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We navigate in your direction, the one that has the capacity to swallow up by infirmities and to give us grace that will make us able, ministers of the Covenant. We give you praise. We exhort your name. We say, be magnified the one who answer us prayer. Thank you Lord, in Jesus' mighty name. We pray, please make. Someone welcome as you grab your seat, Welcome to the house, Oh God. All right, turn your bible to the. Book of Philippines, Chapter four, Philippians, Chapter four. By way of bringing perspective, I'd like you to turn particularly to verse number fifteen Philippians, Chapter four, Verse number fifteen, and I'll share a few tons with us before we go back to our lessons. Now, the purpose of the lessons is not just the lessons supposed to be a practice and procedure guide for you to begin to explore God and each and every one of us. We are hoping that you will find Him. And when you find him by way of his promise, by way of his covenant, by way of his mighty hand, by way of his strong hand, by way of his outstretched I am you will take advantage of his commitment and paved a way for yourself. In twenty twenty five, I pray that God will increase our greatness and comforters on every side in Jesus, my tename all right. In the Book of Philippians, Chapter four, beginning from verse fifteen the barbass. Now, ye Philippians know that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving. But ye only. For even in Thessalonaika, you sent once and again onto my necessity, not because I desire gift, but I desire fruit that may a bound to your account. But I have and abound. I am fool, having received of a paphroditus the things which were sent from you, an order of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God. And he gave them a covenant. He gave the Philippian believers a covenant that was tied to the faithfulness of the God of his colin And there was no other church he planted that he shared this covenant with except the Philippian Church. And what was it? It is in the verse number nineteen. But my God shall supply your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. When the church was pioneered in the city of Jerusalem. If we started the Bible carefully, you will find there were three roles that the Church of Jerusalem played. The first role was the role of apologetics. And the reason why the role of apologetics was required was because people that practiced Judaism had a very strong doctrinal background to. Support their claims. And what apologetics means is to provide a defense for why we believe what we believe, why we do what we do. And in the enterprise of apologetics, the basis of authority. Happens to be the Scriptures. And so, because of the location where the Jerusalem Church was established, there was a need once and again to defend their practices in the midst of the ocean of Judaism that surrounded them round and about. And so there were scholars in their mists that understood New Testament Christianity from the lips of the ancient prophets in the Old Testament and the possibilities that should result after the cross of Jesus Christ. For instance, if we take on the prophet Ezekiel, the prophet Ezekiel once upon a time began to say how that God wanted to give us a new heart and a new spirit, and how that he would take from us the heart of flesh, the heart of rebellion, the heart of stone, the hat of rebellion, the hat that is not sensitive to God. And give us a heart of flesh, a hat that is sensitive to God. Now this man is talking about the miracle of regeneration, the miracle of recreation, which was going to take place in the hands of men. So in bits and in pieces, in little windows, in little doors, in scripture, from the prophetic writings, you could see that God was actually speaking about a day where humankind would go beyond our limitation, because Mostly saw that adding moral laws to the lexicon of laws in Israel will not make Israel a better nation. Now the Book of Deuteronomy, from the Book of Exodus, you begin to see that God began to give laws. And basically the Book of Deutronomy is a book of laws, but it is not written like a constitution. It is it is stretched out like a story. And so God gives laws, the people break laws, then he gives more laws, and then they break the laws, and then He gives more laws. Then at the end of the day, we have six hundred and thirteen laws, which is equal to the number of seeds in a pomegranate fruit. And what God was saying is that if you keep this laws, just. Like the pomegranate fruit, is the highest antioccident you can find in the market. If you keep this laws, it is therapeutic, it is analgesic. You will be fine. But you see, Moses, at the end of his ministry said that the reason why Israel could not keep the loss of God was because there was a darkness in the heart of man, and that darkness was the actualization of the. Impact of the fall Ezekiel. So beyond that darkness, he saw a day when God will give his people a new heart, and he will put a new spirit within them. You see, that was a window into the look of New Testament Christianity, even though it was not called that act in the books of the prophets. Are you stay with me? So they had to do apologetics to defend what they believed in the midst of the ocean of Judaism that surrounded them. Now was their first major function. Their second major function, as you must have guessed, is evangelism, and their tedd major function in the early Church was formulation of doctrine. I can show you some snapshots in the Book of Acts, where the entire council sat down to consider what should form articles of the belief system of the new Community of Faith and as crystallized on the account of the death of Jesus Christ. Now, so the Jerusalem Church continued in Jerusalem, even though the mandate that Jesus gave was a mandate of in affecting and colonizing all nations. The Reviver was supposed to begin in Jerusalem as prescribed by Jesus. It was supposed to move to Samaria as prescribed by Jesus. It was supposed to. Move for Jerusalem Judea, sorry, then Samaria before it branches out to the utmost part of the earth. So even Jesus prescribed how the Reviver should move. Now, revival is not that haphazard. It's not like we used to sing in Africa. It's all over me and it's moving me around. The Holy goes power is no, no, no, it's not that has it's not that scary. It can be, it can be guided through a certain part. And Jesus wanted the move to start in Jerusalem, and he prescribed it so, So in keeping with his prescription, the Jerusalem shots started, but Unfortunately, I can show you a few scriptures, and I don't want to do that because it's going to take so much of our time. I'm just trying to give moreco to an announcement that was made. Okay, I'm not pretty No, Unfortunately, the labels in Jerusalem were not such labels that had the potency of getting to the uttermost part of the it. Now, I need to show you a scripture to reveal to you the kind of discipleship