The Fundamental Doctrines Of The Faith Part 1 The Things Most Surely

Let's just be the name of the robot ds with someone by your left and right, and let's just pray in the spirit for a few minutes, preparing our hearts for the world. Shall brand gela caparato seat let the fire fall. Sanaba da barattucate. Go ahead and pray. Lock hands with someone by your left and right as a sign of agreement. Take a few minutes. As you pray in the spirit. You're sewing into the spirit, and the Bible declares that you will reap off the spirit, live, ever lasting, sabra sanema nakaparattus caprendagadba like a barados rataka tabran dagaba, like. A barattos. Ra ticket deeper, like a baratto cigaatees paranto sali parade, baratto ciga ratimna barattus caprina and aaplada barriatakatos to stare up our spirits, ready to hear your word, ready to receive, Ready to be changed from glory to glory, from grace to grace, from power to power, from one dimension of wisdom to the other. One more minute to we are pray your eyes on Jesus, your faith reaching out to Him, ready to receive ready to be changed. Chapa la caparandas SAFRANDI gave a like a parados yata onto you. Shall the gathering of the people be. Salina mala paratus, but is select arandus. Yata in Jesus' mighty name. We pray in Jesus' glorious name. We pray for every time we appear before the Lord. We must come believing that He's prepared to take us from one level of glory to the other. Do you believe that I'll ask you to pray one more time? This time around, you are crying for yourself. Lord. The eyes that sees, the ears that hears, and the heart that receives. I decree and declare that I'm a possessor of this tonight, the eyes that see the years that year. Let me not miss my sense word you prayed earlier on pray again. Let me not miss my scent word the word are located onto me tonight. For my growth, for my healing, for my deliverance, for my transformation. Amio Jesus Sam yours for Ami. Jesus Sam yours for. Army Jesus SAMs. For whatever you want to the. Lord, you get you. Whatever you want to say. Lord, you can say to the Bason. Whatever you want to. Go, Lord you can go. Through, and to whoever you want to live. To Lord, your get through, For she's a side sp. Jesus am your. Lord, Jesus sounds I ah, I love the what about times from your heart to his ears, And Lord Jesus sound. An, Lord Jesus, Bobby, declare this from our hearts. We're not just singing, We're not just making mellow goos. But this is coming from the depths of our hearts to your ears, to your hearts, that we belong to you, Coorinonia belongs to you. Everything here belongs to you. It is for your glory. It is for the furtherance of your kingdom. Tonight we're gathered again to be. Equipped to be empowered. Coming with burdens, but full of faith, for some coming with tears, but full of faith, for some coming with doubts and confusions, but still full of faith. Knowing that you are able, knowing that you are eternal, knowing that you are all powerful. We lift off our eyes to you as a maid looks onto our mistress, and we ask O God tonight that your grace we are abundant. Yet again, visit us by your spirits, give us encounters beyond the realm of science, beyond the realm of intellect. Indeed, let your glory rest upon us. We vow to give you the glory, for it is in Jesus' mighty and muchless name. We pray God bless you. Please be gloriously seated. God bless you. This is cononia, good evening, everybody, good evening, all who are connected Zariah, and all our expressions globally. May God bless you in Jesus' name. The Sami said, I was glad when they said, unto me. Let us go to the House of the Lord. The house of the Lord has a unique capture of God's presence, God's wisdom, and God's power, and the Bible says they go from strength to strength as many as appeared before the Lord in Zion. My first charge for you tonight is that you must make a determination to be consistent with God, to be consistent with His word, consistency pace in this kingdom, Allelujah, the Bible says. And if any man draws back, my soul will not have any pleasure in him. Up to date, down tomorrow will not produce an efficient believer. You must obtain grace to be consistent, consistent, consistent in learning the world of God, consistent in sustaining your hunger for spiritual things, never familiar with his presence, never familiar with his word, ever panting like you are just beginning. That is the attitude of those who become champions in the Kingdom. Allelujah. And so make up your mind. Don't come as though you are learning one or two things now in his presence there is always room for more. Allelujah. He was in heaven already, John, and he said, come up hither another layer of reality, and I will show you the things that will happen thereafter. Allelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. So let's make up our minds and have this as a charge tonight to remain ever consistent. That includes those who are fallen online, like you know by now that when it has to do with the ministry of. The spirit, this stance is truly no barrier. Once you have an ear that can hear, an e that can see, a heart that can receive, you can be more impacted kilometers and nations away, continents away, perhaps even more than someone who is right. Seated here, Allelujah. There were people who robbed around Jesus but did not receive anything, and the centurion met Jesus and said, I know you are a man under authority. He said, you don't need to come to my roof. Under my roof, he. Says, speak the word only, And at that self same hour, the Bible says that the child recovered I'm praying for you tonight everything God has in store for you, every one of them, without missing on you were receiving Jesus name, Allelujah. Let me charge you further more that what you receive in this house is. Beyond the teaching of the world. It's important that you understand and makes sense of the things that happen to you when you are here for every service and every other service you are receiving Beyond an intelligent communication of the world. This is the business of spirit communication. That means there are layers of spiritual reality that I imparted. Upon your spirit. Beyond words are we together. There is a portion of the importation that depends on intelligence. So when the world of God is accurately communicated like you're about to experience shortly, there is a layer of reality that comes through the exegesis of God's word. But there is another dimension that is a spirit communication. It's not something that can be captured in words. So you will think that you're left just with a sound knowledge of a particular subject of consideration, only to realize that certain things that were hitherto not yet activated in your life, that whilst you sat down, God. Was also doing an extra business upon your spirit. Are you understanding the so far so that you must be attentive and your spirit must be large and expanded enough to allow the Holy Spirit wrote whatsoever he sees feet So for some you are listening to me, But certain giftings of the spirit will be activated within you. You see that. Now you will find. Out that you have left this place with a heightened consciousness. You are able to grasp and comprehend spiritual things better, fuller, richer. That is the effect of his presence. Most times we think his presence only attends to things that relate to sicknesses. You know, deliverance and all of that. That's wonderful, But there are times you don't have any demon to be cast out of you. There's no infirmity to leave your body. Are we together? But your spirit may not yet be in a position that helps to capture victory at its finest, And so there's an adjustment that happens. While the world of God is coming. Doesn't matter what subject is being discussed. That's why it is called the ministry of the Spirit. Are we together? Now? The difference between a lecture or a sound theological dissertation and the ministry of the spirit is that presence factor, that Holy Spirit factor that you are receiving beyond the lecture. Are we together? You're receiving beyond theology. As important as that is, there is a layer let me repeat again for emphasis. There's a layer of spiritual reality that words cannot capture. There is a layer of spiritual reality that worship music cannot capture. That one is the business of the Holy Spirit. That means you should expect more than your mind things you got away together. Now, your mind can only interpret as much as it understands. But this one is a spirit affair. Your entire tripartite nature is participating in the service. But you see, when it has to do with the teaching of the world, as it falls upon your intellect, you can only grasp so much and so far. But your comfort is the fact that there is the Holy Spirit moving past the layer of your mind, correcting, building, walking, making, remolding, programming, realigning, readjusting, so you will live with a heightened sense of consciousness, your vessel purified, expanded to be able to host more of God and to do much more for His kingdom. And I'm praying for you from the depth of my heart that the Holy Spirit while I teach even tonight, that the spirit of grace will just blow like that wind, resting upon your mind, resting upon your confusion, resting upon your questions, resting upon your worries, your fears, your concerns. Are we together that by the end of our discussion tonight you will leave a confident believer? Are we together now a believer whose fears have been doused away because of. The excellency of the light that has come upon your spirit? May that be your portion in the name of Jesus, hallelujah, By the grace of God, we. Well outlive a part of this until maybe perhaps the Miracle service, But soon will be rolling. Out all of the programs and the conferences that will be having this year, and from hence we have been able to put a number of them, and there's a lot to do tonight, so I would not want to take in so much time. But we'll glad to let you know that there are several conferences that are lined up that attend to various areas, from leadership to worship, you know, to a conference for ministers, and all this, by the grace of God, will be experiencing this year. If you're glad about that, give Jesus a big hand of praise, Amen and amen. So we do well to roll out maybe by next week. Let's let's leave it for next week so that we make that available, particularly for our family. That'spora who would want to fly in for any or all the conferences, so that you are able to be well informed and you can plan. The Lord will help us in Jesus' name. Tonight we're beginning a series, very interesting one. This series came not just as an instruction, but as a burden. As I serve the Lord and grow in leadership, and as God increases his grace and influence, I'm learning to be grateful afresh for my background, my foundation, and my spiritual journey. The various faces of my spiritual journey as He's led me. I now see, Clara, the relevance of every phase of my spiritual journey and how it's equipped me to be able to serve God's grace and God's wisdom to us as a global family and to the Body of Christ at large. And so this series that we're beginning is one that I want to challenge you personally. Please pay attention from start to finish. Allelujah. We are not under pressure at all. Wherever we stop, will share the grace. If it becomes a ten part series, so let it be. But I'm determined not to rush, will take out time, by the grace of God, and see to it that we do justice to this because what you're about to learn in this series will solve the problem of power leakages as far as your spiritual life is concerned. God has declared that we're in the days of His power and haven't learned a bit that has helped me to know about the dynamics of genuine apostolic power and why it is largely missing in the Body of Christ. I have been able to piece together, in partnership with. The Holy Spirit, a few thoughts that have been captured and it will stretch through this series. The goal is to prepare us to be people of understanding and then furthermore to. Be people of power that for you, it will not just be talk. It will be a reality that will be captured and demonstrated bodily. In your life. If you're a pastor, listen twice. If you're one who desires to be used by God in the ministry, please listen twice. A we together, we're going on a journey, and I pray that God will help us. As a preamble to a discussion, there is a gross deficiency. There is a gross deficiency of the understanding of doctrine in the Body of Christ, a gross deficiency of the understanding of doctrine in the Body of Christ, particularly and especially among the Pentecostal charismatic circles. And there is an explanation for that. The average person who was groomed or raised, with all due respect from the Pentecostal charismatic circle is not necessarily or not naturally sound in understanding doctrine. And the reason is because of the bias that came or the bias that still remains with the Pentecostal charismatic circles. The reason is because the emphasis is largely on science and wonders and the charismatic operation of the Holy Spirit. Justifiably so, and I think. Sometimes because of the results that are produced in that area, there is little or no attention that is paid to a sound foundation of doctrine. And so we have among believers people who work in science and wonders, perhaps people who work in certain levels of spiritual reality, but their intelligence is not aggregated. It's not a product of a stable foundation. Are we together, little wonder? You can find a man who works in miracles for several years, and then after ten twenty years, you find them doubting the reality and the existence of God because their foundation was not built on doctrine. Are we together? Now? There were many people who experienced the miracles of Jesus while he walked upon the earth. They ate food, they saw bread multiply, they saw cripples walk, they saw lots of supernatural manifestation. But the Bible says when Jesus resurrected, it says some doubted. Even among those who saw those things. In fact, there were times they were so used to the miraculous power of God it became a debate for some of the people. They were not. Necessarily perplexed or impressed by the miracles. The miracles began to sting, their ego began to frustrate them, and they wanted Jesus dead. And so, as part of my commitment to build the people who are not just spiritual, but robust and grounded established in the truth of God's world, especially because of the days that are coming. The complex city of our world right now from his spiritual and a sociological standpoint, is such that if your conviction is not founded on sound doctrine, a time will come soon enough you will begin to doubt everything that represents the keillers of your faith. Are we together? It's already happening to many people, unfortunately, including pastors, men and women of God. There is never been a time as I know, where there has been widespread confusion as to the tenants the anchors of the Christian faith. And so as we explore this series, I'm praying the name of Jesus that your heart to be open and that grace will be supplied to end your sound doctrine. In Jesus' name, I'm teaching on the fundamental. Doctrines of the faith. This is part one. The fundamental doctrines of the faith will be looking at the things most surely believed. Fundamental doctrines of the faith. Look Chapter one, Please we beginner reading from verse one, May the Lord bless his word in Jesus name, for as many as I've taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed. Look carefully, look here speaking now the things that are most surely believed. Other versions, who say the things that have been fulfilled? Verse two? It says, media, let's work. Together verse two, even as they delivered them onto us, which from the beginning where eyewitnesses, and as a result ministers of the world. Verse three. Now he said it seemed good to me. Also haven't had perfect understanding the word perfect? There is complete wholesome understanding of all things from the very first to write in other most excellent Theophilus. Why verse four, let's reach together one to read that now might test know the certainty of the