The Doctrine of the Church Pt 4

In a few things. In fact, I gave you six seven reasons why it's important for us to study that aspect of the church. Number one, I said, it helps us to avoid repeating the errors of past generation. Glory to God. First Corinthians ten, verse eleven, the Bible said, the things that happened to them happened to them for an example, and he said they were written down to one us who live at the end of the age. In Romance fifteen, verse four, he said, the things that were written afore time, they were written for our learning, so that we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope. Number two, I say, we do this teaching so that it can help us God against deception, because most of the errors the Church has suffered, most of the mistakes that the Church has made, is because of the spirit of deception at work, either in the life of those who have influence or in leadership, or it crept into. The church and it was not checked. So when we. Study it, it helps us to raise a defense against the spirit of deception, because the Church. Will not of its own walk into error. We have the Holy gooes leading us, we have shepherds, we have the Word of God. But if error comes into the church is because the spirit of deception is at work, and when we study it, it will help us to raise a defense against known error. Praise God. In Matthew twenty four, verse four to five, Jesus told them they let no man mislead you or deceive you. It's the many well come in my name claiming to be the Christ. Praise God to be the Messiah, and they would deceive many. So we've seen a lot of error. If we know them, we can the moment they come into our myst we can identify them. This is not the level of discernment. So to say this is the level of identification because it has already been spelt out. But again, over and above sporting. Errors that are. Already operational in the church, it also hi things our discernment. So the third reason for we to study it, it's not because we can see repeated patterns and we can spot them, but we can also build discernment. You see why this lecture is important, this ministration, this teaching. You see why it's important. It's important because we won't repeat the errors if we are sincere. It's important because any error that has been documented we can spot it. It's important because it can now heighten our discernment if erro is coming, to be able to identify it even before it comes in. To be spotted. Are you using that? Hey? Brewster five, If you read verse twelve to fourteen, Poorer speaking concerning the believer who is growing, is for when the time that he ought to be teachers, you have need to be taught again that which is the first principle. Of the oracles of God. And it said, for you have become sort as have need for milk, and you are not for strong meat. Verge starting is for everyone that used milk is unskillful in the world of righteousness, and it's a bay. It's a but strong meat belonged to them who, by reason of you have exercised their senses. To discern good and evil. So beyond sporting errors, because they have been documented studies like these high things are discernment. So before they coming, we can tell this action, this operation, this is where it's leading to, because now there is a structure that helps to awaken discernment. And then number four I said, it helps us to preserve doctrine. As you are going to be seen today. One of the major areas of error is in the area of doctrine, and when doctrine is wrong, the foundation for error is established. One of the greatest defense mechanism that God has brought into the Church. Is the world, and not just the world. But the truths that have been isolated by the patriarchs, debated both scholarly and spiritually, and established to become the things most surely believed. They are the foundation upon which the Church of Jesus stands. Luke said in Luke Chapter one, from verse one to three. It's say, for as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order the declaration of those things which were most surely believed amongst us, even as they were committed to us, who from the first were eyewitnesses, are ministers of the world, he said, it seems good to me, also, having had perfect understanding, to extend this truth to you all excellent to your fillows. So there are doctrines that have been itemized, isolated, and pablished upon which our belief systems stand. Glory to God. If we understand the power and the potential. Of error, this will help us to preserve those doctrine, because they are the business for which we remain accurate. Praise God. And then I said number five, it helps us to examine ourselves because if you think you are good two thousand years after Jesus came, you have to think again. If pride enters your heart to think you are right, you are impeccable, you have to think again. Because if the very church that Jesus himself planted er was creeping in at this this toody will remind us that we have to humble ourselves, and we have to keep watch hope. You know that from at s chapter five, deception was already coming into the church, and Peter was able to support it to ananayas your money perished with you. And the man died. So if the early church, as virgin as it is, Erro is already creeping in you who came two thousand years later, you have to be humble. Glory to God. I'm not saying God, it's not washing and building the church, but I'm saying what there. Is a necessity for humility. When we studied the great churches of different dispensations who had to pack to error. It will humble us a great deal and it will help us to examine ourselves. Second Corinthians thirteen, verse five. The Bible says, to examine yourselves to see whether you steem you are still standing in. The faith Glory to God. So self examination becomes critical as we study this subject. And of course because of that number six. Studies like this help us to maintain the health and the sanity of the church. When Jesus was correcting the church in Revelations to two and three, in Revelations three Ver's two, in particular, Jesus made a strong remark. He said, wake up, strengthen what is what little is remaining, for even what is left is almost there. So it helps us to maintain the little strength we have and the sanity that we have. Glory to God. So this is a few reasons why it's important for us to study this subject and so anything with discourse in the course of this aspect of the teaching, because I know it's sensitive. I want you to be a mind. This is the reason why we are doing it. It helps us to avoid repeating herors, It helps us to preserve doctrine. It helps us to examine ourselves. You know, it helps us to maintain the health and the sanity of the church. It helps us to guard against deception, and it helps to build our understanding. Praise God. Now in the. Bid to advance as a bit father, I took out time to also show us the church that Jesus is expecting to return to. It's not a church socked and drowning in error. The church Jesus is hoping to return to. I told us number one is a glorious church, meaning that church disustains his spiritual fever, cleansed by the Word and reflecting the nature of Jesus Christ. Thus the church Jesus is hoping to return to a glorious church. Efficients that five you read from verse twenty five to twenty seven. The Bible said he was talking to the horsband, but he used that to explain and to expound. Into what Jesus expects in his bride. He said, husband, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. He said that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the wors of water by the word. And then that verse seven is my emphasis that it might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or rinkle or any such thing. But that it should be holy and without blemish. So the church Jesus is expecting to return to is a glorious church. And when we say glorious church, we mean a church that has spiritual favor, it's alive in the spirit. We mean a church that models the nature and the character of Jesus. So if you find love in Jesus's nature, love is in that church. Truth is in that church. Righteousness is in that church. Is a chord that model the Christ. Praise God. That's the church is coming to. And then number two, I said, it's a holy church, as you can see in Ephesians five twenty seven. He said, a holy church that is without spot or rinkle or any blemish. So it's a church that is separated from the world. You know, we're any generation where the church is almost becoming like a social gathering. We think for us to impact the world, we have to become like the world. So we are importing the world into the church. Directrice said, one of the maj job problems of the church is when the world invetrates the church. We don't win the world by becoming like the world. There are many churches today that if you enter it's like a party hall. And the whole idea is they want to win the youth. So it's a strategy of winning the youth. So anything youth like, that's what they do. That's not church. The church Jesus is hoping to return to, it is the holy church. Is a church that is separated and distinct from the ways of the world. And it's a church that is cleansed from seeing and cleansed from the ways of the world. In James chatter four vers four, he said, you should not be an immoral and a top trust generation. He said friendship with the world is en meeting with God. So you can't say you are church and you are friends with the world. He said, that is end meeting with God. So the church Jesus is hoping to return to is a holy church. And then number three I said, the church Jesus is returning. To is a faithful church. In John A thirty and thirty one, bishop quoted the scripture when he was teaching on Sunday, Jesus was the one teaching, and the Bible said, expect this was and many believed on him. They were saved. Now that they have been saved, he began to decipher them. He brought them into the church, and then he said to those Jews which believed on him, those who believed, So these are the separated one is if you continue in my world, then I hear my disciples. So these are those who obey and are submitted to His authority. That's the church Jesus is coming for. Is a faithful church, committed to the commands of Jesus, committed to the service of the Christ, committed to the assignments of Jesus. See if we have church today where miracle services are filled, prophetic services are fewed, and it's beautiful. God is a father. He wants to bless us. But when he has to do with obeying the command of Jesus, the number declines. Immediately, say let's go out for soul winning a chart of two thousand. You can see fifty. People, and that's a big number. Oh, we have a virture. Let's pray Jesus. He commanded us as sorts of the head to pray for the nation. The number will decline if you begin to emphasize the things that Jesus command. Leave