training education that was going on in the Jerusalem Church, so you understand what I'm talking about. Um, who is there with me? In the Book of Are you there? Book of Acts? Anyone? Then? In the Book of Acts, Hey, if I come here now is going to take too much time, So I think I'm gonna run away. But if you're there in Acts eleven, anyone in Acts eleven, Okay, okay, let me just show you a snapshot. I don't intend to take your time on this explanation. But in the Book of actstrat eleven, verse nineteen, you will have a snapshot. Now, there which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Finnish and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word to none bought to juice only. Can you see what the Jerusalem Charge did. The Jerusalem Charge educated the po and they had there was a strand of racism in their endeavors. As you know, we are the chosen of God. So most of the evangelism efforts, the apostolic efforts, was concentrated around Jews. Only. Can you see that this infrastructure that was being built in Jerusalem did not have the potency of reaching the autumnust part of the earth as Jesus prescribed. So what did Jesus do? He allowed persecution to scatter them, because that was not an accurate model of the vision that Jesus have and that Jesus had and that Jesus gave. It was not an accurate model. It was important from the start, and so what Jesus did was that he allowed a wave of persecution to come upon that church so that they were scattered. Even when they had scattered, the limitation of their Bible study and their training affected their missionary possibilities. I stay with me now. This necessitated that God should set. Up another launching pad. And in order for God to set up another launching pad. He had to move some resources in terms of manpower and otherwise from Jerusalem to his new launching pad. And that's why profests like Agabos had to leave. Jerusalem, not because there was persecution, but because there was a leading. The other people that ran because of persecution had three possible destinations Finish, Cyprus and what Antioch. But when the prophets that were running Agabos and his team had a prayer sail in Jerusalem, they were nameless profits behind the scene, making life and power to power the ministry of the Apostles. And it came to pass in those days that the Lord gave them a signal that he was moving his resources, his man power from Jerusalem and he was moving them to Antioch. So Antioch was going to be the new base of Apostolic labors. The Prince of Jerusalem was bitter, and eventually the Prince of Antioch became Paul. These are the two actors in the Book of Acts. And I don't want to exhort Paul, but there's no way you can look at New Testament Christianity, even though he was not one of the apostles of the Lamb, but three tents three quarters three quarters or the New Testament. Spiritual information in terms of doctrine came through that vessel. I say with me, the man we are talking about in the Book of Philippians is Paul. The way money was raised in the Jerusalem Church was congregational offering. That was how money was raised to push the agenda of God. But when the new platform was set up in Antioch, how many of you still remember asked at thirteen, Oh my god, you're not with me, Okay, because you're not with me, I'm also I decline, I decline, I decline. Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. You know I told you if you are not following that protest, it's not composedy that I would preach. No, I can also resign. I said, for. Today, we're going home, because let's drive on motime. In the Book of Actual Apostles, chapter thirteen, I'd like to show you what is happening there, because we are talking about Paul in Acts in Philippians chapter four. We can't talk about Paul in Philippians after four without talking about Paul in Acts chapter thirteen. Acts chapter thirteen. Many believers began to gather around Antioch and began to pray, prophets and teachers. They did not have very high designations within the fold of the Body of Christ, and none of them was a principal minister. At the time. But they collocated to a location called Antioch, and they began to minister. To the Lord in first things and in prayers. What happened was that during the first thing and prayer there was what we call migration in corporate ranking. And I'll tell you why. I think so. For a fellowship to come to eleven as the stature, it has the rank to be able to dispatch people to represent Christ beyond the scope of the fellowship, it means it has ascended in rank. Do you realize that it took a long time before the Jerusalem Church could send Peter to Samaria, Peter and John. That was the real apostolic assignment. You see. The word apostle is from the Greek word apostolos, which means a sent one, and in modern terminology it will be a missionary. A missionary is someone that is multi gifted and much old, steadfast and the faith rooted in Christ. He knows the way of Christ, he lives by Christ, is a representative of Christ. He has great intimacy with Christ, so he can be sent to leave the warmth of Apostolic fellowship to go into the wilderness where the name of Christ is not mentioned, in order for him to begin to colonize people and to bring them into an understanding and a practice of the way of Christ. In order for him to be able to succeed on that mission, he must be a teacher. He must be an evangelist. He must be a prophet, he must be a pastor. Yes, he must have all of the capacities in order for him to go as a messenger that can provide all the dimensions of service. That are in Christ Jesus. It's interested to know that Jesus was. Called an apostle and a high priest, so he could bring his teaching ministry, he could bring prophetic ministry, he could bring past two ministry. He must be multi gifted. And you cannot come into the Apostolic ranks if you have not spent more than fifteen years. In the mainstream church. So if you don't have a referee that you can make reference to, we trace you to a man on that whose. Authority you operated. You have no right to be called an appossible. Somebody says a prophet, he's been thirty years in the cave, and now he has been unleashed. Will he will speak by demons because he has no interfacing with church life. You are not with me. He has not interfaced with church life. So will he's not even likely to have character. When he comes into the church called amenity. First of all, he will come with a superiority complex. He's looking after everybody has canal that man is not good for defeat. If you send him there, he will pollute entire field and people. We hate Jesus and never turn to him. So he needs to come and mingle among the people and do minial things until his pride dies. Then he now puts upon it, takes upon himself the clak of service. He can serve without being noticed and not bordered, the confunction without a title and not bordered, the canfunction without holding the microphone, and not border. It means that he has grown in his service to God