things wherein Dow has been instructed one more time louder, now that Dow might test know the certainty of those things. Allelujah, prays the name of the Lord. And so Luke is writing here to your follows, and he's said, the reason why I'm setting in all of the things that you're about to hear is that Number one, they are the things that are most surely believed among us. Number two, I want you to have certainty that the things that you have been instructed. In are not is calm, The things that are being instructed in are not his subject of debate. I want you to know and to be persuaded. Are we together? Now? Generally speaking, the word doctrine comes from the Latin doctrin. Now there are many Greek and Hebrew expressions, but I want to save that for now. We have a lot of work. What that means is a set of beliefs. A set of beliefs that are communicated to a student to the end that that student becomes like his master. Is called doctrine. A set of belief They are not opinions, They are not open to debate and suggestions. Usually a set of. Belief that has been veted and accredited. It's important to understand that, so when we talk about doctrine, we're not necessarily talking about something that is subject to debate. Generally speaking, by. Whatever standard, generally speaking, that that subject or that body of knowledge has been vetted and usually approved by a council. Are we together? For instance, we have the Medical Council of Nigeria of West Africa. We have the Pharmaceutical Council of Nigeria, West Africa, and they have what we call best practices, the models operandi that has been rolled out for any doctor and any pharmacist that we're together, and when you are accredited as a doctor or as a pharmacist, they expect you, number one, to have understood those best practices and then to have an ongoing training and to the degree to which you comply with those practices, there are incentives like your promotion, like further accreditations, until you become a consultant. That is the idea of doctrine. So it's supposed to be a resource that Johnny's is student from the point of ignorance until you gain mastery. Now, in this sense, we're discussing doctrine as it relates to the faith. Are we together now? And when you study lots of theological materials, you will see variations as to the various subject matters that constitute doctrine, but for a discussion. All through the span of this series will be. Looking at eleven of them, Eleven fundamental doctrines that are the anchors of the Christian faith, or least a few of them, in no particular order, but would take them one by one. Number one, the first of the anchors that represent the doctrine of the Christian faith that every believer who wants to excel and to be grounded in truth must know is the infallibility of the world of God, the infallibility of Scripture. The word infallible is spelled I N F L I. B I L I T Y. If you didn't get it dotted and to your dictionary later on. We have a long journey to go in the name of Jesus. The infallibility of the Word of God. The word infallible means accurate, not subject to correction without the possibility of failure. The infallibility of the world of God. Number two. The second doctrine is the doctrine of God himself. Understanding the nature of God, particularly the god Head. I hope that will be able to cover that I'm reading for you. The cost curriculum will be considered in this discussion the seeming controversial concept of the triun nature of God. What does it mean for God to exist as three in one? Number three will be looking at the subject of man, man from his creation to his fall. Number four would look at Jesus Christ. These are the major doctrines Jesus Christ, his person, his ministry, his assignment. Are you learning so one? Scripture, two, God, three, Man, four, Jesus Christ. Five will be looking at the doctrine of salvation and scientification. These two will be understanding from the lens of God's word the doctrine of salvation and then the concept of scientification. Can I continue? Next will be looking at the Holy Spirit, his person and his ministry. For some of these thoughts, I will summarize them. There is a series that uniquely brings them out, like the Holy Spirit Series. So when we get there, we're not going to be very elaborate there. I'm just listing these as a part of the overall foundations for the Christian Faith. Then we'll look at the church. The church. What number is that? Seven? Thank you for following seven? The Church, the ecclesia. What is this mysterious entity called the church? Next we're going to look at Satan. Satan has an interesting subject that includes demons and everything around Satan. Next, we'll look at the ministry of angels, the doctrine of angels. What does the Bible teach about angels? Who are they? Why don't they show up when you call? Are you aware they are there? And then. Would look at the believer's growth system, the believer's growth system. The believer's growth system. This is where you are exposed to the ministry of prayer, the word fasting, the corporate gathering of the saints, the believer's growth system. Then I would stop at our corporate mandate as a people are corporate mandate. No believer will be effective in the kingdom if you are not grounded on this anchorse. Let me run through it one last time. I saw some of you just give up writing. So let's try again. The infallibility of the world of God. We're going to be examining scripture, why the Bible is important and while the Bible is a unique book. Number two will look at God, the subject of God, the nature of God, and the god Head. Number three will look at Man. Number four will look at Jesus. Christ, his life, his person, his assignment. Number five will look at salvation and sanctification. Number six the Holy Spirit, his person and his ministry. Number seven will look at the church, the Ecclessia. Number eight will look at Satan am I right on that. Nine the ministry of Angels, ten the believer's growth system. And then for this series will stop at our corporate mandate. May the Lord bless his word in Jesus name, so will get straight to the world. Remember that the goal is to bring stability and understanding some of you in truth. This will be the first time in your Christian journey where you will be taught doctrine at. A very structured from a structured. Standpoint, so many believers just free lance their knowledge. If you are fortunate and you enterre conference where they're talking about God, you learn whatever you learn about God. If you're fortunate to enter another conference where they are fasting, you listen to whatever they say about fasting. If you're fortunate again and you enter a deliverance service somewhere, whatever is taught about Satan there is what you carry. So you say, believers with pieces of little truths that do not amount too much as far as conviction, stature, and stability is concerned. Like a school, you can pass through a journey that builds you. And I'm not just going to be teaching you like a theologian. I'm going to be showing you how every revelation applies to your accessing power and every doctrinal communication applies to your stature and efficiency as a believer. Are you ready now? Number one, let's start with the infallibility. Of the Word of God. We're going to be looking. At scripture, the infallibility. Of the world of God. This is the first foundational doctrine of the faith. Before you even begin to explore the person God, you have to explore God's recommended resource for learning him. There is something unique about the Bible. There is something unique about Scripture. There is something unique about the world of God. The reason why many believers are poor in terms of their learning and their study of the world of God is because they receive. That call to study the Word of. God, either as a religious commitment or a bordensome ritual that was transferred to them from parents without any revelation as to why. Past Us and Scripture itself encourages that we be students of Scripture. So we're going to be considering a few things, and I pray God will grant. Us understanding in Jesus' name. Let's talk about the Bible. I told you already that the word infallible means accurate, it means portent. So when we look, we're. Discussing the infallibility of. The world of God. We want to consider why scripture, why the Bible, and generally speaking, why the Word of God is such a unique resource in learning God, a unique resource that translates to the believers spiritual growth. What is so important about the Bible? Why is it this necessary? So if I get born again and I never have access to a Bible, are my disadvantage it? Yes? To what degree are we together? The Bible. As an inspired resource? Take note of my descriptions. Listen, and then you write, the Bible as an inspired resource that contains the revelation of God to man is the most accurate revelation of God that has been scripted and given to man. Listen carefully. The Bible as an inspired resource is the most accurate scripted. Resource that reveals God to man. This is very important as a foundation. It is an inspired resource that contains the revelation of God to man in a scripted format, and the Bible tells us that that revelation is accurate for reasons you're going to be learning shortly. So the Bible, your Bible that you're holding right now, it is. The most accurate scripted resource that was given to man that reveals God to man. Now it comes. The word Bible is not used in scripture. You don't find the scripture, the English Bible any version use the word Bible. So when you study theology, there are certain words whose essence are used in the Bible, but the words themselves are not used. Are we learning now? An example is the word Bible. You never find the word Bible as an English word in the Bible. Number two, you never find the word trinity. You don't find that word anywhere in scripture, trinity, but the concept exists. Are you getting me? Number three, you don't find the word rapture. Just as an example. So when you're studying the Bible, there are certain words. You may not find them written directly. However, the communications that relate to those words are found scattered across scripture. Allelujah. So in this case, the Greek is the word biblios b iv l iOS, and it. Generally means a book. The Greek word that was translated Bible, as you know, is the word biblios b I d l iOS. It simply means a book, nothing necessarily special. It means a book. In fact, when you study classically, there are other references and materials that also have. That name biblios. Away together now, so just for you to know now, the word scripture, these three words we're going to be working with looking at. The infallibility of the world of God. The word scripture simply means writings, inspired or uninspired. Was an ancient way of communicating writings. In our modern day language, now we call it writings. So when we talk about scripture, we mean the writings of a man, the writings that have been trapped, the thoughts of a man captured in words, whether in inspired or uninspired, they are called scriptures. Alle Lujah, Are we learning now? Now? I want to make recall something that I taught to you when we're discussing the Word of God. I think sometime last year or year before last. I will just read it as I wrote it. Then I'll explain. I hope we are learning so far? Say amen, now, when we say scripture or the Word of God is infallible, accurate, potent, void of error, immediately to the unenlightened mind, it looks like you are discussing heresy, because how will you say the Bible is infallible? How do you say scripture is infallible? The dens and the deficiencies and the defects of scripture as scattered from Genesis to revelation. In fact, when you study Bible history, you know that canonizing the sixty six books has its own story. There there's still a controversy today as to why other books did not make the sixty six books, and the Bible recognizes those other books, like the Books of Joshua, the Annals of the King, the Book of Enoch. Are we learning now just giving you a theological framework? And so because of that, many people already believe that the Bible in itself has a lot of defect And quite honestly speaking, when you vet some of the words of the prophets and some of the things that were written in the Bible, when you use it you compare with the reference Jesus Christ, you will find out that many prophets said things they did not. Understand or quite understand clearly. I give you an example. You will read the Bible and find things like a lying spirit came from the Lord. Now, immediately when you see that kind of thing, it distops you because it is inconsistent with. The character of God, as you know. Are we together? Another example, you will say a scripture that says, do not be overrighteous. Immediately you see such a scripture, if you don't love God, you found an uncore, like many people who have devilishly found an uncore. But you see, the Bible is very honest to admit the fact that there were frail vessels who captured some of these things. And yet in the midst of that frailty, are we together, the Bible dares to declare that the word of God. Still remains infallible. And I want to explain to you the thinking. Of scripture, because if you do not wear the google of scripture in interpreting scripture, it will not make a lot of sense. Are we together? So haven't put that background? Listen carefully now, the infallibility of scripture I have taught you here, and let me repeat that the infallibility of scripture is not in its historic intellectual, archaeological, or linguistic accuracy the infallibility of. The Word of God. In other words, when the Word of God, the Bible scripture is said to be accurate, it is not with respect to its historic accuracy. No, if you look at the Bible as a historic material, you will find many errors. Bible historians will tell you there are many things that should have been many adjustments, many mistakes. That were honestly made. The infallibility of scripture is not given in its intellectual communication, because there are many things in scripture that does not make sense from an intellectual standpoint. Are we together, I'll give you an example. There is here that's cutarrect and yet increase it. There is here that withhold it more than is meet and tends to penury. That is against the law of savings, that is against the law of increase from an economic standpoint. So when you read the Bible purely intellectually, you will find many defects, and. It will not you. Your heart will not agree that it is infallible. The Bible, the Word of God's scripture, generally is It's not infallible in terms of its at theological accuracy. I don't want to dabble into that up until now. There are rabbonical institutes and theological institutes across the globe that have several schools of thoughts that differ across several materials. I hope you know that there are other Bible expressions that have other. Books that are not captured within the men's stream sixty six books. And there are other books that have been made available declassified that were written by some of the saints here. I hope you know that almost all the disciples had their accounts. It was customary in Bible days to capture and document persuasions in materials. Are we together now? Remember in look chapter four, the Bible says. Jesus entered the temple as his custom was for. To read, and the scroll of Ezias was given to him. He opened there and found where it was written, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. And then the Bible says, when he ready, he closed it, handed it over, and they fastened their eyes on him, and then. He began to tell them today, is this scripture fulfilled in your ears? Allelujah. So when we talk about the accuracy or the infallibility of scripture, it is not in its historic or archeological or intellectual or linguistic accuracy, but in its ability Listen carefully, the Bible is infallible. The Word of God. Scripture, as you. Know, is infallible in its ability to accurately reveal God, accurately reveal Jesus Christ, accurately reveal man's sinful condition, accurately reveal God's salvation plan for man. I'll take it again. When we say the Bible