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The enlightened amid fire burns My heart is cultured to work

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I have in me the burning fire Oh a shell of grace

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I have in me the burning fire

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Alright James chapter 2, even so faith if a heart not works is, come on is, come on is, is dead, being alone.

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Now faith if a heart not works is dead. So when faith is alone what do you call it? You call it dead faith. Are we together?

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Now the word faith without works, the word works is from the Greek ergon. Now we don't have time to study ergon tonight.

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But ergon simply means employment, to employ, to work, to be in business, alright. To be actively engaged in something.

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To be actively engaged in something. It also talks about labor, alright. Labor.

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So faith ought to have, or faith ought to be employed. Why do people get employed? They get employed to do what?

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Come on, to do what? To work. So faith without employment, so the faith that is not actively doing something is dead.

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Now I can teach on this for a whole month. Hallelujah. Faith without work is dead.

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Now so if I have faith concerning something, if I say alright so I have faith that I can do this, that faith must be employed or that faith must work.

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That faith must be given to work. Faith without ergon. So let's take for example, now what is faith? Faith is divine persuasions.

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So we can say that divine persuasions that are, that is not employed or divine persuasions that are not put to work is as equal as no divine persuasion.

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Are you understand that? So if I believe God in a matter or if I have something that I claim, oh alright so for example I say I have faith that what?

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I have faith that let's say I have faith that I'm a giver. That conviction that you have that you are a kingdom financier or you are a kingdom financier,

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that faith must begin to work. It must be employed. If you claim you have that faith and that faith is not put to work, it is as equal as you not having that divine conviction.

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So it's a man that has the word of God or a man that is convinced of the word of God and does not act upon it is equal to a man without the word.

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Can I say that again? A man with the word of God convinced, claims he's convinced of a matter and does not put it to work, that man is as good as a man who never had the word.

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Is that okay with us? Come on, hallelujah.

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It means that the growth of faith, the multiplication of faith, the doings of faith, the greatness of faith, the greatness of faith, whatever you may call it, begins when it is employed.

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So I get my faith employed. Come on, so I get my faith employed. Why must I get my faith employed?

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So an unemployed faith is as good as dead. Hallelujah.

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Now let's read that portion again, James. If you have it.

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All of us, let's go. One, two, go.

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He's dead. And the word dead is necros, necros, N-E-K-R-O-S, necros.

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Faith without a gun is necros. What is necros? Necros means inanimate, devoid of life, inactive, as good as dead.

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So this, you know, the Bible is, you see, the Bible is full of synonyms.

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Hallelujah.

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So the faith that is dead can also be said that the faith is a bad, or the heart for the faith is a bad land.

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All right? Or faith that is not working is as equal as no faith.

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Hallelujah. So if I get to believe something and whatever I claim I have come to believe from God's word,

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if there are no actions to it, the faith is as good as necros, dead. It's inanimate.

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What are some examples of inanimate objects? Stone. So your faith is as dead as stone.

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What again? These things can't move. They don't have life. Hallelujah. Come on, praise God.

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It means that whatever you have faith in or whatever you have faith of, there must be work.

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Come on, there must be what? There must be work.

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That means faith will not grow if it is not employed. See, it's like saying the muscles of faith get strengthened when we put it to work.

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Let's kind of read a little bit further.

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Yeah, a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.

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Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble.

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Hallelujah. Did you see that? The devils also believe and tremble.

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But would thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

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Was Abraham our father justified by what? Was not Abraham our father justified by what?

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When he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar. See as thou hast faith, rout with his works.

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And by works was his faith made. Come on. Did you see that?

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So let's read that again. See as thou hast faith, rout with his works.

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So faith worked. Faith worked. And by works was faith made. Come on. By works was faith made what?

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So it was when, it is when faith is employed that faith is brought to perfection.

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Are you understanding that? It is when you, so to say, when you act on your faith.

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Now this is a breaking point. Hallelujah.

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Because you can have a lot of people who can say, oh I believed.

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And the Bible says even the devils believe also.

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It means that the devils also have conviction in them that there is God.

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Now if a man says I don't believe there is God, it means that the person is worse than the devil.

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The devil believes there is God. In fact the devil believes in God.

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But the problem is that their belief caused them to tremble. They tremble.

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But it says that, twenty, right? Sorry. Twenty.

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See as thou hast faith, rout with his works. Alright?

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So let's read that part. One, two, go.

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See as thou hast faith, coupled with works.

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How faith coupled with works and by their work that faith was brought to perfection.

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And the word is teleos. Hallelujah. That's what perfection.

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To come unto completeness. To come unto completeness.

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So it means that we can say there is incomplete faith.

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Can a Christian have incomplete faith? Come on. Can a Christian have incomplete faith?

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What would be the biblical definition of incomplete faith?

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Faith without works.

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So if your faith does not have works, your faith is not complete.

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So what is a dead faith? A dead faith is incomplete faith.

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Alright? A dead faith is a faith that is not working.

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Praise the name of the Lord.

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Alright for example, I say Lord this year I am going to double the souls,

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the number of souls I won last year. Or this year I am going to double, triple

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the amount of money I gave for the Lord to work.

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Or this year I am going to pray for, I am going to lay hands on a lot of people who are sick.

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Or this year I am going to do what again?

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Whatever you want to do.

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There should be a point where that faith is giving work to do.

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Hallelujah.

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You got to give that faith work to do.

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See the word that did not become fruitful on all the lands,

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we can now say that they never put that word to work.

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Hallelujah. So they hurt the word but they never put that word to work.

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Come on, are you here together? Are we here together?

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They never put that word to work.

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And you see, until you have put the word to work, now putting faith to work simply means putting the word to work.

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Until you have put faith or the word to work, you will not see results.

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You can't have faith results without faith works.

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So,

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March the Copartist.

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Say my faith is getting employed.

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And the scripture was fulfilled, which said Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God.

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You see then how that by works, a man is justified and not by faith alone.

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Now a lot of great people have problems with James on that. Sometimes I jokingly say that.

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But there's nothing wrong with this.

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Hallelujah.

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For example, you can't, what he's saying here is that you cannot say you believe in Jesus without acting upon it.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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He says that, you see, then how that by works, a man is justified and not by faith only.

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So what the Bible says, when Paul says, it looks like James and Paul, they had personal beef.

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When Paul says we are justified by faith without works.

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James had a problem. No.

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They may have a problem, that's their business, but we don't see the problem in their scripture.

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Why?

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What works was Paul talking about?

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Works of the law.

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What works is James talking about works of faith, acting on your faith.

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So they are not the same thing.

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Are we together? They are not the same thing.

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So James is talking about the fact that, for example, I believe in Jesus.

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You ask somebody, do you believe in Jesus?

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The person says, after you preach to a soul, huh?

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And then you tell the soul, you ask the soul, do you believe in Jesus?

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The soul says yes, I do.

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If you believe in Jesus, then confess with your mouth the Lordship of Jesus.

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Alright?

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So you're not a religion from the dead.

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Then the soul says, I'm justified by faith.

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Now, would you go home believing that guy is saved?

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In fact, you got to know.

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Now listen.

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Jesus was asked the question, now we don't have time to look at that.

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He was asked.

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The people says, what works should we do?

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Alright?

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What works should we do that we can get saved?

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And Jesus said, this is the only work, believe.

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Alright?

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So believing is what?

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Come on, according to Jesus, believing is what?

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Believing is work.

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So if we now see somebody who claims he has believed, and we can't see the works of the belief,

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then James says we can conclude that the belief is dead.

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Now, James is saying, for example, you cannot say that the word of God is your life,

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the word of God blesses you, and you still find it difficult to go to church, to attend church.

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Then we can conclude that your faith in the fact that the word of God is your life is dead.

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Are we together?

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That's why you can't cheat God.

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Are you understand that?

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You can't cheat God.

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You cannot come here, give up a testimonial stage, that it was through coming to church,

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getting church, that your life got changed.

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Then we have to now begin to chase you after the testimony.

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Then we can conclude that whatever testimony you gave was a lie.

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So that's what James is talking about.

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If you have faith, you know, Jesus said something.

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He says, these people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.

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They call me Lord, Lord, Lord.

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So the Bible says, it is not all those who say Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, that shall go into the kingdom,

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but those who do with the will of my Father.

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What is Jesus talking about?

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Faith works.

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Come on.

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So you can't tell me, man of God, I love your teaching.

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Man of God, you see, there's a way that he preaches, when that he preaches,

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the message of that he has a way of transforming.

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So let's say we call you for a talk show like we do for a lot of the brethren.

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They come up here and they talk a whole lot about my messages.

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And you know what?

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It is possible they might throughout the whole month, they might have not even listened to five messages.

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Yet they are out there testifying about my messages.

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Come on. You understand that?

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Take for example, you put me up on your status.

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This is my man of God.

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This is my apostle.

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This is my babalao, as Mr. Kevri will put it.

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This is my all kinds of things that I have no idea about.

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You put that on your status and I have written a book for you to read.

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And it's more than a year and a half or maybe two years now.

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You have not finished the book.

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I have every cost to believe that you lied.

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See, that's why Jesus was not moved by what people say.

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Come on.

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In John chapter 6, now, I mean, after he was done multiplying bread one time,

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the Bible says the people sought to get him to become a king.

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And that is like a promotion.

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And the Bible says Jesus would consent not.

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He left them because he knew the heart of all people and he knew it was the food.

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The reason for them making him a king was the food.

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You understand that?

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So that's what James is saying.

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You can't claim you believe something and we can't see your work in that thing.

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It's not possible.

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It's not possible.

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It actually means your faith is dead.

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Come on.

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Are you here with me, everybody?

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I'm a young guy.

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I believe in the power of the word of God.

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Now, if I tell you that, all right, so tomorrow or maybe next week,

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we're all going to do preaching appointment and preaching and stuff like that.

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All of you go prepare messages about the power of the word of God.

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Now, you're all going to look into the word of God and find something.

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All right.

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Somebody is going to come for the word of God is quick, active, powerful.

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And the Greek word for active is, you know, you mention it.

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You mention all the Greek word and stuff like that.

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So you believe the word is active.

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The word is powerful.

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Yet you have a problem studying the word.

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The word that you claim is active.

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You have a problem studying it.

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You know, we have a lot of pastors who don't even read their Bible.

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I mean, pastors are not pastors.

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They don't read the Bible.

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A former pastor, because I don't call that thing a pastor, a former pastor,

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saying the Bible is an old book about something he was talking about,

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and he quoted the Bible.

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Somebody said the Bible is not relevant.

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So if you believe the Bible can transform lives,

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why are you not giving your mind to the Bible?

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So you are simply like a man who says that I have faith and faith is enough.

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Come on, are we together?

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Yeah.

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You believe when you come to church, you get blessed, right?

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How many of us believe that church blesses us?

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Lift your hand.

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How many believe church blesses us?

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So we all believe church blesses us.

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But how many of us have that compulsion in our heart to go to church?

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The church that you claim blesses you.

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Going to the church is a problem.

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So what kind of blessing are you talking about?

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Come on, hallelujah.

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A guy texted me and said,

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man of God, you have been a blessing to me.

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I bless God for the womb that gave birth to you.

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You know, all kinds of nonsense, no?

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Bless God for the womb that gave birth to you.

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And I knew that all the things he was about to say was nonsense.

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When people begin to talk and they are giving you fans,

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they are just about to mess up.

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I remember this meeting when I came.

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I have never, you know, talking plenty.

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Then he said, so then I asked him.

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So he has traveled not outside the country,

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somewhere in the country very far from us.

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So have you found the church there?

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He said, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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I'm being sustained by the grace word.

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You know what I did?

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I blocked him on Facebook.

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I didn't want to continue.

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You are claiming somebody, somebody's message.

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The message is only about two, three years or something.

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Before the COVID actually.

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You see, and that is what the keeping of the word is about.

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I'm going to read the scripture to you right now.

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That's what it's about.

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All right?

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That's what, you see, that is what consistency is about.

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See, you're doing the thing, or that's what conviction,

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now, that's what conviction is about.

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The basic of faith is conviction.

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And we act based on our conviction.

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So if you claim that you have faith or you have conviction

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about something and you are not acting on it,

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then there is a problem.