much more than his service to himself. That's the only sign that makes a mes servant of God, that he can put self in captivity so that Jesus will rain through his life. If he doesn't have that testimony. He is an accident looking for somewhere to happen. Today we have people with bog gods titles with our character. And you know what, the people that have failed the test of discipleship there louder. The louder. God will always send a man to you to shape you. Amanda is not afraid of you. Amanda can look you in the face and say you you aid because you know not the scriptures and the power of God. If you don't have a man like that to restrain you, you're a rolling stone. I I don't have time to tell some of you the trainings we received my Master's that I followed to the few to preach. They will give us a bed, a very big bed. I will be attempting to lie on the very shut get up, go on, sleep on the ground, and then. He will spread himself on the bed and snow when he wakes up. In the money. He was speaking tongues, so zikopamine is saco uhama. After that, that's the only tongue I will hear him speak. But when we go to the crosset ground, he would take his handkerchief like this and smite the blind and he will begin to see because the ground is called that can't sleep. So I spring tongue. Still they break, and I'll hear him snoring. We'll come been the money, Kenny laws Kumba. I was in that for seven years. I was in that for seven years. Will go to some places that will give him profit of him, give me a prophet of him. You'll collect my own an artist. My sister brought those days when GSM network came to Nigeria, my sister brought me no her husband. My sister's husband brought me a very costly phone that could buy a car. The phone could buy a car. He just came from one trip and through the phone on my chest, I checked it and the phone can buy a car. For those of you that are from Africa, there was a time Toyota made one car calls Tallect the starlet that I'm talking about some of the other time, some of the other time I'm talking about it. My master saw my phone, ah, and he was using a very cheap phone. You know what he Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. You will not hear him. Pray in the morning when it's. Daybreak, you say, Si Lama calling Marsico can't cook in a side. And in the crusade ground you will see him jumping. He's jumping like he's jumping because he's seeing visions. Were on a motorbike. We got lost in the forest. He just came down. I said, Holy Spirit, where are you? And he began to drive. He drove his way to the man's house by word of no knowledge. H hall you Louis. So those are the things we saw, Those are the things we saw that we decided that we cannot live a normal life. After seven years, he felt I didn't have money to give him, so he traveled. Abroad and he left me. So I began to seek. I began to seek. That was how I found a man that believed in me, a man that was much more mature than my master. And it was him that ordained me after many years as an apostle. Guess what happened many years later my master came back. But that's the story for another day. Well, then I was married, I had children. The Arcian mission had started because he didn't really believe that any good thing would come out of me. And the Lord knows that I saved him all my heart. You don't question him. You can't question him. He's a lion. You see politicians coming to you know he's a prophet, So hey coming to ask him the way forward. Once you bring your poster, he can't tell you whether you win the election or not. Say save your money. You will not to win. I'm telling your pastor of us. He can call your name and call your name that we don't know, that this conversation doesn't know. He will call it h m hm. Every day in December, will take a gift to him, the one I can afford. And you'll look at it. Okay, in the seventeen and I say you will carry what I carry? You'll carry. You will carry it you carried, you carry, You'll carry des oil. This is annoyed, you'll carry. Now. If you don't have that kind of experience, you're not likely to behave well when God puts you in authority. And that's the reason why if me and any of us go to the field, we sleep on the same bed. Because I have to improve upon the mistakes of my master. The reason why you're missed. I will not be a big man is because I need to improve on the mistakes of my master. He was not accessible. He had a he wears a tight fist. And if it gives a word of knowledge, and you you delay before you come, you will never attend to you again. He said, you just put the Holy Goest to shape. It's not me you put. You put the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit to ship and a lawyer. Okay, So I'll tell you what happened when he got back many years later. That's for maybe tomorrow. So what is going on here is that ministers, they were not prominent. They were collocating in a city called Antioch because God was about to mobilize his new headquarters. He knew that the Gospel did not have a future if it was left in the limitations that the Jerusalem Church had created. He needed a new platform. So these were all the nameless people that were present. And the Bible says, now there was in the church that was at Antioch, certain prophets and teachers as Bannabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucious of Sirene, and money which had been brought up with Herold the tetrack. And so please look at that conclave again. What do you notice about a conclive? Now, I hope you know, the reason why I'm going through all the scriptures is to explain Philippiansatapho. Okay, that's why I'm doing this. But since we're already here, let's do a good job. Can you look at the conclive again? What is what? Do you notice all of you are no politicians? You are no politicians. Do you realize that when Jesus, during the ministry of Jesus, all of his disciples, at least in the caucus were Jews. Think about it? Do you know one of the arguments we have in apologetics, One of the defenses that we have in apologetics about the authenticity of the life and time of Jesus is that all his disciples were Jews. Nobody makes contacts. Out of. Judaistic people because their ancestors had convenance with God. Do you understand that? But do you know why the Jews followed Jesus was because of his resurrection. So one of the defenses of the Christian faith, because you know, the Bible thinks about a proselyte. A proselyte is a convert from another religion to Judaism. So that's what was obtainable proselytes. And if you are a proselyte. The fathest you can go is the outer court. You can't make it to the Holy Place. Neither can you don't have any hope to make it to the Holy of Police. So yes, you can God with the general assembly in. The outer court. Are you there? But the people that will enter into the temple, into the chamber to do ministry will still be Jews. The high priests that will enter into the Holy of Holies must still be a Jew. The thing about this conclave is that all nations were