is infallible, accurate, void of error, it is because of its ability to accurately reveal God. That when it has to do with the revelation of. God, the entire Bible captures an accurate understanding that, if well studied, you can. Understand God accurately. Number two, the Bible is infallible in its ability to reveal Jesus Christ. You can use the Bible to. Understand Jesus Christ, and that it does reveal Jesus accurately. Number three. The Bible, regardless the. Errors, the archaeological errors, it accurately reveals man's sinful condition and his need for his savior. If you read the Bible, whether prophetically adomerated or as clearly stated, when Jesus walked upon the earth. You will see that man's condition. Was clearly captured and revealed in scripture, and then God's salvation plan, first in prophecy foreshadowed in the Old Testament, and then as revealed through. The earthwork of Jesus. You see God's salvation plan clearly captured. That means every other thing can go wrong with the Bible. But these elements of the revelation of God, the revelation of Jesus, the revelation of man's condition and need for salvation, and God's salvation plan remain intact and was not corrupted by whatsoever. Are we together now, So next time you say scripture is. Accurate, let your mind go to discordinates as the boundary of your defining its accuracy. That means the Bible is accurate, not just from a literally standpoint, not from an archeological standpoint. It is accurate in terms of. Its ability to reveal God, Jesus Christ, Man's condition, and God's plan of salvation. If you understand me so far, say amen. Now, let me recall again that I've taught you that, generally speaking, in studying scripture are three layers. That the Bible has three layers of revelation. Number one is the. Historic or archeological layers. Still, remember that when you are studying the Bible, there are three layers of revelation you can access. Number one is called the historic or archaeological layer. That means you can study the Bible as a historic material. You can study the Bible in conjunction with other materials. There are non Christian institutes that have the Bible as one of the textbooks that they have. In fact, there are. Many historians that have to make reference to scripture to understand the dates that parallel certain events. Not because you're interested in God, but that the Bible has within itself a rich capture of history. Are we together? So there is a historic and archeological layer. You would see that in Matthew. Matthew's Gospel, the Bible starts by giving us the history of the generations that came, you know, before Jesus. You will be wondering, why. Should it bring the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Then it begins to give us a long, elaborate description. You would have said, just saved me all that time from this to this fourteen generation, from this to this fourteen generation. Because the Bible is a historic and archeological material. Number two, the Bible has a doctrinal layer. Please pay attention. The Bible has, in addition to a historic archeological layer, it has a doctrinal layer. What does that mean that there is a layer above the historic archaeological layer. It will take you to carry the eyes of a theologian and a sound student of scripture to now see the doctrines that are in scripture, one who is purely a historian and not necessarily see and appreciate that doctrinal layer. Are we together? The scribes and the Pharisees had a thorough knowledge of history, but they seldom understood the doctrine of scripture in as much as some of them were already there foreshadowed in prophecy and in the Old Testament. And when Jesus came and began to communicate some of them, when Paul the Apostle began to communicate some. Of them, they were angry. They were disturbed because it didn't make sense. And yet it was from the same scripture that they always had in the temple. Are we together? Then there's a layer higher than the doctrinal layer or not higher. In addition to the doctrinal layer, it's called the prophetic layer, the prophetic layer of revelation. That is whereby the illumination of the Spirit, you can draw wisdom from any verse, any chapter that applies to your life, and gain. Victory from it. Are we together now? So, for instance, I can look at a scripture in the beginning God created the. Heavens and the earth. That is a historic information. Are we together? But I can use that as a reference in studying the doctrine of the triun nature of God. In fact, we're going to be considering that today. But then by revelation, the Holy Spirit can resume my attention to the first maybe four or first three words in the beginning God, and that can come as a unique prophetic revelation that brings victory. Are we together? Now? Now? Let me tell you this. Staying on any of these layers alone has consequences. It's important that you must engage scripture at all three layers to profit from it maximally. If you study the Bible as a historian alone, you will become the kinds of people the Apostle was warning us against. It said, they are ever learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth. These people are not dull, but they argue with everything spiritual because all they have is intellect. Number two, those who understand doctrine will have a foreign knowledge of the foundation of the kingdom, but without the power requirement to bring validations to the things that they know. You see that now, and this, with all due respect, is where many theologians and many conservative Christian circles. They have a. Sound knowledge of doctrine, but when it has to do with validating the power that should come from those doctrines, there is no. Life in it. There are many theologians who have written books about the Holy Spirit, sound theological communication, and. Yet with all of that is sick body comes. Now. Not one person gets sick, gets healed, not. One person gets filled with the Holy Ghost, not one person gets transformed. In fact, even in their own lives, you cannot see the transforming power of the Holy Spirit. Are you seeing that? Now? The prophetic layer is very powerful because that, like I taught you. Last week, you are able to draw the hidden. Wisdom of God from sometimes an uncorelated scripture. So when I teach you things like lessons from an overcomer. When I teach you things like the Law of Seasons, it's not a doctrine, but it is a prophetic revelation from scripture. You can use. Scripture with intelligence of the spirit and draw out life applicable lessons, and together that translate to the victory of the believer. If you understand me, say amen. But if you stay there alone, if all you see is just prophetic prophetic, you see the danger is that your faith will not be anchored on something stable, because you see, prophetic revelations are subjective. They are subjective to the lights that the individual carries. And you must listen to the person who caught that revelation to explain. It to you properly so that you can get lights at the level he got. Are we together? Now? That is the reason why the teaching ministry is very powerful, because you take the lights that you have, Like it happened to Paul. When Paul caught his revelation somewhere doctrinal, but others were prophetic revelations, he would tell you, I. Speak as a man, this is not a doctrine, this is my opinion. But there were certain things He would stank his feet and said this one came to me by the revelation of Jesus Christ efficients. Three hundreds three to five. How that in the dispensation you know, he made known onto me the mystery that I've spoken a full time in few words, that when you read verse four. When you read, you see he documented it. When you read, you understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, regardless who they were, But as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit. Cornonia is quiet, and Joe, you will understand the Holy Ghost is working on your mind in the name of Jesus. Is the reason why many people embarrass themselves before the realm of the spirit. They stand with scattered knowledge that are not framed with spiritual intelligence. And they are to command demons, command which is some wizards and shout, and the reply comes with them, Jesus, I know, Paul, I know, But who are you? So what does that mean? And they beat them and embarrass them, and there's no power, there's no potency to what they're doing. Allelujah. So there is a historic layer, there's a doctrinal layer, and there's a prophetic layer. Now there's a difference, slight difference between the Bible scripture and the Word of God. I need to explain this to you very quickly. What is the Bible? The Bible is a compendium, right, please. The Bible is a compendium of sixty six separate yet related books. Comar The Bible is a compendium of sixty six separate yet related books written by over forty authors over a period of one thousand, six hundred years. Let me take that again, that the Bible is a compendium of sixty six separate yet related books written by over forty authors over a period of one thousand and six hundred years. Can you imagine one thousand, six hundred. Years apart. From men and women who caught across various walks of life, From men and women who caught across various walks of life. That means when you read the Bible, you will see. That there were carpenters who spoke, There were shepherds who spoke, There were ordinary savants who spoke. There were kings and queens who spoke. There were nobles who spoke, There were wise men who spoke. So it's a collection of people from all walks of life. From a theological standpoint, the Bible is broadly divided into two, the Old. Testament and the New Testament. Please don't consider this elementary right. Broadly separated into two, the Old and the New Testament. The Old Testament has thirty nine books. Some of you are hearing it for the first time. I will say shame on you, but let this be the last time. Divided into the Old Testament thirty nine books and the New Testament twenty seven books. Again, the Bible is broadly divided into two. The Old Testament has thirty nine books, and the New Testament has twenty seven books. And you know I won't bore you. We still have a lot to discuss. The thirty nine books of the Old Testament is broken into the Penta touch or the Torah, the five Books of Moses as you have them. There are the historic books. There are the prophets, both major and minor. There are the poetic books. They make up the Old Testament. So you have the Penta torch or the Torah, the five Books of Moses. Then you have the historic books away together now, and then you have the poetic books talks about Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Songs of Solomon, Proverbs, and then you have the prophetic books, major prophets, minor prophets ending. With Malachi and from Malachi to Matthew. Theologians teach that is a span of about four hundred years that is called the Dark Age, and there are many ages that are referenced as the dark But at that point there was no prophecy, there was no description. The next prophet that arose officially after Malachi was Prophet John, John the Baptist. After many years, they didn't even believe there was the prophetic again, suddenly one guy starts shouting from the wilderness and repent. You see why his case was a very unique one. Where are you coming from? Some people had grown up and died. They just had that there used to. Be prophets before. And then suddenly one guy shows up in the wilderness, eating locus. And wildhorney, and he called himself John. Are we together now? When we talk about. Scripture, I told you scripture means writings. But when you talk. About scriptures, Bible scriptures, they are called holy scriptures. From Second Timote chapter three, Second Timuoti three fifteen and sixteen. The difference between the scriptures of the Bible and other writings is that these ones are called holy scripture or inspired scriptures. They are not may writings. There came by the inspiration of God, and that from a child that has known the holy. Scripture, sacred scripture, which is. Able to make the wise onto salvation, which is in Christ Jesus. Let's read verse sixteen, all scripture. So he's saime. By now you understand that when you see scripture, it means the Holy scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, reproved correction, and instruction in righteousness. So when we talk about scripture from. A believer's angle, and with respect to the Bible, we're talking about inspired writings. It is called holy scriptures. In fact, it is also called the oracles of God. You find that in Hebrews chapter five and verse twelve. I believe Hebrews five yeah, verse twelve four. When for the time ye ought to be teach us, it says he have need that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and have become such as and in need of milk and not strong meat. So he's speaking with respect to the scriptures, and he calls them the oracles of. God, the speakings of God inspired communications of God. They understand me so far. Now let's talk about the word of God. Who is following sofa, let me see, okay, the word of God well looking at the infallibility. Of the world. So the Word of God refers to two things. When you read about the Word of God in the Bible, it refers to basically two things. Number one, the word of God refers to Jesus, the living Word, the living law. Go John one. Verse one. The word there is logos, the thinking of God embodied in a person, the thoughts of God. In the beginning was the word are we learning now? And the word was with God? And the word was God. Verse two says the same was in the beginning. With God is the word logos. But this time around it does not just mean a prince. Material is talking about a person. The Bible calls him the living logos, the word of God. And then number two, the word of God refers to the written word, which is a compendium of God's thoughts. The written word, which is a compendium of God's thoughts. Do you understand me so far? When you say the Word of God, you mean a person Jesus Christ, the living Word. But you also refer to the Word of God as a compendium of the thoughts of God, God in material form, written. Form for the edification of the saints. Now listen very carefully. The relationship between the word as a person Jesus and the word as a material a compendium of the thoughts of God. This is what I want to show you now. The living word I wrote here is revealed in the written word. Write that down, please. The living word Jesus is revealed in scripture, the written word. So when you want to learn about the living word, you make reference to the written word. And then the written word also leads or points us to the living word. You see that. John chapter five, from verse thirty nine. To forty, The living word is revealed in the written word, and the written word leads a. Points men to the living word. John five thirty nine forty Such the scriptures, for. In them ye think ye have eternal life, it says, and there are there which testify of me verse forty. Now, and ye will not come to me? Are you seeing that? Now? It says that you will have life. In other words, the scripture on its own does not give you life. Are you learning now? The scripture reveals a person. So the Scripture begins a journey with you that should lead you to the living world, the Logos himself. If your journey of studying scripture make reference to my message, the ministry of light, the journey beyond salvation. I teach there that the intent of studying the Bible is not just to be and remain a theologia, that the study of scripture is a pathway that should ultimately lead you to encounter the Living Word himself. I will learn now, Luke, Chapter twenty four, please, and verse twenty seven. Jesus was speaking to the two men at Emmas. The Bible says, I'm beginning at Moses and all the prophets. He Jesus, the living Word. He Jesus, the living Word, in fact, the resurrected word. He expounded to them in. All the scripture, or through all the scripture, the things concerning himself. That means when you study scripture, you're not just learning stories. They are pointers. They converge at a central point. That central point is Jesus allelujam Are we