. I'm saying this because the pride that is around believers, especially the Nigerian. And the African Church. We need to be careful, beginning from myself, all of us. Let's not tell them when you are discussing. This is a message from God to everybody. From the rise enough after the sun to the certain a the same your name. As anointed as we are. When we're sick and we pray and nothing happens, we run to the hospital. If we destroy the ministry of the hospital simply because the healing annointing is there, the day you annointing cannot raise the. Sick, there will be many people. Many people today have died who are not supposed to have died because the kind of teaching that came down played the hospitals in an attempt to describe the superiority of God's power. I work in science and wonder said grace that God has given. But we have a medical team, a responsible and professional medical team, and we together. I have prayed for people that have given them money to go to the hospital. I have gone to hospitals to visit people myself and to pray for them there. And I don't do it with any sense of shame or whatever it is. If we don't repent from some of these falsehood, life would be disgracing us one by one because of the imbalances that come from us. The earlier we admit this. The better for us, because the days that are coming, we'll expose our limitations in ways that will bring shame to us. A man of God is called to teach truth as revealed to him by God, whilst respecting other supplies that are within the body. I emphasize again the prophetic deserves an eternal honor. It should be corrected, it should be balanced, and we are praying, we continue to pray that out of the ashes of lack of concert consecration and all kinds of wrong extra biblical practices, that God himself will work upon the art of those calling to the prophetic ministry to become a portrait of authentic prophetic ministry. But we who God has called into the apostolic. Especially, we must manage our over confidence with pride. You see, let me tell you the bit of my work with the fathers of faith in this nation has taught me something. There are many things the fathers see, and you see them keep quiet. They only talk when they're in the place of prayer. Let us learn there is something they know that we do not know. I repeat to you the Bible says, he that think ket he stands, let him take heed less he falls. If Jesus, as the Son of God almost failing, gets so many, then we need to be careful. Our over confidence only gives Satan room to disgrace us. There is an approach to ministers with humility of heart, as by people who have been helped by God, and. That must be the template we approach people. The Bible said, Blessed said at the mercyful, for they shall obtain messy. Are we together? Yes, I've met a few people in my life, and sometimes when I see those people, they want to run away from me because it looks like, oh, there's a stigma. Maybe they think I will insult them and this, and sometimes I draw them and say how are you? This? And that? May God bless you if you ever give room to listen. Okay, you may need to adjust this, Just adjust this one, adjust this? Who are praying for you? And that's it. But we need to be careful, especially the generation that is looking up to our lives, those ones that have not even started. You see what the devil is already doing with them. The church is called to pray. We pray for one another so that in an attempt to fix a pipe, we don't close it down. How did I get here? The quality of your life, that's what brought me. I think God wanted me to say this. Allelujah. So believe us learn it doesn't matter what church. Who belong to? Respect the prophetic, respect, the apostolic respect, the pastoral respect. The evangelistic. Are we together respect the ministry of the teacher, respect elders Now forever, for as long as Jesus remains, we will keep seeing all kinds of errors and mistakes that require correction, And as much as God Graham's. Grace will do so in love while watching our own lives. Let me tell you the truth the correction that has come to the Apostolic prophetic ministry, maybe in the last three to five years. I truly believe it's the will of God. But we must know when it has come to an end. Let me show you a scripture God showed me. Can I show you Psalm seventy six and verse ten. Give it to us. Let's read it, and then I'll finish my teaching one to read. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of the wrath, shall thou restraint? Keep that scripture there. There is a way the anger of man can bring praise to God. That is what has happened. It is the anger that God has planted in the hearts of many people across the body of. Christ, that has helped to wake people. Suddenly. You see that it has a woken people to doctrine, It has a woken people to consecration. It has a woken people to purity, and woken people to prayer, and woken people to all kinds of things. There is an anger that God himself allowed in the hearts of man that has brought praise to the Lord. But the remaining of that anger God is now restraining it. He's saying, it is enough. The mission of that anger has been fulfilled. If you continue, you are working in the flesh. The wrath of man shall praise thee, but the remainder of that wrath shall dou strain. The purpose of the wrath is to bring an awakening to those who are sleeping. But when that awakening