represented. That's the difference thing. And it were interested to know that Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Syrene were black men. And it will interest you also to know that Syrene was part of ancient day Libya. An African man was there, a European man was there. Manin was from Europe. He was brought up with Herod the attack. So that's the outlook of the conclict that bettered the empty excenter. It was multi lingual, it was multi ratia, and it was multinational. And that was the vision that Jesus. Had that Christianity will not be held in. The handcuffs of racism, that it would be commonplace for people of different skin color to be found in one pavilion lifting worship to God. Are you still with me? So in the constitution of that con we could see the outlook and we could see the context of diversity. Because the strength of the church is in its diversity. You will find out that they are different offices in the same body functioning therein, and they are different members. So the strength of that body was supposed to be found in its diversity. Sorry, it seems I've lost my message. So this might be my message for see, that's the anytime I'm tempted like this, I lose this summer of the day. Meanwhile, they say hot summon, a very hot salmon. Nowadays prepared, you know, we wanted to touch on something and then begin to show you what we're call the spirit sequence in the life of a believer. They can say that it was first of all uncle deep, and then so and then knee deep. They're still the holgoes. But the debt is what different ships, and the depth determines the manifestations that the people are going to see, the experiences that people are going to see. Now, if you are in debt three and someone is in debt to one and you are discussing about your experience the Holigoes. The guy in dept to one would think it's not borne again. So that's where I wanted to start today. But we live there. And the thing is this, the Holy Gooes may not even allow me to preach on that day. Oh, the fact that I make my nose doesn't mean that I depend on notes. No, any geologian that is not lazy, she would make his notes. But you don't depend on them. You depend on the Holoes. And many times I have preached without notes. But even though I preach with hard notes, I had notes so that if the Lord needs my notes, I can make it available. And in a situation where it doesn't need my note, like now, I don't have a note for what apps, I'm not showing the trend. So in terms of its constitution, you will notice it is divers it is multilingual, it is multiracial, it is multi national. That's how the church should look like. And it might interest you to know. That in this diversity, there might be something among the Asian believers that you will not find anywhere else in the world. And if we cast them away, we will lose that strength, and what will have will not last for long if we decide to violate the principle of the body that accepts diversity. There is something that might be found in the white community in America that if we turn our backs to, we're going to miss it, and that area of weakness will be evident to all that grace that God put on that aspect of the Body of Christ was supposed to. Be a strength in our community. I have very good dance steps, but I will never use them until I begin to see white Americans leading prison worship, white Americans present. Then I will unleash my dance steps. My dance steps have been kept in idea until certain time that the fullness of diversity is captured in our fellowship, because that's the vision of our Master. My name which had been brought on with heralds a tear track. And so see, as little as this conclave was, they had a connection to the government house. It will be my name that will come with policy directions that have been sustained in government that is going to cause havoc on the church. Are you there. As small as this conclict was, it was very influential. It had it. It's tap rooting. Government had tap routing commerce, and they had all the wirings needed to become an enterprising conclave to bring profit to the Kingdom of God. Next verse. And as them ministered on to the lawd do you realize that even though there was diversity, and even though different stractors of society made to become a brotherhood, their individual identities in terms of the class of society that they came from, did not reflect in their activity. So if you're CEO of your company, you are not CEO. When you cross the doors into church, you are believer. So your status in society you're a governor of albolic but when you strowly, you lose that status. Because what we have is a spiritual family, the extension. Of the Christ and tabernacles that it dwells in. It's it's it's it's it's a as we try to give perspective to the mystical union that we have in Christ, which is what we have in the Book of First Corinthians, Chapter six, verse seventeen, which says that if anyone that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. That scripture is the mystical union that we have with Christ. And it is the basis of natural marriage in the Lord, because in Christ we are one spirit with Him, and with your wife, you are one body with her. Are you there? It means that your marital. Experience is supposed to be a theater that expresses that mystical union. The reason why they, too Shah become one is because they are uniquely one in the Lord. So they have a destiny to become mon fused into each other until they become destiny partners. You also find very soon that it is not only your wife that is called to be part of your essens. Oh, when God created us, he created us in bunches. It's us that in the first bunch, the first bunch was the woman was in the band, so they had to bring the woman out of them. To become that partner. But see, in the day of Moses, God created Moses, and Moses was a stamara and his duty as a prophet required that he will speak to power. You speak truth to power. He had no utterance. Meanwhile, Aaron has been called alongside. See Aaron was not taken out of Moses' rib, but they were created in a bunch. And if Moses was gonna succeed in his ministry, Aaron was gonna have to join him. Aaron was the one that had utterance. Moses was the one that had start joined the space to download the mind of God. So when he downloads the mind of God, he whispers to Eron, and Aeron configures the message and gives it gravity. Oh my God. So just before it is too late, you. Begin to find in the midst of the congregation people that you are actually. Tied to in destiny. Your wife is the first one. You will find others. Then you'll now discover that they say power that binds us together, and that power is stronger than flesh and blood. It's something in Christ. It's the mystical union that unite us. And that's why unity is only in the spirit that it can be found. Don't try to make unity, let us come together. Union is not unity. It's not unity those of your going to you on campus, you had something like student union. That's not unity. It's