pure, be modesty in your dress. They say you are legalistic. So we don't want to be committed towards Jesus demands. Oh, there is a kingdom assignment. Let's give towards it. The people begin to frown, So we are not We don't want to be committed. But Jesus is looking for He's looking. Forward to return into a faithful churche, a church that is committed to his commands, committed to the advancement of his kingdom. If it will cost them time, energy, expertise, resources, is something they would do willingly. Glory to God. There are many people today who even believe that church is a good place to come and you know, present yourself like somebody who need heaven and look and go away. I'm not saying the church you don't be responsible. The Bible admonishes that wish to be responsible to those who have needed, especially widows that are widows indeed oftans. So these are some responsibilities we carry out. But there are people today who think church is a looting ground. So they come, they present their needs, the moment is met, they disappear, and the next thing they go to another denomination. Glory to God, Jesus won't find you when it comes. If you'll continue like that, number four. I said, it's a church that is in love with him. Jesus is looking for a church that loves him, not a church that uses him. Praise God. In twenty two thirty seven say you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. And I quoted the scripture. For you last week from first for Intil sixteen twenty two is say if you love not the Lord Christ, you are an ma maranata. And I explained what it meant, and that ma marnata is a term used for temple materials that have been declared cost. So if you are a cost material, you are separated from sacred materials and you are kept for destruction, Glory to God. So Jesus is saying, those who don't love me, they are a cost. They are separated. They are waiting for Me to come and destroy the world and they will be part of it. So you have to. Love Jesus, don't get taken away with religious activities and forget the person you are serving. You have to work with him to be able to work for him, Glory to God. And then don't consider they try to be a platform to showcase yourself. Oh, many people think this is a platform to showcase themselves. Market. They are giftings market, they are charismas market, they are looks marck at anything so that they become famous and relevant. That's not the goal of the church. There's not a platform to market yourself. There is in many people quarry if they're not giving a cement on the stage. But you will never hear that somebody corried for not washing the toilet. I've never heard that. Since I've been in church. I've never heard that somebody was angry that they removed his name from washing toilet. I don't know we have heard that, say if you have heard something like, I've never heard it. The only quarry I've heard is among pastors and quiet members and. All those who work on this stage. I was supposed to lead song on the first day of the conference. They remove my name because of this and that and that, And they're talking as if who removed their name is the problem, not. That God allowed it to reveal their hearts. Never in my life I've. Heard that somebody was angry that they removed his name from sweeping the church or from washing toilet. It's the stage responsibilities that everybody who love God wants to do. You think it's love for God is a lie. There's something in us that wants to be known. We want to shine, and we see the church as the platform to gain cheap divisibility glory to God. That's not the goal. You must love Jesus. If you don't love Jesus, take a retreat. I'm telling you. Take a retreat is very critical. Number five I said. The church Jesus is coming for is a church that is spiritual. It's a spirit powered church. We have reduced church to a social gathering, an excellent place, and everything is about strategy, and that is not what God is expecting. Jesus is coming for a church that is full of the Holy Spirit. That's why Paul was teaching in efficients five eighteen. It's a be not drunk with one. We're in this excess' is ab be feed with the spirit. The church itself begun by the spirit. Who do men say aye? The son of Man I am Peter said, you are the price. The son of the Living God is that flesh and blood. Had not really read this to you, my father, which is in heaven, he has revealed. Take note of these things I'm sharing, and make sure as an individual, these are the parameters that. Define you, both in and outside the House of God. Take note of these things. I'm not just listening it for scholarly purpose. I'm showing you spiritual emphasis. You must love God, you must leave holy you must be faithful. These things are a must if you are a part of the church. These are the things Jesus is looking for. And if you don't have it, don't assume that that day all of us we go. It's not all of us that we go. Just make sure you're part of those who we go. Don't make the mistake of thinking all of us we go. Just make sure you are worked part of those who we go. And if you will be part of those who we go, you must be the people that Jesus is hoping to receive when it comes. And these are the things. So you must be spirit field, you must be spirit powered. As many as are led by the spirit must say fourteen. They are the sons of God. See there are many Christians today who don't. They've not had God for anything in the last two years. They have prophets that they give seed to are pursus that they gives it to that does every praying for them. They want to marry. Somebody see for them. They want to travel. Every day they are traveling, Papa is seeing for them. Everything they are doing, somebody is seeing for them. They've not had God for two years. They're not concerned, and they're hoping that when Jesus dissent, they were here Wood Faculty. We hear Jesus. You can't hear him. It's the way you hear him now that you will hear him when they comes, because it's the same voice we use. So if you are part of the church, you must be spirit powered. You must be a son as many as are lead by the spirit being and a personal by you. Here is a blessing to you. I bless you, I prophesy you. I give you prophetic direction from time to time. But I am not your holy ghost. You must know and here. God for yourself. Two three weeks ago, God Save Divine was teaching us here on hearing the voice of God. You want to pick that message job, listen again and engage it. Make sure this year does not end until you too. You can enter your room and come out and say God to me. If your Christianity has not reached that level. You are taking a big risk. You are taking a big risk glory to God. So he must be spirit powered, spirit powered. And then I said it must be a charge of faith. Jesus was speaking in look eating it. He said, when the son of Man returns, He said, when need find faith on the earth, meaning faith is a major ingredient in the heart of the people Jesus is returning. For if he returns, we need find faith. That was the body that was the contemplation in the heart of the Master, because if there's no faith in them, they can't please him. Plus eleven six zys. Without faith is impossible to please go for whoever comment to him must believe that he is and is the rewarder of them that diligently seeking. So Jesus can't call you to himself if you are not a faid. After all, we were born of faith. If you believe in your heart the Lord Jesus and confess with your manth whichhall be saved. So it's a church bond by faith, but you have to continue in faith. We have become scholastic people, so we think bids scholarly is to undermind the provisions of faith. But it's not true the two can go hand to hand. You can be very intelligent and scholastic yet be a man of faith. Faith does not negate intelligence. Go read the history of the world. There are many inventors who are ministers. So scholasticism does not undermine the place of faith. Neither does faith negate it. So, no matter how refined we think we have become, we must be very careful not to become real in the natural abbot poor in the spirit. Glory to God. So this was some emphasis that God brought our way. Last week's Tuesday. Now, finally I did a diagnosis of the seven churches, and I said, Jesus dealt with these seven churches, and errors were traced to five of them. Of course, there is a sixth one that there was an error, not necessarily with the church, but with those in and around the church who were antagonizing the church. And I said, these errors are the foundation of all errors. Most of the errors will be dealing with today. You would discover that they will be traced to one or two of these errors. That was pointed out in Revelations two and three. In fact, Bible scholars believe that those churches represent three things. Number one, some argue that they represent lidra churches of the time. And then number two, some argue and believe that they represent they represented the different dispensations. Of the Church. If we have time to do church history, I AM going to correlate it so that you see some of them believe each of those churches represents a dispensation of the Church. And then others believe that these seven churches represent the spiritual posture of the Church of all ages. So they are those who believe is literal. There are those who believe is the spensational, and they are those who believe they are the spiritual. Post church of the churches in Eroor. Glory to God. But whichever way you want to look at it, they are applicable to us. Because I began by telling you the things that were written. They were written for our learning Romance fifteen, verse four, that we, through patients and comfort of the scriptures, might have now powers referring to what was written in the Old Testament. Of course, but again this whole body of truth is a blessing to uds. So while we study it, then I teen or two, we can clean to help our standing today. This is why we took our time to do a thorough diagnosis of these seven churches, and. Then we identify the foundations of error. We were not referring to those eras majorly as types of errors. Who were referring to those errors as foundations the bleeding ground for the many other eras that you can trace to the truck today for which we look out to avoid and build discernment against. Are you? Are you following it so far? Praise God? But I said, in order to study these errors and to make meaning out of it, we must follow the pattern of Jesus. Now, when you read scriptures once in a while, you can see where people are rebuked. And I think I've done it, teaching on it before the context in which hero is corrected on an individual basis. I've done teaching around it before you can. Look at it. But I'm looking at addressing the church holistically. There are five major protocols that Jesus followed in this scripture consistently. I said, Number