# GOD S END TIME AGENDA PART 1 THE RISE OF WITNESSES with Apostle

An episode of [Apostle Joshua selman Messages](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1798706992), 28 Oct 2026, 2 h 05 min.

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## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you so very much for this
[0:13] Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity. Bishop, thank you. Thank you. Honor to you
[0:17] Speaker 1: and your wife. Thank you. Amen. I believe that God
[0:26] Speaker 1: wants to do something mighty. In our lives and in
[0:30] Speaker 1: this place tonight. For the Bible says that he has
[0:35] Speaker 1: not called the seed of Jacob. To seek him in vain. Hallelujah.
[0:44] Speaker 1: And then the Bible also says that he is the rewarder.
[0:49] Speaker 1: Not just of them that believe him. But of them
[0:53] Speaker 1: that diligently seek him. I was touched when I got
[0:59] Speaker 1: to know that there were people, I'm sure that some
[1:01] Speaker 1: of them couldn't make it, but their hearts were still
[1:06] Speaker 1: open to receive. I'm aware that there are so many
[1:08] Speaker 1: people connecting across the globe, and it's an honor to
[1:12] Speaker 1: bring His presence, His word, His power to us. The
[1:16] Speaker 1: Bible says Jesus is the same yesterday, the same today,
[1:23] Speaker 1: the same forever. I want you to please listen to me.
[1:28] Speaker 1: When God wants to reach a people, He sends a man.
[1:36] Speaker 1: When Satan wants to destroy a people, He sends a man.
[1:43] Speaker 1: Either ways, is this better? Thank you. Praise the Lord.
[1:47] Speaker 1: Thank you. Either ways, when God finds men, or when
[1:54] Speaker 1: Satan finds men, There will always be a reaction. Hallelujah.
[2:03] Speaker 1: And so I truly believe that God has granted us
[2:08] Speaker 1: the honor and the privilege to be here. Not just
[2:13] Speaker 1: to project ourselves.
[2:15] Speaker 2: No.
[2:17] Speaker 1: Not just to project gifts and talents. No. No. not
[2:23] Speaker 1: just to project a celebrity life, no. The assignment that
[2:31] Speaker 1: we have in this place is that for the sake
[2:34] Speaker 1: of one person who has prayed, one person who has fasted,
[2:40] Speaker 1: crying for a move of the spirit, crying for revival,
[2:45] Speaker 1: crying for an outpouring. For some of you, what you
[2:49] Speaker 1: see today Is a manifestation of your years of prayer.
[2:55] Speaker 1: Years of fasting. Hallelujah. We'll be seated shortly. But in
[3:03] Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 28. The Bible tells us that Jacob came
[3:08] Speaker 1: to a place called Luz. And he laid there to
[3:12] Speaker 1: sleep at night. And then he had a vision. And
[3:15] Speaker 1: he saw a ladder that connected the heavens and the earth.
[3:20] Speaker 1: And the Bible says he saw angels ascending and descending.
[3:26] Speaker 1: Angels do not move until they ascend. Yet Jacob never
[3:31] Speaker 1: received anything. My question is, as they were ascending and descending,
[3:36] Speaker 1: where were they going to? And who were they going to?
[3:41] Speaker 1: Because we are sure that the man who saw them
[3:44] Speaker 1: never received from them. He was a witness of their motion.
[3:50] Speaker 1: But never a beneficiary. They left heaven to the earth.
[3:55] Speaker 1: Bringing messages. But not to Jacob. And Jacob said the
[4:00] Speaker 1: Lord was in this place. And I knew not. And
[4:04] Speaker 1: I said that to say that just because you are here.
[4:07] Speaker 1: Does not guarantee that you will receive.
[4:10] Speaker 2: No.
[4:11] Speaker 1: No. Many people were around the meetings of Jesus. Doubters. Haters.
[4:18] Speaker 1: Passionate people. But in the midst of that crowd. The
[4:21] Speaker 1: Bible records that a few people. Like the woman with
[4:24] Speaker 1: the issue of blood. If I may but touch. Being
[4:30] Speaker 1: in his presence is not enough. I need to touch.
[4:34] Speaker 1: And Jesus made a profound statement. He said who touched me.
[4:41] Speaker 1: Not who was around me. Not who heard me. But who.
[4:47] Speaker 1: Beyond just those who hear. Beyond just those who register
[4:52] Speaker 1: their presence. So I want you to lift your hands
[4:56] Speaker 1: to the heavens. And just ask the Lord to give
[5:00] Speaker 1: you a visitation tonight. Go ahead. Following online. Across the
[5:06] Speaker 1: nations of the earth. If there's any overflows. And then
[5:10] Speaker 1: for those of us who are here. My Bible says
[5:13] Speaker 1: for everyone that asketh receiveth. Go ahead. Go ahead.
[5:18] Speaker 3: Ye have not because ye ask not.
[5:23] Speaker 2: Amen.
[5:58] Speaker 1: Father, give me an encounter in the name of Jesus.
[6:18] Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus. Turn my life around. Let me encounter
[6:49] Speaker 1: your wisdom and your spirit. Hallelujah.
[7:01] Speaker 4: No eye has seen, no ear has heard what God
[7:07] Speaker 4: has prepared for me. So I submit to his work
[7:15] Speaker 4: in me. Till Christ be formed in me.
[7:22] Speaker 3: No eye has seen. No ear has heard.
[7:27] Speaker 4: What God has prepared for me. So I submit to
[7:36] Speaker 4: his work in me.
[7:39] Speaker 1: Till Christ be.
[7:44] Speaker 2: We are here for you.
[7:49] Speaker 1: Come and do what you do.
[7:55] Speaker 2: We are here for you.
[8:00] Speaker 1: Come and do what you do. Set our hearts on you.
[8:11] Speaker 4: So you will do what you do.
[8:16] Speaker 2: We need a move. We need a move.
[8:25] Speaker 1: One more time.
[8:26] Speaker 2: We need a move.
[8:35] Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God, we ask that you will
[8:37] Speaker 1: help us tonight. Let there be an outpouring of the
[8:41] Speaker 1: Spirit in this place. I pray that you set someone
[8:45] Speaker 1: on fire. In the name of Jesus, shake the foundations
[8:50] Speaker 1: of this city. And in the name of Jesus, we
[8:53] Speaker 1: enthrone Christ afresh over this region, over this territory. And
[9:00] Speaker 1: we decree and declare that every spiritual force... That as
[9:05] Speaker 1: he that fought the program of God will prophesy. Lift
[9:09] Speaker 1: up your heads. O ye gates. And be ye lifted
[9:15] Speaker 1: everlasting doors. That the king of glory may come. He
[9:20] Speaker 1: says who is this king of glory? He is the
[9:23] Speaker 1: Lord strong and mighty. He is the Lord mighty in battle.
[9:29] Speaker 1: Come on celebrate Jesus in this place tonight. thank you
[9:39] Speaker 1: jesus may god bless you please be seated let your
[9:49] Speaker 1: heart be opened be sensitive to that which the holy
[9:52] Speaker 1: spirit is doing the bible says in acts chapter 10
[9:56] Speaker 1: it says while peter yet spoke these things The Holy
[10:00] Speaker 1: Ghost fell On all they that heard him The difference
[10:08] Speaker 1: between the ministry of the Spirit And an ordinary lecture
[10:12] Speaker 1: Is the presence and the move of the Spirit Are
[10:15] Speaker 1: we together? So that whilst the word is taught, what
[10:19] Speaker 1: you are receiving is beyond just an intelligent information. Ezekiel
[10:24] Speaker 1: chapter 2, 1 and 2, it says, He said unto me,
[10:27] Speaker 1: Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will
[10:29] Speaker 1: speak unto you. And he did not have the capacity
[10:33] Speaker 1: to stand. Then verse 2 says, And the Spirit said,
[10:37] Speaker 1: The Spirit entered into me when he spake, not before
[10:42] Speaker 1: he spake.
[10:43] Speaker 3: Whilst he was speaking, the spirit of the word entered
[10:48] Speaker 3: into me.
[10:51] Speaker 1: I have a few thoughts that I want to share
[10:53] Speaker 1: with us. I believe in God's prophetic program across the nations.
[10:59] Speaker 1: I have studied the moves of God. I have studied
[11:01] Speaker 1: awakenings and revivals. And I've been honored, graciously honored by
[11:07] Speaker 1: God to be a contributor to the move of God
[11:11] Speaker 1: in many regards. And I know a bit about what
[11:17] Speaker 1: happens when God invades a territory. And so whilst we
[11:23] Speaker 1: had a wonderful time in the afternoon at Harvard, thanks
[11:28] Speaker 1: to Prof and all those who made this happen, I
[11:34] Speaker 1: trust that God wants to plant a fire. And truly... Truly,
[11:42] Speaker 1: if you found yourself tonight here, I want you to
[11:45] Speaker 1: know that you are part of prophecy. There are certain
[11:52] Speaker 1: meetings that those who come there don't just come. They
[11:59] Speaker 1: think they just come, but it's a solemn assembly. It's
[12:03] Speaker 1: a call by the Spirit. Do you believe that? And
[12:09] Speaker 1: so I want you to please pay attention There is
[12:11] Speaker 1: an anointing already whilst I'm here. I'm sensing that there
[12:16] Speaker 1: is a grace. And I want you to please listen.
[12:19] Speaker 1: That whilst you are listening to me, something begins to
[12:23] Speaker 1: happen to your spirit man. The Bible says, deep calls.
[12:30] Speaker 1: Whilst you are hearing me speak, the revivalist that is
[12:34] Speaker 1: locked up within your spirit for many years will finally
[12:39] Speaker 1: find expression. The prophet. The apostle. The evangelist. I came
[12:47] Speaker 1: to call something from within your spirit. God. is not
[13:07] Speaker 1: always doing the same thing in every season. Please listen.
[13:12] Speaker 1: The character of God is such that even though he
[13:15] Speaker 1: is almighty, he fragments his move and his programs according
[13:22] Speaker 1: to seasons. Hallelujah. And so the Bible says of the
[13:27] Speaker 1: sons of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times,
[13:32] Speaker 1: the Bible says, to know what Israel ought to do
[13:37] Speaker 1: God is not doing the same thing every time. No.
[13:41] Speaker 1: You are not doing the same thing all the time.
[13:44] Speaker 1: And you were created in His image. Is that true?
[13:49] Speaker 1: So it is important that we understand God's emphasis. Am
[13:55] Speaker 1: I loud enough for you to hear? It's important we
[13:59] Speaker 1: understand God's emphasis. Per season and per time. Now, let
[14:05] Speaker 1: me tell you, there are three levels of the anointing.
[14:08] Speaker 1: This is just to introduce what I want to share.
[14:11] Speaker 1: Wherever we stop, we can stop for tonight. But there
[14:14] Speaker 1: are three levels of the anointing that the Bible teaches.
[14:17] Speaker 1: Number one, there is the anointing that comes upon the
[14:20] Speaker 1: believer on account of your union with Christ. That when
[14:25] Speaker 1: you are grafted into Christ, there is a measure of
[14:29] Speaker 1: His glory and grace and anointing that is credited to you.
[14:35] Speaker 1: There are two people as I'm speaking now. I just
[14:37] Speaker 1: saw light. The power of God is resting in them.
[14:45] Speaker 1: Two of you. The Lord is saying, I should prophesy
[14:47] Speaker 1: to you that you are stepping into a river. This
[14:51] Speaker 1: is what I see. A river. It's a river in
[14:55] Speaker 1: the spirit. It's a river of revival. God is restoring things.
[15:01] Speaker 1: There are certain manifestations of the Spirit you used to have,
[15:06] Speaker 1: but for some reason, either carelessness, it looks like it's lost,
[15:11] Speaker 1: like the hair of Samson. For someone, there is a
[15:14] Speaker 1: restoration coming to you right now. Do you believe this? So,
[15:24] Speaker 1: the first level of the anointing, is that which comes
[15:28] Speaker 1: upon an individual by reason of being grafted into Christ.
[15:32] Speaker 1: The Bible says, ye have an anointing from the Holy One.
[15:37] Speaker 1: Number two, the second level of the anointing is that
[15:40] Speaker 1: which comes upon the believer when you find your place
[15:44] Speaker 1: in prophecy and destiny. The anointing does not follow you,
[15:48] Speaker 1: it follows your assignment. So for as long as you
[15:53] Speaker 1: have found your place in God's prophetic program, that anointing
[15:58] Speaker 1: comes in honor to your diligent pursuit of spiritual things.
[16:02] Speaker 1: Are we together? Yes. That is the anointing that gives
[16:07] Speaker 1: you a definition in life and destiny. So when you
[16:11] Speaker 1: say Esther, you are not just calling a woman. You
[16:14] Speaker 1: are describing a kind of anointing. When you say Gideon,
[16:19] Speaker 1: you're not just calling a man. You're describing a kind
[16:22] Speaker 1: of anointing. Are we together? But the third and final
[16:26] Speaker 1: level of the anointing is that which comes to you
[16:30] Speaker 1: on account of the sacrifice of alignment to discern God's
[16:36] Speaker 1: prophetic program per season. This is beyond your office and
[16:40] Speaker 1: it's beyond just being a Christian. So it is possible
[16:45] Speaker 1: that you can be a Christian. And you can be
[16:47] Speaker 1: a man of God or functioning in any area of call.
[16:51] Speaker 1: And yet not receive this third level of the anointing.
[16:54] Speaker 1: That comes in honor to discernment and alignment. Knowing what
[17:00] Speaker 1: God is doing per season. You would think that God
[17:04] Speaker 1: would use everybody in every season. But it doesn't happen
[17:08] Speaker 1: that way. He rewards those that diligently seek him. But
[17:13] Speaker 1: the question is with what does he reward them? You
[17:18] Speaker 1: need to know how does God reward men. You see
[17:23] Speaker 1: that now? So that you are here tonight, many of
[17:27] Speaker 1: you are here as believers. Commendable, wonderful. There's room for growth.
[17:32] Speaker 1: Many of you are here on the strength of your
[17:34] Speaker 1: place that you found in prophecy and destiny. But God
[17:38] Speaker 1: has called for this solemn assembly so we discern what
[17:42] Speaker 1: he's doing in Cambridge, in Boston, that there is a
[17:47] Speaker 1: burden in the heart of the spirit. And that there
[17:50] Speaker 1: are people tonight and all through this conference who will say, Lord,
[17:55] Speaker 1: I am available. I don't just want to read history.
[18:02] Speaker 1: I want to be an extension of history. so the
[18:07] Speaker 1: things you read about this region the things you read
[18:10] Speaker 1: about the moves of god as i you know had
[18:13] Speaker 1: a little tour across the the harvard you know campus
[18:19] Speaker 1: i was struck as i looked at everything and i
[18:21] Speaker 1: said what god can do but my challenge was who
[18:25] Speaker 1: will he find to continue his wonders It's wonderful to
[18:31] Speaker 1: celebrate monuments and celebrate the things past. But God is
[18:35] Speaker 1: always looking for men who will be extensions of his possibilities.
[18:39] Speaker 3: May he find you.
[18:40] Speaker 1: Did you hear that? May he find you. May he
[18:46] Speaker 1: find your children. May he find your spouse. In the
[18:51] Speaker 1: name of Jesus. Alright, so let's get to the word.
