The Doctrine of Christ

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Some of the things you thank God for here may never matter again, like house, like food, like money. These things are necessary part of your existence, but they don't hold eternal relevance. And so sometimes all our thanksgiving are attributed to things that are only material in nature, things that are temporal, and that shows that our thanksgiving is not born from the place of revelation. I'm not saying there's anything wrong thanking God for temporal things, but if we begin to really understand the significance of eternal things and appreciate them, we will thank God more for those things, things like the opportunity to fellowship with God. When you leave this world, you won't need a car. What really matter will be where you are standing with God. You know, thel Gebra was speaking to the Carias, and he drew strength and authority from his standing. He said, I am Gabriel. That's standard in the presence of God. So in heaven it's a lot to stand in God's presence. If you go to the realm, we have money has no value. You need to understand the things that hold value there. I I am Gabriel, that standard. Because I am Gabriel and I stand in God's presence, you will be dumb. And the prophet went domb to show you the relevance the power to stand in God's presence. So when next you thank God, thank him for the privilege you have the access to His presence, the on limited access, it's a huge thing in the realm of God. Thank Him for eternal life. By the time you are done from this side of the divide, the only thing that will qualify you to live a meaningful life in the world that is to come is the quality of life you have. And when Jesus saved us graciously, one of the things the Father gave to us was the gift of his life. But many don't even thank God for these things because they don't really know their significance. And that goes to show that you really don't know what these things are and what they can do for you. This is why we cry a lot and beg for the things that should be by products. If you know the value of God's presence alone, the quality of your life would change. When Moses brought Israel out of Egypt, they didn't have any military formation, they didn't have any economic structure. All they had was the Charkaina, and the presence of God was enough. It was their defense, it was their provision and freitting they needed was calibrated into the presence. So if you know the presence and you can draw from the presence alone, the quality of your life we change. And then for those of us who have eternallive, Jesus said, this is the victory that overcomes the world. That's John speaking by the Holy Spirit. He said, whoever is born of God overcome the world. This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Because we have God's life and God's Dna, we are overcomers. So the reason you are not defeated and you cannot be defeated is not because of what you have. It's because of who you are. You now have the life of God. So if you know how to draw the resources of that life, you will live in perpetual victory. But many don't know how to and that's why they don't know why they should thank God for life. They don't see the benefit of thanking God for eternal life. And there are many things like that. Thank God for the anointing on your life, My goodness. The anointing causes you to stand out. They anointing empowers you to defeat certain any day. Anytime you say how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy gooes and with power, who went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. We are anointed, so we can deal with certain any day, any time. And that's not all. The moment Jesus was anointed, the Bible said, his fame went abroad. That means the anointing is God's distinctive mark on your life to stand out in your generation. And thank God. In the New Testament, every one of us is anointed. Is that you have an unshown from the Holy One. In the Old Testament, only the prophet, the priest, and the king was anointed. They advantages they enjoyed. But in the New Testament, all of us are anointed. That means we all have the right to stand out in life. But you see, if you don't know how to deploy the resources of the anointing, how can you thank God for the anointing. Then you talk about the gift of righteousness. The Bible said that which received abundance of grace Romance five seventeen, and of the gift of righteousness. He said, they shar reign in life. The word reign is the word king. They sha King through life. So we rule in life. We dominating life. We reign in life because of a power that is on our lives, the righteousness of God. But somebody is thanking God and is thanking God because there's promotion in the office, is thanking God because there is car. Those are by products. A car, a promotion is a byproduct of the anointing. It's a byproduct of favor. It's a byproduct of wisdom. It's a byproduct of eternal life. So that's not what you should thank God for. You should thank God for the things that produce them. And the more you begin to thank God for those things, the more the byproducts will increase. And then you thank God for God, thank him for who he is, because you have all of these things because of His generosity. Glory to God. So thanksgiving, I think is a subject that we need to study a bit deeper so that we understand it and that we make progress. And remember I told you that when you thank God and you thank Him correctly, it triggers multiplication. He said. They continued daily praising God, and the Lord added to the church such as should be saved Acts two forty seven. The remantative as nineteen. He said, out of them shall proceed the voice of thanksgiving, and the voice of them that make merry. And they say that we multiplied them, they shall not be small. I would glorify them. They shall not be our multiplied them. They shall not be few. I will glorify them. They shall not be small. So when you thank God. You are increased. You are increased. That's why when we thank him, the anointing increases, favor increases the glory of God, and our life increases. People see you, they just love you. They don't know why. It's glory. It's not everything you buy with money. Buy some things with glory, buy some things with favor. When you show up, just walk like a prince. And they said, no, you take it. You deserve it. You say, well, I don't think I do. But if you insist no problem, come on, give the Lord a. Shout of glory. Well, if you insist no problem, thank you. Because of favor, Because of glory, praise God, and of course thanksgiving, create and atmosphere for the miraculous. The Bible said, it came to lazarous system and he just thanked the Father. And the next thing he said, Lazarah's comfort, and they said he that was dead came back to life. Why did this tank god? First? You think he doesn't know the power. When he needed to feed five thousand men, he said, what do you have? They say, only a young ladier has five loaves and two fish. That's not enough. He said, bring it here. There's something I will add to it. It's got thanksgiving. He lifted it up and gave tanks. Take give them. When he caught Lasaras, he says, because it's annointed, now you take give them. The miracle was happening in their hands, and bread was fortiplying, and people were fed. They gathered the remnant. They had twelve baskets, so even they won't they got was more than the original sauce. How can your money finish? How can your resources finish? If your tanks you broke five floaves and two fish, then left over after five thousand men fed? Is twelve basket? My god, these two thousand mira continue to multiply. My money does not finish. There is an economic that makes everything I taught to multiply, and that's how we'll be surviving the last day. A time we come when you will not be permitted to buy or say, I'm telling you you will need miracle food. You will need miracle money, you will need miracle health because they will try to be seed you on every side. You need a technology that causes things to multiply. And if you study your scriptures every time the natural right is not possible. God switches to the supernatural. But one of the ways of treating the supernatural is true thanksgiving glory to God. So make it a habit. Don't don't be tired. When they say let's thank God, you say, well, thank you Lord, thank you. No no, no, no, no no. It means you don't have understand thank you Father. Be deliberated and do it with reverence. Do it with expectation that when your thank God things happen. Multiplication happened, the atmosphere for miracle is created, deliver rans happens. Paul and Silas the Bible said, they were in prison, beat in and locktop. He said at midnight they prayed and gave tanks, and the prisoners heard them, so they were not doing it carelessly. Acts Chapter sixteen, verse twenty five. The Bible said, suddenly the angery of the Lord descended the foundation of the prison was shaking the doors open. I can't be in bondage, I can be in captivity. There is a technology that all task captivity is called tanks giving. That's why we need to understand why we do what we do as a people of God. If you don't know why we do what we do, you will not attribute seriousness to it. But if you understand why, you willn't need anybody to encourage you. And when you do it, you do it with the whole of your heart, and then your life begins to grow from one level of miracles to another. Can we lift our hands? I'm just thank the Lord, and forever you are gone, we. Bless you, Lord you are, and forever you are. We bless you, Lord you are, And forever you are, and forever you are gone. We'll bless you. Your you'll be Say a. Thank you Father. We give you praise, we give your glory in Jesus' precious name. We've given times. Please we see that. If that's all you learn tonight is enough. You know, sometimes you don't need so much. Just understand the one you know. I'm obliged. The secret of victory in life is revelation and consecration. That's the secret, the summary of victory in life, revelation and consecration. If you don't know, you're in trouble. He said, My people perish for the lack of knowledge. God didn't deny them. He called them his people, my people, not strangers. My people perish for the lack of knowledge. So the people of God perish if they don't have revelation. And then if you know and you are not committed to doing, you w still not make progress. That's the problem of many. They know so much, but they are doing nothing. But they are those who know little and they are committed to that lie to and God gives increasing them. Because you need to demonstrate what you know by your commitment in doing. He said, if you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good. Of the land. So there is a place of consecration. If you marry revelation and consecration together, your life is unstoppable. That's the secret of exploit. They don't know their God, they shall be strong and do exploit. And they don't know their God. Must obey his counsels and his commandments. That's the proof that they love him, and that's when their lives begin to produce results. Praise God. But tonight that's not my We come back to the doctrine of God. Hallelujah, And tonight we are going to look at the doctrine of Christ. Why is this sound like this? We look at the doctrine of Christ. But let me do a quick recap. Five minutes and today five minutes will be five minutes. Glory to God. I'm timing myself now. So we began under the doctrine of God to look at first of all the proofs for the existence of God, and we itemized a few of them. I think about eight of them. We looked at the cosmological evidence, and we said, God exists because nothing begins on its own. Because there is creation, there of necessity, must be Creator, and so we said that creator is the one we call God. We looked at the teleological evidence and we said, that argument is the argument of design. And when we look at creation, creation is too orderly to have come from a random occurrence. And so because of the orderly nature of creation, we argued that there was someone behind it, sustaining it. And the Bible corroborates that emphasis in Hebrews Chapter one, verse three, He said, He sustains all things by the word of his power. So creation is not just random, because there is the power sustaining it. Creation did not just appear because someone created everything. Genesis one best one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And then we went further to look at them. What's the thought argument we looked at Now they okay, let me put them randomly anthropological argument, which is the argument of man. We said, man is a. Reflection of God. The Bible said man was created in the image of God. And most of the things we discover about God, we discover that Man models those things. For example, we saw that the mode of God existence is as a trium being, and when we looked at man, we saw that man also as a trium being. He has spirit, soul, and body. We see that man has a soul, he has a mind, he has a motion. And the Bible reveals to us that visually every attribute that we possess, God possessed them. And when God decided to manifest in the visible form, the form God took was the form of man. So we said, man is a proof of God's existence. Right. We spoke about the biological argument, and we said, as far as biology is concerned, every life comes from an existing life. No life just begins. You cannot see anything in existence that did not come from another life that already existed. And so we said, because there is life on earth of necessity, there must be a life giver, and we said that life giver is God. And then we also looked at the moral argument, and we said, every created being has an intuitive law on his inside that makes him distinguished between good and evil. And it doesn't just distinguish between good and evil. There is an inner responsibility he has towards sustaining good while he negates evil. And we said, the reason we have a moral law is because there's a moral law giver. And the Bible makes us understand in Romans two fourteen and fifteen that God put a conscience on our inside to be able to distinguish between good and evil. And so we had eight of that argument to prove the existence of God. And when we were done proving the existence of God, we went into looking at the nature of God and we said God is principally a spirit being. John four twenty four. Jesus was speaking about God and he said, God is a spirit, and he said that the worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. And we said, on the strength of that, our God. Is not visible to the physical eye, neither is it tangible to the material being. Are you following that? So if someone asks you es your God, I want to see him his spirit. And because his spirit you can't see him with your naked I need that. Can you touch him? However, we said, there are three major ways he gives expression to his nature in order for us to affemn his tangibility. And we said, the first way is through his love. The Bible said in first John for it that God is love, and because of God's love, God is always predisposed to helping, to interacting and relating with us in love. For example, John three sixteen said, for God's soul loved the world, that he gave his only begotten so that whosoever believed in him should not perish. But