one, Jesus will always reveal a dimension of himself. First, Jesus did not begin with corrections. He began with the revelation of himself because the church is meant to be built on him. Praise God. And then I said number two, when Jesus reveals himself, Jesus then commends the church. He recognizes the areas where they are strong and have deployed grace. And then I said number three. When Jesus is don't commending them, if there is an hero or if they are heros, Jesus will clearly itemize those erros. And then I said number four. When Jesus itemizes those errors, Jesus will now go father to call them to repentance and attach a warning in case they don't repent. And then number five, when Jesus is done calling them to repentance or warning. Them, Jesus now gives a promise. So if you study the character of Jesus's correction number one, you are going to see a heart desire of a father that is. Reaching out to his children in love. Number two, you are going to find the heart posture of a father who is correcting not to destroy but to restore. He doesn't want them to perish or to be destroyed. He wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. And then number three. When you see Jesus's correction, you're going to see he's reaching out to provide help and socle so that woever is willing to be corrected, help will be presently available. Glory to God. So it doesn't just call you to correction and allow you to yourself. He also goes a step for that to help you out of it. So the whole enterprise is designed for your redemption and your restoration. He does it in love, He does it with a desire not to let you be destroyed. And then he extends help so that if you are willing, humble and sincere to accept the correction, you can be helped to come out of the pit where you have found yourself. This is the character we saw in Jesus's address of the Seven Churches. Now, when we look at this diagnosis, because of our time, I'm not going to go into the whole of it. I'll just point out the errors that Jesus identify. The first is the Church of Emphasis, and when we read it, we thought that the error Jesus pointed out was that they had lost their first love, the passion, the purity, the motive that drove their actions. At first, they had lost it. At first, all they were doing was sponsored by their love for God. It was sponsored by their desire to please God. It was sponsored by the starring of the Holy Spirit on their inside. But over time, in their seedlessness to correct others and to do great works, they started working for God and they stopped working with God. And I said, the caution for us as a church here and whoever is connected to whatever we're doing here, is to take caution. While you are being ze lost for God, remember that you have to work with God before you walk for God, because you may end up correcting others and yourself will become a cast away. This was the era of the church in episodes, because Jesus said it will come quickly and it would remove their candlestick. So it's possible you are telling somebody else's a false prophet. You're telling somebody as it's not a serious believer, and you are so passionate zealos to work for God, and then you stop working with God, and before you know what's happening, your motive becomes corrupt. It becomes a show of self righteousness, it becomes a show of pride, it becomes a show of perfect perfectionism I have attained, so I'm the standard. You will know when it will become about self no longer about Christ. So there is a caution. And then the second error we saw, which is with the churches minor what's not really an eraror of the short as the body. But there were Jewish people amongst them that Jesus you not based on scholastic documents, these people were actually opposing the church. Now, whether they were part of the church or around the church, the details is not fully captured, but they were all in spinal and that's why we tried to study it. And the focus is that these Jewish people, they began to bring blasphemy. And I told you when you studied the character of commendation that God gave to the church is spin and you can tell why. What was the commendation Jesus gave to the church is spinal. The and the tribulation. They stood their ground in poverty, They were faithful in persecution. Does this look to you like a parasitic kind. Of of ranking. They could the tribulation, They stood their ground in poverty, serving God. But the error was that they didn't just persecute the child. They became blast femous. So they started peddling teachings and doctrines that were not wholesome and holistic. And so when Jesus came, the major emphasis that we saw mentioned there was blastphebi. There was elements of blasphemy. And I told you we have to become careful, especially when you begin to do exploits for God. There's an error that originate from exploit when you find yourself doing exploits for God and start having track records in this spirit. If you are not careful, you begin to undermine scripture and you become the standard. This was the challenge. In fact, this is why they were persecuting the church's final because you can't speak to them. I've served God for twenty five years. I've been to prison three times. I've gone two places where there is war to preaed the gospel. Our organized cru says in fifteen nations of the world, what do you know about the kingdom? Meanwhile he's saying something that contravens the Bible. But the Bible now has become too small, and they can boldly tell you it's not everything that's in the Bible. So relax, when we talk to you. We know God. I've been to heaven a couple of times. So if we're not careful, just the way zeal for God resulted in an error God, losing your first love, kingdom exploit can result in blasphemy, you begin to That's where chord dogma came from. People who think they have recorded standing with God so much. They can say a lot of things, and when you're talk they will quote Paul in some cases no perseat concerning vegans. I have no commandment from the Lord. It's about as a man found wordy. I can speak, and Paul spoke and it was put in scripture. They will tell you God insteed talking to today, so listen to what I'm telling her. I don't want to call names of but if you study some of the. Fathers of these fifties, the sixties, the seventies, there were certain things that came into the child from their encounters and these were major profits who did then jarross miracles that you can't even argue with them. They were like there were. Sages in the kingdom, patriarchs of different ranking, and when they say it, even when they die, they are descenters wrong with it, and some are running with ity today glory to God. So we must be careful when God begins to lift us, because your exploits can become the reason why you start creating error. So one of the second foundation of error is. The pride that is borne from exploit. That's why the Bible says, remember not the formatives. Anything God did yesterday, forget it, run today as. Though you were starting today. Because if you're not careful, you will build a monument from hm. I'm being tempted because stories in God's generous and history is coming to my head to give some example what it would digress. Let it not become a distraction. Then the top foundation of error we saw was with the church in Pergamos. And this church, Jesus commanded them that they held first to His name, and they did not deny their faith. But the error in this church was a doctrine of era. This is where Jesus spoke about the doctrine of Belam and the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Now, what is the doctrine of blam. I don't know if they dimension it. Okay, the doctrine of Belam, you have to go study the Book of Numbers twenty two to twenty five to understand the doctrine of Belam. The doctrine of Belam is a doctrine that encompasses. This operation where the people of God are enticed. Into immorality, idolatory, and pleasure for the sake of gain and relevance. That's the summary of the doctrine of Bailam. Now, when Black wanted to attack Israel, he couldn't attack Israel because he had what God did with them, that any nation they passed, they licked it up, and no army will confront them. So he knew that if he fought them, he was going to fail. And because he knew he wasn't going to succeed, he invited Belam to cost them so that. He could destroy them. But when Belin came to cost them, Belan discovered that it was impossible to cost them because Bellam said, there's no enchantment against Jacob and there's no divination against Israel. He said, for the shout of the king is in their midst. So he tried severally and couldn't cost them. If it cost them, they would have been weakened and Black's army would have been able to destroy them. Now, says Bellam saw that they couldn't cost them, and in needder to collect his profit, he caught Black and advised him as a look at these people. They are not strong because their armies great. They are strong because God is with them. So what you need to do is to get them to do something that we make God not to be with them. And what you can do is to seduce them. When they fall into idolatry and immorality. You don't even need to fight them. Is their God that will start fighting them. So what did Belac do. He paradered beautiful ladies. When Israel went to drink water at the beach, they saw women naked and they were inviting them into immorality. They began to seduce them with idolatry and with immorality, and israel S thought they had entered paradise. Oh paradise, you are here at last. We thought you would die in the wilderness. And they jumped into immorality at the instance of Bela. When they did that one day, twenty three thousand Israelites fair one day. So when you see see doction anything that is systematically structured to the church into immorality and idolatry. It's a doctrine called the doctrine or Bela. It has grown to hire. You know, when it started it was the spirit of Belam. It became the raor of Bela. Now it is what the doctrine of Belam is an institution. So many people who go into music ministry today is Belam. So you know I have I have backup singers. This is an institution I have be used to pay. How much are you going to pay? No, it's belong So when you see all those errors, you can tear the foundation. That's why you can't find some ministers there CAUs so that when you want to invite them, you will. First of all, imagine they are on the radio. They don't need to talk to you. Where you come, you'll feel three forms. God. Someone will not speak with you. Will you will meet him at the airport. Then he will walk out like a systems from Zion. You will be privileged that it came because we are there. There are three of you. That I have praid for. They in ten years now there are people God Hi, do don't get to be wrong, but I'm telling you strategy strategies. They don't talk to you much they