has happened, then there must be grace. He says, in your anger, do not sing. Do not let the sun go down. There is timing to it. While you are still angry with somebody learning? Are you learning? This is very important, So don't go. Around pointing hands at people and be a George and say this one that's not your business. We must be at our lee. Spray anybody who God exposes an opportunity for transformation, for repentance and change, and he plays with God's intelligence. There is a system already within the economy of God where judgment. Is mettered upon stobborn. Hearts leave that to God. It is his business. Are we together now? Yes? In the Bible there have been all repentance people. We're in the presence of correction by the spirit. True men they did not live, saying God has a system of bringing them to His righteous judgment. But as far as we are concerned, the ministry of truth in love, backed up with the genuine out of prayer and passion for the Body of Christ remains the end time secret for survivor. As a man of God. You will never hear me open my mouth. To criticize a church, to criticize. Another man of God. And far be it from me to criticize the fathers of faith. There are fathers, no matter what they do, Your own is to pray. Their age and their track record has shot your mouth forever. The only person who can really talk to them is God. Are we together? Yes, these are protocols in the Body of Christ that most people do not understand. For this cost many a week. For this cost, many are sick. For this couse, many do slip. But to wrap up my message, I was talking. About the Gospel impacting the quality of your life. How many of you truly want to know God with all your heart? How many of you truly want to be transformed? How many of you want to be able to take care of your families and children truly without thinking twice? How many of you want to be able to give to the program of God without thinking twice. How many of you want to live post full lives. That is what the Gospel was designed to do. So in receiving the Gospel, do not received, Do not reject the welfare package that comes with the gospel. God wants to attend to your needs, and once you have your priorities in place, do not reject it. Allelujah, there is food on my table at home. That's why I can't shout and preach, even if I first, I can shout because I love God, but with a consolation that there is some on my table, I want to make sure your table also has something there. So the gospel. The third dimension of the Gospel is territorial or societal transformation. And I told you the Gospel most impact on the moral fabric of society. The Gospel most impact on the quality of lives of the people within that territory, giving them a sense of empowerment, a sense of purpose and direction. And finally, the Gospel must bring advancement in all fares of society, all's fairs, technological advancement, educational advancement, advancement in the area of health. When you read Genesis forty one, we're not really just writing for sake of time. From verse thirty seven fifty seven. This is the exaltation of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph's relationship with the God of the Hebrews, the God of the Bible, was intact. He refused to compromise all through his stay. It led him to the prison, and after many years God brought him out and Joseph became a prime minister away together by the level of his transformation back top by the. Spirit of grace. Now Joseph was put through influence in a position where he could govern. And look what happened to the world because of one man. The excellency of his knowing God came and it translated to the health of Egypt, even in the place of farming. Imagine, if Joseph did not provide that economic solution, Jacob and all the other sons would have died and the program of God would have been aborted. Can I tell you listen to my message. Let me refer you to my message. Commanding salvation over territories. I told you that our territories are also evangelists. There is a message only your territory can speak, and there is an audience that has been designed to listen to it. Results speak, territories speak. You can command salvation like it happens to an individual. Salvation can happen over territories. You read the stories of the move of God across islands like the Fiji Island, the Wealth Revival, and you'll find out that going and in glove with the move of God, where advancements in education, advancements. In health care. I believe in the Gospel that permeates the tripathite nature of man and then extends to society. Thank God today for the Christian schools that we have across this nation and the world that preserve morality. Are we together and help the students that are there to keep growing. Thank God for the Christian hospitals we have today as a contribution to. The health of people. Thank God for other platforms. Technology platforms and other platforms that are adding to the health of society. We have received the blessings of others. The world is waiting for your own. We're able to preach the gospel today to thousands of others across the globe because somebody allowed his creativity to be a two for the gospel. Allelujah, yes. My message tonight is to redefine the Great commission. To one who sees the Great Commission only as world evangelization. That is powerful, but that is only one over three. To one who sees