in the flesh. So there's a problem with the Nigerian church, and the problem is that people think that if we come together and in one room, that we are united. No, there's no unity. Unity is spiritual your God cannot be a Google and then you want to be united. Eat me, we have I have nothing to in common. Sorry, oh oh, there's a deity. Okay for everyone that doesn't understand what iose. There's a deity, a very fierce deity in Africa called what or Google. So a pastor can be drawing his essence from that all time and people we call him pastor. And he's hoping to find connection and fraternity with someone that has Jesus as his lord. That is not a possibility. That's not unity. If it happens and there's fellowship between light and darkness, light wuld lose the battle. Yes, And that's why the Bible says, do not be unequally yoked. With ah harmby. That's not how we forge you unit. It's in the spirit. I never knew him before. I never knew him PJ. When we met. And the way I know meansreels is when they play, then I know whether they know Jesus. He can't find my spirit this man. It means we may never have been met, but were created creater in the same bunch. Yes, there are some cause he strikes no, No, No, he's a proved that He's alive with the spirit. Most of you don't know how to read sound. You don't know that before God does anything, he makes sound. Have you seen his. Scripture when Elisa said, I hear the sound, and he was able to find tune his instrument. It was the sound of an abundance of rain. He had the sound first before there was rain. On the day of Pentecost, there was a sound first before there was fire. God makes sound the same way you felt a connection with your wife. You're gonna feed connections with people, not connections you are trying to make. It is in the heart. Your heart will glue. And you know this one is in the bunch Alan Louis. And that's why Paul was telling us, giving us an insight into how to know men. He says, handful, we no man after the flesh. The golden day is here again, when God makes his true followers more one with each other, so that we can corporately fight against the global warfare of darkness. As they ministered onto the Lord and fasted, the. Corporately came into a place of alignment, and the Holy Spirit found the much needed liberty in their mess that he was able to give a corporate instruction. So the question I have to you today is when last were you in the meeting where the Holy Spirit gave the entire church a message? Are you with me? He gave the entire church a message because that was the level of liberty the Holy Spirit hard. He was not blocked out by the past, blocked out by members, blocked out by policy, blocked out by the church board. In the young means the Holy girls had the voice in their company. The Holy Spirit could speak, he could atter his voice. That was a sign of corporate trunking. And the first instruction the Holy Spirit gave was that some bread rain need to be separated and be brought into apostolic capacity, so that they can be isolated from the warmth of the corporate house. An isolated to run the race in mission fields, conquering lands of darkness and planting houses of light. In this instruction, the name of panaples and. So were mentioned, and he called it a walk. So apostleship is not a title, it is a work. So welcome next verse. When they had fasted and prayed, they laid your hands on them and send them away. That means the church was responding was the hands of God responding to the voice of God. And then in the next verse, in verse four, the Bible says, so they're being set forth by the holygoes departed to said Lucia. Now listen, it was the church that prayed for them and sent them away. But the Bible says they were actually sent forth by So the church became an organism that was God's hands in Antioch. So these guys were moved from their previous designations, either as prophets or teachers or prophets and teachers, and they were brought into the apostolic calling. So you don't become an apostle overnight. You must have functioned in all that designations. The apostolic and the prophetic are like master's degree and PhD. Well, I don't have time today. I don't have time to digress because the message can't change again. It's like it's like. You must have been a pastor or an evangelist or a teacher for more than ten years before you can eventually be called a prophet. Yes, you have a prophetic Collin, I know, but you must have functioned as a pastor and evangelist or a teacher for ten years. You must have discipled people and raised people that we can see in the body of Christ, people that came through your tutelage. And found their testiny. Are you there? You must have passed the congregation, and the will of God was done in that congregation, and it is visible for anybody that is trying to investigate to see. You must have fruit. Exactly. There must be people that give their lives of Christ under your mission. God baptized in the Holigoes under your mission, began to save under your mission, and came to a point where we could separate them to ministry under your mission. Before you can be called a prophet, because the job of a prophet requires is sitting on integrity. Because you want to speak for God exactly. I hope you know that's a big thing. Oh, you're not here. When Jesus came, he called himself the son of God. That's a big name. And he was able to prove it by rising from the dead without your prayer when the verieding he rose without your hair. So now you want to tell us you're a prophet, you're a mouthpiece of God. You speak for God first of all, before you don't, you don't, you don't climb into that place cheaply. In Africa, when someone goes and gets powers from the water, from the river, from the graveyard, he calls himself a prophet and people admit him into church life and it becomes a snare over the souls of many. You en it, Yeah, you an it. You must have raised disciples. The quality of your conviction must have be tested, you say, I, prophet. We must see it in your feet that you hear God. God spoke to you, and will believed it even though others did not believe it. And then you saw the manifestation of the things that you believed, and people were muffled. You must have that trickle. You must have that trickle. Must have that trickle, nothing less than fifteen years of seven in other capacities. Then we can now say this man, indeed, here's God, so we separate him as a prophet. If he comes thereafter, haven't passed through the rudiments to say God has spoken to me? Are you there? He's saying that, with his integrity of fifteen years of ministry, anyone that doesn't hear him has himself to blame because he has put fifteen years of ministry on the ground as a reason why you hear him. Exactly. And for a man that is an apostle. That can be that is not surviving on anybody's prayer, can be isolated from fellowship. I feel he has a prayer life of his own that can't sustain him in a foreign place until he begins to make effect, make impact, and