learning now? So when we talk about the Word of God. Number one, you think the thoughts of God that are captured in a material, a resource, a reference, And. I'll tell you the advantage there, but. That ultimately those materials point you to an experience. That experience is an encounter with living Christ. And it is only at the point where Christ becomes real that life is transmuted from the world. That means your Bible study will not necessarily give you life until your Bible study leads you into an encounter where the reality of Jesus through the lens of the. World becomes furnished upon your spirit. Are we together? Prays the name of the Lord. Now, I want to give you two factors very quickly, two factors that prove the reliability of the Bible as a manual in knowing God and growing spiritually. Why do we have to depend on the Bible for spiritual growth when we have the Holy Spirit? I mean, why do we need a Bible? Why do we give believers bibles to grow? Why do we hand over to them bibles for their growth and their edification? Are you ready? The first reason. Why we trust the Bible as a compendium of the written truths. The Word of God is the forty different men. Listen carefully, forty different men writing sixty six books in about three languages over a period of one thousand and six hundred years, and then having their thoughts and their writings unified in one book with a progressive revelation of God, Jesus Christ and Salvation cannot be a coincidence. Are you understanding me now that the fact that you can bring a compendium of sixty six books written by forty different authors, many of them who never saw themselves over a span of one thousand and six hundred years, meaning there was no possibility one prophet did not is like someone hearing me now and saying, somebody who lived in eighteen ninety one said something, and you can connect it to what I'm saying. Are you seeing that now? There was no possibility, because if you understand the growth of civilization, after five hundred or one thousand years, there will be a change in the way people believe the lingua franca would have changed, their perceptions would have changed, Advancement would have made some things obsolete. So the fact that you can have sixty six books written by forty authors, many of them completely unconnected in three different languages, so they were not even the same language. The Bible is largely written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, with a bit of Latin. You see that now these people were not culturally they were not from. The same culture in fact. And then the shocking part is the progressive revelation of God, the progressive relation of Jesus Christ, the progressive revelation of the salvation plan of God. Some of the prophets when they spoke, they didn't understand. What they were saying. It was what they said plus what another prophet said, plus what another prophet said, plus what the psalm is said. That now makes sense to us. They had pieces of what they were saying, and they did not even comprehend the depth of what they were saying. They were inspired by the spirit to speak. It is now us who can see the whole picture and see that what Jeremiah said made sense with what Isaiah said, you'll be learning from scripture. In fact, it is the second reason why we consider the Word of God accurate a manual. For our growth. Because the prophesses that were said, there many of them, a majority of them have come to pass as exact as the Bible sells would come to pass. Are you learning now the fulfillment prophecies? Matthew Chapter three and verse three. Matthew three averse three. Let's hurry up, for this is that which was spoken of by prophet Isaiah, saying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare you the way of the Lord and make straight his part. Now, when Isaiah was prophesying. This, he really did not know what he was saying. Are we together? But when they began to kill children when Jesus was born, he saw a picture of the lamentation of the women, Rachel crying weeping in rama would not be comforted. There was no Rachel there when he was there. But he prophesied. And now when it was fulfilled in the days of Jesus, they now referred to his. Prophecy as written. Do you understand that in Matthew Chapter two and verse seventeen. Matthew two seventeen. Matthew Chapter two and verse seventeen. The Bible says, then was fulfilled. You now see the word again, then was fulfilled, which was spoken by Jeremiah, the prophet, saying verse eighteen in Rama, there was a voice. How many people spoke about this? Now you see that Isaiah spoke about it. Am I. Right now Jeremiah is speaking. He's even giving flesh to what Isaiah saw. That There was lamentation and weeping and great mourning, Rachel whipping for her children and would not be comforted because they are dead or they are not. And yet these prophets did not meet themselves. Matthew four and fourteen. Matthew four and fourteen, something is happening to your spirit, that it might be fulfilled a game that which was spoken by Isaiah. You now see saying verse fifteen, the land of Zebulon and the land of Naptali by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan Galilee of the Gentiles. This was a prophetic word. Now that the people that sat in darkness have seen. A great light. Who is that light? Jesus? So when the prophet was speaking, he saw, I'm not sure there was any land like Naphtali and Zebulun. At that time. Most of those people who were not cities, there were people, human beings like today, if you say Israel, it's a place. But in the days of Abraham and the days afterwards, Israel was a person. So how do you give these kind of accurate prophecies that in the land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, accurate revelation beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles is said, the people that sat in darkness have seen. A great light. And to them with sat in the region and the shadow of that, a light has sprung up. That prophecy was talking about Jesus. But do you know if it was not referenced here, if you were ansd to guess, you would fail willfully, because there was no possibility. Who ever knew that. What was happening to Jonah was a prophetic adombration of what woul happened to Jesus. Until Jesus made reference to it, we only knew what happened to Jonah as punishment. Am I right on? That Jonah was being punished for disobedience. And when Jesus appears, he said, no, it's not punishment, it's a sign. It's called the sign of Jonah. That the same way Jonah was in the belly of the fish. So the son of Man will buried. Down the earth. Are we together. At chapter three and verse eighteen. Acts chapter three and verse eighteen. Now Paul is now speaking. He said about those things which God before had showed through the mouth of his prophets, that Christ should suffer, and that and that has also been fulfilled. Do you know what he's saying? That the prophets saw the sufferings of Christ. They didn't even know what they were saying. Remember, like Isaiah prophesied that he was bad, that he was this figure beyond recognition. Are we together now? There were many types and shadows. The psalmis himself. Through worship, he. Entered into the prophetic and he saw the coronation of Jesus. The Lord said to my Lord, sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your foods too. Question. Before Jesus came, do you know that the prophets did not even know that God was trying in nature. Because there was no possibility of interacting with Jesus. Are we together now? They only knew God. And then for others who had. The spirit that came from God, and many of them did not really understand the dynamics. Are we learning? The second reason why we trust the Bible is because the prophecies that have been written here have come to pass. Prophecies like it shall come to pass. I shall pour out my spirit upon all flesh. At chapter one, it started with Joel the prophet, are we together? And then Isaiah also said, with stammering lips and another tongue. Will they praise me? Now you see that fulfilled in at chapter two, verse one, when the Day of Pentacles was fully came, when Peter began to preach its message, he said, we are not drunk. This is nine o'clock in the morning. Do people get drunk nine o'clock? Even though today unfortunately, unfortunately. Peter, come and see what is going on in this world? Are we together? But Peter said, no, no, no, no, don't be silly to think we're drunk. This is nine am in the morning. He said, But this is that this is the fulfillment of that prophecy that Joel said, are we together? Now? That I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall prophessey high. The fulfillment of that prophecy was what Peter said. For this promise is unto you, to your children, to your children's children. Now do you know the importance of this, Your devotional and your study life will become richer because you will not only study because parents forced you while you were growing. You now see that the Word of God is infallible enough to communicate the thoughts of God. That the next time you open your Bible, you are not just reading a book that was printed by White taker House or Zondervan or Bible Society of Nigeria, but that beyond the frail pages, that there is an inspiration behind it that can reveal God to you, an inspiration. Behind it that can reveal Jesus. Are we learning now? This is the secret of consistency in studying the world. If you do not trust the infallibility of the world of God, something will eventually happen to your word study life. It will become a burden somme ritual because you don't trust what is there and because you your heart is not aligned, it's going to be difficult for the Holy Spirit to breathe through the words. I like the fact that the word inspiration means God breath, God breath. Now, this is not all to. Teach you about the Word of God, but because it is connecting to many other things. And I would not want to waste time. But there are two other. Things I want you to know. Listen carefully. When the Bible says. That the words were inspired of God, I want to explain that for you, all scripture was given by the breath of God. Inspired is the same word that was used when Jesus breathed upon them. He said, receiving the Holy Ghost, are we together? The word inspired means made to document the way God wanted it. Not necessarily that the information that was written was all consistent with God's will, but that God first that that information should be documented. Are you getting the point In the Bible, it was not only God that spoke. Let me have your attention, please. In the Bible. Donkeys spoke, am I right in the Bible. Satan spoke, am I right in the Bible. Demon spoke through a man, the madman in Gadara. Remember in the Bible, deprived men who did. Not Oh No, God spoke the book and all kinds of people in the Bible. Patriarchs spoke, am I right in the Bible. Children spoke in the Bible. The Agent spoke. So when the Bible says all scriptuoice inspired by God, He's not saying talking about the correctness, the correctness or. The word compliancy of the statement. He's saying, whether it was Satan that spoke, it was God that was the reason why that information was documented in the Bible. That there is a purpose through it. Are we together now so the Bible can now say the things that are written, not the things that are accurate, the things that are wanted, both accurate and inaccurate. Even the limitations of the prophets was inspired to be written so we can know the difference between them and Jesus. Are you getting the point now? That means everything that was written here was not a mistake. This is the reason why your study of scripture cannot end just at a doctrinal layer. If God allowed it to be written there, wisdom. Can be drawn from it. Even if you read where demons spoke, you'll be saying a possible what do why have to why did they You know there are some parts of Scripture you don't want to read. You want to run away out of that place and wonder why they were written. It's because you are reading it from a canal mind. If you read it from the lens of the spirit, you will see that there is a message there. Why are you writing in the Bible that Solomon married seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. How does that information profit somebody who is passionately following Jesus. How do you read that Jonah entered was swallowed by a fish? How does that profit me? Go straight to the point it disobeyed was punished his back. Now, why give me all that details? Because all scripture were inspired? That means those who wrote it were not necessarily those who knew where they were writing. Some wrote it out of their eyewitness accounts, but some wrote it prophetically, not knowing the full import of what they were writing. Are we together? Now? You see this Bible? Look at it very well. For as long. As this becomes just the writings with black ink and sometimes read ink, you will never grow spiritually by this teaching. I'm giving you a change of orientation. You don't worship the Bible, but you have an orientation that beyond the frail pages, the words that are written there are way together that because the breath of God is upon it. When you are approaching scripture, you are not approaching a novel. In fact, the Bible is not a Christian novel. A Christian novel is profitable. Books written by other men of God are profitable because it came by inspiration too. But don't forget every other inspiration to write any other book that ignores the fronda mental inspiration here are we together must be discarded. Let me repeat myself again, every order. Inspiration to write any spiritual material by any spiritual man who is a practitioner of the faith life and does not make reference to this foundational inspiration. That means, no matter what encounter I have, no matter what vision I have, no matter how many books I write, if I don't make reference to the learnings from this scripture in establishing that book, that book is heretic. Are we learning? Now? Listen? If you know this, you can get to a bookstore and pick a book and open it and know you don't have to insult the writer about you know this one is not for me. By this theological knowledge, you see that that book hosts a lot of revelation. But we share this respect for scripture and doctrine. The basis for believing a book is not how exciting it is, is. The degree to which doctrine was captured in that book, the degree to. Which the Scripture was honored. Oh, this is where we our authodox families, because they would write books and fill the books with scripture. You almost want to cry. Just for one word. They bring almost ten scriptures. But right now you see people writing books and they say, the Holy goos said, this is again the challenge with Pentecostal and charismatic circles. So we come up with. Many thoughts that end up dis aligning people and destroying them. Do you know there's a study that is ongoing now as to the kind of reformation that is happening. You know that the church, when you study church history right from the Reformation, there's been a lot of transition that has happened almost every major from the Reformation to the Puritans and all of that. It has come as a correction of. Supposedly something wrong with another move away together And right now there's been a careful study as to why there's so much divergence and error among the tecostal and charismatic circles. Do you know what the major conclusion is the misuse of the Holy Spirit, the major reason why Pentecostal charismatic circles, why there's widespread lawlessness and confusion is because the Bible teaches that our work with God is personal, and because of the unique operation of the Holy Spirit, there has been abuses. God said, abuses. It is my business. God uniquely told me abuses. With all due respect, you will hardly find the misuse of God said among the Orthodox circles. Are we together now? It is as the scripture said, in other words, no. Matter what God tells you, we have a right because this has been tried seven times, we can prove your visions wrong from scripture and not feel we're making a mistake. But with all due respects again, and I'm saying this. With because I'm teaching you the Pentecostal