however, lasting life, so at some point you must experience the love of God. And so interacting with the love of God becomes one of the ways of touching, of making tact with him tangibly. And then we spoke about the fact that God is light. First John chapter one, verse five, the Bible said, this is the message that we have received, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness. And we said, the revelation of God being light is the fact that intrinstically and inherently in his creation there is a measure of wisdom that It puts in us to help us go about our life and our existence. In John chapter one, Verstoic said, in him was life, The life was the light of men. So everyone who is created has a measure of wisdom that helps him navigate through life in a reasonable and prospective manner. That revelation and that wisdom is God lightning his part. Job said in Job twenty bes Fo he said, as I was in the days of my youth when the secrets of God was upon my tabanacle, he said, by light, I walked through darkness. So there is no man who is in perpetual darkness. At least God will give you enough life to choose Him when you come into this world. And this is why you prick to people and they accept God. The message sometimes is not so intelligent, but there is an intuitive, you know, interaction on their inside that offfenends that what you are saying is the way, and they get to accept God because of what you're saying, because there's a measure of life or light in everyone. And then with the finally, this spirit being gives expression to himself in the form of fire. He Brewised twelfth, verse twenty seven, verse twenty nine. The Bible said, our God is a consuming fire. And we said that speaks of his judgment, his authority, his rulership, and his dominion. And we said it's on account of that that when a man is there is a sense of judgment that. He feels for his evil and for his iniquity. When a man gets to a point where he does what is wrong and his conscience does not pricking, neither does he feel any sense of judgment that you know that that man is dead. So long as you are active and alive, there will be a weight of judgment that you feel every time you walk in the part of error that is the consuming fire. And we said, blessed are you if you feel it here, because if you don't feel it here, you will feel it in the form of a leak in the after life. Because there's a certain thing called the Lake of fire, which is the second debt. So those who don't feel it here, we feel it there. Glory to God. But thank God, we feel it here and we are convicted to do the right thing. Why we are yet here because our God is a consuming fire. So the nature of our God is as a speedit. He manifests that nature in form of love, in form of light, and in form of fire. And then we said his nature has settain attributes that makes him stand in his own class. And we divided those attributes into two major attributes. We spoke about the essential attributes and we spoke about the moral attributes. And we said there about seven to eight essential attributes of God. And we said this essential. Attributes are the attributes that define his inward character, and he cannot share them, and we listed them. We said, Number one is that God is eternal. That means he has no beginning, He has no arned. There has never been a time where God is not. He predates existence. In fact, existence comes from within him. He is eternal. God has always been and God will always be. Festimotive one seventeen calls him the eternal God. Number two, we say God is self existent. That means he wasn't created, and he doesn't exist because of anyone. God is the only being that is the reason for his own existence. Every other being is living for God, but God is living for himself. So God's purpose is in God. He doesn't derive his purpose from any being, because his self existent. And we said in exhauster, but three vers fourteen, he said to Moses, tell them, I am that I am have sent you. I live for myself. I am who I am, and I will be what I will be. He has nothing to do with any being. I find meaning in myself and it's on the strength of that that every creation depends on me. And then we said number three, God is immutable. That means God cannot change. And God has never changed. And on the strength of his immutability he can be trusted because it's reliable. Whatever he says, that's what he will do. He will never change. Malachi three six. He said, I am the Lord. I change not dear for you, the children of Israel. You are not consumed. And then we went farther to number four. We said God is omnipotent. And we said, that's omnipotent. He has all powers. That means there is nothing impossible for God to do. And we said, he doesn't just have all powers, he also has the authority to put his power under his will. That means his power does not control him. He controls his power. They are people who have power, and they can't control themselves anymore. God, it's not like that, although he possesses all powers, but all powers, all his powers is subjected to his will. It's in that context that he is holy. Even why possessing all powers? Are we following this revelations that the nine verse sixteen the Bible said the Lord God omnipotent reigned, and then we said it is omniscience. And so we say, as hominis science. He knows all things at all times and in all times. That means there's nothing in creation or outside of creation that God does not know. And God does not just know things created. God also knows everything inside of himself. You know, God is bigger than existence. He gives you an idea how big God is. So God does not just know everything in existence. God knows everything inside of God at all times and in all times. In fact, is impossible for God to learn. He can't learn anything because He already knows all things. Are you following this? However, we also added that although he knows all things, he's incorruptible, so the knowledge of God does. Not corrupt him. So he has the power to know all things and remain incorruptible while he possesses or knowledge. Are you following? Because he is omni science And then we went further to say he's omnipresent. That means he's everywhere at every time, in every place. There has never been a place where God is not. And we said not just at every time, but in every time. If we say God is everywhere at every time, it means right now that we are here, God is everywhere. But if we say God is everywhere in every time, that means every time that has been God is. And see is what it means is that God is still in yesterday. He has not left yesterday. He is in today, and he is already in tomorrow. Because if God is not in everywhere in every time, creation we collapse because he's the one who sustains creation. And you know, existence is like an algorithm. If you remove Tomorrow from existence, the metric will collapse. So God is still in yesterday, He's still in last year, and it's in every time that has been both in time and in eternity, and it's already in every time until the end. That's what it means by being everywhere. And we said, the reason we. Are explaining these things is to help us build faith in God. The Sumi said, do I walk to the value of the shadow of death and say I fear no evil? Why? Because thou art with me, he knows that even in his worst situation, God is there. That's why the Bible said, if you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, if you walk through the water, you will not be drowned. Because anywhere you are, God is there. It is your faith and consciousness in Him that makes his presence consequential. So if a man does not believe in God or have the consciousness of God, then God's presence will not be consequential. Why do we feel the tangible presence of God here because we have decided that in worship to build our consciousness of Him. So His power becomes tangible here. But it doesn't mean God. It's only in this service. God is everywhere, but it takes faith in Him and consciousness of Him for his presence to become tangible. In fact, the Psamis was speaking and said, even if he goes to Hell, God is there, but you cannot feel the tangibility of his presence there, because that's not a realm where they have faith in God. And that's not a realm where they are conscious of God. And that's not a realm. We are the worship God. So although his presence is there, but the tangibility cannot be felt. So God is everywhere at every time, in every time, he is omni present. And finally we said God is omnly benevolent. That means God is able to give everything in his love, including himself. He has the power to give everything, including himself. It's on the strength of that that he saved humanity. I would say for god'sel love the world that he gave is only be got in son, that whosoever believed in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. So God can give anything, including himself. Is an expression of the love of God. Because the love of God is not necessarily emotion. Emotion is a part of it, but the love of God is a power to give himself unconditionally. So you don't need to deserve God for God to give himself to you. His love will compel him to give himself to you so that your life is better. Only God or prays like that, and that's why his God omni benevolent. And we said, these seven qualities of his nature is what makes him deity, because there is no other being that possesses this quality. Any being that possesses this quality qualifies to be Deity. And that being can be worshiped in the context of omnipotence, that is, creators, in the context of omnipotence, that he can give life. So any being that possesses this cential quality God and worship him his God. But only one possessed that quality, and that's the one we are talking about. We said, he also possesses moral qualities, and we said the moral qualities of God are basically formed. We said, number one is that it is absolutely holy. And we said absolute holiness speaks of the fact that God is in his own class. There's none operating the class where God is. And we said absolute holiness also speaks of purity that cannot be defied. That means the class where God operates from. Nothing can enter that class. So God is undefiable. On the strength of that, he is the only creature that possesses the quality of absolute purity, and that quality is a moral attribute of God. And we said moral attributes of God are communicable because this is the point where God reais nates with his creation. Every creation God has created, especially man, he wants to have a relationship with that creation. And for us, who are men in particular, He doesn't just want to have a relationship with us. He wants us to function in his own class of existence. That's why he gave us his life when he created us. However, for us to function in his class, we must share in his nature. And so we said the dimension of his nature that we share is the moral dimension. So the holiness of God is imputed into man, so that man too can live holy. So the reason by the Holy Spirit we strive to live holy is. Because we now have a holy nature. And we said that holy nature is a moral attribute of God that is shared with us. Number two, we say God is absolutely righteous. That means God cannot err God cannot be wrong. Anything God says and anything God does is right. It is a part of his nature. He has the power and the knowledge to pray always has been right because it takes power and knowledge to be right. He knows everything in its accurate sense, and he has the power to uphold anything he says. So he said in the context of his knowledge, he cannot make a mistake. Anything he says is accurate. And we say in the context of his power, even if it was not so, if he said it, his power will make it. So. So when God, since darkness is a light, be you don't need to ask well with the light comes from? Because he has said it, there is light. So he takes knowledge and power to be absolutely righteous, and God possesses it. And the beauty of it is that He shares that power with us. The Bible said that. Wit receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life. So the reason we strive towards perfection is because we have the righteous character of God. Are you following? And we went for that to say God is perfect love. In fact, that is his fundamental nature of expression. First John, for a he said, God is love, and I told you already that this love is not just emotion, is the ability to give himself unconditionally. This is why God tells you to forgive your enemies. So now you operate a love that is beyond reason. There's no reason to forget. Forgive your enemies. It's if a man offends you, your brother, or offends you seventy times seven times in one day, forgive him. Only somebody who has the attribute of God can forgive like that, because what will you do if you have ten brothers if one offends you seventy times seven times in one day. If you have ten brothers, that means your either pack from that location and refuse to have a brother, or you'll do you'll. Do something that is unthinkable. But if you have the nature of God, you can do that. And then finally we say God is absolutely faithful, he's reliable, he's dependable, his trustworthy. These three are his moral attributes, and they speak of his goodness. That's why they are moral attributes. I said, if these attributes are made available to any creature, then that creature becomes divine. So I said, for those of us who are born again, we are divine, but we are not deity. What's the difference between being divine and being a deity? I said, the word divine is an adjective that speaks of anything that comes from God. That's why when God gives a revelation, it's called divine revelation. So anything that comes from God is divine because the Dna of God is invested in it. And second Peter chapter one, verse four, the Bible said, He has made us to become partakers of the divine nature. Have been escaped the corruption that is in the world too lost. In First John chapter five, verse four, he said, whatsoever is born not from God of God? So it's talking about this nature. So everyone of us who is born of God, we have the nature of God. So we are divine beings, but we are not deities. We are not deities because we can't be worshiped. We are not deities because we don't possess His essential attributes, but we possess his divine attributes. What's the difference between us and Jesus. The difference between us and Jesus is that Jesus possesses both the essential and moral attributes of God, but we possess only the moral attributes of God. That's why Jesus is both deity and divine. That's why you can worship Jesus because he is God, but we. Are his creation. We possesses moral attributes, we don't possess his essential attributes. Does that make sense? So you need to work with the consciousness that you are of God. It is in the light of this truth that you can live on earth like God, above seeing, working in authority, ruling over demons. If you don't know these foundational truths, you'll be defeated in life. I think you are part of a religion that is better than all that religion. You will think you have moral laws that you obey, so you are a better human being than other people. Listen, we are not better human beings. We are not obeying laws that make us better in character. There is a nature we possess first or four before we obey