[18:55] Speaker 1: I'll be sharing a few things with us. Number one,
[18:58] Speaker 1: I began by saying God's emphasis. God is not doing
[19:02] Speaker 1: the same thing all the time. So please listen. What
[19:06] Speaker 1: is God's emphasis in these last days? The dispensation called
[19:12] Speaker 1: the last days began when the Spirit of God was
[19:15] Speaker 1: poured upon all flesh. In Acts chapter 2, that began
[19:19] Speaker 1: this final phase of Because from that moment on it
[19:24] Speaker 1: was called the dispensation of the spirit. And the spirit
[19:27] Speaker 1: has been given the unique mandate to oversee God's prophetic
[19:33] Speaker 1: program until he returns. It is the spirit of God
[19:37] Speaker 1: who is called the Lord of the harvest. He is
[19:40] Speaker 1: the one given the exclusive ministry of walking with the
[19:44] Speaker 1: saints to insist and ensure that God's program does not fail.
[19:51] Speaker 1: That song Yeshua God bless you so that's what you
[19:54] Speaker 1: flow with Thank you Are we together There are three
[20:01] Speaker 1: things please write The emphasis of God Over the nations
[20:06] Speaker 1: And that includes Boston That includes Harvard, that includes everywhere
[20:11] Speaker 1: you find men. There are three things that God seeks
[20:15] Speaker 1: to do like never before.
[20:17] Speaker 3: The meaning of this is that.
[20:19] Speaker 1: If you will ever find kingdom relevance in these last days,
[20:23] Speaker 1: then you must be part of one, two, or all
[20:27] Speaker 1: of these three. Those who will be relevant in these
[20:31] Speaker 1: last days would have to go past the gates of
[20:36] Speaker 1: just being educated, Just being wealthy, just being intelligent, you
[20:42] Speaker 1: would have to plunge yourself into God's prophetic program. Hallelujah.
[20:48] Speaker 1: Emphasis number one, please write, is world evangelization. This is
[20:55] Speaker 1: the first emphasis of the Spirit in these last days.
[20:59] Speaker 1: The global harvest. World evangelization. World evangelization. If you have
[21:08] Speaker 1: ever gone to God in the place of prayer and said, Lord,
[21:11] Speaker 1: what are you doing now? This is the answer.
[21:14] Speaker 3: Number one, the global harvest.
[21:18] Speaker 1: It's in prophecy that before Christ returns, there will be
[21:21] Speaker 1: a move of the Spirit like we have never seen.
[21:24] Speaker 1: And the primary assignment, the intent behind that move is
[21:29] Speaker 1: to draw many, many multitudes. Did you know that the
[21:34] Speaker 1: earth as we know statistically speaking has about 8 billion
[21:38] Speaker 1: people there about?
[21:39] Speaker 3: And statistics tells us that there's.
[21:41] Speaker 1: About 2.6 to 2.8 billion people alone who are professing Christians.
[21:48] Speaker 1: That means there is still a huge gap, a very
[21:52] Speaker 1: huge gap As far as this global mandate.
[21:58] Speaker 3: And you see, there.
[21:59] Speaker 1: Has to be a strategy by the Spirit of God
[22:02] Speaker 1: to sharpen this circle so that we can do much
[22:06] Speaker 1: within the time that is left. I want you to
[22:09] Speaker 1: believe with me that we do not have all the
[22:12] Speaker 1: time again. You don't have to be a Christian to
[22:16] Speaker 1: believe this. You just have to be alive. The events
[22:19] Speaker 1: on earth are clear pointers. That the church age and
[22:24] Speaker 1: the age of the earth as we know it is
[22:27] Speaker 1: wrapping up. Are we together?
[22:30] Speaker 3: And like never before there is a cry of the spirit.
[22:34] Speaker 1: Like that lamentation that was raised in heaven. Who shall
[22:38] Speaker 1: we send? And who shall go for us? So God's
[22:43] Speaker 1: number one emphasis in this end time is world evangelization.
[22:50] Speaker 1: Number two. Are we learning already? The second emphasis of
[22:55] Speaker 1: the spirit. The second emphasis of God. In this season
[22:59] Speaker 1: and in this prophetic time. Is the maturity of the saints.
[23:05] Speaker 1: The maturity of the saints. The maturity of the saints.
[23:12] Speaker 1: So in addition to the global harvest. The Bible says.
[23:17] Speaker 1: An heir for as long as he is a child.
[23:21] Speaker 1: He differed not from a slave, even though he be
[23:25] Speaker 1: Lord of all. I presume that a number of us
[23:28] Speaker 1: here are parents. How many of you know that when
[23:30] Speaker 1: you have a child, provided he's still a child, there
[23:34] Speaker 1: is not much in terms of productivity and responsibility that
[23:38] Speaker 1: can happen through that child. In as much as you
[23:41] Speaker 1: love the child, you don't expect so much because he's
[23:44] Speaker 1: still a child. What makes a child a child is
[23:47] Speaker 1: not necessarily his size, but his level of development. Am
[23:51] Speaker 1: I right on that? Yes. The characteristic feature of a
[23:55] Speaker 1: child is not just the stuntedness in growth necessarily, but
[24:01] Speaker 1: that there is a lot that that child needs to
[24:04] Speaker 1: learn intellectually, mentally. That development has not happened. And so
[24:09] Speaker 1: if you really want your child to become an adult,
[24:12] Speaker 1: his size does not necessarily have to change, but there
[24:16] Speaker 1: has to be growth and increase. Are we together? Luke
[24:19] Speaker 1: chapter 2 and verse 52, the Bible says, And Jesus
[24:23] Speaker 1: increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favor with God
[24:29] Speaker 1: and men. That was how the baby became an adult,
[24:32] Speaker 1: by increasing. in wisdom, increasing in stature, increasing in favor
[24:39] Speaker 1: with God and men. Can I tell you, the reason
[24:43] Speaker 1: why many believers across territories are ineffective, and I submit
[24:48] Speaker 1: to you, I'm speaking to a global audience even though
[24:51] Speaker 1: we're here, so don't mind some of my expressions. I
[24:54] Speaker 1: intend to get everyone who is following along. But one
[24:59] Speaker 1: major problem with the church is Is that believers have
[25:03] Speaker 1: not been methodically mentored into a state of stature and maturity.
[25:08] Speaker 1: So in as much as we have so many believers
[25:11] Speaker 1: in church. God is unable to do much with us.
[25:15] Speaker 1: Because he is limited by our level of transformation. It
[25:19] Speaker 1: takes more than being available to be used by God.
[25:23] Speaker 1: You must be transformed enough to host that which he
[25:27] Speaker 1: wants to do. Are we together? So if you have
[25:30] Speaker 1: a child of say four or five years, you're not
[25:33] Speaker 1: going to carry your expensive vehicle, for instance, and give
[25:37] Speaker 1: that child. You see that? The law enforcement agents will
[25:41] Speaker 1: most likely penalize you for trusting this child with capacity
[25:46] Speaker 1: beyond his ability. The Bible says he gave unto one
[25:49] Speaker 1: five talent. He gave unto one two talent. The same God,
[25:53] Speaker 1: the same love. But when it had to do with
[25:56] Speaker 1: distributing responsibilities, he gave them according to their several abilities.
[26:02] Speaker 1: Not according to his love for them. The same Lord
[26:05] Speaker 1: is rich unto all, but he could not trust them.
[26:08] Speaker 1: You see, the end of that parable justifies his approach.
[26:12] Speaker 1: That even the one with one talent deserved no talent
[26:16] Speaker 1: at all. So the one talent was an act of mercy.
[26:24] Speaker 1: Are we together? Because that man was already lazy and
[26:28] Speaker 1: then full of bitterness and offense. He didn't pay attention.
[26:33] Speaker 1: It was clear that he did not deserve to be
[26:36] Speaker 1: sent nor deployed. He was clearly not ready. Because even
[26:42] Speaker 1: if you were given the five talents, you would still
[26:45] Speaker 1: behave the same way. There was no demonstration of capacity
[26:51] Speaker 1: for increase in him. Are we together? So there are
[26:55] Speaker 1: many believers today who keep having dreams, they receive prophetic
[27:00] Speaker 1: words about mighty and great things that God wants to do.
[27:04] Speaker 1: But most people do not know that prophetic speakings and
[27:09] Speaker 1: dreams and visions are at the mercy of the transformation
[27:13] Speaker 1: of the believer. For their manifestation. No matter what God
[27:17] Speaker 1: says about you. No matter what vision you have. No
[27:22] Speaker 1: matter what prophecy or what prophet and apostle speaks over you.
[27:26] Speaker 1: If you do not contend for transformation. There is a
[27:30] Speaker 1: requisite level of transformation. That can allow you to host
[27:35] Speaker 1: certain things that God is doing. So it looks like
[27:38] Speaker 1: God lied. He did not lie. Your low level of
[27:43] Speaker 1: transformation made his word look like a lie in your life.
[27:50] Speaker 3: A prophecy was left over the.
[27:52] Speaker 1: Nation of Israel through Abraham that they were to be
[27:55] Speaker 1: in captivity for 400 years. Now when you calculate historically
[28:00] Speaker 1: and theologically, they spent 430 years. For many years I
[28:05] Speaker 1: kept asking, who added the 30 years?
[28:08] Speaker 3: Because God does not lie.
[28:11] Speaker 1: The 30 years was the extra period that was spent
[28:15] Speaker 1: in training Moses until he became ready to be a deliverer.
[28:20] Speaker 1: Every time you do not contend for transformation, you make
[28:24] Speaker 1: those you are sent to think God does not care
[28:27] Speaker 1: about them. Because their salvation will be at the mercy,
[28:31] Speaker 1: not just of God's intention to deliver or desire to deliver,
[28:36] Speaker 1: but the mercy of your transformation. Are we together? So
[28:40] Speaker 1: God's second emphasis is, Is to release grace like never
[28:44] Speaker 1: before upon the five-fold ministry. So that we begin to
[28:48] Speaker 1: methodically mature the saints. I submit to you that the
[28:52] Speaker 1: average believer is bankrupt of knowledge. And the kind of
[28:58] Speaker 1: information that will bring such a person to maturity. Sample
[29:03] Speaker 1: any two or three believers. In any assembly for that matter,
[29:08] Speaker 1: and their spiritual understanding, with respect to the years they
[29:12] Speaker 1: have spent in church, you will leave that place with
[29:15] Speaker 1: pain in your heart. What do you know about prayer?
[29:20] Speaker 1: What do you know about Jesus? What do you know
[29:24] Speaker 1: about Satan? What do you know about fear? What do
[29:28] Speaker 1: you know about success? What do you know about demonic activities?
[29:34] Speaker 1: What do you know about the ministry of angels? What
[29:37] Speaker 1: do you know about the advantage of the Holy Spirit
[29:40] Speaker 1: in the believers? What do you know about victory in Christ?
[29:47] Speaker 3: What do you know about purpose and destiny?
[29:50] Speaker 1: Are we together? I'm probing you against the factors that
[29:56] Speaker 1: make men powerful. What do you know? Now, you have
[30:03] Speaker 1: been in church for many years. I agree and I
[30:05] Speaker 1: respect that. But my question again is what do you
[30:09] Speaker 1: know about prayer and its ability to empower the believer?
[30:14] Speaker 1: What do you know about the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
[30:16] Speaker 1: What do you know about the economic system of the kingdom?
[30:22] Speaker 1: What do you know about kingdom advance? What do you
[30:26] Speaker 1: know about the great commission? What do you know about hell?
[30:30] Speaker 1: What do you know about God? Finally, what do you
[30:34] Speaker 1: know about you? So, there is no... For many believers,
[30:43] Speaker 1: we sing hymns, we shout, we cry, and we keep
[30:47] Speaker 1: recycling our ignorance.
[30:50] Speaker 3: And that is the reason why God is not able
[30:52] Speaker 3: to do much.
[30:53] Speaker 1: And with all due respect, sometimes that campaign of ignorance
[30:57] Speaker 1: starts with us preachers. Because we only sell to the
[31:02] Speaker 1: people that which we know or that which we have.
[31:06] Speaker 1: He said, such as I have. That means if I
[31:09] Speaker 1: don't have it, I bring an empty tray. Sunday after
[31:13] Speaker 1: Sunday after Sunday. You don't have to be evil. So
[31:19] Speaker 1: this is not about being good or bad. This is
[31:23] Speaker 1: about not having the capacity to deliver to God's expectations.
[31:28] Speaker 1: I can tell you if all the churches in America,
[31:31] Speaker 1: in Africa, across Europe, if the men and the women
[31:35] Speaker 1: of God were equipped intelligently to understand God's program and
[31:40] Speaker 1: to methodically mentor the people God has brought within their care,
[31:44] Speaker 1: there would be a ready army by now. A mighty
[31:48] Speaker 1: army for the use of a king. I have always
[31:52] Speaker 1: been concerned as a man of God as to why
[31:55] Speaker 1: we have such available people every Sunday and every other day.
[32:01] Speaker 1: And yet you see through those people and find out
[32:04] Speaker 1: there are very few. And most of those few, their
[32:08] Speaker 1: transformation came by their personal press and their personal efforts.
[32:13] Speaker 1: Not necessarily a product of constructive mentorship. they decided on
[32:18] Speaker 1: their own to look beyond the structures they were part
[32:21] Speaker 1: of and began a personal press and it ought not
[32:28] Speaker 1: to be so now jeremiah chapter 3 and verse 15
[32:33] Speaker 1: please give it to us i want us to read
[32:35] Speaker 1: it together if we see projected for time let me quote.
[32:37] Speaker 3: It it says and i will give you pastors.
[32:41] Speaker 1: According to mine heart you have that What is the assignment?
[32:46] Speaker 1: They will feed you with knowledge and understanding. I will
[32:53] Speaker 1: give you. If it's a pastor that is according to
[32:57] Speaker 1: my heart, his assignment is not to tell stories. His
[33:01] Speaker 1: assignment is not to waste your time marketing self and
[33:05] Speaker 1: personal achievements. The assignment of a shepherd mandated to raise
[33:11] Speaker 1: God's people is to feed them with knowledge and understanding.
[33:17] Speaker 1: So this is the second emphasis of the Spirit. Can
[33:22] Speaker 1: you imagine I've not even started teaching? This is just
[33:24] Speaker 1: a preamble.
[33:25] Speaker 3: Wherever we stop, if this is where we stop, no problem,
[33:28] Speaker 3: we can.
[33:31] Speaker 1: Praise God. So just for you to know what God
[33:40] Speaker 1: is doing, believers should not be in ignorance. You should
[33:45] Speaker 1: be able to articulate with intelligence, justifying your spirituality. What
[33:50] Speaker 1: is God doing? You've called him father. So how are
[33:53] Speaker 1: you in so much ignorance as to what he's doing?
[33:58] Speaker 1: That tells me there's something wrong with that relationship. We
[34:04] Speaker 1: advocate such closeness to God, yet we're in such ignorance
[34:08] Speaker 1: as to what he's doing. Am I right on that?
[34:14] Speaker 1: You claim you are at the same table with me
[34:16] Speaker 1: and they ask you, what do you think he's doing now?
[34:18] Speaker 3: And you say, I don't have an idea.