the Gospel as just discipleship and mentorship, that is wonderful, but that is one over three. And to one who just focuses on welfare and well being without impacting on the hearts, the spirits, and the minds of people, that is also one over three. It is world. Evangelization plus discipleship and mentorship plus societal and territorial transformation that equals. The mandate Jesus gave us. And if we fulfill this mandate correctly, something will happen to our territories, something will happen to the world before Jesus returns. This is our mission. This is why we are here. This is why we breathe, This is why we learn and do all the things that we do. We sleep for this reason, we wake up for this reason. We are spent, and we spend for this reason that. Someday, when everything is said and done, when Jesus returns, he can come and tell you well done, good and faithful servant. Away together and if you go and meet him before he returns, you will still hear well done, good and faithful servant, Because to be absent in the body is to be present with the Lord. This is how to live a life of wisdom. This is how to live a life of value. Spending your life just this de siren to build. A house or buy a car, or even be a preacher or have a church. As wonderful as that is, it is very mundane and inferior with respect to this noble call. And this is not a man of God's call. This is everybody's call. You can be involved in world evangelization by praying I have taught you, by being actively involved in the mission field, and by giving. Can I tell you some of you have never interceded for souls. Everything about missions is none. Of your business. Some of you have never spoken to anybody about Jesus Christ. Or once in a while, when you feel emotional, look at the lady who came here to testify God. Bless the woman or the man the worker who led that person to Christ. Thank you for not keeping quiet, Thank you for insisting that they come to Jesus Christ. And there are some of you, as you are looking at me now, your one dollar, your one nightra has never been part of the sale of any. I'm not co. Asking you for your money, but I love you too much to not tell you. Let me tell you the value of your money is when it has a place in this world mission. There are very wealthy people across this nation, across the globe. We give for other causes that are inferior to world evangelization. Let me challenge you the resources that God gives you. There is part of it that is for his program. There is part of it that is for your blessing. It is the truth world evangelization. How about discipleship. When you invite people to church, you are not just trying to increase the membership of a man of God's ministry. No, that is an erroneous orientation. When you invite people to church, you are participating in this second phase of the. Great commission. He said, go and compel them, Go and compel them, go to. The byways and the highways. Compel them to come, that my house shall be feeled. God Jesus himself gave that instruction. I was glad when they said, unto me, when you are going to church and you hold someone and say please, I'm inviting you. I think you want to be blessed. The person comes to sit down. That person is a CEO employing one thousand people. You just brought one thousand people to church in one man. His transformation translates to the health of one thousand people. Am I right on that? Yes? Everybody is connected to somebody somewhere somehow, and when you give them an opportunity to hear the truth like some of you who are hearing now, imagine those who have traveled from all across the globe to be here. They return back with this renewed orientation. Impact is one life. I have taught you at a time. But one million is one in one million places. Every time you remove one, you are literally removing one million. It is one plus one plus one plus one plus one again plus another one that equals one million. The one soul you brought to church is among the one million who have come. You have made your own contribution to bring your one. Are we together now? Yes? How do governments raise money? They raise money from taxpayers. And what the taxpayer may pay as an individual may not be much, but combine it and it becomes trillions of US dollars trillions of naira, and that's what they run the economy of nations with ladies and gentlemen. Here me, your life must be actively involved in discipleship. It is not just to the man. If you cannot preach, you can get the truth across to someone. Technology and social media has made it. Instead of promoting all kinds of godless things, your life can be an active contributor getting the truth towards many who need to hear. And then the third phase is our business societal transformation. Let me ask you two questions I asked you before. You didn't answer the last time. I hope you answer now. Whose life has been blessed because you are alive? Has someone gone to school because you gave your life to Jesus? Has someone been able to eat today or tomorrow or any day because you are alive? Do you know how excellent and how healthy it is to live knowing that your life is contributing to someone. Look at the young lad that Andrew brought. That boy had his five love and two fish, maybe for him and a few friends. And Jesus said, can you allow us use this and let us feed many? You will not be at a loss. The Bible does not tell us who