the loss of God. That nature is what places us in the class where we are, and this is why the Bible cause us new creation. We are born of God. God is in us, and we are in God. We carry God's nature. This mentality and consciousness is the foundation of victorious living. And so anything that cannot defeat God, you refuse for that thing to defeat you. Be it seen, be it certain, be poverty, be it weakness, you refuse for thathing to defeat you. And if you're ap preyd by the Holy Spirit and the world of God, you will discover that the ability to conquer we rise up on your inside and your life. We move to higher levels of glue. But it begins with an understanding that you possess the moral attributes of God, and in that context, Divinity has been imputed into you. Having explained that, we now went into the context of the understanding of the god Head, the god Head, and I'm going to explain this again because I need you to understand this. This is one of the major foundational doctrines of the Christian faith. Remember, we are dealing with the subject the things most surely what believed amongst us. Ah, we are the media guys. Let me send them one picture, so that are we using to explain what I want to explain. You are God. We bless you, Lord, You are wholely and forever you are God. Praying tom for one minute, don't allow any gap feeling, filling the gap with connection in the spirit. And forever you are gone, and forever you are gone, you are holy. Forever you. Shout helluu are Hallelujah, shout hellu we are are shout hell Areluijah. Thank you Father, Praise God. And so we said. The subject of the god Head is the biblical understanding of God's mode of existence, and the Bible clearly captures it Romance one eighteen to twenty. Can we project that scripture? Romance one eighteen to twenty. This is God's mode of existence? Is it? For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all on godliness and on righteousness of men who hold the truth in on righteousness Verse nineteen? Is it because that which may be known of God is manifest, is manifest in them, for God has showed it onto them ver'se twenty. How did God show it to them? For the invincible things of Him from the creation of the world act clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. So the invincible things are understood by what the things that are made, even he sterner, power and god Head. So they are without excuse. This Bible is telling us. This scripture is telling us two things. Number One, that there are invincible things of God that naturally should be a mystery. He say, however, in order for no man to have an excuse of not knowing God, God decided to use nature to review these things. So the clearest way to understand, or the best way to understand. The mystery of the god Head is true nature. If you want to understand the revelation of the god Head, the Bible said, it is clearly revealed in nature. Power is revealed in nature. His Godhead is revealed in nature. So the best way to understand the god Head is to look at nature. And we said this revelation is important because when you read scripture, you are going to find two expressions of. God that are at variance. The Bible says God is one, and the Bible also reveals that God is more than one. So how do you resolve this contradiction. In fact, I told you there is a heresy around the understanding of the god Head. The first heresy is called unitarianism. It is a postulation that God is one and one in absolute sense. And then the second heresy I said is god tritaising is a postulation that God is three and three gods in absolute sense. Both of them are wrong because they don't understand the god Head. And you see the problem with heresy is that you are going to have one or two scriptures to prove it, and so you will start, you know, are giving it if God does not help you understand truth. Thank for example, for those who believe that God is one the Tournament of the six verse four, he say, here, yeah Israel, Oh yeah, Israel. The Lord your God is one God saving emphasized in Mark twelve twenty nine. The Lord your God is one God. And so you say that the Bible didn't means word in explaining it. He said, God is one. However, when you start reading the Bible, you say Genesis one, verse twenty six, and this one God says, let us make man. How can one say us? You go to Genesis three twenty two, he said, the man has become like one of us? How can he be us? Why wouldn't you say the man has become like me if I am one. So some scriptures make it look as though God is absolutely one, and some other scriptures make it look as though God is three gods. But the Bible cannot. So there is a mystery around it. That means it will take revelation for you to understand it. And the Bible is standing us that this revelation nature. Can explain it. So if you want to understand the Godhead before you go into theology, look at nature. Fest Your theology must. Be verified by manifestations in nature. And we said, for us to understand this, nature suggests something to us that everything that has been created, first of all us, is essential mode before it has its existential mode. There's nothing you see in creation that doesn't have essential mode and existential mode. The essential mode is the reality of that team. But the existential mode is how that team manifest. And I used an illustration for you when I was teaching last week. I said Man, for example, before man came into existence, man was seed in God. He said to Jeremiah in Jeremi chapter one, verse five, before you were formed in your mother's womb, I knew you. I ordained you to be a prophet onto the nations. So God knows man before man ever came to existence. The man that God knows is not the existential man, is the essential being called man in Romance Chatter e Verse twenty nine, the Bible speaking, it's a him that He foreknew, the same he predestinated. So you say that before the man came, God knew him, before creation began. He foreknew him, he predestinated him. And after predestinating him, the Bible said, they now called him. He now justified him. He now glorified him. So God knows man before man was created, because man was an intangible seed of eternity inside of God. This man does not have a spirit. This man does not have a soul. This man does not. Have a body. If you go back to Genesis chapter one, verse twenty six and Genesis chapter two, verse seven, you are gonna see that this man that God knows as an exist as an essential bean. Now God wants to bring him into existence. God now came to create his mood. And in Genesis one twenty six, he said, let us make man in our own image, after our likeness. And what did God do. He brought the man out of himself as a breadth of life. If you go to Genesis two seven, the Bible said, God now formed the doors from the ground. He's now creating the body of the man. So the spirit man that God brought from within himself, He put that man in the dos that he formed, and he said. That man became a living soul. So you see that this man, who was an intangible seed in God, as one personality, needed three channels of expression, so God had to create those channels. So there is existential dimension of beans, and there is essential dimension of beans. The essential dimension of a. Bean is who that bean is in originality, but the existential dimension of a bean is how that being we manifest in order to fulfill purpose. It is in the context of misunderstanding that you can understand the Godhead. Look at water, which is the second example I wanted to give what I didn't give last week. If you study water in its accentio state, water is head two oh. That's what water is. So if water is not in creation, water would be worth heah two oh. Two atoms of hydrogen, one atom of oxygen. That's what water is. But for water to exist, water cannot exist as head two oh. For water to exist, it must take a mood. And so water will either exist as liquid or exist as solid or exist at gas. Now, if you carry liquid solid and gas, liquid is not solid ice blow. It is not water, and water is not steam. There are three different modes of existence, but if you look at them in essence, all of them is head two oh. So steam is head to oh. But steam is. Gas water is head to oh, but water is liquid, ice block is head to oh. Ice block is solid. So when you look at these three different materials and they tell you this thing is one. If you don't understand the difference between essence and existence, it will be an argument of a lifetime. But if you understand essence and existence, you will know that although in existence they assume three modes, but in essence it's the same thing. So when you look at the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, these are modes of existence. So the three peersins in existence is three different peasins, but in essence as a bean is one God. That's what the concept of the God dead is about. And that is why the Bible says for you to understand the god Head, you have to go back to nature. Nature is the revelator of the Godhead. Look at the pictures I send them. For example, can we have eyes on the on the on the board? Okay, no, not this one. First, this is ice block? This is solid? What is this? This is hedge? Two? Oh? But this is what solid? Are you seeing this? Now? Let's see water? This is liquid? But this is what h two? Oh? Are you seeing this? Let's look at steam? This is team. But this is what H two oh? Now is this team? Ice block? Is the ice block? Water? They are different, right. The steam is different from the ice block. The ice block is different from water. But all of them. H two oh. That's the mystery of the Godhead. The Father is not the Song, The Song is not the Holy Spirit. However, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is God. So we said, there are three peasins in existence, but it's one being in essence, one being in essence, three peersins in existence. And that's why I gave you the diagram of the Godhead. Can we project that diagram? Holy? No? The diagram of God? That try and what I gave you last week. God is no water. We're using water to explain God. Don't add to my theology. Give me the diagram. Brother, we have a journey today. I'm coming to teach Christ what I felt. You know, when I went back frond of my brothers, doctor Carlo drew my attention. So I said, I wanted to explain it to I didn't know why I eluded me. So this is the essence of God before creation. This is how God is. He is one being. This is his essence it is this bean that is so man impotent. It is this bean that is so many scients. It is this bean that is a tanner. It is this bean that is one God. But when God wanted to exist, if he exists like this, how will you be saved? So his purpose can be fulfilled if he exists like this. Because for you to be saved, remember he said he was the lamp slain before the foundations of the world. So for you to be saved one he must be the ransom at the same time, he must be the enebler at the same time, he must be the one to receive the sacrifice of salvation. He can't do it like this, So for the purpose of his administration, in his mode of existence, he has to split into further Son and Holy Spirit. So the same way eyes is not superior to water, and water is not superior to steam. The Father is not superior to holygoes, and the Holygost is not superior to the song. That is why we said, although there are three persons, they are coequal. The same way, ice. Is not older than water, and water is not older than steam. That's why we say they are both co eternal. So no one is older than the Order. No one is greater than the order. But if you notice, if you go to zero degrees and water does not change to ice, you know something is wrong because if ice does not exist, water will't exist, and steam will not exist. If you go to one hundred degrees and water does not change to steam, something is wrong. That thing is not water because for water to exist, it means at one hundred degree it must be steam. At zero degree it must be ice, and in between it must be liquid. That means one can't exist without the order. So the same way, if the Father does not exist, the Holygos can't exist. If the Holygost does not exist, the Sun cannot exist. That is why we said are one, because they are eternally co equal and coexistent because they exist with themselves at all times. So although one God in essence, three peersins in existence. So there is the exist essential dimension, which is absolute one, and there is the existential dimension, which is three beings in existence. This is the mystery of the god Head. And if you go into theology you will discover that it is clear in the Bible. The problem is that we are reading the Bible in English. We are not reading it in its original language. And that's why I told you. If you study the Scripture in the language that it was written, but in Hebrew and in Greek or Aramaic, there there are two different worlds. For one, there is one which is absolute one, and there is also one which is compound or the unity of one. When you read your Bible, anything that is one in his absolute sense as God like this, the word used in the Hebrew is the word ya cheat, and the word used in the Greek is the word homo mono. But if you find any one that is a compound one, the word used in the Hebrew is the word eachild, and the word used in the Greek is the word hayes. Every time the existence of God is talked about in the Bible, go and check. You will never see absolute one. You always see compound one. The traunomechatter sids. That's far where the Bible said, the Lord your God is one God. The word used there is the word each oild. In the Trounomy sixty four in Mark twelve twenty nine is the word hayes. Is not talking about the absolute one's talking about the compound one. That's the plurality of one, the same way you can say one people, one nation, one try. That's the way that word is used. So it's speaking about the three persons in one So it's. The God had relationship. But every time God is discost in his eternal sense, anytime God is discost in the sense of his being without his mode of creation, you'll find that absolute one is used. Are you saying this? This is how the god Head is explained. In essence, outside of creation, he is one God, but in creation, in order to carry out his administration his three peasants. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. So H two oh is water in essence, but in existence. H two oh does not exist as one. In existence, het too oh exists in three forms, as solid, as liquid, and as gas. So in essence God is one God. But in manifestation God is Father, Son, and Spirit. And the reason the one is because everything the Father is is everything, the Son is everything, the Son is is everything, the Holy gooes is. Their manifestation is what is different. Everything you find in water chemically speaking, is what you will find in ice chemically speaking, is what you will find in steam chemically speaking. But when you come to model of existence, they are different. So the further, the Son and the Spirit are different in mode of existence, but in essence and in cor equality, they are the same person. This is the mystery of the god Head. And this is why the Bible said in Romance one eighteen to twenty that for you to understand the god Head, go back to nature. Nature is the best teacher of the subject of the god Head. It is when you understand it from nature that you cannot understand it theologically. So as an essential being, God is one you achieved mono. But as in his mode of existence, God is three persons in one that is each or his. And if you check your Bible, you will see that every time the unity of one is used to describe the god Head is not absolute one. It's always the unity of one. But it doesn't defy or deny the fact that God is one God. Having understood this, we cannot de with the doctrine of Jesus Christ because we will first of all know him as God. Because if we don't know him as God, all our revelation about him will be wrong. There are many religions of the world now call him a prophet. They are wrong. They say he's the most Holy Prophet. All is what came to pass. He's never seen. They are joking. They don't know who they are talking about. He's greater than the prophet. He is the second person of the God Head, fully God in all ramifications. And this is why Jesus said, without him you can't access the Father, because he is the expression of God that brings you into God. In John fourteen, verse six, he is that I am the Way, I am the Truth, I am the Life. He said, no man comment to the Father except by me. Now there are some questions I will answer as I'm rounding up the doctrine of Christ. Because there are many scriptures people quote like Jesus saying the Father is greater than I. And I told you what Jesus was talking about is not that the Father is greater than him. In essence, what Jesus was talking. About is that right now, according to divine administration, I have agreed to carry out one job description, which is to save man. And so because of that I have narrowed down my operation only to salvation. So, because my operation has been narrowed only to salvation, currently the Father is greater than me because the Father is carrying out every other God operation, but I am not carrying out that operation. I am now functioning only as Savior. So my job description in God has been narrowed to one. So the Father, who is still carrying out the full description of God, is greater than I. But when salvation was over, I told you what happened. He went back to heaven, not no longer the son of God? But has God the Son? Are you following this? And before he became man, he was also called God. According to Aza chapter nine, the Bible called him everlasting Father. Read verse six and seven. So Jesus was called the mighty God. They have a lasting Father, does God? Does God the Son? But when it came in the form of man, he became the son of God. So he became lower than the Father because of administration, not because of essence. In his essence is fully God. But in his administration he became Savior. So all of those questions will be answered. The people who ask these questions is because they are not schooled in scripture. They just speak versus here and there. They don't know truth. You can quote versus of scripture and know nothing about truth. And that is why we come to Bible study. So that we can teach truth. So let's look at them. The doctrine of Christ. Yeah. Where the King of the. Yeah, the hard LOLd one yeah, the Holy One. Yeah, weeh, the King of the. Now. In dealing with the doctrine of Christ, there are two things who will touch. Number one is the pason of Jesus Christ, and then number two is the works of Jesus Christ. If you understand these two things, then you have understood the doctrine of Christ, the person and the works. The person of Jesus touches majorly four aspects. Number one his deity, number two his humanity, number three the nature of his expression, and number four his offices. His deity, his humanity, the nature of his expression, and his offices. And when I say his offices, for the purpose of this lesson, there are four major offices we look at. Number one is as God, the Son. Number two is as the Son of God. God the son is different from the Son of God. Number three is as the son of Man. The son of man is different from the Son of God. And number four is as the Christ. So if you want to know his passing from the contact of his office, you must. Be able to distinguish. Between God, the Son, the Son of God, the son of Man, and the Christ. It is why you have been able to do this that you can say you know the doctrine of Christ. So he is deity, he is human, he has a way, he expressed his nature, and then he has offices. If you deal with that, you have dealt with the person of Christ. Then you come to. The works of Christ. And in dealing with the works of Christ, you see his seeing less life. He has an implication he was without seeing. Number two you look at his atoning sacrifice, and then number three you look at his mediators sheep responsibility. These are the three major works of Christ. He's see less life, he's atoning sacrifice, and his mediatorship. And then when we deal with this, then we are going to answer some difficult questions like the one I already began to ask. Why is the Father greater than you? If you are God? Why do you say only the Father knows the time. Of the end. We're going to answer some of those questions. And I had that one this evening because somebody asked me a question. He said, why do we call him Jesus? His name is Yes, sure, you know you are in Africa. Nobody's arguing that with you. If you go for evangelism in Texas or in London, if you say Jesus loves you, they'll say who is that? He says, the son of God? They said, no, his name. You don't even know his name. How can you preachy his name is? Yes? Sure, the person who are talking about is not God. So we are going to touch also to give justification to why we call him Jesus. Are we together? So let's look at the person of Jesus. Before we look at the person of Jesus, I'll give you six persons that he is not. But over time in history, heretics have called him this. But it's not this number one. We call it the Ebonite heresy. What did they say? They say Christ is not divine, neither is his best supernatural. He is a human being like every other person. Why do they postulate this because they want to prove that it's a man. That's why he can die for man. And so they erode that everything about his divinity or his supernatural bed, that dimension of revelation of Christ is wrong. And then we have what we call the no stick heresy. The Gnostic heresy is a heresy that described Jesus as fully divine and divine, only they don't believe in his humanity. And if you subscribe to this belief system, you will be wrong because if it's not human, he can't save you. And eye. Number three is the Aryan heresy, and this heresy postulets that although CHRISTI is divine, he is not deity. That means he's a demi god. So there is God in him, but is largely a create, a creation, not a creator. If you assume this position, you have refused the revelation of him as part of the god Head, and you have also refused the revelation of him as creator. Number four is the Apollinarian heresy, and this heresy posted to. Let that only the spirit of Jesus is divine. His soul and his body has nothing to do with divinity. That they are just energized. That means his body could contacting and his body and his soul could be corrupted. Are you following this? So? One said he is fully human, another said he is fully divine. Another said he is divine but not deity. Another said he is his spirit is the deity divine, but his body and soul is natural. And then number four, it's what we're called the Nestorian heresy. This one post to lead that Christ is a man full of God. So they are referring to Jesus as a new creation. You know, you and I are man full of God. But if you say that, you have reduced Jesus to a new creation, and you have removed him from the class of God. Now, all of these arguments were arguments that lasted for very long periods of time because they were trying to unravel who the person of Jesus is. So there was a time because they wanted Jesus to be worshiped. They say he is fully God. He has no human aspect at all, because if we say there's any human aspect to him, we are condescending him. And then they argue for a long time or that to Aologians now rose and said, no, if there's no human aspect to him, how could he have saved man? If there is God in him. Them, it means everything he was pretending to suffa was his camp. Because God can feel pain, God can't be tempted. That means Jesus was pretending he wasn't really going through pain. So they now change the argument that he is completely human, he's not God. And then all that geologians came and said, no, if we say that, it would be wrong. There are certain scriptures that suggests that although he was a man, he was did divine. So how do we balance it? Okay, let's say his spirit is divine, but his body is human. So he could suffer in his body, but his spirit could not suffer. And then they continue with that, and so you see that theology keep modifying, keep modifying, giving different expression to him. And then the last heresy is that both is divine and human nature all fused together to become divine. So he has two natures, but both nature are divine because it's it's divine nature is fully divine, but is human nature is also up great head to also become divine. So the two natures are divine nature. But all of these arguments are not very correct. So let's go through the scripture and see what the Bible concludes for Jesus to be. So before we talk about this nature, let's first of all proof from scripture that Jesus is deity. Isaiah seven, verse fourteen. Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name a Manuel. There are two revelations from this scripture that shows the deity of Christ. The first revelation is the fact that he was born of a virgin. Women don't have seed, are you following? Women don't have seed. The seed that produces an offspring comes from the male counterpart. And so if a virgin gives back to a child, it means that child is not human, because that child did not come from the seed of a man. And you see, God himself gave this prophecy in Genesis chapter three, verse fifteen. He said, the seed of the woman shall cross the head of the serpent. But we know that women have seid. So something divine happened here. And in look chapter one, verse thirty five, the injel gebrael on v the mystery, he said, the Holy Goost shall come upon you. He said, the power of the Highest shall overshadow you. And he said that being that shall be formed in you shall be called the Son of the Highest. That means Jesus is the son of God. He came from God. When we say son of God. We are not saying fatter lies to biological process. We are saying, come in foot from God. And we are also saying God taking flesh, because like I toought you already. In Juhne chapter one, verse one, he said, in the beginning was the word, The word was with God, and the world was God. Right in verse fourteen, this world that was God. He said that word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. So when we says the son of God, we are saying we are talking about a technology we are God takes on flesh, because what God we is light. The Bible said in festival Is six sixteen, he said God dwells in light on approachable. But when God takes off the garment of light and puts on the garment of flesh, the God that we as flesh is called the Son of God, because that is the God. That proceeds from the Father. And I told you it is possible for God to proceed from God. In Genesis Chatter three US, the Bible said, the voice of God came walking in the garden. So when God is talking, it's not sound, He produces, He produces God. If God talks God, God's frauth from God. So the God that proceeds from God is the one God, the Son, because it's the one sent forth. And when that one sent forth puts on flesh, he becomes a god man. So Jesus is God put in on flesh. This is why this crypture tells us that in case you see him, we're in flesh with two ears, two eyes. One knows. Don't make the mistake of thinking this one came from spermatozo one. This one did not come from Spain. This one came from the power of the Highest. So this scripture reveals to us of the divinity and the deity of Christ, that he is the seed of God, not the seed of man. And then the name given to him. Here also proves to us that he is divine and deity, because if you go back to this scripture, when the angil Gabra was narrating this same scripture in Matthew Want twenty one, he told us his name shall be called I think that's twenty three in Manuel. What does that mean? God is with us? So this child of a virgin is called God with us. So it reves to us the deity of Jesus Christ, the child that the virgin will give bet to is called in Manuel meaning God us. The child is born of a virgin, meaning is not a man's seed that produced him. He is an offspring of God, and so he shall be caught in Manuel, meaning God with us. So this scripture, first of all, proves that Jesus is called. Number two scriptures from the Old Testament is Isaiah chapter nine, verse six to seven. Let's project it. Four. Go to KJV first, go to Keju. Don't make me start explaining too many things. He is there for unto us, a child is born. Unto us, a son is given. Now, how was that child born? Born by virgin, not the seed of a man, the seed of God. His name shall be called in Man, meaning God is with us. So he is God. He is the God with us. Now he's talking about that same child onto us. A child it is born onto us, A son is given. And it said the government shall be upon his shoulders. What is his name? He said? His name shall be called Wonderful. Counselor the Mighty God. So the child that is born is called what they mighty God. Number two, he shall be called what the ever Lasting Father? Number three. The Prince of peace. Who is the ever lasting Father? Are you saying now that even the Son of God is the Father? Because in eternity there's one God. It is in time that administration made them take different no mekelature. In eternity he is co equal and with the Father he's called the ever Lasting Father. So the same tattoos of deity that the Father has. Is the statue that the Son has. Does this make sense? The Son is God, the Mighty God, they ever lasting Father. So these scriptures prove to us that Jesus is deity. And this is Old Testament. Come to New Testament and see the same emphasis. First Timoti, chapter three, verse sixteen. Great is the mystery of godliness without any controversy. Great is the mystery of godliness. What is it? God was manifested in the flesh. So Jesus is who God manifested in the flesh, and that is the mystery of godliness. So Jesus is not any less than God. He is as divine and as deity as the Father. Isaiah ninety six and seven calls him they mighty God, they ever lasting Father. Festival diitre system caused him God manifested in the flesh in John chapter one, verse one that we already read in the beginning was the world, and the world was with God, and the world was what God. The world was not like God. The world was God, and this world that was God. In John one fourteen, became flesh and dwelt among us. So Jesus is Deity in his full scope and full form, and you know the beauty. Even while he was working as a man, he didn't diminish as God. Collosians chapter two, verse nine. He said he pleased the Father that the fullness of the Godhead showed dwell in him bodily. So he didn't diminish as God because he put on flesh. Essentially speaking, he. Carried the fullness of God