[34:20] Speaker 1: Come on. Even if it were dark, you should be
[34:23] Speaker 1: able to intelligently say maybe he's enjoying a meal or
[34:27] Speaker 1: he's taking a nap. And yet many believers who shout
[34:30] Speaker 1: God as Father and claim such intimacy with him cannot
[34:34] Speaker 1: even articulate what is in his heart. And so I'm
[34:38] Speaker 1: revealing to you now by the Spirit.
[34:41] Speaker 3: That if anyone should ask you, what is God doing now?
[34:45] Speaker 1: This is the answer.
[34:46] Speaker 3: And this answer is not just based on my opinion.
[34:48] Speaker 1: It's based on the authority of scripture. Number one, again,
[34:54] Speaker 1: world evangelization. The global harvest. Number two, the maturity of
[34:59] Speaker 1: the saints. And this is why I thank the leadership
[35:02] Speaker 1: of this great church for allowing this platform to be
[35:06] Speaker 1: able to minister to someone. This is our contribution towards
[35:10] Speaker 1: achieving this second mandate. Number three. The third and final
[35:16] Speaker 1: mandate of the Spirit in this end time is called
[35:20] Speaker 1: territorial transformation. Territorial transformation. I think for the average believer,
[35:30] Speaker 1: we are not apostolic in our approach of the Christian faith.
[35:34] Speaker 1: So we limit our concept and idea of Christianity to
[35:40] Speaker 1: just the personal benefit of your relationship.
[35:43] Speaker 3: But the Bible calls us light. Did you ever read that?
[35:47] Speaker 1: The Bible also calls us salt. In Matthew chapter 5
[35:51] Speaker 1: and verse 13, I'll quote for sake of time. It says,
[35:54] Speaker 1: ye are the salt of the earth. And then it says,
[35:58] Speaker 1: if the salt has lost its several, wherewith shall it
[36:01] Speaker 1: be salted? He said it is good for nothing except
[36:04] Speaker 1: to be trodden down and trampled under foot of men.
[36:08] Speaker 1: Then he says, you are the light of the world.
[36:11] Speaker 1: He calls you a city that is set on a
[36:13] Speaker 1: hill that cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a lamp,
[36:17] Speaker 1: he says, and put it under a bushel, but that
[36:21] Speaker 1: it is put on a candlestick and it gives light
[36:24] Speaker 1: to all who are in the room. In that similitude,
[36:27] Speaker 1: verse 15, 16 now says, Let your light, the word
[36:32] Speaker 1: let means permit, allow, do not withhold, do not restrain.
[36:38] Speaker 1: Let your light so shine, not before spirits, not before angels.
[36:44] Speaker 1: Let your light so shine in Boston. Let your light
[36:47] Speaker 1: so shine in Cambridge. Let your light so shine before
[36:51] Speaker 1: men that they may see your good works.
[36:56] Speaker 3: And glorify your Father which is in heaven.
[37:01] Speaker 1: Are we learning now? So this is the first point
[37:05] Speaker 1: that I came to communicate tonight, that God is not
[37:08] Speaker 1: always doing the same thing, and that it's important for
[37:11] Speaker 1: us to understand God's prophetic emphases. Global harvest, world evangelization,
[37:18] Speaker 1: the maturity of the saints, and the transformation of territories.
[37:23] Speaker 1: When I talk about the transformation of territories, I'm not
[37:27] Speaker 1: just talking about infrastructure and technology. That is the later
[37:32] Speaker 1: part of transformation. Territorial transformation is the battle for the
[37:37] Speaker 1: spirit and the mind of men. Territorial transformation is not
[37:43] Speaker 1: just about having new buildings That is only an effect
[37:48] Speaker 1: Are we together? Yes Technological advancement, that is only an effect.
[37:54] Speaker 1: In God's mind, territorial transformation happens to the degree to
[37:59] Speaker 1: which the spirits and the minds of men are captured
[38:02] Speaker 1: for the kingdom. You see, the gospel is twofold. The
[38:06] Speaker 1: gospel is first a message that saves. Then the gospel
[38:11] Speaker 1: is a value system that transforms territories. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The gospel,
[38:19] Speaker 1: the message that saves affects the individual personally. But the
[38:25] Speaker 1: value system affects the territory. And let me tell you,
[38:29] Speaker 1: an individual can be saved and yet your territory is
[38:32] Speaker 1: not saved. Do you know that territories can also experience salvation?
[38:37] Speaker 1: And if you are saved and your territory is not saved,
[38:40] Speaker 1: you will still be in trouble. An example, Lot in
[38:44] Speaker 1: Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot was a righteous man. But Sodom
[38:48] Speaker 1: and Gomorrah was a dangerous place. And he was about
[38:51] Speaker 1: to lose his daughters. Are we together? Lot went to Sodom,
[38:58] Speaker 1: a good man, great man, but within a bedeviled society.
[39:03] Speaker 1: And the result, if the angels did not step in,
[39:06] Speaker 1: Lot would have died there. He would have lost his children.
[39:09] Speaker 1: You would not see the potential of his personal salvation
[39:13] Speaker 1: or his knowing God. Because the darkness within that territory
[39:17] Speaker 1: literally covered his light. It's important that you are saved,
[39:23] Speaker 1: but that your territory also experiences salvation. Hallelujah. Are we learning?
[39:30] Speaker 1: Praise the name of the Lord. Do you like prayer
[39:32] Speaker 1: in this place? Can we pray for one minute? He
[39:39] Speaker 1: speak a parable to the end. That men ought always
[39:43] Speaker 1: to pray. And not to faint. So right where you are.
[39:46] Speaker 1: Can you pray in the spirit just in one minute?
[39:48] Speaker 1: And then we'll continue our discussion. Mighty God. Give you praise.
[39:57] Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah.
[40:27] Speaker 1: In Jesus name. In Jesus name. Amen.
[40:32] Speaker 3: Now please write this down if you are writing.
[40:35] Speaker 1: There is a way that God designed man to know
[40:40] Speaker 1: him and to function. There is a way that God
[40:45] Speaker 1: designed for men to know Him and to function. The
[40:50] Speaker 1: believer is not given the liberty of inventing your strategy
[40:56] Speaker 1: as far as the knowledge of God is concerned. There
[40:59] Speaker 1: is already... A defined pathway to knowing God. And if
[41:04] Speaker 1: you ever attempt knowing God through any other route. You
[41:09] Speaker 1: are going to meet a lot of excesses. It will
[41:13] Speaker 1: corrupt your knowledge of God. Are we together? The Bible
[41:17] Speaker 1: says in Jeremiah chapter 6 and verse 16. To stand
[41:20] Speaker 1: in the way and to ask for the ancient path.
[41:25] Speaker 1: That old path, are we together? And says that when
[41:28] Speaker 1: you find it, you should walk therein and you will
[41:31] Speaker 1: find rest. So many believers try to know God using
[41:36] Speaker 1: their creativity. Creativity is only relevant when we talk about dominion,
[41:41] Speaker 1: not intimacy. When you are talking about intimacy, what you
[41:46] Speaker 1: need is alignment and surrender, not creativity. The value of
[41:51] Speaker 1: creativity comes when you become a king. A priest does
[41:54] Speaker 1: not need creativity because the ordinances of priesthood are defined.
[42:01] Speaker 1: What you need is to obey. But when you now
[42:04] Speaker 1: become a king, you need all the creativity to manifest
[42:08] Speaker 1: the God life within your environment. Are we together? So
[42:12] Speaker 1: I said that just to emphasize that there is a
[42:14] Speaker 1: way God designed for men to know him. And within
[42:19] Speaker 1: the time that we have, I want to give you
[42:22] Speaker 1: an apostolic blueprint. The journey of the believer. How did
[42:28] Speaker 1: God design for men to learn him? How did God
[42:32] Speaker 1: design for men to grow spiritually? Because for many believers,
[42:36] Speaker 1: they say, I love the Lord. But I'm at a
[42:39] Speaker 1: loss as to how to grow effectively, productively. God wants
[42:45] Speaker 1: to answer that question now. Hallelujah. So there is a
[42:50] Speaker 1: way God designed for men to know Him. The early
[42:55] Speaker 1: church believers, in the book of Acts particularly... They had
[43:00] Speaker 1: a very powerful apostolic model. It was like a software.
[43:04] Speaker 1: If you brought the believer and passed that believer through
[43:07] Speaker 1: that system, he would become a mighty person. I had
[43:14] Speaker 1: the honor of going around and speaking at your prestigious Harvard.
[43:19] Speaker 1: Do you know why Harvard is Harvard? It is not
[43:27] Speaker 1: the buildings. It is not even the men, because they
[43:33] Speaker 1: come and go. Those who started it are not there again.
[43:36] Speaker 1: Yet the excellence still remains, the standard still remains. You
[43:40] Speaker 1: know why? Because there is a modus operandi, there is
[43:44] Speaker 1: a pathway. So you pick a student, any kind of
[43:48] Speaker 1: student from any nation, you are allowed to come. But
[43:52] Speaker 1: when you come, you must be prepared to pass through
[43:55] Speaker 1: a system without altering the formula. You see that now?
[44:01] Speaker 1: What makes Harvard Harvard is the dexterity and the insistence
[44:07] Speaker 1: of that formula. If you corrupt that formula, you will
[44:10] Speaker 1: no longer have a Harvard graduate. So I can guarantee
[44:15] Speaker 1: that a first year student in his or her naivety
[44:19] Speaker 1: and ignorance who just arrives Boston, I can guarantee that
[44:23] Speaker 1: in five years, in six years, this student will be
[44:27] Speaker 1: an exceptional person in whatever field of study. The basis
[44:31] Speaker 1: of my confidence is the system he's about to pass through.
[44:36] Speaker 1: Are we together? This is how it is in the kingdom.
[44:39] Speaker 1: God did not design for people to just become arbitrarily.
[44:43] Speaker 1: That means if I see a believer in Boston and
[44:47] Speaker 1: another believer in Texas, another believer in Ghana, another believer
[44:52] Speaker 1: in UK, another believer in Asia, they should look the same.
[44:58] Speaker 1: If they pass through the same system. The disparity in
[45:04] Speaker 1: the quality of believers is a corruption of the formulas
[45:08] Speaker 1: being applied. Are we together? So, if I have a
[45:12] Speaker 1: believer coming from Africa, and he's found wanting on many grounds,
[45:17] Speaker 1: a believer in America, and yet we all call ourselves believers.
[45:20] Speaker 1: When you see someone who is a professor of medicine,
[45:23] Speaker 1: say here, you have many medical colleges here, Do you
[45:28] Speaker 1: know that two professors can actually meet the first time
[45:31] Speaker 1: in a theater and not doubt their abilities? Because the
[45:35] Speaker 1: system that accredited them is trustworthy. That if someone stands
[45:40] Speaker 1: and says, I'm a professor, you don't doubt his proficiency.
[45:43] Speaker 1: Not with the system that accredited him. But today when
[45:47] Speaker 1: another person says, I'm a Christian, you will have to say,
[45:49] Speaker 1: hold on, let me vet. Because I'm not sure, where
[45:53] Speaker 1: are you coming from first? Are we learning? So the
[46:06] Speaker 1: problem is not necessarily the believer.
[46:10] Speaker 3: The problem is the system.
[46:14] Speaker 1: The formula has been tampered with. And through the ages,
[46:21] Speaker 1: because the formula has lost its texture, the kinds of
[46:26] Speaker 1: believers produced Are a testament. An attestation to the fact.
[46:32] Speaker 1: That something is wrong. I want to show you the
[46:34] Speaker 1: formula now. Are you ready? Acts chapter 2 and verse 42.
[46:38] Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. I like Boston. Thank you for your attentiveness.
[46:52] Speaker 1: Are we together? Listen, if this model is followed, it
[47:03] Speaker 1: sustains within it the power to turn any believer from
[47:09] Speaker 1: infancy to maturity, granting you capacity to represent the purposes
[47:15] Speaker 1: of God to his satisfaction. Are we together? Your lecturers
[47:23] Speaker 1: do not speak the same way. They do not look
[47:27] Speaker 1: the same. Are we together? Even their approach to you
[47:31] Speaker 1: in study and learning is different. Yet the results are
[47:35] Speaker 1: the same. Because the manual is greater than the lecturer.
[47:41] Speaker 1: The lecturer is as strong as the information that built
[47:45] Speaker 1: him or her. Are we together? It was their compliance
[47:49] Speaker 1: that evolved them from a student to now a professor.
[47:53] Speaker 1: That is how it is in the spirit. If you
[47:55] Speaker 1: learn what I'm showing you, if I never meet you again,
[47:59] Speaker 1: I can guarantee by the integrity of Scripture and the
[48:03] Speaker 1: ministry of the Spirit that I just left a wonder evolving. Hallelujah.
[48:10] Speaker 1: So Acts chapter 2 and verse 42. The Bible says,
[48:14] Speaker 1: And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship.
[48:23] Speaker 1: And in breaking of bread. And in prayer.
[48:28] Speaker 3: Acts chapter 6.
[48:29] Speaker 1: And verse 4 please. The Bible says but we will
[48:34] Speaker 1: give ourselves continually. Continually. To prayer and to the ministry
[48:42] Speaker 1: of the word. Can we read it one more time?
[48:44] Speaker 1: But we will give ourselves continually. To prayer and the
[48:50] Speaker 1: ministry of the word. So Jesus began to sample ordinary men.
[48:59] Speaker 1: Some were fishermen, some were business people, some were naive
[49:03] Speaker 1: and confused people. And he brought a team together, leaving
[49:07] Speaker 1: them an assurance that he would make them fishers of men.
[49:11] Speaker 1: Clearly they didn't have an idea of the gravity of
[49:14] Speaker 1: that training nor the mandate that would follow. Are we together?
[49:18] Speaker 1: They were all interested in winning political positions because when
[49:22] Speaker 1: they saw the invincibility of Jesus, they believed he would
[49:26] Speaker 1: conquer Herod, he would conquer Caesar and find a place
[49:30] Speaker 1: of honor politically. So their coming to Jesus was not
[49:33] Speaker 1: necessarily because they loved him. They hoped that they would
[49:37] Speaker 1: share in the spoil. That was why they were angry
[49:41] Speaker 1: when it looked like he was not saying anything. You
[49:44] Speaker 1: get the point now? One by one they started complaining. Look,
[49:49] Speaker 1: we've left all to follow you and we do not understand.
[49:52] Speaker 1: You're not saying anything about... And Jesus looked at them.
[49:58] Speaker 1: At their ignorance and at everything. Is the reason why Jesus,
[50:03] Speaker 1: when Jesus gave himself to die, they ran away. They
[50:06] Speaker 1: felt cheated. They felt wounded. They felt you just wasted
[50:10] Speaker 1: three and a half years of our lives. Claiming to
[50:13] Speaker 1: be a mentor. We followed you hoping we would have
[50:16] Speaker 1: great destinies. Now you gave yourself to die. Leaving us
[50:20] Speaker 1: a lot of trouble with Romans. You caused trouble in crusades.
[50:26] Speaker 1: Shouted at people. Now you want to go to heaven.