circle. Someone can get up today and said, you know what, every time you show up for this meeting, before you sit down, turn around seven times and then sit down. Why I had a personal revelation. And I'm not saying the. Person may be wrong, but you are going to destroy people because you are not building their conviction on doctrine. So this one said, God said, turn left. Another person said, God said. Tone right. When two of them are together, what do you think is going to happen? And by the time my own Tony, right, I stand on it. I said, my own is what I know what I saw, and you you now say I know what I saw. Someone says I saw that you should hug me. Another person said I saw that you should slap me. Imagine a confusion that happens. Now. I'm not saying that to be sarcastic. I'm telling you. That until there is a restoration of doctrine, the Holy perd did not come as a. Businis for confusion. No, no, And we have credited a lot of nonsense, especially across the Pentecosta charismatic circle. And do you know the danger is that because of the prophetic layer of scripture, God can give me a unique revelation. And I can produce results from that revelation. And because of my results, if you ask me how did I get the results, I will tell you. For instance, God called me to one first maybe ten. Or fifteen days, and by the fourteenth day, God give me a revelation. I am sharing with you my experience with God, but that is not doctrine because it is not supported. It is not Are we together now? I can encourage you, but my assignment is to build your life on. The foundation of what predates my experience. Now, Listen, our. Children stand a very serious risk of being confused because. The average For me, I feel sad. One of the conferences we're holding this year is for campuses. We're going to bring campus leaders and bring people from all across the nation. Allelujah, because if that is not corrected, if you think our generation has done wrong, wait and see the one coming. Are we together? The infallibility of Scripture. Being spiritual does not mean you become excessively mystical. There is a logic to growth and spirituality. Unfortunately, it looks to me like the more mystical you are, the more you seem to. End some level of respect. And so sometimes, especially I'm charismatics, we like to shroud our experiences in a lot of mystery, and it has ended us some points, unfortunately, hear me, and that from a child that has known the Holy Scripture. The reason I believe why some of us have survived this tom of error is not necessarily. Because we're better than those who are being. Swept away, I truly believe, is because of the privilege of the foundation that some of us had. Are we together now? Yes? I remember when they were teaching us for spiritual loss. You remember Great Commission Movement for spiritual laws. You didn't just decide how to save people. There was a doctrine. Now school you were. Taught they would draw a diagram, the cross outside the chair, then that chair representing your heart. Remember, so an average person was taught how to get people saved. Ask the average believer, now, how do you get someone safe? And it's as well. Some can even tell you through importation. And I'm not being sarcastic because the. Average believer does not understand. And I'm saying this with all due respect. There needs to be a restoration or a balance. There is too much selling of prophetic revelations within the charismatic Pentecostal circles. I'm not saying it's wrong, but it needs to be torn down. There must be a return. Let me call it a restitution of a theological framework, a doctrinal framework for the believer's confidence. There are things I cannot be afraid of today. Do you know why. It's because there is an orientation I have. I don't waste the ministry of the Holy Spirit because the Bible already tells me how he behaves. Fool as the Holy Spirit is, I can judge his operations by the scripture. And if I find a behavior and influence is around my life and behaving in a way that is inconsistent with how Jesus said the Holy Spirit will behave, I will cast that spirit. Are you getting the point now? Yes, sir. If a profet prophesies to me now and said, apostle this coin on your thing, you are not in the will of God. Even if it's an old prophet with credibility, I would respect him. But I will go back to help me. I will go back to. Before I get to the place of prayer. I will not pray without the world. This is the mistake of our generation is making. While throwing the world and getting into the place of prayer. The danger is that your. Organs would be activated spiritually, and you will meet with a first array of resources in the spirit. Without a system to fletch their operation, you will dapple into witchcraft and dapple into familiar spirits. A prophet goes to pray because he wants you annoying him, and he's not learned about the operation of the prophetic from scripture, so he just blindly goes to the secret place and begins to cry and says, Oh God, And you see, hunger is a loop hole in the spirit. Any spirit can cash into that moment. And suddenly he's hearing a name, food. Care, Ah, this grace has come, This grace has come, Oh Joshua Selman, And. He says, finally and truly, with no personal knowledge of God and no stability. Of doctrine, he will start prophessying and it will be accurate. But even him, you will be afraid because he cannot defend the influence that is behind what is happening. Not that he is bad. He just knows that he's hearing in a certain way. And he called your name. And we don't downplay the prophetic. You know that we are operating the prophetic by the grace of God. But I'm telling you that the foundation who is learning this. Tonight, there are many fears you will not have to fear when you are established in doctrine, when you understand the infallibility of God's world. I taught you here that what is written is greater than I saw. What is written is greater than I heard, Even though it was true I saw and I heard that it was written. But at least this has been vettered. Jesus himself made reference to scripture. Are we together? If you never have any vision in your life? Hear me, if you never have any vision in your life. But you can hold on to the doctrine of scripture and build your faith on the knowledge of God. And build your faith on Jesus and understand redemption. Understand what the Bible says about satan. Understand what the Bible says about victory. You will live a victorious life. Are we together? Wait until we get to the doctrine of salvation. Many of you right now you are not sure whether you are saved or not. I'm going to be answering the question, once saved, is it forever? Save? Wait till we get there. I have an answer. I have an answer. Are we together? And then when we get to the place of the doctrine of scientification, I'm going to be teaching you God's idea of sanctification versus the futility of man's efforts. You will know the. Difference between holiness, purity. And uprightness. They are not the same. Take her over, take over. I have come to the tajo over. I have tied. Hallelu look, d please, I'm preaching apostolically and is from a heart of love. The average believer in Nigeria, I tell you sincerely, the average believer in Africa is sincere loving God, but cannot defend his understanding of scripture. His confidence is derived from a pastor more than it is derived. From the world. And as wonderful as that is, I'm a man of God myself. That is not the way God designed it to be. The danger with that kind of thing is that you're going to produce slaves out of people. People who are we together? Now now let me balance it with this concept of know God for yourself. Be careful. That statement looks very spiritual, but be careful. There is a layer of deception on that statement. Listen to me again. I understand the thinking of people who say, no God for yourself, meaning that the veil has been torn. But I want you to know that God's system is that he gave gifts to men, and that those gifts help you to know God. If you could know God entirely on your own, He said, how can I accept some man teach me the utopian eunuch? And he told Philip join this chariot I needed to explain something there because if that I believe that that statement is an attempt to bring liberation to the idolatry and the worship of. Men of God. And I understand. But we must be careful. If you do not have a teaching priests and one who stands to help you and shape your spiritual understanding, you may not attend to stature and maturity accurately. Because the things of the spirit are not dissigns scientifically. And so there are people who God has called by a unique. Election of grace and open their understanding in a way so understand doctrine and the precepts of scripture. Are we together not because they are more prayer, For this is an election of grace, and they have a mandate Efficients three and US nine to make all men see. That's their assignment, to make all men see. To open your eyes. When Paul stood. Before Agripper and he was making defense of his apostleship, he said, you was sent to be a light to the gentiles, to take them from darkness to lights. This was his defense. So body of Christ listen. On one hand, while trying to manage some of the excessies that come in terms of over dependence of men of God. I understand and should not be. But let me tell you the truth. There is a dimension of the growth of the believer that is connected to and depends on the Man of God. That stands before him, representing the teaching ministry, representing the prophetic ministry. If you cut away from that, you'll be in trouble. It is true even in the New Testament, the acts of the apostles, the Bible. Will say, after they do everything they do, they return back to their company. Not everybody spoke. They had an organogram, they had a system, they designed their hand. Do you know, even among all the apostles, they knew Peter was different. Grace was given to him to the Jews, like grace was given to Paul to the Gentiles. When Peter came with the doctrine to the Jews, because he understood it very well, he taught them whatever he taught. And when Paul came and began to minister to the Gentiles, and Paul was alienating the. Concept of circumcision. I don't want to go into that because the major difference between Paul's gospel and Peter's gospel largely that brought conflict to them at a point in time. Was because Peter paut that salvation was first for the Jews, and that was correct away together. But he was not taught how gentiles would be saved. In fact, perhaps even though he said this promise is onto. You, he didn't know how it to happen to the gentiles. And so his assumption was that you had to from a gentile. Through circumcision, you become a Jew, then you can receive salvation. And when Paul came and said no, when God appeared to me, he said, whether circumcision or uncircumcision, this is a spiritual affair. Every man can become a new man in Christ. And then Peter said, Paul. Something is wrong with you. But after he humbled himself and start did the. Hard sayings, he extended a right hand of fellowship, and that's how the gentiles were saved. I hope when you know we're part of the gentles, praise the name of the Lord. Now, I don't mean to insult your intelligence. Word. Imagine that you're a man of God. And God gives you a ministry like this, and you know nothing about the world of God. You know nothing about God you know nothing about the doctrine of salvation or you have power. You see, you're not going to raise the people who are of stature. They will come and receive miracles and go back. Are we together now? And the danger is that the day you are not there, they will be angry because they would have wasted their twenty years. You have become an idol to them. What happens when you are not there? Most times preachers think when you teach people the truth and libreaks them. They will leave you. It is not true. In the kingdom, you keep by releasing. That's how you keep. It's in your Bible that whosoever chieps will lose it. But whoever has capacity to release, that is even how you gain. Those who are not afraid of losing are the ones who gain. It's someone learning. Now. Let me tell you the truth, ladies and gentlemen, I am a man of many encounters. Cononia was built on many encounters, but on the foundation of the infallible world of God. Great fathers of faith like Bishop Debbo. Yet today, in spite of the adverse visions and. The rest one of the greatest reasons for my respect and honor for them I will tell you is because of their honor for scripture. Show me a man who has respect for the word of God. I show you a man who has secured my respect for him. And you know, the more I grow in the things of God, I don't downplay the supernatural, but haven't seen the gifts of God walk and I haven't seen the limitations in the vessels that carry those gifts. I have grown to have profound respect for the world of God that I thank God for your gift. But I want to see your appreciation for scripture. If I do not see your value and your respect for scripture, if you stand on stage. And all you keep speaking for the rest of your. Life are opinions or personalized revelations, I may not have too much respect for you. I want to see that you mix your prophetic layer of teaching with a sound exceptesis of doctrine. Doctrine predates you. Doctrines are beyond editing. They are fixed, they've been vetted, they've been away together. There is no other way men are going to be saved except through Jesus. If Joshua Salman today comes up with a way to bow to me, or about an angel, or about a substance to be saved salvation. Even if someone is shouting on that there are not while I'm teaching that, it is still error and it is demonic. The reason is because we have a reference. Somebody said, I believe in the word of God. Say it again, I believe in the word of God. If I properside to you and I say, come, your name is John, Tomorrow doors are opening to you. Let me tell you this. Have this at the back of your mind, that the foundation for that door opening is not just what I said. The foundation is that I am prophesighing standing upon the world. If it ever comes to pass, it's not just because I said it. It's because it is written that I am prophetsiying what is consistent with what is written. So I ask you, believers, if I ask you why do things come to pass in your life? Don't just say because apostle prophesied it. You are right, But from a standpoint of higher intelligence, you are wrong. The reason why a Pursu's prophecy came to pass was. Because of his honor to scripture before he's been anointed. Did you hear that that way you receive prophecy, You and go to a church or meet a man of God and engage responsibly, knowing that no matter what you hear, good or bad, you have been grounded on the foundation of scripture. If you send me a word now and say a person, I had a. Vision tonight is your last night on it now, I'm not particularly concerned whether you are right or wrong, and I will not take it personal. I wouldn't take it personal. If I take it personal, I have insulted my spiritual maturity. I wouldn't take it personal because the more you grow you live by the law of love. I can appreciate that person. To me, it really doesn't matter whether the person is really a fake. Is that I have a more short word of prophecy, and that with what is written there is a business between. Me and God that translates to extending my life that no prophetic world can edit. I went together now and that from a child now hast known the whole scripture. Now let me wrap up this, my God. Can you imagine we just did Number one? But I hope you learn something. There are three blessings that come with holding the Word of God as final authority over your life. Number One, when you exalt the Word of God as infallible and true. It becomes number one, an instrument of renewal and transformation. The Word of God does not renew and transform you till you respect it, not just that you believe it. When you respect the Word of God as the speakings of God. When you respect the Word of God as let us that where God breath, that they carry within them the power of God, they can bring. Renewal and transformation. Romance twelfth two. Do not be conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you proof of validates that which is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Number two. What does the world of God do in the life of the believer when you. Exalt it and it tends to supremacy as final authority? Are you ready? The Word of God gives the believer access to the wisdom of God. Second Timothy. We look at that early at three point fifteen. Second Timotive three fifteen. Second Timothy, that from a child that has known the Holy scriptures, they are able to make you wise, able to make you wise Colossians three sixteen. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Let it dwell in you. Richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourself in psalms him spiritual songs. Singing with grace in your heart onto the Lord. Number three, What does the world of God producing the life of a believer when it is exalted as final authority, access to the knowledge of God and the promises of Scripture access. To the knowledge of God. First John five thirteen. I write these things to you who have eternal life, that ye may know. Ye may know these things I have written to you that believe on the name of the Son of God. But I wrote it that you may know. So everything that is written is so that you will know, so that you will know that by His tribes you are healed, so that you will know that in Christ you are victorious. Are we together? It is written so that you will know. If you don't know it, you cannot believe it. And if you don't believe it, you cannot obey it. And if you don't obey it, it will not produce. It starts with the knowing at chapter twenty and verse thirty two. I commend you to God and to the world of His grace, which is able to build you up and to deliver onto you an inheritance among them that are sanctified. Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. I can explore the prophetic. With joy and grace because I have come to a point where above and beyond the prophetic, even as a man of God, above and beyond science and wonders, above and beyond supernatural manifestations my life and by the message of God, this ministry is hinged on the integrity the infallibility of the world of God. We can call you to come for. A miracle service today, no matter how much I first, no matter how much I pray. It is because I know that all of those things are supported by. That which is written. Why do we call on people to come to be saved? Because it is written. Are we together that God desires that all men be saved and to come onto the knowledge of the truth. Why do I trust my ability to teach you and trust. The transformation that happens because God desires you to come onto the knowledge of the truth. So I can teach, knowing that the Holy Spirit is helping me through the fraility of my communication to get you to understand what I'm saying, because it is consistent with His will. Build your life on the world, Build your life on the Word, build your life on the Scripture, build your life, your ministry, your children. Your business. The safest basis for victory is the world of God. Apostle, you are going to fail in life? Chapter what verse? What? Apostle, you are a champion. I will also ask you, chapter what verse what? I will smile foolishly because you said something positive. No, I'll be wasting my time if I do not allow the world of God to gain supremacy. Appost to what makes you believe Coinonia will go from glory to glory this year. Here it is in the Bible Proverbs for eighteen, the path of the Just. This is the basis of my confidence. It's as a shining light. Even if I see a vision of December, this is still the basis of my confidence. Soup ported by the vision I saw. Are you learning now? You become a stable Christian when this happens. You don't insult the prophetic, You don't insult the gifts. Of the spirit. You don't try away. The dreams and the visions you have. They are channels of communication. But that foundationally any believer that must be strong and a person of stature is the believer that builds his life on the infallibility of the world of God. Do you believe this? I have to introduce the second before we'll go. I have to there's something about God. I want to tell you. There's something about God. I want to tell you. Praying the spirit for one minute, and let's talk about God with you minutes. Pray. You are becoming a mature Christian. Here is dying from your life, your confidence. You see some of you who are running ministries. You will be. Surprised the quality of believers that you will raise. It may be slower than. Usual, but you will raise a people robust and powerful, grounded on the word of God. Not arrogance, but confidence, not swey to and fro by the slight of men. You will raise the people who are stable. Then you can become a believer yourself. You're not just shouting baseless shouts. When you sing behind your singing is the foundation of the word of God. When you preach, when you do business, anything you do, you are grounded on the word of God. Forever, Our Lord, your word is settled. Are we learning praise the name of the Lord. I think about a ago, a few. Days ago, I felt stared in my heart to play a complete album of both fits. I man of you remember boff its growing up, those songs, and you know how you bath, you know how you pour what I feel refreshed. That's how I felt as I was listening to those songs. All but powerful, powerful because they respected the world. Many people have jumped, and as they went down, their songs went down with them. But some of these old people, they wrote some of these songs before a lot of people were born. They wrote some of these songs in the seventies eighties. There are songs that were written fifties sixties away together. But you hear some of those songs, you can. Be whipping you feely, refreshing because they literally sang scripture. They minimize opinions and sang scripture. You hear songs that I don't win, like God will make a way there seems to be. Do you know most times before don't. When we sing, you will tell you. The scripture where that song is coming from. Remember God is good all the time, and then you will write it down. But how about us, what do we do? We just come up from nowhere with something that only you understand. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm not being sarcastic. And then, because most times believers don't listen to what you're singing, you know that someone can sing a song and call anything Jesus Satan, living creatures, men, spirit and believers are just once it is nice. Again. When I teach, I teach from a standpoint of love. Now, especially praise songs Kai, some of the prays songs in Nigeria. We trust God. We know that God is helping our artists and worship us, and we're hoping that they keep growing spiritually. Some of those songs are a deficiency of doctrine. You know a lot of things that we say. It doesn't make any spiritual sense whatsoever, but it's beautifully melodios. So sometimes while we're dancing and sweatings are saying, well, let's just make do with them, and they're growing. If you're calling to the worship ministry, let your songs edify. Don't just write songs. Read scripture and then let the melodies connect to the scripture and you will sing songs that are word compliant. It doesn't have to be verse for verse, but that the thoughts are consistent. With the character of God. Are we together? The thoughts are consistent with what God does. Don't sing songs that betray salvation. Don't sing songs that betray the power of God. Don't sing songs that magnify the presence of Satan. Don't sing songs that magnify which wizards against the victory of Christ. You are absorbing it subliminally, and it would depress you till. You are defeated. Many people have become defeated because of what they sang. Are we together? Life? And I'm praying for those of us who are worshiped ministers, especially in this house. May God empower you to give us songs that relate to any area. Wedding songs, there's something word compliant. Some of the most scripture less songs are wedding songs. You see people raise the song and it's as same they're causing the bride and grou just because it is wedding does not Minimus of Antichrist diding the Bible talk about marriage. Put something together that becomes a blessing. You are prophesying to the people, or because you are dancing, does not mean you have to remove the Bible out of it. Whatever has become a foundation in your life older than the world of God. I'm praying for you as you are listening to me right now. If you don't replace it, your life is standing on shaky grounds. Because the storms will come, the wind will come, rains will come. But the house that is built on the rock, that house is what will stand. I pray for you. You will not falter. You will stand no matter the shakings that come around your life. You will stand. Sarah will stand upon the world. Saarah will stand upon the integrity of Scripture. So are you blessed? Are you lifted? What is the basis of your confidence? Is your tomorrow? Great who told you I thought you mentioned my name would have started this? Let you afresh again. I received him manifest your path. And you always done. Till the Ma shance Cgs. Lifted up. Excel. I received a manifast your path. And lways stop till the nex Shosgesus lifted up. Allelujah. Sit down, Why not done? I have to introduce God. Sit down, Sit down, sit down, and your sound doctrine. That's what the Bible says. Sit down, all right? Right? The revelation of God. Let me introduce it and then we'll leave this year. You must be powerful, authority and power. You're here sound in your house is said, nonsense, Let this stop. And you're not You're not guessing, you are not hoping. There are most serious things to dedicate your attention to. You See, do you believe what I'm saying? When we minister healing deliverance, it should be with all due respect. It should be to a certain class of believers. Are we together now? Yes? If you say you want to deliver me now there's nothing to deliver me from, you can deliver me from ignorance through the sound communication of God's world. I would receive that one. But the spirit no, Now what what is the spirit going to be doing there? The spirit itself will leave even if there's nothing. You understand A certain commes to me. It's when you have something that belongs to him that he stays. A house. You didn't parents, you don't have a friend. There's not body there. You are a teeth. There is already any migration system within my spirit. It does not allow on one text strangers. On one tet strangers. Goodness, You're welcome messy. You are welcome, favor, you are welcome. Nonsense, nonsense, Yes, sir, I hope you are learning. You know I've taught you that you are becoming. Listen, don't just laugh. There's something God is. Doing to you. It's not making you arrogant. It's making you confident. Confidence confident. How are we together? Confident? You shout over every bed you see around once this night, beds have died that should not have died. I'm not saying the devil does not use them, but let's be careful. Just kill anything a reptile is passing. Aha, No, am I saying certain cannot assume those forms. You are joking. You are joking. I've seen Witchcraft's first hand. You have to grow to become a man and a woman of stature and the spirit. When you see why don't you think seated with Christ, rather than thinking he has come to destroy me. Seated with Christ. Think about that redeemed by the blood of the lamb. How about that? Are we together? Names are important, but less as you might have a bad name. I will change that name, not necessarily because I'm. Afraid I will change it because number one, I've seen such a thing consistent in scripture, and I know the power of prophecy. I don't want to be identified with anything that is Antichrist. That becomes the basis, but not because I'm afraid. No, no, no, there are many believers who will not go to the village. Why now, and truly with the low level understanding. If you go, you will truly die, just like you believe it happen because you don't believe otherwise? Are we together? They shall take off deadly poison. It's in your Bible. They shall take it off. You won't want to look for it by yourself, but they shall take it off. I've held too many charms in my life from people wanting to relinquish it to have died if I was lying with this thing, something that your grandfather, something that the person who held it to bring it to you half of him paralyzed, and then now give you you have the effrontry to hold it. No, I'm not the one who held it the same way it was. Peter was not working on the world. Do you know how many. Scriptures held that champ It was not the hands for everything that you see it represents a scripture holding it. Kai. No, we make our boasting the Lord. You see, it's not blind arrogance. This is what it means to be a believer, a weakness. God. The Revelation of God. Number two, the Revelation of God. But I know one thing for sure, that something is happening to you someone. You will go back home and place your hand on your waist, stand in front of your house, and issue one command. One one command with understanding. I'm telling you this by the spirit of God. You will issue one command and say, Satan over my children, over my job. I decree and declare. If you can change the word of God, then you can change my destiny. But since you cannot change the word of God is written already. If you could not defeat Jesus on the cross, if you could, if you can't change what is written, the day I become afraid of Satan is. The day I open my Bible and I see that the scripture has changed. My covenant. Will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone forth from my mouth? If God has written it. He will say so. It will come to pass as he has said. Do you believe what I'm teaching you, Let me give you the Revelation of God. Jesus, Are you ready. That's the second foundational killer, the second ankle. Of any quality believer's life. All right, The Bible doesn't try to prove the existence of God. This is the first thing I've studied my Bible. The Bible never tries to prove the existence of God. It starts by declaring that He exists, whether you believe or not, Genesis one, verse one, in the beginning simple, whatever you think about it, it leaves you there. The Bible never tries to prove the existence of God. There's not been any pressure. Are we together now? Yes? God declared it, and that's it. And every time men try to fight that thing, the prophets are like Elijah and all of that, simply and established the fact that God was alive. This is very powerful. If you find. Yourself triving to prove that God is alive, something is wrong, whether you believe it or not. In fact, that very concept is what defines God, the self existent, eternal creator. So the Bible doesn't try to prove the existence of God. It simply declares that He exists. Hebrews one and verse one, Hebrews Genesis one. Verse one, Hebrews eleven and Verse six. Who is God? The Bible defines and describes. God as the almighty. Please write it down. The Bible describes God as the eternal, self existent one, the eternal self existent one. You have that down. I wrote something here. I wanted to. Listen well discussing the revelation of God. Now, you cannot receive anything from God or even grow in the knowledge of Him until you first believe that He exists. You can't receive anything from a God you don't even believe he exists. The Bible says in Hebrews eleven, verse six that he that comes on to God most believe that he exists, my God, and then that he is a rewarder. Are we together? But Paul in Romance, Chapter one and verse twenty gave us a very profound picture that creation is the most visible explanation of verification of the existence of God. Creation. That means, if for any reason an unregenerate man is asking does God exist? The ansi is found in Romance Wad one and verse twenty court see Paul, for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. Even his eternal power and god Head. Take note of that word so that we are without excuse. Do you know what he's saying. That means If you. Doubt whether or not there is a God in heaven, look at the oceans, look at the trees, look