bodily. That is the deity of Christ. Scriptures affends it, and there is no authority beyond scripture. Both Old Testament and New Testament prove that this being that became man is fully God. A virgine shall give birth, and his name shall be called Emanuel. And this child that the Vedian shall give is on to us. A child is given onto us, on towards, a child is born ontowards a son is given, and the name of that song that means it's after he has become flesh, that is being called what the Mighty God, the the Lasting Father. And Timothy Pour writing to Timote caused the mystery of godliness. God manifested in the flesh. So in the flesh he was manifesting God. He is God in the flesh. That's what the Bible is saying. Jesus is God, is not a prophet. He is God in the flesh. That is the deity of Christ affirmed by scripture. And if you check your Bible, you're going to see Jesus do things that only God does in the flesh. The worship team he accepted. Only God can be worshiped. And Jesus knows enough to know that it is a sacrilege for you to receive worship if you're only a man before resurrection. After resurrection, when Jesus stopped the storm, the Bible said, the disciples worshiped him. He didn't say stop, stop stop. Only God should be worshiped. When the worship team, he received it because he's God. After resurrection, when Thomas doubted him, and he showed up and said, now that you are doubting, look at my hands. Come and feel it. Thomas feeled it, and immediately he broke down and began to cry. And what did Thomas say? That is a Jewish man. He knows the Bible. Say here, yeah, is rare. The Lord, your God is one god. But the guy knelt down and said, my Lord and my God and Jesus. Did he say, no, your Lord and your God is in heaven. He received that worship because in his flesh. He was the gold. So anybody who says in the flesh Jesus is not God, he's prophet. He doesn't understand. And that's why you need to understand the nature of the nature of Christ. It's got the hypostatic union. It is the coexistence of two natures, the God nature and the man nature. But you need to first of all establish that in the flesh he was God, and then also established that in the flesh he was Man. Then you now begin to find out how these two natures exists together. There are many scriptures, but we don't have time. Okay, let me give you two more new tests of manscriptures. Second Peter, chapter one, best one. See how he was addressed Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus, Christ to them that have obtained like Pressure's faith with us through the righteousness of God and our. Savior Jesus Christ. Peter called him, what God and our Savior Jesus Christ, we have like Pressure's faith through the righteousness, or what of God and our Savior Jesus Christ put it in the amplified Let's look at it. Do you have the amplified grace and peace? That special sense of spiritual webbing been multiplied to you in the true intimate knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. So the guy called him God even Jesus our Lord. If you haven't healty, let's see there, that's a vest that makes it clearer. He's not talking about two different people here, He's talking about the same person. He called him God and our Lord Jesus Christ. I don't know if it's the message. Now, let's check your message. Are you her grace and peace to you many times over as you deep in in your experience with God and Jesus our Master. So he's calling him God and Jesus our Master. It is the. Revelation of scripture that makes you understand this salutation. So they knew him as God even in the flesh, and every time they spoke about him, they spoke about him in light of his person as God. See the way the writer of Hebrew puts it he brewsed A one, verst. Three. He calls him the brightness of his glory. The express image of his person begin from verse one, so that we can connect it God, Who are sundry times talking about God and in diverse manners, speaking time past onto the fathers by the prophets, had in this last day spoken to us by his son. So he's distinguishing Jesus from. The prophets, being whom he appointed of all things, and by whom also he made the words verse three. These Jesus is now saying, who being the brightness of his glory? Whose glory? God? He said, He's the brightness of his glory. The express image of his person is without argument. It's too clear in scripture. He is the only being called God in human form. Now let's look at the humanity of Jesus Christ. In fact, Firstimalty three sixteen Birth confirms his deity and his humanity. He said, great is the mystery of godliness, that what God was manifested in the flesh. That means he had a human, absolutely human manifestation Philippians, chapter two, from verse five, speaking about his humanity. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus next verse, who've been in the form of God? Okay, let's do. Let's do message here, so that to be clearer, let's do message. Who had equal? Are you hearing this status with God? But didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantage of that tattoos? No matter what are you seeing this next verse? Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privilege of deity and took on the tattoos of a slave and. Became what human? Are you seeing this? So in the flesh the Bible calls him God, and in the flesh the Bible caused him human. So there is the full God's tattoos and nature in him, and there is the full human status and nature in him. Now, when the Bible spoke about setting aside the privileges of divinity, here, he's not saying Jesus stopped being God. The Bible said God was manifested in the flesh. So in the flesh he is the God. He's talking about authority here because what Jesus did here was that he submitted his authority to the Father. So although he had all the authority of God, he didn't function in any of it except as the Father gave Clarence so that he could quantify to operate as a man. So he was fully God, but he was not operating as God, not because he lost his godhood, but he surrendered the right to use his God powers. So every time he functioned as a God, the Father gave permission until his assignment as savior was over. And from the cross he started praying, return to me the glory I had with you before the foundation of the world. Because the moment the assignment of servation is over, he's going back to his status as God. And that is why when he resurrected, immediately. The Bible began to speak. If you read from some forty five, he said, the Lord said, to my Lord, the throne. Oh God. So he returned to his follo tattoos as God. He was fully God, operating with his full authority as God. When he wanted to save man, he suspended his authority to function as God so that they can operate as a man. So every time he operated on it. It was what he saw the Father doing that they could do. So the Father was the one who gave clearance for everything he did as God. And then when salvation was over and the job was completed, he returned back to his tattoos, as God. Are you seeing this? So as a man he was fully God, but he was not using the authority of God. As a man he. Was fully God. He only functioned in his authority as the Father allowed. I gave an illustration the last time I was teaching. Maybe you have two generous in an army, and then they want to conquer a territory, and then they come up with a military strategy, both of them generous. And they said, the best thing we can do. Is to these guys and found shown as a spy. But one general has to. Be in command of the army, and it will only take a soldier with the experience of a general to function as a spy. So out of these two equal generals, one said, okay, are we going act as the spy. You keep charge of the army all the times that. He will be operating as a spy although he is still a general. But they cannot use the authority of a general, because if he uses the authority of. A general, he will stop being a spy. So any intelligence he has as a spy will be giving to him by the general, not because he has stopped being a general, but because he has really removed the authority to function as a general in order to be a spy. They won't give him intelligence report. So anything he needs to know about the army, a neighborhood, as a barber, where did they have you? Then lets you so he will look at you and beg, I need money. I may not feed babed yesterday? Out why they do like this? Do you know who you're talking to that says spy you are delivering? Here? Will come you say, say let's eat there, will do everything. Those days when we were in the university, when there or conticue groups were on the rampage, they used to send DSS to common actor students and then we enter the class. You will be playing with you like campus today. Some of them have got better from the inversity ten years ago. And then tom you won't join the court. And then they will be saying tomorrow we'll go shake things, we go bond the library, we go kid the v c. Hey, we'll hear all and send intelligence when they arrest all of you. By the time they bring you to headquarter, you none discovered that that students it's a DSS. It's not a student. But I says to that. You will go together to the market. You will be eating you sometime you will fight. He will allow you beating. I gotta deal with you for this campus. Sorry, sorry, you are you are you are dealing with this pie. So the general can be molested, arrested, beating, interrogated, he can be hungry. All of it is to forfear an assignment. When the assignment is over, when that captain, the king of that Dason is arrested and they are bringing him to the parade to show his shame and mockery. That's why he will now discover that the spy. Too, he's a general, and we see the whole army saluting him. He will now discover that if the princess of this world had known, they would not have crucified who is that a man? No, they would not have crucified the. Lord of Glory. So Jesus surrendered all his authority as God. He didn't stop being God, but he stopped using the authority. He submitted it to the Father so that he could be a man, so that he could die for our. Scenes, so that he could function fully as a man. But the moment resurrected, he went back to his tattoos as God. So in Christ were two opperasional natures, the human nature and the divine nature. The divine nature was able to function with the human nature because the authority of God had been suspended. If he was functioning as omnipotent homni science, it would have been impossible for that nature to coexist. But because it's surrendered that capacity, the two natures could not exist together. So when you look at him, you think is man, you think it's God. You can't tell the difference. Because he has surrendered it is God. They cannot cease doctrine. That's what's captured in Philippians two, from verse five to verse seven, is the doctrine of self emptying everything that makes him function in the glory of God. He submitted it to the Father. So in Christ there was both deity and there was both humanity, but deity was surrendered. The authority of deity was surrendered so that they can coexist. Together. This is why his human nature could now find expression. This union is. Called the hypostactic union, and the doctrine is called the Kenosis doctrine self emptying. I surrender omnipotence. I surrender omni science. I surrender self existence. I surrender eternality. I surrenders all knowing. I surrender all presence so that I can coexist with my human nature, and in that context, I can do everything as a man. This is how Jesus functioned on earth fully, god fully man, but the authority of God surrendered for the time that he needed to carry out the assignment of salvation. What's the proto for this to happen. It's called the incarnation, and this is why the incarnation is very important. It's in the. Incarnation that this nature was born, the human nature, and it was in the incarnation that the human nature and the divine nature was. Permitted to coexist. And so it's important for you to understand the incarnation and for the incarnation to happen. Three things or four things was put in place. Number one, the counsel of God had created that possibility revelations that invest Eight, the Bible said God the Son was the lamb that was slained before the foundation of the world. So God created the possibility for God to enter amongst men. So that's the first protocol of the incarnation revelations that in it. The second thing that happened was that a body was prepared for him. Because this one is not going to be no gestation, It won't be fertilization of ovaries by spermatozo one. This one, a body had to be prepared so that this spredit can enter. And so if you study your Bible in Hebrews chapter ten, verse five, the Bible said, sacrifices an offering, thou would doest not, he said, but a body hast thou prepared for me. So the counsel of God captures it. Before the foundation of the world, a body was prepared for him. And then number three, the womb of a virgin was selected. And then number four, the power of the Highest came upon the body that was selected in the womb of the virgin, so that God can become. So that's the protocol that took place. And so in Look one thy five it said the Holy Ghost shall come upon you, the power of the Highest shadow you. He said that being that shall be formed in you shall be called the son of the Highest. And so this possibility was made through the mystery of the incarnation. Now, why is the incarnation necessary? Number one? Because man was doomed Ezekiel eighteen verse four. The Bible said, God speaking eighteen twenty, it say all sows are mind, and it said the soul that senate shall die Romans six twenty three. The wages of sin is death. So man was doomed for death. Number two, why is the incarnation necessary? Man could not save man, and unfortunately only man was permitted to save man, because it's the law of divinity. Is the being that force that pays the price. So if an angel of force is an angel that will pay the price, if a man falls, is a man that will pay the price. And that that's why the Bible, speaking in Hebrews nine twenty two and Leviticals seventeen level, he said, without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sain. So it is man that we pay the penalty for man. Unfortunately, no man was qualified. So the reason that incarnation is necessary. Number one, man is doomed for destruction. Number two, only man can pay the price. And then number three. Because no man was wanted to pay the price, God had to step in for God won't save man as God. If he does, he would have violated his own laws. So God had to become man. In order for God to be able to save man, God had to become man because if God doesn't have blood, God can't save man. Without the shedding of blood, there will be never There will never be remission of sain. So incarnation is necessary because salvation depended on incarnation. Ouside this, there are other significances of incarnation. Number one. It also gives God a room to reveal to man his fullness because until now there was no clear revelation of God. The prophets communicated about God as much as they could, but God. Needed man to know him with a clearer revelation. And so now that God was becoming man, it would give God a robust avenue to reveal himself. And this is why Hebrews one, verse one to three is a God whom at saundred times