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See, like what the Bible says, let us not be hearers of the word only.

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Let us not be hearers of the word only.

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Let us not be hearers of the word only.

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The same James wrote that.

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The guys, they had issues.

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Let not be hearers of the word only, but let us be doers of the word.

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So the word must be acted upon.

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Hallelujah.

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The word must be acted upon.

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We are not supposed to just keep on hearing information.

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You know, we are hearing the word, we are hearing the word,

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we are hearing the word, and we don't have any results for it.

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The word must be acted upon.

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See, I act upon the word.

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Come on, help me, say, I act upon the word.

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One more time, I act upon the word.

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One more time, I act upon the word.

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You see, very important.

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Very, very, very important.

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Alright, let's read that again.

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Let's get to 25.

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Likewise also was not rehabbed the halot, the prostitute, justified by works.

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So the guy is really doing exegesis here from the scriptures.

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He says likewise also was not rehabbed the halot, justified by works,

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whence he had received the messengers and had sent them out another way.

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Now you can find that story in Joshua.

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Alright, so this is a prostitute.

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This is a prostitute, we don't have time, we have gone to look at it,

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we have a lot of things to discuss tonight, you know, and I believe you are in for it, right?

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So this is a prostitute and he was somewhere in Jericho, around Jericho, stuff like that.

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And then Joshua sent men to go and spy the land that they are about to take,

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which the Lord had told them by the mouth of Moses to take.

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Now the people get in there to spy the land and rehab the prostitutes,

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the leaps, the people, somewhere in the roof.

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When the king heard it and sent people and came to her,

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they asked her, the king says you have some men here with you,

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they had come to spy the land, bring them out,

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I said oh I'm sorry, the men truly were here but they are gone.

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I didn't know. So then pursue them through this direction because that's where they passed.

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Then the people, you know, women are one of the most powerful Christians of God, naturally.

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So all the men, all the men.

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And then they went.

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Then rehab told them that you are going to go through the window and go through the other direction.

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But listen, for I know, I think we got to read that, let's get in there.

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Let's get in there, let's get in there. Because the lady really said some powerful stuff.

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Joshua chapter 2.

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Verse 8.

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I love the word of God.

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You don't love the word, I love the word.

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I said Joshua 2 what?

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Okay let me get it up here.

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Joshua 2, 8.

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Okay so, let's begin from 6 or 5.

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They let the city at dusk as the city gates were about to close and, okay no, let's begin from 1.

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Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelites camp at Acacia.

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He instructed them to spy out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho.

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So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rehab.

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Now this is a prostitute and stayed there that night.

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But someone told the king of Jericho, some Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.

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So the king of Jericho sent orders to Rehab, bring out the men who have come into your house.

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They are spies sent here to discover the best way to attack us.

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Rehab, who had hidden the two men replied, the men were here earlier but I didn't know where they were from.

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They left the city at dusk, as the city gates were about to close and I don't know where they went.

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If you hurry you can probably catch up with them.

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But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them beneath piles of flats, women.

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So the king's men went looking for the spies along the road leading to the shallow crossing places of the Jordan River.

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And as soon as the king's men had left the city gates were shut.

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Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rehab went up on the roof to talk with them.

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The lady climbed, she tells you she was not prostituting in vain.

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She has skills because sometimes you have to prostitute and the wife is coming.

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You need to climb back.

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It's her experience.

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That's his testimony.

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Then listen to what she says, I know the Lord has given you this land.

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She told them, we are all afraid of you.

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Everyone is living in terror.

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For we have heard how, faith comeeth by.

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For we have heard how the Lord made a dry path of you through the Red Sea when you left Egypt.

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And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amoran kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed.

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No wonder our hearts have melted in fear.

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For no one has the courage to fight after hearing such things.

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For the Lord your God is the supreme God of the heavens above and the earth below.

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You see that?

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So why did Rehab, why did he hide those men?

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Come on, why did he hide those men?

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Okay.

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She knew a caliber of people they were.

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Okay, how would we call that?

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She considered a god.

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What did you say?

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She had faith in the supreme God of the heavens and on the earth.

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By what she has heard.

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So by what she heard, she had faith.

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She had faith.

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She hid the men.

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So this is what James is saying.

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If Rehab had just said, these guys are mighty, their God is mighty.

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And she did nothing about it.

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Do you think she would have been justified?

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The justification of Rehab is in twofold.

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When the Israelites went to kill them, they left the house of Rehab.

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So that was one.

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Number two was that Rehab by, you know, Hebrews mentioned her name.

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So Rehab hid the people by faith.

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Hallelujah.

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So faith without words is dead.

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If Rehab had just said, I believe you're God, I believe you're God, I believe, I've heard, I believe, nothing would have happened.

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And that is the state of many Christians.

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I believe, I know, I know.

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Rehab says, I know.

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So now faith is actually, it is because I know.

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That's why I'm doing this.

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It's because I have heard.

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That's why I'm doing this.

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It's because I believe.

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That's why I'm doing this.

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So I'm not going to church because I feel like going to church.

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I go to church because I know that church blesses me.

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Now you move from the realm of emotions and ecstasy and all of that to a place of conviction.

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Come on.

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You understand that?

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And you know by this, Rehab is in the genealogy of Jesus.

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Jesus is a descendant of a prostitute, our Lord.

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It was by the faith of a prostitute.

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You see, so James is saying that don't think that Rehab was just justified because of faith.

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No.

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She was justified after she had put her faith to work.

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After she had given employment to her faith.

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You believe God changes life.

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Alright?

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We all believe God changes life.

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Why then do we have it difficult or why then do we, would we find it difficult to be where God is?

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Or to be where the instrument for God to change lives is?

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Come on.

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So it's like God is saying you can't deceive me, my friend, you can't deceive me.

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If you really have faith in this thing, you are going to act on it.

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That's all.

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So if you claim I am your pastor or if you claim that I bless your life, if you claim I, you know, like you believe my man of God is the best teacher in the whole world.

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Alright.

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When your man of God is teaching, do you come?

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Do you sit down to listen?

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The guy you call a best teacher in the whole world, when you are listening to another preacher, you have notebook and you are writing whatever the preacher is saying.

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When the guy is talking, you are not writing.

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So God is saying don't deceive yourself.

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Relax.

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Accept that my faith is dead.

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Last time like I told you, the woman with the issue of blood, the mamu says she heard of Jesus.

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And then she said in her heart, if I can touch the hem of his garment, I will be made whole and this fountain of blood will dry.

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If she had kept on with that faith inside her.

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Now, was that legitimate or not?

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Was that a legitimate claim or not?

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Come on.

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Was that what the woman said?

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Was it legitimate or not?

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Come on.

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Is it legitimate as your problem?

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Was it right or not?

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Was it legit?

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So it was legit.

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It means whatever.

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I mean, was it true?

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If I can touch the hem of the fountain of blood will flow.

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That is true, right?

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But do you know if the woman had not acted, if the woman had not given employment to her faith, regardless the fact that she knew and she had heard and she knows that if she did not do it,

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she knew that if she touches the hem of Jesus garment, she will be well.

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If she had not given her faith employment, she would have died.

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So faith must be acted upon.

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The mamu says they shall lay their hands on the sick and they will recover.

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What it means is that when you claim you believe that thing, you must act on it.

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Come on.

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Let's take for example.

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These are simple litmus tests in the Word of God to know whether your faith is dead or your faith is working.

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Come on.

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For example, you believe that God is, the interest of God is to save all men.

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Is that not it?

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God wants to save all men, right?

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And if you believe that there is no man, there is no mediator between man and God except the man Jesus.

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You believe that it is through Christ that a man can see God.

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That neither is there salvation in any other for there's no name given under heaven where but we must be saved.

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Except the name of Jesus.

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And if you believe that wherefore God has also highly exalted giving above every other name of Jesus,

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every needs to bow of things in heaven, things on earth, things out of the earth,

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and every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

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If you believe that this scripture is your faith, if you truly believe in this scripture,

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when you hear about missions, you will be stared.

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The first thing that will come into your head will not be an excuse.

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Your first, the first thing that will come into your head, you will not even consider what you're doing.

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Think about pastors who give excuses for all kinds of things.

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We are going here, say I'm tired.

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We are moving here, say this.

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You see, you cannot, sometimes it's like, can't God understand us?

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God is rather saying can't you understand me?

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Hallelujah.

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There are not two ways about it.

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Somebody asked me a question.

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The person says that, so if you are working like 16 hours a day,

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do you think you can do ministry effectively as you are doing now?

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I said that's why I'm not working that hours.

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Should I get to work it, I will try and see if it will work.

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If it will not work, I will find a way of excusing myself.

466
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,800
Because my faith is in what I'm doing.

467
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,800
You cannot claim that your faith is in ministry.

468
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:21,800
And you spend more time with things that does not relate to ministry.

469
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,800
And still claim that your life is ministry.

470
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,800
It doesn't work that way.

471
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,800
Come on, hallelujah.

472
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:32,800
It's as simple as that.

473
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,800
Hallelujah.

474
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:35,800
Yeah.

475
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,800
So like you're talking to a brother, and the brother says,

476
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,800
alright, I have been busy with this, I have been busy with that,

477
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,800
work is here, I have to see my mom, I have to do this, and then,

478
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,800
alright, so you don't have time.

479
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,800
You don't have time to do the work of God.

480
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,800
Yeah, so the little time on me, that's what I used to do the work,

481
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,800
I used to do the work of God.

482
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:53,800
Okay.

483
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,800
So when you are working, don't you go for break.

484
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,800
Those short periods that you use to text people,

485
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,800
and you are chatting or you upload things on your status,

486
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:07,800
you can use that small time to upload something ministerial on your status,

487
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,800
or to think through.

488
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,800
You can say, because I'm busy, I don't have time to pray.

489
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,800
Hallelujah.

490
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,800
We are not prayerful because we don't work.

491
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,800
You understand what I'm talking about?

492
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:26,800
Yes, because on your way driving from the house to work, you can pray.

493
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,800
Come on.

494
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,800
So you can't make, you see, you can't make excuse.

495
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,800
You can't make excuse.

496
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,800
Something, hey, I'm in school, I learn a lot, we are about to write this up.

497
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:44,800
Okay, do you learn 24 hours?

498
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,800
You don't learn 24 hours.

499
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,800
Because if you are able to learn 24 hours, you don't deserve to call the child of God.

500
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,800
You know why?

501
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:58,800
Because we are able to learn 24 hours of a dead man's theory.

502
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:08,800
You got a problem, man.

503
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,800
This year and beyond, you will be forced to do ministry.

504
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:19,800
You feel so foolish giving excuse for failing.

505
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,800
Yeah, you feel like you are fooling.

506
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,800
Yeah.

507
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,800
Why didn't you come to church?

508
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,800
I forgot that today was church day.

509
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:41,800
You forgot that today was church day, but when you woke up and you finished bath, you didn't forget to wear your pants.

510
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:47,800
No, the guys here, how many of you, I mean, those of you who have boxes, how many of you,

511
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:53,800
after bathing, forgot to wear your boxer shorts?

512
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,800
It's become normal.

513
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,800
This, this, this, this is not a joke.

514
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:01,800
Like you say, why didn't you brush your teeth?

515
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,800
You say, oh, I forgot.

516
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,800
You can't forget such a matter.

517
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:12,800
He said, I don't have a president or you don't have a toothpaste or your brush is broken.

518
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:20,800
So you claim that you have more essential thing like these are more essential matters than going to church.

519
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,800
You got a problem.

520
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:27,800
You cannot lay claim that you have a heart for God.

521
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:28,800
Are we together?

522
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,800
Yes.

523
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:39,800
You may have a seeming life of resemblance with the things of God, but deep down, if we go deep down into your heart,

524
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,800
we will know that there is a king in your heart that is not God.

525
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:45,800
You have a different king.

526
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,800
And you see that with that, your faith cannot work.

527
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,800
Your faith cannot be audacious.

528
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,800
Your faith cannot be loud.

529
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,800
Tell somebody this year be responsible.

530
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,800
Tell another person this year be responsible.

531
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,800
Tell two people this year, brother, sister, I want you to be responsible.