at the sun, Look at the animals, all the creatures great and small. Look at vegetation, look at look at the wall. Stand before a very high altitude, climb on on top of a mountain and look at the world, and you will conclude that there has to be a God who made this. You may not know his name, but like nebul Cadnessa, you have to. You may call him the God of Shadrak, Messhak and a bet Nego. But one thing is certain, that there is a God. I respect science, and thank God for many scientists and even atheists who are coming into a growing, a settled realization that there is a God in heaven. For many people, God means many things, means their minds, means some cosmic force somewhere. God is a very generic term. But for the believer in Christ, when you say God, it's important for you to define what God means. And I'll say that very quickly, and then we leave there are six attributes. There are six attributes that define God. There are six attributes that separates him from any other cosmic force that has been studied. In any religion, through any religion. Allelujah. Three of them are uniquely branded to his. Person, but the other three also suffice. You're six in total. Any time you are talking about the God of the Bible and what separates the eternal, self existent creator from any other God, we're talking about God Almighty. We talk about the try your nature, if not tonight, next week, But I want to define God for you. Do you know why? So that the next time you say God forbid, your mind is not just saying God for bid. The next time you say by the grace of God, you understand what you're saying. That you have introduced God. Which one are we together? Now? The next time you say I know the God that I serve. Most believers cannot work in confidence. Are you saying where there is a power leakage because they say I know God will do it? But your mind is going around around and. Saying there is no register of a proper definition of the deity. You are saying, which God your mind has tried to be God? Your mind will tell you man have tried to be God. So when you say God, which one I'm defining for you? The God, the creator of the heavens and the earth, can I give you these six? Please write it down and do not forget it. Number one. The first attribute or quality that defines God and set sim in a class all by his own or by himself, is that one. God is eternal. Write that down, please. God is eternal is a unique attribute that is only found in God. God is eternal. Now man partakes of eternity, but man is not eternal. To be eternal means you have no beginning and no end. Are we together? God is eternal. He does not have a beginning, He does not have an end, always been and will always be Exodus three fourteen. Let's hurry up, powerful, the eternal one. And God said on to Moses, I am that I am. He said, thoughts shall you say on to the children of Israel? I am the word I am. There means the eternal, self existent one. God is eternal. No beginning. That means he can't change anything. That started with time, including your situation. Your trouble had the beginning, so it cannot be called God your boss had the beginning, so it cannot be called God. The reason why we are called God is because we come out of the eternal One. Who is learning now. It is the number one attribute of God. You must know he is called the eternal One. Let me give you two more scriptures. Are you ready to write? Genesis twenty one thirty three twenty one thirty three the Eternal One or the ever lasting One. And Abraham planted a groove in Beersheba and. Called there on the name of the Lord. Helped me, the ever lasting or eternal God. There you have it again. Third scripture, first Timo Ti one, verse seven, First Timoti one and verse seven. Verse seventeen. My apologists, first Timotu one and verse seventeen. I like this, Now on to talk to me. What kind of king is he? A king that does not have to wait for a brother or a son to or father to die to inherit. The throne, the eternal One. Do you know what that means? There is nothing in life that took him by surprise. He was there, the King eternal, the King immortal, the King invisible. Then the Bible calls him the only wise God. Let me give you one last reference Revelation one and verse eight. The qualities that make God that brand him as God separate from any other creature or deity. I am Alpha. And Oh my God. Read with me corinonia, the. Beginning and the ending, which was and which is to come the Almighty God. For you. Number two, what is the second quality? Are you ready? God is self existent. I'm giving you a theological doctrinal framework for building your confidence in the revelation of God. That number one, God is eternal. The only one who should be called God is he who is eternal, no beginning, no end. Number two is a very interesting quality. God is self existence. You know what that means. He does not or or derive his existence from another and therefore does not depend on any factor or any person to maintain or. Sustain him self existence. That God, being self existent, does not. Oh orwe or derive his existence from another life form. He did not evolve, He. Did not depend on another organism. To produce him. He does not depend on any other factor to sustain him. This is powerful. Look or please. When you study biology and you study the concept of ecosystem, ah biologists, you still remember that there is the concept of interdependence. Remember that symbiotic interdependence among plants and animals. Are we to get so that plants and animals have a symbiotic interdependence and they can build an ecosystem where one organism depends on another. Are we together for plans, for nutrients, and all of that that does not exist with God? Even as humans on earth we depend on plants, we depend on animals. Are we together now? But God does not depend on any other factor to support his existence? The self existent one two Scriptures Some thirty six and verse nine. He is the source of all life. For with THEE is the fountain of life. It is in thy light that we see life, he says, with THEE is the fountain of life. Malachi Chapter three and verse six three and verse six Malachi chapter Oh no, John chapter five, Please John five twenty six. John five twenty six. You're worthy of hero. You're worthy of hero. Is a part of the song I like. Far from you are old peas, and to you are alth things You Lisa love self existential, you are. You are. Four Jusa, John five twenty six. Jesus made a profound sting when Coynonia shouted with me one to go for as the Father had life, stop meditate on that scripture. Heart life where not from another? Now? Contrast that with John one. I think verse fourteen or so. It says in him was life and that life. Are we together now and that it is from us? How the heart does it put it? Now? When you read John from verse one down to fourteen, somewhere thereabout it talks about of his fullness we have received. But when it has to do with him, go back to that scripture. Please, As the son five twenty nine twenty six, as the. Father had life in himself, he has life in himself. The self existent one. Anybody who becomes like that is greater than an emperor. Kings are not self existent. Their tombs like testimony that they are not self existent. Everybody aside from Adam had a mother or father. Whether you know whether they are or not, you once hurt them, even if they died at the point of birth, You once hurt them. Are we together? The self existent one is someone learning The third quality. God is immutable. I am m U T A b l E. God is immutable. What does that mean? He is changing in his person and his character. He's consistent and changing This is the third quality that brands God from every other God. If you doubt whether God changes or not asks. The prophets of Bel compare the prophets of Bell disappointed the prophets themselves, because I mean the God Bel and all of that disappointed the prophets James seventeen. Let's hurry up. He is unchangeable or on changing in his person and in his character. Read together with me. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from where above and come down from who the Father of Light, with whom there is. No variableness, no variableness. He is not something today and another tomorrow, consistent in character. If he was good yesterday, he's good today and forever. Are we learning now? Very important? Some Tatty three and verse eleven. Some Tatty three and verse eleven. The counsel of the Lord standard forever. The thoughts of his heart are to all generations. It does not change. The plans of God can change, but. His purposes are consistent with his character. It remains the same. Are we together now? This is very powerful? Malachi three hundreverse six. I am the Lord. I like that, and I change not. Therefore, your sons of Jacob, are not consumed. That means if I were inconsistent in my character, there were times that you would need deliverance. I would not have been able to deliver you. But because I am the Lord, and in terms of my character, are we together now? I change not consistent. If you say God is good, you can't say he's bad tomorrow. There are people who change. Isn't it you say this person has changed as soon as he became a director. He changed. That's why he's not God. God is immutable. Let's rush Number four. God is omnipotent. The word omni is the word all omnipotent. You have been taught that, yes, so will rush very quickly. What does that mean? All powerful, sovereign, all powerful, all powerful. Revelations nine and verse six. God is all powerful. Nineteen and verse six, My apologiest Revelations. Nineteen and verse six. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty tonderings, saying Hallelujah for. The Lord God, the Lord God. Omnipotent, all powerful. The one who reigns is the one who is all powerful. You know what that means? It means if we come in the name of. That all powerful one and declared that your week is blessed, you shouted confident Amen, Because the one who backs that prophetic word is only potent. He hawbad. This is not omnipotent. He was given power based on his obedience and ranking. It can be withdrawn. But he said, Hallelujah for the Lord God, omnipotent reigned revelations for and verse eleven, for and verse eleven. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power. Why for thou hast. Created how many things, including your tomorrow, including next week. Thou hast created how many things, and for thy pleasure there were. I like this. Omnipotent is my father omnipotent. Don't ask me how the things will be, ask me how cononia will grow. Don't ask me how the demons who come out of those oppressed. Don't ask me how those who are sick wild be healed. The Lord God omen he putten. He has created all things, all things, all things. Can I give you one last scripture Hebrews chapter one. Please, the stretches from verse one to four, but let's go to three and four. He said, God wins sundry times and diverse manners. Speak to us in time past through the prophets, and in these last days, was too spoken to us through his son, whom he had appointed heir over all things. And then verse three, it says, who've been the brightness of his glory and the express image of all things? Now read with me of holding how many things? All things by the word of his he opholds all things. I'm part of, all those that he opposed over he opholds my destiny. That's the reason why the destiny will not crash land, because there is a mighty hand who brings down the hand that God has lifted nobody the revelation of God. Let me hurry up two more and then we wrap up. Will leave the defense of the trial nature of God for next week. God is omniscient all knowing. The word all knowing does not just mean he knows everything to be known. There is no possibility of anything to exist without the frame of his knowledge. Nothing are we together. All knowing is powerful. It means all knowledge, perfect knowledge, perfect understanding, perfect wisdom. The knowledge of God is not progressive. He does not learn. God does not go through an educational system. There is nothing like he knows better. No, God does not know better today than he knew yesterday. Are we together now? If that happens, then it corropts he's being in self existent God. Even he's all knowing, his knowledge is not progressive. God does not learn. Jesus only leaned. When he became a man. Angels learn because they were not created in the image and the likeness of God. But God Almighty does not learn. He has perfect knowledge, perfect understanding, perfect wisdom probably fifteen three perfect knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The Bible says, the eyes of the Lord are upon every place, beholding what just because it is evil does not mean his eyes cannot see it, beholding everything. He's all knowing Psalms one forty seven and verse five. Psalms one forty seven. And verse five. Go ahead and shout it coin Onia ready one to go. Great is our Lord, and ahah his understanding is what in finite. Remember, Isaiah also said that that there is no suching of his understanding. There is no searching of his understanding. He Brews Chapter four, twelve and thirteen. Hebrews four twelve and thirteen. For the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any to edge that sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a disigner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart Verse thirteen. Neither is there any creature that is what not manifesting his sight. But all things are, and let's read that again. But all things are and in the eyes of Him. I love the Bible. Though I love the Bible, God is omny shehd. He knows. He knows your pain. That's why he brought you to church. Next time he say, God, are you not seeing? Let that scripture comfort you. He knows. By the time we get to the Believers growth system, you will know why God sees evil and he looks like he's not doing anything about it. But to say he does not know? Allelujah? Are we learning the final attribute? Number six? God is omni present. God is omni present. What does that mean? He's always present. He's not affected by time and space. God is not affected by time space. Now watch this using the lens of the internet. You can say I am everywhere. I'm being watched right now from several nations several continents, literally without exaggeration, across the globe. That is a simulation of omniu presence. But as a person physically. Speaking, I can't be everywhere at the same time. I'm here in Abuja right now. I can't even be in my house that I'm here. You see that. Now. I can only be in one place at the same time. But God is everywhere at the same time some one thirty nine from verse seven, some one thirty nine from verse seven. Either shall I go from Thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your presence? We're reading to verse twelve eight. Verse eight. If I ascend up into Heaven, help me you are there. If I make my bed in hell, behold you are there. Verse nine. If I take up wings of the morning, and I dwell in the autumnost part of the sea. Ten, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Verse eleven. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Verse twelve. Yeay, the darkness hided not from thee, but the light shined as the day. And the darkness and the light are both a light to THEE my God. What kind of a God is this? Do you know this kind of dangerous description that in God's mind, darkness and light doesn't mean anything. It's only to you God. Darkness and light, night and morning, challenges and breakthrough means nothing to Him that it cannot hide from him. Darkness and light are both like. Allelujah. These are the six qualities. By next week I will talk about the nature of God, and I'll least four of them for you. I did a teaching two weeks ago. God is Spirit, God is Light, God is Holy, and God is Love. These are the fundamental descriptions of the very nature of God. God is Spirit, God is Light, God is Holy, God is Love. We have to stop here tonight. By next week we take on the Godhead, and then we'll stretch through other things. Have you been have you learned something tonight? Rise up on your feet. Oh my sea and has come, Oh my see has come, Oh. My hell has come. O my life has come. Go ahead and thank the Lord for all that you have heard tonight, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Go ahead. Fundamental Doctrines of the Faith, Part one, by examining the things that I most surely believed among us, These are the things that represent ankles to persuasion about the faith, the infallibility of scripture, the infallibility of the world of God, and then the revelation of God himself as the eternal One, the self existent, one, very powerful, the omnipotent, the Omni shed away together now the Omni present one your praying. Now, please open your mouth and pray. Lord, I thank you for all that I've learned. Shalikapran dagabaratoski rakata prandakabaratoski tabandakragadis the one who does not change, is the one who has ordained the life of beauty and grace and color. Therefore I need not fear. They looked onto him and their faces were lightened. Allelujah. One last prayer for tonight. I believe that this series, among other. Things, will take away the spirit of fear. And that's what I want us to pray right now. The fear of yesterday, the fear of today are we together, the fear of your opinions of men, the fear. Of what is not working or what is working. Likely to lift your voice in one minute and begin to pray. Father, I decree and declare that fear dies in my life. Fear of failing in ministry dies. Fear of failing in marriage dies, fear of failing in. My business, fear of the failure of yesterday. It dies. I uncor my faith upon the fallibility of the world of God, the supremacy of the world of God. I uncor my faith and confidence upon the revelation of God, the self existent One, the eternal One, the immutable One, the only importent One, the only present One, the only shed the one who is Spirit, the one who is Light, the one who is Holy, the one who is Love. Go ahead, the eternal Creator, the self existent Creator, Almighty. I will not fear. My life is built on the integrity of His world, build on the immutability of his character. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Now. I want you to shout this loud after me. You're going to make this confession. Let it be a confession of faith. Let it be one that you believe. You are not speaking empty words. Now you understand the power of God's world. Are you ready? Self time in Jesus name, say, I'm a child of God. I am born of God, washed by the blood of the Lamb saying the name of Jesus. I live by the word of God. My faith is built on the integrity of God's word. Saying the name of Jesus, I am guided by the Holy Spirit. I enjoy his leadership, saying the name of Jesus. The promises of God concerning my life, they are yea and Amen. I receive them, and I declare that they find full expression in every area of my life. Therefore, I declare that I am blessed. I declare that I am lifted. I declare that I am anointed. I declare that I'm the head and not the tale. I declare that the power of God is working in my life. I declare that I'm a possessor of the wisdom of God. I declare that the favor of God is working in my life. I declare that men arise to honor the grace of God that is upon my life, no limitation, no weakness. In the name of Jesus, I declare that my confidence is uncored on the world of God. God will not fail me. Therefore I refuse to fear. Nothing dies in my life. Nothing dies in my hands. Say it again, nothing dies in my life. Nothing dies in my hands. I am a sign and a wonder. I am a testament of the victory of Christ. Say it again, I'm a testament of the tree of Christ. I work in favor ever increasing glory in Jesus' name. Give Jesus a big hand, club. Allelujah. This must become your orientation. You are building your life upon that which does not fail. I guarantee you you will have testimonies, testimonies that were not even intentional. They came as a byproduct of the strength of your. Conviction that the light you have received will create and impacting the Spirit. There will be a resonance from the realm of the Spirit to your life. You will see that certain things. Will begin to order themselves by themselves in the name of Jesus. Let me make the altar call everyone's stand. Come to Jesus. I want to give you an opportunity. Remember that we're teaching on the foundations that which becomes for ross in Christ, the things that I most surely believed among us. There is someone here who is saying, Apostle, I do not know this Jesus. You speak so confidently about him, you speak so confidently about God. I wish I can have that experiential knowledge, but as he stands, I cannot say I really know the Lord. Wherever you are, I want to give you an opportunity, and I want you to give me the honor to lead you to this Jesus. And if you're here saying apostle, I want to re dedicate my life to Jesus, sincerely, void of shame, void of here. I want to stand confident in the fact that I am a believer. I want to have the assurance of salvation. I'm going to count. One to five. Whether you are across the balcony or. Down here, or any of the overflows or falling from Zaria, or any of our expressions, you can make your way to the front. If you are here, I count one to find Now, please leave your seat, don't wait for anyone to be the first person. Be on your way. May God bless you. For those who are coming, I say a gentlemen coming, God bless you, God bless you. I see another gentleman coming. May God bless you. Thank you. Come. Keep clapping Coinnonia. Now you understand the value of salvation connects them. They are born of the world, born of the spirit. Thank you Jesus. Keep clapping. Listen. It is the wisest decision any man can make in de side of God's kingdom to surrender your everything to Jesus. I'm still waiting for one more person. If you're coming, come quickly. I notice some of you when we start the prayer and we say hey man, that's when you are right. Allelujah. My brothers and sisters. I want to thank you for making this noble decision when it has to do with Jesus. There is no one who comes to him that he will cast away. The Bible says as many who will come to him, he will in no wise cast away. You have come, and those across the overflows and even online. This is the beginning of a journey, a journey that leads to victory and power and grace. Let me request that you lift your right hand high above your head and say this as loud and. As clear as you can. Say Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your word. I believe that you are the Son of God. I believe that you died for my sin. I believe that you rose again for my justification. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart. As my Savior, my Lord and my King. I declare that the power of Sain, Satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life. I'm a child of God. And I go from glory to glory and grace to grace. Keep your hands lifted, and I pray for your Father. Thank you. The Bible declares that as many who will come to you, you will in no wise cast away the authority of Schlode. Declare their sins forgiving, and I call them bona fide recipients of the life of God. The grace to live the victorious Christian life is imparted upon you right now. You are the righteousness of God in Christ, and you go from glory to glory, grace to grace. In Jesus name, we pray, Amen and amen. Please look to my left, my right, there's a gentleman waving the placard for the counselors that will have a word very quickly with you, and then you'll be back to your safe Allelulia. Praise the name of the Lord. I gave you an instruction last week. I want to repeat it again. There's the reason why I am you to emphatically. Listen to the teachings. Please submit yourself take them as prophetic instructions. Alle Lujah. My assignment is to work in partnership with the spirit of Grace to help you make sense of your spiritual life and to become a person of stature and maturity and power. And these are the submissions that lead to that outcome. Mine is to sell you, to propose you that spiritual template. It is now your responsibility to believe and then to submit yourself to the various dealings as. They come, as instructed by God. So let me change everyone. I know that you heard a lot of things tonight, but go back tonight and don't just give the teachings to people. As important as that is for yourself. Stay tonight, stay every other day in the course of the week away together. I want you to stay and listen. Listen very carefully intently. If you need to cause for a while, praying, write down something, add flesh to what you're learning, grow your capacity to understand, and you marvel and wonder. There is profit to this endurance you are going through. Don't think you're wasting your time. There are things you will not have to pray for a game when you understand the value of what you have received alle lujah. Now, the media asked me to make an announcement. I almost skipped that. But if you allow me for a moment to just make I hope, I can still pull it up. Okay. So, in our attempts to improve our testimonies and the things that we do, I had not given. Them the liberty to do so. But now to be able to make. Our testimonies more impactful, and then to also conserve time, I have the liberty to announce that we'll begin to video testmies. Praise the name of the Lord. I hesitated for a long time because we didn't want to waste a lot of time. But I think that it's good that there are some testimonies that are more impactful when the people have the liberty to show you videos before and after. So everyone, including a global community, please listen. Let me just run this down, give me a minute, so the video testimonies will enable our online community. Say, we don't take up to because of time. We have to congest so many things, this and apostolic ministry, and sometimes we're really constrained by time and we don't want to necessarily stretch us. So we want to have these videos because so many of our international people say they are breakthrough, so many things happening, but they want the world to know what God is doing, but they are not giving the liberty so the videos. You can now begin to share your video testimonies, but please take note of the following. I'm announcing it myself because I want you to trust it. And then I wanted to also pay attention to every other thing I'll say. I'm told that the videos should number one be recorded in landscape orientation, whatever that means acts the media. Landscape orientation. Number two, high quality video is essential. This is consistent with our culture of excellence. So let me plead with anyone who intends to send the video, please do respect a passion for excellence by giving us as much as you can. High quality videos. Ensure the sound also so that there's no mistake about what you're saying. Let the sound and possibly the light. I don't think it costs so much to make that happen. Number three, the testimony should be coincited and not overly elaborate. Just go straight to the point. Hopefully one minute should be fine. At least one other minute added to it for any reason, and then don't give us starting minutes video. We appreciate it, but we don't want to necessarily have to court your video. So let us know if they are video evidence or a dead child came back to life. Do you have the photo of the dead child the mortuary verified medically? Is their death certificate? Don't just say a dead child came back to life. Not everybody will believe it. Are we together? They did die enough long enough for I mean, I'm long enough for the doctors to you know, so that the testimonies that come are not emotional. They're authentic, verifiable where people of integrity. So testimony should be concise. And then, please, for the purpose of the viewing of everyone, we have different age ranges year. We have children, we have adults, we have grandparents. So we add that you dress modestly and appropriately regardless of cultural difference. Please respect our commitment towards modesty. If you're doing a video nothing provocative, you are selling God to the nation, so make sure that we introduce him properly. We want videos that except for graphic content, but children should be able to watch. A family viewership should be you know, we don't want something that will have to turn down. So I'm saying that, so that please, whatever it is, make sure you dress modestly, and then all video testimonies should be sent to coin only our. Budja at one word at gmail dot com. And then selected videos will be played during our testimony time. So from next week, hopefully will take a few minutes, the media will arrange a few of the testimonies for not just for our viewing. Pleasure, but to help us. You know, some of these testimonies that are said here, one picture. Can summarize a thousand words. Is that not true? Okay, I got off from a wheelchair. There is a wheelchair, There is before and after, and then it helps to bring authenticity to the testimonies that are declared here. We can only celebrate what you told us. But you see, once we have the photos, their photo evidences or picture evidences, it helps to bring credence to what God has done. Believe that in the name of Jesus Christ. So please make sure that you take this news to other people, some who may not be able to be here, or some who are even here, but you may want your testimony to be more impactful. Please make that happen. You can do that immediately. All through the week, doesn't have to be on Sunday. All through the week, you can get the videos across and then if there's any special file or document that needs to be sent you can do well. The media will be able to capture everything, and you can be sure that your privacy, even and when necessary, will be protected and will not let people abuse access to information unnecessarily. Praise the name of the Lord, rise upon your feet. Thank you so much for tonight. Father, We bless you, and we thank you for the privilege of learning you and learning your ways, learning doctrine, and establishing our confidence on the. Integrity of your world and of your person. We pray that as we dispass this week, may we carry this orientation onto lives of victory in the name of Jesus Christ. That in nothing would we be disturbed. In nothing would we be pertobed. In nothing would we be afraid. We will stand confident based. On the assurance that we have from your world and from the integrity of your person. I pray for everyone here under the sound of my voice, let this be a blessed week for you. Shout a man like you, a believer, I decree and declass shame and reproach is far from your life. This year you will see or this week you will see the manifestation of the world of God in ways you've not experienced before. The mighty hand of God is upon you, and the results will be evidence this week. Prepare for good news again this week in the name of Jesus Christ. From tonight until Sunday, you return as a testament of good news. Everything that will cause you to weep for sorrow may be far from you. You are late for tragedy. You are late for shame and reproach. In the name of Jesus Christ. I decree and declare that your help us find you this week, and they bless you marvelously. The Lord will give you rest, the Lord who gave you peace. The Lord will comfort you on all. Sides as he increases your greatness. You are blessed. I call you Bulah and Hepzeba. You are a well watered garden, a testament of God's faithfulness. Men will look at your life and love Jesus. Men will look at your life and come to church. In Jesus' mighty name. We pray don't remember to come inviting us. Many were on a project of massive in goathering. We're doing that because we believe there are still more people who need to know Jesus, to learn his ways and to love him. So make sure you are an active soul winner. It's an orientation we have in this house. Don't come to church alone. Bringing as many people, even if there's no space outside. There would be provisions of all sorts that will be made, and then make sure they connect lyne to for their spiritual edification. Have you been blessed? May the Lord bless you together, Bless you the grace in fellowship, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God. Rest and a Bible us nouns forever. Amen, Surely God's goodness and his mercies all the days of our lives, as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever. Amen. God bless you and see you next week.