are programming you. At the end of the day, its results in human worship. So you see you see people lying down, they want to give water, they don't know if they should lie down. Is belan. I don't like the human worship. And when they come up, they're acting humble. I said, they are not humble people with belan. It's the system. It's the system. When you want to give on all radio any we born money to give on the radio, and you with this say we are sorry for this little thing that we have. There's a place for honor. Don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to help you so that you know where That's why I said, this is a foundation. Then they said the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Now this one is not captured in the Bible, but Bible's callers have taken time to start the operation of the Nicolaitans. What is the operation there? Two? Food number one. Then the Coltans. Insist that there must be a cleat difference between ministers and servants of God, from the order followers. And opposed to honor servants of God. Yes, should we avoid familiarity, yes, but when it becomes so exhorted that that's what we called deification. When men become God in church because they are ministers, that's nickel lighter. So most of the things we do, even in the African church today is the doctrine of war. The nickel Later, when man of God. Papa is is Jesus is the Jesus that you are seeing. Papa has become so big that it is not blocking Christ. Somebody who can give offering to honor God can give Papa a seed of his three monsalary and you don't know what's going on. It's programming. Is nicolaiter. A woman who doesn't honor her husband at all? We lie down to create a post is nickelaighter. And in so in sometimes even or the nation is programmed in such a way that when people are out there, you think they have become Jesus a human form. We honor ministers. AM a minister, we serve, I'm a minister. I know all those things I've taught you. But when it becomes deification, know that it's nickelator. They said that they would tell you that when they were to cross the Jordan, God said to Joshua, the priests should carry the act and go first. There should be a gud between the priests and the congregation. They said that. God is the god of familiarity. When they told the water the water about it, the priest went first. Don't hear this and this honor your leaders. That's not what I'm teaching you. Don't hear this and become familiar to splitter authority. That's not what I'm teaching you. But when you say human worship, you will know because all of us know the one that belonged to Jesus. When what belongs to Jesus is giving to pastor, prophet, apostle, whatever he is called, bishop, pope is nicolator. That's the foundation of that error. So that era is the error of deification. In the bid to separate the congregation from the ministers, they now they fight the ministers. And the second thing about the niccolator is that they they create a system that trive their life immorality. There they trive their life. Scene. They make it. They make it look like, come on, don't kill yourself, because you have seen what is wrong with you when you start hearing things the body of rist like, it doesn't matter what you do with your body. It's your spirit that is saved. Nicolata is talking to you. M h. Do you understand. Man of God steals God's money you for personal gender. They say, come on, man, you put they walk on, they walk, They are the same. It's Nicollator. So that's why I said these things Jesus dealt with. They are the foundations of error. So you hear teachings like strange teachings unforgiveness on righteousness, they are doctrinams. You have the righteousness of Christ. So you can't sin, not that you're seeing you are forgiven, not that you should repent of your See, you can't sin, you'll seed, abiding you forever. It doesn't matter what you do with your body. Your spirit is what Jesus is dealing with. So people become loose. It doesn't matter what you wear. See your body does the temper of the Holy Spirit. Come on, give yourself a break. And then pastor is wearing minisket to come and preach, is Nicolator. Jesus hates it is a foundation of errors. So I'm showing you the foundation. When we are listing errors, know which belong to which sort it out. Then we have the Church of titeriia. Jesus said, they tolerated Jezebel, they tolerated false prophets. They adopted fornication and idolatry. You see that this fornication and idolatry, this is a serious pattern. Jesus delput in at least three churches Jezebel a system. Of sid doction and drunkenness. This one is not just creating an atmosphere for immorality and idolatry. This one is intoxication. Is influences so strong that people are intoxicated. It is an institutionalized kind of perversion, an immoral operation. The Bible said, she created a bed of counication for my servant. So the focus of this one is not just for the church, is for ministers. As we in the church is ministers is going for So when you come into churches where you'll see that what is designed is an attack on the pastor, and they are not seeing it, or they are seeing it and accommodating it is just a bad at work. So there are some churches that elders are not mature believers. They are there to give you. They operate two frequencies. If the Bible is not working. We have some experience. There's a native doctor that we can just go to in the evening and they can say one. Or two things. People will come to church. Jesse bears at walk. You come to certain churches, you see a system design, and he says, spirital, it's not a person. You see a system design. A friend of mine. Said he went to a church somewhere there's the terrain is volatile now, so I won't call it the region so it doesn't look like I'm attacking. But he went somewhere and when they came to pick him from the airport, this is I'm gonna bring them minister during the economics submit. At least I will turn him to speak to us by a zoom. Then the next one I'll bring him on ground is in the US, so that you hear it from his mouth. When you hear to read like this, you think we are just talking. His name is Dr Myers. He's a senior minister from Zambia. Boy's based in the US. He said he went to preach in this place and when they came to pick him with the Rose Royce, he said, I think six or seven ladies came out of the car to receive him, said they were. Shining like you have not seen some people. You know, if you're if you're in Nigeria. The temperature here is that he had the great cels So no matter how you struggle with ac and cream, you will struggle. Say, there are places where the atmosphere is good for skin. When they came out, the skin was blowing like Bob and he said the weird there was some kind of These. Are flat people like half cast glow with skin. They now wore some clothes that were linear in natural gold dish. So when they were moving, their skin. Was like fish. You know, if God does not helped the valve of your soul when such people are, you know, it's not about being naked. If you see naked people might be retated. They know how to packet their bodies and revise certain places to send signals, and they work these comments floating on their skin. And they picked him up acting you know this. You can't know the spirit of the doction act. Think they will look at you in. The face like this. They are sending sicknas. It's serpentine. We're calling nakash. You know the way the serpent when the snake sees you. They look you in the face like this, and they are talking as if they are weak. The man said, what is this? When they went to the hotel, somebody came to knock around ten, then be we are here. If you need any service, and we'll following successors. So you know this is Jezebel and they work with prophets, these people. That's why if you're in the prophetic ministry, be careful, because the prophetic ministry of pressed by the Holy Ghost and by the spirit of the That's why we don't judge accurate prophets by accurate word of knowledge or prophet administration. Only we judge them by their fruits. We judge them by the spirit of Christ that they carry. When an accurate prophet talks repentance, heats the initial, go and read the Old Testament all of them. They could bring judgment, They could provoke repent. Prophets are revivalists. They are more revivalists than apostles. Apostles are disciples. When prophets antacities and cry righteousness hit the initial. So when you are looking at the prophet, yes the gift is there, but beyond the gift, there is authority to bring the spirit of Christ, so that the generation repents. There is authority to change laws, change systems, change policies, because they bear the jealousy of God. But when when Jezebel take over, they all thing. Now it's about colling teens, calling teens. It's about gift. It reduces to word of knowledge, because even the serpent can give eyesight. So Jesus said, foundation of that church is what the ways of Jezebel say. Doction for immorality, say doction for idolatry. Now, don't suspect people in case you hear this. Now you see a todd gentleman who is well built, you say, is this supposed to be an a gentle That's not what we're saying. That's not what we're saying. Glory to God. Don't see don't see a lady who is fair or or dark and tall, And you say not, then be this. That's t. But it's the spirit of said doction And the focus is leadership, kings and prophets. They when they see when when they see kings and it, the seduction rises in them. They can't hold themselves. They want to sleep with that person. By all means, they will do anything. Until they bring you down. That's the spirit. So that's the error of the Church of Tityia. They tolerated it, they created and they created an enagbling atmosphere for it. Ah. Then the Church of Sadis, Jesus said, this one was a dead church. They had a reputation of being alive, he said, but they were dead in the spirit. This is a prayerless churge. The world of God is not there, no first thing, no worship. Everything is reduced to intelligence and strategy. And you know there are many errors that results from this intelligence strategy, intelligence strategy. Dead church in the spirit, you will be there for ten years. You will never be revived. Rather, the little fire you took there with die. And it's all about looks, about excellence, about speech, about comportment, and when they want to show you fire, it's about creating a love feasts. So the things they can't achieve spiritually they use mechanical means. So these are churches. Where if you're finished from service before forty eight hours, somebody calls you, somebody visits you. The next day you are coming to church. They give you drink during your. First time, as visit second time as visit, they give you money dead time has visit. They ask you if you need a job. Now, all of this key is important, but there's not more fantain cook