532
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:14,800
Tell them.

533
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,800
Hallelujah.

534
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,800
Very important.

535
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,800
Very important.

536
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:27,800
So faith must be employed.

537
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:36,800
Faith without a goal, faith without words is day out.

538
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,800
It's day out.

539
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,800
You can do nothing with it.

540
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,800
It's as good as it never existed.

541
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:53,800
You can claim that God is making you a kingdom giant when you are not living any life that gives glimpses.

542
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:58,800
No, you are like that guy who says I'm going to have eight A's and so does no study.

543
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,800
That's what God is talking about.

544
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,800
So the guy says I'm Marko.

545
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:04,800
It's not about the book.

546
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,800
There's a grace of I have a grace.

547
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,800
My brother, my IQ is unprecedented.

548
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:12,800
All right.

549
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:18,800
If it's unprecedented, the reason why your IQ is unprecedented means that you have to learn.

550
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:19,800
Come on.

551
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:20,800
Hallelujah.

552
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,800
No, that's what a lot of Christians are.

553
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:23,800
For example, I'm wealthy.

554
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,800
I'm rich.

555
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,800
Yet they are lazy to work.

556
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,800
I'm not saying maybe there are people who genuinely want to work, but this is Ghana.

557
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,800
There's no work to do.

558
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:46,800
You carry yourself, go and spend like 12 hours or six hours, 10 hours in a workplace and at the end of the month they give you 321 Ghana City.

559
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:47,800
That is not work.

560
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,800
That's punishment.

561
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:57,800
You know, but then like that person, I am wealthy.

562
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,800
Ba ya ya.

563
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,800
Okay.

564
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,800
After the tongues, that's it.

565
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,800
You have how are you putting it to work?

566
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:12,800
So a lot of people think God has failed them, but they don't know they are.

567
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,800
They are the people who have failed themselves.

568
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:17,800
See, God does not.

569
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,800
I like something T.D.J. said one time, Bishop T.D.J. said one time.

570
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:29,800
He says that when you ask God for a chair, he will give you a wood or a tree.

571
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,800
God doesn't make chairs.

572
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:38,800
When he breathed into man, there's something he imparted into man called creativity.

573
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,800
So it is up to you to design what kind of chair you want to sit on.

574
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,800
And that's your problem.

575
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,800
So get your feet to work.

576
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:54,800
You can't be sitting down on a couch like a couch potato.

577
00:45:54,800 --> 00:46:00,800
And be wanting to be what?

578
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,800
A billionaire.

579
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,800
What a billionaire.

580
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,800
And you want to be what?

581
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:10,800
I am going to be one of the mighty men of God that has ever known.

582
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,800
Okay, you don't pray.

583
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,800
You don't study the Bible.

584
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,800
Evangelism, you don't go.

585
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,800
But when we say we are taking over, tears are running.

586
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,800
How do you manage to cry?

587
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,800
How do you manage to cry?

588
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,800
When we say we are taking over the world, oh, the world is small.

589
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:36,800
And you are busy praying and then your tears are coming.

590
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,800
And the next day we say, all right, we are going to a parochial room.

591
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:46,800
You go one, two, three, say please, I can't come and calm myself.

592
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:52,800
When you are going, you never reach.

593
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:53,800
But going is not the problem.

594
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,800
But when you are dying, you are coming back.

595
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,800
When you are coming back, you are walking like that for two hours.

596
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,800
You are still on the road.

597
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,800
And you think you are going to the ends of the world.

598
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:10,800
Do you know how far the ends of the world is?

599
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,800
We are taking over.

600
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,800
The city is ours.

601
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:15,800
The nations are ours.

602
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:16,800
The world is ours.

603
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,800
The world is small.

604
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,800
You see?

605
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:22,800
Oh, shake it, Ba-da-bye.

606
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,800
See, I'm going to employ my faith.

607
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,800
I'm going to get my faith to work.

608
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,800
Yeah, I'm going to get my faith to work.

609
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,800
I'm going to get my faith to work.

610
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:35,800
Let that be a solid thing in your hand.

611
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,800
I'm going to get my faith to work.

612
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:40,800
Yeah.

613
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,800
And gradually monitor the works of your faith.

614
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:46,800
Are you going to sign that?

615
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,800
Maybe last year you won only three souls.

616
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,800
When you have clocked five souls, celebrate it.

617
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,800
Celebrate it in prayer.

618
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:57,800
Say, Father, I thank you.

619
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:02,800
I can say my faith in soul winning has grown.

620
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,800
Yeah.

621
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,800
Maybe last year you were as stingy as a cockroach.

622
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,800
Very stingy.

623
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:11,800
Very stingy.

624
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,800
You did not give anything to the Lord.

625
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,800
Yeah, when you hear we are giving offering, you say offering.

626
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:25,800
Offering is off of me.

627
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,800
You know, like those great people.

628
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:42,800
You know, we were talking to one guy who...

629
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:43,800
Say, mercy.

630
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,800
Mercy.

631
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:56,800
There's a brother who said he follows Pastor Chris.

632
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,800
And he does not belong to a church.

633
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:00,800
A local church.

634
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:07,800
And I'm thinking which of the Onayika's are you following?

635
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,800
See, employ your faith.

636
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,800
Employ this year.

637
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,800
Employ your faith.

638
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,800
You see the progress of your...

639
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:17,800
You see, Paul said something.

640
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,800
Let's see if we can find it.

641
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:23,800
Oh, man.

642
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:24,800
Do you know what I'm still doing?

643
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,800
Like, I was just doing introduction that brought us here.

644
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:27,800
We have to go into that.

645
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:32,800
We are not done with the soil, the ground.

646
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,800
Are you here for me?

647
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,800
Okay, I'm also here for you.

648
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:48,800
We are here for ourselves.

649
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,800
Hallelujah.

650
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:59,800
Alright, let's go to Romans chapter number 1, verse 8.

651
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,800
Now listen to what Paul says.

652
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:16,800
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

653
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:17,800
Now open it.

654
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:18,800
Everybody open it.

655
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:25,800
Let's read it together.

656
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:26,800
If you are not a deserter, hold me.

657
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,800
If you are a deserter, amen.

658
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:41,800
Okay, Romans 1, 8.

659
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:48,800
Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

660
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,800
Alright, let me read from NLT.

661
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:58,800
Let me say first of all that your faith in God is becoming known throughout the world.

662
00:50:58,800 --> 00:50:59,800
So think about it.

663
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:05,800
It means that he says your faith is becoming.

664
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:06,800
What does that mean?

665
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:07,800
It was in someone first.

666
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,800
So now their faith was growing.

667
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:11,800
Their faith was growing.

668
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:12,800
Their faith was growing.

669
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,800
Their faith was growing.

670
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:15,800
How?

671
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,800
They employed their faith.

672
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,800
They employed their faith.

673
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:24,800
You believe in sowing.

674
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,800
You believe in the work of your pastor to do, to study the word.

675
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,800
Come and bring you serious delicious work.

676
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:32,800
Alright.

677
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:38,800
As we are all winning souls, what is your own in the matter?

678
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,800
See, it doesn't cross your mind that this I'm planting.

679
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:44,800
You see, there are some things.

680
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:49,800
It's called our holy convictions.

681
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,800
The New Year New Me resolutions.

682
00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:01,800
One of the resolutions I made for 2023 is that I am going to get God's people solid in the word of God.

683
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,800
Can you imagine that?

684
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,800
And when I said that, I felt it.

685
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,800
I'm like, wow, I think I'm a good preacher.

686
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:11,800
Because that's my sense.

687
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:18,800
I want to establish, I want to get people solid with the word of God.

688
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:19,800
What was your own?

689
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:25,800
You know somebody's New Year resolution?

690
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,800
New Year New Me.

691
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,800
Everybody who spoke bad against me, I cut them off.

692
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,800
2023, Yen Fend Yagro.

693
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,800
You know, such stupid things.

694
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:40,800
Then they have the bonus or does it to put it on their status.

695
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:48,800
You know, if you don't, if you know, this 2023, if you don't check up, we also don't check up.

696
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:53,800
You got a problem, man?

697
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:59,800
This year 2023, who two are meeting?

698
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,800
What's your name?

699
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:08,800
What I mean, like, you know what I'm talking about?

700
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:13,800
Upstairs is very dirty. It's been a long time she morphed the place.

701
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:21,800
No, think about Chris, look at what of all that is left to do in the kingdom of God and that is what taking time to hate people.

702
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:25,800
Like is their duty.

703
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,800
They are calling.

704
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:33,800
They're always waiting to hear something bad about people to make news.

705
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:39,800
I mean, boy, you, you, you are retarded.

706
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:44,800
You know what I mean, retarded growth, social studies.

707
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:49,800
You don't grow for it. Why is Zin get big?

708
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,800
Boom.

709
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:54,800
Why is all bull?

710
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:58,800
You know, it's not growing.

711
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:04,800
So a person is like 16 years and the person is behaving like three months.

712
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,800
No.

713
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:12,800
You see, make up your my faith is going to be spoken of throughout the world.

714
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,800
Bye.

715
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:21,800
The world will speak of my faith.

716
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,800
Glory.

717
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,800
The world will say there is a great soul winner there.

718
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,800
That guy is known for winning souls.

719
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:32,800
I don't have the spirit of attracting.

720
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:37,800
I attract.

721
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:38,800
I attract.

722
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:39,800
I attract.

723
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:41,800
I attract.

724
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,800
I attract.

725
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:45,800
I attract.

726
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,800
I attract.

727
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,800
But that is my holy conviction.

728
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:56,800
I will be known by the world as a great soul winner.

729
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:04,800
Reynald Bonk said when I die, don't write on my, don't write on my tomb.

730
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,800
Don't write anything. He was, he was, he was a preacher.

731
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,800
He was, he was one of the best.

732
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,800
No.

733
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,800
So write and say he was a great soul winner.

734
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:25,800
I want to, he says that, he says that before I die, he says if possible, let me even die after, like, let me die when I'm winning souls.

735
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,800
Think about it.

736
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,800
I know the day he died.

737
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,800
Daniel, what's his name? Daniel Colenda.

738
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:36,800
They were having crusade.

739
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,800
Think about it.

740
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,800
His ministry was running crusade when he died.

741
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,800
Yeah.

742
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,800
This is how they move you.

743
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,800
No.

744
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,800
No, if you, if you get known that you are like you are what?

745
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,800
You had a lot of money.

746
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,800
You had a lot of houses.

747
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,800
You had a lot of cars.

748
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:01,800
For what?

749
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,800
No.

750
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,800
You know, Bonky will stand and say one soul more Lord.

751
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:09,800
One more soul Lord.

752
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:13,800
One more soul.

753
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:18,800
Oh my God. And it, it goes through me.

754
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,800
There's one more soul.

755
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:24,800
One more soul.

756
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:28,800
It's amazing the things we think of, the things we give our minds to.

757
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,800
The things that, that moves us.

758
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,800
Today our lectures are evangelism and missions.

759
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:37,800
Lecture I was teaching.

760
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:42,800
And then he says, so when I entered, I was a bit late, I was a bit like 10 minutes late.

761
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:47,800
When I entered, when I sat down, then he said, so I'm telling you, this Christian thing is all about Christ.

762
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,800
That's right. Then he looks at me.

763
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,800
He just looks at me like that.

764
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,800
I said, that's right.

765
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,800
Then he said, think about it.

766
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:00,800
Then he was messaging pastors.

767
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:07,800
In their meeting. These guys are big men of God in their own nation like in Presby and stuff like that.

768
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:12,800
Now your pastor brings an account book for the whole year and says, hey we thank God.

769
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:19,800
The little money we allocated for evangelism was no use last year.

770
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,800
Then he sits there and he says, listen.

771
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:33,800
It means that in the allocation of funds, even missions and evangelism, small money.

772
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:39,800
Church money. Then they allocate some for end of year party.

773
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:42,800
End of year party.

774
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:44,800
A mid year party.

775
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:46,800
Call Shakapai.

776
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:48,800
It will not be so with us.

777
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:53,800
We will not buy more cars than we buy more souls.

778
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:55,800
Are you understand that?

779
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:59,800
It is your faith is poking throughout the whole world.