and in diverse manners spect to the fathers in time past, by the prophet, has in this last day spoken to us by his soul, who been the brightness of his glory, the express image of His presence. So the incarnation gives us the opportunity to know God in his clear So any dimension of God that you cannot trace in doctrine, you can trace in the life of Jesus Christ. That's why the incarnation is important. Number three, Why is the incarnation very important? It gives God the avenue to destroy the works of the devil. In First John three vers eight, he said, for this cause the son of Man was made, The Son of God was made manifest, that he might destroy the works of the devil. So if Jesus does not become man, he can't destroy the works of the devil. Why if God does so, it will be injustice. It would be Creator fighting with creation. There's no ground for that kind of battle to happen. It would have been an unfair battle. But now that God has become flesh and he was working as a man, he now has the authority and the justification to contend and to destroy the works of the devil. And in Collisions to fourteen and fifteen, the Bible speaking of Jesus that on the cross his poi, principalities and powers, he made a public show of them, and it triumphed over them by the cross. The first reason why the incarnation is important is because it affects the new Covenant. It brings about the operation of. The new covenant. God wanted to have the relationship with man, and it tried many covenants. No one walked. I've showed you here before. I taught you about the Nuai covenant. I taught you about the Abrahamic covenant. I taught you about the Mosaic Covenant. I taught you about the da Vidic Covenant. In all of this covenant, God could not achieve the relationship he was looking for. So, and the reason is simple. Man couldn't keep God's covenant. So God was looking for the man that had the capacity to keep his covenant. And so the incarnation gives God the opportunity to find that man who can keep his covenant. And so when Jesus became man, Jesus became the. Keeper of the covenant. I was discussing with the past. Raymond Elia, and I told him, and I learned this thing from past of Christ more than ten years ago, sometimes around two thousand and four. We are not a covenant people. We are not in covenant with God. God is in covenant with Jesus Christ. God tried to keep covenant with us in Noah. It didn't work. He tried to keep covenant with us in Abraham, it didn't work. He tried to keep covenup with us in Moses. It didn't work. He tried to keep coven up with us. It didn't work. So God entered a covenant. With Jesus Christ. So Jesus was the one God entered covenant with, and Jesus was the one who kept the covenant. Jesus was the one who obeede God perfectly. Jesus was the one who fulfilled everyreating in the law perfectly. So God kept his covenant with Jesus Christ. We are the children of the covenant. We are not the ones covenant with See. You know, you can quote scriptures and the scripture can make sense, but it doesn't mean it's consistent with truth. I told you truth is absolute, but understanding truth is progressive. I told you about healing, for example, and I told you something. What did I tell you? I told you in Exados, the Bible said, I think. Exodus twenty three. Twenty five, the Bible said, if you serve the Lord your God, that's the context of the Mosaic Covenant. In said will bless your bread and your water, and will remove sickness from the midst of the Are you saying that so your healing was predicated upon your keeping the covenant. You now come to Isaiah chapter fifty three, verse. Four and five. God didn't expect you to do anything anymore. It's no longer about serving the Lord your god. He said, he was wounded for our transgressions. He was brused for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him by his tribes. Were he What does that mean? Healing moves from something you end through keeping covenant to something that is gifted you as a blessing because Jesus kept the covenant. And then if you move to hebrewstafta Roman staft as a level, they say that same spirit, the raist of Jesus from the dead. Lives in you. They say he will quick king your motor body. So now you have received healing and eternal life and divine health, not because you are doing anything, but because Jesus did something. So your job now is just to believe what Jesus did. Are you following this when I was telling you about tide last week. What did I tell you? I told you, if you don't give tight now, you are not cost because you are not giving tight now as a law you are keeping. I told you, if you don't give tight now, no divaura will rebuke, we will destroy you unless you let him. You now have authority in the name of Jesus to deal with any divarura. And in Christ you are seated far above principalities and powers. I also told you, if you don't now, you're not going to hell, because you're going to heaven. It's not because of what you did. It's because of what Jesus did. If you believe in the Lord Jesus, you are saved. If you're confessed with your mouth, you are saved. And if you believe in your heart, you are made righteous. So it's what Jesus did that will make you go to heaven. Your job is to believe and accept what he has done. So I told you in the New Testament context, if you give to God, it's because you honor him. If you give to God, it's because you love him. If you give to God, it's because you consecret your resources. As a reasonable child, not because God is not that God is blessing you because of what you are giving. Neither is it because that if you don't give, God. Will cost you. There's no cost for us anymore. The Bible said cost is that everyone the hanger on the tree, and who was the one that hung on the creek? Christ? It says, so that the blessings might come upon us, who are the gentiles. Because we have become heirs of the promise. So we are not in covenant with God to receive anything. And this is why nothing you have in God has a merit. You are not receiving anything from God based on merit anymore. Everything you receive from God is. A function of your faith and revelation of what Jesus has done for you, and immaturity consecreting yourself to God. So anything God is not giving you now, it's. Not because you need to earn it. It's because you are not yet mature to handle it. My son is not in covenant with me. I'm in covenant with my wife. If I touch any woman, I'm in trouble. If my wife touches any man, she's in trouble. Because we have sworn to ourselves in covenant. But if my son shows up and we only advise him, don't taught women know is bad, not because if he touches anybody, they'll be divorced. There's nothing like divorce there. If I'm disciplining him, I'm disciplining him for his own good. He has nothing to do with me. And my son doesn't need to fulfill any law for me to give him food. In fact, if I don't give him food and I need responsible father, my son doesn't need to do anything for me to protect him. If I don't protect him and I need. Responsible father, all my son needs to do is to believe me. So if he needs money, said Daddy, I need money. If he needs food, he said, Daddy, I need food. Are you following this because we are not in any covenant. However, if my son becomes darty and he said, Daddy, give me food, I said no, I've trained you enough. To get food for yourself. So my not giving him food now, it's not because it needs to qualify to a covenant. My not giving him food now is because I expect that the life I've given to him, the training I've given to him, the annoying and I've given to him. He should have traded them by now to know what to do. So if you don't understand the New Testament, you will be interpreting scripture in light of the Old Testament. So the impact of the incarnation is Jesus to activate the New Covenant, because the Bible said a testament is not with effect except by the depth of the testatle So if Jesus did not become man, if Jesus did not pay the price for seeing, if Jesus does not forfill the law, and if Jesus does not die and resurrect, I can never receive the blessings of the covenant. What's the blessings of the covenant? Eternal life? I didn't pay for it. Anoint him, I didn't pay for it. Faith, I didn't pay for it. The presence of God. I didn't pay for it. The blessings of God. I didn't pay for it. He said All things are yours, He said, God, that's given to you, all things that pertended to life and godliness, not because you did anything true. They not ledge of Him that you possess, because He has already called you to glory and to virtue. So my calling is. To enjoy the fullness of God. I work in the blessing. I work in the favor. I work in the glory of the Father, not because I earned it, but because Christ paid for it. So if Christ did not incarnate, if Christ did not die, if Christ was not buried, if Christ was not resurrected, I would not have had the opportunity to work in the blessing. So in the New Covenant, we are all we are through Christ. Jesus po said I am what I am by the grace of God. Is say I can do all things through Christ, who strength is me. He has come into an understanding. So when we live covenant life, it's not because we are trying to qualify. Christ has qualified those. When we live Covenant life, we are trying to mature into Godhood. So the reason I give it so that I can mature. The reason I first so that I can mature. The reason I do everything I do now. Is so that I can mature. The only basis for which God bless me is Jesus Christ, and all of that is possible because of the incarnation. Are you following? Are you learning? Are you learning what you say? Sometimes we teach these things little by little, because when you drop the whole team to be a challenge, you will break a lot of things. You will break so many you're a step for many. You will have enemies until you start taching doctrine because there are some things that are older than your age. If you touch it, it will be a problem. And even while you are teaching it, you have to teach it with a lot of humility, so that you're not trying to say somebody else doesn't know. Neither are you trying to you understand, so that people don't argue. Let them just open their hat and be blessed. Because if you adverse it to aggressively, what will bless people? They will fight it. But what you say it to humility, they will say, is it true? Let's go and study. When they now study, they will come back and discover its true. We have this treasure in eighteen vessel that the Excellency might be of and not of man. We can never have merrit with God because the one that past God's test is Jesus Christ. The one that kept the claims of divine justice is Jesus Christ. We just come to enjoy and to receive and to be blessed. Because we are the heirs of the promise. We are the heirs, the inheritors of the covenant that God had with God in the passing of Jesus Christ. This is why the incarnation is so important. Ah, our time is gone. Maybe I will stop here, Okay, in another ten minutes. Let me talk to you about his offices, so that our round up there. I told you he is what God the son. He is the son of God, he is the son of Man, and he is the Christ. So let's look at that, because if you don't understand this, you will not make the most of Christ. Will not make the most of Christ. There are four reasons we have relationship with God. Number one is to know him. And knowing him is not just knowing about him, is to experience him. That's what we call divine and counter We have a relationship with God to know him, and in fact, the Bible caused that knowledge eternal life. He said, this is life eternal, that you may know him John seventeen, p. Three, the only true God and him whom He has sent to know him. Number two, we have relationship with God so that we can worship him, because worshiping him is what gives meaning to our existence. In Revelations for eleven, he said all things were created for that glory, So creation becomes relevant to the degree that creation gives glory to him. Number three, why do we have a relationship with God? So we have the opportunity to serve Him. It's in serving Him that we find purpose and meaning because Bree, where you find yourself is a platform to give a type of service to God. If I'm in the five for ad ministry, as I am now preaching and serving God because God wants to shape a generation and it's using. Me, you can be in the army. You'll be serving God's purpose there. It's a platform where you are serving as a profession, but there are many divine agenda that only you can fulfill there. God may have sent you there to bring sanity to that unit. God may have sent you there to help the people there to know Him and to encounter him. God may have sent you there to bring defense to a nation, not just with gods, but also by prophecy and priesthood. So you discover your purpose if you open your heart to serve God. And the first reason why we have a relationship with God is because we are blessed through relationship. That relationship gives us the opportunity for God to bless and blessings doesn't mean take money taker. No, the word blessed means empowered to prosper. So God gives you empowerment. He empowers you to prosper. Are you following this? So? Anybody who doesn't have a relationship with God will not know him, will not worship him, will not serve him, and will not work in the blessing, because it's working with Him that He empowers you. Now, for you to make the most of these fourteens from Christ, you must know Christ in his four offices as God the Son, as the Son of God, as the Son of Man, and as the Christ. So let's run through very quickly. As God the Son, like I have mentioned already, he is the second person of the god Head. So what it means is that he is eternally co equal and coexistent with the Father. You know, many persons when they are dealing with Jesus, they begin to deal with Jesus from the standpoint of his his. His fleshly manifestation. But before Jesus became flesh, before he became man, before he became God a man, He was God in himself. So when we are dealing with him as God the Son, we are dealing with him as the eternal. World of God. We are not dealing with him in his manifestation as Jesus Christ. We are dealing with him in his manifestation as the eternal world of God. So in John chapter one, Verst. One, the Bible said, in the beginning was the Word. The world was with God, and the world was God. So Jesus is God the Son, not in human form, but in his essence and in his state as the eternal world of God. In Genesis chapter one, Verse one, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was void. Darkness was upon the face of the deep, and God said elo him said light be. So in that scripture you'll say that the Father was there, the world was spoken, and the Spirit was brooding upon. The face of the deep. So God the Son is the living Word of God. God the Son is not Jesus in It's not God in flesh. Yet it is God as the eternal world of God. As the eternal Word of God. He is coequal with the Father, and he is the second person of the Godhead. That's the first revelation of Jesus. Most her many don't know that this Man of Galilee, once upon the time was the world that created all things. They don't know that this Man of Galilee, once upon the time was the word that. Existed before existence began. So every time you speak Jesus, speak Jesus, they