that keep people in Choice is the. Power of the holy goo is the power is not a castle that keeps peopleting. Chorge, You will go there ten years, you will not find Oh, churge, we are un thirty day's first. No, you were not here. Oh we have we have six hours player once a month to fan to flame. No if fast aways preaching, you will not here, have to tell scriptures not then activates your spirit? No such thing exists. Now how do they keep things going? Every month? There's a program. You bring this top music minister, you bring this top profit so that the activities are happening. So they move from one program energy to another program energy. But the churche, yourself is dead. You go to a place where your spirituality is not stretched, you won't grow. Some of you. You have not fasted for seven days before, you have not prayed before for more than one hour. And I'm now using time here as a parameter. I'm just talking if they if a church is a life spiritual activity to be normal, you can't. You can't have muscles without Jimmy. So if a church is not stretching your spirit for you to grow with revelation, with intimacy based engagements, something is wrong. What is wrong? So the one that is gifted Jesube is coming. And then there's another one that is all lukewarm that the devil doesn't bother himself. He said, God will reject this one. Don't worry. Even if they're around, they are just around. They are social organization. There no territorial demon comes there, not happening there. They are just dancing. Leave them. And Jesus said, because you need a hot dog code, Okay, that's Luducia. I'm coming there. That's look warm churches. So let's go to the last Jodludosia, Loudosia. This is the look who I'm church. They are They are neither hot nor cold. So why why the church is in Sadi's is dead in the spirit. Ludosia is in. Comma, neither hot nor cold. So Jesus said, I will want spell you out of my mouth. They say, I would have preferred your cold. Can you imagine if you are cold? Maybe I would say that if Bival is to revive you. But you are not hot, you are not called. So what we should do about you is this study in the spirit. So we will spew you out of our mouth so you'll find a believer this week is excited about God. Next week he say, Okay, I'm tired. I'm tired. I they've not paid my salary. I don't know what's going on this economy, said, how can somebody be coming to church? How will I come? And then after one month he's he's happy about God again. I'm not saying he's bunny. Is happy because people prayed at the rem of excitement. They don't know fire. He's excited. You think, oh, thank God, God, that's done a walk. Here after two months, three months, one little challenge, he has disappeared again. What happened again? I bet bet beg this tort something now wisdoms those who have them sins loudocia. I will feel you is a lookwarm charge. So when you started the errors of the church. The foundations of the errors of the church is number one, lack of love for God, and that error is born from over working for God and not working with God. Number two error. Foundation of error is the error of blasphemy when people begin to talk against God or on the mindscripture. And that era largely is borne from our track record in the spirit. That's the era of the Church of the Jews, in the church's miner, not necessarily the churches miner. The third era is the era of Belham and Nicol Lenton, which is the era of what said doction, creating in entertisement and inducement for people to get in more or to get idolaterals. And then the era of the nicke latter. Which is the era of defication, of for exhorting men in the name of honoring them as ministers, and also weakening on the mining scene and making people to loosely fall into scene. That's Nickelton. So these are foundations of erro in George. And then number four foundation of error in church is tolerance. Tolerance for the spirit of Jezebel first prophecy and iniquity at large. When we become tolerant in a bid to accept people or to show unity, we create an atmosphere for error, and that is the challenge of the Titilia church. And then the other era, which is the fifth er, is the error of being dead in the spirit, becoming intellectual, strategic without spirit life. That's the challenge of sadis. And this era comes from wealth because that church was excessively wealthy. They thought they had everything they needed and they began to undermine the spirit trend. So it's borne from provision. This is why those of us who pursue miracle pursue breakthroughs. We must be careful because when you have them, you may not know where your soul will be. The guy was looking for breakthrough. You saw him doing everything the momented God the breakthrough. He became busy for God. That's the era of sadis, is the error of having riches without God. You are dead in the spirit. And then the final era is the era of the Church of Laudosia, and that church that error is the error of lukewarmness. You become lukewarm not having zeal and passion for the things of God. And these people also self sufficient. So we must tress all of these errors and build a defense against them, because this is what Jesus himself pointed out. The only church that truly did not have any error. Either within or associated to the territory was the Philadelphia Church and the strength of this church was humility. They had led to strength. They were small their own eyes, God became their help. This is why. Somebody said, all the weapons of our spiritual warfare is in front. That means you're back. Is God that defends you. And he said the only shield that God considers to defend you is humility. No matter how strong you are, say, if you are not humble, you have a weakness, because there's no. Spiritual armor for back. Do you follow the Philadelphia truch was humble in their own eyes. Now quickly, because of our time, having established the foundations of error, let me itemize some major errors. This is me trying to bring it clear now. Some major errors without specifically stating the foundation that we must trust God to help us to leave above. And I have itemized these errors into five categories. Number one, I said spiritual errors all weaknesses. Number two I said moral errors or weaknesses. Number three I said doctrina errors or weaknesses. Number four I said relational errors or weaknesses. And number five I said ministry or ministeria. Errors or weaknesses. Spiritual errors. These are errors that are character related. And I asked related to our relationship with the Holy Spirit. When we say there's an error that is spiritual, we are saying this error. Is revealed in our misappropriation, in effectiveness, ineptitude, or weaknesses around character, or our relationship with the Holy Spirit. We call them spiritual errors, and the few of them. Number one is the error of on the mining intimacy. Many times when you come to church, you don't know when you get carried away by activities and religion and you begin to undermine your personal relationship with God. This is one of the biggest spiritual errors you will ever find in the Church of Jesus. A pastor can be running to common preach. Suit is ironed speech, it's alright, tongue, it's already sharp to give speeches. He's running to common preach. But he has not taken thirteen minutes to sit with the gold he wants to talk for. And because he has done this for some time, he has loots, he has comportments, he has a ristman, and is able to communicate almost impeccably, except as he's not talking from God. And you do that all the time, you begin to talk from head to head. These are some of the things that result in the death church somebody can be a singer. He has become so popular and he's singing everywhere. But he's right on a gift. No relationship with Jesus. In fact, it doesn't remember the last time he talked to God alone for ten minutes. He doesn't remember the last time he read the Bible. Why intimacy is on the mind. I will overflog this because I showed you already in the Church of Ephesos feel lost for God yet. Not working with God. Revelations two, verse four to five, Jesus said, you are fully returned to your first love. Number two. Spiritual error. Is the error of on the mining priesthood while exerting kingship. So the guys, he says, it's from word of faith. He can't quote scriptures and make decrees, but no prayer. It's ad ties weak and he aspects is thrown to be strong. That's why you find us quoting scriptures, shouting the name of Jesus, decline the blood of Jesus. Nothing works, And you. Know the problem. We have made it look like it's all about declaration and no relationship. Whatever you are taught about fate is wrong if it does not begin with prayer. Jesus said in Mark eleven twenty four, whatsoever your desire, it's a when you pray, whatsoever your desire. It is the when you declare. It's the when you pray, then believe that you receive, then it shall be yours. We believe we declare without when you pray. Elijah is a man subject to like passion, just as you are. He prayed endlessly that there should be no rain, so before going to the king, and said, before God, do my stand He had prayed. There is no kingship without priesthood. If we under red prayer will be joking. So today when you talk about prayer, they say everything prayer, prayer, prayer. The Bible says to pray without ceasing fast. As Salonians five seventeen, Jesus was teaching in Look eighteen, verse one, he said, men ought ll lewis to pray and not to faith. We will never pray enough, because beyond what prayer does is a system of intimacy and transformation. The aperson says, we give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the world. Why am I emphasizing this? I told you you don't gotta go that's what. You gotta do on what. Wave women and know that's the ones you want the Holy God to beglieved. What will happen is that your way discover that your soul will no longer be able to assent. So you may be shouty, not you'll be happy. Negligence. We don't give the Holy Ghost his lordship position by quenching and neglecting him. The Bible says where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. It also means where the spirit is Lord. That means where the lordship of the Holy goes is. So it's not just a spirit that is Lord, it's also the lordship of the Spirit. That's where there's liberty. So if the Holy gooes is in the place what is not recognized as Lord, you can't see his glory and it's an error. You need to see how much time we pay to camera to eli this screen today, how many people have come yet it is the hopeful. Don't neglect usice, they're important, but you need to see how we priority. A pastor can be calling to find out whether tours is full or where the elity is working, and he will pray to the servistine. Then he will stand up and be dressing up all this white people. He said. Meanwhile, he saw it's not kept. He want church to be