780
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:04,800
It means that they had exploit of faith.

781
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,800
Glory.

782
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,800
The pastor comes and says, God has blessed us in this ministry.

783
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,800
I remember this pastor.

784
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,800
When we met he was very young.

785
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:18,800
Now he is a petroleum engineer.

786
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:22,800
This one is also a philosopher.

787
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,800
This one is also one of the big politicians.

788
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,800
I'm telling you this is a doctor.

789
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,800
The whole of social and soul. He is the one who is heading.

790
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,800
He has now become a consultant.

791
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:36,800
I'm telling you.

792
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:38,800
And you look at the faces of these people.

793
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,800
And none of them is doing exploit with their faith.

794
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,800
Full of money.

795
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,800
Yet very dead in their spirit.

796
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:46,800
I don't want that life.

797
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,800
Come on. You should be bold to tell the Lord.

798
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:52,800
If money is going to disturb me, lock the door.

799
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:54,800
Lock the door. Let me be on fire.

800
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,800
That way I will be fine. Just make sure I'm eating and I'm feeling good.

801
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,800
That's all.

802
00:58:58,800 --> 00:59:00,800
Hallelujah.

803
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,800
He didn't say your money is poking throughout the world.

804
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,800
He said your faith.

805
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,800
He didn't say your fame is spreading throughout the world.

806
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,800
He said your faith.

807
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:11,800
Hallelujah.

808
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,800
It's very important.

809
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,800
Decide my faith.

810
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,800
My faith is going to be announced in the world.

811
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:19,800
So it means that throughout the world,

812
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:21,800
in the context that Paul was talking,

813
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:27,800
the Romans were known to be faith men.

814
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:29,800
Faith people.

815
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:31,800
Just lift up your voice, speak in tongues for 2 seconds.

816
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:33,800
Let me try and switch these things.

817
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:35,800
Come on, speak in tongues.

818
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,800
Come on.

819
00:59:37,800 --> 01:00:02,800
Speak in tongues.

820
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,800
Hallelujah.

821
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,800
Let's get to our scripture we were reading yesterday.

822
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,800
Matthew.

823
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,800
Saint Matthew's gospel.

824
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:22,800
Chapter number 13.

825
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:36,800
Verse 1.

826
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:52,800
So he that also received the word among thorns is he that heareth the word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.

827
01:00:52,800 --> 01:01:12,800
Now, I want us to look at this scripture in Mark 4.

828
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:14,800
Mark 4.

829
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,800
Now we all know the story of the parable.

830
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:22,800
Let's quickly walk into the meaning.

831
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,800
Now, Mark gives a little bit of twist.

832
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,800
We'll get to look as well.

833
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,800
And these are they by the wayside where the word is sown.

834
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:37,800
But when they have heard, Satan come in immediately and take away the word that was sown in their heart.

835
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:41,800
And these are they likewise which are sown on the stony ground.

836
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:48,800
Who when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness and have no roots in themselves.

837
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:56,800
And so endure but for a time after when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake immediately they are offended.

838
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:00,800
And these are they which are sown among thorns such as hear the word.

839
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:05,800
So they hear the word and the cares of these.

840
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,800
Come on, the cares of this world.

841
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,800
So the cares of this world.

842
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:13,800
What we know?

843
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:15,800
Nineteen.

844
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:16,800
The cares of this world.

845
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:21,800
So the word cares there is merima.

846
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:23,800
Alright, like I was saying merima.

847
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,800
So merima.

848
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:27,800
M-E-R-I-M-M-A.

849
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:29,800
Merimna.

850
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:30,800
Merimna, sorry.

851
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:31,800
I beg your pardon.

852
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:35,800
Merimna.

853
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:41,800
It's communicate the idea of distraction.

854
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,800
To be distracted.

855
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:52,800
Alright, so the cares of this world talks about being distracted.

856
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:53,800
Being what?

857
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:56,800
Distracted.

858
01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:04,800
Praise the name of the Lord.

859
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:15,800
So the cares of this world is being distracted by what?

860
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:19,800
The cares of the word being distracted by the things of this world.

861
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,800
Hallelujah.

862
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:28,800
So if your faith is going to be employed or if your faith is going to work.

863
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:38,800
Then you will not have to give your mind to the things of the world that serve as distraction to you.

864
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:40,800
Hallelujah.

865
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:45,800
Now.

866
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:51,800
It talks about a particular kind of distraction.

867
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:52,800
Alright.

868
01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:57,800
That is caused by being anxious.

869
01:03:57,800 --> 01:03:58,800
Let me say that again.

870
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:03,800
So those who receive the word and they become unfruitful because of the cares of this world.

871
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:12,800
It simply talks about those who get distracted by anxiety with regards to the things of this world.

872
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:23,800
So they think about the things of this world to the point that they get distracted from pursuing their faith.

873
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,800
Let's take for example.

874
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:30,800
A young guy who loves the Lord.

875
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:32,800
Maybe in the university.

876
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:34,800
Was doing mighty things for God.

877
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:36,800
Now this guy is done with school.

878
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,800
He is looking for a job and he is not getting a job.

879
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:44,800
And it looks like he doesn't even know how he is going to eat the next day.

880
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:45,800
Alright.

881
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:51,800
Do you know that this person can think about that problem to the point that.

882
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:57,800
He will not even have the desire to go to church.

883
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:10,800
So we can say the person thinking about how to get employed or getting employed has gotten to a point where the world has been choked.

884
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:11,800
Come on.

885
01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:14,800
So the world has been choked.

886
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:21,800
So it means that the things of this world in as much as they ease us.

887
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:22,800
Alright.

888
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:23,800
They ease us.

889
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:27,800
Because if you have a car you can go to a crying bucket right now.

890
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:28,800
You get the things of this world.

891
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,800
So some of these things they ease us.

892
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,800
But when they become a distraction.

893
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:39,800
The other flip side is that they are able to choke the word of God.

894
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:45,800
And when they choke the word of God the word of God becomes unfruitful.

895
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:47,800
Hallelujah.

896
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:56,800
There is a way that somebody who has served the Lord for a point can get to and say Lord please just give me a man I want to marry.

897
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:01,800
And by the desire to get married.

898
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,800
His faith will be choked.

899
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:09,800
No think about it you have served God faithfully for 42 years, 45 years.

900
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:11,800
You don't even have a boyfriend.

901
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,800
Somebody to call a beloved.

902
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,800
You don't have.

903
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:20,800
And everybody is asking you when are you getting married?

904
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:21,800
Is there somebody?

905
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:24,800
When are we coming to your wedding?

906
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:29,800
I went to my village one day and a guy came to me and said.

907
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,800
The guy recently came to my house.

908
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:37,800
The guy who has been worrying me that I should give the, at least if I'm not marrying now I should give the, I should find a lady.

909
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:46,800
Pregnate the lady and give like one, two.

910
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:47,800
You know?

911
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,800
And he's saying that.

912
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:52,800
Her wedding.

913
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:58,800
Mini wedding.

914
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:00,800
Can you imagine that?

915
01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:04,800
So if you give your mind to that.

916
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,800
If you give your attention to that.

917
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:07,800
Alright?

918
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:09,800
You know what is going to happen?

919
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:11,800
The day, the time you are to pray.

920
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,800
The time you are to go for evangelism.

921
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,800
The time you are to spend time with the word of God.

922
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:24,800
You will be spending that time looking for, I'm glad I would say a house band.

923
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:29,800
Yeah, more about to say you are looking for a house band.

924
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:34,800
So that is how they get to distract you.

925
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:42,800
You look at your friends who are driving range and Benz and all those kind of cars that will not end them anywhere.

926
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:46,800
And you look at them and you're looking at.

927
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:48,800
God, why is my own case different?

928
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:52,800
Of all these people, I'm the one serving you.

929
01:07:52,800 --> 01:08:00,800
Now, you, it has the power to draw you from faith.

930
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:04,800
It has the power to draw you from faith.

931
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:12,800
A brother who left us and has become one of, I'm not mentioning what he has become.

932
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,800
Then he said, Charlie, I need messages.

933
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:24,800
Where I am, I don't, I am not able to go to church. I am feeling empty.

934
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,800
I said, look at this.

935
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:33,800
Right now he has more than, he has like three, four cars.

936
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:35,800
Can't drive anyone to anywhere.

937
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:38,800
But his insight is empty.

938
01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:40,800
You know?

939
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:47,800
He's a senior man, so I will not say anything bad. He was my colleague. I said, so what are you doing there?

940
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,800
I just leave.

941
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:54,800
Nothing is permanent. The empty inside is empty. Leave. Come and feel.

942
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:57,800
And leave them alone so that you can, you know.

943
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:00,800
It's a simple decision to take.

944
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:02,800
Hallelujah.

945
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,800
So the case of this world refers to what?

946
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:09,800
The things that easily distract us.

947
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:15,800
It is not only money. It's not only that. Social media.

948
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:21,800
So the case of this world refers to the things that easily distract us.

949
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:31,800
Because you see, you're about to sweep and you sit in your couch that, oh, let me look at one Facebook real.

950
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:36,800
By the time you realize you would have done three hours, 29 minutes until empty.

951
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:43,800
Empty and will tell you that your data bundle is left with five megabytes.

952
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:48,800
So anything that serves as distraction.

953
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:52,800
All right, distracting you from faith.

954
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:58,800
The main aim is to get your faith not to work.

955
01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:00,800
Come on, is that okay?

956
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,800
Yeah.

957
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:08,800
So you spend all your time browsing, you spend all your time watching videos, you spend all your time, what again?

958
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:10,800
Posting stuff.

959
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,800
All your time.

960
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:17,800
Today I told somebody to take down a video.

961
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:20,800
A guy was insulting a lady.

962
01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:25,800
And he's using that as my friend to pull it down before I open my eyes.

963
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,800
Hang on. Your minister, what's your problem?

964
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,800
They easily distract us.

965
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,800
You are in church, the word of God is coming on, the worship is going on.

966
01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:41,800
Then you see once the worship is going on, then they'll pick up a video, their camera and like that.

967
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:46,800
Then the people are watching, then you see one useless friend, two, four, five useless friends who don't even know God.

968
01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:48,800
Who also come and join the video in the church.

969
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:52,800
While service is going on.

970
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:58,800
Especially when you invite a celebrity.

971
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:04,800
And the person is standing, the person is singing, then you see the person wants to know that they so and so came to the church, I was there.

972
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:09,800
Then they post it one, two, three, then it becomes an archival video in their, this thing.

973
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:11,800
And they never show it again.

974
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:16,800
And that moment blessing, they miss it for the rest of their lives.

975
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,800
They just miss it.

976
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:21,800
How can you have eye?

977
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,800
You are not an official paparazzi.

978
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:29,800
Then once pastor is preaching, you are taking, you are doing snap, what's that thing?

979
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:32,800
Snap, snap, snapchat.

980
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:34,800
And you are doing video.

981
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:38,800
Think about those Christians, when worship is going on, then they leave the church.

982
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:42,800
They come with money, they are holding money in their hand inside church when they are singing praise and worship.

983
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:46,800
Or when prayer or something is going on, then they are spraying money inside the church.

984
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:51,800
I'm waiting for that wedding that anybody will come and do that rubbish here.

985
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:58,800
I'll stop the whole ceremony and pick your money, carry all the money right here, pick it, put it in your dirty bag.

986
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,800
That's why we are provided offering basket.

987
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:06,800
If you want to give, go and walk quietly and let your hand go inside very deeply and put it inside.

988
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:13,800
How am I holding 200 series notes?

989
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:17,800
What's wrong with you?

990
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:20,800
These are distractions.

991
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:23,800
These are distractions.

992
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,800
Distractions.

993
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:26,800
Hallelujah.

994
01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:31,800
I know a lot of you don't like what I'm telling you or you like what I'm telling you.

995
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:34,800
You don't take, you don't do selfie videos.

996
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,800
You don't take videos of yourself.

997
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:39,800
When they want to occur, we should be like that.

998
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:47,800
We should try to hold each other.

999
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:53,800
We are desecrating the holy place.