begin their. Argument with him in human form. He was the living world before he became or took the form of a man. Are you following this? When it took the form of a man, something happened. He became the Son of God, who is son of God. Son of God is living Word made flesh. That's why I told you son of God does not mean offspring of God. Son of God means God in flesh. So before he became flesh, he was God, the Son, co equalitana coexistence with the Father. But when he took home flesh, his tattoos changed. He became the Son of God. Is as the Son of God that is suspended his authority of divinity. That is where the self emptying took place. Is as the Son of God that he dropped the ability of omnipotence, that it dropped the ability of a miniccience, that it dropped the ability of self existence because there was an errand he came to run as the son of God. And let me show you three errands that he ran as the son of God Number one, John three sixteen. For God, soul of the world. That he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but however last their life. So here he was not operating as God the Son. Here he was operating as the Son of God. So he was the ransom for sin. And for him to be the ransom for sin, he can be a minipotent he can be minicience. So essentially he remained omnipotent, ormin science, omni benevolent, self existence, eternal and. All of that. But he surrendered that authority so. That he can run this errand, so he became the ransom for sin. So it's as the son of God. That he became our sacrificial land. Romance, Chapter one, verse three and four. See what the Bible said concerning his son. Every time you're reading scripture, you will see that the nomenclature is consistent with the assignment his son Jesus Christ, our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared, are you using this? And declared verse four and declared to beat the word son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. So, as the Son of God, he was their ransom for salvation. So anybody who doesn't know Jesus as the Son of God cannot be saved, because his errand as Son of God is to bring salvation. Look at another scripture, First John, chapter five, Ver's eleven to thirteen. I'm showing you why each of this revelation is important. If you don't know him as God the Son, you won't worship him. And that's why many religions of the world are not worshiping him. The reason we worship Jesus is because we know that is God, the Son eternally coo eco and coexistent with the Father. But the reason we also believe that it's our savior is because we know him as the Son of God. That is where salvation comes from, and that is where life comes from. He said, And this is the record that God has given to us eternal life. And this life is where is in his son and see what he said. He said, go to best twelve. He that had the Son has life. He that had not the Son of God hath not life. So if you don't know the Son of God, you can't have eternal life. You can't have salvation. You may know him as God the Song and worship him, you will still go to her. The only time you can be saved is when you know him as the Son of God, the one that brought life to you and brought you salvation. See what he said, invested him. These things have I written on to you that believe on the name of Who is he God? The Son? Is he? The Son of Man? Is he the Christ? No, that believe on the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. So if you believe in God the Son, you will worship him. If you believe in the Son of God, you will have ever last in life. So the man that was crucified, as far as some concern, is God in human form. That's why he has the capacity to take away my sayings, because he's without saying, because his blood was not defied, because he could offer the perfect sacrifice, because he lived a sinless life, so I know that he qualifies to save me, and so I can put my faith in him. But if I know him as God, the Song he can die. God. The Song cannot die. God. The Son does don't have flesh. God, the Son is spirit God. The Son is the the lasting Word of God. He can't die, he can't save. But it is Son of God that has flesh, a son of God that has blood. It's Son of God that can die. So his revelation as Son of God is where we see him as our savior. It's where we see him as the author of our lives. And then the second revelation of him as the Son of God is where we see him as the pattern man, because as Son of God, he obeyed the Father's will. So anything Jesus represented becomes my way of life. Anything Jesus says becomes my way of life because as the son of God, he came to show me the patterns of God. Hebrews tend several see what the Bible said. Then said I lo, I come in the volume of the books to do thy will, Oh God. Now how do I know this is the son of God? When he was carrying the errand of salvation in the garden of Gethsemane. There was a contention, and they said, Father, if it were possible, let this card pass me by, and say, yet, not my will, but dying. So as the son of God, he reversed to us perfect obedience. He reversed to us how to fulfill the will of the Father. It is in this context that we serve God accurately. So there are things you may want to do that you don't like, but you have also seen the Son of God. He didn't want to die, but he had to die. So sacrifice as a basis of Christian life is revealed to us through the pattern of Jesus Christ. So when you find a Christian who only serves God when it is convenient, he has no revelation of the Son of God. For those of us who know the Son of God, so long. As is the will of God, evenly, if it is not consistent with our will, our will becomes inconsequential, because as the son of God, he came to show us the pattern of obedience. This is why this revelation is very important. Lo I come in the volumes of the book to do that well, low God. And it is in this context that we are commissioned to serve God John twenty twenty one. As the Father have sent me, who has a father? Is it not a son? As the Father have sent me, so send I you. So when you find the early Church we are people celebrated martyrdom. It's because they had a deep revelation of the Son of God. Our generation don't know the Son of God. That's why our Christianity is selfish and self centered, because we don't know that. Every time your function based on the revelation of the Son of God, you to become a son of God, and in that context your life becomes a ransom for the will of God. But today people only serve God where they have gain. People only go to places where they have gain. If you say miracle service, everywhere is packed. Talk about VIGI. Nobody comes, talk about evangelism, nobody comes, talk about giving for kingdom, advancement, nobody gives. We are looking for God, the Son who is God and provides all our need, but we don't know God, son of God. In the Elitord, they have this revelation. People celebrated dying for God because there was something they saw in Jesus that our generation needs to see it again, and so we need to take time to teach deeply on the Son of God. There was a time Jesus was speaking. He said, Oh, how am I so stretched? He said, but I must do the will of the work of Him that sent me while it is there. So for the soul of. God, the work of God is the most obedience becomes. They have moleque of your existence if you know the Son of God. But I'm telling you, evil church leaders don't know the Son of God. They are there for the honor of the position. I am the vice president, I am the resident pastor, I am prophet, I am a person. And it's all about title. You invite somebody to preach. If you don't negotiate your alreadiom, he won't come. And if he comes for that meeting, if you don't pick him in a jep, you have dishonored him and the annointing has left him. He came here with fire, But they were you people dishonored me. I don't think I can minister. That's a hireling. He doesn't know the Son of God. The Son of God went on donkeys, and when there was no donkey, the son of God trecked, because I must do the work of him that sent me. While it is day, the night commeat we are. No man can work. That's what their persons do, he said, Paw and Bannabas. He said, this be the man that hasded their lives for the gospel. When their persons of Jesus were bitten, you, we think they will be crying. They were celebrating. Why, he said, we have been counted worthy to suffer for the sake of Jesus Christ. There's something they know, because they sold Jesus so far for the sake of the will of God. The revelation of the Son of God is perfect obedience service to God as the ultimate purpose of existence. That's what he came to model. So he's the ransom, he's the symbol of divine obedience. And finally, he's the visible image of the Father. So if you want to see what God looks like, it is only the Son of God that you see it. He said, who been the brightness of his glory, the express image of his person. And so anything that did things happened to Jesus cannot happen to you. It is in this light that you refuse oppression because the one who bears the image of the Father cannot be oppressed. It's in this life light that you refuse demonic torments. It is in this life that you insist to work in dominion. Because when he functioned and expressed the Father, he dominated everything, from demons to the elements of this world. No demons stood before Jesus. When he showed up, he commanded them and they left. And then when he had to deal with the elements of nature, he dominated them. Why because creation is in bondage until there is the manifestation of the sons of God. And so when it came, he allowed creation to express their full potential. So when Jesus wanted to cross the river and the boat was gone, all he needed to do was to talk to the water carry me. And the water had intelligence to carry him, and it was floating on the water. He wasn't working on. It is for lack of wars that the Bible said he came working on the water. Because when we read that scripture, the Bible said the momentary joined them. They were at ground, the momente entered the boat. The boat came to show. That means the water was the one gliding him. Creation had come to its full potential. Jesus called carry water and said they need wine, so become wine. And water will recalibrate itself. And water we suddenly have taste. Water will become wine. And then we drink and relax, and said, this is the best wine. What was happening. That's how we should relate with nature. A point you come. When somebody is sick, you send air and said, go and improve his lungs. And the air we have intelligence the air. We travel to that place. And what do you think the witches do? How do they send arrows? In the demonic ram? A witch can stand up and speak to an atmosphere and send it to your house. And the air we come to your house and poison you. What do they know? Meanwhile, they are subjecting creation to bondage. We came to release creation. Every three you are seeing has curative ability. If somebody tells you he's sick, you can just carry a leaf and put in water. Thank you, drink, and the person we drink and become healthy. Because there is a curative potential in that lead. That live is not for goods and chaos. That live has curative power. But that live is in bondage. So instead of healing is poisoning. When the Son of God shows up, he releases the potential of creation, because as they see God, creation wants to worship God, and so they release all their powers. And if you have that revelation creation, we begin to function with you in that same order. It was in that light that Philip traveled by waywind. When the time came to travel, there was no plane. The air carried him. It was in that light that these guys began to do wonders. The Bible said, many wonders did their apostles. Many they did many wonders. Anything you touch can become an advantage. But it begins from have been a revelation of the Son of God. First of all, that yourself is to manifest God's glory, and second that anything you taught should also manifest God's glory. They said, we are choosing generation a royal priesthood, God's own special people Codford to showcase the excellency of God. How about son of Man? As I tried to round up as son of man, he is the representation of. Man in the realm of God. So man would not have had accurate representation in the God realm, except as Jesus became son of Man than year seven thirteen and fourteen, I saw in the night vision, and behold, one like the soul of Man, came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancients of days, and they brought him near before him Ver's fourteen. And there was giving onto him dominion, glory and kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion. We shall not pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed. So Jesus is. The representation of man in the realm of God. And it's on the strength of him as the son of Man that that representation is possible. And so when we see Jesus as son of Man, it's making a statement that we are no more disadvantage in the realm of God. So in the realm of God, you and I have this stick. We have a kingdom, we have a dominion, we have an inheritance. If Jesus is not there a son of Man, you won't have an inheritance. It's like a senate chamber. The one that accuse your kis the one that insists on your blessings. The one that insists on your own inheritance is Christ Jesus. This is why things happen to you much more than you pray for. If all of us are only to receive what we have prayed for, Sir, this life will be heard. You know why. What you are not praying about that you don't know is more than what you know that you are praying about. And even the one you know that you are praying about, most of it you don't pray it enough. And even the ones you pray enough, you don't know how to pray it. Romance eight twenty six tells us he said, for we know not what to pray for us we ought to, he said, but the spirit help bet our informities grown needs that cannot be altered. And we also understand that Jesus leave it to make intercession for us forever and ever. It is in his ministry as the son of Man that is standing in the God for you and I. So one of the things that completes your faith is the ministry of Jesus as Son of Man. Because anywhere that my priesthood can cover, anywhere my faith cannot cover, His intercession covers for me. And this is why we have more than we deserve, because he adds his voice to our voice. He has become our representation. And every time we approach God, we approach God in his name because he has become the eternal representation of man to God. If you go to God, how do you go? You go in the name of Jesus is because he is there, a son of Man. Every time you show up, he says, yes, I allowed him, I gave him. Clarence. In John fourteen six, he say, no one can come to the further except by me. Why do you think all the religion of the world don't know God. There's no access. There is no access. Most religions of the world. They don't talk to God and they don't hear from God because they don't have a representation there. If they go, the door is shut. But for you, and I say, come boldly before the tone of Greece and obtain mercy. Come boldly because you are no longer coming based on your merriage. Somebody stood there opening the door for you, so that any day, any time you have access. That's the ministry of the Son of Man. He represents you