kept. Big error. What is the goal to create impression on internet or to have things to brag about? Number four spiritual errors worldliness adopting the ways of the world. From the very name of the church, we are called the eck Lessia called out. There is a clear dichotomy between church and word. If we begin to adopt the inspiration the ways of the world, we have aired in the spirit the Bible said in James for for friendship with the world is enmity with God. And some pastors come under a lot of preser. Sure, because you are teaching Bible, everybody is acting tired. You say we need to be adding flavor to this day. If you want sleep, I'll still be talking. Because white man's left. The enemy went to sue, So be sleeping. I'll be sorry everything I'm saying here, you start dreaming it. Ah. And if you're like I'm talking sanctification, holiness, you are like see every day they're talking and we'll keep hammering it. You are not the one who tell me what to preach. If you are tired it means you are not part of us. Praise God. People come on that pressure. Hey, it's youth. Minutes to your youth. They love dancing, No, they love singing. Know. So you see pastor too learning steps of the world. He's learning steps. He's learning steps. He's left because youthfulness. He knows where he came from. If we can't go to the club, let's not bring the club here. No, we don't bring the club here. We kill the club. Those days fifteen eighteen, twenty years ago when they started teaching us territorial intercession. Your leader will take you to a bear paddle and. Just move around as we can tell, just move around and we're of course I didn't close anyone, but I did have their statue because we were inconsistent. But at least they told us that we could shut down those things. That's when we were young. Ask people like personal Sonny, who know me, like fifteen eighteen years ago, we will stand. We are ladies past to go hard nothing and where you are going before you get to carded? My sister, can I talk to you briefly? Your talk, they'll start whip you go home. I don't have those kills anymore. Because I don't do one on one evangelism much again, but those days even not car as you are carrying me home five minutes before you read if you're carry my home and see your card the most is your cardo match rkada Peter before you drop me, they are crying. So there we will. Feel proud to master the way of the world. So you need to see people dancing in chart the ones who are most killed about the steps from the club. They are singing it and then the music ministers are changing the vibration of the sinking to align with the same frequency of the club. It's a friendship with the world, is enity with God. They say you are dog trust generation second first John two fifteen love not the world. That the love of the world has entered your heart. There's a problem. It means you as take a retreat. I'm not condemning you, but take a retreat. Jesus hates it and if you are living in it, it's a weakness or it's spiritual error. Today you can't even there carry people. And evangelisy I said, let's go to be Apallo or let's go to where harlots are. Ah ha, you will lose half of them to the business. Your way. I work and working tomorrow you'll see them come for personal evangelism. You're here. The family has broken down, or Gods he has found the place. But where is the day of the fathers? He said? Because thou love that righteousness and hate that iniquity, He said that God has anointed you with the oil of gladness. Above thy fellows. See these are the things that bring lunking in the spirit. God can trust you, not because you are most pleasure all of us as pecial to God. Jesus died for us. But can God trust you other Wise? People we will come to share their problem with you. In their weakness, you will devout them. I don't know. My husband is not paying attention to me. For the past one year, we've not been able to talk. You're not sending message. Is where It's all right? Take care before you know you become the side husband. What a shame? Make God, heppos, make God heppos. See this were the things for emphasized, and a point came. He said, I beat my body so that after preacher, I shouldn't be a castaway. But what blitiness has entered from our music, to our dancing, to our dressing. And when you talk, they says, legal say, I'm not telling you how to dress, but if you are modest, if you are spiritual, it will show. If you stand with a worldly person, there should be a difference about the laws that govern you, about the codes that govern you, about the spirits that rule you. Our appearance is for beauty and for glory. People should be able to look at you and trust God to you. They should hear you and trust God to you. But we love the ways of the world. And the woman was teaching recently, he said, why do we think we don't have power? The way we love is said. We watch movies, seductive movies, violent movies. We love them. We see for hours, say, but when we go to pray, thirty minutes becomes a mountain. I'm not saying, do relax. So I do what's in the way. I play games. I relax. But I have a person what we go to. The degree here has said to me, and I'm keep I'm trusting him for more. Don't allow the world dominate your so structured. Some Christmas can't ebally remember five scriptures. Their heart is too choked. They can quote. Many movies cat the name of any word they act to call the name of three hundred footballers, cannot mindedness, logic, immorality, all forms of divers lost, but no God. It's worldliness. It's a major spiritual error and weakness. And then number then number five having form without power. The continual to three verse one to five is that they have a form of godliness, but they don't have the power. That's an error because Jesus said, these signs shall. Follow them, that belief which you have both. Form and power. But power has a protocol. There must be a revelation, there must be consecration, there must. Be you deadness. So when you don't find power, God is telling you something is wrong with the life. Because if there's accurate revelation, the finished works of Christ, the name of Christ, the person of Christ, and there's you deadness to the Holy Spirit and a consecrated life. Power is not practiced. It just breaks out of you. But when you meet see, don't you don't you even you tell yourself the truth? How many places do you see no table miracles? See when we were boys. If they tell you a man of God is coming to town, a man of God there will carry sick people from villages. Some people we travel for three days with Creeppus with sometimes dead men. And this man. They were not coming to pritz Emmons. They were coming to show God. So when you come for these meetings, there's a section for sick people. As they are talking. As they are talking, you re see you start hearing shout erot, Oh somebody has visit from a witch. Oh, a blind eye has opened. When they finish there will they go to the SIK session and start pulling people out. It was Mama, you don't hear that the man of God is coming and there's no specific session for casting our devils and miracle. It's not I mean it's together. You know we are conferenced because now no not witnesses conference. When a man of God is coming, he prepares himself with with five simons. S Polish English, and he's talking like a serious man. See it's a weakness. Something has gone wrong, either because something is wrong with doctrin, something is wrong with character, or something's wrong with emphasis. Something's wrong. Now we are we are either relationship coach or we are economic as fats. That's what this is the main job. Driving area of ministry now giving calls for financial breaks. Oh there's that. Time will failed me to speak of Gideon, to speak of Barack, to speak of Jester, to speak of David somewhere and the prophets, he said, who two faiths, of two kingdoms wrote, righteousness of ten promises? Quite the violence of fire shot, the marks of lion. It's a weak man where made valiant in battle? And the butt to flight. The armies of the alien, he said, women infun their women, he said, they brought their dead back to life. It was normal. It was normal. Now you're here, excellent music, and we thank God for what he is doing. Is another phase, But we can't lose our heritage. Why are we sharing this? It too humble us because we are quick to think we are making impact. That's why we gather crusette feuds, we gather stadiums, we gather arenas. All we come out from is our postion on the state, the multitude that gather. Something is wrong, you think about it. Compare our crusades today, were the crusades of the robots, the AA Alex, the persona that hos us. You say you went for crusade and they didn't see which has lined up with all kinds of walking eid glasses. See, they used to liter it. If you go to some churches, they hun them on the wall to let you know that the Jesus we preacher is alive. It's not a DOCTRINEE. God is speaking to us like this, because there is more we need to wake up and press, beginning from here that God is saying it. Those were the days when you went for one crusade. After twenty years, you can say, this evangelist came to my village and preach, you receive Jesus, and you become a servant. Of Jesus for twenty five year. You don't back slide, not because sin has stopped the weight of glory they brought. You don't even know what you had, But you change forever. Even with persecution. People will tell you, I went for this crusade when the man finished, when people made docter call not that. For the next thirty years, they'll bestanding. Whatever it was these people preach was beyond language. E could entire you and reconstruct your soul. I can still remember some meetings that I attended I was on campus. I think that was two thousand and whether two thousand and. Eight or something, when Productguliac and he came to preach. He was preaching from one vese for three days. He didn't quote. I don't think he caught more than twenty scriptures. Because you are need that hot He was talking about this same Laudosian trot that I mentioned that you were forgotten already because you need a hot dog code, I will speel you out of my mouth. The man tot it for three days. I left that meeting. That what hit me? I've not recovered it today. How you want. They knelt down for hours. They cooked before they came out. They didn't have formal We are the ones who have form of MG and don't have the power. They were known by power. Power to transform, power to work miracles, power to cast out devils. Say, these were men that when they just start singing, demons start shouting. These things were normal in the in the Church of nineties, the Church of the early two thousands, at least I saw those moms. It was normal. If a man of God, it gets minister, you just starts singing any song. You are a mighty God, the great Iron. You will see demons. They used to bring