1000
01:12:53,800 --> 01:13:01,800
I know people who say that, you know, the church is the people, the place is just like any ordinary, that's how your life is like that.

1001
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,800
It's an ordinary place.

1002
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,800
It is not.

1003
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:10,800
It is not.

1004
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:17,800
Those days, people will walk straight to the altar, they will lie there like we are fasting like this.

1005
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:19,800
People will just come, church will be open, let's say around four or five.

1006
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,800
You come and you meet people lying on the altar and they are praying.

1007
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:27,800
They are laying on the stage and they are praying.

1008
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:31,800
You think if you don't get anything, they will be wasting their time there?

1009
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,800
Yeah.

1010
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:39,800
And right now, now, you know what we are doing, right now, I learned something a pastor said.

1011
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:43,800
The place that we portrayed as an altar right now is stage.

1012
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:45,800
You know?

1013
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:53,800
So, those times, the other churches and all of that, the place was filled with the glory of God.

1014
01:13:53,800 --> 01:14:00,800
Now, we have filled the place with lights and smoke.

1015
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:04,800
The people in the Old Testament, they worshiped to the point that divine smoke came inside.

1016
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:06,800
Now, we have artificial smoke.

1017
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:08,800
If God will not come, we have our own smoke.

1018
01:14:08,800 --> 01:14:10,800
My friend, bless the thing.

1019
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:12,800
Let the glory, let the sacra be here.

1020
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:14,800
You know?

1021
01:14:14,800 --> 01:14:18,800
Then people will come and stand here, they are worshiping and they will say that, they will say,

1022
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:20,800
cancer is living, it's living now.

1023
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:22,800
What cancer?

1024
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:27,800
What, what, what, what, what, what cancer is living?

1025
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:29,800
That's what the Spirit of God told me.

1026
01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:33,800
That's mighty thing, he's going to move in our midst as we worship him.

1027
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:35,800
He's going, I just want to take that.

1028
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:38,800
I want to worship him.

1029
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:40,800
Or the pornography.

1030
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:45,800
Yeah.

1031
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:48,800
There's a very big gospel singer in this country.

1032
01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:50,800
So if you want to catch him.

1033
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:52,800
Maybe I'm not quite sorry.

1034
01:14:52,800 --> 01:14:56,800
Very big.

1035
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:07,800
But on the stage, watching pornography on the stage.

1036
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:12,800
And if I allow the person to sing, I just go, I will just disagree.

1037
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:14,800
You've not seen that thing yet.

1038
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:15,800
Don't worry.

1039
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:17,800
I know maybe we'll meet Saturday, maybe not yet.

1040
01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:20,800
Maybe I'm going to preach somewhere or something and I will see it.

1041
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,800
I will call you out.

1042
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:26,800
I will say you are watching porn in the house of God.

1043
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:28,800
You are cursed.

1044
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,800
You are cursed.

1045
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:35,800
No, if you are not cursed, why would you do that?

1046
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:40,800
See recently I was supposed to rent a space, one of my brother's space to a man.

1047
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:42,800
So the man had to come here.

1048
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:44,800
And I think it was Githy or somebody.

1049
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:50,800
While service was going on, he was there and was watching, it was what?

1050
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,800
Nude videos.

1051
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:55,800
And then he said, please we don't do that here.

1052
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:56,800
Stop that please.

1053
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:57,800
We don't do that here.

1054
01:15:57,800 --> 01:15:58,800
And the pastor is talking.

1055
01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:00,800
Stand up.

1056
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:03,800
And the man stood up.

1057
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,800
Yeah, in this church.

1058
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:10,800
See that thing, when you see that, just do, I understand.

1059
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:14,800
I know what is there.

1060
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:16,800
In church.

1061
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:20,800
And this is an elder in the church of Pentecost.

1062
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:23,800
For me, I will mention the church.

1063
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:29,800
Disgracing the church of Pentecost because I know that is not what church of Pentecost teach.

1064
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:33,800
To an elder of a church.

1065
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:42,800
You remember, they say a side chick is suing a man.

1066
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:49,800
The man bought a car for the side chick and the man took back the car and the side chick says I'm going to sue you.

1067
01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:54,800
That is the most boldest side chick ever.

1068
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:58,800
Then the man says that no, I gave the car out to her for free.

1069
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:00,800
It's not like something is going on too bad.

1070
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,800
I saw that she was using the car for hook up and as an elder of my church.

1071
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:06,800
I said look at him.

1072
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:08,800
Elder of your church.

1073
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:14,800
Elder, you are sharing car and your wife doesn't know.

1074
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:21,800
It's serious.

1075
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:26,800
Elder, elder, elder, elder is a bank manager or something.

1076
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:31,800
The lady was a national service personnel or something like that.

1077
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:39,800
All the workers in the bank is the national service personnel who has a hip hip.

1078
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:45,800
That is where she is coming from is very far so that she can be coming with us.

1079
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,800
What a fever, elder, elder of a church.

1080
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:52,800
So why would people want to come to church?

1081
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,800
Are you understanding that?

1082
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:58,800
Yeah, they secrete the holy place.

1083
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:00,800
They secrete the holy place.

1084
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,800
So you are coming to church and you are wondering,

1085
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,800
myself and my brother were in a church and somebody was coming for consultation.

1086
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:13,800
And the person was not, baby, the person was wearing top like this and to hear.

1087
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:17,800
He was going to see a prophet from here to here.

1088
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:20,800
And her hand was on your pie hole.

1089
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:28,800
Now when he wanted to sit down, now he, she did not hear.

1090
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,800
What's wrong with you?

1091
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:37,800
If I am the prophet's pastor or I am the prophet, you come here and say, Madam, I shall go.

1092
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:39,800
Simple as that.

1093
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:41,800
And they will know it's a church. We have to allow.

1094
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:48,800
We do not allow because this person, the same person is going to a shrine.

1095
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:50,800
So they cares of this world.

1096
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:52,800
Come on, they cares of this world.

1097
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:56,800
So it talks the world.

1098
01:18:56,800 --> 01:19:02,800
When we become distracted by these things, the word gets choked and our faith becomes futile.

1099
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:04,800
The faith becomes dead.

1100
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,800
What is a dead faith?

1101
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:08,800
Faith without works.

1102
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:10,800
What is faith without works?

1103
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:14,800
Faith given to employment or faith that has been employed.

1104
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:20,800
So if the, if you get distracted by these things, your faith cannot be employed.

1105
01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:22,800
Are you understanding that?

1106
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:29,800
The word, the word being choked means faith will not be employed.

1107
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:31,800
Are we together?

1108
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,800
Then he says, let's, let's continue.

1109
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:40,800
The cares of this world.

1110
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,800
I remind now, verse one.

1111
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:50,800
So the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.

1112
01:19:50,800 --> 01:20:07,800
Now, and the, come on, and the, the lust of other things entering in.

1113
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:11,800
The lust of other things.

1114
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:13,800
The cravings for other things.

1115
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:16,800
See the Bible talks about everything.

1116
01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:18,800
You understand something?

1117
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,800
The what?

1118
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:26,800
You see the, the, the penchant for things.

1119
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:28,800
The desire for things.

1120
01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:31,800
You want to ride the Benz at the age of 25.

1121
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:33,800
You are 24.

1122
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:34,800
Now you are ready.

1123
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:36,800
You will kill, you will destroy.

1124
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,800
You will finish.

1125
01:20:38,800 --> 01:20:41,800
You have to get it.

1126
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:44,800
You know, so this is a church guy.

1127
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:46,800
This is a guy in church who up on home.

1128
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:52,800
Suddenly, boom, will blow.

1129
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:54,800
But then will blow.

1130
01:20:54,800 --> 01:21:00,800
My testimony.

1131
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:03,800
I could try that.

1132
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:04,800
You understand what I'm talking about?

1133
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:06,800
Yeah.

1134
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:11,800
Some of you as you are there, always you are thinking about the, the, the house you are building.

1135
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:12,800
Yeah.

1136
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:20,800
You can picture that you feel the way you feel.

1137
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:26,800
My dog will be like an elephant.

1138
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,800
Hallelujah.

1139
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:32,800
You begin to picture, you picture everything perfectly.

1140
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,800
Your house will be in the sky.

1141
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:43,800
You, you, you just, you'll be like a city that's set up on a hill that cannot be hit.

1142
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:47,800
And then you begin to gravitate towards it.

1143
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:55,800
There's a lady who says that if you are poor, please don't come and propose to me because it's an irritation.

1144
01:21:55,800 --> 01:22:06,800
So what is, what is, what is a poor man doing around love?

1145
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:16,800
I was talking to a friend today and I said the person was like, hey, so today you didn't receive, oh, so I'm like, what?

1146
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,800
Today is own day.

1147
01:22:18,800 --> 01:22:25,800
I'm thinking, oh, I couldn't say today is vows day.

1148
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:29,800
And I said, when did they change their name?

1149
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:36,800
So no, so because of the give people bring you give them say, oh, I say, hey, this world, we are getting model.

1150
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:39,800
Yes, we are getting model.

1151
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:43,800
Like joke, like joke, we are going.

1152
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:49,800
It's serious and people are buying gift for themselves.

1153
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:55,800
So they, they order.

1154
01:22:55,800 --> 01:23:01,800
Then the people now they play this thing, sad or whatever.

1155
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:03,800
Then they are coming.

1156
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,800
Then she'll pretend she doesn't know.

1157
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:10,800
She's a different number is from so and so to so and so.

1158
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:13,800
Then she's she's there.

1159
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:15,800
No, I said address in Ruffles.

1160
01:23:15,800 --> 01:23:18,800
Then camera is in session, everything.

1161
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:28,800
Then they open the door.

1162
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:32,800
Are you OK?

1163
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,800
Are you OK?

1164
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:41,800
You know, when you buy when when people buy things from you, when people buy you think I don't appreciate.

1165
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:42,800
Well, yes, that's all right.

1166
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:43,800
Thank you so much.

1167
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:45,800
God bless you.

1168
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:46,800
And I'm done.

1169
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:51,800
I will not remember it again.

1170
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:53,800
How's it the day we get to work out?

1171
01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:59,800
You see, like I'll be there.

1172
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:01,800
I can't stop.

1173
01:24:01,800 --> 01:24:04,800
No, listen, listen.

1174
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:06,800
It's not me.

1175
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:09,800
You you can't surprise me.

1176
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:14,800
I am surprised.

1177
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:16,800
So I come in the car is there.

1178
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:17,800
And so what?

1179
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:18,800
Oh, really?

1180
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:19,800
Oh, thank you.

1181
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:20,800
Thank you.

1182
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:21,800
Thank you.

1183
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:22,800
Thank you.

1184
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:23,800
Wow.

1185
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:24,800
That's it.

1186
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:25,800
A nice guy.

1187
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:26,800
Thank you.

1188
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:27,800
I'll be nice.

1189
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:28,800
Nice guys.

1190
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:29,800
And I realize I'm in the room.

1191
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:30,800
I'll be something else.

1192
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:31,800
Oh, my God.

1193
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:32,800
Oh, my God.

1194
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:34,800
I don't know.

1195
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:39,800
We have a bro.

1196
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:43,800
Distractions.

1197
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:44,800
You said to cry.

1198
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:45,800
I want to cry.

1199
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:46,800
Oh, the choir.

1200
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:48,800
You know, like like that thing I told you.

1201
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,800
The lady, the lady, the brother surprise.

1202
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:53,800
Oh, my God.

1203
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:54,800
Oh, my.

1204
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:55,800
After that, they say, can I see the video?

1205
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:56,800
Let me see if it was nice.

1206
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:57,800
No, no, please go back.

1207
01:24:57,800 --> 01:24:58,800
It wasn't nice.

1208
01:24:58,800 --> 01:24:59,800
Let's start again.

1209
01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:03,800
Let's please not knock again.

1210
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:05,800
Problem.

1211
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:06,800
Problem.

1212
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:10,800
The pinch that they want for things.

1213
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:17,800
They want for things is when they enter in, when they get into your heart, when they get

1214
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:22,800
into your heart, when they get when money gets into your heart, you become the one of

1215
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:24,800
God can't work in your life again.

1216
01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,800
Because you now live above the word.

1217
01:25:27,800 --> 01:25:30,800
You understand you live above the word.