in the rim of God and He doesn't just represent you. He insists that you have an inheritance. That's why we are joined as with Christ. Look at what the Bible said in Matthew A round up here Matthew twenty five, that you one to forty six. See what the Bible said when the Son of Man. Are you seeing the introduction? See when you are reading the Bible, Pay attention. Some of you are reading Son of God, Son of Man and Christ. You think he's the same thing. They're not the same thing. He said, when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the Holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. Go to next verse, and before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as shepherd divides sheep from goods. Next verse, and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, and he shall set the goad on his left hand. So those who accept him and believing. As the son of God, he will put them on one side, because they qualify when inheritance. He is their representation, And those who don't accept him, they will be kicked away. You will see it. Next verse. Then shall the kings onto them on his right hand. Come, you're blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world. So that is son of Man sharing inheritance. But those who don't accept him and recognize him, see what will happen to them next verse. Except for I was hunger, you gave me. I was thirsty, you gave me to drink. I was a stranger, you. Took me in. So all of this context is him interacting with you as man and rewarding you as your representative. This is why it is a son of man that he manifest his weakness. This is why is the son of man that you are his brother. So anything you do to another man, you are doing to him because you recognize or him in orders. This is why you forgive people unconditionally, because you too were forgiven and you see God in them. So anything you do to a fellow man, you know that your God is also a man. The Bible said be careful to receive strangers, because in sol doing some received have received in jails unaway. So our interaction with one another is done with the consciousness that our God is man. Our interaction with one another is done with the consciousness that Jesus is brought to all of us, and whatever we do to one, we do to him. And then with the consciousness that he's coming to reward us because he's representing us there. But many have no revelation of the son of Man. So jesus Is eternal program of reward is as son of Man. Jesus's salvation program is a son of God. And Jesus's tattoos as God to be worshiped is as God the Son. And then as Messiah. He is the king, he is the priest, and he is the prophet. What does that mean? He is our king, he's our priest, and it is our prophet. And because of that, he made us also to be kings. He made us to be priest, and he made us to be prophets. If you read your Bible, you were discovered that the word Christ is the word the anointed one and is anointing. And that word was. Transliterated from the Hebrew word machiak. And if you study the Hebrew word machiac every time it was using the Old Testament, it's when a priest is to be ordained, it's when a king is to be ordained, and it's when a prophet is to be a deamed Exo does started a starting the Bible, said call Eron and his son and machiak them into the priest's office. So without the anointing, you cannot be a priest. So when Jesus is Christ, if we see him as Christ, it awakens us to our priesthood or the nation. So the reason I have the authority to function as a priest is not because I went to a geological seminary. The reason I have authority to function as a priest is because he is my Christ, and as my Christ Revelations one verse six. He has made me a priest. As my Christ. I have become a royal priesthood because now the authority and the anointing to be able to access God's presence, he has made it available to me. So anybody who doesn't have a. Priesthood, and anybody who cannot access God's presence does not know that Jesus has become his qualification. And that's why when he resurrected, they will divided. There's no more hindrance between man and God. In Christ, we have access to the presence because there is an anointing he has released that has made you a priest. That's the revelation of Jesus as your Christ. He is your priest, so he has made you a priest. You can talk to God directly. You don't need Virgin Mary to talk to God. You don't need a prophet to talk to God. You can talk to God any day, any time. In fact, we no longer go in and out of God's presence. We carry God's presence everywhere we go. It's our consciousness that floats it. But if you know that there. Is an annointing. Of the Christ upon your life, even in your bathroom, you can talk to God. You can flow with God in your bathroom. In fact, most of the instructions of your destiny you will hear them taking your bath Mala borras sefer regatta, balila, baranda zuza a kafa and the anointing we come upon you. Ah. From your bathroom, you start prophesside to nationals. The dove Canada is open, the dog the United Kings, and somebody is saying, are you mad? Are you in charge? Church is no longer a building and the carrier of God's presence. The only goes Bannacle's here. So I carry the presence. Why because I have known the Christ. I talk to God with goodness. I talk to God with the shurance that he hears me. See the presence of God for me is not a feelly. He's a man who doesn't know Christ that thinks he is in God present when he's shaky. God here, God is here, no way, my God. I am in Christ, and Christ they send me. So while I'm driving, I'm carrying God's presence. Man key back a para and things are just happening. And the day we were driving, who was with me? Yesterday? We were driving home yesterday a brother called me. I went to see doctor Chiyamaka and we're going home and the brother called me. Their dad had an accident and they said the brain was functioning at three percent. He said the human brain functions at fifteen percent, but they said it was functioning at three percent. The guy was. Paraplegic, completely unconscious, and the doctor said they will checked it today. If there's no improvement, they will do an oppression. And if they do the oppression, he will be like vegetable for at least three years before he starts doing anything. And everybody was shacking and I was playing with my son and they called me. What is happening? He told me the story. I said, hold hands, let's let's join it now. In the name of Jesus. Come out of coma, in the name of Jesus's brain shoot up, in the name of Jesus, received strength. I got home. It was not up to thirty minutes. You know what, the guy said, there's good news. The doctor wanted to go home, and he said, way to let me just check what is happening. Bray had bounced bounced back to fifteen percent. Believe me you, I was not sensing any annoying thing. But I know that I carry God's present When I talk, I talk from heaven. I don't need to come to charge to fear heaven. I don't need to stand on this order see see forget all those things off. I'm standing on this orthor, and I'm declaring my brother, relax. We are not in the Old Testament. You may have higher consciousness from this ortha. But bro, even if I'm in the bathroom, I can't change things as much as I can't change says here. Because you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the Living God, to an innubrable company of Angel, to the Spirit of just the made perfect. That's the revelation of the Christ. Right now, I'm working in God's presence. I'm not in God's presence when I'm in church. I mean God's presence anywhere, any day, anytime, and I carry sufficient consciousness to mobilize the. Power of that presence. That's good. That's the Man. So it's not my feeling that brings God's presence. Is my revelation of the Christ. I know the Christ. The Christ means access to God's presence. That's the Christ. An anointing that empowers me to carry God's presence. So I carry God's presence because I know the Christ. And that's not all. When a prophet is anointed, he's also machi Act First Kings sixteen, verse nineteen. I've been nineteen sixteen. He said, get me as I hel and Elijah. He is annoying as I here as king over Samaria and annoying Elijah as prophet in your state. So you can work in dominion, except you know Christ. The anointing is your dominion. That's why even Jesus for him to function in dominion. He say how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy ghost and power, who went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil, because God was with him. Do you know how I know that I'm still anointed? My revelation of Christ is intact. Here's my empowerment, He's my anointing. Do you know why I hear God? And I don't think it's impossible to hear God because of the revelation of the Christ. Because when you are anointed, you hear God. So he is your king, he's your priest, it's your prophet. And because of that, He has made you a king and a priest, and he has pull you up also to the voice of God. Because in the Old Testament. Only the priest comes to God's presence, but in Christ, every one of us has come. We have come to God's presence. In the Old Testament, only the king exercises authority. But in Christ we have all been made kings. In the Old Testament, only the prophet hears and speaks for God. But in the New Testament, my sheep heard my voice. Every one of us here and every one of us can speak for God. So, brothers and sisters, when you confront life, confront life with revelation. I carry God's presence to my office. I carry God's presence to my business, because as far as I'm concerned, Christ has opened that realm to me. I hear God's voice. I don't need to be a prophet. I'm not saying the office of the prophet is no longer relevant. But as far as I'm concerned, every prophet only gives me confirmation. I hear God too. And if I've not heard God, if a prophet prophetesies to me, it was before for edification, for exhortation, and for comfort. Because the voice of God is with me now. And I rule and reign in life because I have been made a king and a prince in the realm of God. This is why Jesus must be known as the Christ. If you don't know him as the Christ, you will never work in your ordination. See, there are many people who are tea trying to do something in the flesh to hear God, trying to do something in the flesh to work in authority. You have a problem. All of those things will work, except as you have the first fundamental revelation correct, and that's the revelation of the Christ. And everyone of us here who is born of God, we have access to God's presence, we have access to God's voice, and we have access to God's authority because we have all been mach act we have all been i massed into the Christ. He is our annointing. You know what first John twenty, what Disabo said? He said, you have an unction from the Holy Ghost, and you don't need anyone to teach you anything. He said, that unction teaches you all things. We know all things, we can do all things because in Christ we have been enthruded. In Christ, we have been brought the presence of God, and in Christ we have been given. The authority to represent God. This is the basics of the revelation, or of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Peter said, you are the Christ, you are the son of the Living God. And it's a flesh and blood that's not revealed this to you, but my Father, which is in heaven. May the Father reveal him to your heart in the name of Jesus. By your eyes, let's breath. There kings, the akandoms. There are mountains, and there are a trumps, the rocky, the rackingdom. They're mountains and the troms only as. We are read for. So you see now downs, no. Rocky Y, the uckingum they're a mountain snatrol. Only we are reading for. We see the. I want you to pray this prayer, said THEA. Reveal your son to me in all his offices. Reveal him to me as God the Son. Reveal him to me as the Son of God. Reveal him to me as the Son of Man, and reveal him to me as the Christ. Remember, if you know him as God the Son, you will worship him correctly. If you know him as the Son of God, you will walk in the full benefit of your salvation. If you know him as the Son of Man, you will. Receive your full inheritance in God, because it's your representation. And if you know him as the Christ, you will work in your ordination as a king, a priest and a prophet. Can you ask him for that revelation? Now lift your hands and ask him, Lord, reveal him to me. Now pray from your heart. Pray from your heart. Don't mumble us talk to the first. It's now your father because he has become your brother. There are mountains under artros only shoe. We ran forever, so He's skinned them. Now be no man. The cky. Serarckydom. There are mounting and the. Trolls who. Were ran fore. Wo's skin them, now be no. Thecky arcky again. Mountain shoe. Can I ask you a question, what's the secret of your bodness? That's when you will know if you know him. If I say I am saved, I'm saying that because I know the son of God. I know he has paid the price. The Bible said it's able to save us even onto the autumost. That's the revelation that supposus. That's a sure. If I stand here and make a declaration and I say it must happen, it's not because I'm called and a possible. It's because there is an office that is backing my words. It's the office of the Christ. He insists that when I speak, the presence of God goes with it. Insists that when I speak, the authority of a king rests on it. He is the seal on my world. See many times the things we say are happened, they are not happening. Because we are feeling anything. If you live best on feeling, you'll be defeated many times. If somebody says, now that my ear has a challenge, what to be the boldness to pray for that person? I was in a meeting from money till four o'clock. How do you think I'll pray for that person. I've never even had time to pray. But it will be because there's an office that when I talk, that office makes me a king. Can you lift your hands? Let me ask the. Father now to anoint someone with a petia oil for greatness, with a sign, and anoint him with the sign. And it's not just a sign that something will happen to him now, but we will check his life after two months. I'm trying to show you what informs of our authority and budness. Father, don't try. To do anything. Just relax. That office will do something. Father, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare. Now let the unshine for greatness, the oil for greatness, the power that makes great Let it rest upon one of us now, So keep quiet, don't worry. In the name of Jesus, I release that grice. I release that grace I release that grace. Let it come like a fire hit that one. Now, if you were blessed by this message you just listen to and you wish to make Jesus your lord and personal savior, kindly repeat the prayer after me. Dear heavenly Father, I believe in your son Jesus Christ, and that he died for my sins. I was raised from the dead for my justification. I therefore confess with my mouth that Jesus is the Lord of my life. I receive eternal life into my spirits. I am born again. Thank you Father, in Jesus' name. Amen. If you just send us prayers, please send us an email at info at Encounter Jesus Ministry dot org or info dot Edfi dot erg at gmail dot com. You can also visit our website at www dot encounter Jesus Ministry dot org.