mad men in chain. Our reviver is the reviver of number and postal. So we have a form of godliness and we must we must trust God. I'm telling you this because these are my bodies. We must trust God. You are minister listening to this. You must trust God, I said, Church, we must trust God. This is how it was in the early Church. All shots were doing miracles, taking cities. What has happened to our own child? We must trust God. I was in Zambia that was that thought to say it. Thank God for the few things that happened. We give him praise. But I saw people who were damn made by sickness. I applied the other man. He was literally smelly, tied the bandage everywhere. Oh my God, I wish I could pull him up and command. The bones to stretten. I prayed dance cream for where. I looked up and said, Hi, God, all the way to help me. We need to be serious, we need to cry, you know. I started imagining the page that guy went through to live wherever he came from to attend the meeting. And this, this is the man of God. He has preached. He may even be praying to God. Let him come and touch me. I have come and touched him. They are still wheeling him back home. I almost entered the apostolic invasion. Maybe that's why God the collage doesn't leave. My heart was broken, but this thing should be normal. So then when somebody has a mental problem with recommends a care to the hospital. We have the form and we know how to court. Language of encounters in jails, the metals places we went to in this pirit, but it doesn't show. There was the time me. I'm but so God were lamented. A man of God came and said. He was preaching. He said they were over. How many thousand angels do you remember? He says, save thousands angels. We're here now. And I looked around. What in jails and I've not seen one miracle? No, no table angels. Where are the angels wrong? And they apprentice angels? Thousands of angels are here. Form of godliness is a weakness, is an error? Glory to God? Are you being touched? Are you being provoked? That's the idea. It's not to condemn anybody. You see, I'm telling you the stories of my own failures. It is to provoke us. So provoc us because we have the heritage. We are coming from somewhere. We are not the first. And there are things that characterize what we are doing. Spirit to our errors, neglect of watchfulness, neglect of watchfulness. If you study mat Tew twenty five one to thirteen, you read the story of the ten virgins, you. Saw Jesus himself teaching. How that five of them did not carry sufficient oil. So we take for granted the place. Of watchfulness in the spirit, watching in fasting, watching in prayer, watching in the world. We must first bitter. Five it's said, be sober, be vigilant, you adversity. The devil was a roaring lion walking about, seeking whom he made the bow Glory to God. And then departure from the faith. And on the mining of the world. Already mentioned that Jesus spoken, look eating it when the son of man returns, when they find faith on earth. We have stopped living by faith. We live now by logic and strategy, because we think we are so educated, and the old church now of praise by logic and strategy. It's an error, it's a weakness, and we must rise up to fight it first. And four one is said, now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shat depart from the faith, giving heat to seducing spirits. And doctrines of devils. In hebrewstap Two, verse one, it said, therefore we ought to give more endless heed to the things we have heard less at any time they should slip away. Many have lost their faith. They can't even believe God for anything. Again. Their brain has taken over. And he said, war unto him that put that his trust in them of flesh. Now, why do they depart from faith? Because they undermine the world? Why faith combat by hearing, hearing by the word. If you don't give heed to the world a point we come, your faith will be affected. The Bible said faith commat romance ten seventeen, by hearing, hearing by the word of God. So there is what spiritual error, And these are. A few of them. And then we have moral errors. I will just mention them because of time. You know these things. Number one is levity in handling sexual immorality. Levity, our doctrine is weak. Around it, our life time is weak around it. A pastor can be a fri of confronting somebody who dresses aductively because it doesn't want to offend the members all forms of immorality, even with words. Somebody can be talking with pastor and using words from the goddess. And we trivialize them. We don't have a strong moral standpoint in many churches today, and it's a big problem. In First Corinthians five, verse one to two, Post said, it is reported commonly that there's fornication among you, and such fornication is not so much as named among the gentiles, is said that one should have his father's wife. They did it until people were taking their own father's wives. And he said, and ye are perfto and have not rather momed for those who have done this and taken them away from you from among you. First said those who do do this thing to be removed. That's the teacher of grace. It's instead of you to be moaning and removing such people. He say, you are puffed up acting in pride. Now, if God, may God help me the Bible say on to him that keep petals from falling. But if I fall and the Holy Ghost convicts me, and instead of repenting and stepping from the puppet, probably maybe out of pride and to save faith, I refuse to, and then a point comes when the Holy Goos is compelled to make it public. And even after it's made public. I still don't step aside and genuinely repent. I'm trying to say. What do you PA say we should be ashamed? He said, righteous man falls seven times? Seven times? Did I? This is the game. But in the state of your fall parse, they should be separated so that you are, you are rebuked, and you are restored. Today you want to correct and rebuke and restore people. They get to send it and they have people who support them, even though they had that they were involved in immra issues. Think about it. This is Bible. And it is happening to you. Date you find people in the morality, they want to help them. They don't take rebuke, they don't take correction. They are puffed up and they are they are creating chaos. And in the leadership they expect that because it is them, you should handle them with respect. It's because I. Pace say, such a person should be separated and if it doesn't choose to repent, it should be committed to set and to perfect his body. So that is so we be saved. That means if it needs to die so that it is redeemed. Let him die before you sayleg listen, there is more bankruptcy today, and we have created tolerance for it. It's a major error, Paul said in Officials five three. But for nication and all on cleanliness and convectuousness, let it not be once named among you as become meat saints. It shouldn't be named, Paul said, is a shame that it happens. But unfortunately when people fall, God gives them a window to repent. They don't repent when it gets known. They try to create a defensive mechanism by acting as if they're offender and beginning to fight a shame first that this thing should happen. A righteous man falled seven times. You have folly. We are not judging you, for you need to be redeemed, and for you to be redeemed, you have to be put aside so that you can have time with the Lord. This is for talking. And then mora errors is legalizing convectousness and greed in the name of doctrine. Man of God walks off to you and said, this is your watch. Is good for the Prophet's good for the prophet and the holy goals didn't tell me, Prophet have to first it out of my hand. It's glad, He's God convectousness. The moment Man of God. He oh, you had a deal. Oh my son, do. You remember we have God picked you from in this ministry? Do you remember what the grace of God has done for you? Now tell me how have you remembered God and his havant? Now before this week is over, do something so that you don't you don't get the rot of God on your business. And they start telling you a story of those who didn't do it and went down. If they don't hear from you one week next Sunday, the salmon is those who don't remember read and convectiousness firstival is six nine to ten. The Bible said, boyday, that we'll be reached, fall into temptation and a snail, and into many foolish, hurtful lost. We drown men into destruction and petition. He said, for the love of money is the root of all evil, which why many converted after they have head from the faith and pierce themselves with many arrows. They pierced themselves in Luke twenty fifteen. In sad. Don't to them take heed. Beware of convectiousness, for a man's life consisted not in the abundance of the things which he possess. In one season of my training, I passed through a place, you know, God that's carried ouzo and they make you feel every good thing should be given to man of God. That was why I came up with the doctrine of only give where you are inspired by the Holy Spirit. Only give when you are convicted by the world of God, or only give when your sense of sonship and maturity puts. A demand on you. If the Holy God is not leading you to give, if the word of God, the revelation of the world is not inspiring you to give, or your sense of kingdom, responsibility, sonship and maturity it's not leading you to so do. Don't be under pressure. As import term as giving is, we shouldn't legitimize convectiousness through the guise of the doctrine of giving. It's an error. Somebody gives you a prophetic world and said you have to service disorder. Which order are you talking about? Am I your master Jesus sent you to give me a word? Go back to him is the one to reward you. I will give to you if the spirit leads me to or if in the course of my interaction a revelation of spiriture comes to my spirit. Maybe you are talking to me. I hear give to a prophet. In the name of a prophet, I will be led. That's the world speaking to me. Or based on my sense of maturity, I feel that, Ah, this great ministry should be supported, or I should sow into it and be blessed. It's a lead I do it. You can't come and pressure me and say you have to never in some places will When they teach and teach and teach and teach and force people to give and they don't give, they say, those of you who want to give, stand up and come so that those who are not giving. When I look around, now leave me cito. Don't let anybody beat on your pride and ego. Kill that pride, glory to God. Con veteousness as eating deep some of the projects churches and back on it's not God do How can't this are possibly doing this and I'm not doing it? And they flog the church until the money comes out. Because of that money somebody will leave the feet. We need to show that it's working. It's working, and somebody who should use a very clean board get wood design board as backdrop. He