1218
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:31,800
It's serious.

1219
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,800
No, why do people lie?

1220
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:38,800
Why do people do all the wrong things they do?

1221
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:39,800
Why do people steal?

1222
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:40,800
They want for things.

1223
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:46,800
It means that the word of God is choked in their lives.

1224
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:52,800
If you know, their pastors, when they see you holding something, they begin to crave

1225
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:53,800
for it.

1226
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:57,800
Then the craving will bring it own prophecies.

1227
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:09,800
There's a prophet who told somebody, a lady who was a businesswoman and blah, blah, had

1228
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:13,800
to come to the church and saw the woman was in a very serious, sensible car.

1229
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:18,800
I begin to give a prophecy, give a prophecy, give a prophecy, give a prophecy, give a prophecy,

1230
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:23,800
and told the woman that they've scheduled an accident for her and blah, blah, blah.

1231
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:27,800
So, she didn't be driving this particular car, this accident car.

1232
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,800
So, she's not, the car has to be anointed.

1233
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:36,800
It has to sit in the car and lead impartations of the anointing in the car for some time,

1234
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:37,800
for a period.

1235
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:40,800
There's a prophet, why not, why not?

1236
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,800
And the prophet had given quite accurate prophecies before.

1237
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:45,800
You get it.

1238
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:50,800
It's not, see, it's not only people who don't see that lie.

1239
01:26:50,800 --> 01:26:51,800
People see.

1240
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:54,800
They will give you first, second, through three prophecies.

1241
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:58,800
Then the rest, they will show you shaky.

1242
01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:02,800
Then the lady brought the car because, I mean, you prophesied to me about this.

1243
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:04,800
It was like, prophet, the lady brought the car.

1244
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:06,800
Now, the prophet was inside, the prophet was inside.

1245
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:09,800
The prophet was, when the prophet was going for a program, he's driving the car.

1246
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:10,800
Why?

1247
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:12,800
So, that would be impartation.

1248
01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,800
Now, the prophet is driving the car when the prophet himself had an accident with the car.

1249
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:21,800
Impartation of anointing.

1250
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:23,800
It's serious.

1251
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:31,800
When you begin to want things, when your heart is ruled by material things,

1252
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:35,800
when they are inside, you see, I'm preaching this message to you because we are all young

1253
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:37,800
and we have that temptation.

1254
01:27:37,800 --> 01:27:40,800
Yeah, we have that temptation.

1255
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:43,800
Even when you want to choose a partner, you are looking for somebody who is rich

1256
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:45,800
because you can't waste time.

1257
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:47,800
You don't have time to waste time.

1258
01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:49,800
Yeah.

1259
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:53,800
I'll say, let's go and...

1260
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:56,800
You yourself, what's wrong with your hand?

1261
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:58,800
You understand what I'm talking about?

1262
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:00,800
Yeah, it's not just marriage.

1263
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:01,800
It's everything.

1264
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:08,800
The want for money can let you go and get a job that you don't have time to even study the Word of God.

1265
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:12,800
It's there. It's everywhere.

1266
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:17,800
And I've seen quite a number of people get involved and they struggle with their fate.

1267
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:24,800
You cannot get your fate to work successfully when your heart is choked

1268
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,800
or when your heart is full of want, desires.

1269
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,800
It can't work.

1270
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:34,800
So, it is out of that understanding Paul comes to say that,

1271
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:39,800
having what to eat and wear, let us be therefore content.

1272
01:28:39,800 --> 01:28:43,800
You see how we struggle to accept that scripture today?

1273
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:46,800
It tells us our heart.

1274
01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:51,800
That's the only problem.

1275
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:53,800
I say,

1276
01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:59,800
but the truth is that her dealing was with the oboam.

1277
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:00,800
You know why?

1278
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:09,800
Because after Ocasio, all the attack was on the Oya.

1279
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:12,800
You hear that?

1280
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:34,800
Ocasio says,

1281
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:46,800
That's the heart.

1282
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,800
See, that's the problem with the heart.

1283
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:51,800
That's the problem with the heart.

1284
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:59,800
When somebody also is desperately enjoying poverty, following for poverty.

1285
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:02,800
That's also vanity.

1286
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:04,800
You understand what I'm talking about?

1287
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:11,800
It is when the heart is freed of every material thing, whether poverty or riches,

1288
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,800
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

1289
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:16,800
My focus is Christ.

1290
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,800
That is my life.

1291
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:21,800
Christ is my life.

1292
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:25,800
Why are people being prophet for?

1293
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:31,800
Why are people moving helter-skelter to prophet, to this prophet, prophet so-so and so prophet?

1294
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:33,800
And I'm a prophet.

1295
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:35,800
My mom will be prophet.

1296
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:38,800
My father will be prophet.

1297
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:40,800
So will my father.

1298
01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:42,800
And stuff like that.

1299
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:46,800
People are using God as a medium to get things.

1300
01:30:46,800 --> 01:30:52,800
So our hearts are filled, choked with material things.

1301
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:54,800
Material things.

1302
01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,800
If your child is not going to Montezori, you're in trouble.

1303
01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:01,800
Your child is not going to Montezori, at least your child should know how to...

1304
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:05,800
Dad-ay, I want to ay-tay.

1305
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:07,800
I want to ay-tay.

1306
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:09,800
Oh yeah, that's my first one.

1307
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:11,800
Home school fees, anybody.

1308
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:13,800
Yeah.

1309
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:16,800
370,000 every day.

1310
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:18,800
About a couple of years ago.

1311
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:20,800
Dad-ay.

1312
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:23,800
I want to say, oh, dad-ay.

1313
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:30,800
You know, her heart is choked.

1314
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,800
So faith can't work.

1315
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:34,800
Faith can't work.

1316
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:35,800
Look at the apostles.

1317
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:36,800
Alright, I'm closing.

1318
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:37,800
I'm closing right now.

1319
01:31:37,800 --> 01:31:40,800
Look at the apostles.

1320
01:31:40,800 --> 01:31:42,800
Look at the apostles.

1321
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:47,800
Mighty resounding testimonies of your faith.

1322
01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:49,800
There was one common denominator.

1323
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:52,800
None of them was ruled by any things.

1324
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:56,800
They all had the knowledge that they had a future in heaven.

1325
01:31:56,800 --> 01:32:02,800
They have treasure, like they say, we have the treasure laid out for us in heaven.

1326
01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:07,800
See, so heavenly gain was much real to them than earthly gain.

1327
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:09,800
May the Lord help us.

1328
01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:11,800
Myself included.

1329
01:32:11,800 --> 01:32:13,800
May the Lord help us.

1330
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:15,800
May the Lord help us.

1331
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:18,800
Yeah, may the Lord help us.

1332
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:21,800
Look at what...

1333
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:22,800
Was it Peter?

1334
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:24,800
Yeah, not Peter.

1335
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:29,800
I think Paul or James, whoever it was, it was one of the apostles.

1336
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:32,800
He said that, tell those, I think it was Paul.

1337
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:39,800
Tell those who are rich in this world not to trust in the uncertainty of riches.

1338
01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:42,800
They should not trust in the uncertainty of riches.

1339
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:46,800
They shouldn't trust in the uncertainty of riches.

1340
01:32:46,800 --> 01:32:49,800
See, may our hearts be purged.

1341
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:51,800
See, may our hearts be purged.

1342
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:53,800
May our hearts be good grounds.

1343
01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:54,800
Hallelujah.

1344
01:32:54,800 --> 01:32:57,800
Let's continue so that we can try and close.

1345
01:32:57,800 --> 01:32:59,800
We don't have time today.

1346
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:00,800
The time is not on our side.

1347
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:02,800
Today I couldn't preach for long.

1348
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:05,800
So let's get in there.

1349
01:33:05,800 --> 01:33:12,800
Verse 20.

1350
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:13,800
20.

1351
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:18,800
And these are they which are sown on good ground.

1352
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:25,800
They hear the word and they receive it and bring forth fruits.

1353
01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:31,800
Some 30.

1354
01:33:31,800 --> 01:33:32,800
Come on, read it.

1355
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:34,800
Some 30.

1356
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:37,800
Some 60.

1357
01:33:37,800 --> 01:33:41,800
And some are 100 fold.

1358
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:43,800
Now let's go to Luke.

1359
01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:52,800
Let's read this in Luke.

1360
01:33:52,800 --> 01:33:59,800
There's something I'm looking for.

1361
01:33:59,800 --> 01:34:03,800
Luke 8.

1362
01:34:03,800 --> 01:34:05,800
Are you here with me?

1363
01:34:05,800 --> 01:34:08,800
You enjoying the word?

1364
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:15,800
Luke 8.

1365
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:19,800
All right, now.

1366
01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:21,800
Let me, let me.

1367
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:23,800
So I went out to sow his seed.

1368
01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:25,800
And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside.

1369
01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:29,800
It was throating down and the fowls of the air devoured it.

1370
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:34,800
Now, he adds, throating down.

1371
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:35,800
All right?

1372
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:37,800
So look at it.

1373
01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:39,800
So I went out to sow his seed.

1374
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:41,800
And he sowed some.

1375
01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:45,800
And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside.

1376
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:52,800
And it was, come on, it was throating down.

1377
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:55,800
What do you have in your version?

1378
01:34:55,800 --> 01:34:56,800
Trampled upon.

1379
01:34:56,800 --> 01:34:58,800
Trampled upon, right?

1380
01:34:58,800 --> 01:34:59,800
Okay.

1381
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:04,800
What does it mean to trample upon?

1382
01:35:04,800 --> 01:35:07,800
So when somebody say, you're trying to trample on my freedom.

1383
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:09,800
You are trample, you are trying to trample upon me.

1384
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:11,800
What's that?

1385
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:12,800
Come on.

1386
01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:13,800
What does that mean?

1387
01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:15,800
That's, that's an idiom, right?

1388
01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:16,800
So what does that mean?

1389
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:21,800
To trample, to trample upon.

1390
01:35:21,800 --> 01:35:23,800
Hey.

1391
01:35:23,800 --> 01:35:24,800
Okay.

1392
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:28,800
Eight over ten.

1393
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:30,800
To make something of no use.

1394
01:35:30,800 --> 01:35:35,800
No, when somebody is trampled upon you like you don't, you don't matter.

1395
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:44,800
So the wayside refers to where the word is trampled upon.

1396
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:45,800
Are you understanding that?

1397
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:50,800
So faith cannot work when the word of God is trampled upon.

1398
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:57,800
In other words, faith cannot work in a place where the word of God is not regarded.

1399
01:35:57,800 --> 01:35:58,800
Come on.

1400
01:35:58,800 --> 01:35:59,800
You here with me, everyone?

1401
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:01,800
We don't regard the word of God.

1402
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:02,800
Faith cannot work.

1403
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:03,800
You see, good people die.

1404
01:36:03,800 --> 01:36:04,800
Do you know that?

1405
01:36:04,800 --> 01:36:08,800
You can't be good and die.

1406
01:36:08,800 --> 01:36:13,800
We hear people who are into philanthropy, people who are doing mighty things and they die and people begin to question, where is God?

1407
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:15,800
So didn't God know that this guy is a good guy?

1408
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:18,800
This lady is a good guy and stuff like that?

1409
01:36:18,800 --> 01:36:29,800
The question is, was the person really, really, really esteeming the word of God highly?

1410
01:36:29,800 --> 01:36:34,800
Because when the word of God is trampled upon, what happens?

1411
01:36:34,800 --> 01:36:36,800
The word cannot work.

1412
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:38,800
Okay, so that is Luke.

1413
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:40,800
Let's continue.

1414
01:36:40,800 --> 01:36:43,800
And the files of the year devoutly.

1415
01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:50,800
And some fell upon a rock and as soon as it was sprung up, it waded away because it lacked moisture.

1416
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:56,800
And some fell among thorns and thorns sprung up with it and took it.

1417
01:36:56,800 --> 01:37:01,800
The thorns grew with the word.

1418
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:04,800
Oh man, see, oh boy, we're out of time.

1419
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:06,800
We're out of time.

1420
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:09,800
The thorns grew with the word.