[50:28] Speaker 1: They said you are not going anywhere. You get the idea? So,
[50:34] Speaker 1: their refusing him to go to heaven was not because
[50:37] Speaker 1: they were going to miss him. You can't ferment trouble
[50:41] Speaker 1: and then leave the sin and leave us alone. No,
[50:45] Speaker 1: Peter said, you're not going anywhere. You're not going anywhere. So,
[50:50] Speaker 1: when Jesus gave himself and died, they were disappointed. They
[50:55] Speaker 1: were heartbroken. And in John chapter 21, Peter was angry
[50:59] Speaker 1: and he said, I go fishing. Let me return back
[51:02] Speaker 1: to my profession. And the disciples said, we go with you.
[51:07] Speaker 1: You get the story now? So, to save you disappointment,
[51:12] Speaker 1: because many believers have been in this thing called Christianity
[51:16] Speaker 1: for a while. And they are getting tired and frustrated
[51:19] Speaker 1: right now. Because it looks like a journey going nowhere
[51:22] Speaker 1: with no definition. And they are tired of lying to themselves.
[51:27] Speaker 1: And now they are trying to be true to themselves
[51:29] Speaker 1: and say, you know what, it's been 10 years of
[51:31] Speaker 1: supposedly wasting my time. Lying that I'm hearing God, now
[51:37] Speaker 1: it's clear I don't hear Him. Lying that I want
[51:39] Speaker 1: to make progress and nothing is moving in my life.
[51:41] Speaker 1: And let me tell you this, if we do not
[51:43] Speaker 1: restore this model, many Christians will be the ones who
[51:47] Speaker 1: fight Christianity.
[51:49] Speaker 3: Not unbelievers.
[51:51] Speaker 1: Many angry, frustrated Christians will arise and say, you know what?
[51:55] Speaker 1: I've been in this religion thing for a while. It
[51:58] Speaker 1: did not work. There is a generation right now that
[52:01] Speaker 1: is frowning. You know, sometimes I feel for the generation.
[52:06] Speaker 1: What age do I put down? Let's say 20 or so.
[52:09] Speaker 1: Is that a fair number? 20 downwards? Oh dear. Oh dear.
[52:16] Speaker 1: Oh dear. If we do not restore this model, if
[52:20] Speaker 1: they do not see the value and the profit of
[52:23] Speaker 1: spirituality and the pursuit of godliness, hear me, it will be,
[52:28] Speaker 1: I pray it never happens, that the children of preachers,
[52:32] Speaker 1: the children of great men would be the one to
[52:34] Speaker 1: create a system and a campaign against God directly. Because
[52:38] Speaker 1: they would say we've been in this system. We've done
[52:42] Speaker 1: the pretense for years. Claiming and shouting God is good
[52:46] Speaker 1: and we've not seen the goodness. We left all to
[52:50] Speaker 1: follow him and now we've been behind in everything. Cheated,
[52:54] Speaker 1: wounded by the pretense and the advocacies that were proposed
[52:58] Speaker 1: with no results. Many of you are in that state
[53:01] Speaker 1: right now. You love the Lord but he's still the
[53:04] Speaker 1: God of your parents. You have tried to make him
[53:07] Speaker 1: your God. and it's not worked that personal relationship that
[53:12] Speaker 1: conviction derived from a personal encounter you've you've tried and
[53:17] Speaker 1: you've done all you know to do and all you
[53:19] Speaker 1: want to do this is the reason why when people
[53:22] Speaker 1: come up with any kind of advocacy believers fall immediately
[53:26] Speaker 1: because they were already at the edge of compromise waiting
[53:30] Speaker 1: for something to justify their drifting The apostle said, but
[53:37] Speaker 1: I know whom I have believed.
[53:39] Speaker 3: And I am persuaded.
[53:43] Speaker 1: Persuaded. That he is able to keep that which is
[53:47] Speaker 1: committed unto him against that day. Are we together people
[53:55] Speaker 1: of God? So there is a way God designed that
[53:58] Speaker 1: men would know him. And it's important for us to
[54:02] Speaker 1: follow that pathway. Now, what happens to you when you
[54:07] Speaker 1: follow that pathway? I would have to let you see
[54:10] Speaker 1: the end picture and then I will guide you through
[54:13] Speaker 1: the process. I assure you it will be done in
[54:15] Speaker 1: no time. Are we together? Because, you see, psychologically we
[54:21] Speaker 1: are motivated by the awareness of how the end looks like.
[54:26] Speaker 1: This is how God guides people. This is what supplies
[54:29] Speaker 1: the staying power. Are we together? When you want to
[54:33] Speaker 1: motivate people to continue, especially if the journey will be difficult,
[54:38] Speaker 1: usually you inspire them by giving them an excellent picture
[54:41] Speaker 1: of the end. So that even when they are weary,
[54:46] Speaker 1: who for the joy that was set before him. Is
[54:49] Speaker 1: that in your Bible? He despised the same, even for Jesus.
[54:54] Speaker 1: So God did not just tell him to die. There
[54:57] Speaker 1: was something God told him. There was a joy that
[55:00] Speaker 1: was set before him. What was the joy? That he
[55:03] Speaker 1: was exalted and given a name, an office, above every
[55:07] Speaker 1: other office. Humans thrive on the strength of motivation. Are
[55:13] Speaker 1: we together? You have your salary. You have several systems
[55:17] Speaker 1: of remuneration, motivations and all of that. You cannot guide
[55:22] Speaker 1: a people indefinitely without giving them a picture of what
[55:26] Speaker 1: the end looks like. My question for you to probe
[55:29] Speaker 1: your curiosity is do you know what God designed that
[55:33] Speaker 1: you should look like? If you see the future you now,
[55:37] Speaker 1: can you identify it? It is the reason why growth
[55:42] Speaker 1: and transformation is slow or wanting. Because the average believer
[55:47] Speaker 1: does not even know what he should become like. What
[55:50] Speaker 1: does the future you, what should it look like? What
[55:54] Speaker 1: does the prayer warrior, what is the picture of the
[55:57] Speaker 1: man of prayer? What is the picture of Esther when
[56:00] Speaker 1: she's done? What is the picture of Ruth when she's done?
[56:04] Speaker 1: What is the picture of Elijah? What is the picture
[56:06] Speaker 1: of Gideon? Are we together? I tell you why people
[56:11] Speaker 1: don't go to church again. I tell you why people
[56:14] Speaker 1: don't pray again. Because the God of this world has
[56:17] Speaker 1: blinded their minds. They have no end picture. They do
[56:22] Speaker 1: not know what they will become. There has to be
[56:25] Speaker 1: something in front of you. As a student, you have
[56:28] Speaker 1: an idea of how a graduate looks like. And so
[56:31] Speaker 1: even when you are tired, you remember. And it supplies
[56:34] Speaker 1: energy and you keep pressing. Talk to me. Through the rain,
[56:38] Speaker 1: through the storm... Do you know how a victorious person looks?
[56:47] Speaker 1: Can you paint the picture of victory for me? Can
[56:50] Speaker 1: you paint the picture of an anointed woman for me?
[56:55] Speaker 1: Can you paint the picture of one who has a
[56:58] Speaker 1: rich investment of the spirit? Can you paint a picture
[57:02] Speaker 1: of revival for me? Do you know what it looks like?
[57:05] Speaker 1: Can you paint a picture of God moving within a territory?
[57:09] Speaker 1: Do you have that image? Psychologists teach that the mind
[57:14] Speaker 1: thinks in pictures. Elementary knowledge. They began to connect words
[57:19] Speaker 1: with pictures. That's why you don't forget them. Are we together?
[57:23] Speaker 1: So if I say mango, you have an image. And orange,
[57:26] Speaker 1: you have an image. Am I right on that? Yeah.
[57:30] Speaker 1: Do you have an image of what revival looks like?
[57:34] Speaker 1: Do you have an image of what answered prayer looks like?
[57:38] Speaker 1: You see that many believers are just randomly rolling through
[57:43] Speaker 1: this maze of religion with no definition. It's why so
[57:47] Speaker 1: many believers are frustrated. Do you know what success looks like?
[57:59] Speaker 1: How do I know I have arrived? How do I
[58:02] Speaker 1: know I am becoming? By what standard do I gauge
[58:06] Speaker 1: my progress? So that if I'm deviating, I can correct myself.
[58:11] Speaker 1: I can't keep moving. You have a GPS system. And
[58:14] Speaker 1: whilst you're driving, you keep looking at it to be sure.
[58:17] Speaker 1: Are we together? And if for any reason there is
[58:19] Speaker 1: a deviation, it.
[58:20] Speaker 3: Recalculates how you get there.
[58:23] Speaker 1: And so you find hope that even though I lost
[58:25] Speaker 1: my way, I can go back again. Many believers do
[58:28] Speaker 1: not even know whether they are right or wrong. Because
[58:31] Speaker 1: there is no reference. Transformation is difficult until there is
[58:36] Speaker 1: a reference. You have to know who and what you
[58:39] Speaker 1: are becoming like. You have a picture of how a
[58:41] Speaker 1: doctor looks like. You have a picture of how a
[58:43] Speaker 1: professor looks like. So you can aspire. Are we together?
[58:47] Speaker 1: With precision because there is a picture before you. Hmm.
[58:57] Speaker 1: And let me say this respectfully, if you're a man
[58:59] Speaker 1: of God here, listen to me. There are many pastors
[59:02] Speaker 1: who do not even know, they don't have a picture
[59:07] Speaker 1: of how the people they are mentoring should be. become
[59:11] Speaker 1: how do I know I'm successful if I'm training you
[59:14] Speaker 1: what are you supposed to become how do I know
[59:17] Speaker 1: I'm making progress what version of you will satisfy me
[59:22] Speaker 1: as a man of God what version would justify that
[59:26] Speaker 1: my training is correct.
[59:34] Speaker 3: You never enter a pizza.
[59:36] Speaker 1: Shop as a hospital because there is a design. A
[59:42] Speaker 1: pizza does not look like a syringe. No. No. There's
[59:46] Speaker 1: a clear picture. Am I right on that? When you
[59:48] Speaker 1: are entering a shop to get a meal, it is
[59:51] Speaker 1: so defined that you are not in confusion. You don't
[59:54] Speaker 1: have to be educated. The parameters are very clear. You
[59:59] Speaker 1: can enter a store and know that this is for children.
[1:00:02] Speaker 1: From the paintings to the design, you know that as
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: an adult, there's nothing for you there. Am I right
[1:00:08] Speaker 1: on that? No one enters a hospital to foil your car. No. No. Listen,
[1:00:16] Speaker 1: the confusion is because there is no picture of the end. Now,
[1:00:21] Speaker 1: let me give you the picture of the end. I
[1:00:22] Speaker 1: hope God is helping us. I'm trying to be as
[1:00:26] Speaker 1: methodical so that we'll gain something before we depart tonight.
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
[1:00:37] Speaker 3: Now, write this down, please.
[1:00:40] Speaker 1: The end product of God's dealings with men is that
[1:00:46] Speaker 1: we eventually become a manifestation of the glory of God
[1:00:54] Speaker 1: oh this is powerful the end product that means when
[1:00:58] Speaker 1: God begins a journey with a believer at the back
[1:01:03] Speaker 1: of his training at the back of his mind this
[1:01:06] Speaker 1: is what he seeks to make you become that eventually
[1:01:10] Speaker 1: your life and my life, regardless your background, regardless your past,
[1:01:16] Speaker 1: regardless your failure, that when you begin to walk with God,
[1:01:20] Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, please listen. Listen. At the back of
[1:01:24] Speaker 1: God's dealings, at the back of your prayer, your fasting,
[1:01:28] Speaker 1: your study, your coming to church, this is God's goal
[1:01:31] Speaker 1: for you. Not just heaven, as important as that is,
[1:01:35] Speaker 1: but that you become God. A manifestation of the glory
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: of God. Say God desires that I become a manifestation
[1:01:53] Speaker 1: of His glory. Yes. That is it. You know what
[1:01:59] Speaker 1: glory is? Glory comes from many expressions, both Greek and Hebrew,
[1:02:04] Speaker 1: but two of them are worthy of note. One is
[1:02:07] Speaker 1: called Kabod, the Hebrew, and then the Greek is called Doxa.
[1:02:12] Speaker 1: And both of them refer to a system of measuring
[1:02:16] Speaker 1: the worth of a thing. So the word kabod, in
[1:02:21] Speaker 1: its essence, it means wealth or weightiness. It's an attempt
[1:02:26] Speaker 1: to give you a description of the value of a
[1:02:29] Speaker 1: thing by examining the factors that makes that thing valuable.
[1:02:34] Speaker 1: Are we together? So if I pick a phone like
[1:02:37] Speaker 1: this and I say this phone is glorious. To explain
[1:02:42] Speaker 1: the glory of this phone, you have to tell me
[1:02:45] Speaker 1: all the features within the phone that makes it that
[1:02:48] Speaker 1: expensive or that desirable or that valuable. Are we together?
[1:02:53] Speaker 1: So the glory of a thing is a description of
[1:02:57] Speaker 1: the characteristic features that makes that person or that thing
[1:03:01] Speaker 1: worthy of worship. Are we together? Or delightsome or worthy
[1:03:06] Speaker 1: of emulation. The glory of a professor, for instance, is
[1:03:10] Speaker 1: in the years of practice, the intelligence, the order. Are
[1:03:14] Speaker 1: we together now? So if you want to describe the
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: glory of a professor, you would have to tell us
[1:03:19] Speaker 1: the journey that led that professor to that point, alongside
[1:03:23] Speaker 1: the awards and all the qualifications. That is the glory
[1:03:27] Speaker 1: of the professor. So when you talk about the glory
[1:03:32] Speaker 1: of God, it means everything that makes God worthy of worship.
[1:03:37] Speaker 1: So his wisdom is an expression of his glory. His
[1:03:41] Speaker 1: favor is an expression of his glory. Am I communicating?
[1:03:47] Speaker 1: So when God says his goal for you is to
[1:03:49] Speaker 1: become a manifestation of his glory, you know what that means?
[1:03:52] Speaker 1: That means you become a mirror. That anybody who does
[1:03:56] Speaker 1: not know how God looks like. They now study your life.
[1:04:00] Speaker 1: The effulgence of the possibilities of the kingdom that flow
[1:04:04] Speaker 1: through your life. Become an explanation to men of who
[1:04:08] Speaker 1: God is. Paul simply calls it being a living epistle.
[1:04:14] Speaker 1: You know what a living epistle is? That means your
[1:04:17] Speaker 1: life becomes a continuation of the Bible study of many.
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: That when they close their Bibles, the moment they see you,
[1:04:23] Speaker 1: their Bibles are opened again. Because they are learning dimensions
[1:04:27] Speaker 1: of God. If they are praying for favor, God refers
[1:04:33] Speaker 1: them to you as a portrait of what it means
[1:04:36] Speaker 1: to be favored. As a portrait of what it means
[1:04:39] Speaker 1: to capture the wisdom of God. As a portrait of
[1:04:42] Speaker 1: what restoration looks like. So when the Bible says, Romans
[1:04:46] Speaker 1: 8 verse 18. It says, I reckon that the sufferings
[1:04:51] Speaker 1: of this present time, it says, is not worthy to
[1:04:55] Speaker 1: be compared with the glory. Hallelujah. With the glory. The
[1:05:02] Speaker 1: temporary constraints of this present time is not worthy to
[1:05:07] Speaker 1: be compared. Boston, listen to me. With the glory which
[1:05:12] Speaker 1: shall be revealed. So there is a glory here. That
[1:05:17] Speaker 1: shall be revealed in me. I'm saying that for myself.