wants to put any discrean. Come, what are you talking about? If your fed can carry it into a show, But if you have to convert, then you don't have faith for it. Praise God. Number three hypocrisy. We have given so much to room to hypocrisy. Look at the anchod the moment, and I are showed up with hypocrisy. He was trucked dead. At chapter five, Jesus was speaking in Matthew twenty three, twenty seven, twenty eight. Go on to use cribs and pharisees hipocries. For you are onto white. You are onto white that syprocos which indeed appear beautiful outwork. But are we dem full of deed of dead men's bones and on cleanliness? You are towardly appear righteous onto men, But within you are full of hypocrisy. And in equity. Today, when somebody is smiling with you, be careful the moment your choice. They see this one where did say be? And it is happening on very big scale. That's why God is talking towards here. These are mora bankrosses, mora weaknesses, and more errors in George number four, mora failure, love of pleasure more than God and his ways. Do you see why today so much time is allocated to dancing. I didn't say worship because it's largely dancing. So more time. For prayer and the world. Sometimes we are pretty as if we are rushing ourselves to finish seven is twenty five minutes, but they dance for forty beds. We love anything that touches our emotions. Anything that aantalizes us is a major emphasis. That's why those save appetizes that have been massaged and pampered become the powers that draw us into iniquity. Because anything you savor in church will become a false in your life. Pleasure. It's second monty three to four. It cause them lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. In Philippians three, eighteen and nineteen four caused them the enemies of the cross. Moral failure number five deception and dishonesty. I was sharing the other time that nowadays evil offering is counted under the vigilance of CCTV because we rather we rather depend on c C TV than the character. And this is leaders that accounting to. Leaders, people who should be custodians and over seers of the House of God. They can't count offering. And we believe their testimony. If they're carrying offering basket, everybody holding it three other people are monitoring closely. Every step taking is like the vote of a bank. See the sourvellas. Today is fearful. Every breathing is money told and checked. To a pin. And do you blame some of these in your people? They have preached everything they know to preach. They are prayed everything they're not to pray. They have released every judgmental scripture, but they start have become like though. So in order not to allow you temptation, let's create sol and so if ies are there, you will be tempted, so that all of. Us can be cat safe Praise God. But the dishonest this is something else, and it's from Bible Days Attapter five vers. One to ten. You saw Nana as Asa fier the guys. Too before bitter, and they two a pursus of Jesus and was swearing, this is the money I saw the landfall. Are you sure he says yes, I swear, and Peter said, oh why have you allowed set and entire your heart? The man fell and died. The wife came three hours later. Repeter, they same thing. May God break us? When I teach like this, I talk to myself more than I talk to people. I'm just asking for help, because when these things take root in you, you. Will look at yourself and you wonder, is this mean? How come? What do I do telling you? And these things. Can damage your harvest, can destroy your harvest? Efficients for twenty five. It's aware of putting away lying, speaking every man's truth with this neighbor. For we are members of one another, and some I think we should tell the truth only inside. George. On my job, I have the license to lie and to deceive. A Christian should be seen as the conscience of society. When everybody is wrong, they should come to you and say what happened? And take your narrative to the bank, because you are a Christian. I told you a humorous story where I was teaching before. I think that was the last place I told teachers. Will come to school by eight forty and write seven fifteen seven twenty one. You will see thirty people write seven eighteen seven, nineteen seven, all of you, Oh my God, A point came at least in that one. God helped me. When I come, I write eight thirty five. So when I'm going there, they say, don't go there. Wait Man of God, wait wait, let me write first, Oh my father, we need to see if I perish, I perish. Let it become your disposition. And everybody who says that never perishes. Pride and self exhortation is a moral failure. James ver six is a God resists the proud, but he giveth more grace to the humble. First bitter five five Submit yourself onto God, onto the elder. Be subject one to another. Clode yourself with humility, For God resists the proud, give it grace to the humble. Moral failures messy, messy. Are you taking note of these things? These are major crisis today. Now we are trusting God that pray and doctrines who handle when we put it on a daily basis. These are some of the things we are trusting God to knock off our soul structures. Knockoff, knock off when the fire of God is moving, don't just far down. These are some of the things that you be re engineered in your soul so that you rise above them. Then we have bitterness, hatred, and malice. If you know how many people are enemies of themselves in one church assembly, you'll be shocked from different departments for flimsy reasons. And we are trusting God for his presence to rest, and we don't have the love and unity to carry it. Paul, certain efficients for chaty one. Let all bitterness and rough and anger, and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malie. These things have taken root for long. So as an individual, trust God to help you along these lines. Forgive people before they ask for it. You will be healthy in the congregation of the righteous. I showed you in First Coritians three from verse one, Paul, God that church a church of babies. They had all the gifts of the spirit all but Paul called them a church of babies. They said, there's envying, there's strife, there's malies, there's head tred, there's contention. They said, you are babies, you are Kanna, you are on spiritue. That was the scripture that one of the scriptures that homboed me. A man can be gifted operated in the nine gifts of the Spirit. He's a baby's Kanna, his own spiritual Yes, go on challenge for when you meet him moral failure, pastia, obedience, and compromise. There are many believers. The only respect and obey those they think qualify to give them instruction. They don't. They don't submit to the structure of the body. So if you said this is the leader the lie, whatever you tell them, they will ignore you unless they set man or whoever they think, ask this tracture to lead them. Talk to them. When you talk to them, sometimes look at you. The Holy gost is wonderful. So it's me that is brought here like this. Well, it's not your fault. The day your eye open, you will see my statue. In the spirit. There you will know how to relate with me. This is why many never rise in the house of God. No matter how big you are. If God leads you to a place, you submit to the authority. You submit. It's a sign that your character is in order. There's humility, there's love, there's loyalty, there's faithfulness. That act of. Obedience and responsiveness is a veto of your character. And this is one of the major areas where there's more failure. When you find controversies, packets of controversies here and there. These are the causes. They may not verbalize it, but something is wrong with the character and the way the revisit itself is that there is difficulties submitting to authority, and there is ease with compromise, and it's an. Area of moral failure. Our time is gone. I wish I was able to do doctrinal errors and then ministeria errors. There were some doctrines I wanted to talk to you. There were some doctrines, and there are some There are some ministeria issues. I wanted to talk those people who collect money when they go to Pridge or sing. There's no way I can talk about the error of church, and I won't talk about it. If you like fight me, it's your choice. I will say it. Four said I pread the Gospel free of church. So whether you are talking the gospel or thinking it is free of charge. It's God that puts honor on a man. When when your your honor level and rating goes up, you will be honored more. If your honor level is not there, don't become me highly God has brought us somebody today. We gave him glory. I waste a hard time because some of you are planning. They did God give me influence. Imagine if every week I'm making a two million and I have three invitations, you will be shocked. You don't know this God. H I would have showed you some scriptures. It's got the merchandise of the gospel, the merchandise, and many have merchandised the gods, so they don't have. Any reward in it. And it I wonder how somebody will be again with with with you say I'm. Gonna preach for three sessions. Give me ten million. Oh, I will come with my band and we'll singing two sessions. Give me twenty thousand dollars. And then he's on the altar. He hows the puppy. He's crying. I love it. You are crying, he. Said, he's worshiping God. His body has had you. Are you crying onto the Lord? Or you want to prove that you are what you charged. You are compensateive for the bee you charged. There's no law for God there. What are you telling us? Show me one a personal scripture that charged money to preach the gospel, the same gospel they died for. You want to now give justification in the twenty first century, Why you should charge for it? Good babe, while you reading, if you actually read one. But this is the body of time, So go and ask the Holy Spirit to help you with the doctrinal errow. With the relation an error, relation on an error. Ah, oh my god, this is where would have taught some sensitive things. Somebody who cannot, who cannot support somebody with goofies. But he's a top patterner because they will call him and give him a word. He said, he loves people. You anyone that doesn't bring you to the limelight, you don't do it. Oh. The guy who is. Keeping my lids with his roommate, he's going out to win win souls for Jesus and he will die for souls. You will die for souls. And the one in your house you are forcing him or hard to head. Hi, we pledge, honey, don't true. Love them? Hollisience to them? We all a man sworray. I will see to you know Ah, halys s. I don't want to teach hero too many times, So what I would do is, if you need the note h I think we should make the notes available for those who need it, because this relation is something you need to know it. What's the few tastes I wrote here? I wrote. I spoke about division, I spoke about home forgiveness. I spoke about partiality and rotism.