1421
01:37:09,800 --> 01:37:13,800
It means that the word grew.

1422
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:16,800
The word started growing.

1423
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:20,800
And then suddenly thorns also started growing.

1424
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:23,800
So the thorns were competing with the word.

1425
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:26,800
And then the thorns took the word.

1426
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:30,800
See, he's giving you, Luke is giving you more details.

1427
01:37:30,800 --> 01:37:34,800
So for example, this guy is in church, loving God, receiving the word.

1428
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:37,800
The word of God is working, is working, is working.

1429
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:44,800
Then suddenly there is a strength desire for, or there's a strength desire for the cares of the world.

1430
01:37:44,800 --> 01:37:49,800
Suddenly this guy begins to think, oh, I'm growing, I need money.

1431
01:37:49,800 --> 01:37:53,800
Or begins to think, I have to marry.

1432
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:55,800
Begins to think, I need to travel.

1433
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:59,800
Begins to think, I have to become a financial advisor, I have to become a banker, I have to become this, I have to become a doctor.

1434
01:37:59,800 --> 01:38:01,800
Like all kinds of things.

1435
01:38:01,800 --> 01:38:06,800
Then the word that is growing now stops.

1436
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:10,800
Then the person begins to nurse the desire.

1437
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:12,800
Nurse the desire.

1438
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:14,800
So when you nurse the desire, what happens?

1439
01:38:14,800 --> 01:38:15,800
The thorns are growing.

1440
01:38:15,800 --> 01:38:20,800
So when the thorns grow to a place, then they choke the word of God.

1441
01:38:20,800 --> 01:38:21,800
Are you understanding that?

1442
01:38:21,800 --> 01:38:22,800
That's what Luke is saying.

1443
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:25,800
Let's continue.

1444
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:29,800
Another fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit a hundredfold.

1445
01:38:29,800 --> 01:38:31,800
And when he said these things, he cried.

1446
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:34,800
He that have ears, let him hear.

1447
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:40,800
Alright, now let's go to verse 20, sorry, 11.

1448
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:41,800
Now the parable is this.

1449
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:43,800
The seed is the word of God.

1450
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:52,800
Those by the wayside are they that hear the word, that hear, then come at the devil and take away the word out of their heart, lest they should believe.

1451
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:57,800
So when we say the word of God is taken by the devil, what are we talking about?

1452
01:38:57,800 --> 01:38:59,800
Does it mean the devil has come to take the word?

1453
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:01,800
What does it mean?

1454
01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:04,800
The word is trampled upon.

1455
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:11,800
So when you don't regard the word in biblical terminology, the devil has come to take the word.

1456
01:39:11,800 --> 01:39:12,800
Are you understanding that?

1457
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:14,800
So when the word of God comes to you, it doesn't mean anything to you.

1458
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:17,800
You know, like that.

1459
01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:23,800
You see, so when the word is trampled upon, we can say that what?

1460
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:26,800
The devil has taken the word.

1461
01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:29,800
So who is the devil?

1462
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:33,800
Yourself.

1463
01:39:33,800 --> 01:39:35,800
Yourself.

1464
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:43,800
You can decide the word is going to work or the word is not going to work by the value you place on the word.

1465
01:39:43,800 --> 01:39:45,800
So there's no devil anywhere who's going to take the word from you.

1466
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:47,800
You are the very devil yourself.

1467
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:53,800
If the word of God comes to you, such a word of God that can change everything about you and you don't place value on it.

1468
01:39:53,800 --> 01:39:57,800
Jesus said you are a devil.

1469
01:39:57,800 --> 01:39:59,800
That's why Jesus is calling you.

1470
01:39:59,800 --> 01:40:04,800
Satan is the man who hears the word of God and does not place value on it.

1471
01:40:04,800 --> 01:40:09,800
The Satan we are talking about, that is the person.

1472
01:40:09,800 --> 01:40:13,800
So we have satanic Christians.

1473
01:40:13,800 --> 01:40:17,800
I'm not saying this in the, trying to add this thing here.

1474
01:40:17,800 --> 01:40:21,800
Who is a satanic Christian?

1475
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:24,800
The one who does not, who receives the word and does not place value on the word.

1476
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:28,800
A satanic Christian that has managed to become a satan.

1477
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:30,800
Satan.

1478
01:40:30,800 --> 01:40:32,800
That's just, by the way, but it's true.

1479
01:40:32,800 --> 01:40:34,800
Let's continue.

1480
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:36,800
Where are we now? Verse 1.

1481
01:40:36,800 --> 01:40:38,800
13.

1482
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:48,800
Day on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no root which for a while believe and in time of temptation they fall away.

1483
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,800
So I think I've explained that already.

1484
01:40:51,800 --> 01:41:02,800
And that which fell among thrones are they which when they have heard the word go forth and are trope with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.

1485
01:41:02,800 --> 01:41:05,800
Pleasures of this life.

1486
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:09,800
I think if every Christian knows this scripture, the person can never fool you.

1487
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:13,800
Like when you get money, you don't even see value in money.

1488
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:17,800
You know because you see, some people can be in church very faithful and committed.

1489
01:41:17,800 --> 01:41:22,800
Then, maybe they try to start out a business which is not bad in itself.

1490
01:41:22,800 --> 01:41:23,800
They are working.

1491
01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:25,800
Then the business begins to boom.

1492
01:41:25,800 --> 01:41:27,800
And when business is booming, what comes?

1493
01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:29,800
Money.

1494
01:41:29,800 --> 01:41:34,800
When money comes, your association changes.

1495
01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:41,800
Now you begin to meet people of caliber, people of class, people of your stature.

1496
01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:49,800
So now you used to talk with shop pushers, being sellers, and stuff like that.

1497
01:41:49,800 --> 01:41:56,800
Now you no more go by, you no more join the queue.

1498
01:41:56,800 --> 01:42:01,800
Now you go to bar 205 or now you go to restaurant.

1499
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:03,800
You go to restaurants.

1500
01:42:03,800 --> 01:42:05,800
You know, don't say restaurant.

1501
01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:06,800
It's not a restaurant.

1502
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:09,800
So restaurant, you go into a restaurant.

1503
01:42:09,800 --> 01:42:13,800
You're meeting people, then somebody will give you a business idea.

1504
01:42:13,800 --> 01:42:17,800
Or there's somebody here, you meet the person, somebody meets some of your goals, you go.

1505
01:42:17,800 --> 01:42:19,800
And now you are making contact.

1506
01:42:19,800 --> 01:42:22,800
Then you manage to get friends.

1507
01:42:22,800 --> 01:42:27,800
So you get, you got this friend, maybe he's a politician, then he fools you into becoming a politician.

1508
01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:31,800
Then you are changing your association.

1509
01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:38,800
Now, when you meet those people, then someone will say Sunday, then one of them will say,

1510
01:42:38,800 --> 01:42:42,800
oh, we are celebrating a birthday party for my wife.

1511
01:42:42,800 --> 01:42:45,800
And it's Sunday, church time.

1512
01:42:45,800 --> 01:42:48,800
But this is not done where the poor people are.

1513
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:51,800
Nobody has money for birthday.

1514
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:55,800
In fact, you don't even remember whether you were born on a day.

1515
01:42:55,800 --> 01:42:58,800
But up here, birthdays are important.

1516
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:02,800
Vows days are important.

1517
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:04,800
Marriage anniversaries are important.

1518
01:43:04,800 --> 01:43:06,800
Naming ceremonies are important.

1519
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:09,800
What again? Beach parties are important.

1520
01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:13,800
Um, funeral are important.

1521
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:14,800
Parties are important.

1522
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:18,800
So this place, they place high premium on those things.

1523
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:23,800
You move from where, when was the last time you used to have a party?

1524
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:25,800
No one has to have a party.

1525
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:29,800
But here, you go to, and when you get to the party,

1526
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:35,800
then there are drinks, and then there are more alcoholic beverages.

1527
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:44,800
And inside that class of people, they have their own girls.

1528
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:52,800
So we have girls who are doing makeup, who have their own, as I was saying,

1529
01:43:52,800 --> 01:43:54,800
sorryful makeups.

1530
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:58,800
And then they've gone to Turkey to enhance their body.

1531
01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:00,800
They call it liposuction.

1532
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:04,800
You know, you look at the tone of their skin, and you know you have met mermaids.

1533
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:08,800
And these are serious people.

1534
01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:12,800
Then you see, now you look at the wife that you started with.

1535
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:16,800
Auntie Monica.

1536
01:44:16,800 --> 01:44:19,800
Then you look at what you've got here.

1537
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:24,800
Now, then you get the temptation to at least become a friend with one,

1538
01:44:24,800 --> 01:44:29,800
so that you know how rich people, their girls taste like.

1539
01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:31,800
Then you go and you taste.

1540
01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:37,800
After one taste, another taste, then it becomes an eating.

1541
01:44:37,800 --> 01:44:44,800
Then you now pull yourself away from church, because right now,

1542
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:48,800
inside church, they are preaching to you, you are going to come to church.

1543
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:51,800
They are going to give you Bible assignment to do.

1544
01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:54,800
You are a rich man, you are a businessman, you don't have time.

1545
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:55,800
You have to meet the MP.

1546
01:44:55,800 --> 01:44:57,800
After meeting the MP, you have to meet this one.

1547
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:00,800
After meeting the MP, you have to meet this one, and meet that one.

1548
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:03,800
So church has become boring.

1549
01:45:03,800 --> 01:45:06,800
Two things, you now begin to suggest to your pastor.

1550
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:08,800
Church is not all about the Bible.

1551
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:10,800
Now, we want to have a program.

1552
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:13,800
Now, you begin to tell us which people to bring on board,

1553
01:45:13,800 --> 01:45:15,800
so that we can spice up the meeting.

1554
01:45:15,800 --> 01:45:18,800
If your pastor is very crazy like me and tells you no,

1555
01:45:18,800 --> 01:45:22,800
then you begin to say, you know what, then you meet one friend of yours who says,

1556
01:45:22,800 --> 01:45:24,800
oh, my church is not like that.

1557
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:26,800
No.

1558
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:28,800
My pastor takes beer.

1559
01:45:28,800 --> 01:45:30,800
Yeah, my pastor takes beer.

1560
01:45:30,800 --> 01:45:35,800
So really, oh, my pastor is a guy, and the definition of my pastor is a guy,

1561
01:45:35,800 --> 01:45:37,800
is that my pastor, or we be here.

1562
01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:39,800
The pastor is here, the pastor is here.

1563
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:41,800
All right, then I want to come and visit you in your church.

1564
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:43,800
You go and the church is so free.

1565
01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:47,800
It's not like 8 o'clock, 8.30, the door is shut.

1566
01:45:47,800 --> 01:45:49,800
And you have money, you are business passing, then you are coming.

1567
01:45:49,800 --> 01:45:51,800
Your pastor says, stay outside.

1568
01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:54,800
This place, they give credence to rich people.

1569
01:45:54,800 --> 01:45:57,800
You come in, you go and see the prophet, the pastor, quickly.

1570
01:45:57,800 --> 01:45:59,800
You exchange contact.

1571
01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:01,800
Now the pastor himself begins to call you because you are rich.

1572
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:07,800
And then thereby, thereby, on and on, on and on, you become an elder in the church.

1573
01:46:07,800 --> 01:46:09,800
Now when you're coming and the people see you,

1574
01:46:09,800 --> 01:46:12,800
do you have special assistant that will assist you in the church?

1575
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:14,800
You know what you're doing?

1576
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:16,800
You become rich.

1577
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:18,800
You're changing your environment.

1578
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:20,800
You're changing your association.

1579
01:46:20,800 --> 01:46:23,800
At first, your church, when you go, the whole place is hot.

1580
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:25,800
You are sweating.

1581
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:27,800
Your anointing will flow.

1582
01:46:27,800 --> 01:46:29,800
Now you're looking at your car is air conditioned.

1583
01:46:29,800 --> 01:46:30,800
Your room is air conditioned.

1584
01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:31,800
Your bath house is air conditioned.

1585
01:46:31,800 --> 01:46:33,800
Your everywhere is air conditioned.

1586
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:37,800
Your body cannot contain heat.