[1:05:22] Speaker 1: Revealed in me. Hallelujah. Yes. There is a manifestation of
[1:05:27] Speaker 1: the glory of God. Beyond my background. Beyond my yesterday.
[1:05:33] Speaker 1: There is a manifestation of God's glory.
[1:05:36] Speaker 3: Are we together?
[1:05:38] Speaker 1: Yes. the bible says the ns expectation verse 19 of
[1:05:43] Speaker 1: creation awaited the manifestation of the sons of god ephesians
[1:05:50] Speaker 1: chapter 2 and verse 10 it says we are his
[1:05:53] Speaker 1: workmanship created in christ unto good works which god had
[1:06:00] Speaker 1: a fourth time afford time is a preordination a full
[1:06:06] Speaker 1: time god is not wondering what to make out of
[1:06:09] Speaker 1: your life it's been planned already did you hear what
[1:06:13] Speaker 1: i said god is not wondering what to make out
[1:06:16] Speaker 1: of your life my dear brother my dear sister no
[1:06:21] Speaker 1: in the eons of time there is already a blueprint
[1:06:26] Speaker 1: And that the end point of your walk with God
[1:06:28] Speaker 1: is glory. That means until the Holy Spirit sees glory
[1:06:31] Speaker 1: from your life, His assignment is not done. Hallelujah. The
[1:06:40] Speaker 1: glory of God. So the Bible says we are created
[1:06:43] Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God had aforetime
[1:06:47] Speaker 1: ordained that we should walk in them. Ordained that we
[1:06:52] Speaker 1: should walk in them. Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 10.
[1:06:56] Speaker 1: Paul was speaking over the church in Ephesus and he says,
[1:06:59] Speaker 1: Now to the intent that unto principalities and powers... Might
[1:07:05] Speaker 1: be made known by the church. The manifold. The multifaceted
[1:07:11] Speaker 1: wisdom of God. Manifold. The wisdom of God. Are we together?
[1:07:22] Speaker 1: In John chapter 15 and verse 8. Here's what Jesus
[1:07:27] Speaker 1: himself said. He said, Herein is my Father glorified. That
[1:07:33] Speaker 1: ye bear much fruit. Say much fruit. So when you
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: bear much fruit.
[1:07:39] Speaker 3: When your life commands results.
[1:07:41] Speaker 1: It brings glory to God. Verse 16 of the same chapter. 15,
[1:07:46] Speaker 1: 16 John. It says you have not called. You have
[1:07:50] Speaker 1: not chosen me. But I have chosen you. And ordained you.
[1:07:54] Speaker 1: Verse 16 now. That you should go and bear fruit.
[1:07:58] Speaker 1: And that your fruit should remain. I like this. There's
[1:08:02] Speaker 1: a scripture burning in my heart. That I want us
[1:08:05] Speaker 1: to shout together. That should be Galatians. Is it 120?
[1:08:13] Speaker 1: And they glorified God. In me. And they glorified God.
[1:08:24] Speaker 1: Please look for it for me. That's Galatians. Help me.
[1:08:30] Speaker 1: And they glorified God. In me. 124. The last verse.
[1:08:37] Speaker 1: Thank you. Let this be a prophetic word for someone.
[1:08:44] Speaker 1: That men look at your life. And begin to learn God.
[1:08:48] Speaker 1: Through the lens of your life. The excellence. The glory.
[1:08:51] Speaker 1: The wisdom. The power. The favor. That emanates from your life.
[1:08:56] Speaker 1: Men will know for a shorty. That there is a God.
[1:09:00] Speaker 1: that reigns over the affairs of men. It is true. Listen,
[1:09:05] Speaker 1: this is not just preaching. Believe it. This is your destiny.
[1:09:14] Speaker 1: My destiny is that I will eventually become, in experience,
[1:09:21] Speaker 1: a manifestation of the glory of God. Do not forget this.
[1:09:26] Speaker 1: Your destiny is that you will eventually, not immediately, eventually,
[1:09:33] Speaker 1: as we behold, we are changed. Is that true? As
[1:09:40] Speaker 1: we behold in prayer. We behold in fastings. We behold
[1:09:45] Speaker 1: through the study of God's word. Coming to church week
[1:09:48] Speaker 1: in week out. Sometimes you grow so slow you do
[1:09:52] Speaker 1: not know you are growing. Until you see the picture
[1:09:55] Speaker 1: of your former self. Then you realize you've grown so much.
[1:10:03] Speaker 1: The baby is not even aware that it is growing.
[1:10:07] Speaker 1: Until you look at the photo. And you can see
[1:10:09] Speaker 1: the difference. Even for some of us. Who have convinced ourselves.
[1:10:15] Speaker 1: That we don't change. No. Look well.
[1:10:21] Speaker 3: Look well. Are we together?
[1:10:26] Speaker 1: Now. My final thoughts. And then we'll pray. Thank you Jesus.
[1:10:35] Speaker 1: There are three phases of.
[1:10:38] Speaker 3: Every believer's development.
[1:10:39] Speaker 1: This is the apostolic model now that I want to
[1:10:42] Speaker 1: give you. Three phases. And for this, let me request, please,
[1:10:47] Speaker 1: if you will, any three gentlemen, please come. Once we
[1:10:54] Speaker 1: have three, that's fine.
[1:10:55] Speaker 3: It's not an impartation.
[1:10:56] Speaker 1: Please, you come up here. I want you to stand here.
[1:11:02] Speaker 1: You stand here. That's right. Please come, sir. Just stand
[1:11:07] Speaker 1: with me.
[1:11:07] Speaker 3: Please come, my friend.
[1:11:09] Speaker 1: Okay, you stand at the extreme, sir. Thank you. And
[1:11:11] Speaker 1: then you stand here. Now, everybody watch this. I'm trying to.
[1:11:14] Speaker 3: Illustrate for you. I like to treat graphically people thinking pictures.
[1:11:19] Speaker 1: I want to show you the entire journey of the
[1:11:22] Speaker 1: believer from infancy to the place of power. From weakness
[1:11:29] Speaker 1: to the place of strength. There are three faces in
[1:11:35] Speaker 1: every believer's journey. I'm saying this to you because at
[1:11:39] Speaker 1: every point in your Christian experience, you should be able
[1:11:42] Speaker 1: to define where you are in that journey. So as
[1:11:47] Speaker 1: I'm announcing it to you, I'm helping you, I'm giving
[1:11:49] Speaker 1: you a picture so that you will know whether you
[1:11:52] Speaker 1: are behind schedule or you will know if you are
[1:11:55] Speaker 1: making progress. Are we together? Now, the foundation for everyone
[1:12:01] Speaker 1: who seeks to be used by God to be a
[1:12:05] Speaker 1: manifestation of God's glory is called salvation. Please say it
[1:12:10] Speaker 1: and write it. Say salvation.
[1:12:12] Speaker 3: One more time.
[1:12:14] Speaker 1: As simple and as basic as this sounds, there are
[1:12:18] Speaker 1: many people roaming around the gates of the kingdom who
[1:12:21] Speaker 1: have not even entered. Proximity to the things of God
[1:12:26] Speaker 1: does not guarantee admission. I hope I'm right if I
[1:12:32] Speaker 1: say there are people who live within the Harvard community
[1:12:36] Speaker 1: but are not students. And they've been there older and
[1:12:40] Speaker 1: longer than the students. They can lead you to any
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: school or faculty you seek, but they are not students.
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: They are people who walk around the airport and they've
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: never flown an aircraft out of their nations. So just
[1:12:53] Speaker 1: because you are around where God is moving, just because
[1:12:56] Speaker 1: you are around church, just because you are around spiritual
[1:13:00] Speaker 1: things does not automatically make you a believer. according to
[1:13:06] Speaker 1: scripture and.
[1:13:07] Speaker 3: We must restore this because there.
[1:13:08] Speaker 1: Are many people in church who are not saved that
[1:13:11] Speaker 1: is the real problem there is a formula for salvation
[1:13:15] Speaker 1: you don't get salvation there is an exact spiritual protocol
[1:13:20] Speaker 1: that leads to salvation and if that experience has not
[1:13:24] Speaker 1: happened you may be a nice person having a wonderful
[1:13:27] Speaker 1: heart but you are not saved I'm not a student
[1:13:31] Speaker 1: of Harvard. I enjoyed a wonderful time roaming around your school,
[1:13:34] Speaker 1: but I'm not. Because a tour around Harvard is not
[1:13:39] Speaker 1: the same as admission. Now, I have pictures of myself
[1:13:46] Speaker 1: in Harvard. You can't change that. Am I right on that?
[1:13:53] Speaker 1: There are many believers who have their pictures near the
[1:13:57] Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, near the Bible, Near a pastor. Near a
[1:14:03] Speaker 1: revival meeting. Near church. But they are not believers. Here's
[1:14:14] Speaker 1: what the Bible says. John chapter 3 and verse 16.
[1:14:18] Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking to Nicodemus. John chapter 3 begins. It
[1:14:22] Speaker 1: was a discourse between Jesus and one man. A Pharisee.
[1:14:26] Speaker 1: He had been convicted by the ministry of Jesus even
[1:14:28] Speaker 1: though he was forced to pretend because he was with
[1:14:31] Speaker 1: his colleagues. Now he smuggles himself to Jesus by night
[1:14:34] Speaker 1: and here's what he says. Rabbi, we know that thou
[1:14:37] Speaker 1: art a teacher sent from God, he says, for no
[1:14:40] Speaker 1: man can do these miracles which thou doest except God
[1:14:43] Speaker 1: be with him. John chapter 3 now. Verse 3, Jesus
[1:14:47] Speaker 1: now begins to speak and says, Verily, verily, I say
[1:14:50] Speaker 1: unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot
[1:14:55] Speaker 1: see the kingdom of God.
[1:15:00] Speaker 3: Then Jesus now says, except a man be born.
[1:15:02] Speaker 1: Of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the
[1:15:05] Speaker 1: kingdom of God. The discussion continues until we arrive at
[1:15:09] Speaker 1: verse 16. Jesus is still speaking. For God so loved
[1:15:14] Speaker 1: the world. He proved that he so loved the world
[1:15:18] Speaker 1: by giving his then only begotten son. He is no
[1:15:23] Speaker 1: longer his only begotten son. He is now the first
[1:15:28] Speaker 1: begotten of we the brethren. Are we together? Anyway. It
[1:15:36] Speaker 1: says that whosoever, I like this, Jesus leaves the line blank, whosoever.
[1:15:46] Speaker 1: There are certain things in the Bible that the Bible
[1:15:48] Speaker 1: would say he gave unto some. But when it has
[1:15:52] Speaker 1: to do with the business of salvation, it is for whosoever.
[1:15:57] Speaker 1: A drunkard, a prostitute, a bad person, a good person,
[1:16:04] Speaker 1: a self-righteous person, everybody, whosoever believeth on him, watch this,
[1:16:12] Speaker 1: there is already a verdict from heaven that if you
[1:16:15] Speaker 1: believe in him as touching his being, save your Lord
[1:16:18] Speaker 1: and Christ, that you should not perish, but have life everlasting.
[1:16:26] Speaker 1: I don't want to get into a theological explanation of
[1:16:28] Speaker 1: that word everlasting life. That was not an accurate translation.
[1:16:34] Speaker 1: It is not everlasting life. It is the Greek word zoe.
[1:16:38] Speaker 1: It is a quality of living beyond everlasting. No. It
[1:16:44] Speaker 1: is talking about a kind of life. Not just survival indefinitely.
[1:16:49] Speaker 1: Are we together? John would later grow in the spirit.
[1:16:54] Speaker 1: And in his epistle, he would call it the life
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: of God. Not just everlasting life. Anyway, back to our discussion.
[1:17:03] Speaker 1: So this brother finds himself roaming around the streets of Boston, Cambridge,
[1:17:10] Speaker 1: anywhere around your region. And one day he comes into
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: this beautiful auditorium and he's seated at the back. Then
[1:17:18] Speaker 1: a preacher is preaching, singing, shouting like me. And the
[1:17:23] Speaker 1: Spirit of God, because Jesus says, when he, the Spirit
[1:17:26] Speaker 1: of truth is come, The Holy Spirit has a three-fold
[1:17:30] Speaker 1: ministry to creation, to unbelievers, and to believers. So the
[1:17:37] Speaker 1: Holy Spirit's assignment is to convict this fellow. Watch this now.
[1:17:41] Speaker 1: So I'm preaching. He's listening to me. I'm talking about
[1:17:45] Speaker 1: the life of God. A beautiful presentation. I'm giving a
[1:17:48] Speaker 1: manifesto of what God wants to make out of his life.
[1:17:52] Speaker 1: Are we together? And whilst I'm speaking through the frailty
[1:17:56] Speaker 1: of my speech, the Spirit of God is riding through
[1:17:59] Speaker 1: his heart. And I make what we know to be
[1:18:02] Speaker 1: an altar call. A proposition. Are we together? The first
[1:18:08] Speaker 1: sermon that was preached in the book of Acts was
[1:18:10] Speaker 1: by Peter. And Peter made a profound statement. He said,
[1:18:13] Speaker 1: Let it be known to you, O Israel, that the
[1:18:15] Speaker 1: same Jesus who you have crucified has today been exalted
[1:18:19] Speaker 1: as Lord and Christ. It is not every information about
[1:18:25] Speaker 1: Jesus that translates to salvation. Believing Jesus came from God
[1:18:31] Speaker 1: is not what saves you. No. No. there is an
[1:18:35] Speaker 1: exact information believing jesus was a good man does not
[1:18:39] Speaker 1: give you salvation believing jesus lived a sinless life is
[1:18:47] Speaker 1: true but does not give you salvation there is a
[1:18:50] Speaker 1: an exact information You must believe his substitutionary sacrifice You
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: must believe that he died and was buried and that
[1:18:59] Speaker 1: he resurrected by the glory of the Father. You must
[1:19:03] Speaker 1: believe that he paid the penalty of your sin. Are
[1:19:06] Speaker 1: we together? And the Bible says, in believing that report,
[1:19:10] Speaker 1: you receive the honor of his life. There is no
[1:19:17] Speaker 1: other name under heaven, the Bible declares, given unto men.
[1:19:21] Speaker 1: I'm saying this because most people in church are around
[1:19:25] Speaker 1: the things of God, but they have not made this declaration.
[1:19:29] Speaker 1: So we're trying to use counseling and therapy as wonderful
[1:19:33] Speaker 1: as that is. I don't reject that. But let me
[1:19:35] Speaker 1: tell you, nothing will be a replacement for a genuine
[1:19:39] Speaker 1: encounter with Jesus. So there are many problems that plague
[1:19:47] Speaker 1: people in our world and our churches today. It is
[1:19:50] Speaker 1: because they are alienated from the life of God. There
[1:19:53] Speaker 1: is no amount. The demons that afflict them will step
[1:19:57] Speaker 1: out while you are counseling them and wait for them
[1:19:59] Speaker 1: to cry out their lives and get back because they
[1:20:02] Speaker 1: have a legitimate access. And you believe what you are hearing.
[1:20:11] Speaker 1: The Bible calls an encounter with Jesus a translation from
[1:20:16] Speaker 1: the kingdom of darkness. Do you believe the Bible? To
[1:20:20] Speaker 1: the kingdom of God's dear son. God's dear son. Now,
[1:20:26] Speaker 1: as ordinary as that confession is, there is a miracle
[1:20:29] Speaker 1: happening in the spirit. So you declare that Jesus is Lord.