raise disciples and create an oasis of possibility. For a man to be like that. Is even more costly than a prophet. To end the honors of a prophet, it's far more cously. It's far more cously. You must have died to every appetite until no appetite within and without can control. You, save the voice of the Holy Spirit. Your eating cannot complain control, your sex life cannot control you. Your sleeping life cannot control you. God can send you to a place. I say, don't eat and drink until the days accomplished. It means that it means that in your training you are not eating and drinking. That's why God can say go and not eat. Your track record of self denial must be palpable for everyone to see. Today, these hallowed offices have been reduced to titles that Charlatans carry and and be which people follow them around because they no longer read the scriptures. So the beriant Dame must arise again, where the authority of the scriptures will be seen and known, and genuine ministers of the gospel acknowledged the authority. Of the scriptures. A situation where men that are supposedly saved by the grace of Jesus Christ now have a reputation that seemed to be superior to the scriptures that give them life. It's an abberration. Are you here with me? It's a separate on to me, because the call of an apostle is a separation. Just like Peter said in the Book of Acts, chapter six, he said, we will give our else. So the prayer and the ministry of the world. That's sepression. It means that prayer and the Word of God is going to shape our life. Will become creatious. That result from one prayer does will become creatious. That result from what the world of God does. To a man that acknowledges is authority. That's who become. Even though there was an emergency, the windows were crying, he said, we cannot change our job description. We already separated to the world and what prayer. So we need to raise some other people that will take care of those needs, because our own job has been defined. Jesus had already separated us onto this agenda. The same fature that made that statement many years later in the Book of First Peter began to speak about this subject. He was the one that spoke about the government of goll Fit's second tired. Are you there. One of these days I need to take you to First Peter. I'll show you the depth that that man has. Every apostle that is lacking in that dept is yet immature. If you stay with mister Emil. Being sent forth by the Holy Gooes they departed onto Selucia. Non listen. The Antioch Church is a sending church. The Jerusalem Church is a gathering church. In the Jerusalem Church we had sitting capacity, and the Anti Church we had sending capacity. The Antioch model is the Reviver model. That's our model. We are. We are trusting God at the time we come where we can send. You can send Cynthia to Rochester, just like Paul could could could could leave titles sincrete one man and they and the marching orders they gave titles was set everything in order and ordain elders. If the Postolic company can have as much as one man, one man for one city. So we send Pastor Rufus to send Paul. I hear sat And lives there. I was told, I was told by some wise men that Satan lives. But I haven't raised him as a rocked man that has no other master, that can fear no other king save Jesus Christ. We know that it's. Stronger than what is in Saint Paul, so we take him to Saint Frances. Certain not that the things. That are lacking one man. They have acted of the Apostolic are men that are servants of Jesus and Jesus only men that if you call them and putting a revolver around your head and said, deny Jesus and I will deliver you. I will allow you leave. Those men cannot see their lives outside of Jesus, so they. Will not accept your deliverance. You'll not accept. During COVID, our governor in my city said only fifteen people can be in a room, and we were twelve. They neighbor to our church building called the police and said they are holding service and The police came with handcuffs and they were thinking that if they were walking to the place, maybe we'll run away. Then I realize that we were ready to be arrested. Never seen crazy men like that. You no, No, I've come close to death a few times and I didn't shake. This is your handcuffs that you shake me. I died in Christ. A dead man cannot be afraid of death. For year dead, the Bible says, And your life is hiding Christ and Christ in God. The only thing you can do is so kill my body. My soul will live on. You can't speak the way I'm doing if. You are not routed. If you don't know Jesus, and I possibly said friend of Jesus, who knows Jesus, the one that created this universe, and he serves him until his dying day, he would not listen to the voice of the Dollar. He would not listen to the voice of the pound. He saves Jesus. I know many people that were trusted into missions field. Then they got lost when they found them. Their submerge from America with dollar year and here they were captives being sent forth by the Holy Ghost that departed onto Saile Lucia, and from thence that sailed to Cyprus. The people that ran because of persecution, some of them went to Cyprus. They didn't know that Cypross was supposed to be the second city. They went to the second city. Meanwhile, Antioch was the second land. But the first may you be in the first land. The second city will be a victim of what has already taken place in the first land. I hope you know. Songs are according to generations. So the songs of antiok with the first generation, and that is how to be recorded in the annalys of the heavens. Oh, do you still remember the day of Pentecost? There were one and twenty guys in the opper room. That's the first generation. Three thousand were added to them, that's the second generation. That's seed. So a new kind of ministry has been born. It's an outgoing ministry. It's an outreach kind of ministry. It's an outbound kind of ministry. And I hope you know. Traveling ministry involves a lot of money. So whereas these guys don't have a big. Congregation like they having Jerusalem, Because if the Jerusalem guys put the Moneys together, they can't found anything. It was congregational offering. That was the strength of their funding. But in the Apostolic network they didn't have a big congregation. It was just that they had a pure congregation. There were not so many, but there were great examples and great advertisement to the name of Jesus sowhat so that it was in Antioch that the believers were first called Christians, and if you read it from the Greek, they were regarded as lead to christ. It means everyone was manifesting Jesus. And in them Jesus was still alive. Jesus was still alive. He was still alive. In our time. Let it be said that Jesus leaves among them. Oh, that's a lead couria mahalandon. So this atgoing missionary oriented set of people that do not have a big congregation. How do they hope to fund the missions that Paul and Barnabas will be backing upon? You said the answer in the Book of Philippians. After