took the twelve basket, but if I were Jesus, I would give it to the young lad. Allelujah. When it's all inside and. There is just one thing and mans. Indeed, I do my best to leave for truth, did I leave my life for you? When it's all in said and done, all my treasures will mean hing only what after, For love's reward. Will stand the test of time. Lord, your mercy so great. That you live beyond our weakness and find precious churl in married Cley, turning sinners in to say. And now we always sing your praise. Here on earth and ever offter, for you've told me Haven's my true home when it's all been. Said, and then all my life when life is done. The day I was told Miles Monroe had gone to be with the Lord, I wasn't worry for a meeting. And when they called me and said this man just had a plane crash. At first I said, God, why, But then I remembered that it is not the amount of time we live that matters, but to the degree to which our lives are spent in making this happen. The day I heard that the great Patriarch of faith, Billy Graham, had gone to be with the Lord. I said, this is one of the few men on earth who finished his assignment and stood back and was waiting. He literally had finished. He spent his life going from tiller to post. The day I I heard that Rain had Bunker had left, I thank God for the privilege to have been in his crusades. And I said, this man gave his life. He said, Africa shall be saved. We are products of his prophecy. Today. Not too long ago I heard that Pat Robinson, the founder of Sybian seven hundred Club, who had inspired so many people in his late nineties, just a little step to Bee hundred he passed on. To be with the Lord. You see, they're going. There is a generational shift happening. But while many of us are just admiring and boiling and waiting, we have insulted the fathers, and some of them have said, you've insulted us. We're going now. We're moving, step by step getting to that stage. If we do not understand what the great commission is, the day that the light of the nations come upon us, let it not be that we'll misleader generation, and then the ones we raise come and begin to correct us too. And that correction will be because they will say, you spoke about those who went before you. You did not show messy. Now look at it, you are messy. On My mission as a man of God is not to do everything. I've not been called to do everything. I do not know everything. But mine is to spend my life serving You, serving. Jesus, serving the nations, serving my generation with all that I have in life and in death, serving Him sincerely. Making our own contribution. This is all. I don't preach the gospel because I'm a preacher. I preach the gospel because I have a child of God. I way together now. So the one who is saying I am waiting on till the day or. The pastor you're already a hippocrite from beginning, everyone should leave this service today with a renewed passion for souls. You may not have the privilege to do one on one evangelism, but can you take one day in a week to pray for souls? Day a week to pray for those in the mission fields. What of some of you who can't give you find a ministry that. Is involved in so willing and the transformation of people. That is where your seat should go. How about participating in seeing that people are saved. A few minutes from now, I'm going to be making another call, and I know that there are many tonight whilst you are listening, there are many who will come here. You don't know the joy in my heart when I say people live their seats and come to stand here. It does not just show that the preacher is anointed. It shows that Jesus is winning. That he's winning in Nigeria, he's winning in America, He's winning in. UK, in US, everywhere. This is why we do the things that we're doing. Allelujah, and so believers, hear me for some of you who have been called by God and you have ignored the call. You may not have the privilege to head a ministry, You may not even have a privilege to be global in terms of ministerial impact, but that which He has given you. The hymn writer says, I'll. Do as it beats me, whatever the cause. I'll be a true soldier. You've forgotten the song. Remember it all it pays to save Jesus. I sing from my heart. You always be with us. I can't remember the rest. Now, do you know? Hold on? Do you know? Yes? Ago, people who sing these songs and cry, they really believed. It, and they meant it. I love him far better. I'll serve you more truly than ever before. I'll do as it beats me, whatever the cause. The truth soldier, my. How big serving you all of the days of my life, I'll be. Serving all of the days is my life. Lord, be. Worsh all of their days. Of my life. Oh beg. Worship all days. We're wrapping up. Go back and listen to this message redefining the great commission. Don't assume you wander everything I said. When you go back, sit down and listen, let the spirit of God breathe, and let your destiny come out of this message. That you will see the role that God has called you to play, whether in business, whether in ministry. What you call purpose and destiny is simply the role you have to play. As far as this kingdom advanced. This mandate is concerned. My greatest desires to bring joy to the heart of the Master in and through my life by serving Him as best as I can, taking advantage of all the graces is made available onto me. And this is my proposition