[1:20:34] Speaker 1: The protocol, the formula for administering salvation is found in
[1:20:39] Speaker 1: Romans chapter 10 from verse 9 and 10. Please do
[1:20:44] Speaker 1: not forget this for the rest of your life. That
[1:20:47] Speaker 1: if thou shalt confess with thy mouth. Someone say with
[1:20:51] Speaker 1: thy mouth. No assumption. Your mouth has a role to play.
[1:20:58] Speaker 1: It is a declaration of your inadequacy. Are we together?
[1:21:03] Speaker 1: Salvation is never administered to the arrogant and the self-righteous.
[1:21:08] Speaker 1: This is why your mouth has to verbalize your need
[1:21:11] Speaker 1: for God. No assumptions. God made us free moral agents.
[1:21:19] Speaker 1: He will not usurp on your will. Even at the
[1:21:22] Speaker 1: detriment of your eternal destiny. You can choose to ignore him.
[1:21:26] Speaker 1: And he will respect your choice. So this man... Confesses
[1:21:33] Speaker 1: the Lordship of Jesus. And does that believing in his heart.
[1:21:38] Speaker 1: That God raised him from the dead. The Bible says
[1:21:41] Speaker 1: you shall be saved. No matter the past. Whether you
[1:21:46] Speaker 1: feel anything or don't feel anything. It is not a feeling.
[1:21:48] Speaker 1: It is a spiritual reality. And let me tell you this.
[1:21:53] Speaker 1: If anyone of you under the sound of my voice.
[1:21:56] Speaker 1: Has gone through that state. Where you came to a
[1:22:00] Speaker 1: point of... an awareness of your inadequacy outside of Christ,
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: and you verbalize it by declaring His Lordship, I want
[1:22:10] Speaker 1: you to know, whether you feel it or not, based
[1:22:14] Speaker 1: on the authority of Scripture, you are saved. You may
[1:22:22] Speaker 1: not cry and shout and roll on the floor, but
[1:22:25] Speaker 1: the truth of Scripture still remains the truth. And no
[1:22:29] Speaker 1: matter how you... You can fall under the anointing and
[1:22:32] Speaker 1: you are still not saved. Falling under the anointing does
[1:22:35] Speaker 1: not mean you are saved. It is the effect of
[1:22:37] Speaker 1: the power of God within your circumference. That is not salvation.
[1:22:45] Speaker 1: Are we together? Receiving it. I can pray for... Everybody
[1:22:49] Speaker 1: Jesus prayed for to be healed was an unbeliever. Nobody
[1:22:54] Speaker 1: could believe until he resurrected from the dead. But everybody
[1:22:59] Speaker 1: Jesus healed still died. Everybody Jesus fed still died. They
[1:23:03] Speaker 1: didn't have the life of life. Are we together? Now,
[1:23:08] Speaker 1: so this gentleman gets saved. That's the first phase. Salvation.
[1:23:14] Speaker 1: Do not forget this. The greatest need of an unbeliever
[1:23:20] Speaker 1: is salvation. Anytime you see an unbeliever, you can feed them.
[1:23:25] Speaker 1: You can counsel them, you can love them, but just
[1:23:29] Speaker 1: know that the greatest need from a spiritual standpoint, my
[1:23:34] Speaker 1: dear people, Anytime you see an unbeliever anywhere, that may
[1:23:38] Speaker 1: be your spouse with all due respect, may be your children,
[1:23:42] Speaker 1: may be well-meaning people, colleagues in your office, students. The
[1:23:46] Speaker 1: moment you see an unbeliever, I want you to know
[1:23:50] Speaker 1: that no matter what you do, give, say, the greatest
[1:23:55] Speaker 1: need of every unbeliever from an eternal standpoint and from
[1:24:00] Speaker 1: a spiritual standpoint is salvation. If I feed you, my
[1:24:06] Speaker 1: dear brother, if I clothe you, that is wonderful, expected
[1:24:11] Speaker 1: of a Christian, but you will still go to hell.
[1:24:18] Speaker 1: Many of you are seated right now listening to me,
[1:24:20] Speaker 1: and there are wonderful people you've been kind to, but
[1:24:24] Speaker 1: they are on their way to hell. Yes, sir.
[1:24:29] Speaker 3: I hate being a bearer of bad news, and I
[1:24:31] Speaker 3: wish it were a lie.
[1:24:32] Speaker 1: But it is true. Spouses going to hell. Children going
[1:24:42] Speaker 1: to hell. Sincere people who greet you smiling at you.
[1:24:46] Speaker 1: And you feel so warm when they smile. But they
[1:24:50] Speaker 1: are still going to hell. Grandparents going to hell. Maybe
[1:24:57] Speaker 1: beautiful intelligent Harvard students going to hell. Many people roaming
[1:25:03] Speaker 1: around the streets of Cambridge. Massachusetts, Boston, going to hell.
[1:25:11] Speaker 1: There were people who woke up on earth this morning,
[1:25:14] Speaker 1: but they are in hell right now. The greatest need
[1:25:20] Speaker 1: of a non-believer is not welfare. The greatest need of
[1:25:26] Speaker 1: a non-believer, ladies and gentlemen, a non-believer meaning... One who
[1:25:31] Speaker 1: has not declared the lordship of Christ. Again I say.
[1:25:34] Speaker 1: It's not about being good or bad. If you do
[1:25:37] Speaker 1: not have Jesus in your heart. You are called an unbeliever.
[1:25:42] Speaker 1: Not necessarily a sinner. But an unbeliever. So.
[1:25:50] Speaker 3: This gentleman.
[1:25:51] Speaker 1: Upon declaring. The lordship of Christ. He has passed the
[1:25:58] Speaker 1: first gate. Profitably so. But to summarize quickly so that
[1:26:05] Speaker 1: we wrap up for tonight. If this gentleman remains this way,
[1:26:10] Speaker 1: he is saved. But he is going to become a frustrated,
[1:26:14] Speaker 1: ineffective believer. Did you get what I said? Is he saved?
[1:26:21] Speaker 3: Genuinely so? Has he met Jesus?
[1:26:24] Speaker 1: But you see, the profit of the life that he
[1:26:27] Speaker 1: has received cannot be enjoyed at this level. This is
[1:26:31] Speaker 1: the challenge with many Christians. They are saved. But the
[1:26:36] Speaker 1: Bible says an heir for as long as he's a child.
[1:26:39] Speaker 1: Same attack an unbeliever is having. He's still having it.
[1:26:42] Speaker 1: Same problems. Same weaknesses. Same addictions. Come on now. Same whatever.
[1:26:49] Speaker 1: To the point that the gentle man. Looks at his
[1:26:52] Speaker 1: former self through the window. And cannot see the difference.
[1:26:56] Speaker 1: Because he was just a step away. Even though a translation. Now,
[1:27:02] Speaker 1: most believers have not been mentored into understanding that surrendering
[1:27:07] Speaker 1: your life, receiving the life of Jesus is the beginning
[1:27:12] Speaker 1: of the journey. Not the end of it. So they
[1:27:16] Speaker 1: get saved and they are angry, wondering, what is wrong
[1:27:19] Speaker 1: with my life? Demons do not seem to respect my
[1:27:22] Speaker 1: confession of Jesus. Absolutely. That leads to the next phase.
[1:27:28] Speaker 1: The next phase is called transformation. This is the next phase.
[1:27:37] Speaker 1: It is at the point of transformation that the riches
[1:27:41] Speaker 1: of eternal life begin to manifest experientially. Look, this is
[1:27:48] Speaker 1: the destiny of this man. Watch this. Remember my teaching?
[1:27:52] Speaker 1: That your prophetic destiny, your preordination, have you forgotten? Is
[1:27:58] Speaker 1: that you eventually become the glory of God.
[1:28:01] Speaker 3: This is the future self of that.
[1:28:03] Speaker 1: Man right there. That weak man. That prayerless man. That
[1:28:08] Speaker 1: man who does not love the things of God. Literally
[1:28:11] Speaker 1: struggled his way. yet that is still his destiny he
[1:28:16] Speaker 1: will go to bed and see that prophet he would
[1:28:19] Speaker 1: go to bed and see that evangelist he would go
[1:28:22] Speaker 1: to bed and see that world changer you see there
[1:28:26] Speaker 1: is still a long distance between the future him and
[1:28:30] Speaker 1: the current him now watch this when god wants to
[1:28:34] Speaker 1: help this man there are three things he introduces to
[1:28:37] Speaker 1: his life please do not forget in is the arrival
[1:28:42] Speaker 1: of these three forces. That translates this one. From a
[1:28:46] Speaker 1: saved believer. To a transformed believer. Number one. The word
[1:28:50] Speaker 1: of God. Number two. The ministry of the Holy Spirit.
[1:28:57] Speaker 1: Number three, the ministry of a teaching priest. Please take note.
[1:29:04] Speaker 1: These tripartite ministries or forces are responsible for transiting this
[1:29:10] Speaker 1: believer from an ordinary weak believer, full of God's life,
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: but never having an experience of the same. Again, the
[1:29:20] Speaker 1: word of God. Are we together? God grants you access
[1:29:25] Speaker 1: to the word of God. But the word of God
[1:29:28] Speaker 1: without the ministry of the teaching priest would not profit you.
[1:29:31] Speaker 1: Because it must be line upon line. Precept upon precept.
[1:29:35] Speaker 1: Your transformation must be methodical. Let me tell you this. Honestly,
[1:29:40] Speaker 1: if God puts before you a true shepherd... Someone to
[1:29:51] Speaker 1: mentor you and to guide you. I want you to
[1:29:53] Speaker 1: know that she showed you love and kindness. If you
[1:29:58] Speaker 1: fall into a wrong church, a wrong hand, that complicates
[1:30:03] Speaker 1: this process. There are many believers who as soon as
[1:30:06] Speaker 1: they got saved, it was a wrong hand that received them.
[1:30:12] Speaker 1: And so for the next 10 years, it was a
[1:30:15] Speaker 1: journey of total waste, confusion, got into practices. And after
[1:30:21] Speaker 1: 10 years, looking at themselves now, they are still saying.
[1:30:27] Speaker 1: Say for 20 years. But the wrong hand. Maybe I'm
[1:30:37] Speaker 1: describing someone right now. If only you had a teaching
[1:30:43] Speaker 1: priest indeed, one year under constructive methodical mentorship, you would
[1:30:49] Speaker 1: have become a wonder by now. Anyway, so he grants
[1:30:53] Speaker 1: you the word, say the word. Then the ministry of
[1:30:57] Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. And then number three, the ministry of
[1:31:01] Speaker 1: a teaching priest. Listen, I'm giving you this spiritual education
[1:31:06] Speaker 1: so that you can leave this place and know exactly
[1:31:10] Speaker 1: what the challenge is with any believer. When someone tells you,
[1:31:13] Speaker 1: you know, I'm saved, I'm not growing. Aha, you can
[1:31:16] Speaker 1: fill in the blanks. You can tell the person with
[1:31:21] Speaker 1: surgical precision, I know what is wrong with you. You
[1:31:25] Speaker 1: do not have access to the Word. You are not
[1:31:28] Speaker 1: truly enjoying the ministry of the Holy Spirit. And ultimately,
[1:31:33] Speaker 1: I see that you lack the ministry of a teaching priest.
[1:31:36] Speaker 1: This is why we invite people to church. We do
[1:31:40] Speaker 1: not just invite people to church because.
[1:31:42] Speaker 3: We are looking for crowds and membership.
[1:31:45] Speaker 1: It's our partnership with the Holy Spirit to bring these
[1:31:50] Speaker 1: kinds of people and those before them so that they
[1:31:53] Speaker 1: can get to this place. That means if you do
[1:31:57] Speaker 1: not participate in in gathering and so willing, you are
[1:32:02] Speaker 1: doing heavenly disservice. I was glad when they said unto me,
[1:32:09] Speaker 1: let us, not let me, let us, let us, let us,
[1:32:13] Speaker 1: let us, as for me and my house, how will
[1:32:17] Speaker 1: they serve the Lord until they are taught the ways
[1:32:21] Speaker 1: of the Lord? So now, This man is fortunate to
[1:32:28] Speaker 1: meet a teaching priest. And using scripture in partnership with
[1:32:34] Speaker 1: the ministry of the Holy Spirit, I begin to mentor
[1:32:36] Speaker 1: this weak man. I show him that prayer can transit men.
[1:32:41] Speaker 1: I submit him to the ministry of prayer, guiding him
[1:32:45] Speaker 1: to a system that is already predefined. This man starts
[1:32:48] Speaker 1: to pray. The weak man begins to be strong. The
[1:32:51] Speaker 1: man who knew no scripture. You see that now? That
[1:32:54] Speaker 1: prayer ministry. He is under constructive mentorship. So I am
[1:32:59] Speaker 1: guiding him. He learns the value of service. As he
[1:33:02] Speaker 1: sits under this anointing week in week out. After one year.
[1:33:07] Speaker 1: You look for that former gentleman. You don't find him again.
[1:33:10] Speaker 1: He is not here but he is not there. He
[1:33:13] Speaker 1: is shifted. Give this man three years. And he is moved.
[1:33:20] Speaker 1: You look at him and say. I was in your
[1:33:22] Speaker 1: church when you were saved. And he says you are right.
[1:33:25] Speaker 1: But that was the former me. This one. has grown
[1:33:31] Speaker 1: efficient for 18 having their understanding darkened being alienated from
[1:33:37] Speaker 1: the life of god through the ignorance that is in
[1:33:40] Speaker 1: them because of the blindness of their minds so the
[1:33:44] Speaker 1: teaching priest has walked in partnership with the holy spirit
[1:33:48] Speaker 1: and the word of god introducing him to the various
[1:33:51] Speaker 1: facets of the kingdom life Building his understanding. Now he
[1:33:56] Speaker 1: knows the value of prayer. He prays at home and
[1:33:59] Speaker 1: in church. He knows the value of service. He's not
[1:34:02] Speaker 1: just a member, he has become a worker. You see
[1:34:06] Speaker 1: that now? He knows the value of fasting. He understands
[1:34:09] Speaker 1: the value of consecration. Are you seeing that now? Yes.
[1:34:13] Speaker 1: He understands the value of transformation. When this man is
[1:34:17] Speaker 1: given a gift of $ 100, he doesn't run around just
[1:34:19] Speaker 1: to buy clothes. He would go to a bookstore and
[1:34:22] Speaker 1: get quality Christian materials because he's been mentored to see
[1:34:26] Speaker 1: the value of a transformed mind. Now, eventually, he arrives here.
[1:34:33] Speaker 1: We're wrapping up. Great journey so far. So, when he
[1:34:40] Speaker 1: gets here, he begins to see the manifestation of the
[1:34:44] Speaker 1: life of God. He begins to see certain things happen
[1:34:47] Speaker 1: in his life. But even this is not all. There
[1:34:52] Speaker 1: is one more face. This face is called empowerment. So, salvation, transformation, empowerment.