four go with me to Philippins phone Senora okay i sinnana okay i, mulanaam. Milna na oh milna namo e milna oh milnaamo lena a s nakilnaa A sayl adm c NAKEI say Lama el namomac. Name me now Lama milnaa. You know when I see something like the song rising from a place where darkness was covered, and the brilliance of this light was so intense. As this light began to rise, this light began to rise, then it became possible for me to see what was hiding in the darkness. There were creeping things. Creeping creatures, some like long serpents. And all kinds of creeping things were hiding in the darkness. And yet the light began to rise, and the light began to rise, and the light began to rise, and then the heat that came from the light began to strangle those creatures. Learning, yeay, learning, oh, learning. And the Law speaks to me and say, this is the story of America, that in our day, in our lifetime, that the Son of Righteousness whill arise again in these lands, and the household of God will be strengthened, and the name of Jesus will be known widely. All tars of darkness that were raised to the glory of the devil who offer loss because the burning fire of the Son of Righteousness will cotch darkness. Milner seeming now, Milner. Now your Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gost so what he caused the beginning of the Gospel is what we just read in the Book of Acts, chapter thirteen, where they were separated to be a witness of the resurrection of Christ in different lands of the Gentiles. He couldn't even talk about money, because he was going to Gentile lands that were hidden, separated onto dam bidos, led by darmed spirits. Is a You know that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church he planted those churches, but it was determined not to be a body into any of them. He was patient for God to open the eyes of the brethren h to see the responsibility of partnering with him, And no church among all the churches he planted communicated with him concerning giving and receiving. But only the Philippian Church, For even in Thessalonika he sent once and again to my necessity, the only guys that were reasonable enough to know that the apossible to. Has needs, not because I desire gifts. He's been trained. To survive without pause, without creep, without a change of rayment or tunic. So he can manage and master poverty. He also can manage and master plenty. So whether in poverty the Lord is glorified, whether in plenty the Lord is valued. You know, in our day there is a sub true emphasis that looks as though if you don't have plenty, you are not godly. Such a gospel is coming from the fountain of the voice of Mammal. Because it is possible for a man to be speaking out of prosperity and think he's preaching the gospel speaking out of success, and thinking he's doing the body of Christ as service. That's not Christianity. The true masters of the faith were men that knew how to abese and to abound and listen to me. I was in the oil industry. There was a lot of apportunity for me to have made money. If I wanted to take bribes, O would have been a money man. It means that. Because you decide to be a Christian, you can be poor sometimes. Oh okay, I know you guys in America have rest. Now listen to me. Listen to me in parts of Africa, because you decide to be Christian. You can be killed. Because you decide to be Christian, you can be killed. And in the same faith, because you decide to be Christian and to hold to your values, you can be poor. That's not because you are faitless, not because you are a Christian. So Paul discovered how to abease and how to abound in every situation he found himself. His emphasis was his faithfulness to the Christ that has called him to save his will? Are you say following me? No church communicated with him. In giving and in receiving is not composory. He did not make it composed. But the people that were willing to partner with him, it was open to them. And that was the test of Michael Church. We called them the Church of Partnership. And among all the churches he planted, only this church he gave his covenant, the covenant that was available to him because of the integrity of his calling and the Greece that God has made available to see to the actualization of the thing wherein he has been sent. Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may have bound to your account. And we'll talk about that some other day. How to open a heaven's bank account that desire fruit that may have abound to your account. Are you there? But I have all, and about. I am fool, having received of a pa frouditudes the things which were sent from you, an order of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God. Then he gave them his covenant. This covenant was drawn from his intimacy with Jesus Christ. This covenant was drawn from the fact that he has labeled with Jesus on the field, and he knew that Jesus was favorably disposed to responding to a cry that comes from his heart. He was saying, like Peter said, I have something with Jesus, I have something with Jesus. You know, Peter said, go I do not have imagine a man in the caliber Peter was broke at the time. Are you there? So the fact that somebody doesn't have funds doesn't mean in the slightest that is fitless. It doesn't mean in the slight test that is Christianity should be on the mind, because there are cases in which it is because you are Christian that you are born it. Let know, did. Bully you with a new trend of teaching that shows finances and goodies and all of that as the goal of the Christian it is. It is Mammon, the trap of Mamo. It's a disaster and Mammon is a bad God. Don't say it if you stay with me saying amen. He gave them his covenant based on that which he had with God. My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Oh, unfortunately, we were not giving for the scriptures about the possibilities that began to abound in the fish the Philippian Church just because of this declaration. So he spoke about partnership even though it is open to everybody, but it's not composing because at the end of the day, it's not everybody that partners willingly, because the law of partnership is that they must be willing, not on the coestionion. And you're doing it. Because you have an understanding that whenever God deploys a mission their needs and a partner has the mind to stand to see that those needs are met so that the campaign for Jesus can continue, then such a person qualifies for the personal Covenant My God. So that's what the partner's meeting is about exactly. So that was what I was trying to explain. That took all the time Ali lawyer and then the discipleship meeting. Jesus gave us a mandate and this way his words in the Book of Matthew, can you turn with me, holl When Jesus rose from the dead, he no longer had a physical body. He had a resurrected body. He no longer had a physical address. So he can you go to the Book of Matthew, chapter twenty eight, verse sixteen, put it on the screen. Jesus no longer had a