for you tonight. Now that you know these things, may you be happy and blessed if you do them. Rise upon your feet, Place, rise upon your feet, Allelujah. We're going to pray to prayer points, but I just feel staredy in my heart to make the out call. Then will pray the to prayer. I do not need to tell you any other thing again. You've heard the message you need Jesus. World evangelization includes you. If you're yet to make it right with Jesus. And I'm talking to a dear brother, dear sister, father, mother, colleague, relative. You may be seated in this auditorium and all the overflows following online, and Jesus is telling you it's time to make it right with me. Read dedicating your life to Jesus or making that decision. The first time. Wherever you are, I want you to please leave your seat and come and. Stand right here as bold as you can, knowing that you're coming to Jesus. God bless you. Come. Come, come, Cornonia. Let's give them a big, big hand clerk. Even so, come here, shoe, come, even so, take. Your bra by away. Keep clapping as they come. Oh, my soul. Longs to see your face, my Lord. Even so, even so, come your shoe a come, Apostle. I'm tired. I want to make it right with Jesus. Even so, come your shoe a come. Even so, take. Your bride away. How my soul. Longs to see your face, my Lord. Even so, even so, come your shoe a come. Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming to Jesus. I say, my footballer friend, when you're saved, I will pray over your football career. But now let's do the business of Jesus. Allelujah. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I know that there are many more across the overflows, and someone may be watching by way of television, internet, perhaps a rebroadcast. It is never too late to make it right with Jesus. As I lead these precious ones in prayer, I want you to join with your heart open, knowing that you're. In the presence of Jesus. Can I request all of you who are in front please lift your right hand in total surrender to Jesus. And would you say this after me, Say Lord Jesus, tonight. I have heard your word. I believe that you died for my sin. I believe that you rose again for my justification. Right now, I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, as my Lord, and as my King. I declare that the power of sin, satan, hell, and the grave. Is broken over my life. I am a child of God. Don't be ashamed of your tears. Say I'm a child of God. From tonight, I go forwardever and backwarever. Amen, keep your hands. Lifted, and let me pray for you. Coming today, coming to stay, Coming to my heart. Lord, coming today, come me to stay. Comeing to my heart. I declare over you, my dear brothers and sisters, that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over your life. Based on the authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiving, and I declare that you begin a fresh walk today in the name of Jesus Christ. May the Lord bless you the power to leave a victorious Christian life. I release upon you right now, and I declare you go from glory to glory and from grace to grace. The past is gone. You step into a new beginning. In Jesus' mighty name. We have prayed. Allelujah. Now let me request that you please follow the counselors their counselors who are waving the placard. All of you together, my footballer friend, you are blessed her in Jesus' name. You love Jesus, you play of football and God will lift you in Jesus name. Let's appreciate them as they follow the counselors. Allelujah. Thank you for your patience. Now to prayer points and we're done very quickly. Prayer point number one. Lord, I am available, use me for your glory as fast as fulfilling the mandate of the Great Commission is concerned. Please left your voice and pray. Someone pray. Someone pray. Go ahead and pray. If someone praying, I'm available. I'm available in the name of Jesus Christ. Imi Jesus sad. Good for. More Hammi. Jesus sad yourful someone pray. It's a prayer, alreader, Jesus sad yours for end. What time, Jesus sab for. That. Whatever you want to do in and through my life as. A contribution towards fulfilling the Great Commission, my life is available. Send me. Isaiah said, here my send me. Is that who shall I send and who shall go for us? God is speaking to someone. I'm me, Jesus sab yours for more, Amy you, Jesus Samnius forever for more Pray my life, my energy, my intellect, my qualifications, my beauty, my. Resources, everything towards kingdom, com everything towards global missions, everything towards discipleship, towards territorial transformation. Whoever you want to lived, Lord you can live through me. Whoever you want to say. Lord you can say. Whatever you want to say. Lord you can see through me. Whatever you want to start. Lord you can start through me. And whatever you want to and. Lord you can through me. I'm you, Jesus sam yours for a more. I'm you, Lord, Jesus yours fore final prayer point and I wanted to please listen. Then we pray and we're done for this service, Father, because I have pledged my life every resource I need, make it Availa belong to me. For some of you, what you need these finances to make you an effective witness. Some of you, what you need are strategic relationships. Some of you are fresh graces and mantles from heaven. Some of you say higher level of enlightenment. Lift your voice and pray. God is able to make all grace abound