[1:35:06] Speaker 1: Let me tell you what most believers do. from here
[1:35:11] Speaker 1: they want to jump through an impartation sorry to have
[1:35:14] Speaker 1: to drag you my friend are we together so once
[1:35:19] Speaker 1: they see a man of god they quickly get on
[1:35:21] Speaker 1: their knees and say you know what it doesn't matter
[1:35:24] Speaker 1: how transformed i just got saved you just do whatever
[1:35:27] Speaker 1: you have to do on my head and they believe
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: that they've been no it doesn't work that way there
[1:35:35] Speaker 1: are no.
[1:35:36] Speaker 3: Jumping classes in the spirit Salvation, the greatest.
[1:35:43] Speaker 1: Need of a transformed believer is the grace to validate
[1:35:48] Speaker 1: the things you now know. These talks of encounter that
[1:35:53] Speaker 1: gives you salvation, these talks of the inner workings of
[1:35:58] Speaker 1: the Spirit, at this point you are knowledgeable, but you
[1:36:03] Speaker 1: need grace to defend the things you know. This man
[1:36:08] Speaker 1: is in ignorance. This one has knowledge, but the knowledge
[1:36:12] Speaker 1: may not have proof. So you need empowerment. This is
[1:36:17] Speaker 1: the model Jesus had with the disciples. At this point
[1:36:20] Speaker 1: he said, I spent three years teaching you, but that
[1:36:26] Speaker 1: does not qualify you to go and represent me. But
[1:36:30] Speaker 1: look at the ratio of impartation to transformation. And I
[1:36:34] Speaker 1: submit to you, this is one challenge with the Pentecostal
[1:36:37] Speaker 1: charismatic circle.
[1:36:39] Speaker 3: We do not.
[1:36:39] Speaker 1: Place premium on transformation. Jesus spent three and a half
[1:36:45] Speaker 1: years of constructive mentorship to one night of encounter with
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: the Spirit. Don't rush to lay hands on people. Don't
[1:36:55] Speaker 1: rush to just minister to people. Bring them to a point.
[1:36:59] Speaker 1: The value of empowerment is when the grace comes on
[1:37:03] Speaker 1: a transformed mind. The oil always assumes the shape of
[1:37:09] Speaker 1: the vessel. The challenge with the wife of the prophet
[1:37:13] Speaker 1: was not the potential of the oil. But the vessel
[1:37:16] Speaker 1: that was hosting the oil made it small. And the
[1:37:19] Speaker 1: prophet said, go and borrow vessels. You can't borrow oil,
[1:37:24] Speaker 1: but you can borrow vessels. And it says in borrowing,
[1:37:27] Speaker 1: borrow not a few. Expand your capacity and the oil
[1:37:32] Speaker 1: will look like the change to you. Two people can
[1:37:37] Speaker 1: be anointed. Same grace, but limited in their operation because
[1:37:42] Speaker 1: for one, the grace comes upon a mindset that is
[1:37:46] Speaker 1: not transformed.
[1:37:47] Speaker 3: And you would not see the potential of that anointing.
[1:37:50] Speaker 1: That same anointing will come upon another person. Are we together?
[1:37:55] Speaker 1: And on the strength of his or her transformation. You
[1:37:59] Speaker 1: will see that the person will move in power. There
[1:38:03] Speaker 1: are many of our fathers who did not have secular
[1:38:06] Speaker 1: enlightenment nor proper mentorship. But by their press through prayer
[1:38:10] Speaker 1: and fasting they accessed certain graces. And you would see
[1:38:14] Speaker 1: that they were so anointed. But the potential of that
[1:38:17] Speaker 1: anointing was boxed through a low level transformation. If that
[1:38:22] Speaker 1: same anointing comes upon another person who spends time building capacity.
[1:38:27] Speaker 1: That's when you see the kind of anointing they imparted on. you.
[1:38:31] Speaker 3: When God delays in anointing you, it's not demonic.
[1:38:35] Speaker 1: He's giving you room to expand so that when that
[1:38:39] Speaker 1: grace comes, the full potential of what that anointing carries,
[1:38:44] Speaker 1: are we together now, will be made visible. So, The
[1:38:48] Speaker 1: greatest need of a transformed believer is empowerment. This man,
[1:38:56] Speaker 1: the difference between this man and this man is not
[1:38:59] Speaker 1: necessarily knowledge.
[1:39:00] Speaker 3: It's that this one has received the increasing.
[1:39:03] Speaker 1: It is at the point of empowerment you change from
[1:39:07] Speaker 1: being a believer to a witness. We'll take it from
[1:39:12] Speaker 1: there tomorrow. This is where I'll find a place to
[1:39:14] Speaker 1: stop here. God's goal is not for you to remain
[1:39:18] Speaker 1: a believer. You start by being a believer, and in
[1:39:22] Speaker 1: addition to being a believer, you graduate to a witness.
[1:39:27] Speaker 1: Your real relevance in the kingdom is not when you
[1:39:30] Speaker 1: are a believer. Your real relevance to God and to
[1:39:34] Speaker 1: your world is when you become a witness. In the
[1:39:38] Speaker 1: book of Revelations, Jesus was not just a believer. He
[1:39:42] Speaker 1: was called a faithful witness. In Acts chapter 1 and
[1:39:47] Speaker 1: verse 8, he says you shall receive the Holy Ghost.
[1:39:50] Speaker 3: Power after the Holy Ghost has come.
[1:39:51] Speaker 1: And you shall be not preachers, not students, not witnesses.
[1:39:58] Speaker 1: Tomorrow we'll teach on this. The ones that God is
[1:40:01] Speaker 1: looking for are not just born again Christians. The ones
[1:40:06] Speaker 1: that God is looking for are not just believers. God
[1:40:10] Speaker 1: is looking for witnesses. A witness is a matured believer
[1:40:16] Speaker 1: who has transited to a point where he can assume
[1:40:19] Speaker 1: kingdom responsibility, representing the purposes of God and defending the
[1:40:25] Speaker 1: interests of the kingdom. It is at that point the
[1:40:29] Speaker 1: glory of God is revealed in you. Are we together?
[1:40:32] Speaker 1: So at any given point in church, you will always
[1:40:36] Speaker 1: find these three groups of people. In fact, four. There
[1:40:40] Speaker 1: are those who are outside. You need to know that
[1:40:45] Speaker 1: as a man of God. So you don't assume. Then
[1:40:50] Speaker 1: the ordinary believer who just came to church will laugh
[1:40:54] Speaker 1: at people praying. He doesn't care. Don't be angry. That's
[1:40:57] Speaker 1: why he's there. and then you transits that person methodically
[1:41:03] Speaker 1: patiently he becomes an enlightened believer then you introduce if
[1:41:10] Speaker 1: all you know is doctrine and you do not have
[1:41:13] Speaker 1: power this is where you will stop people you can't
[1:41:16] Speaker 1: go further because the power of the holy spirit will
[1:41:20] Speaker 1: have to continue the journey doctrine is profitable but without
[1:41:25] Speaker 1: power People will stop here. So you will gather a
[1:41:29] Speaker 1: lot of intellectuals making arguments, propositions, without the capacity to
[1:41:35] Speaker 1: make manifest the things they know. God is good. I
[1:41:43] Speaker 1: know the scripture. You are right. It's here, but not here.
[1:41:49] Speaker 1: God heals. I can tell you, Mark chapter this verse this,
[1:41:52] Speaker 1: I've been properly taught. I know what prayer does. Prayer,
[1:41:56] Speaker 1: we can intercede. There are all kinds of spirits.
[1:41:58] Speaker 3: There are principalities.
[1:41:59] Speaker 1: There are powers. You've been well mentored. But unfortunately, you
[1:42:03] Speaker 1: become so frustrated because you are full of light and
[1:42:07] Speaker 1: the grace that will release it to you and your
[1:42:09] Speaker 1: world has not come.
[1:42:13] Speaker 3: So many of us are here right now, full of light.
[1:42:17] Speaker 1: Something in you wants to break out. But the capacity,
[1:42:21] Speaker 1: and if you attempt to do what this man is
[1:42:24] Speaker 1: doing here, you will be disappointed. The disciples were in training.
[1:42:29] Speaker 1: One time they couldn't wait again. And they went to
[1:42:33] Speaker 1: an epileptic patient. Remember, left disappointed and pained. And said, no,
[1:42:38] Speaker 1: come on. They knew about healing. But it was not
[1:42:42] Speaker 1: just knowledge. They needed something else. But when that grace
[1:42:46] Speaker 1: came upon them. The shadow of Peter. Handkerchiefs and aprons
[1:42:52] Speaker 1: were taken from Peter. Then you get here. Empowered believer.
[1:43:00] Speaker 1: A witness. I will leave you until we get tomorrow.
[1:43:06] Speaker 1: I will show you that beyond here, there is also
[1:43:09] Speaker 1: one more step. Because there is something you must know
[1:43:16] Speaker 1: to remain empowered. Empowerment is very sensitive. You can lose
[1:43:23] Speaker 1: many things. Because with the coming of the anointing upon
[1:43:26] Speaker 1: your life, will come many other things. Pride, complacency. There
[1:43:34] Speaker 1: is a skill to remaining at this realm. Your relevance
[1:43:39] Speaker 1: does not just depend on your arriving here, but your
[1:43:42] Speaker 1: remaining there. There are many people who began to die
[1:43:46] Speaker 1: when they got here. Because at this point you are
[1:43:50] Speaker 1: called a celebrity. Joshua Selman. Now the world knows you.
[1:43:56] Speaker 1: Whether you pray or not.
[1:43:59] Speaker 3: At this point, you have some credibility.
[1:44:02] Speaker 1: There is a kind of temptation that only comes when
[1:44:05] Speaker 1: you are here. You will never know that there is
[1:44:09] Speaker 1: such a reality. Listen, if you know this, you will
[1:44:12] Speaker 1: know why God mandates to pray for all leaders. There
[1:44:16] Speaker 1: are certain attacks that never happen here. Never happen here.
[1:44:23] Speaker 1: Satan will be patient even if it's after 20 years.
[1:44:27] Speaker 1: Please do not miss tomorrow. Because among the things I
[1:44:30] Speaker 1: will be teaching you is the dynamics of warfare. I
[1:44:33] Speaker 1: will show you how great men remain here. And how
[1:44:38] Speaker 1: territories are taken. Hallelujah. Watch this. This man cannot save Boston. No. No.
[1:44:48] Speaker 1: He will only keep having dreams of a revival coming.
[1:44:52] Speaker 1: This one will be the one who will be pointing
[1:44:56] Speaker 1: at people and say, look, don't worry, a move is coming.
[1:44:59] Speaker 1: He's right. But it will never happen. I know a
[1:45:03] Speaker 1: move is coming. He's not wrong. But this man is
[1:45:10] Speaker 1: the one that God can come through and say, I
[1:45:14] Speaker 1: want to give a Boston to your hand. Can I
[1:45:18] Speaker 1: trust you for the next three years with my program?
[1:45:24] Speaker 1: Please rise up. Don't be distracted. We're about to pray.
[1:45:29] Speaker 1: There are three levels of authority in the Bible that
[1:45:34] Speaker 1: can be given to believers. Gentlemen, I'm grateful. Thank you.
[1:45:39] Speaker 1: There are three levels of authority. Please listen. This will
[1:45:42] Speaker 1: be my final thought with us.
[1:45:44] Speaker 3: Number one.
[1:45:48] Speaker 1: When you begin to walk with God, the least level
[1:45:52] Speaker 1: of authority you receive is authority over things. The things
[1:46:00] Speaker 1: that we clamor for are wonderful. But when you have
[1:46:03] Speaker 1: authority over things like money, like property, it's wonderful but
[1:46:09] Speaker 1: you don't really weigh much in the spirit. It is
[1:46:12] Speaker 1: the least level of spiritual authority. Authority over things. Hallelujah.
[1:46:21] Speaker 1: The next level of authority you can walk in is
[1:46:25] Speaker 1: authority over territories. When God increases your ranking in the spirit,
[1:46:32] Speaker 1: you are given access. Your sphere of influence is enlarged.
[1:46:38] Speaker 1: So that your apostolic reach extends to territories. You speak
[1:46:42] Speaker 1: from one place. But the reaction happens in several places.
[1:46:47] Speaker 1: Is growth in the spirit. The highest level of authority
[1:46:51] Speaker 1: as recorded from scripture. That an individual can have. Is
[1:46:57] Speaker 1: the authority that God gives you. To steward his program.
[1:47:02] Speaker 1: Do you know what that means? So God says because
[1:47:05] Speaker 1: you have been faithful. I have a goal in my
[1:47:10] Speaker 1: heart that in the next five years, I want to
[1:47:13] Speaker 1: turn Boston, I want to turn Cambridge to become like
[1:47:18] Speaker 1: Azusa Street. So you are the one, listen, God will
[1:47:22] Speaker 1: use everybody, but he does not start with everybody. He
[1:47:25] Speaker 1: will come to one person and say, can I trust you?
[1:47:30] Speaker 1: You have demonstrated faithfulness. I want to place grace. You
[1:47:34] Speaker 1: will not be the one to do the work alone.
[1:47:36] Speaker 1: But that program is given to you. The first thing
[1:47:41] Speaker 1: God gave the people in the parable of the talent
[1:47:45] Speaker 1: were talents. The talents were things but they were a test.
[1:47:51] Speaker 1: The goal was not the talent. Their faithfulness. One of
[1:47:55] Speaker 1: the synoptic accounts will say you have been faithful with little.
[1:47:59] Speaker 1: I will make you ruler. And they were given territories.
[1:48:05] Speaker 1: But the highest level of authority a believer can demonstrate
[1:48:09] Speaker 1: in this side of God's kingdom is to be trusted
[1:48:12] Speaker 1: with a portion of God's kingdom come project. This is
[1:48:17] Speaker 1: what was done with Paul. paul did not just have
[1:48:21] Speaker 1: authority over things and over territories but he was literally
[1:48:26] Speaker 1: given the apostolic ministry to the gentiles peter was given
[1:48:34] Speaker 1: to the jews None of the disciples and apostles had
[1:48:39] Speaker 1: the encounter that was documented in the book of Revelation.
[1:48:43] Speaker 1: Only one person, John the beloved. And John was told
[1:48:46] Speaker 1: in heaven, write. Paul was told to write. Peter was
[1:48:52] Speaker 1: told to write. Those who get to that realm of
[1:48:55] Speaker 1: authority over God's program are the ones who write. They
[1:49:00] Speaker 1: write for generations to come. They have earned a status
[1:49:04] Speaker 1: in the spirit. Where God would tell them. You cannot
[1:49:07] Speaker 1: die with what you have. Right? They are given the
[1:49:11] Speaker 1: grace to mentor people. You are in this place right now.
[1:49:16] Speaker 1: And thank you for being patient. I know I have
[1:49:19] Speaker 1: stretched you a bit. We are wrapping up. But this
[1:49:22] Speaker 1: is a build up. to a very weighty discussion we're
[1:49:26] Speaker 1: going to have tomorrow. I'll be praying over the sick,
[1:49:29] Speaker 1: prophesying and imparting grace upon you. But impartation is useless
[1:49:33] Speaker 1: until this build-up is there. For many of you, by
[1:49:36] Speaker 1: what you have received now, you are almost saying, have
[1:49:38] Speaker 1: I been a Christian at all?
[1:49:40] Speaker 3: Don't be discouraged.