physical body, had a resurrected body. Because he had a resurrected body, he no longer had a physical address. He met with his disciples by appointments. My son was supposed to go to the hospital today and when he made it to the hospital, they say, sorry, you are one hour late from the time Shu root for your appointment, and they turned him back. It's by appointment. Meanwhile, in Nigeria, you can stagger into the hospital at any time. You'll be attended to. He said, hospital for God's sake. But no, no, no, even in the bank, I'm the one bringing money to you guys in where's Vago? I'm bringing you money? Well, is that I'll visit the bank by appointment? Are a lujah. I'm seeing that for the first time on the shores of America, and I love America the name of Jesus. Now, it's only when Jesus rules from the dead that he met the dipos by appointment. And every time he met them, every time he should do an appointment for them. There was something strategic about the Kingdom of God that he wanted to divulge to them. And I can show you a few appointments. Appointments were difficult to come by, but this was the only time among the appointments that he made with his disciples that was outdoor. It was not just outdoor, it was on the mountain top only appointment I was outdoor. Then the eleven disciples went away into galley into a mountain where Jesus had appointed. Oh my God, well let me leave you. Let me leave you. Next vers next one. That scripture is pregnant. We have not fully uncovered the pregnancy of that scripture. So when these guys, these guys had to do some climbing to get up there. You know, when you begin to grow with God, you'll be meeting him on mountains. You will pay price to meet him. You know this first thing we are doing. Now. There are some people saying outrageous forty days are fast thing? What's there? Because they cannot understand the fact that Jesus will not come down. You will give you an appointment where you pay price to meet him. And the more you grow in God, the more the price you will pay to meet him will be increasing, until you become a man that can be called a bond servant like ball. There's a difference between a no no, no, no, no, not savant. The word to use there is is doullus. It's not savant, it's slave because the difference between his servant and his slave is that the servant can choose another master, but the slave is bound to his master. I'll have only one master. Oh my God, my God. Onto a high mountain. And when when they limport or climbed, but they got up there, he was waiting for them. So they worshiped. But you know that after some clime that place they still das staid whether he was one. This is Jesus, and the reason why he's written here is because he was able to sport it. Sport their doubt. But the matter he wanted to announce to them was so important that he did not address their doubt. It Normally Jesus will address. Everything he picks when you come into the room. This was the only time in his ministry that he did not rebuke doubt. Are there? It means that many of us can climb to the hill and still doubt. You can do the forty days and still doubt. But if you pay price, pay the price to come, it makes you have faith. That's why he will not rebuke your doubt. He will walk with you until he wears out that doubt. Next us and Jesus came and spoken to them and said, this is the announcement it brought. All power is given to me. They have calculated the impact of my blood in the chamber in heaven. Are either I hope you know the calculations that took place in the Holy of Holies, in the sanctuary before Jesus the holies went to raise results from the dead. His blood was in the Holy of Police, and the spectator in the Holy of Police is not a crowd. The spectator in the Holy of Police is the Father himself. He was the one that analyzes the meaning of that blood, and he was the one that validated that blood as the only material thing that can claise and carry the impact of the rebellion of humankind that took place in the Holy of Police. Jesus is coming to tell them that there's another policy that has come out of the Holy of Police, and that policy has given him his designation. As a holder of power. Is under his custody that power would reside. So Jesus came with the announcement, Oh power, oh my God, Oh my God, is giving unto me in heaven and on earth. Please help me tell about all power. The one making this statement is superior that the governor of your state, superior than the president of the nations, say all power is given unto me in heaven and on earth. After saying all power is given on to me, what was the next statement? Go year devil, now, so can you connect all power to this? Oh, you're not fully If you read this goal ye, without reading all power, you will not understand the context. The breaking news from heaven is. All power is giving on to me in heaven and on earth. Then in the same breath and I say, go mm hmm, I hope you're a saying what is going He means you're going in power. You're going in capacity, You're not going naked. And it's interest you to know there is no power out there that is really power, because all power is what I have. So when you meet power, much power with my power. This is what we call the Great Commission. But you realize that this is an apostolic commission. It was only given to twelve men. And oh you know with me, You're not with me. You're not here. You're not here. You're not here. It was given to go here. Therefore, and teach all nations. That's the discipleship aspect. Teach all nations. We should each kings. Teach men in authority. You know. I began and I said, Bible teacher, and I said, I began to grow in the ranks. God That's given me the privilege to teach some ministers of nations. I don't I will not mention the nation into you. In my hotel room, they started bringing cabinet ministers to me. And when I challenged them with the truth of the gospel, they were honest men. Say, yes, I have a girl friend here, I said, lady, I taught here. That's why I travel a lot. Not all my trips are of fisher. He said. We should teach old nations. He said, I played that role I played, And when you play that role, you don't. You don't take pictures with the people, even if they give you money. You rejected. And so that they can respect the service that you're read. Now, hm, go your therefone. Teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and not. The son, and not be hooligos, teaching them to observe all things wheresoever I've commanded you so in discipling the nations, the content of the syllables is. To teach what Jesus thought. You see when you see are you here? Are you with me? Now that you have had it, I want to challenge you now how many things that Jesus taught? You know? Oh? You know with me? If I give you the microphone, and said the woman with the issue of black she was going and she touched the hem of his garment. Sorry, that was not what Jesus thought. You can you can use that to sing throughout It's not one of the things. He's a start. Do you know