towards you for the purpose of kingdom. Come if someone praying lift your voice, all that is required I receive. I receive. The resources, the influence, access, power, revelation, the ngraceing for science and wonders, capacity to foot all kinds of kingdom deals. I obtain grace. Go ahead and pray. Go ahead and pray. For your clothes. I will do when anything just to see you to be bold. You ask my key for your clue. Be I will do well anything. Just to see you. To be bold. You ask Michael, wanta be bad? You gotta be bad? You are. I want to be bad. Gotta be bas. Allelujah. Pray for the great commission like never before. Become an active soul winner like never before. Become an active kingdom financier like never before. Let your life contend for knowledge, first for your own growth, and then that it will give you the platform to be able to mentor and help and build others methodically and accurately. And then by all means, may your life become a source of contribution towards territorial transformation. When it has to do with transforming territories. The mission is not just for Christians. The mission is for all of God's creation. Let someone eat because you are Christian. Let someone go to school because you are a Christian. Let someone have an opportunity to go off the streets of prostitution of drugs because you are a Christian. For his sense rain to the righteous and even the unrighteous. There is a dimension of Godliness that must bless all and sundry, without prejudice and without any biases of religion. This is the manday Jesus gave. Let me pray for you now, Father, in the name of Jesus tonight, I pray for every precious person here the increasing to be an effective witness, to be an active part of the great commission. I declare that grace rests upon you now. In the name of Jesus Christ, the grace to pray, the grace to give, the grace to speak, Receive it in Jesus name, the grace to preach, the grace to teach, the grace to demonstrate with your life. Receive it in Jesus name. And I pray for you because your heart is stayed on God's program. Resources like you have never seen. May God gravitates strange resources to your life. In the name of Jesus Christ. You will handle wealth beyond your imagination. You will handle influence beyond your imagination, access to. The hearts of kings and nobles. In the name of Jesus Christ. And hear me, because you have made up your mind to be part. Of the Great Commission. Nor devil would take your life before your time. In the name of Jesus, I bless you with longevity. In the name of Jesus. Anyone here under the sound of my voice are pointed onto death, either by accident, by sickness, by some demonic or diabolic means, it is here. By canceled in Jesus' name. Hear me for the sake of your overall spiritual health, speeling, to your financial health and your family. Everything that is a source of concern that is stopping you from concentrating on the Great Commission. May my God solve it now. It is a fine and shall problem. May my God solve it now. Listen, it says hitherto you have asked for nothing as can you shall. Receive that your joy might be full. I pray again. Whatever is a destruction to your Christian. Life that will not allow you to. Find peace, whether it is your bills, whether it is lack of a job, whether whatever issue, in whatever area, I decree and declare, May my God visit you and give you rest, fiicit you and give you rest. I speak to every ministry here in the name of Jesus, fresh grace and fresh dimensional power. I speak to every business here, receive grace to scale heights in business. I pray for. Everyone in government, every captain of industry, in the name of Jesus being power for the next level. And we pray specifically for all those who are currently in the mission field. There are all kinds of mission fields in Nigeria, in Iraq, across several African places far north. There are people who are pledged their lives. Some of them have died, some of them their relatives last saw them on their way to the mission field. In the name of Jesus, we pray fresh grace upon our missionaries, fresh grace upon those in the villages. The hinterlands, in the name of Jesus Christ. And we decree and declare, let it please the Lord that in their lifetime that will see the fruits of their sacrifices. And we also pray for families. That have literally donated their children, their spouses for the work of the kingdom. In the name of Jesus. You will not regret saying yes to Jesus, for in Jesus' mighty. And much less name we pray. Amen and Amen. Now, just two quick. Announcements and were done. Thank you for your patience. Next week, by the grace of God, we're going to be having the practicom of our School of Ministry students, allelujah. Please, we're coming to get blessed from your lives and make sure you invite everyone to come. It is a major activity in the ministry. The Lord will grants us grace in the name of Jesus Christ. Allelujah. Have you been blessed tonight again appost to goodhasa. Thank you so much for coming, and Bishop, thank you. It's an honor to have you around. Let's share the grace together in fellowship the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us now and forever. Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercy shall follow us. All the days of our lives, as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen, God bless you and see you on. So on me