[1:49:44] Speaker 1: It is important to provoke one another unto godliness. not
[1:49:50] Speaker 1: to create an offense but to challenge you some of
[1:49:53] Speaker 1: you will go back home and sit down and say
[1:49:54] Speaker 1: my god what have i been doing that is a
[1:49:57] Speaker 1: very good state because now the holy spirit can come
[1:50:02] Speaker 1: revival don't just come because you see it coming now
[1:50:09] Speaker 1: if you have not met jesus christ you are even
[1:50:12] Speaker 1: outside If you have met him and you have refused
[1:50:16] Speaker 1: to be transformed. I don't care about church. I don't
[1:50:19] Speaker 1: care about any pastor. I don't care about anyone. That
[1:50:23] Speaker 1: understanding is an attack. That state of thinking itself is
[1:50:29] Speaker 1: an attack. Attempted to rob you from your spiritual transition.
[1:50:33] Speaker 1: To a place where you become a transformed believer. And
[1:50:37] Speaker 1: then if you are transformed. Having, the Bible says, ever
[1:50:41] Speaker 1: learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth.
[1:50:43] Speaker 3: Knowledge can puff up.
[1:50:46] Speaker 1: And there are many people who come here and talk
[1:50:49] Speaker 1: about what God can do. That never gets done through them.
[1:50:53] Speaker 1: Then you come to this realm. Some of you by
[1:50:56] Speaker 1: grace and by mercy, you are here right now. This
[1:50:59] Speaker 1: third phase. But there is a unique attack. And the
[1:51:04] Speaker 1: dynamics of living at this realm. Some of you did
[1:51:06] Speaker 1: not even last there. Every kind of thing from carnality
[1:51:11] Speaker 1: to pride to flesh to lust to self-righteousness to feeling
[1:51:17] Speaker 1: you are better than everybody. And that has already destroyed
[1:51:21] Speaker 1: the potential of your manifestation. Because at this point, you
[1:51:27] Speaker 1: will have money, you will have influence, everybody will like you.
[1:51:32] Speaker 1: The devil will send all kinds of people to your
[1:51:35] Speaker 1: life if you do not understand the intelligence. This is
[1:51:39] Speaker 1: where great revivalists died. Because they were not mentored. Some
[1:51:45] Speaker 1: of them had lonely parts. They didn't know how to
[1:51:48] Speaker 1: preserve the oil. This was the tragedy of Samson. Please
[1:51:55] Speaker 1: pray in one minute. Lord, I am available. Use me.
[1:52:01] Speaker 1: Use me. Whether you came here to study and you're
[1:52:05] Speaker 1: returning back to your nation. Or you are here permanently
[1:52:09] Speaker 1: in America. Those who are following online, please join us
[1:52:13] Speaker 1: as we pray. We've been discussing matters of the move
[1:52:16] Speaker 1: of God. Please take a minute to pray. Pray.
[1:52:21] Speaker 3: I'm available. I desire that transition in the spirit.
[1:52:32] Speaker 1: From an ordinary believer, void of knowledge, void of passion,
[1:52:39] Speaker 1: to a transformed believer, full of light, through the ministry
[1:52:44] Speaker 1: of the word, through the ministry of prayer, through the
[1:52:48] Speaker 1: ministry of the Holy Spirit, through the ministry of a
[1:52:52] Speaker 1: teaching priest. Then for some of you, you have encompassed
[1:52:57] Speaker 1: this mountain of transformation long enough. It's time to move
[1:53:01] Speaker 1: to a realm of empowerment. Where you become demonstrators of
[1:53:06] Speaker 1: his life and power. His healing. His wisdom. Where you
[1:53:11] Speaker 1: can be used. Given mandates over territories. One minute in prayer.
[1:53:19] Speaker 1: And then we're done. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. In the
[1:53:30] Speaker 1: name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. If you
[1:53:36] Speaker 1: look at my shirt, you will see a very bold
[1:53:40] Speaker 1: statement written there. Jesus revealed. Jesus glorified. This is one
[1:53:49] Speaker 1: of the biggest secrets of remaining here. When it becomes
[1:53:56] Speaker 1: about you, And you fall prey to the deception of
[1:54:01] Speaker 1: celebrity living. You are gone. Great men remain. Because they
[1:54:10] Speaker 1: live to make him great. Great men remain.
[1:54:15] Speaker 3: Because like John they are not ashamed to decrease.
[1:54:20] Speaker 1: Even if it stings their ego. They rather be forgotten
[1:54:24] Speaker 1: and he be remembered through their life. I can tell
[1:54:30] Speaker 1: you this ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow I hope I'll tell
[1:54:33] Speaker 1: you a bit about my story. Please come early. If
[1:54:37] Speaker 1: there is one secret about the life of this man
[1:54:40] Speaker 1: you see standing before you. Behind every great thing you
[1:54:44] Speaker 1: have heard. Revivals across the nations to the glory of God.
[1:54:48] Speaker 1: This is it.
[1:54:51] Speaker 3: This is the central governing creed.
[1:54:54] Speaker 1: The theme of my life. This is why I live.
[1:55:02] Speaker 1: Jesus revealed through my life. Jesus glorified through my life.
[1:55:10] Speaker 1: And if I be lifted up, I will draw men.
[1:55:16] Speaker 1: If you can hide behind the cross and get out
[1:55:20] Speaker 1: of the way, there is a man of power that
[1:55:23] Speaker 1: can rise from you. There is a world changer that
[1:55:27] Speaker 1: can rise from you. There is a revivalist that can
[1:55:31] Speaker 1: rise from you. Let this be your final prayer tonight.
[1:55:35] Speaker 1: Lord let me decrease. That Jesus will increase. Please go
[1:55:39] Speaker 1: ahead and pray. Every flesh. Every search for vain glory.
[1:55:48] Speaker 1: I'm not saying you will not be lifted. I'm not
[1:55:51] Speaker 1: saying you will not be glorified. But to truly become
[1:55:54] Speaker 1: a manifestation of the glory of God. You must die
[1:55:58] Speaker 1: to self. Die to self. The prize for all of
[1:56:04] Speaker 1: God is all of you. The prize for all of
[1:56:09] Speaker 1: God is all of you. The prize for all of
[1:56:15] Speaker 1: God is all of you. Hallelujah. Amen. Now please, let
[1:56:28] Speaker 1: me make one final altar call and I'm out of
[1:56:30] Speaker 1: your face for tonight. I never end a meeting like this.
[1:56:35] Speaker 1: Making assumptions. As far as salvation is concerned. You are
[1:56:40] Speaker 1: in this place. Tonight. Or across any expressions.
[1:56:46] Speaker 3: There are any overflows.
[1:56:47] Speaker 1: But particularly. For those who are connected. From across the globe.
[1:56:52] Speaker 1: Here in America. Europe. Africa. You heard me teach. And
[1:57:00] Speaker 1: whilst I was teaching the Spirit of God, who convicts men,
[1:57:04] Speaker 1: was speaking to your heart that you have.
[1:57:07] Speaker 3: To win that war once and for all.
[1:57:09] Speaker 1: You see, the things about God or about the kingdom
[1:57:13] Speaker 1: is that you are never compelled, forced against your will
[1:57:18] Speaker 1: to do anything. This is the difference between the Holy
[1:57:21] Speaker 1: Spirit and a demon spirit. Behold, I stand. I created you,
[1:57:26] Speaker 1: but I'm not ashamed to stand and knock. If you
[1:57:30] Speaker 1: reject me, I will respect you, even to the detriment
[1:57:34] Speaker 1: of your eternal destiny.
[1:57:36] Speaker 3: You are in this place, no assumptions.
[1:57:39] Speaker 1: You are saying, Apostle, if you will give me an opportunity,
[1:57:43] Speaker 1: I truly, genuinely, unashamedly want to make Jesus Lord of
[1:57:48] Speaker 1: my life. That includes those who are connecting from across
[1:57:53] Speaker 1: the globe, following by television, following by the internet. And
[1:57:58] Speaker 1: for those people, I want to steal out a minute
[1:58:02] Speaker 1: and lead you to make this prayer. If you belong
[1:58:04] Speaker 1: to any of those categories or you are saying, Apostle,
[1:58:07] Speaker 1: I truly want to rededicate myself. life genuinely may i
[1:58:12] Speaker 1: please request boldly unashamedly please leave your seat and come
[1:58:18] Speaker 1: and stand here i'll just count three.
[1:58:21] Speaker 3: Don't leave anyone. Don't be ashamed.
[1:58:24] Speaker 1: Don't say there's someone watching me. No. This is a
[1:58:27] Speaker 1: business of destiny.
[1:58:29] Speaker 3: Is there any such persons? Please make your way here.
[1:58:32] Speaker 3: Our country.
[1:58:33] Speaker 1: And we begin to pray. Thank you. One.
[1:58:40] Speaker 3: Let's bless them.
[1:58:41] Speaker 1: Go ahead.
[1:58:42] Speaker 3: Bless them.
[1:58:45] Speaker 1: Come. Come. Thank you. Come. Come. Thank you. Come. It's
[1:58:53] Speaker 1: a new season for you. Come. Come.
[1:59:03] Speaker 3: God bless you.
[1:59:05] Speaker 1: For the sake of your children. Come. For the sake of.
[1:59:09] Speaker 3: The destinies connected to you.
[1:59:11] Speaker 1: Our father is coming. Let's bless God for him. Come. Come. Come. Come.
[1:59:21] Speaker 1: You're never too.
[1:59:22] Speaker 3: Old to meet with Jesus.
[1:59:23] Speaker 1: You're never too young to meet with Jesus. Come. Hallelujah.
[1:59:35] Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the
[1:59:40] Speaker 1: boldness to walk up here declaring the Lordship of Jesus
[1:59:45] Speaker 1: over your life. I want you to see yourself as
[1:59:48] Speaker 1: one who has been called to receive an award. Except
[1:59:52] Speaker 1: that this surpasses any and every kind of award you
[1:59:56] Speaker 1: will get. Awards are for people deserving. But the life
[2:00:05] Speaker 1: of God is for people undeserving. Beginning from us. To
[2:00:11] Speaker 1: everyone here. And so thank you very much for this.
[2:00:14] Speaker 1: May I lead you to make this declaration of faith.
[2:00:17] Speaker 1: And I want you to know. That even though you
[2:00:19] Speaker 1: are here. In the midst of God's people. I want
[2:00:22] Speaker 1: you to just see Jesus standing in front of you.
[2:00:25] Speaker 1: Loving you. With his arms opened. Telling you it doesn't
[2:00:31] Speaker 1: matter what you've done or not done. He's able to
[2:00:33] Speaker 1: give you a new beginning. Lift your right hand. Let
[2:00:36] Speaker 1: me request please. And I want you to say this
[2:00:39] Speaker 1: as loud and as clear as you can. Say Lord Jesus.
[2:00:45] Speaker 1: Tonight I have heard your word. I love you with
[2:00:52] Speaker 1: all my heart. I believe that you died for me.
[2:00:59] Speaker 1: I believe that you rose again for my justification. Right
[2:01:06] Speaker 1: now I receive Jesus. Into my heart. Be my Savior.
[2:01:15] Speaker 1: My Lord. And my King. I declare. That the power.
[2:01:22] Speaker 1: Of sin. Satan. Hell. And the grave. Is broken over
[2:01:30] Speaker 1: my life. I'm a child of God. I live victorious.
[2:01:37] Speaker 1: from tonight forever amen keep your wonderful hands lifted father
[2:01:44] Speaker 1: thank you the bible declares that as many who will
[2:01:48] Speaker 1: come to you you will in no wise cast away
[2:01:51] Speaker 1: this lovely beautiful and precious people have come declaring your
[2:01:55] Speaker 1: lordship over their lives let the grace that saves rest
[2:01:59] Speaker 1: upon you And I pray, I commend you to the
[2:02:03] Speaker 1: ministry of the word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
[2:02:07] Speaker 1: And I pray that you begin to walk in victory
[2:02:11] Speaker 1: even beginning from today. Madam, look at me. The power
[2:02:15] Speaker 1: of God is coming on you. I decree and declare,
[2:02:18] Speaker 1: I just saw something tying you. In the name of Jesus,
[2:02:22] Speaker 1: I release you from it now.
[2:02:25] Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are released forever.
[2:02:31] Speaker 1: By the power of the Holy Spirit, never to be
[2:02:33] Speaker 1: a victim of this again. In the name of Jesus Christ.
[2:02:37] Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. Now, very quickly, there is a form here.
[2:02:43] Speaker 1: I'm sure that maybe the counselors, they will just hand
[2:02:46] Speaker 1: it over to you whilst you're back to your seat.
[2:02:48] Speaker 1: Would that be fine? Okay. Okay, beautiful.
[2:02:52] Speaker 3: So you would see any of them. Please pick the form.
[2:02:56] Speaker 1: Fill it clearly. And then I'm sure that there's a
[2:03:00] Speaker 1: group that will meet with you just to follow up.
[2:03:02] Speaker 1: Please do cooperate with them. God bless you in the
[2:03:05] Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ. So please make sure you pick
[2:03:08] Speaker 1: the form on your way back to your seat. Okay.
[2:03:14] Speaker 1: Anyone wearing the, I see welcome home. Is that it?
[2:03:17] Speaker 1: So just look for those who have the welcome home.
[2:03:20] Speaker 1: And then please make sure you pick and then return
[2:03:22] Speaker 1: back to your seat in Jesus name. Amen. What time
[2:03:26] Speaker 1: are we here tomorrow? Someone help me. 545. Okay, so please.
[2:03:37] Speaker 1: Let's come early so that we can take some time.
[2:03:39] Speaker 1: Come tomorrow prepared to pray.
[2:03:42] Speaker 3: In fact, once you come, just begin to pray before
[2:03:45] Speaker 3: we come.
[2:03:46] Speaker 1: Find a corner and just begin to pray your heart.
[2:03:49] Speaker 1: Number two, let me request the permission of the organizers.
[2:03:53] Speaker 1: How many of you believe that God answers prayers? Now,
[2:03:58] Speaker 1: I want to give you an instruction in righteousness. Write
[2:04:00] Speaker 1: down everything that needs.
[2:04:02] Speaker 3: To end in your life.
[2:04:04] Speaker 1: And I want you to come with it tomorrow as
[2:04:06] Speaker 1: an act of faith.
[2:04:09] Speaker 3: There are many who could not make it.
[2:04:11] Speaker 1: Please do well to extend. Let them send their requests.
[2:04:15] Speaker 1: Even though they are not here, some of them are
[2:04:17] Speaker 1: your loved ones.
[2:04:18] Speaker 3: Sadly, they may not have the space.
[2:04:20] Speaker 1: Perhaps the organizers, can you make a provision for people
[2:04:24] Speaker 1: to send in their requests so that we collate it
[2:04:27] Speaker 1: and pray and just speak life over your situations. I
[2:04:31] Speaker 1: believe that age-long captivities will come to an end finally.
[2:04:35] Speaker 1: But for tonight, may God bless you. May God honor
[2:04:39] Speaker 1: you in the name of Jesus. I release the grace
[2:04:42] Speaker 1: for encounters tonight. You return back to the realm of visions,
[2:04:46] Speaker 1: the realm of dreams, supernatural encounters in Jesus' name. Bishop,
[2:04:52] Speaker 1: thank you again. Truly grateful.

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