1587
01:46:37,800 --> 01:46:42,800
By the time you realize, you've walked out of the faith.

1588
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:45,800
And that's what the Lord is talking about.

1589
01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:47,800
Let's continue so that we can close.

1590
01:46:47,800 --> 01:46:49,800
We don't have time.

1591
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:54,800
Verse 1.

1592
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:58,800
Okay, so the cares and riches and pleasures of this life.

1593
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:01,800
And bring no fruits.

1594
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:03,800
Let me, let me, let me say it again.

1595
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:07,800
And that which fell among thorns are they which, when they have heard the word go forth,

1596
01:47:07,800 --> 01:47:11,800
and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.

1597
01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:14,800
And bring no fruit to perfection.

1598
01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:16,800
So they never get perfected.

1599
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:18,800
They never get perfected.

1600
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:20,800
Hallelujah.

1601
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:22,800
Then look at the next thing, Jesus says.

1602
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:36,800
And the good ground are they which in the honest, come on, honest and good heart.

1603
01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:38,800
Did you see that?

1604
01:47:38,800 --> 01:47:40,800
They received the word with sincerity.

1605
01:47:40,800 --> 01:47:43,800
They received the word with awe.

1606
01:47:43,800 --> 01:47:46,800
There are some people when they were, now they become like, you know,

1607
01:47:46,800 --> 01:47:50,800
so let's say like the leaders of the ministry, maybe those you call your leaders.

1608
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:53,800
You mentioned the name of maybe Kelvin, Pastor Wise or stuff like that.

1609
01:47:53,800 --> 01:47:56,800
Then they become, they come to a point where now they feel like,

1610
01:47:56,800 --> 01:47:59,800
okay, so we've grown a while, so we have kids under us.

1611
01:47:59,800 --> 01:48:03,800
So receiving the word, at first you receive the word shaking.

1612
01:48:03,800 --> 01:48:04,800
Receive the word with tears.

1613
01:48:04,800 --> 01:48:07,800
Receive the word and join with so much joy.

1614
01:48:07,800 --> 01:48:10,800
You are going home and you are so happy with the word.

1615
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:13,800
And you just want to listen to this thing over and over again.

1616
01:48:13,800 --> 01:48:16,800
Then it comes to a point now you're going to see yourself, you have grown.

1617
01:48:16,800 --> 01:48:18,800
That is childish.

1618
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:20,800
Now when you are receiving the word, you sit down.

1619
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:22,800
When you go, you have to face life.

1620
01:48:22,800 --> 01:48:23,800
Think about what you have to do.

1621
01:48:23,800 --> 01:48:25,800
That's how you feel.

1622
01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:31,800
But these ones receive the word with a sincere, with an honest and good heart.

1623
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:33,800
The word comes on the good.

1624
01:48:33,800 --> 01:48:35,800
Say, my heart should be good.

1625
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:36,800
No, put your hand there.

1626
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:38,800
Say, my heart should be good.

1627
01:48:38,800 --> 01:48:40,800
Yes.

1628
01:48:40,800 --> 01:48:41,800
And listen to what happens.

1629
01:48:41,800 --> 01:48:52,800
When that happens, he says, having heard the word, they keep it.

1630
01:48:52,800 --> 01:48:55,800
That's the only word I wanted to share with you this evening.

1631
01:48:55,800 --> 01:48:58,800
But if I started without you, you didn't have understood it.

1632
01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:01,800
They keep it.

1633
01:49:01,800 --> 01:49:02,800
I'll continue when?

1634
01:49:02,800 --> 01:49:03,800
Tomorrow.

1635
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:04,800
Keeping the word.

1636
01:49:04,800 --> 01:49:05,800
So tomorrow we'll be keeping the word.

1637
01:49:05,800 --> 01:49:07,800
They keep it.

1638
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:11,800
They keep the word.

1639
01:49:11,800 --> 01:49:16,800
Receiving the word with a sincere heart, with an honest and good heart, means you're doing what?

1640
01:49:16,800 --> 01:49:18,800
You keep the word.

1641
01:49:18,800 --> 01:49:25,800
So they keep it and bring forth with patience.

1642
01:49:25,800 --> 01:49:28,800
They bring...

1643
01:49:28,800 --> 01:49:37,800
They keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.

1644
01:49:37,800 --> 01:49:52,800
So the fruit of the word, which is the work of faith or which is the product of your faith, happens with patience.

1645
01:49:52,800 --> 01:49:59,800
So you can't see anyone who says the word of God is really working in him and you see the person not having patience.

1646
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:00,800
Did you see that?

1647
01:50:00,800 --> 01:50:07,800
They keep the word and they take their time for the word to work.

1648
01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:09,800
I like what Andrew Mark will say.

1649
01:50:09,800 --> 01:50:13,800
You can microwave your food, but you cannot microwave your spiritual growth.

1650
01:50:13,800 --> 01:50:15,800
It's process.

1651
01:50:15,800 --> 01:50:17,800
Hallelujah.

1652
01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:19,800
It's what?

1653
01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:20,800
It's what?

1654
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:22,800
That's right.

1655
01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:29,800
So if you're not allowed to process, you cannot work with God.

1656
01:50:29,800 --> 01:50:35,800
Because there are some times God will tell you, we are moving, but hey, wait, let me sit down and relax.

1657
01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:37,800
Nobody's going to kill anybody.

1658
01:50:37,800 --> 01:50:41,800
And you are warming up.

1659
01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:44,800
You take the lead.

1660
01:50:44,800 --> 01:50:47,800
Don't rush God.

1661
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:48,800
Hallelujah.

1662
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:50,800
See, you are not in a hurry more than God.

1663
01:50:50,800 --> 01:50:55,800
So if God tells you, I'm relaxed, relax, just relax.

1664
01:50:55,800 --> 01:50:56,800
All right.

1665
01:50:56,800 --> 01:50:57,800
Tomorrow we are going to look at all of that.

1666
01:50:57,800 --> 01:51:01,800
Now let's close with this one.

1667
01:51:01,800 --> 01:51:02,800
It's just a mention.

1668
01:51:02,800 --> 01:51:10,800
I'm making a mention, then we'll be fine.

1669
01:51:10,800 --> 01:51:11,800
Okay.

1670
01:51:11,800 --> 01:51:12,800
So where are we now?

1671
01:51:12,800 --> 01:51:15,800
There's one.

1672
01:51:15,800 --> 01:51:18,800
Okay.

1673
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:25,800
Let's go to, I think that is in Mark.

1674
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:32,800
Let's go to Mark.

1675
01:51:32,800 --> 01:51:37,800
Mark four.

1676
01:51:37,800 --> 01:51:58,800
Okay.

1677
01:51:58,800 --> 01:51:59,800
Okay.

1678
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:00,800
Mark chapter four.

1679
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:02,800
Let's do verse 26.

1680
01:52:02,800 --> 01:52:08,800
He said, so is the kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed into the ground.

1681
01:52:08,800 --> 01:52:11,800
So what is the seed here?

1682
01:52:11,800 --> 01:52:12,800
To what of God?

1683
01:52:12,800 --> 01:52:18,800
And should sleep and rise night and day and the seed should spring and grow up.

1684
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:20,800
He does not know how.

1685
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:25,800
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself.

1686
01:52:25,800 --> 01:52:31,800
First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

1687
01:52:31,800 --> 01:52:34,800
What is he talking about here?

1688
01:52:34,800 --> 01:52:36,800
Process.

1689
01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:40,800
So he says first the blade.

1690
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:47,800
So you cannot be expecting full corn when there's no blade.

1691
01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:49,800
How about together?

1692
01:52:49,800 --> 01:52:52,800
Tomorrow we'll talk about it, keeping the word.

1693
01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:54,800
So it's very important.

1694
01:52:54,800 --> 01:52:56,800
I believe you've learned something today.

1695
01:52:56,800 --> 01:52:58,800
Yeah.

1696
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:05,800
So get your heart so solid with this matter.

1697
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:08,800
Don't be in a rush.

1698
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:10,800
Hallelujah.

1699
01:53:10,800 --> 01:53:13,800
Success is not crowd.

1700
01:53:13,800 --> 01:53:15,800
I want to say that again.

1701
01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:17,800
Success is not seen in crowd.

1702
01:53:17,800 --> 01:53:20,800
Success is seen in following God.

1703
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:24,800
And in the following of God there can be crowd.

1704
01:53:24,800 --> 01:53:27,800
But first of all, success is just following God.

1705
01:53:27,800 --> 01:53:30,800
Hamble yourself working with God.

1706
01:53:30,800 --> 01:53:32,800
Come on, hallelujah.

1707
01:53:32,800 --> 01:53:36,800
Doing the little things you're supposed to do when the Lord tells you to do that.

1708
01:53:36,800 --> 01:53:38,800
Praise the name of the Lord.

1709
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:44,800
And it is in that that you begin to see your faith with resounding exploit.

1710
01:53:44,800 --> 01:53:47,800
You will not be quoting out of knowledge.

1711
01:53:47,800 --> 01:53:53,800
You'll be quoting out of the recesses of understanding in your heart.

1712
01:53:53,800 --> 01:53:58,800
You will shoot scriptures from the understanding of the word.

1713
01:53:58,800 --> 01:54:02,800
Not just from the knowledge of the word in your head.

1714
01:54:02,800 --> 01:54:04,800
Hallelujah.

1715
01:54:04,800 --> 01:54:06,800
Come on, praise the name of the Lord.

1716
01:54:06,800 --> 01:54:08,800
You can't say you don't want to study the Bible.

1717
01:54:08,800 --> 01:54:10,800
You can't say you have a problem coming to church.

1718
01:54:10,800 --> 01:54:12,800
And I don't know, I was tired.

1719
01:54:12,800 --> 01:54:17,800
I was talking to one of the people.

1720
01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:21,800
People who go to churches that...

1721
01:54:21,800 --> 01:54:24,800
They still go.

1722
01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:26,800
You have a place.

1723
01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:28,800
The word of God is taught.

1724
01:54:28,800 --> 01:54:35,800
You've got to be very mad to say that you will not give yourself to these things.

1725
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:38,800
Something is wrong with your medulla oblongata.

1726
01:54:38,800 --> 01:54:40,800
Oh, that's not it.

1727
01:54:40,800 --> 01:54:44,800
Whatever it is, inside your head, something is wrong.

1728
01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:46,800
Hallelujah.

1729
01:54:46,800 --> 01:54:50,800
Lift up your two hands and be upstanding.

1730
01:54:50,800 --> 01:55:00,800
Let's begin to bless the name of the Lord.

1731
01:55:00,800 --> 01:55:11,800
Open your mouth and bless the name of the Lord.

1732
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:33,800
Let me hear your voices.

1733
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:52,800
Thank you, Father.

1734
01:55:52,800 --> 01:55:54,800
Thank you, Father.

1735
01:55:54,800 --> 01:55:58,800
Thank you, Father, for your unfailing word.

1736
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:01,800
Thank you for your unfailing word.

1737
01:56:01,800 --> 01:56:05,800
We're not in a hurry.

1738
01:56:05,800 --> 01:56:07,800
We give our hearts to your word.

1739
01:56:07,800 --> 01:56:10,800
We give our minds to your word.

1740
01:56:10,800 --> 01:56:13,800
To be built by your word.

1741
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:14,800
To be raised by your word.

1742
01:56:14,800 --> 01:56:15,800
Father, we are not in a hurry.

1743
01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:18,800
We are not in a hurry.

1744
01:56:18,800 --> 01:56:20,800
We submit to your will.

1745
01:56:20,800 --> 01:56:22,800
We submit to your will.

1746
01:56:22,800 --> 01:56:26,800
We submit to your will in the name of Jesus.

1747
01:56:26,800 --> 01:56:27,800
In the name of Jesus.

1748
01:56:27,800 --> 01:56:33,800
in the name of Jesus and we

1749
01:56:31,500 --> 01:56:35,940
declare that our faith has

1750
01:56:33,860 --> 01:56:38,340
words. We act on our

1751
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:41,240
convictions. We act on your

1752
01:56:38,400 --> 01:56:45,140
word. We act on your word in

1753
01:56:45,140 --> 01:57:02,140
the name of Jesus.